yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
underinsured
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí
Proto-Indo-European *-ér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér
Proto-Germanic *under
Proto-West Germanic *undar
Old English under-
Middle English under-
English under-
English insured
English underinsured
From under- + insured.
Inflected forms:
form: more underinsured
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most underinsured
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: underinsureds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: not having sufficient insurance to cover loss or damage
pos: adj
gloss: not having proper health insurance
pos: adj
tags: US
gloss: One who has insufficient insurance.
pos: noun
Translations:
goaltender
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From goal + tender.
Compound parts: goal
tender
Inflected forms:
form: goaltenders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a designated player that attempts to prevent the opposing team from scoring by protecting a goal.
pos: noun
Translations:
symposium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin symposium, from Ancient Greek συμπόσιον (sumpósion, “drinking party”) from συμπίνω (sumpínō, “drink together”), from συν- (sun-, “together-”) + πίνω (pínō, “drink”). Morphologically compare compotation.
Inflected forms:
form: symposiums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: symposia
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A conference or other meeting for discussion of a topic, especially one in which the participants make presentations.
pos: noun
gloss: A drinking party in Ancient Greece, especially one with intellectual discussion.
pos: noun
gloss: A collection of essays, articles or papers on a particular subject by a number of contributors.
pos: noun
examples: THE CONCISE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF WORLD RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES. Edited by P. Ransome-Wallis. Hutchinson. 50s. [...] The work is a symposium by writers who are mostly specialists in the topics about which they write.
Related words: symposiast
sympotic
Symposium in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
in
Dictionary.com
Oxford University Press
2019–2022
Derived words: cybersymposium
Translations:
memorandum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin memorandum, neuter of memorandus (“to be remembered”).
Inflected forms:
form: memorandums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: memoranda
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A short note serving as a reminder.
pos: noun
examples: ....be more difficult or uncertain than it had been for so many weeks, I had scarcely for a moment adverted to it as necessary, or placed it amongst my memoranda against this parting interview; and my final anxieties being spent in comforting her with hopes, and in pressing upon her the necessity of getting some medicines for a violent cough and hoarseness with which she was troubled, I wholly forgot it until it was too late to recall her.
gloss: A written business communication.
pos: noun
examples: The Trump administration will allow federal workers to promote their religious beliefs to colleagues, display religious items at work and pray together or individually, according to a memorandum issued Monday by the Office of Personnel Management.
gloss: A brief diplomatic communication.
pos: noun
gloss: A page in an annual publication honoring the memory of a person who died during the past year.
pos: noun
Related words: memoir
memorate
memorial
memory
Derived words: countermemorandum
hortatory memorandum
Memorandist
memorandize
memorandum for record
memorandum for the record
memoranduming
memorandum of agreement
memorandum of association
memorandum of understanding
memorandum opinion
presidential memorandum
Translations:
erratum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin errātum, neuter of errātus (“mistaken”).
Inflected forms:
form: errata
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A published notice reporting an error belatedly discovered in a previous publication.
pos: noun
examples: When the journal's editors found out about the misreported details, they issued an erratum.
gloss: An error, especially one in a printed work.
pos: noun
examples: Erratum / The correct ISBN for this book is […]
Translations:
bryozoan
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Etymology tree
Translingual Bryozoa
English -an
English bryozoan
From Translingual Bryozoa + English -an.
Inflected forms:
form: bryozoa
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bryozoans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the phylum Bryozoa of aquatic, usually colonial invertebrates.
pos: noun
examples: The blanket of bryozoans also blocks out some of the light needed by the blade for photosynthesis.
Every microscopic individual in a bryozoan colony is a clone of the original animal that settled on the lake floor, and is a hermaphrodite, both male and female.
gloss: Pertaining to the Bryozoa.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
unopened
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English opened
English unopened
From un- + opened.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: not yet opened; still closed
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
unplanned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English planned
English unplanned
From un- + planned.
Inflected forms:
form: more unplanned
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unplanned
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Unintentional; not intended.
pos: adj
examples: Juno MacGuff is the kind of teenager we all wish we could have been: quick-witted, frighteningly intelligent beyond her years and comfortable enough in her own skin to resist those incessant high-school pressures to conform, even as her body expands with an unplanned pregnancy.
gloss: Spontaneous and not thought through in advance.
pos: adj
examples: All of these factors increase the probability of stranding and the severity of the consequences. Since 2011, there have been several strandings that resulted in unplanned evacuations, because the passengers became desperate from personal discomfort or lack of confidence of being rescued.
gloss: Not having any structure or organization.
pos: adj
Synonyms: accidental
Antonyms: planned
Related words: unexpected
contingent
incidental
Derived words: rapid unplanned disassembly
Translations:
unrelated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English related
English unrelated
From un- + related.
Inflected forms:
form: more unrelated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unrelated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not connected or associated.
pos: adj
examples: The holiday started with two unrelated mishaps.
I was having lunch with Jim the other day, who's just had his first kid. Oh, and on a completely unrelated note, there's a new cinema opened up in town.
Mr. Levi may have been bedeviled by buried conflicts unrelated to Auschwitz.
gloss: Not related by kinship.
pos: adj
examples: He had the same surname as me, but we were unrelated.
Derived words: unrelatedly
Translations:
unsatisfactory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English satisfactory
English unsatisfactory
From un- + satisfactory.
Inflected forms:
form: more unsatisfactory
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unsatisfactory
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Inadequate, substandard or not satisfactory.
pos: adj
Translations:
unsent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English unsent, equivalent to un- + sent.
Base: sent
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not yet sent or transmitted.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I had several unsent e-mails in my pending file.
Translations:
unskilled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English skill
English -ed
English skilled
English unskilled
From un- + skilled.
Inflected forms:
form: more unskilled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unskilled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a person or workforce: not having a skill or technical training.
pos: adj
examples: In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.
Set against the background of the American civil war, with Keaton a cunning but unskilled driver, unaided, of the ponderous giant of a locomotive, it remains not only probably the funniest film about railways ever made, but one of the funniest silent films to retain its comic power over today's more sophisticated audiences.
gloss: Of a job: not requiring skill or training.
pos: adj
examples: The minimum hourly wage for construction workers has increased to NOK 250,30 per hour for skilled workers and NOK 226,90 for unskilled workers, with an additional rate of NOK 235,80 for unskilled workers with at least one year’s experience in the industry.
gloss: Of a made object: inexpertly made or showing a lack of skill.
pos: adj
Synonyms: amateurish
backwards
bad
bungling
clumsy
ham-fisted
ham-handed
inapt
incapable
incompetent
ineffective
inept
inexpert
maladroit
miserable
noob
unable
unprofessional
unqualified
unskillful
Antonyms: skilled
Related words: unskilful
unskillful
skill
inexperienced
unskilled person
Translations:
unstrap
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + strap.
Base: strap
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unstraps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unstrapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unstrapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unstrapped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To loosen or remove the straps from (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
peaceful
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
video-games
Etymology: From Middle English peesful, pesful, paisful, pesefull. By surface analysis, peace + -ful.
Inflected forms:
form: more peaceful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: peacefuller
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: peacefuler
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most peaceful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: peacefullest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: peacefulest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: peacefull
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: peacefuls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: peacefull
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Not at war; not disturbed by strife or turmoil.
pos: adj
examples: peaceful protest
Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.[…]One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.
gloss: Inclined to peace.
pos: adj
gloss: Motionless and calm.
pos: adj
examples: Attractive cottages look out on a scene so peaceful that lapping wavelets, stirred by the breeze, are often the loudest sound to be heard.
gloss: A non-player character who is not hostile to the player.
pos: noun
examples: You can trade with some of the peacefuls in the town area.
gloss: a Muslim; especially a violent member of a radical Islamist group.
pos: noun
tags: India
Internet
offensive
examples: They only have to use a bit of code to name those people; nowadays they call them “peacefuls”. A smirking euphemism is all it takes to sail through Twitter’s filter, and keep the hate-speech flowing.
Related words: namazi
peace-loving community
pissful
minority
M
Derived words: nonpeaceful
peaceful coexistence
peaceful dove
peacefully
peacefulness
peaceful pill
unpeaceful
Translations:
commingle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English com-
English mingle
English commingle
From com- + mingle.
Inflected forms:
form: commingles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: commingling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: commingled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: commingled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: co-mingle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: comingle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To mix, to blend.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Even as late as the 12th century, Buddhism and solar worship were commingled, as demonstrated by a bronze "cover" in Sonakhara with the figure of the sun god: "The cover of the Sun-god was donated to the priest of the temple by Ballalasena, who was Buddhist ..."
[…] Mr. Armstrong, founder of Princeton Economics International, admitted to deceiving corporate investors and improperly commingling client funds in a case that prosecutors said resulted in commodities losses of more than $700 million.
This vibrant stir-fry from Christian Reynoso is Chifa cooking — the cuisine that commingles Chinese and Peruvian elements — and it’s utterly delicious.
To conclude otherwise requires accepting an attenuated fiction that commingling funds in an account, even if done decades earlier, means the account today still contains funds attributable to the sale of expropriated property.
gloss: To become mixed or blended.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: In the midst of a general strike and a power blackout Eric M. Gairy talked freely about what he saw as the commingled destiny of himself and the tiny emerging independent nation of Grenada.
It was once considered taboo to even suggest that new motherhood was not all sunshine onesies and rainbow mobiles, and “Baby Ruby” arrives on a welcome wave of contemporary movies exploring how the joys of child rearing can commingle with misery.
Derived words: comminglement
commingler
comminglingly
uncommingled
Translations:
ravish
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English ravyschen, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French ravis-, present participle stem of ravir (“to seize; to take away hastily”), from Vulgar Latin *rapire, from Latin rapere. See also rape.
Inflected forms:
form: ravishes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ravishing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ravished
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ravished
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
literary
examples: Again, he refers to "such ministers as discharge their ministry amiss; ravishing away the goods of the widows and fatherless; and serve themselves, not others out of those things which they have received.
The French Government had not taken regular possession of it when the war with England broke out; and Bonaparte hastened to sell that Province to the Americans, who had already cast their eyes upon it, with the view both of preventing the English from ravishing it from him, and of procuring funds to carry on the war.
The Franks ravished it from Muslim hands in the first decade of the sixth century, and the eyes of Islam were swollen with weeping for it; it was one of its griefs.
gloss: To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: That in things that do ravish with delight, men were not Masters of themselves, nor could they remember Gallateo's Rules; and that in time of Carnival, it was lawful to commit exorbitances.
[…] and whilst he is observing how beautifully they are adorned therewith, his heart is ravished with them.
Sweeter than the muſk of Tatar, the morning breeze from the navel of every flower raviſhed perfume.
Passepartout was ravished to behold this celebrated place, and thought that, with its circular walls and dismantled fort, it looked like an immense coffee-cup and saucer.
He tore at the pins in her hair to set her waves free so he could fist the fiery curls in his hand and hold her lips tight and still beneath his, relentlessly ravishing her kiss the same way he planned on ravishing her body.
gloss: To rape.
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
examples: For loe that Guest would beare her forcibly, / And meant to ravish her, that rather had to dy.
Their children also shalbe dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses shalbe spoiled, & their wiues rauished.
hee ravished her, and ravished her that was an Amazon, and therefore had gotten a habit of stoutness above the nature of a woman; but having ravished her, he got a childe of her.
A tall Bulgarian soldier, six feet high, perceiving that I had fainted away at this sight, attempted to ravish me; the operation brought me to my senses. I cried, I struggled, I bit, I scratched, I would have torn the tall Bulgarian’s eyes out, not knowing that what had happened at my father’s castle was a customary thing.
gloss: To have vigorous sexual intercourse with.
pos: verb
tags: informal
Synonyms: abripe
Related words: rape
usurp
Derived words: enravish
ravishable
ravishee
ravisher
ravishing
ravishment
Translations:
primero
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish primera, feminine form of primero (“first”), from Latin prīmārius. See premier.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A card game resembling poker, dating back at least to the 16th century.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: [Thomas] Lou[ell]. Came you from the King, my Lord? / [Stephen] Gar[diner]. I did Sir Thomas; and left him at Primero / With the Duke of Suffolke.
Translations:
cuarto
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: (unit of measure): From Spanish cuarto (“quarter-sack”), from Latin quartus (“fourth, quarter”). Doublet of quart, quarter, and cuarta, etc.
Inflected forms:
form: cuartos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A traditional Spanish unit of dry measure, equivalent to about 27.8 L.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A former Spanish coin (until 1866), worth one eighth of a real.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
sexto
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin sextus (“sixth”).
Inflected forms:
form: sextos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A book consisting of sheets each of which is folded into six leaves.
pos: noun
Translations:
contrite
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *terh₁-
Latin terō
Latin conterō
Latin contrītusder.
Old French contritbor.
Middle English contrit
English contrite
From Middle English contrit, from Old French contrit, from Latin contrītus (literally “ground to pieces”), perfect passive participle of conterō (“grind, bruise”), from con- + terō (“rub, wear away”).
Inflected forms:
form: more contrite
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most contrite
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: contrites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Sincerely penitent or feeling regret or sorrow, especially for one’s own actions.
pos: adj
examples: The Lord will happineſs divine / On contrite hearts beſtow : / Then tell me, gracious God, is mine / A contrite heart, or no ?
He greeted Milo jovially each time they met and, in an excess of contrite generosity, impulsively recommended Major Major for promotion. The recommendation was rejected at once at Twenty-seventh Air Force Headquarters by ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen, who scribbled a brusque, unsigned reminder that the Army had only one Major Major Major Major and did not intend to lose him by promotion just to please Colonel Cathcart.
gloss: Thoroughly bruised or broken.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: A contrite person; a penitent.
pos: noun
examples: Secondly, that even where contrition or inward repentance doth cleanſe without abſolution ; the reaſon why it cometh ſo to paſs, is, becauſe ſuch contrites intend and deſire Abſolution, though they have it not.
Derived words: contritely
contriteness
uncontrite
Translations:
dissemble
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in the beginning of the 15th century, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English dissemblen, dissimblen, dissemelen, borrowed from Old French dessambler, dissembler, disembler, itself borrowed from Latin dissimulō and modified after sembler, semblance, etc. Doublet of dissimulate, dissimilate, and dissimule. Displaced native Old English mīþan.
Inflected forms:
form: dissembles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dissembling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dissembled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dissembled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To disguise or conceal something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Dissemble all your griefs and discontents.
Dearly beloved brethren, the Scripture moveth us in ſundry places to acknowledge, and confeſs our manifold ſins and wickedneſs, and that we ſhould not diſſemble nor cloak them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father, […]
Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love.
gloss: To feign, dissimulate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And like a Lyon, Slumbring in the vvay, / Or Sleep-diſſembling, vvhile he vvaits his Prey, […]
He soon dissembled a sleep.
gloss: To deliberately ignore something; to pretend not to notice.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To falsely hide one's opinions or feelings.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: VVhile to his Arms the bluſhing Bride he took; / To ſeeming Sadneſs ſhe compoſ'd her Look; / As if by Force ſubjected to his VVill, / Tho' pleaſ'd, diſſembling, and a VVoman ſtill.
[…] She transferr'd the curs'd Advice, / That Monarchs ſhould their inward Soul diſguise, / Diſſemble, and command; be falſe, and wiſe; / By ignominous Arts for ſervile Ends / Should compliment their Foes, and ſhun their Friends.
Derived words: dissembler
dissemblingly
undissembled
undissembling
Translations:
appellation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From late Middle English appellacion, from Old French apellatiun, from Latin appellātiō (“a naming”).
Inflected forms:
form: appellations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A name or title by which someone is addressed or identified; a designation.
pos: noun
tags: dated
formal
examples: "I'll not," retorted "Teeter" Nelson, whose first name was Harry, but who had gained his appellation because of a habit he had of "teetering" on his tiptoes when reciting in class. "I've got Peaches all right," and there was a struggle between the two lads, one trying to throw a snowball, and the other trying to prevent him.
Russian River flows through a country of hill ridges, which in many places are dignifiable with the appellation of mountains.
Gentlemen of the jury, what is a father, a real father, what does this great word mean, what terribly great idea is contained in this appellation?
The first, and (spoiler alert) last, voyage of the Russian 2nd Pacific Squadron is about as close a candidate to the appellation "voyage of the damned" as you're ever likely to get. But quite how did this floating disaster, which literally drove some of the men involved insane, and would ultimately find its end at the Battle of Tsushima, actually come about?
gloss: A geographical indication for wine that describes its geographic origin.
pos: noun
Derived words: appellational
subappellation
Translations:
utile
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: economics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French utile, from Old French utele, from Latin ūtilis.
Inflected forms:
form: utiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A theoretical unit of measure of utility, for indicating a supposed quantity of satisfaction derived from an economic transaction.
pos: noun
examples: Rational agents always maximize the number of utiles procured; that is, they will always choose those outcomes which promise to produce the most utiles.
[T]he ‘happiness utile’ does not exist, at least not yet.
Translations:
unobtrusive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + obtrusive.
Base: obtrusive
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unobtrusive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unobtrusive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not obtrusive; not blatant or noticeable; discreet, inconspicuous.
pos: adj
examples: Ye Quietiſts, in Homage to the Skies! / Serene! of ſoft Addreſs! vvho mildly make / An unobtruſive Tender of your Hearts, / Abhorring Violence!
[T]hey were not the spoiled children of affectation and refinement, but a bold, vigorous, independent race of thinkers, with prodigious strength and energy, with none but natural grace, and heartfelt unobtrusive delicacy.
Like some poor devils ashore that happen to know an irascible great man, they make distant unobtrusive salutations to him in the street, lest if they pursued the acquaintance further, they might receive a summary thump for their presumption.
Behind an unobtrusive iron door in Dalston decorated with an ever-changing graffiti skin, lies a staircase leading down to a concrete bunker dating from the second world war.
This unobtrusive device helps millions of Americans sleep and concentrate by hushing the world around them.
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three scientists whose work harnessed the power of molecular interaction and introduced new, unobtrusive ways of studying the natural world.
Translations:
pietism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: Etymology tree
English piety
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English pietism
From piety + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: pietisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A movement in the Lutheran church in the late 17th and 18th centuries, calling for practical and devout Christianity.
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
countable
often
uncountable
examples: From its earliest days, Pietism was intimately bound up with education.
Translations:
italic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: media
publishing
typography
Etymology: Named after the nation of Italy, as it was first used by an Italian printer, Aldo Manuzio, around 1500. Literally Italy + -ic.
Base: Italy
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: italick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: italics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: italick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Designed to resemble a handwriting style developed in Italy in the 16th century.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having letters that slant or lean to the right; oblique.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The text was impossible to read: every other word was underlined or in a bold or italic font.
gloss: A typeface in which the letters slant to the right.
pos: noun
examples: Names of vessels, as the Kearsarge or the Alabama, are frequently put in italic.
[…] ROBERT GRANJON, possibly in collaboration with CLAUDE GARAMOND, had created an italic which matched Garamond Roman.
gloss: An oblique handwriting style, such as used by Italian calligraphers of the Renaissance.
pos: noun
examples: Spenser uses two different scripts: an Elizabethan secretary hand for English texts, and an italic 'mixed' with secretary graphs for Latin texts […]
Synonyms: cursive
oblique
Antonyms: upright
Related words: roman
boldface
Italian
Italic
italical
Derived words: italicise
italicism
italicization
italicize
italics
nonitalic
Translations:
parliamentary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: railways
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English parliament
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusder.
Middle English -arie
English -ary
English parliamentary
From parliament + -ary.
Inflected forms:
form: Parliamentary
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: parliamentaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Parliamentary
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or enacted by a parliament.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Parliamentary procedures are sometimes slow.
gloss: Having the supreme executive and legislative power resting with a cabinet of ministers chosen from, and responsible to a parliament.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The UK is a parliamentary democracy.
gloss: Of a class of train which, by an act of parliament, ran both ways along a line, at least once each day, at the rate of one penny per mile.
pos: adj
tags: UK
historical
not-comparable
examples: The train was moving less fast through the summer night. The swift express had changed into something almost a parliamentary, had stopped three times since Norwich, and now, at long last, was approaching Banton.
gloss: A parliamentary train.
pos: noun
tags: UK
historical
Antonyms: non-parliamentary
nonparliamentary
unparliamentary
Derived words: antiparliamentary
extraparliamentary
interparliamentary
parliamentarily
parliamentariness
parliamentarism
parliamentary agent
parliamentary burgh
parliamentary heel
parliamentary monarchy
parliamentary procedure
parliamentary republic
parliamentary train
preparliamentary
semiparliamentary
Westminster parliamentary system
Translations:
constituency
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English constituent
English -ency
English constituency
From constituent + -ency.
Inflected forms:
form: constituencies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A district represented by one or more elected officials.
pos: noun
examples: John was elected to parliament from the Bedford constituency.
The row started over who will run for parliament in a wealthy rightwing constituency on the left bank in Paris, a safe seat for Sarkozy's ruling UMP. Dati is already a local mayor in the neighbourhood, a job felt to have been handed to her on a plate when she was a Sarkozy favourite. She has since fallen from grace, and when she left government she took a European parliament seat, considered a consolation prize.
This follows the confirmation that Gilruth personally ordered the cancellation of engineering works in Fife last year, which is thought to have been the final straw for Gibb […]. Because her Fife constituency was materially affected by the cancellation, Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross, who raised Gibb's departure at First Minister's Questions on May 18, described the incident as a "clear-cut sackable offence".
gloss: The voters within such a district.
pos: noun
tags: collective
gloss: The residents of such a district.
pos: noun
tags: collective
gloss: The voters of a candidate.
pos: noun
tags: collective
gloss: An interest group or fan base.
pos: noun
Related words: constituent
constitute
constitution
constitutional
constitutive
Derived words: core constituency
nonconstituency
subconstituency
Translations:
ambiance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French ambiance.
Inflected forms:
form: ambiances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ambience
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A particular mood or atmosphere of an environment or surrounding influence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The pressures […] on a post-pubescent youngster, still half-child-half-man/woman, are difficult enough for someone whose sexuality fits into the accepted ambiance, i.e., heterosexuality.
gloss: Of a three-dimensional model, a secondary color of a polygon that becomes more pronounced with shading.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: ambient
atmosphere
mood
Translations:
unsubscribe
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éntsder.
Proto-Germanic *anda-
Proto-West Germanic *anda-
Old English and-
Old English on-
Middle English on-
English un-
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-?
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti
Proto-Italic *skreiβō
Latin scrībō
Latin subscrīberebor.
Middle English subscriben
English subscribe
English unsubscribe
From un- + subscribe.
Inflected forms:
form: unsubscribes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unsubscribing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unsubscribed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unsubscribed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: unsubscribes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To cancel a subscription, especially to an online service.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: How do I unsubscribe from your mailing list?
gloss: An unsubscription.
pos: noun
examples: Given how easy it is to filter messages or simply delete them, unsubscribes are significant events. Taken together, these metrics can tell you a lot about the quality of the email you're sending and provide the basis for testing your customer lists […]
Translations:
unsure
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English unsure, equivalent to un- + sure. Piecewise doublet of insecure and unsecure.
Base: sure
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unsurer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: unsurest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: uncertain, ambivalent.
pos: adj
examples: I'm still unsure whether to attend the wedding.
gloss: unstable or precarious
pos: adj
examples: unsure footing
Synonyms: agnostic
Translations:
untouched
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English touched
English untouched
From un- + touched.
Inflected forms:
form: more untouched
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most untouched
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: untoucht
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Remaining in its original, pristine state, undamaged; not altered.
pos: adj
examples: There are practically no untouched forests left in Europe.
The altars used for magical purposes were of carved wood or, if made of stone, had to be a natural slab, unhewn and untouched by hammer or chisel.
Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.
HS2 Ltd has continued to refine the designs, so that seven fewer ancient woodlands will be affected. This reduces the total number to 25. And of those 25 woodlands, 85% of the total area will remain untouched by HS2.
gloss: Not eaten.
pos: adj
examples: He left his vegetables untouched.
gloss: Not influenced, affected or swayed.
pos: adj
examples: She was untouched by his tale of woes.
gloss: Not having come in contact.
pos: adj
examples: Our chocolates are untouched by human hands.
Once the tough job is done for Prosser, he says he can then get his golf clubs back out - they have been in the cupboard untouched for a decade.
gloss: Not read or examined.
pos: adj
examples: He was about to open one of the scrolls, when Francesca took them from his hand. "Nay, Guido, we will not read them: there are some letters never meant but for one eye, and such are these. This packet shall be given untouched into Lord Avonleigh's"—she corrected her words—"into my father's own hands."
gloss: Not discussed or talked about.
pos: adj
examples: Politics was an untouched topic in our family.
Translations:
unvarying
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English varying
English unvarying
From un- + varying.
Inflected forms:
form: more unvarying
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unvarying
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Persistent, constant, changeless.
pos: adj
examples: You can be sure of our unvarying attention.
In the United States, where the railways are 90 per cent. dieselised today, diesel-electric power is the unvarying rule for independent locomotive units, and the only motive power exceptions are the highly successful 600-h.p. diesel-hydraulic railcars of the Budd "RDC" type, of which between 300 and 400 are now at work.
gloss: Lacking variety; having a uniform character.
pos: adj
examples: The prizewinning carrots were of an unvarying size.
Translations:
unwieldy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English unweldy, equivalent to un- + wieldy. Cognate with Old Frisian unweldich, unweldech (“having no power, involuntary”), Middle Dutch onweldich (“having no control or mastery over”), Middle Low German unweldich (“unwieldy”). Compare also Old High German unwaltīg (“powerless”), whence Middle High German unwaltic, German ungewaltig (“powerless, unmighty”).
Base: wieldy
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unwieldy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: unwieldier
pos: adj
tags: archaic
comparative
form: most unwieldy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unwieldiest
pos: adj
tags: archaic
superlative
form: unwieldly
pos: adj
tags: alternative
nonstandard
possibly
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: Lacking strength; weak.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Ungraceful in movement.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Difficult to carry, handle, manage or operate because of its size, weight, shape or complexity.
pos: adj
examples: She is popular with passengers as an all-weather vessel, but rather the reverse with yachtsmen as she has at times proved somewhat unwieldy, and certainly takes up a good deal of space in the narrow channels.
However, the constellation of Argo Navis was so huge and unwieldy that in the 1932 revision, the International Astronomical Union committee chopped it up into a keel (Carina), a poop (Puppis) and sails (Vela).
The railways that would be fused to create the unwieldy Northern Line were the City & South London and the Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway, known as the 'Hampstead Tube'.
Recorded music came in unwieldy packages and odd shapes.
gloss: Badly managed or operated.
pos: adj
Derived words: unwieldiness
Translations:
upheaval
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English upheave
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
English upheaval
From upheave + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: upheavals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of being heaved upward, especially the raising of part of the earth's crust.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A disruptive change, from one state to another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: Scotland's bottleneck junction between the West and East Coast main lines at Carstairs will be the site of major upheaval until the end of May, while £164 million worth of improvements are carried out.
gloss: A sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: Since that upheaval Wales have won just once in seven games, beating Northern Ireland in the Nations Cup last May.
Derived words: axis of upheaval
Translations:
upstate
Part of speech: noun
adj
adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From up + state.
Compound parts: up
state
Inflected forms:
form: upstates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more upstate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most upstate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more upstate
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most upstate
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The northern section of a state.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: The inland section of a state, particularly South Carolina.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A period during sleep when somebody is primed and ready to learn.
pos: noun
gloss: Of the northern section of a state.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: They went hunting in upstate New York.
Superintendent Chalmers: You call hamburgers "steamed hams"?
 Principal Skinner: Yes, it's a regional dialect.
 Superintendent Chalmers: Uh-huh? What region?
 Principal Skinner: Uh, upstate New York.
 Superintendent Chalmers: Really? Well, I'm from Utica and I never heard anyone use the phrase "steamed hams".
 Principal Skinner: Oh, not in Utica, no. It's an Albany expression.
 Superintendent Chalmers: I see.
But for Stefanie Brechbuehler and Robert Highsmith, the husband-and-wife co-founders of the Brooklyn-based design firm Workstead, the recent revamp of an 1850s residence in upstate New York not only presented them with a thrilling challenge, it also marked a celebratory homecoming after a few years spent living in the South.
gloss: To the northern section of a state.
pos: adv
tags: US
examples: He drove upstate to visit his mother.
Translations:
undefeated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English defeated
English undefeated
From un- + defeated.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Never defeated; always victorious.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Near-synonyms: unvanquished, unbeaten, unconquered
He was the undefeated tiddlywinks champion of the school.
Prudle, who had a vocabulary of nearly 800 words, was taken from a nest at Jinja, Uganda in 1958. She retired undefeated.
Six weeks into the season, there are still two undefeated teams in the N.F.L.
Translations:
undefiled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English defiled
English undefiled
From un- + defiled.
Inflected forms:
form: more undefiled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most undefiled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Free from stain, blemish, evil or corruption; immaculate; uncorrupted.
pos: adj
Translations:
undelivered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English delivered
English undelivered
From un- + delivered.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not delivered.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Most undelivered mail has the wrong address.
[I]t is a deed of higheſt charitie to help undeceive the people, and a vvork vvorthieſt your autoritie, in all things els authors, aſſertors and novv recoverers of our libertie, to deliver us, the only people of all Proteſtants left ſtill undeliverd, from the oppreſſions of a Simonious decimating clergie; […]
It has lost its hold on the Middle Eastern market to American planes as well as to changing politics, represented by the seven Iraqi-ordered Mirage F-1s that sit undelivered in a Dassault factory.
Translations:
undeliverable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English deliverable
English undeliverable
From un- + deliverable.
Inflected forms:
form: undeliverables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not able to be delivered.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The dead letter office keeps undeliverable mail.
The ambitious project to build 500 new hospitals was later deemed to be undeliverable.
gloss: A message, parcel, etc. that cannot be delivered.
pos: noun
Translations:
undeniable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + deny + -able, compare deniable.
Base: deny
Affixes: un-
-able
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Irrefutable, or impossible to deny.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Some believe that there is undeniable evidence of UFOs.
After all, it is undeniable that the B.R. standard coach scored highly in comparative trials with other European railway vehicles on the Continent a few years ago, so that B.R. civil engineers must share responsibility for any defects in its behaviour over here.
If successful, Edison and Ford—in 1914—would move society away from the[…]hazards of gasoline cars: air and water pollution, noise and noxiousness, constant coughing and the undeniable rise in cancers caused by smoke exhaust particulates.
The connection between dictionaries and standardised forms of language is undeniable, yet, at the same time, not well understood.
The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.
Translations:
undercarriage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From under- + carriage.
Base: carriage
Affixes: under-
Inflected forms:
form: undercarriages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The supporting structural framework of a land vehicle (such as a car, truck, van, wagon, etc).
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: chassis
The solution to coach riding defects, at least, seems to require much more co-operative practical experiment by all engineering departments to achieve better sympathy between the vehicle body, its undercarriage and the track on which it rides.
gloss: The landing gear of an aircraft.
pos: noun
gloss: The genitalia.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
humorous
Translations:
underclothes
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From under + clothes.
Compound parts: under
clothes
Inflected forms:
form: under clothes
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: clothes worn next to the skin and underneath outer clothing
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations: