yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
soft-soap
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: soft soap
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: softsoap
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: soft-soaps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: soft-soaping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: soft-soaped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: soft-soaped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: soft soap
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: softsoap
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Persuasion by means of flattery or pleasing words.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
uncountable
examples: And look here, my dear, don't let them get round you with soft soap either.
If it ‘adn’t a-been for your soft soap I’d a-got my forty quid out o’ the old devil months ago.
gloss: To attempt to persuade by flattery or pleasing words; to butter up.
pos: verb
tags: idiomatic
informal
transitive
Translations:
soft-pedal
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From soft pedal (“leftmost foot-pedal on most pianos which, when pushed, dampens the strings and so softens the note played”, noun).
Inflected forms:
form: soft-pedals
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: soft-pedaling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: soft-pedalling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: soft-pedaled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: soft-pedaled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: soft-pedalled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: soft-pedalled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: To reduce the volume of (music, a sound, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To reduce the force or impact of (something); to damp, to mute; especially, to minimize the less desirable aspects of (something); to play down, to tone down.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: But when the first female also-ran at a convention merits such hoopla and hosannas, then it is harder for viewers to understand why the Democrats seem intent on soft-pedaling their presumptive nominee's arguably more remarkable breakthrough.
gloss: To attempt to persuade someone about (something) through understatement, so that the listener accepts the good points as obvious.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
gloss: Chiefly followed by on: to act in a less assertive or forceful manner.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
Derived words: soft-pedalling
Translations:
soothsaying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sooth (“truth”) + saying.
Base: sooth
Inflected forms:
form: soothsayings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A method of foretelling the future.
pos: noun
Translations:
predicting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: predictings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A prediction.
pos: noun
examples: And we, looking back, can observe how Peter attributes the prophetic predictings not to the human imaginings of the prophets but to 'the Spirit of Christ within them' […]
Translations:
predictably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English predictable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English predictably
From predictable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more predictably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most predictably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a manner that can be expected or anticipated.
pos: adv
examples: Predictably he returned to the scene of his crime, where the police were waiting to arrest him.
The wholesale slaughter of thousands of pigs has predictably drawn the protests of animal welfare and rights groups.
Capello was keen to use Phil Jones, normally a defender, in central midfield - but it was hard work for the Manchester United teenager and his England colleagues in the first half as Spain predictably dominated possession.
Translations:
predictively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English predictive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English predictively
From predictive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more predictively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most predictively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In the manner of something that attempts to or succeeds in predicting, anticipating or expecting.
pos: adv
examples: The computer program predictively scheduled the number of employees we'd need each day of the year based on past workloads.
Translations:
predictor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English predict
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Latin -ātor
Old French -eorbor.
Middle English -our
▲
Latin -torlbor.
English -or
English predictor
From predict + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: predictors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that anticipates, predicts, or foretells.
pos: noun
examples: The rainfall in April is a predictor for the number of mosquitoes in May.
The predictor in the traffic-light control circuit tries to figure out how fast to change the lights.
“Homeownership,” says John H. Mollenkopf, executive director of the Center for Urban Research at the City University of New York Graduate Center, “is the strongest predictor of being likely to turn out in local politics and being a bit more conservative and antitax in your general outlook.”
gloss: A predictor variable.
pos: noun
gloss: One who predicts.
pos: noun
tags: uncommon
examples: THE only individual in this great city who has had a really easy time is the weather predictor; his only task from day to day has been to announce rain and gales, and through it all he has readily ranked as a prophet with honor in […]
The “Annual Register” for 1809 contains an extract from a remarkable letter, dated Bath, April 2nd, in which the writer describes the effects of an extraordinary panic arising from a supposed prophecy of the end of the world. The account is headed “Bath Credulity,” and the writer states:—“[…] Some affirmed that Joanna Southcott was the predictor, others that it was a prophet now living at Midford, near this city, who was with Noah in the Ark, and has been travelling over various parts of the world ever since; but the greater part affixed the name of a female fortune-teller residing at Bath.[…],” etc.
The All Over Arkansas Man marks a prediction and calls for the next predictor. If a predictress will do as well, I will proceed to predict that within 10 years from this date there will not be a fly in the state of Arkansas.
And I look at, for example, on Weather Service, and thinking only in my lifetime, the evolution of how we have come on Weather Service, where we have been able to get down to that regional level, where people, if you talk to them in communities, I mean, maybe it is not such a bad idea that they think that their local weatherperson is the weather predictor.
So if a prophet isn’t primarily a future predictor, what is a prophet?
Synonyms: predictor
Related words: Ouija
divination
oracle
precognition
precognitive
predict
Derived words: branch predictor
Kerrison predictor
metapredictor
predictor variable
predictress
Vickers predictor
Translations:
predictive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
statistics
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin praedictivus, from praedico. Equivalent to predict + -ive.
Base: predict
Affixes: -ive
Inflected forms:
form: more predictive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most predictive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: predictives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Useful in predicting.
pos: adj
examples: The amount of rain in April is predictive of the number of mosquitoes in May.
gloss: Describing a predictor.
pos: adj
gloss: Expressing the expected accuracy of a statistical measure or of a diagnostic test.
pos: adj
gloss: A conditional statement that includes a prediction in the dependent clause (e.g. "if it rains, the game will be cancelled", "give her an inch and she'll take a mile.").
pos: noun
examples: Also, as we have seen in the preceding chapter, predictive conditionals show a high degree of integration thanks to the patterns of verb forms which are characteristic for predictives and which normally do not mix freely with other, non-predictive forms.
In contrast, English-speaking children appropriately differentiate if future predictives from when future predictives, a distinction relevant for English but not for, say, German.
gloss: Simulated data generated from a statistical model, based on the estimates for the real data.
pos: noun
examples: However, the posterior predictives combine two sources of information: what we might term the structural effect of WIC participation as well as an unobserved correlation between the errors of the participation and outcome equations.
Alternatively, we can use prior predictives to help define prior distributions.
Antonyms: reactive
Derived words: counterpredictive
nonpredictive
predictive coding
predictively
predictive market
predictiveness
predictive parser
predictive power
predictive programming
predictive text
predictive texting
predictivity
prequential
unpredictive
Translations:
snaky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English snake
English -y
English snaky
From snake + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: snakier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: snakiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: snakey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling or relating to snakes; snakelike.
pos: adj
examples: [S]ome of Serpent kinde
 Wondrous in length and corpulence involv'd
 Thir Snakie foulds, and added wings.
There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.
To look at the tawny brawn of his lithe snaky limbs, you would almost have credited the superstitions of some of the earlier Puritans, and half believed this wild Indian to be a son of the Prince of the Powers of the Air.
gloss: Windy; winding; twisty; sinuous, wavy.
pos: adj
examples: Walking through the snaky passages I was soon completely lost.
So are thoſe criſped ſnaky golden locks
 Which maketh ſuch wanton gambals with the wind,
 Vpon ſuppoſed faireneſſe, often knowne
 To be the dowry of a ſecond head,
 The skull that bred them in the Sepulcher.
The nuns' veils billowed and flapped behind the snaky line of girls as if the sisters were shooing the serpent from the Garden of Eden.
gloss: Sly; cunning; deceitful.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: So to the Coaſt of Jordan he directs
 His eaſie ſteps; girded with ſnaky wiles, […]
gloss: Covered with serpents; having serpents.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: What was that ſnakie headed Gorgon ſheild
 That wiſe Minerva wore, unconquer’d virgin
 Wherewith ſhe freez’d her foes to congeal’d ſtone?
 But rigid looks of Chaſt auſteritie
 And noble grace that daſh’t brute violence
 With ſudden adoration, and blancke aw.
His Hat, adorn’d with Wings, diſclos’d the God,
 And in his Hand he bore the Sleep-compelling Rod:
 Such as he ſeem’d, when at his Sire’s Command
 On Argus Head he laid the Snaky Wand; […]
Synonyms: serpentine
Derived words: snakily
snakiness
unsnaky
Translations:
snarly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English snarl
English -y
English snarly
From snarl + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: snarlier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: snarliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Given to snarling or growling.
pos: adj
examples: The snarly dog scared me for years until I learned it was very friendly and just lonely.
gloss: Full of snarls.
pos: adj
examples: snarly hair
Translations:
socialistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷéh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ṓy
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷh₂ṓy
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷyós
Proto-Italic *sokjos
Latin sokios
Latin socius
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin sociālisbor.
Middle French socialbor.
English social
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 socialist
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English socialistic
From socialist + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more socialistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most socialistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to socialism.
pos: adj
gloss: Having socialist tendencies.
pos: adj
Synonyms: socialist
Socialist
Antonyms: capitalist
capitalistic
Derived words: antisocialistic
nonsocialistic
pseudosocialistic
socialistically
unsocialistic
Translations:
sociability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French sociabilité, from Latin sociābilis.
Inflected forms:
form: sociabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The skill, tendency or property of being sociable or social, of interacting well with others.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He was a true introvert, and his sociability lagged behind others of his age in the school.
Translations:
socialization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
social-science
sociology
Etymology: From socialize + -ation or social + -ization.
Base: socialize
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: socializations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: socialisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The process of learning how to live in a way acceptable to one's own society, said especially about children.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Socialization skills are important things to learn in kindergarten.
gloss: The act of interacting with others, of being social.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Forced socialization rarely creates strong friendships, but there are exceptions.
gloss: Taking under government control as implementing socialism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: socialization of the means of production
Derived words: countersocialization
desocialization
homosocialization
missocialization
oversocialization
resocialization
Translations:
sonatina
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian sonatina (literally “small sonata”).
Inflected forms:
form: sonatinas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sonatine
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A musical composition resembling a sonata but shorter or simpler.
pos: noun
examples: A sonatina usually has 2 or 3 rather short movements. While these movements provide contrasts of tempo and mood, they also complement one another, combining to fulfill the overall plan for a complete work in several parts.
Translations:
soul-destroying
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more soul-destroying
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most soul-destroying
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causing erosion of moral fortitude or that eliminates hope or motivation
pos: adj
examples: War is a soul-destroying experience for soldiers: you're never the same easy-going person after you've killed.
The daily rat race is soul-destroying: you soon give up all aspirations and just try to survive the boredom.
The results of such excessive concentration and production are, sooner or later, huge, soul-destroying Trusts, immense national rivalries, and appalling bloody wars largely occasioned by the existence and ever-growing needs of such insatiable machines.
A spate of graffiti attacks on West Midlands Railway trains has prompted the operator to warn vandals that they are posing a risk to public health. [...] "At a time when our cleaning teams are working extremely hard in challenging conditions, it is soul-destroying for them to face this pointless additional workload just to get carriages back on the tracks.
Generative AI won’t be the end of employment, we are told, only “boring work” – with chatbots helpfully doing all the soul-destroying, repetitive tasks and humans merely supervising them.
The Harry Potter star, who has not acted in a film since 2018, says she found promotion duties ‘soul-destroying’ but is now ‘maybe the happiest and healthiest I’ve ever been’
Translations:
snoopy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English snoop
English -y
English snoopy
From snoop + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: snoopier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more snoopy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: snoopiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most snoopy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Given to snooping.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
Translations:
snorkeling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: snorkelling
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of swimming using a snorkel.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
slip-on
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: slip-ons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Describing a garment that can be pulled on without adjusting fasteners such as buttons or zippers.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A moccasin is a slip-on shoe.
gloss: A garment that can be pulled on without adjusting fasteners such as buttons or zippers.
pos: noun
Translations:
slithery
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English slidery; equivalent to and remodelled as slither + -y.
Base: slither
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: slitherier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: slitheriest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That slithers; that moves like a snake.
pos: adj
examples: Do you feel a creeping, shrinking sensation, Watson, when you stand before the serpents in the Zoo, and see the slithery, gliding, venomous creatures, with their deadly eyes and wicked, flattened faces? Well, that’s how Milverton impresses me.
[…] we set out for the cannery. There, men with spiked poles would swarm into the scow, hook each fish under the gills. The creatures would hurtle through the air like silver streaks, landing into the cannery chutes with slithery thumps, and pass on to the ripping knives
They are doubts from the abyss that drag their cold and slithery bodies across the soul.
gloss: Sneaky, underhanded; evasive.
pos: adj
examples: The suspects include mischievous caricatures from the New York art world-a guileful art dealer, a slithery lawyer, a glittering female collector of celebrities, a vacant former model who is Maitland's widow, and so on.
gloss: Slippery, causing one to slither.
pos: adj
examples: But a little while only would he suffer us to halt; then right we turned, up along the ridge, where the way was yet worse than in the dale had been, with rocks and pits hidden in the heather, and slithery slabs of granite.
She led the way, stepping gingerly on the slithery moss.
Attempted but never conquered was a possible fifth way, the Grand Pilastre, a 5,000-ft. perpendicular wall of gripless, smooth rock and slithery green ice that looms over empty space toward the summit.
Translations:
slangy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English slang
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English slangy
From slang + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: slangier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: slangiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Including or given to slang.
pos: adj
examples: His slangy speech was almost uncomprehensible to anyone over the age of 18.
[T]he names of places and horses and slangy technicalities of the turf, had interlarded the poor girl's brain-sick babble; […]
gloss: Loud in dress, manner, and conversation; flashy, vulgar.
pos: adj
tags: dated
Derived words: slangily
slanginess
Translations:
slam-dance
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: slam-dances
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: slam-dancing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: slam-danced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: slam-danced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To participate in slam dance.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The loopy hardcore wham of “Apeman Hop,” complete with dopey jungle noises and Tarzan yells, will also have you slamdancing with a smile.
Translations:
slouchy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English slouch
English -y
English slouchy
From slouch + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: slouchier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: slouchiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Given to slouching.
pos: adj
examples: His slouchy posture led to back problems.
gloss: floppy; baggy
pos: adj
Derived words: slouchily
slouchiness
Translations:
slummy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English slum
English -y
English slummy
From slum + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: slummier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: slummiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Like a slum; run-down, dirty, decrepit.
pos: adj
examples: Cars and unemployment increased. Council houses took on a slummier look.
The dreamer is a distinguished operatic artist, and, like all who have elected to follow, not the safely marked general highways of the day, but the adventure of the special, dimly audible call that comes to those whose ears are open within as well as without, she has had to make her way alone, through difficulties not commonly encountered, "through slummy, muddy streets"; she has known the dark night of the soul, Dante's "dark wood, midway in the journey of our life," and the sorrows of the pits of hell[.]
Translations:
slipcase
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From slip + case.
Compound parts: slip
case
Inflected forms:
form: slipcases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A box, open on one end, for keeping a set of books together.
pos: noun
Translations:
slow-motion
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: slower than regular speed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Slow-motion replay seems jerky because there really aren't enough frames.
Translations:
airmanship
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From airman + -ship.
Base: airman
Affixes: -ship
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Skill in and knowledge of the work of navigating and operating an aircraft.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
high-handed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more high-handed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most high-handed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: highhanded
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Using power or authority without proper consideration for the feelings or rights of others.
pos: adj
examples: Critics accuse her [von der Leyen] of serious missteps over the pandemic, the Gaza war, alleged cronyism, – and of having a high-handed manner.
Translations:
high-hat
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more high-hat
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most high-hat
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: high-hats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: high-hatting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: high-hatted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: high-hatted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: disdainful; haughty
pos: adj
examples: If she hasn't time for this or that, if she refuses to make or keep appointments, if her face does not greet all comers with a sweet and charming smile, then the word is passed around that ‘So-and-So is getting high-hat and up-stage.’
gloss: To snub or treat condescendingly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I don't high-hat technical words, because I know there a lot of things that can't be said any other way, but the doctor's lengthy explanation simply boiled down to this, that[…].
Translations:
hi-hat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hi-hats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pair of cymbals as part of a drum kit that clash together when actuated by the foot pedal.
pos: noun
examples: This hi-hat drum beat sounds really cute!
Translations:
tuya
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Coined by Canadian volcanologist Bill Matthews in 1947. Named after Tuya Butte, in British Columbia.
Inflected forms:
form: tuyas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Table mountain formed during subglacial volcanic eruptions, consisting primarily of a mound of pyroclastic palagonitic tuff, lava delta hyaloclastites, and pillow lavas erupted subaqueously in an englacial lake, capped by a resistant layer of subaerially-emplaced lava.
pos: noun
Translations:
coltish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English coltyssh. By surface analysis, colt + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more coltish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most coltish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling a colt, especially:
pos: adj
examples: Commeth he in the morning to do his dutie and bid thee good morrow, belching sowre and smelling strongly of wine, which the day before he drunke at the taverne with companions like himselfe? seeme to know nothing. Senteth he of sweete perfumes and costly pomanders? Hold thy peace and say nothing. These are the means to tame and breake a wilde and coltish youth.
Plants rais’d with tenderness are seldom strong,
Man’s coltish disposition asks the thong [i.e. whip],
And without discipline the fav’rite child,
Like a neglected forrester runs wild.
[…] the batsmen were running and stretching bats, and the ball flying away, flying back, and others after it, and still the batsmen running, till it seemed that the ball had escaped control and was leading the fielders on a coltish innings of its own, defiant of bowlers.
gloss: Resembling a colt, especially:
pos: adj
examples: He had a tangle of shock hair, the colour of wool; his mouth was a grin; although as strong as a horse, he looked neither heavy nor yet adroit, only leggy, coltish, and in the road.
‘Darling boy, how are you?’ she said. ‘Do you know, you’re beginning to look rather lovely in a coltish kind of way. Don’t you think so, Otto?’
Derived words: coltishly
coltishness
Translations:
imaginal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English imagine
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 imaginal
From imagine + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the imagination, or to a mental image.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Ring sees both the NDE and UFOE as modern day shamanic initiations in which the journeyer (NDEer or UFOer) enters an "imaginal" reality, an alternative reality that coexists with physical reality and that is equally real.
gloss: Of or relating to the insect imago.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: imaginal disk
imaginal disc
preimaginal
subimaginal
Translations:
flavin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From flavus + -in.
Base: -in
Affixes: -
Inflected forms:
form: flavins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a class of tricyclic heterocyclic compounds derived from riboflavin; found especially as the adenine dinucleotide (FAD)
pos: noun
Translations:
feh
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Directly imported from Yiddish פֿע (fe).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An expression of disgust or contempt.
pos: intj
examples: Kvola made a face. "It’s worse than an outhouse." She covered her nose. "Uh!" "It is" "Feh!" We all agreed and covered our noses. But Ma wasn't interested in our complaints.
...
It smelled like rotten food, stinking bodies, and stale air. Feh!
"A gangster. Feh! Disgusting” she said roughly grabbing Marty by the arm. "We go across the street."
"Look at it, how its pale skin blotches — and that evil-smelling thatch on top. Feh! The smell!
Translations:
tagline
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
computing
engineering
journalism
marketing
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From tag + line.
Compound parts: tag
line
Inflected forms:
form: taglines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tag line
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: taglines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: taglining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: taglined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: taglined
pos: verb
tags: past
form: tag line
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The punch line of a joke.
pos: noun
gloss: An advertising slogan.
pos: noun
examples: Microsoft, Pfizer and JP Morgan Chase have set up offices in the country, a streamlined visa program has incentivized thousands of digital nomads to relocate to Athens, and a relentless tourism push — “You will want to stay forever!” runs the tagline — has lured a record number of Americans to the Aegean this summer.
gloss: A pithy quotation habitually appended to a signature in email, newsgroups, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A line attached to a draft of cargo or a container to provide control and minimize pendulation of cargo during lifting operations.
pos: noun
gloss: A light rope attached to an object being hoisted by a crane, used to guide it while lifting or lowering.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of subheadline.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: To supply with an advertising slogan; to market as.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: snowclone
slogan
Translations:
redeemer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English redemer, redemar, equivalent to redeem + -er.
Base: redeem
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: redeemers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who redeems; one who provides redemption.
pos: noun
examples: However there is little doubt that Virgil did - in that very sad age of the world, an age of "misery and massacre," and in common with thousands of others - look for the coming of a great 'redeemer.'
But these seekers, too, are saved - by virtue of the inherited symbolic aids of society, the rites of passage, the grace-yielding sacraments, given to mankind of old by the redeemers and handed down through millenniums.
With no experience in management, little knowledge of life in Scottish football, a dressing room to gut and replace, Gerrard is now cast in the role of Rangers' great redeemer. Whatever fate befalls him, this will not be dull.
Translations:
time-invariant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more time-invariant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most time-invariant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That does not vary over time.
pos: adj
Translations:
timelike
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *deh₂-der.
Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y-
Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ
Proto-Indo-European *dh₂i-mon-
Proto-Germanic *tīmô
Proto-West Germanic *tīmō
Old English tīma
Middle English tyme
English time
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-West Germanic *-līk
Old English -līċ
Middle English -like
English -like
English timelike
From time + -like.
Inflected forms:
form: more timelike
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most timelike
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: time-like
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of a four-vector in representing a point in spacetime, having a positive or negative four-vector norm for the metric signature (+, -, -, -) and (-, +, +, +) respectively.
pos: adj
gloss: (of the interval between two events in spacetime) Having overlapping light cones, so that information can pass from one to the other, and one can be envisaged as a cause of the other.
pos: adj
Related words: lightlike
spacelike
Derived words: closed timelike curve
future directed timelike vector
past directed timelike vector
timelike component
timelike congruence
timelikeness
timelike path
timelike vector field
Translations:
time-limit
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: time-limits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: time-limiting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: time-limited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: time-limited
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To set a time limit on.
pos: verb
Translations:
time-of-flight
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Used attributively to describe various processes, devices, etc, that use the time an object or light takes to travel a certain distance. See Derived terms.
pos: noun
Translations:
murrey
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: From Middle English murrey, murreye, from Middle French moré, morée, from Latin moratum, morata, from neuter and feminine respectively of moratus (“mulberry-colored”), from morum (“mulberry”) + -atus (“-ate”).
Inflected forms:
form: murreys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The mulberry fruit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A tincture, the colour of mulberries, between gules (red) and purpure (purple).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Of a mulberry colour.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: This coat continued to button, up the front, with nine buttons, various now in shape, and colour, but without exception of such exceptional size as to remain, once buttoned, buttoned. Aloft in the flowerhole brooded the remains of a factitious murrey chrysanthemum.
Translations:
flexitime
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
Etymology: Etymology tree
English flexi(ble)
Proto-Indo-European *deh₂-der.
Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y-
Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ
Proto-Indo-European *dh₂i-mon-
Proto-Germanic *tīmô
Proto-West Germanic *tīmō
Old English tīma
Middle English tyme
English time
English flexitime
From flexi(ble) + time.
Inflected forms:
form: flexitimes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flexi time
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: flexi-time
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: flextime
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: flex-time
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An arrangement that allows employees to set their own working hours within agreed limits; normally must include certain periods (core time) when they must be at work.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Even if the company rule book says that flexitime is allowed, those who work from home are seen as uncommitted to the team.
Translations:
interfacial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *n̥ter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
Proto-Italic *θakjō
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Late Latin faciō
Proto-Italic *-jēs
Late Latin -iēs
Late Latin faciēs
Late Latin facia
Old French facebor.
Middle English face
English face
English interface
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisder.
Old French -ialder.
Middle English -ial
English -ial
English interfacial
From interface + -ial.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to an interface.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
retcon
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: A blend of retroactive + continuity. The term retroactive continuity was popularized by comics writer Roy Thomas, who was known for writing superhero comic books set decades in the past such as All-Star Squadron, and attributes it to an anonymous source.
Compound parts: retroactive
continuity
Inflected forms:
form: retcons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: retcons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: retconning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: retconned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: retconned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A fictional setting in which a new storyline explains or changes a previous event or attaches a new significance to it.
pos: noun
examples: TLC: What do you say to the Legion fans who have become disenfranchised with the series due to its various retcons and reboots?
Fans talk of retcon—retroactive continuity—giving information that explains an earlier event, especially seeming plot contradictions or lacunae.
It's a little trick called retcon, short for "retroactive continuity," […]
Yet I'm unsure even Millar is fully aware of the power given him by the retcon.
gloss: To employ such a device.
pos: verb
examples: While ‘retconning' the scripts, I came up with a number of theories that throw new light on the Doctor, his past, and various other elements[…]
A lot of people were like, "Oh, they just retconned their own continuity. They should have used Kyle. I don't like that." So we just threw Kyle in there to say, "No, no, Kyle's still there. He still exists in the animated universe; he's just not stationed on Earth at the moment, regularly."
Retroactive continuity (aka retconning), would reveal that Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch are also Magneto's children, showing that this was a guy who was really committed to his cause
Luthor appeared a handful of times, Gary "retconned" the Toyman and created Terra-Man, and Superman would get a worthy opponent whenever Len Wein did a fill-in.
There’s a note of wistful, wishful thinking in all this retconning of reality — would that we could write a time jump into our own scripts!
Translations:
time-serving
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: timeserving
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more time-serving
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most time-serving
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: timeserving
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Opportunism.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The functionality of a timeserver.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Opportunistic; conforming to the status quo in order to serve one's own interests.
pos: adj
examples: And the man who had just been engaged in the most time-serving neglect of former, and a most cringing anticipation of new patrons, became forthwith the kind and hospitable host of strangers who had no claim upon him beyond their own isolated situation.
Harding brought with him a timeserving pal from The Times called Keith Blackmore, who was equally a stranger to broadcasting.
Derived words: timeservingness
time-servingness
Translations:
time-weighted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: calculated from selected discrete values over a specified time period
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
determinative
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
law
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French déterminatif. Equivalent to determine + -ative.
Base: determine
Affixes: -ative
Inflected forms:
form: determinatives
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more determinative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most determinative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it.
pos: noun
gloss: That determines something.
pos: adj
gloss: Sufficient to decide something (such as a question of fact or of law).
pos: adj
examples: When assigning custody, the preference of the child will be considered, but it is not determinative.
This proceeding, though not presenting questions difficult of determination, or points of law that are novel, is unusual in many of its features, and is important as determinative of the disposition and welfare of a number of little children, ignorant of the contest that is being carried on in regard to them.
It is therefore clear that, even in adoption cases where it might play a more important role, race is not a determinative factor and its importance will depend greatly on the facts.
An entity does not automatically conclude that any observed transaction price is determinative of fair value.
Related words: article
demonstrative
Derived words: phonetic determinative
determinatively
determinativeness
nondeterminative
Translations:
cheesemonger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cheese + monger.
Compound parts: cheese
monger
Inflected forms:
form: cheesemongers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who sells cheese.
pos: noun
tags: UK
Translations:
tuit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A pun on get around to it, reanalyzing it as get a round tuit.
Inflected forms:
form: tuits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of round tuit.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
examples: THIS IS A TUIT
My tuit is back from the shop, in a properly round state.
1926-38 and 1939 manuals will be re-posted when my TUIT is round enough.
Translations:
Cadillac
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French Cadillac, from Occitan Cadilhac.
Most places or objects named Cadillac are named for Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, a French explorer who founded the eponymous city in Maine and later the city of Detroit, Michigan.
Inflected forms:
form: more Cadillac
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Cadillac
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Describing a brand representing the most luxurious or highest quality example in its class. (derived from the GM car brand Cadillac)
pos: adj
tags: US
Translations:
southwestern
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English southwesterne, from Old English sūþwesterne, equivalent to south + western.
Base: south
Inflected forms:
form: south-western
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the southwest.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Locals think southwestern sunsets are the most beautiful.
In particular, Kumamoto prefecture in southwestern Japan is quickly becoming a hotbed for tech investment from companies including TSMC and Fujifilm Holdings Corp (FUJIF).
Translations:
categorized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more categorized
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most categorized
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic of having been placed or sorted in a category or categories.
pos: adj
examples: All of my records are categorized.
Antonyms: uncategorized
Translations:
transitively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English transitive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English transitively
From transitive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a transitive manner.
pos: adv
examples: The verb 'walk' can be used transitively.
Antonyms: intransitively
Translations:
infeasibility
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English feasibility
English infeasibility
From in- + feasibility.
Inflected forms:
form: infeasibilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being infeasible or impractical.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
vibrational
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English vibration
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 vibrational
From vibration + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to vibration.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: We live in a vibrational reality Brian, long as we align our energy with our interpretation of the vibe of our desire, it must appear.
Translations:
roleplay
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From role (“expected behavior”) + play (“perform, act”).
Inflected forms:
form: roleplays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: roleplaying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: roleplayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: roleplayed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: role play
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: role-play
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: rôle play
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
form: rôle-play
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
form: rôleplay
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
form: roleplays
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: role play
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: role-play
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rôle play
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: rôle-play
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: rôleplay
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: To act out a scenario or fantasy with another person or other people.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: To spice up their sex life, they like to roleplay.
gloss: To act as a character as part of a fantasy, especially with a group.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He likes to roleplay a vampire.
The particular person roleplaying Beatty in that battle suggested summarily executing Seymour and dumping him overboard.
gloss: To act out a social role, especially one that one does not truly belong to.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: He talks like he's some scrappy bootstrap entrepreneur but he's just some old money rich kid roleplaying.
Realizing that she was an 'other' not only as a black woman but also as a black lesbian, she struggles to fiind someplace where she and other black lesbians like herself could live out their existence without role-playing or conforming to the ideals that were prevalent in the bars at that time.
gloss: The act or practice of roleplaying; an instance of roleplaying.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Lesbian, 34, seeks lesbians who enjoy occasional anal sex and role plays. Light s/m ok too.
Roy: Let's do some roleplay, OK? Do you think that would be a good idea?
Moss: It helped me learn how to buy sandwiches.
gloss: The practice of roleplaying.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: RP
Related words: RPG
LARP
roleplayer
Translations:
doomsaying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From doom + saying.
Compound parts: doom
saying
Inflected forms:
form: doomsayings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of making dire predictions about the future
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The idea of a merchant selling both totems of pure evil and frozen yogurt (he calls it frogurt!) is amusing in itself, as is the idea that frogurt could be cursed, but it’s really the Shopkeeper’s quicksilver shift from ominous doomsaying to chipper salesmanship that sells the sequence.
Translations:
doomsayer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From doom + sayer.
Compound parts: doom
sayer
Inflected forms:
form: doomsayers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who makes dire predictions about the future; one who predicts doom.
pos: noun
examples: Even from the doomsayers you hear reflections of hope. Nobody wants "it" to happen. In his darkest moments, man is aware that, while he may be limited, humankind need not be.
4: THE DOOMSAYERS¶ So many people have written so many books and articles forecasting doom at the end of the twentieth century that we cannot possibly do credit to all of them here.
He is not a doomsayer or a conspiracy theorist. A ceramist, Mr. Kunze simply inhabits a longer view of history, one in which humans are the dinosaurs, facing down a probable extinction.
Critics of the doomsayers, meanwhile, are becoming more outspoken.
Translations: