yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
tinderbox
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From tinder + box, first use appears c. 1530, in the writings of John Palsgrave.
Compound parts: tinder
box
Inflected forms:
form: tinderboxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tinder-box
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tinder box
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small container containing flint, steel, and tinder (dry, finely-divided fibrous matter), once used to help kindle a fire.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Haines helped himself and snapped the case to. He put it back in his sidepocket and took from his waistcoatpocket a nickel tinderbox, sprang it open too, and, having lit his cigarette, held the flaming spunk towards Stephen in the shell of his hands.
Just bring me the old tinderbox that my grandmother forgot the last time she went down there.
gloss: A place that is so dry and hot that there is danger of fire.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: And then came the night that made America famous / Was it carelessness or someone's sick idea of a joke? / In the tinderbox trap that we hippies lived in, someone struck a spark
Think of your blank journal as a tinderbox, a box for holding combustible materials, ready to catch fire when you sit down to work.
gloss: A potentially dangerous situation.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: This act was the "match that ignited the great tinderbox of fuel" that had been building for years between many of the countries in Europe.
Derived words: Pig and Tinderbox
Translations:
titch
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the stage name Little Tich; see tich. Attested since the 1880s. Possibly also from, or influenced by, a word from Old English ticcen (“young goat”).
Inflected forms:
form: titches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A very small person; a small child.
pos: noun
tags: UK
colloquial
examples: I ain't afraid of a titch like you.
We called him Titch because he was a tiny little man, and he had a mop of black hair.
gloss: A small amount.
pos: noun
tags: UK
colloquial
examples: Is there any milk left? Just a titch.
Related words: tich
Derived words: titchy
Translations:
toilsome
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From toil + -some.
Base: toil
Affixes: -some
Inflected forms:
form: more toilsome
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most toilsome
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: toylesome
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Requiring continuous physical effort; laborious.
pos: adj
examples: ‘And you, Sir knight,’ / (Said she) ‘that taken have this toylesome paine / For wretched woman […]!’
The whole of the interior of South Africa is, of course, one vast plateau at a considerable elevation, and all the main lines coming up from the coast have some toilsome climbing.
Translations:
shedload
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From shed + load; possibly a minced form of shitload, given the sound similarity (front vowel, consonance, metre).
Base: shed
Inflected forms:
form: shedloads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shed load
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A shitload; a large amount.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
idiomatic
slang
examples: Shedloads of flights from Amsterdam in the air at this time of day, ditto Charles de Gaulle, Heathrow, Berlin, Gdansk, Tenerife, Sofia.
Translations:
top-down
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
video-games
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a hierarchical system that progresses from a single, large basic unit to multiple, smaller subunits.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Produced, controlled, or directed by those at the top of the hierarchy (the upper echelons).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Overall the signage at NIE has the appearance being a top-down artefact driven by institutional policy with English set as the default language.
gloss: Presenting the player with an aerial view.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a top-down shooter
gloss: Of a drop top, with the convertible top down.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a top-down ride
Antonyms: bottom-up
Translations:
bottom-up
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a hierarchical system that progresses from multiple small subunits to a single, large basic unit.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The software is checked very carefully in a bottom-up fashion. First, each new line of code is checked, then sections of code or modules with special functions are verified.
gloss: Of or relating to a hierarchical system in which lower levels influence higher levels.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: bottom-up management
The papacy has for centuries brought with it a place on the world stage. Francis, who from the off gave the impression of being a man in a hurry, was determined to use that platform to push a bottom-up agenda for the world.
Antonyms: top-down
Related words: bottoms up
Translations:
trousseau
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French trousseau, diminutive of trousse (“bundle”).
Inflected forms:
form: trousseaus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trousseaux
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The clothes and linen, etc., that a bride collects or that is given to her for her wedding and married life, especially a traditional or formal set of these.
pos: noun
examples: Trousseaus of German Heiresses.—Despatches from Berlin told recently of the visit to that city of a wealthy German mother and her two daughters. for the purpose of buying trousseaus for the girls who are said to be perhaps the richest heiresses of the world. […] Frau Krupp, widow of the great gunmaker of Essen [Friedrich Alfred Krupp], and her daughters, Bertha and Barbara, have just been here, the object of their visit being to buy the wedding-trousseaus for her daughters.
Consequently, having decided to divide her daughter's trousseau into two parts, a lesser and a larger, the Princess eventually consented to have the wedding before Advent.
In a study of the trousseau in France, Agnès Fine observes that, regardless of its contents and its value, the trousseau represented an essential in women's lives; through the first half of the twentieth century, at least, it seemed altogether inconceivable to be married without the provision of a trousseau. But while in the sixteenth century it involved the furniture of a bride's bedroom, bit by bit the trousseau was reduced to linen, especially to sheets.
There is further significance in the transmission of cash and trousseaux. To begin with, they appear in inverse proportion to each other across time, for example trousseaux appear more important in the eighteenth century, whereas by the 1830s they had declined in favour of cash endowments.
gloss: A bundle.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Related words: bottom drawer
dowry
glory box
glory-box
hope chest
Translations:
topicalization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: topicalizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: topicalisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The placing of the topic of a sentence at the beginning.
pos: noun
Translations:
assignment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
education
engineering
law
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English assignement, from Old French assignement. By surface analysis, assign + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: assignments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of assigning; the allocation of a job or a set of tasks.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This flow chart represents the assignment of tasks in our committee.
gloss: The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We should not condone the assignment of asylum seekers to that of people smugglers.
gloss: The categorization of something as belonging to a specific category.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An assigned task.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The assignment the department gave him proved to be quite challenging.
gloss: A position to which one is assigned.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Unbeknownst to Mr Smith, his new assignment was in fact a demotion.
gloss: A task given to students, such as homework or coursework.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Mrs Smith gave out our assignments, and said we had to finish them by Monday.
gloss: A transfer of a right or benefit from one person to another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The assignment of the lease has not been finalised yet.
gloss: A document that effects this transfer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Once you receive the assignment in the post, be sure to sign it and send it back as soon as possible.
gloss: An operation that assigns a value to a variable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: address assignment
antiassignment
assignment operator
frequency assignment
misassignment
nonassignment
Procrustean assignment
reassignment
time-assignment speech interpolation
unassignment
understand the assignment
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 歸類 /归类
roman: guīlèi
lang: Finnish
word: luokitus
lang: French
word: affectation
lang: German
word: Zuordnung
lang: Polish
word: przyporządkowywanie
lang: Polish
word: przyporządkowanie
lang: Portuguese
word: atribuição
lang: Russian
word: категориза́ция
roman: kategorizácija
lang: Russian
word: классифика́ция
roman: klassifikácija
unf
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Inarticulate grunt of desire issued upon sighting someone sexually attractive, or made in response to a spasm of pleasure during sexual intercourse.
pos: intj
tags: Internet
Translations:
dissatisfaction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
▲
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
English satisfaction
English dissatisfaction
From dis- + satisfaction.
Inflected forms:
form: dissatisfactions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Unhappiness or discontent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The coup was well-planned. Fuel was artificially held back so as to create shortages and dissatisfaction with Brotherhood rule. The old state-controlled unions mounted public sector strikes that further sabotaged the economy and annoyed people. Police-controlled thugs who had been used against the Tahrir Square demonstrations in 2011 came back into action.
The hypothesis that the strength of the relationship between ED pathology and body image dissatisfaction would be weaker in the autistic group was not supported.
gloss: The cause of such feelings.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: unsatisfactoriness
Derived words: self-dissatisfaction
Translations:
quantified
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Measured.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: We live in a quantified world and in many ways our lives are better as a result, whether the metrics have been used to create more effective medicines or more efficient delivery vans.
gloss: Used as a quantifier.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: non-quantified
quantified self
unquantified
Derived words: misquantified
nonquantified
prequantified
semiquantified
Translations:
sangria
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish sangría, from sangre (“blood”) + -ía.
Base: sangre
Affixes: -ía
Inflected forms:
form: sangrias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cold drink, originating in Spain, consisting of red or white wine, brandy or sherry, fruit juice, sugar and soda water and garnished with orange and other fruit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Just a perfect day / Drink sangria in the park
Sipping a sangria with a girl named Julia / Hot Jamaican sand beneath our feet
gloss: A deep red color.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: sangria:
Derived words: sangriarita
sangriatini
Translations:
photoshop
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Genericized trademark of Adobe Photoshop, a widely-used graphics editor. This may in turn have been derived from its usage to refer to the camera room in the offset lithography process, where laid up pages could be extensively retouched before being transferred to the printing plates.
Inflected forms:
form: photoshops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: photoshopping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: photoshopped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: photoshopped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: Photoshop
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: photoshops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Photoshop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To digitally edit or alter (a picture or photograph).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
usually
examples: She charged that the prosecutor had photoshopped the image to incriminate her.
Photographs can be manipulated, too; while a "Photoshopped" image may look beautiful, it might not give a correct impression of a place (this is a whole other column).
Ned Shaw, a former illustrator for PC Magazine, has gathered a huge collection of classic examples from such artists and illustrators as Maxfield Parish and Edmund Dulac. He then Photoshopped it (a new verb; you heard it first here) and produced two volumes of fantastic art. The cool part is that the product comes in two resolutions.
The feisty brunette star of The Mummy [sc. Rachel Weisz] boasts: "I really did hold that snake. People thought it was Photoshopped in, but it was the real thing. I had to stay relaxed." What about the snake?
gloss: A digitally altered image.
pos: noun
examples: I reckon the image is a photoshop.
Translations:
fallibilism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fallible
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 fallibilism
From fallible + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: fallibilisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The doctrine that knowledge is never certain, but always hypothetical and susceptible to correction.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
fallibility
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fallible
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English fallibility
From fallible + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: fallibilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being prone to error.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ...they had a damnably suggestive power which was intensified by the fact of their being genuine photographs—actual optical links with what they portrayed, and the product of an impersonal transmitting process without prejudice, fallibility, or mendacity.
gloss: An error-generating characteristic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Dr. Anne Armstrong-Coben has provided a spot-on description of the fallibilities of the electronic medical record from the standpoint of the doctor-patient encounter.
Antonyms: infallibility
Translations:
side-effect
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: side-effects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: side-effecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: side-effected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: side-effected
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To alter as a side effect.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Furthermore, we are on the look-out for pre-conditions for good therapy - so as to prevent the unintended bad therapy: but our efforts are duly side-effected by lack of control over such preconditions.
Local objects can further be distinguished by whether or not they are escaping from the execution of m, and non-local objects can be further distinguished by whether or not they are side-effected by a visible side-effect during the execution of m:
Hence, side-effecting the environment is equivalent to collaborating with an autonomous co-robot.
Translations:
empiricist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English empiric
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English empiricist
From empiric + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: empiricists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: an advocate or supporter of empiricism
pos: noun
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:empiricist.
Translations:
empiric
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French empirique, from Latin empiricus, from Ancient Greek ἐμπειρικός (empeirikós, “experienced”), from ἐμπειρία (empeiría, “experience, mere experience or practice without knowledge, especially in medicine, empiricism”), from ἔμπειρος (émpeiros, “experienced or practised in”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + πεῖρα (peîra, “a trial, experiment, attempt”). Not related to empire.
Inflected forms:
form: empirick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: empirics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: empirick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Empirical.
pos: adj
gloss: A member of a sect of ancient physicians who based their theories solely on experience.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: Someone who is guided by empiricism; an empiricist.
pos: noun
gloss: Any unqualified or dishonest practitioner; a charlatan; a quack.
pos: noun
examples: An empiric oftentimes, and a silly chirurgeon, doth more strange cures than a rational physician.
[…] Paracelsus and some few other sooty Empiricks, rather then (as they are fain to call themselves) Philosophers, having their eyes darken'd, and their Brains troubl'd with the smoke of their own Furnaces, began to rail at the Peripatetick Doctrine, which they were too illiterate to understand […]
[…] and must therefore swallow down Opinions, as silly People do Empiricks['] Pills, without knowing what they are made of[…]
The fact is, that since a good, sound, honest, efficient, automatic, nonmetallic currency and standard was tampered with in 1893, India has been a happy hunting-ground for any empiric who conjured with a new scheme of currency, no matter how fantastic.
To the disgust of doctors, the royal family at Versailles allowed one Brun, a wandering empiric […], to administer a proprietary ‘sovereign remedy’ to the ailing monarch.
Translations:
pinpoint
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From pin + point.
Compound parts: pin
point
Inflected forms:
form: pinpoints
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pin-point
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more pinpoint
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pinpoint
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pin-point
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: pinpoints
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pinpointing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pinpointed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pinpointed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pin-point
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The point of a pin.
pos: noun
gloss: Something infinitesimal; a tiny point.
pos: noun
examples: What was once an astonishing, one-off discovery in 2005 may prove to be just a pinpoint in a global distribution of animals of which we previously knew nothing.
gloss: Extremely precise or specific, especially regarding location.
pos: adj
examples: The machine assembles parts at high speed and with pinpoint accuracy.
The 28-year-old not only hassled the visitors' midfield but also delivered pinpoint balls with alarming accuracy as far as the east Londoners were concerned.
gloss: To identify or locate (someone or something) precisely or with great accuracy.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The investigators tried to pinpoint the source of the flames.
It would defeat the purpose of secret surveillance if individuals were able to pinpoint exactly when the police were likely to be listening in on their conversations and adapt their behaviour accordingly, and the [European] Court [of Human Rights] has not interpreted Article 8 to require that this information should be provided to individuals, either before, during, or after they have been the subject of surveillance measures.
Derived words: pinpoint pupil
Translations:
preoccupied
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
Inflected forms:
form: more preoccupied
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most preoccupied
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Prepossessed; biased.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Already occupied.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: Terrified at this uproar, which disconcerted the magician himself, she ran for shelter into the place which was preoccupied by the other lady […].
Scythrop, retiring to his tower, found his study preoccupied.
Presently the gudeman […] with much bowing and many respectful compliments, managed to tell the guest that the room was preoccupied for that night, as two dykers had come and, according to prearrangement, were to sleep in the bed!
gloss: Describing a taxonomic name not available for use because it is already used for another.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In 1924 J. D. Tothill revised the nearctic species in the genus Fabriciella, a name proposed by Bezzi in 1906 to replace Fabricia Rob. D. which is preoccupied.
gloss: Concerned with something else; distracted; giving one's attention elsewhere.
pos: adj
examples: I was preoccupied with a deadline at work, and I forgot his birthday.
Derived words: overpreoccupied
preoccupiedly
preoccupied name
preoccupiedness
unpreoccupied
Translations:
preoccupy
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pre- + occupy, after Middle French preoccuper, and its source, Latin praeoccupo, praeoccupare. Doublet of preoccupate, now obsolete.
Base: occupy
Affixes: pre-
Inflected forms:
form: preoccupies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: preoccupying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: preoccupied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: preoccupied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To distract; to draw attention elsewhere.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The father tried to preoccupy the child with his keys.
Dr. Beeching's obvious intent is that if Scottish—and similarly unprofitable English and Welsh—railways are to be maintained, it must be done by an unconcealed subsidy; he is determined that the railways shall no longer be preoccupied with—and derided for—immense deficits which include the burden of social services the State must openly underwrite, if it wants them.
gloss: To worry or concern (someone) so as to distract them.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It always preoccupies me when he acts like this.
gloss: To occupy or take possession of beforehand.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Terrified at this uproar, […] she ran for shelter into the place which was pre-occupied by the other lady […].
Related words: preoccupation
Translations:
chalybeate
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek χάλυψ (khálups)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātuslbor.
English -ate
English chalybeate
From Ancient Greek χάλυψ (khálups, “steel”) + English -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Base: χάλυψ
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: chalybeates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Containing dissolved salts of iron.
pos: adj
examples: "Situated on the River Cherwell", Banbury also benefits from "sulphurated water" and close by "a spring of chalybeate water".
gloss: Tasting of iron.
pos: adj
examples: chalybeate mineral water
gloss: A mineral water containing iron, a voguish general remedy during the 17th-19th century.
pos: noun
Translations:
distraught
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English distraught, blend of distract (“distracted”) and straught (“stretched, distraught”), past participle of strecchen (“to stretch”). Compare also bestraught, extraught, forstraught, etc. More at distract, stretch.
Inflected forms:
form: more distraught
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most distraught
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Deeply hurt, saddened, or worried; incapacitated by distress.
pos: adj
examples: His distraught widow cried for days, feeling very alone.
[…]Karius was a danger to his own team, responsible for Madrid’s two other goals and last seen wandering aimlessly around the pitch – alone, distraught and clearly traumatised – to ask forgiveness, hands clasped, from the thousands of Liverpool supporters.
gloss: Mad; insane.
pos: adj
Derived words: distraughtly
distraughtness
undistraught
Translations:
sadden
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English saddenen, equivalent to sad + -en.
Base: sad
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: saddens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: saddening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: saddened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: saddened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make sad or unhappy.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It saddens me to think that I might have hurt someone.
The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.
gloss: To become sad or unhappy.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
rare
examples: He saddens, all the magic light
⁠Dies off at once from bower and hall,
⁠And all the place is dark, and all
The chambers emptied of delight: […]
Hyacinth perfume tickled her senses, making her feel giddy, but she saddened when she saw how uncared for the garden was.
gloss: To darken a color during dyeing.
pos: verb
tags: rare
transitive
examples: Curve (E) is seen at a glance to represent green saddened down to its fifth shade, and reduced with white to its fourth tint.
gloss: To render heavy, hard, or cohesive; to compress or thicken.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Marle's binding and sadning of land being the great Prejudice it doth to Clay-lands.
... the soil below will, instead of being brought up, be trampled and saddened.
[…]; the reason why hee left them in the close all the day was, because that hee woulde have the water sattle away, and the growndesomewhat saddened before hee woulde goe to field with them;[…]
Synonyms: aggrieve
attrist
begloom
begrieve
besorrow
grieve
pain
bring down
come down on
contristate
darken
dash
deject
depress
desolate
dispirit
engrieve
forset
get down
grieven
moan
oppress
repent
rue
sadden
sadden up
tristitiate
ungladden
unhappy
upset
Antonyms: gladden
Related words: be sad
lament
lamentable
rattristare
Derived words: saddener
sadden up
unsadden
Translations:
soon-to-wed
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: soon-to-weds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person or couple due to be married in the near future.
pos: noun
gloss: Due to be married in the near future.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
cotter
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Unknown.
Inflected forms:
form: cotters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cotters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cottering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cottered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cottered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A pin or wedge inserted through a slot to hold machine parts together.
pos: noun
examples: The chains are secured to each end of the cast-iron arches by cotters.
gloss: A cotter pin.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: To fasten with a cotter.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She found Esco by the barn. He was trying to cotter a cart-wheel with a peg he had whittled from a locust branch, driving it in with a hand sledge
Related words: cotter pin
Derived words: cotterless
Translations:
baseboard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
Etymology: From base + board.
Compound parts: base
board
Inflected forms:
form: baseboards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A panel or molding between the floor and the interior wall of a structure.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A similar panel at the base of a piece of furniture or equipment.
pos: noun
tags: US
Derived words: baseboarded
baseboard heating
Translations:
baseless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis
Proto-Hellenic *gʷə́tis
Ancient Greek βᾰ́σῐς (bắsĭs)bor.
Latin basis
Old French basebor.
Middle English base
English base
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 baseless
From base + -less.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of reasoning: based on something that is not true, or not based on solid reasons or facts; unfounded; without a basis.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: baseless accusations; baseless rumors
But Rodríguez says, “Neither the law nor the facts support Senator Grassley’s baseless allegations and extrapolated conclusions.
Speaking to RAIL, a DfT spokesman said: "We do not recognise these baseless, false figures. Just last month we provided an update to Parliament on the costs of the project and confirmed that it would be delivered within the funding envelope. […]."
gloss: Without a physical base.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: More significant still — and most obviously in debt to the painterly imagination — this floating statue is the first baseless statue ever made. It is as though Bernini had taken Michelangelo's 'Pieta' and made it fly.
Synonyms: baseless
idle
footless
groundless
unfounded
ungrounded
unjustified
unproved
unproven
unsubstantiated
unsupported
Antonyms: demonstrated
proven
shown
substantiated
Related words: Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 463. Experiment
Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class IV § 478. Demonstration
Derived words: baselessly
baselessness
Translations:
gloried
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more gloried
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gloried
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: illustrious, honourable
pos: adj
examples: [...] [I]f old reſpect,
 As I ſuppoſe, towards your once gloried friend,
 My Son now Captive, hither hath inform'd
 your younger feet, [...]
Translations:
fyrd
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old English fyrdlbor.
English fyrd
Learned borrowing from Old English fyrd.
Inflected forms:
form: fyrds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In early Anglo-Saxon times, an army that was mobilized from freemen to defend their shire, or from select representatives to join a royal expedition.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Below the king were the eoldermen, the ruling nobility. The eolderman was the king's 'viceroy' in a shire, responsible for administration and justice, for calling out the fyrd and leading its forces in the field.
Translations:
retention
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
insurance
law
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English retencioun, borrowed from Latin retentiō, retentiōnis, from retentus, the perfect passive participle of retineō (“retain”) (from re- (“back, again”) + teneō (“hold, keep”)).
Inflected forms:
form: retentions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of retaining or something retained.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: No woman's heart / So big, to hold so much; they lack retention.
gloss: The act or power of remembering things.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Memory; what is retained in the mind.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "Still," Suit echoed. "The way she handles the gun jamming." Suit shook their head in admiration. "Tap, rack, bang, without hesitation. That's extraordinary retention."
gloss: The involuntary withholding of urine and faeces.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The length of time a patient remains in treatment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: That which contains something, as a tablet; a means of preserving impressions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
Full character’d with lasting memory,
[…]
That poor retention could not so much hold,
Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score;
gloss: The act of withholding; restraint; reserve.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: His life I gave him, and did thereto add / My love without retention or restraint,
gloss: A place of custody or confinement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: The right to withhold a debt, or of retaining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right is duly paid; a lien.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The right of retention, which bears a near resemblance to compensation, is chiefly competent where the mutual debts, not being liquid, cannot be the ground of compensation
gloss: The portion of a potential damage that must be paid for by the holder of an insurance policy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: bioretention
colour retention agent
deposit interest retention tax
gastroretention
hydraulic retention time
irretention
lake retention time
nonretention
overretention
retentional
retention basin
retentionist
retention line
retention pond
retention tank
retention time
silver retention
Translations:
glisten
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English glisnen, glistnen, from Old English glisnian, itself from Proto-West Germanic *glisnōn, while ultimately deriving from Proto-Germanic *glisnōną.
Inflected forms:
form: glistens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: glistening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: glistened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: glistened
pos: verb
tags: past
form: glistens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To reflect light with a glittering luster; to sparkle, coruscate, glint or flash.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The sun was fierce, the land seemed to glisten and drip with steam.
gloss: A glistening shine from a wet surface.
pos: noun
examples: In his clear northern flesh and his fair hair was a glisten like sunshine refracted through crystals of ice.
Translations:
Finnmark
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Finnmarks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Finmark
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The Finnish markka (currency unit).
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
svengali
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named for the hypnotist character Svengali in George du Maurier's novel Trilby. More at citations.
Inflected forms:
form: svengalis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Svengali
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who manipulates or controls another as by some mesmeric or sinister influence; especially a coach, mentor or industry mogul.
pos: noun
examples: She also offers a fascinating glimpse into a more innocent age before svengalis began colluding with marketing men and TV execs to promote talentless wannabes to overnight success.
The Tam Paton of today is nothing like the fearsome Svengali you would see on television during the Roller years. (It is used in multiple other occasions in this book)
Donald's daughter and Svengali Ivanka is a smart, smart, smart lady with an extraordinary intellect and influence on her father.
We have Stephen Bannon, the former head of Breitbart known for his open ties to white supremacists, anti-Semites, and foreign reactionaries in France and Russia. Bannon is a Svengali of sorts for the ugliest forces in American and international politics, a man who believes the Western world is in a fundamental struggle with Islam and who sees multiculturalism and liberal openness as a threat to the future of the West.
Translations:
glamorization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English glamor
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English -ization
English glamorization
From glamor + -ization.
Inflected forms:
form: glamorizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: glamorisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: glamourisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: glamourization
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of glamorizing, or something glamorized.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
grandbaby
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From grand- + baby. Attested 1850s US.
Base: baby
Affixes: grand-
Inflected forms:
form: grandbabies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A young grandchild.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
gunky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gunk
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English gunky
From gunk + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: gunkier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: gunkiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: greasy, messy or dirty.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
Translations:
gentrify
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gentry
English -fy
English gentrify
From gentry + -fy.
Inflected forms:
form: gentrifies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gentrifying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gentrified
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gentrified
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To renovate or improve something (especially housing or district), making it more appealing to the middle classes (now often with the negative association of pricing out existing residents).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Club neighbor Joe Gegis told the board that he was concerned about the licenses due to the problem of drunk drivers and that he believed the bar would lower property values, which have been rising in the area as it becomes increasingly gentrified.
gloss: To develop and invest in a penurious or impoverished place.
pos: verb
Derived words: gentrification
gentrifier
regentrify
Translations:
goy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Biblical Hebrew גּוֹי (goi)bor.
Yiddish גוי (goy)bor.
English goy
Borrowed from Yiddish גוי (goy, “gentile”), borrowed from Biblical Hebrew גּוֹי (goi, “nation”).
The term goy does not technically refer to non-Jews, but rather to a nation per se; the Jews are said to constitute a goy. But through common usage – namely referring to "the [other non-Jewish] nations" – the word came to colloquially refer to non-Jews.
Inflected forms:
form: goyim
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: goys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: goyem
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: goyin
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: goi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Goi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Goy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A non-Jew, a gentile.
pos: noun
tags: offensive
sometimes
examples: I don’t think that marriage is working, but I’m not going to be stupid about it and say she shouldn’t have married a goy.
gloss: Synonym of shabbos goy (“a gentile thought to be subservient to Jewish people”)
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
Derived words: anti-goy
anti-goyish
antigoyism
goybait
goycattle
goyish
goyishkeit
goyslop
goysplain
groyper
shabbos goy
Translations:
generalist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
ecology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Proto-Italic *genos
Latin genus, generis
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin generālisbor.
Anglo-Norman generalbor.
Middle French generalbor.
▲
Latin generālisder.
Middle English general
English general
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English generalist
From general + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: generalists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person with a broad general knowledge, especially one with more than superficial knowledge in several areas and the ability to combine ideas from diverse fields.
pos: noun
gloss: A general practitioner.
pos: noun
gloss: Species which can thrive in a wide variety of environmental conditions. A eurytopic species.
pos: noun
Antonyms: specialist
stenotopic
Derived words: supergeneralist
Translations:
brush-off
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English brush offdeverb.
English brush-off
Deverbal from brush off.
Inflected forms:
form: brush-offs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brushoff
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An abrupt rebuff, a snub or curt rejection, a disdainful dismissal.
pos: noun
examples: A halfhearted “thank you” may be a brush-off.
For the first time, we in the SF ghetto are beginning to get criticism – not brush-offs from literary snobs.
Translations:
grump
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly altered from grum, see there for more.
Inflected forms:
form: grumps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: grumps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: grumping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: grumped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: grumped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A habitually grumpy or complaining person.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A grumpy mood.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: If you're not taking Action to change the situation, either sit in a grump or Accept it.
gloss: To complain.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: Grumping to himself as he made up his own bed, Bradly thought, "Have to wash that blanket; young blighter going to bed with all that mud on his feet."
gloss: To be grumpy.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
Derived words: grumpity
Translations:
goatherd
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English goteherd, from Old English gāthierde, equivalent to goat + herd (“herder”).
Base: goat
Inflected forms:
form: goatherds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who herds, tends goats.
pos: noun
examples: 'Oh, yes. A man was brought to us about a year ago. There'd been a big storm along the southern sector of the Taklamakan. It went on for four or five days. This man was a goatherd from Tongguzbasti. He'd gone out into the desert in search of tamarisk, along with a camel for the load. At midday he had some bread and water and lay down for a sleep. When he woke there was a storm the like of which he'd never seen before. There was nothing for it but to hunker down and make the best of it; but at some point - whether it was day or night he couldn't say - he found himself on his feet, shouting and screaming at the noise, and walking for what must have been miles.'
Looking up from the center of Rmaich, a Christian town lodged on Lebanon’s southern border with Israel, a sun-wizened Lebanese goatherd points to a cluster of pine trees on a ridge.
Translations:
gashed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having gashes; slashed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Reuben
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: * From Hebrew רְאוּבֵן (r'uvén), from רְאוּ (r'ú, “see [masculine plural imperative]”) + בֵּן (ben, “son”); its literal meaning is therefore roughly, "See, all: a son!"
* There are several unconfirmed etymologies for the name of the sandwich.
Inflected forms:
form: Reubens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Ruben
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Rubin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Rube
pos: noun
tags: alternative
diminutive
Senses:
gloss: A grilled or toasted sandwich made with corned beef, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, and either Russian dressing or Thousand Island dressing.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of one of the Israelite tribes, descended from Reuben.
pos: noun
Translations:
gammy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Origin obscure and uncertain. Possibly from the English dialectal (North Midlands) adjective game (“lame”), Welsh cam (“crooked”), or from Irish cam (“bent”), by way of Shelta. Compare also Old Occitan gambi (“lame, limping”), related to Old Occitan gamba (“leg”) (see also French jambe (“leg”), English gam (“leg”)).
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: gammier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: gammiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: gammie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: gammies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gammie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Injured, or not functioning properly (with respect to legs).
pos: adj
examples: I have got a gammy leg, and can't walk far.
"With that gammy leg I wouldn't risk a bet against the chance of another accident on those stairs."
In spring 2009, three years after he suffered a stroke that spared him intellectually but left him with a cane and a gammy right side, Conway delivered a six-part lecture series on his latest brainchild: The Free Will Theorem, devised with his Princeton colleague Simon Kochen.
I'm not exactly spectacular at the moment with a gammy knee that sometimes lets me down and hair that looks as if it's been cut with a knife and fork.
gloss: Fake; counterfeit.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
slang
examples: A little bit of real lace would be fixed on this as in process of making, and a lot of "gammy" stuff, imitation lace, would be carried with it.
gloss: Bad; unfavourable.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
slang
gloss: Grandmother.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: Had our beloved gammy lost it?
Translations:
gamey
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: games
gaming
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *gamaną
Proto-West Germanic *gaman
Old English gamen
Middle English game
English game
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English gamey
From game + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: more gamey
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: gamier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gamey
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: gamiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: gamy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having the smell, taste and texture of game meat.
pos: adj
gloss: Plucky, spirited or gritty.
pos: adj
gloss: Risque, sordid or sexually suggestive.
pos: adj
gloss: Involving in-game actions or behaviour that break immersion or contradict common sense in favour of exploiting game mechanics.
pos: adj
Translations: