yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
godsend
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: A variant of God’s send, from God + -’s + send (“(obsolete) act of sending”), in the sense of someone or something sent by God.
Compound parts: God
-'s
send
Inflected forms:
form: godsends
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: God-send
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An instance of unexpected benefit or good fortune; a windfall.
pos: noun
examples: "You do, indeed, seem to take it to heart!" exclaimed the actress, an expression of jealous anger crossing her features; "why, it is quite a God-send for you! many a heart is caught in the rebound.[…]"
[O]nce again, as in 1803, we were on the brink of being sacrificed to the very lunacies of retrenchment. By a mere god-send, more troops happened to arrive from the Indian continent.
By this time my wife was in Barcelona and used to send me tea, chocolate, and even cigars when such things were procurable; but even in Barcelona everything was running short, especially tobacco. The tea was a godsend, though we had no milk and seldom any sugar.
To the onlooker, and particularly to those whose memories go back to pre-grouping days, the modern cavalcade of "V2s" and "B1s" is apt to become a little monotonous; but to any running man the general utility characteristics of these two classes are a perfect godsend at times of exceptional pressure, when it is often a case of "first in—first out" with locomotive allocations at sheds.
gloss: An instance of unexpected benefit or good fortune; a windfall.
pos: noun
tags: UK
archaic
regional
specifically
examples: Its seldom sic [such] rich Godsends come on our coast—no since the Jenny and James came ashore in King Charlie's time.
gloss: A person who provides greatly needed assistance.
pos: noun
Related words: godsent
serendipity
manna
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: ضَرْبَة حَظّ
lang: Arabic
word: مُصَادَفَة سَعِيدَة
lang: Arabic
word: مِنْحَة إِلٰهِيَّة
lang: Belarusian
word: бо́жы дар
roman: bóžy dar
lang: Bulgarian
word: бо́жи дар
roman: bóži dar
lang: Czech
word: dar z nebes
lang: Dutch
word: godsgeschenk
lang: Finnish
word: onnenpotku
lang: Finnish
word: taivaanlahja
lang: French
word: don du ciel
lang: German
word: Geschenk des Himmels
lang: German
word: Glücksfall
lang: Greek
word: θείο δώρο
roman: theío dóro
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἕρμαιον
roman: hérmaion
lang: Italian
word: colpo di fortuna
lang: Macedonian
word: бо́жји дар
roman: bóžji dar
lang: Macedonian
word: бла́годат
roman: blágodat
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Säajen
lang: Polish
word: dar niebios
lang: Portuguese
word: dádiva
lang: Russian
word: благода́ть
roman: blagodátʹ
lang: Russian
word: бо́жий дар
roman: bóžij dar
lang: Russian
word: ниспосла́ние госпо́дне
roman: nisposlánije gospódne
lang: Slovak
word: dar z nebies
lang: Swedish
word: skänk från ovan
lang: Swedish
word: gudagåva
lang: Tagalog
word: hulog ng langit
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: غنیمت
roman: ganimet
lang: Ukrainian
word: бо́жий дар
roman: bóžyj dar
quinone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English quinine
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English quinic
German Ketonbor.
English ketone
English -one
English quinone
From quinic acid + -one, since it is one of the compounds obtained upon oxidation of quinic acid.
Base: quinic acid
Affixes: -one
Inflected forms:
form: quinones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chinone
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: Any of a class of aromatic compounds having two carbonyl functional groups in the same six-membered ring.
pos: noun
Translations:
benzoquinone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Arabic لُبَان (lubān)
Proto-Indo-European *yew-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *yéwos
Proto-Indo-Iranian *yáwas
Sanskrit यव (yava)bor.?
Proto-Austronesian *zawa
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zawabor.?
Old Javanese jawa
Old Javanese -i
Old Javanese Jawi
Javanese ꦗꦮꦶ (jawi)der.
Arabic جَاوَة (jāwa)
Arabic ـِيّ (-iyy)
Arabic جَاوِيّ (jāwiyy)
Arabic لُبَان جَاوِيّ (lubān jāwiyy)bor.
Catalan benjuíder.
Middle French benjoinder.
English benzoin
English benzo-
English quinine
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English quinic
German Ketonbor.
English ketone
English -one
English quinone
English benzoquinone
From benzo- + quinone.
Inflected forms:
form: benzoquinones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Either of the two isomeric forms of the simplest quinone, C₆H₄O₂, or any of their derivatives.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
pleiotropic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pleiotropy
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English pleiotropic
From pleiotropy + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more pleiotropic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pleiotropic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to pleiotropy.
pos: adj
Translations:
brougham
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after British statesman Lord Brougham (1778–1868), who either invented or popularized the vehicle.
Inflected forms:
form: broughams
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with an open seat for the driver in front of a closed cabin for two or four passengers, designed in 1839.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: “Yes,” he continued, glancing out of the window. “A nice little brougham and a pair of beauties.”
It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
The shooting motor cars, more like spiders in the moon than terrestrial objects, the thundering drays, the jingling hansoms, and little black broughams, made her think of the world she lived in.
Mr. H. R. Pope writes that in 1879 his father bought a new brougham in London, and the vehicle was taken to Victoria Station for conveyance to Brighton by passenger train. It so happened that the carriage truck was attached to the train by which Mr. Pope and his father were returning to Sussex, and the stationmaster allowed them to make the journey in the brougham.
gloss: An automobile, a sedan without a roof over the driver's seat.
pos: noun
Derived words: Whitechapel brougham
Translations:
trebly
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English treble
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English trebly
From treble + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: treblier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more trebly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: trebliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most trebly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having treble, or high-pitched, qualities.
pos: adj
examples: With the room so bare, Ivret’s voice sounded different, trebly echoes ringing off her sibilants.
gloss: Three times, thrice
pos: adv
tags: archaic
not-comparable
gloss: To three times the extent or degree; triply.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: For my part, I must do my best to save this fellow's trebly worthless life; Jim, you get me a basin.
The task was made trebly difficult, however, by the badly run-down condition in which the railways of Britain had been unavoidably left at the end of the war in 1945, […].
Synonyms: threefold
Translations:
muso
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English musician
English -o
English muso
From musician + -o (“diminutive suffix”).
Inflected forms:
form: musos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pretentious music fan.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
informal
examples: 'This is how we do it in Lisbon,' he warns with gruff Portuguese annunciation. Immediately the intimate and packed crowd of party-loving young musos submit to the almighty bass quake, squawking synthesisers and furious thrusting rhythms of kuduro, the latest imported urban dance flavour.
It is a badge of pride for musos to say that Spotify’s machine-learning algorithms – when you listen to a track and it recommends things you might also like – don’t cover their cosmopolitan taste.
Translations:
lithographer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lithography
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English lithographer
From lithography + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: lithographers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who makes lithographs, who does lithography.
pos: noun
Translations:
lithograph
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Back-formation from lithography, litho- (“stone”) + -graph (“that writes”).
Affixes: litho-
-graph
Inflected forms:
form: lithographs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lithographs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lithographing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lithographed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lithographed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A printed image produced by lithography.
pos: noun
examples: To one side, by a tall window, a tiny Renoir lithograph of a bather.
gloss: To create a copy of an image through lithography.
pos: verb
Translations:
lithographically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lithograph
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English lithographic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English lithographically
From lithographic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In the manner of, or by means of, lithography.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
lithographic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: media
printing
publishing
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lithograph
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English lithographic
From lithograph + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Related to the method of lithography.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
littleness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English litelnes, litelnesse, from Old English lytelnysse, lȳtelnes, equivalent to little + -ness.
Base: little
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: littlenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being little, smallness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For although the Queen had ordered a little Equipage of all things neceſſary while I was in her Service, yet my Ideas were wholly taken up with what I ſaw on every ſide of me, and winked at my own Littleneſs as People do at their own Faults.
His littleness didn't bother him, except when he needed to get something off the top shelf.
1757, Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Part III, Sect. 21, pp. 161-162,
Littleness, merely as such, has nothing contrary to the idea of beauty. The humming bird both in shape and colouring yields to none of the winged species, of which it is the least; and perhaps his beauty is enhanced by his smallness.
gloss: Smallness of spirit; pettiness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Court, city, church are all shops of smallwares;
All having blown to sparks their noble fire,
And drawn their sound gold ingot into wire;
All trying by a love of littleness
To make abridgments, and to draw to less
Even that nothing which at first we were;
So unlike what a man should be!—None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that disdain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life.
Tyler […] has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness.
There is no doubt about what is not great, no race of men have such obvious littlenesses. They live in a narrow world so far as their human intercourse goes; their researches involve infinite attention and an almost monastic seclusion; and what is left over is not very much.
Translations:
smallness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English smalnesse; equivalent to small + -ness.
Base: small
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: smallnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: smallnesse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being small.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: His smallness didn't bother him, except when he needed something off the top shelf.
The exiguity and ſmallneſſe of ſome ſeeds extending to large productions is one of the magnalities of nature, ſomewhat illuſtrating the work of the Creation, and vaſt production from nothing.
My hand was lifted at her door to knock, when I recollected the smallness of the island. We could never hide ourselves upon it.
Mr. Howden forcibly expressed his view that the U.T.A. [Ulster Transport Authority] rail system "had reached the limit of its smallness".
gloss: The result or product of being small.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
litigator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English litigate
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Latin -ātor
Old French -eorbor.
Middle English -our
▲
Latin -torlbor.
English -or
English litigator
From litigate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: litigators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person employed to litigate, a lawyer skilled in arguing in court.
pos: noun
examples: “In the past you had to pick your battles, you had limited resources and limited attorneys, so you picked the things that you thought would have the biggest stakes,” Muller said. Now, election litigators don’t have to be so “choosy.”
The Senate voted Tuesday night to confirm Pam Bondi as attorney general, making the tenacious litigator the latest official to help fill out President Donald Trump’s administration.
Translations:
conveyor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English convey
English -or
English conveyor
From convey + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: conveyors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: conveyour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: conveyer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person that conveys, transports or delivers.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything that conveys, transports or delivers.
pos: noun
examples: Words are a conveyor of meaning.
gloss: A mechanical arrangement for transporting material or objects, generally over short or moderate distances, as from one part of a building to another.
pos: noun
examples: The 1.7 mile-long conveyor system was commissioned in November 2022, and will remove one million lorry movements from the roads around West London.
Derived words: belt conveyor
chain conveyor
conveyor belt
conveyor-broiler
conveyorise
conveyorization
conveyorize
conveyorless
shuttle conveyor
Translations:
Padishah
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پادشاه (padişah), from Classical Persian پادِشاه (pādišāh) / پادْشاه (pādšāh).
Inflected forms:
form: Padishahs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Badshah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: badshah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: padishah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Padshaw
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: padshaw
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Potshaw
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: potshaw
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Padishar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: padishar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A ruler of a Muslim country or state.
pos: noun
Translations:
loanshark
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English loan
English shark
English loanshark
From loan + shark.
Inflected forms:
form: loansharks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: loansharking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: loansharked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: loansharked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To commit usury (to loan money at an excessive rate of interest), especially if collecting under threat of violence.
pos: verb
Translations:
loansharking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: loan sharking
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The lending of money at an excessive interest rate.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: During an 18-month investigation involving a talk force of city, state and Federal authorities, the indicted people were also allgedly involved in counterfeiting and loansharking.
Translations:
immeasurably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English immeasurable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English immeasurably
From immeasurable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a manner that is not measurable, in a way that cannot be measured.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The sky seems immeasurably large at night.
Yet Mrs Allen found much favour with the décor of the new vehicles. She also agreed that the levels of comfort were "immeasurably higher" than she had previously found.
Translations:
boundlessness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English boundless
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English boundlessness
From boundless + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: boundlessnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being boundless, of being without limits or ends.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The boundlessness of the night sky mocks our sense of scale.
Translations:
latterly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English latter
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English latterly
From latter + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more latterly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most latterly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a latter manner
pos: adv
gloss: lately, (more) recently
pos: adv
tags: obsolete
examples: He was formerly a master in Mr. Snowden's academy, at Hull. He latterly suffered much both from disease and poverty, and terminated his life by cutting his throat at the Royal Institution.
She had latterly been in great doubt as to what the legal effects of her marriage would be upon her position; but no notice had been taken as yet of her change of name […]
[…] the youngest son of an excellent family slightly known to him, who had latterly been studying sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design […]
Latterly the station was reduced to halt status, and tickets were issued by the guard of the train.
Translations:
lawfulness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English laufulnes, lahfulnesse, equivalent to lawful + -ness.
Base: lawful
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: lawfulnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Property of being lawful, of obeying the law.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His extreme lawfulness made him righteous, but did it make him merciful?
gloss: Property of operating in a manner organized by certain laws, such as laws of nature.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The process of psychotherapy […] is a unique and dynamic experience, different for each individual, yet exhibiting a lawfulness and order which is astonishing in its generality.
Related words: lawgiver
rule of law
Translations:
leaded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Celtic *ɸloudom
Gaulish *loudonbor.?
Proto-West Germanic *laud
Old English lēad
Middle English led
English lead
English -ed
English leaded
From lead + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more leaded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most leaded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Held in place by strips of lead.
pos: adj
gloss: Containing or treated with the element lead.
pos: adj
gloss: Containing tetraethyllead.
pos: adj
examples: Leaded gasoline is hard to find in some areas now.
gloss: caffeinated.
pos: adj
tags: informal
Derived words: leaded light
leaded type
nonleaded
unleaded
Translations:
leaderless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *laidī
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Proto-West Germanic *laid
▲
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Proto-West Germanic *laidijārī
Old English lǣdere
Middle English leder
English leader
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 leaderless
From leader + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more leaderless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most leaderless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without a person providing direction.
pos: adj
examples: But doing nothing is not an option. Our railway has been drifting, leaderless, for a couple of years. Sunak should also ponder as he panders.
gloss: Without a thing serving as leader.
pos: adj
Derived words: leaderlessly
leaderlessness
Translations:
shoo-in
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
Etymology: From a sense of the verb shoo, where racehorses would fall back and allow a chosen rider to win a fixed race. See 1910 quotation.
Inflected forms:
form: shoo-ins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shoo in
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shoe-in
pos: noun
tags: alternative
misspelling
form: shoe in
pos: noun
tags: alternative
misspelling
Senses:
gloss: The winner of a fixed race, a fixed race.
pos: noun
examples: Little Pete was a member of the delegation that were in on the "shoo" in the third race. He had several commissioners placing his coin on Model. If the race was to have been a "shoo-in" for Model, there must have been one or two owners that were not in on the deal.
Most of the "regulars" are deeply suspicious of all steeplechase races of late years, and, whenever the favorite falls at one of the obstacles and a long priced leaper wins the race, they loudly call the race a "shoo-in" (a fixed affair, that is, in which the steeplechase racers have arranged to drop to the rear of the "meant" jumper and "shoo" him to the wire, they previously, of course, having got their money down on the horse thus generously treated).
[it was] wondered whether Chris Chenery's Virginia flyer would be a shoo-in for the Belmont Stakes […]
gloss: A candidate or contestant generally agreed upon as the presumptive winner; a favorite, somebody who is well-liked or widely agreed upon.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
colloquial
examples: She's very popular and good with numbers, so I expect she'll be a shoo-in for treasurer.
Participation in primaries was often more important than in the general election because the Democratic Party nominee was a shoo-in for success in the general election.
Despite this heady mix, Milei is broadly considered the undisputed shoo-in president appealing particularly to young underprivileged men.
Related words: landslide
underdog
Translations:
schadenfreude
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
German Schaden
German Freude
German Schadenfreudeubor.
English schadenfreude
An unadapted borrowing from German Schadenfreude (“joy in the misfortune of others”), from Schaden (“damage, misfortune”) + Freude (“joy”). The word gained popularity in English in the late 20th c. and likely entered mainstream usage through an episode of The Simpsons (more in citations).
Inflected forms:
form: schadenfreudes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Malicious enjoyment derived from observing someone else's misfortune.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: But it is Schadenfreude, a mischievous delight in the misfortunes of others, which remains the worst trait in human nature.
In a 2012 study, Dr. Chambliss and her colleagues examined freudenfreude and schadenfreude scores among college students, some of whom were experiencing mild depression and some who weren’t. Freudenfreude scores were higher, and schadenfreude scores were lower, among those who were not depressed.
Translations:
hemorrhagic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hemorrhage
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English hemorrhagic
From hemorrhage + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: haemorrhagic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: hæmorrhagic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or producing hemorrhage.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: nonhemorrhagic
Translations:
dubiousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin dubiusbor.
English dubious
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English dubiousness
From dubious + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: dubiousnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being dubious or suspicious.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The dubiousness of the old rope bridge deterred me from trying to cross.
gloss: Doubt; uncertainty.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: All his occasional pangs of dubiousness as to the grand governing thing of all—the reality of the physical relationship—only recoiled back upon him with added tribute of both certainty and insolubleness.
Translations:
legislatively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English legislative
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English legislatively
From legislative + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: By legislation, by the method of enacting laws.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The base was legislatively closed: basically they passed a law saying to do it.
Translations:
handicapped-accessible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Able to be accessed by people having physical handicaps.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
hydrodynamically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wed-
Proto-Indo-European *-r̥
Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥
Proto-Hellenic *údōr
Ancient Greek ῡ̆̔́δωρ (hū̆́dōr)
Ancient Greek ῠ̔δρο- (hŭdro-)der.
English hydro-
Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.
Proto-Hellenic *dunamai
Ancient Greek δῠ́νᾰμαι (dŭ́nămai)
Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek δυναμικός (dunamikós)lbor.
French dynamiqueder.
English dynamic
English hydrodynamic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English hydrodynamically
From hydrodynamic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: using hydrodynamics
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Toblerone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Brand name, from a blend of Tobler (“surname of one of the creators”) + Italian torrone (“form of nougat”).
Inflected forms:
form: Toblerones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Swiss chocolate bar with honey, nougat and almonds, shaped like a triangular prism with triangular wedge-shaped pieces.
pos: noun
examples: The H and N components, which Professor Oxford says are shaped like "Toblerones and mushrooms", are the ones that mutate and cause problems for the human immune system.
Below us the white granite and quartz of the most sacred of Inca sites sparkled, its Toblerone-shaped walls and deserted craters stretching over seventy acres.
Hen number four was another bantam, living with three or four similar birds in one of the breeding arks. An ark is a Toblerone-shaped portable chicken enclosure, with a bedding/nest area at one end and a wire-mesh run at the other.
You don't have to climb every mountain, just choose one: Kilimanjaro. The volcano stands out from the Tanzanian plains like a Toblerone triangle with a bite out of the top. But the mountain is far from sweet. It is high and, after the gentle slopes lull you, hard to climb. Climbing it takes from five to eight days, but if you reach the top you'll feel as strong as a lion.
The graph jags like a Toblerone, stabbing the heights in times of prosperity and the new-broom sweep of incoming governments.
gloss: A length of soft sponge shaped like a triangular prism, usually printed with advertising, that can be placed over the boundary rope.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Derived words: Toblerone tunnel
Translations:
historicity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Probably from French historicité, or from Latin historicus + -ity. Equivalent to historic + -ity.
Base: historicus
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: historicities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Historical quality or authenticity based on fact.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The historicity of minor political figures of this period is often hard to establish due to a dearth of sources.
gloss: The characteristic of having appeared or developed in history, as opposed to being natural or universal.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: This particular school places great emphasis on the historicity of ideas, practices, or institutions.
A superficial impression of Asia may be of disorder, whereas this condition is in fact the immediate historicity that speaks for an undertheorised heteroglossia.
Beginning from Eliot's views on metaphysical poets, dissociated sensibility with thinkers like Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes and ideologies like Capitalism, dedoublement in Eliot's poetics, Freudian and Jamesian diagnosis of mind, Bergson's theory of dreams and perceptions, Shusterman's emphasis on anti-Cartesian stance of Eliotionism, Eliot's Anglicanism, Eliot's unified sensibility versus Coleridge's coinstantaneity, Baudelaire's romanticism read as counter romanticism, Eliot's "Tradition and Individual Talent" and Herbert Schneidau's "Tradition and two Individual Talents", Terry Eagleton's objection to Eliot's historicity.
Related words: historicality
Translations:
legitimization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English legitimate
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 legitimize
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English legitimization
From legitimize + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: legitimizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: legitimisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The process of legitimizing, of making legitimate and/or legal.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
lempira
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Spanish, from the name of an Indian chief.
Inflected forms:
form: lempiras
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The currency of Honduras, divided into 100 centavos.
pos: noun
Translations:
Vauxhall
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Generally thought to have originated in the late 13th century, from the name of Falkes de Breauté, the head of King John's mercenaries, who owned a large house in the area, known as Faulke's Hall, later Foxhall, and eventually Vauxhall.
Inflected forms:
form: Vauxhalls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A make of British motor car, first manufactured in Vauxhall in London.
pos: noun
Translations:
beshrew
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English beschrewen (“to curse, pervert”). By surface analysis, be- + shrew.
Inflected forms:
form: beshrews
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: beshrewing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: beshrewed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: beshrewed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To invoke or wish evil upon; to curse.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Beshrew me, but you have a quick wit.
I had expected to freeze her young – or, rather, middle-aged – blood and have her perm stand on end like quills upon the fretful porpentine, and she hadn't moved a muscle. “Beshrew me,” I said, “you take it pretty calmly.”
gloss: An imperative uttered as a mildly imprecatory or merely expletive introductory exclamation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Beshrew your heart, fair daughter!
R[oderico] D[’Avolos]. Beſhrevv my heart, but that’s not ſo good. / Duke [Phillippo Caraffa, Duke of Pavy]. Ha, vvhat’s that thou miſlik’ſt D'auolos?
"Now, beshrew his heart," quoth jolly Robin, "that would deny a butcher. And, moreover, I will go dine with you all, my sweet lads, and that as fast as I can hie." Whereupon, having sold all his meat, he closed his stall and went with them to the great Guild Hall.
Translations:
calcite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Latin calx + -ite.
Affixes: -ite
Inflected forms:
form: calcites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A very widely distributed crystalline form of calcium carbonate, CaCO₃, found as limestone, chalk and marble.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
mixtape
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: dancing
entertainment
hip-hop
hobbies
lifestyle
music
sports
Etymology: From mix + tape; originally mix tape.
Originally referring to a homemade compilation recorded onto a cassette tape and circulated informally, especially within hip-hop culture, mixtape has broadened in sense. In contemporary usage it often denotes a musical project released outside the conventional album framework, typically characterized by looser structure, experimental material, or informal distribution, even when no physical tape medium is involved.
Compound parts: mix
tape
Inflected forms:
form: mixtapes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mixed tape
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A compilation of songs assembled into a single sequence, usually encompassing many different artists and assembled by fans; often curated around a theme, mood, or personal taste; traditionally without legal permission.
pos: noun
examples: I wasn't performing with Pimp and Smoove that much no more, but I had a solo deal with Ruthless Rap and a brand new mixtape that was creating a big buzz.
gloss: A compilation of songs assembled into a single sequence, usually encompassing many different artists and assembled by fans; often curated around a theme, mood, or personal taste; traditionally without legal permission.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A compilation of songs assembled into a single sequence, usually encompassing many different artists and assembled by fans; often curated around a theme, mood, or personal taste; traditionally without legal permission.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A compilation of songs assembled into a single sequence, usually encompassing many different artists and assembled by fans; often curated around a theme, mood, or personal taste; traditionally without legal permission.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: A musical project released under the designation; often characterized by looser artistic, commercial, or legal constraints than a formal studio album.
pos: noun
gloss: A musical project released under the designation; often characterized by looser artistic, commercial, or legal constraints than a formal studio album.
pos: noun
examples: See also: unofficial
gloss: A musical project released under the designation; often characterized by looser artistic, commercial, or legal constraints than a formal studio album.
pos: noun
examples: Welcome to the New Administration was a mixtape released by American rock band Fall Out Boy and featured tracks by fellow artists from their label.
Related words: hip hop
Translations:
dob
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly from Middle English dobben.
Inflected forms:
form: dobs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dobbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dobbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dobbed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dobs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To report a person to someone in authority for a wrongdoing. (For transitive forms see dob in, dob on.)
pos: verb
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
intransitive
slang
examples: Students often claimed that an act of informing was just ‘dobbing as a joke’ and therefore ‘not really dobbing’.
Alex was concerned that if others thought he had dobbed, things would get even worse for him. Dobbing was the worst thing a student could do.
gloss: To play truant.
pos: verb
tags: Northern-Ireland
ambitransitive
slang
examples: Parents were taken to court 189 times in the Western region over the past five years because their children were ‘dobbing’ school.¶ The Education Minister John O’Dowd revealed the number of parents taken to court due to children being absent from school […]
gloss: A small amount of something, especially paste.
pos: noun
examples: Put a dob of butter on the potato, please.
1903, Rudyard Kipling, The Tabu Tale, in Just So Stories (in the U.S. Scribner edition, but omitted from most British editions),
‘Consequence will be, O Tegumai,’ said the Head Chief, ‘that we will make them understand it with sticks and stinging-nettles and dobs of mud; and if that doesn't teach them, we'll draw fine, freehand Tribal patterns on their backs with the cutty edges of mussel-shells. […] ’
Derived words: dob in
dobber
Translations:
penge
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: (typically penge flaw or penge error) a printing flaw on early Australian stamps where the c in pence appeared like the letter g.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The ‘PENGE’ flaw which is caused by a white defect on letter ‘C’ of PENCE giving the effect of a ‘G’. This is at # 116 on Plate I.
Translations:
shalwar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi शलवार (śalvār)/सलवार (salvār) or Urdu شَلْوار (śalvār)/سَلْوار (salvār), from Classical Persian شَلْوَار (šalwār).
Inflected forms:
form: shalwars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: salwar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: salvar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shalvar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shulwar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shulwaur
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Loose trousers worn in some South Asian or Islamic countries, especially by women but also by men, especially with a kamees.
pos: noun
tags: plural
singular
examples: How I longed to have him (my gardener, not my landlord) wear a great big turban, and shalwars, and an ankle bracelet.
Translations:
enslave
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Old French en-bor.
Middle English en-
English en-
substrateder.?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱlewH-der.?
Proto-Slavic *slov-
Proto-Slavic *-ǫta
Proto-Slavic *Slov-?
Proto-Balto-Slavic *-ēnas
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Slavic *-inъ
Proto-Slavic *-ěninъ
Proto-Slavic *slověninъbor.
Byzantine Greek Σκλαβηνός (Sklabēnós)der.
Byzantine Greek Σκλᾰ́βος (Sklắbos)bor.
Late Latin Sclavus
Medieval Latin sclavusbor.
Old French esclavebor.
Middle English sclave
English slave
English enslave
From en- + slave.
Inflected forms:
form: enslaves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: enslaving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: enslaved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: enslaved
pos: verb
tags: past
form: inslave
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To make subservient; to strip one of freedom; enthrall.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The migrants will be enslaved once they're no longer useful to the oligarchs; make no mistake about that.
He and his polite friends would dress themselves out with as much care in order to go and dine at each other’s rooms, as other folks would who were going to enslave a mistress.
Selling them whiskey and taking their gold.
Enslaving the young and destroying the old.
The Vice-Premier described the Republic of China as not only an obstacle to Communist aggression, but an alternative to communism. He went on to say that if the Chinese Communists were permitted to enslave the Chinese people on the mainland in perpetuity, there could be no peace or security in Asia—or, for that matter, in the rest of the world—for a long, long time.
Translations:
peng
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From romanizations of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 鵬 /鹏 (péng).
Inflected forms:
form: pengs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A legendary enormous bird.
pos: noun
tags: Chinese
gloss: Iced; with ice added.
pos: adj
tags: Manglish
Singlish
attributive
not-comparable
examples: Gimme two laksa, one milo peng!
Mamak, give me a "capati", extra large, bawang banyak-banyak; one ice kacang, two milo peng, tiga teh tarik...
*sputters kopi peng across monitor screen*
I make various types of hot and cold drinks but the most popular is my kopi peng.
Translations:
cleanskin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From clean + skin.
Compound parts: clean
skin
Inflected forms:
form: cleanskins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An unbranded animal.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: No one had any clear notion of how many head might be collected, but we counted on something over four hundred--possibly up to five hundred and fifty, including calves and cleanskins.
For here was an unoccupied area where cleanskins had made their home.
I started off lassoing the cleanskins, dragging them up bellowing to the bronco panel where they were quickly leg-roped, thrown and branded.
The bullocks would be in the lead and you'd whip in and let the bullocks go to hell, but hang to your cleanskins as much as you could.
gloss: A person who does not have any tattoos.
pos: noun
examples: If you're under 18 in Victoria you must now remain a cleanskin. The Government has just passed a bill that minors must not be tattooed with or without their parent's consent.
Both men and women are tattooed, and so important are tattoos for traditional Samoans that it is impossible to serve or be apprenticed to a village leader if you are a cleanskin.
And it had been the witness ID of his tattoos that had sunk him. Now with a forged passport he was going back to the Continent a new man, if not a cleanskin.
gloss: Someone with no prior criminal record, a person with no previous convictions; loosely, someone who has not done anything wrong before, an unblemished character.
pos: noun
examples: Ryan′s natural father was a cleanskin – a police term for a person with no criminal history – who found himself caught up in the world of career criminals when he married into The Clan.
So the only strategy likely to hurt Clegg in those circumstances involves arguing that the Lib Dems are part of the mould too – not cleanskins, but a party with 60-plus MPs in that last discredited parliament.
gloss: An unlabelled bottle of wine.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
examples: Mr McKenzie said that two years ago a decent bottle of sauvignon blanc sold for $15 to $20, but today prices were down to $10 a bottle. "More cleanskins entering the market is the first indication there is too much SB out there," he said.
In 2009, Back Label commissioned Voice to design a label for its cleanskin.
My eye-whites still woke up bright and clear despite the night before's two bottles of cheap cleanskin wine.
gloss: An undercover police officer who has not done a particular task before.
pos: noun
gloss: A cricket bat with no maker's logo
pos: noun
Translations:
immunogenicity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English immunogenic
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English immunogenicity
From immunogenic + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: immunogenicities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The ability of a particular substance to provoke an immune response.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: One of the first examples of the immunogenicity of recombinantly derived antibodies was with murine anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody (OKT3) used in the induction of immunosupression after organ transplantation.
Drug-Interactions: Several anti-malaria drugs, such as mefloquine, chloroquine and proguanil (not approved for use in US) possess antibacterial activity which may interfere with the immunogenicity of Vivotif.
Translations:
indicia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin indicia, plural of indicium (“a notice, information, discovery, sign, mark, token”), from index (“index”); see index.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Indications or signs.
pos: noun
tags: formal
examples: This document has none of the indicia of a contract of adhesion.
Anna looked at the soul of New York and recognized that if you distract people with shiny objects, with large wads of cash, with the indicia of wealth, if you show them the money, they will be virtually unable to see anything else.
gloss: Distinctive markings.
pos: noun
examples: Spiderman,^([sic]) The Thing, The Hulk, The Fantastic Four, the distinctive names and likenesses thereof, and all related indicia are trademarks of Marvel Characters, Inc.
Translations:
intramedullary
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *h₁énterosder.
Latin *interus
Latin intrābor.
English intra-
English medullary
English intramedullary
From intra- + medullary.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Inside the medulla
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
jewel-neck
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: jewel-necks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A round neckline that follows the base of the neck.
pos: noun
Translations: