yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
locked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: communications
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
mathematics
mobile-telephony
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
telecommunications
telephony
Etymology: * (drunk): Perhaps from airlocked.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having undergone locking; secured by a lock.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A locked door barred the way.
gloss: Protected by a mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: You can't delete a locked computer file.
gloss: Very drunk.
pos: adj
tags: Ireland
not-comparable
examples: 'Drunk. Battered. Ar meisce. In a state of alcohol-induced intoxication.' […] Nadine and I once watched the news and had a shot of absinthe every time someone said unnatural. We were absolutely locked.'
gloss: Bound to a carrier.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Styled into dreadlocks; wearing dreadlocks.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: geolocked
landlocked
locked and loaded
locked behind bars
locked-room mystery
locked up
long-locked
multilocked
nonlocked
region-locked
sealocked
wood-locked
ziplocked
Translations:
lang: Northern Altai
word: пектӱ
roman: pektü
lang: Southern Altai
word: бектӱ
roman: bektü
lang: Southern Altai
word: јабылу
roman: ǰabïlu
lang: Arabic
word: مُقْفَل
roman: muqfal
lang: Azerbaijani
word: qıfıllı
lang: Bashkir
word: бикле
roman: bikle
lang: Bashkir
word: бикте
roman: bikte
lang: Bulgarian
word: заключен
roman: zaključen
lang: Catalan
word: tancat
lang: Catalan
word: tancat amb clau
lang: Esperanto
word: ŝlosita
lang: Finnish
word: lukittu
lang: French
word: fermé à clé
lang: French
word: fermé à clef
lang: French
word: verrouillé
lang: German
word: abgesperrt
lang: German
word: abgeschlossen
lang: German
word: zugeschlossen
lang: Hebrew
word: נעול
roman: naúl
lang: Hungarian
word: zárt
lang: Hungarian
word: bezárt
lang: Hungarian
word: lezárt
lang: Italian
word: chiuso a chiave
lang: Kyrgyz
word: бекилген
roman: bekilgen
lang: Kyrgyz
word: жабылган
roman: jabılgan
lang: Māori
word: raka
lang: Persian
word: قفل
roman: qofl
lang: Polish
word: zamknięty
lang: Polish
word: zakluczony
lang: Portuguese
word: trancado
lang: Romanian
word: încuiat
lang: Russian
word: за́пертый
roman: zápertyj
lang: Russian
word: закры́тый
roman: zakrýtyj
lang: Scots
word: lockt
lang: Scots
word: lockit
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: glaiste
lang: Slovak
word: zamknutý
lang: Spanish
word: cerrado con llave / seguro / llavín
lang: Swedish
word: låst
lang: Turkish
word: kilitli
lang: Turkish
word: kitli
lang: Vietnamese
word: khoá
entertained
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more entertained
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most entertained
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Enjoying to having enjoyed entertainments; amused.
pos: adj
examples: That is the American way; we are without question the most entertained people in the world .
They are far more entertained by films than even we on Earth .
You must have been very entertained watching us look for her.
Translations:
armband
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
swimming
Etymology: From arm + band.
Compound parts: arm
band
Inflected forms:
form: armbands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A band worn around the arm, usually to symbolize mourning or protest.
pos: noun
examples: “The big change”, said Fighting Red (who was an 18 year old girl drama student; Red Guards took on new “revolutionary” names) “was when Chairman Mao had the big August 18 rally in T’ien An Men Square and said he was joining the Red Guards and let them put the arm band on him.
A sell-out crowd of 10,000 then observed perfectly a period of silence before the team revealed their black armbands, complete with stitched-in poppies, for the match. After Fifa’s about-turn, it must have been a frantic few days for the England kit manufacturer. The on-field challenge was altogether more straightforward.
gloss: A band worn around the arm of the captain of a team.
pos: noun
examples: The biggest cheer of the night came shortly afterwards. St James’ Park finally found its voice to welcome back Jonás Gutiérrez into a Newcastle side for the first time since his diagnosis with testicular cancer 17 months ago. Hugged by his friend Coloccini, Gutiérrez was handed the captain’s armband after replacing Ryan Taylor at left-back and promptly collected a booking for fouling Adnan Januzaj – on for a frustrated Angel Di Maria.
gloss: One of a pair of inflatable plastic bands, normally worn on the upper arms, to help the wearer (often a child) float in water and learn to swim.
pos: noun
Derived words: armbanded
Translations:
lang: Abinomn
word: atamatu
lang: Catalan
word: braçalet
lang: Catalan
word: braçal
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 臂章
roman: bìzhāng
lang: Dutch
word: rouwbandje
lang: Dutch
word: protestbandje
lang: Esperanto
word: brakbendo
lang: Faroese
word: armband
lang: Finnish
word: käsivarsinauha
lang: French
word: crêpe de deuil
lang: French
word: brassard
lang: German
word: Armbinde
lang: German
word: Trauerflor
lang: Greek
word: περιβραχιόνιο
roman: perivrachiónio
lang: Greek
word: πένθος
roman: penthos
lang: Hindi
word: वलय
roman: valay
lang: Hindi
word: अंगद
roman: aṅgad
lang: Hungarian
word: karszalag
lang: Japanese
word: 腕章
roman: wanshō
lang: Korean
word: 완장
roman: wanjang
lang: Latin
word: galbeus
lang: Ojibwe
word: jiiskinikebizon
lang: Polish
word: opaska
lang: Portuguese
word: braçadeira
lang: Romanian
word: brățară
lang: Russian
word: нарука́вная повя́зка
roman: narukávnaja povjázka
lang: Sanskrit
word: अंगद
roman: aṃgada
lang: Spanish
word: brazal
lang: Spanish
word: brazalete
hui
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Māori huibor.
English hui
Borrowed from Māori hui.
Inflected forms:
form: hui
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: huis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Māori social gathering or assembly.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
examples: […] accounts of the proceedings of important huis at which Maori leaders took the initiative in discussing their educational and vocational needs […].
“I even started training as a seminarian. It lasted till I met Hana at an interchurch hui.”
[T]ribal leaders […] organised a series of hui in 1950 to celebrate the 600th anniversary of the arrival of the Great Fleet, which by this time had grown to nine canoes.
gloss: A meeting to discuss plans held by an organization, especially one that considers itself progressive.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
broadly
examples: Shelley's document hadn't mentioned the billionaire at all, and although Mira had said at the hui that Lemoine used the airstrip frequently, she'd seemed to suggest that the farm was his destination, not his point of departure, which would imply that he was living somewhere else.
Related words: An-hui
Translations:
aspirational
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
English aspire
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English aspiration
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English aspirational
From aspiration + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more aspirational
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most aspirational
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: aspirationals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Being ambitious.
pos: adj
examples: In the nineteen-fifties, the height of aspirational style was fine French furniture—F.F.F., as it became known in certain precincts of Fifth Avenue and Palm Beach.
gloss: Desiring success.
pos: adj
gloss: Expressing a hope or intention but not creating a legally binding obligation.
pos: adj
gloss: A person with aspirations.
pos: noun
Derived words: aspirationalism
aspirationally
aspirational recycling
nonaspirational
unaspirational
Translations:
astounded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more astounded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most astounded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Surprised, amazed, astonished or bewildered.
pos: adj
examples: […] now they lye
Groveling and prostrate on yon Lake of Fire,
As we erewhile, astounded and amaz’d,
No wonder, fall’n such a pernicious highth.
[…] wrapt in Suspense
And Fear I stood, yet knew not what I fear’d;
When straight to my appall’d, astounded Sense
A Man of noble Port and Mien appear’d.
1844, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Spectacles” in The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, New York: W.J. Widdleton, Volume 2, p. 327,
Had a thunderbolt fallen at my feet I could not have been more thoroughly astounded […]
The housewife was to take a sip of the real juice, watch the interviewer mix the Instant right before her astounded eyes, and then try the result, impressed, possibly, by its quickness and ease […]
Translations:
auctioneer
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English auction
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Middle French -ierder.
English -eer
English auctioneer
From auction + -eer.
Inflected forms:
form: auctioneers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: auctioneers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: auctioneering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: auctioneered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: auctioneered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An individual who conducts an auction on behalf of a vendor, accepting bids to find the best price for the vendor.
pos: noun
examples: The auctioneer, with his fruity, theatrical voice and his gavel, hits a block of wood in precisely the same spot, no matter the day.
But there are many items that auctioneers sell every day in various garb: industrial equipment, autos and real estate, to name a few.
The auctioneer donated the monument to FOLHC and they got to work restoring his plot.
gloss: To sell at an auction; to auction.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To act as an auctioneer.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
backdrop
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der.?
Proto-Germanic *baką
Proto-West Germanic *bak
Old English bæc
Middle English bak
English back
English drop
English backdrop
From back + drop.
Inflected forms:
form: backdrops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: backdrops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: backdropping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: backdropped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: backdropped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A decorated cloth hung at the back of a stage.
pos: noun
gloss: An image that serves as a visual background.
pos: noun
examples: The president spoke outside the brick exterior of the firehouse for Ladder Company 10 and Engine Company 10, against the backdrop of a 56-foot-long bronze bas-relief depicting the towers in flames.
Animated, seemingly varied crowd movement will place a game in the early 1990s, while static crowd backdrops and blocky, sprite-based athletes tend to point toward technology used in the 1980s.
It's not the longest or tallest viaduct in Britain, but the landscape upon which it sits makes for a stunning backdrop.
gloss: The setting or background of an acted performance.
pos: noun
examples: Blackpool’s aggregate victory ensures Birmingham are now preparing for a potential summer of change. Manager Chris Hughton has been operating against a backdrop of financial uncertainty all season and last night Peter Pannu, the vice-chairman, announced that the club’s accounts would finally be published next week, and that a new investor had been identified.
Specifically on the question of Article 8 considerations, the Court of Appeal expressed the view that it was difficult to see how a chief constable’s decision to disclose [the applicant’s charges to the employer] could ever be challenged (see paragraph 81 above). The Court observes that the case was decided against the backdrop of a clearly-defined legislative framework (i.e., the 1997 Act, which was in force in England and Wales at the time) which the court took to be in compliance with Article 8 (see paragraph 78 above).
All of this heightened hyper-reaction to criticism plays out against a backdrop of dangerous moves by Israel and its supporters in the US to not only defame and politically punish critics and in some instances to go further by making criticism illegal.
gloss: Any background situation.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Against a backdrop of falling interest rates, the new savings account is looking less appealing.
Against this backdrop, RDG said it needed to "review historic working practices so that the railway can respond to changing passenger needs and enable future growth".
In its new round of cuts, the company hopes to “meaningfully accelerate our path to profitability even in the backdrop of the current crypto market,” the Winklevosses wrote in a blog post on Thursday.
gloss: To serve as a backdrop for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: a brilliant sunset backdropping the famous skyline
Translations:
cunny
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From con + -y. Compare English canny.
Base: con
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more cunny
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cunny
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Cunning.
pos: adj
tags: Jamaica
especially
vulgar
examples: Nevertheless, she was a "cunny Jamaican woman" who knew 'what side her bread was buttered on.'
Translations:
bawl
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English baulen, from Old Norse baula (“to bellow”) and/or Medieval Latin baulō (“to bark”), both from Proto-Germanic *bau- (“to roar”), conflated with Proto-Germanic *bellaną, *ballijaną, *buljaną (“to shout, low, roar”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to sound, roar”). Cognate with Faroese belja (“to low”), Icelandic baula (“to moo, low”), Swedish böla (“to bellow, low”). More at bell.
Inflected forms:
form: bawls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bawling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bawled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bawled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bawls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To shout or utter in a loud and intense manner.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: commanders bawling
He jumped upon the saddle with another yell as he pushed the machine before him, and the next instant was whirling down the thoroughfare with the rapidity of an express train, bawling for people to "Stand clear!"
"I'm lord of this manor!" he bawled. "I'm Patroon Varick, and I'll do as I please!"
Spade took two long steps and caught Effie Perine by the shoulders. "She didn't get there?" he bawled into her frightened face
gloss: To wail; to give out a blaring cry.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: children bawling
cattle bawling
Why did you bawl out just as I was aiming? Who can aim with a fellow bawling in his ear? I've lost the birds through it.
gloss: To weep profusely.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: children bawling
mourners bawling
gloss: A loud, intense shouting or wailing.
pos: noun
examples: […] that clear soprano, in nursery, rings out a shower of innocent idiotisms over the half-stripped baby, and suspends the bawl upon its lips.
Derived words: bawl-baby
bawler
bawl off
bawl one's eyes out
bawl out
outbawl
Translations:
beholden
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English biholden (“beholden, obligated”), past participle of biholden (“to behold, look at”, modern behold), though that verb does not mean "to bind, obligate".
Inflected forms:
form: beholding
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Obligated to provide, display, or do something for another; indebted, obliged for a bounden duty.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: From an early age, I had decided I wanted to be beholden to no one.
But musical ancestry aside, the influence to which [Justin] Bieber is most beholden is the current trends in pop music, which means Believe is loaded up with EDM accouterments, seeking a comfortable middle ground where Bieber’s impressively refined pop-R&B croon can rub up on techno blasts and garish dubstep drops (and occasionally grind on some AutoTune, not necessarily because it needs it, but because a certain amount of robo-voice is expected these days).
There is much to dislike about the proposed constitution, which will keep elected governments beholden to a senate nominated by the junta and to a suite of meddling committees.
Translations:
bloodlust
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From blood + lust.
Compound parts: blood
lust
Inflected forms:
form: bloodlusts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A desire for bloodshed and carnage, often aroused in the heat of battle and leading to uncontrolled slaughter and torture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Yet the blood lust was on me now. I found myself on my feet emptying one magazine, then the other, clicking open the breech to re-load, snapping it to again, while cheering and yelling with pure ferocity and joy of slaughter as I did so.
Translations:
crying
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cry
English -ing
English crying
From cry + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: cryings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That cries.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The crying child on the street was evidently lost.
gloss: That demands action or attention; desperate.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: There is a crying need for more manual workers in this country.
gloss: That deserves rebuke or censure; deplorable.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It is a crying shame that he managed to get away with that!
gloss: The act of one who cries; a weeping or shouting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Their constant cryings kept us awake!
[…] their breathings, cryings, and excretings would have been damaged […]
Synonyms: crying
in tears
sobbing
sobful
tearful
weeping
Antonyms: cheering
laughing
smiling
uncrying
untearful
unweeping
Derived words: asymmetric crying facies
cryingly
uncrying
Translations:
bondsman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle English bonden
English bond
English -s-
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
Middle English -man
English -man
English bondsman
From bond + -s- + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: bondsmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bondman
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A male slave.
pos: noun
examples: To Sleep I give my powers away;
⁠My will is bondsman to the dark; […]
gloss: A male indentured servant.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who signs a bond that states that they have taken responsibility for someone else's obligations.
pos: noun
Related words: bondswoman
bail bondsman
Derived words: bondsmanship
Translations:
nearest
Part of speech: prep
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Closest to.
pos: prep
examples: Mercury is the planet nearest the Sun.
Fastening one end of this at that point of the trunk of the tree which was nearest the peg, he unrolled it till it reached the peg and thence further unrolled it, in the direction already established by the two points of the tree and the peg, for the distance of fifty feet[…]
Translations:
intoxicated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more intoxicated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most intoxicated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Stupefied by alcohol, drunk.
pos: adj
examples: The bar had two entrances, one on Barrow and another via Bedford, and “86” referred to the address of the door from which intoxicated or unruly guests would be ejected.
gloss: Stupefied by any chemical substance.
pos: adj
Derived words: intexticated
intoxicated-like
intoxicatedly
intoxicatedness
nonintoxicated
unintoxicated
Translations:
swishy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English swish
English -y
English swishy
From swish + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: swishier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: swishiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Producing a swishing sound.
pos: adj
examples: a long, swishy dress
gloss: Swish; fancy, posh, impressive.
pos: adj
tags: UK
gloss: Effeminate; gay
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: And quit flouncing that rifle around like a swishy fag, wiggling the dressed ranks on my parade ground. Hear me, Private Driggers?
Derived words: swishily
swishiness
Translations:
swishing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more swishing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most swishing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: swishings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: swishy
pos: adj
gloss: The sound of fabric or fur moving in the air.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The movement that produces such a sound.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A switching; a beating with twigs or a cane.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "My wife's diamonds, thank heaven!" cried Sir Benjamin, with the air of a schoolboy who was very well out of a swishing.
gloss: The mutual exchange of pre-owned clothes, especially at an organised party.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: oil swishing
Translations:
proceeding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: By surface analysis, proceed + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: proceedings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: proceding
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction.
pos: noun
gloss: An event or happening; something that happens.
pos: noun
examples: I had a grandstand view of the proceedings.
He had often painted himself at a mirror, a tortuous and fascinating proceeding, as every artist knows, and had been forced to admire the way in which he was made.
It was with feelings of no small astonishment, when the carriage drew up before the door with the red lamp, and the very legible inscription of ‘Sawyer, late Nockemorf,’ that Mr. Pickwick saw, on popping his head out of the coach window, the boy in the gray livery very busily employed in putting up the shutters—the which, being an unusual and an unbusinesslike proceeding at that hour of the morning, at once suggested to his mind two inferences: the one, that some good friend and patient of Mr. Bob Sawyer’s was dead; the other, that Mr. Bob Sawyer himself was bankrupt.
gloss: A published collection of papers presented at an academic conference, or representing the acts of a learned society.
pos: noun
gloss: Progress or movement from one thing to another.
pos: noun
examples: I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.
gloss: A measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction.
pos: noun
examples: an illegal proceeding
a cautious or a violent proceeding
The proceedings of the high commission.
gloss: Any legal action, especially one that is not a lawsuit.
pos: noun
examples: December 7 2016, Kelly Phillips Erb writing in Forbes, House Says No To Renewed Efforts To Impeach IRS Commissioner
Since impeachment is a legal proceeding, while anyone can make a motion to start the process, the Judiciary Committee determines whether there are sufficient grounds for impeachment.
Derived words: misproceeding
special proceeding
title of proceeding
Translations:
stately
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English staately, staatly, stateli, statelie, stately, statelyche, statelye, statli, statly. Compare stour. By surface analysis, state + -ly (adjectival suffix).
Base: state
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: statelier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: stateliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more stately
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most stately
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Worthy of respect; dignified, regal.
pos: adj
examples: Warwick's first glance had revealed the fact that the young woman was strikingly handsome, with a stately beauty seldom encountered.
gloss: Deliberate, unhurried; dignified.
pos: adj
examples: And much as they welcome his promise to repeal "don't ask, don't tell", they are dismayed by the stately pace and bungled tactics of his attempts to do so.
At about twenty past three in the afternoon, these aircraft duly began to arrive. The cruiser Northampton was towing Hornet at a stately five knots when, out of the sky, came seven torpedo-armed aircraft. They managed to miss the barely-moving Hornet with all but one drop... but one hit was really all that it took, the location causing additional damage to the stricken carrier and demolishing most of the repairs that had been made to the earlier damage.
Germany can’t afford to stick to the stately plod into decline that Merkel initiated any longer. Merz will have to act fast, and break things to pull the country out of the quagmire it finds itself in.
gloss: Grand; impressive; imposing.
pos: adj
examples: In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea.
Their stately offices—their pleasant gardens—the magnificent cloisters constructed for their recreation, were all dilapidated and ruinous; […]
Below is the deep abyss of the Lauterbrunnen valley, and at its head a stately semi-circle of mountains, with the pyramidal Lauterbrunnen Breithorn as the centre-piece.
Flora is a good scout, a favourite with the jockeys on account of her stately breasts and the generous use she puts them to.
gloss: In a stately manner.
pos: adv
Derived words: overstately
statelily
stateliness
stately bush brown
stately elm
stately home
unstately
Translations:
delightful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English deliteful, delitfull, equivalent to delight + -ful.
Base: delight
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more delightful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: delightfuler
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: delightfuller
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most delightful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: delightfulest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: delightfullest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: delightfull
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Pleasant; pleasing, bringing enjoyment, satisfaction, or pleasure.
pos: adj
examples: What? a higher delight to be drawn from the sight / Of fish full of life and of glee? / What a noodle you are! ’tis delightfuller far / To kill them than let them go free!
O, Joy! quicker than fire! O, Hope of things! / O, gracious gladness mighty with delight! / O, subtle sweet, delightfuler than might! / Ah, me, no fiercer laughing unction springs / From the fair Hope of things!
Hon. Collier Weekly which furnish Japanese Schoolboy to public not often enough, when is his book coming out? […] That Boy is the dearest & sweetest & frankest & wisest & funniest & delightfulest & lovablest creation that has been added to our literature for a long time.
Congratulations on that delightful absurdity about Nimzovitch[.]
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'.
That is what I plan to do at Yahoo: give the end user something valuable and delightful that makes them want to come to Yahoo every day.
Translations:
softly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English softely, softeliche, equivalent to soft + -ly.
Base: soft
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: softlier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more softly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: softliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most softly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a soft manner; gently.
pos: adv
examples: The masseuse was rubbing my back too softly for my liking, so I asked her to go harder.
He had married a lady well educated and softly nurtured, but not dowered with worldly wealth. […] They would give up ideas of gentle living, of soft raiment, and delicate feeding.
gloss: Not loudly; nearly inaudibly.
pos: adv
examples: whisper softly in someone's ear
play music softly
gloss: With subdued color; faded or misty with distance.
pos: adv
examples: And they sat very still, the two of them, and looked out over that great, beautiful desert—away to the home mesa that they could see, softly blue, in the distance.
Derived words: softly softly
speak softly and carry a big stick
talk softly and carry a big stick
tread softly
tread-softly
walk softly and carry a big stick
Translations:
stair
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *stéygʰeti
Proto-Germanic *stīganą
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Germanic *-janą
Proto-Germanic *staigijaną
Proto-Indo-European *-rós
Proto-Germanic *-raz
Proto-Germanic *staigraz
Proto-Germanic *staigriz
Proto-West Germanic *staigri
Old English stǣġer
Middle English steire
English stair
From Middle English steire, staire, stayre, stayer, steir, steyre, steyer, from Old English stǣġer (“stair, staircase”), from Proto-West Germanic *staigri, from Proto-Germanic *staigriz (“stairs, scaffolding”), from Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ- (“to walk, proceed, march, climb”).
Cognate with Dutch steiger (“a stair, step, wharf, pier, scaffolding”), Middle Low German steiger, steir (“scaffolding”), German Low German Steiger (“a scaffold; trestle”). Related to Old English āstǣġan (“to ascend, go up, embark”), Old English stīġan (“to go, move, reach; ascend, mount, go up, spring up, rise; scale”), German Stiege (“a flight of stairs”). More at sty.
Inflected forms:
form: stairs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A single step in a staircase.
pos: noun
gloss: A series of steps; a staircase.
pos: noun
examples: Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away …
Synonyms: apples and pears
Related words: ladder
landing
scaffold
Translations:
distich
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
Etymology: From Latin distichon (“a poem of two verses, a distich consisting of a hexameter and a pentameter”), from Ancient Greek δίστιχον (dístikhon).
Inflected forms:
form: distichs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A couplet, a two-line stanza making complete sense.
pos: noun
examples: Through these distichs of increasing intensity and vagueness, the reader is brought to the riddle of the concluding distich: as far as the speaker is concerned, the girl was ‘pure’, but she will not be if Aeschylus wants to receive the same service on a ‘bad condition’.
gloss: Any couplet.
pos: noun
gloss: Distichous.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: chronodistich
Translations:
cavatina
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Italian cavatina, diminutive of cavata.
Inflected forms:
form: cavatinas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An operatic song in slow tempo, either complete in itself or (e.g., in Bellini and Verdi) followed by a faster, more resolute section: hence
pos: noun
gloss: A rather slow, song-like instrumental movement; the title, for example, of a movement in Beethoven's string quartet in B flat, op. 130 (1826) and of a once-famous piece (originally for violin and piano) by Raff, and of the slow movement of Rubra's string quartet No. 2.
pos: noun
Related words: aria
Translations:
exquisite
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin exquīsītus (“to be outsought”), perfect passive participle of exquīrō (“to outseek”).
Inflected forms:
form: more exquisite
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most exquisite
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Especially or extraordinarily fine or pleasing; exceptional.
pos: adj
examples: They sell good coffee and pastries, but their chocolate is exquisite.
Sourav Ganguly scored an exquisite century in his debut Test match.
For us the bee gathers, from the leaves of flowers, that exquisite honey destined for our use. For us the ox is put to the plough, and desires no other reward than a little food. It is also for us that the forests, the fields, and the gardens, abound in riches; the greatest part of which would be lost, if they were not of use to us. For us also are designed the treasures the mountains contain. It is true, that we have, beyond comparison, more wants than the brute creation ; but we have also, many more faculties, talents, and industry, to make every thing around us serve for our use and pleasure. Millions of creatures contribute towards our food, clothes, and habitations, and furnish us with innumerable conveniences and enjoyments.
Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
YINGKO – This small township in the southwest of Taipei county is not known for its beautiful scenery or historic relics. Yet every week it attracts hundreds of visitors. They all come to appreciate the exquisite pottery made in the town, for Yingko is the ceramics capital of Taiwan.
From Area B I'd usually [...] do the whole thing in reverse, until I'd qualified for the reward of a bacon sandwich and a cup of exquisite milky coffee at a transport café in Bartley Green Village.
gloss: Carefully adjusted; precise; accurate; exact.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Recherché; far-fetched; abstruse.
pos: adj
gloss: Of special beauty or rare excellence.
pos: adj
gloss: Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.
pos: adj
examples: exquisite pain or pleasure
gloss: Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.
pos: adj
examples: exquisite judgment, taste, or discernment
his books of Oriental languages, wherein he was exquisite
Synonyms: beautiful
delicate
discriminating
perfect
Derived words: exquisite corpse
exquisitely
exquisiteness
overexquisite
superexquisite
Translations:
malpais
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Spanish malpaís, from mal (“bad”) + país (“land”).
Inflected forms:
form: malpaises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: malpaís
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Land akin to badlands, but having volcaniclastic rather than sedimentary rocks.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Land having an underlayer of basaltic lava and little or no soil.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
blanched
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more blanched
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most blanched
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: lacking complexion or color
pos: adj
examples: BEHIND him lay the gray Azores, / Behind the Gates of Hercules; / Before him not the ghost of shores, / Before him only shoreless seas. // The good mate said: “Now must we pray, / For lo! the very stars are gone. / Brave Admiral, speak, what shall I say?” / “Why, say, ‘Sail on! sail on! and on!’”
“My men grow mutinous day by day; / My men grow ghastly wan and weak.” / The stout mate thought of home; a spray / Of salt wave washed his swarthy cheek. // “What shall I say, brave Admiral, say, / If we sight naught but seas at dawn?” / “Why, you shall say at break of day, / ‘Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!’”
They sailed and sailed, as winds might blow, / Until at last the blanched mate said: / “Why, now not even God would know / Should I and all my men fall dead. // These very winds forget their way, / For God from these dread seas is gone. / Now speak, brave Admiral, speak and say”— / He said: “Sail on! sail on! and on!”
They sailed. They sailed. Then spake the mate: / “This mad sea shows his teeth to-night. / He curls his lip, he lies in wait, / With lifted teeth, as if to bite! // Brave Admiral, say but one good word: / What shall we do when hope is gone?” / The words leapt like a leaping sword: / “Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!”
Then, pale and worn, he kept his deck, / And peered through darkness. Ah, that night / Of all dark nights! And then a speck— / A light! A light! A light! A light! // It grew, a starlit flag unfurled! / It grew to be Time’s burst of dawn. / He gained a world; he gave that world / Its grandest lesson: “On! sail on!”
The picture of a blanched and ringleted Boy George on the cover had been taken by Russell.
gloss: bleached
pos: adj
Synonyms: pallid
Derived words: unblanched
Translations:
gelatinous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From gelatine + -ous; probably modeled on French gélatineux.
Base: gelatin
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more gelatinous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gelatinous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: gelatineous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
uncommon
form: gelatinose
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Jelly-like.
pos: adj
examples: In certain star-fishes, small depressions in the layer of pigment which surrounds the nerve are filled, as described by the author just quoted, with transparent gelatinous matter, and this projects outwardly with a convex surface, like the cornea in the higher animals.
Everyone listened, and everyone was listening still when It lumbered slobberingly into sight and gropingly squeezed Its gelatinous green immensity through the black doorway into the tainted outside air of that poison city of madness.
Winston was gelatinous with fatigue. Gelatinous was the right word. It had come into his head spontaneously. His body seemed to have not only the weakness of a jelly, but its translucency.
And when it comes to mochi, the Japanese rice dough, much of its appeal can be attributed to a glorious bounce or a gelatinous squish or a comforting kind of gloop.
gloss: Of or referring to gelatin.
pos: adj
Synonyms: gelatinous
jellylike
tremellose
Antonyms: runny
fluid
Related words: viscous
Derived words: gelatinously
gelatinousness
nongelatinous
semigelatinous
subgelatinous
Translations:
heeze
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English hissa! (a cry used by sailors in pulling or hauling). Compare Dutch hijsen.
Inflected forms:
form: heezes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: heezing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: heezed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: heezed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To hoist.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
transitive
Translations:
firmly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: manner
Etymology: From Middle English fermely; equivalent to firm + -ly.
Base: firm
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: firmlier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more firmly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: firmliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most firmly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a firm or definite or strong manner.
pos: adv
examples: She corrected him firmly but gently.
gloss: Securely.
pos: adv
examples: Tie the rope firmly to the post.
When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.
Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.
gloss: Definitively.
pos: adv
examples: This was widely interpreted to mean that slavery was once more firmly illegal in England.
Three decisions handed down within a week of each other in June of 2023 illustrate this point. Haaland v. Brackeen, which upheld the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, produced a majority opinion and a concurring opinion that are firmly in the exceptionalist mode but another concurring opinion and two dissenting opinions that are firmly in the assimilationist mode.
Derived words: tongue firmly in cheek
Translations:
crummock
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: crummocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A staff with a crooked head or stem.
pos: noun
gloss: skirret, a root vegetable
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
Translations:
conifer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Latin cōnifer (“bearing cones”), by surface analysis, Latin cōnus (“cone”) + -fer.
Inflected forms:
form: conifers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A plant belonging to the order Coniferales; a cone-bearing seed plant with vascular tissue, usually a tree.
pos: noun
Translations:
earthlight
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Earth + light.
Compound parts: Earth
light
Inflected forms:
form: earthlights
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Sunlight that is reflected from the Earth's surface.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
earthshine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: From earth + shine (noun), modelled after moonshine.
Compound parts: earth
shine
Inflected forms:
form: Earthshine
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: earth-shine
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Sunlight reflected from the Earth's surface, especially when visible on the part of the Moon's surface not illuminated by the Sun (the night side); earthlight.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
advocacy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English advocacie, advocacye, advocatye, from Middle French advocacie, advocatie, avocacie and Medieval Latin advocātia; equivalent to advocate + -cy.
Base: advocate
Affixes: -cy
Inflected forms:
form: advocacies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The profession of an advocate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of arguing in favour of, or supporting someone or something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “As soon as I am inaugurated, I will direct the Justice Department to vigorously pursue the death penalty to protect American families and children from violent rapists, murderers, and monsters. We will be a Nation of Law and Order again!” Trump wrote on Truth Social, echoing his long-standing advocacy for use of the death penalty, which was part of his tough-on-crime rhetoric during the 2024 campaign.
gloss: The practice of supporting someone to make their voice heard.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: advocacy group
advocacy planning
advocacy research
badvocacy
cyberadvocacy
devil's advocacy
hyperadvocacy
media advocacy
nonadvocacy
self-advocacy
Translations:
guesswork
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From guess + work. Compare Dutch giswerk (“guesswork”).
Compound parts: guess
work
Inflected forms:
form: guessworks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: guess-work
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An estimate, judgment or opinion made by guessing, from limited information.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: By a careful study of the figure we might suspect that when the rectangle becomes a square its area would be the greatest, but this would at best be mere guesswork. A better way would evidently be to plot the graph of the function (1) and note its behavior.
Translations:
ethologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ethology
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English ethologist
From ethology + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: ethologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who studies ethology.
pos: noun
Translations:
rubbery
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rubber
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English rubbery
From rubber + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: rubberier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: rubberiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or resembling rubber, especially in consistency.
pos: adj
examples: What a bad restaurant! The beef was so rubbery I thought I'd never finish chewing it.
In this same temperature range, however, the leg is at its rubberiest.
If you boil it for hours, it becomes rubbery and overcooked.
CJ Biomaterials was the first company in the world to produce amorphous PHA, it says, which is a softer, rubberier version of PHA that offers fundamentally different performance characteristics than crystalline or semi-crystalline forms of the biopolymer.
Translations:
bigotry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French bigoterie, from bigot. By surface analysis, bigot + -ry.
Inflected forms:
form: bigotries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition or the characteristic quality of a bigot, especially religious, anti-religious or racial intolerant prejudice; opinionatedness; fanaticism; fanatic intolerance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The remarkable resilience of the Ku Klux Klan is a sad reminder of the persistence of racial and religious bigotry in the United States. No terrorist organization can match the Klan's mystique or long history, and few can match its success.
For boys like Battuta, white women — never mind fat, Jewish, non-deferential white women — were for fucking and throwing over. What one hates in whites — love of brown sugar — one must also hate when it turns up, inverted, in black. Bigotry is not only a function of power.
Strains of anti-Semitism have long festered on the American right. But in the second half of the 20th century, leaders of the Republican Party and the intellectual guardians of the conservative movement attempted to keep bigotry out of the mainstream.
gloss: Obstinate prejudice or opinionatedness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
Synonyms: bigotness
Related words: bigot
bigoted
Derived words: antibigotry
niggatry
reverse bigotry
soft bigotry of low expectations
Translations: