yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
pre-production
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *pér
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *pró
Proto-Indo-European *pro-
Proto-Italic *pro-
Latin prō-
Proto-Indo-European *dewk-
Proto-Indo-European *déwkti
Proto-Italic *doukō
Latin dūcō
Latin prōdūcō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin prōductiōder.
Old French productionbor.
Middle English produccioun
English production
English pre-production
From pre- + production.
Inflected forms:
form: pre-productions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: preproduction
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The process of preparing the elements involved in a motion picture, theatrical play, or other performance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
allocation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: embryology
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French allocacion, from Medieval Latin allocātiō. By surface analysis, allocate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: allocations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process or procedure for allocating things, especially money or other resources.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The allocation of new permits is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Following allocation to Toton on January 1 1996, it stayed there until transferral to Crewe in November 2000, before being stored at Eastleigh on December 17 the same year.
gloss: That which is allocated; allowance, entitlement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The farmer received his full allocation of water from the government.
gloss: Restriction of an embryonic cell and its clonal descendants to a particular cell type or body region.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: allocational
allocation unit
buddy memory allocation
deallocation
dynamic memory allocation
file allocation table
misallocation
overallocation
pachinko allocation
preallocation
reallocation
static memory allocation
suballocation
underallocation
Translations:
neorealist
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: art
arts
broadcasting
film
media
television
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *nu
Proto-Indo-European *néwos
Proto-Hellenic *néwos
Ancient Greek νέος (néos)
Ancient Greek νεο- (neo-)der.
English neo-
Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁-der.
Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁ís
Proto-Italic *reis
Latin rēs
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Late Latin -ālis
Late Latin reālisder.
Old French reelbor.
Middle English real
English real
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 realist
English neorealist
From neo- + realist.
Inflected forms:
form: more neorealist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most neorealist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: neorealists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the post World War II international relations movement of neorealism.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or pertaining to the post-World War II Italian movement of neorealism, which focused on realistic portrayals of daily life.
pos: adj
examples: If by “neorealism” you mean the opposite of manufactured effects, of the laws of dramaturgy, spectacle, and even of cinematography, then Rossellini has made the only neorealist films.
gloss: Of or pertaining to the neorealism movement in art, which emerged in Britain around 1914.
pos: adj
gloss: An adherent of neorealism.
pos: noun
examples: DeSanctis wasn't a neorealist; he was a follower of D'Annunzio, who took calendar-art shots of the sea.
Rossellini was one of a diverse group of filmmakers, including Luchino Visconti and Vittorio De Sica, who became known as neorealists for their determination to get out of the studio and rediscover a sense of gritty, working-class authenticity.
Translations:
off-off-Broadway
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English off-
English off-Broadway
English off-off-Broadway
From off- + off-Broadway.
Inflected forms:
form: off-off-Broadways
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A New York City area off-Broadway-style show, but not operating under the aegis of the theatrical unions.
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
often
gloss: Of or pertaining to an off-off-Broadway production.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
off-off-off-Broadway
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English off-
English off-off-Broadway
English off-off-off-Broadway
From off- + off-off-Broadway.
Inflected forms:
form: off-off-off-Broadways
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A theatrical production performed in spaces remote from Manhattan, but nonetheless in the greater New York City area, and which otherwise fits the description of an off-off-Broadway show.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
sometimes
gloss: Of or pertaining to an off-off-off-Broadway production, or to the space in which they are performed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
smartly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English smertly; equivalent to smart + -ly.
Base: smart
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more smartly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most smartly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: With a fine or fashionable appearance.
pos: adv
examples: smartly dressed
gloss: Quickly.
pos: adv
examples: She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
He set smartly off towards the shops […]
gloss: Intelligently.
pos: adv
Translations:
ralphie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ralph Gardeners High School in North Shields, which had a past reputation as a bad school, + -ie.
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: ralphies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rafie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A scruffy school child.
pos: noun
tags: Geordie
derogatory
Translations:
startup
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English start updeverb.
English startup
Deverbal from start up.
Inflected forms:
form: startups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: start-up
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of starting a process or machine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A new company or organization or business venture designed for rapid growth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
gloss: A folder (especially in Windows), containing shortcuts of applications or programs that start up automatically after a user signs in.
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
countable
often
uncountable
examples: Add an app to run automatically at startup in Windows 10, Microsoft Support
3. With the file location open, press the Windows logo key + R, type shell:startup, then select OK. This opens the Startup folder. / 4. Copy and paste the shortcut to the app from the file location to the Startup folder.
Related words: autostart
launch → launch pad
Derived words: startupish
startupper
startup time
Translations:
instill
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Latin stīlla
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin stīllō
Latin instillōbor.
English instill
Borrowed from Latin instillō.
Inflected forms:
form: instills
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: instilling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: instilled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: instilled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: instil
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To cause a quality to become part of someone's nature.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It is important to instill discipline in a child at an early age.
gloss: To pour in (medicine, for example) drop by drop.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: indoctrinate
infuse
inculcate
Derived words: instillment
reinstill
uninstilled
Translations:
cribbing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
Inflected forms:
form: cribbings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The members used to build a (structural) crib, usually of timbers or logs, but also of concrete, steel or even plastic; cribwork.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: As a whole, the heavy structure built to support an existing structure from underneath, as with a mineshaft or when raising a building off its foundation, as for moving to another location,
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: After the Loma Prieta earthquake, they had to put cribbing under portions of San Francisco's Embarcadero Freeway, for fear it would collapse.
US Army Corps of Engineers site
If the structure is to be raised in place without relocation, once it is raised to the desired elevation the jacks are replaced with timber cribbing.
gloss: The cribbing used to support anything from below or on a side, as with a retaining wall, or to prop up a piece of heavy machinery.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A self-injurious tendency of certain horses to swallow air while slobbering and biting onto objects in and about their enclosure; cribbing and windsucking are regarded as equine forms of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An act of plagiarism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] cribbings from Leonardo's notebooks […]
Translations:
clem
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old English clām (“paste, mortar, mud, clay, poultice”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaim, equivalent to cloam. Similar linguistic development led to the Northumbrian pronunciation of hyem, equivalent to the RP home.
Inflected forms:
form: clems
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A brick or stone.
pos: noun
tags: Geordie
Teesside
slang
gloss: One stone (unit of mass).
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A testicle.
pos: noun
tags: Geordie
slang
vulgar
Synonyms: clemmy
Translations:
mixing
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
Inflected forms:
form: mixings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more mixing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mixing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The act, or the result of making a mixture.
pos: noun
examples: No two mixings of these paints are ever the same.
gloss: Of a stochastic process, to be asymptotically independent (in a precise mathematical sense).
pos: adj
examples: A strictly stationary and mixing process with finite expectation satisfies a Law of Large Numbers.
Translations:
borrowing
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From borrow + -ing.
Base: borrow
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: borrowings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Shoplifting.
pos: verb
tags: euphemistic
slang
gloss: An instance of something being borrowed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: January 1834, Horace Binney, Speech on the Question of the Removal of the Deposites
Subscriptions, borrowings of money, taxings of the citizens and their property, may all be valid, as operations by virtue of laws for the government of the City […]
gloss: A borrowed word, adopted from a foreign language; loanword.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Whilst you would be forgiven for thinking this statement comes straight from the latest UKIP manifesto, it is in fact a quotation from The Anglish Moot, a fan-page promoting the use of the 'Anglish' language — that is, English with all foreign borrowings stripped away.
Derived words: borrowing card
false borrowing
learned borrowing
pseudo-borrowing
reborrowing
semantic borrowing
semi-learned borrowing
Translations:
councilwoman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English council
Proto-Germanic *wībą
Proto-West Germanic *wīb
Old English wīf
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Old English wīfmann
Middle English woman
Middle English -woman
English -woman
English councilwoman
From council + -woman.
Inflected forms:
form: councilwomen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A feminine member of a council, especially a city council or town council.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: councilmember, councilperson, councilor, councillor, councilman, selectperson, selectman, selectwoman
When it was the defense’s turn to try to rebut the prosecution’s case, lawyers for Mr. James called just two witnesses [—] two former councilwomen who tried to bolster the assertion of Mr. James that he could not approve property sales unilaterally.
A New York City councilwoman was charged with assault after a heated protest at the Brooklyn site of a proposed men’s homeless shelter at which, the authorities say, she bit a police chief.
Translations:
councilman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English council
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
Middle English -man
English -man
English councilman
From council + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: councilmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A male member of a council, often a city council or town council.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: councilmember, councilperson, councilwoman, councilor, councillor, selectperson, selectman, selectwoman
Ms. Ford, a former captain in the Navy Reserves and a management consultant, and Ms. Pfeifer are often at odds with the three councilmen over policy issues.
Council says the mayor and a former councilman may have engaged in a "quid pro quo." / […] / Council says, according to a handwritten note, Fey offered to support a pay raise for Mayor Ellis if Ellis would support a raise or a job appointment for Fey's wife, Gina.
Translations:
she-devil
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English she-
Ancient Greek διαβάλλω (diabállō)
Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos)bor.
Latin diabolusbor.
Proto-West Germanic *diubul
Old English dēofol
Middle English devel
English devil
English she-devil
From she- + devil.
Inflected forms:
form: she-devils
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A female devil (as opposed to a he-devil, male devil).
pos: noun
tags: literally
examples: In order to exorcise this she-devil, the attendants made circles on the walls with charcoal, within each was written: "Adam, Eve, Lilas, avaunt!"
gloss: A woman whose bad temper, cruelty or wicked ways are so extreme as to evoke an image of the devil.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Monsieur Margot groaned. “Go, then, my friend,” said he, “procure the ladder! Oh, those she devils!—what could make me such a fool!”
Translations:
siddhi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Sanskrit सिद्धि (siddhi)lbor.
English siddhi
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit सिद्धि (siddhi).
Inflected forms:
form: siddhis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: spiritual power or psychic ability
pos: noun
tags: Hinduism
countable
uncountable
Translations:
fruitfulness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fruitful
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 fruitfulness
From fruitful + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: fruitfulnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being fruitful; exuberant abundance.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
fruitfully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fruitful
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English fruitfully
From fruitful + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more fruitfully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most fruitfully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a fruitful manner; productively.
pos: adv
Translations:
productiveness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *pér
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *pró
Proto-Indo-European *pro-
Proto-Italic *pro-
Late Latin prō-
Proto-Indo-European *dewk-
Proto-Indo-European *déwkti
Proto-Italic *doukō
Late Latin dūcō
Late Latin prōdūcō
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Late Latin -īvus
Late Latin prōductīvusbor.
English productive
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
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 productiveness
From productive + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The state of being productive.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
productively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *pér
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *pró
Proto-Indo-European *pro-
Proto-Italic *pro-
Late Latin prō-
Proto-Indo-European *dewk-
Proto-Indo-European *déwkti
Proto-Italic *doukō
Late Latin dūcō
Late Latin prōdūcō
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Late Latin -īvus
Late Latin prōductīvusbor.
English productive
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English productively
From productive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more productively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most productively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a productive manner.
pos: adv
examples: Improvements may easily be imagined which would annihilate vast portions of the productively invested wealth of individuals; such (e. g.) as a mechanical invention that superseded railways in England, or a development of trade that rendered English wheatgrowing unprofitable: and economic changes of this kind, though smaller in degree, are continually occurring.
[…] Soviet ideology itself may be more productively viewed as the result of conscious attempts to explicate and rationalize assorted discursive strategies, or mechanisms, of newspeak, in much the same way as grammatical rules are invented to describe diverse linguistic practices.
There are people such as Diane Latiker who runs Kids Off the Block, which helps youths spend their time productively after school; Kofi Ademola from Black Lives Matter Chicago; and Pastor Jolinda Wade.
[…] he found himself in that frustrating mental state in which one is too exhausted to think productively and yet too alert to sleep, and in this restless borderland he lay for the remainder of the night […]
Translations:
housebreaking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From house + breaking.
Compound parts: house
breaking
Inflected forms:
form: housebreakings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of breaking into another person's house with unlawful intent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: breaking and entering
The accused was charged with housebreaking and theft.
Translations:
housebreaker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-der.?
Proto-Germanic *hūsą
Proto-West Germanic *hūs
Old English hūs
Middle English hous
English house
English breaker
English housebreaker
From house + breaker.
Inflected forms:
form: housebreakers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A criminal who breaks into and enters another's house or premises with the intent of committing a crime.
pos: noun
examples: […] here were no Gibers, Cenſurers, Backbiters, Pick-pockets, Highwaymen, Houſebreakers, Attorneys, Bawds, Buffoons, Gameſters, Politicians, Wits, ſplenetick tedious Talkers, Controvertiſts, Raviſhers, Murderers, Robbers, Virtuoſo's; […]
[H]e is dressed in such a rapscallion manner that the people would think you were talking to a house-breaker.
The vicar seized a sword and routed the housebreaker, but it was the vicar's wife in a nightgown and coat who caught up with the fleeing intruder, slapped his face and held him by the neck.
A serial housebreaker who is believed to have stolen from several homes in Ang Mo Kio last month was nabbed on Tuesday.
Translations:
marriageable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English marriage
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English marriageable
From marriage + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more marriageable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most marriageable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: marriageables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Suitable for marriage; nubile.
pos: adj
examples: Marry money, thought I to myself, who will he marry? then in my own mind I made a review of all the marriageable heiresses, and heiresses apparent, not only in Silveryville, but likewise, in a circuit several miles around it, and I could not find one among them all, who was not already engaged to be married to somebody else.
gloss: One who is suitable for marriage.
pos: noun
Antonyms: unmarriageable
Translations:
truthy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: From truth + -y. In colloquial sense, back-formation from truthiness.
Base: truth
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: truthier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: truthiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Faithful; true.
pos: adj
tags: humorous
obsolete
examples: You […] are afraid Theodore your sweetheart shouldn't prove truthy.
Mindy Lahiri is never one to mince words, and most of the things that come out of her mouth are rife for a gospel. But her sheer overwhelming emotion at her doughnut craving is one of the truthiest truthisms she's ever truthed. Preach, girl.
gloss: Only superficially true; that is asserted or felt instinctively to be true, with no recourse to facts.
pos: adj
tags: US
colloquial
examples: Historians today point out that each of these ringing assertions was, at best, truthy.
gloss: Evaluating to true in a Boolean context.
pos: adj
examples: In JavaScript, any expression or statement that expects a boolean value will work with a truthy or falsy value, so the fact that && does not always evaluate to true or false does not cause practical problems.
In JavaScript, as well as the true or false Boolean values, other types of variables can be said to be truthy or falsey.
To remember which values are truthy and which are falsey, just memorize the five falsey values - undefined, null, 0, "" and NaN -- and remember that everything else is truthy.
Clojure uses the Boolean operators or and and. or returns either the first truthy value or the last value, and returns the first falsey value or, if no values are falsey, the last truthy value.
Related words: facty
Derived words: truthiness
untruthiness
Translations:
precocity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French précocité.
Inflected forms:
form: precocities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being precocious.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1817 William Wirt, Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry, New York: M'elrath, Bangs & Co., 1834, Section I, pp. 23-4, https://books.google.ca/books?id=5vE5AAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
I cannot learn that he gave in his youth, any evidence of that precocity which sometimes distinguishes uncommon genius.
By the side of many tall and bouncing young ladies in the establishment, Rebecca Sharp looked like a child. But she had the dismal precocity of poverty.
It was as if his precocity of crookedness (and every vulgar villain is precocious) had for once deceived him, and the man he had sought to entrap as a simpleton had, through his very simplicity, ignominiously baffled him.
1946, Arnold J. Toynbee, A Study of History, Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by D.C. Somervell, Oxford University Press, Chapter XII, p. 242, https://books.google.ca/books?id=IbJ-31LPvyoC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Anna Comnena, the Byzantine princess turned historian, sees our eleventh-century forebears in just this light, as appears in the mixture of horror with contempt which is her reaction to the mechanical ingenuity of the Crusaders' cross-bow, a Western novelty of her day which—with the characteristic precocity of lethal inventions—preceded by several centuries the invention of clockwork […]
How can we explain the relative precocity in political studies that the Greeks demonstrated in contrast to the backwardness of other early peoples?
Short stature persists into adult life but puberty is usually normal, although sexual precocity has been seen […]
2024 (October 20th) The Simpsons season 36 episode 3 "Desperately Seeking Lisa"
Yes, she's truly a special young person, just brimming with precocity. In fact, I was thinking she might be a good fit for the Horace Frick Academy.
Translations:
brazen-faced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From brazen + faced.
Compare typologically French front d’airain, Russian ме́дный лоб (médnyj lob).
Compound parts: brazen
faced
Inflected forms:
form: more brazen-faced
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most brazen-faced
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Impudent; open and without shame.
pos: adj
examples: It is rude, madam,
To intrude, madam,
With your brood, madam,
 Brazen-faced!
Translations:
misinformation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From mis- + information.
Base: information
Affixes: mis-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Information that is incorrect, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: spread misinformation on the internet
My intent is not to criticize an unpublished biology paper, but only to demonstrate the ease with which misinformation can creep into popular literature.
The Panther Moderns allowed four minutes for their first move to take effect, then injected a second carefully prepared dose of misinformation.
Liara: Although we seek to understand other species, it seems few of them seek to understand us. The galaxy is filled with rumors and misinformation about my people.
Mark Zuckerberg said he regretted dismissing concerns about the Facebook’s role in influencing the US presidential race, his latest acknowledgement that misinformation on the platform has affected elections.
As someone who studies the impact of misinformation on society, I often wish the young entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley who enabled communication at speed had been forced to run a 9/11 scenario with their technologies before they deployed them commercially.
Framing everything as a grand conflict against scheming enemies can feel enormously reassuring. And that’s why perhaps the greatest culprit of our era of misinformation may be, more than any one particular misinformer, the era-defining rise in social polarization.
Early news coverage of this incident on Sunday October 31/Monday November 1 was blighted by misinformation arising from an early Network Rail official statement and a leaked NR log, resulting in TV/radio news reports which were factually inaccurate in at least five fundamentals.
Online ticketing retailer TrainPal has been criticised for a marketing campaign which used fake social media profiles to spread misinformation.
Translations:
slatted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a slat
pos: adj
gloss: having slats.
pos: adj
Derived words: unslatted
Translations:
biserial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Italic *dwi-
Latin bi-bor.
English bi-
English serial
English biserial
From bi- + serial.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Arranged in two series
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having a correlation between one series and another that is divided into two types
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: biserially
Translations:
bedsheet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English bedeschette, bedshete, bed shete, equivalent to bed + sheet.
Compound parts: bed
sheet
Inflected forms:
form: bedsheets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bed sheet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bed-sheet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A sheet, a piece of cloth cut and finished as bedlinen.
pos: noun
Translations:
slosh
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Onomatopoeic; compare splash, splosh.
Inflected forms:
form: sloshes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sloshing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sloshed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sloshed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sloshes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To shift chaotically; to splash noisily.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The water in his bottle sloshed back and forth as he ran.
gloss: To cause to slosh.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The boy sloshed water over the edge of the bath.
gloss: To make a sloshing sound.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: His boots were so completely soaked that they sloshed when he walked.
gloss: To pour noisily, sloppily or in large amounts.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The coffee was nice and hot, so she sloshed some into a cup and went back to her desk.
He really sloshed on the sauce- they were a bit strong for my taste.
gloss: to move noisily through water or other liquid.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The streets were flooded, but they still managed to slosh their way to school.
gloss: To punch (someone).
pos: verb
tags: UK
colloquial
transitive
examples: She greeted me with a bright smile, and said: “Back already? Did you find it?” With a strong effort I mastered my emotion and replied curtly but civilly that the answer was in the negative. “No,” I said, “I did not find it.” “You can't have looked properly.” Again I was compelled to pause and remind myself that an English gentleman does not slosh a sitting redhead, no matter what the provocation.
gloss: A quantity of a liquid; more than a splash.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: We added a slosh of white wine to the sauce.
gloss: A sloshing sound or motion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Slush.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Shoes and socks, soaked and frozen in the mud and icy slosh, did little to protect their feet.
gloss: Inferior wine or other drink.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: In the Midi, Grenache dominates most of the traditional appellations. Corbières, Minervois, Fitou, Faugères — these were once bywords for rough-and-ready red slosh.
gloss: A game related to billiards.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Finally they retired, did you not? said Tetty.
We did indeed, said Goff, we retired to the billiard-room, for a game of slosh.
Derived words: aslosh
kerslosh
sloshball
sloshingly
sloshy
Translations:
expectorant
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English expectorate
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Latin -ns
Latin -āns
Old French -antbor.
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Proto-Germanic *-ndz
Proto-West Germanic *-andī
Old English -ende
Middle English -ant
English -ant
English expectorant
From expectorate + -ant.
Inflected forms:
form: expectorants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An agent or drug used to cause or induce the expulsion of phlegm from the lungs.
pos: noun
examples: The disease was regarded as pneumonia so far advanced that suppuration seemed to have supervened; bleeding, blisters, expectorants, and cathartics diminished the symptoms; the pulse continued frequent, hard, full, but always regular.
The bedside table is littered with both OTC and prescription expectorants and pertussives and analgesics and Vitamin-C megaspansules[…]
gloss: Causing or assisting the expulsion of phlegm.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an expectorant preparation
‘Matchett says there’s old Mr P. who made all the money with ’is cought mixture—’ ‘Not Parkinsons ex . . . something?’ asked Jessamy. ‘That’s it,’ nodded Sarah, ‘ “Hexpectorant Posset”.’
Translations:
unsupportive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English supportive
English unsupportive
From un- + supportive.
Inflected forms:
form: more unsupportive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unsupportive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not supportive.
pos: adj
examples: When college campuses closed in March because of the pandemic, having to return home to an unsupportive space was not a safe option for some students.
Translations:
kohl
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Arabic كُحْل (kuḥl, “antimony; kohl, stibnite (powdered antimony)”). Doublet of alcohol and alcool.
Inflected forms:
form: kohls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: kohling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: kohled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: kohled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A dark powder, usually powdered stibnite (an antimony ore), used as eye makeup, especially in Eastern countries.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: To decorate one's eyes with kohl.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A plain, big woman with heavily kohled eyes and pudgy arms.
Translations:
deaf-mute
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: deaf-mutes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Unable to hear or speak.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
offensive
gloss: A person who is unable to hear or speak.
pos: noun
tags: offensive
examples: This buckling was first noticed by a deaf-mute who was walking over a bridge across the line and he pointed it out to the driver of a steamroller which happened to be passing.
Andrew was studying to become a teacher of deaf-mutes.
Translations:
alee
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From a- + lee.
Compound parts: a-
lee
Inflected forms:
form: more alee
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most alee
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: On the lee side of a ship, to the leeward side (vs aweather)
pos: adv
Translations:
khanjar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle Persian [Term?]
Classical Persian خَنْجَر (xanjar)bor.
Arabic خَنْجَر (ḵanjar)bor.
English khanjar
Borrowed from Arabic خَنْجَر (ḵanjar). Doublet of kindjal.
Inflected forms:
form: khanjars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of dagger used in certain Arabian countries.
pos: noun
examples: The small khanjar is a curved dagger, and it was with this very one Nuri had killed in single combat a minor chieftain of the Muntefiq.
Translations:
industriousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English industrious
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
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 industriousness
From industrious + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being industrious.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
volitional
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *welō
Medieval Latin volō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Medieval Latin -tiō
Medieval Latin volitiōbor.
French volitionder.
English volition
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English volitional
From volition + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more volitional
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most volitional
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: volitionals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the volition or will.
pos: adj
tags: formal
not-comparable
examples: Little by little the whole subject population of the world was fitted with the instruments of volitional control. The government was now practically omnipotent.
Stern and Karl Bühler noticed independently that a child’s first “No” has a volitional meaning and that the significance as a simple denial of fact appears several months afterwards.
gloss: Done by conscious, personal choice; not based on external principles; not accidental.
pos: adj
tags: comparable
examples: A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals to discovery.
“Loving on” someone—whether he likes it or not—posits love as a volitional activity, an act not of passion but of will.
gloss: Expressing intention, hortation, supposition, or inclusive invitation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The volitional grammatical mood.
pos: noun
gloss: A form of a word inflected for the volitional mood; a volitional form.
pos: noun
Synonyms: voluntary
intentional
Derived words: avolitional
nonvolitional
postvolitional
prevolitional
sensori-volitional
unvolitional
volitionalism
volitionalist
volitionality
volitionally
Translations:
sibylline
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin sibyllinus, Sibillinus, from Sibylla. By surface analysis, sibyl + -ine.
Inflected forms:
form: sybilline
pos: adj
tags: alternative
misspelling
form: sibyllines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sybilline
pos: noun
tags: alternative
misspelling
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Cleopatra immediately comes down to the chair of state; seizes Ptolemy and drags him out of his seat; then takes his place in the chair. Ftatateeta seats herself on the step of the loggia, and sits there, watching the scene with sybilline intensity.
But directly she had closed the door behind her, Mother Théot's manner underwent a chance. Here the broad light of day appeared to divest her of all her sybilline attributes. She became just an ugly old woman, wrinkled and hook-nosed, dressed in shabby draperies that were grey with age and dirt, and with claw-like hands that looked like the talons of a bird of prey.
Another early form of rhapsodomancy is represented by the sibylline books.
Bitch ov a sibylline vulva / Usurpress and liar / Centuries wept because ov thee / Where art thou now in the hour ov trial?
gloss: Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
not-comparable
gloss: Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
not-comparable
gloss: Excessively and exorbitantly expensive. (In allusion to the Sibyl who sold three books to Tarquinius Superbus at the price of the original nine.)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: One of the Sibylline Oracles or Sibylline Books.
pos: noun
Translations:
stiffener
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
construction
manufacturing
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stiffen
English -er
English stiffener
From stiffen + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: stiffeners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Anything added to something in order to stiffen it, such as a support beam, or starch for a collar.
pos: noun
examples: […] he wears a wisp of black silk round his neck, without any stiffener, as an apology for a neckerchief […]
[…] each of these stiffener-columns must be designed to resist approximately 26 tons. Sometimes single angles are thus used as stiffeners […]
The tee bar (b) is used as a stiffener to important bulkheads […]
[…] with this arrangement the cylinders are cast separately from the saddle, and bolted to the frames on each side with a fabricated stiffener between the frames. This stiffener is carried up to form the saddle for the smokebox, and within it is fitted the exhaust pipes from the cylinders to the blast pipe.
gloss: One of a series of angle bars, Z-bars, beams, rods, or other shapes, attached in order to provide them the necessary stiffness or rigidity.
pos: noun
gloss: An alcoholic drink taken to fortify oneself.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: I believe the old man has taken himself off to the nearest bar for a stiffener.
Derived words: dingo stiffener
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: jäykiste
lang: Finnish
word: kovike
lang: Finnish
word: kovite
lang: Norwegian
word: stivner
vacuum-clean
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from vacuum cleaner.
Inflected forms:
form: vacuum-cleans
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vacuum-cleaning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vacuum-cleaned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vacuum-cleaned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To clean with a vacuum cleaner.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
cribbed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Placed in a crib.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The cribbed baby was quite content.
Translations:
jockeys
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of jockey shorts.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: Standing in the cavernous barracks clad only in my jockeys, shivering next to other miserable schlubs and being handled like a piece of beef with "mad cow" disease did nothing to improve my mood.
"Are you for real? I’d think with those green eyes you'd be peeling the chicks off your jockeys before they peeled your jockeys off you!"
Translations:
muzzleloader
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From muzzle + loader.
Compound parts: muzzle
loader
Inflected forms:
form: muzzleloaders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A variety of firearm in which the weapon is loaded from the end that discharges the projectile (the muzzle).
pos: noun
Translations:
bedpan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bed + pan ("chamber pot").
Compound parts: bed
pan
Inflected forms:
form: bedpans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pan used for urination and defecation while in bed, now usually for reasons of medical necessity or convenience.
pos: noun
examples: The nurse emptied the patient's bedpan each morning.
Translations:
knee-high
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From knee + high (adjective).
Compound parts: knee
high
Inflected forms:
form: knee-highs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see knee, high: reaching to the height of a person's knees.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Near-synonym: knee-deep
knee-high by the Fourth of July
The corn is knee-high.
gloss: Very young.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: John Fred Gourrier had been listening to Fats Domino, Smiley Lewis, and the Spiders since he was knee-high.
gloss: A sock or stocking that reaches to just below the knees.
pos: noun
tags: US
plural-normally
Derived words: knee-high blackberry
knee-high by the Fourth of July
knee-high to a grasshopper
Translations:
perfecta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From American Spanish quiniela perfecta (“perfect quinella”).
Inflected forms:
form: perfectas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of bet wherein the first- and second-place finishers must be predicted in the correct order.
pos: noun
tags: US
Translations:
myopically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English myopic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English myopically
From myopic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more myopically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most myopically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: As if suffering from myopia.
pos: adv
examples: She squinted myopically at the small print.
Translations:
meaningfulness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English meaningful
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 meaningfulness
From meaningful + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: meaningfulnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or measure of being meaningful.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
liftin
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more liftin
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most liftin
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Stinky, noisome, putrid.
pos: adj
tags: Geordie
examples: The rubbish dump was liftin
gloss: Alive with parasites or pests.
pos: adj
tags: Geordie
examples: Ees claes were liftin wi vormin!
gloss: Heavenly; Upon the sky.
pos: adj
Translations:
psychogenic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From psycho- + -genic.
Base: psycho
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Originating from or caused by state of mind; having a psychological rather than a physiological cause.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations: