yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
moonbat
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: From moon + bat. Originally the name of the XP-67 experimental aircraft, developed by McDonnell Aircraft in 1941. Used in the 1940s by the science-fiction writer Robert Heinlein, then used in the term “barking moonbat” coined in 1999 by Perry de Havilland of “The Libertarian Samizdata”, a right-libertarian weblog. This originally referred to both left-wing and right-wing crazy people. Sometimes wrongly claimed to be a corruption of Monbiot (from George Monbiot, British environmentalist and Guardian columnist).
Compound parts: moon
bat
Inflected forms:
form: moonbats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more moonbat
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most moonbat
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A liberal (someone with a left-wing ideology).
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
informal
examples: So, what do moonbat professors do when they're not attacking military recruiters, the Bush administration, cameramen, and College Republicans?
As nervous Bush supporters watched the president's approval rating slide, they unleashed their wrath on Sheehan, labeling the mourning mom a “crazy,” “anti-Semite,” “left-wing moonbat,” “crackpot” whose behavior bordered on “treasonous” and who was nothing more than a “hysterical noncombatant.”
Your job is to separate the media from the moonbats before some industrious cub reporter starts looking into our land deal.
gloss: (of ideas) Absurd or obviously untruthful.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
informal
examples: 20204: The Bulwark
Trump, who said last month at the Republican National Convention that he would never again retell the story of the attempt on his life “because it’s too painful to tell,” told that story with relish. He expounded at length on his usual moonbat fables about how countries around the world are emptying their prisons and mental institutions to send their convicts and lunatics to the United States.
Translations:
certainly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English certeynly; equivalent to certain + -ly.
Base: certain
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more certainly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: certainlier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
obsolete
rare
form: most certainly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: certainliest
pos: adv
tags: obsolete
rare
superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a way which is certain; with certainty.
pos: adv
examples: he verily thought he had young live frogs in his belly, qui vivebant ex alimento suo, that lived by his nourishment, and was so certainly persuaded of it, that for many years following he could not be rectified in his conceit.
The torque was "built up" in the special back axle and the car crawled tankwise but very certainly over the obstacles without a jar or hesitation.
gloss: Without doubt, surely.
pos: adv
examples: The accident was certainly caused by human error.
That was certainly sweet of him.
'I'm all grown up now' -'You certainly have (grown)!'
So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,[…]a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.
gloss: An emphatic affirmative answer; of course.
pos: adv
examples: Would you like it with ice?  Certainly, and with lemon please.
Synonyms: damn right
damn straight
fo shizzle
for sure
oh yeah
wye aye
assuredly
certainly
categorically
decisively
doubtless
ex facie
for a fact
for certain
positively
questionlessly
self-evidently
unarguably
undeniably
unconditionally
undoubtably
univocally
without doubt
without question
Antonyms: arguably
conditionally
debatably
deniably
doubtfully
questionably
uncertainly
Related words: certain
irrefutable
Derived words: soitenly
Translations:
immobile
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Old French immobile, from Latin immōbilis, equivalent to im- + mobile.
Base: mobile
Affixes: im-
Inflected forms:
form: immobiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Fixed, not movable.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: This figure, immobile and static in his heaviness, was assumed to be deeply asleep and therefore to introduce a note of humorous anecdotality to what should have been a tragic scene.
gloss: One who does not or cannot move (e.g. to travel or live elsewhere).
pos: noun
examples: […] if the constrained "immobiles" are given the same transportation access as the unconstrained "mobiles" […]
Table 6.5 does indeed show that non-changers were more contented […] For Table 6.7 shows that even when we take account of the initial differences between the mobiles and immobiles, the mobiles' ratings of job characteristics move strongly in a positive direction while all the immobiles' record negative shifts. So the pattern is clear and consistent: jobs get better for movers and worse for non-movers.
One ex-airwoman recalls meal times for both 'mobiles' and 'immobiles', when they sat on backless benches at long bare tables. The immobiles brought in their own food, crockery and cutlery. A free-standing iron range was used[…]
Antonyms: movable
Translations:
permissible
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
mining
Etymology: From Middle English permyssyble, from Old French permissible, from Medieval Latin permissibilis.
Inflected forms:
form: more permissible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most permissible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: permissibles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: permitted.
pos: adj
examples: [...] Mr. M. N. Rollason points out that on four-track lines on which the fast lines, in the centre, are flanked by the slow lines, and running at speed is permissible on all four, the traveller can enjoy some quite exciting experiences when trains are doing a "neck-and-neck" on adjacent lines.
The units will be allowed to run up to 90 m.p.h. between Chelmsford and Colchester, but their maximum speed of 100 m.p.h. is not permissible on the G.E. line.
Tony Bowen, of Brigade Electronics, a firm that spent three years developing a “quiet vehicle sounder”, said permissible frequencies and modulation under the regulation make it clear that the Avas should mimic an internal combustion engine.
gloss: permissive
pos: adj
tags: uncommon
examples: As regards the incorporation of anglicisms and despite the efforts of the Real Academia Española (an official regulatory body which aims at the purity of the language), Spanish has usually been considered a rather permissible language.
Japanese zoning is specified at a national level, and while local governments do have some control over their local developments, the end result is a zoning code that is very permissible compared to most other countries.
gloss: Any tool or device permitted for use in potentially explosive mine environments.
pos: noun
Synonyms: abideable
acceptable
admissible
allowable
permissible
sufferable
supportable
tolerable
Antonyms: impermissible
inacceptable
insufferable
insupportable
intolerable
nonacceptable
nonadmissible
nonallowable
nonpermissible
nontolerable
objectionable
unabideable
unacceptable
unallowable
unpermissible
unsufferable
unsupportable
untolerable
Related words: permissibly
permission
permit
Derived words: impermissible
nonpermissible
permissibility
permissibleness
unpermissible
Translations:
hedonist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sweh₂d-der.
Ancient Greek ἡδονή (hēdonḗ)
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 hedonist
From Ancient Greek ἡδονή (hēdonḗ, “pleasure”) + English -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: hedonists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone devoted to hedonism.
pos: noun
Translations:
invariant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English variant
English invariant
From in- + variant.
Inflected forms:
form: more invariant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most invariant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not varying; constant.
pos: adj
gloss: Unaffected by a specified operation, especially by a transformation.
pos: adj
examples: The fundamental 2-tensor also leads to a new class of invariant linear differential operators that are canonically associated to these geometries; included is a third equation studied by Gallot et al. We apply the results to study the metrisability equation, in the nullity setting described.
gloss: Neither covariant nor contravariant.
pos: adj
Related words: invariance
variant
variegate
various
vary
Derived words: antiinvariant
biinvariant
class invariant
hyperinvariant
invariantism
invariantist
invariantly
knot invariant
linear time-invariant
noninvariant
peninvariant
superinvariant
Translations:
blogosphere
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From blog + -o- + -sphere, possibly under the influence of biosphere, atmosphere, etc.
Base: blog
Affixes: -o-
-sphere
Inflected forms:
form: blogospheres
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The totality of blogs, especially the unique jargon, cultures and shared interests created by their interconnection.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: 2004 Air America Radio http://www.airamericaradio.com/
Regular guest and blogger, Kos of DailyKos.com, provides Sam and Janeane the latest information from the blogosphere.
The blogosphere is relentless: It rightfully hammered Eason Jordan and CNN from day one and refuses to stop.
there's some talk, as you said, on the blogosphere, that this book is controversial, but I think more properly it's a contribution...
And the liberal blogosphere has long labeled Clinton part of the neoconservative wing, a conservative intellectual movement that supports an interventionist foreign policy.
Translations:
etymon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *set-?
Ancient Greek ἐτεός (eteós)der.?
Ancient Greek ἔτῠμος (étŭmos)
Ancient Greek ἔτῠμον (étŭmon)bor.
English etymon
From Ancient Greek ἔτυμον (étumon, “the true sense of a word according to its origin”), from ἔτυμος (étumos, “true, real, actual”).
Inflected forms:
form: etyma
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: etymons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The original or earlier form of an inherited or borrowed word, affix, or morpheme either from an earlier period in a language's development, from an ancestral language, or from a foreign language.
pos: noun
examples: Here such cases as ghost words & misglosses, secondary semantics, different etymologies for one etymon or one etymology for different etyma, and finally semantic overpermissiveness are discussed.
The resulting citation collection was databased and coded for meaning, etymon, and date range (earliest and latest occurrence found).
Parricide, the more usual word, means (1) "the murder of one's own father"; or (2) "someone who murders his or her own father" […] It is also used in extended senses, such as "the murder of the ruler of a country" and "the murder of a close relative." These are not examples of slipshod extension, however, for even the Latin etymon (parricida) was used in these senses.
Translations:
blanco
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: blancos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blancoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blancoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blancoed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To polish using Blanco.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The Independence celebrations were coming, contingents of police had to be drilled and blancoed and starched before proceeding to Kuala Lumpur to represent the state.
2012, Pat Coppard, In Spite of Everything ......: A Life-Story of Fear, Heartbreak, Love, Trickery and Triumph
Eddie went back to his sea cadets, leading the band on Sunday mornings. He always looked very smart. He used to spend most of Saturday evening blancoing his kit and pressing his blue uniform.
Translations:
mulatto
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese and/or Spanish mulato (“of mixed breed, young mule”), from mulo (“mule”), from Latin mūlus (“mule”). Perhaps an allusion to the hybrid origin of mules. Doublet of mulato.
Inflected forms:
form: mulattoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mulattos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person of mixed black and white descent, especially a person with one black and one white parent or two mulatto parents.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
historical
sometimes
examples: Respectable folk who did not want trouble stayed withindoors; but young apprentices were abroad in force; Negroes and mulattoes; rope- makers and laborers from along the waterfront; and sailors hastening ashore from the ships […]
The supermodelesque mulatto woman licked her lips and smiled invitingly.
The official mouthpiece of the Rosas government, La Gaceta Mercantil, praised Afro-Argentines as “valiant defenders of liberty who have won fame and glory in a hundred battles,” adding that “General Rosas so appreciates the mulattos and morenos that he has no objection to seating them at his table and eating with them.”
In other respects, however, the persistence of racism against Afro-Argentines, Indians, and gauchos showed regrettable continuities with the colonial past.
Translations:
polystyrene
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús
Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor.
English poly-
Ancient Greek στύραξ (stúrax)der.
Latin styrax
French -ènebor.
English -ene
English styrene
English polystyrene
From poly- + styrene.
Inflected forms:
form: polystyrenes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A vinylic polymer of styrene, CH₂CHphenyl.
pos: noun
examples: It was 30 times lighter and more flexible than the polystyrene that had previously been used.
Gerri (Gemma Arterton): Well, he might not be begging. He might be waiting for somebody. / Tom: Of course he's begging. He's got a polystyrene cup in front of him.
gloss: An alkane chain of benzene molecules, RCH₂CHphenylR.
pos: noun
Synonyms: thermocol
Derived words: expanded polystyrene
polystyrene worm
styrofoam
Translations:
fingerstyle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From finger + style.
Compound parts: finger
style
Inflected forms:
form: fingerstyles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A style of playing a stringed instrument, such as a guitar, which includes the use of the fingers to pluck the strings instead of a pick, or plectrum.
pos: noun
Translations:
Meg
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Megs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Megalodon.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: The Bone Valley Region of Florida has multiple Miocene nursery sites in which neonate and young Meg teeth are abundant, as well as food sources. Young Megs probably consumed a lot of large fish but because fish vertebrae don't hold up well in the fossil record, it's difficult to get an accurate reading.
Translations:
ketchup
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain, but probably ultimately from Hokkien 膎汁 (kê-chiap, “fish sauce”) via Malay kecap ~ kicap “any dark clear sauce from soy, fish etc”, though the precise path is unclear – there are related words in various Chinese languages. Various other theories exist – see Ketchup: Etymology for extended discussion.
First appeared in English in the late 17th century in reference to a Southeast Asian sauce encountered by British traders and sailors. The Oxford English Dictionary notes that it was commonly used in the 18th century to refer to a variety of similar sauces with varying ingredients—"anchovies, mushrooms, walnuts, and oysters being particularly popular"—but by the late 19th century the current tomato ketchup became the most popular form.
Catsup (earlier catchup) is an alternative Anglicization, still in use in the U.S., though it is now somewhat rare.
Inflected forms:
form: ketchups
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ketchupping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ketchupped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ketchupped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: catchup
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: catsup
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: katsup
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: katjap
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: kechap
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: ketsup
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To cover with ketchup.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It strikes me she's "ketchupped" the lot! I won't touch a morsel!
"Well," said Chuck, ketchupping his hamburger, "I'd rather do without King Lear than put up with the human agony it sprang out of. I'd rather not have the Eroica than have the big bloody conqueror it tries to immortalize."
Their fellow diners, like their ketchupped grub, were appropriately dashed and splattered with paint and plaster, reading their Suns and Daily Mirror.
Translations:
uncouth
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English uncouth, from Old English uncūþ (“unknown; unfamiliar; strange”), from Proto-West Germanic *unkunþ, from Proto-Germanic *unkunþaz (“unknown”), equivalent to un- + couth. The modern pronunciation does not show /aʊ/, the usual development of the Middle English vowel from the Great Vowel Shift. It is usually explained as a pronunciation taken from Northern English dialects, which did not undergo the diphthongization of the vowel.
Base: couth
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: uncouther
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more uncouth
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: uncouthest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most uncouth
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Unfamiliar, strange, foreign.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: If this uncouth
forest yield anything savage, I will either be food for it or
bring it for food to thee.
The trouble of thy thoughts this night in sleep
Affects me equally; nor can I like
This uncouth' dream, of evil sprung I fear […]
There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols.
gloss: Clumsy, awkward.
pos: adj
gloss: Unrefined, crude.
pos: adj
examples: I don't want to associate with uncouth people.
Harsh words, though pertinent, uncouth appear: / None please the fancy, who offend the ear.
If Yule found it delightful, why did Kipling find it uncouth?
“I don’t think it’s uncouth to talk about it. I think it’s a reality that has to inform the urgency with which we approach those issues.”
Derived words: unco
uncouthly
uncouthness
Translations:
has-been
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: has-beens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: has been
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hasbeen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: has been
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: hasbeen
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person, especially one who was formerly popular or influential, who continues in their field after their popularity or effectiveness has peaked and is now in decline.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
informal
examples: When the aforesaid alderman or another wishes to express mild contemptuosity for his fellows and himself in future I would suggest “old fossils” or “old has beens,” or “old fogies,” then the Sir Galahads that are always riding—or driving—about in this progressive dorp will not have any cause to complain.
I think Apple Computer is a has-been.
Is it better to never be than to be and eventually become a has-been?
They're saying Sonny Hayes isn't a has-been. He's a never-was.
gloss: Of or pertaining to someone or something that was once popular, successful or important but is no longer considered so.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
informal
Translations:
antagonize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνταγωνίζομαι (antagōnízomai), from ἀντι- (anti-) + ἀγωνίζομαι (agōnízomai). By surface analysis, ant- + agon + -ize.
Base: ἀγωνίζομαι
Affixes: ἀντι-
Inflected forms:
form: antagonizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: antagonizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: antagonized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: antagonized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: antagonise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To work against; to oppose (especially to incite a reaction).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The other children constantly antagonized Joe to the point of tears.
Translations:
sequester
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
government
law
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English sequestren (verb) and sequestre (noun), from Old French sequestrer, from Late Latin sequestrō (“separate, give up for safekeeping”), from Latin sequester (“mediator, depositary”), probably originally meaning "follower", from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“follow”).
Inflected forms:
form: sequesters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sequestering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sequestered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sequestered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sequesters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To separate from all external influence; to seclude; to withdraw.
pos: verb
examples: The jury was sequestered from the press by the judge's order.
when men most sequester themselves from action
gloss: To separate in order to store.
pos: verb
examples: The coal burning plant was ordered to sequester its CO₂ emissions.
There has been some investigation into the potential of seaweeds as a carbon store, and although more is needed, one study says that seaweed habitats are believed to be the most productive of all coastal vegetated ecosystems, and suggested that the world’s seaweed sequesters as much carbon as all the planet’s seagrass meadows, saltmarshes and mangroves combined.
gloss: To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
pos: verb
examples: I had wholly sequestered my thoughts from civil affairs.
gloss: To prevent an ion in solution from behaving normally by forming a coordination compound.
pos: verb
gloss: To temporarily remove (property) from the possession of its owner and hold it as security against legal claims.
pos: verb
gloss: To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
pos: verb
examples: c. 1694, Robert South, sermon XXIV
It was his tailor and his cook, his fine fashions and his French ragouts, which sequestered him.
gloss: To remove (certain funds) automatically from a budget.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
examples: The Budget Control Act of 2011 sequestered 1.2 trillion dollars over 10 years on January 2, 2013.
gloss: To seize and hold enemy property.
pos: verb
gloss: To withdraw; to retire.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: to sequester out of the world into Atlantic and Utopian politics
gloss: To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
pos: verb
tags: dated
gloss: sequestration; separation
pos: noun
examples: A sequester from liberty , fasting , and prayer
gloss: A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a referee
pos: noun
gloss: A sequestrum.
pos: noun
Synonyms: segregate
Related words: sequel
sequence
sequacious
segue
Derived words: biosequester
cryosequester
geosequester
resequester
sequesterable
sequestered adjective
sequesterer
sequesterment
sequestrable adjective
sequestrate verb
sequestration noun
sequestrator noun
Translations:
jury
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
law
lifestyle
nautical
theater
transport
Etymology: From Middle English jure, from Anglo-Norman juree, from Medieval Latin iūrāta, from Latin iūrō (“to swear or take an oath”).
Inflected forms:
form: juries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: juries
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jurying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: juried
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: juried
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A group of individuals chosen from the general population to hear and decide a case in a court of law.
pos: noun
examples: And so the jury and he approached, as if this were a time of peace instead of one of the greatest world disturbances ever known in history, the question whether the prosecution had proved to the jury’s satisfaction that George Joseph Smith was guilty of murder. The jury were the shield which stood between him and death, unless, to the jury’s satisfaction, he was proved to be guilty. Yet while they were the shield of the man accused, they were also the Sword of the State; and if the man were proved guilty, they were the servants of the State to punish him. Their respective functions were these: he the judge, had to settle the law, and the jury must take the law from him. The jury were judges of fact.
gloss: A group of judges in a competition.
pos: noun
gloss: The audience attending the first night of a performance, whose reaction may determine whether it succeeds or fails.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: The jury which decides on the first night usually seals the fate of the season.
The widespread idea that before a first-night the audience, dressed to the nose, dines en masse at the Colony and proceeds elegantly to the scene in Hispanos is as fabulous as that which imagines it assembles at Lindy's delicatessen in yesterday's shirt and moves on to the theatre in garbage wagons. And no less spurious is the theory that, in either case or in both together, the jury is possessed of a remarkably rich acumen in the matter of theatrical values.
gloss: To judge by means of a jury.
pos: verb
gloss: For temporary use; applied to a temporary contrivance.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: jury mast
jury rudder
Derived words: antijury
be judge and jury
grand jury
hung jury
judge, jury and executioner
jury box
jury duty
jury equity
jury is out
juryless
juryman
jury mast
jury nullification
jury of half-tongue
jury of matrons
jury panel
juryperson
jury pool
jury rig
jury-rigged
jury rigging
jury service
jury tampering
jury trial
jurywoman
nonjury
party jury
petit jury
petty jury
police jury
pyx jury
strike a jury
struck jury
the jury is still out
traverse jury
trial by jury
Translations:
jurisprudence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin iūrisprūdentiabor.
English jurisprudence
Borrowed from Latin iūrisprūdentia (“expertise in the law”).
Inflected forms:
form: jurisprudences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The theoretical study of law.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Case law, or the body of case law regarding a certain subject.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: There is considerable jurisprudence to the effect that only the evidence that was before the initial decision-maker should be considered by the Court on judicial review.
The concept of consent can be complicated, so much so that it is the subject of considerable jurisprudence and a formal definition in the Criminal Code.
Related words: prudence
jurisprude
jurisprudent
jurisprudist
Derived words: demosprudence
medical jurisprudence
Translations:
colossal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek κολοσσός (kolossós)bor.
Latin colossusslbor.
French colosse
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -al
Middle French -al
French -al
French colossalder.
English colossal
From French colossal, formed from Latin colossus, from Ancient Greek κολοσσός (kolossós, “giant statue”).
Inflected forms:
form: more colossal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most colossal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Extremely large or on a great scale.
pos: adj
examples: A single puppy can make a colossal mess.
Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
What is wrong with you, you colossal fucking creep⁉ You found the only possible wrong answer to that question! “What’s your favorite color? Hitler.”
gloss: Amazingly spectacular; extraordinary; epic.
pos: adj
examples: "It's just the very biggest thing that I ever heard of!" said I, though it was my journalistic rather than my scientific enthusiasm that was roused. "It is colossal. You are a Columbus of science who has discovered a lost world."
Related words: colosseum
colossus
Derived words: colossally
colossalness
colossal squid
hypercolossal
mega-colossal
supercolossal
ultracolossal
Translations:
illusionist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English illusion
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 illusionist
From illusion + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: illusionists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who works with illusion or sleight of hand.
pos: noun
gloss: One who deceives by magical or mystical means.
pos: noun
Derived words: illusionistic
Translations:
aesthetics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewis-dʰh₁
Proto-Hellenic *awistʰomai
Ancient Greek αἰσθάνομαι (aisthánomai)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Ancient Greek αἴσθησῐς (aísthēsĭs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
Ancient Greek αἰσθητικός (aisthētikós)bor.
Latin aesthēticusder.
German Ästhetikder.
▲
New Latin aesthēticusbor.
French esthétiqueder.
English aesthetic
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
Old English -as
Middle English -es
English -s
English -ics
English aesthetics
From aesthetic + -ics.
Inflected forms:
form: aesthetics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: esthetics
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
form: æsthetics
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: The study or philosophy of beauty.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: At a glance, Thor Steinar resembles waspy American pseudo-collegiate brands like Abercrombie and Fitch, Hollister, and Aeropostale, while displaying a distinctly Nordic aesthetics.
gloss: An artist's principles, preferences, and/or his agenda
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: aesthetic
aestheticism
Derived words: ethnoaesthetics
experimental aesthetics
neuroaesthetics
phonoaesthetics
psycho-aesthetics
somaesthetics
Translations:
comeliness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English comely
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 comeliness
From comely + -ness (“the quality of being”).
Inflected forms:
form: comelinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: comliness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Quality of being comely; beauty, attractiveness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Hereat Alaeddin arose and took horse, his Mamelukes riding a-van and a-rear of him, and they were such that all must cry, "Laud to the Lord who created them and clothed them with such beauty and loveliness." And they scattered gold amongst the crowd in front of their master who surpassed them all in comeliness and seemlihead[…]
Translations:
marital
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French marital, and its source, Latin marītālis, from marītus (“husband”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to marriage.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: marital affairs
marital bliss
marital issues
marital pleasure
marital sex
marital status
marital home
marital rights
They sought counseling for their marital problems.
gloss: Pertaining to a husband.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
Related words: matrimonial
conjugal
spousal
Derived words: antemarital
extramarital
have marital relations
intermarital
intramarital
marital aid
marital congress
marital duties
marital embrace
maritality
maritally
marital rape
marital rapist
marital separation
marital status
nonmarital
postmarital
premarital
Translations:
monogamy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French monogamie, from Late Latin monogamia, from Ancient Greek μονογαμία (monogamía). By surface analysis, mono- + -gamy.
Inflected forms:
form: monogamies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A form of sexual bonding involving a permanent pair bond between two beings.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Some bird species practice lifelong monogamy.
The society traditionally values monogamy.
lifelong monogamy
practice monogamy
strict monogamy
gloss: The practice of being married to one person as opposed to multiple.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: antimonogamy
nonmonogamy
serial monogamy
supermonogamy
Translations:
termite
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inferred singular of termites, the plural of Latin termes (“woodworm”), which was used for termites by Linnaeus.
Inflected forms:
form: termites
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: termites
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: termiting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: termited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: termited
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A white-bodied, wood-consuming insect of the infraorder Isoptera, in the order Blattodea.
pos: noun
examples: Linnæus describes this insect under the Latin name of Termes; and citizen Cuvier speaks of it under that of Termites. The vulgar call it by that of white ant, or fourmi vaguevague. The termites divide themselves into societies: each society builds itself a next, and each nest belongs to an innumerable quantity of these insects, who acknowledge for their chiefs a king and a queen.
gloss: A contemptible person.
pos: noun
examples: This two faced termite has the nerve to talk.
gloss: Of a chimpanzee: to catch termites by inserting a stick or vine into their nest and waiting for them to climb up it.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: antitermite
Formosan termite
supertermite
termital
termitary
termitic
termiticidal
termitophagy
termitophile
compass termite
dampwood termite
magnetic termite
termite bug
termite of the sea
turmite
Translations:
extent
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
law
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English extente, from Anglo-Norman extente and Old French estente (“valuation of land, stretch of land”), from estendre, extendre (“extend”) (or from Latin extentus), from Latin extendere (See extend.)
Inflected forms:
form: extents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A range of values or locations.
pos: noun
gloss: The space, area, volume, point, or abstract location, to which something extends.
pos: noun
examples: I'm a thoroughgoing pragmatist to the fullest extent of the word.
The extent of his knowledge of the language is a few scattered words.
But when they came where that dead Dragon lay, / Stretcht on the ground in monstrous large extent
The surface of the Balaton and the surrounding marshes is not less than 24 German square miles, or 384 English square miles; its principal feeder is the Szala, but all the water it receives appears inconsiderable relatively to its superficial extent, and the quantity lost in evaporation.
[S]he [Edwina, mother of Tennessee Williams] was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams' play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.
gloss: A contiguous area of storage in a file system.
pos: noun
examples: Each extent contains one or more contiguous clusters. The file system describes each extent with two numbers: the number of the first cluster in the extent, and the number of clusters in the extent.
gloss: The valuation of property.
pos: noun
gloss: A writ directing the sheriff to seize the property of a debtor, for the recovery of debts of record due to the Crown.
pos: noun
examples: Well, push him out of doors;
And let my officers of such a nature
Make an extent upon his house and lands.
Do this expediently, and turn him going.
Synonyms: extent
expanse
extension
measure
Related words: extend
extense
completely
entirely
wholly
to a full extent
almost entirely
nearly
overwhelmingly
mostly
largely
predominantly
mainly
to a large extent
half
partially
to some extent
to an extent
somewhat
slightly
very slightly
not at all
complete
full
total
partial
incomplete
slight
degree
scope
quantity
Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 52. Completeness
Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 51. Part
Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 32. Smallness
Derived words: extentive
extentless
extent of occurrence
multiextent
optical extent
page extent
to a greater extent
to a great extent
to a large extent
to a lesser extent
to an extent
to some extent
Translations:
monotonous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English monotone
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos
Latin -ōsus
Old French -usbor.
Middle English -ous
English -ous
English monotonous
From monotone + -ous.
Inflected forms:
form: more monotonous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most monotonous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having an unvarying pitch or tone.
pos: adj
examples: "But my daughter—but the Lady Eveline"—said the Fleming, with some slight change in his monotonous voice, which seemed to express doubt and perplexity—"You are cruel conquerors, and—"
gloss: Tedious, repetitious, or lacking in variety.
pos: adj
examples: [L]istening for a moment, she heard the monotonous and heavy tread of the soldier echoing through the passage.
Related words: monotone
monotony
Derived words: monotonously
monotonousness
nonmonotonous
unmonotonous
Translations:
variation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
biology
entertainment
genetics
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
mathematics
medicine
music
natural-sciences
nautical
sciences
transport
Etymology: From Middle French variation, from Old French variacion, from Latin variātiō, from vary + -ation.
Base: vary
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: variations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, and individual plants are highly heterozygous and do not breed true. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better.
gloss: A related but distinct thing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: When the process didn't work, we tried a variation.
All of his soups are variations on a single recipe.
Selfishness has different variations, but in the end it is all the same.
gloss: The angular difference at the vessel between the direction of true north and magnetic north.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A line of play that differs from the original.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A technique where material is repeated with alterations to the melody, harmony, rhythm, timbre, texture, counterpoint or orchestration; but with some invariant characteristic, e.g. a ground bass.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The modification of a hereditary trait.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Deviation from the mean orbit of a heavenly body.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The situation where two or more linguistic forms appear in the same environment without a change in meaning, the choice of form being determined by factors of dialect, sociolect, register or simply the speaker's preference.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: An infinitesimal perturbation applied to a function, typically denoted δf, used to probe how a functional changes.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The corresponding first-order change in a functional induced by such a perturbation, typically denoted δJ[f] and called the first variation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: vary
variant
Derived words: antigenic variation
copy number variation
elegant variation
equivalent variation
free variation
Linburg-Comstock variation
magnetic variation
theme and variations
variation compass
variation of the field
variation ratio
variation selector
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 變分 /变分
roman: biànfēn
lang: Japanese
word: 変分
roman: henbun
ruler
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English reuler; equivalent to rule + -er.
Base: rule
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: rulers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rulers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rulering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rulered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rulered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A (usually rigid), flat, rectangular measuring or drawing device with graduations in units of measurement; a straightedge with markings.
pos: noun
examples: Take this ruler. […] I want you to measure the glass of the lamp.
gloss: A person who rules or governs; someone or something that exercises dominion or controlling power over others.
pos: noun
examples: The carcharhinids are unquestionably the rulers of the seas, because of their abundance, their strength and speed, and their unchallenged position as the number one predators in the marine ecosystem.
LIKE THE MANDARINS of old, the rulers of China live behind high walls. When they emerge, which they rarely do, they travel in cars with rear windows curtained like sedan chairs.
They live in the Chung Nan Hai, a walled park adjacent to the Forbidden City from where ancient dynasties ruled the Celestial Empire.
gloss: To beat with a ruler (as a traditional school punishment).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: overling
provost
ruler
Related words: caliph
generalissimo
head of state
leader
magistrate
magnate
mogul
shogun
tycoon
grand poobah
high muckamuck
nabob
Eminence
Excellency
Grace
Highness
Lordship
Majesty
Royal Highness
Sire
boss
important person
Derived words: agate ruler
architect's ruler
coruler
co-ruler
drafter's ruler
home ruler
overruler
parallel ruler
patchwork ruler
planet-ruler
puppet ruler
ruleress
rulerless
rulership
scale ruler
sign ruler
standard ruler
subruler
Translations:
regulate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin regulatus, perfect passive participle of regulō (“to direct, rule, regulate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from regula (“rule”), from regō (“to keep straight, direct, govern, rule”). Compare regle, rail. Displaced native Old English metegian.
Inflected forms:
form: regulates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: regulating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: regulated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: regulated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To dictate policy.
pos: verb
gloss: To control or direct according to rule, principle, or law.
pos: verb
examples: the laws which regulate the succession of the seasons
The herdsmen near the frontier adjudicated their own disputes, and regulated their own police.
But on Tuesday, Sam Altman[…] testified before members of a Senate subcommittee and largely agreed with them on the need to regulate the increasingly powerful A.I. technology being created inside his company and others like Google and Microsoft.
The NFA has been a flashpoint for advocates, who say that silencers are not frequently used in crime and believe that the silencers and other weapons regulated under the law, including machine guns and short-barreled rifles and shotguns, are protected by the Second Amendment.
gloss: To adjust (a mechanism) for accurate and proper functioning.
pos: verb
examples: to regulate a watch, i.e. adjust its rate of running so that it will keep approximately standard time
to regulate the temperature of a room, the pressure of steam, the speed of a machine, etc.
gloss: To put or maintain in order.
pos: verb
examples: to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances
to regulate one's eating habits
Related words: rule
ruler
regular
regulation
regulator
Derived words: autoregulate
coregulate
coregulating
counterregulate
crossregulate
deregulate
downregulate
dysregulate
hyperregulate
hyporegulate
immunoregulate
immunoregulating
interregulate
irregulate
mechanoregulate
microregulate
misregulate
myoregulin
nonregulating
osmoregulate
overregulate
phosphoregulate
photoregulate
regulatability
regulatable
regulative
regulon
reregulate
reregulation
retroregulate
self-regulate
self-regulating
thermoregulate
transregulate
underregulate
unregulate
upregulate
Translations:
dictate
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1581; borrowed from Latin dictātum (“a thing said, something dictated”), substantivized from the nominative neuter singular of dictātus, the perfect passive participle of dictō (“pronounce or declare repeatedly; dictate”), frequentative of dīcō (“say, speak”). Doublet of diktat.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: dictates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dictates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dictating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dictated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dictated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An order or command.
pos: noun
examples: I must obey the dictates of my conscience.
gloss: To order, command, control.
pos: verb
examples: Etiquette dictates that wedding invitations should be acknowledged in writing.
Trademark Owners will nevertheless try to dictate how their marks are to be represented, but dictionary publishers with spine can resist such pressure.
gloss: To speak in order for someone to write down the words.
pos: verb
examples: She is dictating a letter to a stenographer.
The French teacher dictated a passage from Victor Hugo.
gloss: To determine or decisively affect.
pos: verb
examples: He had offered, and been refused! There was that in her own nature, which sympathised with the pride, for such she held to be the motive, dictating the refusal.
Geology dictates the approximate location of the tunnel.
I didn't lay this bar, or the restaurant for that matter, out on paper. The design was dictated by the materials.
Related words: dictation
dictator
dictatress
dictatoress
dictatrix
Derived words: dictatable
dictater
dictatingly
misdictate
redictate
undictated
undictating
Translations: