yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
Mississippian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Mississippi
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Mississippian
From Mississippi + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Mississippians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of a geologic epoch within the Carboniferous period from about 359 to 318 million years ago; marked by glaciation and the appearance of the first trees.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of, or pertaining to, Mississippi or its culture.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: She had come to Mississippi with her Mississippian husband, who turned out to be a clumsy pyramid-scheme con artist.
gloss: A native or resident of the state of Mississippi in the United States of America.
pos: noun
Translations:
Ludlow
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From the Old English river name Hlūde, now the River Teme, + hlǣw (“mountain, hill, mound”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a geologic epoch within the Silurian period from about 423 to 419 million years ago; marked by the appearance of the millipedes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Wenlock
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a geologic epoch within the Silurian period from about 428 to 423 million years ago; marked by the appearance of the first corals.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
rousing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more rousing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rousing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: rousings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That rouses or excites.
pos: adj
examples: rousing music
But he still saw his side produce a rousing display which owed much to their lauded prowess from set-pieces, despite Uefa regulations meaning the pitch had to be widened and, in the process, the run-up area for Delap's long throws reduced.
gloss: The act by which somebody or something is roused.
pos: noun
examples: Parents who use cloth diapers often use disposables for travel, nights, or both. Disposables can save parents repeated nighttime rousings or frequent sheet changes.
Translations:
badly
Part of speech: adv
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English badly, baddely, baddeliche, equivalent to bad + -ly.
Base: bad
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: worse
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: worst
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: more badly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most badly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a bad manner.
pos: adv
examples: Things are going badly for her: she did badly in her exams owing to a badly designed studying schedule.
Don't think badly of me, give me the benefit of the doubt.
I feel badly about the accident because it was entirely our fault.
You can eat badly and feel crapola or eat healthily and feel great. The choice is yours...
gloss: Very much; to a great degree.
pos: adv
examples: I want it so badly.
Look at these split ends! You badly need a haircut!
Everything went badly wrong.
The task was made trebly difficult, however, by the badly run-down condition in which the railways of Britain had been unavoidably left at the end of the war in 1945, […].
In late 1970, Labour assumed the shadow posts, having lost badly (and unforeseenly) in the summer General Election.
gloss: Ill, unwell.
pos: adj
tags: Northern-England
examples: He's never badly.
Derived words: badly off
badly-off
badly packed kebab
Translations:
notation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin notātiō, equivalent to notate + -ion or note + -ation.
Base: notate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: notations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act, process, method, or an instance of representing by a system or set of marks, signs, figures, or characters.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in an art or science or in mathematics or logic to express technical facts or quantities.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This section lists all algebraic notation used in this book.
The notations used in the two books differed.
There is no official notation in the game of Stratego. Several notations are available but rely on perfect information of the initial piece set-up of both players. We will use a chess-like notation for Stratego.
Finally, using Devanagari, and native scripts more generally, has the benefit of elevating indigenous scripts and languages within the context of English-language lexicography, rather than foregrounding, or purely relying on, western linguistic notations which cater solely to a monolingual English audience.
gloss: A specific note or piece of information written in such a notation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: She made a notation in the margin of the book.
Related words: notate
notational
notationally
notationless
notative
note
unnotatable
unnotated
Derived words: abuse of notation
algebraic notation
big O notation
Bow's notation
bracket notation
caret notation
de Bruijn notation
delta notation
dental notation
Dirac notation
dot notation
Einstein notation
Hungarian notation
infix notation
k-adic notation
Kendall notation
Kendall's notation
labanotation
mensural notation
multilingual notation
musical notation
Polish notation
positional notation
postfix notation
prefix notation
reverse Polish notation
Schläfli notation
scientific notation
set-builder notation
sign-value notation
siteswap notation
square notation
Stokoe notation
Voigt notation
Whyte notation
Yoda notation
Translations:
unfortunate
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + fortunate, doublet of infortunate.
Base: fortunate
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unfortunate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unfortunate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unfortunates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not favored by fortune.
pos: adj
examples: Thus ended the life of one of the most unfortunate of small railway concerns.
gloss: Marked or accompanied by or resulting in misfortune.
pos: adj
examples: But as the tower and towee reached the cross-roads again, another car, negligently driven, came round the corner, hit the Morris, and severed the tow rope, sending the unfortunate car back again into the shop window[…]
gloss: Regrettable or unsuitable.
pos: adj
gloss: An unlucky person; one who has fallen into bad circumstances.
pos: noun
examples: Of those adults who used the trains every day, about half now travel daily by bus, [...] one unfortunate is reported to be walking to and from his employment.
Unlike the unfortunates aboard the Triumph, we viewers are in and out of the situation in under an hour and feel like we have had quite a lot of fun in the process.
gloss: A prostitute.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
euphemistic
Related words: deplorable
regrettable
infelicitous
unsuitable
Derived words: unfortunate-looking
unfortunately
Translations:
medicinal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin medicīnālis. By surface analysis, medicine + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: medcinal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: medicinals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: medcinal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having the properties of medicine, or pertaining to medicine; medical.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Tending or used to cure disease or relieve pain.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Though not poisonous, this mildly psychoactive mushroom has valuable medicinal properties. Extracted agents could be used to enhance medi-gels pain-reducing capabilities.
The town [Cheltenham] "is celebrated for its medicinal waters" and "has been for the last sixty years one of the most elegant and fashionable watering places in England".
gloss: Tasting like medicine; particularly of unpleasant or artificially sweet or bitter flavours.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Any plant that can be used for medicinal purposes.
pos: noun
Related words: medical
medication
medicational
medicine
Derived words: biomedicinal
ethnomedicinal
medicinal chemistry
medicinal finger
medicinally
nonmedicinal
phytomedicinal
semimedicinal
telemedicinal
unmedicinal
Translations:
leisure
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English leyser, from Anglo-Norman leisir, variant of Old French loisir (“to enjoy oneself”) (Modern French loisir survives as a noun), substantive use of a verb, from Latin licēre (“be permitted”). Displaced native Old English ǣmetta.
Inflected forms:
form: leisures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: leasure
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Freedom provided by the cessation of activities.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Free time, time free from work or duties.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The desire of leisure is much more natural than of business and care.
Little had Mrs. Dashwood or her daughters imagined when they first came into Devonshire, that so many engagements would arise to occupy their time as shortly presented themselves, or that they should have such frequent invitations and such constant visitors as to leave them little leisure for serious employment.
This is why the mathematical arts were founded in Egypt; for there the priestly caste was allowed to be at leisure.
gloss: Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence, convenience; ease.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He sigh'd, and had no leisure more to say.
Related words: ease
recreation
Derived words: antileisure
athleisure
at leisure
at one's leisure
bleisure
gentleman of leisure
lady of leisure
leisurable
leisure battery
leisure centre
leisure class
leisured
leisureful
leisureless
leisurely
leisureness
leisureplex
leisure sickness
leisuresome
leisure suit
leisure time
leisurewear
leisuring
leisurism
leisurist
nonleisure
weisure
Translations:
bis
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
law
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin bis (“twice”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Twice; showing that something is, or is to be, repeated, such as a passage of music, or an item in accounts.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Article 15 bis of the Rome Statute ("Exercise of jurisdiction over the crime of aggression (State referral, proprio motu)") lays down, in ten paragraphs, special procedural rules for the initiation of an individual prosecution on charges under Article 8 bis of the Statute (for a comprehensive examination of that article's material provisions, see supra 5.1) on the basis of a State referral or proprio motu by the Prosecutor. An analysis of specific provisions of Article 15 bis is offered below.
Translations:
pent
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pen
English -t
English pent
From pen + -t.
Inflected forms:
form: pents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Confinement; concealment.
pos: noun
examples: There was a catch in my voice, thick as it was with the pent of unshed tears; had I let them flow they would have come out forty per cent proof.
gloss: Confined in, or as if in, a pen; imprisoned.
pos: adj
examples: As the old woman, with a gigantic and distorted image of herself thrown half upon the wall behind her, half upon the roof above, sat bending over the few loose bricks within which it was pent, on the damp hearth of the chimney—for there was no stove—she looked as if she were watching at some witch’s altar for a favourable token; […]
Wherever Miss Clavering went, this infatuated young fellow continued to follow her; and being aware that his engagement to his cousin was known in the world, he was forced to make a mystery of his passion, and confine it to his own breast, so that it was so pent in there and pressed down, that it is a wonder he did not explode some day with the stormy secret, and perish collapsed after the outburst.
My object all sublime
I shall achieve in time —
To let the punishment fit the crime —
The punishment fit the crime;
And make each prisoner pent
Unwillingly represent
A source of innocent merriment!
Of innocent merriment!
Numa, ravenous with hunger, had long since learned the futility of roaring and moaning as he searched for prey, but now that it was as surely his as though already he had felt the soft flesh beneath his still mighty paw, he opened his huge jaws, and gave vent to his long-pent rage in a series of deafening roars that made the air tremble.
Translations:
blockbuster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From block + buster, referring originally to aerial bombs capable of destroying a whole block of buildings.
Compound parts: block
buster
Inflected forms:
form: blockbusters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A high-explosive bomb used for the purposes of demolishing extensive areas, such as a city block.
pos: noun
gloss: Something, such as a film or book, that sustains exceptional and widespread popularity and achieves enormous sales, as opposed to a box office bomb.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: He was watching the blockbuster film series Harry Potter.
gloss: Something, especially an event or a film, book or other creative work, that is intended to achieve high sales (perhaps indicated by large budgets or high advertising spending) or that is conceived on a large or epic scale
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: "General William Booth Enters into Heaven" is lusty, a blockbuster conception.
The report noted that 'an increasing public appetite for large "blockbuster" musicals is a firmly established feature of London’s West End theatre scene'.
gloss: Anything very large or powerful; a whopper.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: “How nice," she responded to his invitation, “but I've got a blockbuster of a headache. I'm paying for last night. Call me tomorrow, will you?"
Many—such as plants' relationships with mycorrhizal fungi—have been blockbuster moments in the history of life, with world-changing consequences.
In the mid-2021 economy, employers are offering higher pay to attract scarce workers; airports and car lots are bustling; and a G.D.P. report due out next week will probably show blockbuster growth.
The trove of documents from half a dozen federal agencies in recent days are a direct result of a blockbuster Supreme Court decision last month that allowed the administration to develop plans for ending birthright citizenship – even though the effort has once again been placed on hold.
gloss: A large firework of the firecracker type; an M-80.
pos: noun
gloss: One who engages in blockbusting (technique encouraging people to sell property).
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Whereas White residents fell prey to blockbusters who stoked fears of invading Negroes and plummeting housing values during the 1950s, African Americans confronted more-than-imagined difficulties in neighborhoods after the 1968 riots.
Related words: block
blockbust
bunker buster
bust
dambuster
Derived words: blockbuster drug
blockbusterish
blockbusterize
bonkbuster
knockbuster
megablockbuster
mockbuster
nonblockbuster
schlockbuster
Translations:
convalescent
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French convalescent, from Latin convalēscēn(t-)s, present participle of convalēscere (“to become strong or well”); see convalesce.
Inflected forms:
form: convalescents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: recovering one's health and strength after a period of illness; on the mend.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: So soon as Lady Anne was pronounced convalescent by the medical men, she insisted on discharging "that odious woman," the nurse,...
"Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins," remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day: "Mon dieu! Mon dieu! Che fais mourir!"
gloss: of convalescence or convalescents
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: She stayed in a convalescent hospital for two weeks before returning home.
gloss: A person recovering from illness.
pos: noun
examples: I had been ill in health, but am now a convalescent.
Derived words: convalescently
convalescent plasma
convalescent serum
postconvalescent
Translations:
remarry
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 marry
English remarry
From re- + marry.
Inflected forms:
form: remarries
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: remarrying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: remarried
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: remarried
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To marry a second or subsequent time (the same spouse or a different one) after the end of a marriage.
pos: verb
examples: After his wife's death, he never remarried.
To everyone's surprise, after being divorced for ten years the couple eloped to Las Vegas and remarried.
This church will remarry widows or widowers, but not divorcés.
Translations:
nisi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: decree nisi
pos: noun
tags: attributive
uncountable
examples: The law in Massachusetts mandates a nisi period before divorce by decree nisi.
Translations:
tris
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Abbreviation of tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane.
Inflected forms:
form: tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tris buffer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: THAM
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: trometamol
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tromethamine
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A flammable compound which forms a corrosive solution in water and is used as a buffer and emulsifying agent.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
ballot
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian balota (obsolete), ballotta (“small ball, especially one used to register a vote”), from balla (“bale, bundle”) + -otta (suffix forming diminutive nouns); or from Middle French balote (obsolete), ballotte (“small ball used to register a vote”) (also compare Middle French balotiage, French ballottage (“second ballot, runoff”)); both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *ballu (“ball”), from Proto-Germanic *balluz (“ball”).
Inflected forms:
form: ballots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ballots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: balloting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: balloted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: balloted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small ball placed in a container to cast a vote; now, by extension, a piece of paper or card used for this purpose, or some other means used to signify a vote.
pos: noun
examples: Imagine if the outcome in Michigan is close, and 75% of Biden supporters vote absentee, yet 10% or more of those ballots are rejected.
In Wyoming, a GOP state senator forwarded an FGA draft bill to Secretary of State Chuck Gray that would prohibit sending out unsolicited absentee ballot request forms.
gloss: The process of voting, especially in secret; a round of voting.
pos: noun
examples: July 1836, A. B. (initials of author), London and Westminster Review Article XI, Bribery and Intimidation at Elections
the insufficiency of the ballot
In the TSSA ballot, 80% of management grade and 60% of general grade members voted to accept, on an overall turnout of 57%.
gloss: The total of all the votes cast in an election.
pos: noun
gloss: A list of candidates running for office; a ticket.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: To vote or decide by ballot.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: to ballot for a candidate
gloss: To draw lots.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To invite to vote on a proposal.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The trade union balloted its members for strike action.
Related words: blackballing
Derived words: absentee ballot
Australian ballot
ballotation
ballot box
ballot candy
ballot chasing
ballot collecting
ballot curing
balloter
ballotful
ballot harvesting
ballotist
ballotless
bedsheet ballot
blanket ballot
bullet ballot
butterfly ballot
down-ballot
e-ballot
long ballot
Massachusetts ballot
paper ballot
postal ballot
preballot
ranked ballot
secret ballot
short ballot
straw ballot
reballot
Translations:
polling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
government
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: pollings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of taking a poll.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A technique that continually interrogates a peripheral or service to see if it has data to transfer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: the process of voting in an election.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: prepolling
telepolling
long polling
polling booth
polling day
polling place
polling station
push polling
Translations:
bifocals
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From bi- + focal (see focus), coined in 1824 by John Isaac Hawkins, inventor of trifocals. When the concept of bifocals was originally conceived by Benjamin Franklin, he called them double spectacles.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Spectacles that have corrective lenses of two different powers; used by people who need both distance and reading glasses.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: He unfolded a pair of bifocals and thrust them as far up the bridge of his nose as possible.
Translations:
globalization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English global
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English globalize
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English globalization
From globalize + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: globalizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: American and Oxford British English standard spelling of globalisation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He presents Hitler’s rise as an element of the collapse of a republic confronting dilemmas of globalization with imperfect instruments and flawed leaders.
Translations:
croquette
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: Borrowed from French croquette, from croquer (“to crunch”) + -ette (suffix indicating diminution). Doublet of korokke.
Inflected forms:
form: croquettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A minced, cooked food (usually meat or vegetables), which is deep-fried in fat and sometimes sprinkled with breadcrumbs.
pos: noun
examples: chicken croquettes
crab croquettes
Translations:
landau
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after the German city of Landau, where such carriages were first made. Compare German Landauer.
Inflected forms:
form: landaus
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of lightweight, four-wheeled carriage in which the front and back passenger seats face each other.
pos: noun
examples: Indeed, as the two gentlemen reached the door, a landau drove up, a magnificent yellow carriage, lined with brocade or satin of a faint cream colour, drawn by wonderful grey horses, with flaming ribbons, and harness blazing all over with crests: no less than three of these heraldic emblems surmounted the coats-of-arms on the panels, and these shields contained a prodigious number of quarterings, betokening the antiquity and splendour of the house of Clavering and Snell.
On an early winter afternoon, clear but not cold, when the vegetable world was a weird multitude of skeletons through whose ribs the sun shone freely, a gleaming landau came to a pause on the crest of a hill in Wessex.
Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do well to follow them, when up the lane came a neat little landau, the coachman with his coat only half buttoned, and his tie under his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of the buckles.
gloss: A style of automobile based around the design of landau carriages.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
Derived words: landaulet
landaulette
Translations:
poignant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English poynaunt, poynant, borrowed from Anglo-Norman puignant, poynaunt etc., present participle of poindre (“to prick”), from Latin pungō (“prick”). Doublet of pungent.
Inflected forms:
form: more poignant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most poignant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Sharp-pointed; keen.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
usually
examples: His siluer shield, now idle maisterlesse; / His poynant speare, that many made to bleed [...].
gloss: Neat; eloquent; applicable; relevant.
pos: adj
examples: A poignant reply will garner more credence than hours of blown smoke.
gloss: Evoking strong mental sensation, to the point of distress; emotionally moving.
pos: adj
examples: Flipping through his high school yearbook evoked many a poignant memory of yesteryear.
The shabby chest of drawers was spread with a lace cover, and set out with a few gold-topped boxes and bottles, a rose-coloured pin-cushion, a glass tray strewn with tortoise-shell hair[-]pins—he shrank from the poignant intimacy of these trifles, and from the blank surface of the toilet-mirror above them.
A particularly poignant example of this is a child called Genie (see Curtiss 1977; Rymer 1993), who was deprived of speech input and kept locked up on her own in a room until age thirteen. When eventually taken into care and exposed to intensive language input, her vocabulary grew enormously, but her syntax never developed.
Hanks shepherds the young girl to safety – first brusquely, and then with a sudden outburst of affection made all the more poignant for the way it is reserved previously. He once again reminds us, quite literally, that he is in many ways the ultimate dad.
gloss: Piquant, pungent.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
gloss: Incisive; penetrating; piercing.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: His comments were poignant and witty.
gloss: Inducing sharp physical pain.
pos: adj
tags: UK
dated
Related words: poignancy
poignantly
Derived words: poignance
unpoignant
Translations:
invited
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having been asked to attend.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having an invitation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: noninvited
uninvited
Translations:
extrapolation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
mathematics
music
sciences
Etymology: Morphologically extrapolate + -ion
Base: extrapolate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: extrapolations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A calculation of an estimate of the value of some function outside the range of known values.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An inference about some hypothetical situation based on known facts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Casting further doubt on Kerner’s extrapolations from Gebhard’s data, it’s unclear what happened during those 21 minutes of foreplay. Blow jobs? Kissing? Role-playing? We don’t know.
gloss: The diametric opposite of interpolation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: extrapolative
extrapolatory
interpolation
Derived words: misextrapolation
nonextrapolation
overextrapolation
underextrapolation
Translations:
alkyl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Akkadian 𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (guḫlum)bor.
Aramaic כוחלא (kuḥlā)bor.
Arabic كُحْل (kuḥl)
Andalusian Arabic اَلْكُحُول (al-kuḥūl)bor.
Medieval Latin alcoholder.
Middle English alcofol
English alc(ohol)
Proto-Indo-European *swel-der.?
Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der.
Frenchder.
English -yl
English alkyl
From alc(ohol) + -yl.
Inflected forms:
form: alkyls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a series of univalent radicals of the general formula CₙH₂ₙ₊₁ derived from aliphatic hydrocarbons. In other words, an alkane minus one hydrogen atom.
pos: noun
Translations:
rearm
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-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂érmos
Proto-Germanic *armaz
Proto-West Germanic *arm
Old English earm
Middle English arm
English arm
English rearm
From re- + arm.
Inflected forms:
form: rearms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rearming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rearmed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rearmed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: re-arm
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To replace or restore the weapons or arms of a previously defeated, or disarmed army, country, person or other body.
pos: verb
gloss: To arm, or prepare for use, again.
pos: verb
Derived words: rearmament
Translations:
disappointing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more disappointing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most disappointing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causing disappointment.
pos: adj
examples: disappointing results / news; a disappointing experience
Translations:
flick
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
tennis
war
Etymology: From Middle English flykke (“light blow or stroke”). Later uses apparently interpreted as a back-formation from flicker.
The use of flick to mean a film or movie derives from the fact that early films had a low frame rate, thus causing the film to "flick" rapidly when projected onto a screen.
Inflected forms:
form: flicks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flicks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flicking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: flicked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: flicked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip.
pos: noun
examples: He removed the speck of dust with a flick of his finger.
She gave a disdainful flick of her hair and marched out of the room.
On this occasion it was Nolan's deft flick that fooled West Ham's sleepy defenders Danny Gabbidon and Tomkins. The ball found its way to Best, who smashed in with confidence from the edge of the area.
gloss: A motion picture, movie, film; (in plural, usually preceded by "the") movie theater, cinema.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: My all-time favorite flick is "Gone with the Wind."
Want to go to the flicks tonight?
gloss: A cut that lands with the point, often involving a whip of the foible of the blade to strike at a concealed target.
pos: noun
gloss: A powerful underarm volley shot.
pos: noun
examples: The fourth seed was dominating her 20-year-old opponent with a series of stinging groundstrokes and athletic drive-volleys, striking again in game five when Paszek flicked a forehand pick-up into the tramlines.
gloss: The act of pressing a place on a touch screen device.
pos: noun
gloss: A flitch.
pos: noun
examples: a flick of bacon
gloss: A unit of time, equal to 1/705,600,000 of a second.
pos: noun
gloss: A chap or fellow; sometimes as a friendly term of address.
pos: noun
tags: dated
slang
examples: 'All that I have, dear old flick, is yours for the asking. What can I do?'
gloss: A photo.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: I was taking some flicks of the [p]arade […] and [someone] asked […] if I would like to take a picture of him[.]
gloss: To move or hit (something) with a short, quick motion.
pos: verb
examples: flick one's hair
to flick the dirt from boots
Using her hands like windshield wipers, she tried to flick snow away from her mouth. When she clawed at her chest and neck, the crumbs maddeningly slid back onto her face. She grew claustrophobic.
the Queen, flicking the snuff off her sleeve[…]
gloss: To pass by rapidly, so as not to be perceived clearly.
pos: verb
examples: Near-synonym: flit
They were quiet for a time, watching the fields and lanes flick past.
Related words: flicker
Derived words: Ardiles flick
chick flick
flick book
flicky
frat flick
frock flick
horror flick
kiddie flick
lit flick
Netflix
penalty flick
skin flick
slasher flick
flickable
flick in
flick knife
flick off
flick-on
flick one's bean
flick over
flick-screen
flick the bean
flick through
tick and flick
unflicked
Translations:
cello
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of violoncello, the original name, from Italian violoncello (“little violone”), from violone (“an early form of the double bass”) + -cello (“-elle”, forming diminutives), violone (“big viola”) itself being derived from viola + -one (“-oon”, forming augmentatives).
Inflected forms:
form: cellos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: celli
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
form: 'cello
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A large unfretted stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) C-G-D-A and an endpin to support its weight, usually played with a bow.
pos: noun
examples: I haven't always been this cool because I haven't always played guitar. I started out on the cello. Yeah, the cello is a wonderful, beautiful instrument. It's cool to be an adult that plays the cello. Being a kid that played the cello sucked, cause there's no way to be cool when your instrument is larger than you. When you walk to school with a cello you're like a wounded gazelle on the Serengeti, man. The bullies just smell you coming from a mile away.
And the cello concerto was strikingly different on Sunday: at Weill, the ensemble included two violinists and one violist, cellist, bassist and lutenist, but on Sunday four more violinists, a second violist and a harpsichordist were added to give the ripieno sections of the fast movements a heftier punch than the smaller group delivered.
Fitzgerald saw that Hemingway, oppressed by his mother's influence, was "still rebelling against having been made to take cello lessons when growing up."
Translations:
swart
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English swart, from Old English sweart, from Proto-West Germanic *swart, from Proto-Germanic *swartaz, from Proto-Indo-European *swerd-. Doublet of Schwarz.
Inflected forms:
form: swarter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: swartest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: swarts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: swarting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: swarted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: swarted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.
pos: adj
examples: 1400s: Thomas Occleve, Hymns to the Virgin
Men schalle then sone se / Att mydday hytt shalle swarte be
A nation strange, with visage swart
Lame, foolish, crooked, swart, prodigious,
Of shades , and wanton winds , and gushing brooks ,
On whose fresh lap the swart - star sparely looks
I'll choose a gaoler, whose swart monstrous face
Shall be a hell to look upon […]
The merry soldiers footing it with the swart savage maids
The keeping eunuchs were at back, solemn in stately rows, bespeared and bescimitared, the Danish, Irish, and German of their countenances lost in the daub which made them swart.
[…] unpierced ever
With glitter of sun rays
Nor with stars stretched, nor looking back from heaven
Swartest night stretched over wretched men there.
gloss: Black.
pos: adj
tags: UK
dialectal
gloss: Gloomy; malignant.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Suddenly the swart figure of Time stood up before the gods, with both hands dripping with blood and a red sword dangling idly from his fingers, and said: “Sardathrion is gone! I have overthrown it!”
gloss: To make swart or tawny; blacken; tan.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to swart a living part
[…] the heate of the Sun, whose fervor may swarte a living part, and even black a dead or dissolving flesh,
Related words: forswart
swartness
Derived words: swarten
swarty
Translations:
specialist
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
medicine
military
politics
sciences
sports
war
Etymology: Borrowed from French spécialiste, equivalent to special + -ist.
Base: special
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: more specialist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most specialist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: specialists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Specialised, involving detailed knowledge of a restricted topic.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: This was a highly specialist job, and it has been very carefully carried out so that it is very hard to see that these windows are now modern replacements.
gloss: Someone who is an expert in, or devoted to, some specific branch of study or research.
pos: noun
gloss: A player on a team who primarily employs one particular skill or takes one particular role.
pos: noun
gloss: A physician whose practice is limited to a particular branch of medicine or surgery.
pos: noun
examples: Dr. Robert Leroy Hutton, a retired specialist in internal medicine and a well‐known diagnostician, died yesterday here.
Most Americans mistakenly believe that they must see specialists for almost every medical problem.
gloss: Any of several non-commissioned ranks corresponding to that of corporal.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: An organism that is specialized for a particular environment.
pos: noun
examples: The tree Lepidothamnus laxifolius is a high alpine specialist found in high-altitude bog communities and in scrub.
gloss: A stenotopic species.
pos: noun
gloss: A sixth-former at Eton College.
pos: noun
Antonyms: generalist
eurytopic
Related words: specialize
subspecialty
subspecialist
Derived words: cyberspecialist
hyperspecialist
infectious disease specialist
left-handed specialist
multispecialist
non-specialist
nonspecialist
payload specialist
polyspecialist
specialistic
superspecialist
Translations:
Eleusinian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin eleusīnius + -an.
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: more Eleusinian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Eleusinian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to ancient Eleusis, in Attica, or the Eleusinian Mysteries of Demeter celebrated there.
pos: adj
tags: historical
examples: Drives the profane from Mystery's bolted door, / And Suilence guards the Eleusinian lore.
We must remember that a number of mystery cults besides the Eleusinian were current in the early centuries of Christianity and that there was abundant literature on the telete of the Orphic mysteries and doctrines.
gloss: Pertaining to modern Eleusina.
pos: adj
Translations:
solon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Σόλων (Sólōn), the name of an influential Athenian statesman.
Inflected forms:
form: solons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wise legislator or lawgiver.
pos: noun
gloss: Any legislator.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
especially
examples: In the wake of the death of two first responders in La Trinidad town, Rep. Eric Go Yap seeks to amend the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010 or Republic Act (RA) 10121. [...] The solon is set to file a bill to amend RA 10121 on Aug. 4, particularly Section 13, as he seeks to institutionalize protection for those serving in the front lines, providing death benefits including funeral services and extending educational allowances to their children to support them through their studies.
"I strongly and categorically deny the baseless accusations lnking^([sic]) me to alleged corrupt practices and illegal acts. The ongoing flood-control nvestigation^([sic]) is a serious matter. am^([sic]) totally surprised that my name has been mentioned," USWAG ILONGGO Party-list Rep. James "Jojo" Ang Jr. said in a statement, referring to the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing Monday, Sept, 8^([sic]) where the solons' names were dropped.
Derived words: solonic
Translations:
troubleshoot
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Back-formation from troubleshooter; by surface analysis, trouble + shoot.
Inflected forms:
form: troubleshoots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: troubleshooting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: troubleshot
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: troubleshot
pos: verb
tags: past
form: troubleshooted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: troubleshooted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To analyze or diagnose (a problem, or something faulty) to the point of determining a solution.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Near-synonyms: debug, diagnose, check, investigate
Translations:
airframe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From air + frame.
Compound parts: air
frame
Inflected forms:
form: airframes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The main body and structure of an aircraft (without the powerplant).
pos: noun
examples: This airframe has 2600 flight hours on it; the powerplant has just over 800.
Translations:
overplay
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: acting
broadcasting
entertainment
film
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
media
music
sports
television
theater
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
English play
English overplay
From over- + play.
Inflected forms:
form: overplays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: overplaying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: overplayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: overplayed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To overdo or overact one's effect or role.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: When Chris overacted his part again, the director warned that anyone overplaying would be barred from the next production.
Nevertheless, 3 Body Problem does well to pull us onward, as much through the relentless, but never overplayed, suffering and hardening of Ye Wenjie as she endures her effective imprisonment in the project grounds – and the stealing of her work by others – as by the present day mystery.
gloss: To play (a song or record) too frequently, often to the point of causing weariness and annoyance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A lot of times I don't want to overplay songs that I really like, because I know that then I'll get sick of them and I don't want to get sick of them.
gloss: To overestimate one's strength in a game or event, which ultimately may end in a defeat.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
figuratively
examples: Jack won the last match of blackjack; Theo overplayed.
Some of San Francisco's life-long Democrats believe the trend is being overplayed, the work of a small number of influential figures with big megaphones.
gloss: To accidentally hit (one's golf ball) beyond "the green".
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The first few shots went wonderfully, but Robin overplayed the last and lost.
Derived words: overplay one's hand
Translations:
lang: Dutch
word: overdrijven
lang: Dutch
word: dramatiseren
lang: French
word: surjouer
semiweekly
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sēmi
Latin sēmi-bor.
English semi-
English weekly
English semiweekly
From semi- + weekly.
Inflected forms:
form: semiweeklies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A periodical published twice a week.
pos: noun
Translations:
anti-catarrhal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English anti-
English catarrhal
English anti-catarrhal
From anti- + catarrhal.
Inflected forms:
form: anti-catarrhals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Counteracting, or suppressing catarrh.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Such an agent.
pos: noun
Translations:
antineoplastic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
oncology
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́)
Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der.
English anti-
Proto-Indo-European *nu
Proto-Indo-European *néwos
Proto-Hellenic *néwos
Ancient Greek νέος (néos)
Ancient Greek νεο- (neo-)der.
English neo-
Proto-Hellenic *plátʰyō
Proto-Hellenic *pláťťō?
Ancient Greek πλάσσω (plássō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Hellenic *-tós
Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)
▲
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Ancient Greek -τικός (-tikós)
Ancient Greek πλᾰστῐκός (plăstĭkós)der.
Latin plasticusder.
English plastic
English neoplastic
English antineoplastic
From anti- + neoplastic.
Inflected forms:
form: antineoplastics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Inhibiting the development of tumours.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Any such agent, used in chemotherapy.
pos: noun
Translations:
compulsion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French compulsion, from Late Latin compulsiō, from Latin compellere (“to compel, coerce”); see compel.
Inflected forms:
form: compulsions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An irrational need or irresistible urge to perform some action, often despite negative consequences.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: During the basketball game, I had a sudden compulsion to have a smoke.
It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].
gloss: The use of authority, influence, or other power to force (compel) a person or persons to act.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: From the opening of the City & South London Railway independent electric locomotives were used under compulsion of the Board of Trade.
But Treaty translator and Ottawa leader Andrew Blackbird described the Treaty as made “not with the free will of the Indians, but by compulsion.”
gloss: The lawful use of violence (i.e. by the administration).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: compulsive
compulsory
Derived words: compulsional
compulsionary
compulsion loop
noncompulsion
Translations:
hypervelocity
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Hellenic *hupér
Ancient Greek ῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér)
Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)der.
English hyper-
English velocity
English hypervelocity
From hyper- + velocity.
Inflected forms:
form: hypervelocities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having, or occurring at, extreme velocity.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The satellite was destroyed by a hypervelocity impact.
gloss: A very high velocity.
pos: noun
gloss: A hypersonic velocity.
pos: noun
gloss: A velocity greater than escape velocity.
pos: noun
examples: But none of those brown dwarfs were speeding along on a trajectory that would carry them out of the galaxy like “runaway” hypervelocity stars observed by astronomers in the last two decades.
Related words: high-velocity
intermediate-velocity
low-velocity
Translations: