yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
gawky
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gawk
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English gawky
From gawk + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: gawkier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: gawkiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: gawkies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Awkward, ungainly; lacking grace or dexterity in movement.
pos: adj
examples: The “gawky” illustrations look as though they may have been done by Belva Jean herself (Bulletin, Mar. 1989).
The woman had barely come up to Seth's shoulder. Petite with curly blonde hair and a dimpled smile. Nothing at all like Francine with her plain brown hair and hazel eyes. Just looking at the woman's picture had made her feel tall and gawky.
gloss: Left-handed.
pos: adj
tags: Yorkshire
gloss: An awkward, ungainly person.
pos: noun
examples: "[…] Mrs. Sedley had forgiven his breaking the punch-bowl at the child's party. Don't you remember the catastrophe, Ma'am, seven years ago?"
"Over Mrs. Flamingo's crimson silk gown," said good-natured Mrs. Sedley. "What a gawky it was! And his sisters are not much more graceful. Lady Dobbin was at Highbury last night with three of them. Such figures! my dears."
Let not the inconveniently tall, the gawkies, the Maypoles, despair.
Synonyms: gauche
ungraceful
Derived words: gawkily
gawkiness
Translations:
entrust
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Old French en-bor.
Middle English en-
English en-
English trust
English entrust
From en- + trust.
Inflected forms:
form: entrusts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: entrusting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: entrusted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: entrusted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: intrust
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To trust to the care of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Can I entrust you with a secret?
He entrusted me his daughter.
He entrusts that task to her.
The study of the main body of Hittite texts was intrusted^([sic]) to the Austrian scholar Hrozny, who in 1915 published a preliminary account of his results[…]
The first step toward finding a way out of this place begins when we take a flamethrower to Newt Gingrich cum Alvin Toffler style laissez-faire futurism, which entrusts our collective fate to the tender mercies of the marketplace, or New Age cyberbole that would have us pin our hopes to a millennial blastoff.
Translations:
consign
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French consigner or directly from Latin cōnsignō (“furnish with a seal”), from con- + signō (“mark, sign”).
Inflected forms:
form: consigns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: consigning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: consigned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: consigned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To transfer to the custody of, usually for sale, transport, or safekeeping.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To entrust to the care of another.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: For virtue’s image yet poſſeſt her mind, / Taught by a maſter of the tuneful kind : / Atrides, parting for the Trojan war, / Conſign’d the youthful conſort to his care.
gloss: To send to a final destination.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to consign the body to the grave
And this remarkable Property of Love will ſuggeſt to us one Reaſon, why Acts of Charity ſhall be enquir’d after ſo particularly, at the Day of general Account ; becauſe Good Men are then to be conſign’d over to another State, a State of everlaſting Love and Charity[…]
This firm regularly consigns margarine in palletised wagon-loads to a wide variety of destinations.
If there's such a thing as pariah food – a recipe shunned by mainstream menus, mocked to near extinction and consigned to niche hinterlands for evermore – then the nut roast, a dish whose very name has become a watchword for sawdusty disappointment, is surely a strong contender.
This controversial decision has consigned rail passengers to a considerable time penalty, when the direct route would have cut 45 minutes from Far North journey times.
gloss: To assign; to devote; to set apart.
pos: verb
examples: The French commander, charmed with the greatneſs of your ſoul, accordingly conſign’d it [a donation] to the uſe for which it was intended by the donor[…]
gloss: To stamp or impress; to affect.
pos: verb
examples: Ennoble my ſoul with great degrees of love to thee, and conſign my ſpirit with great fear, religion and veneration of thy holy name and laws[…]
Derived words: consignable
consignation
consignee
consigner
consignment
consignor
preconsign
reconsign
unconsigned
Translations:
perm
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Short for permanent.
Inflected forms:
form: perms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: perming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: permed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: permed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To give hair a perm, using heat, chemicals etc.
pos: verb
Translations:
Bart
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Barts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Abbreviation or diminutive for baronet, later replaced by Bt. It is a post-nominative title; the pre-nominative is Sir (e.g. Sir John Smith Bart.).
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: The First Lord's daughter proud,
Snubbed earls and viscounts nightly—
She sneered at barts aloud.
And spurned poor Joe Golightly.
Translations:
dunkel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From German dunkel (“dark”).
Inflected forms:
form: dunkels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of dark German lager, typically ranging in color from amber to dark reddish brown, and characterized by its smooth malty flavor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I drank dunkel export beer in the Bier Halle where all the girls were called Therese;
Recently, for instance, he brewed all dunkels for a period, only with different yeast strains.
Bavarian dunkels are deep reddish-brown in colour.
Dunkels tend to be moderately hopped, made using dark malts, and offer malty, toffee, chocolate flavours. While weissbiers, helles and dunkels are not actually indigenous to Germany, altbier has its origins around the city of Düsseldorf,[…].
Translations:
chad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain; possibly from the English slang term chat (“louse”). The word predates the chadless punch, which therefore cannot be its origin, and a derivation from Scots chad (“river gravel”) stated in some dictionaries is now thought to be nothing more than guesswork.
Inflected forms:
form: chad
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Small pieces of paper punched out from the edges of continuous stationery, or from ballot papers, paper tape, punched cards, etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The keypunch wasn't named after a Mr. Chadless; it was so named because, as expected, it punched tape while producing little or no chad.
gloss: One of these pieces of paper.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Prior devices of the type according to the present invention have been arranged to cut out the perforations completely at a single movement, thereby producing chads or waste material which often present difficult problems of disposal.
The small hinged discs of paper, called ‘chad’, remain attached to the body of the tape.
Much of the controversy seems to revolve around ballot cards designed to be perforated by a stylus but which, either through error or deliberate omission, have not been perforated with sufficient precision for a machine to count them. In some cases a piece of the card—a chad—is hanging, say by two corners. In other cases there is no separation at all, just an indentation.
Derived words: chad box
chadless
dimpled chad
hanging chad
pregnant chad
swinging-door chad
tri-chad
Translations:
toonie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of two + loonie.
Compound parts: two
loonie
Inflected forms:
form: toonies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: twonie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: twoonie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Canadian two-dollar coin.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
informal
Translations:
superflu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-lbor.
English super-
English flu
English superflu
From super- + flu.
Inflected forms:
form: superflus
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any strain of flu that spreads unusually quickly, is unusually virulent, or is unusually unresponsive to treatment.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: In the wake of the superflus and cataclysmic events, male writers tend to jump to that unholy trinity of rape, murder and cannibalism.
Translations:
reputable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English repute
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 reputable
From repute + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more reputable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most reputable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a good reputation; honourable.
pos: adj
examples: She was a reputable businesswoman.
Translations:
vinyasa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Sanskrit विन्यास (vinyāsa, “disposition (of limbs)”).
Inflected forms:
form: vinyasas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The transition between poses executed in succession, often timed with regular breathing.
pos: noun
gloss: A style of yoga based on a flow between sequential poses and coordinated breathing.
pos: noun
examples: The occasional vinyasa class had made her more attentive to her bones. She let them give.
Translations:
stinger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
Etymology: From sting + -er. Both figurative and literal senses appeared in the 16th century.
Base: sting
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: stingers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything that is used to sting, as a means of attack.
pos: noun
examples: The thing stopped then and looked at me a moment as much as to say: "Why this thing has a stinger! I must be careful." And then it reached out its long neck and opened its mighty jaws and grabbed for me; but I wasn't there.
gloss: Anything, such as an insult, that stings mentally or psychologically.
pos: noun
gloss: A cocktail of brandy and crème de menthe.
pos: noun
gloss: A portable bed of nails to puncture car tires, used by police and military forces.
pos: noun
gloss: A minor neurological injury of the spine characterized by a shooting or stinging pain down one arm, followed by numbness and weakness.
pos: noun
gloss: A station identifier on television or radio played between shows.
pos: noun
gloss: A scene shown on films or television shows after the credits.
pos: noun
gloss: A nonlethal grenade using rubber instead of shrapnel, more commonly called a sting grenade.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A short musical phrase or chord used non-diegetically to dramatic or emphatic effect.
pos: noun
examples: The most commonly used tool in the horror score kit is the “sting” — a quick and loud jolt of sound that coincides with a frightening image or the attack of a killer or creature. “Stingers are a form of music that are unique to movies,” Young adds. “There’s no other venue of musicmaking that has a window of opportunity for writing these little splats of instrumental sound that exist for the sole purpose of getting the little girls in the audience to jump out of their seats. In two or three seconds, you have to do enough so that it isn’t melodrama, that it does the job and also it’s your signature.”
gloss: A final note played at the end of a military march.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: An extension cord.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A stinging nettle.
pos: noun
tags: West-Country
slang
gloss: Chironex fleckeri, an extremely venomous Australian box jellyfish.
pos: noun
gloss: An improvised heating element used to boil or heat water in prison.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Derived words: horse-stinger
marine stinger
mauve stinger
mesquite stinger moth
stingerless
Translations:
gallivant
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 1809, from gallant (“wooing women”), originally in sense “to flirt”, broadened to mean “roaming without plan”.
Inflected forms:
form: gallivants
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gallivanting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gallivanted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gallivanted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: galavant
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: gallavant
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To roam about for pleasure without any definite plan.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Bertram, it is true, when he heard of the plan, rebelled, and asserted that what Billy needed was a rest, an entire rest from care and labor. In fact, what he wanted her to do, he said, was to gallivant – to gallivant all day long.
Rather than sit and gawk at my nonadoring mother and sister, I gallivanted outdoors until it was time to hit the sack.
The episode also opens with an inspired bit of business for Homer, who blithely refuses to acquiesce to an elderly neighbor’s utterly reasonable request that he help make the process of selling her house easier by wearing pants when he gallivants about in front of windows, throw out his impressive collection of rotting Jack-O-Lanterns from previous Halloweens and take out his garbage, as it’s attracting wildlife (cue moose and Northern Exposure theme song).
When she wasn't gallivanting about the globe, gathering interesting tidbits for her travel blog, she adored holing up for days at a time with a few pints of Häagen-Dazs, leaving only to go for a dip in the rooftop pool or for a workout in the building's fitness club.
gloss: To flirt, to romance.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: 'That you never go gallivanting with Chloe again. You both "don't mean anything", but suppose you did happen to get the girl discharged with a very dubious character? Should you see any alternative to behaving either as a fool or a knave to put it right?'
Derived words: gallivanter
Translations:
high-strung
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: higher-strung
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: highest-strung
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Nervous; anxious; excited or excitable.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
informal
examples: But it exasperated the higher strung nature of Colonel Feraud
"Why, you're shakin' all over!" "I suppose I wouldn't be a medium if I wasn't high strung."
I probably would have gone with a spaniel rather than a setter. Especially since they listed the Irish Setter - arguably the highest-strung of the bunch.
My mother, always described in our family as high-strung, was acting higher-strung than I ever remembered her.
Translations:
insomniac
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English insomnia
English -ac
English insomniac
From insomnia + -ac.
Inflected forms:
form: insomniacs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who suffers an inability or difficulty sleeping; a sufferer from insomnia.
pos: noun
gloss: Suffering from or pertaining to insomnia.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
BART
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: BARTs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: BARTing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: BARTed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: BARTed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To use Bay Area Rapid Transit, to ride on BART.
pos: verb
Translations:
sida
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From the genus name, translingual Sida.
Inflected forms:
form: sidas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: any of the flowering plants of the genus Sida in the mallow family
pos: noun
Translations:
caped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Etymology: From cape + -ed. Piecewise doublet of capped, chaped, and coped.
Base: cape
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Wearing a cape or capes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: One of Batman’s aliases is "the Caped Crusader".
gloss: Wearing a cape of a specified kind.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
examples: Hella looked about delightedly at all of it, the cafés, the self-contained people, the violent snarl of the traffic, the blue-caped traffic policeman and his white, gleaming club.
gloss: cancelled
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
Synonyms: becaped
Derived words: caped crusader
Translations:
lang: Danish
word: kappeklædt
lang: French
word: encapé
bresaola
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian bresaola, from French braiser (“to braise”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Air-dried salt-cured beef fillet that has been aged about 2-3 months until it becomes very hard and a dark red, almost purple colour.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: In memory, all the food they brought us first was red: the bresaola, the fat tongues of roasted peppers laid on goat's cheese, the radicchio, the white china bowl of radish coronets.
Translations:
decriminalization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From de- + criminalization or decriminalize + -ation.
Base: criminalization
Affixes: de-
Inflected forms:
form: decriminalisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of making an activity or substance no longer criminalized (no longer a crime, subject to criminal penalties, to perform or possess). (Compare legalization, which often implies regulation.)
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: the decriminalization of all plant-based psychedelics
Some opponents also said federal decriminalization would contribute to more death and injury from impaired drivers using marijuana.
gloss: The act of ceasing to treat a person as a criminal, by making their activities legal or no longer subjecting them to the criminal justice system (but instead possibly the mental healthcare system, etc).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Most sex work feminists support either the legalization or the decriminalization of sex workers.
Antonyms: criminalization
Related words: legalization
Translations:
Stinger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Inflected forms:
form: Stingers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The FIM-92 portable infra-red homing surface-to-air missile.
pos: noun
Translations:
normalization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
databases
diplomacy
economics
engineering
government
human-sciences
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
social-science
sociology
statistics
Etymology: From normal + -ization or normalize + -ation.
Base: normal
Affixes: -ization
Inflected forms:
form: normalizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: normalisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: Any process that makes something more normal or regular, which typically means conforming to some regularity or rule, or returning from some state of abnormality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In the writings of Banfield, Wilson, and the New Progressives, the present-oriented, the wicked and the disorderly are portrayed as being abnormal―as being in need of normalization, control, and supervision. This makes it a lot easier for the rest of us […] to accept the aggressive policing and harsh punishment of the disorderly others.
gloss: Standardization, act of imposing standards or norms or rules or regulations.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: In relational database design, a process that breaks down data into record groups for efficient processing, by eliminating redundancy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Meronym: atomization
gloss: Process of establishing normal diplomatic relations between two countries.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Following the line pursued in recent months by President Mubarak, Mr. Ali said he was confident the peace treaty between the two former foes would presist^([sic]) and "create a good atmosphere for normalizations of relations in the coming months and years."
On my first trip to China after normalization, I saw firsthand the possibility of leveraging Deng Xiaoping’s very real fear of the Soviets to gain specific intelligence aid from the People’s Republic of China.
gloss: Globalization, the process of making a worldwide normal and dominant model of production and consumption.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Normalized production.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Sharing or enforcement of standard policies.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A process whereby artificial and unwanted norms of behaviour and models of behaviour are made to seem natural and wanted, through propaganda, influence, imitation and conformity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of removing statistical error in repeated measured data.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: regularization
seminormalization
standardization
stabilization
first normal form
second normal form
third normal form
fourth normal form
fifth normal form
Boyce-Codd normal form
Derived words: autonormalization
homonormalization
orthonormalization
pseudonormalization
renormalization
transnormalization
Translations:
grating
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English grat(e)
English -ing
English grating
From grat(e) + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: gratings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Harsh and unpleasant.
pos: adj
examples: grating vocals
gloss: Annoying; tending to annoy.
pos: adj
gloss: A barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air.
pos: noun
gloss: A frame of iron bars to hold a fire.
pos: noun
gloss: The loose material that comes from something being grated.
pos: noun
examples: Add a few gratings of nutmeg to the hot milk.
gloss: An optical system of close equidistant and parallel lines or bars, especially lines ruled on a polished surface, used for producing spectra by diffraction.
pos: noun
gloss: The strong wooden lattice used to cover a hatch, admitting light and air; also, a movable lattice used for the flooring of boats.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: The sound made by something that grates against something else.
pos: noun
examples: If, with these symptoms, are heard gratings of the teeth, irregular appetite, and sudden ebullitions of temper we may reasonably conclude that parasites are irritating the intestines and should be gotten rid of.
Synonyms: gridiron
Related words: grate
Derived words: gratingly
gratingness
grism
micrograting
nanograting
supergrating
ungrating
diffraction grating
echelle grating
Translations:
mathematically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mathematical
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English mathematically
From mathematical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more mathematically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most mathematically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: According to or using mathematics.
pos: adv
examples: It is mathematically impossible to divide by zero.
It was a figure quite out of key with that lonely landscape, for it wore a panama hat and a neat dark suit, cut to the order of present day dandyism, which required coats to be tight-waisted up to the armpits and trousers belted in that they might bulge out into extra wide mathematically squared bags.
Translations:
megabucks
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s
Proto-Hellenic *mégas
Ancient Greek μέγᾰς (mégăs)der.
English mega-
English bucks
English megabucks
From mega- + bucks.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Collectively, a very large amount of money (whether in dollars or other currency).
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: He is making megabucks with his business venture.
Years later I went to see The Wall; it was a great show with megabucks spent on the production, but it didn't have that basic essence, there was a lack of theatre.
To anyone observing the state of cinema in 2023, it should be a point of utmost clarity that the might of these megabucks companies can do nothing but crush the smaller people.
Derived words: megabuck
Translations:
neurogenic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From neuro- + -genic.
Base: neuro
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Originating in, or caused by, the nervous system
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
punster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pun
Proto-West Germanic *-astrijā
Old English -estre
Middle English -estere
English -ster
English punster
From pun + -ster.
Inflected forms:
form: punsters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who makes puns.
pos: noun
examples: Waglings and punsters — a vile race, / Who grin and jeer in any case!
Translations:
Gnosticism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃tisder.
Ancient Greek γνῶσις (gnôsis)
▲
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Hellenic *-tós
Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)
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Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
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Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós)
Ancient Greek γνωστῐκός (gnōstĭkós)
English Gnostic
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English Gnosticism
From Gnostic + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: Gnosticisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wide variety of Jewish and early Christian sects having an interest in gnosis, or divine knowledge, and generally holding the belief that there is a god greater than the Demiurge, or the creator of the world.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Another contemporary scholar of Gnosticism, C. G. Jung, has taken this notion of the twin ray and applied it to his own model of the contrasexual nature of the self.
Translations:
epistolary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: 1627, from Latin epistolārius, from epistola (“letter”) (English epistle) + -ārius, from Ancient Greek ἐπιστολή (epistolḗ) from ἐπιστέλλω (epistéllō, “to send a message”) from ἐπί (epí, “upon”) + στέλλω (stéllō, “to prepare, send”). For the noun, compare Middle English pistelarie and Old English pistelari, both from Medieval Latin epistolārium, possibly via an unattested *epistelari, *epistolarie.
Inflected forms:
form: more epistolary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most epistolary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: epistolaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to letters, or the writing of letters.
pos: adj
gloss: Carried on by written correspondence.
pos: adj
examples: an epistolary relationship
gloss: In the manner of written correspondence.
pos: adj
examples: epistolary style
an epistolary novel
Bram Stoker's novel Dracula (1897) is written in epistolary style.
But Sir Jasper has a great talent for epistolary correspondence—to be sure he has nothing else to do; but my time is of great importance.
gloss: A Christian liturgical book containing set readings for church services from the New Testament Epistles.
pos: noun
Related words: epistle
epistology
dialectic
dialogue
Derived words: epistolarily
unepistolary
Translations:
goggle
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From 14th century Middle English gogelen (“to roll (eyes), to look sideways”). Earlier source is unknown. The noun is attested from the 17th century. Compare Irish gog (“a nod, a slight motion”).
Inflected forms:
form: goggles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: goggling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: goggled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: goggled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: goggles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To stare (at something) with wide eyes.
pos: verb
examples: [...] she frowned a displeased frown and told me for heaven's sake to stop goggling like a dead halibut. [...] She left me fogged and groping for the inner meaning, and I could see from Aunt Dahlia's goggling eyes that the basic idea hadn't got across with her either. [...] I didn't want to be hampered by an audience. When you're pushing someone into a lake, nothing embarrasses you more than having the front seats filled up with goggling spectators.
the rational pleas of astronomer Dr. Randall Mindy (Leonardo DiCaprio) and grad student Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence) for the public to trust science and understand the seriousness of the coming disaster will sound uncomfortably familiar to anyone who has goggled in disbelief at COVID and/or vaccine denialism.
gloss: To roll the eyes.
pos: verb
examples: Inflam’d all over with Disgrace, / To be seen by her in such a Place; / Which made him hang his Head, and scoul, / And wink, and goggle like an Owl
gloss: A wide-eyed stare or affected rolling of the eye.
pos: noun
examples: Come and have a goggle at Fauzia’s new car!
gloss: A pair of protective eyeglasses.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
Derived words: agoggle
beer goggles
begoggled
croggle
goggle box
goggle-eye
goggle-eyed
goggle-eyed plover
goggleless
goggler
gogglesome
goggly
love goggles
Translations:
bearhug
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bearhugs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bearhugging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bearhugged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bearhugged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To embrace in a bear hug.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: All around the Giants are signs and symbols of change and progression, from the once-isolated head coach, who was spotted Sunday night triumphantly bearhugging a player, to the acutely boyish quarterback, who stepped to the podium wearing the flattering look of whiskered grunge.
Translations:
derby
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Epsom Derby horse race, named after Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby. Ultimately from Derby.
Inflected forms:
form: derbies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several annual horse races.
pos: noun
gloss: Any organized race.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: a donkey derby
gloss: A bowler hat.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: He began to fan her with his hat. That was successful, for he struck her nose with the brim of his derby and she opened her eyes.
gloss: A sports match between rival teams.
pos: noun
gloss: A local derby.
pos: noun
examples: Defeat sees Forest remain a point outside the top six with a derby against Leicester up next.
The left-back had been a selection concern because of an injury niggle but his first goal since last March swung this derby decisively in United’s favour, extending their club record unbeaten run away from home in the Premier League to 22 games and torpedoing City’s sequence of 21 straight wins in all competitions.
Derived words: demolition derby
derby dog
diaper derby
duck derby
local derby
merby
roller derby
tar derby
tin derby
trench derby
Translations:
consolidated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having undergone consolidation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Including financial data of the parent and all subsidiary companies.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: nonconsolidated
Derived words: con
consol
consolidated fund
overconsolidated
preconsolidated
semiconsolidated
unconsolidated
underconsolidated
Translations:
Derby
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Derby, from Old English Dēorby, of Scandinavian/North Germanic origin, from Old Norse Djúra-bý (“village of the deer”), from dýr (“deer”) + bǿr (“settlement”). Influenced by British Latin Derventio, the Roman site predating Derby, and possibly also the Celtic river name Derwent.
Inflected forms:
form: Derbys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of cheese made in Derby, England.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
screenname
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From screen + name.
Compound parts: screen
name
Inflected forms:
form: screennames
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: screen name
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: a string of characters used to identify a user of a bulletin board, e-mail etc; a pseudonym used for online communication.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: 2020, Lee Williams, "Inside the Incelosphere: Tracing the Origins and Navigating the Contradictions", thesis submitted to the University of Regina, pages 93-94:
Women “absolutely love playing the victim” a man using the screenname michael2222 vehemently claims, asserting that women have taken a men’s issue, Incel, and made it about themselves (through the creation of femcels) because “they feel the need to be victimized by absolutely everything” (November 12, 2019).
Translations:
artiste
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂értis
Proto-Italic *artis
Latin ars
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 -ista
Late Latin artistader.
French artistebor.
English artiste
Borrowed from French artiste. Doublet of artist.
Inflected forms:
form: artistes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A public performer, especially of song or dance.
pos: noun
gloss: Any person with artistic skill, such as a hairdresser or a cook.
pos: noun
Translations:
Chardonnay
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French chardonnay, believed to be named after the village of Chardonnay in the Mâconnais region of France, where Pouilly-Fuissé is currently produced; it is possible that the variety was first bred there
Inflected forms:
form: Chardonnays
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chardonnay
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A green-skinned grape variety used to make a white wine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A variety of wine made from this grape.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 霞多麗 /霞多丽
roman: Xiáduōlì
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 莎當妮 /莎当妮
roman: Shādāngnī
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 夏敦埃
roman: Xiàdūn'āi
lang: Finnish
word: chardonnay-rypäle
lang: French
word: chardonnay
lang: Galician
word: chardonnay
lang: German
word: Chardonnay-Traube
lang: Japanese
word: シャルドネ
roman: sharudone
lang: Macedonian
word: Шардоне
roman: Šardone
lang: Marathi
word: शार्डोने
roman: śārḍone
lang: Portuguese
word: Chardonnay
lang: Russian
word: шардоне́
roman: šardonɛ́
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 霞多麗 /霞多丽
roman: Xiáduōlì
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 莎當妮 /莎当妮
roman: Shādāngnī
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 夏敦埃
roman: Xiàdūn'āi
lang: Finnish
word: chardonnay
lang: Finnish
word: chardonnay-viini
lang: French
word: chardonnay
lang: Galician
word: chardonnay
lang: Georgian
word: შარდონე
roman: šardone
lang: German
word: Chardonnay
lang: Japanese
word: シャルドネ
roman: Sharudone
lang: Marathi
word: शार्डोने
roman: śārḍone
lang: Portuguese
word: Chardonnay
lang: Russian
word: шардоне́
roman: šardonɛ́
lang: Spanish
word: chardonay
grandeur
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French grandeur, from Old French grandur, from grant (French grand), from Latin grandis (“grown up, great”).
Inflected forms:
form: grandeurs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being grand or splendid; magnificence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I wrapp’d myself in grandeur then,
And donn’d a visionary crown ——
So much of what followed from the drawing boards of others will have been designed with the demands, effort and grandeur of Primrose Hill [tunnel] in the back of their minds.
In a tightly choreographed ceremony filled with imperial grandeur, Xi and Putin then walked towards each other and met in the middle, smiling as they shook hands.
gloss: Nobility (state of being noble).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Greatness; largeness; tallness; loftiness.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
rare
uncountable
Related words: aggrandize
delusion of grandeur
folie de grandeur
grand
grandiose
grandiosity
Translations:
Hiroshima
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 広(ひろ)島(しま) (Hiroshima).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A catastrophe.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Stuxnet is the Hiroshima of cyber-war.
Translations:
parti
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French parti.
Inflected forms:
form: partis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The basic, central, or main concept, drawing, or scheme of an architectural design.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone (especially a man) who is considered to be a good choice for marriage, because of wealth, status etc.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: ...Hastily arranging her necessities, her wishes, her fears, and her desires, she thus began to address the dear friend she alike dreaded, despised, and persevered in attaching to herself and her measures:—
"Bring any one you deem a desirable parti, of course, but allow me to observe, dear Lady Penrhyn, that——"
"Yes! I see, that they must be really crême a la crême....
We met some time ago a man that would just do for you, if you were not already engaged to Jonathan. He is an excellent parti, being handsome, well off, and of good birth.
“My temper is sweet, and my character without blemish. In fine, Miss Dobson, I am a most desirable parti.”
Related words: mi-parti
particoloured
parti pris
Translations:
applejack
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From apple + jack, referring to the increase in alcohol concentration due to freeze distillation.
Compound parts: apple
jack
Inflected forms:
form: applejacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An alcoholic drink similar to apple brandy and calvados, made by freeze-distilling ("jacking") apple cider.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
eorl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English eorl. Doublet of earl and jarl.
Inflected forms:
form: eorls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An Anglo-Saxon of noble rank; a nobleman ranking above a thane; alderman.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
breezily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English breezy
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English breezily
From breezy + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more breezily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most breezily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a breezy manner.
pos: adv
examples: He swings breezily into the title song.
After fighting “The Good Fight” for streaming, the producers of “The Good Wife” indulge in a more CBS-friendly spinoff with “Elsbeth,” which breezily takes Carrie Preston’s quirky title character and turns her into a modern version of “Columbo.”
Translations:
breezy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English breeze
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English breezy
From breeze + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: breezier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: breeziest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: breezey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
rare
form: breezies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: breezey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: With a breeze blowing, with a lively wind, pleasantly windy.
pos: adj
examples: I know the shadiest breeziest spots, hidden tables surrounded by trees that have lived longer than the neighborhoods around them.
gloss: With a cheerful, casual, lively and light-hearted manner.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: It used to be so easy living here with you / You were light and breezy and I knew just what to do / Now you look so unhappy and I feel like a fool
Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.
“Let Them All Talk” is as breezy as an ocean cruise (pre-Covid), and mostly a welcome excuse to enjoy its three septuagenarian leads – Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen and Dianne Wiest – as they banter their way across the Atlantic.
gloss: A young woman.
pos: noun
examples: Then you got the Heartless Hustlas. This narcissist doesn't give a damn about anybody including himself. He usually messes with gutter breezies that he can manipulate 'cause she aint got nothin' goin' for herself no way.
2018, Clifford "Spud" Johnson, Won't Stop
I know you haven't brought any of these breezies to the place where I'll be staying, Cotton?
Derived words: breezily
breeziness
easy-breezy
unbreezy
Translations:
Jammer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English jam
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 Jammer
From jam + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: Jammers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A player of the massively multiplayer online game Animal Jam (now either the app so named, formerly Animal Jam – Play Wild!, or the desktop game renamed Animal Jam Classic).
pos: noun
examples: A growing percentage of "Jammers" are visiting from international territories, and global growth of the Animal Jam property will be a strong focus for Smart Bomb Interactive in 2013.
So come meet over 16 million Animal Jam players, or Jammers. […] Liza appears throughout this book to share her advice and tips with all Jammers.
This Is Animal Jam, which has recently hit magazine racks across the country, is filled with insider tips, a Jammer name generator, games and puzzles and fun facts about the natural world.
Only as an actual adult did I realize how bizarre one particular user-created facet of the game was: an obsession with “adopting” other Jammers, or being “adopted” oneself. […] It’s a little disconcerting to ponder how much of my happy online childhood was spent hanging out virtually with people who were old enough to own Hondas and go on PornHub^([sic]) on purpose (and definitely people old enough to be active on Reddit), but I loved being a Jammer.
Translations:
morgen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Dutch morgen and German Morgen, both literally "morning", probably originally indicated the amount of land that can be ploughed by a team of oxen in a morning. Doublet of morn and morrow.
Inflected forms:
form: morgen
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: morgens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A unit of measurement of land in the Netherlands and the Dutch colonies and parts of the United States, where it was equivalent to about two acres; and in Denmark, Norway, and Germany, where it was equivalent to about two-thirds of an acre. Now used informally in Germany to mean one quarter of a hectare.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: ‘All my life spent hating a poor little tyrant on a few morgen of poor soil, and he'd never known anything else.’
Translations:
dropping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, drop + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: droppings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something dropped; a droplet.
pos: noun
examples: The information we received was, that as the roof has no gutters, the droppings of water from the roof are driven by the wind against the wall.
gloss: A piece of animal excrement; dung.
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
examples: a rabbit dropping
gloss: The act of something that drops or falls.
pos: noun
examples: At length, after several droppings asleep, […] Mr. Dowler made up his mind that he would throw himself on the bed […]
Related words: spoor
Derived words: aitch-dropping
bird dropping spider
crotch-dropping
crotch dropping
cunt dropping
dropping in
g-dropping
h-dropping
pigeon dropping
r-dropping
ring-dropping
shopdropping
turkey dropping
yod-dropping
yod dropping
Translations:
crowned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English coronede, crouned, crowned, crownyd, equivalent to crown + -ed. Piecewise doublet of coronaed.
Base: crown
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Wearing a crown.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having a particular crown (top part of the head)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
often
gloss: Great, supreme; completed; excessive.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: Put case, he saith, all other medicines faile, by the helpe of God this alone will doe it, and tis a crowned medicine which must be kept in secret
After having cloy'd his puny stomach, he sneaks away privily, in a Stage-Coach, to his house in the Country; there he murders the Vertuous Womb of his Dear Lady, and darts into the Royal Arch, his contagious, loathsome Sperm, which is innocently receiv'd, and hugg'd in the crown'd Act of Conception.
More truly delightful to me the seduction-progress than the crowned act: for that's a vapour, a bubble!
Their crowned truths
That the crownèd truth advances.
Derived words: African crowned eagle
black crowned crane
black-crowned night heron
crowned crane
crowned dens syndrome
crowned eagle
crowned pigeon
crowned republic
crowned seahorse
golden-crowned spadebill
golden-crowned warbler
grey crowned crane
low-crowned seahorse
orange-crowned warbler
purple-crowned fairywren
red-crowned crane
rose-crowned fruit-dove
rufous-crowned bee-eater
rufous-crowned sparrow
uncrowned
white-crowned plover
white-crowned shrike
white-crowned sparrow
yellow-crowned
yellow-crowned bishop
Translations:
contrived
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more contrived
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most contrived
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Created in a deliberate, rather than natural or spontaneous, way.
pos: adj
examples: contrived joke
contrived answer
contrived speech
contrived solution
gloss: Unnatural, forced; artificial, or unrealistic.
pos: adj
Synonyms: staged
insincere
factitious
Antonyms: spontaneous
Derived words: contrivedly
contrivedness
uncontrived
Translations:
deserved
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more deserved
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most deserved
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: fair; merited.
pos: adj
examples: But though he thus abstained from power, his eldest son, the present Lord Morpeth, as Secretary for Ireland at a critical period, acquired a higher reputation and a more deserved popularity than any statesman who ever held that office.
When the victim fails or refuses, the punishment is perceived as being more deserved.
For example, Van Dijk et al. (2005) showed that individuals who were seen to be responsible for their own misfortune evoked more schadenfreude and less sympathy than individuals who were not held responsible for their misfortunes, and that these effects were mediated by the perceived deservingness of the misfortune (i.e., misfortunes for which a target was held responsible were seen as more deserved and in turn elicited more schadenfreude and less sympathy).
Translations:
borrowed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having been borrowed.
pos: adj
Translations: