yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
credential
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Medieval Latin crēdentiālis (“giving authority”), from Latin crēdentia (“trust”).
Inflected forms:
form: more credential
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most credential
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: credentials
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: credentials
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: credentialing
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: credentialling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: credentialed
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: credentialed
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: credentialled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: credentialled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to or serving as an introduction or recommendation (to someone).
pos: adj
examples: their credential letters on both sides
gloss: documentary or electronic evidence that a person has certain status or privileges
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: May I see your credentials, please?
The computer verifies the user's credentials before allowing them to log on.
gloss: Evidence of skill or excellence.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: They deserved their half-time lead and looked fully in control until Brazil made changes at the break and began to show their credentials in attack.
gloss: to furnish with credentials
pos: verb
examples: School superintendents, principals, and teachers are currently credentialed only by the state.
The newly credentialled ambassador to the Holy See is already in the PM's good books.
Derived words: credential inflation
credential inflation credentialism credentialist credentialization credential stuffing letters credential
credentialism
credentialist
credentialization
credential stuffing
letters credential
Translations:
arranger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Old French a-
Proto-Indo-European *(H)rek-der.
Proto-Celtic *reketi
Gaulish *rekosbor.?
Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-der.
Proto-Germanic *rinkanąder.
Proto-Germanic *rankaz
Frankish *rankbor.?
Vulgar Latin *rencus
Old French reng
Proto-Italic *-āzi
▲
Latin -ereinflu.
Latin -āre
Old French -ier
Old French rengier
Old French arangierbor.
Middle English arengen
English arrange
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English arranger
From arrange + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: arrangers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who arranges.
pos: noun
gloss: Digital keyboard to play music with accompaniment styles.
pos: noun
Translations:
woodblock
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
media
music
philately
printing
publishing
Etymology: From wood + block.
Compound parts: wood
block
Inflected forms:
form: woodblocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wood block
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: woodblocks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: woodblocking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: woodblocked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: woodblocked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: wood block
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A woodcut.
pos: noun
gloss: A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow block of wood struck with a drumstick.
pos: noun
gloss: A wooden block used as a printing form.
pos: noun
examples: In 1569 Choe Bu’s grandson, Yu Hi-chun, published the book in a wood block edition at Jeongju, Pyeongan Province.
gloss: The emergency issue of the Cape triangles, printed in 1861.
pos: noun
gloss: To print with a woodcut.
pos: verb
gloss: To floor or pave with blocks of wood.
pos: verb
Derived words: woodblockist
woodblock printing
Translations:
woodcarver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wood + carver.
Compound parts: wood
carver
Inflected forms:
form: woodcarvers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a person who is skilled at woodcarving
pos: noun
Translations:
woodcraft
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wood
Proto-Germanic *krafjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *kraftuz
Proto-West Germanic *kraftu
Old English cræft
Old English -cræft
Middle English -craft
English -craft
English woodcraft
From wood + -craft.
Inflected forms:
form: woodcrafts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: woodcrafts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: woodcrafting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: woodcrafted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: woodcrafted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any of the skills related to a woodland habitat, especially those relating to outdoor survival; these skills collectively.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “Yes, Waziri,” replied Busuli. “They passed us late yesterday, as we were about to turn back after you. They had no woodcraft. We heard them coming for a mile before we saw them, and as we had other business in hand we withdrew into the forest and let them pass.”
I don't think some of your—um—pure-blooded Dwarfs have as much woodcraft as might be expected. You've left tracks all over the place.
gloss: The art or skill of wood carving.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: To carve or craft from wood.
pos: verb
Translations:
woodcutter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wood + cutter.
Compound parts: wood
cutter
Inflected forms:
form: woodcutters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who cuts down trees, especially as an occupation; a lumberjack.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who cuts wood.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who makes woodcuts.
pos: noun
Related words: woodcutting
Translations:
woodcutting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wood + cutting.
Compound parts: wood
cutting
Inflected forms:
form: woodcuttings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The felling of trees, or the cutting of wood.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of making woodcuts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
woodenly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wooden
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English woodenly
From wooden + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more woodenly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most woodenly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Dully and without emotion.
pos: adv
examples: "If they do, all they'll find are hunks of metal," Patrick said woodenly.
gloss: Clumsily or without animation.
pos: adv
Related words: wooden
Translations:
wordlessly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wordless
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English wordlessly
From wordless + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Without words.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Near the end of Sasquatch Sunset, the gloriously weird feature from David and Nathan Zellner, Riley Keough wordlessly conveys a slowly creeping moment of profound existential despair that crushes your heart with its bleakness.
Translations:
worthily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English worthely, worthili, worthiliche, worthily, worthyly, worþili, worþiliche, worþily, wurðelice, wurðeliche, wurðelike, wurthelie, wurthilyche, wurthyly, equivalent to worthy + -ly.
Base: worthy
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more worthily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most worthily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a worthy manner.
pos: adv
examples: Then, as my gueſt, and thine ovvne acquiſition / VVorthily purchas'd, take my daughter […]
We should conceive of poetry worthily, and more highly than it has been the custom to conceive of it.
This world-wide travel organisation recently attained its centenary, and under happier conditions than those prevailing at the present time the event would doubtless have been celebrated worthily.
[S]ustain worthily your name of gentleman, which has been worthily borne by your ancestors for five hundred years, both for your own sake and the sake of those who belong to you.
Translations:
woodiness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English woody
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English woodiness
From woody + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: woodinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being woody.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Antonyms: nonwoodiness
Translations:
woodpile
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: games
Etymology: From wood + pile.
Compound parts: wood
pile
Inflected forms:
form: woodpiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pile of cut wood to be used as fuel.
pos: noun
gloss: An arrangement of dominoes.
pos: noun
Derived words: Ethiopian in the woodpile
monkey in the woodpile
nigger in the woodpile
Translations:
woodshed
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: broadcasting
entertainment
lifestyle
media
music
Etymology: From wood + shed.
Compound parts: wood
shed
Inflected forms:
form: woodsheds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: woodsheds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: woodshedding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: woodshedded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: woodshedded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An enclosed, roofed structure, often an outbuilding, used primarily to store firewood.
pos: noun
gloss: A place where punishments or reprimands are administered.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: The State Department is incensed, and if this conference fails it will be the woodshed for three Central American presidents.
Were you ever taken to the woodshed? Did anyone say, “Stop disagreeing with the president”?
gloss: To practice or rehearse using a musical instrument.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: Recently, I have taken up the double bass again, but because time and neglect erode ability, calluses turn soft, and muscle memory fades, I need to woodshed (practice) to get back into shape and build up my chops.
gloss: To practice or rehearse a script.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: In previous chapters, I've covered many ways to woodshed a script and dozens of techniques for bringing the words to life. Now, I'm going to suggest something completely different: Try performing your script completely cold the first time through.
gloss: To self-isolate in order to work on one's artistic development or to produce work without interruptions.
pos: verb
examples: His latest novel sheds light on an émigré writer’s woodshedding period.
Related words: woodshedding
Derived words: something nasty in the woodshed
trip to the woodshed
Translations:
woodwinds
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The woodwind instruments of an orchestra collectively
pos: noun
Translations:
woodworker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wood + worker.
Compound parts: wood
worker
Inflected forms:
form: woodworkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person skilled at woodworking.
pos: noun
Translations:
woolens
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: woollens
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: woolen clothes collectively
pos: noun
tags: US
plural
plural-only
Translations:
wordage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English word
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
Latin -āticus
Latin -āticum
Old French -agebor.
Middle English -age
English -age
English wordage
From word + -age.
Inflected forms:
form: wordages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Words collectively, considered in a mass sense.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: language
gloss: The excessive use of words.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But the plates are good, and, in reality, sufficient without all the wordage.
Here, I think, we must class the portmanteau-wordage of James Joyce, in which the use of verbal and syllabic association is carried so far that its power of unconscious persuasion is lost and the reader’s response is diverted by a conscious ecstasy of enigma-hunting, like a pig rooting for truffles.
gloss: The number of words used in a text: synonym of word count.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The official transcript totaled 2,045,000 words—more than twice the wordage of the Bible.
A work of elucidation couched in a lazily dense style; a biography seemingly concerned with externals but in fact spun from inside the biographer like a spider’s thread; a critical study which exceeds in wordage all the major works of its subject put together…
gloss: The choice of words used: word choice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: phrasing; terminology; phraseology
"With the wordage in the contract, we think we have a good case."
Translations:
wordless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wordles, equivalent to word + -less. Compare Dutch woordeloos (“speechless, inexpressible in words”), German wortlos (“silent, speechless”), Danish ordløs (“wordless”), Swedish ordlös (“wordless”), Icelandic orðlaus (“wordless, speechless”).
Base: word
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
form: more wordless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most wordless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Conveyed without the use of words; unspoken or unsaid.
pos: adj
examples: On any given Friday night at the Claremont Colleges, between 15 and 20 Jewish students gather to sing wordless melodies, dive into textual study of Talmud or James Baldwin, or hold workshops on antisemitism.
gloss: Unable or unwilling to speak; dumb, silent or inarticulate.
pos: adj
Antonyms: wordful
Translations:
workbook
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From work + book.
Compound parts: work
book
Inflected forms:
form: workbooks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wkbk
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A book, used by a student, in which answers and workings may be entered besides questions and exercises.
pos: noun
gloss: A book, used by a business, containing a record of work to be done, or work completed.
pos: noun
gloss: A collection of spreadsheets stored in the same file.
pos: noun
Translations:
workfare
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of work + welfare.
Compound parts: work
welfare
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A form of welfare in which people are required to work as a condition of receiving aid
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
Translations:
workforce
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom
Proto-Germanic *werką
Proto-West Germanic *werk
Old English weorc
Middle English werk
English work
English force
English workforce
From work + force.
Inflected forms:
form: workforces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: work force
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: All the workers employed by a specific organization or state, or on a specific project.
pos: noun
examples: The rail sector's ageing workforce (28% of workers are over 50 years old) means that about 15,000 people could retire from the industry by 2025.
But much of the federal workforce is located outside the nation’s capital, and Trump’s offer was met with confusion and skepticism in many of those offices.
gloss: The total population of a country or region that is employed or employable.
pos: noun
examples: “There is no question the US economy will get smaller as you deport a lot of the workforce,” Kent Smetters, professor of business economics and public policy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, said in an interview.
Synonyms: manpower
jobforce
labour force
human resources
liveware
personnel
staff
workforce
Any plural of the meronyms
Translations:
working-class
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more working-class
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most working-class
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the working class; suggestive of the working class in manner of speaking, outlook, appearance, or other qualities.
pos: adj
examples: There is one obvious sense in which working-class politics has declined in the last twenty years or so: the proportion of working-class people involved at various levels of party politics has dropped.
Jean-Baptiste ordered herb soup, potatoes, and cheese along with two glasses of beer — a typical working-class lunch, he said to Aimee with a smile.
It was a very working-class crowd on the Kop, mainly dockers and the like.
But Run Run Shaw and his brothers are sons of a Shanghai textile magnate, Lee Shau-kee comes from a wealthy banking and gold trading family from Shuntak county in Guangdong province, and Henry Fok - though from a genuinely working-class background - was set apart by a British government scholarship to an elite school.
We're also witnessing the passing of something even more profound - a culture of working-class masculinity that has become an anachronism in the modern world.
One of the areas in Hong Kong most profoundly impacted by the city’s third wave of coronavirus is Tsz Wan Shan. The usually bustling streets of the working-class neighbourhood in Kowloon now resemble a ghost town. Tsz Wan Shan has been the epicentre of a recent cluster of Covid-19 cases.
Translations:
workingman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English working
English -man
English workingman
From working + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: workingmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A man who works in exchange for payment, especially a labourer who does manual labour.
pos: noun
examples: The workingman, through the invention of many time and labor saving devices, has been freed from much drudgery and now finds his day portionable into eight hours for rest, eight hours for work and eight hours for recreation.
To her it seemed indecent that a pregnant woman of her standing (Government Service) should have to board the steamer without a husband to go with her and dispute about her accommodation and whisper anxiously to the doctor and stewardess—almost as indecent as a Government Service woman's having her baby in the hospital in Port Zodiac with the wives of workingmen and Greeks.
Every workingman can have his own house.
Translations:
slackness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English slacnesse, slakenes, slaknesse; equivalent to slack + -ness. Compare Old English slæcnes.
Base: slack
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: slacknesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being slack; the quality of having slack.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Vulgarity in West Indian culture.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A subgenre of dancehall music with sexual lyrics.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
pressurized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more pressurized
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pressurized
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pressurised
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Under pressure.
pos: adj
Antonyms: unpressurized
Translations:
worktable
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From work + table.
Compound parts: work
table
Inflected forms:
form: worktables
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: work-table
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A table designed for work of a specific type.
pos: noun
gloss: A table designed for work of a specific type.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
lang: Danish
word: arbejdsbord
lang: Finnish
word: työpöytä
lang: Polish
word: warsztat
lang: Polish
word: stół warsztatowy
workup
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
government
medicine
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
English work updeverb.
English workup
Deverbal from work up.
Inflected forms:
form: workups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: work-up
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A general medical examination to assess a person's health and fitness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: All the additional procedures and reactions carried out after the main chemical reaction to obtain the desired product.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A period of training or preparation, typically for a specific operation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Synonym of scrub baseball.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The first time I saw Amity we were in front of her house playing work-up, a baseball variation where you move from position to position by outs until you get to bat.
gloss: An unfinished or unfinalized version; a draft, prototype.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He toured Japan with Judy Collins, and on his return in 1967, he presented the initial work-up on "Alice's Restaurant" at the WNYC Folk Song Festival.
Translations:
workweek
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From work + week.
Compound parts: work
week
Inflected forms:
form: workweeks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The range of days of the week that are normally worked.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Mrs. Lienemann, the French Housing Minister, sees socialist and ecological forces proposing what she calls “a new culture”—perhaps named “Ecosocialism”—that might, she believes, work for innovations like a 32-hour workweek, more democracy at the workplace, and “a greater stress on quality than quantity in everyday life.”
That trial, which began the same week as the elections that brought Margaret Thatcher to power, remains a symbol, to a certain sort of Englishman, of the societywide breakdown of the 1970s, which was a decade of currency devaluations, crippling strikes, uncollected garbage and shortened workweeks.
Translations:
world-class
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more world-class
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most world-class
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a standard that ranks among the best in the world.
pos: adj
examples: Chris Green remarks that this "world-class gateway to London and the UK still looks as good as new", [...].
gloss: Extraordinary in degree.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: A world-class idiot
Both of you, prepare for a world-class punishment session when we get home!
My father was a world-class dickerer.
Derived words: worldie
worldy
Translations:
world-famous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compound of world + famous.
Inflected forms:
form: more world-famous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most world-famous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Renowned universally; known worldwide.
pos: adj
examples: Albert Einstein is a world-famous scientist.
Mr. Peng said that the world-famous scientist, Sven Hedin, was kidnapped by troops under General Ma in south Sinkiang, but was released later, and is believed to be safe and well at Akosu.
So what is it that makes SBB (Swiss national railways) tick? In my humble opinion, two things. Firstly, a comprehensive and set-in-stone integrated timetable (incorporating trains, ferries, cable cars and buses, including the world-famous yellow 'post-autos'), compiled four years in advance and which gets tested twice before it becomes operational.
Translations:
worldly-wise
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compare the synonym worldwise, which has cognates in various West-Germanic languages.
Inflected forms:
form: more worldly-wise
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most worldly-wise
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: worldlywise
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: worldly wise
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Experienced in the ways of the world; sophisticated and cosmopolitan.
pos: adj
examples: I had a natural African American impulse to let this worldlywise middle-aged black woman's maternalism wash over me. And as a post-civil rights African American, I assumed that it was a white audience's job to follow suit.
Translations:
worldview
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: A calque of German Weltanschauung, equivalent to world + view.
Base: world
Inflected forms:
form: worldviews
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: world-view
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: world view
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person's personal view of the world and how one interprets it; any ingroup's or society's mainstream view thereof.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: cosmovision
According to the BfV, the JA promotes an ethno-nationalist worldview that ostracizes anyone who is not a native, white German.
“You have said the actual truth,” Musk tweeted in reply. X users, including many in the tech industry, lambasted the posts, though other users agreed with Musk and said they were gleefully watching him sink into their hateful worldview.
The bombing comes over a week after ISD released a report about how nihilistic worldviews are fueling violence in the US and Europe.
gloss: The totality of one's beliefs about reality.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: cosmology
gloss: A general philosophy or view of life.
pos: noun
examples: The Elizabethan worldview differs from a modern worldview.
Human beings feel safe and secure when they can stand confidently in the center of things, either in the center of an age or in the center of a class of people with a common world-view, but when they come to an edge, they feel nervous and unsettled.
The Enlightment worldview, which considered the order of "Nature" as a basis and, at the same time, the subject of explorations of scientific natural sciences, has, at the same time, considered this order as a criterion of the artistically-aesthetic qualities of art. From an "ideological" point of view, it liberated art from its feudal religious and courtly servitude.
Some worldviews are based in a belief in God; others are not. Buddhism, Taoism, atheism, Marxism, and existentialism are examples of worldviews that are nontheistic.
Synonyms: weltanschauung
philosophy
belief system
Related words: NPOV
point of view
POV
viewpoint
world model
Translations:
worm-eaten
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more worm-eaten
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most worm-eaten
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of fruit or other food, eaten by worms, especially having a worm inside.
pos: adj
examples: Once upon a time there was a lad, who went along a road cracking nuts. He happened to find one which was worm-eaten, and shortly afterwards he met the devil.
gloss: Rotten or decrepit.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
figuratively
examples: The wooden jetty on the East Pier had become worm-eaten and was demolished, but the Admiralty lent an old hulk to serve as a rough-and-ready packet facility.
Synonyms: maggoty
wormridden
Translations:
worrywart
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From worry + wart, apparently chosen for alliteration. Presumably related to earlier worryguts. Attested 1956, but earlier examples are found in newspapers of the 1930s and 1940s.
Compound parts: worry
wart
Inflected forms:
form: worrywarts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: worry wart
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: worry-wart
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who worries excessively, especially about unimportant matters.
pos: noun
examples: It doesn't mean you're a worrywart, a nervous wreck or in need of heavy medication.
On vacation, I'm a worrywart for fretting about third-degree burns and puncture wounds.
When Biden takes the presidential oath in January, many will write articles scolding those who expressed concern about a coup as worrywarts, or as people misusing terminology.
Translations:
wraparound
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: broadcasting
computing
engineering
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
radio
sciences
skating
sports
television
Etymology: From wrap + around.
Compound parts: wrap
around
Inflected forms:
form: wrap-around
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: wraparounds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wrap-around
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Designed to be wrapped around the body and tied.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Extending around a corner or bend.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
gloss: Serving to surround or bookend something else.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Ushers announced movie showtimes from the moment the A picture started because the wraparound material was simply not the main attraction.
gloss: A garment that is wrapped around the body and tied.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A label or advertising display that wraps around a container.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A segment where material featuring one person (such as a reporter) is introduced and concluded by another person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: An extension to a property that combines side and rear additions.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
countable
often
gloss: Synonym of wraparound mortgage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Word wrap, the word processing feature that moves text to the beginning of the next line if it will not fit at the end of the current line.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: See also: autowrap, backwrap, line break, word wrap, and wrapping
gloss: The wrapping of numerical values in case of underflow or overflow.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The addition of integers is unchecked, so wraparound occurs if the resulting value is beyond the representable range.
gloss: An attempt to score by reaching around the side of the net from behind.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Synonyms: wrapround
wrap-round
Derived words: wraparound care
wraparound host
wraparound mortgage
wraparound childcare
Translations:
wrappings
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: wrapping material collectively
pos: noun
Translations:
wrap-up
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wrap updeverb.
English wrap-up
Deverbal from wrap up.
Inflected forms:
form: wrap-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A brief condensation or recapitulation as a final summary, especially to a news programme.
pos: noun
gloss: A concluding action; a conclusion.
pos: noun
Translations:
wretchedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wrecchedly; equivalent to wretched + -ly.
Base: wretched
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more wretchedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most wretchedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a wretched manner.
pos: adv
examples: Tell my page to ask him to walk with you, for you look wretchedly, and to be sure you have been on your knees a long time rubbing that foot, I must say.
I felt wretchedly old, and worn out, and unfit for my place—and began to wonder, for the first time in my life, when it would please God to take me.
Translations:
wriggler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
manufacturing
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wriggle
English -er
English wriggler
From wriggle + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: wrigglers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Anything that wriggles (literally or figuratively).
pos: noun
gloss: Anything that wriggles (literally or figuratively).
pos: noun
gloss: Anything that wriggles (literally or figuratively).
pos: noun
Derived words: collared wriggler
Dorothea's wriggler
Translations:
wriggly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wriggle
English -y
English wriggly
From wriggle + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: wrigglier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: wriggliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That wriggles.
pos: adj
tags: informal
Translations:
wrinkly
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wrinkle
English -y
English wrinkly
From wrinkle + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: wrinklier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: wrinkliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: wrinklies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having wrinkles.
pos: adj
gloss: An old person.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
wristband
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wrist
Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *bandiz
Old English bend
Middle English band
English band
English wristband
From wrist + band.
Inflected forms:
form: wristbands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The cuff of a sleeve that wraps around the wrist.
pos: noun
gloss: A strip of material worn around the wrist, e.g. to absorb perspiration, especially in sports.
pos: noun
gloss: A decorative band or bracelet that encircles the wearer's wrist.
pos: noun
gloss: A band that supports a wristwatch.
pos: noun
gloss: A cord worn around the wrist, used to hold a small object such as a knife: a lanyard
pos: noun
Related words: wristbanding
armband
bracelet
Translations:
write-up
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English write updeverb.
English write-up
Deverbal from write up.
Inflected forms:
form: write-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: writeup
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A written account of something, as a record.
pos: noun
gloss: An increase made to the book value of an asset that was previously undervalued.
pos: noun
gloss: A review published in the print or online media for a film, book, etc.
pos: noun
examples: The film had poor write-ups, but I ended up enjoying it anyway.
Translations:
wrongfulness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wrongful
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English wrongfulness
From wrongful + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: wrongfulnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being wrongful.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
wrongness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wrongnesse, equivalent to wrong + -ness.
Base: wrong
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: wrongnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being wrong; error or fault.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Often, on the plantation, he had seen the white men take drinks. But there was something somehow different in the manner of Borckman’s taking a drink. Jerry was aware, vaguely, that there was something surreptitious about it. What was wrong he did not know, yet he sensed the wrongness and watched suspiciously.
It’s not true that I’m always thinking of H. Work and conversation make that impossible. But the times when I’m not are perhaps my worst. For then, though I have forgotten the reason, there is spread over everything a vague sense of wrongness, of something amiss.
gloss: Wrong or reprehensible things or actions.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: But your father didnt exactly do wrong things: he said them and thought them: that was what was so dreadful. He really had a sort of religion of wrongness. Just as one doesnt mind men practising immorality so long as they own that they are in the wrong by preaching morality; so I couldnt forgive Andrew for preaching immorality while he practised morality.
1937, Elizabeth Sparks, Interview transcribed in Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, Washington: Library of Congress, 1941, Volume 17, Virginia Narratives,
Old Massa done so much wrongness I couldn’t tell yer all of it.
Translations:
pleasurably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pleasurable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English pleasurably
From pleasurable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more pleasurably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most pleasurably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a pleasurable manner.
pos: adv
Antonyms: unpleasurably
Translations:
wrought-iron
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: made from wrought iron
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The cars, of which there were five, were four-wheelers seating 32, and had wrought-iron railings round the end platforms.
On February 24, 319379 crosses the wrought-iron Carr Mill Viaduct with Northern's 1515 Liverpool Lime Street-Wigan North Western service, viewed from a spillway for the reservoir.
Translations:
wrought-up
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more wrought-up
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most wrought-up
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: excited, stimulated or agitated;
pos: adj
Translations:
rafting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The sport of guiding a raft while descending a river, especially through rapids known as white water rafting.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
raggedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ragged
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English raggedly
From ragged + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more raggedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most raggedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a ragged manner, unevenly, especially not in unison
pos: adv
examples: At Ickwell Green, in Bedfordshire, there is a permanent maypole. There, the May Queen is accompanied by moggies (raggedly dressed women) carrying besoms - birch-twig brooms.
Translations:
rancher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
real-estate
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ranch
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English rancher
From ranch + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: ranchers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who operates a ranch.
pos: noun
examples: That story begins in rural Wyoming in 1963, when drifters Ennis and Jack are hired by a local rancher to herd sheep through grazing ground on the titular Brokeback Mountain.
gloss: A ranch-style house.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: By the 1960s in North America sprawling ranchers and backsplits with attached garages had become common […]
We know that if a realtor got a listing for a rancher in the neighborhood of property one: that similar houses there will sell, with some effort, for about $59,000.
Related words: dude rancher
guest rancher
cattleman
ranchboy
ranchgirl
ranchman
ranchwoman
Translations:
random-access
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being accessed in any order, not required to be sequential.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
raven-haired
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From raven + haired.
Compound parts: raven
haired
Inflected forms:
form: more raven-haired
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most raven-haired
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having hair that is very black and lustrous.
pos: adj
examples: `Attractive, raven-haired, about twenty-three and with a figure like Diana Dors.'
Between these two rode a raven-haired elven lady, who surveyed her surroundings with poise.
Translations:
razor-sharp
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: razor sharp
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Extremely sharp.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
examples: The executioner was proud that he kept his axe razor-sharp, so no prisoner would feel any pain when his head was cut off.
[flavor text of the card "Zera The Mant"]
A huge, brutal monster that attacks with razor-sharp claws.
A lot of people stress out about getting crows' feet, but personally I would be more concerned about their long, razor-sharp beaks.
gloss: Extremely sharp.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
gloss: Extremely sharp.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
examples: One day, she was in a razor-sharp three-piece suit, and the next, a tulle skirt that had no business being worn after the age of five (but she did, and then we all wanted to wear tutus too!).
Translations:
lang: German
word: messerscharf
lang: German
word: rasiermesserscharf
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ξυρήκης
roman: xurḗkēs
lang: Hungarian
word: borotvaéles
lang: Swedish
word: knivskarp
lang: Swedish
word: rakbladsvass
razorback
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From razor + back.
Compound parts: razor
back
Inflected forms:
form: razorbacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A feral pig.
pos: noun
tags: Southeastern
US
informal
gloss: The rorqual or finback whale.
pos: noun
Related words: razor-backed
razorback sucker
racerback
Translations:
rawboned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From raw + boned.
Compound parts: raw
boned
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a person: bony and thin; having prominent bones; gaunt.
pos: adj
examples: Deuce take lady S⁠⸺; and if I know D⁠⸺⁠y, he is a rawboned faced fellow, not handsome, nor visibly so young as you say: she sacrifices two thousand pounds a year, and keeps only six hundred.
[…] and that rancid, raw-boned parson, Gillespie—how the plague did they pick him up?—one of the mutes told Bob it was he.
Translations:
ravishing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more ravishing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ravishing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: ravishings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Extremely beautiful
pos: adj
examples: Every time I get into a conversation with this ravishing girl, I want it to last forever.
Richard DeLongpre: Who did this to you?
Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Possibly the most ravishing gal I've ever seen.
gloss: An act of ravishment.
pos: noun
Translations:
chang
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Persian چنگ (čang).
Inflected forms:
form: changs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: çeng
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A traditional harp of central and southwest Asia
pos: noun
Translations:
ravishment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ravish
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English ravishment
From ravish + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: ravishments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: ecstasy
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Joseph Sedley, who was fond of music, and soft-hearted, was in a state of ravishment during the performance of the song, and profoundly touched at its conclusion.
gloss: seizure by force
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: rape
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
Translations:
ravager
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ravage
English -er
English ravager
From ravage + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: ravagers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who ravages.
pos: noun
Translations:
flattening
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: flattenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act, or the result of making something flat or flatter
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A flattened part of something
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The Earth is a sphere that has flattenings at the poles.
Derived words: breast flattening
curve flattening
Translations:
glowering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: glowerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of giving a glower.
pos: noun
examples: But after much whispering, cross looks from Caroline and Jane, warning glowerings from John, Sam was not chosen. He was left unselected and Mrs Firth told Sam sharply to go into Adam's team 'to make even numbers'.
Translations:
racewalking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From race + walking.
Compound parts: race
walking
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A sport in which people try to walk as fast as possible, subject to the constraint that at least one foot must be on the ground at all time (or else they would be running).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
boucherie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French boucherie (“butchershop”), and in American usage (for the event), from Cajun French boucherie.
Inflected forms:
form: boucheries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A social event at which people gather to butcher and make food from an animal, especially a pig.
pos: noun
examples: It is not unusual for guests to contribute side dishes at a boucherie or cochon de lait, or to bring beer, or to donate money to help pay for a sack of crawfish. The participants in a boucherie work hard for hours at various tasks,[…]
She'd been chopping ribs at a boucherie, when they killed a whole pig with Lanier, who raised hogs on the other side of the river. A lightning strike startled her, and the ax took off part of that finger. Grady's finger.
At a boucherie, animals are slaughtered and readied for sale—and for Cajuns, a day of boucherie is an art form and family affair. This mirrors Acadian life. Every part of the pig is preserved, cooked, or turned into sausages;[…]
In Félines (a river, a waterfall, a church—altitude, 3,000 feet; population, 1,612), we bought charcuterie at a boucherie. The village had two. Few places celebrated the pig more than the Ardèche, Daniel explained.
gloss: A butchershop, especially one in a French-speaking area, and especially one which specializes in pork.
pos: noun
tags: uncommon
examples: Grace Damas had worked at a boucherie. The killer used a chef's saw, knew something about anatomy. Tanguay dissected animals. Maybe there was a link. I looked for the name of the boucherie but couldn't find it.
Translations:
mouche
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French mouche. Doublet of Musca.
Inflected forms:
form: mouches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A soul patch, especially in a historical (pre-modern) context.
pos: noun
examples: They lent him a worn aspect which not even a fiercely erect little mustache and a tiny mouche beneath the lower lip could counteract.
The hair and beard are represented by a plastic mass : the mouche under the lower lip radiates outward and the moustache consists of two separate strands ending in spirals.
In the colonial period, the taste for red lips and cheeks came and went, as did fashions for mouches and wigs.
LA is very thin, wears a thin mustache and a tiny beatnik mouche under his lower lip. His brown hair is shoulder length. Mike is surfer-blond, like Ricky in Germany; his hair is shorter, accentuating his somewhat pudgy countenance.
gloss: Small stickers or patches affixed to the face as a beauty mark.
pos: noun
Translations: