yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
confidential
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin cōnfīdentia + English -al. Possibly a calque of French confidentiel. First attested in 1641.
Inflected forms:
form: more confidential
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most confidential
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Kept, or meant to be kept, secret within a certain circle of persons; not intended to be known publicly.
pos: adj
examples: The newspaper claims a leaked confidential report by the government admits to problems with corrupt MPs.
[…]I have a communication of a very private—indeed, I will say, of a sacredly confidential nature, which I desire to make to you.
It would tell against your reputation, losing a confidential document, wouldn’t it? Why didn’t you keep it confidential if it was confidential?
“One of the things that I think parents would tell you, and that students and victims and patients would tell you, is that we have a legal responsibility, but I think more importantly a moral responsibility, to hold their information confidential and private,” Blanton said.
gloss: Inclined to share confidences; (of things) making people inclined to share confidences; involving the sharing of confidences.
pos: adj
tags: dated
examples: Sitting in front of the fire, they became quite confidential, and began to gossip.
Long, long would it be ere Miss Crawford′s name passed his lips again, or she could hope for a renewal of such confidential intercourse as had been.
I was only alive to the condensed confidential comfortableness of sharing a pipe and a blanket with a real friend.
She and Bertha had never been on confidential terms, but at such a crisis the barriers of reserve must surely fall:[…]
Miss Raste was encouraged to be entirely confidential, to withhold nothing even about herself, by the confidence-inspiring and kindly aspect of Elsie’s face.
gloss: Having someone's confidence or trust; having a position requiring trust; worthy of being trusted with confidences.
pos: adj
tags: dated
examples: a confidential agent
a confidential servant
a confidential whisper
Now, they want me to send up a confidential person with some writings.
This paper will serve instead of a confidential friend into whose ear I might pour forth the overflowings of my heart.
[…]perhaps the confidential bachelor clerks in Tellson′s Bank were principally occupied with the cares of other people;[…]
I repeated the instruction by letter and I kept a copy of the letter witnessed by my confidential maid.
“He said he was a confidential messenger,” shouted a man.
Related words: confide
confidence
Derived words: confidential informant
confidentiality
confidentially
confidentialness
nonconfidential
unconfidential
Translations:
decorator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English decorate
English -or
English decorator
From decorate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: decorators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who decorates.
pos: noun
gloss: Painter and wallpaperer of buildings.
pos: noun
tags: UK
Derived words: decorator crab
decorator pattern
Translations:
evaluate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Back-formation from evaluation.
Inflected forms:
form: evaluates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: evaluating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: evaluated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: evaluated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To draw conclusions from examining; to assess; to appraise.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It will take several years to evaluate the material gathered in the survey.
Death is a factor that changes all our views as we are forced to evaluate our worth and what ultimately matters in life.
gloss: To compute or determine the value of (an expression).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Evaluate this integral.
gloss: To return or have a specific value.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Since element (15.1) evaluates to an element of the center in any alternative algebra, (15.1) has to evaluate to a scalar multiple of the identity element of the Cayley-Dickson algebra.
In one type of such an integral, the integrand is only the probability density function, and the integral evaluates to a probability, which of course is a scalar.
Synonyms: weigh
Derived words: coevaluate
evaluable
evaluatable
evaluatee
evaluative
evaluator
evaluatory
misevaluate
overevaluate
reevaluate
re-evaluate
self-evaluate
underevaluate
unevaluated
Translations:
lang: German
word: ergeben
resume
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman resumer, Middle French resumer, from Latin resumere, from re- + sumere (“to take”).
Inflected forms:
form: resumes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: resuming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: resumed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: resumed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: resumes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: résumé
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: resumé
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To take back possession of (something)
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Ladies and gentlemen, please resume your seats.
As to the advice you give, to resume my estate, I am determined not to litigate with my father, let what will be the consequence to myself.
For after that initiation it was impossible to attach any profound importance to the notion of dying. All individual deaths had been resumed by the death of God!
By resumption The Government, most likely the State Government, can resume property for the purposes of building a road or a school or some other purpose.
gloss: To summarise.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: He […] used to say that each separate death had taught him something new about death, and that he was going to resume this knowledge in a philosophic essay about dying.
gloss: To start (something) again that has been stopped or paused from the point at which it was stopped or paused; continue, carry on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We will resume this discussion tomorrow at nine.
No man wiſhed more for the high establiſhment of the Royal Family than he did ; but he thought the Prince would do himſelf more honour by giving up the trappings of royalty at this moment, than by reſuming them.
gloss: To start again after an interruption or pause.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Normal service has resumed.
1991, The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America, 43 CFR 5451.4, Office of the Federal Register, page 68.
Before operations resume, a reduced bond shall be increased to the amount of a full
gloss: A summary or synopsis.
pos: noun
examples: He had scanned the resumé of the three previous instalments, and was abut to commence the story[.]
gloss: A summary or account of education and employment experiences and qualifications; a curriculum vitae (often for presentation to a potential future employer when applying for a job).
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
US
Related words: resumption
Derived words: resumable
unresumed
resume-driven development
Translations:
distraction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French distraction, from Latin distractio. Equivalent to distract + -ion.
Base: distract
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: distractions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that distracts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Poking one's eye is a good distraction from a hurting toe.
At last the Duke of Anjou arrived, dressed, as his brother said, to distraction.
“… This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. I am sure, Lord Stranleigh, that he has been descanting on the distraction of the woods and the camp, or perhaps the metropolitan dissipation of Philadelphia, …”
gloss: The process of being distracted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We have to reduce distraction in class if we want students to achieve good results.
The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing",[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
We determined that the probable cause of the Tishomingo, Oklahoma, collision was the teen driver’s acceleration through the intersection after briefly slowing without stopping, due to distraction from having five teen passengers in the car, limited driving experience, and likely impairment from cannabis.
gloss: Perturbation; disorder; disturbance; confusion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It's true that the Copernican Systeme introduceth distraction in the universe of Aristotle.
gloss: Mental disarray; a deranged state of mind; insanity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The incessant nightmares drove him to distraction.
[…] if he speak the words of an oath in a strange language, thinking they signify something else, or if he spake in his sleep, or deliration, or distraction, it is no oath, and so not obligatory.
gloss: Traction so exerted as to separate surfaces normally opposed.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
Related words: distracter
distractee
Derived words: distractionary
distraction carnifex
distractionism
distractionist
distractionless
distraction osteogenesis
drive to distraction
osteodistraction
to distraction
Translations:
distract
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin distractus, from distrahō (“to pull apart”), from dis- + trahō (“to pull”).
Inflected forms:
form: distracts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: distracting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: distracted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: distracted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To divert the attention of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The crowd was distracted by a helicopter hovering over the stadium when the only goal of the game was scored.
While Gunners boss Arsene Wenger had warned his players against letting the pre-match festivities distract them from the task at hand, they clearly struggled for fluency early on.
Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
I eschew the idea of plugging in my laptop to take notes and resort to old-fashioned pen and paper instead, so that I can enjoy more of the view and not be distracted by bashing a keyboard.
gloss: To divert (attention).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It is recorded in the Talmud that there was no water organ [...] at the Temple, because of its sweet and powerful voice which was able to distract attention from the traditional instruments.
gloss: To make crazy or insane; to drive to distraction.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: By Heav’ns, ſuch Virtues, join’d with ſuch Succeſs,
Diſtract my very Soul: Our Father’s Fortune
Wou’d almoſt tempt us to renounce his Precepts.
Related words: distracted
distractible
distracting
distraction
Derived words: distractable
distractee
distracter
distractful
distractive
distractor
Translations:
uncontrolled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: civil-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English controlled
English uncontrolled
From un- + controlled.
Inflected forms:
form: more uncontrolled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most uncontrolled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: uncontrouled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Not controlled; not under control.
pos: adj
examples: Into the gnarled uncontrolled hand swaying over the bunk the dog laid his paw.
gloss: Lacking the usual traffic control devices, such as traffic lights, pedestrian signals, pavement markings, traffic signs, or a crossing guard.
pos: adj
examples: uncontrolled crossing
uncontrolled intersection
Translations:
gruel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English gruel, gruwel, greuel, growel (“meal or flour made from beans, lentils, etc.”), from Old French gruel (“coarse meal; > French gruau”), from Medieval Latin grutellum, diminutive of Medieval Latin grutum (“flour; meal”), from a Germanic source, likely Old English grūt (“meal; grout”) or perhaps Frankish *grūt; both from Proto-Germanic *grūtiz (“ground material; grit”). Compare Dutch gruit, Middle Low German grūt, Middle High German grūz, German Grütze (“grout”). Related also to English groats, grit.
Inflected forms:
form: gruels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gruels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: grueling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: gruelling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: grueled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: grueled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: gruelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: gruelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: A thin, watery porridge, formerly eaten primarily by the poor and the ill.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […]her own cook at South End, a young woman hired for the time, who never had been able to understand what she meant by a basin of nice smooth gruel, thin, but not too thin.
[…]Father had one of his awful colds, so Dora persuaded him not to go to London, but to stay cosy and warm in the study, and she made him some gruel. She makes it better than Eliza does; Eliza's gruel is all little lumps, and when you suck them it is dry oatmeal inside.
“It’s not that bad,” said Tiger defensively. “The foundlings rarely have to share blankets these days, and the gruel no longer has a consistency thinner than water.
gloss: Punishment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something that lacks substance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: thin gruel
gloss: Sentimental poetry.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
obsolete
slang
uncountable
gloss: Semen.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: To exhaust, use up, disable.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To punish.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Ejaculate.
pos: verb
tags: UK
slang
Related words: groat
groats
grit
grits
grout
Derived words: cold gruel
get one's gruel
give someone his gruel
gruelly
water gruel
gruelling
Translations:
formidable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English formidable, from Old French formidable, formible, from Latin formīdābilis (“formidable, terrible”) (whence -able), from formīdō (“fear, dread”).
Base: -able
Affixes: -
Inflected forms:
form: more formidable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most formidable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causing fear, dread, awe, or discouragement as a result of size, strength, or some other impressive feature; commanding respect; causing wonder or astonishment.
pos: adj
examples: The latter part of the fifteenth century prepared a train of future events, that ended by raising France to a formidable power, which has ever since been, from time to time, the principal object of jealousy to the other European nations.
[…] and I am more afraid of those people than I am of Anytus and his colleagues, although they are formidable enough.
gloss: Difficult to defeat or overcome.
pos: adj
examples: a formidable opponent
As I look back on that week in China two impressions stand out most vividly. One is the awesome sight of the disciplined but wildly—almost fanatically—enthusiastic audience at the gymnastic exhibition in Peking, confirming my belief that we must cultivate China during the next few decades while it is still learning to develop its national strength and potential. Otherwise we will one day be confronted with the most formidable enemy that has ever existed in the history of the world.
[Ian] Holloway has unfinished business in the Premier League after relegation last year and he will make a swift return if he can overcome West Ham a week on Saturday. Sam Allardyce, the West Ham manager, will be acutely aware that when the stakes are high, Blackpool are simply formidable.
Derived words: formidability
formidableness
formidably
informidable
superformidable
unformidable
Translations:
restive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Modification of earlier restiff, from Middle English restyf, from Old French restif, from rester (“to stay, remain”), from Latin restō.
* Shares an etymology with rest ("to remain," obsolete)
*Merriam-Webster states that this word was originally used to describe horses that disobeyed commands. Presumably, then, the word came to mean fidgety or anxious more broadly.
Inflected forms:
form: more restive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most restive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Impatient under delay, duress, or control.
pos: adj
examples: The horses were now more restive than ever, and Johann was trying to hold them in.
[...] news of their defeat had spread across the countryside and made the animals on the neighbouring farms more restive than ever.
“Hullo, Bobbie,” I said. “Hullo, Bertie,” she said. “Hullo, Upjohn,” I said. The correct response to this would have been “Hullo, Wooster”, but he blew up in his lines and merely made a noise like a wolf with its big toe caught in a trap. Seemed a bit restive, I thought, as if wishing he were elsewhere. Bobbie was all girlish animation. “I've been telling Mr Upjohn about that big fish we saw in the lake yesterday, Bertie.” “Ah yes, the big fish.” “It was a whopper, wasn't it?” “Very well-developed.” “I brought him down here to show it to him.” “Quite right. You'll enjoy the big fish, Upjohn.” I had been perfectly correct in supposing him to be restive. He did his wolf impersonation once more. “I shall do nothing of the sort,” he said, and you couldn't find a better word than “testily” to describe the way he spoke. “It is most inconvenient for me to be away from the house at this time. I am expecting a telephone call from my lawyer.”
But a restive class of Google executives worry that the company is showing cracks.
It’s clear that at least some shareholders had become restive about Zuckerberg’s pursuit of a fatuous virtual-reality fantasy, […]
gloss: Resistant to control; stubborn.
pos: adj
examples: Yet I am of Opinion, this Defect ariſeth chiefly from a perverſe, reſtive Diſpoſition. For they are cunning, malicious, treacherous and revengeful.
gloss: Refusing to move, especially in a forward direction.
pos: adj
Derived words: restively
restiveness
unrestive
Translations:
malaise
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French malaise (“ill ease”), from mal- (“bad, badly”) + aise (“ease”). Compare ill at ease.
Inflected forms:
form: malaises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A feeling of general bodily discomfort, fatigue or unpleasantness, often at the onset of illness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Addressing tech malaise has become a trend with authors and self-help coaches – such as Catherine Price, author of How to Break Up With Your Phone, who, during a $295, 50-minute phone call, will offer you advice on things like how to create roadblocks to checking your phone by putting a rubber band around your screen, and “think of the bigger picture” rather than what you’re missing on Twitter.
Volkswagen’s travails are symbolic of the nation’s overall economic malaise and a political crisis that collapsed the government in December, paving the way for early elections Feb. 23.
The Euston Rush hit the headlines last year. It also became synonymous with a lack of respect for passengers, a disregard for planning in stations, and a general malaise in the rail industry.
gloss: An ambiguous feeling of mental or moral depression.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Their failure helped produce the widespread malaise reported by Thucydides: the Athenians "grieved over their private sufferings, the common people because, having started out with less, they were deprived even of that; the rich had lost their beautiful estates in the country, the houses as well as their expensive furnishings, but worst of all, they had war instead of peace" (2.65.2).
gloss: Ill will or hurtful feelings for others or someone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: disease
Derived words: malaised
videomalaise
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: تَوَعُّك
roman: tawaʕʕuk
lang: Arabic
word: عَلَز
roman: ʕalaz
lang: Bulgarian
word: неразположение
roman: nerazpoloženie
lang: Catalan
word: malestar
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 不舒服
roman: bùshūfu
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 不適 /不适
roman: bùshì
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 欠安
roman: qiàn'ān
lang: Czech
word: malátnost
lang: Dutch
word: ongesteldheid
lang: Finnish
word: huonovointisuus
lang: Finnish
word: pahanolontunne
lang: French
word: malaise
lang: German
word: Unbehagen
lang: German
word: Unwohlsein
lang: Greek
word: αδιαθεσία
roman: adiathesía
lang: Hungarian
word: gyengélkedés
lang: Hungarian
word: rossz közérzet
lang: Irish
word: easláinte
lang: Irish
word: meath-thinneas
lang: Italian
word: malessere
lang: Japanese
word: 不快
roman: fukai
lang: Korean
word: 불쾌감
roman: bulkwaegam
lang: Macedonian
word: малаксаност
roman: malaksanost
lang: Persian
word: ناخوشی
roman: nâxoši
lang: Portuguese
word: mal-estar
lang: Romanian
word: indispoziție
lang: Russian
word: недомога́ние
roman: nedomogánije
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: malaksalost
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: njederjeměśe
lang: Spanish
word: malestar
lang: Swedish
word: sjukdomskänsla
lang: Swedish
word: illamående
lang: Swedish
word: olust
mudslide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mud
English slide
English mudslide
From mud + slide.
Inflected forms:
form: mudslides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A geological event in which viscous mud flows down an incline.
pos: noun
examples: A mudslide in the south-western province of Guizhou has resulted in 15 deaths. Thirty people are still missing as the search continues.
Flooding occurs in areas where the ground is unable to absorb all of the water, according to forecasters, who explained that flash flooding can also be caused by mudslides or breaks in dams or levees.
gloss: A mixed drink consisting of vodka, Kahlúa and Baileys.
pos: noun
examples: […] and seem able to function during A.M. drills even after several parasolled Mudslides or the House-Specialty Blue Flame cognac-based things you have to blow out before sipping from their huge blue-rimmed snifters.
Synonyms: mudflow
Related words: landslide
sandslide
Translations:
headquarters
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *káput
Proto-Germanic *haubudą
Old English hēafod
Middle English heed
English head
English quarters
English headquarters
From head + quarters.
Inflected forms:
form: headquarters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The military installation from which troops are commanded and orders are issued; the military unit consisting of a commander and his support staff.
pos: noun
gloss: The center of an organization's operations or administration.
pos: noun
examples: As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities.
The chicken chain’s parent company, Yum Brands, announced Tuesday that KFC’s corporate headquarters is leaving Kentucky for Texas, joining sister brand Pizza Hut’s offices in the Dallas suburb of Plano.
gloss: A place of concentrated activity or influence.
pos: noun
examples: The head-quarters of the rebellion in the East were at a little town called Hui-lung.
Synonyms: HQ
h.q.
head office
Related words: headquarter
Derived words: subheadquarters
Translations:
ligne
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
Etymology: From French ligne. Doublet of linea.
Inflected forms:
form: lignes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of line (“ill-defined unit of length”).
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of line (“ill-defined unit of length”).
pos: noun
Translations:
Irukandji
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Djabugay Yirrganydji "the Yirrgay people", a derivative of Yirrgay "the Yirrgay dialect of Djabugay", itself a comitative form of a root yirrga- of unidentified meaning.
Perhaps compare also Djabugay Gulunydji "the Guluy dialect of Djabugay", of identical derivation, perhaps based upon gulu "here".
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An Aboriginal tribe of northeastern Australia, also known as the Yirrganydji
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
butler
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English butler, butlere, boteler, botelere, from Old French buttiler, butiller, boteillier (“officer in charge of wine”), from Medieval Latin botellārius, equivalent to bottle + -er. Piecewise doublet of bottler.
Base: bottle
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: butlers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: butlers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: butlering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: butlered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: butlered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A manservant having charge of wines and liquors.
pos: noun
gloss: The chief male servant of a household who has charge of other employees, receives guests, directs the serving of meals, and performs various personal services.
pos: noun
examples: “One marble hall, with staircase complete, one butler and three flunkeys to receive a retired sojer who dares to ring the bell. D'you know, old boy, I gave my bowler to the butler, whangee to one flunkey, gloves to another, and there was the fourth poor blighter looking like an orphan at a Mothers' Meeting. …"
gloss: A valet, a male personal attendant.
pos: noun
gloss: To buttle, to dispense wines or liquors; to take the place of a butler.
pos: verb
Synonyms: footman
Related words: butt
Derived words: archbutler
butlerage
butler café
butler cafe
butlerdom
Butler English
butleress
butlerless
butler lie
butlerlike
butlerly
butlership
butler steak
buttle
silent butler
underbutler
what the butler saw
Translations:
jurisdiction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin iūrisdictiōbor.
English jurisdiction
Borrowed from Latin iūrisdictiō.
Inflected forms:
form: jurisdictions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The power, right, or authority to interpret and apply the law.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: legal jurisdiction
The case falls outside the court’s jurisdiction.
gloss: The power or right to exercise authority.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: outside the jurisdiction of
gloss: The power or right to perform some action as part of applying the law.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Police officers have no jurisdiction in that district.
The Fife County Council, and other objectors, were successful in July [1950] in obtaining an interim interdict against this decision, but the Court of Session withdrew the interdict in January, and it was then stated that a civil court had no jurisdiction in the matter.
The Appeal Division of the Social Security Tribunal held that it was without jurisdiction to extend the statutorily established one-year time limit for a complainant to apply to rescind or amend a decision.
gloss: The authority of a sovereign power to govern or legislate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Thus fell that glorious Minion of Edward the Second, who for a time appeared liked [sic.] a blazing Comet, and sway'd the jurisdiction of the state of England, and her Confederates.
gloss: The limits or territory within which authority may be exercised.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
The United Kingdom consists of three jurisdictions: England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Related words: control
Derived words: agreement conferring jurisdiction
appellate jurisdiction
diversity jurisdiction
federal question jurisdiction
interjurisdiction
interjurisdictional
interjurisdictionally
jurisdictional
jurisdictionally
jurisdiction clause
jurisdictionless
jurisdiction shopping
jurisdictive
multijurisdiction
multijurisdictional
original jurisdiction
pendent jurisdiction
personal jurisdiction
secrecy jurisdiction
subject matter jurisdiction
summary jurisdiction
supplemental jurisdiction
universal jurisdiction
voluntary jurisdiction
Translations:
petition
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English, borrowed from Old French peticiun, from stem of Latin petitio, petitionem (“a request, solicitation”), from petere (“to require, seek, go forward”).
Inflected forms:
form: petitions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: petitions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: petitioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: petitioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: petitioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A formal written request made by an individual or a group of people to a sovereign or political authority, often containing many signatures, soliciting some grace, right, mercy, or the redress of some wrong or grievance.
pos: noun
examples: We're looking to get 10,000 people to sign the petition to have the bird colony given legal protection.
gloss: A formal written application made to a magistrate or court for an order or a suit for divorce.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A prayer or supplication, especially of which is formal or humble and made to a deity, a sovereign, or an authority.
pos: noun
examples: a petition to aid
a petition to God for courage and strength
A house of prayer and petition for thy people.
gloss: To make a petition to (a sovereign or political authority).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The villagers petitioned the council to demolish the dangerous building.
The company, appreciating the crippling affect ^([sic]) that this scheme will have on its activities unless the railway is diverted, has petitioned against the North Wales Hydro-Electric Power Bill at present before the House of Lords.
Derived words: counterpetition
e-petition
petitionable
petitional
petitionary
petitionee
petitioner
petitionist
petition of right
prepetition
repetition
Translations:
wattle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English wattel, watel, from Old English watel, watul (“hurdle”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wey- (“to turn, wind, bend”).
Inflected forms:
form: wattles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wattles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wattling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wattled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wattled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A construction of branches and twigs woven together to form a wall, barrier, fence, or roof.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And there the heathen Prince, Arviragus, / Gave him an isle of marsh whereon to build; / And there he built with wattles from the marsh / A little lonely church in days of yore, […]
gloss: A single twig or rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A wrinkled fold of skin, sometimes brightly coloured, hanging from the neck of birds (such as chicken and turkey) and some lizards.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A barbel of a fish.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A decorative fleshy appendage on the neck of a goat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Loose hanging skin in the neck of a person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The buttons below his waddle open to reveal a ruddy V, tidemark of the sun.
gloss: Any of several Australian trees and shrubs of the genus Acacia, or their bark, used in tanning, seen as a national emblem of Australia.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The tents and sheets are made of the best Canadian duck, tanned for the purpose of preservation with a strong extract of iron-bark and wattle-bark.
gloss: An ear (organ of hearing).
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
slang
uncountable
examples: "Tip me your wattles, my pal, and touch my whids, or I'll make you whindle like a kinchin," give me your ears and take my words, or I'll make you snivel like a child.
Wat. A hare, from his wattles, i. e. long ears.
gloss: To construct a wattle, or make a construction of wattles.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To bind with wattles or twigs.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: black wattle
chinchilla wattle
cinnamon wattle
climbing wattle
Cootamundra wattle
golden wattle
hickory wattle
pinbush wattle
sallee wattle
savannah wattle
savanna wattle
silver wattle
spurwing wattle
sunshine wattle
wattle and daub
wattle bagworm
wattlebird
wattle-eye
Wattle Glen
Wattle Ponds
Wattle Range
wattle turkey
Translations:
aptitude
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French aptitude, from Medieval Latin aptitudo, from Latin aptus (“apt, fit”). By surface analysis, apt + -itude. Doublet of attitude.
Inflected forms:
form: aptitudes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She showed an early aptitude for mathematics.
The test measures a student’s aptitude for language learning.
gloss: The condition of being suitable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
whammy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wham
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English whammy
From wham + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: whammies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: whammie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: a serious or devastating setback
pos: noun
gloss: an evil spell; a curse or hex
pos: noun
gloss: The vibrato system of an electric guitar, or just its lever (whammy bar)
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
Derived words: double whammy
triple whammy
whammy bar
Translations:
appropriateness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From appropriate + -ness.
Base: appropriate
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The quality or condition of being appropriate.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
bleeding
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
manufacturing
media
medicine
printing
publishing
sciences
Etymology: By surface analysis, bleed + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: bleedings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Losing blood.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The burnt and bleeding man staggered to his feet, dazed and unbelieving, and asked the startled townspeople who came running whether his fireman and guard were safe. He was kept away from the smouldering crater where his engine had been, and taken to hospital.
gloss: extreme, outright; bloody, blasted.
pos: adj
tags: UK
emphatic
intensifier
not-comparable
slang
examples: You are a bleeding liar. Truth is of no interest to you at all.
"You are a bleeding idiot sometimes, but I love you and", Harry hands him the first gift Severus ever gave him and says, "One hundred and sixteen."
gloss: used as an intensifier: Extremely.
pos: adv
tags: UK
not-comparable
slang
examples: His car's motor is bleeding smoking down the motorway.
It turns out he was too bleeding cheap to ever drain the oil.
It does highlight some of the difficulties, but does not dare state the bleeding obvious, which is that neither are likely to play a major part in delivering a decarbonised agenda on the railways – […].
gloss: The flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Internal bleeding is often difficult to detect and can lead to death in a short time.
An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic […] real kidneys[…]. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.
gloss: Bloodletting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: Notwithstanding the employ of general and local bleeding, blisters, &c., the patient died on the fourth day after entrance.
gloss: Depletion of a given resource; draining, sapping, weakening.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: the bleeding of the budget
the bleeding of the treasury
gloss: Menstruation.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
euphemistic
uncountable
examples: Owing to the prudery of Victorian times, people hardly dared talk about bleeding at all — even privately, let alone publicly.
gloss: The migration of impressions (dents), ink, or both through the substrate (paper or otherwise).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Printing past the edge of the leaf (past the trim).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: bleeder
bleedingly
blood
bloody
Derived words: bleeding edge
bleeding-edge
bleeding-heart
bleeding heart
bleeding heck
bleeding hell
bleeding Nora
bleeding oak crust
bleeding sickness
bleeding stump
bleeding tooth fungus
nonbleeding
unbleeding
antibleeding
bleeding time
breakthrough bleeding
free-bleeding
free bleeding
implantation bleeding
love-lies-bleeding
microbleeding
nosebleeding
reflex bleeding
stop the bleeding
Translations:
groin
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
geometry
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From earlier grine, from Middle English grinde, grynde, from Old English grynde (“abyss”) (perhaps also "depression, hollow"), probably related to Proto-Germanic *grunduz; see ground. Later altered under the influence of loin.
Inflected forms:
form: groins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: groins
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: groining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: groined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: groined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region.
pos: noun
examples: The Mexican levelled nine minutes from time after Steven Gerrard, making his first start since undergoing groin surgery in April, put Liverpool ahead with a 68th-minute free-kick.
gloss: The area adjoining this fold or depression.
pos: noun
examples: He pulled a muscle in his groin.
gloss: The projecting solid angle formed by the meeting of two vaults
pos: noun
gloss: The surface formed by two such vaults.
pos: noun
gloss: The genitals.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
examples: He got kicked in the groin and was writhing in pain.
My friend […] discovered in his early teen years a passion for both men and opera. He frequented the Met to satisfy his ear but had little knowledge or experience of where to find partners and satisfy his groin.
gloss: To deliver a blow to the genitals of.
pos: verb
examples: In the scrum he somehow got groined.
She groined him and ran to the car.
gloss: To build or furnish with a groin or groins.
pos: verb
examples: The part of the village in which I resided was a grove of cocoa-nut trees, and at night, when the dead leaves were sometimes collected together and burnt, the effect was most magnificent - the tall stems, the fine crowns of foliage, and the immense fruit-clusters, being brilliantly illuminated against a dark sky, and appearing like a fairy palace supported on a hundred columns, and groined over with leafy arches.
gloss: To hollow out; to excavate.
pos: verb
tags: literary
transitive
examples: Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped / Through granites which titanic wars had groined.
Derived words: groinal
groined
groinfield
groin field
groinful
groin ringworm
groin vault
groinward
groinwards
lupoid form of groin ulceration
serpiginous ulceration of the groin
tendergroin
Translations:
reappearance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From re- + appearance or reappear + -ance.
Base: appearance
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: reappearances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: re-appearance
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of appearing again following absence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
bodily
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English bodily; equivalent to body + -ly.
Base: body
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more bodily
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bodily
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or concerning the body.
pos: adj
examples: His bodily deficiencies were a heavy burden to him.
gloss: Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal.
pos: adj
examples: You are a mere spirit, and have no knowledge of the bodily part of us.
gloss: Real; actual; put into execution.
pos: adj
examples: Be brought to bodily act.
gloss: In bodily form; physically, corporally.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: For in him dwelleth all the fulneſſe of the Godhead bodily.
In I got bodily into the apple barrel, and found there was scarce an apple left; but sitting down there in the dark, what with the sound of the waters and the rocking movement of the ship, I had either fallen asleep or was on the point of doing so when a heavy man sat down with rather a clash close by.
gloss: Pertaining to the whole body or mass; wholly.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The papering of one side of the room had dropped down bodily, with fragments of plaster adhering to it, and almost blocked up the door.
It is true that in adopting the short view many of the younger economists have not merely taken over the lay notions bodily.
gloss: Forcefully, vigorously.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: He was thrown bodily out of the house.
Synonyms: corporal
corporeal
bodily
carnal
physical
Related words: psychosomatic
body
intellectual
natal
bodacious
Derived words: actual bodily harm
bodiliness
bodily fluid
bodily function
bodily integrity
bodily oath
bodily process
extrabodily
grievous bodily harm
nonbodily
repeated bodily harm
unbodiliness
unbodily
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: телесно
roman: telesno
lang: Czech
word: tělesně
lang: Dutch
word: lichamelijk
lang: Dutch
word: fysiek
lang: Greek
word: σωματικώς
roman: somatikós
lang: Ido
word: korpale
lang: Italian
word: corporalmente
lang: Japanese
word: 体ごと
roman: karada-goto
lang: Macedonian
word: телесно
roman: telesno
lang: Slovak
word: telesne
lang: Spanish
word: corporalmente
incompleteness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English incomplete
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English incompleteness
From incomplete + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: incompletenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or condition of being not complete.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Its incompleteness in this respect makes the timetable of less value than some of its Continental counterparts, such as the French Horaires Mayeux; nevertheless, it is fair value at 5s.
This low number points to the incompleteness and, with respect, haphazardness of the two selections.
Antonyms: completeness
completion
finishedness
Translations:
completeness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English complete
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English completeness
From complete + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: completenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: completenesse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The state or condition of being complete.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The property of a logical theory that whenever a wff is valid then it must also be a theorem. Symbolically, letting T represent a theory within logic L, this can be represented as the property that whenever T⊨ϕ is true, then T⊢ϕ must also be true, for any wff φ of logic L.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: THEOREM 37°. (Gödel's completeness theorem 1930.) In the predicate calculus H:
(a) If #92;vDashF [or even if #92;aleph#95;0-#92;vDashF], then #92;vdashF. If E#95;1,...,E#95;k#92;vDashF [or even if E#95;1,...,E#95;k#92;#92;aleph#95;0-#92;vDashF], then E#95;1,...,E#95;k#92;vdashF.
(b) […]
Synonyms: completion
fulfillment
Antonyms: incompleteness
unfinishedness
Derived words: completeness axiom
Translations:
titanic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See Titanic.
Inflected forms:
form: more titanic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most titanic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Alternative letter-case form of Titanic.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
gloss: Alternative letter-case form of Titanic.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
comparable
not-comparable
usually
gloss: Alternative letter-case form of Titanic.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
not-comparable
usually
Derived words: titanically
titanic prime
Translations:
convince
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: acting
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin convincō (“to refute, prove”), from con- + vincō (“to conquer, vanquish”). Doublet of convict. Displaced native Old English oferreċċan.
Inflected forms:
form: convinces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: convincing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: convinced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: convinced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence.
pos: verb
examples: I wouldn't have or do something, unless I'm convinced that it's good.
Such convincing proofs and assurances of it as might enable them to convince others.
gloss: To persuade.
pos: verb
gloss: To overcome, conquer, vanquish.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: […]his two Chamberlaines / Will I with Wine, and Waſſell, ſo conuince, / That Memorie, the Warder of the Braine, / Shall be a Fume,[…]
gloss: To behave believably in a role; to make someone perceive oneself as the character being portrayed.
pos: verb
gloss: To confute; to prove wrong.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: For hee mightily conuinced the Iewes, and that publikely, shewing by the scriptures, that Iesus was Christ.
And therfore, God neuer wrought Miracle, to conuince Atheiſme, becauſe his Ordinary Works conuince it.
gloss: To prove guilty; to convict.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Which of you conuinceth mee of ſinne?
O ſeek not to convince me of a Crime / Which I can ne'er repent, nor can you pardon.
Related words: convict
conviction
convincible
convincingly
reconvince
Derived words: convinceable
convincement
convincer
unconvince
Translations: