yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
dehydrate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
Proto-Indo-European *wed-
Proto-Indo-European *-r̥
Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥
Proto-Hellenic *údōr
Ancient Greek ῡ̆̔́δωρ (hū̆́dōr)
Ancient Greek ὑδρο- (hudro-)lbor.
French hydr-
French -ate
French hydratebor.
English hydrate
English dehydrate
From de- + hydrate.
Inflected forms:
form: dehydrates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dehydrating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dehydrated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dehydrated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To remove water from; to dry up.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: dehydrate food
Running in the heat can quickly dehydrate you.
The fruit was dehydrated and packed for storage.
gloss: To lose water from one's body; to become dehydrated.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: dehydrate rapidly
Synonyms: desiccate
exsiccate
parch
Antonyms: hydrate
moisten
moisturize
soak
Derived words: cryodehydrate
dehydratable
dehydratase
dehydrative
dehydrator
diedrate
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: deshidratar
lang: Czech
word: dehydrovat
lang: Danish
word: dehydrere
lang: Dutch
word: dehydrateren
lang: Finnish
word: kuivata
lang: Finnish
word: kuivattaa
lang: Finnish
word: poistaa vesi
lang: French
word: déshydrater
lang: Galician
word: deshidratar
lang: German
word: dehydrieren
lang: Indonesian
word: mendehidrasi
lang: Italian
word: disidratare
lang: Japanese
word: 脱水する
roman: dassui suru
lang: Kazakh
word: сусыздандыру
roman: susyzdandyru
lang: Manx
word: jee-ushtaghey
lang: Māori
word: whakamaroke
lang: Māori
word: tauraki
lang: Māori
word: whakatārehe
lang: Marathi
word: निर्जल करणे
roman: nirjal karṇe
lang: Marathi
word: निर्जल होणे
roman: nirjal hoṇe
lang: Polish
word: odwodnić
lang: Polish
word: odwadniać
lang: Portuguese
word: desidratar
lang: Romanian
word: deshidrata
lang: Russian
word: обезво́живать
roman: obezvóživatʹ
lang: Russian
word: обезво́дить
roman: obezvóditʹ
lang: Russian
word: дегидрати́ровать
roman: degidratírovatʹ
lang: Spanish
word: deshidratar
lang: Swedish
word: torka ut
lang: Tagalog
word: patuyuin
lang: Tibetan
word: ཞ་རློན་འཐེན
roman: zha rlon 'then
lang: Turkish
word: kurumak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: قورومق
roman: kurumak
lang: Welsh
word: dadhydradu
boarding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
Etymology: By surface analysis, board + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: boardings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of people getting aboard a ship, aircraft, train, bus, etc.; embarkation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Load profiles are a standard analysis tool showing passenger activity (boardings, alightings) and passenger load at each stop along a route in a single direction.
gloss: The act of a sailor or boarding party attacking an enemy ship by boarding it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A structure made of boards.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The riding of a skateboard.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A penalty called for pushing into the boards.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: antiboarding
boarding card
boarding craft
boarding-house
boarding pass
boarding school
boarding stable
droneboarding
e-boarding
flexi-boarding
heliboarding
nonboarding
open boarding
riverboarding
volcano boarding
Translations:
lodging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-der.?
Proto-Germanic *laubą
Frankish *laub
Proto-Germanic *-jô
Frankish *-jō
Frankish *laubijābor.
Early Medieval Latin laubiader.
Old French logebor.
Middle English logge
English lodge
English -ing
English lodging
From lodge + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: lodgings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A place to live or lodge.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Sleeping accommodation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: When I was a Cloister-monk, I was once sent to Durham on business of our Church; and coming home again, the dark night caught me at Risby, and I had to beg a lodging there.
gloss: Furnished rooms in a house rented as accommodation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
gloss: The condition of a plant, especially a cereal, that has been flattened in the field or damaged so that it cannot stand upright, as by weather conditions or because the stem is not strong enough to support the plant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: lodge
Derived words: board and lodging
dry lodging
lodging house
lodgingless
nonlodging
outlodging
Translations:
boatswain
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English botswain, botswein, bote-swayn, from late Old English bātsweġen, from bāt (“boat”) + sweġen (“swain”), the latter element a borrowing from Old Norse sveinn (“boy”); equivalent to boat + swain (“boy, servant”).
Compound parts: boat
swain
Inflected forms:
form: boatswains
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bosun
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bo'sun
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: boson
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bos'n
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bo's'n
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person aboard ship who is in charge of various maritime affairs.
pos: noun
gloss: A person aboard ship who is in charge of various maritime affairs.
pos: noun
gloss: A kind of gull, the jaeger.
pos: noun
gloss: The tropicbird.
pos: noun
Derived words: boatswain-bird
boatswain's call
boatswain's chair
boatswain's mate
boatswain's pipe
Translations:
cellphone
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cellphones
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cellphoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cellphoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cellphoned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make a call to (someone) on a cellphone.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
informal
examples: They stood on line, and slept and ate and cellphoned, all night and into the day.
That information — including estimates that cellphoning drivers caused 955 fatalities and 240,000 accidents in 2002 — was finally pried loose this week by a freedom of information lawsuit.
Translations:
boatswain-bird
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: boatswain-birds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tropical bird, Phaethon aethereus, often found far from land, whose cry resembles the whistle of a boatswain's pipe.
pos: noun
Translations:
dignitary
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French dignitairebor.
English dignitary
Borrowed from French dignitaire.
Inflected forms:
form: dignitaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An important or influential person, or one of high rank or position.
pos: noun
examples: Chinese dignitaries traveled with us from place to place, and when ready to depart from Urumchi, or Tihwa, we were introduced to the high officials who were going along in the plane.
It was a remarkable climax to a match that ended with another of those disappearing acts from John Terry only to re-emerge, in full kit, so he could climb the steps, shake the hands of Eusébio, Michel Platini and all the other dignitaries, then help Frank Lampard to lift the trophy.
gloss: Relating to dignity.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The badness of a dignitary harm derives from the victim's belief that a perpetrator is willing to override or ignore her standing as a person with rights, with dignity, as evidenced by the wrongful criminal deed; […]
Translations:
bollard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English bollard, probably from Middle English bole (“tree trunk”), from Old Norse bolr (“stump, trunk”), equivalent to bole + -ard (pejorative or diminutive suffix).
Base: bole
Affixes: -ard
Inflected forms:
form: bollards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A strong vertical post of timber or iron, fixed to a wharf, dock, or the deck of a ship, to which the ship's mooring lines or towlines are secured.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: towing bitt (often coinstantial)
Today he had for bollard the unfinished monument half-erected to some all but forgotten anarchist.
He sat on a bollard, looking out across the water, a man more small and shabby than expected.
gloss: A similar post preventing vehicle access to a pedestrian area, to delineate traffic lanes, or used for security purposes.
pos: noun
Derived words: bollard condition
bollarded
bollarding
Translations:
booby-hatch
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
form: booby-hatches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small hatchway in the deck of a ship.
pos: noun
gloss: A lunatic asylum, workhouse, or similar institution.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
Related words: booby hutch
Translations:
barking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English berkyng, berking, berkynge, equivalent to bark + -ing.
Base: bark
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: barkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of the verb to bark.
pos: noun
examples: Old pigtailed seamen would tell of horseshoes found in the meat casks; of curious barkings and neighings heard in the slaughter-houses; and of negroes who disappeared near the victualling yards, to be seen no more.
Translations:
boot-topping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
form: boot-toppings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: boot topping
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: boottopping
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The process of cleaning the upper part of a ship's underwater hull and daubing it with a protecting layer of antifouling substance.
pos: noun
gloss: Any substance used for boot-topping, especially a mixture of tallow, sulphur or lime and rosin, which was commonly used to paint the bottoms of wooden ships, as a deterrent against weeds and barnacles, and to reduce friction.
pos: noun
gloss: The paint of the part of the hull that is designed to be underwater.
pos: noun
Translations:
parking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English park
English -ing
English parking
From park + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: parkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of the verb to park.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: free parking
Parking in central London can be very difficult.
Glasgow's car-parking problem is one of the worst in the country and the frequency of the new electrified rail service ought to attract a big clientele from the city's close-packed suburbs.
Table 6 represents an analysis of the parking usage in the Downtown Business District, in terms of the number of parkings, 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., according to Type of Facility used, and the Purposes of the Trips […]
gloss: Space in which to park a car or other vehicle, such as a parking lot or curbside parking.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Near-synonyms: car park, carpark
ample parking
parking in rear
Each one of his parkings of securities was a separate count on the indictment.
It can be difficult to find parking in central London.
They found his car in a parking thirty miles away; apparently it had been stolen by a joyrider.
Derived words: autoparking
double-parking
echelon parking
emergency parking bay
glass parking lot
no parking
no parking whitebeam
parking area
parking attendant
parking brake
parking coupon
parking crater
parking disc
parking disk
parking garage
parking light
parking lot
parking meter
parking orbit
parking permit
parking place
parking ramp
parking space
parking spot
parking strip
parking ticket
parking violation
parking warden
season parking
theme parking
workplace parking levy
Translations:
bora
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Gamilaraay būru.
Inflected forms:
form: boras
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Bora
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An initiation ceremony for males among the Aboriginal people of New South Wales.
pos: noun
examples: Birribirai, a youth not yet admitted to a bora.
By far the most important among the ceremonies practised by the aborigines of New South Wales is the Bora, at which youths are initiated to manhood...
Translations:
bowline
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English bouline, bawelyne.
Inflected forms:
form: bowlines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails.
pos: noun
gloss: A knot tied so as to produce an eye or loop in the end of a rope that will not slip or jam.
pos: noun
Derived words: bowline bridle
bowlined
on a bowline
running bowline
Translations:
bowsprit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: First attested in late 13th century. Probably borrowed from Middle Low German bochspret, from boch (“bow of a ship”) + spret (“pole”) (related to Old English spreot and English sprout).
Base: boch
Inflected forms:
form: bowsprits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bolesprit
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: boltsprit
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A spar projecting over the prow of a sailing vessel to provide the means of adding sail surface.
pos: noun
examples: There lay the Ghost, bow on to the beach, her splintered bowsprit projecting over the sand, her tangled spars rubbing against her side to the lift of the crooning waves. Something must be done, must be done.
Translations:
gerundive
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English gerundif, gerundyf, gerundyfe, gerundyffe, gerundyve, from Latin gerundīvum (“gerundive”), from gerundium (“gerund”), from gerundus (“which is to be carried out”), future passive participle (gerundive) of gerō (“carry, bear”). By surface analysis, gerund + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: gerundives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A verbal adjective that describes obligation or necessity, equivalent in form to the future passive participle.
pos: noun
gloss: A verbal adjective ending in -ing, also called a "present participle".
pos: noun
tags: uncommon
gloss: Synonym of gerundial.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: gerund
gerundial
Derived words: gerundival
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: gerundi
lang: French
word: adjectif verbal
karate
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 空(から)手(て) (karate), from 唐(から)手(て) (karate), an orthographic borrowing from Okinawan 唐手(とーでぃー) (tōdī, “Chinese hand”).
Inflected forms:
form: karates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: karateing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: karated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: karated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An Okinawan martial art involving primarily punching and kicking, but additionally, advanced throws, arm bars, grappling and all means of fighting.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, Wall taught karate at a local nursing home.
gloss: To attack (somebody or something) with karate or similar techniques.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
Translations:
leasehold
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: law
property
Etymology: From lease + hold.
Compound parts: lease
hold
Inflected forms:
form: leaseholds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of an estate in land, held for a term of years absolute by a lessee or tenant.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A leasehold estate in land.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Real property held as an estate in land of this type.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: fleecehold
Translations:
freehold
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
property
Inflected forms:
form: freeholds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: freeholds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: freeholding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: freeholded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: freeholded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Of a tenure or estate in land, held in fee simple absolute in possession by a proprietor; granted out of the allodial title, liable to determine only on escheat.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Freehold tenure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Real property held by a tenure of this type.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To dispense property in this way.
pos: verb
Derived words: creeping freehold
flying freehold
parson's freehold
Translations:
unaware
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English aware
English unaware
From un- + aware.
Inflected forms:
form: more unaware
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unaware
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not aware or informed; lacking knowledge; unmindful.
pos: adj
examples: I'm unaware of the answer to that question.
Luckily, she was unaware that I'd spent the last five years in prison.
The more unaware the self is of other selves, that is, the more complete the splits, the greater the degree of schizoid pathology.
In 1825, the first public railway carried passengers across the English countryside, setting in motion not just an engineering revolution, but an industrial one too. Imagine the awe and excitement of those first passengers as they boarded the train, unaware that they were witnessing the dawn of a new era.
gloss: Not noticing; paying no heed; thoughtless; inattentive; oblivious.
pos: adj
examples: Or on the mat devoutly kneeling,
Would lift her eyes up to the ceiling,
And heave her bosom unaware
For neighbouring beaux to see it bare.
Related words: unware
Derived words: self-unaware
unawares adverb
Translations:
unawares
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From unaware + -s (adverbial suffix). Attested earlier than unaware.
Base: unaware
Affixes: -s
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Unexpectedly or by surprise.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Your question catches/takes me unawares, I don't know the answer right now...
And I with these untoward thoughts had striven, / I saw a Man before me unawares: / The oldest Man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs.
gloss: Inadvertently.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I'm afraid I've taken the wrong coat, unawares.
gloss: Without plan or forethought.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Related words: at unawares
unaware
unawarely
Translations:
wording
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: wordings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A choice of words and the style in which they are used in a given context.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It is highly improbable that the drafter of the notice ever visualised the form that heavy vehicles of the future would take, but the comprehensive wording still covers modern types.
Translations:
workaday
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Middle English werkedei, from Old Norse virkr dagr (“working day”). Cognate to later workday; see work and day. Used in adjective sense from 16th century. By surface analysis, work + -a- + day. First attested in c. 1200.
Inflected forms:
form: more workaday
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most workaday
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: workyday
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Suitable for everyday use.
pos: adj
gloss: Mundane or commonplace.
pos: adj
examples: A retreat, my dear boys, signifies a withdrawal for a while from the cares of our life, the cares of this workaday world, in order to examine the state of our conscience, to reflect on the mysteries of holy religion and to understand better why we are here in this world."
But then something started to shift—the Burning Man aesthetic was creeping into the workaday world; festival culture went mainstream.
Related words: workday
Translations:
workday
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English werkdai, werkedei, werkedai, from Old English weorcdæġ (“workday”), equivalent to work + day. Cognate with West Frisian wurkdei (“workday”), Dutch werkdag (“workday”), German Low German Warkdag (“workday”), German Werktag (“workday”). See also workaday.
Base: work
Inflected forms:
form: workdays
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: work day
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of the days of a week on which work is done; any day in a workweek.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: It will take five workdays to process your application.
gloss: That part of a day in which work is done.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: My workday is 8 hours.
Synonyms: working day
jobday
9 to 5
nine to five
Related words: day off
time off
PTO
schoolday
weekend
Derived words: teacher workday
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: работно време
roman: rabotno vreme
lang: Catalan
word: jornada diària
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 工作時間 /工作时间
roman: gōngzuò shíjiān
lang: Danish
word: arbejdsdag
lang: Finnish
word: työpäivä
lang: French
word: journée de travail
lang: Macedonian
word: работно време
roman: rabotno vreme
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: arbeidsdag
lang: Polish
word: roboczodniówka
lang: Romanian
word: timp zilnic de lucru
lang: Russian
word: рабочее вре́мя
roman: rabočeje vrémja
lang: Russian
word: рабо́чий день
roman: rabóčij denʹ
lang: Spanish
word: jornada
geodesic
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From French géodésique. By surface analysis, geodesy + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: geodesics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more geodesic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most geodesic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The shortest curve between two points on a specific surface.
pos: noun
gloss: A segment of a great circle.
pos: noun
gloss: A course allowing the parallel-transport of vectors along a course that causes tangent vectors to remain tangent vectors throughout that course (a straight curve, a line that is straight).
pos: noun
gloss: Of or relating to geodesy.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to a geodesic dome.
pos: adj
Related words: geodetic
Derived words: gyrogeodesic
geodesically
geodesicity
geodome
nongeodesic
quasigeodesic
totally geodesic
Translations:
telemetry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
Etymology: From tele- + -metry.
Base: tele
Inflected forms:
form: telemetries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The science, and associated technology, of the automatic recording and transmission of data from a remote source to a receiving station for analysis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We have also installed river level monitors and scour telemetry on more than 25 bridges across our network, and over the next two years we will continue to increase the number of locations fitted with these technologies.
Translations:
telegram
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tele- + -gram.
Affixes: tele-
-gram
Inflected forms:
form: telegrams
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: telegramme
pos: noun
tags: alternative
nonstandard
form: telegrams
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: telegramming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: telegrammed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: telegrammed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: telegramme
pos: verb
tags: alternative
nonstandard
Senses:
gloss: A message transmitted by telegraph.
pos: noun
examples: There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.[…]Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.
On 20 May 1937 when down in Bradford-on-Avon on business, Bulleid received a telegram with the cryptic news: 'Sir Herbert Walker wishes to see you twelve thirty tomorrow—Gresley'.
Indians awoke on Monday to find their 162-year-old telegram service rendered obsolete, superseded by SMS, e-mail and Twitter.
Arguably one of the oldest victims of the digital age, telegrams were the fastest communication method from the 19th century.
gloss: To send a telegram.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: In the brouhaha over the reappointment of Superior Court Judge Sylvia Pressler, we organized massive support - telegramming, telephoning and writing to encourage the State Senate to exercise its advise and consent function responsibly.
He was a very posh chap from Oxfordshire, whose dad had been Chancellor and whose mum was obliged to keep telegramming round to find him a job because little Winnie had flunked out of his very expensive school.
gloss: To send a telegram to (a person).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: So when King – who had been in Atlanta for “Bloody Sunday” – telegrammed Parks about returning to Alabama to take part in a third mass march from Selma to Montgomery, her immediate answer was “Why, of course.”
gloss: To send (a message) in a telegram.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
geophysics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Pre-Greek der.
Proto-Hellenic *gayader.
Ancient Greek γαῖᾰ (gaîă)clip.
Ancient Greek γῆ (gê)
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)
Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-)der.
English geo-
English physics
English geophysics
From geo- + physics.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A branch of earth science dealing with the physical processes and phenomena occurring in the earth and in its vicinity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
geodesy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From French géodésie, from Medieval Latin geōdaesia, from Ancient Greek γεωδαισία (geōdaisía), from γῆ (gê, “earth”) + δαίω (daíō, “to divide”). By surface analysis, geode + -esy.
Inflected forms:
form: geodesies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: geodæsy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The discipline which deals with the measurement and representation of Earth, its gravitational field and geodynamic phenomena (polar motion, Earth tides, and crustal motion) in three-dimensional, time-varying space.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
oceanography
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ocean
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-
Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō
Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ)
Ancient Greek -γραφίᾱ (-graphíā)bor.
French -graphieder.
English -ography
English oceanography
From ocean + -ography.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The exploration and scientific study of the oceans and ocean floor.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
word-for-word
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Using exactly the same words (as were originally used).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: His essay was a word-for-word copy of one on the Internet.
Translations:
perfectly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English perfect
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English perfectly
From perfect + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more perfectly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most perfectly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: perfightly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: perfightlie
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: With perfection.
pos: adv
examples: They completed the first series perfectly.
gloss: Wholly, completely, totally.
pos: adv
examples: Their performance was perfectly fine.
The Gentiles would not perfectly relinquish all their Idols; so, they were persuaded to turne the Image of Jupiter with his thunderbolt to Christus crucifixus, and Venus and Cupid to the Madonna and her Babe.
I was perfectly stunned. I sat and moistened my lips a little, but otherwise made no effort to do anything: my chest was in a pitiful state.
James Milner's angled free-kick was headed on to the post by the tireless [Darren] Bent and [Frank] Lampard the opportunist was perfectly placed to stoop and head in from virtually on the goal-line.
The route taken does not have to be a perfectly straight line, just so long as it is linear and is followed consistently for each transect taken.
Derived words: imperfectly
perfectly elastic supply
perfectly inelastic supply
pitch-perfectly
Translations:
coinsurance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin co-der.
English co-
English insurance
English coinsurance
From co- + insurance.
Inflected forms:
form: coinsurances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: co-insurance
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The joint assumption of risk between the insurer and the insured party.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
especially
uncountable
gloss: The amount paid by the insured in accordance with this risk sharing.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
especially
metonymically
uncountable
examples: For Part B-covered services, you usually pay 20% of the Medicare-approved amount after you meet your deductible. This is called your coinsurance.
gloss: The joint assumption of risk between multiple insurers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: coinsurer
copayment
deductible
Translations:
lang: Danish
word: selvrisiko
lang: Dutch
word: eigen risico
lang: French
word: franchise
lang: German
word: Selbstbeteiligung
lang: German
word: Eigenanteil
lang: Italian
word: franchigia
lang: Russian
word: франшиза
roman: franšiza
lang: Spanish
word: participación propia
lang: Spanish
word: franquicia
lang: Spanish
word: coaseguro
lang: Spanish
word: deducible
lang: Swedish
word: självrisk
lang: Turkish
word: koasürans
G-funk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Abbreviation of gangsta funk; also in imitation of P-Funk (“Parliament-Funkadelic”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A kind of slow, melodic hip-hop music associated with California.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Man, I love sitting back and listening to some jived out G-funk!
The Chronic, and the other G-funk albums that followed, scandalized the civic engagement and racial ideals of gangsta's parent culture in several salient ways.
Translations:
tofu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
typography
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 豆(とう)腐(ふ) (tōfu), from Middle Chinese 豆腐 (duwᴴ bju^X, “curdled bean”). Doublet of dubu and doufu.
Inflected forms:
form: tofus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tōfu
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A protein-rich food made from curdled soy milk.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: First, marinate the tofu. In a bowl, whisk the kecap manis, chilli sauce, and sesame oil together. Cut the tofu into strips about 1cm thick, mix gently (so it doesn't break) with the marinade and leave in the fridge for half an hour.
gloss: A box or rectangle, empty or with a question mark or hexadecimal code inside, displayed by some systems in place of a character not supported by available fonts. (such as _□ or 𐕪)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: almond tofu
annin tofu
blood tofu
butter tofu
hufu
mapo tofu
silken tofu
stinky tofu
tofish
tofuburger
tofu-dreg
tofu dregs
tofulike
tofu press
tofurkey
tofurky
tofu scramble
tofu skin
yong tofu
Translations:
interlude
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *n̥ter
Latin inter
Latin inter-
Latin lūdō
English interlude
From Latin inter- (“between”) + lūdō (“to play”).
Inflected forms:
form: interludes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: enterlude
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: interludes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: interluding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: interluded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: interluded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An intervening episode, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: An entertainment between the acts of a play.
pos: noun
examples: [O]ur ovvne Statutes […] preciſely prohibit the ſatyricall depraving, traducing, or derogation of the Common Prayer-Booke, and of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper in any Enterludes, Playes or Rimes, (in vvhich kinde Playes had been formerly peccant) under ſevere penalties.
gloss: A short piece put between the parts of a longer composition.
pos: noun
gloss: To provide with an interlude.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Jimmy Jam, co-producer of Ms. Jackson’s heavily interluded and influential 1989 album, “Rhythm Nation 1814” (and producer of a forthcoming album by Usher with interludes), also defended them.
gloss: To serve as an interlude.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: During some brief, interluding, silent pauses in their interview thus far, Pierre had heard a soft, slow, sad, to-and-fro, meditative stepping on the floor above; […]
Related words: intermezzo
intermission
station break
Derived words: interluder
interludial
Quaalude
Translations:
reminisce
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from reminiscence, from Latin reminīscēns, present participle of reminīscor (“to remember”).
Inflected forms:
form: reminisces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reminiscing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reminisced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reminisced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: reminisces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To recall the past in a private moment, often fondly or nostalgically.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: But in the blink of an eye, you kissed me goodbye
And I reminisced of a better time
gloss: To talk or write about memories of the past, especially pleasant memories.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I strive to be live 'cause I got no choice / And run my own business like my Aunt Joyce / So Pete Rock hit me, nuff respect due / When they reminisce over you, listen
gloss: To remember fondly; to reminisce about.
pos: verb
tags: India
transitive
examples: And now when life begins to get the best of me
I reminisce these childhood memories
He reminisced the old Parvati who was now this Parvati.
She fondly reminisced the two years before marriage when Frank served in the US Army.
gloss: An act of reminiscence.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: I met up with Alastair McQueen [former Mirror colleague] and we had a reminisce.
Related words: remember
reminiscence
reminiscent
reminiscential
hark back
Derived words: reminiscer
reminiscingly
Translations:
sixty-nine
Part of speech: num
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The cardinal number immediately following sixty-eight and preceding seventy.
pos: num
Translations:
disparate
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Latin parō
Latin disparō
Latin disparātusder.
Middle French desparatbor.
▲
Latin disparātusbor.
English disparate
First attested in 1586; either borrowed from Middle French desparat or directly from Latin disparātus, perfect passive participle of disparō (“to divide”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from dis- (“apart”) + parō (“to arrange”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ (“two”) and the root *per- (“carry forth”).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: more disparate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most disparate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: disparates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Composed of inherently different or distinct elements; incongruous.
pos: adj
examples: The board of the company was decidedly disparate, with no two members from the same social or economic background.
The London Transport Museum was established, from disparate collections, at Covent Garden in 1980.
Although third-rail operation in the region dates back more than a century, it was in the 1970s that tunnels under Liverpool's city centre opened to bring together previously disparate routes.
gloss: Essentially different; of different species, unlike but not opposed in pairs.
pos: adj
gloss: Utterly unlike; incapable of being compared; having no common ground.
pos: adj
examples: Then disparate sense impressions come to disparate organs, as light to the eye, taste to the mouth, etc.
M. Bergson’s philosophy, unlike most of the systems of the past, is dualistic: the world, for him, is divided into two disparate portions, on the one hand life, on the other matter, or rather that inert something which the intellect views as matter.
gloss: Any of a group of unequal or dissimilar things.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
Related words: dispair
disparately
disparateness
disparity
Derived words: disparency
nondisparate
Translations:
seminal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *séh₁mn̥
Proto-Italic *sēmn̥
Latin sēmen
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin sēminālis
Old French seminalbor.
Middle English seminal
English seminal
From Middle English seminal, semynal, from Old French seminal, seminale, from Latin sēminālis, ultimately from oblique stem of Latin sēmen, sēminis (“seed”) + -al.
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more seminal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most seminal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to seed or semen.
pos: adj
examples: During the summer, he studied calmars at Lisbon, but found no appearance of any roe, nor any reservoir which appeared to be destined for the reception of the seminal liquor; and it was in the middle of December, that he began to discern the first traces of a new vessel replete with a milty juice.
gloss: Creative or having the power to originate.
pos: adj
gloss: Highly influential, especially in some original way, and providing a basis for future development or research.
pos: adj
examples: "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" was a seminal work in the modern philosophy of science.
The idea of God is, beyond all question or comparison, the one great seminal principle.
The opening strains of "Left to My Own Devices" puts this album directly in the company of two of the most seminal dance albums of this decade, ABC's The Lexicon of Love and Frankie Goes To Hollywood's Welcome to the Pleasuredome.
For a seminal contribution to the economics of fertility, ....
Derived words: extraseminal
human seminal plasma protein hypersensitivity
intraseminal
nonseminal
prostatoseminalvesiculectomy
seminal fluid
seminality
seminally
seminal vesicle
Translations:
majestic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From majesty + -ic, 1600s.
Base: majesty
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more majestic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most majestic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having qualities of splendor or royalty.
pos: adj
examples: The gymnast performed a majestic vault.
As the Indian languages are numerous, so do they greatly vary in their effect on the ear. We have the rapid Cóotoonay of the Rocky Mountains, and the stately Blackfoot of the plains, the slow embarrassed Flat-head of the mountains, the smooth-toned Pierced-nose, the guttural difficult Sússee and Chépewyán, the sing-song A'ssinneboigne, the deliberate Cree, and the sonorous majestic Chíppeway.
Equally I can stand in a station like Lucerne in Switzerland, and watch with ill-concealed admiration the majestic entry of one of the latest Gotthard "Ae 6/6" electrics, packing 6,000 horsepower within its 60 ft. of length and 121 tons of weight, with its sleek dark green sides and handsome stainless steel bands and front wings.
Translations:
kidding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
Inflected forms:
form: kiddings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Joking, duping, or light-hearted deception.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of a goat giving birth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Attended kiddings allow owners to remove the kids from their dams prior to suckling and ingestion of colostrum.
Derived words: no kidding
Translations:
grovel
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English *grovelen, from Old Norse grufla, grœfla (“to grovel”), from Proto-Germanic *grubilōną (“to dig, delve into”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrebʰ‑ (“to dig, scrape, scrabble, scratch”); akin to Old Norse á grufu (“on one's belly”) ( > Old Norse grúfa (“to lie face down, grovel”)). Cognate with Scots grovel, gruvil (“to grovel”), German grübeln (“to meditate, ponder”), Norwegian Nynorsk gruvla (“to grovel”). Compare also West Frisian groebeltsje (“to make a mess, skip school, skive”), Dutch grobbelen (“to grope, root, grub”).
Inflected forms:
form: grovels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: groveling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: grovelling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: groveled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: groveled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: grovelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: grovelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: To be prone on the ground.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To crawl.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: In the tube station, the old ones who were on the way out / Would dribble and vomit and grovel and shout
gloss: To abase oneself before another person.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: She refused to grovel in front of the bully, standing her ground.
gloss: To be slavishly nice to someone or apologize in the hope of securing something.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He had to grovel before his boss after missing the important meeting.
He hated to grovel, but he knew it was the only way to save his job.
gloss: To take pleasure in mundane activities.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: groveler
groveller
grovelingly
grovellingly
grovelsome
Translations:
dialectal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.
Ancient Greek διά (diá)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ- (dĭă-)
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-der.
Proto-Indo-European *léǵ-e-ti
Proto-Hellenic *légō
Ancient Greek λέγω (légō)
Ancient Greek διαλέγομαι (dialégomai)
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Hellenic *-tós
Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́λεκτος (dĭắlektos)bor.
Latin dialectoslbor.
Middle French dialectebor.
English dialect
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English dialectal
From dialect + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more dialectal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dialectal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a dialect.
pos: adj
gloss: Peculiar to a (nonstandard) variety or lect.
pos: adj
examples: Now (exc. in Nautical language, see b) it is only dialectal or an illiterate substitute for lie, its identity of form with the past tense of the latter no doubt accounting largely for the confusion.
Related words: dialectical
lectal
Derived words: adialectal
bidialectal
dialectality
dialectally
extradialectal
interdialectal
intradialectal
monodialectal
multidialectal
non-dialectal
nondialectal
pandialectal
semidialectal
transdialectal
Translations:
dialectical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin dialecticus + -al. By surface analysis, dialectic + -al or dialect + -ical.
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more dialectical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dialectical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to dialectic; (in philosophy) logically reasoned through the exchange of opposing ideas.
pos: adj
examples: Sure, maybe. We know — have long known — that romanticism and fatalism are dialectical lovers.
gloss: Synonym of dialectal (“of or pertaining to a dialect”).
pos: adj
examples: For I, and no doubt You, have long obſerved, that thoſe Dialectical ſubtleties, that the Schoolmen too often employ about Phyſiological Myſteries, are vvont much more to declare the vvit of him that uſes them, then increaſe the knovvledge or remove the doubts of ſober lovers of truth.
Related words: dialect
dialectic
dialectically
Derived words: dialectical behavioral therapy
dialectical behavior therapy
dialectical behavioural therapy
dialectical behaviour therapy
dialecticalisation
dialecticalization
dialectical materialism
dialectical method
nondialectical
undialectical
Translations:
hard-on
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hard-ons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hardon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hard on
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An erection of the penis.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: I'm lying here with a hard-on, it's not even 10:00 yet.
Look at this place! I'm in hell! I may never get a hard-on again!
gloss: A desirous arousal based on a fascination or obsession.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
slang
vulgar
examples: ... and corporations duke it out with the kind of military tactics and apparatus that would give anybody who appreciates the Navy SEALs a hard-on.
Synonyms: erect penis
Related words: wide-on
Derived words: hate-on
soft-on
Translations: