yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
Fula
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: * From Manding languages, ultimately from Fula root ful- (pul-)
Inflected forms:
form: Fulas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Fula
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a largely pastoral Muslim people of West Africa.
pos: noun
Translations:
flic
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From flick in the cinematographic sense.
Inflected forms:
form: flics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A data file containing computer animations.
pos: noun
Translations:
configure
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French configurer, from Latin configurare. See configurate.
Inflected forms:
form: configures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: configuring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: configured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: configured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To set up or arrange something in such a way that it is ready for operation for a particular purpose, or to someone's particular liking
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Users may configure the settings to enhance their experience.
Translations:
pedophilic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pedo- (“child”) + -philic.
Base: pedo
Inflected forms:
form: more pedophilic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pedophilic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: paedophilic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
form: pædophilic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
form: pedophilics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: paedophilic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: pædophilic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or pertaining to pedophilia.
pos: adj
examples: In a consumerist hypersexualized environment where bare-midriffed fifteen-year-olds are the pedophilic standard of desirability, becoming older is coded as a set of deficiencies.
gloss: Synonym of pedophile.
pos: noun
examples: [N]ot all child sexual abusers are pedophilics.
Antonyms: teleiophilic
Translations:
paedophilic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From paedo- + -philic.
Base: paedo
Inflected forms:
form: more paedophilic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most paedophilic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: UK standard spelling of pedophilic.
pos: adj
Translations:
zaibatsu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 財閥(ざいばつ) (zaibatsu), coined from Middle Chinese 財 (d͡zoj, “wealth”) + 閥 (bjot, “powerful family”). Doublet of chaebol.
Inflected forms:
form: zaibatsu
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zaibatsus
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large business conglomerate founded under the Empire of Japan, generally controlled by a single family or individual.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: He wondered briefly what it would be like, working all your life for one zaibatsu. Company housing, company hymn, company funeral.
At other points, the film suggests the motive is financial, depicting the Kobayashi clan as staging an industrial coup of sorts, like a quirky Andersonian take on the zaibatsu (a term for the family-controlled business monopolies that dominated Japan until the end of World War II).
gloss: Any large corporation.
pos: noun
tags: US
broadly
examples: Near-synonyms: megacorporation, supercorporation
Related words: chaebol
keiretsu
Translations:
ninjutsu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: From Japanese 忍術 (ninjutsu).
Inflected forms:
form: ninjitsu
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Japanese martial art that is a collection of techniques originally practiced for Japanese espionage purposes, and includes methods of gathering information, nondetection, avoidance, and misdirection techniques. Used by ninja (忍者).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
madrigal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: communications
entertainment
journalism
lifestyle
literature
media
music
poetry
publishing
writing
Etymology: From Italian madrigale, from Latin mātrīcālis.
Inflected forms:
form: madrigals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A song for a small number of unaccompanied voices; from 13th century Italy.
pos: noun
gloss: A polyphonic song for about six voices, from 16th century Italy.
pos: noun
gloss: A short poem, often pastoral, and suitable to be set to music.
pos: noun
Derived words: madrigaler
madrigalian
madrigalic
madrigalist
madrigalistic
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: մադրիգալ
roman: madrigal
lang: Belarusian
word: мадрыга́л
roman: madryhál
lang: Bulgarian
word: мадригал
roman: madrigal
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 牧歌
roman: muk⁶ go¹
lang: Chinese
word: 牧歌
roman: bo̍k-ko͘
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 牧歌
roman: mùgē
lang: Dutch
word: madrigaal
lang: Esperanto
word: madrigalo
lang: Finnish
word: madrigaali
lang: French
word: madrigal
lang: Galician
word: madrigal
lang: Georgian
word: მადრიგალი
roman: madrigali
lang: German
word: Madrigal
lang: Greek
word: μαδριγάλι
roman: madrigáli
lang: Hungarian
word: madrigál
lang: Icelandic
word: madrígal
lang: Icelandic
word: madrígali
lang: Ido
word: madrigalo
lang: Italian
word: madrigale
lang: Japanese
word: マドリガル
roman: madorigaru
lang: Korean
word: 마드리갈
roman: madeurigal
lang: Kyrgyz
word: мадригал
roman: madrigal
lang: Latin
word: madrigalis
lang: Lithuanian
word: madrigalas
lang: Manx
word: ronniaght
lang: Polish
word: madrygał
lang: Portuguese
word: madrigal
lang: Russian
word: мадрига́л
roman: madrigál
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: мадрѝга̄л
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: madrìgāl
lang: Slovak
word: madrigal
lang: Slovene
word: madrigál
lang: Spanish
word: madrigal
lang: Swedish
word: madrigal
lang: Ukrainian
word: мадрига́л
roman: madryhál
cheche
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cheches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A piece of clothing used commonly in hot deserts to protect oneself from the sun or sandstorms.
pos: noun
examples: A pale khaki cheche or desert scarf became popular, worn in various ways at the commander's whim - either looped round the neck, crossed on the chest, or wrapped all around the head and neck...
Mossa scrawled his name, pulled his cheche down over his mouth, and actually smiled. ... I wore a blue cheche to filter sand out of the air I was breathing.
Translations:
frybread
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From fry + bread.
Compound parts: fry
bread
Inflected forms:
form: frybreads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fry bread
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Fried bread.
pos: noun
tags: US
Western
uncountable
usually
Translations:
patrilocal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English patri-
English local
English patrilocal
From patri- + local.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: living with the family of the husband.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: In which newly married couples live with the husband's family.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In barring the way, he is enacting a ritual which demands that the new way of patrilocal marriage pay its respect to the more ancient way of matrilocal marriage.
Synonyms: virilocal
Related words: matrilocal
uxorilocal
neolocal
duolocal
Derived words: patrilocality
patrilocally
Translations:
long-lining
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: longlining
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A type of commercial fishing using a very long line with many baited hooks attached along its length.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
scarcity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English scarsite, from Old Northern French escarsete; by surface analysis, scarce + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: scarcities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of something being scarce or deficient.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Praise […] owes its value only to its scarcity.
To understand the events of the next fifty years, then, one must understand environmental scarcity, cultural and racial clash, geographic destiny, and the transformation of war.
gloss: An inadequate amount of something; a shortage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: a scarcity of grain
The crucial and intersecting challenges of scarcities, both emerging and intensifying, will consume China’s custodians over the next decade.
Synonyms: rareness
rarity
deficiency
lack
infrequency
penury
want
Antonyms: frequency
commonness
abundance
copiousness
Derived words: artificial scarcity
digital scarcity
postscarcity
root of scarcity
Translations:
hax
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
games
gaming
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Phonetic respelling of hacks.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Hacks, hacking.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: OMG, hax! That player just ran through a solid wall.
gloss: Crucial luck-based events in battles.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The third critical hit in a row! You only win because of hax!
Related words: dox
vax
Translations:
dignify
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French dignifier, from Late Latin dignificare, from dignus (“worthy”) + ficare (in comp.), facere (“to make”). See deign and fact.
Inflected forms:
form: dignifies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dignifying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dignified
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dignified
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To invest with dignity or honour.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Your worth will dignify our feast.
gloss: To give distinction to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Or, when more deeply moved, he would exclaim--
"As noble thoughts the inward being grace,
So noble whiskers dignify the face."
gloss: To exalt in rank.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To treat as worthy or acceptable; to indulge or condone by acknowledging.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I will not dignify that comment with a response.
Related words: dignification
dignified
dignity
Derived words: dignifiable
undignify
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: удостоявам
roman: udostojavam
lang: Danish
word: værdige
lang: Dutch
word: vereren
lang: French
word: honorer
lang: German
word: würdigen
lang: Japanese
word: 褒賞する
roman: hōshō suru
divorced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Cut off, or separated.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: divorced from reality
It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.
Romain Ioualalen, policy lead at Oil Change International, a pressure group, said: “The latest draft is an incoherent and dangerous list of weak measures completely divorced from what is needed to limit warming to 1.5C.”
gloss: Legally dissolved.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It is a sad fact that 43% of marriages are now divorced.
gloss: Having had one's marriage legally dissolved.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Mark's parents are divorced.
Synonyms: split
Antonyms: connected
married
engaged
Related words: divorce
divorcee
divorcing
Derived words: divorced energy
divorced from reality
divorced guy energy
divorced kid
I'm divorced
innocently divorced
nondivorced
undivorced
Translations:
pleurisy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English pleuresi, pleresye, that borrowed from Old French pleuresie (French pleurésie), from Late Latin pleurisis, alteration of Latin pleuritis. By surface analysis, pleur- + -isy.
Inflected forms:
form: pleurisies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Inflammation of lung pleura.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1829 September, Richard N. Allen, An Essay on Pneumonia Biliosa, Horatio Gates Jameson (editor), The Maryland Medical Recorder, Volume 1, Number 1, page 591,
The division of pleurisies now sanctioned by the general language of medical men, is that which arranges them as inflammatory,* bilious and typhoid.
And the dope often gave him a painful case of pleurisy if he smoked it for more than two straight days of heavy continuous smoking[…]
Pleurisy usually causes pain, which is made worse by deep breathing, since the two inflamed layers of the pleura rub against each other.
Pleurisy usually occurs as a secondary disease to other infections (e.g., pneumonia, tuberculosis), conditions (e.g., pulmonary embolism, tumors), or as a result of injury.
Translations:
exorcism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French exorciser, from Late Latin exorcizō, from Ancient Greek ἐξορκίζω (exorkízō, “to ward off, to charge under oath, adjure”), from ἐξ (ex) + ὅρκος (hórkos).
Inflected forms:
form: exorcisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The ritual act of driving out evil spirits from persons, places or things that are possessed by them.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Master Hume, we are therefore prouided: / will her Ladyship behold and heare our Exorcismes?
But in this part I am going to mention, it lay chiefly in the people deceived, or equally in both; and this was in wearing charms, philtres, exorcisms, amulets, and I know not what preparations, to fortify the body with them against the plague; as if the plague was not the hand of God, but a kind of possession of an evil spirit, and that it was to be kept off with crossings, signs of the zodiac, papers tied up with so many knots, […].
The imputed virtue of folios full of knockdown arguments is supposed to reside in them, just as some of the majesty of the British Empire dwells in the constable’s truncheon. They are used in pure superstition, as old clodhoppers spoil Latin by way of an exorcism.
Translations:
exorcise
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English exorcisen, exorzisen, from Medieval Latin exorcizō, from Ancient Greek ἐξορκίζω (exorkízō, “to banish an evil spirit; bind by oath”), from ἐξ (ex) + ὅρκος (hórkos). Compare Old French exorciser.
Inflected forms:
form: exorcises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: exorcising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: exorcised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: exorcised
pos: verb
tags: past
form: exorcize
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To drive out (an evil spirit) from a person, place or thing, especially by an incantation or prayer.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The priest attempted to exorcise the evil spirit from the house.
The ritual was performed to exorcise the demons from the village.
gloss: To rid (a person, place or thing) of an evil spirit.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They hired a specialist to exorcise the haunted object.
Derived words: exorcisable
exorcisement
exorcism
exorcist
Translations:
exorcist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French exorciste, from Latin exorcista, from Ancient Greek ἐξορκιστής (exorkistḗs).
Inflected forms:
form: exorcists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person, especially a priest or priestess, who is a masterful practitioner in purification and exorcism to force out evil spirits and/or demons from a living being.
pos: noun
Translations:
possessed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more possessed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most possessed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Controlled by evil spirits.
pos: adj
examples: He was exorcised because he was thought to be possessed by the Devil.
Three days remained till Beltane's E'en, and throughout this time it was noted that Heriotside behaved like one possessed. It may be that his conscience pricked him, or that he had a glimpse of his sin and its coming punishment.
gloss: Seized by powerful emotions.
pos: adj
examples: O what ridiculous Reſolutions Men take, when poſſeſs'd with Fear! It deprives them of the Uſe of thoſe Means which Reaſon offers for their Relief.
gloss: Having; owning.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The president was possessed of great wealth.
It is said that every life has its roses and thorns; there seemed, however, to have been a misadventure or mistake in Stephen's case, whereby somebody else had become possessed of his roses, and he had become possessed of the same somebody else's thorns in addition to his own.
Derived words: forepossessed
like all possessed
like a man possessed
nonpossessed
possessedly
possessedness
self-possessed
unpossessed
Translations:
off-white
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English off-
English white
English off-white
From off- + white.
Inflected forms:
form: off-whites
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: off white
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: off white
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any pale colour that is almost white.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Of a very pale colour that is almost white.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The ceiling panels are in off-white eggshell semi-matt finish.
Translations:
sunlight
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English sonnelight, sunneliht, from Old English sunnan lēoht (“sunlight”), equivalent to sun + light. Cognate with Dutch zonlicht (“sunlight”), German Low German Sünnenlücht (“sunlight”), German Sonnenlicht (“sunlight”).
Base: sun
Inflected forms:
form: sunlights
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sunlights
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sunlighting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sunlighted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sunlighted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: All the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun; especially, that in the visible spectrum and that bathes the Earth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Meronym: sunbeams
Near-synonym: daylight
Sunlight on the skin gives you vitamin D.
The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
Instead of using unpolarized sunlight as my light source and then filtering it with a polarizer, I can just use my screen as a source of polarized light.
gloss: Brightness, hope; a positive outlook.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
gloss: Synonym of sunrise.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Synonym of photic (“describing that part of the near-surface ocean in which photosynthesis is possible.”).
pos: noun
tags: attributive
countable
uncountable
examples: sunlight zone
gloss: To work on the side (at a secondary job) during the daytime.
pos: verb
Synonyms: first light
sunup
Related words: sunbeam
Derived words: Port Sunlight
synchro-sunlight
sunlight is the best disinfectant
Translations:
phthalic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Shortened form of naphthalic, from naphthalene + -ic, from naphtha + -al + -ene.
Base: naphtha
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or derived from naphthalene or phthalic acid.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
phthalate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From phthal(ic) + -ate (“salt or ester”), short for obsolete naphthalic acid, from naphthalene.
Base: phthalic
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: phthalates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any salt or ester of a phthalic acid.
pos: noun
examples: Researchers investigating levels of phthalates in the human body, which have been linked to asthma, breast cancer, type 2 diabetes and fertility issues in the past few years, were found to be nearly 35% higher in participants who had eaten out the previous day compared with those who stayed at home.
Even as FDA works to develop that plan, consumers continue to be exposed to unsafe food chemicals including not just dyes but also the artificial sweetener aspartame, the white pigment titanium dioxide, the preservative propylparaben, and the phthalate food packaging chemicals, according to CSPI.
Translations:
naphthalene
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Akkadian napṭumbor.?
Old Persian *naftahbor.
Ancient Greek νάφθα (náphtha)bor.
Latin naphthabor.
English naphth(a)
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
French -ènebor.
English -ene
English naphthalene
From naphth(a) + -al + -ene.
Inflected forms:
form: naphthalenes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A white crystalline hydrocarbon manufactured from coal tar; used in mothballs.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: An aromatic bicyclic hydrocarbon, C₁₀H₈; an acene containing two fused benzene rings.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Derived words: adapalene
anilinonaphthalene
azonaphthalene
azoxynaphthalene
binaphthalene
bromonaphthalene
chlorodinitronaphthalene
cinacalcet
circumnaphthalene
decahydronaphthalene
diaminonaphthalene
diazanaphthalene
dinaphthalene
dinitronaphthalene
lithium naphthalene
menadione
methallenestril
methylnaphthalene
mitonafide
nadolol
nafarelin
nafcillin
nafoxadol
nalidixic acid
naphthaleneacetic
naphthaleneacetic acid
naphthalenediamine
naphthalene red
naphthalenesulfonate
naphthalene yellow
naphthalenic
naphthalic
naphthazarin
naphthoic
naphthoylindole
nitronaphthalene
paranaphthalene
polychlorinated naphthalene
terbinafine
tetrahydronaphthalene
triazanaphthalene
Translations:
sweeten
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: agriculture
business
entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From sweet + -en. Eclipsed non-native Middle English doucen and endoucen, borrowed from Old French adoucir and endoucir (“to sweeten”).
Base: sweet
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: sweetens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sweetening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sweetened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sweetened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make sweet to the taste.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to sweeten tea
gloss: To make (more) pleasant or to the mind or feelings.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to sweeten life
to sweeten friendship
gloss: To make mild or kind; to soften.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to sweeten the temper
gloss: To make less painful or laborious; to relieve.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to sweeten the cares of life
Our God to bless out home delights, / And sweeten every secret tear:— [...]
gloss: To soften to the eye; to make delicate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Correggio has made his memory immortal by the strength he has given to his figures, and by sweetening his lights and shadows, and melting them into each other.
gloss: To make pure and healthful by destroying noxious matter.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to sweeten rooms or apartments that have been infected
to sweeten the air
gloss: To make warm and fertile.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to dry and sweeten soils
gloss: To raise the pH of (a soil) by adding alkali.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [T]hey had prepared the garden carefully, plowing and sweetening the dirt with fireplace ashes and manure from the barn[.]
gloss: To restore to purity; to free from taint.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to sweeten water, butter, or meat
gloss: To make more attractive; said of offers in negotiations.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to sweeten the deal by increasing the price offered
gloss: To become sweet.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To supplement (a composition) with additional instruments, especially strings.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In most popular music the bowed strings usually play long, sustained, sweeping parts, and are sometimes added to a vocal track later in a process known as sweetening.
Rather than employ strings to “sweeten” the songs, Motown's arrangements used strings as a timbral layer, in conjunction with syncopated horn lines, for a fuller sound; […]
Antonyms: sour
Derived words: artificially sweetened
back-sweeten
besweeten
outsweeten
oversweeten
presweeten
resweeten
sweetener
sweeten the pill
sweeten the pot
sweeten up
unsweeten
Translations:
parachutist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English parachute
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English parachutist
From parachute + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: parachutists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who jumps from an aircraft using a parachute, especially as a sport.
pos: noun
examples: If any of the extreme sports can be considered truly high risk, then B.A.S.E. Jumping is that sport. […] Modern B.A.S.E. jumping is believed to have started in 1978, where daring parachutists first began jumping off of El Capitan, a 3,000 foot (915m) cliff high above Yosemite National Park.
I waited and he came to the point: he wanted me simply to talk to a patient he had inherited, a sports parachutist who had Roman Candled into a tree and broken and disarticulated his back.
Some hit the rocky outcrops
 Some fell into the sea
 Some even 'Roman Candled'
 (A parachutist I would never be)
Translations:
skydiver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From skydive + -er or sky + diver.
Base: skydive
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: skydivers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who skydives.
pos: noun
Antonyms: whuffo
Translations:
typography
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French typographie from Medieval Latin typographia from Ancient Greek τυπογράφος (tupográphos, “certified copy”) + -ίᾱ (-íā).
By surface analysis, type + -o- + -graphy.
Inflected forms:
form: typographies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The art or practice of setting and arranging type; typesetting.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The practice or process of printing with type.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The appearance and style of typeset matter.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: typing
typographia
typology
typesetting
Derived words: kinetic typography
typographer
typographic
typographical
Translations:
nitpicky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English nitpick
English -y
English nitpicky
From nitpick + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: nitpickier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: nitpickiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: nit-picky
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Finicky; overly critical; concerned with insignificant details.
pos: adj
Translations:
employer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From employ + -er, first attested in the late 16th century. Compare French employeur.
Base: employ
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: employers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: imployer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A person, firm or other entity which pays for or hires the services of another person.
pos: noun
examples: The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.
Today, at common law, the employer's duty to his employé is to use ordinary and reasonable care for the safety of his employé while he is performing his work.
the ideal from the point of view of the employer is to have output without employees, and the ideal from the point of view of the employee is to have income without employment.
Translations:
moderation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin *med-der.?
Latin *-osder.?
Latin moderō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin moderātiō
Old French moderacion
Middle French [Term?]bor.
English moderation
Borrowed from Middle French [Term?], from Old French moderacion, from Latin moderātiō. By surface analysis, moderate + ion.
Inflected forms:
form: moderations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being moderate; avoidance of extremes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ...It regulates and governs the Passions of the Mind, and brings them into due moderation and frame...
Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own moderation!
America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
Moderation is a wiser policy than zealotry, I think.
gloss: An instance of moderating: bringing something away from extremes, especially in a beneficial way.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: With the quick moderation of the weather some buying has appeared that had been held up because of the extremely cold weather […].
gloss: The process of moderating a discussion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The moderation of a large online forum can be hard work.
gloss: Usage of neutron moderator to slow down neutrons in a nuclear reactor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: moderate
moderateness
moderating
Derived words: automoderation
e-moderation
immoderation
in moderation
metamoderation
post-moderation
pre-moderation
remoderation
retromoderation
wage moderation
Translations:
scumbag
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From scum + bag; first recorded use 1953.
Compound parts: scum
bag
Inflected forms:
form: scumbags
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A condom.
pos: noun
tags: dated
slang
vulgar
examples: “A scumbag,” Sonny repeated. “Rubber. A pro-phy-natic. You know what I mean, don't you?”
gloss: A sleazy, disreputable, despicable, or otherwise immoral person; a lowlife.
pos: noun
tags: informal
mildly
vulgar
examples: Can you believe that scumbag Steve asked to sleep with her before even asking her name?
Monroney was variously described as a "scumbag," "SOB," "Snake," "dead sheep," [...] and assorted unprintable adjectives.
In the past week, he [Donald Trump] attacked the “truly sick and demented people” in the news media, […], not even counting the “deranged scumbags” in Iran.
Related words: scumbucket
dirtbag
hosebag
sleazebag
slutbag
sleazeball
scuzzball
scuzzbucket
Derived words: scumbaggery
scumbagginess
scumbaggy
Translations:
honeypot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle English hwny pott; equivalent to honey + pot.
Compound parts: honey
pot
Inflected forms:
form: honeypots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: honey pot
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A pot of honey.
pos: noun
gloss: Something or someone similarly sweet or enticing
pos: noun
tags: US
dated
figuratively
slang
gloss: Something or someone similarly sweet or enticing
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
slang
examples: "[S]he had the boss eating from her honeypot." Baxter rolled his eyes at the crude term for pussy, but Rodney did have a point.
gloss: Something or someone similarly sweet or enticing
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: And the American Embassy in Moscow was infiltrated thanks to “honeypots,” Soviet women who seduced Marine guards.
Perhaps in order to create his own, more controlled environment for debaucherie, he set up a house of prostitution with Gestapo funds, justifying it as a "honeypot" with which to ensnare unsuspecting foreign diplomats.
The NKVD uses attractive ballerinas for honeypot espionage.
gloss: Something or someone similarly sweet or enticing
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Wherever the biggest bunch of men were in the room, you could bet Lisa'd be in the middle of them. What a honeypot.
'You're turning into a honeypot,' he would say to her: it was a criticism of sins uncommitted, it was jeering as if she were getting above herself, it was a warning, no doubt of that, and there was something else which she could barely fathom, it was hurt at the approaching betrayal, a staving off of loss.
gloss: Something or someone similarly sweet or enticing
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Computer experts install honeypots to trick hackers.
gloss: Something or someone similarly sweet or enticing
pos: noun
tags: UK
figuratively
examples: Superb Roman remains, Georgian architecture and countless museums justify Bath's position as a tourist honeypot.
ES's original intention was to run beyond Berlin to the tourist honeypots of Dresden and Prague, but a lack of suitable train paths means that won't be possible until March 2024.
gloss: A chamber pot.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
obsolete
gloss: A slop bucket.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
obsolete
Related words: honeynet
honeytoken
honeytrap
Derived words: honeypot ant
honey-pot ant
Translations:
Pisgah
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Biblical Hebrew פסגּה (Piṣgāh), a name for the peak of Mount Nebo, meaning literally “top of a mountain; summit”.
Inflected forms:
form: Pisgahs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A glimpse of a distant sight; an overview of a situation; a position that affords a view.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
figuratively
often
examples: Although the development of this work, complex and compelling in its own right, lies beyond the scope of the present study, a “Pisgah view” of Billy Budd[…] discloses its presentation, among many other things, of a sharply drawn retrospective allegory of Melville’s rhetorical career.
Translations:
skell
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law-enforcement
police
Etymology: * Perhaps from skeleton, describing the often skeletal appearance of drug users.
* Alternatively, from skellum or skelder ("to beg in the streets"). Used by Ben Jonson, 1599.
* In the sense of a suspicious person, popularized by the American TV police drama NYPD Blue.
Inflected forms:
form: skells
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: skel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: skells
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: skelling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: skelled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: skelled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: a homeless person, especially one who sleeps in the New York subway.
pos: noun
tags: New-York
US
slang
examples: Did you see those two skells lying in the doorway?
gloss: A male suspicious person or crime suspect, especially a street person such as a drug dealer, pimp or panhandler.
pos: noun
tags: New-York
US
jargon
slang
gloss: To fall off or fall over.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: She went skelling over on the ice.
Translations:
scrooge
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the character Ebenezer Scrooge in the Charles Dickens' novel A Christmas Carol.
Inflected forms:
form: scrooges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scrooges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scrooging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scrooged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scrooged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A miserly person; a person with an excessive dislike of spending money or other resources.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who is grumpy about the Christmas holidays.
pos: noun
gloss: To behave in a greedy or miserly way.
pos: verb
examples: Mr. Chairman, $6 million is 15 times more than what the President earns and 30 times more than what a Cabinet Secretary earns. The Christmas Eve announcement of these bonuses was greeted by one commentator by saying the taxpayers got scrooged.
He went back to live in Clayton with dad and tearfully explained to him about Aunt Eliza and her mean, scrooging ways.
[…]corporations scrooging their way out of paying taxes.
Derived words: scrooge-like
Translations:
luthier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French luthier, from luth (“lute”).
Inflected forms:
form: luthiers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who, or a business which, makes or repairs stringed wooden musical instruments, such as lutes, violins, and guitars.
pos: noun
Translations:
improvise
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French improviser; ultimately from Latin improvisus.
Inflected forms:
form: improvises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: improvising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: improvised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: improvised
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make something up or invent it as one goes on; to proceed guided only by imagination, intuition, and guesswork rather than by a careful plan.
pos: verb
examples: He had no speech prepared, so he improvised.
They improvised a simple shelter with branches and the rope they were carrying.
She improvised a lovely solo.
We have improvised the most charming party imaginable. The summer has come back by surprise. I own I wonder that June was not tired of us: still here is a day so sunny, that October does not know its own. The Duke of Wharton, Lord Hervey, and some two or three others, have designed a water-party in our honour.
As this terrible emotion took charge of him, he found himself improvising a whole series of lovers for her, imagining them to be waiting around every corner.
Translations:
chamfer
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from chamfering, from Middle French chanfrain, from Middle French, Old French chanfraindre, possibly a compound of chant (“corner”), from Latin canthus (of either Celtic or Latin origin) + fraindre (“to break”), from frangō (“to break”).
Inflected forms:
form: chamfers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chamfers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chamfering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chamfered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chamfered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An obtuse-angled relief or cut at an edge added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges.
pos: noun
gloss: To cut off the edge or corner of something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To cut a groove in something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: chamferer
rechamfer
Translations:
chamfered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Containing chamfers
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The building, in a plain Tudor Gothic style, has a central door in chamfered ashlar surround.
Translations:
def
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of definitive or definitely; alternatively an eye spelling of death referring to an absolute.
Inflected forms:
form: deffer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: deffest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Excellent; very good.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: You real def. I’m gonna put you on stage.
See I do this thing, so come pursue this king / One minor rhyme is all you just bring / Cause I’m the best I’m def, ask the rest they left
L.A.—The Second Deffest City of Hip-Hop [title]
I’m a Flavor Unit MC / And that means I’m one of the roughest, def-est, toughest, best-est
Translations:
florentine
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin flōrens
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Latin Flōrentia
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnus
Latin Flōrentīnus
French florentinbor.
English florentine
Borrowed from French florentin.
Inflected forms:
form: florentines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Cooked or served with spinach.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Eggs florentine is on the menu.
gloss: A biscuit consisting mostly of nuts and preserved fruit, usually coated with chocolate on one side.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They boyle it alſo, and after dry it and bray it, and of this bran, with egges, hony, milke, and butter of Cocos, they make Florentines, and verie good belly-timber.
gloss: A kind of durable silk.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: A kind of pudding or tart or meat pie.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Stealing custards, tarts, and florentines.
Translations:
rationalization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: economics
human-sciences
mathematics
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
Etymology: First attested in 1831. From French rationalisation, equivalent to rational + -ization or rationalize + -ation.
Base: rational
Affixes: -ization
Inflected forms:
form: rationalizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rationalisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The process or result of rationalizing, or expressing in rational terms.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: Some rationalization of the language of his lectures is, of course, necessary.
gloss: A statement of one's motives, or of the causes of some event.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Her self-flagellating rationalization for the theft was mostly ignored by the jury.
But, he insisted, he was neither a “Union Saver” nor a “freedom shrieker.” He rejected all high-flown rationalizations for the war effort — “to hell with the devilish twaddle about freedom.”
After every shooting, blame and rationalizations fly. I know, because I was shot in the head at a 2011 congressional event near my home in Tucson, Ariz. Eighteen other people were shot at that event, six of whom died.
gloss: The reorganization of a company or organization in order to improve its efficiency through the reallocation of resources and changes in its workforce.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It began with the familiar political motives of civil service rationalization and downsizing.
For socialism involves the reconstruction of industry upon the principle of production for use. It involves the rationalization of industry, the proper adjustment of production to the social requirements.
The former, technical rationalisation, is a question of improvements carried out within businesses by the managers, methods like scientific management, the rapidity with which machinery is scrapped, the supervision of labour, by the stop-watch method or any other method, and generally what we economists have been in the habit of calling "internal economies."
Rationalization includes partnership ventures, and if approved would mean capacity reductions in both sectors with thousands of steelworkers' jobs affected.
He firmly believed that the only cure for unemployment was the revival of industry as a whole, and that private finance was the best spur and guide to rationalization. But the State would help.
gloss: The concealment of true motivation in some non-threatening way.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The simplification of an expression without changing its value.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Here, the rationalization of the denominator was unnecessary.
Derived words: backward rationalization
rationalization hamster
rerationalization
subrationalization
Translations:
chopped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
Etymology: Equivalent to chop + -ed.
Base: chop
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more chopped
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most chopped
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Cut or diced into small pieces.
pos: adj
examples: Brown meat with chopped onions, chopped or ground garlic, chopped celery, and chopped bell pepper.
gloss: Ground, having been processed by grinding.
pos: adj
gloss: Having a vehicle's height reduced by horizontal trimming of the roofline.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: He later bought a '33 Ford coupe, chopped and channeled it and installed a Mercury engine.
gloss: High on drugs.
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: Fired from a job or cut from a team or training program; having got the chop.
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: Ugly or unattractive.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
Derived words: chipped chopped ham
chopped and screwed
chopped liver
chopped logic
chuzz
prechopped
unchopped
Translations:
pessimistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pessimist
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English pessimistic
From pessimist + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more pessimistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pessimistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Marked by pessimism and little hopefulness; expecting the worst.
pos: adj
examples: a pessimistic view of the future
gloss: Pertaining to the worst-case scenario.
pos: adj
examples: a pessimistic estimate
However pessimistic their predictions, most scientists and scholars who warn of impending disaster are really acting from antidystopian motives.
gloss: Taking out exclusive locks on data to prevent conflicts with other processes that might modify it.
pos: adj
examples: pessimistic concurrency; pessimistic locking
Antonyms: optimistic
Related words: pessimal
pessimism
pessimist
Derived words: cyberpessimistic
ecopessimistic
heteropessimistic
overpessimistic
pessimistically
pessimistic concurrency
pessimistic time
unpessimistic
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: مُتَشَائِم
roman: mutašāʔim
lang: Armenian
word: հոռետեսական
roman: hoṙetesakan
lang: Catalan
word: pessimista
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 悲觀的 /悲观的
roman: bēiguān de
lang: Finnish
word: pessimistinen
lang: Finnish
word: synkkämielinen
lang: French
word: pessimiste
lang: Galician
word: pesimista
lang: German
word: pessimistisch
lang: Hungarian
word: pesszimista
lang: Hungarian
word: borúlátó
lang: Indonesian
word: pesimistis
lang: Japanese
word: 悲観的
roman: hikanteki
lang: Norwegian
word: pessimistisk
lang: Persian
word: بدبین
lang: Persian
word: بد بینانه
lang: Plautdietsch
word: dunkelsiedich
lang: Portuguese
word: pessimista
lang: Russian
word: пессимисти́чный
roman: pessimistíčnyj
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: песимистичан
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: pesimističan
lang: Spanish
word: pesimista
lang: Swedish
word: pessimistisk
lang: Thai
word: มองโลกในแง่ร้าย
lang: Turkish
word: kötümser
lang: Volapük
word: badimik
Inuk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Inuktitut ᐃᓄᒃ (inok)bor.
English Inuk
Borrowed from Inuktitut ᐃᓄᒃ (inok, “person”).
Inflected forms:
form: Inuks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Inuit
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Inuq
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of one of the several indigenous peoples from the Arctic who descended from the Thule.
pos: noun
examples: He could be an Inuk, yes, so I could quite see there would be lots of Inuks, lots of Inuks who have no grounds for — no part of Eskimo ancestry, culture or heritage.
Translations: