yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
cack
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Onomatopoeia; see cackle.
Inflected forms:
form: cacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cacks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cacking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cacked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cacked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A squawk.
pos: noun
examples: Of course, so excitable a nature must find other than physical outlet for his irrepressible energy, and he accompanies his movements by more or less appropriate notes: scolding cacks, clinking, metallic rattles, musical trills, tree-toadlike krrrings – in fact, he possesses an almost endless vocabulary .
[…]for on occasions he gives utterance to an entirely uncharacteristic series of cacking notes, and even mounts high in the tree to sing a hesitating medley of the same unmusical cacks, broken whistled calls, and attempted trills.
When birds approach their cliffs in the spring, they often emit a series of rapidly repeated cacks, or notes of varying pitches. Sometimes the notes are very spirited; others are very soft. Male cacks tend to be higher pitched than those of females.
gloss: A discordant note.
pos: noun
gloss: A cackling goose (Branta hutchinsii)
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: […] cacks, " the whitefronts or specklebellies in the Sacramento Valley
White geese aren't supposed to be such good eating and most of the gunners want "specs" or "cacks" or Hutchins or Canadas but I'll eat snow geese any time you don't want 'em.
gloss: To squawk.
pos: verb
examples: Still fluffy with down, she often attacks the other birds, cacking and flashing her wings, or threatens me as I watch through the tiny peephole of the near box.
2000, Minnesota Ornithologists′ Union, The Loon, Volumes 72-74, page 37,
While the Gyrfalcon cacked loudly on each stoop, the owl did not scream.
Peckle snitted them off and cacked at them. Then he flew up by the rope-tie spot and puffed out his chest and then the wrens made another dash for the scraps and he dove down and cacked them away.
gloss: To incorrectly play a note by hitting a partial other than the one intended.
pos: verb
examples: The bugler hopes not to cack during his performance.
gloss: To laugh.
pos: verb
tags: Australian
slang
examples: I had to cack when you fell down the stairs.
Related words: cackle
cack up
Translations:
catgut
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Possibly an abbreviation of the word cattlegut. Alternatively, it may derive by folk etymology from kitgut or kitstring — the word kit, meaning fiddle, having at some point been confused with the word kit for a young cat.
Inflected forms:
form: catguts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, especially of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, racquets, sutures etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The thing about Proust is his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity. He searches out these butterfly shades to the last grain. He is as tough as catgut & as evanescent as a butterfly's bloom.
Eventually they carved small paddles to strike the ball and refined this implement with a mesh of catgut.
The absorbable suture, catgut, is made of collagen derived from sheep intestinal submucosa. It is usually treated with a chromic salt to increase its strength and is crosslinked to retard resorption. Such treatment extends the life of catgut suture from 3–7 days up to 20–40 days.
gloss: The material from which such cords are made.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A sort of linen or canvas, with wide interstices.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Tephrosia virginiana (goat's rue, devil's shoestring).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: catgut scraper
sea-catgut
Translations:
cauline
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English caulis
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ine
English cauline
From caulis + -ine.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Growing immediately on a caulis, the main stem of a plant; of or pertaining to a caulis.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
perv
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of pervert.
Inflected forms:
form: pervs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: perve
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pervs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: perving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: perved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: perved
pos: verb
tags: past
form: perve
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A pervert.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: It is hoped that you will get at least a taste of kinky practices throughout the ages and come to the understanding that today’s kinky crowd is but the latest in a line of pervs stretching back to the dawn of mankind itself.
gloss: An ogle; an act of leering or voyeurism.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
UK
slang
examples: After the next ball had been bowled the blokes' heads would turn around unobtrusively to have a perv at a bird in a mini-skirt...
It transpires that whilst Trev and Boz (me) slowed down to 'take a perv' at the blonde, she too used to keep an eye out for me.
She had a bit of a perv over my body when I was working out…
Was she bursting in for a quick perv? Was she genuinely concerned that I might have soiled the bathwater by not first washing? Was she worried I might have drowned in the bath?
gloss: To act in a sexually perverted manner.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
usually
examples: God, could you stop perving out over my sister? She's literally 14.
gloss: To act in a sexually perverted manner.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
specifically
usually
with-on
examples: The soccer coach perved on one of the players as he undressed in the change room.
Antonyms: normophile
Derived words: pervery
pervette
perv row
pervy
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 色迷迷地看
roman: sèmímí de kàn
lang: Finnish
word: pervoilla
parsimonious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English parsimony
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos
Latin -ōsus
Old French -usbor.
Middle English -ous
English -ous
English parsimonious
From parsimony + -ous.
Inflected forms:
form: more parsimonious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most parsimonious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in the expenditure of money; frugal, possibly to excess.
pos: adj
examples: He was regular in his habits, parsimonious, and industrious; but he lacked all talent needed at the bar—he had neither address, nor eloquence, nor ingenuity.
Our fathers would have an economical government, even if grand people called it a parsimonious one, and taxes should be no greater than were absolutely necessary to pay for such a government.
The first three college-savings plans stand out for their parsimonious expenses […]
gloss: Using a minimal number of assumptions, steps, or conjectures.
pos: adj
examples: Statistical methods offer the ability to enforce parsimonious selection of the most influential potential predictors of each gene's state.
gloss: Not conceding many goals.
pos: adj
examples: They played like a team that was in a hurry to get back to the Premier League. Norwich City had dismantled the most parsimonious defence in the Championship inside the opening quarter of an hour and at the final whistle it was the yellow end, rather than Middlesbrough’s banks of red, where the euphoria could be found.
Derived words: equiparsimonious
imparsimonious
nonparsimonious
parsimoniously
parsimoniousness
unparsimonious
unparsimoniously
Translations:
pact
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle English pact, from Middle French pacte, from Old French, and its etymon Latin pactum (“something agreed upon”), from pacīscī (“to agree”). Probably a doublet of patio.
Inflected forms:
form: pacts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pacts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pacting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pacted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pacted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An agreement; a compact; a covenant.
pos: noun
examples: write up a pact
New sisters at the sorority have to agree to the pact set out by the former members.
gloss: An agreement between two or more nations
pos: noun
gloss: An alliance or coalition.
pos: noun
gloss: To form a pact; to agree formally.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: When national elites pacted in Mexico, they pacted to the advantage of the elites as against the masses and also to the advantage of the center as against the provinces.
Synonyms: accord
agreement
bond
compact
concord
convention
covenant
pact
paction
stipulation
Derived words: pactless
Translations:
pad
Part of speech: verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: 1554, "bundle of straw to lie on". Unknown, and unclear all senses have common etymology. For sense "ends of a digit", cf. Low German or West Flemish pad (“sole of the foot”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pent- (“to pass”), which would make it related to both path and find.
Inflected forms:
form: pads
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: padding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: padded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: padded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To stuff.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To furnish with a pad or padding.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The author began to pad her succinct stories with trite descriptions to keep up with current market trends.
pad one's expenses
"Obama pads delegate lead […] with win in key western state."
gloss: To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to pad cloth
[…] to pad a piece in diluted acetate of alumine to obtain a pale lemon ground […]
gloss: To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To walk with soft steps.
pos: verb
examples: pad down the corridor
gloss: Indicating a soft flat sound, as of bare footsteps.
pos: intj
examples: I heard her soft footsteps, pad, pad along the corridor.
Derived words: overpad
paddability
paddable
padder
pad up
repad
well-padded
Translations:
page
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French page, from Latin pāgina, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-. Doublet of pagina.
Inflected forms:
form: pages
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: paging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: paged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: paged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To turn several pages of a publication.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
often
examples: The patient paged through magazines while he waited for the doctor.
gloss: To furnish with folios.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: mispage
pageability
pageable
Translations:
painful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English paynful, peinful, peynful, paynefull, peynefull, equivalent to pain + -ful. Compare Danish pinefuld (“painful”).
Base: pain
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: painfuller
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more painful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: painfullest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most painful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: painfull
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.
pos: adj
examples: In a 2008 case report from India, doctors described removing a giant tonsillolith that was making it painful for a young patient to swallow.
A rackingly painful disease that affects the joints and finally cripples, it is caused by an imbalance of uric acid in the system.
gloss: Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part or, formerly, of a person).
pos: adj
gloss: Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious.
pos: adj
gloss: Painstaking; careful; industrious.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: The men bestow their times in fishing, hunting, warres, and such manlike exercises, scorning to be seene in any woman-like exercise, which is the cause that the women be very painefull, and the men often idle.
To all these painful labourers Johnson shewed a never-ceasing kindness, so far as they stood in need of it.
For twenty generations, here was the earthly arena where painful living men worked out their life-wrestle
gloss: Very bad, poor.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: His violin playing is painful.
Synonyms: achesome
aching
achy
raw
hurt
hurty
griefful
pained
painfilled
painful
smartful
smarting
sore
suffering
tender
tormented
Antonyms: acheless
agreeable
pain-free
painless
pleasant
unaching
Related words: agonizing
Derived words: nonpainful
overpainful
painful bladder syndrome
painfully
painfulness
painful on the eyes
prepainful
unpainful
Translations:
pant
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English panten, whence also English dialectal pank.
Possibly from Old French pantoyer, a byform or of Old French pantoisier (“to be breathless”) (compare modern French panteler (“to gasp for breath”)), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Vulgar Latin *pantasiō (“struggling for breath when having a nightmare”), from Ancient Greek φαντασιόω (phantasióō, “to be subject to hallucinations”), from φαντασία (phantasía, “appearance, image, fantasy”).
Inflected forms:
form: pants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pants
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: panting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: panted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: panted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A quick breathing; a catching of the breath; a gasp: the panting of animals such as a dog with their tong hung out- as a form of thermoregulation.
pos: noun
gloss: Eager longing.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Indeed, the projections, cravings, and everyday frolics common to trysts among buzz-activist Hollywood stars and starlets, plus their many common folk imitators, go forward with eager pant.
gloss: A violent palpitation of the heart.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: To this great fairy I'll commend thy acts, / Make her thanks bless thee. O thou day o' the world, / Chain mine arm'd neck; leap thou, attire and all; / Through proof of harness to my heart, and there / Ride on the pants triumphing.
gloss: To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Pluto pants for breath from out his cell.
There is a cavern where my spirit / Was panted forth in anguish.
Charles had just slipp'd the bolt of the door, and running, caught me in his arms, and lifting me from the ground, with his lips glew'd to mine, bore me, trembling, panting, dying, with soft fears and tender wishes, to the bed
gloss: To long eagerly; to desire earnestly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: As the hart panteth after the water brooks.
Anyway, one of the men who panted after Cleopatra was a Roman general named Marc Anthony, who became so enraptured with the idea of being Cleopatra’s sex slave that he set fire to Rome just to impress her.
gloss: To long for (something); to be eager for (something).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Then shall our hearts pant thee.
gloss: Of the heart, to beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Yet might her piteous heart be seen to pant and quake
gloss: To sigh; to flutter; to languish.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: [T]he whiſp'ring Breeze / Pants on the Leaves, and dies upon the Trees.
gloss: To heave, as the breast.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To bulge and shrink successively, of iron hulls, etc.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: pant-hoot
Translations:
par
Part of speech: prep
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Borrowed from French par (“through, by”), from Latin per (“through”). Doublet of per.
Inflected forms:
form: pars
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: parring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: parred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: parred
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: By; with.
pos: prep
tags: in-compounds
gloss: To reach the hole in the allotted number of strokes.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He will need to par every hole in order to win this game.
Translations:
parch
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English parchen, paarchen (“to parch; dry; roast”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant of Middle English perchen (“to roast”).
Inflected forms:
form: parches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: parching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: parched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: parched
pos: verb
tags: past
form: parches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To burn the surface of, to scorch.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The sun today could parch cement.
gloss: To roast, as dry grain.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn.
gloss: To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The patient’s mouth is parched from fever.
They vvould go over board vvith a Rope faſtned about them, that by drenching themſelves a vvhile in the Sea, they might eaſe the internal Heat vvhich parched them; and vvhen they ſtood any of them to ſteer the Veſſel, they vvould have their Feet in a Pail of Sea VVater to refrigerate 'em.
The last day's march was very painful, for the north wind, blowing full in their faces, parched and benumbed the men.
gloss: To make very thirsty.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
examples: We're parched, hon. Could you send up an ale from the cooler?
In my haste I stumbled , and fell over one of the wounded; he groaned, and prayed me for a cup of water to cool the thirst that parched him.
Serpents bit them, thirst parched them, Amalekites assailed them.
They had no water on the wreck, and a consuming thirst parched them.
Whether it was the cup he drank from, or the thirst that parched him, he took no thought, but it was the sweetest drink that ever passed his lips.
That there had been certain couplings was only because in opening up tunnels of betrayal and shadows in forbidden bodies and imaginations, they were quenching the thirst for Artur that parched them all, that they all professed in limitless ardour.
Pete sipped RC. Bennies parched him bad.
gloss: To boil something slowly (Still used in Lancashire in parched peas, a type of mushy peas).
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
gloss: To become superficially burnt; to become sunburned.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The locals watched, amused, as the tourists parched in the sun, having neglected to apply sunscreen or bring water.
gloss: The condition of being parched.
pos: noun
examples: Yet here he is, not at the head, but somewhere toward the rear of the serpentine queue wending its way through all this parch […].
Derived words: parcher
unparch
Translations:
parse
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Possibly from Middle English pars (“parts, shares; parts of speech, grammar”), from Old French pars (plural of part (“part, portion, share”)), from Latin pars (“part, piece, share”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to carry forth; to sell”).
Inflected forms:
form: parses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: parsing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: parsed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: parsed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: parses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To resolve (a sentence, etc.) into its elements, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by agreement or government; to analyze and describe grammatically.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
gloss: To examine closely; to scrutinize.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To split (a file or other input) into pieces of data that can be easily manipulated or stored.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
gloss: To resolve (a string of code or text) into its elements to determine if it conforms to a particular grammar.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Of a string of code or text, sentence, etc.: to conform to rules of grammar, to be syntactically valid.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: This sentence doesn't parse.
gloss: An act of parsing; a parsing.
pos: noun
examples: The parse will fail if the program contains an unrecognised keyword.
gloss: The result of such an act; a parsing.
pos: noun
examples: This parse is incorrect and indicates a fault in the parser.
Derived words: geoparse
misparse
nonparsed
nonparsing
parsable
parser
preparse
reparse
unparsable
unparse
unparsed
wackyparse
wackyparsing
most vexing parse
parse tree
subparse
Translations:
cardiologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cardio- + -logist.
Base: cardio
Inflected forms:
form: cardiologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A physician who specializes in medical problems related to the heart.
pos: noun
examples: The homeless guy thus ends up getting treated by one of the best cardiologists in the city.
Translations:
undead
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English undede, equivalent to un- + dead. The first attestation is from around 1400. The term was revived, popularized, and imbued with supernatural connotations by its usage in Bram Stoker's novel Dracula (1897).
Base: dead
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: un-dead
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: undead
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: undeads
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
form: un-dead
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not dead; alive.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
gloss: Pertaining to a corpse, though having qualities of life.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Being animate, though non-living.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: When Anna and John finally break out of their self-centered bubbles to the shock that they must battle to the death an undead neighbor in a giant snowman costume, it plays like a poignant comment on movie teenagers' tendency to indulge their inner lives, ignorant of the world around them.
gloss: A creature that is undead; that is, dead but still animate.
pos: noun
examples: In the zombie movie, an army of the undead accosted some unsuspecting teenagers.
"You will do me a service," the undead said to him.
Innocent VIII lent credibility to the actual existence of undeads, an action that perpetuated, and even stimulated, vampire hysteria.
"Were another of the Un-Dead, like him, to try to do what he has done, perhaps not all the centuries of the world that have been, or that will be, could aid him."
Harley got devoured by the undead / Lurking down in some old wizard's tomb / You can say there's no such thing as zombies / But that's how Harley Warren met his doom
It’s an episode of characters returning to their own pasts as different people. They can retrench like Cersei, back on her bullshit, I mean, warpath. Or they can adapt, like The Hound. Neither way necessarily ensures success, but we know the archmaester isn’t unequivocally right. We’ve seen dragons reborn and armies of the undead. I wouldn’t be so sure that Wall will stand forever.
Translations:
professor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English professor, professour, from Anglo-Norman proffessur and its etymon Latin professor (“declarer, person who claims knowledge”), from the past participle stem of profiteor (“profess”). By surface analysis, profess + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: professors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: professour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: The most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution.
pos: noun
examples: Professor is what you become after teaching for twenty to thirty years.
gloss: A teacher or faculty member at a college or university regardless of formal rank.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
US
informal
gloss: One who professes something, such as a religious doctrine.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: […] I alvvayes thought / It vvas both impious and vnnaturall, / That ſuch immanity and bloody ſtrife / Should reigne among Profeſſors of one Faith.
As for Religion, I have not said, much lesse meant irreverently of it, or of the Professors thereof.
This period in which Abraham the Jew lived was one in which Magic was almost universally believed in, and in which its Professors were held in honour;
gloss: A practitioner, one who (publicly) practises or teaches an art or skill.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Two young men of familiar acquaintance … were one euening at a common Inne of this town (as I haue heard) where the one of them shewed his skill on the Virginals, to the no little contentement of the hearers. Nowe as diuers guests of the house came into the room to listen, so among the rest entered an artificiall Conny-catcher, who as occasion serued, in the time of ceissing betweene the seueral toyes and fancies hee plaid: very much commended his cunning, quicke hand, and such qualities praiseworthy in such a professour.
gloss: A pianist in a saloon, brothel, etc.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: You could hear […] pianos under the hands of whorehouse professors sounding like they came with keys between the keys.
gloss: The puppeteer who performs a Punch and Judy show; a Punchman.
pos: noun
Related words: professorial
profestrix
regius professor
Regius professor
Regius Professor
Derived words: absent-minded professor
adjunct professor
assistant professor
associate professor
brofessor
distinguished professor
extraordinary professor
full professor
institute professor
James B. Duke professor
little professor
mad professor
nonprofessor
president's professor
professorate
professordom
professoress
professoriat
professoriate
professorine
professoring
professorish
professorless
professorlike
professorling
professorly
professor ordinarius
Professor's Cube
professorship
regents' professor
regents professor
research professor
Sterling professor
subprofessor
university professor
visiting professor
Translations:
perfidy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French perfidie, from Latin perfidia from perfidus (“faithless, treacherous, false”), from fides (“faith”); related to, for example, English fidelity.
Inflected forms:
form: perfidies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A state or act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An illegitimate act of deception, such as using symbols like the Red Cross or white flag in a false claim of surrender to gain proximity to an enemy for purposes of attack.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Stratagems must be carefully distinguished strategy from perfidy, since the former are allowed, whereas the latter is prohibited.
Abuse of a protective emblem amounts to perfidy and constitutes a war crime under the customary law of armed conflict.
Ruses of war are legitimate so long as they do not involve treachery or perfidy on the part of the belligerent resorting to them.
Cyberattacks almost inevitably involve an element of deception, such as tricking a user to click on a malicious link. So, to what extent could cyberattacks count as perfidy and therefore be illegal given international humanitarian law?
gloss: A state or act of deceit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Germans could not get over the perfidy of it. It was unbelievable that the English, having degenerated to the stage where suffragettes heckled the Prime Minister and defied the police, were going to fight.
Honda Motor Co. is the latest victim of e-mail perfidy, which started when a phony chain letter promised that the automaker would give away free cars.
Letterman roared about the perfidy of lying politicos.
Related words: perfidious
perfidiously
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: измяна
roman: izmjana
lang: Bulgarian
word: предателство
roman: predatelstvo
lang: Finnish
word: sotapetos
lang: Hungarian
word: álnokság
lang: Hungarian
word: perfídia
lang: Russian
word: вероло́мство
roman: verolómstvo
lang: Swedish
word: förrädiskt förfarande
lang: Swedish
word: förräderi
lang: Ukrainian
word: віроломство
roman: virolomstvo
convict
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ethics
human-sciences
law
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English convicten, from Anglo-Norman convicter, from Latin convictus, the past participle of convincō (“to convict”). Doublet of convince. Displaced native Old English forwyrċan (“to convict, condemn”).
Inflected forms:
form: convicts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: convicting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: convicted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: convicted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: convicts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To find guilty, as a result of legal proceedings, or (informal) in a moral sense.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He was a convicted felon.
His remarks convicted him of a lack of sensitivity.
And his subjects wrung all they could wring / Out of temple and palace and store. / But when there seemed no more to bring, / His captors convicted the king / Of once having started a war, / And strangled the wretch with a string.
gloss: To convince, persuade; to cause (someone) to believe in (something).
pos: verb
examples: Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe is standing by his decision not to integrate Apple’s CarPlay into the company’s EVs, even as rivals embrace it. […] Speaking on The Verge’s Decoder podcast, Scaringe said Rivian aims to build a “seamless digital experience” entirely within its own software ecosystem. This means that Rivian will simply be offering native access to key apps like Apple Music, Spotify, Google Maps, and YouTube, according to MacRumors. […] Rivian’s software approach mirrors that of Tesla, which also relies on its own app integrations rather than Apple’s. […] The Rivian CEO added that the company is preparing to introduce AI-powered features within 18 months, including native voice-to-text messaging. Scaringe said this upcoming AI suite will further justify the brand’s decision to control the in-vehicle experience. “We’re really convicted on this,” the CEO said. While he acknowledged that some customers may avoid Rivian due to the lack of CarPlay, Scaringe said he’s “very confident” in the choice. “Some of those decisions not everyone’s going to agree with,” he said. “That’s okay.”
gloss: A person convicted of a crime by a judicial body.
pos: noun
gloss: A person deported to a penal colony.
pos: noun
gloss: The convict cichlid (Amatitlania nigrofasciata), also known as the zebra cichlid, a popular aquarium fish, with stripes that resemble a prison uniform.
pos: noun
gloss: A common name for the sheepshead (Archosargus probatocephalus), owing to its black and gray stripes.
pos: noun
Synonyms: adjudge
convict
condemn
damn
deem
doom
judge
sentence
Antonyms: acquit
Related words: conviction
courage of one's convictions
guilty
Derived words: convictable
nonconvicted
reconvict
self-convicted
unconvict
unconvicted
autrefois convict
con
convict hour
convictism
ex-convict
Translations:
penitent
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin paenitēns, poenitēns (“penitent”), present participle of paeniteō, poeniteō (“to cause to repent; to regret, repent”). Doublet of penitente.
Inflected forms:
form: more penitent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most penitent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pænitent
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: penitant
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: pœnitent
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
nonstandard
form: penitents
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pænitent
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: penitant
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: pœnitent
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
nonstandard
Senses:
gloss: Feeling pain or sorrow on account of one's sins or offenses; feeling sincere guilt.
pos: adj
examples: Be penitent, and for thy fault contrite.
If thou be penitent and grieved, or desirous to be so, these heinous sins shall not be laid to thy charge.
gloss: Doing penance.
pos: adj
examples: […] But we that know what ’tis to faſt and pray, / Are penitent for your default to day.
gloss: One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of their transgressions.
pos: noun
gloss: One under church censure, but admitted to penance; one undergoing penance.
pos: noun
examples: Wamba, who defeated the Saracens in an attempt upon Spain, was deprived of the crown, because he had been clothed in the habit of a penitent, while labouring under the influence of poison, administered by the ambitious Erviga!
gloss: One under the direction of a confessor.
pos: noun
Derived words: nonpenitent
penitence
penitently
unpenitent
Translations:
peremptory
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman peremptorie, parentorie et al. (Modern French péremptoire), and its source, Latin peremptōrius (“deadly; precluding debate, decisive”), from perimō (“destroy, thwart”), from per- (“thorough”) + emō (“to obtain, buy”).
Inflected forms:
form: more peremptory
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most peremptory
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: peremptories
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Precluding debate or expostulation; not admitting of question or appeal.
pos: adj
examples: there is no reason but if any of the outlawries be indeed without error, but it should be a peremptory plea to the person in a writ of error, as well as in any other action.
gloss: Of a date or deadline, absolutely requiring compliance or attendance; brooking no further delay; proceeding whether a party attends or not; final.
pos: adj
examples: As this trial has now been postponed multiple times, there will be an adjournment to April 24, peremptory on the parties.
gloss: Positive in opinion or judgment; absolutely certain, overconfident, unwilling to hear any debate or argument (especially in a pejorative sense); dogmatic.
pos: adj
examples: He marched under a placard reading "End Bossiness Now" but decided it was a little too peremptory, not quite British, so changed the slogan on subsequent badges, to "End Bossiness Soon."
gloss: Firmly determined, resolute; obstinate, stubborn.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Accepting no refusal or disagreement; imperious, dictatorial.
pos: adj
examples: Upon the other hand, there are a great many people who, having no private property of their own, and being always on the brink of sheer starvation, are compelled to do the work of beasts of burden, to do work that is quite uncongenial to them, and to which they are forced by the peremptory, unreasonable, degrading Tyranny of want.
[…] less surprising than that he had been depressed by a book. Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.
Though today (surveying that yellowing document) I shudder at the peremptory tone of the instructions I gave, Alastair - in that same volume in which I get chastised for my coverage of the Macmillan rally - was generous enough to remark that my memorandum became 'an office classic'.
gloss: A challenge to the admission of a juror, without the challenger needing to show good cause.
pos: noun
examples: Each side was allowed 20 peremptories, and the prosecution used 18 of its allotment.
Derived words: overperemptory
peremptorily
peremptoriness
peremptory challenge
unperemptory
Translations:
performance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: art
arts
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English parfourmaunce; equivalent to perform + -ance.
Base: perform
Affixes: -ance
Inflected forms:
form: performances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: performaunce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of performing; carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the performance of an undertaking or a duty
Though the result wasn't what we were hoping for, I have to commend the performance of the team, never giving up until the end.
Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.
The outstanding train on the L.M.S. route was the 6.20 p.m. from Birmingham, which reached Euston in two hours after intermediate stops at Coventry, Rugby and Watford Junction, and evoked some sparkling performances from "Patriot" and "Jubilee" 4-6-0s.
gloss: That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; especially, an action of an elaborate or public character.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A live show or concert.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The band played a mix of old and new songs during their 90-minute performance.
We saw the whole ballet performance from the front row.
gloss: The amount of useful work accomplished estimated in terms of time needed, resources used, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Better performance means more work accomplished in shorter time and/or using fewer resources.
gloss: The actual use of language in concrete situations by native speakers of a language, as opposed to the system of linguistic knowledge they possess (competence), cf. linguistic performance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: performant
preformance
preform
Derived words: antiperformance
autoperformance
concert performance
coperformance
cyberformance
cyberperformance
high-performance
high-performance liquid chromatography
informance
isoperformance
key performance indicator
low-performance
midperformance
misperformance
multiperformance
nonperformance
outperformance
overperformance
performance anxiety
performance arousal
performance art
performance artist
performance bond
performance-driven
performance management
performance metric
performance poetry
performancewear
postperformance
preperformance
reperformance
seismic performance
specific performance
street performance
ultraperformance
underperformance
unperformance
variety performance
Translations:
gynecologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ, “woman”) (genitive form
γυναικός) + -λογία (-logía, “branch of study”), itself the combination form of -λόγος (-lógos, “word, knowledge, reason”). By surface analysis, gynecology + -ist or gyneco- + -logist.
Affixes: gyneco-
-logist
Inflected forms:
form: gynecologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gynaecologist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
form: gynæcologist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A physician specializing in diseases of the female reproductive system.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Dr. Schirren: The members of this round table keep on speaking about urologists and gynecologists but you never mention andrologists.
From now on, too, general practitioners should, as Southard emphasized, be urged to be at least as familiar with the general principles and methods of the psychiatrist as they are with those of the gynecologist, the dermatologist, and the pædiatrist.
Translations:
polypropylene
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús
Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor.
English poly-
English propylene
English polypropylene
From poly- + propylene.
Inflected forms:
form: polypropylenes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A thermoplastic resin made by the polymerization of propylene, and used for films, fibres, or moulding materials.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: ♷
Translations:
Chumash
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ineseño čʰumaš (“the Santa Barbara Channel Island people”).
Inflected forms:
form: Chumashes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Chumash
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a particular Native American people of southern California.
pos: noun
Translations:
perpetrator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin perpetrātor. By surface analysis, perpetrate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: perpetrators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who perpetrates; especially, one who commits an offence or crime.
pos: noun
examples: perpetrator of violence
Translations:
perp
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
law-enforcement
Etymology: Clipping of perpetrator.
Inflected forms:
form: perps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A perpetrator.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: "We have the perp in custody," the policeman said.
Got himself fired for pulling a sword on an acknowledged perp. Slid it right through the fabric of the perp’s shirt, gliding the flat of the blade along the base of his neck, and pinned him to a warped and bubbled expanse of vinyl siding on the wall of the house that the perp was trying to break into.
Translations:
perspicacious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested 1548, from Late Latin perspicācitās (“discernment”), from Latin perspicax (“sharp-sighted”), from perspiciō (“look through”), from per- (“through”) + speciō (“look at”). See also perspective.
Inflected forms:
form: more perspicacious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most perspicacious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of acute discernment; having keen insight; mentally perceptive.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: As a gay prisoner my incarceration has given me a perspicacious view of our judicial system.
gloss: Able to physically see clearly; quick-sighted; sharp-sighted.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
Related words: perspicacity
perspicuity
perspicuous
perspicuously
perspicuousness
clairvoyant
conspicuous
perspective
Derived words: perspicaciously
perspicaciousness
unperspicacious
Translations:
pert
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English pert, perte, aphetic form of apert.
Inflected forms:
form: perter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: pertest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Attractive.
pos: adj
gloss: Well-formed; shapely.
pos: adj
examples: pert breasts
gloss: Lively; alert and cheerful; bright.
pos: adj
examples: Goe Philoſtrate, / Stirre vp the Athenian youth to merriments, / Awake the peart and nimble ſpirit of mirth, / Turne melancholy foorth to funerals: […]
He was instantly attracted to Gladys's pert, fey humor and her good nature.
gloss: Especially of children or social inferiors: cheeky, impertinent.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: Says Mrs. Jervis, Pamela, don’t be pert to his Honour? You ſhould know your Diſtance; you ſee his Honour was only in Jeſt.
[T]he Major began to think that Pen was growing exceedingly pert and conceited, and that the world made a great deal too much of him.
[…]so that I couldn't help telling her, sir, that in our country, leastways in Virginia (they say the Yankees are very pert), young people don't speak of their elders so.
“Then you didn't find her so amusing as Tom does?”
“I found her pert. There's no other word for it. She says things to puzzle you and put you out.”
"You'll not be so pert when the Cornish seize you. They spit children like you and roast them on bonfires."
gloss: Open; evident; unhidden.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Some parled as perte · as prouyd well after, / And clappid more ffor þe coyne · þat þe kyng oweth hem / Thanne ffor comfforte of þe comyne […]
gloss: Clever.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
Derived words: overpert
pert as a pearmonger
pertish
pertly
pertness
sea-pert
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: устат
roman: ustat
lang: Bulgarian
word: нахален
roman: nahalen
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 无礼的
roman: wúlǐ
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 無禮 /无礼
roman: wúlǐ
lang: Czech
word: troufalý
lang: Czech
word: smělý
lang: Czech
word: odvážný
lang: Czech
word: drzý
lang: French
word: impertinent
lang: German
word: keck
lang: German
word: frech
lang: Hungarian
word: pimasz
lang: Hungarian
word: hetyke
lang: Hungarian
word: szemtelen
lang: Italian
word: impertinente
lang: Latin
word: procax
lang: Plautdietsch
word: frajch
lang: Russian
word: де́рзкий
roman: dérzkij
lang: Russian
word: на́глый
roman: náglyj
lang: Russian
word: наха́льный
roman: naxálʹnyj
lang: Swedish
word: käck
lang: Swedish
word: fräck
scarab
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French scarabée, from Latin scarabaeus (“beetle”). Doublet of scarabaeus, now obsolete.
Inflected forms:
form: scarabs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A beetle of the species Scarabaeus sacer, sacred to the ancient Egyptians.
pos: noun
gloss: Any species of beetle belonging to the family Scarabaeidae.
pos: noun
gloss: A symbol, seal, amulet, or gem fashioned to resemble the sacred beetle.
pos: noun
examples: The scarab, which is a very small one, Leo had insisted upon having set in a massive gold ring, such as is generally used for signets, and it was this very ring that I now picked up.
gloss: The currency sign ¤.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Synonyms: cockchafer
dung beetle
June bug
scarabaeus
scarab beetle
Derived words: Argentinian scarab
jewel scarab
nectar scarab
scarabaeid
scarabaeoid
scarab beetle
scarablike
scaraboid
Translations:
phial
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The noun is derived partly:
* from Middle English fiole, phiole, phial (“small bowl or cup for liquids, etc.; flask”) [and other forms], from Middle French fiole, phiole [and other forms], and Old French fiole (modern French fiole), from Late Latin fiola, phiola, from Latin phiala (“broad, flat, shallow bowl or cup”), from Ancient Greek φιάλη (phiálē, “round and shallow bowl, pan, or saucer”), probably from Pre-Greek; and
* directly from Latin phiala (see above).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Doublet of vial.
Cognates
* Catalan fiola
* French fiole
* Italian fiala
* Old Occitan fiola (Occitan fiòla)
Inflected forms:
form: phials
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: phialing
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: phialling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: phialed
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: phialed
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: phialled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: phialled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: To keep or put (something, especially a liquid) in, or as if in, a phial.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations: