yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
ruthless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *hrewwaną
Proto-West Germanic *hreuwan
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Germanic *-ō
Proto-West Germanic *-u
Proto-West Germanic *hreuwu
Old English hrēow
Middle English rewe
Middle English -the
Old Norse hrygðinflu.
Middle English reuþe
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
Middle English reuþeles
English ruthless
From Middle English reuþeles; equivalent to ruth + -less.
Base: ruth
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
form: more ruthless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ruthless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without pity or compassion; cruel, pitiless.
pos: adj
examples: At length their rage the hoſtile Pow’rs reſtrain, / All but the ruthleſs Monarch of the Main.
gloss: Uncompromising; unrelenting.
pos: adj
examples: Particular note, in this period, should be made of the actions of Joseph Denman, commander of the Northern Division of the Squadron, who went on an absolutely ruthless and systematic campaign along the African coast, burning so-called "slaving factories" to the ground and openly daring anyone who objected to try and stop him.
But the ruthless cleaning up of those streets and merciless treatment of gang members have triggered outrage and concern among human rights organizations, which have condemned Cecot as inhumane and unacceptable.
Related words: ruthlessly
ruthlessness
Translations:
sacrosanct
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin sacrōsānctuslbor.
English sacrosanct
Learned borrowing from Latin sacrōsānctus.
Inflected forms:
form: more sacrosanct
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sacrosanct
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Beyond alteration, criticism, or interference, especially due to religious sanction; inviolable.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: It will be noted that pre-grouping routes between London and Scotland are no longer sacrosanct—for example, Glasgow St. Enoch trains no longer run necessarily to St. Pancras.
Closer investigation revealed these as millions of elaborate crypts a few meters below the surface, left by a long-extinct spacefaring species called the zeioph. Many human universities wish to perform archeological excavations. Council law holds grave sites as sacrosanct, however, and the matter has been tied up in court for a decade.
After decades of being considered politically sacrosanct, why are homeowner mortgage write-offs suddenly on the chopping block?
The impeachment crisis is also a symptom of a country caught in a massive political estrangement that is tearing apart any sense of common patriotic purpose. It has exposed a political culture in which the facts – in this case, of the President’s actions – are no longer sacrosanct and that has been laced with a fog of misinformation by his allies.
For me, it is sacrosanct. It’s our history, it’s our cultural heritage. I do not believe in censorship in that way.
As Parisians deserted the capital in August for their sacrosanct summer holidays, French Prime Minister François Bayrou remained stationed at this desk in an otherwise hushed Hôtel de Matignon.
gloss: Sacred, very holy.
pos: adj
Synonyms: inviolable
sacred
sacrosanct
Antonyms: unsacred
violable
Related words: sacred
Derived words: sacrosanctity
sacrosanctly
sacrosanctness
Translations:
saliva
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
Etymology: A learned borrowing from Latin salīva (“spittle”), replacing or merging with Middle English salive, salve (“saliva”), from the same Latin source. Further origin uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *salw-, *sal- (“dirt, dirty”), cognate with Old English salu (“dark, dusky”). More at sallow.
Displaced Middle English slaver, slavere ("saliva"; whence Modern English slaver); and Middle English spyttle, spetel, spatel, spotel ("saliva"; whence Modern English spittle, spettle, spattle).
Inflected forms:
form: salivas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: salivae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: salivæ
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A clear, slightly alkaline liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands, consisting of water, mucin, protein, and enzymes. It moistens the mouth, lubricates ingested food, and begins the breakdown of starches.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
sane
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin sānus (“healthy; sane”). Doublet of sound.
Inflected forms:
form: saner
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: sanest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; thinking rationally.
pos: adj
examples: a sane mind
gloss: Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge the effect of one's actions in an ordinary manner.
pos: adj
examples: a sane person
Shepard: What's wrong with your assistant?
Dr. Warren: Manuel has a brilliant mind, but he's always been a bit... unstable. Genius and madness are two sides of the same coin.
Dr. Manuel: Is it madness to see the future? To see the destruction rushing towards us? To understand there is no escape? No hope? No, I am not mad. I'm the only sane one left!
Dr. Warren: I gave him an extra dose of his meds after the attack.
gloss: Rational; reasonable; sensible.
pos: adj
examples: Try to go to bed at a sane time before your exams.
Synonyms: sane
balanced
compos mentis
in possession of one's faculties
lucid
rational
reasonable
sound-minded
Antonyms: insane
crazy
unbalanced
nonsane
unsane
Related words: nome sane
Derived words: nonsane
sanely
saneness
sanewash
sanewashing
sanism
sanist
unsane
Translations:
sapling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English saplyng, seplyng, sapling, equivalent to sap + -ling.
Base: sap
Affixes: -ling
Inflected forms:
form: saplings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A young tree, larger than a seedling.
pos: noun
gloss: A youngster, especially a male nearing maturity.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
Derived words: saplinghood
Translations:
sarcasm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Latin sarcasmus, from Ancient Greek σαρκασμός (sarkasmós, “a sneer”), from σαρκάζω (sarkázō, “to gnash the teeth (in anger)”, literally “to strip off the flesh”), from σάρξ (sárx, “flesh”).
Inflected forms:
form: sarcasms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Use of acerbic language to mock or convey contempt, often using verbal irony and (in speech) often marked by overemphasis and sneering.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited.
2015, Alex Kozinski, Demuth v. County of Los Angeles, 798 F.3d 837, 839 (9th Cir. 2015).
While challenging someone equipped with a badge, handcuffs and a gun to “arrest me” was unwise on Demuth’s part, we fail to see what legal difference her statement makes. Demuth certainly could not authorize her own arrest and, in any event, Li could not reasonably have believed that Demuth was volunteering for handcuffs. Demuth was obviously employing “a literary device known as sarcasm.” [Citation omitted.] Her statement was a snide way of refusing; no reasonable officer could have thought otherwise.
gloss: An individual act of the above.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Synonyms: derision
facetiousness
irony
ridicule
satire
taunt
gibe
Derived words: sarcasm detector
sarcasm-impaired
sarcasmous
sarcastic
snarkasm
Translations:
sard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English sarde, borrowed from Old French sarde, from Latin sarda, sardius. Doublet of sardius.
Inflected forms:
form: sards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of various brownish red earth pigments formerly used in cosmetics and painting; has more yellow, hardly any blue (see puce), is lighter than russet and darker than traditional carnelian.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: sardi
lang: Ancient Greek
word: σάρδιον
roman: sárdion
lang: Māori
word: harariu
lang: Russian
word: сердоли́к
roman: serdolík
lang: Thai
word: ซาร์ด
roman: sàat
saturate
Part of speech: verb
noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
chemistry
engineering
entomology
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: The adjective is first attested in the second part of the 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English, the verb in 1538, the noun in 1921; inherited from Middle English saturat(e) (“satiated, satisfied”), borrowed from Latin saturātus, perfect passive participle of saturō (“to fill, satisfy, quench”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)), from satur (“full”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: saturates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: saturating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: saturated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: saturated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: saturates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more saturate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most saturate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To cause to become completely permeated with, or soaked (especially with a liquid).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Rain saturated their clothes.
After walking home in the driving rain, his clothes were saturated.
Suppose, on the contrary, that a piece of charcoal saturated with hydrogen gas is put into a receiver filled with carbonic acid gas, […]
Innumerable flocks and herds covered that vast expanse of emerald meadow, saturated with the moisture of the Atlantic.
gloss: To fill thoroughly or to excess.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: Modern television is saturated with violence.
gloss: To satisfy the affinity of; to cause a substance to become inert by chemical combination with all that it can hold.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: One can saturate phosphorus with chlorine.
gloss: To render pure, or of a colour free from white light.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Something saturated, especially a saturated fat.
pos: noun
examples: Through formation of a double bond, stearic acid (18:0), a saturate, is converted to acid (18:1), a monounsaturate.
We estimate from Table 4 that the average deuterium content in the saturate is approximately 1.1 when palladium is the catalyst, 1.6 when platinum is the catalyst, and 1.7 when rhodium is the catalyst. If there were only deuterium on the surface, the saturate would average 2 deuteriums.
gloss: Saturated, wet, soaked.
pos: adj
examples: The innocent are gay—the lark is gay, / That dries his feathers, saturate with dew, / Beneath the rosy cloud, while yet the beams / Of dayspring overshoot his humble nest.
gloss: Saturated, wet, soaked.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
poetic
examples: There she lay, […]
Wax-white, seraphic, saturate with the sun
O' the morning that now flooded from the front
And filled the window with a light like blood.
gloss: Very intense.
pos: adj
examples: saturate green
gloss: Satisfied, satiated.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Complete, perfect.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Saturated.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
Related words: sate
satis
satisfy
saturation
Derived words: desaturate
nonsaturating
oversaturate
presaturate
resaturate
saturatable
saturative
saturator
subsaturating
supersaturate
undersaturate
unsaturate
Translations:
scabby
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: media
printing
publishing
Etymology: From Middle English scabby, scabbie, equivalent to scab + -y. Doublet of shabby.
Base: scab
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: scabbier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: scabbiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Affected with scabs; full of scabs.
pos: adj
examples: Her wrizled skin, as rough as maple rind,
So scabby was, that would have loath'd all womankind.
gloss: Diseased with the scab (mange): mangy.
pos: adj
gloss: Having a blotched, uneven appearance.
pos: adj
gloss: Injured by the attachment of barnacles to the carapace of a shell.
pos: adj
gloss: Working against union policies, working to bust unions; in particular, being a scab (worker who crosses a union picket line).
pos: adj
examples: The police, the governor, and the "scabby" Hearst Examiner "received a tremendous razzing," according to the Waterfront Worker, while all along the line of march "the workers on the sidelines cheered[…]"
[They're a] scabby right-to-work company and they don't care how much the sharp edges on that dust screw up a guy's lungs.
Hoochie's dad said, “All eight drivers are former 'scabby' employees who couldn't get hired by any reputable union trucking companies.”
gloss: stingy; scrounging.
pos: adj
tags: Ireland
UK
slang
examples: The chipper was a bit scabby on the vinegar today.
I lent you a fiver last week and you still haven’t paid me back, you scabby bastard!
You never bring you’re own pen but always ask to borrow mine, you scabby git!
Synonyms: scabrous
roynish
scabby
scabrate
scabrid
scald
scalled
scurvy
Antonyms: smooth
Related words: dandruffy
scarious
scruffy
scurfy
sloughy
Derived words: scabbily
scabbiness
scabby sheep
Translations:
scaly
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English scali, skaly. By surface analysis, scale + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: scalier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: scaliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: scalies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Covered or abounding with scales.
pos: adj
examples: a scaly fish  a scaly stem
If the lids of the eyes become inflamed and scaly, do not seek to remove the scales roughly, for they will bring the lashes with them.
Like scaly carp and feathered swan
To nature's world we do belong.
gloss: Composed of scales lying over each other.
pos: adj
examples: a scaly bulb
gloss: Resembling scales, laminae, or layers.
pos: adj
gloss: low, mean.
pos: adj
tags: South-Africa
dated
vulgar
examples: a scaly fellow
This done, he removed the hat; and having touched his forehead lightly with a silk handkerchief, for the afternoon sun was warm, gazed about him with a grave distaste. “A scaly neighbourhood!” he murmured. The young man’s judgment was one at which few people with an eye for beauty would have cavilled.
gloss: The scaly yellowfish (Labeobarbus natalensis).
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
Synonyms: scaled
scaly
scarious
squamate
squamated
squamiferous
squamoid
furfuraceous
squamous
squamulose
squarrose
Antonyms: unscaly
esquamulose
nonscaly
scaleless
Related words: fishlike
reptilelike
Derived words: Cameroon scaly-tail
nonscaly
scalily
scaliness
scaly anteater
scaly-breasted lorikeet
scalybutt
scaly clam
scalyfin
scalyfoot
scaly-foot gastropod
scaly legs
scaly-sided merganser
scaly-tailed possum
scaly tetter
scaly thrush
Translations:
scoff
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English scof, skof, probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Old Norse skaup, Old Danish skof, Old Frisian skof (“insult, shame”), and Old High German scoph.
Inflected forms:
form: scoffs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scoffs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scoffing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scoffed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scoffed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach.
pos: noun
examples: VVith ſcoffes and ſcornes, and contumelious taunts, / In open Market-place produc't they me, / To be a publique ſpectacle to all: / Here, ſayd they, is the Terror of the French, / The Scar-Crovv that affrights our Children ſo.
"I believe you've killed that constable in the exercise of his duty, sir; the man's dead;" said Lowe, sternly. / "Another gloss on my text; why invade me like house-breakers?" said Dangerfield, with a grim scoff.
There were sneers, and scoffs, and inuendoes of some; prophecies of failure in a hundred ways […]
gloss: An object of scorn, mockery, or derision.
pos: noun
examples: [T]he scoff of wither'd age and beardless youth […]
gloss: To jeer; to laugh with contempt and derision.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, / And fools who came to scoff, remained to pray.
gloss: To mock; to treat with scorn.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: присмивам се
roman: prismivam se
lang: Bulgarian
word: подигравам се
roman: podigravam se
lang: Czech
word: vysmívat se
lang: Czech
word: dělat si legraci
lang: Dutch
word: spotten
lang: Finnish
word: nauraa pilkaten
lang: Finnish
word: nauraa ivaten
lang: French
word: se gausser
lang: French
word: se moquer
lang: French
word: tourner en ridicule
lang: French
word: faire fi
lang: French
word: snober
lang: German
word: verlachen
lang: Hungarian
word: kinevet
lang: Hungarian
word: kigúnyol
lang: Hungarian
word: gúnyolódik
lang: Icelandic
word: hæða
lang: Icelandic
word: draga dár
lang: Icelandic
word: gera gys
lang: Indonesian
word: menyindir
lang: Italian
word: deridere
lang: Italian
word: schernire
lang: Italian
word: fare il verso
lang: Italian
word: motteggiare
lang: Latin
word: cavillor
lang: Māori
word: taunu
lang: Māori
word: tāwai
lang: Māori
word: aniani
lang: Occitan
word: se trufar
lang: Occitan
word: se garçar
lang: Polish
word: drwić
lang: Polish
word: zadrwić
lang: Polish
word: szydzić
lang: Polish
word: kpić
lang: Polish
word: zakpić
lang: Polish
word: dogadywać
lang: Polish
word: dogadać
lang: Romanian
word: batjocori
lang: Romanian
word: ridiculiza
lang: Russian
word: насмехаться
roman: nasmexatʹsja
lang: Russian
word: осмеивать
roman: osmeivatʹ
lang: Spanish
word: burlarse
lang: Spanish
word: escarnecer
lang: Spanish
word: rebuznar
lang: Spanish
word: mofarse
lang: Spanish
word: hacerse de la boca chiquita
lang: Welsh
word: gwawdio
lang: Welsh
word: gwatwar
scoot
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old Norse skjóta (“to shoot”), or perhaps related to Middle English scottlynge (“moving one's feet quickly, scampering”, literally “scuttling”), see scuddle, scuttle.
Inflected forms:
form: scoots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scoots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scooting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scooted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scooted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A sideways shuffling or sliding motion.
pos: noun
examples: Instinctively, he lifted the chair a fraction, and gave it a little scoot away from her.
gloss: A dollar.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: To walk or travel fast; to go quickly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To run away hastily; scram.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: You'd better scoot before my mother gets home and sees that broken window!
gloss: To move with the forelegs while sitting, so that the floor rubs against its rear end.
pos: verb
examples: The dog was scooting all over our new carpet.
If you ever see your dog scooting its hind end along the floor, chances are that anal sac irritation or impaction exists.
What if my cat is biting its tail, scooting or rubbing its bottom on the ground?
The old wives tale is that a dog that scoots on its rear has worms, but that's rarely the case. Dogs that scoot, lick, or chew underneath their tails usually have anal gland issues.
gloss: To move sideways (especially along a seat for multiple people), usually to make room for someone else (to sit, stand, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
often
examples: Do you mind scooting a bit to the left?
Would you mind scooting over for me?
gloss: To dispatch someone or something at speed; Synonym of shoo.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He scooted us out of the study and turned off the light […]
Derived words: on the scoot
scoot over
scoot up
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: офейквам
roman: ofejkvam
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 疾行
roman: jíxíng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 匆匆离去
roman: cōngcōng líqù
lang: Czech
word: letět
lang: Czech
word: pádit
lang: Czech
word: mazat
lang: Czech
word: upalovat
lang: Finnish
word: kiiruhtaa
lang: Finnish
word: rientää
lang: Finnish
word: sännätä
lang: German
word: schießen
lang: German
word: stürmen
lang: German
word: flitzen
lang: Irish
word: gread leat
lang: Māori
word: takawhiti
lang: Russian
word: удирать
roman: udiratʹ
lang: Ukrainian
word: кидатися
roman: kydatysja
lang: Ukrainian
word: зриватися
roman: zryvatysja
lang: Ukrainian
word: тікати
roman: tikaty
lang: Ukrainian
word: вшиватися
roman: všyvatysja
lang: Vietnamese
word: phắn
scow
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Dutch schouwbor.
English scow
Borrowed from Dutch schouw.
Inflected forms:
form: scows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scowed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A large flat-bottomed boat, having broad, square ends.
pos: noun
examples: This steamboat was exactly like a decked scow.
gloss: To transport in a scow.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
scowl
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English scowlen, scoulen, skoulen (also as Middle English schoulen), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Danish skule (“to scowl”), Norwegian skule (“to scowl”).
Inflected forms:
form: scowls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scowls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scowling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scowled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scowled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowning; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown.
pos: noun
examples: She made a scowl.
gloss: Gloom; dark or threatening aspect.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Mr. Pynsent, who had asked Miss Amory to dance, came up on one occasion to claim her hand, but scowls of recognition having already passed between him and Mr. Arthur Pendennis in the dancing-room, Arthur suddenly rose up and claimed Miss Amory as his partner for the present dance […]
gloss: To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: She scould, and frownd with froward countenaunce
gloss: To look gloomy, dark, or threatening; to lower.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
intransitive
examples: The scowling heavens.
gloss: To look at or repel with a scowl or a frown.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to scowl a rival into submission
gloss: To express by a scowl.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to scowl defiance
Derived words: scowlful
scowly
Translations:
scraggy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: scraggier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: scraggiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Rough and irregular; jagged.
pos: adj
examples: Her tender arms the angry sharpness rue
Of many a scraggy thorn and envious brier;
[H]e grasped the rock. It was scraggy, and though it tore and bruised him he clung to it.
gloss: Lean or thin, scrawny.
pos: adj
examples: On one of these occasions, he presented for the first time to Mannering his tall, gaunt, awkward, bony figure, attired in a threadbare suit of black, with a coloured handkerchief, not over clean, about his sinewy, scraggy neck.
He is twenty years younger, but has something of the same spare, scraggy physique.
Derived words: scraggily
scragginess
Translations:
scrappy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English scrap
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English scrappy
From scrap + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: scrappier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: scrappiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Consisting of scraps; fragmentary; lacking unity or consistency.
pos: adj
examples: That was a scrappy lecture.
gloss: Having an aggressive spirit; inclined to fight or strive.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: He's a scrappy dog and will charge at you if you taunt him.
In those days PGS [Portsmouth Grammar School] was full of sadistic staff and scrappy boys called things like Smudger, Muzz and Titch.
The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.
gloss: (Of a fight) characterised by lots of ungainly or wild punches, grabs, wrestling, etc.
pos: adj
tags: informal
gloss: (Of a sports match) characterised by awkward or clumsy play.
pos: adj
tags: informal
Derived words: scrappily
scrappiness
Translations:
scratchy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English scratch
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English scratchy
From scratch + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: scratchier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: scratchiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by scratches.
pos: adj
examples: An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
gloss: Irritating; itchy.
pos: adj
gloss: Noisy, lossy; marred by white noise or static as a result of poor or low signal, interference or unfavourable atmospheric conditions.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: The FM station two hundred miles away was receivable, but the audio was too scratchy to positively identify.
gloss: Having popping and/or crackling sounds due to excessive wear, especially from scratch marks.
pos: adj
examples: Once he almost fell asleep, and then the little record player started up in his mother and father's bedroom. Mom was playing her scratchy Elvis 45s again.
gloss: Irritable; tetchy.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: 'Now, now, don't get scratchy,' said Casali. 'You've got enough troubles of your own. […]
Translations:
scribble
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English scribblen, scriblen, scryblen, scribelen, equivalent to scribe + -le (frequentative suffix).
Base: scribe
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: scribbles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scribbling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scribbled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scribbled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: scribbles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To write or draw carelessly and in a hurry.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: I suddenly remembered I needed to buy bleach, so scribbled it down on my shopping list.
gloss: To doodle.
pos: verb
gloss: To write badly; to work as an inferior author or journalist.
pos: verb
gloss: Careless, hasty writing, doodle or drawing
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: scribe
Derived words: multo-scribbling
scribble down
scribbler
scribbleress
transcribble
Translations:
scrimp
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Scots scrimp (“meager”), from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German schrimpen (“to shrivel up, wrinkle”), from Old Dutch *scrimpan, from Frankish *skrimpan, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skrimpaną (“to shrink”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”), related to Old English sċrimman (“to shrink”) and sċrincan (“to shrivel up”). Doublet of shrink, shrimp, and shrim.
Inflected forms:
form: scrimps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scrimps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scrimping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scrimped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scrimped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more scrimp
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most scrimp
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A pinching miser; a niggard.
pos: noun
gloss: To make too small or short; to shortchange.
pos: verb
tags: sometimes
transitive
with-on
examples: to scrimp the pattern of a coat
The company scrimped on the design so badly that it ended up defective.
gloss: To limit or straiten; to put on short allowance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: For, as a general thing, the English merchant-ship scrimps her crew; but not so the English whaler.
There the Master scrimps his haggard sempstress of her daily bread, / There a single sordid attic holds the living and the dead.
gloss: To be frugal, whether to a reasonable and wise extent or to a miserly and unwise extent.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: “Oh, Electra, jewel of women, darling of my heart, we are free at last, we roll in wealth, we need never scrimp again. It's a case for Veuve Cliquot!”
They had to scrimp each month to afford it out of pocket.
gloss: Short; scanty; curtailed.
pos: adj
Derived words: scrimp and save
scrimp together
scrimper
Translations:
scythe
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English sythe, sithe, from Old English sīþe, sīgþe, sigdi (“sickle”), from Proto-West Germanic *sigiþi, from Proto-Germanic *sigiþiz, *sigiþō, derived from *seg- (“saw”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).
Immediate Germanic cognates include Middle Low German sēgede, Dutch zicht, Icelandic sigð (all “sickle”). More distantly related with Dutch zeis, German Sense (both “scythe”). Also akin to English saw, which see.
The silent c crept in during the early 15th century owing to folk-etymological association with Medieval Latin scissor (“tailor, carver”), from Latin scindō (“to cut, rend, split”).
The verb, which was first used in the intransitive sense, is from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: scythes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sithe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: sythe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: zive
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: scythes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scything
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scythed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scythed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sithe
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: sythe
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: zive
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An instrument for mowing grass, grain, etc. by hand, composed of a long, curving blade with a sharp concave edge, fastened to a long handle called a snath.
pos: noun
examples: And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence
Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.
Early next morning the gudewife took a scythe on her shoulder, and went out in the fields with the hay-mowers to mow.
gloss: A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: The tenth Lenormand card.
pos: noun
gloss: To use a scythe.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To cut with a scythe.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To cut off as with a scythe; to mow.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To attack or injure as if cutting.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
often
examples: The boy began to keen, and the high-pitched noise scythed through Song's head.
The smaller shells make a complete slaughterhouse of the bridge, and the splinters scythe through anyone out on deck.
Derived words: nature's scythe
scytheman
scythe down
scyther
Translations:
secondary
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
biology
business
chemistry
education
geography
geology
manufacturing
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
sciences
taxonomy
Etymology: From Middle English secundarie, from Latin secundārius (“of the second class or quality”), from secundus (whence the English second) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary), equivalent to second + -ary; compare the French secondaire, the Italian secondario, the Occitan secundari, the Portuguese secundario, and the Spanish secundario.
Base: second
Affixes: -ary
Inflected forms:
form: more secondary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most secondary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Next in order to the first or primary; of second place in origin, rank, etc.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
gloss: Originating from a deputy or delegated person or body.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: the work of secondary hands
gloss: Derived from a parent compound by replacement of two atoms of hydrogen by organic radicals.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
gloss: Produced by alteration or deposition subsequent to the formation of the original rock mass.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
gloss: Developed by pressure or other causes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: secondary cleavage
gloss: Pertaining to the second joint of the wing of a bird.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
gloss: Dependent or consequent upon another disease, or occurring in the second stage of a disease.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: Bright's disease is often secondary to scarlet fever.
the secondary symptoms of syphilis
gloss: Of less than primary importance.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: a secondary issue
the problem of sexual equality became even more secondary than before in the eyes of the kibbutz and of its women members.
gloss: Related to secondary education, i.e. schooling between the ages of (approximately) 11 and 18.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
gloss: Relating to the manufacture of goods from raw materials.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
gloss: Formed by mixing primary colors.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: Yellow is a secondary light color, though a primary CMYK color.
gloss: Representing a reversion to an ancestral state.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: With the exception of a secondary loss in Dimecoenia, larvae of Ephydrini have prominent, ventral prolegs that bear crochets.
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: помощен
roman: pomošten
lang: Dutch
word: plaatsvervangend
lang: Polish
word: pomocniczy
lang: Spanish
word: suplente
secondly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English second
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English secondly
From second + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: 2ndly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: 2dly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: 2ᵈˡʸ
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: In the second place.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants. […] Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.
Translations:
sedge
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *sagjaz
Proto-West Germanic *sagi
Old English seċġ
Middle English segge
English sedge
From Middle English segge, from Old English seċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *sagi, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sak- (“marsh plant”).
Cognate with Dutch zegge and German Segge, dialectal German Saher (“reeds”).
Inflected forms:
form: sedges
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any plant of the family Cyperaceae.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any plant of the family Cyperaceae.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.
gloss: Any of various other plants resembling true sedges, such as Gentiana rubricaulis and Andropogon virginicus.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: bulrush
reed
Carex
Derived words: acute sedge
beaksedge
Bicknell's sedge
blue wood sedge
bottle sedge
broom sedge
broomsedge
cat-tail sedge
claspbract sedge
common sedge
creeping sedge
few-flowered sedge
flatsedge
fox sedge
glaucous sedge
goosegrass sedge
hairsedge
Krause's sedge
long hair sedge
mud sedge
nutsedge
Pennsylvania sedge
plantainleaf sedge
rare spring-sedge
sallow sedge
sand sedge
Sedgebrook
sedged
sedge-darter
sedge fly
sedge frog
sedge grass
sedge hat
sedgeland
sedgelike
sedge-skipper
sedge warbler
sedge wren
sedgy
silvery sedge
slender sedge
soft fox sedge
star sedge
string sedge
tussock sedge
wood sedge
woolsedge
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: šáchorovitá rostlina
lang: Finnish
word: sarakasvi
lang: Irish
word: cíb
lang: Limburgish
word: bies
lang: Malagasy
word: zorozoro
lang: Malagasy
word: zozoro
lang: Polish
word: cibora
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: stàrr
lang: Swedish
word: halvgräs
lang: Translingual
word: Cyperaceae
segregate
Part of speech: adj
verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
geography
geology
government
natural-sciences
politics
Etymology: From Latin sēgregātus, perfect passive participle of sēgregō (“to separate”), from sē- (“apart”) + gregō (“to flock or group”), from grex (“flock”). Compare gregarious, aggregate.
Inflected forms:
form: more segregate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most segregate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: segregates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: segregating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: segregated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: segregated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: segregates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Separate; select.
pos: adj
gloss: Separated from others of the same kind.
pos: adj
gloss: Separate from a mass and collected together along lines of fraction.
pos: adj
gloss: To separate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: One aim of the reorganisation on both routes is to segregate completely the operation of the District and Tilbury Lines between London and Upminster, removing physical connections between the two.
Throw me in cuffs, no chance of parole / Back in the house, thirty days in the hole / Segregate me from the local population, your love is, uh, incarceration
gloss: In particular, to separate and organize by characteristics.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Please segregate the pairs of shoes by size into their respective boxes.
gloss: To separate (races, sexes, or other groups, especially black and white people), especially by social policies that directly or indirectly keep them apart.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Although the California State Supreme Court ended the official segregation of public schools in 1877, Sacramento continued to segregate well into the 1880s (Sacramento African American Historical and Cultural Society [SAAHCS] 1990:9, 20).
Although some lunch counters continued to segregate well into 1965, despite the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter relented on July 25, 1960.26 Unwilling for the slow process of litigation in federal courts to work its way through[…]
[…] the National Guard continued to segregate and practice racial discrimination; and black soldiers often found it difficult to obtain decent housing in surrounding communities.
gloss: An entity that is separated in some way from a reference group or entity.
pos: noun
examples: A segregate becomes conspicuous once it is removed from its aggregate.
[…] to determine whether geographic segregates are discernible.
[…] the first three segregates are included in a superordinate category at a lower level than that of the segregate ultimately including hawk, horse, and crocodile.
Synonyms: isolate
separate
sequester
sunder out
insulate
segregate
set apart
Antonyms: aggregate
coalesce
lump together
Related words: segregation
unmix
Derived words: consegregate
cosegregate
cosegregating
desegregate
missegregate
nonsegregating
outsegregate
presegregate
resegregate
segregatable
segregative
segregator
self-segregate
Translations:
selflessness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English self
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English selfless
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English selflessness
From selfless + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: selflessnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being selfless.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: But the truth is that I came to cherish Japan’s civility and selflessness.
Translations:
self-reliant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English reliant
English self-reliant
From self- + reliant.
Inflected forms:
form: more self-reliant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-reliant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Reliant upon oneself; trusting to one's own powers or judgment.
pos: adj
examples: The Constitution deliberately makes the President and the Congress competitors as well as partners. The Founding Fathers created an elaborate system of checks and balances to keep each partner self-reliant while still assuring their interdependence. No brief account can fully capture the complexity of this relationship, in which each partner contributes his own share of stubbornness, pride, hostility, warmth, suspicion, skill, and affection.
Translations:
sequential
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: From Latin sequentia + -al.
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Succeeding or following in order.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Hitest keeps the complexity of its pattern generation under control by not allowing extensive time searches in attempts to drive fault data to and through sequential elements. Rather it treats the inputs to sequential elements as pseudoprimary outputs, and treats outputs of sequential elements as pseudoprimary inputs that are fixed for any given simulation time.
gloss: Succeeding or following in order.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Executed as a sequence of instructions, without concurrency or parallelism.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: homosequential
hypersequential
isosequential
nonsequential
parasequential
prequential
sequential algorithm
sequential analysis
sequential art
sequential art narrative
sequential compactness
sequential continuity
sequential file
sequentialisation
sequentiality
sequentialization
sequential logic
sequentially
sequential manual gearbox
sequentialness
sequential probability ratio test
sequential reaction
sequential valve timing
unsequential
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: последователен
roman: posledovatelen
lang: Catalan
word: seqüencial
lang: Finnish
word: peräkkäinen
lang: German
word: sequenziell
lang: Greek
word: αλλεπάλληλος
roman: allepállilos
lang: Maltese
word: sekwenzjali
lang: Romanian
word: secvențial
lang: Spanish
word: secuencial
lang: Turkish
word: sekansiyel
serviette
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English serviotis pl, from Middle French serviette.
Inflected forms:
form: serviettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A table napkin, now especially a paper one.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
Ireland
UK
examples: 1887, “A Member of the Aristocracy”, Manners and Rules of Good Society; Or Solecisms to Be Avoided, 1999 facsimile edition, Angus&Robertson, page 116,
She should unfold her serviette and place it on her lap. It is immaterial whether she places the bread on the right or left-hand side of the cover when taking it from the serviette.
A gentleman should do the same with his serviette and bread, placing the one across his knees, and the other at his right or left hand.
1914, Arnold Bennett, The Price of Love, 2005, Echo Library, page 40,
And then, when the meal finally did begin Mrs. Maldon′s serviette and silver serviette-ring had vanished.
Nature of goods.—Toilet paper, paper handkerchiefs, paper towels, paper serviettes and paper covers for lavatory seats, none being medicated.
• To provide the guest with a means of wiping his/her hands and mouth, and
• To make the restaurant look attractive.
2006, K.E. Silva, A Simple Distance, Akashic Books, US, page 90,
I told them to put the paper serviettes out on the table, and look, they′ve put out the cloth napkins! Here, take these back to the kitchen and bring me the stack of paper serviettes.
Avoid the temptation to lick your fingers – a finger bowl filled with warm water is usually placed on the table to wash your fingers at the end of the meal and serviettes should be on hand to dry them.
gloss: A lazy Susan.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Derived words: serviette-ring
Translations:
setback
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: Deverbal from set back. Compare drawback.
Inflected forms:
form: setbacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An obstacle, delay, disadvantage, or blow (an adverse event which slows down, or prevents progress towards a desired outcome).
pos: noun
examples: After some initial setbacks, the expedition went safely on its way.
DUKAT: I blame no one but myself. I was indiscreet. I compromised myself and have been punished accordingly. If someone under my command had behaved so outrageously, I would do the same thing to him. Besides, I assure you, this is only a temporary setback. Everything I have lost, I will regain. It's only a matter of time.
The Constitutional Court has ruled today, November 17th, that Section 1448 of the Thai Civil and Commercial, stating that “a marriage can take place only between a man and a woman”, is constitutional under the Thai constitutional law. This decision could be a major setback for many Thai LGBTQ activist groups’ continued journey of what they call basic human rights to legally allow same-sex marriages in Thailand.
gloss: Any adverse event, defeat, or impediment of progress.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: The required distance between a structure and a road.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A step-like recession in a wall.
pos: noun
examples: Setbacks were initially used for structural reasons, but now are often mandated by land use codes.
gloss: An offset to the temperature setting of a thermostat to cover a period when more or less heating is required than usual.
pos: noun
examples: Fuel savings from thermostat setbacks have long been accepted as fact, but little documentation existed to support it.
gloss: A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
possibly
gloss: A backset; a check; a repulse; a relapse.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
Derived words: turn a setback into a comeback
Translations:
settee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Unclear, possibly from settle (“seat, long bench”) + -ee (diminutive suffix).
Base: settle
Affixes: -ee
Inflected forms:
form: settees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A long seat with a back, made to accommodate several persons at once; a sofa.
pos: noun
tags: Texas
UK
examples: The lounge was furnished in old English oak and big Knole settees. There were rugs from Tabriz and Kerman on the highly polished floor. […] A table lamp was fashioned from a silver Egyptian hookah.
“You might have to calm this down, my darling. I'm not sure this settee can take it.” “This settee has taken centuries of our love.”
Translations: