yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
interpreting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
translation-studies
Inflected forms:
form: interpretings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: interpretting
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of interpretation (an act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure)
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: To put these statements in the singular, of course, is to abstract — there is always a plurality of interpretings when interpretation takes place.
gloss: Synonym of interpretation (the discipline or study of translating one spoken or signed language into another)
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The scholarship supporting translation and interpreting education necessarily entails discussions of assessment and there has been some encouraging work in this area.
Is there a theory of interpreting, or a set of distinct theories of interpreting?
An orphan among its peers, consecutive interpreting appears to have a short life and little if any luster.
Derived words: conference interpreting
consecutive interpreting
retour interpreting
simultaneous interpreting
whispered interpreting
whisper interpreting
Translations:
lacquering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lacquerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An application of lacquer.
pos: noun
Translations:
blighting
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: blightings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Damned; pesky.
pos: adj
tags: UK
not-comparable
slang
examples: "Mate," said the Cockney, after we'd finished about half the bottle, "it comes to me that we're a couple o' blightin' idjits to be workin' for a skirt.
gloss: The act by which something is blighted.
pos: noun
examples: They showed signs of the blightings and blastings of time, in their outward aspect, but they were young within; young and cheerful, and ready to talk […]
Translations:
shucking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: shuckings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Removal of a shuck; usually:
pos: noun
gloss: Removal of a shuck; usually:
pos: noun
examples: We attended a corn shucking and two oyster shuckings.
Derived words: oyster-shucking knife
shucking knife
Translations:
daydreaming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: daydreamings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instance of daydreaming; a daydream or reverie.
pos: noun
Translations:
hoovering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hooverings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of cleaning using a vacuum cleaner.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: Give your house a regular hoovering to prevent the build-up of dust.
Translations:
afflicting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: afflictings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An affliction.
pos: noun
examples: And so usual a thing it is for gracious hearts to be humbled under the afflictings of God, that affliction is upon that score called humiliation.
Translations:
molting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: moltings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A molt; the shedding of skin, feathers, etc.
pos: noun
Translations:
soliciting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: solicitings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who solicits.
pos: noun
examples: His wife added no timid solicitings to the advice of his well-wishers; for she saw he considered it his duty to remain, and be a sort of rallying point to the humble supporters of quiet and good order[…]
Translations:
discomforting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more discomforting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most discomforting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causing discomfort.
pos: adj
examples: After all, disorderliness can be very discomforting and dangerous.
The authors speculated that discussions about discrimination were more discomforting than discussions instilling ethnic pride, so parents refrained from initiating such discussions unless precipitated by a specific discriminatory incident.
So now a slightly more discomforting slide is shown: one of the nurse aiming the needle toward someone's bare arm.
Translations:
tillering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
biology
botany
business
lifestyle
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: tillerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of grass species to produce multiple side shoots or tillers.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A side shoot or tiller.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
refunding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: refundings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The return of money paid; a refund.
pos: noun
examples: But the same net amount of debt extension through cash offerings or regular refundings might be achieved in a variety of different combinations of securities and maturities […]
Translations:
simpering
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more simpering
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most simpering
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: simperings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Affected, smug, and supercilious.
pos: adj
examples: Why, look at him—look at this simpering self-righteous mug!
I know they are supposed to be amusing, and you should be tolerant, but I wanted to swing on one, any one, anything to shatter that superior, simpering composure.
I had high hopes when I moved to Spyglass, but simpering gossip on celebrity parties seems to be the closest I've gotten so far to Dad's vocation.
That sounds almost simpering. I hate sounding simpering, and over a trifling increase of four coppers on a gold, I definitely do not wish to sound simpering.
gloss: The act of one who simpers.
pos: noun
examples: Well, but Polly attended, as I said; and there were strange simperings, and bowing, and courtesying, between them; the honest gentleman seeming not to know how to let his mistress wait upon him[…]
Translations:
lumping
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lump
Proto-Germanic *-ungō
Old English -ung
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English lumping
From lump + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more lumping
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lumping
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Bulky; heavy.
pos: adj
examples: a lumping great thing
VVilt thou purchaſe it Nic.? thou ſhalt have a lumping Pennyvvorth; nay, rather than vve ſhould differ, I'll give thee ſomething to take it off my Hands.
Translations:
enlivening
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: enlivenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of making something more lively.
pos: noun
Translations:
grilling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: grillings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A thorough interrogation.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: The minister faced a grilling over her handling of the situation.
gloss: The act or process of grilling, or broiling.
pos: noun
Translations:
enthralling
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more enthralling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most enthralling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: exciting and absorbing
pos: adj
examples: The Abbess had not miscalculated the effect of the yesterday's ceremony—she knew it was not binding, but its influence as a religious obligation was enthralling to a degree.
Glittering castles in Spain were shaping themselves out of the mists and rainbows of her lively fancy; adventures wonderful and enthralling were happening to her in cloudland—adventures that always turned out triumphantly and never involved her in scrapes like those of actual life.
Andre Santos equalised and the outstanding Theo Walcott put Arsenal ahead for the first time before Juan Mata's spectacular strike set up the finale for an enthralling encounter.
Translations:
renewing
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: renewings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more renewing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most renewing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A renewal.
pos: noun
gloss: That renews someone; pleasantly fresh and different; granting vitality and energy.
pos: adj
examples: I am so sunk in the work’s psychology, I feel almost an alien, some renewing life form.
And with that, Hannibal leaves his enemies on the floor bathing in their own scarlet before stepping outside to a renewing baptism by rainfall before disappearing into the night.
Translations:
bawling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bawlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who bawls or shouts.
pos: noun
examples: E. F. Benson
Nobody could call Major Flint, with his bawlings and his sniffings, the least mysterious.
Translations:
prospecting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: prospectings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who prospects.
pos: noun
examples: He declared that the country was an intellectual desert; that he was famishing for spiritual aliment, and for discourse on matters beyond mere nuggets, prospectings, and the price of gold.
Translations:
squandering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: squanderings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is squandered; wastage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] the squanderings and mismanagings of former Governments […]
Translations:
plumping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: plumpings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is plumped.
pos: noun
examples: They shew the swellings of their mind, in the swellings and plumpings out of their apparel.
Translations:
detaining
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: detainings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A delay, hindrance, or impediment; the act of holding back.
pos: noun
examples: The heavy rain was a detaining on their progress.
gloss: The act by which someone is detained; detention.
pos: noun
examples: The suspect’s detaining lasted several hours.
Translations:
encountering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: encounterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An encounter; a meeting.
pos: noun
examples: This is still a species of reflection because it thematizes encounterings and things-as-encountered, even if they do not occur in the mental life of the person reflectively observing them.
Translations:
bickering
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more bickering
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bickering
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bickerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That bickers; argumentative.
pos: adj
gloss: Petty quarreling.
pos: noun
examples: 1820, in Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough, By William Coxe, Ch.40 heading.
Meeting of Parliament. — Choice of a whig Speaker. — Speech from the throne. — Parliamentary proceedings, and party bickerings.
By this time the two companies were beginning to realise that the continual bickering was not doing either of them much good, and the L.Y.R. (like many others) was becoming tired of the dominance of Euston.
After Evra was also shown a yellow card following a prolonged bout of bickering which also involved Suarez, Ferguson decided on a double change by replacing Park Ji-sung and Ashley Young with Nani and Rooney.
Ukrainian intelligence said on Friday that Prigozhin’s public bickering with the army leadership confirmed “their fear of responsibility for the inevitable geopolitical defeat of Moscow”.
Translations:
squawking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: squawkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Squawk, the sound of a squawk.
pos: noun
examples: She was, in fact, constitutionally impervious to statistics and preferred to study the be-headphoned group of fifteen or so lethargic wanderers who were taking even less notice of the remorseless squawkings than she was.
Translations:
lambasting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lambastings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A harsh reprimand.
pos: noun
examples: Republicans, churches, and moneyed interests were the chief recipients of these lambastings, along with blacks and anyone responsible for bringing the Philippine Islands under American control.
gloss: A beating or thrashing.
pos: noun
Translations:
smearing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: smearings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something smeared or daubed.
pos: noun
Translations:
clumping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: clumpings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A clump or cluster.
pos: noun
examples: BMP-2 and BMP-4 also induce the expression of the neurotrophin receptor, TrkC, in cultured crest-derived cells and induce the cells to coalesce into ganglion-like clumpings.
gloss: The sound of walking with heavy footfalls.
pos: noun
examples: Heavy backstair clumpings announce huge Ab, my negro paddler.
Derived words: anticlumping
macroclumping
microclumping
nonclumping
Translations:
outreaching
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: outreachings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of reaching out.
pos: noun
examples: She had her confused outreachings toward other centres of sensation, her vague intuition of a heliocentric system; but the attraction of habit, the steady pressure of example, gradually fixed her roving allegiance[…]
Translations:
rejoining
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: rejoinings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of joining again.
pos: noun
Translations:
encumbering
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more encumbering
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most encumbering
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Acting as an encumbrance; cumbersome; burdensome or serving to impede progress.
pos: adj
examples: There is not a more encumbering impediment to success, than the affection of gratitude.
We are apt to think the close-fitted turban of the Asiatic a singular head-dress; and such as must be very encumbering in a hot climate; but this light yet bulky covering is, precisely, the defence which experience has taught the wearer to place upon his head, in situations in which the direct impulse of the rays might otherwise prove fatal.
"Why my husband wants him about—" poor Mrs. Lanfear, the kindest of women, privately lamented to her friends; for Dredge, at that time—they kept him all summer at the bungalow—had one of the most encumbering personalities you can imagine.
Translations:
refracting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: refractings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of refraction.
pos: noun
examples: Imaginal forms are virtual but fully individual refractings of light, or individual souls conceived as immaterial but distinct 'imaginings' of God.
Translations:
girding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: girdings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A binding or encircling.
pos: noun
examples: Bossuet thus beautifully addresses the Saviour of the world, when the girdings of his childhood were first untied […]
Translations:
chomping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: chompings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sound or action of one who chomps.
pos: noun
examples: E. E. Cummings
They had quite a layout, a regular picnic-lunch elaborate enough for kings or even presidents. The v-f-g in particular annoyed me by uttering alternate chompings and belchings.
Translations:
grandstanding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English grandstand
English -ing
English grandstanding
From grandstand + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: grandstandings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Dramatic or showy behavior intended to impress an audience or observers.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Yes, there were instances of grandstanding and obsessive behaviour, but many were concealed at the time to help protect an aggressively peddled narrative of [Oscar] Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer.
"We are tired of the shutdowns and the showdowns, the gridlock and the grandstanding," Klobuchar said in a speech to supporters. "Our nation must be governed not from chaos but from opportunity. Not by wallowing over what’s wrong, but by marching inexorably toward what’s right."
For all his faults and grandstanding, however, Prescott genuinely cared - and his ambitious plans for tram schemes and railway extensions were stymied by lack of support from Downing Street.
Translations:
skewering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: skewerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is skewered.
pos: noun
Translations:
likening
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: likenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which things are likened; a comparison.
pos: noun
examples: I sometimes, in musing mood, find myself making spontaneous likenings of inanimate to animate nature, comparing the qualities of things to the qualities of men[…]
Translations:
lengthening
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lengthen
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English lengthening
From lengthen + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: lengthenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of making or growing longer.
pos: noun
examples: This enabled an additional 15-20 containers to be carried per train, giving a 20% productivity gain, and was partly enabled by Network Rail completing the lengthening of loops on the route northwards from Southampton via Banbury.
gloss: a type of sound change when a sound (especially a vowel) lengthens
pos: noun
Derived words: compensatory lengthening
Translations:
cooning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Racoon hunting.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: At this time, cooning in the remote interior is a famous pastime. As this animal is entirely nocturnal in its habits it is hunted only at night.
But if he [the dog] strikes a trail, you presently hear...loud and repeated barking as he reaches the foot of the tree in which the coon has taken refuge. Then follows a pellmell rush of the cooning party up the hill, into the woods, through the brush and the darkness
These are the kind of men who have served their time and taken all the six degrees necessary to a scout's full education, “foxing, snaking, moling, cooning, possuming, and, if need be, wolfing ;” who riding at a canter through the woods, will stop their horse...
I met Colonel Davy a-going out a-cooning,
Says I, “Davy Crockett, how do you hunt without a gun?”
“Oh,” says he, “Pompey Smash, if you’ll follow along with Davy,
I’ll soon show you how for to grin a coon crazy.”
“Aren’t there any Coons ’round here, Mr. Clark?”
Translations:
bedeviling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bedevilings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bedevilling
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An act by which somebody is bedevilled; causing of trouble; harassment.
pos: noun
Translations:
lightening
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
nautical
sciences
transport
Inflected forms:
form: lightenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or result of making something light or lighter.
pos: noun
examples: Bradly did not think of Cora till he picked up her figure ahead of him on the downs, but with that he was aware of a sudden lightening of his spirits, and stepped out faster to overtake her.
gloss: The sensation caused by the descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity before the onset of labour
pos: noun
gloss: The removal of cargo (especially crude oil) from a vessel in order to reduce its draft
pos: noun
Translations:
escorting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: escortings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which someone is escorted; provision of an escort.
pos: noun
examples: The first sentence means that all escortings by officers in Saint Petersburg were escortings of ballerinas. The second sentence means that all escortings of ballerinas in Saint Petersburg were escortings by officers.
Translations:
thronging
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: throngings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more thronging
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most thronging
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The act of those who throng or form a crowd.
pos: noun
examples: Tooth-drawers' bills, and tedious proclamations / In meal-markets, with throngings to see cutpurses […]
gloss: Of something that throngs.
pos: adj
examples: Look at the arduous exertion required of middle life; the thronging anxieties that spring up for others more than for ourselves;...
Translations:
misremembering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: misrememberings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instance of remembering something incorrectly.
pos: noun
Translations:
homesteading
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
human-sciences
philosophy
politics
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The act of appropriation of an unowned, scarce means, thereby gaining ownership of it; initial possession.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A lifestyle of self-sufficiency.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: seasteading
Translations:
stinting
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: stintings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
gloss: Act of one who stints.
pos: noun
examples: […] as long as they can contrive to make a respectable appearance once a year, when they come to town, he gives himself little concern about their private stintings and struggles at home.
There is no such bad policy as stinting a boy—or putting him on a lower allowance than his fellows
Antonyms: unstinting
Translations:
handcuffing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: handcuffings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which somebody is handcuffed.
pos: noun
Translations:
trumping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: trumpings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is trumped, topped or capped.
pos: noun
examples: Employ two revokes, two trumpings of your partner's best card and two ignorings of a call — all in the same hand!
To describe an oddball combination like 'Frolf' as a 'marriage of Frisbee and Golf' is to open yourself to trumpings of the form 'yeah, a shotgun marriage', 'a broken marriage', or depending on your politics, a 'gay marriage'.
gloss: The sound of a trumpet.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
poetic
examples: 1861-1868, Frank Moore, The Rebellion Record
We list to the trumpings that herald the storm,
To the roll of the drum, and the order to form!
Translations:
roistering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: roisterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Noisy, drunken, or riotous behavior.
pos: noun
examples: [H]e could look on with an eye of kindness at the lookers-on too; at the roystering youth bent upon enjoyment, and here taking it […]
Merry Mansions Sunday night, with loud parties in the distance. Matilda said she was going to have a good time at some heaven. And George Smith sat alone staring across the room. And out the window for a bit, at a roistering gathering of folk across the street. A city full of fathers with gathered arms of presents to give and get, this complicated time of year.
Translations:
shuddering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: shudderings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An extended or continuous shudder.
pos: noun
Translations:
decommissioning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: decommissionings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is decommissioned.
pos: noun
Translations:
conjoining
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: conjoinings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act by which things are conjoined.
pos: noun
examples: Then too, a language may choose more than one phonetic way of representing these conjoinings; some of these ways may sound the same as some other things that are not just plain conjoinings.
Translations:
discomfiting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From discomfit + -ing.
Base: discomfit
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: more discomfiting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most discomfiting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: discomfitting
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Tending to discomfit (“embarrass greatly; upset the composure of, disconcert”).
pos: adj
examples: O I am deadly ſick!—reach me that thing, boy—'tis the moſt diſcomfiting ſickness— [...]
Under ſuch diſcomfiting circumſtance as general neglect, and that too palpable to be miſunderſtood, the whole of this picture was buried in oblivion; [...]
Streaker, the housemaid, too, had an attribute of a most discomfiting nature. I am unable to say whether she was of an unusually lymphatic temperament, or what else was the matter with her, but this young woman became a mere Distillery for the production of the largest and most transparent tears I ever met with.
From the first page of this book [Dark Rosaleen (1915) by M. E. Francis] to the last this shadow of things beyond human ken, this blind acceptance of powers that it would almost be an impiety in mere mortals even to try to understand, colours and distorts the minds of all the chief protagonists in this rather terrible and discomfiting story.
Suddenly, to my eyes, my throat, my mouth there rushed tears and a cry which I stifled into a feigned cough into my handkerchief. The waiter noticed my discomfiting state and poured more tea.
Imagination, like memory, can be selective, editing out those details which are painful or discomfiting.
Like the technically astounding and spiritually hollow production numbers, however, [Emily] Blunt can’t situate the sentimental energy in a deeper foundation. Her excellence gets left in a sort of vacuum when paired with the fully extraneous train wreck of a visit with Meryl Streep as kooky Poppins cousin Topsy or some discomfiting soft shoe from a creaky Dick Van Dyke.
One post features a productless shot, a 1970s-Hockney-gone-surrealist composition involving a half-dog, half-cat collaged onto shadowy pinks and babied blues, as discomfiting and mesmerizing as anything else on Weird Instagram right now.
Translations:
debauching
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: debauchings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of debauchery.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The parties stooped to vile and unbecoming meannesses; infinite briberies, forgeries, perjuries, and all manners of debauchings of the principles and manners of the electors were attempted.
Translations:
clobbering
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: clobberings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A beating; a thrashing; a thorough defeat.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: That clobbers.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It seems as if they traded in the complexity of a full range of troubling emotion for the clobbering pathos of the shouting match.
Translations:
romping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: rompings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who romps.
pos: noun
examples: I said, I was glad no mortal eyes were upon us in our merry rompings.
Translations:
debiting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: debitings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of making a debit in accounting.
pos: noun
Translations:
smirking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: smirkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who smirks.
pos: noun
examples: […] I noticed a peculiar fluttering amongst the girls. On inquiring the reason of their mysterious gigglings and smirkings, I found that there was to be a wedding.
Translations:
swooning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: swoonings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A swoon or faint.
pos: noun
examples: People of weak nerves or delicate constitutions are liable to swoonings or fainting fits.
Translations:
supplanting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: supplantings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which something is supplanted; a replacement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
disbanding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: disbandings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A disbandment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The re-coding of certain motive power depots referred to last month results from the disbanding of the Hull District; [...].
Translations:
offloading
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: offloadings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is offloaded.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: However there is a significant number of offloadings in the regional tuna database which do not identify the port at which the offloading took place […]
Translations:
hallowing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hallowings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is hallowed.
pos: noun
Translations:
clattering
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more clattering
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most clattering
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: clatterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In a state or process of being clattered.
pos: adj
examples: Do we really need another doe-eyed female singer-songwriter with a penchant for electro-pop? Twenty-two-year-old Louisa Rose Allen, aka Foxes, certainly thinks so. Available as a free download via Neon Gold, her debut single Youth is a monster mix of keening vocals, slow-burn electronics and, by the song's end, big clattering drums.
gloss: A noise that clatters.
pos: noun
examples: Miss Greta closed her eyes. Quickly, however, did she open them again; for a dull noise, with certain whiskings-about and flutterings, together with low clatterings, approached her ear.
The woodcock, the snipe, and other nocturnal birds were all gone to rest; but the merry songsters of the wood now filled the air with their jubilee; the nutcracker began his monotonous clattering, the chaffinches and the wrens sang high in the sky, the blackcock scolded and blustered loudly, the thrush sang his mocking songs and libellous ditties about everybody, but became occasionally a little sentimental and warbled gently and bashfully some tender stanzas.
Translations:
timestamping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: timestampings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of marking something with a timestamp.
pos: noun
Translations:
regrouping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: regroupings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A new grouping; the act or result of grouping again.
pos: noun
Translations:
clomping
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: clompings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That clomps.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The sound of walking with heavy footfalls.
pos: noun
examples: There were whinnyings and clompings outside on the cobbles.
Translations:
cashiering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cashierings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dismissal of a person from service, especially in the military.
pos: noun
Translations:
endangering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: endangerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of putting someone or something in danger.
pos: noun
examples: First, as felony prosecutor, I prosecute high-level felonies including homicides; sexual assaults; child endangerings; shootings and other felonious assaults; and media cases.
Translations:
fallowing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fallowings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A period during which a field is left fallow.
pos: noun
examples: The rotation of nine years with two fallowings, which was formerly so much in vogue, is now seldom or never to be met with; it was, however, productive of very fine crops of corn on tenacious soils which require a great deal of tillage.
Translations:
broadening
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: broadenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of becoming broader.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of making (something) broader.
pos: noun
Derived words: linebroadening
Translations:
calendering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: calenderings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of pressing paper, etc. in a calender.
pos: noun
Translations:
harkening
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: harkenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who harkens or listens.
pos: noun
examples: The sight of his scared face, his starts and pallors and sudden harkenings, unstrung me […]
Translations:
hearkening
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hearkenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who hearkens or listens.
pos: noun
Translations:
chastening
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: chastenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which somebody is chastened.
pos: noun
examples: But these chastenings are for his sins, as appears by what follows[…]
Translations:
spalling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: spallings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of reducing (stone blocks, etc.) to an approximately level surface by hammering.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In the British-made Greek bricks the magma is not so evenly distributed, but after successive spallings the brick is converted bit by bit into the larger crystal formation […]
gloss: Any process that spalls a surface, or the damage that results from that process: spallation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He says: "If we'd left any cracks exposed then it could have resulted in spalling.
gloss: A fragment or chip of stone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A third process fluid, water, is employed to cool the burner and to aid in the removal of spallings.
Related words: spaller
Translations:
smothering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle English smorþering
English smothering
Inherited from Middle English smorþering.
Inflected forms:
form: smotherings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which someone or something is smothered.
pos: noun
examples: I do hope there will be no oniony and tobaccoey smotherings in the form of embracings all round, going on in the streets.
When he came to, he begged me not to tell the hotel management, as his last two attempted smotherings had ended in failure and he was worried about losing his job.
Translations:
backfilling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: backfillings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which something is backfilled.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the backfilling of trenches
Translations:
huckstering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hucksterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The behavior of a huckster.
pos: noun
examples: Hucksterings and barterings, and all the rest, they will cheerfully leave to the mountebanks and jugglers to whom they appropriately belong.
Translations:
rationing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: rationings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A ration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Controlled distribution of scarce resources such as food or fuel; used typically in wartime.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The drastic rationing of paper enforced by the paper control, has made it necessary for us to adapt ourselves to the altered conditions.
After petrol rationing ended in 1952, the BTC was aware that more swingeing cuts had to be made, and a sinister message was conveyed by the loss of the meandering 38-mile route from Blisworth to Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1952, and the 25-mile Abergavenny-Merthyr Heads of the Valleys line in January 1958.
Related words: ration stamp
Derived words: antirationing
Translations:
ransacking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ransackings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of ransacking (“searching thoroughly (in order to steal); etc.”) someone or something; an eager search.
pos: noun
examples: Lefebvre never saw any of these battles and ransackings, but one wonders what he would have made of them.
Translations:
parboiling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: parboilings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is parboiled.
pos: noun
Translations:
exulting
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more exulting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most exulting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: exultings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Showing exultation.
pos: adj
gloss: exultation
pos: noun
examples: Disappointments and sorrows have taught me the vanity of human expectations, quieted the exultings of youthful hope, and cooled the ardour of anxious desire.
Translations:
foisting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: foistings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of something being foisted; imposition.
pos: noun
examples: […] those no less shameless foistings of useless and inferior goods upon the people […]
Translations:
despoiling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: despoilings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of despoliation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
detouring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: detourings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of taking a detour.
pos: noun
Translations:
dovetailing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dovetailings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The situation in which things are dovetailed.
pos: noun
Translations:
shimmering
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more shimmering
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most shimmering
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: shimmerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
gloss: A gleam or glimmer.
pos: noun
Translations:
skulking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: skulkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of one who skulks.
pos: noun
examples: You will know them by their sly looks; their skulkings, peepings, watchings, and the snares they lay;—by the great papers, with great seals, that they carry; […]
Translations:
blackballing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: blackballings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instance, or action, of a person being blackballed
pos: noun
Translations:
instilling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: instillings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which something is instilled.
pos: noun
Translations:
unpacking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: unpackings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is unpacked.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The separation of the features of a segment, such as a nasal vowel or palatal consonant, into distinct segments.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
downshifting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A social trend towards living a simpler, less ambitious life with a better work-life balance.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
battening
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
construction
manufacturing
Inflected forms:
form: battenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of batten (“strip of wood used to hold things together or provide a fixing point”).
pos: noun
Translations:
puckering
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more puckering
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most puckering
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: puckerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
gloss: A fold or pinched bunch of fabric caused by the shrinkage of one layer among many.
pos: noun
Translations:
misrepresenting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: misrepresentings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A misrepresentation.
pos: noun
Translations:
slithering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: slitherings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or action of one who slithers.
pos: noun
examples: As I lay waiting I could hear a sort of murmurousness beyond the door. It seemed composed of whimperings, slitherings, and shufflings, punctuated occasionally by a raised voice in the distance.
Here, Valéry is of the devil's party, and boasts of it throughout a long catalogue of serpentine slitherings and insinuations. To be a snake, the protagonist announces, is to be a thinker, to live by one's wits[…]
Translations:
realigning
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: realignings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A realignment.
pos: noun
gloss: That realigns.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
remodeling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: remodelings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: remodelling
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The process or an instance of modeling again: applying another model.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
gloss: The process or an instance of modeling again: applying another model.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: reno, renovation
For most Americans, big bonuses and corporate jets and office remodelings become a kind of stand-in for the real sins of the bankers.
They also demand that corporate boards establish explicit policies to guide expenditures on things such as entertainment and renovations — including corporate office remodelings — and make them public on their Web sites.
Translations:
unscrewing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: unscrewings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is unscrewed.
pos: noun
examples: But this was a sadly lingering process, since there must be as many screwings and unscrewings as there are copies to be printed.
Translations:
declaiming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: declaimings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: declamation
pos: noun
Translations:
disorienting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more disorienting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most disorienting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That causes disorientation; confusing.
pos: adj
examples: But as you begin to take all the different perspectives into account, it gets very dizzifying, very aperspectival, very disorienting.
There are few experiences more disorienting than hearing the words, “You have cancer.”
Disorienting dilemmas can be small, like having to find your way around a strange city when your GPS isn't working, or they can be large, such as facing life-changing events like the loss of a job or a serious health or relationship problem.
Translations:
weatherproofing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: weatherproofings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The practice of protecting a building and its interior from the elements/weather and wind or Something protecting the interior of a building or similar from weather and wind
pos: noun
tags: UK
uncountable
usually
Translations:
smouldering
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English smoulder
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Proto-Germanic *-ndz
Proto-West Germanic *-andī
Old English -ende
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English smouldering
From smoulder + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: smoldering
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: smoulderings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: smoldering
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Burning slowly, producing smoke but no flame.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: And if we meet again, some evil chance / Will make the smouldering scandal break and blaze / Before the people, and our lord the King.
The burnt and bleeding man staggered to his feet, dazed and unbelieving, and asked the startled townspeople who came running whether his fireman and guard were safe. He was kept away from the smouldering crater where his engine had been, and taken to hospital.
gloss: The act by which something smoulders; residual heat.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
sometimes
examples: the smoulderings of the Thirty Years War
Translations:
haulage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English haul
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
Latin -āticus
Latin -āticum
Old French -agebor.
Middle English -age
English -age
English haulage
From haul + -age.
Inflected forms:
form: haulages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of hauling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The initial task would be the haulage of stores from Cape Evans to Hut Point, a distance of 13 miles.
gloss: The business of transporting heavy goods.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The charge levied for hauling (either towing or hauling out) a ship or boat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: haulageway
Translations:
headwaters
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From head + waters.
Compound parts: head
water
Inflected forms:
form: head-waters
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: head waters
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's beginning.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: ... but when his brows began to wrinkle with time, and he stood alone, the last of his family, and his particular tribe, the few Delawares, who yet continued about the head-waters of their river, gave him the mournful appellation of Mohegan.
Driver Thornhill beckoned me across the cab and pointed out some two miles ahead as we looked across the headwaters of the Eden Valley, the summit cabin at Ais Gill itself, with the summit point and altitude conspicuously indicated.
Translations: