yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
racy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: From race (“having a characteristic taste (of wines, fruits, etc.)”) + -y.
Base: race#Etymology_2
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: racier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: raciest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Mildly risqué.
pos: adj
examples: She wore a racy dress that was just barely appropriate for the occasion.
a racy story
“Well, I did have two boyfriends, which was racy at the time,” she says now.
gloss: Having a strong flavor indicating origin; of distinct characteristic taste; tasting of the soil.
pos: adj
examples: a racy wine
gloss: Exciting to the mind by a strong or distinctive character of thought or language; peculiar and piquant; fresh and lively.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
figuratively
gloss: Involving a data race or a race condition.
pos: adj
examples: These are some common descriptions of badly constructed tests: Tests that sometimes run, sometimes fail (often this is caused by the use of threads, or racy code that relies on specific timing, by reliance on external dependencies, the order of tests being run in the test suite, or on shared state)
We evaluate the automatic fence insertion procedure by running our tool on a number of different benchmarks containing racy code.
Derived words: racily
raciness
racy of one's soil
racy of the soil
Translations:
raider
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
English raid
English -er
English raider
From raid + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: raiders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who engages in a raid; a plunderer.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who takes or attempts to take control of a firm against the will of current management by purchasing a controlling interest of stock and acquiring proxies.
pos: noun
gloss: A special forces operative; a commando.
pos: noun
gloss: A warship which is light, maneuverable, and fast-moving.
pos: noun
gloss: A warplane on an air raid.
pos: noun
examples: It was attacked by an evening raider while pulling a passenger train in a south-east coast area.
gloss: A law enforcement official who conducts a raid on a building in search for illicit goods.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who uncovers evidence of improper behavior within governmental or private organizations.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Synonyms: corsair
freebooter
pirate
Derived words: commerce raider
corporate raider
Nader's raider
ram-raider
ram raider
Remington raider
Zoom raider
Translations:
rainy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English reyny, from Old English reġniġ, from Proto-West Germanic *regnag, from Proto-Germanic *regnagaz (“rainy”), equivalent to rain + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian rienig (“rainy”), West Frisian reinich (“rainy”), Dutch regenig (“rainy”), German regnig (“rainy”), Swedish regnig (“rainy”).
Base: rain
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: rainier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: rainiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pouring with rain; wet; showery
pos: adj
examples: Due to the rainy weather, we decided not to play in the park.
It's a very rainy day, so let's stay indoors.
This is itself a cheerless spot, particularly on a rainy day, when, overshadowed by the great massif of rock that towers in the background, and surrounded by the grey and cheerless quarries, it has a depressing character much in contrast with the green verdure encountered on the northern end of this interesting branch line.
Translations:
rapper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
entertainment
lifestyle
mining
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rap
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 rapper
From rap + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: rappers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rappuh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, raps or knocks.
pos: noun
gloss: One who, or that which, raps or knocks.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: One who, or that which, raps or knocks.
pos: noun
gloss: A performer of rap music, or someone who raps in any form of music.
pos: noun
examples: He rose from the ghetto to become a successful rapper.
gloss: A sword.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
obsolete
gloss: A flexible strip of metal, 45-60cm long, with handles at each end, used for Northumbrian rapper sword dancing.
pos: noun
gloss: A mechanical, or later electric, signalling device formerly used in the mines of north-eastern England to signal to the engineman that the cages carrying men or coals up and down the shaft were ready to be raised or lowered.
pos: noun
gloss: A bold lie; a whopper.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
dated
gloss: A loud oath.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
dated
Derived words: backarapper
backpack rapper
back-rapper
battle rapper
crapper
rapper sword
raptivist
Translations:
ratchet
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French rochet (“bobbin, spindle, ratchet”), from Italian rocchetto (“spool, ratchet”).
Inflected forms:
form: ratchets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ratcheting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ratcheted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ratcheted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rachet
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: more ratchet
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ratchet
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To increment or decrement; especially, to offer controlled motion that can increment while resisting decrement, or vice versa.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: This holddown ratchets, which allows the person loading the trailer to cinch down the straps.
Compared with the excellent scroll wheels on the Basilisk V3 and G502 X, the G203’s scroll wheel feels less defined and mushier in its ratcheting.
gloss: To cause (something) to become incremented or decremented.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Get this holddown into position, but don't start ratcheting it yet. When I say go, you start ratcheting it, OK?
It's time to ratchet up the intensity level here.
Yugoslavia’s President, Slobodan Milosevic, has rejected all efforts at meaningful diplomacy and, in violation of his own previous commitments, has ratcheted up his military campaign against the innocent civilians of Kosovo.
gloss: Ghetto; unseemly, indecorous.
pos: adj
tags: US
derogatory
slang
examples: The one thing that always accompanies Miley's ratchet look (along with the gang signs) is the tongue, which is sort of like saying this persona that she has adopted is some sort of gonzo idiot who can't keep its tongue in her head.
The feminine-meets-fiesty creations are right on par with all the reasons we love the rightgeously^([sic]) ratchet “Work” singer — and she knows it.
Classy in the streets but we ratchet
Derived words: nonratcheting
ratcheting toadlet
ratchet up
unratcheted
Translations:
rave
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Middle English raven (“to rave; talk like a madman”), from Old French raver, variant of resver, of uncertain origin. Compare rave below, and rove.
Inflected forms:
form: raves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: raves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: raving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: raved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: raved
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An enthusiastic review (such as of a play).
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
examples: The first-night audience, yes. The first-night reviewers, not exactly. The notices have so far been mixed, only The Financial Times having delivered itself of an unequivocal rave.
gloss: A large-scale dance party with strobe lights and fast-paced electronic dance music, often illegally organized open-air or in underground venues.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The genres of electronic dance music made to be played in rave parties.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Maybe I wear baggies / And white socks with flip-flops / Maybe I don't like listening to rave / And I'm not on the social mountaintops
gloss: To be mentally unclear; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast?
The mingled torrent of redcoats and tartans went raving down the valley to the gorge of Killiecrankie.
gloss: To speak or write wildly or incoherently.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: "She is in trance. Your daughter, sir, is a powerful medium." "A medium! You are raving."
gloss: To talk with excessive enthusiasm, passion or excitement.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He raved about her beauty.
The hallowed scene / Which others rave on, though they know it not.
“A beautiful country!”
“I suppose it is. Everybody says so.”
“Your cousin Feenix raves about it, Edith,” interposed her mother from her couch.
gloss: To rush wildly or furiously.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Under a mightie rocke, gainst which do rave
The roaring billowes in their proud disdaine
gloss: To attend a rave (dance party).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The situation with Tommy's parents made me grateful my parents hadn't caught on to my partying that summer. How had I gotten away with raving every weekend, and sometimes on Thursday nights too?
Synonyms: craze
have a kangaroo loose in the top paddock
have a screw loose
have bats in one's belfry
have bats in the belfry
have squirrels in the attic
have toys in the attic
nut out
nut up
rave
Related words: rant
mad person
insane
insanity
becraze
Derived words: algorave
all the rave
antirave
postrave
rave drug
ravewear
ravey
outrave
rant and rave
Translations:
raver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English ravere, ravare, rafar, equivalent to rave + -er.
Base: rave
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: ravers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who attends rave parties, or who belongs to that subculture.
pos: noun
examples: The life of a superstar DJ sounds like one endless party. You get to travel the world, perform for thousands of scantily clad ravers, and earn a stack of money.
Ravers listen to technomusic at home, and some have commented that certain tracks of music can elicit ASC similar to the ones experienced at raves.
In large part, happycore was the result of an exodus of white ravers from the jungle scene, in reaction to the influx of black youth and the attendant mood change from bonhomie to surliness.
gloss: A person who raves or rants.
pos: noun
examples: Wouldn't it be nice to get on with me neighbours / But they make it very clear they've got no room for ravers
Well, you wore out your welcome with random precision / Rode on the steel breeze / Come on, you raver, you seer of visions / Come on, you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine
Derived words: candy raver
Translations:
react
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From re- + act. Piecewise doublet of redact.
Base: act
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: reacts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reacting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reacted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reacted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: reäct
pos: verb
tags: alternative
rare
form: reacts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: reäct
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: To act in response.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: How did she react to the news?
gloss: To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: It is somewhat extraordinary, that the offence for which James II, was expelled, that of setting up power by assumption, should be re-acted, under another shape and form, by the parliament that expelled him.
gloss: To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.
gloss: To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To cause chemical agents to react; to cause one chemical agent to react with another.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To post a reaction (icon or emoji indicating how one feels about a posted message).
pos: verb
tags: Internet
intransitive
gloss: An emoji used to express a reaction to a post on social media.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: Sad reacts only
Related words: interreact
interreaction
Derived words: autoreact
backreact
crossreact
hyperreact
immunoreact
immunoreacted
misreact
nonreacted
overreact
reactability
reactable
reactance
react Anderson
react Andy
reactant
reacter
reactive
reactogenic
reactome
reactor
underreact
unreact
unreacted
wrench react
Translations:
reanimate
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From re- + animate (adjective).
Base: animate
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: more reanimate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most reanimate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: re-animate
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: reanimates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reanimating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reanimated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reanimated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: re-animate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Being animate again.
pos: adj
gloss: To animate again.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: After the geth secure a location, they round up and impale dead and living bodies on mechanical spikes. The spikes rapidly transform these victims into withered husks, extracting water and trace minerals and replacing them with cybernetics.
The cybernetics re-animate the lifeless flesh and tissue, transforming the bodies into mindless killing machines.
gloss: To animate again.
pos: verb
gloss: To animate again.
pos: verb
examples: Near-synonym: rescue
gloss: To animate again.
pos: verb
gloss: To animate again.
pos: verb
Related words: reanimation
Derived words: reanimatology
reanimator
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: съживявам
roman: sǎživjavam
lang: Dutch
word: reanimeren
lang: Esperanto
word: reanimi
lang: French
word: réanimer
lang: Georgian
word: რეამინირება
roman: reaminireba
lang: Georgian
word: რეანიმაცია
roman: reanimacia
lang: German
word: wieder beleben
lang: German
word: reanimieren
lang: Hungarian
word: újraéleszt
lang: Japanese
word: 蘇生させる
roman: sosei saseru
lang: Japanese
word: 生き返らせる
roman: ikikaeraseru
lang: Japanese
word: 再活性化する
roman: saikasseika suru
lang: Korean
word: 다시 살리다
roman: dasi sallida
lang: Portuguese
word: reanimar
lang: Russian
word: реаними́ровать
roman: reanimírovatʹ
lang: Russian
word: оживля́ть
roman: oživljátʹ
lang: Russian
word: оживи́ть
roman: oživítʹ
lang: Ukrainian
word: реанімува́ти
roman: reanimuváty
reap
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English repen, from Old English rēopan, rēpan, variants of Old English rīpan (“to reap”), from Proto-West Germanic *rīpan, from Proto-Germanic *rīpaną (compare West Frisian repe, Norwegian ripa (“to score, scratch”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyb- (“to snatch”).
Inflected forms:
form: reaps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reaping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reaped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reaped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: reapt
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
participle
past
form: reapt
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
past
form: reaps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And when ye reape the haruest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reape the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy haruest.
gloss: To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to reap a benefit from exertions
Be not deceiued, God is not mocked: for whatsoeuer a man soweth, that shall he also reape.
Why do I humble thus my ſelf, and ſuing / For peace, reap nothing but repulſe and hate?
And what delights can equal those
⁠That stir the spirit’s inner deeps,
⁠When one that loves but knows not, reaps
A truth from one that loves and knows?
England manager Roy Hodgson got plenty right with a positive selection and the decision to play Rooney in midfield reaped a rich reward - but his boldest move may also have been his biggest mistake.
gloss: To terminate a child process that has previously exited, thereby removing it from the process table.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Until a child process is reaped, it may be listed in the process table as a zombie or defunct process.
gloss: To deprive of the beard; to shave.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Came there a certaine Lord, neat and trimly drest;
Fresh as a Bride-groome, and his Chin new reapt,
gloss: To rape.
pos: verb
tags: euphemistic
slang
gloss: A bundle of grain; a handful of grain laid down by the reaper as it is cut.
pos: noun
Derived words: as you sow, so shall you reap
reapable
reaper
reap hook
reaphook
reaping hook
reap-silver
reap the benefits
reap the harvest
reap the whirlwind
reap-time
reap what one sows
sow the wind and reap the whirlwind
sow the wind, reap the whirlwind
unreaped
Translations:
recant
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in 1535, from Latin recantare (“to sing back, reecho, sing again, repeat in singing, recant, recall, revoke, charm back or away”), from re- (“back”) + canto (“to chant, to sing”), frequentative of cano.
Inflected forms:
form: recants
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: recanting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: recanted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: recanted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To withdraw or repudiate a statement or opinion formerly expressed, especially formally and publicly.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Convince me that I am wrong, and I will recant.
How soon […] ease would recant / Vows made in pain, as violent and void!
But as Mr. Trump denounces what he describes as failures by the Washington establishment on China, Mr. Biden, an avatar of that establishment, is not recanting his past enthusiasm for engagement.
Synonyms: abjure
backpedal
disavow
disown
eat one's words
recall
recant
retract
revoke
swallow
take back
unsay
unspeak
walk back
withcall
withdraw
Antonyms: affirm
aver
double down
maintain
stand firm
stand one's ground
uphold
Translations:
recessive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin recēdō + -ive, or directly from New Latin recessīvus.
Affixes: -ive
Inflected forms:
form: more recessive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most recessive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: recessives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Going back; receding.
pos: adj
gloss: Able to be masked by a dominant allele or trait.
pos: adj
examples: 1944 June 21, James A. G. Rehn, South African Bird-Locust Records and Notes (Orthoptera; Acrididae; Cyrtacanthacridinae; Group Cyrtacanthacres), Notulae Naturae, Number 137, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, page 3,
The Lydenburg male and the other two females have the infuscate pattern definitely more recessive and less evident, although traceable.
This plan takes advantage of the fact that barless is the most recessive of a series of alleles.
The series of murine Agouti alleles is a consistent array as it progresses from the most recessive to the most dominant allele (Jackson, 1994).
gloss: Not dominant; whose effect is masked by stronger effects.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: The worker–client relationship is more recessive and has a more catalytic and enabling quality.
The law-making or legislative component was the most recessive component of the legal system of hunter-gatherers, although decisions or advice given by mediators were remembered and used again to settle similar violations of rules or disputes among parties.
gloss: A gene that is recessive.
pos: noun
examples: Suppose, for example, that we started with a population consisting of pure dominants, heterozygotes, and recessives in the ratio 1 : 4 : 4.
Finally, if we suppose provisionally that the mutant genes are dominant just as often as they are recessive, selection will be far more severe in eliminating the disadvantageous dominants than in eliminating the disadvantageous recessives.
Selection favoring recessives is common in maize breeding for several traits, such as sweetness, opacity, brachysm, lack of ligules.
2008, Ascertainment Test, entry in George P. Rédei, Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics, and Informatics, page 147,
In three-child families 27/64 will have no affected offspring, 9/37 will have 2, and 1/37 are expected to have 3 recessives.
Antonyms: dominant
Derived words: immunorecessive
nonrecessive
recessively
recessiveness
semirecessive
Translations:
recital
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From recite + -al.
Base: recite
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: recitals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of reciting (the repetition of something that has been memorized); rehearsal
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of telling the order of events of something in detail the order of events; narration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: That which is recited; a story, narration, account.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A vocal, instrumental or visual performance by a soloist.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: perform a piano recital
gloss: A formal, preliminary statement in a deed or writing in order to explain the reasons on which the transaction is founded, prior to a positive allegation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: whereas
Derived words: misrecital
nonrecital
recitalist
Translations:
recommend
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English recommenden, from Old French recommender (compare French recommander), from Latin re- + commendāre (“to commend, commit; to recommend”), from con- + mandāre (“commit, intrust, enjoin”), from manus (“hand, handwriting, power”) + dare (“to give; to offer or render”).
Compare typologically Bulgarian препоръчам (preporǎčam), Serbo-Croatian препоручити, Slovene priporočiti, Czech doporučit, Slovak odporučiť (the same meaning); Russian поручи́ться (poručítʹsja), пору́ка (porúka), поручи́тельство (poručítelʹstvo) (close meaning), all related to Proto-Slavic *rǫka (Bulgarian ръка (rǎka), Russian рука́ (ruká)).
Base: mandāre
Affixes: con-
Inflected forms:
form: recommends
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: recommending
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: recommended
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: recommended
pos: verb
tags: past
form: recommends
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To bestow commendation on; to represent favorably; to suggest, endorse or encourage as an appropriate choice.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The board recommends Philips, given his ample experience in similar positions.
gloss: To make acceptable; to attract favor to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A city that has much to recommend it.
gloss: To advise, propose, counsel favorably.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The therapist recommends resting the mind and exercising the body.
My therapist recommended that I rest the mind and exercise the body.
An influential group of medical experts, the US Preventive Services Task Force, recommended last week that most women receive a mammogram starting at age 40.
The US Centers and Disease Control and Prevention is considering recommending annual Covid-19 shots to those who are older or who have compromised immune function, rather than the current blanket recommendation for everyone 6 months of age and older.
The change would more closely align the US with guidance given in other countries. Unlike countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, the US alone recommends an annual Covid-19 vaccine for healthy younger adults and children. The World Health Organization also doesn’t routinely recommend annual Covid-19 vaccines for healthy adults under 65 or healthy children.
gloss: To commit, to confide to another's care, confidence or acceptance, with favoring representations.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: A medieval oblate's parents recommended the boy for life to God and the monastery.
gloss: A recommendation.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: "I'm glad to have a recommend from that quarter. Airheart's skipper of the San Jose now. […]"
Antonyms: deprecate
disapprove
discourage
disrecommend
oppose
Related words: recommendation
Derived words: auto-recommend
misrecommend
recommendable
recommendary
recommendative
recommendatory
recommended
recommendee
recommender
rerecommend
unrecommend
Translations:
recount
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old Northern French and Anglo-Norman recunter, variant of Old French reconter.
Inflected forms:
form: recounts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: recounts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: recounting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: recounted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: recounted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Narration, account, description, rendering
pos: noun
gloss: To tell; narrate; to relate in detail.
pos: verb
examples: The old man recounted the tale of how he caught the big fish.
As they undressed and lay down, she asked about his leg, which had hurt for two days while he was crossing the Indian Ocean but not since. He asked about the treasure; she recounted the trip to Ning-hsia Province.
gloss: To rehearse; to enumerate.
pos: verb
tags: dated
examples: to recount one's blessings
Translations:
recruit
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
ecology
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From French recruter (as a verb).
Inflected forms:
form: recruits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: recruits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: recruiting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: recruited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: recruited
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a reinforcement.
pos: noun
gloss: A person enlisted for service in the army; a newly enlisted soldier.
pos: noun
gloss: A hired worker
pos: noun
examples: These new recruits were hired after passing the interviews
gloss: A new adult or breeding-age member of a certain population.
pos: noun
gloss: To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, the military, etc.
pos: verb
examples: We need to recruit more admin staff to deal with the massive surge in popularity of our products
gloss: To supply with new men, as an army; to fill up or make up by enlistment; also, to muster
pos: verb
examples: the army was recruited for a campaign
they were looking to recruit two thousand troops for battle
gloss: To replenish, renew, or reinvigorate by fresh supplies; to remedy a lack or deficiency in.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: Her cheeks glow the brighter, recruiting their colour.
“You have surprized my poor niece so, that she can hardly, I see, support herself.——Go, my dear, retire, and endeavour to recruit your spirits; for I see you have occasion.” At which words Sophia, who never received a more welcome command, hastily withdrew.
[…] I, abstemious naturally, and rendered so by the fever that preyed on me, was forced to recruit myself with food.
My husband stayed for some days with the magistrate at Cardwell, recruiting his health and recovering from his fatigues, for the passage between Cape York and Cardwell had proved the most tedious and anxious part of the voyage.
gloss: To become an adult or breeding-age member of a population.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To prompt a protein, leucocyte. etc. to intervene in a given region of the body.
pos: verb
gloss: To recuperate; to gain health, flesh, spirits, or the like.
pos: verb
tags: dated
intransitive
examples: Lean cattle recruit in fresh pastures.
Go to the country to recruit.
Here it was certain she rapidly recovered her lost strength, and recruited her wasted form; and here she received the letters of her beloved family, relating many circumstances well known to our readers, but new to the travellers, the tidings having far to go.
Derived words: corecruit
misrecruit
recruithood
recruitship
seaman recruit
decruit
derecruit
nonrecruited
nonrecruiting
overrecruit
over-recruit
recruitable
recruitage
recruital
recruitee
recruiter
recruitment
rerecruit
underrecruit
unrecruited
Translations:
reefer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English reef
English -er
English reefer
From reef + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: reefers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who reefs sails, especially a midshipman.
pos: noun
examples: Her reefer cap was all on one side and on her cheek there was the print of an anchor button she had pressed on while sleeping.
The mess table, at which the reefers and mates made merry, was fixed in the middle of the berth.
gloss: A reefer jacket; a close-fitting jacket or short coat of thick cloth.
pos: noun
Derived words: reefer jacket
Translations:
reeve
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle English reve, from Old English rēfa, an aphetism of ġerēfa (also grœ̄fa), from Proto-West Germanic *garāfijō (“officer, official”). Compare Danish greve, Swedish greve, Dutch graaf, German Graf.
The role, and eventually the word, was mostly replaced by bailiff, of Anglo-Norman origin.
Inflected forms:
form: reeves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: reve
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Any of several local officials, with varying responsibilities.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: His first convert was the reeve of the city of Lincoln called Blæcca, ...
gloss: The president of a township or municipal district council.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
gloss: The holder of a proposed but unadopted commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force, equivalent to wing commander.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: A list of new titles was manufactured as follows: Ensign, Lieutenant, Flight-Leader, Squadron-Leader, Reeve, Banneret, Fourth-Ardian, Third-Ardian, Second-Ardian, Ardian, Air Marshal. […] “Reeve”, perhaps, savoured a little too much of legal authority.
Related words: sheriff
bailiff
Derived words: hogreeve
landreeve
lathereeve
reeveship
shire-reeve
trithing-reeve
woodreeve
Translations:
referee
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from past participle of Old French referer (“to relate, to refer”), from Latin referre (“to carry back, to report, to notify”); as if refer + -ee, that is, the person to whom something is referred for consideration.
Base: refer
Affixes: -ee
Inflected forms:
form: referees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: referees
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: refereeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: refereed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: refereed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An umpire or judge; an official who makes sure the rules are followed during a game.
pos: noun
examples: The referee kicked Jim out of the game for fighting.
gloss: A person who settles a dispute.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who writes a letter of reference or provides a reference by phone call for someone. (In the UK such a person is sometimes, and in the US the person is typically, referred to as a reference.)
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: Your application, along with letters from three referees, should be received by January 31.
gloss: An expert who judges the manuscript of an article or book to decide if it should be published.
pos: noun
gloss: To act as a referee.
pos: verb
examples: He has to referee three hockey games this weekend.
She has to finish refereeing an article for Nature.
Related words: referral
referrer
Derived words: assistant referee
match referee
ref
referee assistant
refereeship
video assistant referee
video referee
Translations:
refine
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English fine
English refine
From re- + fine.
Inflected forms:
form: refines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: refining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: refined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: refined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To purify; reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to refine gold
to refine iron
to refine wine
to refine sugar
The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.
gloss: To become pure; to be cleared of impure matter.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To purify of coarseness, vulgarity, inelegance, etc.; to polish.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to refine someone's manners
to refine a language
a refined style
to refine one's tastes
gloss: To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: My dear Harriet, you must not refine too much upon this charade.—You will betray your feelings improperly, if you are too conscious and too quick, and appear to affix more meaning, or even quite all the meaning which may be affixed to it.
Adjust the volume, tweak the contours, refine the timing and, if need be, fiddle with the setting, and the hoariest yuck-fest can seem as dewy as a morning in May. Examples of tales told ticklingly are in unusual abundance here, with comedies for every taste within the mainstream of London theater.
HS2 Ltd has continued to refine the designs, so that seven fewer ancient woodlands will be affected. This reduces the total number to 25. And of those 25 woodlands, 85% of the total area will remain untouched by HS2.
gloss: To make nice or subtle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to refine thought
to refine someone's language
Derived words: electrorefine
overrefine
refinability
refinable
refinement
refiner
refinery
refiningly
rerefine
re-refine
superrefine
unrefine
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: refinar
lang: Finnish
word: jalostaa
lang: Finnish
word: hioa
lang: Italian
word: raffinare
lang: Italian
word: migliorare
lang: Italian
word: impreziosire
lang: Italian
word: purificare
lang: Russian
word: детализировать
roman: detalizirovatʹ
lang: Russian
word: уточнять
roman: utočnjatʹ
lang: Swedish
word: raffinera
lang: Swedish
word: förfina
regardless
Part of speech: adv
adj
prep
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English regard
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English regardless
From regard + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more regardless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most regardless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without attention to warnings or indications of bad consequences.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Tatiana knew the meat had passed its expiry date, but she ate it regardless.
gloss: Anyway; irrespective of what has just been said.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The proposal may become law, or it may not. Regardless, we will adopt it as a club rule.
gloss: Paying no attention to; ignoring.
pos: adj
examples: Hippolita, ſcarce more alive than her daughter, was regardleſs of every thing but her: but when the tender Iſabella’s care would have likewiſe removed her, while the ſurgeons examined Matilda’s wound, ſhe cried, remove me! never! never! I lived but in her, and will expire with her.
The beloved “oof” sound Roblox players — and gamers regardless of what they play — has become a huge meme in the community.
gloss: Taking insufficient regard of; heedless; careless.
pos: adj
examples: Always deceived in fact by his own wishes, and regardless of little besides his own convenience.
I grew, day by day, more moody, more irritable, more regardless of the feelings of others.
gloss: Synonym of regardless of; paying no attention to.
pos: prep
tags: proscribed
examples: Tatiana ate the cauliflower regardless its colour.
Synonyms: after all
algate
always
any road up
anyhoo
anyhow
anyroad
anyway
anyways
anywise
anywho
at all events
at any rate
be it what it would
come what may
hab or nab
however
in any case
in any event
regardless
Antonyms: attentively
carefully
circumspectly
gingerly
Related words: thus
nevertheless
Derived words: disregardless
regardlessly
regardlessness
regardless of
Translations:
regularity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French regularite, from Old French regularite, from Late Latin rēgulāritās, rēgulāritātem, from rēgulāris; see regular. By surface analysis, regular + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: regularities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition or quality of being regular
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I have been watching that show with regularity.
For Chelsea coach Andre Villas-Boas, this was his most sobering moment in the Premier League and he looked stunned on the sidelines at the regularity with which Chelsea's defence was exposed.
gloss: A particular regular occurrence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A topic in the study of partial differential equations, regarding the integrability and differentiability of weak solutions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: irregularity
Related words: regular
Derived words: axiom of regularity
biregularity
equiregularity
nonregularity
quasiregularity
regioregularity
semiregularity
stereoregularity
subregularity
Translations:
rehearse
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
Etymology: From Middle English rehersen, from Anglo-Norman reherser (“to repeat word-for-word”).
Inflected forms:
form: rehearses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rehearsing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rehearsed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rehearsed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: There’s no need to rehearse the same old argument; we’ve heard it before, and we all agree.
gloss: To narrate; to relate; to tell; to recount.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The witness rehearsed the events of the night before for the listening detectives.
gloss: To practise by recitation or repetition in private for experiment and improvement, prior to a public representation, especially in theater.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The main actors spent on average two hours a day rehearsing before the first night.
The lawyer advised her client to rehearse her testimony before the trial date.
In sober mornings, do not thou reherse / The holy incantation of a verse ...
I ſuppoſe vve ſhall hardly Rehearſe the Comedy this Morning; for the Author vvas Arreſted as he vvas going home from King's Coffee-houſe; and, as I heard, it vvas for upvvards of Four Pound: I ſuppoſe he vvill hardly get Bail.
gloss: To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The director rehearsed the cast incessantly in the days leading up to opening night, and as a result they were tired and cranky when it arrived.
He […] has been rehearsed by Madame Defarge as to his having seen Her […]
It was plain that he'd been rehearsed a lot, but he wasn't letter-perfect by any manner of means.
gloss: To contrive and carefully prepare (a story, etc.) to offer consistency.
pos: verb
examples: The Crown argued that the accused had rehearsed her story.
Derived words: misrehearse
rehearsable
rehearsal
rehearsed
rehearser
Translations:
reiterate
Part of speech: verb
adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Early 15th century, from Late Latin reiteratus, past participle of reiterare (“to repeat”) from re- (“again”) + iterare (“to repeat”) from iterum (“again”).
Compound parts: re-
itero
Inflected forms:
form: reiterates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reiterating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reiterated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reiterated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more reiterate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most reiterate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: reiterates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To say or do (something) for a second time, such as for emphasis.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Let me reiterate my opinion.
He said France clearly wanted to "close one page and open another". He reiterated his opposition to austerity alone as the only way out of Europe's crisis: "My final duty, and I know I'm being watched from beyond our borders, is to put Europe back on the path of growth and employment."
You never spoke what did become you less / Than this; which to reiterate were sin.
gloss: To say or do (something) repeatedly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: That with reiterated crimes he might / Heap on himself damnation.
gloss: To say (something) for a second time, but word it differently.
pos: verb
tags: rare
transitive
examples: Was I hard to understand? Sorry, I'll try to reiterate.
gloss: Reiterated; repeated.
pos: adj
gloss: A tree with vertical branches alongside the main trunk and which continue to grow upwards.
pos: noun
Synonyms: iterate
reiterate
repeat
reprise
Antonyms: undo
Derived words: reiterate oneself
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: повтарям
roman: povtarjam
lang: Catalan
word: reiterar
lang: Galician
word: reiterar
lang: German
word: reiterieren
lang: German
word: noch einmal zum Ausdruck bringen
lang: Hungarian
word: elismétel
lang: Hungarian
word: megismétel
lang: Māori
word: tōai
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: gjenta
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: gjenta
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: gjentake
lang: Polish
word: powtórzyć
lang: Polish
word: powtarzać
lang: Portuguese
word: reiterar
lang: Russian
word: повторя́ть
roman: povtorjátʹ
lang: Russian
word: повтори́ть
roman: povtorítʹ
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: ath-aithris
lang: Spanish
word: reiterar
lang: Swedish
word: upprepa
rejuvenate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From re- (“again”) + Latin iuvenis (“young”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare Old French rejuvener.
Displaced native Middle English gingen, from Old English *ġinġan (literally “to make young”), equivalent to Old English ġeong + Old English -an.
Base: iuvenis
Affixes: re-
-ate
Inflected forms:
form: rejuvenates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rejuvenating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rejuvenated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rejuvenated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To render young again.
pos: verb
examples: Before coronavirus shuttered the world, a typical month for Connecticut native Zac Mathias was packed with appointments for microneedling (a collagen-stimulating process that involves repeated pin-pricks all over the face), regular resurfacing hydrafacials, rejuvenating laser treatments and the occasional red-light therapy session.
gloss: To give new energy or vigour to; to revitalise.
pos: verb
examples: The exercise involved in recrafting the past, past encounters and memories actually rejuvenates short-term and present memory — remarkably!
"We have completely rejuvenated the project. Everyone is galvanised. We will get it open - and open means open. [...]."
Related words: rejuvenation
renovate
age
aging
senescence
Derived words: rejuvenator
Translations:
relevance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English relevant
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -iader.
Old French -ancebor.
Middle English -aunce
English -ance
English relevance
From relevant + -ance.
Inflected forms:
form: relevances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: relevancy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The property or state of being relevant or pertinent.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Antonyms: irrelevance
Translations:
relight
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
Proto-Indo-European *lewk-der.
Proto-Germanic *leuhtaz
Proto-West Germanic *leuht
Old English lēoht
Middle English light
English light
English relight
From re- + light.
Inflected forms:
form: relights
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: relighting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: relighted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: relighted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: relit
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: relit
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To light or kindle anew.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: This act of politeness having in some mysterious way set Mr Limpet's mind at rest, he produced an immense pipe, which he had apparently been smoking prior to the curate's entrance, and relit it, while the curate, seated gingerly on the edge of the rocking chair, surreptitiously inspected the room, which was so close to the roof as to make the December heat uncomfortably apparent.
By Tuesday evening the track had been cleared to the three snowbound engines, and the following day, under their own steam, they were moved away; the business of relighting their fires and raising steam in such conditions is better imagined than described.
gloss: To light or illuminate anew.
pos: verb
examples: The lights went down on Gilbert ranting and raving about surviving nuclear war. The stage was relit and Holly sang her song, "Family Promise," written to her baby nephew.
gloss: To render again with different simulated lighting conditions.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: relightable
relighter
Translations:
rely
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English relien, from Old French relier (“fasten, attach, rally, oblige”), from Latin religo (“fasten, bind fast”), from re- + ligo.
Inflected forms:
form: relies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: relying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: relied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: relied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To trust; to have confidence in; to depend.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I relied on "George" and "Fred"—the autopilot and the flight director—to fly the airplane while I worked my way through […]
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Shepard: You can't rely on anyone. Sounds harsh, but it's true.
Shepard: It comes down to doing what you think is right--and damn everyone else.
Hodgson also has Wayne Rooney to call on once he has served a two-match suspension at the start of the tournament - and it is abundantly clear England will rely as heavily as ever on his ability to shape the outcome of important games.
A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.
Antonyms: stand on its own
Translations: