yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
blinding
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, blind + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more blinding
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most blinding
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: blindings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Very bright (as if to cause blindness).
pos: adj
examples: On it came, and with it came the glorious blinding cloud of many-coloured light, and stood before us for a space, turning, as it seemed to us, slowly round and round, and then, accompanied by its attendant pomp of sound, passed away I know not whither.
gloss: Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding.
pos: adj
examples: blinding tears;  blinding snow
Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
gloss: Brilliant; marvellous.
pos: adj
tags: UK
slang
examples: “How’s it going?” “Blinding, mate.”
gloss: The act of causing blindness.
pos: noun
gloss: A thin coat of sand or gravel used to fill holes in a new road surface.
pos: noun
gloss: A thin sprinkling of sand or chippings laid on a newly tarred surface.
pos: noun
Related words: effing and blinding
Derived words: blindingness
nonblinding
Translations:
rotting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English rotynge (“rotting”), from Old English rotung; equivalent to rot + -ing. Conflated with Middle English rotende, present participle of roten (“to rot”), from Old English rotiende, present participle of rotian (“to rot”).
Base: rot
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: rottings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which something rots.
pos: noun
examples: […] the mould on the boles of the other [trees], that lyes commonly there, and is made of the annual rottings of their own leaves.
gloss: Material that has rotted.
pos: noun
examples: From the compost rinds and rottings, from the garbage peels, from the shadows' darkness, darkness, this guttered meal and all its redolence.
Related words: nonrotting
rottingly
rottingness
unrotting
Derived words: bed rotting
Translations:
wringing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wryngynge; equivalent to wring + -ing.
Base: wring
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: wringings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is wrung.
pos: noun
Translations:
burrowing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: burrowings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or result of making a burrow.
pos: noun
examples: These perforations may be readily distinguished from those more oblique and lateral burrowings which are often found in secondary fossils[…]
Translations:
tanning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tannings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of making leather, which does not easily decompose, from the easily decomposing skins of animals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The acquisition of a tan, either by exposure to the sun, or artificially.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A spanking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
Related words: tan someone's hide
Derived words: spray tanning
tanning bed
tanning butter
tanning parlor
tanning salon
Translations:
investing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: investings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of something being invested; an investment.
pos: noun
Translations:
crowning
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
obstetrics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English crowninge, crounende, equivalent to crown + -ing.
Base: crown
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: more crowning
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most crowning
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: crownings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Supreme; of a surpassing quality or quantity.
pos: adj
examples: It seems that now [the Devil] was driving Alison hard. She had been remiss of late — fewer souls sent to hell, less zeal in quenching the Spirit, and, above all, the crowning offense that her bairn had communicated in Christ's kirk.
Friday night’s crowning victory at The Hawthorns was the 25th in 30 league matches since Antonio Conte’s decisive re-gearing of his team in September, the tactical switches that have coaxed such a thrilling run from this team of bolt-ons and upcycled squad players, most notably Victor Moses, who was dredged out of the laundry bin in the autumn to become a key part of the title surge.
Lilian Greenwood has ranked boosting diversity and inclusivity among her crowning achievements from her two-year stint chairing the House of Commons Transport Select Committee.
gloss: Located on the top or summit.
pos: adj
gloss: A coronation.
pos: noun
examples: The crownings of the two successive monarchs were only a year apart.
gloss: The act of one who crowns (in various senses).
pos: noun
examples: There were outflankings and crownings of hills by numbers of thirteen and seventeen men, that made one hold one's breath.
gloss: The stage of vaginal childbirth when the infant's head remains consistently visible at the vulva.
pos: noun
examples: When your baby’s head remains visible without slipping back in, it is known as crowning.
Derived words: crowning achievement
crowning glory
Translations:
betraying
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English betray
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Proto-Germanic *-ndz
Proto-West Germanic *-andī
Old English -ende
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English betraying
From betray + -ing.
Base: betray
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: more betraying
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most betraying
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: betrayings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That betrays
pos: adj
gloss: betrayal
pos: noun
examples: Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings […] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves […]
Translations:
winking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: winkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of someone who winks.
pos: noun
examples: I have known some happy spirits, who could sit for hours, when no other amusement presented, and talk of the winkings and squintings, they had lately been so eagle-eyed, as to detect between some innocent couple […]
[…] Billy didn’t get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful things a city is capable of doing when the sun goes down, which is to wink its lights on one by one. ¶ There was a broad river to reflect those lights, which would have made their nighttime winkings very pretty indeed.
Translations:
spitting
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more spitting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most spitting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: spittings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
gloss: expectoration
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: Four brothers of the name of Smith, died with black spitting; all of them were stone-workers.
gloss: An appearance on the surface of melted silver or platinum allowed to cool slowly, jets of oxygen forming small cones and sometimes throwing up drops of molten metal.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: spitting box
spitting mad
Translations:
pronouncing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pronouncings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An utterance; a pronouncement.
pos: noun
Translations:
purchasing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
government
Inflected forms:
form: purchasings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act or process of making a purchase.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As our exports and imports are now nearly in balance, it is assumed that such bargaining, if agreed to, would induce the debtor nations to greatly increase their purchasings from us […]
gloss: A complex, organized process in large organizations for obtaining goods that may include identification of requirements, approvals, supplier management, negotiation, receipt of goods, and payment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A part of an organization that manages such processes
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: purchasing agent
purchasing power
Translations:
sowing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sowings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process by which something is sown.
pos: noun
examples: annual sowings of wheat
Translations:
tipping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tip
English -ing
English tipping
From tip + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: tippings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The practice of leaving a tip (gratuity).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act by which something is tipped or inclined.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Hat-tippings and cap-doffings are of course of a different nature to more elaborate verbal greetings. In etiquette manuals they may be described as incentives to a conversation, but in practice they seem to have been quite ceremonial.
gloss: The dumping of rubbish.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A distinct articulation given in playing quick notes on the flute, by striking the tongue against the roof of the mouth; double-tonguing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A competition where entrants aim to tip (predict) the outcomes of sporting events.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
countable
uncountable
examples: Cats fan Mr Burke received a handsome trophy from Balmoral Grove for his feat but is no stranger to cleaning up, having won the tipping at The Break three years in a row and also done well at The National Hotel.
Related words: tipper
footy tipping
Derived words: antitipping
cow tipping
fly-tipping
nontipping
table-tipping
tipping element
tipping point
Translations:
thrusting
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more thrusting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most thrusting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: thrustings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
gloss: The motion by which someone or something thrusts.
pos: noun
examples: The coaxing tone in which he said these latter words might have failed in its object, if he had not accompanied them with sundry sharp jerks of his thumb over one shoulder, and with divers winks and thrustings of his tongue into his cheek, from which signals the damsel gathered that he sought to speak to her apart, concerning Miss Haredale and Dolly.
there were heavings and thrustings of the crowded tribes as they elbowed themselves by natural courses towards the light.
gloss: The act of squeezing curd by hand, to expel the whey.
pos: noun
gloss: The white whey, or that which is last pressed out of the curd by the hand, and of which butter is sometimes made.
pos: noun
Translations:
crowding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: crowdings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which somebody is crowded.
pos: noun
examples: To Johnson Life was as a Prison, to be endured with heroic faith: to Hume it was little more than a foolish Bartholomew-Fair Show-booth, with the foolish crowdings and elbowings of which it was not worth while to quarrel[…]
Translations:
gasping
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: gaspings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which one gasps.
pos: noun
examples: sundry violent gaspings and strainings
gloss: Very thirsty, especially for tea
pos: adj
tags: UK
not-comparable
slang
examples: Any chance of a cup of tea? I'm gasping.
Translations:
concealing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English conceal
Proto-Germanic *-ungō
Old English -ung
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English concealing
From conceal + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: concealings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Material, etc., that conceals something.
pos: noun
examples: Standing half-befogged upon the mountain of his Fate, all that part of the wide panorama was wrapped in clouds to him; but anon those concealings slid aside, or rather, a quick rent was made in them; […]
Translations:
framing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: framings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The placing of a picture, etc. in a frame.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: wooden framing
steel framing
The framing of the photograph was excellent.
gloss: The placing of something in context.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Framework or the building thereof.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Bodies are of all-metal construction. Framing was supplied in unassembled condition, and assembly and finishing work was carried out at Dundalk.
Derived words: framing chisel
framing device
framing effect
framing hammer
framing square
picture framing
satellite-framing
timber framing
underframing
verb-framing
Translations:
itching
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English icchynge, ichynge, ycchenge, yecchyng, ʒicchunge (also unassibilated as ʒykynge), equivalent to itch + -ing.
Base: itch
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: itchings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sensation that itches.
pos: noun
examples: Itchings, hitherto unknown, are felt all over the body, and render my skin sometimes painfully tender, sometimes quite benumbed, as if it were dead.
Translations:
bubbling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bubblings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action or motion of something that bubbles.
pos: noun
examples: The sound of it was scarce louder than the hiss of the rain, a multitude of soft bubblings and squelchings.
Translations:
pausing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pausings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pause.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And thus did the trumpets sound one-and-twenty blasts every day; […] three soundings at the three pausings of the music, […]
Translations:
puzzling
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more puzzling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most puzzling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: puzzlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Difficult to understand or explain; enigmatic or confusing; perplexing.
pos: adj
examples: Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.[…]But withal there was a perceptible acumen about the man which was puzzling in the extreme.
gloss: Time spent pondering something confusing.
pos: noun
Translations:
slanting
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more slanting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most slanting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: slantings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Out of the perpendicular, not perpendicular.
pos: adj
gloss: The state or quality of being slanted.
pos: noun
examples: The slanting of the hill was too steep for safe skiing.
Translations:
dipping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
Inflected forms:
form: dippings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act or process of immersing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] it was ordeined, that children shuld be brought to the church, there to receiue baptisme in faire water, with thrée dippings into the same, in the name of the father, the sonne, and the Holie-ghost […]
By an infinite number of materials, I mean colours and shades of all kinds and degrees; some notion of which variety may be formed by supposing a piece of white silk by several dippings gradually dyed to a black; and carrying it in like manner through the prime tints of yellow, red, and blue; and then again, by making the like progress through all the mixtures that are to be made of these three original colours.
Baby Adam cried a good deal at the beginning of the wake, for the mourners, not knowing about babies, had neglected to feed him. Cyrus soon solved the problem. He dipped a rag in whisky and gave it to the baby to suck, and after three or four dippings young Adam went to sleep.
gloss: The act of inclining downward.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of cleaning or brightening sheet metal or metalware, especially brass, by dipping it in acids, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The use of dipping tobacco (moist snuff) in the mouth, usually between the lip and gum or cheek and gum in the lower or upper part of the mouth.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
gloss: The act or fact of missing out on seeing a bird.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: That same trip would have to go down as the greatest dipping fest in Australian birding history. I had five target species and never saw one, despite spending a week looking for them.
Related words: dypping
Derived words: dipping bird
dippingly
dipping needle
dipping sauce
dipping stick
dipping tank
dipping tobacco
double-dipping
hot dipping
skinny dipping
Translations:
committing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: committings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is committed.
pos: noun
examples: This and more I would haue done, but what is past cannot bee recalled, and it is too late to put old omittings to new committings.
Any pedagogue knows that a criticism too often repeated destroys its own purpose. These ever more numerous sallies of our social critics into the old world, these punctual committings to print of all the painful things they learn there […]
Translations:
presuming
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more presuming
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most presuming
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: confidently or arrogantly overstepping reasonable bounds.
pos: adj
Translations:
scrubbing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English scrub
English -ing
English scrubbing
From scrub + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: scrubbings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of the verb to scrub
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An act of cleaning in which something is scrubbed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The removal of impurities from gas.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: scrub
scrubbed
Derived words: data scrubbing
scrubbing brush
Translations:
slowing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: slowings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A deceleration; a slowing down.
pos: noun
examples: The Wycombe slowing begins at West Wycombe; to the High Wycombe curve itself most exaggerated respect was shown, with a minimum of 30 m.p.h.
We have seen Parkinsonism as sudden starts and stops, as odd speedings and slowings.
While the first part to Manchester is level after the initial climb out of Liverpool, the section over the Pennines between Manchester and Leeds is very difficult, with steep gradients as well as many slowings over junctions and curves.
Translations:
transforming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: transformings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: transformation
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Thereby you give nature time to work her magic transformings; turning all solids to meat, and wine into blood.
Hence come the monsterings and transformings of souls after death, and it is in this Scheol and place of transformation, where souls are after death, that this Spirit is present and at work throughout the whole of nature.
Translations:
roaming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: communications
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
telecommunications
Inflected forms:
form: roamings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instance of wandering.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: That last problem did intrude on Hazzard’s roamings, and when she refers to the living city it is with periodic references to thefts of cars and wallets, with a warning not to carry anything “snatchable” by the thieves on motorcycles who whiz through the streets.
gloss: The ability to use a cell phone outside of its original registering zone.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The use of a network or service from different locations or devices.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Using the OS service of manipulating folders and documents from different PC devices by a registered user.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
roasting
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English rostynge; equivalent to roast + -ing.
Base: roast
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: more roasting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most roasting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: roastings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Very hot.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: The day started out cool, but by noon it was roasting.
gloss: The act by which something is roasted.
pos: noun
examples: These elements are expelled more completely by a large number of comparatively incomplete roastings (alternated, of course, with smeltings) than by a smaller number of extremely thorough roastings[…]
There were signs of recent roastings and fryings, and Frank explained he’d been eating pretty well, making his way through frozen stocks from the shop.
gloss: A strong rebuke or reprimand (usually from the recipient's point of view).
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
figuratively
examples: My boss gave me a roasting for last month's sales figures.
gloss: The act of attempting to humiliating someone or being humiliated in such a way that it appears comedic, especially publicly.
pos: noun
Derived words: microroasting
spit-roasting
Translations:
releasing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: releasings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is released.
pos: noun
examples: It would be quite unnecessary to traverse year by year the records of importations of eggs and releasings of fry.
Translations:
throbbing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: throbbings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Beating or pounding strongly.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I have a throbbing headache.
gloss: That which throbs.
pos: noun
examples: Krause’s “niche hypothesis” may seem more plausible after you’ve listened to his recordings of dense tropical jungles, polyphonous soundscapes packed with whistles and whinnies, whoops, hoots and howls, deep bass throbbings and shrieking buzzes.
Translations:
glazing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: architecture
art
arts
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English glasynge; equivalent to glaze + -ing.
Base: glaze
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: glazings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of glazing or an instance thereof.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gerund
uncountable
gloss: The material used in such act or process; glaze.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Before new glazier's putty can be applied, the various bits of old glazing must be scraped off.
gloss: The part of a window or wall made of glass or another transparent material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: All the windows of a building.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The art of covering with a vitreous substance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Semi-transparent colours painted thinly over others to modify the effect.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: double glazing
double-glazing
glazing agent
glazing bar
Translations:
mingling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: minglings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mixture; a blending.
pos: noun
Translations:
provoking
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more provoking
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most provoking
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: provokings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: annoying; irritating
pos: adj
examples: Would you stop interrupting me, dear? It's a most provoking habit.
gloss: provocation
pos: noun
examples: The habit of mind so engendered is wholly demoralizing, particularly since the national political consciousness is so dependent on their provokings.
Translations:
multitudes
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The mass of ordinary people; the populous or the masses.
pos: noun
examples: Last October she turned up at the March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights pushing the wheelchair of a friend in the people with AIDS contingent and speaking to the queer multitudes at the post-March rally.
Translations:
betrothal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English betroth
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English betrothal
From betroth + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: betrothals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of betrothing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: marriage betrothal
formal betrothal
announce a betrothal
Their betrothal was announced in the local newspaper.
The play ends with a wedding after a long betrothal.
gloss: The fact of being betrothed; a mutual promise, engagement, or contract for a future marriage between two people.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: betrothment
affiance
Derived words: prebetrothal
Translations:
featureless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English feature
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English featureless
From feature + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more featureless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most featureless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without distinguishing features.
pos: adj
examples: a featureless brick wall
This one was almost featureless, as if still in the making, with an aspect of monotonous grimness.
The branch is three and a half miles long over virtually level, featureless countryside.
Translations:
defenceless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English defence
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English defenceless
From defence + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more defenceless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most defenceless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: defenseless
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Without defence; undefended.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: Paralysed, the old man was defenceless; and the robbers easily stole all of his money.
The hawk, foul murderer of defenceless birds, has sighted the chicken on the bare patch.
Railway engines have been attacked with gunfire by raiding aircraft on both sides of the Channel and the impression has grown up that they are defenceless monsters to be pestered with impunity. The first engine to disprove this vainglorious theory was, we are glad to note, a British one. [The locomotive boiler exploded, causing the aircraft to crash.]
Translations:
groundless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English groundles (“bottomless”), from Old English grundlēas, from Proto-Germanic *grundulausaz, equivalent to ground + -less. Cognate with Dutch grondeloos, German Low German grundlos, German grundlos, Danish grundløs, Swedish grundlös.
Base: ground
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
form: more groundless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most groundless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without any grounds to support it; baseless.
pos: adj
examples: [B]e the consequences what they may, they shall not move an inch, nor a hair's-breadth from the ground of their groundless spiritual independence, […]
At that stage any fears among home fans of a possession monopoly by Laudrup's side were proving groundless, with Cardiff having their fair share of the ball and territory.
gloss: Bottomless; having no bottom or floor.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
Derived words: groundlessly
groundlessness
Translations:
ceaseless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cease
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English ceaseless
From cease + -less.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Without an end.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Without stop or pause, incessant.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
Derived words: ceaselessly
ceaselessness
Translations:
shapeless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle English shap
English shape
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English shapeless
From shape + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more shapeless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most shapeless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without a clearly defined or identifiable shape.
pos: adj
examples: If you skip the prelude, which is at once rhythmically square and shapeless, this Lohengrin starts out decently enough, for Hans Helm is one of the okayest Heralds on disc (a modest compliment, to be sure).
Translations:
sightless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sight
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English sightless
From sight + -less.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Without sight; blind; unseeing.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: And yet it was possible he might love her—love her truly and deeply: if so, of what avail would it be to lower him in her esteem? It were best for Lucy still to gaze with sightless eyes on her idol.
gloss: Synonym of invisible.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In his return, arriving at a rising ground, a knoll, he heard a rustling of the leaves in his front: an enemy was suspected ; he gathered his men around him, each taking his tree. The enemy was sightless to Boyd, and his party, yet the approach around him was sensible to every one.
The toiling world is sightless to those who cannot see.
Derived words: sightlessly
sightlessness
Translations:
soundless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sound
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English soundless
From sound + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more soundless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most soundless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without sound.
pos: adj
examples: a soundless tableau
Cassius. […] for your words, they rob the Hybla bees,
And leave them honeyless.
Antony. Not stingless too.
Brutus. O yes, and soundless too;
For you have stol’n their buzzing, Antony,
And very wisely threat before you sting.
The Psalmist observes, That the Heavens declare the glory of God: And indeed, they celebrate his Praises, though with a soundless Voice, yet with so loud a one […] to our intellectual Ears, that he scruples not to affirm, that There is no Speech nor Language where their voice is not heard […]
The whole building, with its dark windows and soundless avenues, had an air strikingly forlorn and solitary.
During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hang oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country […]
The names of men blow soundless by,
My fellows’ and my own.
All day a woman across the room from me has been rolling up her pages scroll-like and smoothing them out as soundless tears cascade down her face.
gloss: Not capable of being sounded or fathomed.
pos: adj
examples: the soundless deep
Your shallowest help will hold me up afloat,
Whilst he upon your soundless deep doth ride;
1614, Christopher Brooke, The Ghost of Richard the Third, London: L. Lisle, “The Legend of Richard the Third,”
Nor Wits, nor Chronicles could ere containe,
The Hell-deepe Reaches, of my soundlesse Braine.
This heart’s geography’s map, this limitless small continent, this soundless sea;
Related words: sound
Derived words: soundlessly
soundlessness
Translations:
noiseless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English noise
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English noiseless
From noise + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more noiseless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most noiseless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Producing no noise; without noise.
pos: adj
examples: The movements of the cat were noiseless as it approached the mousehole.
For by the hearth the children sit
⁠Cold in that atmosphere of Death,
⁠And scarce endure to draw the breath,
Or like to noiseless phantoms flit:
But open converse is there none, […]
gloss: Containing no noise.
pos: adj
examples: The core idea of the Nostega paradign is basically camouflaging messages by embedding them in a form of noiseless data by employing either altered authenticated data or legitimate untraceable data, as shown in Section 1.3.
Derived words: noiselessly
noiselessness
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: безшумен
roman: bezšumen
lang: Bulgarian
word: беззвучен
roman: bezzvučen
lang: Esperanto
word: senbrua
lang: Finnish
word: meluton
lang: French
word: silencieux
lang: German
word: geräuschlos
lang: Greek
word: αθόρυβος
roman: athóryvos
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἄθροος
roman: áthroos
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἄψοφος
roman: ápsophos
lang: Hungarian
word: zajtalan
lang: Hungarian
word: nesztelen
lang: Hungarian
word: hangtalan
lang: Latin
word: tacitus
lang: Latin
word: impercussus
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: lydløs
lang: Polish
word: bezgłośny
lang: Polish
word: bezszumny
lang: Polish
word: bezszumowy
lang: Romanian
word: silențios
lang: Romanian
word: nezgomotos
lang: Russian
word: бесшу́мный
roman: besšúmnyj
lang: Turkish
word: gürültüsüz
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: گورلدیسز
roman: gürüldüsüz
lang: Ukrainian
word: безшумний
roman: bezšumnyj
joyless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English joy
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English joyless
From joy + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more joyless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most joyless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without joy; unhappy, sad.
pos: adj
examples: Without Joy, my life is joyless!
The Besht preached that the simple man, imbued with native faith and able to pray fervently and wholeheartedly with a sense of joy in his heart, was nearer and dearer to God than the learned but joyless formalist spending his whole life in the study of Talmud.
“It comes from chasing the fun,” says Regan. “A lot of the working-class cinema I grew up watching was so joyless. Endless trauma.”
Translations:
expressionless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English expression
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English expressionless
From expression + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more expressionless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most expressionless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: without expression
pos: adj
Translations:
omitting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: omittings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of omission.
pos: noun
examples: Other parts of the ceremony have their unpleasantnesses; for there is great difficulty in admittings and omittings of guests to the festivities.
Translations:
humbling
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: humblings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more humbling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most humbling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An event which causes humiliation; a setdown.
pos: noun
gloss: Of higher rank, status, quality, strength, etc.; inducing a feeling of inferiority.
pos: adj
Translations:
tracking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
education
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
publishing
typography
Inflected forms:
form: trackings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process by which something is tracked.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In volume, the erudite studies of his language, the trackings of his numerous references to persons, places, and things around him, and the reconstruction of the details of his little-known life have occupied the most attention […]
gloss: A consistent adjustment of space between individual letters; letterspacing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The division of pupils into separately taught groups by perceived ability level.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The synchronization of two or more signals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The formation of conductive paths on the surface of an insulating material due to electrical discharges.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: kerning
Derived words: anti-tracking
antitracking
bug-tracking
cybertracking
double-tracking
eyetracking
four-tracking
geotracking
headtracking
issue-tracking
issue tracking system
maltracking
mantracking
multitracking
pixel tracking
radio tracking
radiotracking
single-tracking
tile tracking
time tracking
tracking poll
tracking resistance
tracking shot
tracking stock
videotracking
Translations:
suffocating
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: suffocatings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more suffocating
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most suffocating
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of suffocation.
pos: noun
examples: Here the narrator bursts into explosion after explosion of thunderous horse-laughter, repeating that nub from time to time through his gaspings and shriekings and suffocatings.
gloss: That tends to suffocate the target(s); so overwhelming and lethal or life-threatening as to suffocate; suffocative.
pos: adj
examples: It is difficult to conceive a state of society in which a sufficient number of disinterested and civilized and imaginative people would, even if given the chance, voluntarily undertake what would be to them the suffocating boredom of government.
On the sudden outburst of a great fire, the passages are commonly filled with suffocating smoke, and often with flame, which render the hydrants in the internal passages inaccessible, and generally cut off communication with superior reservoirs, and of this there have been frequent large instances.
"From the Thursday before to that Time he was dying of an hard Cough and a suffocating Asthma with a Fever; but he felt no great Pain; he had the sweet Composure and easy Departure, for which he had entreated so often and fervently the sovereign Disposer of all Things.
But during this siege it is certain that Greek fire was used with dreadful effect upon the Turks, driving them back with its fierce flame and suffocating smoke as they attempted to cross the ditch and scale the walls, destroying their platforms and ladders, and consuming even the bodies of the dead.
For since there were many in a deep and narrow space, the sun and the suffocating heat were still distressing them at first, and the contrasting cold autumnal nights that ensued weakened their condition by the change, and since they had to do everything in the same space because of close confines, and furthermore the corpses were piled together on one another, dead from wounds and because of the change and so forth, there were unbearable smells, and at the same time they were afflicted with hunger and thirst (for eight months they gave each a cup of water and two cups of food a day), and of all the other miseries men thrust into such a place were likely to suffer there was not one that they did not encounter. For up to seventy days, the whole group lived like this; then, except for the Athenians and whatever Sikeliots or Italiots had joined them, they sold them all. The total number captured, while difficult to give out accurately, was nevertheless not fewer than seven thousand.
Translations:
restraining
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: restrainings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which someone or something is restrained.
pos: noun
examples: She had the privilege of a soul beyond our minor rules and restrainings to speak her wishes to the true wife of a mock husband—no husband; less a husband than this shadow of a woman a wife, she said; […]
Translations:
oxidizing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That oxidizes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
pricking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
mining
Inflected forms:
form: prickings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The prickings of thorns
gloss: A sensation that pricks, or causes sharp emotional pain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: the prickings of conscience
gloss: The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: THE pricking a horse has proved to be as useless an operation as it is simple, seldom or never having the desired effect; consequently the practice should be abolished
gloss: A nicking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: No better material can be used than seggar or underclay prickings
gloss: The act of tracing a hare by its footmarks.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Dressing oneself for show; prinking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Derived words: pricking at the belt
pricking-up
Translations:
rescuing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: rescuings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of effecting a rescue.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Betty — so stout, and with that rheumatism in her leg — did she ever think of herself? Or Aunt Rosamund, with her perpetual rescuings of lost dogs, lame horses, and penniless musicians?
Translations:
staining
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: stainings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
pos: noun
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
groping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: gropings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of groping; a grope.
pos: noun
examples: Sexual harassment may include rape or attempted rape; it may include gropings, touching up and suggestive remarks.
But we now look at the Met's westerly gropings. These began from the new, south-westerly pointing annexe at Paddington - Paddington (Praed Street). From there the Met marched on Bayswater (now Queensway), Notting Hill Gate, High Street Kensington and Gloucester Road before effecting its rendezvous with the District at South Kensington in December 1868.
Translations:
hitchhiking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: hitchhikings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who hitchhikes.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A form of evolution caused by genetic drift.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Derived words: pseudohitchhiking
Translations:
housed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Enclosed, provided or covered with a house.
pos: adj
Translations:
clicking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: clickings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sound or action of a click.
pos: noun
examples: Thus one pair of dolphins talking can sound like two pairs of dolphins talking, one pair exchanging clickings, the other pair exchanging whistles.
Translations:
programmed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: programed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: having a minister or pastor who conducts religious services.
pos: adj
tags: Quakerism
not-comparable
gloss: scheduled
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: unprogrammed
Related words: nonprogrammed
programmed cell death
programmed function key
programmed obsolescence
programmed random occurrence
teleprogrammed
Translations:
isolating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more isolating
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most isolating
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having low morpheme per word ratio and no inflectional morphemes.
pos: adj
examples: As an isolating language Belter Creole is rich in particles. Particles are used to indicate both negation and interrogation: na is the negative particle and it is placed before the verb
Translations:
scheming
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English scheme
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Proto-Germanic *-ndz
Proto-West Germanic *-andī
Old English -ende
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English scheming
From scheme + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more scheming
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most scheming
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: schemings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Tending to scheme; forming underhand plots.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
gloss: The activity or practice of making secret or underhanded plans.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
matured
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more matured
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most matured
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations: