yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
palmistry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English palmestrie. Equivalent to palm + -ist + -ry.
Base: palm
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: palmistries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Telling fortunes from the lines on the palms of the hand.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Chiromantie is a coniecturyng by beholdyng the lynes, or wryncles of the handes called commonly Palmistry.
And those fayre hands within whose louely palmes,
Fortune diuineth happie Augurie,
Those straightest fingers dealing heauenly almes,
Pointed with pur’st of Natures Alcumie,
Where loue sits looking in loues palmistrie.
[…] but his [God’s] right hand of truth and bountie, does by a Catholike and vnfeigned Palmistrie, shew the blessings prouided for other men!
He must (at least) hold up his hand,
By twelve Free-holders to be scan’d,
Who by their skill in Palmistry,
Will quickly read his Destiny;
I have seen a gipsy vagabond; she has practised in hackneyed fashion the science of palmistry and told me what such people usually tell.
If you had cared to do so, you could have told the little chap’s fortune from those hands. They were not flat and featureless as you might have expected them to be; already they had all the lines and creases known to palmistry.
gloss: A book on palmistry; a system of palmistry.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: No living palmistries can spell
The bird-runes on the stretched silk of her hand
Both the composition and the transmission of this palmistry must be taken in the context of the medieval Christian world, in which the life on earth was still secondary to the life in the hereafter; even so, texts such as these palmistries do make the unreadable mysteries of one’s relationship to the world seem more familiar and more accessible.
1996, Richard Grossinger, New Moon, Berkeley, CA: Frog, Part 7, Chapter 2, p. 534,
To fulfill my graduate language requirement I began reading Michel Foucault’s work on signatures, Les Mots et Les Choses, which joined the meanings of the bestiaries, herbals, palmistries, and physiognomies of olden Europe to the totemic orders of plants and animals among the Arapaho, Xhosa, and Aranda.
gloss: A dexterous use or trick of the hand.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
rare
uncountable
usually
examples: 1711, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, The Spectator, Volume 2, No. 130, 30 July, 1711, London: J. and R. Tonson, 12th edition, 1739, p. 182,
In the Height of his Good-humour, meeting a common Beggar upon the Road who was no Conjuror, as he went to relieve him he found his Pocket was pick’d: That being a Kind of Palmistry at which this Race of Vermin are very dextrous.
Related words: palmist
palmister
Translations:
toiletry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle French toilettebor.
English toilet
Middle English -re,-ri,-rie,-ry,-rye
English -ry
English toiletry
From toilet + -ry.
Inflected forms:
form: toiletries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any item used for personal hygiene or grooming (for one's toilet).
pos: noun
Translations:
ablutions
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A building that houses bathing and toilet facilities on a military base.
pos: noun
Translations:
competent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
geography
geology
law
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English competent, conpetent, from Old French competent (modern French compétent), from Latin competens, competentem, present participle of competō (“coincide, be equal to, be capable of”). Compare Dutch competent (“competent”), German kompetent (“competent”), Danish kompetent (“competent”).
Inflected forms:
form: more competent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most competent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having sufficient skill, knowledge, ability, or qualifications.
pos: adj
examples: He is a competent skier and an expert snowboarder.
I believe in that myself because it has been explained by competent men as the convolutions of the grey matter.
That as a competent keyless citizen he had proceeded energetically from the unknown to the known through the incertitude of the void.
The purpose of sharing these accounts – particularly during Women’s History Month – is to show that women, like men, can grow from bumbling neophytes to competent leaders.
gloss: Having jurisdiction or authority over a particular issue or question.
pos: adj
examples: For any disagreements arising from this contract, the competent court shall be the Springfield Circuit Court.
judicial authority having competent jurisdiction
gloss: Adequate for the purpose.
pos: adj
examples: For if they [birds] had been Viviparous, the burthen of their womb, if they had brought forth any competent number at a time, had been ſo big and heavy, that their wings would have failed them, and ſo every body would have had the wit to catch the Old one.
gloss: Functionally in order; functioning adequately.
pos: adj
examples: a competent sphincter;   a competent cervix;   a competent immune system
gloss: Permeable to foreign DNA.
pos: adj
gloss: Resistant to deformation or flow.
pos: adj
Antonyms: incompetent
Related words: bicompetent
compete
competence
competentness
competition
tricompetent
Derived words: angiocompetent
chemocompetent
competently
dyscompetent
electrocompetent
fibrocompetent
hypercompetent
immunocompetent
incompetent
melanocompetent
multicompetent
neurocompetent
noncompetent
non-incompetent
omnicompetent
osmocompetent
osteocompetent
precompetent
retrocompetent
rhizocompetent
supercompetent
thermocompetent
ultracompetent
Translations:
heterotypic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or involving a different type or types.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Heterotypic continuity refers to the presence of one disorder at an early point in time predicting the presence of a different disorder later in life.
gloss: Relating to the first nuclear division in meiosis.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: taxonomic
Antonyms: homotypic
Derived words: heterotypic synonym
Translations:
homotypic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Said of a taxon name which shares the exact same type as a different name and thus must necessarily refer to the same taxon.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Synonym of homotypal.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: objective synonym
Antonyms: heterotypic
Related words: homotype
homotypic synonym
Translations:
canid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: By surface analysis, an appellativization from Canid(ae) minus -ae (a pattern that recurs with many -idae names).
Inflected forms:
form: canids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any member of the family Canidae, including canines (dogs, wolves, coyotes and jackals) and vulpines (foxes).
pos: noun
examples: The jaw indicates the beginning of a long tradition of the interment of dogs with people, which reveals a deep attachment between some people and canids.
Translations:
aspic
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French aspic, from Latin aspis, and possibly influenced by French basilic (“basilisk”). The culinary sense may come from association with the snake due to the traditional colors and cold temperature of aspic, in addition to the fact that the gelatin was often molded in a shape similar to a coiled snake.
Inflected forms:
form: aspics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A meat or fish jelly.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “Put a little aspic in the mould, so as to cover the bottom ···“
gloss: A dish in which ingredients are set into a gelatine, jelly-like substance made from a meat stock or consommé.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "I don't know what you mean, Mr. Wynand," whispered Keating. His eyes fixed upon the tomato aspic on his salad plate; it was soft and shivering; it made him sick.
gloss: An asp, a small venomous snake of Egypt.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
poetic
uncountable
examples: This is an aspic's trail: and these fig-leaves / Have slime upon them, such as the aspic leaves.
(With that she tore her robe apart, and half / The polished argent of her breast to sight / Laid bare. Thereto she pointed with a laugh, / Showing the aspic's bite. )
gloss: A light cannon firing a two-pound ball.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Aspish; relating to an asp, a small venomous snake of Egypt.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Timeless mother, / How is it that your aspic nipples / For once vent honey?
Related words: brawn
head cheese
meat jelly
Derived words: preserved in aspic
Translations:
befuddle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi
Proto-Germanic *bider.
Proto-Germanic *bi-
Proto-West Germanic *bi-
Old English be-
Middle English bi-
English be-
English fuddle
English befuddle
From be- + fuddle.
Inflected forms:
form: befuddles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: befuddling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: befuddled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: befuddled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To perplex, confuse (someone).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The explanation left him completely befuddled.
Slowly the ape-man picked out the meaning of the various combinations of letters on the printed page, and as he read, the little bugs, for as such he always thought of the letters, commenced to run about in a most confusing manner, blurring his vision and befuddling his thoughts.
gloss: To stupefy (someone), especially with alcohol.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] to the American and French alcoholics, who drink in order to get drunk and befuddle the brain
Derived words: befuddled
befuddlement
befuddler
befuddling
confuddle
Translations:
gelatin
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French gélatine (“jelly, gel”), from Italian gelatina (“jelly, gel”), from gelare (“to freeze”), from Latin gelō (“to freeze”).
Inflected forms:
form: gelatins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gelatine
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
UK
form: gelatins
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gelatining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gelatined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gelatined
pos: verb
tags: past
form: gelatine
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
UK
Senses:
gloss: A protein derived through partial hydrolysis of the collagen extracted from animal skin, bones, cartilage, ligaments, etc.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
usually
gloss: An edible jelly made from this material.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
usually
gloss: A thin, translucent membrane used as a filter for photography or for theatrical lighting effects.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
usually
examples: For both images I placed a Kodak 4.0 neutral-density gelatin filter over the lens to reduce the Sun's brightness.
gloss: To coat with gelatin.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
Synonyms: E441 when used as a gelling agent
Derived words: ballistic gelatin
blasting gelatin
bromogelatin
degelatinise
explosive gelatin
gel
gelatigenous
gelatinase
gelatinate
gelatination
gelatini
gelatiniferous
gelatiniform
gelatinify
gelatinisation
gelatinization
gelatinise
gelatinize
gelatinlike
gelatinoid
gelatinolytic
gelatinous
gelatin salad
metagelatin
nitrogelatin
photogelatin
progelatinase
Translations:
postprandial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pós
Proto-Indo-European *-ti
Proto-Indo-European *pósti
Proto-Italic *posti
Old Latin poste
Latin post
English post-
English prandial
English postprandial
From post- + prandial.
Inflected forms:
form: post-prandial
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: After a meal, especially after dinner.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: postprandial somnolence
As a post-prandial speaker, however, Thackeray was undeniably the reverse of felicitous.
The Arch-Vicar is picking his teeth. There is a comfortable, postprandial silence.
Patients who demonstrate significant insulin resistance at diagnosis and require insulin therapy may alternate preprandial and postprandial evaluations to enable more rapid optimization of control by using an additional supplemental insulin sliding scale as needed to cover preprandial hyperglycaemia (>100 ml per dl)[…].
The standardized analysis of metabolic parameters in the preprandial and postprandial state may provide important functional clues for the diagnosis of metabolic disorders.
Intimate, discreet and modestly quite proud of itself, it [the book] has the tone of the postprandial speech that Bannister gave at Pembroke College to 120 of his friends, looking over his life, like the portrait on the panelled walls of himself as Master.
The slight increase in pre-prandial and post-prandial bile acids are suggestive of hepatic dysfunction, but other causes of slight elevations, such as pancreatic or gastrointestinal disease, cannot be ruled out.
But the most egregious transgression, at least in her opinion, is his postprandial habit of chomping and crunching on nuts.
Antonyms: premeal
preprandial
precibal
Translations:
manipulate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Back-formation from manipulation.
Inflected forms:
form: manipulates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: manipulating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: manipulated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: manipulated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To move, arrange or operate something using the hands
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To influence, manage, direct, control or tamper with something
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: manipulate data
The software can manipulate images easily.
gloss: To handle and move a body part, either as an examination or for a therapeutic purpose
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To influence or control someone in order to achieve a specific purpose, especially one that is unknown to the one being manipulated and beneficial to the manipulator; to use
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: cleverly manipulate
She knew how to manipulate people to get her way.
gloss: To use the hands, especially in scientific experiments.
pos: verb
tags: dated
intransitive
Related words: manipulandum
manipulation
manipulator
pedipulate
Derived words: manipulable
manipulatable
manipulatee
manipulative
manipulator
manipulatory
manipulatrix
manipulee
manipulism
micromanipulate
micromanipulated
mismanipulate
nonmanipulated
outmanipulate
overmanipulate
remanipulate
telemanipulate
unmanipulated
Translations:
lang: Belarusian
word: маніпулі́раваць
roman: manipulíravacʹ
lang: Bulgarian
word: манипулирам
roman: manipuliram
lang: Catalan
word: manipular
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 操纵
roman: cāo zuò
lang: Dutch
word: manipuleren
lang: Finnish
word: käsitellä
lang: Galician
word: manipular
lang: Hungarian
word: manipulál
lang: Hungarian
word: kezel
lang: Icelandic
word: meðhöndla
lang: Icelandic
word: handleika
lang: Ido
word: manuagar
lang: Ido
word: manipular
lang: Indonesian
word: memanipulasi
lang: Italian
word: manipolare
lang: Korean
word: 조종하다
roman: jojonghada
lang: Polish
word: manipulować
lang: Polish
word: zmanipulować
lang: Portuguese
word: manipular
lang: Portuguese
word: manusear
lang: Romanian
word: manipula
lang: Russian
word: манипули́ровать
roman: manipulírovatʹ
lang: Russian
word: управля́ть
roman: upravljátʹ
lang: Spanish
word: manipular
lang: Tamil
word: கையாள்
roman: kaiyāḷ
lang: Ukrainian
word: маніпулюва́ти
roman: manipuljuváty
linnet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French linette, from lin (“flax”), from the bird's fondness for the seeds of flax, the source of linen and Old English līnete, līnetwige (“linnet”) (> dialectal English lintwhite).
Inflected forms:
form: linnets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small passerine bird, the common linnet (Linaria cannabina syn. Carduelis cannabina), in the finch family Fringillidae, native to Europe, western Asia, and north Africa.
pos: noun
examples: ⁠I do but sing because I must,
And pipe but as the linnets sing:
And unto one her note is gay,
⁠For now her little ones have ranged;
⁠And unto one her note is changed,
Because her brood is stol’n away.
I heard a linnet courting
His lady in the spring […]
gloss: A house finch (Haemorhous mexicanus), of North America.
pos: noun
tags: US
Derived words: common linnet
green linnet
linnet hole
pine linnet
red linnet
Warsangli linnet
Yemen linnet Linaria yemenensis
syn. Carduelis yemenensis)
Translations:
firebug
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥
Proto-Germanic *fōr
Proto-West Germanic *fuir
Old English fȳr
Middle English fyr
English fire
English bug
English firebug
From fire + bug.
Inflected forms:
form: firebugs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pyrrhocoris apterus, a common red and black insect, that is the type species of the family Pyrrhocoridae.
pos: noun
gloss: A pyromaniac or arsonist.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: But the firebug allegedly ran back inside yelling before he finally took off.
In the video, she can be heard explaining to the firebugs that she has been working with victims of the wildfires that have destroyed thousands of homes and forced more than 100,000 people to evacuate.
Translations:
confidant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French confidentbor.
English confidant
Borrowed from French confident.
Inflected forms:
form: confidants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person in whom one can confide or share one's secrets: a friend.
pos: noun
examples: Heaven made you love me for no other end, / But to become my confidant and friend: / As such, I keep no secret from your sight, […]
One in thought and purpose, linked by the necessity of combating one hostile fate, a power antagonistic ever, — a power we lived to evade, — we had no confidants save ourselves.
'Of course'—implied the loyal manager, and 'Oh, of course; not a word,' assented his confidant.
Bankman-Fried’s confidants were along for the ride. At his side was Caroline Ellison, Alameda’s CEO and his on-again, off-again lover.
Translations:
Tannenbaum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
German Tannenbaumbor.
English Tannenbaum
Borrowed from German Tannenbaum (“fir tree”).
Inflected forms:
form: Tannenbaums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Christmas tree.
pos: noun
examples: Oh, Tannenbaum, oh, Tannenbaum, how lovely are thy branches.
Local newspapers covered the story of how Santa Claus had helped the Tannenbaum.
Translations:
clinician
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French clinicien, equivalent to clinic + -ian.
Base: clinic
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: clinicians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any healthcare practitioner working at the point of care, in clinical practice (e.g., physicians in clinical medicine, nurses in nursing practice, or allied health providers in practice).
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who conducts a clinic; an expert or skilled practitioner in a particular field, such as business or education. In this sense, a clinician is someone who provides practical advice or hands-on assistance to others in a specific area of expertise. For example, a business clinician might be an experienced consultant who helps companies improve their operations, while an education clinician might be a skilled teacher who provides professional development and support to other educators.
pos: noun
tags: US
Derived words: interclinician
nonclinician
psychoclinician
teleclinician
Translations:
lang: Belarusian
word: клініцы́ст
roman: klinicýst
lang: Catalan
word: clínic
lang: Catalan
word: clínica
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 臨床醫生 /临床医生
roman: línchuáng yīshēng
lang: Danish
word: kliniker
lang: Finnish
word: kliinikko
lang: German
word: Klinikmitarbeiter
lang: German
word: Klinikangestellter
lang: German
word: Krankenhausarzt
lang: German
word: Krankenhausärztin
lang: German
word: Kliniker
lang: German
word: Klinikerin
lang: Indonesian
word: klinisi
lang: Italian
word: clinico
lang: Malay
word: klinisian
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: kliniker
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: klinikar
lang: Polish
word: klinicysta
lang: Polish
word: klinicystka
lang: Romanian
word: clinician
lang: Russian
word: клиници́ст
roman: klinicíst
lang: Russian
word: клиници́стка
roman: klinicístka
lang: Swedish
word: kliniker
lang: Ukrainian
word: клініци́ст
roman: klinicýst
rarity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From rare + -ity, borrowed from Middle French rarité, from Latin rāritās; compare French rareté. See also rare.
Base: rare
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: rarities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A measure of the scarcity of an object.
pos: noun
gloss: Thinness; the property of having low density
pos: noun
examples: Only the increasing rarity bothered him, and he thought that perhaps it was this which had turned the heads of other travellers and excited those absurd tales of night-gaunts whereby they explained the loss of such climbers as fell from these perilous paths.
gloss: A rare object.
pos: noun
examples: Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they are ripe.
Synonyms: black swan
lightning in a bottle
one in a million
rara avis
rare bird
rarity
rocking horse shit
unicorn
Antonyms: formula
model
rule
standard
standard thing
Related words: rare
rarely
anomaly
rareness
occasionally
Derived words: megararity
sharity
zone of rarity
Translations:
oom-pah
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Onomatopoeia of the sound and rhythm of German folk music. Doublet of humppa.
Inflected forms:
form: oom-pa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: oompa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: oompah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A genre of Germanic music (especially Bavarian music) typically involving brass instruments.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A bassline characteristic of such music, alternating lower and higher notes or chords on the beat, or in a mid-high-low-high sequence.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: An oom-pah bassline:
{\clef bass<<{\set Staff.midiInstrument=#"muted trumpet"\repeat unfold4{c8r g,r
Related words: oom-pah-pah
Derived words: oompah-like
Translations:
molarity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From molar + -ity in the chemistry usage.
Base: molar
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: molarities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the concentration of a substance in solution, expressed as the number of moles of solute per litre of solution
pos: noun
Translations:
denoising
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From de- + noise + -ing.
Base: de
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The extraction of a signal from a mixture of signal and noise.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
neurological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: * neurology + -ical
Base: neurology
Affixes: -ical
Inflected forms:
form: neurologic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to neurology.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
substantiality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From substantial + -ity, from Latin substantialitas.
Base: substantial
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: substantialities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being substantial; substantialness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The extent to which something is substantial.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: unsubstantiality
Translations:
airtime
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From air + time.
Compound parts: air
time
Inflected forms:
form: airtimes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The duration during which a radio or television program (or part of one) is transmitted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Can you get me some airtime for my latest single?
gloss: The duration spent talking during a conversation.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: Let them know you’re looking to create a loosely held balance of air time and want to hear from everyone.
And all sorts of people who have traditionally been excluded are now being let in and given a voice, and they're pushing you out and reducing your airtime, and threatening your privilege, […]
gloss: The chargeable use of a mobile phone, either in minutes or in units dependent on the use or traffic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The period of freefall after jumping.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The period during which a person riding a rollercoaster or similar ride experiences a feeling of weightlessness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: airspace
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: lugtyd
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 廣播時間 /广播时间
roman: guǎngbō shíjiān
lang: Czech
word: vysílací čas
lang: Czech
word: prostor ve vysílání
lang: Danish
word: sendetid
lang: Dutch
word: zendtijd
lang: Finnish
word: lähetysaika
lang: French
word: temps d'antenne
lang: German
word: Sendezeit
lang: Hindi
word: एयरटाइम
roman: eyarṭāim
lang: Korean
word: 방송
roman: bangsong
lang: Latvian
word: ētera laika
lang: Macedonian
word: емитување
roman: emituvanje
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: sendetid
lang: Polish
word: czas antenowy
lang: Portuguese
word: tempo de transmissão
lang: Romanian
word: timpi de antenă
lang: Russian
word: эфи́рное вре́мя
roman: efírnoje vrémja
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: време емитовања
lang: Spanish
word: tiempo en antena
lang: Swedish
word: sändningstid
lang: Ukrainian
word: ефірний час
roman: efirnyj čas
grandiose
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French grandiose, from Italian grandioso, from Latin grandis (“great, grand”) (English grand). Possibly from grand + -ose, though to be debated. Doublet of grandioso.
Base: grand
Affixes: -ose
Inflected forms:
form: more grandiose
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most grandiose
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Large and impressive, in size, scope or extent.
pos: adj
examples: Independence does not need to be a grandiose process of disconnection and severing ties.
gloss: Pompous or pretentious.
pos: adj
examples: There is a station here, of course, opened as Didcot in June 1844 and renamed as the more grandiose-sounding Didcot Parkway in July 1985.
gloss: Magnificent or spectacular.
pos: adj
Related words: grand
grandeur
grandiosity
grandioso
Derived words: blandiose
grandiosely
grandioseness
ungrandiose
Translations:
bastion
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: First attested in 1562. From French bastion, from Old French bastille (“fortress”).
Inflected forms:
form: bastions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bastions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bastioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bastioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bastioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A projecting part of a rampart or other fortification.
pos: noun
examples: […] Fort Camosun had swelled herself from being a little Hudson's Bay Fort, inside a stockade with bastions at the corners, into being the little town of Victoria, and the capital of British Columbia.
gloss: A well-fortified position; a stronghold or citadel.
pos: noun
gloss: A person, group, or thing, that strongly defends some principle.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: a bastion of hope
the bastion of democracy
gloss: Any large prominence; something that resembles a bastion in size and form.
pos: noun
examples: […] yonder cloud
That rises upward always higher,
⁠And onward drags a labouring breast,
⁠And topples round the dreary west,
A looming bastion fringed with fire.
It spread slowly up from the sea-rim, a welling upwards of pure white light, ghosting the beach with silver and drawing the grey bastions of sandstone out of formless space.
gloss: To furnish with a bastion.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: bastille
Derived words: bastioned
bastion forest
bastionlike
tower bastion
Translations:
plop
Part of speech: noun
verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative of the sound, or perhaps a variant of plap.
Inflected forms:
form: plops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: plops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: plopping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: plopped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: plopped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A sound or action like liquid hitting a hard surface, or an object falling into a body of water.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: He heard the plops of rain on the roof.
gloss: Excrement.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: To make the sound of an object dropping into a body of liquid.
pos: verb
examples: Stooping, she picked up another pebble, sounded out the word again, and tossed it into the shallow water near the path, where it plopped into the water, sending out circles from where it fell.
gloss: To land heavily or loosely.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: He plopped down on the sofa to watch TV.
As the sun plops into the Pacific off Venice Beach, California, the four of us are sitting in a rented car at the corner of Rose and Main.
There was a world inside that tall grass. You could plop yourself down in the middle of it with the scraggly stems against the back of your neck and the endless grasses rising up and jackknifing against the bigbluesky, and the ranch and all of its players would fade into a distant dream.
The first time I had niku udon was at a Japanese convenience store, now long closed, near Columbia University in the mid-1990s. For about $5, the attendants would plop a handful of freshly boiled udon into a Styrofoam cup and add a ladle of dashi broth seasoned with soy sauce and mirin.
gloss: To defecate.
pos: verb
tags: UK
gloss: Indicating the sound of something plopping.
pos: intj
examples: "[A]fter a bit the old ship went down all on a sudden with a lurch to starboard---plop. The suck in was something awful."
Translations:
god-king
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
mathematics
mysticism
mythology
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From god + king.
Compound parts: god
king
Inflected forms:
form: god-kings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A statesman who holds all the state's powers and has religious significance to his constituency.
pos: noun
gloss: A king who is of divine descent.
pos: noun
tags: literally
gloss: A monarch who is also a god.
pos: noun
tags: literally
gloss: A tyrannical maintainer of a collaborative project.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
Translations:
molality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English molal
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English molality
From molal + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: molalities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the concentration of a substance in solution, expressed as the number of moles of solute per kilogram of solvent
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
normality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
statistics
Etymology: From normal + -ity, perhaps modelled on French normalité.
Base: normal
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: normalities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being normal or usual; normalcy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Jessie was going to wear pants to school, but her brother persuaded her to wear shorts to preserve normality.
gloss: The concentration of a solution expressed in gram equivalent weights of solute per litre of solution.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A measure of how well an observed distribution approximates a normal distribution.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Synonyms: normalcy
everydayness
mundanity
normaldom
normalhood
normalism
normality
normalness
ordinariness
plainness
sameishness
unremarkableness
usuality
usualness
Antonyms: abnormality
strangeness
Related words: molarity
molality
normal
Derived words: conormality
creeping normality
heteronormality
hyponormality
malnormality
multinormality
nonnormality
normality bias
orthonormality
pseudonormality
seminormality
Translations:
criminalization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From criminal + -ization or criminalize + -ation.
Base: criminal
Affixes: -ization
Inflected forms:
form: criminalizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: criminalisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: The act of making a previously legal activity illegal, the act of making something a criminal offence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And of course, s/m players who participate in breath play will also be more vulnerable to criminalization under such a new law.
gloss: The act of turning someone into a criminal by making their activities illegal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: decriminalization
Derived words: recriminalization
undercriminalization
Translations:
orogeny
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From French orogénie, from Ancient Greek ὄρος (óros, “mountain, high ground”) + γενεια (geneia, “creation, birth, making”). By surface analysis, oro- + -geny.
Inflected forms:
form: orogenies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Coordinate term: taphrogeny
The effects of Acadian orogeny are concentrated in central Newfoundland, decreasing in intensity to the east and west (Williams, this volume).
When I asked Geoff Milnes what age the rocks were before they were turned into uncompromising gneisses by the Alpine orogeny he made a rueful face.
In Canada the fold-thrust belt formed during what is termed the Columbian orogeny (Monger and Price, 2002). Because the Sevier and Columbian orogenies were contemporaneous and constitute a single continuous and linear belt of rocks and structures, I use the term Cordillera orogeny to refer to the Cretaceous deformation that created the entire belt, whereas the term Laramide is used only to refer to a series of Late Cretaceous—Tertiary basement-involved uplifts, for the most part located in the Rocky Mountain foreland east of the fold-thrust belt and mainly south of the Lewis and Clark lineament (Fig. 1) in keeping with the original definition by Armstrong (1968).
Translations:
perverted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pervert
English -ed
English perverted
From pervert + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more perverted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most perverted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Deviating from what is normally considered right, normal or correct.
pos: adj
gloss: Of, relating to, or practicing unusual or "kinky" sex.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
sometimes
gloss: Misrepresented, altered or distorted.
pos: adj
gloss: Reversed in chirality; flipped.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: The reflection of an object in a mirror image is a perverted image of the object.
The right hand may be considered the perverted image of the left.
Antonyms: normophilic
Derived words: nonperverted
pervalicious
pervertedly
pervertedness
unperverted
Translations:
Glagolitic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin glagoliticus, from Old Church Slavonic глаголица (glagolica), from глаголъ (glagolŭ, “word, speech”), Glagolitic spelling ⰳⰾⰰⰳⱁⰾⰻⱌⰰ (glagolica).
Inflected forms:
form: Glagolithic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or written with the Glagolitic alphabet.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Slavic, and Illyric language has two alphabets. The first is called Glagolitic…, and in our times, is only used in the sacred books.
gloss: Denoting Slavic Roman Catholic rites in Dalmatia.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In the case of mixed marriages between a Glagolitic and Latin Catholic, the children follow the rite of the father; but there is an exception in favour of the eldest daughter of a Glagolitic family.
Translations:
indisputable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Latin putus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin putō
Latin disputo
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin disputābilis
Latin indisputābilislbor.
English indisputable
Learned borrowing from Latin indisputābilis. By surface analysis, in- + disputable.
Inflected forms:
form: more indisputable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most indisputable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: undisputable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not disputable; not open to question; obviously true
pos: adj
examples: Nay, if he be of a proud humour, […] he will not Bate an Ace of abſolute certainty, but however doubtful or improbable the thing is, coming f[r]om him it muſt go for an indiſputable truth.
Translations:
inferiority
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Morphologically inferior + -ity.
Base: inferior
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: inferiorities
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: inferiourity
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being inferior.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An inferior value or quality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An inferior power.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The quality of being a competitive disadvantage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: deteriority
inferiority
netherness
raunch
suckage
suckiness
worseness
Antonyms: superiority
noninferiority
Related words: badness
lowness
Derived words: comparative of inferiority
inferiority complex
noninferiority
superlative of inferiority
Translations:
lang: Azerbaijani
word: natamamlıq
lang: Bulgarian
word: малоценност
roman: malocennost
lang: Catalan
word: inferioritat
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 劣勢 /劣势
roman: lièshì
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 低劣
roman: dīliè
lang: Dutch
word: minderwaardigheid
lang: Dutch
word: inferioriteit
lang: Esperanto
word: malsupereco
lang: Finnish
word: alemmuus
lang: Finnish
word: alempiarvoisuus
lang: Finnish
word: huonommuus
lang: French
word: infériorité
lang: Galician
word: inferioridade
lang: Georgian
word: დაბალი ხარისხი
roman: dabali xarisxi
lang: Georgian
word: დაბალი მდგომარეობა
roman: dabali mdgomareoba
lang: Georgian
word: უფრო დაბალი ხარისხი
roman: upro dabali xarisxi
lang: Georgian
word: უფრო დაბალი მდგომარეობა
roman: upro dabali mdgomareoba
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἥττημα
roman: hḗttēma
lang: Ido
word: infreso
lang: Italian
word: inferiorità
lang: Japanese
word: 下賎
roman: gesen
lang: Japanese
word: 下級
roman: kakyū
lang: Japanese
word: 低級
roman: teikyū
lang: Japanese
word: 劣位
roman: retsui
lang: Polish
word: niższość
lang: Russian
word: неполноце́нность
roman: nepolnocénnostʹ
lang: Spanish
word: inferioridad
lang: Swedish
word: underlägsenhet
lang: Tamil
word: இழிவு
roman: iḻivu
lang: Tamil
word: தாழ்வு
roman: tāḻvu
limitless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English limit
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 limitless
From limit + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more limitless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most limitless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without limits in extent, size, or quantity.
pos: adj
examples: The Penguin can also fairly be described as an HBO gangster drama whose antihero is a brutal but troubled mid-level Mafioso with limitless ambition and debilitating maternal issues.
After millenniums of austerity and poverty, the age of limitless “superabundance” was at hand.
Translations:
paco
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish paco.
Inflected forms:
form: pacos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pacoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An alpaca.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: An earthy-looking ore, consisting of brown oxide of iron with minute particles of native silver.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Mr. Ratcliffe has sometimes found them to contain arsenic in an oxidized state, combined with ferric oxide, and once he met with a paco ore mainly composed of antimony ochre.
Translations:
popolo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian pōpolo from Proto-Polynesian *polo; cognate with Māori poroporo and pōporo (Solanum aviculare), Tongan polo (“Solanum nigrum”) and Tuvaluan 'opolo (“capsicum”). Skin color meaning comes from analogy to the color of its berries.
Inflected forms:
form: popolos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: black nightshade (Solanum nigrum).
pos: noun
tags: Hawaii
countable
uncountable
examples: The only lack of Kalelealuaka and his comrades was animal food (literally fish) but they supplied its place as well as they could with such herbs as the tender leaves of the popolo, which they cooked like spinach, and with inamona made from the roasted nuts of the kukui tree.
Popolo is a branching green herb with a tendency to being woody at the base. This annual grows one to three feet high on cultivated land and is regarded as a common weed.
This mite was collected at the Maui Community College agricultural field (Kahului) on popolo berry on 19 July 1995 by C. McGrath.
He turned and went back at the call of the messenger, taking some popolo fruit and leaves in his cloak.
gloss: A black person.
pos: noun
tags: Hawaii
countable
pejorative
slang
sometimes
examples: Well, I'm a Hawaiian, but my father was a black-assed popolo—a Portuguese from Bravas, Cabo Verde Islands, who changed his name.
When he gets to third, Fe'ao is excited. He sees Curaçao's thir baseman, Denjerick Virginie, starting at him as he slaps his hands together. "What you looking at, popolo?" he barks.
I think that most people in Hawaii agree with my mother-in-law's view of Barry as a good Hawaiian boy; a popolo Hawaiian boy, but a Hawaiian boy nonetheless.
There was a racial order that existed even in this group of tweens. They teased that Chad and I were popolo, Hawaiian slang for black people. Popolo are shiny berries that grow in clusters in the islands and are so black that they shine purple on branches.
Translations:
reticent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Latin reticēns, present participle of reticeō (“to keep silence”).
Inflected forms:
form: more reticent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most reticent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Unwilling to communicate; keeping one's thoughts and opinions to oneself; reserved or restrained.
pos: adj
examples: She's rather reticent on the subject of her finances.
They are slow and reticent, and are like a dull good horse which lets every nag pass him, but with whip and spur will run down every racer in the field.
But he was a reticent as well as an eccentric man; and he made no mention of a certain evening when he warmed his hands at the gatehouse fire, and looked steadily down upon a certain heap of torn and miry clothes upon the floor.
She had told him she was not now at Marlott, but had been curiously reticent as to her actual address, and the only course was to go to Marlott and inquire for it.
The milkman had been released, I read, and the true criminal, about whose identity the police were reticent, was believed to have got away from London by one of the northern lines.
The inhabitants of that street impressed me peculiarly; At first I thought it was because they were all silent and reticent; but later decided it was because they were all very old.
But they were not reticent enough to prevent the circulation of certain uneasy rumours and extravagant stories of discreditable adventures.
gloss: Hesitant or not wanting to take some action; reluctant (usually followed by a verb in the infinitive).
pos: adj
tags: proscribed
examples: He is reticent to travel so much.
While many uncomfortable components of the Holocaust have been analyzed in minute detail, the rape of Jewish women during this era persists as a subject that scholars and victims alike are reticent to explore.
One letter from Deborah presents an especially fascinating contrast with Jane's letters to her brother. Whereas Jane was keen on discussing politics, Deborah was reticent to do so.
But I would now like to argue that there was for Derrida a privileged site in Ancient Philosophy for this question, one to which Derrida would repeatedly return in his writing and thinking – Socrates’ denigration or denunciation of writing, his attempt in the Phaedrus to exclude writing from thinking and philosophy proper. As I suggested at the outset, this claim regarding Derrida’s relation to the Greeks is one that Derrida himself would have been reticent to accept.
The police may be reticent to charge the alleged offender, prosecutors reticent to continue with the prosecution, and juries reticent to convict.
Synonyms: reserved
restrained
tight-lipped
closemouthed
unwilling
disinclined
loath
reluctant
Derived words: irreticent
reticently
unreticent
Translations:
subsidize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English subsidy
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English subsidize
From subsidy + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: subsidizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: subsidizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: subsidized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: subsidized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: subsidise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To assist (someone or something) by granting a subsidy.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: By the start of the 19th century, Europe was neckdeep in the Napoleonic Wars, which, at various times, amounted to the British Empire against Europe, and, at others, involved Britain subsidising various nations, such as Austria and Prussia, against Napoleon.
Translations: