yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
dictation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Late Latin dictātiō, noun of action from dictātus, the perfect passive participle of dictō. By surface analysis, dictate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: dictations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Since I learned shorthand, I can take dictation at eighty words a minute.
gloss: An activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We had reading and geography and Canadian history and dictation today.
gloss: The act of ordering or commanding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: ...jurors in England have formerly understood it to be their right and duty to judge only according to their consciences, and not to submit to any dictation from the court, either as to law or fact.
gloss: Orders given in an overbearing manner.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: His habit, even with friends, was that of dictation.
Derived words: dictational
dictation machine
musical dictation
redictation
running dictation
shouting dictation
Translations:
dictum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin dictum (“proverb, maxim”), from dictus (“having been said”), perfect passive participle of dico (“to say”). Compare Spanish dicho (“saying”). Doublet of dict.
Inflected forms:
form: dicta
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dictums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; a maxim, an apothegm.
pos: noun
examples: This should not surprise us who know that van Gogh wrote: 'To paint and to love women is incompatible'; van Gogh was right for himself, which does not mean that he was right for everybody, and I will not draw from his dictum the probably incorrect conclusion that 'To paint and to love literature is incompatible.'
[…]a dictum which he had heard an economics professor once propound[…]
1. The utmost in steam producing capacity permitted by weight and dimensions; in other words, capacity to boil water—H. A. Ivatt's old dictum.
But this is not the philosophical revolution of which I speak. What Warhol's dictum amounted to was that you cannot tell when something is a work of art just by looking at it, for there is no particular way that art has to look.
gloss: A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it.
pos: noun
gloss: The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it.
pos: noun
gloss: An arbitrament or award.
pos: noun
Related words: quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur
ipse dixit
Derived words: Aristotle's dictum
Judd's dictum
obiter dictum
Translations:
diffident
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin diffīdentem, present participle of diffīdere (“to mistrust”). Doublet of defiant.
Inflected forms:
form: more diffident
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most diffident
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking confidence in others; distrustful.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
gloss: Lacking self-confidence; timid; modest
pos: adj
examples: Having therefore—but hold, as we are diffident of our own abilities, let us here invite a superior power to our assistance.
Emma is spoiled by being the cleverest of her family. At ten years old, she had the misfortune of being able to answer questions which puzzled her sister at seventeen. She was always quick and assured: Isabella slow and diffident.
At an early point in these exchanges I had started to sidle to the door, and I now sidled through it, rather like a diffident crab on some sandy beach trying to avoid the attentions of a child with a spade.
Derived words: diffidently
diffidentness
undiffident
Translations:
digestible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Old French digestible, equivalent to digest + -ible.
Base: digest
Affixes: -ible
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being digested.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: indigestible
Translations:
digress
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin digressum, past participle of digredi.
Inflected forms:
form: digresses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: digressing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: digressed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: digressed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Moreover she beginneth to digress in latitude.
In the pursuit of an argument there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term.
[…] For I hadn't had so much fun since the day / my brother's dog Rover / got run over. / (Rover was killed by a Pontiac. And it was done with such grace and artistry that the witnesses awarded the driver both ears and the tail – but I digress.)
gloss: To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Thy overflow of good converts to bad;
And thy abundant goodness shall excuse
This deadly blot in thy digressing son.
Antonyms: recur
Related words: digression
digressive
excursive
Derived words: digressingly
redigress
Translations:
dilapidation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From dilapidate.
Inflected forms:
form: dilapidations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: delapidation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: The state of being dilapidated, reduced to decay, partially ruined.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of dilapidating, damaging a building or structure through neglect or intentionally.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Ecclesiastical waste: impairing of church property by an incumbent, through neglect or intentionally.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: Money paid at the end of an incumbency by the incumbent or his heirs for the purpose of putting the parsonage etc. in good repair for the succeeding incumbent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
Related words: dilapidate
dilapidated
dilapidator
Derived words: semidilapidation
Translations:
dilatation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French dilatation, from Late Latin dīlātātio, early 15th c.
Inflected forms:
form: dilatations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Prolixity; diffuse discourse.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The act of dilating; expansion; an enlarging on all sides; the state of being dilated
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: These [boys being groomed as prostitutes] are sold by their parents (sometimes stolen from them), about the age of 4, and educated, while they are also subjected to a special physical training, which includes massage of the gluteal regions to favor development, dilatation of the anus, and epilation (which is not, however, practised by Chinese women).
gloss: A dilation or enlargement of a canal or other organ.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Derived words: bronchodilatation
dilatational
dilatation and curettage
hydrodilatation
postdilatation
predilatation
redilatation
time dilatation
vasodilatation
venodilatation
Translations:
dilation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From dilate + -ion, late 16th c.
Base: dilate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: dilations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of dilating.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: State of being dilated; expansion; dilatation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Delay.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: The wise queen, however she might seem to have a fair opportunity offered to her suit, finds it not good to apprehend it too suddenly; as desiring by this small dilation to prepare the ear and heart of the king for so important a request
gloss: In morphology, a basic operation (denoted ⊕) that usually uses a structuring element for probing and expanding the shapes contained in the input image.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: arteriodilation
bronchodilation
dilational
dilation and curettage
dilation and extraction
hyperdilation
intact dilation and evacuation
intact dilation and extraction
nipple-dilation
overdilation
postdilation
redilation
time dilation
underdilation
vasodilation
venodilation
Translations:
dill
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English dile, from Old English dile (“dill, anise”); from Proto-Germanic *deliz, of uncertain, probably non-Indo-European origin, possibly a west European substrate.
Cognate with Old Saxon dilli, Dutch dille, Swedish dill, German Dill.
Inflected forms:
form: dills
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dills
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dilling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dilled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dilled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Anethum graveolens (the type species of the genus Anethum), a herb, the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; also known as dillseed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The life of one plant would be affected by another. Rue was definitely hostile to basil, rosemary to hyssop, but coriander, dill and chervil lived on the friendliest of terms[.]
gloss: A cucumber pickled with dill flavoring.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To cook or flavor with dill.
pos: verb
examples: My mother would pickle them and dill them, and we still had an abundance of fresh vegetables left.
Translations:
disarray
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English disareyen (“to disarray”), from Middle French desarroyer, from Old French desareer, from des- (“dis-”) + areer (“to array”).
Inflected forms:
form: disarrays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disarraying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disarrayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disarrayed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: disarrays
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To throw into disorder; to break the array of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Who with fiery steeds / Oft disarray'd the foes in battle ranged.
gloss: To take off the dress of; to unrobe.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: So as she bad, that witch they disaraid
gloss: A lack of array or regular order; disorder; confusion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: So, in order to apply a good medicine to the hurt parts of the wildish psyche, in order to aright relationship to the archetype of the Wild Woman, one has to name the disarrays of the psyche accurately.
Tottenham pushed forward in an attempt to complete the recovery - but only succeeded in leaving themselves wide open to Chelsea's attacks and Redknapp's side ended in total disarray.
On leaving the train at Piccadilly, everything goes 'Pete Tong'. Services are in complete disarray, as a tree has come down onto the line at Gatley.
gloss: Confused attire; undress; dishabille.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: array
Derived words: disarrayment
Translations:
disavow
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dis- + avow, or from Old French desavouer.
Base: avow
Affixes: dis-
Inflected forms:
form: disavows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disavowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disavowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disavowed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To strongly and solemnly refuse to own or acknowledge; to deny responsibility for, approbation of, and the like.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He was charged with embezzlement, but he disavows the crime.
gloss: To deny; to show the contrary of; to deny legitimacy or achievement of any kind.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Because of her dissatisfaction, she now disavows the merits of socialism.
Related words: disavowal
disavowed
Derived words: disavowable
disavower
disavowment
Translations:
disbar
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
▲
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
English bar
English disbar
From dis- + bar.
Inflected forms:
form: disbars
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disbarring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disbarred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disbarred
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To expel from the bar, or the legal profession; to deprive (an attorney, barrister, or counselor) of his or her status and privileges as such.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To exclude (a person) from something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The friends of Holmes have been criticising the action of the board in disbarring him on the ground that it was too severe […]
Derived words: disbarment
disbarrable
undisbarred
Translations:
disburse
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: From Old French desbourser (Modern French débourser). By surface analysis, dis- + burse (“purse”).
Inflected forms:
form: disburses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disbursing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disbursed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disbursed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To pay out, expend; usually from a public fund or treasury.
pos: verb
examples: The consequent traffic is so grave that, last year, councils in England and Wales demanded that the government disburse £1bn a year to them so they could repair roads and tackle congestion.
Translations:
disc
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
agriculture
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos)der.
Latin discusbor.
French disquebor.
English disc
From French disque, from Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”). Doublet of dais, desk, discus, dish, disk, and diskos.
Inflected forms:
form: discs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: discing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: disk
pos: verb
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: To harrow with a disc harrow.
pos: verb
examples: It is held that discing is as much value to lucerne as cultivation is to corn.
gloss: To move towards, or operate at, zero blade pitch, orienting the propeller blades face-on to the oncoming airflow and maximizing the drag generated by the propeller.
pos: verb
examples: In the air, the asymmetric drag generated by a discing propeller can result in loss of control of the airplane.
Translations:
discoloration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English discolor
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English discoloration
From discolor + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: discolorations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: discolouration
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of discoloring, or the state of being discolored; an alteration of hue or appearance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A discolored spot; a stain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
discontinuation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
▲
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
English continuation
English discontinuation
From dis- + continuation.
Inflected forms:
form: discontinuations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A breach or interruption of continuity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The apparent discontinuation of the operations since Trump took office sparked speculation that he may have agreed to back away from the issue in exchange for Chinese cooperation over North Korea.
gloss: A breach or interruption of continuity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A breach or interruption of continuity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: discontinue
Derived words: prediscontinuation
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: прекъсване
roman: prekǎsvane
lang: Catalan
word: discontinuació
lang: French
word: discontinuation
lang: Hindi
word: विरति
roman: virti
lang: Polish
word: zaprzestanie
lang: Portuguese
word: descontinuação
lang: Spanish
word: descontinuación
lang: Spanish
word: discontinuación
discount
Part of speech: verb
noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: Alteration of French descompte, décompte, from Old French disconter, desconter (“reckon off, account back, discount”), from Medieval Latin discomputō (“to deduct, discount”), from Latin dis- (“away”) + computō (“to reckon, count”). By surface analysis, dis- + count.
Inflected forms:
form: discounts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: discounting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: discounted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: discounted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: discounts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To sell at a reduced price.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Sales were slow even after the shop discounted the product.
gloss: To deduct from an account, debt, charge, etc.
pos: verb
tags: rare
transitive
examples: Merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.
gloss: To disregard or regard as unimportant.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Owing to his reputation, they discounted his comments.
Of the three opinions, (I discount Brown's), under this head, one supposes that the law of Causality is a positive affirmation, and a primary fact of thought, incapable of all further analysis.
gloss: To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The banks discount notes and bills of exchange.
The company's directors were chagrined to learn that banks were suddenly refusing to discount its notes.
Discount only unexceptionable paper.
gloss: To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The market has dropped, discounting changes in interest rates.
gloss: To believe, or act as though one believes, that one's own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.
pos: verb
gloss: A reduction in price.
pos: noun
examples: For the summer sale, there was 40% discount in all the stores at the mall.
This store offers discounts on all its wares. That store specializes in discount wares, too.
gloss: A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
pos: noun
gloss: The rate of interest charged in discounting.
pos: noun
gloss: A lack or shortcoming.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: On our approaching the house where the Misses Spenlow lived, I was at such a discount in respect of my personal looks and presence of mind, that Traddles proposed a gentle stimulant in the form of a glass of ale.
gloss: The act of one who believes, or act as though they believe, that their own feelings are more important than the reality of a situation.
pos: noun
gloss: Specializing in selling goods at reduced prices.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: If you're looking for cheap clothes, there's a discount clothier around the corner.
Antonyms: surcharge
Translations:
discrepancy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Latin crepō
Latin discrepō
Latin discrepāns
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Latin discrepantiabor.
English discrepancy
Borrowed from Latin discrepantia, from discrepans, from discrepō, from crepō. By surface analysis, discrepant + -cy. See also discrepant.
Inflected forms:
form: discrepancies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: discrepance
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: An inconsistency between facts or sentiments.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They found a discrepancy between the first set of test results and the second, and they're still trying to figure out why.
Still, there is pilferage, mysterious discrepancies eating into the percentages.
WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.
gloss: The state or quality of being discrepant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: nondiscrepancy
self-discrepancy
Translations:
disembark
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
▲
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
English em-
English bark
English embark
English disembark
From dis- + embark.
Inflected forms:
form: disembarks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disembarking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disembarked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disembarked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To remove from on board a vessel; to put on shore
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The general disembarked the troops.
Go to the bay, and disembark my coffers.
gloss: To go ashore out of a ship or boat; to leave a train or aircraft.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: This time I disembark at Dumbarton Central, a station with two island platforms blessed with yellow brick buildings and iron canopies dating from 1896, and listed Grade A.
gloss: To go ashore from (a boat); to leave (a train or aircraft)
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We disembarked the ferry.
Antonyms: embark
Derived words: disembarkation
disembarkee
disembarker
disembarkment
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: дебаркирам
roman: debarkiram
lang: Catalan
word: desembarcar
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 登陸 /登陆
roman: dēnglù
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 下船
roman: xiàchuán
lang: Czech
word: vystoupit
lang: Danish
word: gå i land
lang: Dutch
word: van boord gaan
lang: Dutch
word: ontschepen
lang: Esperanto
word: elvagoniĝi
lang: Esperanto
word: elaviiĝi
lang: Finnish
word: astua maihin
lang: Finnish
word: nousta maihin
lang: Finnish
word: nousta junasta
lang: Finnish
word: laskeutua lentokoneesta
lang: Finnish
word: nousta linja-autosta
lang: French
word: débarquer
lang: Galician
word: desembarcar
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἀποβαίνω
roman: apobaínō
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἐκβαίνω
roman: ekbaínō
lang: Hungarian
word: leszáll
lang: Hungarian
word: kiszáll
lang: Italian
word: sbarcare
lang: Japanese
word: 降りる
roman: oriru
lang: Japanese
word: 上陸する
roman: jōriku suru
lang: Māori
word: heke
lang: Māori
word: makere
lang: Marshallese
word: eakto
lang: Norman
word: dêbèrtchi
lang: Norman
word: d'sembèrtchi
lang: Polish
word: wysiadać
lang: Polish
word: wysiąść
lang: Portuguese
word: desembarcar
lang: Portuguese
word: saltar em terra
lang: Russian
word: выса́живаться
roman: vysáživatʹsja
lang: Russian
word: вы́садиться
roman: výsaditʹsja
lang: Russian
word: сходи́ть
roman: sxodítʹ
lang: Russian
word: сойти́
roman: sojtí
lang: Spanish
word: desembarcar
lang: Tamil
word: இறங்கு
roman: iṟaṅku
lang: Vietnamese
word: xuống xe
lang: Zazaki
word: war ameyen
disembowel
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
▲
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
English embowel
English disembowel
From dis- + embowel.
Inflected forms:
form: disembowels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disemboweling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: disembowelling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: disemboweled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: disemboweled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: disembowelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: disembowelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: `Yea. The people of Kôr ever embalmed their dead, as did the Egyptians, but their art was greater than the art of the Egyptians, for, whereas the Egyptians disembowelled and drew the brain, the people of Kôr injected fluid into the veins, and thus reached every part.'
gloss: To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: disemvowel
Derived words: disemboweller
disembowelment
Translations:
disfiguration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English disfigure
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English disfiguration
From disfigure + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: disfigurations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of disfiguring, spoiling the appearance of something or someone; the state of being disfigured.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The disfiguration of the statue by vandals resulted in a public outcry.
Translations:
disgrace
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French disgracier.
Inflected forms:
form: disgraces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: disgraces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disgracing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disgraced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disgraced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I heare / Macduffe liues in diſgrace. Sir, can you tell / Where he beſtowes himſelfe?
gloss: The state of being dishonored, or covered with shame.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Now she lives in disgrace.
gloss: Someone or something which brings dishonor; the cause of reproach or shame; great discredit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: His behaviour at the party was a total disgrace! He was leeching on all the ladies, and insulting the men.
Practice and whipping were alike unavailing, and Epps, satisfied of it at last, swore I was a disgrace—that I was not fit to associate with a cotton-picking "nigger"—that I could not pick enough in a day to pay the trouble of weighing it, and that I should go into the cotton field no more.
"You are," said Uncle Tinfish, when he recovered the power of speech, "a disgrace, sir, A DIS-GRACE!" The curate merely confirmed Uncle Tinfish's power of divination by a groan.
gloss: An act of unkindness; a disfavor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: As for the pulling of them [ambitious men] downe, if the Affaires require it, and that it may not be done with ſafety ſuddainly, the onely Way is, the Enterchange, continually of Fauours, and Diſgraces, whereby they may not know, what to expect; And be, as it were, in a Wood.
gloss: To put someone or something out of favor; to bring shame or ignominy upon.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] some families renounced the use of a certain praenomen which had been disgraced by one of their name […]
Synonyms: misgrace
Derived words: disgraceful
disgraceless
disgracive
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: խայտառակություն
roman: xaytaṙakutʻyun
lang: Bulgarian
word: позор
roman: pozor
lang: Czech
word: ponižování
lang: Czech
word: ostouzení
lang: Danish
word: skændsel
lang: Dutch
word: blamage
lang: Finnish
word: häpeä
lang: Galician
word: deshonra
lang: German
word: Schande
lang: German
word: Schmach
lang: German
word: Blamage
lang: German
word: Peinlichkeit
lang: Greek
word: ντροπή
roman: ntropí
lang: Greek
word: αίσχος
roman: aíschos
lang: Greek
word: όνειδος
roman: óneidos
lang: Hungarian
word: szégyen
lang: Hungarian
word: szégyenteljes dolog
lang: Hungarian
word: szégyenfolt
lang: Hungarian
word: csúfság
lang: Latin
word: flāgitium
lang: Latin
word: dēdecus
lang: Malayalam
word: അപമാനം
roman: apamānaṁ
lang: Middle English
word: dishoneste
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: skam
lang: Romanian
word: ocară
lang: Spanish
word: baldón
lang: Swedish
word: blamage
disinclination
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
English inclination
English disinclination
From dis- + inclination.
Inflected forms:
form: disinclinations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: strong disinclination
natural disinclination
disinclination to act
He showed a marked disinclination to speak.
I notice in you a chronic disinclination to take me seriously, Louis. It is really—to an Englishman—almost painful.
Translations:
disintegration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From disintegrate + -ion or dis- + integration.
Base: disintegrate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: disintegrations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A process by which anything disintegrates.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A Pan American World Airways, Inc., B-707-321B, N761PA, experienced an explosive disintegration of the third stage turbine disk of the No. 4 engine at approximately 1410 P.d.t, June 28, 1965. The accident occurred shortly after takeoff from San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, California, at an altitude of about 800 feet above the ground. Disintegration of the turbine disk was followed by a fire in the No. 4 engine area and an explosion in the outboard reserve fuel tank. The No. 4 engine and approximately 25 feet of the right outer wing separated from the aircraft.
gloss: The condition of anything which has disintegrated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost, ice, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of radioactive decay.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of radioactive decay.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The sample exhibited an activity of three disintegrations per second.
Related words: integration
Derived words: disintegrational
disintegration energy
disintegrative
electrodisintegration
kilodisintegration
nondisintegration
nuclear disintegration
photodisintegration
radioactive disintegration
Translations:
dislocation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: dance
dancing
geography
geology
grammar
gymnastics
hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
natural-sciences
sciences
sports
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French, a borrowing from Medieval Latin dislocātiō, delocatio.
Inflected forms:
form: dislocations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As mentioned last month in the article "Railways and the War," the emergency timetables were planned in view of the possibility of serious dislocation of transport by air raids in the early days of the war, and were regarded as the minimum service which would keep the activities of the country alive.
At large stations such as Euston and Birmingham New Street, it is essential to compress the station reconstruction, re-signalling and overhead wiring into the shortest possible time, not only to minimise the period of traffic dislocation but also to ensure completion by the time the remainder of the lines is electrified.
Let's hope someone can get an original Spanish print for U.S. distribution; the redubbed Mexican version shown at the Festival does a disservice to the fine performances by its slight (but annoying) dislocations of sound and image.
gloss: The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They used steroids to build strength but, more importantly, to recover from strains, pulls, dislocations.
gloss: A linear defect in a crystal lattice. Because dislocations can shift within the crystal lattice, they tend to weaken the material, compared to a perfect crystal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A sentence structure in which a constituent that could otherwise be either an argument or an adjunct of a clause occurs outside of and adjacent to the clause boundaries.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: In men's gymnastics, a rotating of the shoulders when performing a backwards turn on the still rings. Many skills in acrobatics appear to involve dislocating a joint, when they actually do not.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The practice of contortion can be divided into three categories: backbending, frontbending and dislocation.
Derived words: dislocational
dislocationary
redislocation
Taylor-Orowan dislocation
Taylor's dislocation
Translations:
dismay
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English dismayen, from Anglo-Norman *desmaiier, alteration of Old French esmaier (“to frighten”), probably from Vulgar Latin *exmagare (“to deprive (someone) of strength, to disable”), from ex- + *magare (“to enable, empower”), from Proto-Germanic *maginą, *maganą (“might, power”), from Proto-Indo-European *megʰ- (“to be able”).
Akin to Old High German magan, megin (“power, might, main”), Old English mæġen (“might, main”), Old High German magan, mugan (“to be powerful, able”), Old English magan (“to be able”). Cognate with Portuguese desmaiar (“to faint”) and Spanish esmayar. See also Portuguese esmagar, Spanish amagar. More at main, may.
Inflected forms:
form: dismays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dismaying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dismayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dismayed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cause to feel apprehension; great sadness, or fear; to deprive of energy.
pos: verb
examples: Be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed.
What words be these? What fears do you dismay?
gloss: To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.
pos: verb
examples: Do not dismay yourself for this.
gloss: To take dismay or fright; to be filled with dismay.
pos: verb
examples: Dismay not, princes, at this accident,
gloss: A sudden or complete loss of courage and firmness in the face of trouble or danger; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: He looked in dismay at the destruction of the town caused by the hurricane.
Come on: in this there can be no dismay;
My ships come home a month before the day.
US reputational damage is not confined to Europe. There was dismay among the G7 countries that a joint statement on tackling the pandemic could not be agreed because Trump insisted on calling it the “Wuhan virus” – his crude way of pinning sole blame on China.
gloss: Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: dismayer
dismayful
undismayable
Translations:
disorganization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French désorganiser. Equivalent to dis- + organization.
Base: organization
Affixes: dis-
Inflected forms:
form: disorganizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: disorganisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: The act of disorganizing; destruction of system.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The state of being disorganized
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the disorganization of the body, or of government
Translations:
dispel
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English dispelen, from Latin dispellere (“to disperse; to dispel”).
Inflected forms:
form: dispels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dispelling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dispelled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dispelled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dispels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To drive away or cause to vanish by scattering.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The clouds and mist were soon enough dispelled by the sun.
gloss: To remove (fears, doubts, objections etc.) by proving them unjustified.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street.[…]. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.
The fate of the railway from Ballater to Braemar has been invested with an air of mystery, which has never been completely dispelled. It has been suggested that Queen Victoria was opposed to a railway in the vicinity of Balmoral Castle, and intervened personally to secure the abandonment of the line beyond Ballater.
gloss: To get rid of or manage without.
pos: verb
tags: Africa
transitive
gloss: An act or instance of dispelling.
pos: noun
examples: “My dispel didn't work,” she said finally. “He wasn't a blood witch, Sunny,” I said.
Derived words: dispellable
dispeller
dispelment
redispel
undispelled
Translations:
disperse
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From Middle French disperser, from Latin dispersus, past participle of dispergō (“to scatter abroad, disperse”), from dis- (“apart”) + spargō (“to scatter”); see sparse.
Inflected forms:
form: disperses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dispersing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dispersed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dispersed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more disperse
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most disperse
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To scatter in different directions.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: The Jews are dispersed among all nations.
The lippes of the wiſe diſperſe knowledge: but the heart of the fooliſh, doeth not ſo.
gloss: To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: To disseminate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: To distribute throughout.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: Scattered or spread out.
pos: adj
examples: Australia itself is a very wide and very disperse country, where the distance problems significantly affect also the "internal" customer-supplier chains.
In particular, a very crisp quantifier such as “for all,” “there exists,” “at least 50 percent” tend to have less disperse weighting vectors while fuzzier quantifiers such as many tend to have a more disperse weighting vector.
Synonyms: besprenge
broadcast
desparple
discuss
disgregate
disparkle
disparple
dispel
disperple
disperse
distribute
dwindle
straggle
flurr
insperse
instrew
litter
overshake
resperse
scatter
squander
sparble
sparkle
sparse
sperse
spread
springe
strew
strinkle
todrive
togo
torat
whiffle
Antonyms: assemble
collect
round up
Related words: dispersal
dispersible
dispersion
Derived words: dedisperse
dispersable
dispersant
disperser
dispersingly
dispersity
dispersive
dispersoid
dispersometer
nondispersing
overdisperse
redisperse
undispersing
Translations:
displease
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: English dis- + please, from Middle English displesen, from Anglo-Norman despleisir, desplere, from Old French desplere (des- + plere).
Base: please
Affixes: dis-
Inflected forms:
form: displeases
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: displeasing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: displeased
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: displeased
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make not pleased; to cause a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to vex slightly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The boy's rudeness displeased me.
I felt displeased with the boy.
Wilt thou be displeased at us forever: and wilt thou stretch out thy wrath from one generation to another?
How can an operator be, at the same time, top for overall satisfaction and bottom for value for money? I turned to Anthony Smith for the answer, leaning on his 20 years running Transport Focus and its predecessors.
It's commuters, he explained. "You can't please commuters, you can only not displease them."
gloss: To give displeasure or offense.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To fail to satisfy; to miss of.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: I shall displease my ends else.
Synonyms: misplease
Antonyms: please
Related words: displeasure
affront
anger
annoy
chafe
disgust
dissatisfy
offend
provoke
vex
Derived words: displeaser
Translations:
disprove
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English disproven, dispreven, from Old French desprover, from des- + prover, equivalent to dis- + prove.
Base: prove
Affixes: dis-
Inflected forms:
form: disproves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disproving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disproved
pos: verb
tags: past
form: disproved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disproven
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: disprove a theory
disprove a hypothesis
“The commission is not set up to disprove or to prove President Trump’s claim, nor is it just looking at the 2016 election. We’re looking at all forms of election irregularities, voter fraud, voter registration fraud, voter intimidation, suppression, and looking at the vulnerabilities of the various elections we have in each of the 50 states,” Kobach told “New Day” co-host Chris Cuomo.
While the incumbent Democrats in Michigan are vulnerable, the Trump-endorsed candidates have built their campaigns around the disproved claims of a rigged 2020 election – an issue that may not have much traction among swing voters.
Newly released audio disproves Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s claim on CNN that he was misquoted by The Atlantic about the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
As it worked, the AI-based system found that fingerprints from different fingers of the same person shared strong similarities and was therefore able to tell when the fingerprints belonged to the same individual and when they didn’t, with an accuracy for a single pair peaking at 77% — seemingly disproving that each fingerprint is “unique.”
Antonyms: prove
Translations:
disputation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: English dispute + -ation, from Old French disputation, from Latin disputatio.
Base: dispute
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: disputations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of disputing; a dispute or argument.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And like the battles fought over baptism by sprinkling as opposed to total immersion, these modern-day disputations can be tedious.
gloss: A rhetorical exercise in which parties reason in opposition to each other over a belief or proposition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: disputable
disputant
disputatious
dispute
Derived words: disputationism
Translations:
disqualification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
▲
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
English qualification
English disqualification
From dis- + qualification.
Inflected forms:
form: disqualifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of disqualifying, or the state of being disqualified
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the disqualification of certain people for holding certain positions
Henry won the match due to the disqualification of his opponent.
gloss: That which disqualifies; that which causes someone to be unfit for a certain purpose or role
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Conviction of crime is a disqualification of a person for office.
Sickness is a disqualification for labor.
gloss: The act of being forbidden from further play in a basketball game due to the accumulation of too many personal fouls.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: nondisqualification
Translations:
disquiet
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
▲
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
English quiet
English disquiet
From dis- + quiet.
Inflected forms:
form: disquiets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: disquiets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disquieting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disquieted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disquieted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Lack of quiet; absence of tranquility in body or mind
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: My journey had been my own suggestion, and Elizabeth therefore acquiesced, but she was filled with disquiet at the idea of my suffering, away from her, the inroads of misery and grief.
Every house has its skeleton in it somewhere, and it may be a comfort to some unhappy folks to think that the luckier and most wealthy of their neighbours have their miseries and causes of disquiet.
I wish to say in regard to the alleged matter of disquiet in this Church, that when I received the postal card that was sent, I suppose, to all the clergy of the Church, I could not but feel in my heart that the three distinguished gentlemen who signed that postal card, or whose names were attached to it, and put it forth, were disquieting the Church much more than the Prayer-Book.
gloss: To make (someone or something) worried or anxious.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: He felt disquieted by the lack of interest the child had shown.
They have been brought up religiouſly, and have been accuſtomed to read, and pray; and if at any time they do neglect and omit these duties, conſcience is upon them and upbraids and diſquiets them; and they are afraid to neglect them, leſt conſcience will queſtion and trouble them.
This Bill, for taking away the Bishops Votes out of the Houſe of Peers, produced another Diſcovery, which caſt the Conductors farther behind, than they were Advanced by their Conqueſt amongst the Commons; and diſquieted them much more, than the other had Exalted them.
Diſturbed and disquieted them, and made them very uneaſy; he terrified and distreſſed them; […] [Commentary on 1 Samuel 14:47.]
She had had a wonderful interview respecting Fanny on this very day, and was at this moment disquieting her mind because she could not tell her friend what had happened without a breach of confidence!
I wish to say in regard to the alleged matter of disquiet in this Church, that when I received the postal card that was sent, I suppose, to all the clergy of the Church, I could not but feel in my heart that the three distinguished gentlemen who signed that postal card, or whose names were attached to it, and put it forth, were disquieting the Church much more than the Prayer-Book.
What disquieted the Christian friends was not that this was an awful state of affairs theologically. What disquieted them the most was the fact that they were disquieted. As liberal-minded adults they had not expected to be disturbed at all.
Translations: