yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
aristocracy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French aristocratie, from Medieval Latin aristocratia, from Ancient Greek ἀριστοκρατίᾱ (aristokratíā, “the rule of the best“, that is, “the best-born”, “nobility”), from ἄριστος (áristos, “best, noblest”) + -κρατίᾱ (-kratíā), from κράτος (krátos, “power, rule”). By surface analysis, aristo- + -cracy.
Inflected forms:
form: aristocracies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The nobility, or the hereditary ruling class.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But when Nietzsche has the incredible lack of humour and lack of imagination to ask us to believe that his aristocracy is an aristocracy of strong muscles or an aristocracy of strong wills, it is necessary to point out the truth. It is an aristocracy of weak nerves.
That, then, which is called aristocracy in some countries and nobility in others arose out of the governments founded upon conquest.
gloss: Government by such a class, or a state with such a government.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: How many false principles have been laid down, how much delusion supported, by reference to the glories of Athens and of Rome! It remained for a later time to observe that those so-called republics were but aristocracy in its most oppressive form; and what are now the people were then positive slaves;...
gloss: A class of people considered (not normally universally) superior to others.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: aristocrat
aristocratic
Derived words: antiaristocracy
aristocracy of labor
aristocracy of labour
black aristocracy
bunyip aristocracy
codfish aristocracy
labor aristocracy
labour aristocracy
Translations:
prehistory
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pre- (“before”) + history, first attested in the Foreign Quarterly Review in 1836, after the model of prehistoric, from French préhistorique.
Base: history
Affixes: pre-
Inflected forms:
form: prehistories
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pre-history
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The time before written records in any area of the world; the events and conditions of those times.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “We don’t find evidence for that sort of thing anywhere in prehistory.”
gloss: The study of those times.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any past time (even recent) treated as such a distant, unknowable era.
pos: noun
tags: countable
excessive
humorous
uncountable
examples: I was a town boy through and through. The country belonged to a vague pre-history.
gloss: The history leading up to some event, condition, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
often
uncountable
examples: Psychologists... are mostly bad historians, inventing—as Freud has done—their pre-history to suit their theories.
One of the challenges of studying any Jewish custom is that we tend to view it in an anachronistic fashion; we think that what we do today is what was always done. Therefore, in this article we shall describe the pre-history of the Bar Mitzvah ceremony, the four basic components of the Bar Mitzvah ceremony before the year 1800 as suggested by Michael Hilton, and six major changes that occurred in modern times.
Antonyms: posthistory
Related words: prehistorian
prehistoric
Translations:
liberalism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: economics
government
politics
sciences
Etymology: Circa 1819, from French libéralisme circa 1818. Equivalent to liberal + -ism.
Base: liberal
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: liberalisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being liberal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any political movement founded on the autonomy and personal freedom of the individual, progress and reform, and government by law with the consent of the governed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Whether some distant cousin really belongs to the extended family of liberalisms is a matter of healthy dispute.
This poses obvious problems for statistical inference in that what may appear as ‘declines’ in non-white racial liberalism may actually be due to increases in representation of non-black racial/ethnic minorities whose racial attitudes are more conservative.
gloss: An economic ideology in favour of laissez faire and the free market (related to economic liberalism).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But liberalism has no obvious answers to the biggest problems we face: ecological collapse and technological disruption.
Related words: free market
Derived words: antiliberalism
classical liberalism
economic liberalism
neoclassical liberalism
neoliberalism
palaeoliberalism
paleoliberalism
post-neoliberalism
social liberalism
ultraliberalism
Translations:
imperialism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English imperial
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English imperialism
From imperial + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: imperialisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The policy of forcefully extending a nation's authority by territorial gain or by the establishment of economic and political dominance over other nations.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Though most of the cases here cover European encounters with non-Europeans, it is not the intention of the book to give the impression that genocide is a function of European colonialism and imperialism alone.
gloss: Any undue extension of political, intellectual, or other forms of authority, particularly in regards to systems that benefit the Western world at the cost of the Global South.
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
figuratively
uncountable
examples: The moral imperialism of the Supreme Court did not end with Chief Justice Warren’s resignation nor with the departures of the Justices who made up his distinctive majority.
By contrast, economists of the Chicago School approach [sociology] from a standpoint of the imperialism of economics, in the sense that they advance the study of substructure into the areas of the study of superstructure, by researching it as economics.
[…] her analysis of the discourse on private belief […] “reduced” and thus “explained away” my intuitions as being something other than what I experience them to be for myself. It was therefore the imperialism of her method that I claimed to be particularly offensive.
Related words: imperialist
imperialistic
Derived words: anti-imperialism
counter-imperialism
cultural imperialism
cyberimperialism
disimperialism
eco-imperialism
Euroimperialism
hyperimperialism
neoimperialism
neo-imperialism
proto-imperialism
social imperialism
subimperialism
sub-imperialism
ultraimperialism
Translations:
diplomacy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French diplomatie, a back-formation from diplomatique, ultimately from Latin diploma (“a letter of recommendation or authority”); see diploma.
Inflected forms:
form: diplomacies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The art and practice of conducting international relations by negotiating alliances, treaties, agreements etc., bilaterally or multilaterally, between states and sometimes international organizations, or even between polities with varying status, such as those of monarchs and their princely vassals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: National diplomacy typically deploys its dexterity to secure advantage for one's nation.
Admiral Hackett: Hell of a thing you just pulled off, Commander. Curing the genophage? I never thought I'd see the day.
Shepard: Wrex has agreed to help the turians, Admiral. We should get their full support.
Admiral Hackett: And the salarians? How did you manage to get them on board?
Shepard: Careful diplomacy.
Admiral Hackett: Uh-huh… I don’t think I want to know what that means. Doesn't matter. You're starting to put together a real alliance out there.
Admiral Hackett: Good work, Commander. Hackett, out.
gloss: Tact and subtle skill in dealing with people so as to avoid or settle hostility.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As I was talking with many relatives I have in this town I got assaulted with intense probing of whom I was married to, then who is your girlfriend, then it was what do you do for a job? Most of these relatives don't know I'm gay and deflecting these questions put to the test the art of diplomacy.
Related words: diploma
diplomat
diplomatic
diplomatist
Derived words: bamboo diplomacy
checkbook diplomacy
chequebook diplomacy
citizen diplomacy
commodity diplomacy
debt trap diplomacy
defence diplomacy
dollar diplomacy
gastrodiplomacy
gastro-diplomacy
guerrilla diplomacy
gunboat diplomacy
hostage diplomacy
panda diplomacy
ping-pong diplomacy
public diplomacy
shuttlecock diplomacy
shuttle diplomacy
vaccine diplomacy
Translations:
imperil
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin im-
English im-
English peril
English imperil
From im- + peril.
Inflected forms:
form: imperils
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: imperiling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: imperilling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: imperiled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: imperiled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: imperilled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: imperilled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
form: emperil
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To put into peril; to place in danger.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […]they occupied the country, expelled the inhabitants, and terminated for ever the rivalry which had so long imperilled their own naval supremacy in Greece.
"If Russia mobilises, it is for defence. No nation in the world would dream of attacking Germany, nor has Germany the slightest intention of imperilling her coming supremacy amongst the nations by such crude methods as military enterprise. Servia must be punished, naturally, but to that, in principle, every nation in Europe is agreed. We shall not permit Austria to overstep the mark."
Before long, he had enough baby alligators to imperil every nipple for miles around but a problem soon arose when the cute baby alligators matured into vicious adult beasts.
Boating and fishing groups contend that the 130 [wind energy] towers would be a navigation hazard and offshore construction would imperil the fisheries.
gloss: To risk or hazard.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: imperilment
Translations:
crenellate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French créneler (“to defend with crenels, make crenelated, crenelate”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Créneler is derived from Old French crenel (“crenel, embrasure (modern French créneau)”) + -er (forms verbs of the first conjugation)), further from crene (“notch”) + -el (diminutive-forming sufix), perhaps related to Latin crēna (“incision; notch”) or of gaulish origin. Equivalent to crenel + -ate.
Base: créneler
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: crenellates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: crenellating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: crenellated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: crenellated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: crenelate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To furnish with crenelles.
pos: verb
gloss: To indent; to notch.
pos: verb
Derived words: crenellated
crenellated moulding
crenellation
licence to crenellate
Translations:
RSVP
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Orthographic borrowing from French RSVP, initialism of répondez s'il vous plaît (“please reply”).
Inflected forms:
form: RSVPs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: R.S.V.P.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: R. S. V. P.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rsvp
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: r.s.v.p.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: r. s. v. p.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: RSVPs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: RSVPing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: RSVPed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: RSVPed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: RSVP'd
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: RSVP'd
pos: verb
tags: past
form: R.S.V.P.
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: R. S. V. P.
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: rsvp
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: r.s.v.p.
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: r. s. v. p.
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A reply to an invitation.
pos: noun
gloss: To reply to an invitation.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
bandicoot
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Ultimately from Telugu పందికొక్కు (pandikokku), from పంది (pandi, “pig, boar”) + కొక్కు (kokku, “bandicoot”); first used of Asian murids, now called bandicoot rats, thence applied to the Australian marsupials which bear some resemblance.
Compound parts: పంది
కొక్కు
Inflected forms:
form: bandicoots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bandy-coot
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bandicoots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bandicooting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bandicooted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bandicooted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bandy-coot
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Any of various small marsupials of Australia and New Guinea, some with distinctive long snouts, of the family Peramelidae.
pos: noun
examples: At the rustle of a bandicoot we noticed the upraised gleam of eyes around the fires.
gloss: A bandicoot rat; any of the genera Bandicota and Nesokia of rat-like rodents of southeast Asia.
pos: noun
gloss: To steal growing root vegetables from a garden by digging the vegetable out but leaving the tops undisturbed.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
informal
examples: ‘Well, the abos ‘bandicooted’ his peanuts.’
Synonyms: peramelid
Derived words: bandicoot grass
bandicoot rat
desert bandicoot
eastern barred bandicoot
eastern striped bandicoot
Fly River bandicoot
giant bandicoot
golden bandicoot
long-nosed bandicoot
Menzies' spiny bandicoot
mouse bandicoot
New Guinean long-nosed bandicoot
New Guinean mouse bandicoot
New Guinean spiny bandicoot
northern brown bandicoot
Papuan bandicoot
pig-footed bandicoot
rabbit bandicoot
rabbit-eared bandicoot
rat bandicoot
Shark Bay bandicoot
short-nosed bandicoot
southern brown bandicoot
southern pig-footed bandicoot
spiny bandicoot
striped bandicoot
typical bandicoot
western barred bandicoot
Translations:
allo
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of allosexual or alloromantic.
Inflected forms:
form: more allo
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most allo
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: allos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Allosexual and/or alloromantic; experiencing sexual and/or romantic attraction.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Asking a person to work on themself to have more sex seems natural and intuitive, but imagine asking the allo partner to be celibate.
However, being aro adds another layer of urgency. As we get older, a lot of our monogamous allo friends will find their life partner, get married, and have kids.
I would say that it'd help so much if the ace characters would be explicitly acknowledged by the creators, but this doesn't always fix things. In the case of Jughead Jones, his asexuality and aromanticism were explicitly stated, but that didn't stop people from completely disregarding it, to the point where most fanart and fanfiction of him makes him allo.
gloss: One who is allosexual and/or alloromantic.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Allos might feel infatuated with a new acquaintance or be more attached to their best friend than to any romantic partner, yet they can deny the possibility of romantic feeling because of the lack of sexual attraction. Allos can wave their hand and say, "There are people I want to sleep with, and I don't want to sleep with you, so it's only platonic."
Then maybe asexuals wouldn't face negative responses ("You're a late bloomer" or You haven't met the right person" etc.) when they come out to allos.
Part of why I’m writing this essay is to tell allos we exist, to make them aware of our struggle and our pain.
Translations:
interline
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *n̥ter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
Middle French lignerbor.
English line
English interline
From inter- + line.
Inflected forms:
form: interlines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: interlining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: interlined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: interlined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Between lines.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Interline twitter occurs on interlaced displays at half the field-rate.
gloss: Between (or with) two airlines.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: American Airlines and British Airways have an interline agreement to handle each other's baggage and to accept each other's tickets.
I had an interline connection from Delta to AA in Dallas/Ft. Worth.
gloss: To write or insert between lines already written or printed, as for addition or correction.
pos: verb
examples: to interline a page or a book
Then riſing with Aurora’s Light, / The Muse invok’d, ſit down to write; / Blot out, correct, inſert, refine, / Enlarge, diminiſh, interline; / Be mindful, when Invention fails, / To ſcratch your Head, and bite your Nails.
gloss: To arrange in alternate lines.
pos: verb
examples: When by this way of interlining Latin and Englisſh one with another, he has got a moderate Knowledge of the Latin Tongue, he may then be advanc'd a little farther to the reading of ſome other eaſie Latin Book, […]
gloss: To imprint or mark with lines.
pos: verb
examples: For each contracted frown, / A crooked wrinkle interlines my brow: / Spend but one hour in frowns, and I shall look / Like to a beldam of one hundred years.
Related words: offline
Translations:
administrate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: * archaic: Latin administrātus, past participle of administrō.
* modern: Back-formation from administration (from Latin administrātiō, also from administrō)
(The exact etymology is disputed, see note below.)
Inflected forms:
form: administrates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: administrating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: administrated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: administrated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: to administer
pos: verb
gloss: the act or function of providing maintenance and general housekeeping for computer systems, networks, peripheral equipment, etc.
pos: verb
examples: The job is to administrate the network.
Related words: administer
administration
administrative
administrator
Derived words: coadministrate
Translations:
sulla
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Punjabi ਸੁੱਲਾ (sullā, “Muslim (derogatory)”). This word is likely a mispronunciation (or perhaps a misspelling in Gurmukhi script) of Punjabi ਮੁੱਲਾ (mullā, “mullah, Islamic religious leader”), derived from Classical Persian ملا (mullā), ultimately from Arabic مُلَّا (mullā). It may also be a contraction of Punjabi ਮੁਸਲਮਾਨ (muslamān, “Muslim”) or Punjabi ਮੁਸਲਾ (muslā, “"carpet kisser", another derogatory term for Muslims, but also refers to a mat or carpet used for Muslim prayers”).
Inflected forms:
form: sullas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sulleh
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sullah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Muslim man; especially one from Pakistan.
pos: noun
tags: South-Asia
ethnic
offensive
slur
Translations:
Alabama
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably from French Alibamou or Alibamon, from Spanish Alibamo, from Alabama albaamo, the name for a member of a people native to the area.
Inflected forms:
form: Alabamas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Alabammer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
Senses:
gloss: An indigenous Muscogee people of central Alabama.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A member of these people.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
codeshare
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From code + share, because of the change in the flight's two-letter airline identity code. One aircraft will have two or more codes and flight numbers.
Compound parts: code
share
Inflected forms:
form: codeshares
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: codeshares
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: codesharing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: codeshared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: codeshared
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An agreement whereby an airline buys space on another airline and markets the extra space as its own. Often used to increase a route network without the costs of running a full service.
pos: noun
gloss: To buy space on (a flight) in this way.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Translations:
pommie
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pom + -ie (“diminutive suffix”). Australian from 1912.
Base: pom
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: pommies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pommy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pommy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An English immigrant; a pom.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
South-Africa
colloquial
pejorative
sometimes
examples: “It′ll be a long time before I do that,” the pilot said grimly. “She′s my Queen as well as yours, you know. I′m not a bloody Pommie.”[…]“Too right, it′s difficult,” the Australian said. And then he added, “All Pommies aren′t bloody. I used that as a kind of figure of speech.”
A Pommie. They were sending him to England to work with a Pommie. After all that he had done for this country they were shipping him off to a cold, rain-infested, windy little isle to work a case with a Pommie.
There are a lot of Pommies in Australia; travelling round, looking for work, and Dad reckoned you could pay them peanuts.[…]If Sissy couldn′t go back to school, I thought she should help out more, then we wouldn′t have to hire a Pommie house girl.
gloss: English; British.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
South-Africa
derogatory
not-comparable
sometimes
examples: See citations at pommy.
Translations:
denature
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French dénaturer. By surface analysis, de- + nature.
Inflected forms:
form: denatures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: denaturing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: denatured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: denatured
pos: verb
tags: past
form: denaturise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To take away a natural characteristic or inherent property of (a thing or a person).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To add something to (alcohol) that makes it unsuitable for consumption but leaves it suitable for most other purposes.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: While you cannot drink denatured alcohol, you can still use it to remove sticker glue from most surfaces.
gloss: To alter its original form or state, especially of a protein, by heat, acidity etc.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Sugars are wonderfully robust materials! Unlike proteins that easily denature and coagulate, unlike fats that are damaged by air and heat and go rancid, unlike starch chains that break apart into smaller chains of glucose molecules, sugars themselves are small and stable molecules.
Because the activity of an enzyme depends on its structure, any change in that structure will destroy its effectiveness. So cooking foods sufficiently will denature and inactivate any enzymes they may contain.
gloss: Of double-stranded DNA, specifically to split into two single strands.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: To combine fissile material with nonfissile material in order to prevent its use in an atomic weapon.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
usually
Derived words: codenature
denatonium
denaturability
denaturable
denaturant
denaturation
denaturer
denaturization
denaturize
nondenaturing
Translations:
aril
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: 1785. From New Latin arillus (compare modern French arille and the English doublet arillus), from Medieval Latin arilli.
Inflected forms:
form: arils
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: arillus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A tissue surrounding the seed in certain fruits such as pomegranates.
pos: noun
Translations:
plantain
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English planteyne, planteyn, from Anglo-Norman plainteine et al., Old French plaintain, from Latin plantāgō, from planta (“sole of the foot”), a nasalized form of Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat; to spread”), because of the broad, flat shape of the plantain leaves.
Inflected forms:
form: plantains
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any plant of the genus Plantago, with a rosette of sessile leaves about 10 cm (4") long with a narrow part instead of a petiole, and with a spike inflorescence with the flower spacing varying widely among the species. See also psyllium.
pos: noun
examples: The roots of Plantain and Pellitory of Spain beaten to powder and put into hollow teeth, takes away the pains of them.
The paths too are overgrown, but easily identified by the presence on them of round-leaved plantains.
Translations:
correspondence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
mathematics
religion
sciences
set-theory
theology
Etymology: From Middle English correspondence, from Latin correspondentia. By surface analysis, correspond + -ence.
Inflected forms:
form: correspondences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Mutual communication or discourse:
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Mutual communication or discourse:
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Mutual communication or discourse:
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Mutual communication or discourse:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I'm doing time in Oklahoma and really would appreciate some correspondence.
gloss: Congruity or similarity between different things, people, etc:
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Congruity or similarity between different things, people, etc:
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Congruity or similarity between different things, people, etc:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: correspondent
Derived words: correspondence chess
correspondence course
correspondence principle
Curry-Howard correspondence
grapheme-phoneme correspondence
incorrespondence
law of correspondence
lexical correspondence
noncorrespondence
Robinson-Schensted correspondence
tapespondence
Translations:
haggle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: 1570s, "to cut unevenly" (implied in haggler), frequentative of Middle English haggen (“to chop”), variant of hacken (“to hack”), equivalent to hack + -le. Sense of "argue about price" first recorded c.1600, probably from notion of chopping away.
Base: hack
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: haggles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: haggling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: haggled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: haggled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I haggled for a better price because the original price was too high.
‘I am pretty useless at haggling. Haggling means asking the seller to sell stuff below the asking price.’
Last month, while officials from Washington and Beijing were haggling over whether to roll back tariffs that had brought their trade to a standstill, Chinese companies announced plans to invest about $4.7 billion in Brazil.
gloss: To hack (cut crudely)
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, / Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped.
I catched a catfish and haggled him open with my saw, and towards sundown I started my camp fire and had supper. Then I set out a line to catch some fish for breakfast.
gloss: To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
pos: verb
examples: June 30, 1784, Horace Walpole, letter to the Hon. Henry Seymour Conway
Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood.
Related words: bargain
negotiate
Derived words: haggler
higgle-haggle
unhaggling
wraggle
Translations:
poser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pose
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English poser
From pose + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: posers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A particularly difficult question or puzzle.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: “Always so energetic, Hastings! And what precisely would you have me do?” This was somewhat of a poser, but I was not going to withdraw from my position.
gloss: Someone who asks a question or sets a problem.
pos: noun
examples: Even as a child, she was a habitual poser of difficult questions.
gloss: Someone who, or something which, poses; a person who sets their body in a fixed position, such as for photography or painting.
pos: noun
gloss: A poseur; someone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: "My boyfriend, or I should say, ex-boyfriend, used to be all dark and brooding with long, black hair, but now?!" [...] "Um, I'm pretty sure uniforms don't work that way. I think your ex might just be a big poser." "A fact I would be blissfully unaware of if not for these damn uniforms!"
Started hormones and these bitches called me a trans poser / They can kill themselves, I'm turning up like a transposer
Related words: faker
impostor
pretentious
Derived words: poserish
Translations:
conic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κωνῐκός (kōnĭkós). By surface analysis, cone + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more conic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most conic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: conics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of conical.
pos: adj
gloss: A conic section.
pos: noun
Translations:
ellipse
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From French ellipse. Learned borrowing from Latin ellīpsis, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἔλλειψις (élleipsis). Doublet of ellipsis.
Inflected forms:
form: ellipses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ellipsing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ellipsed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ellipsed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To remove from a phrase a word which is grammatically needed, but which is clearly understood without having to be stated.
pos: verb
examples: In B's response to A's question:- (A: Would you like to go out?, B: I'd love to), the words that are ellipsed are go out.
Translations:
parabola
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin parabola, from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ), from παραβάλλω (parabállō, “to set side by side”), from παρά (pará, “beside”) + βάλλω (bállō, “to throw”). Doublet of parable, parole, and palaver.
Inflected forms:
form: parabolas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: parabolae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: parabolæ
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The conic section formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to a tangent plane to the cone; the locus of points equidistant from a fixed point (the focus) and line (the directrix).
pos: noun
examples: And it saves his life. As he's buzzing down a curving, narrow canal, a narrow green parabola appears hanging across the water in front of him, suddenly rising out of the water and snapping into a perfectly straight line at neck level.
gloss: Synonym of parable.
pos: noun
tags: rhetoric
Related words: parabolaster
Derived words: paraboliform
parabolism
paraboloid
semiparabola
sporabola
Translations:
drongo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Malagasy drongo.
Inflected forms:
form: drongos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: drongoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any bird of the genus Dicrurus.
pos: noun
Translations:
standby
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
tourism
transport
travel
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stand bydeverb.
English standby
Deverbal from stand by.
Inflected forms:
form: standbys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stand-by
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A state of readiness without immediate involvement; remaining in preparation for (a sudden or unforeseen event or situation).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The troops were on standby in case of an attack.
In 1915, concurrent with the L.S.W.R. electrification, power was supplied from the Waterloo sub-station, and the old equipment held in reserve. Some generator sets were removed, and motor generators installed for standby lighting and other services.
gloss: A replacement kept on standby.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: During three weeks of the run, I was performing with walking pneumonia, but I had no choice other than to perform because we didn't have the budget for stand-bys.
gloss: Sleep mode.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Waiting at the airport in the hope of getting a seat on a flight that is already booked out.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something that is standard, well-tested, or frequently used.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: That recipe is an old standby, and she keeps the ingredients around in case of unexpected guests.
The restaurant, Hop Louie, was a Chinatown standby for decades before closing in 2016.
Emerging from an Everyman Espresso shop in Park Slope, Brooklyn, last month, David Lieber, a customer, lamented what he saw as Blank Street’s targeting of a neighborhood standby.
Synonyms: at the ready
Derived words: standby loan
standby time
Translations:
auspice
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French auspice, from Latin auspicium, in turn from auspex.
Inflected forms:
form: auspices
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: auspices
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: auspicing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: auspiced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: auspiced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Patronage or protection.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: This building was built under the auspices of the Friends of the Poor.
gloss: An omen or a sign.
pos: noun
examples: The circle of vultures was not a good auspice.
gloss: Divination from the actions of birds.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: To be patron of; to sponsor.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The music festival was auspiced by a popular radio station.
Related words: auspiced
auspicing
auspicious
Derived words: under the auspices of
Translations:
illustrate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from illustration.
Inflected forms:
form: illustrates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: illustrating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: illustrated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: illustrated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To clarify something by giving, or serving as, an example or a comparison.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: We illustrate our definitions by including quotations or simple examples.
To prove him, and illustrate his high worth.
England were graphically illustrating the huge gulf in class between the sides and it was no surprise when Lampard added the second just before the half hour. Steven Gerrard found his Liverpool team-mate Glen Johnson and Lampard arrived in the area with perfect timing to glide a header beyond Namasco.
gloss: To provide a book or other publication with pictures, diagrams or other explanatory or decorative features.
pos: verb
examples: The economics textbook was illustrated with many graphs.
Michael Thompson said he had been photographing prison buildings on Wednesday, Dec. 3, to illustrate an article by Tom Reeves […] when an unidentified plainclothes employee of the prison approached him.
gloss: To shed light upon.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Here, when the morn illustrates all the sky.
gloss: To give renown or honour to; to make illustrious.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Matter to me of glory, whom their hate / Illustrates.
Related words: shed light upon
Derived words: illustrable
illustratable
illustrator
illustratory
overillustrate
reillustrate
Translations:
lang: Belarusian
word: ілюстрава́ць
roman: iljustravácʹ
lang: Bulgarian
word: илюстрирам
roman: iljustriram
lang: Czech
word: ilustrovat
lang: Dutch
word: illustreren
lang: Esperanto
word: ilustri
lang: Finnish
word: kuvittaa
lang: French
word: illustrer
lang: Galician
word: ilustrar
lang: German
word: illustrieren
lang: Hebrew
word: אִיֵּר
roman: iyyér
lang: Hungarian
word: illusztrál
lang: Icelandic
word: myndskreyta
lang: Ido
word: ilustrar
lang: Irish
word: maisigh
lang: Italian
word: illustrare
lang: Italian
word: descrivere
lang: Italian
word: spiegare
lang: Italian
word: esemplificare
lang: Portuguese
word: ilustrar
lang: Romanian
word: ilustra
lang: Russian
word: иллюстри́ровать
roman: illjustrírovatʹ
lang: Russian
word: де́лать иллюстра́ции
roman: délatʹ illjustrácii
lang: Russian
word: оформля́ть
roman: oformljátʹ
lang: Spanish
word: ilustrar
lang: Swedish
word: illustrera
lang: Ukrainian
word: ілюструва́ти
roman: iljustruváty
lang: Ukrainian
word: проілюструва́ти
roman: proiljustruváty
lang: Walloon
word: enimådjî
lang: Welsh
word: darlunio
courtesy
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English curteisie, curtesie, from Anglo-Norman curtesie, from Old French curteisie, cortoisie. Equivalent to courteous + -y (abstract noun suffix). By surface analysis, court + -esy.
Base: courteous
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: courtesies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Polite behavior.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Please extend them the courtesy of your presence.
He was always known for his grace, kindness, and courtesy to people of every rank.
Rabbit doesn't want to tell him anything. The more he tells, the more he loses. He's safe inside his own skin, he doesn't want to come out. This guy's whole game is to get him out into the open where he can be manipulated. But the fierce convention of courtesy pries open Rabbit's lips.
gloss: A polite gesture or remark, especially as opposed to an obligation or standard practice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: I offered them a ride simply as a courtesy.
My lord, for your many courtesies I thank you.
gloss: Consent or agreement in spite of fact; indulgence.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: They call this pond a lake by courtesy only.
gloss: Willingness or generosity in providing something needed.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: They received free advertising through the courtesy of the local newspaper.
[on a label, caption, etc.] Courtesy the Smith Foundation: [e.g.] use of this image was allowed through the courtesy of the Smith Foundation.
gloss: A curtsey.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: The lady drops a courtesy in token of obedience, and the ceremony proceeds as usual.
[I]t was her favorite amusement to array herself in the faded brocades, and parade up and down before the long mirror, making stately courtesies, and sweeping her train about, with a rustle which delighted her ears.
gloss: The life interest that the surviving husband has in the real or heritable estate of his wife.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Given or done as a polite gesture.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: We paid a courtesy visit to the new neighbors.
gloss: Supplied free of charge.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The event planners offered courtesy tickets for the reporters.
Derived words: common courtesy
courtesy book
courtesy call
courtesy card
courtesy clerk
courtesy copy
courtesy flag
courtesy flush
courtesy lamp
courtesy light
courtesy name
courtesy of
courtesy of the trade
courtesy title
courtesy turn
curtsey
discourtesy
extend the courtesy
kill-courtesy
overcourtesy
senatorial courtesy
strain courtesy
uncourtesy
Translations:
prosperity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English prosperite, from Old French prosperitet, from Latin prosperitās, equivalent to prosper + -ity.
Base: prosper
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: prosperities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being prosperous: having good fortune and a fortune.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: thriving
“Eating meat means prosperity in the coming year,” the roastery wrote on Weibo on February 5, days before the Lunar New Year began.
Translations:
helix
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
architecture
mathematics
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin helix, from Ancient Greek ἕλιξ (hélix, “something twisted or spiral”).
Inflected forms:
form: helixes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: helices
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: helixes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: helixing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: helixed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: helixed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A curve on the surface of a cylinder or cone such that its angle to a plane perpendicular to the axis is constant; the three-dimensional curve seen in a screw or a spiral staircase.
pos: noun
gloss: A small volute under the abacus of a Corinthian capital.
pos: noun
gloss: The incurved rim of the external ear.
pos: noun
examples: helix piercing
gloss: An upside down midair 360° spin in playboating.
pos: noun
gloss: To form or cause to form a helix.
pos: verb
examples: A large positive inclination gives a chip which will helix out of the space between the face mill and the workpiece.
When the shaft is unsupported, the large torque tends to helix the inner core, and if the casing is not stiff enough, it will helix the casing also.
The decrease in d enhances the probability that remaining SDLs will helix, leading to an outward traveling wave of helixing and a jump in 5d.
Conceptually, this field will helix up from the genital tip, here modelled as the caudal singularity of the left and right domains of the H-CFs.
Related words: helicopter
Derived words: alpha helix
anthelix
antihelix
Boerdijk-Coxeter helix
double helix
helical
helically
helicase
heliciform
helicin
helixlike
hemihelix
interhelix
microhelix
minihelix
multihelix
superhelix
tetrahelix
trihelix
Translations:
dero
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From derelict.
Inflected forms:
form: deros
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: derro
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A homeless person, a tramp; a social derelict, especially an alcoholic.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: If some shabby looking “dero” turns up at the gate no need to call the cops, its me.
Finn was affected with the dero shakes, wobbling one way or another to steady his position, as the hawks, looking down at him, casually flew out of range.
Translations:
jackaroo
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Obscure. Possibly from an Aboriginal term meaning wandering white man.
Inflected forms:
form: jackaroos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jackeroo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jackaroos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jackarooing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jackarooed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jackarooed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: jackeroo
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A white man living outside of a white settlement.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
obsolete
gloss: A trainee station manager or owner, working as a stockman or farm hand; formerly, a young man of independent means working at a station in a supernumerary capacity to gain experience.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: But this is the tale of a Jackaroo that came from a foreign strand, / And the fight that he fought with Saltbush Bill, the King of the Overland.
A Jackeroo lived, as a kind of gentleman apprentice, in the squatter′s or manager′s homestead, not in the men′s huts; but most of his daily work was done side by side with the working ‘hands’.
Frequently the overseer would come to me and say a certain jackeroo was useless, and would never be any good, when the boy had only just started.
gloss: To work as a jackaroo.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Bill has gone jackarooing out west.
Translations:
bimbo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian bimbo (“a child, a male baby”), variant of bambino (“child”). Originated in Italian American theater, attested 1919, as “stupid, inconsequential man”, by 1920 developed sense of “floozie, attractive and stupid woman”. Popularized in 1920s by Jack Conway of entertainment magazine Variety, who also popularized baloney (“nonsense”) and palooka (“large stupid man”). Revived in popularity in 1980s US political sex scandals.
Inflected forms:
form: bimbos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bimboes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A physically attractive person, typically a woman or otherwise feminine in appearance, who lacks intelligence.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: Anyway, to make a long, dull story even duller, I come from a time when a guy like me used to come into a joint like this and pick up a young chick like you and… call her a ‘bimbo’.
a. 1992, P. J. O’Rourke, a sketch
A bimbo is a woman who is not pretty enough to be a model, not smart enough to be an actress, and not nice enough to be a poisonous snake.
[Tina] Fey […] makes hay with the thought processes of a purebred bimbo: […]
gloss: A stupid or foolish person.
pos: noun
tags: dated
derogatory
slang
examples: And one had to remember that most of the bimbos to whom Roberta Wickham had been giving the bird through the years had been of the huntin', shootin' and fishin' type, fellows who had more or less shot their bolt after saying 'Eh, what?' and slapping their leg with a hunting crop.
Isn't he the bimbo who took the bread out of the mouths of the Thursday Review people? Chuck the blighter out of the window and we want to see him bounce.
Who is this bimbo, Barney? Is he a regular customer or what?
Related words: bambino
Derived words: bimbette
bimbocore
bimbodom
bimbo eruption
bimboesque
bimbofication
bimbohood
bimboish
bimboism
bimboy
himbo
mimbo
thembo
Translations:
biconcave
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
engineering
medicine
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Italic *dwi-
Latin bi-bor.
English bi-
English concave
English biconcave
From bi- + concave.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having both sides that are concave.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a biconcave lens
the biconcave vertebrae
Red blood cells are biconcave.
Antonyms: biconvex
Translations: