yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
celadon
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from the French céladon, from the character named Céladon, who wore pale green ribbons, in the novel L'Astrée by Honoré d'Urfé, from Latin Celadon, a warrior's name in Ovid's Metamorphoses, related to Ancient Greek κέλᾰδος (kélădos, “din, clamour”).
Inflected forms:
form: celadons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more celadon
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most celadon
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A pale green colour, possibly tinted with gray.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Eau de Nil (“water of the Nile”) is a tricky color to pin down precisely. It is a light-greenish hue, more saturated than celadon, less gray than sage.
gloss: A pale green Chinese glaze.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A ceramic ware with a pale green glaze.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Of a pale green colour tinted with gray.
pos: adj
examples: [H]e stroked a soft blue cat with celadon eyes which had appeared from nowhere and now made itself comfortable in his lap […].
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 青瓷
roman: qīngcí
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 秘色
roman: mìsè
lang: Dutch
word: celadon
lang: French
word: céladon
lang: Italian
word: celadon
lang: Japanese
word: 青磁
roman: seiji
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: celadon
lang: Polish
word: celadon
lang: Polish
word: seladon
lang: Russian
word: селадо́н
roman: seladón
lang: Spanish
word: celadón
lang: Swedish
word: celadon
lang: Vietnamese
word: men ngọc bích
lang: Azerbaijani
word: seladon
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 青瓷
roman: qīngcí
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 秘色瓷
roman: mìsècí
lang: Dutch
word: celadon
lang: Estonian
word: seladon
lang: French
word: céladon
lang: German
word: Seladon
lang: Hungarian
word: szeladon
lang: Italian
word: celadon
lang: Japanese
word: 青磁
roman: seiji
lang: Korean
word: 청자
roman: cheongja
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: celadon
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: seladon
lang: Polish
word: celadon
lang: Polish
word: seladon
lang: Russian
word: селадо́н
roman: seladón
lang: Spanish
word: celadón
lang: Swedish
word: celadon
lang: Ukrainian
word: селадо́н
roman: seladón
lang: Vietnamese
word: đồ tráng men ngọc bích
breeding
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: LGBT
Etymology: From Middle English breedyng, bredynge (“gestation, incubation, propagation, hatching; engineering, formation, development, growth”), equivalent to breed + -ing.
Base: breed
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: breedings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Propagation of offspring through sexual reproduction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In analysing the ecological conditions of an animal population we have above all to focus our attention upon the most sensitive stages within the life cycle of the animal, that is, the period of breeding and larval development.
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.
gloss: The act of insemination by natural or artificial means.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of copulation in animals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The good manners regarded as characteristic of the aristocracy and conferred by heredity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Nurture; education; formation of manners.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She had her breeding at my father's charge.
gloss: Descent; pedigree; extraction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Your dog has good breeding.
Honest gentlemen, I know not your breeding.
gloss: Ejaculation inside the rectum during bareback anal sex.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: Of, relating to or used for breeding.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Your toothbrush is a breeding ground for bacteria.
Derived words: antibreeding
breeding hips
cobreeding
cross-breeding
dog breeding
inbreeding
linebreeding
line breeding
nonbreeding
non-breeding
outbreeding
postbreeding
prebreeding
selective breeding
stockbreeding
unbreeding
xbreeding
breeding ground
Translations:
apple-green
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: apple-greens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: apple green
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more apple-green
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most apple-green
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: apple green
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A bright green colour with a light tint of yellow, like that of a Granny Smith apple.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: New bills always seemed to have such a lovely pale green colour, apple-green.
gloss: Of an apple-green colour.
pos: adj
Translations:
nonchalant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Borrowed from French nonchalant, from Old French nonchaloir (“to be unconcerned”), from non- (“not”) + chaloir (“to have concern for”), from Latin non (“not”) + calēre (“to be warm”).
Compound parts: non-
chaloir
Inflected forms:
form: more nonchalant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nonchalant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Casually calm and relaxed.
pos: adj
examples: We handled the whole frenetic situation with a nonchalant attitude.
On the other hand, to arrive after dusk, when the multitude of garish little public-houses are lit up, giving glimpses of crowded jostling bars and taprooms, is an introduction to a fine city well calculated to affect even the most nonchalant.
[…] The Mexican government's response to the American bombing was admirably laid back. General Enrique Diaz Gonzales and Consul General Raul Michel met with United States officials, who issued apologies and an invitation to come to "the next rocket shoot" at White Sands. The Mexican citizenry was similarly nonchalant. "Bomb Blast Fails to Halt Spring Fiesta," said the El Paso Times headline, noting that "many thought the explosion was a cannon fired for the opening of the fiesta."
Undaunted by the occasion, Ruthe went on to become the first 15-year-old to run a sub-four-minute mile, even managing a nonchalant shrug of the shoulders as he crossed the finish line.
gloss: Indifferent; unconcerned; behaving as if detached.
pos: adj
examples: He is far too nonchalant about such a serious matter.
Synonyms: cool
mellow
easygoing
carefree
unconcerned
Antonyms: careful
attentive
concerned
chalant
Related words: nonchalance
Derived words: nonchalantism
nonchalantly
nonchalantness
Translations:
authentication
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English authenticate
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 authentication
From authenticate + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: authentications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something which validates or confirms the authenticity of something; or the process of doing so.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: document authentication
strong authentication
The museum required scientific tests for the authentication of the painting.
gloss: Proof of identity required by a user to log on to some network or access some resource.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: digital authentication
Online banking uses two-factor authentication.
gloss: A hallmark or assay-mark on a piece of metalwork.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: authentification
Derived words: deauthentication
multi-factor authentication
nonauthentication
reauthentication
two-factor authentication
Translations:
allegiance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English alegiaunce, from Anglo-Norman alegaunce (“loyalty of a liege-servant to one's lord”), variant of Old French ligeance, from lige (“vassal, liegeman”). More at liege.
Inflected forms:
form: allegiances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: allegiaunce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Loyalty or commitment to a cause, group, nation or of a subordinate to a superior.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: With what a feeling of joyful security did her heart go back to its old allegiance! Till now she had scarcely been aware of its strength, for she had known it but by its disappointment—now she fully admitted that early and passionate emotion with which Robert Evelyn had inspired her was indeed her destiny;...
It was always going to be a hot occasion for Declan Rice and Jack Grealish, the one-time Ireland internationals who subsequently switched their allegiances.
Translations:
gotcha
Part of speech: intj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English got
English -cha
English gotcha
From got + -cha.
Inflected forms:
form: gotchya
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: gottcha
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: gotchu
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: gotchas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gotchya
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gottcha
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gotchu
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: I have got you covered, I've got your back (said by a speaker who has an advantage or responsibility over someone).
pos: intj
tags: colloquial
examples: Gotcha! Go on in...
gloss: I caught you (as when successfully bringing someone to reckoning or effecting some form of retribution).
pos: intj
tags: colloquial
examples: Gotcha! And don't ever do that to me again.
gloss: I got you by surprise (indicating a successful trick or prank).
pos: intj
tags: colloquial
examples: Gotcha! You never noticed the whoopie cushion!
gloss: I understand you or what you said.
pos: intj
tags: colloquial
examples: Gotcha! You just want me to stay here for now.
gloss: A potential problem or source of trouble.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: Review the work thoroughly and make sure there are no gotchas.
gloss: A potential problem or source of trouble.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: An instance of publicly tricking someone or exposing them to ridicule, especially by means of an elaborate deception.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: gotcha question
They change the number at random intervals and if you miss a sign. What a gotcha!
gloss: An attempt to disprove or refute someone's argument, usually (but not necessarily) in a deceptive or disingenuous way.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: You're asking me a ridiculous hypothetical question that no one can reasonably answer. You need to stop with your gotchas.
The gotcha in your second paragraph needs more developing. You don't have enough evidence that the author is contradicting himself.
gloss: An instance of accomplishing a tricky idea or overcoming a difficult obstacle.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: Now here's another few gotchas that you can do to implement it.
Wireless was the first gotcha when installing the distro.
Related words: getcha
gotta
letcha
letchya
user-friendly
Derived words: game of gotcha
gotcha journalism
Translations:
hasta
Part of speech: intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish hasta (“until”), especially hasta luego (“until later”).
Inflected forms:
form: hastas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: goodbye
pos: intj
tags: colloquial
gloss: A hand gesture used to depict the meaning of a song
pos: noun
examples: A prudent prayer, and a vigorous dance, with many interwoven leaps and twirls and pirouettes, and hastas all around.
Translations:
kinda
Part of speech: adv
intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Written form of a reduction (apocope) or pronunciation spelling of kind of.
Inflected forms:
form: kinder
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: kinder
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: kindas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Kind of; somewhat.
pos: adv
tags: colloquial
not-comparable
examples: I kinda hafta do this right now.
That’s kinda funny.
But when I spoke about it he just smiled and shook his head, and started whistling to himself kinda soft.
… He got on Forty-second Street, and he was kinda fresh from the start. At Sixty-sixth he came sasshaying^([sic]) right down the car and said ‘Hello, patootie!’ Well, I drew myself up …
In those days, flour sacks was kinda purty. They might come printed up with flowers on em, or birds.
The facial expression on my mask kinda looks like Han Solo in the carbonite …
It makes me feel better that I’m not the only one who fantasizes about being struck down by a meteor on my way to work. Mind you, I’m not actively suicidal at all. I just kinda think being dead without actually killing myself would be easier and way less exhausting.”
gloss: Yes in some respects but no in other respects.
pos: intj
examples: "Are you afraid of a little bit of rain?" "Kinda, yeah."
Ah, I see. Meely doesn't tease you. You're best friends, is that right? / Kinda.
gloss: A subspecies of baboon, Papio cynocephalus kindae, primarily found in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, and possibly western Tanzania.
pos: noun
examples: In the wild, when a baboon called a kinda pairs with a chacma or yellow baboon, their progeny is still a baboon — but it's a hybrid of interest to Society grantees Jane Phillips-Conroy and Clifford Jolly, who are tracking gene flow in Zambia's South Luangwa National Park.
Translations:
dunno
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Written form of an informal pronunciation of don't know that is a reduction of do not know or does not know.
Inflected forms:
form: dunnos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: donno
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An utterance of the word dunno.
pos: noun
Translations:
jack-in-the-box
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: jacks-in-boxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jacks-in-the-boxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jack-in-the-boxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jacks-in-the-box
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Children’s toy consisting of a small box from which a male figure pops out unexpectedly after some turnings of a crank.
pos: noun
examples: "Did you venture to call me a liar?" ("No, sir, no!" shouted the accused, and disappeared like a Jack-in-the-box.)
“There’s this terrible business to start with. Scotland Yard men in and out of the house like a jack-in-the-box! Never know where they won’t turn up next.”
Normally, you ring a bell and you have at least a half-minute wait before the door opens. But this person was like a jack-in-the-box. He pressed the bell—and out she popped! It made him jump.
gloss: A small but powerful kind of screw, used by burglars to break open safes.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: It was possible, from underneath, to use the old jack-in-the-box safe-breaker's tool which lay in his gasman's bag.
gloss: A con-man who deceived tradesmen by substituting empty boxes for others full of money.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Related words: Jack o’ the clock
Derived words: jack-in-the-box effect
Translations:
biodiversity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os)
Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der.
English bio-
English diversity
English biodiversity
From bio- + diversity.
Inflected forms:
form: biodiversities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The diversity (number and variety of species) of plant and animal life within a region.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A drop in global biodiversity is putting our ability to produce food at risk, a new United Nations report warns.
Translations:
disconnect
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Scientology
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
▲
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin nectō
Latin cōnectō
Latin connectō
English connect
English disconnect
From dis- + connect.
Inflected forms:
form: disconnects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disconnecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disconnected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disconnected
pos: verb
tags: past
form: disconnects
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To sever or interrupt a connection.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: My wi-fi got disconnected.
Accordingly, Mitchell and his fireman, apparently without removing the engine from the up line, set to work and disconnected the motion on the defective side, after which Fireman Richardson, who probably had done the lion's share of the work, betook himself to the refreshment room and had a cup of coffee.
gloss: To remove the connection between an appliance and an electrical power source.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Of a person, to become detached or withdrawn.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: A break or interruption in an existing connection, continuum, or process; disconnection.
pos: noun
gloss: A switch used to isolate a portion of an electrical circuit.
pos: noun
gloss: A lack of connection or accord; a mismatch.
pos: noun
examples: There's a disconnect between what they think is happening and what is really going on.
Some of the disconnect between the economy’s problems and the solutions offered by Washington stem from the nature of the current political debate.
"On top of this, many leading competitor attractions are hands-on, experimental, immersive, and tell a story. With a growing generational disconnect from our industrial past, is coming here for just a train ride any longer enough for people?
gloss: The deliberate severing of ties with family, friends, etc. considered antagonistic towards Scientology.
pos: noun
Synonyms: decouple
detach
disconnect
disengage
rip off
tear off
unconnect
uncouple
unfasten
unhitch
Antonyms: adhere
join
connect
Related words: liberate
release
misconnect
Derived words: disconnectable
disconnective
loop disconnect dialing
Translations:
oodles
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps from scadoodles (“unspecified large amount, number, or quantity”) (US, slang) (although the Oxford English Dictionary notes this is attested slightly later), or from boodle (“whole collection or lot”) (US, dialectal), caboodle (“large collection of people or things”) (US, slang) + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum).
Affixes: -s
Inflected forms:
form: oodle
pos: noun
tags: singular
Senses:
gloss: unspecified large amount, number, or quantity; lots, tons.
pos: noun
tags: informal
plural
plural-normally
examples: "Along the lake where I went camping once there were oodles of a bright purple thing." / "I don't know what that was," my mother said. "I've never lived near the water. The purplest thing around here is joe-pye weed. We can look him up and see if he has any relatives. Come to think of it, the book had a color index."
Minimalist yet soothing décor, private pools and steam rooms […] and simply oodles of class make this one of the island's top choices. Honeymoon, anyone?
Translations:
biotechnology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os)
Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der.
English bio-
English technology
English biotechnology
From bio- + technology.
Inflected forms:
form: biotechnologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The use of living organisms (especially microorganisms) in industrial, agricultural, medical and other technological applications.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Japan's strength lies in more traditional biotechnology such as fermentation.
The developments in biotechnology, particularly with the basic understanding of genetics, immunology, biochemistry, biochemical engineering and molecular biology, have paved the way for major biotechnology products and processes and have provided tools to the manufacturing and service industry.
Moreover, Arnhart points out that both the proponents and critics of biotechnology are compelled to appeal to our natural moral sense.
gloss: The application of the principles and practices of engineering and technology to the life sciences.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Agricultural biotechnology comprises a collection of scientific techniques, including genetic engineering, that are used to modify and improve plants, animals and microorganisms for human profit. Agricultural biotechnologies are not a substitute for conventional plant and animal breeding, but can be a powerful complement to improving the efficiency and sustainability of agricultural production.
2008, Yutaka Tanaka, Attitude toward Bioethics and Acceptance of Biotechnology, William G. Flynne (editor), Biotechnology and Bioengineering, page 175,
The result of study 3 suggests that the factor of bioethics is important not only for the acceptance of biotechnologies themselves, such as gene recombination technology and clone technology, but also the acceptance of foods and products which are produced by the use of biotechnologies.
It therefore follows that we need to ensure that the conception, development, dissemination and application of biotechnologies are held to ethical democratic standars which ensure gender equality.
gloss: genetic engineering
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: bioengineering
biomimetics
biomodification
bionics
genetic engineering
Derived words: agribiotechnology
agrobiotechnology
biotech
biotechnological
cryobiotechnology
nanobiotechnology
photobiotechnology
prebiotechnology
Translations:
one-off
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From one + off. Probably from foundry work, for which making reusable molds is expensive and expediency makes the rule for molds not to be used only once.
A term long used by artists who are printmakers and sculptors to indicate a unique print or casting. If using traditional edition numbering, a one-off would be a "1/1", which is said, "one of one" meaning the first print in an edition of one.
Base: one
Inflected forms:
form: more one-off
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most one-off
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: one-offs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Occurring once, independent of any pattern; one-time.
pos: adj
examples: The government insisted that the embarrassing loss of the tax records was a one-off event.
Seeing Halley's Comet is a one-off, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
If such a casting was wanted in a hurry — a one-off job — there would be no question of molding it on a machine.
Moreover, given that recent measures to cut the deficit have been more one-off than of a structural fiscal nature, meeting this debt target is likely only
A County Fermanagh woman has officiated at the formal registration of the birth of Princess Charlotte at Kensington Palace. It's the second time she's been on royal baby duty at the palace as she previously officiated at the registration of Prince George. She said at the time that it was a "one-off" honour, but that has now been disproved with a repeat visit for Princess Charlotte.
In July, South Western Railway and Network Rail ran a one-off Class 159 to Fawley, to demonstrate the line's viability. [...] A second 'fact-finding' trial passenger train for DfT officials is now proposed.
gloss: Special; remarkable; rare; unusual.
pos: adj
examples: BMW is to create a one-off tribute to the iconic 3.0 CSL.
Grammy award-winning singer Celine Dion will reportedly earn $2 million for a one-off performance at the 2024 Olympics.
gloss: Something that is done, created, etc. only once, and often quickly, simply, or improvisationally.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
idiomatic
examples: Near-synonym: stand-alone
I'll put together a quick one-off as a sample so we can taste the recipe.
But even as he announced the military operation, he appeared to be rapidly trying to get himself back to the middle by insisting that the strike was a one-off and that he continues to seek peace.
gloss: Something unique and remarkable.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: stand-alone
It is a one-off; there is nothing else like it.
Frank couldn’t believe that his father had put Queenie back together and not told him. More secrets. More lies. The boy guessed that the coat of yellow paint was to disguise her. Queenie was a one-off. A Mini with a Union Jack painted on her would be a dead giveaway to the police.
Synonyms: nonce
one-shot
Related words: break the mold
break the mould
Translations:
second-guess
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A back-formation from second guesser, originally from baseball. First use appears c. 1941.
Inflected forms:
form: second-guesses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: second-guessing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: second-guessed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: second-guessed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: second guess
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To vet or evaluate; to criticize or correct, often by hindsight, by presuming to have a better idea, method, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Please don't try to second-guess the procedure that we have already refined and adopted.
Once she began listening to her instincts and didn't second-guess herself the entire time, her artwork improved noticeably.
Public administration would be hamstrung if courts were free to second-guess reasonable administrative decisions.
As a practical matter, a fertilizer company could not afford to second-guess the Federal Trade Commission or a jury in a triple damage case on so obscure a point.
If you suspect you've stepped over the line, ask a few other copy editors to second-guess your headline.
gloss: To anticipate or predict someone's actions or thoughts by guesswork.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: In this day and age, it's so easy to stress / 'Cause people are strange and you can never second-guess
The Securities and Exchange Commission says Goldman misled two clients by failing to give adequate disclosure.[…] It is impossible to second-guess the case's outcome. But Goldman is already viewed by many as guilty.
But it is not Network Rail's job to second guess whether the sponsoring authority really does need the scheme, and whether it has looked at other options.
Related words: second guesser
second thoughts
question mark
Translations:
agama
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Sranan Tongo agama (“lizard”), from a Gbe language; compare Ewe agama (“chameleon”).
Inflected forms:
form: agamas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the various small, long-tailed lizards of the subfamily Agaminae of family Agamidae, especially in genera Acanthocercus, Agama, Dendragama, Laudakia, Phrynocephalus, Trapelus and Xenagama.
pos: noun
Translations:
subversion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English subversion, subversioun, from Old French subversion.
Inflected forms:
form: subversions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of subverting; overturning; flipping from beneath.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: The act of overthrowing a government or a ruler; dethronement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The condition of being subverted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A systematic attempt to overthrow a government by working from within; undermining.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: subversive
subvert
subverter
Derived words: antisubversion
countersubversion
immunosubversion
resubversion
subversionary
Translations:
noisily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English noisy
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English noisily
From noisy + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more noisily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most noisily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: in a noisy manner; in such a way as to create a great deal of noise or sound
pos: adv
examples: They talked noisily and long into the night.
Wembley was noisily registering its unrest with Capello and England when Johan Djourou's foul on Jack Wilshere gave Frank Lampard the opportunity to pull a goal back from the spot before the interval and provide the foundations for a second-half recovery.
Translations:
tidepool
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From tide + pool.
Compound parts: tide
pool
Inflected forms:
form: tidepools
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tide pool
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A rocky pool by the ocean that is filled with seawater left behind by the falling tide.
pos: noun
examples: They peeked into the tidepool and found starfish and anemones.
Translations:
toss-up
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English toss updeverb.
English toss-up
Deverbal from toss up.
Inflected forms:
form: toss-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tossup
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A decision in which neither choice is clearly favorable or unfavorable, or for which the outcome does not matter.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
examples: It's really a toss-up between the red skirt with blue stripes and the blue skirt with red stripes. They both look good and fit well.
But at the moment when everything was going so well, there came one of those unforeseeable chances that reduce even the most circumspectly arranged plots to the significance of a mere toss-up.
gloss: Either of two outcomes that are equally likely.
pos: noun
examples: “He’ll do,” said the Doctor, quietly. “It must have been a toss-up all through the night. ’Think you’re to be congratulated on this case.”
No longer is the best picture going to be a toss-up between that troika of national-historical heavies: Argo, Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty. Instead, a warm welcome back for Life of Pi, widely dismissed by many as "this year's Hugo" but this column's dark-horse pick from October.
gloss: The toss of a coin used to decide some issue.
pos: noun
gloss: A toss-up question.
pos: noun
Translations:
haphazard
Part of speech: adj
noun
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From archaic hap (“chance, luck”) + hazard.
Base: hap
Inflected forms:
form: more haphazard
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most haphazard
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: haphazards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more haphazard
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most haphazard
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Random; chaotic; incomplete; not thorough, constant, or consistent.
pos: adj
examples: Do not make such haphazard changes to the settings; instead, adjust the knobs carefully, a bit at a time.
The haphazard efforts of a few, working here and there without concert, easily spent themselves in attaining results far short of what were needed.
we assume a gas to be an assemblage of elastic spheres or molecules, flying in straight lines in all directions, with swift haphazard collisions and repulsions, like so many billiard balls.
There is a very considerable series of observations — non-instrumental, unsystematic, irregular, "haphazard" if you will — which any one with ordinary intelligence and with a real interest in weather conditions may undertake.
Chelsea need to identify and appoint the new manager and then lose the haphazard transfer policy that has seen players signed for exorbitant fees, often seemingly on the basis that other Premier League clubs were interested in them.
gloss: Simple chance, a random accident, luck.
pos: noun
examples: You should never talk about your own fingers, and haphazards, to genteel people. You should only talk about agreeable subjects as I do.
I consulted my mother, who was punctiliousness itself, and decided I must go Monday, as agreed. I should be with her again on Wednesday. On such haphazards hang men's destinies sometimes.
Economics depends on fickle human nature , its changeable tastes and the varying states of culture and the haphazards of progress . Can economics be any more scientific than psychology and psychiatry?
Machiavelli, in Chapter 25 of Il principe (1513) after surveying the cruelties and haphazards of the politics of his day, set more restrictive limits to human endeavor by assigning half of what happens in this domain to the intractable power of fortuna […]
gloss: Haphazardly.
pos: adv
examples: "[...] I suspect that it mostly happens haphazard, though afterwards various noble reasons are invented. About marriage I am cynical.”
Translations:
gadget
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
computer
computing
crafts
engineering
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
Etymology: Unknown. First used in print by Robert Brown in 1886 (see quote in definition section). Might come from French gâchette or gagée, or from the French family name Gaget, an industrialist who produced promotional gadgets in collaboration with the project to build the statue of Liberty.
Inflected forms:
form: gadgets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gadjet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A thing whose name cannot be remembered; thingamajig, doohickey.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Then the names of all the other things on board a ship! I don't know half of them yet; even the sailors forget at times, and if the exact name of anything they want happens to slip from their memory, they call it a chicken-fixing, or a gadjet, or a timmey-noggy, or a wim-wom—just pro tem., you know.
gloss: Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled, often either clever or complicated.
pos: noun
examples: He bought a neat new gadget for shredding potatoes.
That's quite a lot of gadgets you have collected. Do you use any of them?
Cory will find cool gadgets along the way that you can use against enemies or to solve puzzles.
gloss: Any consumer electronics product.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: From the Marvel Mixmaster to the Miracle Microwave, every time a new-fangled gadget has lobbed into the Aussie kitchen, Aussie mums have changed their cooking styles accordingly.
gloss: A sequence of machine code instructions crafted as part of an exploit that attempts to divert execution to a memory location chosen by the attacker.
pos: noun
examples: A Spectre gadget was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of system interrupts.
gloss: A technique for converting a part of one problem to an equivalent part of another problem, used in constructing reductions.
pos: noun
examples: We reduce an instance of 3-SAT to an instance of bird-flock-optimization, using a gadget that converts each conjunctive Boolean clause to a group of birds.
gloss: A spring clip attached to the end of a punty in order to grasp the foot of a glass without leaving a bullion while finishing the bowl.
pos: noun
Synonyms: contraption
contrivance
doohickey
gizmo
widget
Derived words: gadgetbahn
gadgeteer
gadgetless
gadgetry
gadgety
nongadget
Translations:
blotter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
law-enforcement
Etymology: Etymology tree
English blot
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English blotter
From blot + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: blotters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A piece of blotting paper in a pad as a piece of desk furniture.
pos: noun
gloss: A daily register of arrests and other events in a police station.
pos: noun
gloss: A register of the related events made in the form of the list of times and brief descriptions.
pos: noun
examples: All transactions were entered in the cash blotter and agent's subsidiary ledger.
He maintains the political blotter blog.
"The blotter was so full of his scribbling, it was getting harder and harder to find places to write in."
gloss: A portion of blotter acid.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Glass bottles of liquid LSD; moist blocks of Manali charras and Malana cream; sachets of smack; a hundred caps of MDMA and a phial of Australian DMT; ampoules of medical morphine and a dense pad of four thousand Californian blotters.
Derived words: blotter acid
blotter art
blottery
electroblotter
miniblotter
police blotter
trade blotter
Translations:
mobot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mobile
Proto-Balto-Slavic *árbas
Proto-Slavic *orbъ
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Balto-Slavic *-éitei
Proto-Slavic *-iti
Proto-Slavic *orbiti
Proto-Indo-European *-otéh₂
Proto-Balto-Slavic *-atā́ˀ
Proto-Slavic *-ota
Proto-Slavic *orbota
Old Czech robota
Czech robota
Czech robotbor.
English robot
English bot
English -bot
English mobot
From mobile + -bot.
Inflected forms:
form: mobots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mobile autonomous robot, especially one used in artificial intelligence research, or as a toy.
pos: noun
Translations:
nanobot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
mechanical-engineering
nanotechnology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
robotics
sciences
Etymology: From nano- + -bot.
Base: nano
Inflected forms:
form: nanobots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A very small autonomous robot, typically the size of a biological cell, designed to work alone or in very large numbers to achieve some task.
pos: noun
Translations:
spambot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English spam
Proto-Balto-Slavic *árbas
Proto-Slavic *orbъ
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Balto-Slavic *-éitei
Proto-Slavic *-iti
Proto-Slavic *orbiti
Proto-Indo-European *-otéh₂
Proto-Balto-Slavic *-atā́ˀ
Proto-Slavic *-ota
Proto-Slavic *orbota
Old Czech robota
Czech robota
Czech robotbor.
English robot
English bot
English -bot
English spambot
From spam + -bot.
Inflected forms:
form: spambots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bot that sends mass junk email.
pos: noun
gloss: A bot that sends any type of spam content on the Internet.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
Related words: cancelbot
Translations:
fullerene
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: After Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome, + -ene.
Affixes: -ene
Inflected forms:
form: fullerenes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a class of allotropes of carbon having hollow molecules whose atoms lie at the vertices of a polyhedron having 12 pentagonal and 2 or more hexagonal faces.
pos: noun
gloss: Any closed-cage compound having twenty or more carbon atoms consisting entirely of 3-coordinate carbon atoms.
pos: noun
gloss: The class of carbon allotropes consisting of tubular carbon molecules (carbon nanotubes) and spheroidal carbon molecules (traditional fullerenes).
pos: noun
tags: broadly
Related words: buckminsterfullerene
fullerane
fulleride
fulleroid
buckyball
buckytube
nanoparticle
nanotube
Derived words: azafullerene
dendrofullerene
endofullerene
endohedral fullerene
heterofullerene
homofullerene
hyperfullerene
interfullerene
metallofullerene
nanofullerene
norfullerene
Translations:
bulimia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws
Proto-Hellenic *gʷous
Ancient Greek βοῦς (boûs)
Ancient Greek λῑμός (līmós)
Ancient Greek βούλῑμος (boúlīmos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek βουλῑμῐ́ᾱ (boulīmĭ́ā)lbor.
English bulimia
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek βουλῑμῐ́ᾱ (boulīmĭ́ā, “ravenous hunger”), from βούλῑμος (boúlīmos) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā).
Inflected forms:
form: bulimias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A chronic eating disorder characterized by a binge-and-purge cycle: extreme overeating followed by self-induced vomiting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Grow up, Heather, bulimia is so '87.
gloss: Excessive hunger.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Derived words: academic bulimia
bulimarexia
bulimorexia
diabulimia
exercise bulimia
Translations:
bungee
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably from slang language, maybe from bouncy + spongy.
Inflected forms:
form: bungees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bungey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bungie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bungy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bunje
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bunjee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bunjie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bungees
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bungeeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bungeed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bungeed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bungey
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bungie
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bungy
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bunje
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bunjee
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bunjie
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An elastic fabric-bound strap with a hook at each end, used for securing luggage.
pos: noun
gloss: An elastic cord tied to the ankles of the jumper in bungee jumping.
pos: noun
gloss: A rubber eraser.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: To bungee jump
pos: verb
Derived words: bungee cord
bungee jump
bungee jumper
bungee jumping
bungee line
bungee rope
bungee running
mouse bungee
Translations:
carjacking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of car + hijacking.
Compound parts: car
hijacking
Inflected forms:
form: carjackings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: car-jacking
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: car jacking
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: carnapping
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The violent hijacking of a vehicle and sometimes its driver.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
cash-back
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cashback
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cash back
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The retail facility whereby a customer may withdraw an amount of cash when making a purchase with a credit card or debit card, the amount being added to the bill.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
chlorofluorocarbon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃-
Proto-Hellenic *kʰlōrós
Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós)
English chloro-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.
Proto-Indo-European *bʰlewH-der.
Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti?
Latin fluō
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *-ōs
Proto-Italic *-ōs
Latin -or
Latin fluor
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English fluoro-
Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃-der.?
Latin carbōlbor.
French carbonebor.
English carbon
English fluorocarbon
English chlorofluorocarbon
From chloro- + fluorocarbon.
Inflected forms:
form: chlorofluorocarbons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: CFC
pos: noun
tags: abbreviation
form: CFK
pos: noun
tags: abbreviation
rare
Senses:
gloss: Any of a class of organic compounds in which the hydrogen atoms of a hydrocarbon are replaced with those of chlorine and fluorine; formerly used as refrigerants and aerosol can propellants but withdrawn due to causing damage to the ozone layer.
pos: noun
examples: The proposed replacement for CFC-11, a chlorofluorocarbon used to make plastic foam and in central air-conditioning systems, is a compound called HCFC-22. This is a chlorofluorocarbon already in use in home air-conditioners, but it is more expensive than CFC-11 and its potential applications are limited by its inferior characteristics.
The Renew is also free of polyvinyl chloride, asbestos, chlorofluorocarbons and halons.
Translations:
creased
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more creased
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most creased
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a crease or creases.
pos: adj
examples: You're not going out wearing that creased shirt, are you?
gloss: Wrinkly.
pos: adj
examples: Feller was creased like he lived under a camel.[…]'Inswinging free kick,' goes the creased geezer.
The sight of McGregor, creased but still boyish, returning to an eerily fogbound Hundred Acre Wood is calculated to well up eyes, and it works.
gloss: Amused.
pos: adj
tags: UK
colloquial
examples: "Omfg I'm absolutely crying and laughing at Dean and Joe with this drinking challenge! It's disgusting but I'm creased!" one said.
Synonyms: rugose
wrinklesome
Derived words: uncreased
Translations:
divert
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English diverten, Old French divertir (“to turn or go different ways, part, separate, divert”), from Latin di- (“apart”) + vertere (“to turn”); see verse.
Inflected forms:
form: diverts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: diverting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: diverted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: diverted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To turn aside from a course.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The workers diverted the stream away from the road.
Many of the remaining trains have been retimed and where possible freight trains have also been diverted to alternative routes.
Until the main road from Hatfield to Hertford was diverted a few years ago, heavy lorries trundling through the village sometimes knocked chunks off corner buildings, but now the village has regained much of its former tranquillity.
gloss: To distract.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Don't let him divert your attention; keep your eye on the ball.
that crude apple that diverted Eve
gloss: To entertain or amuse (by diverting the attention)
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We are amused by a tale, diverted by a comedy.
But somehow, despite wooden, unfunny dialogue, rigid characterization, and the dreadful mindless meaninglessness of it all, Good News manages to divert us for its three hours.
gloss: To turn aside; to digress.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: I diverted to see one of the prince's palaces.
Related words: diversion
diversity
diverse
Derived words: divertable
divertee
divertive
redivert
undivert
Translations:
challenged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more challenged
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most challenged
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Disabled; lacking some physical or mental attribute or skill; used after adverbs to make politically correct adjectives.
pos: adj
tags: euphemistic
examples: mentally challenged
gloss: Used following adverbs to make adjectives in imitation of and mocking adjectives of this kind.
pos: adj
tags: humorous
examples: He's not short; he's vertically challenged
Derived words: aurally challenged
cerebrally challenged
culinarily challenged
employmentally challenged
esthetically challenged
ethically-challenged
ethically challenged
ethnically challenged
follically challenged
follicly challenged
follicularly challenged
geographically challenged
gravitationally-challenged
gravitationally challenged
horizontally challenged
horizontally-challenged
humanly challenged
hymenally challenged
immunochallenged
intellectually challenged
melanin-challenged
mentally challenged
metabolically challenged
nonchallenged
parentally challenged
physically challenged
racially challenged
reality challenged
time-challenged
unchallenged
vehicularly challenged
vertically-challenged
vertically challenged
vitally challenged
Translations:
eats
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Food.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
plural
plural-only
examples: When are we going to get some eats?
The shower made me feel better, but I was still hungry.
"I'm going to grab some eats."
"Dinner will be waiting for you at home."
"I'M GOING TO GRAB SOME EATS."
At most of these parties, no one knew who the host was, and you just heard from a friend that there was one, you got some eats and off you went.
Buggs sighed. He would have preferred to go get some eats too, but Ermin was right.
Translations: