yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
pinching
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
Inflected forms:
form: more pinching
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pinching
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pinchings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That pinches, or causes such a sensation
pos: adj
examples: It was one January morning, very early — a pinching, frosty morning — the cove all gray with hoar-frost, the ripple lapping softly on the stones, the sun still low and only touching the hilltops and shining far to seaward.
gloss: The act of one who or that which pinches.
pos: noun
examples: Simon ate an orange, removing the peel in fastidious pinchings, such delicacy in a dugout on a river flowing through the bush.
gloss: The act of pinching off new growth.
pos: noun
examples: Six varieties gave more shoots from the greater number of pinchings while three had more shoots when pinching was discontinued August 10.
gloss: theft
pos: noun
examples: As "Kings of the Covers," they re-recorded happening disks by Elvis ("Heartbreak Hotel") […] and, for their most publicly-known pinching, THE JAYHAWKS ("Stranded In The Jungle").
Derived words: penny-pinching
Translations:
chubb
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: chubbs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An erection of the penis.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Would you girls be offended if I got a chubb?
Howard, great question and one that I often ponder while masturbating....as I use the soles of my feet to get a chubb going on my anaconda-like flesh taxi, I have considerable time to ponder deep, thought-provoking issues of precisely this nature.
Hey, I got a chubb for some Liederhosen clips!
Translations:
cattery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *kattuz
Proto-West Germanic *kattu
Old English catt
Middle English cat
English cat
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Old French -ie
Old French -eriebor.
Middle English -erie
English -ery
English cattery
From cat + -ery.
Inflected forms:
form: catteries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A place where cats board when their owners are on holiday.
pos: noun
gloss: A place where cats are bred.
pos: noun
Related words: pet hotel
Translations:
appaloosa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From a + Palouse + -a. From the phrase "a Palouse horse", referring to the Palouse River near which they were first encountered by non-Native Americans. The river is named for the Palouse region.
Base: a
Affixes: -a
Inflected forms:
form: appaloosas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Appaloosa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A horse breed best known for its colorful spotted coat pattern.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
gloss: A horse of this breed.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: appaloosa
lang: Navajo
word: łį́į́ʼ yishtłizhii
lang: Portuguese
word: appaloosa
applier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin applicō
Old French applierbor.
Middle English aplien
English apply
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 applier
From apply + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: appliers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person or device that applies something.
pos: noun
Translations:
appointive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English appoint
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English appointive
From appoint + -ive.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or filled by appointment.
pos: adj
examples: The constitution adopted at Oakmulgee provides for […] the machinery of government in which the governor and legislature are elective by the people. The judges are appointive by the governor […]
It will be kind of nice, a year before your time, to be standing in the way of any appointive plums that may happen to fall; […]
‘It was an appointive job at one time but may not be now. […] Well, whatever the method is, appointive or elective, I have my dough on Gerald. He’s the logical choice.’
Translations:
apportionment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English apportion
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English apportionment
From apportion + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: apportionments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of apportioning or the state of being apportioned.
pos: noun
examples: This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.[…]He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise, yet well content with the world's apportionment.
The names of the prayers are given above the tunes, but there is no indication of apportionment of the text to the phrases and notes of the melody.
gloss: The distribution of members of the House of Representatives according to the population of the various states.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: The allocation of direct taxation according to the population of the various states.
pos: noun
tags: US
Derived words: malapportionment
Translations:
apprehensively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English apprehensive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English apprehensively
From apprehensive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more apprehensively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most apprehensively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: in an apprehensive manner; with apprehension
pos: adv
Translations:
archaeologically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ἄρχω (árkhō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek ἀρχή (arkhḗ)
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Ancient Greek -ιος (-ios)
Ancient Greek ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos)
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía)
Ancient Greek ἀρχαιολογίᾱ (arkhaiologíā)
English archaeology
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
English archaeological
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English archaeologically
From archaeological + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In an archaeological manner.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Regarding archaeology.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: bioarchaeologically
geoarchaeologically
osteoarchaeologically
Translations:
architecturally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English architectural
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English architecturally
From architectural + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more architecturally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most architecturally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an architectural manner.
pos: adv
examples: The Accountant had brought out already a box of dominoes, and was toying architecturally with the bones.
gloss: Regarding architecture.
pos: adv
examples: an architecturally important work
Architecturally the stations of the Tonbridge-Hastings line are of great interest. Wadhurst, Robertsbridge and Stonegate are of simple Italinate^([sic]) style, unspoiled by that necessary evil of a platform awning.
“There is not going to be a single model for computing. We’ve had the linear, the serial one. We’re developing the neuromorphic methods that are designed around pattern recognition ... There will be a change, not just architecturally, but also in the way we integrate data that we are not doing now."
Our next train is the 0945 Largs service, which we'll take as far as Paisley Gilmour Street - an architecturally magnificent station.
Translations:
argumentatively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin arguō
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Latin argūmentum
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin argūmentor
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Medieval Latin argūmentātīvusder.
Middle English argumentatif
English argumentative
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English argumentatively
From argumentative + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more argumentatively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most argumentatively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an argumentative manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
aristocratically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English aristocratic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English aristocratically
From aristocratic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more aristocratically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most aristocratically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: in an aristocratic manner
pos: adv
gloss: regarding aristocracy
pos: adv
Translations:
apprehensiveness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English apprehensive
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 apprehensiveness
From apprehensive + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: the state of being apprehensive
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
arbitrariness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin arbiter
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -ārius
Latin arbitrāriusder.
Middle English arbitrarie
English arbitrary
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 arbitrariness
From arbitrary + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: arbitrarinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: arbitraryness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being arbitrary; the extent to which something is arbitrary.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Passion, providence, and imitation are conventionally the respective ruling forces of these three processes. Yet to take them at face value, as an innocent reading of the poem might advise, would be to betray Garcilaso’s own efforts, in this sonnet and elsewhere, to expose the arbitrariness of grandiose idealist concepts such as Platonic love and providential history.
Translations:
archness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English arch
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 archness
From arch (“principal; primary; mischievous”, adjective) + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: archnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being arch.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Marianne was surprised and confused, yet she could not help smiling at the quiet archness of his manner
Meanwhile the farce was going on very successfully, and Mrs. Leary, in a hussar jacket and braided pantaloons, was enchanting the audience with her archness, her lovely figure, and her delightful ballads.
There was something artless in Toby's delivery; he was working in the family tradition of teasing, but he was too relenting and couldn't yet match Gerald's heavy archness.
Translations:
artlessness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English artless
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 artlessness
From artless + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: artlessnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the state or quality of being artless
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: the state or quality of being innocent; naïveté
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
lang: Spanish
word: inocencia
appropriator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English appropriate
English -or
English appropriator
From appropriate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: appropriators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who appropriates something.
pos: noun
examples: […] God is Love, and Christ is the Saviour of the World, and the Pharisaical Appropriators of Mercy and Salvation, do seldom know what spirit they are of.
He knew very well that he was the proprietor or appropriator of the money, which, according to all proper calculation, ought to have fallen to his younger brother, and he had, we may be sure, some secret pangs of remorse within him, which warned him that he ought to perform some act of justice, or, let us say, compensation, towards these disappointed relations.
It is a remarkable victory for the data appropriators that acquiescence has become the standard model for obtaining “consent”.
gloss: The religious organization that owns the income of a benefice.
pos: noun
examples: And as for those Churches where all the Tythes both great & small are taken by the Appropriator, Wee ordaine that the Bishop of the Diocesse according to the Lawes of the Church shall allot out of the said appropriation, such maintenance to a sufficient Curate, as in equitie in his discretion shall seeme meete and competent.
Derived words: cultural appropriator
Translations:
appurtenant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English appurtenaunt, from Old French apurtenant.
Inflected forms:
form: more appurtenant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most appurtenant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: appurtenaunt
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: appurtenants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: appurtenaunt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to an appurtenance.
pos: adj
examples: a right of way appurtenant to land or buildings
gloss: Ancillary or subsidiary.
pos: adj
gloss: An appendage or attachment.
pos: noun
gloss: An appurtenance.
pos: noun
tags: informal
noun-from-verb
Translations:
arborvitae
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin arbor (“tree”) + vitae (“of life”), literally “tree of life”, probably referring to the evergreen leaves. The anatomical sense from the branched, tree-like appearance of the tissue.
Base: arbor
Inflected forms:
form: arborvitaes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: arbor vitae
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: arborvitæ
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Any of several North American or Asian conifers, of the genera Thuja and Thujopsis or the species Platycladus orientalis, grown for timber or ornament.
pos: noun
examples: She was at that moment just outside the door, and from the position of the Colonel, framed between the pillars at the other end of the piazza and against the dark green foliage of an arborvitae standing beyond.
gloss: The white nerve tissue of the cerebellum that has a branching structure.
pos: noun
Translations:
archly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English arch
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English archly
From arch + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more archly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most archly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an arch manner; slyly.
pos: adv
examples: Phoebe lay down by me, and ask'd me archly if, now that I had seen the enemy, and fully considered him, I was still afraid of him?
Though he intends it destructively, Rothbard is right that there are relations between the millennial hope for justice he archly calls KGE—Kingdom of God on Earth—and communism.
Translations:
argyle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Argyll branch of the Scottish Campbell clan, named after their tartan.
Inflected forms:
form: argyles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a pattern of diamond-shaped areas on a solid background; used especially of knitwear
pos: noun
gloss: a sock having this pattern
pos: noun
gloss: A type of gravy warmer.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
arraignment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
English arraign
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English arraignment
From arraign + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: arraignments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The formal charging of a defendant with an offense; in many jurisdictions it includes their response in the form of a plea, typically as guilty, not guilty, or no contest.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This process, Mr. Rothfeld said, could be interrupted at any moment if prosecutors in Los Angeles successfully extradite him for an arraignment on the sexual assault charges there.
[…]— the indictment will remain sealed until his expected arraignment on Tuesday, when the charges will be formally revealed.
Translations:
humorist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English humor
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English humorist
From humor + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: humorists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: humourist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Someone who believes that health and temperament are determined by bodily humours; a humoralist.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
historical
gloss: Someone subject to whims or fancies; an eccentric.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: She and the duke used to rally me upon my fondness for lord W—m, who was a sort of an humourist, and apt to be in a pet, in which case he would leave the company, and go to bed by seven o'clock in the evening.
I called on him and found him a contemporary of Beauclerk and Langton at Trinity College, Oxford, and a man of reading and animation, but a kind of humourist.
gloss: A humorous or witty person, especially someone skilled in humorous writing or performance.
pos: noun
examples: Peter, after the manner of man at the breakfast table, had allowed half his kedgeree to get cold and was sniggering over a letter. Sophia looked at him sharply. The only letter she had received was from her mother. Sophia's mother was not a humourist.
Art Buchwald, who satirized the follies of the rich, the famous and the powerful for half a century as the most widely read newspaper humorist of his time, died Wednesday night in Washington.
But when it comes to conveying what made these people funny, what impact they had in their day and, especially, what debt they are owed by present-day humorists, Johnson doesn’t put much meat on the old bones.
gloss: One who studies or portrays the humours of people.
pos: noun
Derived words: humoristic
Translations:
lang: Belarusian
word: гумары́ст
roman: humarýst
lang: Belarusian
word: гумары́стка
roman: humarýstka
lang: Bulgarian
word: хумори́ст
roman: humoríst
lang: Catalan
word: humorista
lang: French
word: humoriste
lang: Galician
word: humorista
lang: German
word: Humorist
lang: German
word: Humoristin
lang: Hungarian
word: humorista
lang: Italian
word: umorista
lang: Latvian
word: humorists
lang: Latvian
word: humoriste
lang: Portuguese
word: humorista
lang: Romanian
word: umorist
lang: Romanian
word: umoristă
lang: Russian
word: юмори́ст
roman: jumoríst
lang: Russian
word: юмори́стка
roman: jumorístka
lang: Spanish
word: humorista
lang: Ukrainian
word: гумори́ст
roman: humorýst
lang: Ukrainian
word: гумори́стка
roman: humorýstka
lang: Yiddish
word: הומאָריסט
roman: humorist
Brooklynite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Brooklyn + -ite.
Base: Brooklyn
Affixes: -ite
Inflected forms:
form: Brooklynites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Brooklyn, New York.
pos: noun
examples: They have learned that if the Brooklynite is not as well treated at home as he is in New York he will spend a few cents for car fare and take his amusement across the river.
One Brooklynite sought to mail an umbrella and was told that it could not be sent with a tag, but must be wrapped up in a parcel, which would have made a London postoffice man laugh. Another Brooklynite seeking to mail a wooden box of cigars was told that he must find some place where he could buy corrugated paper, and wrap the cedar box with that before it could be sent through the mails.
His collaborator was Robert Singer, a professor of English and film studies at Kingsborough Community College, who lamented this week that he and his fellow Brooklynites "have been archetyped to death."
Translations:
dentition
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin dentītiō (“teething, dentition”).
Inflected forms:
form: dentitions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The set of natural teeth of an individual
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The type, number and arrangement of the normal teeth of an organism or of the actual teeth of an individual
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Can a medical man say just exactly from the necessarily hurried examination he must give of the mouth, and without a special dental knowledge, what constitutes a good dentition?
gloss: An arrangement in an organism or object of projections that resemble teeth
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As mentioned dentition of bivalves, i.e. teeth and sockets, occur on the vertical portion of the hinge plates of the two valves, which are in contact with each other when the shell is closed.
gloss: The process of growing teeth; teething
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: dedentition
dentitional
milk dentition
misdentition
pseudodentition
Translations:
deterrent
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin dēterrēns, dēterrentemlbor.
English deterrent
Learned borrowing from Latin dēterrēns, dēterrentem.
Inflected forms:
form: more deterrent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most deterrent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: deterrents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Serving to deter, preventing something from happening.
pos: adj
gloss: Something that deters.
pos: noun
examples: An extension of the system to serve new housing estates on the outskirts of the city, at an estimated cost of about £4,000,000 a mile, is being considered, but the narrow gauge, small clearances, and short platforms are deterrents.
Along with trial by ordeal, hanging was the most effective deterrent that could be devised in an age without police or prisons.
The salarians believed the genophage would be used as a deterrent, a position the turians viewed as naive. Once the project was complete, the turians mass produced and deployed it. The krogan homeworld, their colonies, and all occupied worlds were infected.
One argument made by proponents of the death penalty is that it is a strong deterrent to murder and other violent crimes, but evidence shows just the opposite. Whereas the last execution in Canada took place in 1962, in 2011 there were 598 murders in Canada and 14,610 in the United States.
All is well until Treorchy, where the platform is swamped by teenagers who have been attending an event. Around four dozen unescorted 12 to 16 year-olds swarm aboard and begin to run riot through the train. Their behaviour is appalling and the presence of CCTV no deterrent.
Translations:
devilled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Grilled with a piquant sauce.
pos: adj
gloss: Possessed by the Devil.
pos: adj
tags: uncommon
examples: "Vexed with a devil;" she is devilled, that is, fully possessed.
But the vials of his wrath were not only poured out on the Papacy, to which repeatedly, even the night before his death he swore undying hatred, but on all who rejected his dogmatic utterances or opposed his imperious will. "Zwingli has become a pagan, Oecolampadius, Carlstadt and the remaining heretics have in-devilled, through-devilled, over-devilled blasphemous hearts and lying mouths, and no one should pray for them. […]"
Derived words: devilled crab
devilled egg
devilled ham
devilled kidneys
devilled sausages
Translations:
dextrose
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dextro- + -ose (“right-handed sugar”).
Base: dextro
Inflected forms:
form: dextroses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The naturally occurring dextrorotatory form of glucose monosaccharide molecule.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The saccharides include such substances as dextrose and levulose, which are typical examples of the two classes into which these bodies are divisible, viz. the Aldoses and Ketoses.
Antonyms: L-glucose
L-Glucose
Translations:
diathermy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: From dia- + therm + -y.
Base: dia
Inflected forms:
form: diathermies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The generation of heat using high-frequency electromagnetic currents; especially the therapeutic production of heat in tissues in order to form coagulation
pos: noun
Translations:
dicky
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Dicky, pet form of Richard.
* In cover/apron senses: perhaps from English dialect dick (“leather apron”) + -y; perhaps from Dutch dek (“a cover”).
Base: dick
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: dickies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dickey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dickie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dickier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: dickiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dickey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A louse.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: Dicky dirt = a shirt, meaning a shirt with a collar.
pos: noun
tags: Cockney
slang
gloss: A detachable shirt front, collar or bib.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A hat, especially (in the US) a stiff hat or derby, and (in the UK) a straw hat.
pos: noun
tags: dated
slang
gloss: A seat behind a carriage or early motor car, for a servant.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: ...and she was just in time to see Mr. Boyne Sillery hand her aunt into a carriage, jump in himself, when it drove off with a rapidity which scarcely allowed her to observe that a large imperial was on the top, and her aunt's servant, with a huge bandbox, on the dickey.
gloss: A seat in a carriage, for the driver.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car.
pos: noun
tags: South-Asia
examples: Can you open the dicky for me?
Back and forth, back and forth, go our mothers on their secret missions, carrying their sinister freight in the dicky of our Morris Minor.
gloss: the buttocks.
pos: noun
tags: India
colloquial
gloss: A leather apron for a gig, etc.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A small bird; a dicky-bird.
pos: noun
gloss: An insignificant sound or thing; dicky-bird.
pos: noun
tags: UK
idiomatic
examples: Oh, she landed at Heathrow all right, like you said, but since then your Miss Ranelagh seems to have vanished as effectively as my overdue promotion. Not used her credit card, her Internet account, her mobile phone. Nothing. Not a dicky.
gloss: A pilot.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
gloss: A hedge sparrow.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dialectal
gloss: A donkey.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dialectal
examples: I've heard grandfather say that when Mr. Priest was at his best there was scores o' young gents as used to come to school as day-boys, 'cause there was no room for 'em to board; and they used to come on dickies […]
gloss: A haddock.
pos: noun
gloss: In bad condition; weak, faulty, unreliable, doubtful, troublesome.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: He had a dicky heart.
I've got a dicky tummy.
Ribald boys stuck the red-covered books of domestic household expenditure which they carried into their breasts, and swaggered by with heads erect; others openly expressed their opinion that it was “all dicky” with him; […]
Derived words: dicky-bird
dicky bow
Translations:
corporatism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English corporate
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English corporatism
From corporate + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: corporatisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The principle or practice of corporate action; (in later use chiefly) specifically, a political ideology which advocates for government and social organization by collective interest groups.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The influence or effects of large business corporations.
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
nonstandard
possibly
uncountable
examples: The fear of corporatism, consumerism, middle-browism and a mass reading public has driven twentieth-century cultural hierarchists.
Related words: corporatist
Derived words: anticorporatism
neocorporatism
social corporatism
Translations:
tickled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more tickled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tickled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very pleased; delighted.
pos: adj
tags: slang
Translations:
noonday
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From noon + day.
Compound parts: noon
day
Inflected forms:
form: noondays
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The time of noon; the time of day when the sun is highest in the sky, especially on a hot day.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She should not walk, he said, through the dust and heat of the noonday;
Nay, she should ride like a queen, not plod along like a peasant.
gloss: The time of greatest prosperity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
Synonyms: midday
noon
noontime
Derived words: clear as the sun at noonday
noonday devil
Translations:
supervene
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Latin supervenīre (“come over or upon, overtake”), from super (“above”) + veniō (“come”).
Inflected forms:
form: supervenes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: supervening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: supervened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: supervened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To follow (something) closely, either as a consequence or in contrast.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The disease was regarded as pneumonia so far advanced that suppuration seemed to have supervened; bleeding, blisters, expectorants, and cathartics diminished the symptoms; the pulse continued frequent, hard, full, but always regular.
The taste and digestion are often depraved, anorexia, nausea, inappetence and vomiting supervene, the woman desires innutritious or disgusting food, such as chalk, cinders, putrescent animal food, […]
After such leave-takings, especially where something like a revelation takes place, there sometimes supervenes, I'm told, a sort of excitement before the chill and ache of separation sets in.
However, a national financial crisis supervened and work was stopped on the Surrey & Sussex Junction and the Ouse Valley lines, in the latter case never to start again.
gloss: To supersede.
pos: verb
gloss: To be dependent on an earlier event.
pos: verb
gloss: To be dependent on something else for existence, truth, or instantiation.
pos: verb
examples: For instance, an idiosyncratic necessitist might claim that even if a river were not spatiotemporally located, it would still be ugly or beautiful in ways that do not supervene on anything else.
gloss: To occur as an interruption or change to an existing situation.
pos: verb
examples: The best work was after Bishops Stortford, as we attained 55 m.p.h. after Stansted, and were going well up the short bank when the Elsenham permanent way check supervened.
Related words: convene
supervenience
supervenient
supervention
Translations:
devolution
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French dévolution, from Medieval Latin devolutio, devolutionis, from Latin devolvo.
Inflected forms:
form: devolutions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rolling down.
pos: noun
gloss: A descent, especially one that passes through a series of revolutions, or by succession.
pos: noun
gloss: The transference of a right to a successor, or of a power from one body to another.
pos: noun
gloss: Degeneration.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: It is quite disheartening to witness the devolution of our nation's political discourse over the past several years.
He is the place where the devolution from Heaven and the evolution from earth meet.
gloss: The transfer of some powers and the delegation of some functions from a central government to local government (e.g. from the U.K. parliament to Scottish parliament and Welsh assembly).
pos: noun
examples: The question of whether England should receive devolution like Scotland and Wales have has dogged British politics for years.
Governments like devolution because it gives ministers someone else to blame for problems.
By the 1974 general election, the Scottish National Party (SNP) were polling at 30% and there were growing calls for devolution.
Related words: devolve
Derived words: antidevolution
devolutional
devolutionary
devolutionist
Translations:
dietetics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See dietetic + -ics.
Inflected forms:
form: diætetics
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The study of diet and nutrition in relation to health and disease.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
dietitian
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Irregular spelling of diet + -ician, probably influenced by dietetic.
Base: diet
Affixes: -ician
Inflected forms:
form: dietitians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dietician
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who studies or practices dietetics.
pos: noun
examples: The dietitian works with the client to develop meal planning that meets the client's needs based on healthy food choices.
Translations:
digitize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English digit
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 digitize
From digit + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: digitizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: digitizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: digitized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: digitized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: digitise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: digitilize
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To represent something (such as an image or sound) as a structured sequence of binary digits.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: When you digitize a visual image, you are translating it into digital signals so that it can be broken down into pixels and loaded into the computer.
According to press releases and university librarians, Google plans to digitize and make available through its Google Books service approximately 15 million volumes within a decade.
gloss: To quantize a continuous or analog value; to convert it into a discrete value.
pos: verb
gloss: To finger.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: to digitize a pen
Related words: digitization
datafy
Derived words: digitizability
digitizable
digitized target
digitizer
redigitize
Translations:
ding-a-ling
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative. The penis sense may be an alteration of dingling, a diminutive of ding (“penis”).
Inflected forms:
form: ding-a-lings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more ding-a-ling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ding-a-ling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The sound of a small bell; the sound of a fire engine bell.
pos: noun
examples: The ding-a-ling from the fire truck somehow filled him with more dread than its horn blasts could: for whom does that bell toll?
gloss: An eccentric, crazy, or stupid person.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Pay no heed to what she hollers — she's a ding-a-ling!
gloss: The penis.
pos: noun
tags: childish
slang
examples: They explained patiently but firmly that he wasn't to play with his ding-a-ling nor try to show it to anyone.
This is Henry the Eighth? My God, was he girthy. My God, is that really how big his ding-a-ling was?
gloss: Attractive.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Joe is so ding-a-ling, I think I'm in love.
Translations:
merch
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
hobbies
lifestyle
marketing
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Anglo-Norman marchaundisebor.
Latin mercātus
Vulgar Latin *mercātāntem
Vulgar Latin *mercātāntem
Old French marcheant
Old French -ise
Old French marcheandisebor.
Middle English marchaundise
English merchandiseclip.
English merch
Clipping of merchandise.
Inflected forms:
form: merches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: merching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: merched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: merched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: goods which are or were offered or intended for sale.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
examples: His playful point of view on youthful American sportswear, expressed in boxy mohair jackets with graphic resin bubble buttons and tomboy T-shirt dresses in superfine chiffon as bright as tangerine sorbet, is backed up with what stores would describe as the merch: easy scoop-neck cashmere sweaters in a mix of colors, lightweight T-shirts and sheared mink Army caps.
gloss: goods which are or were offered or intended for sale.
pos: noun
tags: especially
informal
uncountable
examples: Many musicians make merch you can only get if you join the fanclub.
With almost two months until Inauguration Day, fans who were "With Her" (or are still "With Her") can grab Clinton merch — now at deeply marked-down prices.
The merch is proof of how much the sentiment resonates with people.
gloss: To merchandise.
pos: verb
tags: rare
slang
examples: Maligned by rockers, misunderstood by critics, and merched by Madison Avenue, rave may be the only vital youth culture remaining.
gloss: To provide proof.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: And I can merch on my homie, I'm used to ridin' 'round by my lonely
Related words: swag
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 周邊 /周边
roman: zhōubiān
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 穀子 /谷子
roman: gǔzi
lang: German
word: Fanartikel
lang: Hungarian
word: cucc
lang: Hungarian
word: szajré
lang: Italian
word: articolo promozionale
lang: Japanese
word: 商品
roman: shōhin
lang: Ukrainian
word: мерч
roman: merč
deteriorated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
topsoil
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
Etymology: From top + soil.
Compound parts: top
soil
Inflected forms:
form: topsoils
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: top soil
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: topsoils
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: topsoiling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: topsoiled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: topsoiled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The upper layer of soil, typically most fertile and in which it is the easiest to start new plants.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Little grew on the farm, after the floods from the hurricane washed away the topsoil.
Without urgent action, the majority of the Earth’s topsoil could be severely degraded or lost before the end of this century. In China, topsoil is being lost fifty-seven times faster than this natural replacement process; in Europe seventeen times faster.
gloss: To remove the topsoil from.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
swidden
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Possibly from a dialectal form *swiden of Middle English swithen, past participle of Middle English swithen (“to burn, scorch, singe”), from Old Norse svíða (“to singe, burn”). Compare also Old Norse sviðinn (“burnt, singed”, past participle). Alternatively, from Old Norse sviðna (“to be burned”) or Old High German swedan (“to be burned”). Either way, probably ultimately from Proto-Germanic *swīþaną. First attested in 1868. If their respective theories align, then a distant cognate of German Schwyz, hence Swiss.
Inflected forms:
form: swiddens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: swiddens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: swiddening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: swiddened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: swiddened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An area of land that has been cleared by cutting the vegetation and burning it; slash and burn.
pos: noun
examples: Kamiali Village is a community of swidden horticulturists and fishers lying 80 kilometers in a south-southeasterly direction along the coast from the City of Lae, Papua New Guinea.
These facts reinforced the view that the Maya drew their basic sustenance from corn, most of it grown on slash-and-burn plots known as swiddens.
‘Swidden’ has entered anthropological jargon, denoting not only a practice widespread in non-state societies, but also a problem.
gloss: To clear an area of land by cutting and burning.
pos: verb
examples: The reason, Scott says, is that swiddening provides a freedom that fixed agriculture does not.
Translations:
transparently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: manner
Etymology: Etymology tree
English transparent
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English transparently
From transparent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more transparently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most transparently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a transparent manner; with nothing hidden.
pos: adv
examples: They conducted their business transparently, solely in public meetings.
Musk’s Israel tour was transparently transactional and frankly insulting. The antisemitic sentiment Musk endorsed had nothing to do with Israel; “replacement theory” is generally an unsupported allegation that Jews and other immigrants in the US and Europe are destroying Western civilization.
gloss: So as to admit light without distortion.
pos: adv
gloss: So as to be readily perceived and understood.
pos: adv
tags: modal
examples: Transparently to all, he had nothing of substance to say.
Translations:
subsidence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Latin subsidens, subsidentis, present participle of subsidere. Equivalent to subside + -ence.
Base: subside
Affixes: -ence
Inflected forms:
form: subsidences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of becoming less active or severe.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The subdual or subsidence of the more violent passions.
gloss: A sinking of something to a lower level, especially of part of the surface of the Earth due to underground excavation, seismic activity or underground or ground water depletion, or the rocks in a geological basin, due to continued deposition from above.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In the early hours of April 28, 1953, it was completely blocked by a subsidence, which caused the death of five persons, when a pair of semi-detached houses collapsed into the cavity.
Everyone knows that a main line running through a coalfield is prone to speed restrictions because of land subsidence. […] The rate of subsidence may vary from less than an inch a month in the case of a deep seam of coal, to as rapid a decline as 16in a month above a shallow seam. The effect of subsidence on permanent way and civil engineering structures needs no emphasis.
Subsidence was first noted in the late nineteenth century. An increasing thirst for groundwater, which creates subterranean pockets that are then compressed by the land above, and upriver damming of the Mississippi, which prevents the replenishment of sediments, have undermined the city to the point that it is now thought to be subsiding by up to 12 millimetres per year.
Iran’s president has claimed Iran has no choice but to move its capital from Tehran to the south of the country due to the city’s over-expansion, the lack of adequate water supplies and the growing threat of subsidence.
Related words: subside
Derived words: antisubsidence
subsidence crater
Translations:
eustatic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to eustasy.
pos: adj
Translations:
isostatic
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From iso- + static.
Base: static
Affixes: iso-
Inflected forms:
form: isostatics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A line of constant stress.
pos: noun
gloss: A state of equilibrium between two forces.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or pertaining to isostasy or isostatics
pos: adj
Translations: