yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
devotional
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English devotion
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English devotional
From devotion + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: devotionals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more devotional
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most devotional
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A brief religious service.
pos: noun
examples: To prepare for leading a devotional, select a theme appropriate to the occasion.
gloss: A text or piece of music or writing to be used for devotion.
pos: noun
examples: Each page of the book offers a short devotional that inspires thought and self-reflection.
gloss: Of or pertaining to devotion or worship.
pos: adj
examples: She spent much time playing devotional music.
Because of her love for Robert […] the Resistance leader, Willie undertakes dangerous missions for the anti-fascist groups. She doesn't seem however to have the slightest idea why she is doing it, it is a devotional, not a political action.
The latter [mule] had what Muldoon referred to as 'devotional habits' — which is to say that, occasionally, she would go down on her knees and refuse to budge.
Derived words: daily devotional
Translations:
monarchical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From monarch + -ical, perhaps after Middle French monarchique.
Base: monarch
Affixes: -ical
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a monarch or monarchy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Although a socialist he did have monarchical leanings
gloss: Having sole or undivided authority.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: But in this contest of martyrs, it was Ignatius's passionate account of a monarchical episcopal ministry which set the pattern for the future.
Synonyms: monarchal
monarchial
monarchic
Derived words: antimonarchical
monarchical hero
monarchically
nonmonarchical
unmonarchical
Translations:
unanswered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English unansuered, unanswerd, equivalent to un- + answered.
Base: answered
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That has not been answered or addressed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The flashing light on the answering machine bore testimony to the unanswered call.
The timing of the incident raised the question, almost certainly destined to remain unanswered, of whether, having allowed the escapers to pass by unhindered, the culprit had waited specifically for the yellow jersey group before sowing his mischief.
The Helong city government said a 55-year-old man surnamed Zhao, his 26-year-old daughter and another man aged 67 were killed Saturday. It said in a statement that police from the provincial to the local levels were investigating.[…]
Calls to Helong city and Yanbian prefecture government spokesmen rang unanswered on Thursday.
Translations:
sprightliness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sprightly
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 sprightliness
From sprightly + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: sprightlinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being sprightly.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: ‘Nothing’s the matter, bless you, Master Davy dear!’ she answered, assuming an air of sprightliness.
Translations:
forfeiture
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English forfeture, from Old French forfaiture.
Inflected forms:
form: forfeitures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A legal action whereby a person loses all interest in the forfeit property.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The loss of forfeit property.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The property lost as a forfeit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any loss occasioned by one's own actions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We conclude that the government has forfeited any claim of forfeiture, so we proceed to consider the merits.
Derived words: forfeiture fund
nonforfeiture
Translations:
fidgety
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fidget
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English fidgety
From fidget + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: fidgetier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: fidgetiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fidgetty
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Having, or pertaining to, a tendency to fidget; restless.
pos: adj
examples: I did not feel sea-sick at all. But as the days passed, I became fidgety. I felt shy even in speaking to the steward. […]
A fidgety child can easily knock over the drink and burn the two of you.
Translations:
procurator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English procuratour, from Anglo-Norman procuratour, from Latin prōcūrātor, from prōcūrō (“to procure”) (English procure). Equivalent to procure + -ator and a doublet of proctor and procurer.
Base: procure
Affixes: -ator
Inflected forms:
form: procurators
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: procuratour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A tax collector.
pos: noun
gloss: An agent or attorney.
pos: noun
gloss: A legal officer who both investigates and prosecutes crimes, found in some inquisitorial legal systems, particularly communist or formerly communist states – see public procurator
pos: noun
gloss: The governor of a small imperial province.
pos: noun
tags: Ancient-Rome
Related words: curator
proctor
procuracy
procuratorate
procure
inquisitor
Derived words: procurator fiscal
procurator-general
procuratorial
procuratorship
procuratress
Translations:
revocation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English revocacioun, revocation, from Old French revocacion, from Latin revocationem (accusative of revocatio); equivalent to revoke + -ation.
Base: revoke
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: revocations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act or instance of revoking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] Due to the safety issues identified, ORR has revoked WCRCL's Exemption Certificate.[…] WCR-operated charter trains are unaffected by the revocation, which RAIL understands nominally runs until November, immediately after the 'Jacobite' season is due to end on October 27. The 'Jacobite' is treated separately because it is a timetabled service rather than a charter.
Translations:
revoking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: revokings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A revocation.
pos: noun
examples: […] after grantings, revokings, and re-grantings, of the liberty of Yarmouth […]
Translations:
habituate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English habituat(e) (“physically established or present”), borrowed from Late Latin habituātus, perfect passive participle of habituō (“to bring into a condition or habit of body”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: habituates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: habituating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: habituated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: habituated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize.
pos: verb
examples: 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises, Paris, “The First Treatise declaring the nature and operations of bodies,” Chapter 36, p. 311,
[…] it was the custome of our English doggs (who were habituated vnto a colder clyme) to runne into the sea in the heate of summer […]
[B]y often praying in ſuch manner and in all circumſtances, vve ſhall habituate our ſouls to prayer, by making it the buſineſs of many leſſer portions of our time: and by thruſting in betvveen all our other imployments, it vvill make every thing reliſh of Religion, and by degrees turn all into its nature.
1694, John Tillotson, Sermon 2, in The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, London: B. Aylmer, 1696, p. 35,
Men are usually first corrupted by bad counsel and company […] ; next they habituate themselves to their vicious practices […]
It seems so very important to ground young persons in the belief that they will not inevitably meet in this world with reward and success according to their merit, but to habituate them to expect even the most virtuous attempts to be often, though not always disappointed, that I am in danger of tautology on this point.
My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either; it comprised an irksome struggle with difficulties in habituating myself to new rules and unwonted tasks.
[…] quarrels in discotheques were settled by the final curse-word of guns. State violence under the old, past regime had habituated its victims to it. People had forgotten there was any other way.
gloss: To settle as an inhabitant.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: After the Conquests made by Caesar upon Gaul, and the nearer Parts of Germany […] great Numbers of Germans and Gauls resorted to the Roman Armies and to the City it self, and habituated themselves there, as many Spaniards, Syrians, Graecians had done before upon the Conquest of those Countries.
Related words: habit
habitual
habituation
Derived words: dishabituate
habituative
habituator
nonhabituated
unhabituate
unhabituated
Translations:
habituating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: habit-forming
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
unfruitful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English unfruytful; equivalent to un- + fruitful.
Base: fruitful
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unfruitful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unfruitful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not bearing fruit.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Despite going on for two hours, her search was unfruitful.
Antonyms: fruitful
Translations:
flatly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *flataz
Old Norse flatrbor.
Middle English flat
English flat
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English flatly
From flat + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more flatly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most flatly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a physically flat or level manner.
pos: adv
examples: He bent over the old woman again, with his ear turned flatly to her lips and then to the region of her heart.
Rabbit country, the working man's uncultivable terrain. Half a mile away, square open patches of yellow sand flatly glittered, and far on the horizon cranes and vast silver cylinders stood about, ghostly shining inhabitants of the marsh.
gloss: In a definite manner; in a manner showing complete certainty.
pos: adv
examples: It was an accusation that he flatly denied.
In 2017 in Zimbabwe, a military takeover brought Robert Mugabe's 37-year rule to and end. But one of the leaders, Maj Gen Sibusiso Moyo, appeared on television at the time, flatly denying it was a military takeover.
gloss: In a manner that shows no emotion.
pos: adv
examples: He replied flatly to the policeman's questions.
"Sure you never heard of him?" he asked incredulously. "Never," I said flatly.
"It's barbarous, Norsus." "It's Rome," said the giant flatly.
Translations:
homewards
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English homwardes, hamwardes, from Old English hāmweardes, equivalent to home + -wards. Cognate with Dutch heimwaarts, German heimwärts (“homewards”).
Base: home
Affixes: -wards
Inflected forms:
form: homeward
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: homeward
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Leading toward home.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: At the end of the day we gratefully set off in a homewards direction.
gloss: towards home
pos: adv
examples: We're now heading homewards.
Translations:
derangement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: combinatorics
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French dérangement, equivalent to derange + -ment.
Base: derange
Affixes: -ment
Inflected forms:
form: derangements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being deranged.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His [James Stewart's] postwar roles, full of myopic obsession, stalkerish derangement, and a desire for vengeance, don't seem like ground Hanks is willing to cover.
gloss: An act or instance of deranging.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Young as he was at the time, he had seen the imprudence of Mr. Granard's way of living; he had often remonstrated, and the death of his father, with the subsequent derangement of his affairs, had alone prevented his following up his advice with such assistance as would have made it effectual.
8-1. On 21 April 1943, while operating off the Malay Peninsula during her sixth war patrol, GRENADIER sustained heavy damage to the after portion of the ship as the result of a Japanese aircraft depth bomb attack. The most serious casualty which occurred, and which directly caused GRENADIER'S loss, was the complete immobilization of her propulsion plant due to derangement of the main control cubicle and severe misalignment of the propeller shafting. All efforts by ship's force to effect emergency repairs were unsuccessful. Early the next morning, GRENADIER was abandoned and scuttled by her own crew to prevent imminent capture by an approaching Japanese merchant ship.
gloss: A permutation of a set such that no element is in its previous position.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: derangement syndrome
Derangement Syndrome
Translations:
bazar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bazars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Dated spelling of bazaar.
pos: noun
Translations:
perfidious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin perfidiōsus (“treacherous”), from perfidia.
Inflected forms:
form: more perfidious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most perfidious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or representing perfidy; disloyal to what should command one's fidelity or allegiance.
pos: adj
examples: TRINCULO (speaking about Caliban): By this light, a most perfidious and drunken / monster: when his god's asleep, he'll rob his bottle.
The perfidious Ricimer soon became dissatisfied with Anthe'mius, and raised the standard of revolt.
[S]he knew Huntly for the ambitious traitor he was, a man peculiarly perfidious and self-seeking.
When the Nazis branded Feininger a "degenerate artist" in 1937, he left 54 paintings for safekeeping with a Bauhaus friend named Hermann Klumpp. After the war, and for the rest of Feininger's life, the perfidious Klumpp refused to give them back.
Enraged, the 2010 Nobel literature laureate thundered that he was “flabbergasted to learn that this kind of gossip can find its way into a respectable publication such as the Book Review” - a “slanderous and perfidious” instance of the convergence of posh and pop that his book inveighs against.
Antonyms: faithful
honorable
loyal
trustworthy
Translations:
southeastern
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English *southesterne, from Old English sūþēasterne, equivalent to south + eastern.
Base: south
Inflected forms:
form: more southeastern
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most southeastern
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: south-eastern
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
UK
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the southeast.
pos: adj
examples: The southeastern part of the country is the most affluent.
Much of the southern half of the southeastern body is a mafic syenite, slightly more felsic than the shonkinite.
It’s the stuff of nightmares for some, but it’s simply summer in southeastern Colorado, where thousands – yes, thousands – of male tarantulas are making the trek to find a mate.
Translations:
brickwork
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English brick
English -work
English brickwork
From brick + -work.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A structure, or portion of a structure, that is made out of bricks.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The two lower rows of tubes at each end pier were then drilled through to the extrados of the brickwork to act as weep holes and assist in the drainage from the backs of the arches.
The chimney, built in brickwork, was to be plastered on the inside several feet from where the fireplace was to be.
gloss: The quality of the construction of a brick structure.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: brickworks
Translations:
brickworks
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From brick + works.
Compound parts: brick
works
Inflected forms:
form: brickworks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A place where bricks are made.
pos: noun
examples: In addition the Marquess built a brickworks adjacent to the colliery, and also greatly improved the harbour to encourage coastal shipping. A new tramway was laid from the colliery and brickworks to the harbour, using many of the materials from the earlier, now abandoned, railway. […] A short branch ran northwards from the brickworks to an extensive clay pit in which there was a considerable network of sidings.
Translations:
taiga
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Russian тайга́ (tajgá), from South Siberian Turkic (Altai region, for example the Altay or Shor language, cf Khakas: тағ (tağ)), or alternatively Yakut тайга (tayga, “untraversable forest”). Doublet of Tayga.
Inflected forms:
form: taigas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tayga
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tajga
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A subarctic zone of evergreen coniferous forests situated south of the tundras and north of the steppes in the Northern Hemisphere.
pos: noun
examples: The mountains run from the Arctic Island of Novaya Zemlya southwards, dividing the endless wastes of the Siberian taiga and the steppes from the Russian platform in the west.
Like the taiga, he was everywhere, and mysterious—a heroic being with unearthly gifts.
The taiga is anything but pristine wilderness: It is an inhabited landscape where the indigenous Sámi and their reindeer have lived ever since the ice retreated 10,000 years ago. […] Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.
Translations:
tektite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τηκτός (tēktós, “molten”), from τήκειν (tḗkein, “to melt”).
Inflected forms:
form: tektites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small, round, dark glassy object, composed of silicates, formed by the rapid cooling of molten ejecta from meteorite impacts.
pos: noun
Translations:
microeconomics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: economics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
English economics
English microeconomics
From micro- + economics.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The field of economics that deals with small-scale economic activities such as those of an individual or company.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
microphysics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
English physics
English microphysics
From micro- + physics.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The branch of physics that deals with objects smaller than a molecule
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
thermoacoustic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer-der.
Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós)der.
English thermo-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱh₂owsyéti
Proto-Hellenic *akóuhō
Ancient Greek ἀκούω (akoúō)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓κουστῐκός (ăkoustĭkós)bor.
Medieval Latin acousticusbor.
English acoustic
English thermoacoustic
From thermo- + acoustic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to thermoacoustics
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
micropower
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
Proto-Indo-European *pótis
Proto-Italic *potis
Proto-Italic *som
Proto-Italic *possom
Latin posseder.
Vulgar Latin potēre
Old French pooir
Anglo-Norman poerbor.
Middle English power
English power
English micropower
From micro- + power.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The generation, storage and use of extremely small amounts of power.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
sometimes
uncountable
examples: A micropower source is required for modern cardiac electronics.
Translations:
microparticle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
English particle
English microparticle
From micro- + particle.
Inflected forms:
form: microparticles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An extremely small particle.
pos: noun
Translations:
sacking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sackings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Cheap rough cloth such as would be used to make bags (sacks).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The farmer grabbed a handful of sacking and rubbed down the cow.
gloss: Firing or termination of an employee.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: He followed his sacking with a good drink.
Derived words: hopsacking
Translations:
sacredly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sacred
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English sacredly
From sacred + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more sacredly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most sacredly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a sacred manner.
pos: adv
examples: Scip[io]. […] Remember Syphax / Thy vow hath made thee Romes. / Syph[ax]. Which Ile preserve / As sacredly inviolate, as if / Eternall seales had ratifi’d it.
[H]e proteſted to me, that if he vvas naked in Bed vvith me, he vvould as ſacredly preſerve my Virtue, as he vvould defend it if I vvas aſſaulted by a Raviſher; […]
[…] I have a communication of a very private—indeed, I will say, of a sacredly confidential nature, which I desire to make to you.
Each girl has to read her story out loud and then we talk it over. We are going to keep them all sacredly and have them to read to our descendants […]
Satisfaction because the ritual of Gormenghast was proceeding as sacredly and deliberately as ever before […]
Translations:
sacredness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sacred
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 sacredness
From sacred + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: sacrednesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being sacred.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
interpersonal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *n̥ter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
Middle English personal
English personal
English interpersonal
From inter- + personal.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Between two or more people.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: By slightly modifying Piaget's scheme of the development of the capacity to follow and be aware of rules, I propose to distinguish three stages, or types, of mastery of interpersonal processes: coercion, self-help, and cooperation.
The complexity of having so many organisations involved, and the deep integration required, has undoubtedly tested the interpersonal skills of project leaders who have had little face-to-face contact.
Translations:
sadistically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sadistic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English sadistically
From sadistic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more sadistically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most sadistically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a sadistic manner.
pos: adv
gloss: In a particularly horrible or brutal manner, as painfully as possible.
pos: adv
Translations:
sagely
Part of speech: adv
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English sagely, sagilly, equivalent to sage + -ly (adverbial suffix).
Base: sage
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more sagely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most sagely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: more sagely
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sagely
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In the manner of a sage, with wisdom, wisely.
pos: adv
examples: […] Phil offering and giving advice sagely and gravely
This pro-war impression on the populace the Navy Department sagely foresaw when it sent its men into the unbriny Northwest.
The sheikh comes back in, and slowly, we can become a little more personal in our discussion and he nods sagely and then renods.
Dr. Ed Wheat has sagely said, “Every physical union should be a contest to see which partner can outplease the other.”
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of a sage.
pos: adj
examples: It begins sufficiently well, but the author has hardly enunciated his preliminary apotheems, when he conducts into an obscurity where we can hardly grope our way, and when we emerge from that, it is to be bewildered by his gorgeous but unsubstantial pictures of sagely perfection.
Featuring a sagely captain, a first officer with aerodynamic lobes, riveting adventures and special effects unheard of for its time, the show gained unbelievable notoriety across the globe.
He had been both case study and examiner of the effects of ostracism, now wielding a sagely sort of nuance in essays like “Letter to Prisoners” (1983), an early draft of which is on view at the Schomburg: “What artists and prisoners have in common,” he writes, “is that they both know what it means to be free.”
Translations:
saintliness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English saintly
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 saintliness
From saintly + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: saintlinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being saintly.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [H]e was led away to a private sanitarium for mental disease, while in the newspapers appeared pathetic accounts of his mental breakdown and of the saintliness of his character.
Translations:
fireguard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From fire + guard.
Compound parts: fire
guard
Inflected forms:
form: fireguards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fire guard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A mesh screen around a fire to prevent sparks or falling embers.
pos: noun
Translations:
salaried
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English salary
English -ed
English salaried
From salary + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Paid a salary, as opposed to being an hourly worker or a volunteer. Generally indicating a professional or manager.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Paid monthly as opposed to weekly.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: nonsalaried
oversalaried
undersalaried
unsalaried
Translations:
microblade
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-der.
Proto-Germanic *bladą
Proto-West Germanic *blad
Old English blæd
Middle English bladder.
Middle English blade
English blade
English microblade
From micro- + blade.
Inflected forms:
form: microblades
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small blade, typically produced in prehistoric times from silica-rich minerals.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
sometimes
examples: The upper Palaeolithic period saw the first production of microblade tools.
Translations:
blue-collared
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Being a blue-collar employee, an hourly worker.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
sacked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more sacked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sacked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Bothered; willing to make an effort.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
slang
examples: I can't be sacked to get out of bed today.
We asked John if he wanted to come down the pub with us, but he couldn't be sacked.
gloss: fired from employment
pos: adj
tags: UK
informal
Derived words: sacked out
unsacked
Translations:
newsagent
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From news + agent.
Compound parts: news
agent
Inflected forms:
form: newsagents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A retail business selling newspapers, magazines, and stationery; a stationer.
pos: noun
examples: The papers are freely available in Sydney bookshops and newsagents.
gloss: The proprietor of such a business.
pos: noun
examples: However, Anyon Kay remembers a Mr Walton Ainsworth, of Beech House, Rivington, who owned mills in Bolton, being a regular user before the First World War. He used to drive by horse and trap from his mansion to catch the 0906 train to Bolton each day. Before arriving at the station, local newsagent Tom Dutton would hand Mr Ainsworth his morning paper!
Related words: news agency
Translations:
salesgirl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sales + girl.
Compound parts: sales
girl
Inflected forms:
form: salesgirls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A young woman employed as a salesclerk.
pos: noun
Translations:
robocall
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From robo- + call. First use appears c. 1998 in the Associated Press Newswire.
Base: call
Affixes: robo-
Inflected forms:
form: robocalls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: robo call
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: robo-call
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: robocalls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: robocalling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: robocalled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: robocalled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: robo call
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: robo-call
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An automated phone call, commonly for telemarketing purposes, that uses both an autodialer and a recorded message.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: The e-mailers are upset about “robocalls”—pre-recorded, automated phone calls containing anti-Democratic political messages.
Rand Paul’s presidential campaign has drafted in his father, libertarian icon Ron Paul, to directly attack Republican rival Ted Cruz in a robocall in Iowa, the first time the former presidential candidate has gone on the offensive on his son’s behalf.
Things are at least as bad on mobile phones, which were the lucky recipients of 48 billion robocalls in the United States alone last year.
gloss: To make a robocall to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Republicans robo-called Americans during their dinner and evening hours, blaming the annoying calls on Democrats.
Translations:
saleslady
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sales + lady.
Compound parts: sales
lady
Inflected forms:
form: salesladies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sales-lady
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A woman who is employed as a sales clerk.
pos: noun
Translations:
salesmanship
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
marketing
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sales
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
Middle English -man
English -man
English salesman
Proto-Germanic *skapjaną
Proto-Germanic *-skapiz
Proto-West Germanic *-skapi
Old English -sċiepe
Middle English -schipe
English -ship
English salesmanship
From salesman + -ship.
Inflected forms:
form: salesmanships
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The art or skill of selling products, services or ideas through persuasion and effective communication.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] this man worked at his business all the harder, with the brightness of the home-joys fading. But it went very hard with him, more than once, when he made a good stroke of salesmanship, to have to put the money in the bottom of his pocket, without even rubbing a bright half-crown, and saying to himself, “I have a’most a mind to give this to Mary.”
Babbitt’s spectacles had huge, circular, frameless lenses of the very best glass; the ear-pieces were thin bars of gold. In them he was the modern business man; one who gave orders to clerks and drove a car and played occasional golf and was scholarly in regard to Salesmanship.
High-pressure salesmanship on the part of the Electro-Motive subsidiary of the General Motors Corporation, which has built by far the largest proportion of the American diesels to date, there certainly has been - to such an extent, indeed, as to compel the old-established builders of steam locomotives, such as Baldwins, the American Locomotive Company and the Lima Locomotive Company, either to follow suit or go out of the locomotive building business altogether - [...].
It is in the nature of all party systems that the authentically political talents can assert themselves only in rare cases, and it is even rarer that the specifically political qualifications survive the petty maneuvers of party politics with its demands for plain salesmanship.
Korine wants to throw up the MTV-advertising world of perfect, chic imagery and fluent salesmanship.
2012, Nathan Rabin, “The Simpsons (Classic): ‘Treehouse of Horror III’” [season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992], The A.V. Club, TV Reviews, 29 April, 2012,
The idea of a merchant selling both totems of pure evil and frozen yogurt (he calls it frogurt!) is amusing in itself, as is the idea that frogurt could be cursed, but it’s really the Shopkeeper’s quicksilver shift from ominous doomsaying to chipper salesmanship that sells the sequence.
gloss: A position as salesman.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
Derived words: supersalesmanship
Translations:
saliently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English salient
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English saliently
From salient + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more saliently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most saliently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a salient manner, relevantly, germanely.
pos: adv
Translations:
relevantly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English relevant
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English relevantly
From relevant + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more relevantly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most relevantly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a relevant way.
pos: adv
Translations:
saltiness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English salty
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 saltiness
From salty + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: saltinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being, or tasting, salty.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
sandblast
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
substratebor.
Proto-Indo-European *sámdʰos?
Proto-Germanic *samdaz
Proto-West Germanic *samd
Old English sand
Middle English sond
English sand
English blast
English sandblast
From sand + blast.
Inflected forms:
form: sandblasts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sandblasting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sandblasted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sandblasted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sandblasts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To spray with fast-moving solid grains (such as sand propelled by compressed air, although softer material like sodium bicarbonate used for delicate materials may also be so referred to). The process is used for stripping dirt, rust, paint etc. from the surface of objects.
pos: verb
examples: The plane's large rear doors swallowed up my friend in superfast time, its departure sandblasting everyone in red prop wash as it vaporised down the main street and into the afternoon's dust-bowl sky.
gloss: Sand driven by a blast of air or steam for cutting and engraving figures on glass or metal.
pos: noun
Translations:
sanctification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
Etymology: From Old French sanctificacion, from ecclesiastical Latin sanctificātionem, from sanctificāre (“to sanctify”).
Inflected forms:
form: sanctifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The (usually gradual or uncompleted) process by which a Christian believer is made holy through the action of the Holy Spirit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of making holy; hallowing, consecration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Blackmail.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
slang
uncountable
Derived words: desanctification
nonsanctification
unsanctification
Translations:
sandblaster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sand + blaster.
Compound parts: sand
blaster
Inflected forms:
form: sandblasters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A device used to sandblast.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who operates such a device.
pos: noun
Translations:
sanely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sane
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English sanely
From sane + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more sanely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most sanely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a sane manner; sensibly; logically; rationally.
pos: adv
examples: Gloating silently, she laved handfuls of hot sand over her, her mind alternating sanely and insanely.
Antonyms: insanely
Translations:
sapience
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English sapience, from Old French sapience, from Latin sapientia.
Inflected forms:
form: sapiences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being sapient, the property of possessing or being able to possess wisdom.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: As, much Experience, is Prudence; ſo, is much Science, Sapience.
Mean while the Son / On his great Expedition now appeer'd, / Girt with Omnipotence, with Radiance crown'd / Of Majestie Divine, Sapience and Love / Immense, and all his Father in him shon.
In Europe it’s too dreary—the sapience, the solemnity, the false respectability, the verbosity, the long disquisitions on superannuated subjects.
Was it that his eccentric unsentimental old sapience, primitive in its kind, saw or thought it saw something which, in contrast with the war-ship's environment, looked oddly incongruous in the Handsome Sailor?
This, a solo of sapience, / This, a chantey of sophistry, / This, the sum of experiments— / I loved them until they loved me.
I then marked out three ways in which we can instead describe and demarcate ourselves in terms of the sapience that distinguishes us from the beasts of forest and field.
Translations:
satirist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English satire
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 satirist
From satire + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: satirists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who writes satire.
pos: noun
examples: In one of the Greek satirist Lucian's Dialogues of Courtesans, a conversation takes place between the hetaira Tryphaena and a young client named Charmides.
Translations:
satisfiable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English satisfy
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English satisfiable
From satisfy + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more satisfiable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most satisfiable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being satisfied.
pos: adj
Translations:
wolfman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wolf + man.
Compound parts: wolf
man
Inflected forms:
form: wolfmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A male werewolf or lycanthrope.
pos: noun
Translations:
lossless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
information-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English loss
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English lossless
From loss + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more lossless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lossless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Free from loss, especially not losing electrical energy or force.
pos: adj
gloss: Not losing information.
pos: adj
Antonyms: lossy
Derived words: lossless junction
losslessly
losslessness
Translations:
vendor-agnostic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English vendor
Ancient Greek ἄγνωστος (ágnōstos)der.
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der.
English a-
Ancient Greek γνωστῐκός (gnōstĭkós)
English Gnostic
English agnostic
English vendor-agnostic
From vendor + agnostic.
Inflected forms:
form: vendor-agnostics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not tied to the products of a specific manufacturer.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The vendor-agnostic solution could be implemented with any off-the-shelf hardware.
gloss: An independent consultant who will recommend products from several companies.
pos: noun
Translations:
nephrite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Latin lapis nephriticus, via Ancient Greek λίθος (líthos) νεφριτικός (nephritikós), meaning kidney stone, because jade was believed to have cured kidney stones.
Inflected forms:
form: nephrites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A semi-precious stone, one of the two types of stone commonly referred to as jade (the other being jadeite).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Occurrences of nephrite are more numerous. China’s most important source throughout its history has been the region of Khotan (Ho-t‘ien) and Yarkand in Central Asia. In more recent times the Chinese have also imported nephrite from the neighbourhood of Lake Baikal in Eastern Siberia.
Translations:
beedi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Hindi बीड़ी (bīṛī)bor.
English beedi
Borrowed from Hindi बीड़ी (bīṛī).
Inflected forms:
form: beedis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: beedie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bidi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A thin, often flavored, Indian cigarette made of tobacco wrapped in a tendu leaf.
pos: noun
examples: I always write with the music on and a bottle of good red. And smoke Mangalore Ganesh beedies.
I walk in, talking to friendly faces in my aces / Drinking beer, smoking beedis in the back where the bass is
She said: “In rural Tamil Nadu, the state I come from, Kaali is believed to be a pagan goddess. She eats meat cooked in goat’s blood, drinks arrack, smokes beedi [cigarettes]^([sic]) and dances wild … that is the Kaali I had embodied for the film.”
Translations:
doorstop
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From door + stop.
Compound parts: door
stop
Inflected forms:
form: doorstops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: doorstopper
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any device or object used to halt the motion of a door, as a large or heavy object, a wedge, or some piece of hardware fixed to the floor, door or wall.
pos: noun
gloss: A large book, which by implication could be used to stop a door.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
examples: Meanwhile, all the Democrats had to put forward that year was a doorstop called Man of the House: The Life and Political Memoirs of Speaker Tip O'Neill.
Walter Isaacson’s insight-free doorstop makes at least one thing clear: the richest man in the world has a lot of growing up to do[.]
gloss: Eggcorn of doorstep.
pos: noun
tags: UK
nonstandard
proscribed
gloss: An interview with a politician or other public figure (apparently informal or spontaneous but often planned), as they enter or leave a building.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: And television dominates this place — just look at Beazley tossing around cans of tomato soup at his morning doorstops outside Parliament House.
The six o′clock news was regarded as the pivotal point in the day. As the news was beginning, often the Premier would make himself available for a doorstop press conference.
It was estimated, for example, that Treasurer Wayne Swan had given more than 250 interviews and doorstops by the end of his first year in office.
Translations:
fanservice
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ACG
lifestyle
video-games
Etymology: Phono-semantic matching of Japanese ファンサービス (fansābisu), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from fan + service.
Inflected forms:
form: fan service
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Elements added to a television program or similar entertainment that appeal to avid fans but are of little interest to outsiders.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: For as much as the game is about Grady, it's also about tying up loose ends from the other games. If you're a veteran, prepare to be in hog heaven with the fanservice present.
The key to success for Minecraft or other films based on video games, says the veteran studio executive, is “fan service”—paying attention to the details that attracted the audience in the first place and resisting the temptation to force it into the conventions of a traditional movie.
gloss: The inclusion in a work of fiction of material, especially of a racy or sexual nature, which may or may not have relevance to the storyline and is designed merely to excite the viewer.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
often
slang
uncountable
examples: And because of that soy sauce, girls can get one of the few fanservice shots made for women in the entire history of the Ranma 1/2 series.
gloss: Special interactions from idols to their fans.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: Fanservice is when group members interact with fans by taking their phones, accept gifts thrown on stage and acknowledge the people in the crowd.
Derived words: fan-servicey
fanservicy
Translations: