yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
perfection
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English perfeccioun, from Old French perfection, from Latin perfectiō. Equivalent to perfect + -ion. Displaced native Old English fulfremednes.
Base: perfect
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: perfections
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing substandard remains; the highest attainable state or degree of excellence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: near-perfection
total perfection
aim for perfection
lack perfection
attain perfection
be far off perfection
Think, think about the way of rejection / You're not the only one reaching for perfection / Think, think about the reason you exist / I got something you might not wanna miss
gloss: A quality, endowment, or acquirement completely excellent; an ideal; faultlessness; especially, the divine attribute of complete excellence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: No tongue can her perfections tell
gloss: The process or act of establishing official recognition for a legal claim, generally in the context of security interests.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: faultlessness
flawlessness
impeccability
infallibility
Derived words: counsel of perfection
imperfection
nonperfection
perfectional
perfectionate
perfectionism
perfectionist
perfection is the enemy of good
perfectionitis
perfectionize
perfectionless
perfection salad
pitch-perfection
prick of perfection
semiperfection
to perfection
unperfection
Translations:
bomber
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: A shortened form of bombproof.
Inflected forms:
form: more bomber
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bomber
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Completely solid and secure, usually referring to some form of protective gear.
pos: adj
tags: slang
Translations:
fundraising
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From fund + raising.
Compound parts: fund
raising
Inflected forms:
form: fundraisings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of collecting money by requesting donations from individuals and businesses.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Relating to raising money (funds), particularly for charities.
pos: adj
tags: attributive
not-comparable
examples: LMJV staff have been supporting the hospital for years through fundraising events that have raised a total of £10,000, gaining the contractor recognition as a Charity Champion for the hospital.
Translations:
siren
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
astrophysics
entertainment
human-sciences
lifestyle
music
mysticism
mythology
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English siren, from Old French sereine and Latin Sīrēn, Sīrēna, from Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn). The mammalian sense was first attested in French in Dominique Bouhours, Les entretiens d'Ariste et d'Eugène, in 1671. The aquatic salamander sense was originally introduced by Linnaeus in 1766, for a genus of his reptiles.
Inflected forms:
form: sirens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sirenes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sirene
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
dated
form: sirens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sirening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sirened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sirened
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sirene
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
dated
form: sirene
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
dated
Senses:
gloss: One of a group of nymphs who lured mariners to their death on the rocks.
pos: noun
tags: Greek
examples: Now give ear to what I'm about to say to you, / and a god himself will bring it before your mind. / First, you will come to the Sirens. / These beings enthrall all men who arrive before them. […]
gloss: One who sings sweetly and charms.
pos: noun
gloss: A dangerously seductive woman.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of Sirenia, an order of mammals.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of a genus of aquatic salamanders of the family Sirenidae, commonly used for all species in the family Sirenidae.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Hestina.
pos: noun
gloss: A device, either mechanical or electronic, that makes a piercingly loud sound as an alarm or signal, or the sound from such a device.
pos: noun
examples: My attention was diverted from this sight by a furious yelling, like that of the thing called a siren in our manufacturing towns.
1984, Steve Harris, "Aces High", Iron Maiden, Powerslave.
There goes the siren that warns of the air raid / Then comes the sound of the guns sending flak / Out for the scramble we've got to get airborne / Got to get up for the coming attack.
gloss: A musical instrument, one of the few aerophones in the percussion section of the symphony orchestra (patented as Acme Siren in 1895).
pos: noun
gloss: An instrument for demonstrating the laws of beats and combination tones.
pos: noun
gloss: An astrophysical event that can be used for calculating cosmic distances.
pos: noun
gloss: To make a noise with, or as if with, a siren.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To drive with a siren on.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: Relating to or like a siren.
pos: adj
Derived words: air raid siren
dwarf siren
greater siren
leopard siren
lesser siren
reticulated siren
Sirenaic
siren call
Sirengate
sirenian
sirenic
sirenical
sirenin
sirenise
sirenize
sirenless
sirenlike
siren song
sirensong
siren suit
standard siren
stem siren
tornado siren
Translations:
Gurage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Guragē
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Guragué
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Gurague
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Guragé
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A group of peoples of southern Ethiopia.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
giving
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, give + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more giving
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most giving
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: givings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having the tendency to give; generous.
pos: adj
examples: To become like Christ involves everything else: becoming a loving and giving person, having confidence enabling you to be vulnerable (psychologically and physically; Jesus did both), having the wisdom to see people's needs and the desire to meet them.
gloss: Awesome, outstanding, radiating, stunning; exceeding expectations. (Probably derived from earlier transitive use of give (“give off [a certain vibe or appearance]”), as in this outfit gives ‘college girl’, that one is giving ‘old Hollywood’.)
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Your outfit is giving!
There were lots of statement nail moments at the 2022 MTV VMA‘s, and Latto‘s metallic french tip manicure was one of them. [see title]
Next, the TikTok user showed her followers the $15 solid scoop neck tank dress in mocha brown. / "This one is giving. I love this, this is so cute. I think my body shape looks really cute in it," she told her followers.
The fashion influencer also posts content showing off her corporate looks, demonstrating how she can be professional and stylish. / In the comments, people seemed less concerned with her outfit than her hair styling. / "Okay but the fringe is giving," wrote one person.
gloss: The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting.
pos: noun
gloss: A gift; a benefaction.
pos: noun
examples: his gains were sure, His givings rare
gloss: The act of softening, breaking, or yielding.
pos: noun
examples: [U]pon the first giving of the weather.
Derived words: almsgiving
card giving
caregiving
gaingiving
gift-giving
gift that keeps on giving
giving birth
givingness
Giving Tuesday
Indian giving
lawgiving
life-giving
misgiving
non-giving
nongiving
outgiving
prize-giving
prizegiving
ring-giving
self-giving
Thanksgiving
thanksgiving
ungiving
Translations:
burrito
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish burrito, diminutive of burro (“donkey”), from burrico (“donkey”), from Latin burricus (“small horse”), from burrus (“red-brown”), from Ancient Greek πυρρός (purrhós, “flame-colored”), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”). A possible origin is due to its resemblance to a rolled up pack as typically carried by donkeys, making it an example of synecdoche.
Inflected forms:
form: burritos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: burritos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: burritoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: burritoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: burritoed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A Mexican dish consisting of a flour tortilla wrapped around a filling of meat and/or beans, cheese etc.
pos: noun
gloss: To wrap someone or something up like a burrito.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: “You're stealing the blankets,” Zack complained, tugging at the duvet that, somehow, Aaron had completely burritoed himself in.
Translations:
brainwash
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From brain + wash, a calque of Chinese 洗腦 /洗脑 (xǐnǎo), literally to wash the brain. Usage via U.S. military during the Korean War.
Compound parts: brain
wash
Inflected forms:
form: brainwashes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brain-wash
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: brain wash
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: brainwashes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: brainwashing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: brainwashed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: brainwashed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: brain-wash
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: brain wash
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A distorting effect upon one's memory, belief, or ideas, as by propaganda.
pos: noun
gloss: To affect one's mind by using extreme mental pressure or any other mind-affecting process. (e.g. hypnosis)
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To take from an electronically controlled machine its stored-up information; to erase a computer's programming. (1960)
pos: verb
tags: dated
figuratively
transitive
gloss: To persuade completely and forcibly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The news media brainwashed many people.
Derived words: brainwashable
brainwashedness
brainwashee
brainwasher
brainwashy
unbrainwash
Translations:
trimmings
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Accompaniments to a meal.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
gloss: Domestic decorations for a room, especially Christmas decorations.
pos: noun
tags: UK
plural
plural-only
examples: Don't forget to take the trimmings down by twelfth night.
Derived words: boneless lean beef trimmings
Translations:
allotrope
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
human-sciences
linguistics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Back-formation from allotropy, as allo- + -trope, from Ancient Greek ἄλλος (állos, “other”), and τρόπος (trópos, “way, manner”).
Base: allo
Inflected forms:
form: allotropes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any form of an element that has a distinctly different molecular structure to another form of the same element, with different physical properties and often different chemical properties.
pos: noun
gloss: An other form, a different shape of a lexical unit.
pos: noun
gloss: An alternative shape of a cognitive structure.
pos: noun
Related words: alloform
allotropic
allotropical
allotropism
allotropous
isoform
isotrope
Derived words: allotropize
Translations:
allotropic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From allo- + -tropic, compare French allotropique.
Affixes: allo-
-tropic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Describing a form of an element that exhibits allotropy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Graphite and diamond are allotropic forms of carbon.
A symphony and a poem may be allotropic forms of the same matter: to use a common simile, there is red phosphorus and there is yellow, but both are phosphorus. Likewise there are different forms of art, but there is only one art.
Translations:
woody
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English woodi, wody, wodi, equivalent to wood + -y.
Base: wood
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: woodier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: woodiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Covered in woods; wooded.
pos: adj
examples: She […] liv'd in a Cottage, far retir'd / Among the Windings of a woody Vale […].
gloss: Consisting of wood; resembling wood in appearance or texture.
pos: adj
gloss: Belonging to the woods; sylvan.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: with the wooddie Nymphes when she did play, / Or when the flying Libbard she did chace, / She could them nimbly moue, and after fly apace.
gloss: Non-herbaceous.
pos: adj
examples: Subshrubs, shrubs, trees and lianas are all woody plants.
gloss: Lignified.
pos: adj
examples: the woody parts of a plant
Related words: wood
woodlike
woodsy
Derived words: woodily
woodiness
woody breast
Woody Creek
Woody Head
Woody Island
woody nightshade
woody pear
Translations:
schlong
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish שלאַנג (shlang, “snake”; by extension, “a penis”) or German Schlange.
Inflected forms:
form: schlongs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shlong
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: schlongs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: schlonging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: schlonged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: schlonged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shlong
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A penis, especially a long one.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
gloss: To engage in sexual intercourse (with); to fuck.
pos: verb
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: And, Dr. Lover Boy, what do you think April's going to think when I tell her you were schlonging Molly — hey maybe that's why April didn't care for Molly, she stole all her boy friends — probably while you were involved with April.
Look at Sam, eight years ago, in a band, number one, awesome at Glastonbury. Then they break up. He's thirty-two, wasted. Just chasin' pussy, boning, and schlonging — lovely woman back home.
Sal's got what you call a nose for the news, especially if it involves schlonging and donging and especially if it happens to be a slow news day.
They're deep in conversation about Agne, and come to the conclusion that they'd both quite like to schlong her.
gloss: To beat, whack, or attack.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
examples: He stole your words, calling them expert, schlonging himself on the head with labels, diving into categories.
He would talk about “schlonging this and schlonging that. ” When Reich and the other writers were working on a script for a New Year's episode Reich kept referring to "schlonging in the New Year" and using "schlong" in every other sentence.
“I watched a popular Republican woman [Jane Corwin] not only lose but get schlonged by a Democrat [Kathy Hochul] nobody ever heard of for the congressional seat, and that was because, simply, because of the Paul Ryan plan,” Trump said at the time.
Please stop insulting, trashing and schlonging your fellow candidates. That's not the Christian, Islamic, Jewish, Hindu or Buddhist thing to do.
His big scrotum would be schlonging off the floor. Wap, wap, wap. Really schlonging.
gloss: To defeat or humiliate.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
examples: How about if we recruit a few guys from the crew, I’ll go on stage and make an announcement about how we’re gonna get schlonged by lettin’ everybody in ahead of time, and these guys can pass a basket around the audience for contributions.
he went bust on 7th Avenue, and the Party took a shlonging.
that ticket went on to get schlonged at the polls, but that’s a historic moment.
He also delighted in recounting how Ms. Clinton got "schlonged" by Barack Obama when she lost to him in the 2008 Democratic primary.
Translations:
preferred
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
Inflected forms:
form: more preferred
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most preferred
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: præferred
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: preferreds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: præferred
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: favoured
pos: adj
gloss: Preferred stock.
pos: noun
examples: Naturally, closed-end funds’ common shareholders love the juice that auction-rate preferreds provide.
Antonyms: antipreferred
Translations:
pounded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more pounded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pounded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having undergone pounding.
pos: adj
gloss: Inebriated.
pos: adj
tags: slang
Derived words: pounded rice
pounded yam
unpounded
Translations:
dusting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dustings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A light snowfall.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The rooves are covered with a dusting of snow.
gloss: A light covering of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Cover the cake with a dusting of confectioner's sugar.
gloss: The act of removing dust from the furniture, as a household chore.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Tuesday is the day when I do the dusting.
Strict orders had been given by Mrs. Breen the night before that certain dustings and arrangings of furniture should take place, the spacious stairs swept, and the hectic hired palms in their great china pots watered.
gloss: A beating.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
gloss: A maintenance or comfort behaviour in which a bird flushes fine dirt through the feathers; dustbathing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: angel dusting
crop-dusting
Translations:
rusted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Corroded; having been oxidized or covered in rust.
pos: adj
Translations:
pepperoni
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian peperoni (“bell peppers”), the plural of peperone (“bell pepper”).
Inflected forms:
form: pepperonis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pepperoni
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A spicy salami-style Italian-American sausage made from cured pork and beef seasoned with pepper.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He gave the dog a treat — a dried up skinny, turdy looking, pepperoni sausage.
She and her two best friends are choreographing a number for the talent show; she’s applied to California Institute of the Arts; and she flirts unabashedly with a cute pizza server. (The better to land a couple of extra pepperonis on her slice without an upcharge.)
gloss: Pizza with only tomato sauce, cheese and pepperoni toppings.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Yo, Tony, gimme a slice of pepperoni and a coke.
There's far more than just hot dogs to feast on too. The pizzas—gigantic, floppy, with a hyperreal waxy sheen—are mythic. They arrive exclusively in cheese, pepperoni, or supreme—the holy trinity—and will run you an eminently affordable $1.99 for a ridiculously huge wedge-shaped slice.
Derived words: pepperonied
pepperoni nipple
pepperoni roll
ripperoni
vegaroni
yepperoni
Translations:
carnal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English carnal, from Old French charnel, from Late Latin carnālis (“fleshy”), from oblique stem of Latin carō, carnis (“meat, flesh”) + -ālis (whence -al).
Affixes: -ālis
Inflected forms:
form: more carnal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most carnal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites or activities.
pos: adj
examples: At the town of Mendes, in the principal temple, there was a living male goat, with which, if the statement of Herodotus is to be accepted, naked female worshippers actually had carnal intercourse.
gloss: Worldly or earthly; temporal.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to the body or flesh.
pos: adj
Related words: incarnate
incarnation
reincarnate
reincarnation
Derived words: carnalism
carnalist
carnality
carnalization
carnalize
carnal knowledge
carnally
carnalness
hypercarnal
noncarnal
uncarnal
Translations:
redirect
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
law
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From re- + direct.
Base: direct
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: redirects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: redirecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: redirected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: redirected
pos: verb
tags: past
form: redirects
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To give new direction to, change the direction of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: redirect output to /dev/null
The furious reaction in Germany after 200,000 protective masks destined for Berlin mysteriously went missing in Thailand and were allegedly redirected to the US is a case in point. There is no solid proof Trump approved the heist. But it’s the sort of thing he would do – or so people believe.
gloss: To instruct to go, inquire, elsewhere.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To substitute an address or pointer to a new location.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To send to a new location by substituting an address or pointer.
pos: verb
examples: You will be redirected shortly.
gloss: A redirection.
pos: noun
gloss: An examination of a witness, following cross-examination, by the party that conducted the direct examination, re-examination.
pos: noun
gloss: The substitution of one address or identifier for another one, so as to navigate to a different location.
pos: noun
examples: On July 8, 2025 Glitch project hosting and user profiles will be shut down. Your Glitch dashboard will remain available as usual through the end of 2025, with access to download all of your code for your projects, as well as a new feature to set up redirects for your project subdomains so your URLs keep working.
Synonyms: reorient
redirect examination
Derived words: auto-redirect
hard redirect
soft redirect
redirectable
redirectedness
redirection
redirector
unredirected
autoredirect
Translations:
crimper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From crimp + -er (agent noun suffix) or, for the climbing hold, + -er (patient suffix).
Base: crimp
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: crimpers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small climbing hold that can only be held with the tips of a person's fingers.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who crimps when climbing.
pos: noun
gloss: A hairdresser.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A device for giving hair a wavy appearance.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who adds pleats to fabric for clothes, drapery, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A tool used to crimp, to join two pieces of metal.
pos: noun
gloss: An instrument for crimping or ruffling pastry when making a pie.
pos: noun
gloss: A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape.
pos: noun
gloss: A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics.
pos: noun
Translations:
dyno
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: dynos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dynamic climbing move or jump to reach a hold that cannot otherwise be reached.
pos: noun
gloss: A dynamometer.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Derived words: dyno torch
Translations:
grigri
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From grigri, and possibly related to French grimper (“to climb”).
Inflected forms:
form: grigris
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A belay device that incorporates an assisted braking system, trademark of French company Petzl.
pos: noun
Translations:
dresser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English dressure, dressor, dressour, a borrowing from Old French drecëur, drecëure, from the verb dresser.
Inflected forms:
form: dressers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An item of kitchen furniture, like a cabinet with shelves, for storing crockery or utensils.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: The pewter plates on the dresser / Caught and reflected the flame, as shields of armies the sunshine.
But it went through her like a flash of hot fire when, in passing, he lurched against the dresser, setting the tins rattling, and clutched at the white pot knobs for support.
The other room was a kitchen, with an open fireplace, a safe, a dresser and a tin sink, with a tap from the tank outside.
gloss: An item of bedroom furniture, like a low chest of drawers (bureau), often with a mirror.
pos: noun
tags: US
Derived words: dresserlike
kitchen dresser
Scotch dresser
Welsh dresser
Translations:
pacific
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French pacifique.
Inflected forms:
form: more pacific
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pacific
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pacifick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Calm, peaceful.
pos: adj
examples: The policeman on the beat moved up the avenue impressively. […] Trying doors as he went, twirling his club with many intricate and artful movements, turning now and then to cast his watchful eye adown the pacific thoroughfare, the officer, with his stalwart form and slight swagger, made a fine picture of a guardian of the peace.
gloss: Preferring peace by nature; avoiding violence.
pos: adj
examples: The long-continued hostilities which had for centuries divided the south and the north divisions of the Island of Britain, had been happily terminated by the succession of the pacific James I, to the English crown.
"Oh, of course I'm not really in favour of hanging," admitted Mr Carlyle.
"Nobody really is. But we go on hanging. Mr Drishna is a dangerous animal who for the sake of pacific animals must cease to exist. […]"
Related words: pacify
pacifism
pacifist
Derived words: nonpacific
pacifically
pacificism
pacificist
pacificity
Pacific Ocean
unpacific
Translations:
noncanonical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English non-
English canonical
English noncanonical
From non- + canonical.
Inflected forms:
form: non-canonical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not canonical.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
canonic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Latin canonicus (“canonic”).
Inflected forms:
form: more canonic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most canonic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: canonical
pos: adj
Translations:
mangle
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English mangelen, manglen, from Anglo-Norman mangler, mahangler, frequentative of either Old French mangonner (“to cut to pieces”) or mahaigner (“to mutilate”), of Germanic origin, for which see mayhem.
Alternate etymology derives mangle from Middle English *mankelen, a frequentative form of manken (“to mutilate”), from Old English *mancian, bemancian (“to maim”). More at mank.
Inflected forms:
form: mangles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mangling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mangled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mangled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: mangles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To change, mutilate, or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail
c. 1703-20, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Very Young Lady on Her Marriage
when they are disposed to mangle a play or a novel
gloss: To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: A hand-operated device with rollers, for wringing laundry.
pos: noun
gloss: The mangle attached to wringer washing machines, often called the wringer.
pos: noun
examples: There was a bright-red plastic baby-bath, a car tyre, a rusty mangle, and something that looked like a primitive version of a washing machine.
Derived words: bemangle
manglement
manglingly
mingle-mangle
mismangle
unmangle
mangleman
put through the mangle
Translations:
proximal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
dentistry
geography
geology
human-sciences
linguistics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *prokʷe
Proto-Indo-European *prokʷism̥mos
Latin proximus
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 proximal
From Latin proximus, superlative form of prope (“near, nigh”).
Inflected forms:
form: more proximal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most proximal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Closer to the point of attachment or observation.
pos: adj
gloss: Facing toward another tooth. The proximal surfaces of a tooth are those that touch or are close to neighboring teeth.
pos: adj
gloss: Closer to the speaker.
pos: adj
Antonyms: antonym(s) of “closer to the point of attachment
closer to the speaker”
Related words: proximate
Derived words: anteroproximal
caudoproximal
cranioproximal
distoproximal
dorsoproximal
interproximal
lateroproximal
medioproximal
mesioproximal
mesoproximal
midproximal
nonproximal
occlusoproximal
posteroproximal
proximal convoluted tubule
proximality
proximally
proximalmost
proximal phalange
proximal ulna
ventroproximal
zone of proximal development
Translations:
prolate
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin prolatum, past participle of proferre (“to extend, lengthen”).
Inflected forms:
form: more prolate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most prolate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Elongated at the poles.
pos: adj
examples: A cigar is a prolate spheroid.
Antonyms: oblate
Translations:
spheroid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek σφαῖρᾰ (sphaîră)bor.
Latin sphaera
Late Latin sphērader.
Old French spherebor.
Middle English spere
English sphere
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *wéydos
Proto-Hellenic *wéidos
Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs)
Latin -oīdēslbor.
English -oid
English spheroid
From sphere + -oid.
Inflected forms:
form: more spheroid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most spheroid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sphæroid
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: spheroids
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sphæroid
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Of a shape similar to a squashed sphere.
pos: adj
gloss: A solid of revolution generated by rotating an ellipse about its major (prolate), or minor (oblate) axis.
pos: noun
examples: UFOs are reported as being either oblate (saucer-shaped) or prolate (cigar-shaped) spheroids.
Translations:
indoors
Part of speech: adv
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From in + doors, originally two words, representing earlier within doors.
Compound parts: in
doors
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Inside, into, or within a building.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: We stayed indoors to avoid the brutal heat.
We went indoors when it started to rain.
gloss: The interior of a building; the space inside buildings generally.
pos: noun
examples: I prefer the indoors to the outdoors.
Antonyms: outdoors
Translations:
indoor
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From (with)in + door, first attested 1711.
Base: within
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Situated in, or designed to be used in, or carried on within, the interior of a building.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: These fireworks are not for indoor use!
Translations:
outdoor
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úd
Proto-Germanic *ūt
Proto-Germanic *ūt-
Old English ūt-
Middle English ut-
English out-
English door
English outdoor
From out- + door.
Inflected forms:
form: outdoors
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outdooring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outdoored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outdoored
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Situated in, designed to be used in, or carried on in the open air.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,[…].
gloss: Pertaining to charity administered or received away from, or independently from, a workhouse or other institution.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Believing social policy should be directed by experts to bring about the greatest happiness of the greatest number, Benthamites judged the old Poor Law outdoor relief system a recipe for waste and idleness.
gloss: To publicly display a child after it has been named
pos: verb
Related words: outdoors
Derived words: outdoor centre
outdoor education
outdoorish
outdoorness
outdoor officer
outdoor play
outdoor relief
outdoor voice
outdoorwear
Translations:
dashing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English daschande, equivalent to dash + -ing.
Base: dash
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: more dashing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dashing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dashings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Spirited, audacious and full of high spirits.
pos: adj
gloss: Chic, fashionable.
pos: adj
examples: All heads turned as the dashing young man entered the room.
gloss: The action of the verb to dash.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: dashingly
dashingness
undashing
geodashing
Translations:
gaseous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂-der.
Ancient Greek χαῦνος (khaûnos)
Ancient Greek χάος (kháos)der.
Dutch gasbor.
English gas
English -eous
English gaseous
From gas + -eous.
Inflected forms:
form: more gaseous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gaseous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to, or existing as gas (matter in an intermediate state between liquid and plasma).
pos: adj
examples: gaseous state
gaseous emissions
gaseous substance
At room temperature, oxygen remains in a gaseous state.
The mixture produced a gaseous vapor when heated.
gloss: Of a liquid containing bubbles: gassy.
pos: adj
gloss: Lacking substance or solidity; tenuous.
pos: adj
examples: Her gaseous explanations left everyone confused.
Synonyms: aeriform
aereous
aerial
airy
ethereal
gaseous
pneumatic
vaporlike
vaporous
wafty
Antonyms: nongaseous
fluidic
solid
Related words: insubstantial
Derived words: gaseously
gaseousness
gaseous phase
nongaseous
pseudogaseous
ultragaseous
ungaseous
Translations:
aliphatic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From oblique stem of Ancient Greek ἄλειφαρ (áleiphar, “oil, ointment”) + -ic.
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: aliphatics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of a class of organic compounds in which the carbon atoms are arranged in an open chain.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A compound of this type.
pos: noun
gloss: A petroleum fraction containing no aromatic compounds
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
Related words: alicyclic
aromatic
Translations:
alicyclic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Blend of aliphatic + cyclic.
Compound parts: aliphatic
cyclic
Inflected forms:
form: alicyclics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of a class of organic compounds having both aliphatic (chain) and cyclic (ring) structure
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Such an organic compound
pos: noun
Translations:
cyclohexane
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos
Ancient Greek κῠ́κλος (kŭ́klos)der.
Late Latin cyclusbor.
Middle English cicle
English cycle
▲
Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek κυκλῐκός (kuklĭkós)bor.
Classical Latin cyclicuslbor.
Middle French cyclique
French cycliquebor.
▲
Classical Latin cyclicusbor.
English cyclic
English cyclo-
Proto-Indo-European *swéḱs
Proto-Hellenic *hwéks
Ancient Greek ἕξ (héx)
Ancient Greek ἑξα- (hexa-)der.
Latin hexa-der.
English hexa-
English hex-
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānusder.
English -ane
English hexane
English cyclohexane
From cyclo- + hexane.
Inflected forms:
form: cyclohexanes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An alicyclic hydrocarbon, C₆H₁₂, consisting of a ring of six carbon atoms; a volatile liquid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
shorten
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: baking
cooking
food
lifestyle
nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English shortnen, schortenen, equivalent to short + -en (verbal suffix). In some senses, a continuation (in altered form) of Middle English schorten (“to make short, shorten”), from Old English sċortian (“to become short”), from Proto-Germanic *skurtōną (“to shorten”).
Base: short
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: shortens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shortening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shortened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shortened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make shorter; to abbreviate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: York came round to our heads and shortened the rein himself, one hole I think; every little makes a difference, be it for better or worse, and that day we had a steep hill to go up.
The full title of the unified system, the South Eastern & London, Chatham & Dover Railways, was decidedly cumbersome, and for the sake of convenience was shortened to the South Eastern & Chatham Railway.
gloss: To become shorter.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To make deficient (as to); to deprive (of).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Spoiled of his nose, and shorten'd of his ears.
gloss: To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to shorten an allowance of food
Here, where the subject is so fruitful, I am shortened by my chain.
My grandfather, as I said before, was connected with a gang of shorters, and sometimes shortened money, […]
gloss: To make crumbly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Corn flour makes delicious pie crust, and needs less lard to shorten it.
gloss: To take in the slack of (a rope).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To reduce (sail) by taking it in.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: to dress (a baby) in a short (rather than long) gown
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
examples: Anne and Leslie had another cry the next week when they shortened Little Jem. Anne felt the tragedy of it until evening when in his long nightie she found her own dear baby again.
In January Jims was five months old and Rilla celebrated the anniversary by shortening him.
Synonyms: abbreviate
abridge
chop down
chop off
cut short
compress
condense
curt
curtail
lop off
make shorter
pare
prune
reduce in length
shorten
trim
truncate
saw off
Antonyms: extend
lengthen
Derived words: foreshorten
overshorten
preshorten
reshorten
shortenable
shorten down
shortener
shortening
shorten up
unshorten
unshortened
Translations:
bobbitt
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the surname of John Wayne Bobbitt, whose wife cut off his penis during his sleep.
Inflected forms:
form: bobbitts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bobbitting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bobbitted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bobbitted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cut off the penis of (a person).
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: Watch out: she might bobbitt you as you sleep.
gloss: To cut off (the penis).
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: […] penis should be Bobbitted by about seven feet, having been joined up to his navel in error […]
The consensus was that the thing was indecent, and it had to be abridged, Bobbitted, turtled, so to speak.
2019, Lt. Col. K. Gopinathan (Retd), The Coup India Missed
One by one, the emasculated humanoids emerged from the LCV into their weird penis-less world. […] The Group Leader […] pulled a SAT phone from the glove compartment and tapped out 'bobbitted'. He pressed the send button.
Derived words: pull a Bobbitt
Translations:
assassination
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English assassin
English -ate
English assassinate
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English -ion
English assassination
From assassinate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: assassinations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The murder of a person, especially for political reasons or for personal gain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The assassination of the king occurred at night.
But side by side with it was a baser conspiracy, among the more unprincipled and desperate friends of James, for the assassination of the King.
Liu's agents pursued him and he escaped assassination only by throwing his clothing away by the Chʻien-tʻang River near Hangchow, thus suggesting suicide.
(It's possible that at least some of the liberals who answered "yes, violence can sometimes be justified" had in mind edge cases like armed resistance by Jews against the SS, not the assassination of peaceful political pundits with whom they disagree.)
Translations:
quaternary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Derived from Latin quaternārius (“containing or consisting of four”), from quaternī (“four each”, “four at a time”) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French quaternaire.
Inflected forms:
form: quaternaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of fourth rank or order.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: the quaternary stress in a pronounced word
gloss: Of a mathematical expression containing e.g. x⁴.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Relating to or in number base four.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: quaternary ammonium.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Composed of four elements.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A quaternary compound.
pos: noun
gloss: The Quaternary period or the system of deposits laid down during it.
pos: noun
Synonyms: quartal
quartary
Related words: quaternion
primary (1st)
unary
secondary (2nd)
tertiary (3rd)
ternary
quartary (4th)
senary
septenary
octonary
nonary (9th)
novenary
denary
duodenary
vicenary
tricenary
sexagenary
centenary (100)
Derived words: bisquaternary
diquaternary
nonquaternary
pseudoquaternary
quaternarily
quaternarization
quaternary ammonium
quaternary care
quaternary healthcare
quaternary industry
quaternary moon
quaternary number
quaternary sector
quaternary sector of the economy
quaternary structure
quaternary twin
quaternation
quaternium
negaquaternary
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: neljännen asteen
lang: French
word: d'ordre quatre
census
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cēnsus, from cēnseō. See censor.
Inflected forms:
form: censuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: censusses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: census
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: censuses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: censusses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: censusing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: censussing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: censused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: censused
pos: verb
tags: past
form: censussed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: censussed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An official count or enumeration of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As you know, the Imperium has never been able to take a census of the Fremen. Everyone thinks that there are but few wandering here and there in the desert. My Lord, I suspect an incredible secret has been kept on this planet: that the Fremen exist in vast numbers- vast- and it is they who control Arrakis.
gloss: Count, tally.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included ...
gloss: A type of tax levied by feudal lords on peasants.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
gloss: A count of the number of individual patterns within a larger pattern, most often the ash of a soup or a methuselah.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To conduct a census on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Each page of the schedule was crossruled with 8 lines, capable of censussing 8 individuals.
Indeed, none of the recorded characteristics of buildings nor their location affected our counts of breeding Sparrows, which appeared to be distributed rather homogeneously across the urban areas we censused.
gloss: To collect a census.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: My initiation to waterfowl censussing took place in the early days of the A.W.E., as it is familiarly known, when I served as a junior to one of the ablest of the Witwatersrand pioneers, Royce Reed. The method used must remain one of the three basic methods of Transvaal waterfowl censussing, although it has certain inherent limitations.
For 14 individuals, eight censusses per daily period were performed within two weeks (32 censusses per individual), each time recording the coordinates of location. The territories of the individuals were defined as the area defended successfully against conspecifics by agonistic and/or non-agonistic behaviour, as described by Wickler (1969) and Nelissen (1976). The locations of the territories were determined from censussing; their sizes were estimated by behavioural observations.
Related words: headcount
Derived words: anticensus
census area
census-designated place
census tract
intercensus
microcensus
noncensus
postcensus
precensus
recensus
Translations: