yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
restriction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English restriccioun, from Anglo-Norman restriction, Middle French restriction, and their source, Late Latin restrictiō, from Latin restringō.
Morphologically restrict + -ion.
Base: restrict
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: restrictions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of restricting, or the state of being restricted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A surge of tight restriction emanates from the locale as tense muscles quiver like overtuned violin strings, and the feeling of shifting the kneecap back in place is very similar to cracking a knuckle (and in fact can produce an audible pop, adding a delightful aural component to the mix).
gloss: A regulation or limitation that restricts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In the year 1819, Sir Robert Peel brought in a bill, and which finally passed both houses, and received the royal assent on the 2nd July, for continuing the restrictions contained in several acts of parliament, on payments in cash by the bank of England, until the 1st day of May, 1823, and to provide for the gradual resumption of cash payments: [...] VIII. After the first day of May, 1822, the bank of England, if they shall think fit, may pay or exchange the lawful coin of the realm, for any of their own notes, payable on demand.
In its lawsuit, the Times said the policy unlawfully restricts essential newsgathering techniques and gives the Pentagon “unfettered” discretion to revoke passes, permitting it to impose the type of “viewpoint-based” press restrictions forbidden by the constitution.
gloss: The mechanism by which a cell degrades foreign DNA material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Echinorhagata is likewise supported by typical echinoderid autapomorphies, inclusive the number of trichoscalids that is reduced from 14 to 6; restriction of lateral accessory spines to females only; and an apparent restriction of the middorsal spines to appear only on segments 4 to 8.
Related words: restrict
restrain
restraint
constriction
Derived words: antirestriction
counterrestriction
endorestriction
field restriction
georestriction
macrorestriction
nonrestriction
overrestriction
restrictionary
restriction enzyme
restrictionism
restrictionist
restrictionless
value restriction
width restriction
Translations:
outbreak
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English outbreken, oute-breken, from Old English ūtābrecan (“to break out”), equivalent to out- + break. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uutbreeke (“to break out, burst out”), West Frisian útbrekke (“to break out”), Dutch uitbreken (“to break out, burst out”), German ausbrechen (“to break out, erupt”).
The noun is cognate with Saterland Frisian Uutbreek (“outbreak”), West Frisian útbrek (“outbreak”), Dutch uitbraak (“outbreak”), and German Ausbruch (“outbreak”), and is comparable to Danish udbrud (“outbreak”), Faroese and Icelandic útbrot (“rash”), Norwegian utbrudd (“outbreak”), and Swedish utbrott (“outbreak”).
Base: break
Affixes: out-
Inflected forms:
form: outbreaks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: outbreaks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outbreaking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outbroke
pos: verb
tags: past
form: outbroken
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: An eruption; the sudden appearance of a rash, disease, etc.
pos: noun
examples: Any epidemic outbreak causes understandable panic.
In a December 5 post on X, CDC Acting Director Jim O’Neill said there was no epidemiological evidence linking the Texas outbreak and the ongoing cases in South Carolina.
A U.S. Health and Human Services spokesman confirmed that the CDC has found no epidemiological evidence linking ongoing outbreaks to Texas, but said many recent U.S. cases share the same genotype and have no known source of infection, “which could indicate ongoing domestic transmission.”
gloss: A sudden increase.
pos: noun
examples: There has been an outbreak of vandalism at the school.
One such investigation described how kindness can be contagious. It was sparked by reports of an outbreak of kindness on a cold December morning in 2012.
gloss: An outburst or sudden eruption, especially of violence and mischief.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: There has been an outbreak of broken windows in the street.
gloss: Synonym of breakout (“escape from prison”).
pos: noun
gloss: To burst out or break forth.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Antonyms: inbreak
Derived words: interoutbreak
intraoutbreak
postoutbreak
preoutbreak
sun outage
Translations:
orgy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Originally in plural from French orgies, from Latin orgia, from Ancient Greek ὄργια (órgia, “secret rites, mysteries”).
Inflected forms:
form: orgies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A secret rite or ceremony, typically involving riotous and dissolute behavior, including dancing, drunkenness and indiscriminate sexual activity, undertaken in honor of various pagan gods or goddesses (such as Attis, Bacchus, Ceres, Dionysus, Osiris, etc).
pos: noun
examples: Human sacrifices of a definitely black magical order took place at the tomb of Osiris, while similar orgies with human victims were performed at Heliopolis.
gloss: A gathering of people to engage in group sex.
pos: noun
gloss: An instance or period of excessive indulgence in a specified activity; spree.
pos: noun
examples: The amount of drink required also surprised me. I arranged for what I thought we should need for ourselves, and then Mr Goyles spoke up for the crew. I must say that for him, he did think of his men.
’We don’t want anything in the nature of an orgy, Mr Goyles,’ I suggested.
’Orgy!’ replied Mr Goyles; ‘why they’ll take that little drop in their tea.’
As two Homeric warriors, before they engage, introduce themselves by proclaiming each his lineage, so with Pelasgus and the Danaïds. Together they indulge in a veritable genealogical orgy.
Gorea 07: 'OUR DEFENSES WERE USELESS AGAINST GOREA AS IT SWEPT THROUGH OUR EMPIRE IN AN ORGY OF ANNIHILATION.'
It's an orgy of perfectly choreographed cartoon uber violence and is the game the Devil May Cry series always promised but never delivered.
The wails of the injured and the roars of the dead-on-the-march overwhelmed the tinny speakers in the cell, and they all watched as nearly one thousand people reduced themselves to a few frantic hundred in less than an hour, then settled into a sustained orgy of battery, rapine and rape with no end in sight but the total depopulation of the entire facility.
Related words: group sex
Derived words: couldn't organise an orgy in a brothel
fourgie
love orgy
orgiast
orgiastic
orgic
orgygoer
orgy-goer
orgylike
Translations:
hooray
Part of speech: intj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown, first attested in the late 17th c. Possible etymologies:
* Alteration of huzzah. This is however questionable.
* From hurra in German, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian, húrra in Icelandic, hoera in Dutch.
Inflected forms:
form: hurray
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: hurrah
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: huzzah
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: hoorah
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: hooroo
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: hoorays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hooraying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hoorayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hoorayed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hurray
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: hurrah
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: huzzah
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: hoorah
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: hooroo
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Used to express approval, joy or victory.
pos: intj
examples: Lizzie has broken a world record, and she is now an Olympic medallist! – Hooray!
gloss: goodbye.
pos: intj
tags: Australia
colloquial
examples: “And I told him, ‘I even guarantee I’ll take (the girl) to the airport and put her on a plane and wave, Hooray’.”
gloss: To shout an expression of excitement.
pos: verb
Derived words: boo-hooray
hip hip hooray
hooray for Hollywood
Translations:
hurley
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From hurl.
Inflected forms:
form: hurleys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A stick used in the game of hurling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The game of hurling.
pos: noun
tags: proscribed
uncountable
Translations:
hurling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hurlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is hurled or thrown.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In Mr. J. C. Hotten’s Life, and in Mr. A. W. Ward’s admirable monograph in the “English Men of Letters” Series, a paper of mine called “Pincher Astray” is attributed to Dickens.
gloss: An Irish game of ancient Celtic origin. It is played with an ash stick called a hurley (camán in Irish) and a hard leather ball called a sliotar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A Cornish street game resembling rugby, played with a silver ball.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: Cornish hurling
hurling and burling
Translations:
open-minded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From open + minded.
Compound parts: open
minded
Inflected forms:
form: more open-minded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most open-minded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Willing to consider new and different concepts, ideas, or opinions.
pos: adj
Translations:
nonconformist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English non-
English conform
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 conformist
English nonconformist
From non- + conformist.
Inflected forms:
form: nonconformists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: non-conformist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more nonconformist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nonconformist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: non-conformist
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of a church separated from the Church of England; a Protestant dissenter.
pos: noun
gloss: Loosely, a Christian who does not conform to the doctrines of an established church.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who does not conform to accepted beliefs, customs or practices.
pos: noun
gloss: A noctuid moth (Lithophane lamda).
pos: noun
gloss: Not conforming to established customs, etc.
pos: adj
examples: One of the village's most notable sons was Thomas Grantham, a Baptist church leader born in 1634, who was persecuted and imprisoned in the struggle for nonconformist beliefs during the reign of Charles II.
Synonyms: heteroclite
individualist
Derived words: nonconformist register
Translations:
opiate
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English opiate, from Medieval Latin opiātus.
Inflected forms:
form: opiates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: opiates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: opiating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: opiated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: opiated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Relating to, resembling, or containing opium.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Soporific; inducing sleep or sedation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Deadening; causing apathy or dullness.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A drug, hormone or other substance derived from or related to opium.
pos: noun
gloss: Something that dulls the senses and induces a false and unrealistic sense of contentment.
pos: noun
examples: They chose atheism as an opiate.
The music—the fragrance of the flowers, whose odour was exhaling in the now falling dew—the languor of recent exertion—the sense of past dangers and present security—operated on Beatrice like the first and delicious stage of an opiate.
gloss: To treat with an opiate drug.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: antiopiate
opiatelike
opiatic
utopiate
Translations:
morphine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ)
Ancient Greek -εύς (-eús)
Ancient Greek Μορφεύς (Morpheús)
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnus
French -in
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂
Proto-Italic *-ā
Latin -am
Old French -e
French -e
French -ine
French morphinebor.
German Morphinbor.
English morphine
Borrowed from French morphine or German Morphin, from Ancient Greek Μορφεύς (Morpheús, “the god and personification of dreams”).
Inflected forms:
form: morphines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: morphin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: morphina
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A crystalline alkaloid (4,5-epoxy-17-methyl-7,8-didehydromorphinan-3,6-diol), extracted from opium, the salts of which are soluble in water and are used as analgesics, anaesthetics and sedatives; it is one of a group of morphine alkaloids.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
codeine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: From French codéine, from Ancient Greek κώδεια (kṓdeia, “capsule of the poppy, poppy head”) + -ine.
Base: κώδεια
Affixes: -ine
Inflected forms:
form: codeines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An addictive alkaloid narcotic derived from opium and used as a hypnotic, analgesic and antitussive; often mixed with aspirin etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
thebaine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
toxicology
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Θῆβαι (Thêbai, “Thebes”)
Inflected forms:
form: thebain
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: thebaia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A poisonous alkaloid, paramorphine, obtained from opium; not used in medicine.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
papaverine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin papāver
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ine
English papaverine
From Latin papāver (“poppy”) + English -ine.
Inflected forms:
form: papaverines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A nonaddictive derivative of opium used in medicine to relieve muscle spasms, as a vasodilator and in some forms of erectile dysfunction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
vasodilator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wāss
Latin vās
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English vaso-
English dilator
English vasodilator
From vaso- + dilator.
Inflected forms:
form: vasodilators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A substance that causes dilation of the blood vessels, thereby reducing blood pressure; it may be endogenous (such as a hormone produced by the body) or exogenous (such as a drug or other chemical agent).
pos: noun
Translations:
heartbeat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From heart + beat.
Compound parts: heart
beat
Inflected forms:
form: heartbeats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One pulsation of the heart; especially an irregular one, hence the emotion which causes it.
pos: noun
examples: The policeman waited for a heartbeat in vain.
He alone gives me such heartbeats.
Both CRT-Ds and ICDs are implanted under the skin, in the patient’s upper chest area. The devices have wires called leads that attach to the heart and regulate the rhythm of the muscle. Defibrillators help patients with bradycardia – a slow heartbeat – by pacing the heartbeat and those with tachycardia – a fast heartbeat – by delivering shocks that reset heartbeats to normal.
gloss: The rhythm at which a heart pulsates, a cardiac indicator.
pos: noun
examples: If your heartbeat doesn't normalize soon, consult a doctor!
gloss: A driving impulse or vital force; the vital center of something.
pos: noun
examples: Music is the heartbeat of the people.
Dream Body Recovery is just one of countless recovery houses that have cropped up in Miami, which has become the heartbeat of the B.B.L. boom in the United States. The average price of a B.B.L. nationwide is around $5,000, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.
gloss: A very short space of time; an instant.
pos: noun
examples: The ambulance arrived in a heartbeat.
Cause I love you more than life Take a bullet for you I swear, I swear In a heartbeat
gloss: A periodic signal generated by hardware or software to indicate normal operation or to synchronize other parts of a system.
pos: noun
Derived words: heartbeat bill
heartbeat law
heartbeatlike
Heartbleed
in a heartbeat
Translations:
pulsation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English pulsacioun (“pulsing of the blood, throbbing”), borrowed from Middle French pulsacion (“(of bells) a striking (end of 14th c.); (of a diseased part of the body) a throbbing (1377); pulsation (1575)”), and its source, Latin pulsātiō (“(classical Latin) a beating or striking; (Medieval Latin, medical) rhythmical expansion and contraction (1363 in Chauliac)”). By surface analysis, pulsate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: pulsations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The regular throbbing of the heart, an artery etc. in a living body; the pulse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Pulsation had ceased. For three days the body was preserved unburied, during which it had acquired a stony rigidity.
gloss: Any rhythmic beating, throbbing etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Lo! as a dove when up she springs
⁠To bear thro’ Heaven a tale of woe,
⁠Some dolorous message knit below
The wild pulsation of her wings;
Like her I go; I cannot stay;
⁠I leave this mortal ark behind […]
gloss: The rhythmic increase and decrease of size in naked zoospores and plasmodia.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Physical striking; a blow.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: By the Cornelian law, pulsation as well as verberation is prohibited.
gloss: A single beat, throb or vibration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: pulsate
pulse
push
Derived words: counterpulsation
electropulsation
micropulsation
pulsational
Translations:
throb
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English throbben; possibly of imitative origin.
Inflected forms:
form: throbs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: throbbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: throbbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: throbbed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: throbs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To pound or beat rapidly or violently.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Her heart began to throb faster as the moment approached.
gloss: To pulse (often painfully) in time with the circulation of blood.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I have a throbbing headache.
gloss: To exhibit an attitude, trait, or affect powerfully and profoundly.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: The bass in the song made the entire room throb with energy.
Having been married and divorced, Suzanne throbs with attitudes of strength, liberation and equality.
This is a country where nightclubs in Thimbu, the capital, throb with techno music, but where smoking is illegal and television did not arrive until 1999.
gloss: A beating, vibration or palpitation.
pos: noun
examples: He could feel a dull throb in his head from the tension.
My bosom was now bare, and rising in the warmest throbs, presented to his sight and feeling the firm hard swell of a pair of young breasts, such as may be imagin'd of a girl not sixteen, fresh out of the country
Derived words: athrob
heart-throbbing
outthrob
throbbingly
throbless
Translations:
heartthrob
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From heart + throb.
Compound parts: heart
throb
Inflected forms:
form: heartthrobs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: heart throb
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: heart-throb
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A heartbeat.
pos: noun
gloss: The object of one’s desires or infatuation; a sweetheart.
pos: noun
gloss: A handsome male celebrity.
pos: noun
examples: And really, Michael Jackson is a more fitting aspiration for the similarly sexless would-be-former teen heartthrob, who’s compared himself to the late King Of Pop (perhaps a bit prematurely) on several occasions and sings in a Jackson-like croon over a sample of “We’ve Got A Good Thing Going” on Believe’s “Die In Your Arms.”
Related words: heart-throbbing
Translations:
illogical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English il-
English logical
English illogical
From il- + logical.
Inflected forms:
form: more illogical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most illogical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Contrary to logic; lacking sense or sound reasoning.
pos: adj
examples: I received an illogical reply and that left me standing there feeling confused.
Your highly emotional reaction is most illogical.
'Cause I was feeling so illogical, d-d-d-igital
Translations:
mutualism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
ecology
economics
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From mutual + -ism. Compare French mutualisme and Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish mutualismo.
Base: mutual
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: mutualisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any interaction between two species that benefits both; typically involves the exchange of substances or services.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An economic theory and anarchist school of thought that advocates a society where each person might possess a means of production, either individually or collectively, with trade representing equivalent amounts of labor in the free market.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: commensalism
Derived words: anarcho-mutualism
Translations:
numskull
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From numb (“deadened”) + skull.
Compound parts: numb
skull
Inflected forms:
form: numskulls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: numbskull
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A dunce, mentally dull or stupid person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
gloss: A person who refuses to learn or grow mentally.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: That numskull will never learn how to compose a letter.
Synonyms: airhead
bubblehead
thickhead
Derived words: numpty
numptie
numskullery
Translations:
patzer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: board-games
chess
games
Etymology: Uncertain, but probably from German Patzer (“bungler”), from patzen.
Inflected forms:
form: patzers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: potzer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of woodpusher: a bad player.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
informal
examples: If you have learned the principle that it is inadvisable to move the same piece twice in the opening you would probably imagine that these guys are patzers.
Translations:
outline
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: broadcasting
computing
engineering
film
fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software-compilation
television
Etymology: From out + line.
Compound parts: out
line
Inflected forms:
form: outlines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: outlines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outlining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outlined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outlined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A line marking the boundary of an object figure.
pos: noun
gloss: The outer shape of an object or figure.
pos: noun
examples: From this point of vantage, we were able to gain an impression of the massive outlines of the main structure, and its intricate maze of girders.
gloss: A sketch or drawing in which objects are delineated in contours without shading.
pos: noun
examples: Painters, by their outlines, colours, lights, and shadows, represent the same in their pictures.
gloss: A general description of some subject.
pos: noun
gloss: A statement summarizing the important points of a text.
pos: noun
gloss: A preliminary plan for a project.
pos: noun
examples: the outline of a speech
gloss: A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and more detailed than a treatment.
pos: noun
gloss: A setline or trotline.
pos: noun
gloss: To draw an outline of; to describe.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood. They dated from the previous century and were coarsely printed on tinted paper, with tinsel outlining the design.
gloss: To summarize.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Wikipedia items featuring books usually outline them after giving their background.
At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
gloss: To optimize for size by replacing repeated code fragments with function calls.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: silhouette
Derived words: outlineless
outliner
reoutline
Translations:
bugbear
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: arts
fantasy
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
Etymology: From obsolete meaning of bug (“something terrifying”) + bear. See Middle English bugge, modern bogey.
Base: bug
Inflected forms:
form: bugbears
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bug-bear
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bugbears
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bugbearing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bugbeared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bugbeared
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bug-bear
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An ongoing problem; a recurring obstacle or adversity.
pos: noun
examples: Stone ballast is now used throughout the main line, and has the additional advantage of eliminating the previous bugbear of dust.
Level crossings are the bugbear of railway operation at Hull. There are no fewer than 16 within the city boundary.
Next, they operate in constrained worlds. Apple is a particular bugbear for Mr Zuckerberg and Mr Sweeney.
gloss: A source of dread; resentment; or irritation.
pos: noun
examples: What has this Bugbear Death to frighten Man,
If Souls can die, as well as Bodies can?
But, to the world no bugbear is so great
As want of figure and a small estate.
What have I done to be made a bugbear of, and to be shunned and dreaded as if I brought the plague?
gloss: A generic creature, often described as a large goblin, meant to inspire fear in children.
pos: noun
examples: Ha, ha: alas poore wretch: a poore Chipochia, haſt not ſlept to night? would he not (a naughty man) let it ſleepe: a bug-beare take him.
“How could you lie so glaringly as to affirm I hated the ‘poor child’? and invent bugbear stories to terrify her from my door-stones?[…]”
"My young friends," quietly replied Jason, "I do not wonder that you think the dragon very terrible. You have grown up from infancy in the fear of this monster, and therefore still regard him with the awe that children feel for the bugbears and hobgoblins which their nurses have talked to them about.[…]"
The partisans of the Administration object to the word “imperialism,” calling it a mere bugbear having no real existence.
gloss: To alarm with idle phantoms.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: bugbearish
Translations:
Gordon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: The main etymology, associated with Celtic names, is from the Scots surname Gordon, from a place name, but the origin is debated:
* If the English or Scots name is from a Brythonic language (such as Old Welsh or Old Breton), then possibly from a Proto-Brythonic compound such as *gor (“spacious”) + *din (“fort”);
* If the Scots name is itself from English, then possibly from French Gourdon, derived from Gallo-Roman Latin Gordus, from Gaulish *Gordos;
* Otherwise, possibly ultimately from Old English *gor-dūn (“mud hill”) whence a habitational name.
Inflected forms:
form: Gordons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Gordon setter.
pos: noun
Translations:
quale
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: A direct borrowing from Latin quāle.
Inflected forms:
form: qualia
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instance of a subjective, conscious experience.
pos: noun
examples: I was more like a vegetable than a person—with my consciousness only a shadow of self-awareness, only a dim sense of qualia penetrated my mental haze.
Translations:
goaler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From goal + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix).
Base: goal
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: goalers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A goalkeeper in ice hockey.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who has scored a specified number of goals.
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
examples: a three-goaler
Translations:
prospective
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French prospectif, from Late Latin prospectivus. See more at English prospect.
Inflected forms:
form: prospectives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Likely or expected to happen or become.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Prospective students are those who have already applied to the university, but have yet to be admitted.
gloss: Anticipated in the near or far future.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A short distance above I-ch’ang is the prospective site of a hydroelectric dam that has vast promise for the industrialization of central China.
gloss: Of or relating to a prospect; furnishing a prospect.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: And in times long and dark Proſpective Glaſs / Fore-ſaw what future dayes ſhould bring to paſs,
gloss: Looking forward in time; acting with foresight.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 1668-1690, Josiah Child, A new discourse of trade
The French king, and the king of Sweden are […] circumspect, industrious, and prospective, too, in this affair.
gloss: Being a study that starts with the present situation and follows participants into the future
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Indicating grammatically an activity about to begin.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: What some other languages convey with prospective aspect, English conveys with expressions like going to drive the car home.
gloss: The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: the whole Scene of affairs was changed from Spain to France there now lay the prospective
gloss: A perspective glass.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: [T]hey [two pavillions] were trimmed on the inside with rich armour and military furniture, hanged up as upon the walls; and behind the tents there were represented, in prospective, the tops of divers other tents, as if it had been a camp.
gloss: A prospective (potential) member, student, employee, date, partner, etc.
pos: noun
tags: informal
often
plural
examples: Would you like to show the prospective around?
I'm meeting the prospectives at 3.
At the moment, meeting interesting, 'could be, maybe not' prospectives around the globe keeps her entertained.
Related words: inchoative
Derived words: prospectively
prospectiveness
pseudoprospective
unprospective
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: prospectiu
lang: French
word: prospectif
lang: Georgian
word: მოსალოდნელი
roman: mosalodneli
lang: Italian
word: prospettivo
lang: Portuguese
word: prospectivo
lang: Portuguese
word: prospetivo
lang: Spanish
word: prospectivo
polemic
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French polémique, from Ancient Greek πολεμικός (polemikós, “of war”), from πόλεμος (pólemos, “war”). By surface analysis, polem- + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: polemics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: polemick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: more polemic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most polemic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: polemick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A person who writes in support of one opinion, doctrine, or system, in opposition to another; one skilled in polemics; a controversialist; a disputant.
pos: noun
gloss: An argument or controversy.
pos: noun
gloss: A strong verbal or written attack on someone or something.
pos: noun
gloss: Having the characteristics of a polemic.
pos: adj
examples: A fourth hindrance is by some held to be, that many of our polemic publications are too polemic. Some hold that we should urge the simple Gospel, and make no attack on Hinduism or Muhammadanism .
To explain some of these challenges, it is useful to take a brief and polemic look at the one area that is perhaps most fundamentally affected by the new conditions: the workplace.
Using a rather polemic tone, Mutua (2002) argues that interpretations of human rights are not neutral but very much embedded in cultural and political assumptions
Derived words: polemical
polemically
polemicist
Translations:
sometimes
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English sumtymes, somtymes, som tymes, equivalent to sometime + -s (adverbial suffix). Compare West Frisian somstiden (“sometimes”), Dutch somtijds, somwijlen (“sometimes”).
Base: sometime
Affixes: -s
Inflected forms:
form: sts.
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: On some occasions, over some periods, or in certain circumstances, but not always.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Sometimes I sit and think, but mostly I just sit.
It is good that we sometimes be contradicted, and ill though of, and that we always bear it well, even when we deserve to be well spoken of : perfect peace and security cannot be had in this world.
We made an odd party before the arrival of the Ten, particularly when the Celebrity dropped in for lunch or dinner. He could not be induced to remain permanently at Mohair because Miss Trevor was at Asquith, but he appropriated a Hempstead cart from the Mohair stables and made the trip sometimes twice in a day.
The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
In 16th and 17th century Britain, for example, women’s alopecia was sometimes interpreted as retribution for sins, including adultery.
gloss: On a certain occasion in the past; once.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: What art thou that vſurp’ſt this time of night, / Together with that Faire and Warlike forme / In which the Maieſty of buried Denmarke / Did ſometimes march : By Heauen I charge thee ſpeake.
For yee were sometimes darkenesse, but now are yee light in the Lord: walke as children of light […]
They detract, ſcoffe and raile ſaith one, & barke at mee on every ſide, but I, like that Albanian dog ſometimes given to Alexander for a preſent, vindico me ab illis ſolo contemptu, I ly ſtill and ſleep, vindicate my ſelfe by contempt alone.
Related words: sometime
Derived words: Homer sometimes nods
sometimes a cigar is a cigar
sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
sometimes food
sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you
Translations:
fissiparous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: An adaptation of New Latin fissiparus, from fissus (“split, cleft”) + pariō (“to bring forth”) by analogy with vīviparus.
Inflected forms:
form: more fissiparous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fissiparous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Factious, tending to break into pieces.
pos: adj
examples: That nation, inescapably, is Germany, the largest, richest, most important, perhaps most admirable and certainly most pivotal nation in the European Union, the nation around which a flourishing Europe will always centre and the nation upon which a fissiparous Europe always risks foundering.
There is no panacea. Iraq is a destroyed and fissiparous country.
Like empires, world orders grow old, fissiparous, complacent and grumpy — despite the Champagne, the thrill is gone.
gloss: Causing division or fragmenting something.
pos: adj
examples: fissiparous tendencies
Was he impressed with the cohesion of the Christians among themselves, and by the contrast thus offered to the fissiparous tendencies of his feudal polity?
The sea was such a link in the case of Greece and her city colonies enabling her (no hostile power having command of the Mediterranean) to maintain connexion with her foreign colonies, in spite of the fissiparous influence of her physical configuration on the mainland.
The term, which means having the quality of reproducing by splitting, was first used in the national context by the founding Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, who warned that “fissiparous tendencies” might someday shatter the Indian union.
After ­spending 1,000 words establishing that he's the only person in Britain who refers to ­Massive Attack as "the Massives", he ­finally let fly with the what-did-you-have-for-lunch-mate-dictionary-­pudding? stuff he had presumably been employed for: "The Massives have always had a certain fissiparous approach to their work as an ensemble" and so on.
gloss: Of cells that reproduce through fission, splitting into two.
pos: adj
examples: Reproduction may be divided into two main classes, namely, sexual and asexual. The latter is effected in many ways—by the formation of buds of various kinds, and by fissiparous generation, that is by spontaneous or artificial division.
Related words: fissile
fissiparism
fissiparity
Derived words: fissiparously
fissiparousness
Translations:
cred
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
literature
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
science-fiction
sciences
Etymology: Clippings.
Inflected forms:
form: creds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Credibility.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: After listening to that sheer pile of bull mess he tried to tell me yesterday, I've decided he's got precisely zero cred as far as I'm concerned.
Don't worry about losing geek cred here: In addition to its usual functions, the remote will be able to call up a customizable Command menu that executes any program or script you have the temerity to put in its configuration file.
gloss: A credential.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
plural-normally
uncountable
examples: DCE programming: using login creds to auth server?
gloss: A credit (currency unit).
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: And you're getting well paid, of course, but that's nothing to them, is it? They could double your salary, Gertler—pay you two million creds a year —and it'd still be peanuts to these people […]
Related words: bona fides
Derived words: street cred
Translations:
simpleton
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From simple + -ton (as in a surname). Compare French simplet, Italian semplicione.
Base: simple
Affixes: -ton
Inflected forms:
form: simpletons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A simple-minded person lacking common sense.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
informal
examples: The stranger had crossed a sacred line. He had mentioned the men's mothers. Nothing could get him out of a beating now, even the fact that he was obviously a simpleton. Albeit a simpleton with a good vocabulary.
Baron Cohen’s new creation (and the previous ones, too) has its roots in Groucho characters like Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding, Otis B. Driftwood, and Prof. Quincy Adams Wagstaff, and the concept of a pompous simpleton running a rogue nation has obvious parallels to Duck Soup’s Rufus T. Firefly, who leads the country of Fredonia to a needless and highly preventable war.
“Doesn't matter. That man is not the leader.” “But he is the main guy on the show.” “He is an actor, Nandor. A simpleton who paints his face. He is an empty-headed puppet who thinks the world loves him, when in actual fact, he is nothing more than a lapdog begging for scraps.” [groans] “No, he is not the leader. That would be another devil who pulls the strings. The halfwit they call the director.”
Translations:
depressed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Inflected forms:
form: more depressed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most depressed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Unhappy; despondent.
pos: adj
examples: The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.
gloss: Suffering from clinical depression.
pos: adj
gloss: Suffering damaging effects of economic recession.
pos: adj
examples: Born in 1980 to hard-working impoverished parents in Newport News, Virginia, Michael Vick grew up in the Ridley public housing project during the Reagan years when funding for such projects was being largely withdrawn. The eastern part of Newport News where Vick grew up became so depressed that it was called 'Bad Newz'.
gloss: Reduced to a lower degree or form.
pos: adj
examples: The cubic function x³ + cx + d = 0, where one of the terms has a coefficient of zero, is a depressed cubic.
Derived words: anxiodepressed
clinically depressed
depressedly
depressedness
duppie
immunodepressed
nondepressed
pseudodepressed
subdepressed
undepressed
Translations:
sometime
Part of speech: adv
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English somtyme, som time, some tyme, sume time, sumtym, sumtyme, equivalent to some + time.
Base: some
Inflected forms:
form: some time
pos: adv
tags: alternative
adverb
form: some-time
pos: adv
tags: alternative
adjective
form: sometyme
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: some time
pos: adj
tags: alternative
adverb
form: some-time
pos: adj
tags: alternative
adjective
form: sometyme
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: At an indefinite but stated time in the past or future.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I'll see you at the pub sometime this evening.
This will certainly happen sometime in the future.
It happened sometime yesterday.
But while there remains a considerable degree of consensus that the consequence of apparently losing the plot sometime between 1914 and 1918 was the cultural and economic malaise of the 1920s and 1930s, there are still some who look back on the interwar years less with criticism than with nostalgia.
gloss: Sometimes.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
gloss: At an unstated past or future time; once; formerly.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: Did they not sometime cry "All hail" to me?
gloss: Former, erstwhile; at some previous time.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: my sometime friend and mentor
Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen / Th' imperial jointress to this warlike state
Ion our sometime darling, whom we prized / As a stray gift, by bounteous Heaven dismiss'd
gloss: Occasional; intermittent.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an author and sometime lecturer
Synonyms: at some time
other
somewhen
in the past
drekly
sometime
somewhere along the line
whenevs
Antonyms: at this point in time
Related words: sometimes
sooner or later
eventually
Derived words: sometime thing
sometime or other
sometime or another
sometimey
sometimes
Translations:
despondent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin dēspondēns, from the verb despondere (“to give up, to abandon”).
Inflected forms:
form: more despondent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most despondent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In low spirits from loss of hope or courage.
pos: adj
examples: Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
“Last year, I was despondent that it was so hard to dislodge the iron grip of Google,” said Sridhar Ramaswamy, who previously oversaw advertising for Google, including Search ads, and now runs Neeva. “But technological moments like this create an opportunity for more competition.”
Antonyms: cheerful
hopeful
Translations:
cloakroom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cloak + room.
Compound parts: cloak
room
Inflected forms:
form: cloakrooms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cloak room
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A room intended for holding guests' cloaks and other heavy outerwear, as at a theater or night club.
pos: noun
gloss: A room intended for holding luggage, as at an airport.
pos: noun
tags: India
Ireland
UK
gloss: A private lounge next to a legislative chamber.
pos: noun
gloss: A lavatory, now particularly a small secondary lavatory or a men's room.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
euphemistic
examples: Although there was a cloakroom on the ground floor, the Old Rectory had only one bathroom, a defect which necessitated embarrassed, low-voiced enquiries before anyone upset their carefully worked-out rota by taking an unexpected bath.
Synonyms: cloaks
Derived words: cloakroom attendant
cloakroom ticket
ladies' cloakroom
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: гардероб
roman: garderob
lang: Catalan
word: guarda-roba
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 寄物處 /寄物处
roman: jìwùchù
lang: Czech
word: šatna
lang: Danish
word: garderobe
lang: Dutch
word: garderobe
lang: Dutch
word: vestiaire
lang: Faroese
word: klædnagoymsla
lang: Finnish
word: narikka
lang: Finnish
word: vaatesäilö
lang: Finnish
word: vaatehuone
lang: French
word: vestiaire
lang: Galician
word: gardarroupa
lang: German
word: Garderobe
lang: German
word: Kleideraufbewahrung
lang: Hebrew
word: מלתחה
roman: meltakha
lang: Hungarian
word: ruhatár
lang: Irish
word: seomra cótaí
lang: Italian
word: guardaroba
lang: Macedonian
word: гардеро́ба
roman: garderóba
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: garderobe
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: garderobe
lang: Persian
word: رختکن
lang: Polish
word: szatnia
lang: Portuguese
word: bengaleiro
lang: Romanian
word: garderobă
lang: Russian
word: гардеро́б
roman: garderób
lang: Russian
word: гардеробное помещение
roman: garderobnoje pomeščenije
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: garderóba
lang: Spanish
word: guardarropa
lang: Swedish
word: garderob
lang: Turkish
word: vestiyer
lang: Ukrainian
word: гардеро́б
roman: harderób
lang: Ukrainian
word: роздяга́льня
roman: rozdjahálʹnja