yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
thoroughly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From thorough + -ly.
Base: thorough
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more thoroughly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most thoroughly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: thorowly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: In a thorough or complete manner.
pos: adv
examples: He went out in the rain and came back thoroughly drenched.
The editor looked thoroughly for any mistakes in the paper.
Another option is to wash spinach and other leafy greens thoroughly in running water before eating them.
Translations:
antidiuretic
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́)
Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der.
English anti-
English diuretic
English antidiuretic
From anti- + diuretic.
Inflected forms:
form: antidiuretics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: an agent that prevents or counteracts diuresis
pos: noun
gloss: preventing or counteracting diuresis, especially by the reduction of urination
pos: adj
Translations:
shoulders
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The two shoulders and the upper portion of the back.
pos: noun
gloss: Capacity for bearing a task or blame.
pos: noun
examples: The responsibility for the job was placed on his shoulders.
Derived words: broad shoulders
Translations:
diuresis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From New Latin diūrēsis, from Ancient Greek διουρέω (diouréō, “to urinate”) + -σις (-sis).
Morphologically, δῐουρέω (dĭouréō) can be analysed as δι- (di-) + οὐρέω (ouréō).
Inflected forms:
form: diureses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Excessive production of urine; polyuria.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: (more often) The physiologic process that produces such an increase.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: (most often) The administration of medications to encourage that process.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: diuretic
Derived words: antidiuresis
diurese
overdiuresis
underdiuresis
Translations:
sentiment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French sentement, from Latin sentimentum.
Inflected forms:
form: sentiments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A general thought, feeling, or sense.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The sentiment emerged that we were acting too soon.
"Now, my dear young friend," continued the bookseller, "you seem fond of reason; let me talk a little reason to you. Here, take your pamphlet again: there is good material in it, but it requires the making up. Leave out some of your arguments, and throw in a few sentiments,—something about free-born Britons and wooden shoes! Englishmen like to have a few sentiments ready for after-dinner use, in case of a speech...
The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.
gloss: Feelings, especially tender feelings, as apart from reason or judgment, or of a weak or foolish kind.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: feels; maudlinness
Good decision-making is not governed by mere sentiment.
To do the job thoroughly sentiment must be ignored and it seems inevitable that the famous Great Hall and the Doric Arch will have to be sacrificed to progress.
Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film.
Derived words: presentiment
sentimental
sentiment analysis
sentimentless
Translations:
complexification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English complex
English -ification
English complexification
From complex + -ification.
Inflected forms:
form: complexifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of making something more complex.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: All this represents a change in American society, and a complexification of it.
This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that lights the history of the universe to our eyes. In its own way, matter obeyed from the beginning that great law of biology to which we shall have to recur time and time again, the law of 'complexification'.
In Elise Boulding's analysis, the conservative qualities of woman's mysteries chose not to keep pace with the complexification of urban life.
For rational beings will of course try simple things first and thereafter be driven step by step towards an ever enhanced complexification
A new complexification occurs when the situation becomes desperate through crashing marginal returns on increasing complicatedness.
The development of protolanguage into modern human language, and the complexification of language more generally, can only occur when language users can successfully communicate even while they maintain different internal representations of language.
gloss: An extension from a basis on real numbers to a basis on complex numbers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
Antonyms: decomplexification
simplification
Related words: complex
complexified
complexify
complexifying
complexity
decomplexification
decomplexified
decomplexify
decomplexifying
Translations:
assured
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more assured
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most assured
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: assureds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Guaranteed; secure.
pos: adj
gloss: Self-confident; self-assured; sure.
pos: adj
examples: Youngster Townsend caught the eye on the wing, with his fantastic goal capping a classy performance, while Danny Rose continued his rapid development with an assured display at full-back.
gloss: Reliable, confirmed.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: What thinkſt thou man, ſhal come of our attempts?
For euen as from aſſured oracle,
I take thy doome for ſatiſfaction.
gloss: An insured person.
pos: noun
Derived words: assuredly
assuredness
mutual assured destruction
overassured
self-assured
unassured
underassured
Translations:
doors
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Opening time
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: Doors are at six, the show's at seven
[The loudspeaker] only has sound coming out of the left side, can we please do something about this, Don? It's 10 minutes before doors.
Translations:
hurried
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more hurried
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hurried
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hurryed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Done in a hurry; rushed.
pos: adj
examples: hurried decision
hurried meal
hurried steps
Translations:
colonnade
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French colonne
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Latin -atader.
Occitan -adader.
French -ade
French colonnadebor.
English colonnade
Borrowed from French colonnade.
Inflected forms:
form: colonnades
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A series of columns at regular intervals.
pos: noun
gloss: A peristyle.
pos: noun
gloss: A portico or stoa.
pos: noun
gloss: A regular row of anything, such as trees.
pos: noun
Derived words: colonnaded
Translations:
stepped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Provided with a step or steps; having a series of offsets or parts resembling the steps of stairs.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a stepped key
a stepped gear
steeply stepped stairs
He informs us that the unusual cars with stepped floors are not those of the original pair of lines […].
To improve the appearance of the stepped roof a glass-fibre fairing, moulded to the corner radius, extends for the full length between the two cabs.
Translations:
doubtless
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English douteles, dowteles, equivalent to doubt + -less.
Base: doubt
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
form: doubtlesse
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: doutless
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: doubtlesse
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: doutless
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by or experiencing no doubt at all, certain; undoubted; undoubting.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: There are those who have doubtless faith in revelation.
It is doubtless that the old reprobate who sued for his daughter's hand heard some unsavory truths from the man.
gloss: Free from fear or suspicion.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: And, pretty childe, ſleepe doubtleſſe, and ſecure, / That Hubert for the wealth of all the world, / Will not offend thee.
gloss: Without doubt; certainly; definitely; very probably, in all likelihood; doubtlessly.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: […] And, doubtless, unto thee is given
⁠A life that bears immortal fruit
⁠In such great offices as suit
The full-grown energies of heaven.
I cannot remember that I spoke a word, though doubtless I did.
The men, Dorothy thought, were about as old as Uncle Henry, for two of them had beards. But the little woman was doubtless much older: her face was covered with wrinkles, her hair was nearly white, and she walked rather stiffly.
There is also in these matters of Science (though many scientific men would doubtless deny this) a great deal of "Fashion".
Thom Yorke’s onstage pronouncements became less abstract and more effusive, they played the songs the less committed audience members doubtless wanted to hear in the first place: Paranoid Android, Creep, Fake Plastic Trees and Karma Police. At the end of the latter, Yorke happily led an audience singalong.
Derived words: doubtlessly
doubtlessness
Translations:
dihydrotestosterone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: By surface analysis, di- + hydro- + testosterone.
Inflected forms:
form: dihydrotestosterones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An androgenic metabolite of testosterone; used to treat certain breast cancers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: However, high levels of the nonaromatizable androgen dihydrotestosterone and of sex-hormone binding globulin that inhibit fat accumulation in the abdomen might also contribute to reducing the waist.
Translations:
testosterone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin testislbor.
English test(is)
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃-
Proto-Hellenic *kʰolā́
Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ)
Proto-Indo-European *ster-der.
Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós)
French cholestérine
French cholestérolbor.
English cholesterol
English sterol
German Ketonbor.
English ketone
English -one
English -sterone
English testosterone
From test(is) + -o- + -sterone (“steroid hormone”).
Inflected forms:
form: testosterones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A steroid hormone that stimulates development of male secondary sexual characteristics, produced mainly in the testes, but also in the ovaries and adrenal cortex.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Mammalian testes contain almost no testosterone because it is sent out into the body as quickly as it is made.
The text recounts a 2011 experiment: Researchers tested 136 healthy young men’s testosterone levels, asked them about their political party affiliations, then gave them either a placebo or ten grams of AndroGel one percent, a high-end dose of a common form of testosterone often used in hormone replacement therapies.
gloss: Manly behavior, often of an aggressive or foolishly reckless nature.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: Mother encouraged James to rely more on intelligence and less on testosterone to deal with the neighbor's son.
The MPS is a male orientated and misogynistic environment filled with testosterone, notches on bed posts and conquests.
Derived words: cloxotestosterone
dehydrotestosterone
dihydroxytestosterone
epitestosterone
hydroxytestosterone
ketotestosterone
methyltestosterone
nortestosterone
testosteronal
testosteroned
testosteronemia
testosterone undecanoate
testosteroney
testosteronic
testosterony
Translations:
metabolite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *me
Proto-Indo-European *meth₂?
Ancient Greek μετᾰ́ (metắ)
Ancient Greek μετα- (meta-)
Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH-der.
Proto-Hellenic *gʷəlnō
Ancient Greek βάλλω (bállō)
Ancient Greek μεταβάλλω (metabállō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek μετᾰβολή (metăbolḗ)
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English metabolism
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der.
Latin -ītēsbor.
French -iteder.
English -ite
English metabolite
From metabolism + -ite.
Inflected forms:
form: metabolites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any substance produced by, or taking part in, a metabolic reaction.
pos: noun
examples: Cannabis and some of its metabolites, for example, persist in the fat stores of the body for several weeks after a single dose.
In addition to looking at gene expression, Bozek and her colleagues analyzed levels of metabolites, a diverse group of small molecules that includes sugars, nucleic acids and neurotransmitters. Many metabolites are either necessary for metabolism or produced by it.
Translations:
prominently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English prominent
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English prominently
From prominent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more prominently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most prominently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a prominent manner.
pos: adv
examples: It is the transcontinental trains which figure most prominently in railway advertising. Both railways run two trains in each direction.
He would also have been exposed to the coughings and shufflings, comings and goings, questions and answers, wailings and slammings, snivellings and sneezings, etc., which figured so prominently in the reference room […]
Translations:
electronically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English electronic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English electronically
From electronic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more electronically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most electronically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: By means of electronics, or of electronic technology.
pos: adv
examples: In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.
Translations:
plainly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English playnly, pleinly, pleyneliche, equivalent to plain + -ly.
Base: plain
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: plainlier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more plainly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: plainliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most plainly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a plain manner; simply; basically.
pos: adv
examples: She decorated the room plainly but neatly.
'Tell me plainly what you think of my daughter's little companion.'
gloss: Obviously; clearly.
pos: adv
examples: You will see that ours is plainly the better method.
The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
Plainly he was prepared to bark out an interminable succession of charges against the Wanderer.
Synonyms: unambiguously
obviously
Translations:
exceedingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English exceeding
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English exceedingly
From exceeding + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: To a great or unusual degree, extent, etc.; extremely
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter II. "Stage-coach Views", page 16.
This coach was an exceedingly narrow one […]
I gasped and nearly sank to the ground, for I knew that such a situation must result in some dreadful tragedy, of which it seemed exceedingly probable to me that I should be the first victim.
It is an exceedingly easy thing for a Governor or a President to go along with the drift of the tide, to veto vicious legislation, to give honest administration, to lead a perfectly peaceful life, and to avoid criticism or attack. Of such are the hundreds of forgotten Governors and the dozens of Presidents whom we have to look up in a history book.
Examples abound regarding how firms are using blockchains to enhance cybersecurity; after all, at its most basic level, it is an open source code that can be downloaded and run by anyone, for free. Due to these exceedingly low barriers to entry, this technology has the potential to unleash coinless cybersecurity applications. Already, Marc Andreesen, a venture capitalist, has invested more than $50 million in blockchain technologies.
American Eagle released a campaign starring the exceedingly charismatic actress Sydney Sweeney.
Translations:
continually
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English continual
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English continually
From continual + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more continually
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most continually
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In regular or repeated succession; very often.
pos: adv
examples: Guatemalan snowpea production has continually been harmed by insect and disease infestations.
gloss: In a continuous manner; non-stop.
pos: adv
tags: proscribed
sometimes
Synonyms: little by little
momently
at every turn
sequentially
incessantly
nonstop
Derived words: itinually
Translations:
consequently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English consequentely, consequentliche, consequently; equivalent to consequent + -ly.
Base: consequent
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: As a result or consequence of something; subsequently.
pos: adv
tags: conjunctive
not-comparable
examples: He didn't wake up early. Consequently, he was late to work.
He Suſpends on theſe Reaſons, that Thomas Rue had granted a general Diſcharge to Adam Muſhet, who was his Conjunct, and correus debendi, after the alleadged Service, which Diſcharged Muſhet, and conſequently Houstoun his Partner.
While algebraical reasoning is most frequently analytical, arithmetical reasoning is generally synthetical, and, consequently, more difficult to understand.
gloss: subsequently, following after in time or sequence.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
sequence
Translations:
seriously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: manner
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-rós
Proto-Italic *sēros
Latin sērus
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
?
Proto-Indo-European *swer-
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *swerjos?
Latin sērius
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos
Latin -ōsus
Medieval Latin sēriōsus
Old French serieuxbor.
Middle English seryows
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -lech, -ly
Middle English seryowslech
English seriously
From Middle English seriously, sereously, ceryously, seryowslech (“earnestly”), equivalent to serious + -ly.
Base: serious
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more seriously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most seriously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a serious or literal manner.
pos: adv
examples: He was hoping that we would take him seriously.
Jimmy jokingly called Bob a doofus. Bob took the insult seriously.
“I’ll qualify the statement, then,” she answered, with a laugh. “We have known each other for two ages—hers and mine. But seriously we are as dear to each other as sisters, and now that I am going to lose her I am almost heartbroken.”
Masters and Johnson wanted their work to be taken seriously, and wanted to stay a step ahead of the morality police, so they tended to write in almost comically dense medicalese.
Jeremy, meanwhile, was the fun-lover, like me, who didn't always take it too seriously.
gloss: Gravely; deeply; very much.
pos: adv
examples: That was a seriously unpleasant thing to say.
gloss: Used to attempt to introduce a serious point in a less serious conversation.
pos: adv
examples: Now, seriously, why did you forget to feed the cat today?
gloss: Used to call back to a previous point, in disbelief or for emphasis.
pos: adv
examples: You baked ten (10) cakes. Seriously, why did you do that?
gloss: In an extreme or major way; majorly.
pos: adv
tags: informal
examples: Unless you're seriously strapped (armed), you're about to be not okay too.
Derived words: but seriously folks
sinseriously
srsly
take seriously
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 說真的 /说真的
roman: shuōzhēnde
lang: French
word: sérieux
lang: German
word: ernsthaft
lang: German
word: im Ernst
lang: Hungarian
word: na de komolyan
lang: Norwegian
word: serr
lang: Norwegian
word: seriøst
lang: Polish
word: poważnie
lang: Polish
word: na serio
lang: Polish
word: na poważnie
lang: Polish
word: serio
lang: Polish
word: autentyk
lang: Portuguese
word: a sério
lang: Romanian
word: serios
lang: Romanian
word: pe bune
lang: Spanish
word: en serio
Ouija
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The popular belief that the word came from French oui (“yes”) + German ja (“yes”) is a misconception. The name is taken from a word spelled out on the board when it was asked to name itself by Helen Peters, sister-in-law of Kennard Company investor Elijah Bond. It is noted in personal letters that Ouija was the name of a woman in a painting above her head at the time, who it is speculated may have in fact been Ouida.
Inflected forms:
form: Ouijas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ouija
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A board, having letters of the alphabet and the words yes and no; used with a planchette during a seance to "communicate" with spirits.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The use of such a board to attempt to communicate with spirits.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Soon after the departure of my brother to the better land, our spirit-band informed us very plainly through "Ouija," that it was our duty to remove to Boston in order that our children might have better educational facilities, and be admitted to the "musical swim" of the "Hub of the Universe."
Translations:
steadily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English steady
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English steadily
From steady + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more steadily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most steadily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a steady manner; with a steady progression.
pos: adv
examples: The last 61 miles of the journey, from Kongsberg to Oslo, are through much less mountainous country. The railway curves sharply away from the Lågan^([sic]), and descends steadily, and in places steeply, past the head of Lake Fiskerumvatn to Hokksund, where the connecting line to the Bergen-Oslo Railway at Hønefoss diverges.
She lisped slightly, little-girlish, looking at him still while drinking whisky steadily from a full glass.
It grew steadily colder and presently a mushroomy sort of smell came up from the darkness.
Translations:
distinctly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English distinct
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English distinctly
From distinct + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more distinctly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most distinctly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a distinct manner.
pos: adv
examples: I distinctly remember the voice of my deceased grandmother.
About ten months ago a report reached my ears that a Dutchman had constructed a telescope, by the aid of which visible objects, although at a great distance from the eye of the observer, were seen distinctly as if near; […]
Commander Birch was a trifle uneasy when he found there was more than a popple on the sea; it was, in fact, distinctly choppy.
"Aloud," he said distinctly, "the Seven Words are spoken thus. Melenkurion abatha. Duroc minas mill. Harad khabaal."
Antonyms: indistinctly
Translations:
hastily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hasty
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English hastily
From hasty + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more hastily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most hastily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a hasty manner; quickly or hurriedly.
pos: adv
examples: The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.
The last occasion on which the Kaiser [Wilhelm II] used this train was for an inglorious journey into Holland towards the end of the 1914 war. He spent the night in it at Eysden [Eijsden], while the Queen of the Netherlands and a hastily summoned Cabinet debated what to do with him.
Eudemis moved hastily but as unobtrusively as he could through the gaping crowd[.]
gloss: Soon, shortly.
pos: adv
tags: obsolete
examples: she with liquors strong his eyes did steepe, / That nothing should him hastily awake [...].
Derived words: overhastily
Translations:
eagerly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English egerly; equivalent to eager + -ly.
Base: eager
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more eagerly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most eagerly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an eager manner.
pos: adv
examples: Heidi had been listening eagerly, with shining eyes.
The world’s favorite airport and Asian mega-hub, Singapore Changi, is eagerly working towards opening its new Jewel and Terminal 5.
Translations:
lightly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English lyghtly, liȝtliche, lihtliche, from Old English lēohtlīċe, equivalent to light + -ly.
Base: light
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: lightlier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more lightly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: lightliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most lightly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: lighty
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In a light manner.
pos: adv
examples: As a teacher, I don't take rudeness in class lightly.
Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
In the Southern Region of British Railways, most of the damage was caused by earthslips which blocked one or both roads. Obstructions occurred at 21 places in the London Eastern District, and at 18 places in London Central District. On the other hand, the London Western District escaped comparatively lightly.
Translations:
undoubtedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English undoutedly, equivalent to undoubted + -ly.
Base: undoubted
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more undoubtedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most undoubtedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without doubt; definitely.
pos: adv
examples: The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.
He declared that these drastic steps would undoubtedly inconvenience a good many people, but the alternative was bankruptcy of the Ulster Transport Authority and the breakdown of public transport services.
“It’s been a long process and I’ve come close to giving up along the way, but this is undoubtedly the craziest archaeological excavation I’ve yet been part of,” Bloch said in the news release.
Translations:
indirectly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English inderectely, indirectly, equivalent to indirect + -ly or in- + directly.
Base: indirect
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more indirectly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most indirectly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an indirect manner.
pos: adv
examples: His alcoholism had a direct effect on his health, and indirectly caused problems for others.
At laſt a new Ceſſation of Hoſtilities upon theſe Points was reſolved on; yet the Hatred continues, and the War goes on, though more covertly, and more indirectly than before.
For while he refers to his gout (a good disease), he does not mention the complaint which indirectly killed him, his hydrocele – an enlargement of the scrotum.
Antonyms: directly
Translations:
comparatively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin comparātīvusbor.
Old French comparatifbor.
Middle English comparatif
English comparative
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English comparatively
From comparative + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more comparatively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most comparatively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a comparative manner.
pos: adv
examples: And yet I suppose that my life has been, comparatively speaking, a happy one.
Railway grouping had caused some peculiarly Scottish phraseology to disappear, though the note "Stops on timous notice to the guard" survived until comparatively recently.
gloss: When compared to other entities.
pos: adv
examples: Never did I see a more dreary and depressing scene. Miles on miles of quagmire, varied only by bright green strips of comparatively solid ground[.]
In freewayless areas like the Northwest, traffic jams are comparatively fewer – encouraged by the lack of a highway, more people have been riding buses.
Translations:
gratefully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English grateful
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English gratefully
From grateful + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more gratefully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most gratefully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a grateful manner.
pos: adv
examples: A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed.
 ‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’ […] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’
The patients were all treated at the Duchess of Kent Children’s Orthopaedic Hospital, Sandy Bay, Hong Kong, and the work of all colleagues, nursing staff and collaborators in this study is gratefully acknowledged.
Translations:
justly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English just
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English justly
From just + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: justlier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more justly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: justliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most justly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a just or fair manner; rightfully.
pos: adv
examples: His valor, wisdom, and justice made him justly popular, but caused him to be regarded with suspicion at Rome.
Mention must be made of the Valdres Folk Museum, situated just outside the town—one of those fascinating open-air museums for which Scandinavia is justly famed, to which have been transplanted a number of ancient buildings, such as farmhouses and storehouses, full of appropriate furniture, costumes and other exhibits.
gloss: With a just or fair use of language; with good reason, properly.
pos: adv
examples: But the city on the River Clyde can justly claim to have turned the tide.
gloss: With great precision; accurately, exactly.
pos: adv
tags: obsolete
examples: It is a pleasant imagination to conceive a spirit iustly ballanced betweene two equall desires.
Translations:
namely
Part of speech: adv
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English namely, nameliche, namelike, equivalent to name + -ly. Cognate with Saterland Frisian nämmelk, West Frisian nammentlik, Dutch namelijk, German Low German nämlich, German nämlich, Danish nemlig, Swedish nämligen, Icelandic nefnilega.
Base: name
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more namely
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: namelier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most namely
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: nameliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Specifically; that is to say.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Some of the students — namely Paul, Alice and Jake — seem to have trouble with geometry.
There are three ways to do it, namely the right way, the wrong way and the Army way.
“The story of this adoption is, of course, the pivot round which all the circumstances of the mysterious tragedy revolved. Mrs. Yule had an only son, namely, William, to whom she was passionately attached ; but, like many a fond mother, she had the desire of mapping out that son's future entirely according to her own ideas.[…].
gloss: Especially, above all.
pos: adv
tags: archaic
not-comparable
examples: THus was sir Tramtryst longe there wel cherysshed / with the kynge and the quene / and namely with la beale Isoud / So vpon a daye / the quene and la beale Isoud made a bayne for syre Tramtryst / And whan he was in his bayne / the quene and Isoud her doughter romed vp & doune in the chamber
gloss: Notable, distinguished; famous, renowned; well-known.
pos: adj
examples: […] and certainly there was no namelier king in Scotland for building churches and developing the communities of the land into free towns or burghs.
Synonyms: that is to say
to wit
videlicet
scilicet
viz.
sc.
in other words
Translations:
strangely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English straungely (“strangely, aloofly, intricately”); equivalent to strange + -ly.
Base: strange
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more strangely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most strangely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a strange or coincidental manner.
pos: adv
examples: Though I'd never gone to Boston before, everything looked strangely familiar.
Daniel was walking strangely because he had twisted his ankle.
A tale of gangland warfare and filial loyalty in the Glasgow of 1958, Small Faces is an enjoyable but strangely unmoving film.
gloss: Surprisingly, wonderfully.
pos: adv
tags: archaic
examples: […]all thy vexations / Were but my trials of thy love, and thou / Hast strangely stood the test[…]
Synonyms: oddly
uncannily
weirdly
alienly
curiously
eccentrically
enigmatically
peculiarly
quaintly
queerly
singly
singularly
strangely
unconventionally
unfamiliarly
Antonyms: familiarly
mundanely
normally
Related words: strange
Derived words: strangely warmed
Translations:
tax-free
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tax
Proto-Indo-European *preyH-
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *priHós
Proto-Germanic *frijaz
Proto-West Germanic *frī
Proto-West Germanic *-frī
Old English -frēo
Middle English -fre
English -free
English tax-free
From tax + -free.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: exempt from taxation
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: If your income qualifies you to contribute to a Roth IRA, you can contribute up to $7,000 this year ($8,000 if you’re at least 50) with after-tax savings. That money will grow untaxed until retirement, at which point your withdrawals will be tax-free and penalty-free after age 59-1/2, assuming the account has been open for at least five years.
Translations:
cochlea
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cochlea (“a snail”), from Ancient Greek κόχλιας (kókhlias, “a snail with a spiral shell”).
Inflected forms:
form: cochleae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cochleas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The complex, spirally coiled, tapered cavity of the inner ear of higher vertebrates, which contains the organ of Corti and in which sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses.
pos: noun
gloss: A spiral-shaped shell, especially that of a snail.
pos: noun
Derived words: cochlear
cochleitis
Translations:
midi
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fashion
lifestyle
media
publishing
Inflected forms:
form: midis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having a hemline at mid-calf length.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: midi skirt
gloss: A coat, skirt, or boot having such a hemline.
pos: noun
examples: Vogue recommends mixing midis – ie wearing the midi-boot with the midi-skirt – which is one option (very Marni), as is the current silhouette on the high street.
gloss: Synonym of Berliner (“newspaper format”).
pos: noun
Related words: mini
maxi
Translations:
maxi
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from maximum on the analogy of minimum and mini.
Inflected forms:
form: more maxi
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most maxi
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a hemline at ankle length.
pos: adj
gloss: Being of the largest size in its category of items.
pos: adj
examples: It will be observed that on each of the mini runs there are more hits than on either of the maxi runs.
The chance to shelter additional current income for future retirement is what makes the "maxi” plan attractive.
Liptak identified several trends emerging in the marketing of pay-TV which he identified as the 2½, (rather than "maxi-maxi- mini") phenomenon, the “1½ phenomenon,” (meaning a maxi and mini package), and a possible trend raising the question of whether three maxi's might be successful.
Translations:
pivotal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pivot
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 pivotal
From pivot + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more pivotal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pivotal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or being a pivot.
pos: adj
gloss: Being of crucial importance; central, key.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].
"Crucially, HS2 is already playing a pivotal role in helping Britain's post-pandemic economic recovery.
Derived words: nonpivotal
pivotality
pivotally
pivotalness
pivotal quantity
Translations:
chastise
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English chastisen, from Old French chastier, from Latin castīgō. See also the doublets chasten and castigate and cf. also chaste.
Inflected forms:
form: chastises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chastising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chastised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chastised
pos: verb
tags: past
form: chastize
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
nonstandard
Senses:
gloss: To punish, especially by corporal punishment.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And now whereas my father did lade you with a heauy yoke, I wil adde to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whippes, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
An army was sent to chastise an unoffending people; to subdue an imaginary insurrection.
Thus only the husband is in a position to chastise her, for his own relatives may not exert any physical force over her.
If even Israel, the people chosen to be God’s own, scorned and neglected the values God had revealed to be what God willed and desired, then God would marshal the forces of history to chastise them.
“There is a man who must be chastised,” she says softly, lightly. “Chastised in a physical way. It should not be difficult. Not for you.”
gloss: To castigate; to scold or censure.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She feels definitely that Lung Shing is her town, and is not hesitant to chastise people who she thinks are not behaving properly—such as, for example, a woman using loud, vulgar language on the street—although in so doing she may only turn the direction of abuse on herself.
Only last year Attorney General Edwin Meese chastised the Supreme Court for a series of decisions based on the legal doctrine of “indoctrination”—that is, that the 14th Amendment requires the states to respect the prohibitions on abuse of power that the Bill of Rights had originally applied to the federal government.
My urban, academic friends chastise me for romanticizing rural life.
People pop up all the time to boast of their domestic arrangements or chastise others for what they eat or how they get around.
Derived words: chastisable
chastisement
chastiser
unchastising
Translations:
trysail
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
form: trysails
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small, strong triangular sail sometimes set in place of the mainsail in heavy weather.
pos: noun
examples: I have worked like a Trojan all day, and the idea is realized. Margaret helped me out with suggestions, and Tom Spink did the sailorizing. Over our head, from the jiggermast, the steel stays that carry the three jigger-trysails descend high above the break of the poop and across the main deck to the mizzenmast.
Translations:
bestial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English bestial, from Old French bestial, from Late Latin bēstiālis, from Latin bēstia (“beast”) (whence English beast).
Inflected forms:
form: more bestial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bestial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Beast-like.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
literally
examples: Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
By thee adulterous lust was driven from men /
Among the bestial herds to range […]
This familiar that I called out of my own soul, and sent forth alone to do his good pleasure, was a being inherently malign and villainous; his every act and thought centered on self; drinking pleasure with bestial avidity from any degree of torture to another; relentless like a man of stone.
His was a bestial face, a face that bore the stamp of Nature's eternal injustice.
Ah, if the invincible forest god of that dead past were but with them now. No longer would there be aught to fear from prowling beasts, or from the bestial Russian.
The Game of Thrones novels were best sellers without fleshed-out Dothraki; the languages in Star Wars, one of the most successful franchises ever, are mostly gibberish, even if Han Solo claims to understand Chewbacca’s bestial warbling.
Translations:
sweetie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sweh₂d-
Proto-Indo-European *-us
Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus
Proto-Germanic *swōtuz
Proto-Germanic *-jaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ī
Proto-West Germanic *swōtī
Old English swēte
Middle English swete
English sweet
English -ie
English sweetie
From sweet + -ie.
Inflected forms:
form: sweeties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sweety
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who is much loved.
pos: noun
tags: often
term-of-address
examples: "But... Do you feel better now?" "Much better, sweetie, thank you. Now I get to be a girl everyday."^([sic])
gloss: A sweetheart.
pos: noun
gloss: A fruit that is a crossbreed between a grapefruit and a pomelo, originating in Israel.
pos: noun
gloss: A sweet; a candy.
pos: noun
tags: UK
childish
examples: Can I have a box of sweeties for being a good boy?
Translations:
rennet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English rennet, from Old English *rynnet, *ġerynnet, from Proto-West Germanic *garunniþu (“coagulation, curdling, rennet”), cognate with Old Saxon girunnida (“a running together, coagulation”), Old High German girunnida (“rennet, coagulation”), Middle High German gerinnede (“that which is curdled”).
Compare also Middle English renelesse, renels, renlys, rendlys (“rennet”), Middle Dutch rinsel, runsel (“rennet”), German Rennsel; further to Middle English irennen (“to curdle; to run”), Old English ġerennan (“to coagulate”), Old High German girunst (“rennet”), German gerinnen (“to coagulate; congeal”).
Inflected forms:
form: rennets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: runnet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An enzyme used as the first step in making cheese, to curdle the milk and coagulate the casein in it, derived by soaking the fourth stomach of a milk-fed calf in brine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
embolus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
zoology
Etymology: The term was coined in 1848 by Rudolf Virchow From Latin embolus (“piston”), from Ancient Greek ἔμβολος (émbolos, “peg, stopper”).
Inflected forms:
form: emboli
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: emboluses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An obstruction causing an embolism: a blood clot, air bubble or other matter carried by the bloodstream and causing a blockage or occlusion of a blood vessel.
pos: noun
gloss: The structure on the end of the palp of male arachnids which contains the opening to the ejaculatory duct.
pos: noun
examples: Those spiders with a simple bulb insert most of this; those with a complex palp insert only the embolus, which in some species is very long […]
Related words: embolon
thrombus
Derived words: atheroembolus
embolic
embolism
embolo-
macroembolus
microembolus
thromboembolus
Translations: