yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
regalia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English regalie, from Medieval Latin rēgālia (“royal powers”), substantivisation of the neuter plural of rēgālis (“of a king”), from rēx (“king”). By surface analysis, regal + -ia.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Royal rights, prerogatives and privileges actually enjoyed by any sovereign, regardless of his title (emperor, grand duke etc.).
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
gloss: The emblems, symbols, or paraphernalia indicative of royalty or any other sovereign status; such as a crown, orb, sceptre or sword.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: THE INTHRONIZATION. The King ascended the Theatre, accompanied by the two Bishops his Supporters, the Great Officers of State, the Lords carrying the Swords, and the Lords who had borne Their Majesties' Regalia, and was Inthroned by the Archbishops, Bishops, and the other Peers, who then stood about the steps of the Throne.
gloss: Decorations or insignia indicative of an office or membership of an order or society; such as freemasonry.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
gloss: Traditional dress and accessories of North American Indigenous nations worn for ritual purposes.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
gloss: Finery, magnificent dress, or lavish or flashy costume.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
plural
plural-only
examples: to be dressed in full regalia (dressed up)
[…] the throngs included tribes of American Indians celebrating […] like victorious conventioneers in their burnished regalia at a hotel party Monday night.
gloss: Sumptuous food.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
obsolete
plural
plural-only
examples: c. 1685-1686, Charles Cotton, the Essays of M. de Montaigne
After having a long time treated their Prisoners very well, and given them all the Regalia's they can think of, he to whom the Prisoner belongs, invites a great Assembly of his Kindred and Friends
Derived words: regalia majora
regalia minora
Translations:
freemason
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From free + mason.
Compound parts: free
mason
Inflected forms:
form: freemasons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: free mason
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fremason
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of a guild of skilled itinerant masons during the Middle Ages and early modern times.
pos: noun
Translations:
roundabout
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From round + about [from early 20th c.].
Compound parts: round
about
Inflected forms:
form: more roundabout
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most roundabout
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: roundabouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: roundabouts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: roundabouting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: roundabouted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: roundabouted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Indirect, circuitous, or circumlocutionary.
pos: adj
examples: [S]he fled, running like a deer, doubling and turning through alleys and back streets until by a very roundabout road she reached her own room.
"Really, Bill, I think your best plan would be to go straight to father and tell him the whole thing.—You don't want him to hear about it in a roundabout way."
Mr. Rather flew to the area in a roundabout fashion, first landing in Bahrain, from there flying to Islamabad and then heading to Kabul by land.
Descartes is compelled to fall back upon a curious roundabout argument to prove that there is a world. He must first prove that God exists, and then argue that God would not deceive us into thinking that it exists when it does not.
gloss: Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive.
pos: adj
examples: The third sort is of those who readily and sincerely follow reason, but for want of having that which one may call a large, sound, roundabout sense, have not a full view of all that relates to the question.
gloss: A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
Ireland
New-England
New-Zealand
UK
US
especially
sometimes
gloss: A horizontal wheel which rotates around a central axis when pushed and on which children ride, often found in parks as a children's play apparatus.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A fairground carousel.
pos: noun
gloss: A detour.
pos: noun
gloss: A short, close-fitting coat or jacket worn by men or boys, especially in the 19th century.
pos: noun
gloss: A round dance.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: To play on a roundabout (carousel)
pos: verb
gloss: To travel round roundabouts
pos: verb
gloss: To talk in a roundabout, indirect manner
pos: verb
Related words: swings and roundabouts
Derived words: roundaboutly
roundaboutness
balcony roundabout
bicycle roundabout
hamburger roundabout
magic roundabout
mini-roundabout
mini roundabout
roundabout dog
spiral roundabout
swings and roundabouts
turbo roundabout
what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts
Translations:
sarky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Clipping of sarcastic + -y.
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: sarkier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: sarkiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Sarcastic.
pos: adj
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
informal
examples: Full of Coxon's trademark sarky lyricism, this 14-track concept album celebrates and laments the bittersweet nature of love, avoiding being dull or mawkish by being so gorgeous and satisfyingly coherent.
It would seem that during his Bournemouth team’s recent 2-1 defeat at Sheffield United, referee Jon Moss gave the hosts some “soft fouls” and made “little sarky comments” that “didn’t help”.
Translations:
sellotape
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From genericized trademark Sellotape, from cello(phane) + tape. The spelling with S- was to avoid an existing trademark on the word Cellophane itself.
Compound parts: cellophane
tape
Inflected forms:
form: sellotapes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sellotapes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sellotaping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sellotaped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sellotaped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Adhesive tape.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: To seal with adhesive tape.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
Ireland
New-Zealand
UK
transitive
examples: The door was slightly ajar, with a newspaper cartoon sellotaped to it:
Translations:
tannoy
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: A genericised trademark of Tannoy Ltd, a manufacturer of public address systems. "Tannoy" is a syllabic abbreviation of tantalum + alloy, which was the material used in a type of electrolytic rectifier developed by the company.
Compound parts: tantalum
alloy
Inflected forms:
form: tannoys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tannoys
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tannoying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tannoyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tannoyed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A public address system.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
colloquial
examples: Although the supermarket tannoy was bravely broadcasting Rigoletto, its meat counter was thick with wurst and its wine shelves loaded with Liebfraumilch.
Terry Putnam, from Weymouth, adds: "Riding home from Bristol a few days ago, as we approached Weymouth the guard announced over the tannoy 'The next station is Weymouth - please remember to take all your luggage and children with you...'"
gloss: To transmit, or communicate with, by means of a public address system.
pos: verb
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
ambitransitive
Translations:
obedient
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English obedient, from Old French obedient, from Latin oboediēns, present active participle of oboediō (“obey”).
Inflected forms:
form: more obedient
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most obedient
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: obedients
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Willing to comply with the commands, orders, or instructions of those in authority; biddable.
pos: adj
examples: Jessica was so intensely obedient of her parents that her brother sometimes thought she was a robot.
gloss: One who obeys.
pos: noun
examples: Damn the obedients and hail the defiants if you will; the experiment does not motivate confidence about how particular subjects would behave in markedly dissimilar situations.
Antonyms: disobedient
dominant
argumentative
breachy
contumacious
defiant
froward
immorigerous
inobedient
insubmissive
insubordinate
insurgent
nonobedient
obstreperous
rebellious
recalcitrant
recusant
refractory
restiff
restive
unbowsome
unbuxom
uncompliant
uncontrollable
uncooperative
ungovernable
unmanageable
unobedient
unobeying
unobliging
unruly
unsubmissive
untoward
volitient
Translations:
waistcoat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From waist + coat. Compare Yola wauscoat, wazcoote.
Compound parts: waist
coat
Inflected forms:
form: waistcoats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ornamental garment worn under a doublet.
pos: noun
gloss: A sleeveless, collarless garment worn over a shirt and under a suit jacket.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.
In the Victorian Era, exposing your shirtfront in public was considered improper, as shirts were viewed as undergarments. Waistcoats concealed this and helped [to] tame oversized, billowy shirts.
Derived words: shawl waistcoat
straitwaistcoat
Translations:
horrible
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in Middle English (alternately as horrible and orrible) in 1303: from Old French horrible, orrible, orible, from Latin horribilis, from horr(ēre) (“tremble”) + -ibilis (“-ible”).
Inflected forms:
form: horribles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: horribler
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more horrible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: horriblest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most horrible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A thing that causes horror; a terrifying thing, particularly a prospective bad consequence asserted as likely to result from an act.
pos: noun
examples: Here's a carcase. I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing. Such a waggish leering as lurks in all your horribles!
A lot of the possible horribles conjured up by the people objecting to this convention ignore the plain language of this treaty.
The pot had previously simmered skate wings, cods' heads, whales, pigs' hearts and a long litany of other horribles.
I'm trying to convince him that the criminal behavior that's going on at the White House has to end. And I give him one horrible after the next. I just keep raising them. He sort of swats them away.
Many scholars have demonstrated these horribles and contemplated significant limitations on class actions.
gloss: A person wearing a comic or grotesque costume in a parade of horribles.
pos: noun
gloss: Causing horror; terrible; shocking.
pos: adj
examples: Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability: […] it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.
Strangers fainted dead away at the sight of the Laughing Man's horrible face. Acquaintances shunned him.
Some of us have had plastic surgery on our faces and fingerprints. Right now we have a horrible job; we're waiting for the war to begin and, as quickly, end.
Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
gloss: Tremendously bad.
pos: adj
examples: Having now absorbed all or parts of 750 responses to my complaints about Transformers, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that most of those writing agree with me that it is a horrible movie.
Synonyms: frightening
bad
Related words: horrendous
horrific
horrify
horror
Derived words: horribleness
horribly
unhorrible
Translations:
hetero
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipped from heterosexual.
Inflected forms:
form: more hetero
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hetero
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: heteros
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Heterosexual: of, pertaining to, or being a heterosexual person.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: This novel depicts a hetero couple who are in love.
gloss: A heterosexual person.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: You only have to watch Dominic West’s dancing in the film Pride for two seconds to understand that there are some things beyond a hetero’s range.
Antonyms: gay
homo
homosexual
Translations:
heterochromatic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros
Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros
Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros)lbor.
English hetero-
English chromatic
English heterochromatic
From hetero- + chromatic.
Inflected forms:
form: more heterochromatic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most heterochromatic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having more than one colour; relating to heterochromia.
pos: adj
gloss: Of light, having more than one wavelength.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to heterochromatin.
pos: adj
Translations:
heterochromatin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros
Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros
Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros)lbor.
English hetero-
English chromatin
English heterochromatin
From hetero- + chromatin.
Inflected forms:
form: heterochromatins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Heterochromatic tightly coiled chromosome material; believed to be genetically inactive
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
heterocycle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros
Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros
Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros)lbor.
English hetero-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos
Ancient Greek κῠ́κλος (kŭ́klos)der.
Late Latin cyclusbor.
Middle English cicle
English cycle
English heterocycle
From hetero- + cycle.
Inflected forms:
form: heterocycles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A heterocyclic compound or ring.
pos: noun
Translations:
heterodoxy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἑτεροδοξία (heterodoxía).
Inflected forms:
form: heterodoxies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being heterodox.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A heterodox belief, creed, or teaching.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: A genuine first-hand religious experience like this is bound to be a heterodoxy to its witnesses, the prophet appearing as a mere lonely madman.
Translations:
heterodyne
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros
Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros
Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros)lbor.
English hetero-
English -dyne
English heterodyne
From hetero- + -dyne.
Inflected forms:
form: heterodynes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: heterodynes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: heterodyning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: heterodyned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: heterodyned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Of two oscillations: having two slightly different frequencies such that, when combined, they produce a beat
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The beat so produced
pos: noun
gloss: Either the sum or difference of the two oscillations
pos: noun
gloss: To produce heterodyne interference in a radio
pos: verb
gloss: To change the frequency of a signal by such a process
pos: verb
Derived words: autoheterodyne
multiheterodyne
self-heterodyne
superheterodyne
supersonic heterodyne receiver
Translations:
heifer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English heyfre, hayfre, heyfer, from Old English hēahfore, hēahfru, of disputed origin; see the Old English entry for more discussion.
Inflected forms:
form: heifers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A young female cow, (particularly) one over one year old but which has not calved.
pos: noun
examples: And the Lord ſpake vnto Moſes and vnto Aaron, ſaying, This is the ordinance of the Law, which the Lord hath commaunded, ſaying, Speak vnto the childꝛen of Iſrael, that they bꝛing thee a red heifer without ſpot, wherein is no blemiſh, and vpon which neuer came yoke.
We muſt be neat; not neat, but cleanly, Captaine: / And yet the Steere, the Heycfer^([sic]), and the Calfe, / Are all call'd Neat.
The breath of the mountain heifer was fragrant as the gales of Sirendiep, by feeding on ſpicy herbs.
gloss: A wife.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Her, whom I shall choose for my heicfar.
gloss: An unattractive or unpleasant woman.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: I have half a mind to marry that heifer, tho' wives are bothersome critters when you have too many of them.
Stop your crying, heifer, I don't need all that, I got a job for you, the braided-up pimp is back!
My hand was aching to slap that silly heifer. I told her to take her trifling ass down to Burger King and get herself a job flipping burgers...
Derived words: heiferbud
heifer-bud
heifer dust
heiferette
heiferhood
heifer yearling
Mullingar heifer
plough with one's heifer
plow with one's heifer
Translations:
inebriate
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin inēbriō, inēbriāre, from ēbrius (“drunk”).
Inflected forms:
form: inebriates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: inebriates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: inebriating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: inebriated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: inebriated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more inebriate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inebriate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A person who is intoxicated, especially one who is habitually drunk.
pos: noun
examples: As he walked along, the inebriate, whose gait was at first unsteady, recovered his equilibrium and required less help.
gloss: To cause to be drunk; to intoxicate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To disorder the senses of; to exhilarate, elate or stupefy as if by spirituous drink.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: the inebriating effect of popular applause
gloss: To become drunk.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: fish that come from the Euxine Sea ; that when they come into the fresh water , do inebriate and turn up their bellies , so as you may take them with your hand
gloss: intoxicated; drunk
pos: adj
examples: Victoria, on the other hand, has apparently become more inebriate, as, according to the figures, arrests for drunkenness within her boundaries, in proportion to the population, increased from 12 per 1,000 in 1880 to 16½ in 1890 and nearly 16 in 1891; but even the latter proportions were still lower than in New South Wales during the same periods.
At 30 he was inebriate, with a drink period of twelve or fifteen days.
Karim found Sudhir disgusting when he was inebriate, as he was totally unpredictable and thoroughly inappropriate, albeit abusive and condescending; truly a rear-end of a donkey.
Synonyms: intoxicate
Derived words: inebriacy
inebriant
inebriation
inebriative
inebriety
inebriism
inebrious
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: опиянявам
roman: opijanjavam
lang: French
word: enivrer
lang: German
word: berauschen
lang: Korean
word: 잔뜩 취하다
roman: jantteuk chwihada
lang: Korean
word: 곤드레만드레 취하다
roman: gondeuremandeure chwihada
intoxicate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1450, in Middle English; from Middle English intoxicaten, from intoxicat(e) (“(of a weapon or drug) smeared, anointed or filled with poison; (of a human being, animal) poisoned, intoxicated”, also used as the past participle of intoxicaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), borrowed from intoxicātus, perfect passive participle of intoxicō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Late Latin toxicō (“to smear, anoint with poison”), from toxicus (“toxic, poisonous”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix), from Ancient Greek τοξικόν (toxikón). By surface analysis, in- + toxic + -ate.
Base: intoxicat
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: intoxicates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: intoxicating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: intoxicated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: intoxicated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol.
pos: verb
gloss: To excite to enthusiasm or madness.
pos: verb
Related words: intoxication
intoxicant
toxic
toxicant
Derived words: autointoxicate
disintoxicate
intoxicative
lipointoxicate
Translations:
stupefy
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle French stupéfier, from Latin stupefaciō (“strike dumb, stun with amazement, stupefy”), from stupeō (“to be stunned, speechless”) (see English stupid, stupor) + faciō (“to do, make”).
Inflected forms:
form: stupefies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stupefying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stupefied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stupefied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: stupify
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To dull the senses or capacity to think thereby reducing responsiveness; to stun.
pos: verb
tags: especially
transitive
examples: a stupefying drug; a stupefacient
He stupefied her by means of chloroform, a general anaesthetic.
gloss: To astonish or stun, especially as a result of some distressing action.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
figuratively
transitive
examples: The police's negligence and callousness continued to stupefy her.
What if I love you!—This misery / Of your dissatisfaction and misprision / Stupefies me.
gloss: To deprive a material of the ability to undergo change or movement, especially deformation.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: The next is, when it is not malleable, but yet it is not fluent, but stupified^([sic]).
Related words: stupe
stupendous
stupid
stupor
Derived words: stupefaction
stupefied
stupefiedness
stupefier
stupefyingly
Translations:
dazzle
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From daze + -le, a frequentative form.
Base: daze
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: dazzles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dazzling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dazzled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dazzled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dazzles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To confuse or overpower the sight of (someone or something, such as a sensor) by means of excessive brightness.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Dazzled by the headlights of the lorry, the deer stopped in the middle of the street.
Antidrone lasers can burn or dazzle a drone's sensors.
Those heavenly shapes / Will dazzle now the earthly, with their blaze / Insufferably bright.
An unreflected light did never yet / Dazzle the vision feminine.
gloss: To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: The delegates were dazzled by the originality of his arguments.
gloss: To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: For we see, that an over-light maketh the Eyes dazel, insomuch as perpetual looking against the Sun, would cause blindness.
[…] I dare not trust these Eyes; / They Dance in Mists, and dazle with surprize.
gloss: A light of dazzling brilliancy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Showy brilliance that may stop a person from thinking clearly.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
gloss: A herd of zebra.
pos: noun
tags: collective
countable
uncommon
uncountable
examples: We were trying to stalk a dazzle of zebra which flashed in and out of a long strip of green and yellow fever trees, with an ostrich, its feathers flared like a ballet skirt around its dancing legs, on their flank, when suddenly […]
Zebras move in herds which are known as "dazzles." When a lion approaches a dazzle of zebras during its hunt, […]
I reached the lodge as a dazzle of zebras trotted across the dirt road into thorny scrub by the game fence, and a lone kudu gazed up at me from the short grass near the swimming pool.
A group of zebras can be called a dazzle.
gloss: Dazzle camouflage.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Synonyms: herd
zeal
Related words: if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull
Derived words: adazzle
bedazzle
dazzlement
dazzler
dazzlesome
endazzle
endazzlement
nondazzle
outdazzle
overdazzle
razzle-dazzle
redazzle
technodazzle
undazzle
antidazzle
Translations:
incapacitate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
law
law-enforcement
Etymology: Mid-17th century, from incapacity + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French incapaciter.
Base: incapacity
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: incapacitates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: incapacitating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: incapacitated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: incapacitated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make someone or something incapable of doing something; to disable.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The police officer was incapacitated by a blow to the head.
gloss: To make someone or something incapable of doing something; to disable.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Wilson's principal motivation for situation-oriented policies was the desire to change the real world by proposing politically practicable policies. And his principle prescription was to incapacitate a larger number of habitual offenders.
gloss: To make someone ineligible; to disqualify.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: disable
Derived words: incapacitated
incapacitating
incapacitation
Translations:
incapable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French incapable, equivalent to in- + capable.
Base: capable
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: more incapable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most incapable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not capable (of doing something); unable.
pos: adj
examples: A pint glass is incapable of holding more than a pint of liquid.
I consider him incapable of dishonesty.
The British people seem incapable of avoiding the habit of leaving litter wherever they go, and the railways certainly seem to receive their fair share of it, in carriages and on stations.
According to the prevailing Danish rationale, Greenlanders were naïve and childlike, in need of protection and incapable of governing themselves.
gloss: Not in a state to receive; not receptive; not susceptible; not able to admit.
pos: adj
examples: incapable of pain, or pleasure; incapable of stain or injury
Antonyms: capable
Related words: incapacitate
incapacitation
Derived words: incapability
incapableness
incapably
Translations:
unable
Part of speech: adj
intj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English unable, unabel, unhable, unhabil, equivalent to un- + able.
Base: able
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unabler
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more unable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: unablest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most unable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not able; lacking a certain ability.
pos: adj
examples: Are you unable to mind your own business or something?
Fulham switched off as Giggs took a quick corner to Valencia. He played it back to Giggs, whose cross was headed in by Nani with the lurking Rooney unable to add a touch.
Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, […]. A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul.
The train operating company owning group warned in early December that it was unable to publish its results for the year to July 3 2021, following an investigation into the running of Southeastern, which was stripped of its franchise in October [...].
gloss: Indicating that a requested course of action is not possible to carry out.
pos: intj
examples: "November three seven kilo, climb and maintain twelve thousand." "Unable, we have pressurization problems. Maintaining nine thousand."
Antonyms: able
Translations:
disable
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
▲
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *gʰh₁bʰéh₁yeti
Proto-Italic *haβēō
Latin habeō
Proto-Indo-European *-elis
Proto-Italic *-elis
Latin -ilis
Latin habilis
Old French ablebor.
Middle English able
English able
English disable
From dis- + able.
Inflected forms:
form: disables
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disabling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disabled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disabled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To render unable; to take away an ability of, as by crippling.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To impair the physical or mental abilities of; to cause a serious, permanent injury.
pos: verb
examples: Falling off the horse disabled him.
Krav is a martial art of last resort that assumes no quarter and focuses purely on disarming, disabling and, if necessary, destroying your opponent.
Fire ants circumvented the problem of an ineffective sting by having an unusual and highly effective venom that when daubed or sprayed on other ants penetrates their waxy protective integumental barrier and kills or disables them.
gloss: To deactivate, to make inoperational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).
pos: verb
examples: The pilot had to disable the autopilot of his airplane.
At the end of March 2015 the onboard software configuration of the AGILE satellite was modified in order to disable the veto signal of the anticoincidence shield for the minicalorimeter instrument.
Synonyms: unable
deactivate
disable
disenable
cripple
incapacitate
Antonyms: enable
capacitate
re-enable
Related words: attack
Derived words: disability
disableable
disablement
disableness
disabler
disablism
disablist
redisable
Translations:
sleeveless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
Etymology: From Middle English slevelees, sleveles, from Old English slīeflēas (“sleeveless”), equivalent to sleeve + -less.
Base: sleeve
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
form: sleaveless
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of a garment, having no sleeves.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: She wore a short surcoat of scarlet, cut low around the shoulders, sleeveless, reaching just below her hips, like the tabards worn by medieval heralds. Over it she wore a laced-edged cotta.
gloss: Wanting a cover, pretext, or palliation; unreasonable; profitless; useless.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: a sleeveless errand
might send that Greekish / whore-masterly villain with the sleeve back to the / dissembling luxurious drab of a sleeveless errand.
1738-1741, William Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated
The vexation of a sleeveless errand.
Derived words: sleevelessly
sleevelessness
Translations:
collarless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English collar
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English collarless
From collar + -less.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a garment, having no collar.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Their records have sold 2,500,000 copies, and crowds stampede for a chance to touch the hem of the collarless coats sported onstage by all four of them.
He had been to Yemen twice, once wearing the white ankle-length, collarless gown worn by most Omanis.
gloss: Of a man, not wearing a detachable collar.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: The driver of the jitney was a young, swarthy prairie man, in shirt sleeves, and collarless, with a derby on one side of his head […]
He was pining for England, though he dreaded facing it, as one dreads facing a pretty girl when one is collarless and unshaven.
gloss: Of a dog, not wearing a dog collar.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I wandered about Paris like a lost dog, like a collarless dog.
I rescued Safi, aged eight months, from an animal shelter where she had been brought as a stray, collarless, without history.
Derived words: collarlessness
Translations:
visual
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: advertising
business
entertainment
lifestyle
marketing
music
Etymology: From Middle English visual, from French visuel, visual and directly from Late Latin vīsuālis (“of sight”), from vīsus (“sight, vision”) + -ālis (“adjective suffix”), from vidēre (“to see, perceive; look (at)”); see visage. By surface analysis, Latin vīsus + -ual.
Base: vīsus
Affixes: -ālis
Inflected forms:
form: more visual
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most visual
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: visuall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
rare
form: visuals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: visuall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
rare
Senses:
gloss: Related to or affecting the vision.
pos: adj
examples: Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close[…]above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them. Many insects probably use this strategy, which is a close analogy to crypsis in the visible world—camouflage and other methods for blending into one’s visual background.
gloss: That can be seen; visible.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Any element of something that depends on sight.
pos: noun
examples: It wasn't the first time I pulled an all-nighter, but normally I was coming off an acid trip and still seeing visuals dancing around in my head.
gloss: An image; a picture; a graphic.
pos: noun
gloss: All the visual elements of a multimedia presentation or entertainment, usually in contrast with normal text or audio.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: A preliminary sketch.
pos: noun
gloss: Any element of a show done by a marching band besides the marching and playing of instruments.
pos: noun
examples: The visual where the trombone all threw their instruments into the air looked good.
Related words: envisage
evidence
visage
visible
vision
visionary
Derived words: audiovisual
key visual
nonvisual
visual acuity
visual aid
visual angle
visual area 4
visual area V4
visual art
visual artist
visual arts
visual axis
visual binary
visual cortex
visual diary
visual dictionary
visual display unit
visual effects
visual field
visual hole
visualization
visualize
visual kei
visual language
visually
visual magnitude
visual merchandising
visual migraine
visual novel
visual poem
visual poetry
visual pollution
visual presenter
visual programming language
visual proximity
visual pun
visual purple
visual rhyme
visual servoing
visual-shock kei
visual snow
visual space
visual streak
visual text
visual voicemail
visual white
visual yellow
VLOS
have a visual on
Translations:
impair
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English impairen, empeiren, from Old French empeirier, from Early Medieval Latin impeiōrāre, from in- + Late Latin peiōrāre (“worsen”), from peiōrem (“worse”), comparative of malus (“bad”).
Inflected forms:
form: impairs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: impairing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: impaired
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: impaired
pos: verb
tags: past
form: empair
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
rare
Senses:
gloss: To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In 2016, it was announced that Jones had been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia, a form of dementia that impairs the ability to communicate.
gloss: To grow worse; to deteriorate.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
examples: Flesh may empaire,[…]but reason can repaire.
Synonyms: hinder
Related words: pejoration
pejorative
Derived words: impairable
impairer
impairment
Translations:
heterogeneity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: heterogeneities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Diversity
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Higher minimum rates might be necessary to limit heterogeneity in rates and reduce transshipment.
gloss: A composition of diverse parts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The quality of a substance which is not uniform.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Antonyms: homogeneity
Related words: heterogeneous
Derived words: macroheterogeneity
microheterogeneity
nanoheterogeneity
nonheterogeneity
Translations:
weaken
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English weak
English -en
English weaken
From weak + -en.
Inflected forms:
form: weakens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: weakening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: weakened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: weakened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make weaker or less strong.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: weaken a bond
weaken a joint
gloss: To become weaker or less strong.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Over the years my enthusiasm for the job has weakened.
My friends, we are confronted with a serious situation. But it is typical of the security problems of the world today. Powerful and aggressive forces are constantly probing, now here, now there, to see whether the free world is weakened. In the face of this, there are no easy choices available. It is misleading for anyone to imply that there are. However, the present situation, though serious, is by no means desperate or hopeless.
Synonyms: attenuate
blunt
break down
dilute
enfeeble
hebetate
sag
Derived words: weaken up
Translations:
impinge
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin impingō (“dash against, impinge”). Compare impact, derived from the perfect passive participle of impingō.
Inflected forms:
form: impinges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: impinging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: impinged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: impinged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make a physical impact on.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
rare
transitive
examples: Loud noise can impinge on the eardrum, causing temporary hearing damage.
The ordinary rocks upon which such men do impinge and precipitate themselves, are cards, dice, hawks, and hounds […]
[...] are bent up at right angles to the plate to form flanges which impinge the opposite sides of the nut, thus preventing the latter from turning. It is evident that the bolt-body proper is in no way mutilated or injured and that[…]
In the second or operative position of the hinged prism, the opaque plate mounting the prism is moved out of the optical path so that light from the laser source is transmitted along the optical path to impinge the target at the[…]
In the near field not only the shock wave but also the expanding products of the explosion will impinge the plate which introduces some[…]
gloss: To interfere with.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
rare
transitive
examples: For example, if the trophic fibre is impinged there would be too much or too little gastric juice; if the motor fibre is impinged the muscular contractions of the stomach would be lessened; if the sensory fibre is impinged there[…]
It is astonishing that the meaning of a single declarative sentence enshrined in the Bill of Rights has evaded judicial construction establishing, at a minimum, some bedrock level of state sovereignty upon which the federal government can not impinge.
gloss: To have an effect upon, especially a negative one.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: Near-synonym: infringe
“I have tried, as I hinted, to enlist the co-operation of other capitalists, but experience has taught me that any appeal is futile that does not impinge directly upon cupidity.[…]”
Nothing in the next-door world of Dachau impinged on the great winter cycle of Beethoven chamber music played in Munich.
Except for a restricted range of examples, growth, stagnation, and decay everywhere in Western Europe can be explained mainly by endogenous forces. The 'world economy', such as it was, hardly impinged [on Europe].
Scarcity impinges on your mind. People behave differently when they perceive a thing to be scarce.
Related words: impact
Derived words: impingement
impingent
impinger
Translations:
hatchet
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English hachet, a borrowing from Old French hachete, diminutive of hache (“axe”), from Vulgar Latin *happia, from Frankish *happjā, from Proto-Germanic *hapjǭ, *habjǭ (“knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *kop- (“to strike, to beat”). Cognate with Old High German happa, heppa, habba (“reaper, sickle”), German Hippe (“billhook”), Dutch heep, hiep (“billhook”), and Ancient Greek κοπίς (kopís). Mostly displaced native Old English handæx, whence Modern English hand axe.
Inflected forms:
form: hatchets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hatchets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hatcheting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hatchetting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
rare
form: hatcheted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hatcheted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hatchetted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
rare
form: hatchetted
pos: verb
tags: past
rare
Senses:
gloss: A small, light axe with a short handle; a tomahawk.
pos: noun
examples: “It must be admitted, Nick, you are a very literal logician—‘dog won't eat dog,’ is our English saying. Still the Yankee will fight the Yengeese, it would seem. In a word, the Great Father, in England, has raised the hatchet against his American children.”
Buried was the bloody hatchet, / Buried was the dreadful war-club, / Buried were all warlike weapons, / And the war-cry was forgotten.
The fellow was armed with a stone-shod spear, a stone knife and a hatchet. In his black hair were several gay-colored feathers.
gloss: Belligerence, animosity; harsh criticism.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: to bury the hatchet
hatchet job
“Dat true as missionary! What a soldier do, cap'in, if so much peace? Warrior love a war-path.”
“I wish it were not so, Nick. But my hatchet is buried, I hope, for ever.”
The savagery with which Michael Hofmann can wield a hatchet has earned him unlikely fans outside the literary circuit. A recent issue of Viz ran a cartoon of the critic, poet and translator urinating all over a phone booth, while two donnish FR Leavis types nodded appreciatively from a safe distance.
gloss: To cut with a hatchet.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: bury the hatchet
hatchetation
hatchet face
hatchet-faced
hatchetfish
hatchet job
hatchetlike
hatchet man
hatchet wound
hatchety
sling the hatchet
take up the hatchet
throw the hatchet
Translations:
comedogenic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: dermatology
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English comedo
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Proto-Hellenic *génos
Ancient Greek γένος (génos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -γενής (-genḗs)lbor.
French -gènebor.
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English -genic
English comedogenic
From comedo + -genic.
Inflected forms:
form: more comedogenic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most comedogenic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: comedogenics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Tending to produce acne, i.e. comedones
pos: adj
gloss: A substance that tends to produce acne, such as by clogging pores on the skin
pos: noun
Antonyms: comedolytic
Translations:
heterologous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: By surface analysis, heterologue + -ous, or, by surface analysis, heterology + -ous.
Inflected forms:
form: more heterologous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most heterologous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having different relationships or different elements
pos: adj
gloss: Of, or relating to different species
pos: adj
Synonyms: heterogeneous
Antonyms: homologous
autologous
Related words: heterological
Derived words: heterologous desensitisation
heterologous desensitization
heterologously
Translations:
heteromorphic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros
Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros
Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros)lbor.
English hetero-
Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ)
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English -morphic
English heteromorphic
From hetero- + -morphic.
Inflected forms:
form: more heteromorphic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most heteromorphic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having different forms in different stages of the life cycle
pos: adj
gloss: Differing in size or structure from the normal
pos: adj
Derived words: heteromorphism
Translations:
heteronuclear
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros
Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros
Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros)lbor.
English hetero-
English nuclear
English heteronuclear
From hetero- + nuclear.
Inflected forms:
form: more heteronuclear
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most heteronuclear
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: On different rings of a polycyclic organic molecule
pos: adj
gloss: Having atoms or nuclei of different type
pos: adj
Antonyms: homonuclear
Translations:
squinch
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: architecture
Etymology: Alteration of earlier scunch (“back part of the side of an opening”), short for scuncheon.
Compound parts: squint
pinch
Inflected forms:
form: squinches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: squinches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: squinching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: squinched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: squinched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A structure constructed between two adjacent walls to aid in the transition from a polygonal to a circular structure, as when a dome is constructed on top of a square room.
pos: noun
gloss: To scrunch up (one's face, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The president squinched his face and bit his lip and seemed too antsy to stand still.
Translations: