yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
caste
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese or Spanish casta (“lineage, breed, race”), which the OED derives from Portuguese casto (“chaste”), from Latin castus (“chaste"; "chastity”), Coromines (1987) argues instead for a hypothetical Gothic form *𐌺𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (*kasts, “group, collection of animals”), cognate with English cast, from Proto-Germanic *kastuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ǵ-es-.
Inflected forms:
form: castes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies or similar found historically in other cultures.
pos: noun
examples: Pakistan is a conservative, religious state. The Edhi Foundation is unusual in its ignoring of caste, creed, religion and sect. This strict stance has led to some criticism from religious groups.
gloss: A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.
pos: noun
examples: Ah! Can you give me all I've asked for — not now, nor a few months later, but when you begin to think of what you might have done if you had kept your own appointment and your caste here — when you begin to look upon me as a drag and a burden?
'I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty - to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.'
The tinkers then formed a hereditary caste.
gloss: The division of society into castes; the caste system.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: It was an evidence of the peculiar nature of caste in country towns[.]
gloss: A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony.
pos: noun
examples: In beehives, most bees belong to the worker caste.
Derived words: anticaste
casted
casteism
casteist
castelect
casteless
castelike
caste mark
castemate
caste-ridden
castewise
half-caste
intercaste
intracaste
lose caste
noncaste
outcaste
quarter-caste
subcaste
supercaste
Translations:
prana
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Sanskrit प्राण (prāṇa, “breath; life”).
Inflected forms:
form: pranas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Respiration, breathing, seen as a life principle or life force.
pos: noun
tags: Hinduism
countable
uncountable
examples: He it is who sends the (in-coming) Prana (life-breath) upward and throws the (out-going) breath downward.
He who knows Aditi, who rises with Prana (the Life Principle), existent in all the Devas.
May my limbs, speech, Prana (life-force), sight, hearing, strength and all my senses, gain in vigor.
Translations:
manse
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English mansien, apheretic variant of amansien, from Old English āmǣnsumian (“to excommunicate”). More at amanse.
Inflected forms:
form: manses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mansing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mansed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mansed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: manses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To excommunicate; curse.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: A house inhabited by the minister of a parish.
pos: noun
examples: He has caught a glint of steel in the manse gateway, but it is only the minister's bicycle still chained to the trunk of a monkeypuzzle tree as a precaution against unchristian covetousness.
gloss: A family dwelling, an owner-occupied house.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: A large house, a mansion.
pos: noun
Related words: manor
mansion
child of the manse
son of the manse
daughter of the manse
Translations:
mortmain
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman mortmayn, morte meyn, from Old French mortes meins, after Late Latin phrase mortua manus. See Latin mortuus (“dead”) + manus (“hand”).
Inflected forms:
form: mortmains
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The perpetual, inalienable possession of lands by a corporation or non-personal entity such as a church.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: 1824, Charter of Incorporation of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland,
[W]e do hereby grant our especial license and authority unto all and every person […] to grant sell alien and convey in mortmain unto and to the use of the said Society and their successors […]
Though in truth it was the law of mortmain […] which originally sent the founders of chantries to seek the king's licence […]
gloss: A strong and inalienable possession.
pos: noun
tags: literary
uncountable
usually
examples: […]; and some part of that influence [of the government], which would otherwise have been possessed as in a sort of mortmain and unalienable domain, returned again to the great ocean from whence it arose, […]
Related words: Statutes of Mortmain
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: mà morta
lang: Czech
word: nezcizitelný pozemek
lang: Finnish
word: pysyvä omistus
lang: French
word: mainmorte
lang: Italian
word: manomorta
lang: Polish
word: martwa ręka
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: метох
lang: Spanish
word: manos muertas
lute
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French lut (modern luth), from Old French leüt, probably from Old Occitan laüt, from Arabic اَلْعُود (al-ʕūd, “wood”) (probably representing an Andalusian Arabic or North African pronunciation). Doublet of oud, lavta, and laouto.
Inflected forms:
form: lutes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lutes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: luting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: luted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: luted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A fretted stringed instrument, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.
pos: noun
gloss: To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.
pos: verb
examples: Knaves are men / That lute and flute fantastic tenderness.
in the air , her new voice luting soft
Translations:
ion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the ending of anion and cation, which in turn is from Ancient Greek ἰόν (ión, “going”), neuter present participle of εἶμι (eîmi, “I go”). Coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1834 for Michael Faraday, who introduced it later that year.
Inflected forms:
form: ions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An atom or group of atoms bearing an electrical charge, such as the sodium and chlorine atoms in a salt solution.
pos: noun
Translations:
frantically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From earlier franticly, equivalent to frantic + -ally.
Base: frantic
Affixes: -ally
Inflected forms:
form: more frantically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most frantically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: frantickly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: franticly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: In a frantic manner.
pos: adv
examples: He searched frantically for his passport before the flight.
Amid a cacophony of demands for Cuomo to resign, the governor and his aides are frantically trying to cover up the basic facts of what happened, and that includes launching a Nixonian campaign of intimidation and retribution against Democratic lawmakers who have for months been sounding the alarm.
gloss: Extremely; terribly.
pos: adv
tags: UK
archaic
slang
examples: "Oh yes; come in, Mr Carrados," she exclaimed graciously. "We are not quite strangers, you know. You found out something for Aunt Pigs; I forget what, but she was most frantically impressed."
Translations:
chitin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek χῐτών (khĭtṓn)der.
Latin chitōnder.
French chitinebor.
English chitin
From French chitine, from Latin chitōn (“mollusk”), from Ancient Greek χιτών (khitṓn). See also chiton.
Inflected forms:
form: chitins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A complex polysaccharide, a polymer of N-acetylglucosamine, found in the exoskeletons of arthropods and in the cell walls of fungi; thought to be responsible for some forms of asthma in humans.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Chitin usually occurs throughout Invertebrates in the form of an investment to the outermost cellular layer or ectoderm.
The robot’s energy source is the sugar in the polysaccharide called chitin that makes up a fly’s exoskeleton.
Translations:
Sorbian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Sorb
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Sorbian
From Sorb + -ian.
Inflected forms:
form: Sorbians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Sorbs or to the Sorbian language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A Sorb.
pos: noun
Translations:
unguent
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin unguentum (“ointment”), from unguō (“to smear with ointment”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“to salve, anoint”). Cognates include Old Prussian anctan, Old High German ancho (German Anke (“butter”)), Welsh ymenyn (“butter”).
Inflected forms:
form: unguents
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: onguent
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Any cream containing medicinal ingredients applied to the skin for therapeutic purposes.
pos: noun
examples: "Alas!" said Syntax, "could I pop / Just now, upon a blacksmith's shop, / Whose cooling unguents would avail / To save poor Grizzle's ears and tail!"
So she put a golden box into his hand, and directed him how to apply the perfumed unguent which it contained, and where to meet her at midnight.
Thou knowest of old that my temper is somewhat choleric, and my tongue not greased with that unguent which oils the mouths of the lip-serving lords of the land.
Translations:
ingot
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English ingot (“mould for casting metal”), of uncertain origin. In all likelihood the same word as Middle French lingot, but the direction of borrowing is hard to establish, particularly as the word appears simultaneously (ca. 1390) in both languages.
* Assuming English origin, from Old English ingoten, past participle of inġēotan (“to pour in”), derived from Proto-Germanic *geutaną (“to pour”, whence archaic English yote). Compare Old English ingyte (“a pouring-in, infusion”), which is formed with a related noun (Proto-Germanic *gutiz, whence German Guss, Swedish göt). Also related with English gote, goit.
* Assuming French origin, from a diminutive of Old Occitan lenga (“tongue”), so called because of the elongated form. (The presence or absence of initial l- has to do, in any case, with rebracketing of the French definite article.)
Inflected forms:
form: ingots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ingots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ingoting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ingoted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ingoted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A solid block of more or less pure metal, often but not necessarily bricklike in shape and trapezoidal in cross-section, the result of pouring out and cooling molten metal, often immediately after smelting from raw ore or alloying from constituents.
pos: noun
gloss: To form (scraps of metal) into ingots.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
stereo
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
media
music
printing
publishing
Etymology: A shortened form of stereotype, stereoscope or stereophonic, all originally derived, via stereo-, from Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós, “solid”).
Inflected forms:
form: stereos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stereos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stereoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stereoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stereoed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A system of recording or reproducing sound that uses two or more channels, each playing a portion of the original sound at different locations in order to simulate the separation of sources along at least one spatial dimension.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any object or device equipped with audio components that reproduces sound in stereo, such as a stereo console in the home.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
dated
uncountable
examples: He liked to listen to classical music on his stereo.
gloss: A stereotype.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
uncountable
gloss: A genre of Western-style pop and rock music.
pos: noun
tags: Myanmar
countable
uncountable
gloss: Of sound, music, etc, recorded in stereo.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a pair of images: one depicting the view as would be seen from one eye and the other from the other eye, so that when viewed appropriately, they combine to give an impression of three dimensions.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: One could easily do this with stereo photographs, but one could also do it by making a pseudoscope, with a short cardboard tube and mirrors, […]
gloss: To create a stereophotographic image of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Antonyms: mono
monophonic
monaural
Derived words: mini stereo
mini stereo system
personal stereo
stereoless
nonstereo
pseudostereo
stereoization
stereoize
stereoizer
stereotrode
Translations:
fetter
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English feter, from Old English feter, Proto-West Germanic *fetur, from Proto-Germanic *feturaz (“fetter”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to step, walk; to fall, stumble”). Related to foot.
Cognates
Cognate with Dutch veter (“cable, chain, hawser; bond, fetter”), Faroese fjøtur (“fetter”), Icelandic fjötur (“fetter”), Swedish fjätter (“fetter, shackle”); also Irish feadh (“extent, length”), feá (“fathom”), Scottish Gaelic feadh (“extent, length; fathom”), Latgalian pāda (“foot”), Latvian pēda (“foot”), Lithuanian pėda (“foot”), Belarusian па́даць (pádacʹ, “to fall”), Bulgarian па́дам (pádam, “to grop, fall”), Czech padat (“to fall”), Polish padać (“to fall”), Russian па́дать (pádatʹ, “to fall”), Serbo-Croatian padati, падати (“to fall”), Slovene padati (“to fall”), Ukrainian па́дати (pádaty, “to fall”), Latin peior, pejor (“worse”), Ancient Greek πέδη (pédē, “fetter, shackle; anklet, bangle”), Armenian ետ (et, “back, backward”), հետ (het, “back; with”), Ossetian фестӕг (festæg), фистӕг (fistæg, “pedestrian”), Old Persian 𐎱𐎿𐎫𐎡 (p-s-t-i, “foot soldier, infantryman”), Sanskrit पद्यते (padyate, “to fall, topple; to perish”), Hittite 𒁉𒂊𒁕𒀭 (“place; floor, ground”).
Inflected forms:
form: fetters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fetters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fettering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fettered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fettered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A chain or similar object used to bind a person or animal, often by its legs.
pos: noun
tags: plural
usually
gloss: Anything that restricts or restrains.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound.
He looks upon study as an odious fetter; his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake.
That was the turning-point of my life. I broke my fetters, and I fought a hard fight for a new career …
gloss: To shackle or bind up with fetters.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!
gloss: To restrain or impede; to hamper.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: befetter
enfetter
fetterer
fetterless
fetterlock
unfetter
Translations:
martyrdom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English martyrdome, martirdom, marterdom, from Old English martyrdōm (“martyrdom”), corresponding to martyr + -dom. Cognate with German Märtyrertum (“martyrdom”), Danish martyrdom (“martyrdom”), Swedish martyrdom (“martyrdom”), Norwegian martyrdom (“martyrdom”).
Base: martyr
Affixes: -dom
Inflected forms:
form: martyrdoms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of a martyr; the death or suffering of a martyr; the death or suffering on account of adherence to the Christian faith, or to any cause.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The like clamour, and outcry, the Rabble of the unbelieving Jews and Gentiles made againſt Polycarp Biſhop of Smyrna, at the time of his Martyrdom. crying out againſt him to the Governour, that he ſhould caſt him to the Lyons, and when he anſwered them he could not, becauſe the Spectacular ſports were concluded, then they cry’d out, Burn him, burn him, juſt as the Jews cryed out againſt Chriſt to Pilate, Crucify him, crucify him.
“Regard not that, my brother,” answered Magdalen Græme; “the first successors of Saint Peter himself, were elected not in sunshine but in tempests—not in the halls of the Vatican, but in the subterranean vaults and dungeons of Heathen Rome—they were not gratulated with shouts and salvos of cannon-shot and of musquetry, and the display of artificial fire—no, my brother—but by the hoarse summons of Lictors and Prætors, who came to drag the Fathers of the Church to martyrdom.[…]”
The ceiling had been painted with the martyrdom of some saint. Who shall place a bound to human folly, when both the inflicter and the endurer of torture have deemed that pain is acceptable in the sight of God?
The Communists wanted to go on and on, suffering a comfortable martyrdom, meeting with endless defeats and afterwards putting the blame on other people.
gloss: Extreme suffering, affliction; torment; torture, especially without reason.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: blue martyrdom
green martyrdom
martyrdom video
pseudomartyrdom
red martyrdom
white martyrdom
Translations:
unite
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ís?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos
Proto-Italic *oinos
Old Latin oinos
Latin ūnus
Proto-Indo-European *-yétider.
Latin -iō
Latin ūniō
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Latin -tus
Latin ūnītuslbor.
Middle English uniten
English unite
From Middle English uniten, from Latin ūnītus, perfect passive participle of ūniō.
Inflected forms:
form: unites
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: uniting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: united
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: united
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: unite
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: unite
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: united
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: unite
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: unitest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: united
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: unitedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: unites
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: uniteth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: united
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: unite
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: united
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: unite
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: united
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: unite
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: uniting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: united
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To bring together as one.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The new government will try to unite the various factions.
I hope this song can unite people from all different cultures.
gloss: To come together as one.
pos: verb
tags: reciprocal
examples: If we want to win, we will need to unite.
gloss: A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, first produced during the reign of King James I, and bearing a legend indicating the king's intention of uniting the kingdoms of England and Scotland.
pos: noun
tags: UK
historical
examples: Occasionally Scots and Irish coins are also found. The gold hoards consist entirely of crown gold unites, half unites and quarter unites from the reigns of James I and Charles I.
Synonyms: bewed
join
wed
Related words: union
unionize
unit
unitize
unity
Derived words: reunite
united
uniter
workers of the world, unite
Translations:
reunite
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
Proto-Indo-European *ís?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos
Proto-Italic *oinos
Old Latin oinos
Latin ūnus
Proto-Indo-European *-yétider.
Latin -iō
Latin ūniō
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Latin -tus
Latin ūnītuslbor.
Middle English uniten
English unite
English reunite
From re- + unite.
Inflected forms:
form: reunites
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reuniting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reunited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reunited
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To unite again.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
reciprocal
examples: After ten years apart, the band will reunite.
Two of the members tried several times, but failed to reunite the band.
Since 2001, islanders and their immediate Chinese neighbors have been able to take the 90-minute boat ride between the Chinese port of Mawei and the Matsu town of Nankan, allowing people with the same ancestry to reunite after generations of estrangement. Now any Chinese or Taiwanese can make the trip.
Reuniting the cast of Trainspotting for a new adventure 21 years on could have gone badly. The BBC’s misjudged This Life + 10, bringing the cast of the iconic 90s TV drama back together, is a case in point.
Come find me / I'm hiding in the deepest night / Far away from the riddle of time / Come down here / In twilight we can reunite / Sharing hopes of a wonderful life
London Transport Museum's Siddy Holloway and rail historian and RAIL contributor Tim Dunn will reunite to discover more hidden sites and little-known stories from the Tube.
Translations:
schmuck
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Yiddish שמאָק (shmok, “penis, fool”).
Inflected forms:
form: schmucks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: schmock
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shmock
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shmok
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shmuck
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shmuk
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A jerk; a person who is unlikable, detestable, or contemptible because they are stupid, foolish, clumsy, oafish, inept, malicious, or unpleasant.
pos: noun
tags: Jewish
US
derogatory
slang
examples: One day my girlfriend, her boyfriend and I were sunbathing topless because that's Barbados - you can wear nothing if you want. And the Pepsi guy walks up and with my agent to meet us for lunch. I wondered if I should put on my top because I have a business relationship with him. I didn't want him to get offended because the rest of the beach had seen me with my top off. Meanwhile, as he's walking towards me he's saying to my agent "I hope she puts on her top.". He wasn't even being a schmuck, like wanting to see.
“You’re an asshole whose best friends include Hitler’s wet dream and a Jew.”
“Yea, well, I’m only friends with you because I want to shtoop your sister.”
“Everybody wants to shtoop your sister,” Craig laughed.
“No, everybody wants to shtoop Waters’ sister and you are not shtoopin’ my sister,” Joe replied. “None of you guys are shtooping my sister.”
“Yea, we’ll see.”
“In your dreams Jew boy,” Bruce continued.
“Schmuck.”
“Schmuck? Are you calling me a schmuck?”
“Yea.”
“Well, before I beat the crap out of you, what the fuck is a schmuck anyway?”
“You're born a schmuck and you'll die a schmuck. Welcome to hell, idiot.”
"SCP-7579 developed internal camouflage so a shmuck like yourself would speculate on it, then convince a more powerful shmuck unlike myself to buy it time. It's probably smarter than us, it's definitely smarter than you, and every second of its existence exponentiates the time and resources I'll have to spend cleaning up your mess."
gloss: A deplorable, pitiful person.
pos: noun
tags: Jewish
US
derogatory
slang
examples: poor schmuck
Bad vibrations? Sandy, I love you, but you're a schmuck. You were always young, Sandy, open. You were schmucky a lot of the time, but maybe schmuckiness is what you need to stay young and open.
Related words: schmeckle
Derived words: schmuckiness
schmuck insurance
Schmucksville
schmucky
Translations:
reunion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French reunion (modern French réunion). By surface analysis, re- + union. Doublet of Réunion.
Inflected forms:
form: reunions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: re-union
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: reünion
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The process or act of reuniting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The reunion took forever, but it was worth it.
It was a tearful and heartfelt reunion as the trapped miners finally saw their dear loved ones again.
gloss: A planned event at which members of a dispersed group meet together.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Are you going to the high-school reunion this year?
Synonyms: reunition
reunite
Related words: reunite
union
homecoming
Derived words: class reunion
family reunion
reunionism
reunionist
Soviet Reunion
Translations:
considerable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English consider
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English considerable
From consider + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more considerable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most considerable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Significant; worth considering.
pos: adj
examples: Soon I became a considerable figure in the music industry.
gloss: Large in amount.
pos: adj
examples: Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.
With the cutting out of the previous recovery times for electrification work, curtailment of station times and acceleration, considerable reductions have been made in the overall schedules.
When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.
Antonyms: ignorable
negligible
Related words: consider
considerably
Derived words: considerableness
inconsiderable
unconsiderable
Translations:
considerably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English considerable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English considerably
From considerable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more considerably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most considerably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Significantly; to a degree worth considering.
pos: adv
examples: The situation has improved considerably.
The situation is considerably better.
From several magnets combined von Hellenbach and Gessmann in Vienna constructed considerably stronger hypnoscopes, through which 66 per cent. of those examined showed the above mentioned sensitiveness […]
The hand which is not concealed by the drapery is gloveless; the arms are bare considerably above the elbow; and a bracelet encircles the right wrist.
Despite the ups and downs of removals and rehousings, the collection was considerably extended under his guidance, both by purchases and donations.
Translations:
considerate
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more considerate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most considerate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Consciously thoughtful and observant (often of other people and their rights, needs, feelings and comfort).
pos: adj
examples: It was very considerate of you to give up your place for your friend.
gloss: Characterised by careful and conscious thought.
pos: adj
Antonyms: inconsiderate
Related words: consider
consideration
considerately
considerateness
Derived words: omniconsiderate
overconsiderate
unconsiderate
Translations:
reconsider
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English consider
English reconsider
From re- + consider.
Inflected forms:
form: reconsiders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reconsidering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reconsidered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reconsidered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: re-consider
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To consider a matter again.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Is there any way I can get you to reconsider selling your car?
gloss: To change one's mind, with or without actually considering the matter again.
pos: verb
tags: informal
Synonyms: think over
second-guess
Related words: consider
Derived words: reconsideration
reconsiderer
unreconsidered
Translations:
mirage
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: An unadapted borrowing from French mirage c. 1812.
Inflected forms:
form: mirages
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mirages
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: miraging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: miraged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: miraged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An optical phenomenon in which light is refracted through a layer of hot air close to the ground, often giving the illusion of a body of water.
pos: noun
gloss: An illusion.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: I remember hearing, that in the East the clear and azure waters seem to flow before the weary and parched traveller; yet a little further, and on he urges his weary way, but in vain—the fair stream is a delusion. Even thus happiness is the mirage which leads us over the desert of life, ever fated to end in deceit and disappointment.
gloss: To cause to appear as or like a mirage.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: All that had been in his mind seemed suddenly miraged before him—the removal of Hunterleys, his own wife's failing health.
The vision of a salon was miraged before her, with herself in the middle deftly manipulating the destinies of a nation.
Derived words: gravitational mirage
mirageless
miragelike
miragy
red mirage
Translations:
illusion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From Old French illusion, from Latin illūsiō, from illūdere, from in- (“at, upon”) + lūdere (“to play, mock, trick”). Displaced native Old English dwimmer.
Inflected forms:
form: illusions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A distortion of sensory perception where real stimuli lead to a false or misleading impression of reality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: We saw what looked like a tiger among the trees, but it was an illusion caused by the shadows of the branches.
Using artificial additives, scientists can create the illusion of fruit flavours in food.
You realize the sun don't go down it's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round.
gloss: A misapprehension; a belief in something that is in fact not true.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Now if you feel that you can't go on / Because all of your hope is gone / And your life is filled with much confusion / Until happiness is just an illusion
Jane has this illusion that John is in love with her.
gloss: A magician’s trick.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The state of being deceived or misled.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: argument from illusion
barber pole illusion
boomerang illusion
café wall illusion
clustering illusion
coffer illusion
comparative illusion
Cornsweet illusion
cutaneous rabbit illusion
Delboeuf illusion
disillusion
Ebbinghaus illusion
Ehrenstein illusion
end-of-history illusion
flash-lag illusion
frequency illusion
grand illusion
Hering illusion
illusionable
illusional
illusionary
illusion cake
illusioned
illusionette
illusionism
illusionist
illusionistic
illusionless
illusionlike
illusory
introspection illusion
irradiation illusion
Jastrow illusion
leaning tower illusion
money illusion
moon illusion
Müller-Lyer illusion
Oppel-Kundt illusion
optical illusion
Orbison illusion
Pac-Man illusion
Pinocchio illusion
Poggendorff illusion
Ponzo illusion
reillusion
ring-segment illusion
somatogravic illusion
stepping feet illusion
stopped clock illusion
Thatcher illusion
under the illusion
watercolor illusion
waterfall illusion
White's illusion
Wundt area illusion
Wundt illusion
Wundt-Jastrow illusion
Wundt's area illusion
Zoellner illusion
Zöllner illusion
Translations:
baculum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin baculum (“stick, staff, sceptre, cudgel”).
Inflected forms:
form: baculums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bacula
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bone found in the penis of some placental mammals.
pos: noun
examples: Bacula can be straight rods, s-shaped curves, or even bizarre, flared scoops.
gloss: A small rod-like structure found in spores and pollen.
pos: noun
examples: The sexine usually consists of two main parts, a partially or wholly covering layer — the tectum (roof) and below that the rods or rod-like elements — the bacules (baculum, columella).
Related words: argumentum ad baculum
bacular
bacule
baculiform
baculine
Derived words: probaculum
Translations:
stress
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ-der.
Proto-Indo-European *streyg-der.
Latin stringō
Latin distringōder.
Old French destrecierbor.
Middle English destresse
English stress
From a shortening of Middle English destresse, borrowed from Old French destrecier, from Latin distringō (“to stretch out”). This form probably coalesced with Middle English stresse, from Old French estrece (“narrowness”), from Vulgar Latin *strictia, from Latin strictus (“narrow”).
In the sense of "mental strain" or “disruption”, used occasionally in the 1920s and 1930s by psychologists, including Walter Cannon (1934); in “biological threat”, used by endocrinologist Hans Selye, by metaphor with stress in physics (force on an object) in the 1930s, and popularized by same in the 1950s.
Inflected forms:
form: stresses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stressing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stressed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stressed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To apply emotional pressure to (a person or animal).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To suffer stress; to worry or be agitated.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
gloss: To emphasise (a syllable of a word).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: “Emphasis” is stressed on the first syllable, but “emphatic” is stressed on the second.
gloss: To emphasise (words in speaking).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To emphasise (a point) in an argument or discussion.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I must stress that this information is given in strict confidence.
Synonyms: emphasise
emphasize
Related words: strain
strait
strict
stringent
stringency
Derived words: prestress
unstress
de-stress
destress
misstress
overstress
restress
stressability
stressable
stressed
stressee
stressor
stress out
understress
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: շեշտել
roman: šeštel
lang: Catalan
word: emfasitzar
lang: Czech
word: zdůraznit
lang: Danish
word: fremhæve
lang: Esperanto
word: akcenti
lang: Finnish
word: painottaa
lang: French
word: souligner
lang: German
word: betonen
lang: Greek
word: τονίζω
roman: tonízo
lang: Italian
word: enfatizzare
lang: Italian
word: insistere
lang: Italian
word: sottolineare
lang: Korean
word: 강조하다
roman: gangjohada
lang: Polish
word: akcentować
lang: Polish
word: zaakcentować
lang: Polish
word: podkreślać
lang: Polish
word: podkreślić
lang: Portuguese
word: enfatizar
lang: Spanish
word: enfatizar
lang: Spanish
word: recalcar
lang: Turkish
word: vurgulamak
lang: Turkish
word: altını çizmek
lang: Vietnamese
word: nhấn mạnh
voluptuous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French voluptueux, from Latin voluptuōsus (“delightful”), from voluptās (“pleasure, delight”), from volup (“with pleasure”).
Inflected forms:
form: more voluptuous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most voluptuous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characterized or marked by full, generous, pleasurable sensation.
pos: adj
examples: The plentiful blankets and the voluptuous pillows of the bed called out to my tired body.
Thus we lay, whilst a voluptuous languor possest, and still maintain'd us motionless and fast locked in one another's arms
It was upon riches he founded his claim to importance; riches could alone supply the enjoyments of luxury; those voluptuous pleasures upon which the sensualist refines, and without which life appears but a mere vegetative existence, unproductive of enjoyment.
gloss: Curvaceous and sexually attractive.
pos: adj
examples: The low neckline of her bodice emphasized her plump, voluptuous figure.
She was very dark skinned and has a voluptuous figure that she showed off with her stylish purple dress.
Synonyms: sexy
built
buxom
chubby
curvaceous
curvesome
curvy
embonpoint
full-figured
juicy
luscious
pneumatic
red-hot
Rubenesque
sonsy
thicc
thick
toothsome
voluptuous
well-endowed
well-proportioned
zaftig
Antonyms: slender
Related words: beautiful woman
Derived words: voluptuously
voluptuousness
Translations:
humanity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English humanyte, humanite, humanitye, from Old French humanité, from Latin hūmānitās. By surface analysis, human or humane + -ity. Partly displaced mankind, from Old English mancynn (literally “human race”).
Inflected forms:
form: humanities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Humankind; human beings as a group.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.
At last the concourse is relatively clear of humanity and the task of clearing up can begin.
It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; […].
“The internet”, Eric Schmidt, former chairman of Google, famously observed, “is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.”
gloss: The human condition or nature.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The quality of being benevolent; humane traits of character; humane qualities or aspects.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Think of that; by that sweet girl that old man had a child: hold ye then there can be any utter, hopeless harm in Ahab? No, no, my lad; stricken, blasted, if he be, Ahab has his humanities!
Killing Animals Humanely. Humanity requires that animals be killed in the quickest and least painful manner. The following circular has been sent by our American Humane Education Society very widely through the country.
gloss: Any academic subject belonging to the humanities.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Philosophy is a humanity while psychology is a science.
Related words: humanities
humane
Derived words: antihumanity
crime against humanity
criminal against humanity
humanitarian
humanitarianism
inhumanity
nonhumanity
posthumanity
subhumanity
superhumanity
suprahumanity
transhumanity
unhumanity
whitemanity
Translations:
apoptosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀπόπτωσις (apóptōsis, “a falling off”), from ἀπό (apó, “away from”) + πτῶσις (ptôsis, “falling”).
Inflected forms:
form: apoptoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A process of programmed cell death by which cells undergo an ordered sequence of events which leads to death of the cell, as occurs during growth and development of the organism, as a part of normal cell aging, or as a response to cellular injury.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The term apoptosis is proposed for a hitherto little recognized mechanism of controlled cell deletion, which appears to play a complementary but opposite role to mitosis in the regulation of animal cell populations.
Indeed, so important is apoptosis that it is gradually becoming clear that almost all therapeutic cancer treatment works only because it induces apoptosis by alerting p53 and its colleagues.
Apoptosis is routine in developmental processes such as the removal of webbing between fingers in humans, the loss of tadpole tails in amphibians, and insect metamorphosis.
Translations:
firework
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From fire + work.
Compound parts: fire
work
Inflected forms:
form: fireworks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A device using gunpowder and other chemicals which, when lit, emits a combination of coloured flames, sparks, whistles or bangs, and sometimes made to rocket high into the sky before exploding, used for entertainment or celebration.
pos: noun
examples: Commercial firework displays are commonly launched from boats or other vessels
Fireworks went off after Australia won the World Cup.
Saltpetre being the principal ingredient in fireworks, and a volatile body, by reaſon of its aqueous and aërial parts, is eaſily rarified by fire; but not ſo ſoon when foul and groſs, as when purified from its crude and earthy parts, which greatly retard its velocity: therefore, when any quantity of Fireworks are to be made, it ſhould be examined; for if it is not well cleanſed, and of a good ſort, your works will not have their proper effect; […]
Translations:
metonymy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Latin metonymia, from Ancient Greek μετωνυμίᾱ (metōnumíā, “change of name”), from μετά (metá, “other”) + ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”).
Inflected forms:
form: metonymies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The use of a single characteristic or part of an object, concept or phenomenon to identify the entire object, concept, phenomenon or a related object.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rhetoric
uncountable
examples: Metonymy does new names impose,
And things for things by near relation shews.
...the principle of metonymy is simply to substitute for the plain name of a thing a name or phrase based on something connected with it.
THE KEY CONCEPT IS “metonymy.” This is the act of a word or phrase associated with a concept coming to represent the entirety of said concept. Generally, this means an extension of the original meaning. For example, “city hall” no longer means just the structure, but also the lawmakers who inhabit that structure. In the same way, “dish” started as the physical plate a meal is served on, before people started using it to represent the meal itself.
gloss: A metonym.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Related words: metalepsis
Derived words: metonym
metonymic
metonymically
metonymous
Translations:
preface
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: Late 14th century, from Middle English preface, prefas, from Old French preface (from which derives the modern French préface), from Medieval Latin prefātia, for classical Latin praefātiō (“a saying beforehand”), from praefor (“to speak beforehand”), from prae- (“beforehand”) + for (“to speak”).
Inflected forms:
form: prefaces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: præface
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Preface
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: prefaces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: prefacing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: prefaced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: prefaced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: præface
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: Preface
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A beginning or introductory portion that comes before the main text of a document or book, typically serving to contextualize or explain the writing of the book and sometimes to acknowledge others' contributions; especially, such a discussion written by the work's own author.
pos: noun
examples: Holonyms: front matter, prelims
The book included a brief preface explaining the author's motivations for writing.
gloss: An introduction, or series of preliminary remarks.
pos: noun
examples: This superficial tale / Is but a preface of her worthy praise.
Heav'ns high behest no preface needs.
And now, without any further preface, we proceed to our next chapter.
gloss: A variable prayer forming the prelude or introduction to the Eucharistic Prayer or canon of the Mass, following the Sursum corda dialogue and leading into the Sanctus.
pos: noun
examples: Meronyms: protocol, embolism, eschatocol
gloss: A title or epithet.
pos: noun
examples: […] a black-tie dinner to celebrate on the eve of the ceremony which would remove the preface "Sir" from his name and replace it with the preface "Lord," thought by some to be one of the most potent words in the English language.
gloss: To introduce or make a comment before (the main point); to premise.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Let me preface this by saying that I don't know him that well.
gloss: To give a preface to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to preface a book
Related words: prefatory
prelude
Derived words: postface
prefaceless
prefacer
prefacist
Translations:
tarp
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of tarpaulin.
Inflected forms:
form: tarps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tarping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tarped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tarped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cover something with a tarpaulin.
pos: verb
examples: The load may be tarped for serious white water, but tarped or not, everything should be tied securely in case of capsize.
Translations:
vatic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin vates (“seer, poet”) + -ic.
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more vatic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most vatic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to a prophet; prophetic, oracular.
pos: adj
examples: The truth of life lay in the vatic messages words sent, meanings beyond what the world called meaning.
“Inordinate attention from the middle latitudes,” proclaimed Miles, with a sort of vatic swoon in his voice.
[T]he book, constructed in short, lucid episodes, can be satisfyingly read as a sequence of provocative talks, at once well informed and vatic.
Here is that gush, vatic visions of those ‘fixed, fast-frozen relations’ melting […]
Translations: