yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
bambino
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Italian bambinobor.
English bambino
Borrowed from Italian bambino.
Inflected forms:
form: bambinos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bambini
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A child or baby, especially a representation in art of the infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes.
pos: noun
examples: These [spiders] in my office were newborn babies. A hundred scuttering bambinos, each one no bigger than a poppyseed. Too small still for red hourglasses, too small even for red egg timers.
Translations:
banda
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish banda. Doublet of band.
Inflected forms:
form: bandas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A style of Mexican brass band music, emerged in the 19th century.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: With very little fanfare, WZAA had become the first FM station in New York offering a format known as Mexican Regiona, which includes genres like ranchera, banda and norteña music.
gloss: An ensemble playing such music.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
barra
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Variant forms.
Inflected forms:
form: barras
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A barrow; a hand-pushed cart of the type commonly used in markets.
pos: noun
tags: Geordie
Translations:
squabble
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: media
printing
publishing
Etymology: The noun form first appears c. 1602, while the verbal form first appears c. 1616. Probably of North Germanic origin and ultimately imitative.
Related to Swedish dialectal skvabbel (“a dispute, quarrel, gossip”), Norwegian dialectal skvabba (“to prattle”), German dialectal schwabbeln (“to babble, prattle”), Swedish dialectal skvappa (“to chide, scold”, literally “make a splash”).
Inflected forms:
form: squabbles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: squabbles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: squabbling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: squabbled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: squabbled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A minor fight or argument.
pos: noun
examples: The children got into a squabble about who should ride in the front of the car.
It was obvious to the inhabitants of the small coastal town of Bridport that in the midst of these squabbles their need for a railway was going to be overlooked, and they decided to take the matter into their own hands.
"p your mess.
Also, as apologetic as you were for occupying my time, which I had hoped to spend with my daughter, you used about twice as many words as you needed to, and wasted an entire paragraph complaining about your colleagues. I went back to the SCP-079 file — Supervisor Valis would have had the thing decommissioned years ago if it weren't for your blatant technofetishism. Yet, you have the gall to characterize the Foundation's ongoing political interventions and military operations as squabbles."
gloss: To participate in a minor fight or argument; to quarrel.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The brothers were always squabbling with each other.
The sense of these propositions is very plain and easy, though logicians might perhaps squabble a whole day whether they should rank them under negative or affirmative.
gloss: To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry and require readjustment.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to squabble type
Synonyms: squabble
barney
bicker
quarrel
wrangle
argue
tiff
tift
quibble
row
pettifog
Related words: dispute
Derived words: bum-squabble
squabbler
squabblesome
squabblingly
squaffle
Translations:
magnetite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From magnet + -ite, after German Magnetit.
Base: magnet
Affixes: -ite
Inflected forms:
form: magnetites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A magnetic mineral, with the chemical formula Fe²⁺Fe3+2O₄, one of the primary ores of iron.
pos: noun
examples: Appropriately enough, the commonest of these, a simple iron oxide, is called magnetite.
gloss: Any instance of iron(II,III) oxide, regardless of whether it is a geologic mineral or a chemical result or product.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
Related words: black oxide
Derived words: biomagnetite
magnetitic
titanomagnetite
Translations:
governmental
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English government
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 governmental
From government + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more governmental
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most governmental
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to a government.
pos: adj
examples: governmental agency
governmental decision
governmental department
governmental error
governmental failure
governmental policy
governmental system
According to the lawmakers who introduced the bill, Lawler and Gottheimer, H.R. 867 "amends the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 to include international governmental organizations (IGOs) in existing anti-boycott laws."
gloss: Relating to governing.
pos: adj
Antonyms: non-governmental
Derived words: antigovernmental
countergovernmental
extragovernmental
governmentalese
governmentalism
governmentalist
governmentality
governmentalization
governmentalize
governmentally
intergovernmental
intragovernmental
multigovernmental
nongovernmental
pseudogovernmental
quasigovernmental
semigovernmental
supergovernmental
Translations:
faithful
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English feithful, equivalent to faith + -ful.
Base: faith
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more faithful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most faithful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: faithfull
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: faithfuls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: faithfull
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Loyal; adhering firmly to person or cause.
pos: adj
examples: My dog is very faithful: he doesn't like to be petted by anybody else.
gloss: Having faith.
pos: adj
examples: The application of the old discipline, say the conservatives, would probably produce a smaller but more faithful Church.
gloss: Reliable; worthy of trust.
pos: adj
examples: My servant is very faithful.
gloss: Consistent with reality.
pos: adj
examples: I would consider that a very faithful reproduction.
gloss: Engaging in sexual relations only with one's spouse or long-term sexual partner.
pos: adj
examples: They had been faithful to each other all of their married life.
She wanted to be free to explore casual affairs, but her man had to be faithful.
gloss: Injective in specific contexts, e.g. of representations in representation or functors in category theory.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a module, whose annihilator is zero.
pos: adj
gloss: The practicing members of a religion or followers of a cause.
pos: noun
tags: noun
plural
examples: The faithful pray five times a day.
The annual meeting was attended by the long-term party faithful.
We Fremen have a saying: God created Arrakis to train the faithful. One cannot go against the word of God.
In attacking a vital broadcaster, the US president is once again holding others to standards he flouts. But the Maga faithful might not let his links to the disgraced financier go[.]
gloss: Someone or something that is faithful or reliable.
pos: noun
examples: Earlier this year, as the recession put a damper on ticket sales, Maxwell said the easy route would have been to go for the tried-and-true old faithfuls.
Related words: go to the wall for someone
stand by
true
Derived words: faithful as a dog
faithful functor
faithfully
faithfulness
fully faithful
nonfaithful
overfaithful
site-faithful
unfaithful
Translations:
ze
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: zes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The name of the Cyrillic script letter З / з.
pos: noun
Translations:
mulai
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Arabic مُولَاي (mūlāy).
Inflected forms:
form: moly
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mulay
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A title for the ruler of Morocco.
pos: noun
examples: Moly Moluch, King of Fez, who not long since obtained that famous victory against Sebastian, King of Portugall, a notable victorie by reason of the death of three Kings, and transmission of so great a Kingdome to the crowne of Castile, chanced to be grievously sicke at what time the Portugales with armed hand entred his dominions[…].
Mulay Hafiz appealed to France. France immediately responded by sending a sizable expeditionary force to occupy Morocco.
One very famous Sultan, Moulai Ismail of Meknes, in Morocco, had as many as 25,000 European slaves who participated in the building of his colossal stables.
Translations:
muahahaha
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Comes from the natural sound mu and the laughing sound hahaha, repeating.
Inflected forms:
form: muahaha
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: muahahahaha
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: mwahaha
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: mwah ha ha
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: mwahahaha
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A conventionally evil laugh, as used by a supervillain.
pos: intj
tags: onomatopoeic
Translations:
villein
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman vilein, variant of vilain; from Medieval Latin villanus (“field hand”), from Latin villa (“country home”). Doublet of villain.
Inflected forms:
form: villeins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: villain
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A feudal tenant, a serf.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: If any burgess be appealed of a plea whereon wager of battle may issue by a villein or outdweller , let him defend himself by oath, that is to say by the 36 men, unless he is challenged in respect of a crime that the law requires him to defend by battle, in no case ought a burgess to fight against a villein if he have challenged him unless before the dispute he shall have quitted the burgage.
"Then you're not - " "Darling," I said, "do you really see me in the position of a seigneur, driving my serfs and villeins before me with a whip - even if the triffids haven't overrun me first?"
Translations:
folder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From fold + -er.
Base: fold
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: folders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An organizer that papers are kept in, usually with an index tab, to be stored as a single unit in a filing cabinet.
pos: noun
examples: I keep all my schoolwork in a yellow folder.
gloss: A virtual container in a computer's file system, in which files and other folders may be stored. The files and subfolders in a folder are usually related.
pos: noun
examples: My essays are in the folder named "Schoolwork".
gloss: A machine or person that folds things.
pos: noun
gloss: A folding knife, typically a pocketknife.
pos: noun
examples: A funny name for a knife, the Needs Work folder is purpose-built as a working folder, and includes a straight, plain-edge, modified-wharncliffe blade, and a comfortable, ergonomic handle.
Derived words: bone folder
book folder
file folder
folderful
folderless
folderlike
homework folder
hot folder
magazine folder
manila folder
paper-folder
refolder
superfolder
watched folder
Translations:
Eid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic عِيد (ʕīd, “feast, holiday, festival”) via Iranian Persian عید ('eyd), ultimately from Classical Syriac ܥܐܕܐ.
Inflected forms:
form: Eids
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: 'Eid
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: 'eid
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Id
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Eed
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Any of various Muslim religious festivals.
pos: noun
Translations:
gi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 着 (gi, “clothing”); only used in combination, usually with the name of a martial art such as 柔道着 (jūdōgi, “judo uniform”) or 空手着 (karategi, “karate uniform”).
Inflected forms:
form: gis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A martial arts uniform.
pos: noun
examples: By the time they got up to the reception building, there was a welcoming committee standing in the lamp-lined drive, all in black gi, headed by a tall, fit, scholarly-looking woman named Sister Rochelle […]
Attenders watched the Mad Max: Fury Road star, dressed in a blue gi, subdue his opponents and win all his matches. Hardy’s certificate of achievement was awarded to “Edward Hardy” – the actor’s real name.
Translations:
snicker
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: US variant of the British snigger, possibly of onomatopoeic origin, similar to Dutch snikken (“to gasp; sob”). The noun is first recorded 1836, from the verb. Compare also Scottish smicker (“to smile or laugh in a sniggering or leery way, smirk”). More at smicker.
Inflected forms:
form: snickers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: snigger
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: snickers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: snickering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: snickered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: snickered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: snigger
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A stifled or broken laugh.
pos: noun
gloss: To emit a snicker, a stifled or broken laugh.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, / And in short, I was afraid.
gloss: To utter through a laugh of this kind.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To whinny.
pos: verb
Derived words: snickerer
snickeringly
snickery
Translations:
greenish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English grenyssh, grenysch, equivalent to green + -ish.
Base: green
Affixes: -ish
Inflected forms:
form: more greenish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most greenish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Somewhat green in color.
pos: adj
Antonyms: achromatic
colorless
Translations:
necklace
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: jewelry
lifestyle
Etymology: From neck + lace.
Compound parts: neck
lace
Inflected forms:
form: necklaces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: necklaces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: necklacing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: necklaced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: necklaced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An article of jewelry that is worn around the neck, most often made of a string of precious metal, pearls, gems, beads or shells, and sometimes having a pendant attached.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything resembling a necklace in shape.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: a necklace of coral islands
gloss: A device used in necklacing (an informal execution); a rubber tyre that is filled with petrol. It is placed around the victim's chest and arms, and set on fire.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
examples: Necklacing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Seven people have been arrested in connection with Saturday's "necklace" murder of three men in the Tjokville informal settlement at Jeffrey's Bay.
Several of the alledged witches in Apel and GaNkaone were also subjected to a necklace execution
In the fluidly unfolding events of a necklace murder, was there time and space to stop the killing?
gloss: To informally execute by necklacing; by setting on fire a petrol-filled rubber tyre which has been put around the bound victim's neck.
pos: verb
tags: South-Africa
examples: Frustrated residents tied the hands of two suspected criminals, put tyres around their necks and then set them alight. In a manifestation of growing disillusionment with the criminal justice system, residents of Bramfischerville, west of Johannesburg, on Tuesday abducted and necklaced two suspected burglars.
2002 Buthelezi: A Biography by Ben Temkin
Inkatha members have been hacked to death and necklaced, and their houses have been destroyed
2000 Beyond Our Wildest Dreams: The United Democratic Front and the Transformation of South Africa by Ineke Van Kessel
The first instance of necklacing occurred in March 1985 in the Eastern Cape township of KwaNobuhle.
Derived words: anodyne necklace
Casal's necklace
Colombian necklace
coral necklace
necklacelike
necklace poplar
necklacer
necklace tree
pearl necklace
sea necklace
Translations:
beside
Part of speech: prep
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English beside, besiden, bisyde (also besides > besides), from Old English be sīdan, bī sīdan (“by the side (of), on the side (of)”). Compare Saterland Frisian biesiede (“aside”), German Low German bisied (“aside”), German beiseite (“aside, to one side”). Compare also Dutch terzijde (“aside”). By surface analysis, be- + side.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Next to; at the side of.
pos: prep
examples: A small table beside the bed
gloss: Not relevant to.
pos: prep
examples: That is beside the point / beside the topic / beside the subject / beside the focus of this discussion.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:beside.
gloss: Besides; in addition to.
pos: prep
examples: I'll need another dictionary beside this one.
gloss: Otherwise; else; in addition; besides.
pos: adv
tags: literary
not-comparable
poetic
examples: To all beside, as much an empty shade,
An Eugene living, as a Caesar dead.
April 8 1805, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Orange Blossom"
O how the honey tells the tale of its birthplace to the sense of sight and odour! and to how many minute and uneyeable insects beside!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
 Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
 The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Eternal form shall still divide
⁠The eternal soul from all beside;
And I shall know him when we meet: […]
Derived words: besidely
besideness
beside oneself
besides
beside the mark
beside the point
therebeside
Translations:
besides
Part of speech: prep
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English bisides (also bisiden), extension of biside, equivalent to beside + -s (adverbial suffix).
Base: beside
Affixes: -s
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In addition to.
pos: prep
examples: Besides José, I'll invite Jay and Renée, the three of them.
During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]
gloss: Other than; except for; instead of.
pos: prep
examples: I don't want to go anywhere besides India.
I want to go with someone besides my father.
gloss: Beside, next to.
pos: prep
tags: informal
examples: 1561, Geneva Bible, Acts 16:13,
And on the Sabbath day, we went out of the citie, beſides a riuer, where they were wont to pray : and we ſate downe, and ſpake vnto the women, which were come together.
After this, was Edwin the Kings brother accuſed of ſome conſpiracie by him begun againſt the K. whervpõ he was baniſhed the land, and ſent out in an old rotten veſſell without rower or Marriner, onely accompanied with one Eſquire, ſo that beeing launched foorth from the ſhore, through very diſpaire Edwin lept into the Sea, and drowned himſelfe, but the Eſquire that was with him recouered his body, and broughte it to land at Withſand beſides Canterbury.
Beſides them both, vpon the ſoiled gras / The dead corſe of an armed knight was ſpred, […]
gloss: Also; in addition.
pos: adv
tags: conjunctive
not-comparable
examples: We've paid for your whole education and plenty more besides!
It is besides used as a food, either as a sallad^([sic]), raw, or boiled as greens.
This was but one of Cluny’s hiding-places; he had caves, besides, and underground chambers in several parts of his country; and following the reports of his scouts, he moved from one to another as the soldiers drew near or moved away.
In the end, Chelsea's organisation and discipline was rewarded but Di Matteo knows they will have to produce the same - and more besides - in the Nou Camp to confirm a meeting with either Real Madrid or Bayern Munich in the final in Munich next month.
gloss: Used to emphasize an additional point, especially an important or stronger reason; moreover; furthermore.
pos: adv
tags: conjunctive
not-comparable
examples: I don't feel like going out tonight. Besides, I have to work tomorrow morning anyway.
gloss: Otherwise; else.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I have been to Spain but nowhere besides.
gloss: On one side.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: You are so strongly in my purpose bred
That all the world besides methinks are dead
Yet Teucer would another shaft, at Hectors life dispose;
 So faine, he such a marke would hit: but still besides it goes;
Synonyms: on top of
save for
Related words: on top of that
beside
Derived words: besides oneself
besides the point
Translations:
Metis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French métis, from Old French mestis, from Late Latin mixtīcius. Métis originally referred to Francophone and Cree-speaking descendants of the French-Catholic Red River Métis in Manitoba. Compare metis, mestizo, mustee, and Mestee.
Inflected forms:
form: Metis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Métis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: metis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: métis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of one of these three Canadian Aboriginal peoples.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: Gabriel Du Pre is a Metis, a descendent^([sic]) of the Cree, Chippewa and Ojibwe tribes mixed with French.
gloss: A person of mixed European and Aboriginal descent.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
examples: He is a Métis, that is, the son of a white father and Indian mother. He has dwelt long in cities where Europeans have conducted business, and speaks English and French very well; the other two chiefs are a Negro and an Indian: […]
Malcolm Norris proposed that "if he has one drop of Indian blood in his veins and has not been assimilated into the social fabric of our civilization he is a Metis."
Translations:
lang: Plains-Cree
word: âpihtawikosisân
lang: Plains-Cree
word: âpihtawikosisâniskwêw
lang: Plains-Cree
word: otipemisiwak
exy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Shortened from expensive + -y.
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more exy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most exy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: exxy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Expensive.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
colloquial
slang
examples: I am renting my machine, it might be more exy but it gives me time to sus out (with the help of newsgroups like this one), just exactly which machine or brands to focus on + DTS is on the way and despite what some people say, an A-Turn type system would be nice.
The BRL Hardy people have two ranges of wines bearing the Tintara name, the more exxy one with the name Tintara etched into the glass, and this cheaper line, Tintara Cellars.
To their credit they've let me play with a D60, D100, SD9, and 10D and a variety of lenses - slightly different to a pro body and the more exy pro lenses, admittedly :).
You get water in the bb and the bearings get rusty & crunchy = new bb set - cups & balls. Sealed are better though heavier and more exy.
Translations:
hmm
Part of speech: intj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See hum.
Inflected forms:
form: hm
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: hum
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: hmmm
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: h'm
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: hmms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hmming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hmmed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hmmed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hm
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: hum
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: hmmm
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: h'm
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Indicates thinking or pondering.
pos: intj
examples: Hmm... that's an interesting idea.
Hmm... I just can't decide between the two.
Hmm... creation or evolution? That’s the big question.
gloss: Indicates surprise or cluelessness; especially a response by a person who is questioned or addressed when not expecting it.
pos: intj
examples: "You there! Where are you going?" "Hmm? Oh, I just need to get a drink."
"Could you pass me the paring knife?" "Hmm? What's a paring knife?"
Jeeves: Foreign travel often liberates emotions best kept in check, sir. The air of North America is notoriously stimulating in this regard, as witness the regrettable behavior of its inhabitants in 1776.
B. Wooster: Hmm? What happened in 1776, Jeeves?
Jeeves: I prefer not to dwell on it, if it's convenient to you, sir.
gloss: A demand for an answer to a question.
pos: intj
examples: Just where were you until 2 a.m.? Hmm?
gloss: To make a thoughtful humming noise.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Synonyms: hnn
Translations:
routine
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
sports
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French routine. By surface analysis, route + -ine. Further from Latin rupta via.
Compare typologically travel << Latin tripālium, whence also travail, note the inverse semantic vector from a subjective state (toil) to an objective action (journey). Also compare Czech běžný (< běžet), Russian обихо́д (obixód), обихо́дный (obixódnyj) (akin to ходи́ть (xodítʹ)).
Inflected forms:
form: routines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more routine
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most routine
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A set of normal procedures, often performed mechanically.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Connie was completely robotic and emotionless by age 12; her entire life had become one big routine.
It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
gloss: A set piece of an entertainer's act.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: stand-up comedy routine
gloss: A performance, execution of gymnastics for one of the apparatus.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A set of instructions designed to perform a specific task; a subroutine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: According to established procedure.
pos: adj
examples: "Morning, inspector," affably remarked the cripple—he had not failed to observe the badge—"rather early for your job, eh? Nothing wrong with our supply up here, I hope, eh?"
"Nothing at all, sir," said the inspector. "Just an ordinary routine round. We do them regularly."
gloss: Regular; habitual.
pos: adj
examples: Pepper's forgiven me in the quiet, hurt way women sometimes forgive. She doesn't cry. She doesn't smile either. She's being routine.
Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.[…]One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.
gloss: Ordinary with nothing to distinguish it from all the others.
pos: adj
examples: Stoke put themselves in a fine position to qualify for the Europa League knockout stage with a routine victory over Maccabi Tel-Aviv in Israel.
Derived words: antiroutine
coroutine
co-routine
function-evaluation routine
goroutine
malfunction routine
non-routine
nonroutine
preroutine
routinal
routinary
routined
routineness
routiner
routine response behavior
routine response behaviour
routinise
routinish
routinism
routinist
routinization
routinize
routinely
Translations:
catalyst
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: automotive
chemistry
fantasy
literature
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
transport
vehicles
Etymology: Etymology tree
English catalysis
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 catalyst
From catalysis + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: catalysts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A substance that increases the rate of a chemical reaction without being consumed in the process.
pos: noun
examples: Enzymes, the catalysts of biological systems, are remarkable molecular devices that determine the pattern of chemical transformations.
gloss: Something that encourages progress or change.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Economic development and integration are working as a catalyst for peace.
It was a morning baptized by my first cup of coffee, freshly brewed over a gravel-bar fire, while they celebrated with the stronger catalyst of sour-mash whiskey in their fishing-vest cups.
Israel's fear for the reactor—rather than Egypt's of it—was the greater catalyst for war.
Rosa Parks was a true catalyst for change and she was only one person. Hearing about Rosa Parks and her protest showed me that there is hope for me and all the students in Ms. G's classes to truly be catalysts for change.
He [countertenor Anthony Roth Constanzo] also enjoys being the catalyst whereby opera fertilises other art forms: recently, he's collaborated with Japanese kabuki actors, and a project with dancers from New York City Ballet is in the offing.
The catalyst was the introduction of the Health & Safety at Work Act in 1974. While it applied to all workplaces, it gradually brought about a sea change in the attitude towards death and injury. Accidents were no longer accepted as 'inevitable'.
The housing crisis is now a “catalyst” for anti-immigrant sentiment, an Irish parliamentary committee warned in November.
gloss: An inciting incident that sets the successive conflict into motion.
pos: noun
examples: The current view by both Labour and Conservative politicians is that the state of the UK railway is unsustainable, and the pandemic acted as a catalyst in exposing its weaknesses.
gloss: A catalytic converter.
pos: noun
gloss: An object that facilitates the casting of a spell (such as a magic wand).
pos: noun
Related words: enzyme
Derived words: Adams's catalyst
catalyse
catalyze
catalysis
catalytic
Grubbs' catalyst
Lindlar catalyst
phase-transfer catalyst
stereospecific catalyst
triphase catalyst
Vandenberg catalyst
Ziegler catalyst
Ziegler-Natta catalyst
Translations:
exempt
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French exempt, from Latin exemptus, past participle of eximō.
Inflected forms:
form: exempts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: exempts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: exempting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: exempted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: exempted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Free from a duty, obligation, rule, law, etc.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In their country all women are exempt from military service.
His income is so small that it is exempt from tax.
Hear then this dreadful imprecation; hear it: / 'Tis lay'd on all; not any one exempt: […]
gloss: Not entitled to overtime pay when working overtime.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Cut off; set apart.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry
gloss: Extraordinary; exceptional.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: Dymas daughter, from comparison / Exempt in business naval
gloss: One who has been released from something.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of French police officer.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: with this he slipped through the exempts quite unsuspected, and bade adieu to the Lazarists and his honest father […].
gloss: One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an exon.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: To grant (someone) freedom or immunity from.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Citizens over 45 years of age were exempted from military service.
Derived words: non-exempt
nonexempt
tax-exempt
transmisogyny-exempt
unexempt
Translations:
e-commerce
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor.
Latin ēlectrum
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
New Latin ēlectricusbor.
English electric
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éyti
Proto-Hellenic *éimi
Ancient Greek εἶμι (eîmi)der.
English ion
English electron
▲
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English electronic
English e-
English commerce
English e-commerce
From e- + commerce.
Inflected forms:
form: E-commerce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: e-Commerce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: eCommerce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: electronic commerce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Commercial activity conducted via the Internet.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
uncountable
examples: The last thing you need to do before launching the e-commerce site is enable credit card processing.
One of China’s most prominent e-commerce companies is facing intense public backlash over allegations that it overworks its employees.
Translations:
e-business
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
Etymology: From e- + business.
Base: business
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
form: e-businesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ebusiness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: e-Business
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The practice of servicing businesses or employees over the Internet.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The practice of running a business over the Internet; e-commerce.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A business that operates partially or primarily over the Internet, usually providing services to other businesses.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
educator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin ēducātor. By surface analysis, educate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: educators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person distinguished for their educational work, a teacher.
pos: noun
examples: This paper surveys the research methods and approaches used in the multidisciplinary field of applied language studies or language education over the last fourty^([sic]) years. Drawing on insights gained in psycho- and sociolinguistics, educational linguistics and linguistic anthropology with regard to language and culture, it is organized around five major questions that concern language educators.
Translations:
efface
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French effacer (“erase”), from Old French esfacier (“remove the face”).
Inflected forms:
form: effaces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: effacing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: effaced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: effaced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Do not efface what I've written on the chalkboard.
An outline of the same device might be traced on his shield, though many a blow had almost effaced the painting.
gloss: To cause to disappear as if by rubbing out or striking out.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Some people like to efface their own memories with alcohol.
The bright records of the last hour effaced all the darker traces left by long and weary days.
gloss: To make oneself inobtrusive as if due to modesty or diffidence.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Many people seem shy, but they really just efface for meekness.
gloss: Of the cervix during pregnancy, to thin and stretch in preparation for labor.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: Of a woman: to have the cervix thin and stretch in this manner.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Some females efface 75% by the 39th week of pregnancy.
Related words: deface
Derived words: effaceable
effacement
effacer
ineffaceable
self-effacing
uneffaced
Translations:
delimit
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French délimiter, from Late Latin dēlīmitō (“to mark out the limits”), from dē- + līmitō (“to limit, to bound”); see limit.
Inflected forms:
form: delimits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: delimiting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: delimited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: delimited
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To mark or fix the limits of.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: Near-synonyms: (literal) demarcate; (figurative) limit, constrain
Data items in the computer file were delimited by commas.
The square brackets delimit the list, and individual elements are separated by commas.ᵂᴮ
The possibilities for new automotive features are vast but are practically delimited by costs of development and manufacturing.
Translations:
delusion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin dēlūsiō.
Inflected forms:
form: delusions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An adamant belief in a falsehood despite incontestable evidence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The state of being deluded or misled, or process of deluding somebody.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
gloss: That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Hess, always a muddled man though not so doltish as Rosenberg, flew on his own to Britain under the delusion that he could arrange a peace settlement.
“Project Greenlight,” however, bore down on the soft underbelly of the movie business, focusing on the delusions and colossal blunders of first-time directors, seemingly selected as much for their unlovability as their talent.
gloss: A strong belief contrary to evidence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: delusional
delusionary
delusionism
delusionist
delusion of adequacy
delusion of doubles
delusion of grandeur
Fregoli delusion
self-delusion
Translations:
pitchblende
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From German Pechblende, from Pech (“pitch”) + Blende (“blende”).
Inflected forms:
form: pitchblendes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Naturally-occurring uranium oxide, a variety of the mineral uraninite.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Working in Paris in 1898, Marie and Pierre Curie processed thousands of pounds of pitchblende from the same glass-factory tailings in order to isolate two radioactive elements that had hitherto been unknown: radium and polonium.
Translations:
nuts
Part of speech: adj
intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more nuts
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nuts
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Insane, mad.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: After living on the island alone for five years, he eventually went nuts.
Are you nuts?
Seriously? This is nuts!
gloss: Crazy, mad; unusually pleased or, alternatively, angered.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: I just go nuts over her fantastic desserts.
The referee made a bad call against the home team and the crowd went nuts.
gloss: Very fond of (on) someone.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: He's been nuts on her since the day they met.
gloss: Indicates annoyance, anger, or disappointment.
pos: intj
examples: Nuts! They didn't even listen to what I had to say.
gloss: Signifies rejection of a proposal or idea, as in forget it, no way, or nothing doing; often followed by to.
pos: intj
examples: They want me to pay $5 for a banana? Nuts to that!
Synonyms: nutty
Translations:
validate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1648; borrowed from Medieval Latin validātus (“to validate”) (perhaps through Middle French valider), the perfect passive participle of validō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from validus + -ō (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, valid + -ate.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: validates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: validating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: validated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: validated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To render valid.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Always remember to validate your ticket before entering the train. A non-validated ticket could lead to a hefty fine.
gloss: To check or prove the validity of; verify.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To have its validity successfully proven.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
examples: The data file cannot be imported because it doesn't validate.
Antonyms: disprove
invalidate
Related words: cross-validate
invalidate
valid
validation
validator
Translations:
veer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle French virerbor.
English veer
Borrowed from Middle French virer.
Inflected forms:
form: veers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A turn or swerve; an instance of veering.
pos: noun
examples: […] there is always a sudden, though small rise in the barometer, and a sudden drop of temperature of several degrees, sometimes as much as ten or fifteen degrees; there is also a sudden veer in the wind direction.
Translations:
unicameral
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
media
publishing
typography
Etymology: From uni- + cameral.
Base: cameral
Affixes: uni-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, or having, a single legislative chamber.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Those who criticize bicameralism stress that a unicameral legislature will be more efficient and faster in taking decisions.
[W]e could define a national parliament broadly as a Member State's central representative assembly which elects or at least dismisses the national government, and which holds it to account. This seems to be a robust definition comprising the unicameral parliaments, the lower chambers of the bicameral parliaments and the senates with censure powers in the EU Member States.
The judicial branch of government in Norden is framed around the conception of the sovereignty of parliament. There is room for some independent legal review by the ordinary courts in Norway only. No country has a Constitutional Court, though human rights have constitutional protection. The five countries have unicameral National Assemblies. All forms of public power derive ultimately from Acts of parliament, which principle of legislative supremacy has not prohibited a fairly extensive system of local government autonomy, especially in Sweden, Denmark and Finland.
In 1951 New Zealand's parliament was converted into a unicameral one with the abolition of the upper, nominated chamber, the Legislative Council.
gloss: Of a script or typeface: making no distinction between upper and lower case, but rather having only one case.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In the ancient world, Greek was written in a script that was unicameral and atonic. It consisted of a single set of forms – the ones we now regard as upper case. There was little or no punctuation, and there were no diacritics.
There have been several misunderstandings with regard to Georgian. The Unicode table speaks of "capital" Georgian letters (for example, georgian capital letter an) and of caseless letters (for example, georgian letter an). In fact, the modern Georgian script is unicameral. Two issues gave rise to this confusion. First, the fact that there are two types of Georgian fonts: those for running text and those for titles. […] Second, in the ancient Georgian script, khutsuri, there were indeed two cases.
Synonyms: caseless
unicase
Related words: unicamerate
Derived words: unicameralism
Translations:
vengeance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman vengeaunce, from Old French vengeance, venjance, from vengier (“to avenge”). Analysable as venge + -ance.
Base: venge
Affixes: -ance
Inflected forms:
form: vengeances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vengeaunce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Revenge taken for an insult, injury, or other wrong.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: All the gods have mocked at prayer. This sin must now be punished by the vengeance of men.
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North; General of the Felix Legions; loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius; father to a murdered son; husband to a murdered wife; and I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
Penn: I don't want to invest in the conversation, not that I don't have it privately, about my feelings about what direct action should happen to a leader who does that, but if there is a God, there will be vengeance beyond all possible comprehension.
Hannity: "Vengeance is mine saith the Lord", quoted in a very famous book.
gloss: Desire for revenge.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Thereupon full of anger, full of jealousy, full of vengeance, she forms […] a scheme of retribution, […]
If her husband was all forgiveness, asking the bands to play “Dixie,” she was full of vengeance […]
Are they full of vengeance[?], because they say that people with vengeance in their hearts must dig two graves, one for their enemy and the other for themselves.
Synonyms: reprisal
retaliation
retribution
revenge
wreak
Antonyms: reconciliation
Related words: venge
vengeful
venger
Derived words: belly vengeance
pinch-belly vengeance
whip-belly vengeance
whistle-belly vengeance
with a vengeance
Translations: