yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
computerization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin computārelbor.
French computerbor.
English compute
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 computer
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
English computerize
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 computerization
From computerize + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: computerizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: computerisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of computerizing something, or something computerized.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
computerize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin computārelbor.
French computerbor.
English compute
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 computer
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
English computerize
From computer + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: computerizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: computerizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: computerized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: computerized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: computerise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To convert a manual function or system into a computer system.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To equip with a computer or a computer system.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To enter data into such a system.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To become computerlike.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I wonder how human she is. These are the days when computers humanize and humans computerize.
Related words: computerization
computerized
Derived words: computerizability
computerizable
computerizer
Translations:
coagulate
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English coagulaten (“(of blood) to clot or, make blood coagulate; (of tissue) to consolidate”), from coagulat(e) (“coagulated; (blood) clotted; (milk) curdled; (humor) thickened, viscous; (material) solidified, cohesive; (wine) boiled down, reduced”, also used as the past participle of coagulaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Latin coāgulātus, the perfect passive participle of coāgulō (“to curdle, coagulate”), from coāgulum (“a means of curdling, rennet”), from cōgō (“bring together, gather, collect”) + -ulum (forms instrument nouns), from co- (“together”) + agō (“do, make, drive”). Doublet of quail. Displaced native Middle English irennen, from Old English ġerinnan, but not native curdle.
Base: coagulat
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: coagulates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: coagulating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: coagulated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: coagulated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: coagulates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To become congealed; to convert from a liquid to a semisolid mass.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: In cheese making, milk coagulates into curds that become cheese.
gloss: To cause to congeal.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Rennet coagulates milk; heat coagulates the white of an egg.
gloss: A mass formed by means of coagulation.
pos: noun
Antonyms: dissolve
melt
Related words: coagulum
cache
cogent
squat
Derived words: anticoagulate
coagulable
coagulant
coagulation
coagulative
coagulator
coagulatory
coagulin
coagulopathy
electrocoagulate
hemocoagulase
photocoagulate
recoagulate
thermocoagulate
uncoagulating
Translations:
recommission
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English commission
English recommission
From re- + commission.
Inflected forms:
form: recommissions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: recommissioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: recommissioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: recommissioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To give a new commission or to validate an existing commission.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To put back in service (undoing decommissioning).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They recommissioned the unused furnace, practically rebuilding it in the process.
Hood explains: "It's never a case of just taking these units and dusting them down. Because they had been in storage, they had not undertaken their time-based overhaul, which had been due. They had also not undertaken their mileage-based overhaul, which was also due for all the sets. That caused a bit of a headache when it came to recommissioning them."
Translations:
enamel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English enamel, from Anglo-Norman enamailler, from en- (“in-”) + amailler (“to enamel”), variant of Old French esmailler (“to enamel”), from esmal (“enamel”), from Early Medieval Latin smaltum, from Frankish *smalt, from Proto-Germanic *smeltaną (“to melt, smelt”).
Inflected forms:
form: enamels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: enamels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: enameling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: enamelling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: enameled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: enameled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: enamelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: enamelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: An opaque, glassy coating baked onto metal or ceramic objects.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A coating that dries to a hard, glossy finish.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Against the fence, in a line, were six chipped-enamel slop jars holding brilliant red geraniums, cared for as tenderly as if they belonged to Miss Maudie Atkinson
gloss: The hard covering on the exposed part of a tooth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A cosmetic intended to give the appearance of a smooth and beautiful complexion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To coat or decorate with enamel.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Their plumed helmes are wrought with beaten golde,
Their ſwords enameld, and about their neckes
Hangs maſſie chaines of golde downe to the waſte,
In euery part exceding braue and rich.
gloss: To variegate with colours, as if with enamel.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Oft he [the serpent] bowed / His turret crest and sleek enamelled neck.
gloss: To form a glossy surface like enamel upon.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to enamel card paper; to enamel leather or cloth
gloss: To disguise with cosmetics, as a woman's complexion.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: cementoenamel
cervical enamel
cervicoenamel
counterenamel
dentinoenamel
enameler
enamelin
enamelist
enameller
enamelless
enameloma
enameloplasty
enamel paper
enamelware
enamelwork
enamelworker
enamelworks
nail enamel
paper enamel
porcelain enamel
stove enamel
tooth enamel
vitreous enamel
Translations:
lotto
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian lotto. Doublet of lot.
Inflected forms:
form: lottos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a game of chance similar to bingo
pos: noun
gloss: a lottery
pos: noun
Derived words: lottocracy
lottomania
Translations:
immunize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French immuniser, equivalent to immune + -ize.
Base: immune
Affixes: -ize
Inflected forms:
form: immunizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: immunizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: immunized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: immunized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: immunise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To make someone or something immune to something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It is now clear that the brevity of an indecent broadcast – be it word or image – cannot immunize it from FCC censure.
gloss: To inoculate someone, and thus produce immunity from a disease.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This kind of warfare [i.e., biological] would have us devouring the world’s children in a manner of speaking and those who are immunologically impaired, presuming we were going to immunize our own population but not those of the antagonist. Thus we would be conducting warfare which by definition would be indiscriminate rather than selective. We would lose control of the evolution of the bacteria that we would be releasing in the multitrillions.
At issue is the so-called MMR vaccine, which immunizes children against measles, mumps and rubella, three potentially deadly diseases that were once common and have been mostly wiped out.
Subcutaneous immunization with N-PmpC EcN BGs also resulted in significantly higher systemic production of N-PmpC-specific IgG compared to conjunctivally immunized mice.
Authorizing a vaccine before that may undermine the public’s trust in the regulatory process, and deter parents who are already anxious about immunizing their children, they warn.
Derived words: alloimmunized
coimmunize
deimmunize
hyperimmunize
hyperimmunized
immunizability
immunizable
immunization
immunizer
nonimmunized
overimmunize
preimmunize
reimmunize
underimmunize
unimmunized
xenoimmunize
Translations:
meerschaum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from German Meerschaum (literally “sea foam”).
Inflected forms:
form: meerschaums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A soft white mineral, chiefly used for smoking-pipes and cigar holders.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of binoculars, a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam.
gloss: A smoking-pipe made from meerschaum.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The sale of part of his property cleared the rest. A large portion of his income was put aside to accumulate. Horses, pictures, wines, bijouterie, German meerschaum, and Turkish hookahs, were alike brought to the hammer.
At Paris, just after dark one gusty evening in the autumn of 18—, I was enjoying the twofold luxury of meditation and a meerschaum, in company with my friend C. Auguste Dupin, in his little back library, or book-closet, au troisiême, No. 33, Rue Dunôt, Faubourg St. Germain.
There was nothing else to do, and he was doing it to the best of his ability - having, in fact, fallen into a trance of admiration before a large meerschaum - when MacQuibble hove in sight on his way to the Life Class at the Gallery.
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: лула от морска пяна
roman: lula ot morska pjana
lang: Czech
word: meršánka
lang: Czech
word: pěnovka
lang: Finnish
word: merenvahapiippu
lang: German
word: Meerschaum
lang: Polish
word: fajka z pianki morskiej
lang: Romanian
word: pipă din spumă-de-mare
lang: Swedish
word: sjöskumspipa
remoteness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English remote
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 remoteness
From remote + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: remotenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being remote.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Then again there was a period of what is sometimes called Euhemerism - the theory that the gods and goddesses had actually once been men and women, historical characters round whom a halo of romance and remoteness had gathered.
Translations:
Hessian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Hesse + -ian. Doublet of hessian.
Base: Hesse
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: more Hessian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Hessian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Hessean
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, from or relating to the state of Hesse, Germany.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to the German mathematician Otto Hesse (1811–1874).
pos: adj
examples: Hessian line; Hessian point; Hessian matrix
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: hesenský
lang: Finnish
word: hesseniläinen
lang: French
word: hessois
lang: German
word: hessisch
lang: Irish
word: Heiseánach
lang: Italian
word: assiano
lang: Polish
word: heski
lang: Portuguese
word: hessiano
lang: Spanish
word: hessiano
orison
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English orisoun, from Anglo-Norman oreison, oresoun etc. and Old French oraisun etc., from Latin ōrātiō, ōrātiōnem (“discourse, prayer”) (whence also English oration).
Inflected forms:
form: orisons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A prayer.
pos: noun
examples: The faire Ophelia! Nymph, in thy Orizons / Be all my ſinnes remembred.
"I hope," said a voice by her side, "your absent brother will not engross all your orisons."
1917, Wilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed Youth
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
gloss: Mystical contemplation or communion.
pos: noun
examples: We shall see later that the absence of definite sensible images is positively insisted on by the mystical authorities in all religions as the sine qua non of a successful orison, or contemplation of the higher divine truths.
Only in certain occult and mystic states: in orison, contemplation, ecstasy and their allied conditions; does the self contrive to turn out the usual tenants, shut the "gateways of the flesh," and let those submerged powers which are capable of picking up messages from another plane of being have their turn.
Related words: orate
oration
Translations:
muskmelon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English musk
English melon
English muskmelon
From musk + melon.
Inflected forms:
form: muskmelons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: musk melon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mushmelon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
dialectal
Senses:
gloss: A true melon (Cucumis melo): such a plant or its fruit, especially one with sweet flesh.
pos: noun
gloss: A true melon (Cucumis melo): such a plant or its fruit, especially one with sweet flesh.
pos: noun
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: شَمَّام
roman: šammām
lang: Arabic
word: بطيخ
roman: baṭṭīḵ
lang: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
word: ܓܸܢܕܘܼܪܵܐ
roman: gindura
lang: Armenian
word: սեխ
lang: Catalan
word: meló
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 香瓜
roman: xiāngguā
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 甜瓜
roman: tiánguā
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 蜜瓜
roman: mìguā
lang: Fijian
word: timo
lang: Finnish
word: cantaloupe
lang: German
word: Zuckermelone
lang: German
word: Orangenmelone
lang: Hindi
word: ख़रबूज़ा
roman: kharbūjā
lang: Hungarian
word: sárgadinnye
lang: Kannada
word: ಕರ್ಬೂಜ
roman: karbūja
lang: Malayalam
word: തയ്ക്കുമ്പളം
roman: taykkumpaḷaṁ
lang: Navajo
word: taʼneeskʼání
lang: Odia
word: ଖରଭୁଜ
roman: kharabhuja
lang: Persian
word: کاونجک
roman: kâvanjak
lang: Russian
word: ды́ня
roman: dýnja
lang: Samoan
word: atiu
lang: Swedish
word: sockermelon
lang: Tagalog
word: katimon
lang: Tahitian
word: ʻatiu
lang: Tamil
word: முலாம்பழம்
roman: mulāmpaḻam
lang: Tamil
word: திரினிப்பழம்
roman: tiriṉippaḻam
lang: Tongan
word: katiu
lang: Unami
word: panshpèkw
lang: Zazaki
word: besila
actinomorphic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓κτῑ́ς (ăktī́s)der.
English actino-
Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ)
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English -morphic
English actinomorphic
From actino- + -morphic.
Inflected forms:
form: more actinomorphic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most actinomorphic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having its petals arranged in a radially symmetric fashion.
pos: adj
Translations:
Australopithecus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name Australopithecus.
Inflected forms:
form: Australopitheci
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Australopithecuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: australopithecus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of australopith.
pos: noun
examples: In its turn the institute received from the British Museum of Natural History plaster casts of the skulls of Australopithecuses, a species of higher ape which lived over a million years ago.
In his final period, Teilhard felt he saw all his own Weltanschauung confirmed by Dr. Broom’s work with the fossils of Australopitheci in South Africa; […]
1. Australopithecus africanus. (a) Taungs: It was found in 1924 in a cave at Taungs in Bechuanaland, South Africa. It is the oldest of all Australopitheci, about 600,000 years old.
On the other, in the fossil-bearing pockets exposed in the Transvaal, in the region of Johannesburg (Taungs, Sterkfontein) by quarries opened in the limestone (exactly as at Choukoutien), a whole series of skulls and jaws, and some limb bones have, since 1925, gradually been disclosing the extremely curious group of Australopitheci.
In the middle of the nineteenth century there were very few paleontological data shedding light on the origin of man. During the past century many major discoveries were made in that area, among which the discovery of remains of Australopithecuses in South and East Africa was particularly important, as was the discovery of remains of Pithecanthropes and of closely related creatures (Homo erectus) in Java, China, and Africa.
The Australopitheci, who lived between the years - 6 million and - 1 million, perhaps mingled with the first representatives of the human race, the Homo habilis… their presence is certified in Africa as early as the year - 2.4 million, but could date back to the year - 3 million.
This stone, which was discovered, several kilometres from any possible geological source, in a cave occupied by Australopitheci in South Africa, must have been found and transported about three million years ago on account of its redness, its accidental likeness to a face and, above all, because of its ‘gaze’.
In this sphere too, Homo habilis was the first species of Homo to exhibit the brain capacity crucial to sustain language: 700 ccs against the 450 ccs of the Australopitheci who preceded him, and significantly greater development in the parietal and frontal areas, which are respectively responsible for the control over language and over the hands.
It’s Wizard McDowl, chaos magic terrifies him. He watched his parents turn into Australopithecuses during the war. He’s never got over it.
Translations:
egomania
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ego- + -mania.
Base: ego
Inflected forms:
form: egomanias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Excessive vanity, pride or arrogance; self-importance.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: There's a lot of egomania going around: it seems everyone believes they are the most capable and important person in the room.
Translations:
immunoassay
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-
Proto-Indo-European *moy-nósder.
Proto-Italic *moinos
Latin mūnus
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-
Latin -is
Latin in- -is
Latin immūnisder.
Middle French immunbor.
Middle English
English immune
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English immuno-
English assay
English immunoassay
From immuno- + assay.
Inflected forms:
form: immunoassays
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: immunoassays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: immunoassaying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: immunoassayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: immunoassayed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A test for the presence of a substance using the reaction of an antibody to its antigen, making use of the high selectivity of components of biological immune systems.
pos: noun
examples: An over-the-counter, pee-on-a-stick pregnancy test is an immunoassay.
gloss: To carry out such a test.
pos: verb
Translations:
selectivity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English selective
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English selectivity
From selective + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: selectivities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being selective, or extent to which something is selective.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] while music was known to have scientific qualities — harmony, Pythagorean proportional relationship, etc. — it was the musician who by his selectivity made these proportions beautiful, […]
“We must stop conflating selectivity with excellence. We must stop correlating prestige with privilege,” he said.
gloss: The ability of a radio receiver to separate a desired signal frequency from others.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Discrimination of a reactant towards a choice of other reactants; the ratio of rate constants for different reactants.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An approach to social work that prioritizes people perceived as having the most need for assistance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Proponents of selectivity herald its cost effectiveness; instead of resources being spread over a vast population, money or services can be used where they are most needed. This can help fill in the gaps between needy and non-needy groups. […] Critics of selectivity argue, however, that it may be more cost effective to provide social welfare benefits across the board rather than to spend time and money sorting out those who are "truly disadvantaged."
Related words: selectiveness
Derived words: atroposelectivity
cardioselectivity
chemoselectivity
electroselectivity
enantioselectivity
hepatoselectivity
isoselectivity
monoselectivity
neuroselectivity
nonselectivity
periselectivity
phosphoselectivity
photoselectivity
regioselectivity
stereoselectivity
torquoselectivity
unselectivity
Translations:
bipartisan
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Italic *dwi-
Latin bi-bor.
English bi-
English partisan
English bipartisan
From bi- + partisan.
Inflected forms:
form: bi-partisan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to, or supported by two groups, especially by two political parties.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a bipartisan bill
The derision for this bipartisan bill is—sigh—bipartisan. Hugh Hewitt scoffs at the idea that employers will respond to a $1000 gimmick.
As a city with over two centuries of rail expertise and home to the country's largest train factory, this announcement received bipartisan support.
Translations:
needful
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English needeful, nedeful, from Old English nēodful (“necessary; earnest; zealous”). Equivalent to need + -ful. Cognate with Dutch noodvol, German notvoll.
Base: need
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more needful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most needful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: nedefull
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: needfull
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: needfuls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nedefull
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: needfull
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Needed; necessary; mandatory; requisite; indispensable.
pos: adj
examples: And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforeſaid, That in every Town in the Colony, where Bread is Baken for Sale, there ſhall be Choſen one Clerk of the Market, or more, as each Town ſhall find needful, at their Annual Election of Town Officers, who ſhall duly be Engaged, to the faithful performance of ſaid Office, as other Town Officers are ;[…]
So I went to keep house with him at the Why Not? and my aunt sent down my bag of clothes, and would have made over to Elzevir the pittance that my father left for my keep, but he said it was not needful, and he would have none of it.
gloss: Needy; in need.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: […] where his active benevolence was ever found in cheerful co-operation for the cause of the humble & needful orphan […]
gloss: Anything necessary or requisite.
pos: noun
examples: I think better of you for looking steadily to the needful.
gloss: Ready money; wherewithal.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Derived words: needfully
needfulness
unneedful
do the needful
Translations:
needy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English nedy, nedi (“necessitous”), from Old English nēdiġ, *nīediġ ("of need, obligated, compelled"; found in the derivative nīediġnes (“obligation”)), from Proto-Germanic *naudigaz (“of need, forced, compelled”), equivalent to need + -y. Cognate with Scots nedy, neidy (“needy, necessitous, impoverished”), Saterland Frisian niedich (“miserable, poor, wretched, needy”), Saterland Frisian nöödich (“necessary, needful”), West Frisian nedich (“needful, needed”), Dutch nodig (“necessary”), Middle Low German nōdich (“necessary, urgent, by requirement”), German nötig (“necessary, needful”), Danish nødig (“necessary”), Swedish nödig (“necessary”), Icelandic nauðugur (“constrained”).
Base: need
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: needier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: neediest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In need; poor.
pos: adj
examples: Needy people want to give too, but have few material goods to offer.
Such monitoring has often been a sticking point in the past, amid fears that food aid might be diverted to the Northern elite - or its military - rather than the needy.
gloss: Desiring constant affirmation; lacking self-confidence.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: clingy
It's emotionally exhausting to be around her because she's so needy.
gloss: Needful; necessary.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: It is the measure of things, and their time (that is, their measure, as to space and time), and yet it is above, and prior to, time: it is full in needy things, and overflows in full things; it is unutterable, innominable: it is above understanding […]
Antonyms: confident
self-sufficient
Derived words: needihood
needily
neediness
needyhood
needy mizzler
unneedy
Translations:
precarious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Latin precārius (“begged for, obtained by entreaty”), from prex, precis (“prayer”). Compare French précaire, Portuguese precário, and Spanish and Italian precario.
Inflected forms:
form: more precarious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most precarious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous.
pos: adj
tags: comparable
examples: One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.
Never had he been so fond of this body of his as now when his tenure of it was so precarious.
The existence of Jewish partisans was precarious. They lived from hand to mouth, stealing when necessary, arranging secret deliveries of food, and spending hours and even days in holes in the ground when danger threatened.
One can't escape the huge nuclear facility at Sellafield (supplier of much of the line's remaining freight traffic), or miss the wild shingle beaches with exposed and precarious bungalows sandwiched between the railway and the shore at Braystones.
gloss: Depending on the intention of another.
pos: adj
Related words: pray
Derived words: bioprecarity
precariat
precariously
precariousness
precarisation
precarity
precarization
unprecarious
Translations:
extrasolar
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
astrophysics
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsteros
Proto-Italic *eksteros
Latin exter
Latin extrā
English extra-
English solar
English extrasolar
From extra- + solar.
Inflected forms:
form: extra-solar
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: of or originating outside the Solar System.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Some comets are thought to have an extrasolar origin.
gloss: of or originating in a system other than Earth's, the solar system.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A four-inch telescope was once used to find an extrasolar planet.
Of course, no one has any idea whether the extrasolar life is anything more than a few trillion microbes.
Related words: extragalactic
extraplanetary
extraterrestrial
solar
interstellar
Derived words: extrasolar planet
extrasolar system
Translations:
Africanist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English African
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 Africanist
From African + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: Africanists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A specialist in African studies.
pos: noun
examples: Noted Africanist, William Fagg, consistently stresses the tribality of sub-Saharan art […]
gloss: An African nationalist; someone who subscribes to the doctrine of Africanism.
pos: noun
examples: The ANC was criticized by a number of Africanist members who accused the leadership of protecting the interests of the landlords at the expense of the tenants.
Related words: African
Africanism
Afrocentrist
pan-Africanist
Translations:
parallax
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle French parallaxe, from Ancient Greek παράλλαξις (parállaxis, “alteration”) from παραλλάσσω (parallássō, “to cause to alternate”) from ἀλλάσσω (allássō, “to alter”) from ἄλλος (állos, “other”). By surface analysis, par- + all- + -ax.
Inflected forms:
form: parallaxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: parallaxes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: parallaxing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: parallaxed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: parallaxed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An apparent shift in the position of two stationary objects relative to each other as viewed by an observer, due to a change in observer position.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] Heliocentrick places, to which the Parallaxes being applied, give the Geocentrick.
Planes farther back on the z-axis scroll more slowly than those in front of them, producing a parallax effect. Early games with parallax scrolling tended to have their action taking place all in the forefront plane […]
The stars appeared to be in different locations through the parallax effect, meaning that the stars seemed to shift against the background since New Horizons was viewing it from a different view point. Scientists use the parallax effect to measure the distances to stars. […] “The New Horizons spacecraft is truly a mission of firsts, and this demonstration of stellar parallax is no different,” said Kenneth Hansen, New Horizons program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC, in a statement.
gloss: The angle of seeing of the astronomical unit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To measure (a distance) based on parallax observations.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To produce an illusion of levels of distance by shifting layers at different rates.
pos: verb
Related words: parallel
Derived words: celebration parallax
cognitive parallax
motion parallax
parallactic
parallax motion
parallax second
parsec
Translations:
spotty
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English spotty, equivalent to spot + -y.
Base: spot
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: spottier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: spottiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: spotties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having spots; spotted.
pos: adj
gloss: Occurring in non-contiguous positions or locations.
pos: adj
examples: Mobile phone reception in this area tends to be rather spotty.
gloss: Of inconsistent quality.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: shoddy, iffy
Many of the buyers had a spotty credit history.
gloss: Inconsistent: not reliably good, sometimes bad.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: shoddy, iffy
Many of the low-cost accessories (cords, chargers, etc) sold in the dollar store had spotty quality.
gloss: A common New Zealand fish, Notolabrus celidotus
pos: noun
examples: I went fishing today and all I caught were spotties.
Derived words: spottily
unspotty
spottiness
Translations:
suppository
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English suppositorie, from Anglo-Norman, from Medieval Latin suppositōrium, from Late Latin, neuter of suppositōrius (“placed beneath”), from Latin suppōnō (“to put under”).
Inflected forms:
form: suppositories
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A medicine in the form of a small plug that is inserted into a bodily cavity, especially the rectum, vagina or urethra, where it melts at body temperature.
pos: noun
examples: rectal suppository
vaginal suppository
He's smoother than a suppository, only his suppositories contain dynamite.
Translations:
livelihood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English liflode, from Old English līflād (“course of life, conduct”), from līf (“life”) + lād (“course, journey”), later altered under the influence of lively, -hood. Compare life, lode.
Compound parts: līf
lād
Inflected forms:
form: livelihoods
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: livelod
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lyuelode
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lyvelod
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A means of providing the necessities of life for oneself (for example, a job or income).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: an independent livelihood;  to make / earn / gain / win a good livelihood by the sweat of one's brow
But now when Philtra ſaw my lands decay,
And former liuelod fayle, ſhe left me quight[…].
[…] a Man may as easily know where to find one, to teach him to Debauch, Whore, Game, and Blaspheme, as to teach him to Write, or Cast Accompt: ’Tis their Support, and Business; nay, their very Profession, and Livelihood; getting their Living by those Practices, for which they deserve to forfeit their Lives.
1716, Joseph Addison, The Free-Holder, London: D. Midwinter and J. Tonson, No. 42, Monday May 14, p. 245,
Trade […] employs Multitudes of Hands both by Sea and Land, and furnishes the poorest of our Fellow-Subjects with the Opportunities of gaining an honest Livelihood.
And now he’s dead, and left her a widow, and she is staying here; and we are racking our brains to find out some way of helping her to a livelihood without parting her from her child.
[The Orthodox Jewish shopkeepers] could be seen behind their counters, wearing black skullcaps, full beards, and long earlocks, eking out their meager livelihoods and dreaming of Shabbat and festivals when they could close their stores and turn their attention to their prayers, their rabbi, their God.
Broad, flat marshes on the Loughor Estuary provide Pen-clawdd with its basic livelihood - cockles. The cockle-women jog out over the marshes at low tide, riding on flat, horse-drawn carts.
The legal profession believes that client choice is the best way of ensuring standards remain high, because a lawyer's livelihood depends upon their reputation.
gloss: Property which brings in an income; an estate.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: Then ſayde Peter: Ananias how is it that ſatan hath filled thyne hert
thatt thou ſhuldeſt lye vnto the holy gooſt
and kepe awaye parte off the pryce off the lyvelod[…]?
gloss: Liveliness; appearance of life.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: […] the tiranny of her ſorrowes takes all liuelihood from her cheeke.
gloss: The course of someone's life; a person's lifetime, or their manner of living; conduct, behaviour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: wel said Merlyn I knowe a lord of yours in this land that is a passyng true man & a feithful
& he shal haue the nourysshyng of your child
& his name is sir Ector
& he is a lord of fair lyuelode in many partyes in Englond & walys
Translations:
earnings
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: Etymology tree
English earning
Old English -as
Middle English -es
English -s
English earnings
From earning + -s.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Wages, money earned, income.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
gloss: Business profits.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
gloss: Gains on investments; returns.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Derived words: attachment of earnings
earnings beat
earnings call
earnings miss
earnings power
earnings season
net earnings
price-earnings ratio
retained earnings
transfer earnings
Translations:
stylometry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English style
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Proto-Hellenic *-tron
Ancient Greek -τρον (-tron)
Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -μετρία (-metría)der.
Latin -metriader.
Old French -métrieder.
English -metry
English stylometry
From style + -o- + -metry.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A statistical method of analyzing a text to determine its author.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Stylometry is a tool to be used when external evidence is lacking and the solution to the problem must come from the study of the texts which present the problem. Stylometry is therefore particularly useful in classical studies, especially for Greek texts which were written and reproduced by hand in an era when the rights of authors were limited, […].
Later WS bends it, stops mid-line, wraps around lines. This is early. Comp stylometry will confirm.
Translations:
dysphoric
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dysphoria
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English dysphoric
From dysphoria + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more dysphoric
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dysphoric
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dysphorics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to dysphoria, or of being in a state of dysphoria.
pos: adj
gloss: Causing dysphoria.
pos: adj
gloss: A person who is experiencing dysphoria.
pos: noun
Antonyms: euphoric
Derived words: dysphorically
dysphoric milk ejection reflex
gender-dysphoric
money dysphoric
nondysphoric
premenstrual dysphoric disorder
Translations:
jailbird
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From jail + bird, circa 1600. Compare gallows bird.
Compound parts: jail
bird
Inflected forms:
form: jailbirds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A prisoner or an ex-prisoner
pos: noun
Translations:
propaedeutic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek προπαιδεύω (propaideúō, “I give preparatory instruction”), from πρό (pró, “before”) + παιδεύω (paideúō, “I teach”).
Inflected forms:
form: more propaedeutic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most propaedeutic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: propedeutic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: propadeutic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: propædeutic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: propaedeutics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: propedeutic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: propadeutic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: propædeutic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Preparatory or introductory.
pos: adj
tags: formal
examples: On the other hand, the German university exhibits a system in which the university course is almost wholly special; the liberal and propædeutic studies are relegated to the grammar-school.
Students were not allowed to repeat the first propedeutic year more than once or to spend more than six years at universities; […]
gloss: An introductory course of instruction.
pos: noun
examples: This chapter aims to be a propedeutic because there are many specific lines of argument that could, and should, be developed from the observation of the unique values-based and globalized-movement nature of co-operatives […]
Translations:
subsumption
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From sub- + Latin sūmptus + -ion, from past participle of sūmō (“to take”).
Affixes: sub-
Inflected forms:
form: subsumptions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of subsuming.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Phone calls that are instantly obeyed, ringing sounds followed by apparently involuntary movements of the limbs, the subsumption of the hearer’s will in the caller’s design.
gloss: Something subsumed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: obliterative subsumption
Translations:
lang: French
word: subsomption
lang: Polish
word: subsumpcja
pannage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed into Middle English from Old French pasnage (modern French panage), from Late Latin pasnadium, pastinaticum, from pastionare (“to feed on mast, as swine”), from Latin pastio (“a pasturing, grazing”). See pastor.
Inflected forms:
form: pannages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Acorns and beech mast used as forage for pigs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Feeding of pigs on acorns and beech mast in the woods.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The right to feed pigs in this manner.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A tax formerly paid for the privilege of feeding swine in the woods.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: There is there a certain wood called Heton-woode in oaks and the like, in which the tenants of Heton, who hold by charter in fee, have house-bote and hay-bote, of the delivery of the lord; by which that wood is wasted [or much destroyed, destruitur], and on that account does not grow again as much in yearly value, in wood, pannage, or other issues of a wood.
Derived words: retropannage
Translations:
lang: French
word: panage
lang: Latin
word: pasnagium
lang: Latin
word: pasnadium
lang: Latin
word: pastinaticum
lang: Spanish
word: montanera
persuasive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French persuasif, from Medieval Latin persuāsīvus, from Latin past participle stem of persuādēre + -īvus.
Inflected forms:
form: more persuasive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most persuasive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: persuasives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Able to persuade; convincing.
pos: adj
examples: But I'm pretty persuasive, and I've learned how elected officials think. I know how to press their buttons.
gloss: That which persuades; incitement.
pos: noun
examples: He smiled a very knowing smile, and setting up a halloo, and shaking his leathern thong, away we went at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour. I had no occasion to go further with my persuasives; the pace was kept up, […]
Translations:
panspermia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From panspermy + -ia.
Base: panspermy
Affixes: -ia
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The hypothesis that microorganisms may transmit life from outer space to habitable bodies; or the process of such transmission.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Lederberg's ideas were tinged with Cold War paranoia. In his hands, panspermia came to resemble horizontal gene transfer on a cosmic scale.
Translations:
caver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
mining
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cave
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 caver
From cave + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: cavers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who explores caves.
pos: noun
examples: Pam has been caving for 25 years. She and her husband Tim are among the top cavers in the country. They are passionate about the world hidden beneath our feet and they were to be my instructors and guides on my first ever foray below ground that didn't involve getting on the tube.
gloss: One who works the tailings of a mine to extract small pieces of marketable ore.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Translations:
propitiatory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Latin propitiātōrius (“atoning; reconciling, propitiating”).
Inflected forms:
form: more propitiatory
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most propitiatory
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Intended to propitiate, reconcile, expiate or appease; conciliatory.
pos: adj
examples: Hecatombs were early substituted for single victims; and, to render the worship still more propitiatory, these were soon exchanged for human sacrifices.
So that no words can be more propitiatory; and it is to be observed, that, while they are spoken, the Minister is holding the consecrated elements in his hand, tendering them at the same time to God, and to the communicants.
"I beg your pardon, Sir," said Mr. Carker, riding up, with his most propitiatory smile. "I hope you are not hurt?”
“Come, come, Olga,” urged the man, in propitiatory tones; “I but ask a half dozen words with you. I shall not harm you, nor shall I enter your cabin; but I cannot shout my message through the door.”
The weak branded those they feared evil, and praised the ‘propitiatory’ qualities natural to men like themselves who were incapable of aggression.[…]Those who cultivate humility and the other propitiatory virtues to cloak their weakness nourish an envious resentment against those stronger than themselves.
Translations:
paralyse
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: paralyses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: paralysing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: paralysed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: paralysed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: British standard spelling of paralyze.
pos: verb
Translations: