yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
characteristically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek χαράσσω (kharássō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Ancient Greek -τήρ (-tḗr)
Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr)
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ίζω (-ízō)
Ancient Greek χαρακτηρίζω (kharaktērízō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Hellenic *-tós
Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)
▲
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Ancient Greek -τικός (-tikós)
Ancient Greek χᾰρᾰκτηριστῐκός (khărăktēristĭkós)der.
English characteristic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English characteristically
From characteristic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more characteristically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most characteristically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a usual or expected way; in characteristic manner.
pos: adv
examples: Valentine’s Day means different things for different people. For Homer, it means forking over a hundred dollars for a dusty box of chocolates at the Kwik-E-Mart after characteristically forgetting the holiday yet again. For Ned, it’s another opportunity to prove his love for his wife. Most germane to the episode, for Lisa, Valentine’s Day means being the only person in her entire class to give Ralph a Valentine after noticing him looking crestfallen and alone at his desk.
The threat the most radical of them pose is evidently far greater at home than abroad: in one characteristically slick and chilling Isis video – entitled “a message to the Jordanian tyrant” – a smiling, long-haired young man in black pats the explosive belt round his waist as he burns his passport and his fellow fighters praise the memory of Zarqawi, who was killed in Iraq in 2006.
There, characteristically, he refused to be carried on a stretcher, saying he was too heavy for nurses. He walked in with their support.
Translations:
justification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
media
publishing
typography
Etymology: From Middle English justificacioun, justification, from Middle French justification, from Late Latin iustificationem, justificationem < iustificatio, from iustifico, from Latin iustus.
Inflected forms:
form: justifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A reason, explanation, or excuse which someone believes provides convincing, morally acceptable support for behavior or for a belief or occurrence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The growing use of social media to spread anger and dissent in the Arab world has been hailed by western governments as one of the chief justifications for a completely unfettered internet. The US is reportedly funding the secret rollout of technology in Iran in an effort to undermine internet censors in the country.
gloss: The forgiveness of sin.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: […] to articulate a common understanding of our justification by God’s grace through faith in Christ.
gloss: The alignment of text to the left margin (left justification), the right margin (right justification), or both margins (full justification).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Antonyms: condemnation
conviction
Related words: acquittal
exculpation
justify
warrantedness
worthwhileness
Derived words: justificational
justificationism
justificationist
overjustification
rejustification
self-justification
Translations:
cumulative
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
human-sciences
law
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱuh₁mósder.?
Latin cumulus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin cumulō
Latin cumulātusbor.
English cumulate
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English cumulative
From cumulate + -ive. Compare also French cumulatif, Italian cumulativo and Spanish cumulativo.
Base: cumulate
Affixes: -ive
Inflected forms:
form: more cumulative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cumulative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Incorporating all current and previous data up to the present or at the time of measuring or collating.
pos: adj
gloss: That is formed by an accumulation of successive additions.
pos: adj
examples: As for knowledge which man receiveth by teaching, it is cumulative, not original.
The argument […] is in very truth not logical and single, but moral and cumulative.
gloss: That is formed by an accumulation of successive additions.
pos: adj
examples: cumulative conjunctions like and, both…and and as well as
gloss: That tends to accumulate.
pos: adj
gloss: Having priority rights to receive a dividend that accrue until paid.
pos: adj
gloss: (of evidence, witnesses, etc.) Intended to illustrate an argument that has already been demonstrated excessively.
pos: adj
examples: The state wants to bring in ten blood-spatter experts to testify. Your Honor, that is cumulative testimony.
Related words: cumulate
Derived words: cume
cumulative distribution function
cumulative effect
cumulative error
cumulatively
cumulativeness
cumulative voting
noncumulative
Translations:
credibility
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Borrowed from French crédibilité, from Medieval Latin credibilitas, from Latin credibilis. By surface analysis, credible + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: credibilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A reputation impacting one's ability to be believed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: After weeks of blowing smoke, her credibility with me was next to nil.
The inability of Trump's own spokespeople to speak authoritatively on the president's thinking and actions -- a challenge even Trump himself has acknowledged -- has left the White House with an enormous credibility gap, and has tarnished the reputations of many of its most visible spokespeople.
The 'partygate' controversy has played a major part in undermining the credibility of Boris Johnson and his Government and has led to calls from senior MPs for him to resign.
gloss: A believability of statements by a witness, as measured by whether the testimony is probable or improbable when judged by common experience.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: credence
credible
credit
Derived words: credibility gap
noncredibility
street credibility
Translations:
credence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Middle English credence, from Old French credence, from Medieval Latin crēdentia (“belief, faith”), from Latin crēdēns, present active participle of crēdō (“loan, confide in, trust, believe”). Compare French croyance, French créance, Italian credenza, Portuguese crença, Romanian credință, Spanish creencia. Doublet of credenza.
Inflected forms:
form: credences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Acceptance of a belief or claim as true, especially on the basis of evidence.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Based on the scientific data, I give credence to this hypothesis.
gloss: Credential or supporting material for a person or claim.
pos: noun
tags: rare
uncountable
examples: He presented us with a letter of credence.
gloss: A small table or credenza used in certain Christian religious services.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A cupboard, sideboard, or cabinet, particularly one intended for the display of rich vessels or plate on open shelves.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A subjective probability estimate of a belief or claim.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: My credence in the proposition is around 90%.
Related words: credential
credibility
Derived words: lend credence to
noncredence
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: вяра
roman: vjara
lang: Bulgarian
word: доверие
roman: doverie
lang: Dutch
word: aanvaarding
lang: Dutch
word: geloof
lang: Dutch
word: aanname
lang: Finnish
word: uskottavuus
lang: French
word: crédit
lang: German
word: Glauben
lang: German
word: Vertrauen
lang: Japanese
word: 信任
roman: shin'nin
lang: Middle English
word: credence
lang: Portuguese
word: crédito
lang: Portuguese
word: crença
lang: Russian
word: ве́ра
roman: véra
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: creideas
lang: Spanish
word: crédito
lang: Swedish
word: trovärdighet
auction
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: bridge
games
Etymology: From Latin auctiō (“an increase, auction”), from augere (“to increase”).
Inflected forms:
form: auctions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: auctions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: auctioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: auctioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: auctioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A public event where goods or property are sold to the highest bidder.
pos: noun
examples: Auctions come in a wide variety. In a “Dutch auction”, often used to sell flowers and fruit, prices start high and gradually drop until a bidder is willing to pay up. A “Japanese auction” is a bit like poker: bids rise with each round and anyone who wants to win must bid every time. Vendors using auctions rid themselves of the headache of choosing prices and instead just pick the rules bidders must follow.
gloss: The first stage of a deal, in which players bid to determine the final contract.
pos: noun
gloss: To sell at an auction.
pos: verb
Synonyms: roup sale
Related words: augment
Derived words: auctionable
auction block
auction bridge
auction call
auctioneeress
auctioner
auction-goer
auctiongoer
auction house
auctionlike
auction pitch
auction theory
candle auction
cyberauction
dollar auction
Dutch auction
e-auction
jam auction
knockout auction
midauction
nonauction
penny auction
postauction
preauction
re-auction
reauction
silent auction
slave auction
Vickrey auction
auctioneer
Translations:
perceive
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English perceyven, borrowed from Old French percevoir, perceveir, from Latin percipiō, past participle perceptus (“take hold of, obtain, receive, observe”), from per (“by, through”) + capiō (“to take”); see capable. Compare conceive, deceive, receive.
Inflected forms:
form: perceives
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: perceiving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: perceived
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: perceived
pos: verb
tags: past
form: perceave
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To become aware of, through the physical senses, to see; to understand.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.
Morton was in fearful time pressure and at first did not realize he was mated. He snatched up his King and swung it around wildly, finally perceiving that there was no square for the critter,
Then our first effort must be to identify the actual words. Only after recognizing them individually can we begin to try to understand them, to struggle with perceiving what they mean.
Numerous experimental tests and other observations have been offered in favor of animal mind reading, and although many scientists are skeptical, others assert that humans are not the only species capable of representing what others do and don’t perceive and know.
gloss: To interpret something in a particular way.
pos: verb
examples: John was perceived to be a coward by his comrades
Synonyms: ken
discern
make out
perceive
percept
sensate
sense
Antonyms: produce sensation
Related words: perception
percept
perceptive
Derived words: misperceive
nonperceiving
overperceive
perceivable
perceivance
perceiver
perceivingly
perceivingness
preperceive
reperceive
underperceive
unperceiving
Translations:
unequal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English unequale, equivalent to un- + equal. Compare German unegal (“unlevel, uneven”).
Base: equal
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unequal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unequal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unæqual
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: unequall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: unæquall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
rare
form: unequals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: unæqual
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: unequall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: unæquall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
rare
Senses:
gloss: Not the same.
pos: adj
gloss: Out of balance.
pos: adj
gloss: Inadequate; insufficiently capable or qualified.
pos: adj
tags: comparable
examples: unequal to the task
gloss: Erratic, inconsistent.
pos: adj
examples: Her manner to Francesca was very unequal. Sometimes it had all the frankness of their early intimacy; at other times it was forbidding, and even petulant.
gloss: One who is not an equal.
pos: noun
Synonyms: disparate
unequal
uneven
Antonyms: equal
Related words: overbalanced
unbalanced
Derived words: unequal treaty
Translations:
marinate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1645; adapted from either French mariner or the earlier attested Italian marinare (“to pickle, marinate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from Late Latin marina (“brine, salt water”), short for aqua marina (“sea water”), from Latin marinus (“marine, of the sea”), from Latin mare (“the sea”) from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“the sea”).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: marinates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: marinating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: marinated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: marinated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To allow a sauce or flavoring mixture to absorb into something; to steep or soak something in a marinade to flavor or prepare it for cooking.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
transitive
examples: You'll get a better flavour from the chicken if you marinate it first.
After the chicken has marinated for two hours, discard the remaining marinade.
gloss: To allow a substance to be absobed into the hair or scalp.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: oblucy:
 "vinegar... to marinate the scalp...
 oil... to lubricate the scalp..."
Let your scalp marinate while you shave.
Wrap a dry towel around the wet towel, and let your child's hair marinate for an hour.
gloss: Of a substance, to absorb into the hair or scalp.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: a rejuvenating oil you use to saturate your hair and let it marinate from 15 minutes to 2 hours
[...] hair rather than the scalp, but as always, experiment. You can also play around with how long you leave the mixture on your head — some people have better results after letting the ACV marinate for a few minutes.
gloss: Of ideas or feelings, to mentally develop over time.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: Especially of a haircut, to settle in and for one to get used to it.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
informal
examples: It's not a bad haircut! You just got to let it marinate!
Related words: marinade
marine
maritime
pickle
Derived words: marinate on
marination
Translations:
magnate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed into late Middle English from Late Latin magnātēs, plural of magnās, from magnus (“great”), mid 15th c.
Inflected forms:
form: magnates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Powerful industrialist; captain of industry.
pos: noun
examples: I have decided to become an oil magnate, after spending quite some time reading the dictionary definition of the word magnate.
With a suitable amount of life experience under her belt, she sat down and conjured up the sexiest, most delicious Italian wine magnate she could imagine, had him make his biggest mistake, and gave him a wife on the run.
Sir Richard Branson is an English business magnate, best known as the founder of the multimillion-pound Virgin Group, which consists of more than four hundred companies.
gloss: A person of rank, influence or distinction in any sphere.
pos: noun
examples: He mingled with the Magnates of his land; / Join'd the carousals of the great and gay, […]
[…] but there is not an illiterate Justice of the Peace, or rural magnate in the form of a country squire, that would not detect such a man as an empirie at once, if he rested his claim to such an appointment on the score of his scholarship.
gloss: In medieval and early modern Italy, a member of a legally defined category of especially wealthy patrician families, often deprived of the right to political participation by republican governments.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Those considered politically dangerous could be excluded from office by declaring them magnates, while cancellation of magnate status was a mark of favour, a means of political patronage.
Derived words: antimagnate
magnateship
Translations:
mercantile
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: economics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *merks
Latin merx
Latin mercor
Latin mercantem
Italian mercante
Latin -īlemder.
Italian -ile
Italian mercantilebor.
French mercantilebor.
English mercantile
Borrowed from French mercantile, from Italian mercantile, from mercante (“merchant”), from Latin mercāns (“trading”).
Inflected forms:
form: merchantile
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Concerned with the exchange of goods for profit.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: No sign was over his door; in fact—as with old banks and mercantile houses—advertising in any shape was scorned, and it would have been felt as beneath his dignity to paint, for the benefit of strangers, the name of an establishment the trade of which came solely by connection based on personal respect.
gloss: Of or relating to mercantilism.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: merchant
Derived words: mercantilely
mercantilist
mercantilistic
nonmercantile
unmercantile
Translations:
forage
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English forage, from Old French fourage, forage, a derivative of fuerre (“fodder, straw”), from Frankish *fōdar (“fodder, sheath”), from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (“fodder, feed, sheath”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect, to feed”).
Cognate with Old High German fuotar (German Futter (“fodder, feed”)), Old English fōdor, fōþer (“food, fodder, covering, case, basket”), Dutch voeder (“forage, food, feed”), Danish foder (“fodder, feed”), Icelandic fóðr (“fodder, sheath”). More at fodder, food.
Unrelated to modern French forage (“drilling”), whose first element is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“to pierce”).
Inflected forms:
form: forages
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: forages
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: foraging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: foraged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: foraged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Fodder for animals, especially cattle and horses.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The hermit was apparently somewhat moved to compassion by the anxiety as well as address which the stranger displayed in tending his horse; for, muttering something about provender left for the keeper's palfrey, he dragged out of a recess a bundle of forage, which he spread before the knight's charger.
To invade the corn, and to their cells convey / The plundered forage of their yellow prey
gloss: An act or instance of foraging.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He [the lion] from forage will incline to play.
[Charles] Mawhood completed his forage unmolested, and returned to Philadelphia.
‘My dears,’ he discourses to them — how he licks his gums, long toothless, as he speaks of his forages into the well-stored cellars: […]
gloss: The demand for fodder, etc., by an army from the local population.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses.
pos: verb
examples: The message said that the party intended to hunt and forage through this region, for a month or two, afore it went back into the Canadas.
gloss: To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes.
pos: verb
examples: And your great-uncle's, Edward the Black Prince, / Who on the French ground play'd a tragedy, / Making defeat on the full power of France, / Whiles his most mighty father on a hill / Stood smiling to behold his lion's whelp / Forage in blood of French nobility.
gloss: To rummage.
pos: verb
examples: Using the blankets for a basket, we sent up the books, instruments, and clothes to swell our growing midden on the deck; and then Nares, going on hands and knees, began to forage underneath the bed.
gloss: Of an animal: to seek out and eat food.
pos: verb
Related words: foray
Derived words: forage cap
foragemaster
forage radish
hyperforage
forageable
foragement
forager
unforaged
Translations:
native
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English natif, from Old French natif, from Latin nātīvus, from nātus (“birth”). Doublet of naive and neif. Displaced native Middle English thedisch, equivalent to (puristic) theed + -ish. By surface analysis, Latin nat- + -ive.
Compare also inborn.
Inflected forms:
form: natives
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: natiue
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: natyf
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A person who is native to a place; a person who was born in a place.
pos: noun
gloss: A person of aboriginal descent, as distinguished from a person who was or whose ancestors were foreigners or settlers/colonizers. Alternative letter-case form of Native (aboriginal inhabitant of the Americas or Australia).
pos: noun
examples: Mail trains are limited to first and second class passengers, but on the mixed trains third class is also provided, and this is patronised exclusively by natives.
Dr John Reid, a historian called to testify for Mr Marshall, distinguished between the fur trade at the truckhouses and a smaller scale trade between natives and settlers: "It seems that there were native persons who were selling small amounts […]"
As for the wars between natives and settlers, far from having “ceased,” they would continue well into the twentieth century, and over much the same things that had always sparked them—trade, land, and settler arrogance.
gloss: A native speaker.
pos: noun
gloss: A native plant or animal.
pos: noun
gloss: An oyster of species Ostrea edulis.
pos: noun
Synonyms: homeling
Related words: native cat
nativisation
nativity
nativization
Derived words: digital native
the natives are restless
Translations:
nirvana
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit निर्वाण (nirvāṇa, “blown or put out, extinguished”), from निस् (nis, “out”) + वा (vā, “to blow”), the second part cognate with Russian ве́тер (véter, “wind”), weather, vent and wind.
Base: निस्
Inflected forms:
form: nirvanas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Complete cessation of dukkha; a blissful state attained through realization of sunyata; enlightened experience.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: State of paradise; heightened or great pleasure or peace; a state of universal perfection and bliss.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
uncountable
examples: Welcome to this celebration of legal abortion. I wish January 22 meant more than that. The truth is that we are not winging our way to a state of nirvana for reproductive rights.
Though we don’t all reach nirvana when we swim, swimming may well be that last refuge from connectivity — and, for some, the only way to find the solitary self.
No, Virginia, the combination of Trump’s tax cuts and tariffs don’t help and, yes, when the AI investment bubble pops GDP growth will drop making the deficit/GDP ratio worse, unless you believe the tech bros hype about AI suddenly delivering universal nirvana.
Derived words: Beervana
goonvana
nerdvana
nirvana fallacy
nirvanic
nirvanol
parinirvana
Translations:
sororal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin sororlbor.
English -al
English sororal
 PIE word
 *swésōr
Learned borrowing from Latin soror (“sister”) + English -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives).
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a sister or sisters; sisterlike, sisterly.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Related through a sister.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
not-comparable
examples: sororal nephew
Related words: sororate
sororial
sororially
sororicide
sorority
Derived words: nonsororal
sororally
sororal nephew
sororal niece
sororal polygyny
sororal twin
Translations:
kibbutz
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hebrew קִבּוּץ (kibúts), derived from the verb קָבַץ (kaváts, “to gather, collect, assemble”). Not related to kibitz.
Inflected forms:
form: kibbutzim
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kibbutzes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A community, usually an agricultural one in Israel, based on a high level of social and economical sharing, equality, direct democracy and tight social relations.
pos: noun
examples: The kibbutzim along the Gaza border have been socialist communes and some of the most tenacious bastions of the Israeli left. I know people from those kibbutzim who, after years of almost daily rocket attacks from Gaza, still clung to the hope of peace, as if to a religious cult.
Translations:
heading
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
mining
sewing
textiles
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *káput
Proto-Germanic *haubudą
Old English hēafod
Middle English heed
English head
English -ing
English heading
From head + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: headings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The title or topic of a document, article, chapter, or of a section thereof.
pos: noun
examples: put the information under the "Advantages" heading
gloss: The direction into which a seagoing or airborne vessel's bow is pointing (apparent heading) and/or the direction into which it is actually moving relative to the ground (true heading)
pos: noun
gloss: Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine, particularly one driving through a solid body of coal or ore; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.
pos: noun
examples: http://undergroundcoal.com.au/fundamentals/01_process.aspx
Once access has been gained into the coal seam, workings are developed by mining a series of roadways (or headings). These roadways are tunnels largely, if not totally, within the seam, usually rectangular in shape though on occasions they may have an arched or even circular profile.
gloss: The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch.
pos: noun
gloss: The end of a stone or brick which is presented outward.
pos: noun
gloss: A strip of material at the hoist end of a flag, used for attaching the flag to its halyard.
pos: noun
Derived words: double-heading
letterheading
nonheading
running heading
single-heading
subheading
subject heading
treble-heading
Translations:
definitely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English definite
English ly
English definitely
From definite + ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more definitely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most definitely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without question and beyond doubt.
pos: adv
examples: Joe definitely doesn't know how to drive a tractor.
She said she wasn't coming, definitely.
gloss: In a definite manner; decisively.
pos: adv
examples: It was really impossible on board that ship to get away definitely from Almayer
And the Nose definitely turned away.
And these Elders were men of good standing in that community, and they swore definitely before the counsel that this lady committed this impropriety, and there was nobody to gainsay that, except the lady herself, […]
Synonyms: by all means
positively
Related words: definitively
absolutely
Translations:
Chinatown
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From China + town.
Compound parts: China
town
Inflected forms:
form: Chinatowns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A district of a city or town (in a country other than China) in which there is a large concentration of Chinese residents and businesses.
pos: noun
examples: She grabbed his hand again and marched him under the fake Oriental archway that heralded the beginning of Chinatown.
Freud’s itinerary in the novel hews neatly to what he and his colleagues really did on their trip to the U.S.: They visited Chinatown and Central Park and the Met. They made it down to Coney Island, though Jung and Freud’s boat ride through the Tunnel of Love seems to be a Doctorowian flight of fancy.
gloss: A similar district filled with East Asians and Southeast Asians.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
proscribed
Derived words: have got more chins than Chinatown
Translations:
dreadlocks
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Borrowed from Jamaican Creole dreadlocks, from dread (“of or relating to a dread”, adjective) (from dread (“(usually black) male member of the Rastafarian movement who wears his hair in dreadlocks”, noun), from English dread (“reverential or respectful fear; awe”), referring to the awe inspired by God) + English locks (plural of lock (“length or tuft of hair”)). The English word is analyzable as dread (“Rastafarian”, attributive) + locks.
Compound parts: dread
locks
Inflected forms:
form: dreadlock
pos: noun
tags: singular
Senses:
gloss: A hairstyle worn by Rastafarians and others in which the hair is left to grow long, and twisted into matted strings.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-normally
examples: The patient history may point to the use of tight hairstyles that put tension on the hair root or hair treatments that increase the vulnerability to traction-related damage. The physician should evaluate for a history of tight ponytails, buns, chignons, braids, twists, weaves, cornrows, dreadlocks, sisterlocks, and hair wefts in addition to the usage of religious hair coverings.
Translations:
dreads
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Abbreviation of dreadlocks. Sense of “Rastafarian person” by synecdoche.
Inflected forms:
form: dreds
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: dreadlocks
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
plural
plural-only
Translations:
lido
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: After Lido (Lido di Venezia), an island with a long beach in Venice, Italy, site of Europe’s first modern beach resort (1857), from Italian lido (“beach, shore”), from Latin litus (“shore”) (hence also English littoral (“of the shore”)). The name is aspirational, evoking glamorous Venice; compare Venetian Pool, another outdoor pool named for Venice.
Inflected forms:
form: lidos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Part of the sea by a beach sectioned off for swimming and other aquatic activities.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: An outdoor swimming pool.
pos: noun
tags: UK
Related words: Lido
Derived words: lido deck
Translations:
boeuf
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French bœuf (“ox”).
Inflected forms:
form: boeufs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bovine.
pos: noun
examples: Howbeit, that country bringeth forth certain kinds of goodly great wild bœufes: to wit, the Biſontes, mained with a collar, like Lions: and the Vri, a mightie ſtrong beaſt, and a ſwift: which the ignorant people call Buffles, whereas indeed the Buffle is bred in Affrica, and carieth ſome reſemblance of a calfe rather, or a ſtag.
Translations:
dread
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English dreden, from Old English drǣdan (“to fear, dread”), aphetic form of ondrǣdan (“to fear, dread”), from Proto-West Germanic *andarādan, equivalent to Old English and- + rǣdan (whence read); corresponding to an aphesis of earlier adread.
Akin to Old Saxon antdrādan, andrādan (“to fear, dread”), Old High German intrātan (“to fear”), Middle High German entrāten (“to fear, dread, frighten”).
Base: rǣdan
Affixes: and-
Inflected forms:
form: dreads
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dreading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dreaded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dreaded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dreader
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: dreadest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To fear greatly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To anticipate with fear.
pos: verb
examples: I'm dreading getting the results of the test, as it could decide my whole life.
Day by day, hole by hole our bearing reins were shortened, and instead of looking forward with pleasure to having my harness put on as I used to do, I began to dread it.
gloss: To be in dread, or great fear.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
gloss: To style (the hair) into dreadlocks.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Terrible; greatly feared; dreaded.
pos: adj
examples: With cat-like tread / Upon our prey we steal / In silence dread / Our cautious way we feel
I even remember thinking that no human being would go down that dread path again.
1980, Donald Fagen; Walter Becker (lyrics and music), "Glamour Profession" in Gaucho, track 3: "Jack with his radar / Stalking the dread moray eel"
gloss: Awe-inspiring; held in fearful awe.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: The acts made in the first Parliament of our most high and dread soveraigne Charles [I], by the grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. […] [book title]
Related words: dreadlocks
dreadnought
Derived words: a burnt child dreads the fire
the burnt child dreads the fire
dreadable
dreadingly
dreadworthy
fordread
indread
undreading
dreadly
misdread
dreadness
Translations:
vast
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French vaste, from Latin vastus (“void, immense”). Related to waste and German Wüste.
Inflected forms:
form: vaster
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more vast
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: vastest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most vast
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: vasts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Very large or wide (literally or figuratively).
pos: adj
examples: The Sahara desert is vast.
There is a vast difference between them.
They and the airline itself described an internal process that requires multiple departments to manually redesign the airline’s schedule – a system that works “the vast majority of the time,” Southwest said in a statement.
gloss: Very great in size, amount, degree, intensity, or especially extent.
pos: adj
examples: The exiguity and ſmallneſſe of ſome ſeeds extending to large productions is one of the magnalities of nature, ſomewhat illuſtrating the work of the Creation, and vaſt production from nothing.
Another place where, from the aesthetic point of view, a long tunnel would have been a real blessing, is East London as viewed from the carriage window on the old Great Eastern line. Despite a vast change from crowded slums to tracts of wasteland, due to its grim wartime experience, this approach still provides a shabby and unworthy introduction to the great capital.
Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.
gloss: Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: the empty, vast, and wandering air
gloss: A vast space.
pos: noun
tags: poetic
examples: they have seemed to be together, though absent, shook hands, as over a vast, and embraced, as it were, from the ends of opposed winds.
Translations:
belonging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi
Proto-Germanic *bider.
Proto-Germanic *bi-
Proto-West Germanic *bi-
Old English be-
Middle English be-
Proto-Germanic *langōną
Proto-West Germanic *langōn
Old English langian
Middle English longen
Middle English belongen
English belong
Proto-Germanic *-ungō
Old English -ung
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English belonging
From belong + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: belongings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The feeling that one belongs.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I have a feeling of belonging in London.
A need for belonging seems fundamental to humans.
gloss: Something physical that is owned.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
examples: Make sure you take all your belongings when you leave.
[…] Thyself and thy belongings
Are not thine own so proper as to waste
Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee.
In the little houses the tenant people sifted their belongings and the belongings of their fathers and of their grandfathers. Picked over their possessions for the journey to the west.
Now, upstairs, she changed into faded Levis and a green sweater, and fastened round her wrist her third most valued belonging, a gold watch […]
gloss: Family; relations; household.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
dated
plural
plural-only
uncountable
examples: When Lady Kew said Sic volo, sic jubeo [Thus I will, thus I command], I promise you few persons of her ladyship’s belongings stopped, before they did her biddings, to ask her reasons.
As soon as the principal personages were seated, the verandah of the house was filled silently by the muffled-up forms of Lakamba’s female belongings.
Derived words: belongingly
belongingness
nonbelonging
Translations:
fetus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A learned borrowing from Latin fētus (“offspring”). Doublet of fawn.
Inflected forms:
form: fetuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fetus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: feti
pos: noun
tags: hypercorrect
plural
form: fetii
pos: noun
tags: misconstruction
plural
form: foetus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
form: fœtus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: faetus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: fætus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: phoetus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: phœtus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An unborn or unhatched vertebrate showing signs of the mature animal.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
US
also
examples: Several feti were removed from every rats' uterus, stripped of their membranes and allowed to lie in the peritoneal cavity connected to the placenta by the umbilical cord and with the placenta still attached to the uterine wall.
gloss: A human embryo after the eighth week of gestation.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
US
also
examples: The sequence is: molecules in reproductive systems, then gametes, zygotes, morulas, blastocysts, and then fetuses.
Though scientists do not know how stress affects gestation, Fukuda theorizes that the vulnerability of Y-bearing sperm cells, male embryos and/or male fetuses to stress is why “subtle significant changes in sex ratios” occur. […] The factors that filter out who “gets through” from conception to birth include chromosomal or genetic abnormalities of the fetus or the mother’s stress response to changes in her environment, Catalano said.
gloss: A neonate.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
US
also
archaic
examples: The real essence of that or any other sort of substances, it is evident, we know not; and therefore are so undetermined in our nominal essences, which we make ourselves, that, if several men were to be asked concerning some oddly-shaped fœtus, as soon as born, whether it were a man or no, it is past doubt one should meet with different answers.
Related words: fetus in fetu
fetus papyraceus
embryo
Derived words: fetal
feticide
fetopathy
fetucide
fetus deletus
fetus fetishist
fetuslike
grandfetus
multifetus
superfetation
Translations:
manoeuvre
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French manœuvre (“manipulation, manoeuvre”) and manouvrer (“to manoeuvre”), from Old French manovre (“handwork, manual labour”), from Medieval Latin manopera, manuopera (“work done by hand, handwork”), from manu (“by hand”) + operari (“to work”). First recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne (800 AD) to mean "chore, manual task", probably as a calque of the Frankish *handwerc (“hand-work”). Compare Old English handweorc, Old English handġeweorc, German Handwerk.
Inflected forms:
form: manoeuvres
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: manoeuvres
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: manoeuvring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: manoeuvred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: manoeuvred
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Commonwealth standard spelling of maneuver.
pos: noun
examples: The system also reacts to unexpected traffic situations and handles them independently by employing evasive manoeuvres within the lane or by braking manoeuvres
gloss: Commonwealth standard spelling of maneuver.
pos: verb
examples: Three pairs of double doors are provided on each side, wide enough to take pallet trucks, and strengthened floors to allow the trucks to manoeuvre inside the vehicle.
Translations:
bludgeon
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in 1730. Origin uncertain, perhaps of Cornish origin (recorded as blogon c. 1450) or from Middle French bougeon, a diminutive of bouge (“club, stick”).
Inflected forms:
form: bludgeons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bludgeons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bludgeoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bludgeoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bludgeoned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end.
pos: noun
examples: We smashed the radio with a steel bludgeon.
gloss: To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The apprehended rioter was bludgeoned to death.
They didn't get shot to death in hold-ups, strangled to death in rapes, stabbed to death in saloons, bludgeoned to death with axes by parents or children or die summarily by some other act of God.
Thomas Briggs, a senior bank clerk in the City, lived in Hackney, and on 9 July 1864 he was returning there by train from Fenchurch Street after a Saturday spent at work when he was bludgeoned to death in a first-class carriage, probably by a young German tailor named Franz Müller. (Let's hope it was Müller, because he was hanged for it.) And so Briggs was an all-round pioneer: an early commuter and the very first victim of a railway murder.
gloss: To coerce someone, as if with a bludgeon.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Their favorite method was bludgeoning us with the same old arguments in favor of their opinions.
Gianna Parasini: You've never worked in the corporate world, have you, Commander? You can't bludgeon through bureaucracy.
Shepard: I can bludgeon pretty hard.
Related words: clobber
beat
Derived words: bludgeoner
unbludgeoned
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 逼迫
roman: bīpò
lang: Dutch
word: afdwingen
lang: Finnish
word: jyrätä
lang: French
word: soutirer
lang: German
word: aufzwingen
lang: Polish
word: zmuszać
lang: Polish
word: zmusić
lang: Polish
word: przymuszać
lang: Polish
word: przymusić
inn
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English in, inn, from Old English inn (“a dwelling, house, chamber, lodging”); akin to Icelandic inni (“a dwelling place, home, abode”), Faroese inni (“home”).
Inflected forms:
form: inns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.
pos: noun
examples: [H]ow much more agreeable to himself to get into snug quarters in a chateau, [...] rather than take up with the miserable lodgement, and miserable fare of a country inn.
One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.
gloss: A tavern.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers.
pos: noun
examples: the Inns of Court    the Inns of Chancery    Serjeants’ Inns
gloss: The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dated
examples: Leicester Inn
gloss: A place of shelter; hence, dwelling, residence, abode.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: But nowe ſadde Winter welked hath the day, / And Phœbus weary of his yerely taſ-ke: / Yſtabled hath his ſteedes in lowlye laye / And taken vp his ynne in Fiſhes haſ-ke.
Therefore with me ye may take vp your In / For this ſame night.
Derived words: coaching inn
coach inn
Cross Inn
inmate
innful
innholder
innkeeper
innkeeping
innless
innlike
innyard
motor inn
New Inn
no room at the inn
posting inn
Tram Inn
Translations:
ko
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 劫 (kō).
Inflected forms:
form: ko
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A local shape to which the ko rule applies; a ko shape.
pos: noun
examples: Black gets an easy game by just filling the ko.
gloss: ko fight
pos: noun
examples: Black wins the ko easily.
gloss: a stone in a ko in atari, a ko stone
pos: noun
examples: Black recaptures the ko and white has to find another ko threat.
Derived words: hanami ko
ko fight
ko threat
ten thousand year ko
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 劫
roman: jié
lang: Japanese
word: コウ
roman: kō
lang: Japanese
word: 劫
roman: kō
lang: Korean
word: 패
roman: pae