yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
catatonic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more catatonic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most catatonic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: catatonics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or suffering from catatonia; having a tendency to remain in a rigid state of stupor for long periods which give way to short periods of extreme agitation.
pos: adj
examples: However, he was looking a lot more catatonic and depressed before and sometimes we find that on the anti-depressants you remove the depression and uncover the paranoid stuff and we may have to give him larger quantities of tranquilizers just to tone this down.
It was plausible that Cara became more catatonic in order to avoid a painful and overwhelming confrontation with terrifying but repressed memories of child abuse.
gloss: Motionless and unresponsive, as from shock; withdrawn.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: He made Yossarian think of cripples and of cold and hungry men and women, and of all the dumb, passive, devout mothers with catatonic eyes nursing infants outdoors that same night with chilled animal udders bared insensibly to that same raw rain.
Further and further he would withdraw from the world, becoming more and more catatonic — withdrawing completely from his hateful world to the only real and secure comfort he had ever known, the womb.
The fact that he was not twirling his kiss curl underscored his catatonic state of mind. I didn't know who was more catatonic—Brentwood, the minister, or myself.
A very young Ensign, in his first real contact with combat conditions, was in charge but was almost of no use as he began to hyper-ventilate and became more and more catatonic the closer they got to shore.
gloss: A patient in a state of catatonia.
pos: noun
examples: An inspection of Table IV shows that the catatonics have the lowest mean reversal score of all the groups.
I thought of children released from school; I thought of spring-awakenings after winter-sleeps; I thought of the Sleeping Beauty; and I also thought, with some foreboding, of catatonics, suddenly frenzied.
All outward signs suggest that catatonics have ceased being subjects by virtue of having transformed themselves into veritable objects.
Derived words: anticatatonic
catatonically
noncatatonic
precatatonic
semicatatonic
Translations:
disapprobation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
English approbation
English disapprobation
From dis- + approbation.
Inflected forms:
form: disapprobations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act or expression of condemnation or disapproval, especially on moral grounds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Though a gentle Sigh which ſtole from the Boſom of Nancy, ſeemed to argue ſome ſecret Diſapprobation of theſe Sentiments, ſhe did not dare openly to oppoſe them.
Elizabeth would wonder, and probably would blame her; and though her resolution was not to be shaken, her feelings must be hurt by such disapprobation.
Believe me, I have no warmer sentiment to bestow; and even if I had I could not indulge it, since it would meet with the decided disapprobation of my family, and never could I bring myself to act in opposition to them.
And not only these acts, but the dispositions which lead to them, are properly immoral, and fit subjects of disapprobation which may rise to abhorrence.
No one seems to think so, however. Yet they view my arrival with a knapsack on my back with cold disapprobation, as unseemly as if I had arrived riding on a pig. I ought to be in a carriage, and the knapsack ought to be a new suitcase.
Translations:
discretion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English discrecioun, from Old French discretion, from Late Latin discrētiō, from Latin discerno. Equivalent to discreet + -ion.
Base: discreet
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: discretions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being discreet.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Bob showed great discretion despite his knowledge of the affair.
gloss: The ability to make wise choices or decisions.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: With regard to a woman, at nine years of age, she was, if married, considered entitled to her dower; at twelve, she may consent to marriage; at fourteen, she is at years of discretion, and may choose a guardian; […]
gloss: The freedom to make one's own judgements.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: I leave that to your discretion.
gloss: The freedom to make one's own judgements.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The police came and searched us at their discretion because we were shouting at each other's faces.
Antonyms: indiscretion
Derived words: abuse of discretion
age of discretion
discretional
discretionary
discretion is the better part of valour
discretionless
surrender at discretion
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: հայեցողություն
roman: hayecʻoġutʻyun
lang: Bulgarian
word: усмотрение
roman: usmotrenie
lang: Bulgarian
word: преценка
roman: precenka
lang: Czech
word: možnost uvážení
lang: Czech
word: možnost se rozhodnout
lang: Finnish
word: oma harkinta
lang: French
word: discrétion
lang: German
word: Ermessen
lang: German
word: Gutdünken
lang: Greek
word: διακριτική ευχέρεια
roman: diakritikí efchéreia
lang: Greek
word: διάκριση
roman: diákrisi
lang: Persian
word: صلاحدید
roman: salâhdid
lang: Portuguese
word: critério
lang: Romanian
word: libertate de decizie
lang: Russian
word: свобо́да де́йствий
roman: svobóda déjstvij
lang: Russian
word: усмотре́ние
roman: usmotrénije
lang: Ukrainian
word: розсуд
roman: rozsud
catatonia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, from German Katatonie, from New Latin catatonia, from a Greek word meaning to stretch tight. By surface analysis, cata- + tone + -ia.
Inflected forms:
form: catatonias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: catatony
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A severe psychiatric condition, often associated with schizophrenia, characterized by a tendency to remain in a rigid state of stupor for long periods which give way to short periods of extreme agitation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A frozen, unresponsive state, as of electronic equipment.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
usually
examples: “Relay that!” Thwaite shouted. Somewhere on the bridge a hand closed over a relay and dropped the AIDs into an electronic catatonia.
Derived words: catatonic
Translations:
one-liner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ís?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos
Proto-Germanic *ainaz
Proto-West Germanic *ain
Old English ān
Middle English on
English one
Middle French lignerbor.
English line
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English one-liner
From one + line + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: one-liners
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: one liner
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A short joke, especially one of a single sentence.
pos: noun
examples: witty one-liners
ALMOST without exception, Moore’s narrators have comic yet dark stories to tell: they fire off crisp, De Vriesian one-liners and then, when you least expect it, sneak in wrenching revelations.
Every crass or tone-deaf moment – including a sexual encounter between Eggsy and a socialite, played by Poppy Delevingne, that at best feels entirely misjudged and at worst a complete betrayal of Eggsy’s cheeky but ultimately quite sweet character – is matched by a wonderfully droll one-liner or nugget of razor-sharp satire.
gloss: A short remark intended as a sound bite.
pos: noun
gloss: A command or small program consisting of a single line of input.
pos: noun
gloss: A chat feature on a bulletin board system or web page where users can post a single line of text at a time.
pos: noun
Related words: tagline
joke
Translations:
breadwinner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bread + winner, where to win = to earn. Compare West Frisian breawinning (“livelihood”, literally “bread-winning”), Dutch broodwinning (“livelihood”).
Base: bread
Inflected forms:
form: breadwinners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The primary income-earner in a household.
pos: noun
examples: At one side lay the little town of Hollingford, into a street of which Mr. Gibson's front door opened; and delicate columns, and little puffs of smoke were already beginning to rise from many a cottage chimney where some housewife was already up, and preparing breakfast for the bread-winner of the family.
The female breadwinners who are making more than their working husbands are in a whole different income bracket; their median household income is $80,000.
The role of men is evolving even in the three-quarters of dual-parent families in which fathers are the primary breadwinners. […] Those fathers reported that being a breadwinner was less important to them than providing their children with love and emotional support, being present and involved in their child’s life, or being a good mentor and role model.
Translations:
sovereigntist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sovereignty
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 sovereigntist
From sovereignty + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: sovereigntists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sovereignist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A supporter of sovereignism (in any sense thereof).
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: souverainist (often synonymous)
gloss: A supporter of sovereignism (in any sense thereof).
pos: noun
tags: Canada
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: sobiranista
lang: German
word: Souveränist
lang: German
word: Souveränistin
lang: Spanish
word: soberanista
ketamine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Blend of ketone + amine. First use appears c. 1966.
Compound parts: ketone
amine
Inflected forms:
form: ketamines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A synthetic compound used as a dissociative anesthetic and analgesic drug and also recreationally as a hallucinogen.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He was riding high that night, with a brick of Wage's ketamine on its way to Yokohama and the money already in his pocket.
The chatbot instructed him to give up sleeping pills and an anti-anxiety medication, and to increase his intake of ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic, which ChatGPT described as a “temporary pattern liberator.”
Urology departments across the UK could be close to breaking point after ketamine-related hospital admissions have "skyrocketed" in recent years, experts have warned. The class-B dissociative drug used for pain relief and sedation is increasingly used recreationally in the UK. […] a consultant urological surgeon in Sheffield, said admissions tied to ketamine abuse had "skyrocketed" in the past few years, and that not enough users understood the effect that consistently taking the drug would have on their bodies. "Ketamine is a unique drug because it seems like there are no side-effects, but it's more complicated than that," he said. "It slowly impacts the bladder and the liver, and then the urinary tract. It takes a couple of years to begin to notice these effects, but once you start noticing them they're pretty irreversible."
Translations:
freelance
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From free + lance. Coined by Walter Scott (1771–1832) in Ivanhoe (1819; see quotation) to describe a medieval mercenary warrior or "free-lance" (indicating that the lance is not sworn to any lord's services). It changed to a figurative noun around the 1860s and was recognized as a verb in 1903 by authorities such as the Oxford English Dictionary. In modern times the term has morphed into an adjective, a verb, and an adverb, as well as the derivative noun freelancer.
Compound parts: free
lance
Inflected forms:
form: freelances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: free-lance
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: free lance
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more freelance
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most freelance
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: free-lance
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: free lance
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: freelances
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: freelancing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: freelanced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: freelanced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: free-lance
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: free lance
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Someone who sells their services to clients without a long-term employment contract.
pos: noun
examples: The objector, one Millworthy, a free-lance of journalism, was not to be so easily silenced.
The person you are revising (the revisee) is a colleague at your own rank, or another freelance.
gloss: A medieval mercenary.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: I—I offered Richard the service of my Free Lances, and he refused them—I will lead them to Hull, seize on shipping, and embark for Flanders; […] Trust me, Estoteville alone has strength enough to drive all thy Free Lances into the Humber.
gloss: Of or relating to a freelance; without a long-term employment contract.
pos: adj
examples: He was a freelance writer for several magazines.
Both work -- Jenny as a freelance writer from home, Marc full-time-plus as a civil engineer with a long commute. Jenny also takes care of their four sons, ages 20 months to 9 years, and homeschools the two oldest.
gloss: To work as a freelance.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To produce or sell services as a freelance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: freelancer
Translations:
fisticuffs
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An impromptu fight with the fists, usually between only two people.
pos: noun
tags: informal
plural
plural-only
examples: So he obſerves that all ſimple Governments are apt to ſome evil that is peculiar and conſequential to their Nature, as he inſtanceth in a Kingdom changed into Monarchy abſolute, by which he means that which we now call Tyranny; Ariſtocracy into Oligarchy, and Democracy into Beſtial Chirocracy, when the Seditious of people prevail more by Fiſticuffs than reaſon: […]
People who share a cell in the Basti[l]le […] if they do not immediately fall to fisticuffs, will find some possible ground of compromise.
[…], his head all scarred with the sticks and fisticuffs which he had got in the taverns at Utrecht, […]
gloss: Bare-knuckled boxing, a form of boxing done without boxing gloves or similar padding.
pos: noun
tags: dated
plural
plural-only
examples: In his college days of athletic exercises, Mr. Crisparkle had known professors of the Noble Art of fisticuffs, […]
Synonyms: fight
fistfight
punch-up
Related words: fist
fisticuff
fisticuffer
boxing
fighting
Translations:
dictatorial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dictator
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisder.
Old French -ialder.
Middle English -ial
English -ial
English dictatorial
From dictator + -ial.
Inflected forms:
form: more dictatorial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dictatorial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: of or pertaining to a dictator
pos: adj
gloss: in the manner of a dictator, usually with callous disregard for others.
pos: adj
examples: "It was chiefly on account of his father," replied the Doctor, addressing the General, "that Philimore persevered in so rigidly keeping the secret of his attachment, having been once told by him, in the language of worldly dictatorial authority, that he would sooner follow him to the grave than that he should see him marry without fortune[…]
Synonyms: bossy and arrogant
Derived words: dictatorialism
dictatoriality
dictatorially
dictatorialness
nondictatorial
postdictatorial
undictatorial
Translations:
silken
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English silken, selken, seolkene, from Old English seolcen, from seolc (“silk”) + -en, from an unattested early Proto-West Germanic borrowing from Latin sēricum, from Ancient Greek σηρικός (sērikós, “silken”), from σήρ (sḗr, “silkworm”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”). Equivalent to silk + -en (“made of”). Cognate with Scots selkin, silkin (“silken”), Icelandic silki (“silken”).
Base: silk
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: silkens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: silkening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: silkened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: silkened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Made of silk.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a silken veil
gloss: Synonym of silky, like silk, silklike, particularly
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: [L]ove is not to be bought, in any ſenſe of the vvords, its ſilken vvings are inſtantly ſhrivelled up vvhen any thing beſide a return in kind is ſought.
[…] in spite of the buzz in the next room, Edith had rolled herself up into a soft ball of muslin and ribbon, and silken curls, and gone off into a peaceful little after-dinner nap.
He heard the silken rustle of a dressing-gown being drawn on.
gloss: Synonym of silky, like silk, silklike, particularly
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: […] an admired silken-mannered gentleman in society, a tolerable polecat at home […]
gloss: Synonym of silky, like silk, silklike, particularly
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, / Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation, / Figures pedantical; these summer-flies / Have blown me full of maggot ostentation:
Come then youth, Beauty, and Blood, all ye soft powers, / Whose silken flatteryes swell a few fond houres.
gloss: Dressed in silk.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: [S]hall a beardless boy, / A cocker’d silken wanton, brave our fields […]?
Yet though he cannot skip forth now to greet / Every fine silken painted foole we meet, / He then to him with amorous smiles allures,
Last Saturday was three Weeks, at Two, in the Afternoon, I sent out my Servant, to watch a Couple of these Silken Strollers, and keep, if possible, within Ken of them.
[…] the Viceroy moved magnificently through India, resplendent with all the colour and dash of the vast Empire at his feet, with his superb bodyguard jangling scarlet beside his carriage, silken Indian princes bowing at his carpet, generals quivering at the salute and ceremonial salutes of thirty-one guns […]
gloss: To render silken or silklike.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: silkening body lotion
Or, if your sheep are of Silurian breed,
Nightly to house them dry on fern or straw,
Silk’ning their fleeces.
[…] these lights silkened her black skin:
Derived words: silkenly
silken tofu
Translations:
aerobics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér
Proto-Hellenic *auhḗr
Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr)
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βίος (bíos)
French aérobie
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English aerobic
Old English -as
Middle English -es
English -s
English aerobics
From aerobic + -s.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A form of exercise, designed to enhance one's cardiovascular fitness, normally performed to music.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
earner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English earn
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English earner
From earn + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: earners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who earns money.
pos: noun
examples: Teachers are not simply wage earners who teach students, but revolutionaries bringing up the future builders of socialism. For this reason, we are working hard to help teachers acquire advanced science and technology and to revolutionize and working-classize them.
A remaining downside with potentially big unintended consequences is the legislated proposal doesn’t yet adjust the spouse income test, excluding many couples where one earner loses their job and leading to a perverse and undesirable "benefit cliff".
gloss: A profitable product or scheme; something that brings in good money.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
UK
examples: Those Japanese radios were a nice little earner: we sold all of them by lunchtime.
Substantial income from new video markets made Shaker Run New Zealand's top earner at Cannes, closely followed by The Quiet Earth.
Derived words: big earner
dual earner
middle earner
nonearner
wage earner
Translations:
stonking
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: impressively large; exciting
pos: adj
tags: Australia
UK
slang
examples: For instance he might see a White-eared Honeyeater, a not uncommon bird in the heathy areas at Bunyip, but in his excitement to call it, something in his brain scrambled and came out as: `White-cheeked Honeyeater!' White-cheeked Honeyeater is an absolute stonking crippler in Victoria, but Stu was not actually trying to string a rarity, he'd just got such a flood of new information swirling around his brain that sometimes it got jumbled up.
Translations:
inconceivable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From in- + conceivable.
Base: conceivable
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: more inconceivable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inconceivable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Unable to be conceived or imagined; unbelievable.
pos: adj
examples: While the world altered dramatically during the course of her reign, the monarchy did too, though rather more imperceptibly: the walkabouts that increasingly characterised royal appearances, the pop concerts at Buckingham Palace, the throwing open of the royal palaces to visitors – even the paying of income tax, and royal podcasts – would have been inconceivable as innovations at the time Elizabeth came to the throne.
Translations:
superbug
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-lbor.
English super-
English bug
English superbug
From super- + bug.
Inflected forms:
form: superbugs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A strain of bacteria that is resistant to many antibiotics (e.g., MDR, XDR).
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: But now we’re seeing increasing numbers of superbugs that survive antibiotics. One of the best-known [is] MRSA, a kind of staph infection [that] kills about 18,000 Americans annually. That’s more than die of AIDS.
gloss: Any pathogen resistant to many, even all, of the biocides or other agents used to treat similar pathogens.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: An invasive insect, Bemisia tabaci, that is a major pest of vegetable crops, both directly and as a virus vector.
pos: noun
tags: US
Translations:
sussed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Sorted, organised; figured out, understood.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
examples: Chippenham's hardly the romantic capitol of the world m′boy, but I see exactly what you′re saying, though I think you′ve got it more sussed than all us.
‘You mean you were still on dial-up?’ He laughed. ‘For someone who does what you do, I can′t believe you′re not more sussed.’
gloss: Well-informed; in the know, savvy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
examples: Patric′s one of the most sussed beings in the industry, but the schizophrenia that comes from being unable to reconcile a love of music with a desire to make lots of bucks seems to have affected everyone.
[…] for example J-17′s February issue carried an informative quiz, ‘Are you sussed about sex?’
Their replacement came in the form of Liz Shaw (Caroline John), a rather more sussed female ‘companion’ than most of her predecessors.
“But he didn′t, he just got lucky. When you′re lucky like that, though, people start to look up to you ... They reckon you′re more sussed than others.”
She certainly seemed a lot more sussed than Martie remembered her.
Related words: suss out
Translations:
sustainable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sustain
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English sustainable
From sustain + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more sustainable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sustainable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sustainables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Able to be sustained.
pos: adj
gloss: Able to be produced or sustained for an indefinite period without damaging the environment, or without depleting a resource; renewable.
pos: adj
examples: sustainable economy
In addition to the resources listed in the organic and local food sections earlier, a good source of sustainable meat is Heritage Foods USA (heritagefoodsusa.com).
Some critics have asserted that sustainable food is "elitist"; that it's too expensive and not widely available.
A city on a hill—or many cities on hills—surrounded by unbroken vistas of beautiful countryside; small, thriving, family-run farms growing organic, seasonal, and sustainable fruits and vegetables specific to the region.
Right now, rich nations devour 28 tonnes of material per person per year – including everything from fish to forests, plastics to metals. That’s four times more than ecologists say is sustainable.
gloss: A renewable energy source.
pos: noun
examples: It has only been in the last 20 years that the long-term trend away from fossil fuels and toward nuclear energy and sustainables has intensified.
Derived words: biosustainable
ecosustainable
nonsustainable
sustainability
sustainable development
sustainable tourist
sustainably
unsustainable
Translations:
predatory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin praedātōrius, equivalent to predator + -y.
Base: predator
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more predatory
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most predatory
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: prædatory
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to a predator.
pos: adj
examples: Harry Kane was back to his predatory best after struggling in the group stage, following up his goal against Germany by poking home a superb pass from Raheem Sterling after only four minutes.
And while there are plenty of benches, there's little shelter from the wind (or predatory seagulls the size of dogs) out on the platforms.
gloss: Living by preying on other living animals.
pos: adj
examples: The mark of his father’s early life was strong upon him and enhanced by months of association with beasts, from whom the imitative faculty of youth had absorbed a countless number of little mannerisms of the predatory creatures of the wild.
gloss: Exploiting or victimizing others for personal gain.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: predatory lending
predatory inclusion
One very important section of the denizens of Darkest England are the criminals and the semi-criminals. They are more or less predatory, and are at present shepherded by the police and punished by the gaoler.
The purpose of government was the guarding of property-rights, the perpetuation of ancient force and modern fraud. Or was it marriage? Marriage and prostitution were two sides of one shield, the predatory man’s exploitation of the sex-pleasure.
He remembered sitting quietly during visiting hours, not knowing what words of support to offer, and having to deal with predatory reporters who wanted to interview and photograph "the victim and the devoted lover."
Francis had promised to take the matter seriously, recruiting victims of predatory priests to a Vatican commission he set up to stamp out abuse, but several resigned soon afterwards, judging that he was not prepared to make the changes needed and hand oversight of the church’s handling of such cases to a completely independent body.
Related words: predaceous
predacious
predation
predator
prey
Derived words: antipredatory
macropredatory
mesopredatory
micropredatory
nonpredatory
predatorially
predatorily
predatoriness
predatorious
predatory conference
predatory incursion
predatory journal
predatory pricing
predatory publishing
predatory tunicate
unpredatory
Translations:
polar
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
chemistry
geography
geometry
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
space-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-der.
Proto-Indo-European *kʷól-os
Proto-Hellenic *pólos
Ancient Greek πόλος (pólos)der.
Latin polus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin -āris
Late Latin polārislbor.
English polar
Learned borrowing from Late Latin polāris. By surface analysis, pole + -ar.
Inflected forms:
form: polars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or having a pole or polarity, as:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: After all, to go into outer space is not so much worse, if at all, than a polar expedition.
gloss: Of or having a pole or polarity, as:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or having a pole or polarity, as:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or having a pole or polarity, as:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or having a pole or polarity, as:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or having a pole or polarity, as:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: polar viewpoints
gloss: The line joining the points of contact of tangents drawn to meet a curve from a point called the pole of the line.
pos: noun
Derived words: ambipolar
antipolar
autopolar
axipolar
bipolar
circumpolar
contrapolar
copolar
decapolar
dipolar
electropolar
epipolar
equipolar
extrapolar
frontopolar
grolar
heteropolar
hexadecapolar
hexapolar
homopolar
interpolar
intrapolar
isopolar
micropolar
monopolar
multipolar
nonpolar
non-polar
octapolar
octopolar
omnipolar
peripolar
pizzly
polar antonym
polar area diagram
polar axis
polar bar chart
polar bear
polar bear dip
polar bear plunge
polar bear swim
polar body
polar cap
polar circle
polar cod
polar cone
polar coordinates
polar covalent bond
polar desert
polar dog
polar equation
polar fox
polar ice
polarisation
polariscope
polarise
polarity
polarization
polarize
polar lights
polarly
polar mesospheric cloud
polar moment of inertia
polar motion
polar night
polar nucleus
polaron
polaroplast
polar opposite
polar question
polar star
polar stratospheric cloud
polar T3 syndrome
polar vortex
polar wander
polarward
polar willow
polar wind
polar wolf
prizzly
quadripolar
semipolar
space polar coordinate
subpolar
temporopolar
tetrapolar
transpolar
tripolar
unipolar
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: napa-
lang: Finnish
word: polaarinen
lang: Finnish
word: polaari-
lang: Galician
word: polar
lang: German
word: polar
lang: Spanish
word: polar
hypnotized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more hypnotized
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hypnotized
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hypnotised
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Under hypnosis
pos: adj
Translations:
e-nose
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- (“electronic”) + nose.
Base: nose
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
form: e-noses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An electronic device able to detect specific combinations of chemicals in gaseous form.
pos: noun
examples: 2005, E-nose to 'sniff out' superbugs, BBC Online, 22 September.
The e-nose created by surgeon David Morgan and engineer Ritaban Dutta and colleagues can sit on a doctor's desk and analyse gasses given off by swabs from patients for signs of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other strains of Staph aureus.
Translations:
three-peat
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of three + repeat.
Compound parts: three
repeat
Inflected forms:
form: three-peats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: three-peating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: three-peated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: three-peated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: threepeat
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: three-peats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: threepeat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To win something three times consecutively.
pos: verb
tags: US
slang
gloss: A third successive win.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: Jokić is going for a historic three-peat of MVPs and you would be hard pressed to bet against the Serbian winning the trophy for a third successive year.
Translations:
through-ticketing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: through ticketing
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: a system in which a traveller using multiple transport networks can purchase a single ticket for the entire journey
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
ticketing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
mining
Inflected forms:
form: ticketings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The issuing or selling of tickets.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Other approaches, which apply to bus as well, are to upgrade existing facilities, improve ticketing, ensure fares are affordable and longer operating hours.
Quizzed on simplifying fares, Heaton-Harris said the Government had inherited a "mix of ticketing and unbelievable, interesting fares up and down the system, and we do want to simplify them".
Traditionally, 'ticket office' seems to have been the preferred term in America, with Britain using the term 'booking office' (as an 1881 edition of The Railway Age Monthly and Railway Service Magazine explains). Today, the two are often used interchangeably (as the recent 'Save our ticket offices' campaign shows), with the term 'ticketing' perhaps capturing more of the point-of-sale transaction and issuing of tickets within stations.
gloss: A periodic sale of ore in the mining districts, in which buyers wrote their bids upon tickets.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
dated
uncountable
Derived words: e-ticketing
through-ticketing
through ticketing
throwaway ticketing
Translations:
eligible
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French eligible, from Latin eligibilis, from ēligō (“to select, to choose”).
Inflected forms:
form: more eligible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most eligible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: eligibles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Allowed to and meeting the necessary conditions required to participate in or be chosen for something.
pos: adj
gloss: Worthy of being chosen (for marriage).
pos: adj
gloss: One who is eligible.
pos: noun
examples: Federal agencies report that only about 1 percent of eligible students take advantage of switching schools and fewer than 20 percent of eligibles receive extra tutoring.
Related words: elect
elegant
eligibility
eligibly
elite
illegible
Derived words: eligibleness
noneligible
reeligible
semieligible
semi-eligible
supereligible
ultraeligible
uneligible
Translations:
headwear
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From head + -wear. Piecewise doublet of chefwear.
Base: head
Affixes: -wear
Inflected forms:
form: headwears
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Clothing worn on the head (e.g. hats, helmets, headdresses, headscarves).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
trainspotter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From train + spotter.
Compound parts: train
spotter
Inflected forms:
form: trainspotters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person whose hobby is train spotting.
pos: noun
examples: `So are you like one of those anorak wearing trainspotter types?'
Above all, I remember the noise and smell of the steam locomotives, and it was those journeys that turned me into a trainspotter, which meant that soon a pencil, notebook and the Ian Allan locospotter's guide became essential items for the trip.
“Unless you want to end up in the depot!” Then he looks at me more closely, suspecting a trainspotter in his midst. “Maybe, you do want to end up in the depot.”
gloss: An obsessive follower of any minority interest or hobby.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
Related words: trainspotting
planespotter
locospotter
anorak
ferroequinologist
rivet counter
Derived words: trainspotterish
trainspottery
Translations:
pre-stressed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: architecture
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
natural-sciences
phonetics
phonology
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
English stressed
English pre-stressed
From pre- + stressed.
Inflected forms:
form: more pre-stressed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pre-stressed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a structural member, having stress already applied during the manufacturing process in the opposite direction to the stress expected in use.
pos: adj
examples: pre-stressed concrete
gloss: Standing before a stressed syllable.
pos: adj
Translations:
extravasation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From extravasate (“let out or force out (blood or fluid)”) + -ion; further etymology at extravasate. Attested from the 17th century.
Base: extravasate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: extravasations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The exudation of blood, lymph or urine from a vessel into the tissues.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The right forearm and elbow show heavy bruises, with considerable extravasation from the surface vessels, showing they were inflicted some time before death.
gloss: The eruption of molten lava from a volcanic vent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: extravasate
extravasatory
Translations:
assimilate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in the early 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English; Middle English assimilaten (“to become similar; to make like”), from assimilat(e) (“assimilated”, also used as the past participal of assimilaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from Late Latin assimilātus, variant of Latin assimulātus (“made similar, imitated”), perfect passive participle of assimulō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ad + simulō (“to imitate, copy”), from similis (“like, similar”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“together, one”). Doublet of assemble.
Base: assimilat
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: assimilates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: assimilating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: assimilated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: assimilated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To incorporate nutrients into the body, especially after digestion.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue.
Hence also it may be, that the Parts of Animals and Vegetables preserve their several Forms, and assimilate their Nourishment; [...]
In the living state, the body is observed to receive aliment; to assimilate a part; to evacuate what is redundant or useless; [...]
gloss: To incorporate or absorb (knowledge) into the mind.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The teacher paused in her lecture to allow the students to assimilate what she had said.
His mind had no power to assimilate the lessons.
A good modern work on this subject is needed, preferably by someone who understands both the Bible and human sexuality, but Sex and the Bible isn't it. I'm not sure what went wrong. Larue has read the literature, but seems not to have assimilated it.
gloss: To absorb (a person or people) into a community or culture.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The aliens in the science-fiction film wanted to assimilate human beings into their own race.
gloss: To liken, compare to something similar.
pos: verb
tags: rare
transitive
examples: The use of an animal to kill, wound or threaten is assimilated to the use of a weapon.
gloss: To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: March 13, 1866, John Bright, The reform bill on the motion for leave to bring in the bill
to assimilate our law in respect to the law of Scotland
Fast falls a fleecy shower; the downy flakes / Assimilate all objects.
[I]t [the seed of life] doth, by degrees, aſſimilate the whole inward Man to this living Principle, and conforms the Life unto it.
gloss: To become similar.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To be incorporated or absorbed into something.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: assimilatable
assimilative
assimilatory
bioassimilated
deassimilate
disassimilate
nonassimilated
photoassimilate
reassimilate
unassimilated
Translations:
anthropocentric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́νθρωπος (ắnthrōpos)der.
English anthropo-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱent-der.
Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
Ancient Greek κεντρικός (kentrikós)der.
English -centric
English anthropocentric
From anthropo- + -centric.
Inflected forms:
form: more anthropocentric
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most anthropocentric
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Placing humans at the center of something, giving preference to humans above all other considerations.
pos: adj
examples: But just as we recognize that nature doesn't provide a very good guide for human social conduct, isn't it anthropocentric of us to assume that our moral system offers an adequate guide for what should happen in nature?
Translations:
smexy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of smart + sexy.
Compound parts: smart
sexy
Inflected forms:
form: smexier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: smexiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Embodying the qualities of sex appeal and intelligence.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
slang
examples: "Does Spencer Ridgely think I'm smexy?"
"I've felt attracted to both of you guys too. I think our whole group, really. I just have some smexy friends, you know."
“You're not my mother, Amelia,” Erin groused and tried to get her hand free. “And he's smexy as hell... […]
Translations:
far-fetched
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more far-fetched
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: further-fetched
pos: adj
tags: comparative
rare
form: farther-fetched
pos: adj
tags: comparative
rare
form: most far-fetched
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: furthest-fetched
pos: adj
tags: rare
superlative
form: farthest-fetched
pos: adj
tags: rare
superlative
form: far fetched
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: farfetched
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Brought from far away.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: it may be, if like industry were used, those far fetched druggs would prosper as well with us, as in those countries, whence now we have them […].
gloss: Implausible; not likely; difficult to believe.
pos: adj
examples: He is full of far-fetched ideas to make money.
When the honorable member chose to repeat a long list of grievances which he attempted to father upon the present Government, simply because some of the members of it belonged to the late administration, I think it was about the furthest fetched argument he could have got.
The idea that any new MZ could be a star of an international motorcycle show is even farther fetched, rather like a Fiat outshining a Ferrari.
Derived words: far-fetchedly
far-fetchedness
Translations:
chrome
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Hellenic *kʰrṓwmə
Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma)bor.
French chromebor.
English chrome
Borrowed from French chrome.
Inflected forms:
form: chromes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chromes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chroming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chromed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chromed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Chromium, when used to plate other metals.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The basic structural elements used in a graphical user interface, such as window frames and scroll bars, as opposed to the content.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: So, just as a car might have shiny chrome trimming, a bumper, and a grill that cover the vehicle, so the chrome of an OS window surrounds and complements the window itself. Examples of chrome include the title bar, the Minimize/Maximize/Restore buttons, menu bars, and toolbars.
Similarly [to the chrome exterior of an automobile], in most modern GUIs, the chrome lives around the edges of the screen, surrounding the middle area, which is dedicated to the user's data.
I had the idea of making our browser chrome match the actual hardware you were on. If your Mac’s bezel was Bondi blue, we’d make our UI Bondi blue.
gloss: handguns
pos: noun
tags: US
collective
slang
uncountable
usually
examples: Disrespect my nigga Boss and I'm flashin' the chrome
I ain't trippin' long 'cause I can reach the chrome / Heat your home like Southern California Gas, police pass
gloss: To plate with chrome.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To treat with a solution of potassium bichromate, as in dyeing.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: chromium-plate
Derived words: chromable
rechrome
Translations:
pantropical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-énts
Proto-Indo-European *ph₂énts?
Proto-Hellenic *pánts
Ancient Greek πᾶς (pâs)der.
Ancient Greek πᾰν- (păn-)bor.
English pan-
English tropic
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 tropical
English pantropical
From pan- + tropical.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Occurring in tropical areas on all the major continents, i.e. in Africa, Asia and America.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
neotropical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *nu
Proto-Indo-European *néwos
Proto-Hellenic *néwos
Ancient Greek νέος (néos)
Ancient Greek νεο- (neo-)der.
English neo-
English tropic
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 tropical
English neotropical
From neo- + tropical.
Inflected forms:
form: more neotropical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most neotropical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Occurring in tropical America, i.e. the tropics of the New World.
pos: adj
Translations:
neotropics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *nu
Proto-Indo-European *néwos
Proto-Hellenic *néwos
Ancient Greek νέος (néos)
Ancient Greek νεο- (neo-)der.
English neo-
English tropics
English neotropics
From neo- + tropics.
Inflected forms:
form: Neotropics
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Tropical America: the tropical areas of North, Central and South America; the tropics of the New World.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations: