yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
circus
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle English circus, circo, from Latin circus (“ring, circle”), from Ancient Greek κρίκος (kríkos), κίρκος (kírkos, “ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, turn”). Doublet of cirque. Cognate with Old English hring (whence English ring) and Old English hringsetl (“circus”, literally “ring-seat”).
Inflected forms:
form: circuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: circusses
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
form: circi
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
form: circuses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: circusses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: circusing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: circussing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: circused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: circused
pos: verb
tags: past
form: circussed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: circussed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A traveling company of performers that may include acrobats, clowns, trained animals, and other novelty acts, that gives shows usually in a circular tent.
pos: noun
examples: The circus will be in town next week.
gloss: A round open space in a town or city where multiple streets meet.
pos: noun
examples: Oxford Circus in London is at the north end of Regent Street.
gloss: A spectacle; a noisy fuss; a chaotic and/or crowded place.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The village would be turned into a circus over this. He groaned, it was just the sort of case the media had a field day over. He had to get the whole thing sorted fast before anyone got wind of it.
gloss: An undertaking or arrangement.
pos: noun
tags: dated
slang
examples: "Right you are; I'll put him wise," undertook Nickle briskly. "After all, it's entirely your circus. Shall we stay here and—"
gloss: In the ancient Roman Empire, a building for chariot racing.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A code name for bomber attacks with fighter escorts in the day time. The attacks were against short-range targets with the intention of occupying enemy fighters and keeping their fighter units in the area concerned.
pos: noun
gloss: Circuit; space; enclosure.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: The narrow circus of my dungeon wall.
gloss: To take part in a circus; or to be displayed as if in a circus.
pos: verb
Related words: circle
circular
Derived words: a few clowns short of a circus
anticircus
bread and circuses
circus act
circus freak
circusgoer
circus-goer
circusiana
circusless
circuslike
circus peanut
circus ring
circusy
contemporary circus
crap circus
flea circus
flying circus
let's get this circus on the road
media circus
new circus
noncircus
Piccadilly Circus
psychedelic circus
shit circus
three-ring circus
Translations:
compressed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more compressed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most compressed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pressed tightly together.
pos: adj
examples: compressed air
highly compressed
gloss: Flattened, especially when along its entire length.
pos: adj
examples: The gas remains compressed inside the cylinder.
Related words: compress
compressible
compression
compressor
Derived words: bit-compressed
compressed air
compressedly
compressed sensing
compressed yeast
noncompressed
obcompressed
subcompressed
supercompressed
Translations:
reactant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English react
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Latin -ns
Latin -āns
Old French -antbor.
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Proto-Germanic *-ndz
Proto-West Germanic *-andī
Old English -ende
Middle English -ant
English -ant
English reactant
From react + -ant.
Inflected forms:
form: reactants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the participants present at the start of a chemical reaction, specifically one that is consumed during the reaction.
pos: noun
Translations:
sweetheart
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English swete heorte, swete hert (term of endearment); equivalent to sweet + heart.
Compound parts: sweet
heart
Inflected forms:
form: sweethearts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who is always very kind.
pos: noun
examples: She is such a sweetheart: she never complains about me being late.
gloss: A person very much liked or loved by someone, especially when both partners are young.
pos: noun
examples: John married his high-school sweetheart in 1981.
Why Lambe, why Lady, fie you ſluggabed, / Why Loue I ſay, Madam, ſweeteheart, why Bride: / What not a word, you take your penniworths now, / Sleepe for a weeke, […]
gloss: A term of endearment, especially for a lover or child.
pos: noun
gloss: A female member of a college or university fraternity.
pos: noun
tags: US
Synonyms: sweetie
baby
dear
darling
sweetie
babber
precious
bae
babycakes
bubba
bully
buttercup
cabbage
chickabiddy
chickadee
chuck
cupcake
cutie
dag
dear heart
dearest
dearie
dearling
doll
doodlebug
dove
duck
ducky
dumpling
fam
heart
heartface
heartling
heartmate
hinny
hon
honey
honey bun
honeybunch
honeybug
honeybunny
honeycakes
honeypie
jewel
jo
kidder
lambchop
lambkin
lass (archaic except UK
dialectal (chiefly Geordie
Wearside)
informal or poetic)
liefling
little one
love
lovebug
loveling
lovie
luvvy
m'dear
miting
moppet
mopsy
mouse
muffin
muss
old bean
old sport
pally
pet
petal
poppet
pug
pumpkin
pussums
pussy
sausage
schnookums
shug
snicklefritz
snookums
snuggums
squishy
sug
sugar
sugar baby
sugar beet
sugar-plum
sugarpie
sweet pea
sweetcheeks
sweetheart
sweetie pie
sweets
sweetling
treasure
woobie
Related words: sweet
sweetie
sweet-hearted
child
friend
lover
:Category:English endearing terms
Derived words: sweetheart cabbage
sweetheart cake
sweetheart contract
sweetheart deal
sweetheartdom
sweetheart grip
sweethearthood
sweethearting
sweetheart neckline
sweetheartship
sweetheart tax deal
tweetheart
Translations:
reconstruction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English construction
English reconstruction
From re- + construction.
Inflected forms:
form: reconstructions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of reconstructing something, not necessarily to the earlier state.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: At Crewe, where a ten-span bridge carries the Nantwich road over several tracks and platforms, complete reconstruction will be necessary to give the extra headroom required by electric trains. […] The reconstruction will be carried on half the bridge at a time so that part of the road will remain open for traffic and interference with trains minimised.
gloss: A thing that has been reconstructed or restored to an earlier state.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Sunderland station has undergone several reconstructions.
gloss: The act of restoring something to an earlier state.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The reconstruction of the medieval bridge began last year.
By a remarkable piece of railway reconstruction work on the part of the Allied Forces—mainly South African railway construction troops—mines laid along the track by the retreating enemy were removed by sappers, and the German damage made good, within 7 days.
A striking example comes to mind, in which a scheme to improve the existing buildings finished up as virtually a complete reconstruction, owing to the unsound condition of the original structure!
“The decision of the cassation court establishes that the Roman salute is not a crime unless there is a concrete danger of the reconstruction of the fascist party, as provided by Article 5 of the Scelba law, or there are concrete aims of racial discrimination and violence, as provided by the Mancino law,” a lawyer for two of the defendants Domenico Di Tullio told CNN.
gloss: The recreation or retelling of the (purported) events leading up to a certain outcome.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The detective's reconstruction of what happened that night is dubious.
gloss: A result of linguistic reconstruction; a model representing an unattested linguistic unit: a phoneme, a morpheme or a word.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It should also be noted that while Dempwolff reconstructed at only one level (Uraustronesisch), many of his reconstructions are confined to languages of western Indonesia
Related words: rebuilding
reconstruct
Derived words: internal reconstruction
palaeoreconstruction
paleoreconstruction
prereconstruction
reconstructional
reconstructionism
reconstructionist
Translations:
preliminary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin praelīmināris, formed from prae- (“before”) + līmen (“threshold”) + -āris (adjectival suffix); compare Latin līmināris (“of or belonging to a threshold”). Compare French préliminaire.
Inflected forms:
form: præliminary
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: preliminaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: præliminary
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: In preparation for the main matter; initial, introductory, preparatory.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: These are just the preliminary results.
And then, after a few preliminary tries, the whole farm burst out into 'Beasts of England' in tremendous unison.
The Zurich group has shared a preliminary writeup of its findings.
An email from ICE headquarters to the agency’s top officials on October 5 lamented that “a considerable amount of athletically allergic candidates” had been showing up to the academy; they had “misrepresented” their physical condition on application forms. The email directed leaders at ICE’s field offices to conduct preliminary fitness exams with new recruits before sending them to the academy.
gloss: A preparation for a main matter; an introduction.
pos: noun
examples: In the Chinese novels, often of a very literary character, devoted to masculine love, it seems that all the preliminaries and transports of normal love are to be found, while physical union may terminate the scene.
gloss: Any of a series of sports events that determine the finalists.
pos: noun
gloss: A relatively minor contest that precedes a major one, especially in boxing.
pos: noun
Translations:
inertial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English inertia
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English inertial
From inertia + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or depending on inertia.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
no-show
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: no-shows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: no-showing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: no-showed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: no-showed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no show
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To fail to show up for something.
pos: verb
Translations:
relativistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: From relativist + -ic or relative + -istic.
Base: relativist
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more relativistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most relativistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to relativity.
pos: adj
examples: The 'Blandford-Znajek' (BZ) black hole magnetospheric power extraction process was one of the first (1977) analytic attempts to define a general relativistic theory for axisymmetric, stationary, ideal-MHD, BH magnetospheres.
gloss: At or near the speed of light.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to relativism.
pos: adj
Derived words: antirelativistic
hyperrelativistic
nonrelativistic
pseudorelativistic
quasirelativistic
relativistically
relativistic kill vehicle
relativistic mass
relativistic mechanics
relativistic quantum mechanics
semirelativistic
subrelativistic
transrelativistic
ultrarelativistic
Translations:
measurable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Old French mesurable, equivalent to measure + -able. Doublet of mensurable.
Base: measure
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: more measurable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most measurable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: measurables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Able to be measured.
pos: adj
examples: "There are studies that illustrate how kindness spreads through social networks in measurable ways. When we are kind to someone, they don't just feel better — they become 25% more likely to help others."
gloss: Of significant importance.
pos: adj
gloss: That which can be measured; a metric.
pos: noun
Related words: mensurable
measurability
Derived words: Borel measurable
comeasurable
immeasurable
Lebesgue measurable
measurable function
measurableness
measurable set
measurable space
measurably
nonmeasurable
unmeasurable
Translations:
invariance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English variance
English invariance
From in- + variance.
Inflected forms:
form: invariances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being invariant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
manipulation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French manipulation, from Old French manipule, from Latin manipulus. Morphologically manipulate + -ion.
Base: manipulate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: manipulations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The practice of manipulating or the state of being manipulated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The dealer's manipulations could have removed cards from the deck.
The rear portion of the tender top is flat and open so as to facilitate the manipulation of the water crane.
gloss: The skillful use of the hands in, for example, chiropractic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: After a few minutes of manipulation each week, she obtained days of relief from her neck pain.
gloss: The usage of psychological influence over a person, event, or situation to gain a desired outcome.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The counselor was able to reach the disturbed teen through positive psychological manipulation.
Through subtle manipulations he orchestrated the downfall of his rival.
A dormant and defunded CPB could have become vulnerable to future political manipulation or misuse, threatening the independence of public media and the trust audiences place in it, and potentially subjecting staff and board members to legal exposure from bad-faith actors.”
Related words: pedipulation
Derived words: antimanipulation
biomanipulation
crowd manipulation
electromanipulation
immunomanipulation
manipulational
micromanipulation
nanomanipulation
nonmanipulation
object manipulation
photomanipulation
postmanipulation
psychomanipulation
telemanipulation
womanipulation
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: ձեռնածություն
roman: jeṙnacutʻyun
lang: Armenian
word: մեքենայություն
roman: mekʻenayutʻyun
lang: Bulgarian
word: подве́ждане
roman: podvéždane
lang: Dutch
word: manipulatie
lang: Dutch
word: misbruik
lang: Finnish
word: manipulaatio
lang: French
word: manipulation
lang: Galician
word: manipulación
lang: German
word: Manipulierung
lang: German
word: Manipulieren
lang: German
word: Manipulation
lang: Hungarian
word: manipuláció
lang: Polish
word: manipulacja
lang: Spanish
word: manipulación
lang: Ukrainian
word: маніпуля́ція
roman: manipuljácija
equivalence
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geometry
human-sciences
linguistics
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
sciences
translation-studies
Etymology: From French équivalence, from Medieval Latin aequivalentia.
Inflected forms:
form: equivalences
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: æquivalence
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: equivalences
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: equivalencing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: equivalenced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: equivalenced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: æquivalence
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being equivalent or essentially equal.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: An equivalence relation; ≡; ~
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The relationship between two propositions that are either both true or both false.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The quantity of the combining power of an atom, expressed in hydrogen units; the number of hydrogen atoms can combine with, or be exchanged for; valency.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A Boolean operation that is TRUE when both input variables are TRUE or both input variables are FALSE, but otherwise FALSE; the XNOR function.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A number in intersection theory. A positive-dimensional variety sometimes behaves formally as if it were a finite number of points; this number is its equivalence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The degree to which a term or text in one language is semantically similar to its translated counterpart.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To be equivalent or equal to; to counterbalance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] whether the transgression of Eve seducing, did not exceed that of Adam seduced, or whether the resistibility of his reason did not equivalence the facility of her seduction, we shall referre it unto the Schoolman.
[…] every one being struck with wonder at the vertue and patience of the sufferers, began to think that worthy the enquiring into, which men thought so much better worth then their lives; and these reflections converted more then the best verball expressions, to such auditors, as thought life not to be equivalenced by any compensation.
Related words: equilibrium
Derived words: autoequivalence
bioequivalence
dynamic equivalence
elementary equivalence
equivalence class
equivalence gate
equivalence of categories
equivalence principle
equivalence relation
false equivalence
formal equivalence
functional equivalence
genomic equivalence
inequivalence
Knuth equivalence
Morita equivalence
nonequivalence
photoequivalence
phytoequivalence
quasiequivalence
Ricardian equivalence
ringer equivalence number
row-equivalence
strong equivalence principle
Translations:
brill
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Possibly from Cornish brilli (“mackerel”), from brithelli, plural of brithel (“mackerel”), from brith (“spotted”), from Proto-Brythonic *briθ.
Inflected forms:
form: brills
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brill
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of flatfish, Scophthalmus rhombus.
pos: noun
Translations:
escutcheon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
medicine
monarchy
nautical
nobility
politics
sciences
transport
Etymology: From Middle English scochon, from Anglo-Norman escuchon, Old French escusson (French écusson), ultimately from Latin scutum (“shield”). Related to scutum, scute, scudo, escudo, and écu.
Inflected forms:
form: escutcheons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: escocheon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: escutchion
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: scutcheon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: 'scutcheon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The shield on which a coat of arms is displayed, or, by extension, the coat of arms itself.
pos: noun
examples: Meronyms: field, charge, emblem
He dies: his very coffin is comfortable; the very vault of his ancestors is sheltered; a funeral sermon is preached in his honour; and escutcheon and marble tablet do their best to preserve his memory.
And in the meanwhile, Society shivered a little feverishly, filled now with the scions of those who had come over with the Jewish and American Conquests. Escutcheons were becoming valueless, how sinister soever the blots and clots upon them.
gloss: A small shield used to charge a larger one.
pos: noun
gloss: The pattern of distribution of hair upon the pubic mound.
pos: noun
examples: The hair becomes darker and coarser during pubic hair stage 3, spreading over the pubic symphysis with gradual progression to a full female escutcheon.
gloss: A marking upon the back of a cow's udder and the space above it (the perineum), formed by the hair growing upward or outward instead of downward. It was once taken as an index of milking qualities.
pos: noun
examples: The milk-mirror, or escutcheon, is formed by the hair above the udder, extending upwards between the thighs, […]
gloss: The part of a ship's stern where its name is displayed.
pos: noun
gloss: A decorative or protective plate or bezel designed to fill the gap between a switch, pipe, valve, control knob, etc., and the surface from which it protrudes.
pos: noun
gloss: The insignia around a doorknob's exterior hardware or a door lock's cosmetic plate.
pos: noun
gloss: The depression behind the beak of certain bivalves; the ligamental area.
pos: noun
Derived words: blotch on the escutcheon
blot on the escutcheon
escutcheonectomy
escutcheoned
escutcheon of pretence
escutcheon pin
inescutcheon
Translations:
espousal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English espousal, espousaille, from Old French espousailles, from Latin sponsalia (“a betrothal”), neuter plural of sponsalis, from spōnsus (“one betrothed, a spouse”); see spouse. By surface analysis, espouse + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: espousals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A betrothal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: So he pressed her again and again with advice on the matter of espousals; but she ever opposed to him refusals, till at last she turned upon him angrily and cried, "O my father, if thou name matrimony to me once more, I will go into my chamber and take a sword, and, fixing its hilt on the ground, will set its point to my waist; then I will press upon it, till it come forth from my back, and so slay myself."
gloss: A wedding ceremony.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Adoption of a plan, cause, or idea.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: spouse
sponsor
Derived words: nonespousal
Translations:
summarization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English summary
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 summarize
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 summarization
From summarize + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: summarizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: summarisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of summarizing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Jim is very adept at summarization.
gloss: The process of summarizing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: After summarization, these documents seem much simpler.
gloss: A summary; the result of summarizing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Jim's summarization of the incident was very useful.
Translations:
espresso
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian espresso, from caffè espresso (“pressed-out coffee”), form of esprimere (“to press out”), from Latin exprimere, from ex- (“out”) + primere (“to press”).
Some sources derive the term from “expressly (‘individually, directly’) made for the customer”, or as “fast” (Italian espresso also meaning “fast”, as in English express (“fast”)) but these are not widely credited. The original term for modern espresso (coffee extracted under pressure) was cream coffee, from Italian caffè crema (variant: crema caffè), due to the crema, and was seen on early Gaggia machines, but this term is no longer used.
Inflected forms:
form: espressos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: espressi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A concentrated coffee beverage brewed by forcing hot water under high pressure through finely ground coffee.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It is no surprise that over the last decade the more moneyed elements of the coffee industry have been trying to figure out how to simplify espresso brewing to the point that a consumer can produce a properly rich, smooth-tasting espresso shot without struggling through a complicated process that can be as daunting as upgrading to Vista or assembling a glass-fronted display case from Ikea. […] To conclude, here in tabular form is a summary of our ratings of espressos produced from thirty pod, capsule and disc blends.
gloss: A drink that includes espresso as an ingredient.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: 'spro
Related words: espresso breve
Derived words: espressoed
espresso-speak
espressotini
sexpresso
Translations:
esprit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French esprit (“spirit”). Doublet of spirit, spiritus, spirytus, sprite, and spright, possibly also spree.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Spirit, enthusiasm.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A wit.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Liveliness, or active mind and spirit.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: bel esprit
esprit de corps
l'esprit de l'escalier
Translations:
escapement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From escape + -ment. The watch component is so called because it allows a tooth to escape from a pallet at each vibration.
Base: escape
Affixes: -ment
Inflected forms:
form: escapements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The linkage in a (watch) that gives impulses to the timekeeping element and periodically releases the gear train to move forward, advancing the clock's hands.
pos: noun
examples: The escapement is the reason why clocks tick.
For some reason, adjusting the 400-day clock escapement strikes fear into the hearts of many clock repairers.
gloss: A mechanism found in devices such as a typewriter or printer which controls lateral motion of the carriage.
pos: noun
gloss: An escape or a means of escape.
pos: noun
gloss: The number of fish that escape commercial fishing operations and travel upstream to spawn.
pos: noun
examples: Importantly, there are also extensive practical difficulties associated with gathering and interpreting accurate escapement and run-size information and applying it to population management.
They obtained migration information from a mark– recapture experiment, daily escapement information from aerial surveys, and daily catch information from fish tickets.
Who actually listens to us when we tell him we need to cut back on escapement in the Kanuyaq because too many salmon are getting past the dip netters and it's messing with the spawning beds?
Derived words: anchor escapement
cross-beat escapement
deadbeat escapement
duplex escapement
Galileo's escapement
lever escapement
pin wheel escapement
Riefler escapement
verge escapement
Translations:
escapology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English escape
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
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 -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
Latin -logialbor.
French -logiebor.
English -logy
English -ology
English escapology
From escape + -ology.
Inflected forms:
form: escapologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The study or art of escaping from a physical restraint, enclosure, or constriction, such as a rope, a sealed box, handcuffs, etc.; escape artistry.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Viruses have ‘studied’ immunology over millions of years of coevolution with their hosts. During this ongoing education they have developed countless mechanisms to escape from the host's immune system. […] These escape strategies have been described as ‘camouflage’ and ‘sabotage’. Using these simple concepts we describe the spectrum of viral escapology […]
gloss: Escape from a difficult situation.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
usually
examples: Might it have been any different had Leroy Sané’s goal, late in the first half, not been wrongly given offside? Nobody will ever know but it was certainly true that City were threatening a remarkable feat of escapology in that part of the match.
Derived words: escapological
escapologist
Translations:
escalade
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French escalade, from Italian scalata, from scalare (“to climb”), from scala (“ladder”), from Latin scālae (“ladder”). Doublet of scalade.
Inflected forms:
form: escalades
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of scaling walls or fortifications.
pos: noun
examples: An escalade was required for the warriors to attack the troops.
Translations:
fizz
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Onomatopoeia.
Inflected forms:
form: fizzes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fizzes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fizzing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fizzed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fizzed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An emission of a rapid stream of bubbles.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I poured a cola and waited for the fizz to settle down before topping off the glass.
gloss: The sound of such an emission.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Evan sat back in the hot tub and listened to the relaxing fizz and pops produced by the eruption of bubbles.
gloss: A carbonated beverage, especially champagne.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Nathan ordered an orange fizz from the soda jerk at the counter.
When he had returned with what remained unslopped of two glasses of fizz, she was still there, waiting for him.
gloss: To emit bubbles.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To make a rapid hissing or bubbling sound.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: the fizzing fuse of a bomb
gloss: To shoot or project something at great velocity.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Each lad tried to send his [burning] disc fizzing and flaring through the darkness as far as possible.
And just before the interval, Kolarov, who was having one of his better games in a City shirt, fizzed in a cracker from 30 yards which the Wolves stopper unconvincingly pushed behind for a corner.
Related words: fizz-buzz
Derived words: buck's fizz
Eurofizz
fizgig
fizzless
gin fizz
fizzer
fizz out
fizzy
Translations:
devi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: devis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A goddess in Vedic mythology, Hinduism and Buddhism.
pos: noun
Translations:
humiliating
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more humiliating
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most humiliating
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: humiliatings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Liable to humiliate, degrade, shame or embarrass someone.
pos: adj
examples: The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.
gloss: An act of humiliation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We have various events or processes, therefore: cuttings, kickings, humiliatings, panickings, puncturings, smashings, blowings, and swellings. These are the things that really go on in the world and causation is perhaps just a label […]
Translations:
hairpin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
entertainment
lifestyle
music
natural-sciences
Etymology: From hair + pin, 1788 (as hair pin). Adjective sense 1906 in hairpin turn etc.
Base: hair
Inflected forms:
form: hairpins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hair pin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hair-pin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A pin or fastener for the hair.
pos: noun
gloss: A kind of ribozyme; hairpin ribozyme.
pos: noun
gloss: A very tight bend in a road; a hairpin bend.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
examples: The variety of angles in the course, from slow bends to hairpins, will both test your skill as a driver and allow you the opportunity to pass other carts.
gloss: An elongated horizontal v-shaped sign placed underneath a staff to indicate a crescendo or decrescendo.
pos: noun
Related words: hair bun
hairbun
barrette
dogleg
switchback
Derived words: hairpin bend
hairpin curve
hairpinned
hairpin transfer
hairpin turn
Sherman's hairpin
Translations:
kinfolk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From kin + folk.
Compound parts: kin
folk
Inflected forms:
form: kinfolks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kinfolk
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kinsfolk
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Relatives, relations.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: ‘You have kinfolks here though. Women. That used to live in this house.’
“Ah, woe is me! Alas, for my kingdom and my kinfolk!”
That says something about the nature of man—his fantasies of death that get enacted into the slaughter of man by man—kinfolk or strangers in droves—on every possible mindless occasion.
I'm in the 'land gettin' smoked with my kinfolk
Three 6 Mafia, them my kinfolk.
Translations:
great-grandchild
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English great-
English grand-
English child
English grandchild
English great-grandchild
From great- + grandchild.
Inflected forms:
form: great-grandchildren
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: great grandchild
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: greatgrandchild
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The child (son or daughter) of one's grandchild.
pos: noun
examples: She’s now a great-grandmother with three sons, a grandson and two great-grandchildren.
Translations:
condiment
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From late Middle English condiment, from Old French condiment, from Latin condimentum, from condīre (“to preserve, pickle, season”). See also condite and compare recondite.
Inflected forms:
form: condiments
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: condiments
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: condimenting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: condimented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: condimented
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Something used to enhance the flavor of food, for example, salt or pepper, especially when added by the eater to taste rather than by the cook.
pos: noun
examples: As a condiment in food, paprika is reputed to be strongly aphrodisiac.
Congressmen gleefully wolfed down every imaginable version of the hot dog – smoked kielbasas, jumbo grillers, Big & Juicy's, kosher dogs and spiced dogs – topped with every imaginable condiment – hot mustard, sweet mustard, jalapenos, spaghetti sauce, regular relish, corn relish, maple syrup salsa and the secret sauce of Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.). ("If I told you the recipe," an aide explained, "I'd have to shoot you.")
gloss: To season with condiments.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To pickle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
robbery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *Hrew-?
Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp-der.
Proto-Germanic *raubōną
Frankish *raubōnbor.
Late Latin raubāre
Old French rober
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Old French -ie
Old French roberiebor.
Middle English robberie
English robbery
From Middle English robberie, robry, roberie, from Old French roberie, from the verb rober (“to steal; to pillage”) + -ie. Ultimately from unattested Frankish *raubōn. By surface analysis, rob + -ery. Compare Dutch roverij (“robbery”), Norwegian Bokmål røveri (“robbery”), German Räuberei (“robbery, banditry”).
Displaced native Old English rēaflāc.
Inflected forms:
form: robberies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or practice of robbing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The offense of taking or attempting to take the property of another by force or threat of force.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: bank robbery
Related words: rob
robber
Derived words: antirobbery
armed robbery
bank robbery
daylight robbery
fair exchange is no robbery
highway robbery
Nairoberry
nonrobbery
strong-arm robbery
Translations:
larceny
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Coined in Middle English (as larceni) between 1425 and 1475 from Anglo-Norman larcin (“theft”), from Latin latrocinium (“robbery”), from latro (“robber, mercenary”), from Ancient Greek λάτρον (látron, “pay, hire”). Doublet of latrociny.
Inflected forms:
form: larcenies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The unlawful taking of personal property as an attempt to deprive the legal owner of it permanently.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: “Why are you walking around,” inquired Oedipa, “with your eyes closed, Metzger?” “Larceny,” Metzger said, “maybe they'll need a lawyer.”
He was prudent enough not to admit he was earning money, which went down well with you, for you knew already he was working “black,” as the Germans call it — meaning illegally, and at night. Shrewd chap, you thought; resourceful; not above a bit of larceny.
gloss: An individual instance of such a taking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: That young man already has four assaults, a DUI, and a larceny on his record.
Related words: larcenous
larcenist
Derived words: compound larceny
floral larceny
grand larceny
mixed larceny
petit larceny
petty larceny
simple larceny
Translations:
impartial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French impartial. See im- + partial.
Base: partial
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: more impartial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most impartial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: treating all parties, rivals, or disputants equally; not partial; not biased
pos: adj
examples: [W]e are to take a ſecond ſurvievv of our Abilities, to ſee if they be confidently fit for that vvhereto our inclination ſvvayeth us: and if upon due impartial examination vve find they are, vve may then follovv the ſvvay of our inclinations.
Antonyms: biased
bigoted
conflicted
interested
nonimpartial
partial
partisan
prejudiced
prepossessed
unfair
unimpartial
Translations:
oxblood
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From ox + blood.
Compound parts: ox
blood
Inflected forms:
form: more oxblood
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most oxblood
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A dark brownish-red colour.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The blood of an ox.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: […] we can change clothes, and with the aid of a bottle of oxblood, which is secreted about my person, we will deceive the tyrant, and spare a nobleman who does honour to Japan.
Vampires do urinate copiously on their victims, however, and the possibility exists that they relocate their victims by following the mixed scents of their own urine and butyric acid. Nothing is known about how they are able to relocate the precise wound made on a previous feeding sortie; it was thought they could respond to the odour of dried blood, but this has now been shown to be ineffective; cattle experimentally treated with oxblood are no more nor less attacked than untreated controls (Turner, 1975).
Gibreel smiles to himself, then quietly slides the window slightly open, lifts his glass of Coca Cola and pours it quickly into the water below. As he slides the window shut, his eyes meet Mira’s again and he smiles at her much more frankly. Then he guffaws and says, apparently to his partner but really across at her and loudly enough for her to hear: I don’t drink oxblood. Isn’t it, he adds for Indian idiom and bursts out laughing.
Animal products like blood, urine, manure, casein and animal glue have been used through the centuries to stabilise loam. Oxblood was commonly used as a binding and stabilising agent in former times. In Germany, the surfaces of rammed earth floors were treated with oxblood rendering them abrasion and wipe resistant.
Ryckeboer’s map shows the different complementisers used in the sentence Ik moet ossebloed drinken om te verkloeken lit. I must oxblood drink for to recover ‘I have to drink oxblood to recover.’
Le bon sens served Voltaire well: it enabled him to discredit much clerical propaganda and a good many naive and pedantic absurdities. But it also told him that the empires of Babylon and Assyria could not possibly have coexisted next door to each other in so confined a space; that accounts of temple prostitutes were obvious nonsense; that Cyrus and Croesus were fictional beings; that Themistocles could not possibly have died of drinking oxblood; that Belus and Ninus could not have been Babylonian kings, for ‘-us’ is not a Babylonian ending; that Xerxes did not flog the Hellespont.
Mr. Mac informed me that it was treated with oxblood and bee’s wax.
The Greeks said that after the defeat Midas committed suicide by drinking oxblood (Strabo 1, 3, 21).
Swinton frowned as one of the film’s protagonists downed a glass of oxblood, a stomach-churning opener to the meal the scene displayed.
gloss: Of a dark brownish-red colour.
pos: adj
examples: He was tall and lean, with lank fair hair and a square jaw, togged out in tweeds and a checked shirt and scuffed, oxblood brogues.
Translations:
bast
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English bast, from Old English bæst (“bast, inner bark of trees from which ropes were made”), from Proto-West Germanic *bast (compare the Swedish bast, Dutch bast, German Bast), perhaps an alteration of Proto-Indo-European *bʰask-, *bʰasḱ- (“bundle”) (compare Middle Irish basc (“necklace”), Latin fascis (“bundle”), Albanian bashkë (“tied, linked”)).
Inflected forms:
form: basts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bass
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Inner bark of a tree from which rope is traditionally made.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Fibre made from the phloem of certain plants (particularly the lime tree) and used for making ropes, cords and matting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [T]here would be seen his face, or that of his elder brother, peering down. A guttural sound, and the tip-tap of bast slippers beating the narrow wooden stairs, and he would stand before one without coat, a little bent, in leather apron, with sleeves turned back, blinking[…]
At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.
I thought I saw Him in the Long Walk there, by the bed of Nelly Roche, tending a fallen flower with a wisp of bast.
He had taken along a long bast rope in his sleigh, since it was the custom on longer journeys to have a spare rope in case the reins needed mending.
Translations:
redfish
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From red + fish.
Compound parts: red
fish
Inflected forms:
form: redfish
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: redfishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several species fish with red skin or flesh:
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several species fish with red skin or flesh:
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several species fish with red skin or flesh:
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several species fish with red skin or flesh:
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several species fish with red skin or flesh:
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several species fish with red skin or flesh:
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several species fish with red skin or flesh:
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several species fish with red skin or flesh:
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several species fish with red skin or flesh:
pos: noun
Related words: channel bass
red drum
rosefish
rose fish
Redfish Lake
Derived words: Acadian redfish
Atlantic redfish
deep-water redfish
Norway redfish
Translations:
evangelistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English evangelist
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English evangelistic
From evangelist + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more evangelistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most evangelistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to evangelism or evangelists; spreading the gospel.
pos: adj
gloss: Pertaining to the Evangelical school.
pos: adj
gloss: Characterised by enthusiasm and a desire to communicate belief.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: I was pretty evangelistic about the merits of working in a small team.
Related words: evangelistically
Translations:
leotard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after French acrobat Jules Léotard (1838–1870).
Inflected forms:
form: leotards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A one-piece skintight garment with or without sleeves and without legs (often worn by gymnasts, acrobats, wrestlers, female swimmers, etc.)
pos: noun
examples: Tomorrow is the day. Marie makes her first trip out of this notebook and into the world. I'm off to buy a leotard.
Translations:
red-pencil
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From red + pencil.
Compound parts: red
pencil
Inflected forms:
form: red-pencils
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: red-penciling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: red-pencilling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: red-penciled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: red-penciled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: red-pencilled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: red-pencilled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: To correct (written documents).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
blue-pencil
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: From blue + pencil.
Compound parts: blue
pencil
Inflected forms:
form: blue-pencils
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blue-penciling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: blue-pencilling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: blue-penciled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: blue-penciled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: blue-pencilled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: blue-pencilled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: To edit, especially to censor, written documents.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To use a line-item veto.
pos: verb
tags: slang
Related words: red-pencil
blue pencil doctrine
Translations:
redcoat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Bahuvrihi compound of red + coat.
Compound parts: red
coat
Inflected forms:
form: redcoats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: red coat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: red-coat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A British soldier (stemming from the military uniform of British infantry since the 17th century).
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The street sounds to the soldiers’ tread, / And out we troop to see: / A single redcoat turns his head, / He turns and looks at me.
He did not come in the dawning; he did not come at noon; / And out o' the tawny sunset, before the rise o' the moon, / When the road was a gypsy's ribbon, looping the purple moor, / A red-coat troop came marching— / Marching—marching— / King George's men came marching, up to the old inn-door.
gloss: A member of the entertainment staff at Butlin's holiday camps in the United Kingdom, who wear red blazers.
pos: noun
examples: The series ran from 1980 until 1988, and won a BAFTA for Best Comedy Series in 1984. It was based on Perry’s experiences working as a Redcoat in Butlins.
gloss: A fox.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Hurriedly he made his way around one end of the pond to the spot where he had first sighted the redcoat.
Translations: