yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
fumble
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From late Middle English, from Low German fummeln, fommeln, fammeln (German fummeln), or Dutch fommelen.
Or, perhaps from a Scandinavian/North Germanic source; compare related Old Norse fálma, Icelandic fálma, Danish fumle, especially Swedish fumla, famla, with variants: fumbla (“fumble”), fambla (“famble”), related to Swedish fim, fem (Danish fim, Norwegian fim, feima), with a root meaning of “cover, coating of foam or figuratively ditto”, cognate to German Feim (“surf”) and English foam. Possibly has (a more or less unconscious) connection to fathom (via Old Norse faðmr, Swedish famn) in the sense of “embrace”.
The ultimate origin for either could perhaps be imitative of fumbling. Or, from Proto-Indo-European *pal- (“to shake, swing”), see also Latin palpo (“to pat, touch softly”), and possibly Proto-West Germanic *fōlijan (“to feel”).
Inflected forms:
form: fumbles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fumbling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fumbled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fumbled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: famble
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dialectal
obsolete
form: fimble
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dialectal
obsolete
form: fumbles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: famble
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dialectal
obsolete
form: fimble
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dialectal
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To handle nervously or awkwardly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Waiting for the interview, he fumbled with his tie.
He fumbled the key into the lock.
gloss: To grope awkwardly in trying to find something
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: He fumbled for his keys.
He fumbled his way to the light-switch.
Adams novv began to fumble in his Pockets, and ſoon cried out, O la! I have it [a sermon] not about me— […]
gloss: To blunder uncertainly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He fumbled through his prepared speech.
gloss: To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly.
pos: verb
examples: to fumble for an excuse
My understanding stutters, and my memory fumbles.
Alas! how he fumbles about the domains.
gloss: To drop a ball or a baton etc. by accident.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Henderson's best strike on goal saw goalkeeper Kingson uncomfortably fumble his measured shot around the post.
gloss: To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over.
pos: verb
examples: I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers.
gloss: Of a man, to sexually underperform.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
slang
gloss: A ball etc. that has been dropped by accident.
pos: noun
tags: Canadian
gloss: A clumsy sexual encounter.
pos: noun
examples: Suzy and Jimmy had a fumble behind the bike shed.
Synonyms: poke
Derived words: fumble-fingered
fumblefingers
fumbler
fumblesome
fumble the bag
fumblingly
fumblingness
outfumble
unfumbled
unfumbling
Translations:
espouse
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English espousen, borrowed from Old French espouser, from Latin spōnsāre (frequentative of spondeō), from Proto-Indo-European *spend-.
Inflected forms:
form: espouses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: espousing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: espoused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: espoused
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To marry.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: For I am iealous ouer you with godly iealousie, for I haue espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
Now the birth of Iesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Ioseph (before they came together) shee was found with childe of the holy Ghost.
Philip and Henry terminated hostilities by a mutual restitution of all places taken during the course of the war; and Philip espoused the princess Elizabeth, eldest daughter of France, formerly betrothed to his son Don Carlos.
Elberich endeavours to persuade her to become a Christian, and espouse Otnit; and to convince her of the incapacity of her gods, he tumbles their images into the fosse.
He espoused several wives, and besides kept a considerable number of concubines in his harem.
gloss: To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause).
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: Although Dowty’s proposal is attractive from the point of view of the alternative argument linking theory that I am espousing, since it eschews the use of thematic roles and thematic role hierarchies, […], but it still has some drawbacks.
Those that espoused this ideology […]
Among those leavers who believe Brexit has not gone well, many blame politicians for handling it badly – a narrative espoused by the former Ukip leader Nigel Farage, who recently claimed that “Brexit has failed”.
Related words: espousal
sponsor
spouse
Derived words: disespouse
espousable
Translations:
ethnocentrism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ethno- + -centrism.
Base: ethno
Inflected forms:
form: ethnocentrisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own traditional, deferred, or adoptive ethnic culture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
Plutarch
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Via Latin Plūtarchus from Ancient Greek Πλούτᾰρχος (Ploútărkhos).
Inflected forms:
form: Plutarchs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any specific edition of a work by Plutarch, often specifically Plutarch's Lives
pos: noun
examples: Both these English Plutarchs are here, two folios printed at London in 1657, and they once belonged to William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, and have his book-plates.
Translations:
carnivora
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin carnivorabor.
English carnivora
Borrowed from Latin carnivora.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Carnivorans.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: Naturalists try to arrange the species, genera, and families in each class, on what is called the Natural System. But what is meant by this system? Some authors look at it merely as a scheme for arranging together those living objects which are most alike, and fer separating those which are most unlike; or as an artificial means for enunciating, as briefly as possible, general propositions,—that is, by one sentence to give the characters common, for instance, to all mammals, by another those common to all carnivora, by another those common to the dog-genus, and then by adding a single sentence, a full description is given of each kind of dog.
The minds of the great carnivora are therefore little exercised in nature, and do not grow; and, accustomed to power and to seeing all the denizens of the forest quail before them, they do not know what it is to feel a sense of help needed or of favors received.
The carnivora are the gangsters round here, but man is still the arch criminal—Public Enemy Number One.
The word snow deepening all night, the room devours and replicates its tired carnivora, its surface antigens, a troubled sleep stranded at a chair and a man carrying an infinity of blindfold nests inside him, a novendecillion bile conduits.
Translations:
baseline
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
sports
tennis
typography
Etymology: From base + line.
Compound parts: base
line
Inflected forms:
form: baselines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: baselines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: baselining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: baselined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: baselined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A line that is a base for measurement or for construction.
pos: noun
examples: A laser level generates a convenient baseline for interior work.
gloss: A datum used as the basis for calculation or for comparison.
pos: noun
examples: We used the last doctor visit to provide baselines for vital statistics.
Currently, about fifty million square miles of land on the planet are ice-free, and this is the baseline that's generally used for calculating human impacts.
gloss: A line used as the basis for the alignment of glyphs.
pos: noun
examples: Several characters typically have descenders below the lower baseline.
gloss: The line at the farthest ends of the court indicating the boundary of the area of play.
pos: noun
examples: The umpire missed the call. The ball hit the baseline.
gloss: A configuration of software, hardware, or a process that is established and documented as a point of reference.
pos: noun
examples: The baseline configuration includes unsupported components.
gloss: To provide a baseline for measurement.
pos: verb
examples: Finally, the test was baselined by evaluating the best and poorest catalysts of their respective types by this protocol.
To ensure Lojban remains stable while people learn it, the language definition is being closely controlled; the grammar and core vocabulary have already been baselined (frozen) for several years.
gloss: To play from the baseline.
pos: verb
examples: By the time Maggie, who is eight years younger than Manuela, started playing, baselining was no longer enough to win points, so she learned to move around the court more …
Derived words: baselined
baseline driver
baseline game
baseliner
nonbaseline
postbaseline
prebaseline
rebaseline
shifting baseline syndrome
very-long-baseline interferometry
Translations:
quiddity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
law
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English quidite, from Old French quidité, and its source, Late Latin quidditās, from Latin quid (“what”) + -itas (“-ness”) (whence -ity).
Base: -ity
Affixes: -
Inflected forms:
form: quiddities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The essence or inherent nature of a person or thing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A tub of butter, contemplated by him, amounts to a Platonic idea. He understands a leg of mutton in its quiddity. He stands wondering, amid the commonplace materials of life, like primæval man, with the sun and stars about him.
My vision reeked with truth. It had the tone,
The quiddity and quaintness of its own
Reality.
He represented my quiddity I suppose – the part which, thanks to you, has converted a black pessimism about life into a belief in cosmic absurdity.
When I send a card, it has to be right. Something that sums up the essential quiddity of being me, right here, right now.
gloss: A trifle; a nicety or quibble.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An eccentricity; an odd feature.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They have ſwallowed and digeſted all the Fathers, the Codes, Provincials, Decretals, Pandects, Councils, Canons ; are Maſters of all the Schoolmen, not to fill their Heads and ſtuff their Writings with Quiddities and Quoddities, and far-fetched unintelligible Diſtinctions, but to be able to reaſon cloſely, to argue ſolidly, to rebuke, to confute, to reply, to rejoind, to ſyllogize, to criticize, to apologize, to advertize, to ſermonize, to decypherize, to――
Synonyms: quintessence
whatness
Related words: in .
Derived words: quidditative
quidditism
Translations:
nonexistent
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From non- + existent.
Base: existent
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
form: non-existent
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: non-existant
pos: adj
tags: alternative
misspelling
form: nonexistant
pos: adj
tags: alternative
misspelling
form: nonexistents
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: non-existent
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: non-existant
pos: noun
tags: alternative
misspelling
form: nonexistant
pos: noun
tags: alternative
misspelling
Senses:
gloss: Not existent or existing; not real.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: "Hrunk" is a nonexistent word.
His social skills are nonexistent: he chewed with his mouth open all through dinner.
In the 1995 Test Census, the Bureau plans to test the use of Postal Service letter carriers to identify vacant and nonexistent units when it mails census questionnaires.
If there is anything of philosophical significance to be taken at face value in ordinary thought and language it is the reference and attribution of properties to existent and nonexistent objects.
Conversely, to return to the point at hand, nonexistent entities can be known, even by a Buddha, without being, thereby, substantial.
gloss: Not present or occurring.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Large cranes were virtually non-existent in the areas I worked with this truck, so we jacked everything on and off[.]
The opposite issue emerges in the summer when students face scorching temperatures with unreliable or nonexistent air conditioning.
gloss: Something that does not exist.
pos: noun
examples: By showing that no true statements were about nonexistents, he dismissed any facts or knowledge about the so-called beingless.
Related words: nonexistence
nonexistential
lost to the world
Translations:
broadband
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
Etymology: From broad + band.
Compound parts: broad
band
Inflected forms:
form: broadbands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wideband of electromagnetic frequencies.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: An Internet connection provisioned over an existing service using alternate signal frequencies such as ADSL or a cable modem.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
uncountable
usually
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or carrying a wide band of electromagnetic frequencies
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: voice over broadband
wireless broadband
Translations:
sig
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of signature.
Inflected forms:
form: sigs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sigs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sigging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sigged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sigged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A signature, especially one on emails or newsgroup postings.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
informal
examples: Your sig should ideally be four or five lines long, six or seven at the maximum. Since it will be repeated on hundreds of messages, a long signature wastes bandwidth and is therefore rude.
Posting good content is the best way to get people clicking your sig link.
gloss: To good-naturedly make fun of someone; to signify.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: And it is a matter of pride. No Black person wants to be "sigged" about or capped all over.
Clearly, signifying ain't lost a beat on the bumpy ride from Africa to America. In fact, it seem like brothas been sigging since they stepped off the boat.
Those siggin' are also master wordsmiths. They have a variety of concepts to choose from in their rhetorical tool bags.
Translations:
capability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Formed in Modern English as capable + -ity.
Base: capable
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: capabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The power or ability to generate an outcome.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And that sight will become more common in the coming years, as the city’s police pursue an ambitious campaign to install thousands of cameras to elevate their surveillance capabilities.
gloss: A digital token allowing a user or process to interact in a specified way with an object that is subject to access control.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A file descriptor can be considered a capability that can only be leveraged using the appropriate system calls, passing it as an argument.
Enforcing a security policy means controlling the rights users can acquire to data. In a capability machine, a user’s rights are defined by the capabilities he (or a process acting on his behalf) can obtain and the access rights conferred by those capabilities.
Related words: capable
Derived words: capability overhang
capernosity
immunocapability
incapability
limited-capability
negative capability
Translations:
caption
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
law
media
publishing
television
typography
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin captiō (“deception, fraud”), from the past participle of capiō (“to take, to seize”) (English capture). Compare Middle English capcioun (“seizure, capture”).
Inflected forms:
form: captions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: captions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: captioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: captioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: captioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The descriptive heading or title, of a document or part thereof.
pos: noun
gloss: A title or brief explanation attached to an illustration, cartoon, user interface element, etc.
pos: noun
examples: Some of the photographs are new and interesting, but many captions are amateurish, uninformative or simply careless.
gloss: A piece of text appearing on screen as a subtitle or other part of a film or broadcast, describing dialogue (and sometimes other sound) for viewers who cannot hear.
pos: noun
examples: (theater, performance production) By analogy, text in a similar system used in a performance venue for transcription of a live event.
gloss: The section on an official paper (for example, as part of a seizure or capture) that describes when, where, and what was taken, found or executed, and who authorized the act.
pos: noun
gloss: A seizure or capture, especially of tangible property (chattel).
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: 1919 Thomas Welburn Hughes. A treatise on criminal law and procedure. The Bobbs-Merril Co., Indianapolis, IN, USA. Sec. 557 (p. 378).
The caption and asportation must be felonious.
gloss: A story that is embedded in a pre-existing image (sometimes with image manipulation)
pos: noun
tags: Internet
gloss: To add captions to a text or illustration.
pos: verb
examples: Only once the drawing is done will the letterer caption it.
gloss: To add captions to a film or broadcast.
pos: verb
Related words: captious
captivate
captive
capture
manipper
subtitle
supertitle
surtitle
Derived words: captionable
captioned
captioner
captioning
closed caption
closed-caption
closed captions
closed captioned
closed-captioned
close captioned
close-captioned
closed captioning
closed-captioning
open caption
open-caption
open captions
real time caption
real-time caption
real time captioning
real-time captioning
Translations:
Mauser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after the original designers, Wilhelm and Paul Mauser.
Inflected forms:
form: Mausers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the firearms made or designed by the German company Mauser, notably automatic pistols and bolt action rifles.
pos: noun
examples: The war has begun, confrontations are escalating across the region, and all his men own are old Mausers.
Translations:
carat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French carat, from Italian carato, from Arabic قِيرَاط (qīrāṭ, “carat, similarly small units such as inches”), from Ancient Greek κεράτιον (kerátion, “hornlet, carob seed”), from κέρας (kéras, “horn”) + -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix). Doublet of quilate and keratin.
Inflected forms:
form: carats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A metric unit of mass equal to exactly 200 mg, chiefly used for measuring precious stones and pearls.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several small units of mass used for measuring precious stones and pearls, equivalent to 189–212 mg.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A 24-point scale used to measure the purity of gold.
pos: noun
examples: 18-carat gold is 75% gold by mass. 24-carat gold is pure.
Derived words: caratage
carater
metric carat
multicarat
Translations:
purity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pure + -ity, from Old French purete, from Latin puritas.
Base: pure
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: purities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or degree of being pure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The purity of the water was tested in a laboratory.
She admired the purity of the child’s laughter.
Gold is valued according to its level of purity.
Translations:
unscriptural
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
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-
Latin scrīptūrader.
Middle English scripture
English scripture
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English scriptural
English unscriptural
From un- + scriptural.
Inflected forms:
form: more unscriptural
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unscriptural
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not scriptural.
pos: adj
examples: The continuance of these unscriptural terms, without an exact application of them in sermons and catechisms, heathenizes all the common people, nay and great numbers of not unlearned persons.
Translations:
scriptural
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-?
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti
Proto-Italic *skreiβō
Latin scrībō
Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?
Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?
Latin -tūra
Latin scrīptūrader.
Middle English scripture
English scripture
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 scriptural
From scripture + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or in accordance with scripture.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: When explicated in Augustine’s On Christian Teaching or in Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae, the ordo amoris emerges as a concept that is both cogent on its own terms—reciprocal obligations incurred through birth and upbringing are, after all, self-evidently stronger than those we freely undertake through choice or circumstance—and entirely consistent with the moral grammar of the scriptural witness.
Antonyms: antibiblical
antiorthodox
antiscriptural
exscriptural
heretical
heterodox
nonbiblical
nonorthodox
nonscriptural
unbiblical
unscriptural
Translations:
coy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English coy, from Old French coi, earlier quei (“quiet, still”), from Latin qu(i)ētus (“resting, at rest”). Doublet of quit, quiet, quite, and quietus.
Inflected forms:
form: coyer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: coyest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: coys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Bashful, shy, retiring.
pos: adj
tags: dated
gloss: Quiet, reserved, modest.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
gloss: Reluctant to give details about something sensitive; notably prudish.
pos: adj
gloss: Pretending shyness or modesty, especially in an insincere or flirtatious way.
pos: adj
examples: The ill-bred miss, the bird-brained Jill, / May simper and be coy at will; / A lady, sir, as you will find, / Keeps counsel, or she speaks her mind, / Means what she says and scorns to fence / And palter with feigned innocence.
gloss: Soft, gentle, hesitating.
pos: adj
examples: Enforced hate, / Instead of love's coy touch, shall rudely tear thee.
gloss: A trap from which waterfowl may be hunted.
pos: noun
Derived words: accoy
coily
coyish
coyly
coyness
overcoy
uncoy
Translations:
casino
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian casino, diminutive form of casa (“house”), from Latin casa (“cottage, hut”).
Inflected forms:
form: casinos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: casinoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: casini
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cassino
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A public building or room for gambling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He went to the casino every night till 1:00 am.
A bid by Donald Trump to build Sydney’s first casino was rejected 30 years ago after police expressed concerns about his links to the mafia.
gloss: A small house; a pleasure house or holiday home, especially in Italy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Quirini [was] knowing in the belles Lettres, & highly skilled in making his Casino comfortable to all the Wits & Blues as we now call them in London.
I felt it strange, and regretted it, that so amiable a man should have contracted such dissolute habits, and at this very time, instead of living respectably with his charming Countess, had Baccelli, the superannuated dancing courtesan, in a casino in the neighbourhood.
gloss: A certain Italian card game for two to four players.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Any of certain cards with special meanings in this game.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Derived words: anticasino
big casino
casino capitalism
casino hotel
casinoization
casinolike
clams casino
cybercasino
e-casino
great casino
little casino
megacasino
minicasino
noncasino
racino
royal casino
subcasino
supercasino
Translations:
separator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *s(w)é
Latin sē-
Proto-Indo-European *perh₃-der.
Latin parō
Latin sēparō
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Latin sēparātorbor.
English separator
Borrowed from Latin sēparātor.
Inflected forms:
form: separators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An object located between two or more things and hence separating them.
pos: noun
examples: When applying polish, always use toe separators to keep toes apart.
gloss: A device for removing one substance from another, such as cream from milk.
pos: noun
gloss: One who separates; an agent performing the action of separating.
pos: noun
examples: Death, the mystery, the great separator of friend from friend and loved one from loved one
Derived words: cyclone separator
microseparator
word separator
Translations:
complacent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin complacēns (“very pleasing”), present participle of complacēre (“to please at the same time, be very pleasing”), from com- (“together”) + placēre (“to please”); see please and compare complaisant.
Inflected forms:
form: more complacent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most complacent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Uncritically satisfied with oneself or one's achievements; smug.
pos: adj
examples: He grew complacent as the years rolled on and the money rolled in.
England will feel confident but not complacent against Ukraine, and the shock exit of France to Switzerland shows no-one can be taken lightly.
gloss: Unduly unworried or apathetic with regard to a need or problem.
pos: adj
examples: He tried to paint his audience as complacent, yelling that if they weren't mad as hell then they weren't paying enough attention.
Synonyms: smug
self-satisfied
placid
Related words: complacence
complacency
Derived words: complacently
complacentry
overcomplacent
self-complacent
uncomplacent
Translations:
smug
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Originally "spruce, neat," from Low German smuk (“pretty”), from Middle Low German smuk (“lithe, delicate, neat, trim”), although the g of the English word is not easily explained. The ultimate source should be Proto-West Germanic *smeugan (“to crawl, creep”).
From the Low German derived also North Frisian smok, Danish smuk and Swedish smukk (now obsolete or dialectal).
Compare also Middle High German gesmuc (“ornament”) and smücken (“to dress, to adorn”), both ultimately from smiegen (“to press to, insert, wrap, to nestle”), hence German schmiegen, Schmuck and schmücken. The adjective schmuck, however, was borrowed from Low German. See smock for more.
Inflected forms:
form: smugger
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: smuggest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: smugs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: smugging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: smugged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: smugged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Irritatingly pleased with oneself; offensively self-complacent, self-satisfied.
pos: adj
examples: Kate looked extremely smug this morning.
gloss: Showing smugness; showing self-complacency, self-satisfaction.
pos: adj
examples: a smug look on her face
gloss: Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: They be so smug and smooth.
the smug and scanty draperies of his style
A young, smug, handsome holiness has no fellow.
gloss: To make smug, or spruce.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Thus said, he smug'd his beard, and stroked up fair.
gloss: to adopt an offensively self-complacent expression.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 1899 Ambrose Bierce: Fantastic Fables.
Hearing a sound of strife, a Christian in the Orient asked his Dragoman the cause of it.
"The Buddhists are cutting Mohammedan throats," the Dragoman replied, with oriental composure.
"I did not know," remarked the Christian, with scientific interest, "that that would make so much noise."
"The Mohammedans are cutting Buddhist throats, too," added the Dragoman.
"It is astonishing," mused the Christian, "how violent and how general are religious animosities.
Everywhere in the world the devotees of each local faith abhor the devotees of every other, and abstain
from murder only so long as they dare not commit it. And the strangest thing about it is that
all religions are erroneous and mischievous excepting mine. Mine, thank God, is true and benign."
So saying he visibly smugged and went off to telegraph for a brigade of cutthroats to protect Christian interests.
gloss: To seize; to confiscate.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
slang
transitive
gloss: To hush up.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
slang
transitive
Derived words: smugfest
smuggery
smuggish
smugly
smugness
unsmug
Translations:
walkman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: (cassette player): Genericized trademark from the Sony trademark Walkman.
Inflected forms:
form: walkmans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: walkmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
uncommon
form: Walkman
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A portable personal audio cassette player with headphones.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Because I can't stand looking at that inexplicable Walkman anymore. You're carrying around a brick playing a cassette tape. We're not savages—so I'm gonna put a thousand songs in your pocket.
gloss: Pigs' ears, chopped, shaved, marinated, skewered, then grilled, sold as street food.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
informal
uncountable
Related words: discman
Translations:
coil
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
gynaecology
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English coilen, from Old French coillir, cuillir (“to gather, pluck, pick, cull”) (modern French cueillir), from Latin colligō (“to gather together”), past participle collectus, from com- (“together”) + legō (“to gather”); compare legend. Doublet of cull.
Inflected forms:
form: coils
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: coils
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: coiling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: coiled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: coiled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral.
pos: noun
examples: the sinuous coils of a snake
The wild grapevines that twisted their coils or tendrils from tree to tree.
gloss: Any intrauterine device for contraception (originally coil-shaped).
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: ‘I’m gonna go on the pill and get fitted for a coil. I don’t wanna be pregnant. Ever. Again!’
And now, finally, the contraceptive burden would fall on me. After Hayley’s years of toil with a coil, and the pain of childbirth, I was due a little discomfort.
gloss: A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
pos: noun
gloss: A cylinder of clay.
pos: noun
gloss: Entanglement; perplexity.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: What trifling coil do we mortals keep;
Wake, eat, and drink, evacuate, and sleep.
gloss: To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece.
pos: verb
examples: A simple transformer can be made by coiling two pieces of insulated copper wire around an iron heart.
gloss: To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center.
pos: verb
examples: The sailor coiled the free end of the hawser on the pier.
gloss: To wind cylindrically or spirally.
pos: verb
examples: to coil a rope when not in use
The snake coiled itself before springing.
gloss: To build a pot (etc) with clay coils.
pos: verb
gloss: To encircle and hold with, or as if with, coils.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
rare
examples: a. 1757, Thomas Edwards, sonnet to Mr. Nathanael Mason
Pleasure coil thee in her dangerous snare
Derived words: alpine coil
audio coil
blowout coil
chokecoil
choking coil
coilgun
coil gun
coilin
coilless
coilover
coil spring
coil-sprung
coil whine
coil winder
coily
cryocoil
eigencoil
field coil
Flemish coil
head coil
Helmholtz coil
honeycomb coil
ignition coil
impedance coil
inductance coil
induction coil
load coil
loading coil
microcoil
mosquito coil
multicoil
Oudin coil
overcoil
pedestal coil
plate number coil
resistance coil
Rogowski coil
Ruhmkorff coil
shading coil
spark coil
supercoil
telecoil
Tesla coil
tickler coil
upcoil
voice coil
coilability
coilable
coiler
coil up
intercoil
uncoil
Translations:
incentive
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Medieval Latin incentīvus (“that strikes up or sets the tune”), from incinō (“to strike up”), from in- (“in, on”) + canō (“to sing”) + -ive. The formation appears to have been influenced by incendō (“to set on fire”).
Base: -ive
Affixes: -
Inflected forms:
form: incentives
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more incentive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most incentive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages.
pos: noun
examples: I have no incentive to do housework right now.
It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].
gloss: A bonus or reward, often monetary, to work harder.
pos: noun
examples: Management offered the sales team a $500 incentive for each car sold.
gloss: Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulating.
pos: adj
examples: Competency is of all other proportions the most incentive to industry.
gloss: Serving to kindle or set on fire.
pos: adj
examples: Part incentive reed / Provide, pernicious with one touch of fire.
Antonyms: disincentive
Derived words: counterincentive
eco-incentive
incent
incentify
incentiveless
incentively
incentivise
incentivize
misincentive
nonincentive
tax incentive
Translations:
recoil
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: From Old French reculer. Further from Latin re- + cūlus.
Inflected forms:
form: recoils
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: recoils
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: recoiling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: recoiled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: recoiled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: recoyle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the recoil of nature, or of the blood
gloss: The state or condition of having recoiled.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The recoil from formalism is skepticism.
gloss: The energy transmitted back to the shooter from a firearm which has fired. Recoil is a function of the weight of the weapon, the weight of the projectile, and the speed at which it leaves the muzzle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An escapement in which, after each beat, the scape-wheel recoils slightly.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To pull back, especially in disgust, horror or astonishment.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He recoiled in disgust when he saw the mess.
For decades, humankind steeled itself for the rise of thinking machines. As we marveled at their ability to beat chess champions and predict protein structures, we also recoiled from their inherent uncanniness, not to mention the threats to our sense of humanity.
gloss: To recoil before an opponent.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
examples: that rude rout […] forced them, how ever strong and stout / They were, as well approv'd in many a doubt, / Backe to recule […]
gloss: Of a firearm: to quickly push back when fired.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To retire, withdraw.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: Ye both forwearied be: therefore a whyle / Iread you rest, and to your bowres recoyle.
Thus vvhen this Courtly Gentleman vvith toyle / Himſelfe hath vvearied, he doth recoyle / Vnto his reſt, and there vvith ſvveete delight / Of Muſicks skill reuiues his toyled ſpright, […]
Her will, recoiling to her better judgement
Evil on itself shall back recoil.
Manners knovvs diſtance, and a man unrude / VVo'd ſoon recoile, and not intrude / His Stomach to a ſecond Meale.
The solemnity of her demeanor made it impossible […] that we should recoil into our ordinary spirits.
Synonyms: kick
Derived words: antirecoil
counterrecoil
nonrecoil
recoilless
recoil pad
recoil spring
recoil start
subrecoil
recoiler
recoilingly
unrecoiling
Translations:
matey
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mate
English -y
English matey
From mate + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: matier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: matiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mateys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Sociable or friendly.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: You've been very matey with that new bird.
She asked in what sort of accident I had broken my back, and when I told her that I had been shot down she became much more matey.
We decided that it would be more matey to have communal meals, so all the guests and hosts foregathered at the hotel for lunches and dinners, and at every sitting there were about 40 of us, all in high spirits.
2002, Jon Latimer, Alamein, page 128,
he wrote: ‘They took a bit of getting used to. I was dressed as a general and they treated me in the most matey way, but despite this it was easy to see that there was nothing wrong with their battle discipline.’
His opening salvo, “If you didn′t care what happened to me, and I didn′t care for you,” gives way to a more matey mood at the end: “You know that I care what happens to you. And I know that you care for me.”
Adolphus Egerton Ryerson was his full name, but he insisted on being called Egerton Ryerson, under the mistaken conviction that this was much more matey than Adolphus.
gloss: A fellow sailor; often used affectedly, especially when portraying a pirate.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Ahoy mateys, scrub the deck!
c. 1906, Herbert Strang (pseudonym), In Clive′s Command, 2006, Echo Library, page 35,
“Well, we are and we en′t, eh, mateys? The Waterman′s Rest en′t exactly the kind of place to spend shore leave; it en′t a patch on Wapping or Rotherhithe. […] ”
“Well, Mateys,” he said, “heave to. Rum for all.”
The pirates grabbed their bottles, and as they drank they began to sing and laugh and shout at each other.
Soon the talking skull came into view and gave us a warning,
“Avast there, it be to late to alter course mateys and there be plundering pirates lurking in every cove waiting to board.[…]”
“Ahoy, mateys!” The chorus came from all sides, and he fought the urge to snicker.
She nudged him with her elbow, and he looked down to find her eyes twinkling.
“Hope you brushed up on your pirate lingo. The desk is over there. I gotta go use the little wench′s room.”
He watched her go with a grin and nearly laughed again when he saw the signs on the bathroom doors. Wenches and Mateys. Good God.
gloss: A dockyard worker.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: He got the dockyard 'mateys' to install a primitive form of steam heating which he had seen in Navy ships […]
Mediterranean peoples are thought to be excitable, but the Maltese stood up to the blitz with great aplomb, especially the dghaisa men who plowed back and forth across the harbours regardless of the raids, the mateys who made the devastated dockyard work, and all who served in units of the armed forces.
Translations:
pally
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pal + -y (adjectival suffix). Piecewise doublet of friary.
Base: pal
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: pallier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more pally
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: palliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most pally
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pallies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Like a pal; friendly.
pos: adj
examples: The O′Briens are the palliest of pals with the Prince of Wales and when HRH is in Biarritz he and Jay are inseparable.
Words are the friendliest and palliest things I know.
[…]he was a champion boozer and the palliest bloke in the pub.
2006, Vidar Helgesen, Erik Solheim, The Straight Talkers, Harriet Martin (editor), Kofi Atta Annan (foreword), Kings of Peace, Pawns of War: The Untold Story of Peace-Making, page 112,
And with each round the two negotiating teams got more and more pally. ‘By the sixth round we were having Jacuzzis together!’
When there were Australian officers everyone was more pally and sociable which made it easier for the lady in charge to entertain the party.
The chap I′m most pally with is Fright who is nearly sixty now but still climbs like a youngster.
gloss: An affectionate term of address.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: ‘Sit here, pally.’ He pushed me down.
Well, a lot of water has flown under the bridges since then, pally, and while I have been laying off lately, I′m still the same old Joey, which is more than I can say for that O′Hara creep.
Ahmed the Turk grinned. “You call this hot, chommy? Pally, we used to take slices off the heat, put them on our biscuits and make toast.”
As the Giants moved West, most accepted Horace Stoneham′s apologia: “I can′t stay where I am, pally. If I don′t move the team I go bankrupt. Except for Chub [Feeney], all my relatives would starve.”
gloss: A slightly derogatory and insulting term of address.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
US
examples: What do you think you are doing, pally?
Translations:
repressed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English press
English repress
English -ed
English repressed
From repress + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more repressed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most repressed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Subjected to repression.
pos: adj
examples: repressed homosexuality
repressed people
gloss: Showing the suppression of emotions or impulses.
pos: adj
Derived words: hyperrepressed
nonrepressed
repressedly
repressed memory
unrepressed
Translations:
externalism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: c. 1840 external + -ism
Base: external
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: externalisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Excessive regard to outward acts or appearances, especially in religion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of judging by outward appearance or acts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The belief that only things that can be observed by senses are real.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: externalist
internalism
internalist
Translations:
sixty-four
Part of speech: num
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The cardinal number immediately following sixty-three and preceding sixty-five.
pos: num
examples: As a consequence of the previous rules, each of the sixty-four squares is invariably indicated by a unique combination of a letter and a number.
Translations:
hobble
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English hobblen, hobelen, akin to Middle Dutch hoblen, hobbelen (Modern Dutch hobbelen).
Inflected forms:
form: hobbles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hobbles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hobbling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hobbled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hobbled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One of the short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: An unsteady, off-balance step.
pos: noun
examples: We made it and we hobbled up the stairs. Or I hobbled. My sons didn't hobble, I hobbled.
gloss: A difficult situation; a scrape.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
informal
examples: "Saddle a horse—any horse—only let him be sure and fleet," cried Ashwoode, "and I'll pay you his price thrice over!"
"Well, it's a bargain," replied the groom, promptly; "I don't like to see a gentleman caught in a hobble, if I can help him out of it. […]
gloss: An odd job; a piece of casual work.
pos: noun
tags: Newfoundland
UK
dialectal
gloss: To fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles.
pos: verb
examples: Near-synonyms: shackle, enshackle
you hobble your old horse and turn him grazing
gloss: To walk lame, or unevenly.
pos: verb
examples: The friar was hobbling the same way too.
Pepa runs all over Madrid in high heels and tube skirts that make her hobble and give the impression of restraining a naturally energetic woman.
gloss: To move or proceed roughly or irregularly.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: The hobbling versification, the mean diction.
gloss: To disable; to impede.
pos: verb
examples: Near-synonyms: nobble, hamper, hinder, embarrass
Synonyms: tether
Derived words: chain hobble
hobblebush
hobble-bush
hobble-chain
hobble chain
hobble knot
hobblerope
hobble-rope
hobble rope
hobble skirt
hobble-skirted
hobblesome
hobblingly
hobbly
unhobble
Translations:
cottager
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cottage (“small hut”) + -er (demonym suffix); compare cotter.
Base: cottage
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: cottagers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who has the tenure of a cottage, usually also the occupant.
pos: noun
examples: The silver hair and benevolent countenance of the aged cottager, won my reverence; while the gentle manners of the girl enticed my love.
A cottager, I mark’d a throne
Of half the world as all my own,
And murmur’d at such lowly lot!
I don't like shoppy people. I think we are far better off, knowing only cottagers and labourers, and people without pretence.
Translations:
obsequiousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English obsequyousnesse, equivalent to obsequious + -ness.
Base: obsequious
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: obsequiousnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being obsequious; servile compliance.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The crusty portier and the crusty clerks gave us the surly reception which their kind deal out in prosperous times, but by mollifying them with an extra display of obsequiousness and servility we finally got them to show us to the room which our boy had engaged for us.
The oleaginous Mike Pence, with his talent for toadyism and appetite for obsequiousness, could, Trump knew, become America’s most repulsive public figure.
Translations: