yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
disrepute
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
English repute
English disrepute
From dis- + repute.
Inflected forms:
form: disreputes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disreputing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disreputed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disreputed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Loss or want of reputation; ill character.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get; what you get is classical alpha-taxonomy which is, very largely and for sound reasons, in disrepute today.
The belief in astrology was almost universal in the middle of the seventeenth century; it began to waver and become doubtful towards the close of that period, and in the beginning of the eighteenth the art fell into general disrepute, and even under general ridicule.
gloss: To bring into disrepute; to hold in dishonor.
pos: verb
Antonyms: credit
distinction
esteem
renown
repute
Translations:
dissector
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dissect
English -or
English dissector
From dissect + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: dissectors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who dissects; an anatomist.
pos: noun
Translations:
dissemination
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin dissēminātus (“broadcast”), past participle of dissēmināre, from dis- (“in all directions”) + sēmināre (“to plant or propagate”), from sēmen, sēminis (“seed”).
Inflected forms:
form: disseminations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of disseminating, or the state of being disseminated; diffusion for propagation and permanence; a scattering or spreading abroad, as of ideas, beliefs, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There was a third class, small indeed when compared to those vast multitudes actuated by fanaticism or interest, but destined to exercise the most beneficial and lasting influence—the reflecting and theoretic few, who saw in universal freedom the only tie between man and his kind—the only rational hope whereon to ground the dissemination of equitable principles among the human race.
Translations:
dissimilation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
human-sciences
linguistics
microbiology
natural-sciences
phonetics
phonology
sciences
social-science
sociology
Etymology: From dis- + -similation, after assimilation.
Affixes: dis-
Inflected forms:
form: dissimilations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of dissimilating, of making dissimilar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A dissimilatory process that supply a cell with energy only without the assimilation of nutrients.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A phenomenon where one of a pair of similar adjacent consonant or vowel sounds in a word becomes less similar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Brimstone is "properly" *brinstone, displaying an ancient careless pronunciation made respectable by being called "dissimilation".
gloss: The rejection, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: After the impacts of the former Russian Empire and Soviet Union's cultural imperialism on the national identity of indigenous peoples: their language, culture and historical memory, there have been efforts at the dissimilatory process of derussification.
In social psychology, dissimilation is the emphasis on distinctiveness from others when they threaten one's identity[. …] Simply, […] the term dissimilation refers to [assimilation's] opposite processes of resisting likeness.
Antonyms: assimilation
Related words: dissimilarity
dissimilitude
Derived words: dissimilational
Translations:
dissipation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From Middle English dissipacion, dissipacioun, from Late Latin dissipātiō. Morphologically dissipate + -ion.
Base: dissipate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: dissipations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: without loss or dissipation of the matter
the famous dissipation of mankind
gloss: A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in immoral indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 18th century, Patrick Henry in a parliamentary debate
to reclaim the spendthrift from his dissipation and extravagance
I rose by candle-light, and consumed, in the intensest application, the hours which every other individual of our party wasted in enervating slumbers, from the hesternal dissipation or debauch.
He neither wept nor prayed; he cursed and defied: execrated God and man, and gave himself up to reckless dissipation.
[...] This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. I am sure, Lord Stranleigh, that he has been descanting on the distraction of the woods and the camp, or perhaps the metropolitan dissipation of Philadelphia, [...]
An oil lamp burned upon a high, old-fashioned mantel, casting its dim rays over a dozen repulsive figures. All but one were men. The other was a woman of about thirty. Her face, marked by low passions and dissipation, might once have been lovely.
gloss: A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Prevented from finishing them [the letters] a thousand avocations and dissipations.
gloss: A loss of energy, usually as heat, from a dynamic system.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They conclude[…] the planet will have a final period of rotation between 56 and 88 days, depending on the assumed form of the dissipation function.
Derived words: dissipational
dissipation factor
dissipation function
dissipationless
dissipation trail
distrail
nondissipation
power dissipation
Translations:
dissociation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
human-sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French dissociation, from Latin dissociātiō(n).
Inflected forms:
form: dissociations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of dissociating or disuniting; a state of separation; disunion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A general observation in memory studies of individuals with ASD is that they tend to experience greater difficulties on tests of free recall than tests of recognition or cued recall (Boucher, Mayes, & Bigham, 2012). In its own right, this pattern suggests greater difficulties with retrieval through recollection than through familiarity, but there is also more direct evidence for this dissociation.
gloss: The process by which a compound body breaks up into simpler constituents; said particularly of the action of heat on gaseous or volatile substances.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the dissociation of the sulphur molecules
the dissociation of ammonium chloride into hydrochloric acid and ammonia
gloss: A defence mechanism where certain thoughts or mental processes are compartmentalised in order to avoid emotional stress to the conscious mind.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Project MONARCH could be best described as a form of structured dissociation and occultic integration, carried out in order to compartmentalize the mind into multiple personalities within a systematic framework.
Related words: dissociate
dissociative
Derived words: dissociational
photodissociation
predissociation
vibrodissociation
acid dissociation constant
bond dissociation energy
dissociation energy
dissociation reaction
Translations:
distillation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrochemistry
petrology
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English distillacioun, from Anglo-Norman distillacioun, from Latin distīllātiōnem, accusative of distīllātiō.
Inflected forms:
form: distillations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring out in drops.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: That which falls in drops.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The separation of more volatile parts of a substance from less volatile ones by evaporation and condensation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The separation of more volatile parts of a substance from less volatile ones by evaporation and condensation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The substance extracted by distilling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: to be stopped in, like a strong distillation, with stinking / clothes that fretted in their own grease.
Then, were not summer's distillation left,
A liquid prisoner pent in walls of glass […]
gloss: The transformation of a complex large language model into a smaller one.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Distillation is often used to train new systems. If a company takes data from proprietary technology, the practice may be legally problematic. But it is often allowed by open source technologies.
Anthropic says three Chinese firms used ‘distillation’ technique to extract information from its Claude chatbot[.]
Derived words: bidistillation
codistillation
cryodistillation
destructive distillation
distillation chaser
dry distillation
fractional distillation
freeze distillation
global distillation
hydrodistillation
membrane distillation
microdistillation
predistillation
redistillation
salt-effect distillation
steam distillation
vacuum distillation
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: تَقْطِير
roman: taqṭīr
lang: Bulgarian
word: дестилация
roman: destilacija
lang: Catalan
word: destil·lació
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 蒸餾 /蒸馏
roman: zhēngliù
lang: Czech
word: destilace
lang: Dutch
word: destillatie
lang: Dutch
word: distillatie
lang: Finnish
word: tislaus
lang: French
word: distillation
lang: Georgian
word: გამოხდა
roman: gamoxda
lang: Georgian
word: დისტილაცია
roman: disṭilacia
lang: Georgian
word: რექტიფიკაცია
roman: rekṭipiḳacia
lang: German
word: Destillation
lang: Greek
word: απόσταξη
roman: apóstaxi
lang: Japanese
word: 蒸留
roman: jōryū
lang: Korean
word: 증류
roman: jeungnyu
lang: Malay
word: penyulingan
lang: Māori
word: iheunga
lang: Norman
word: distillâtion
lang: Norwegian
word: destillasjon
lang: Persian
word: تقطیر
roman: taqtir
lang: Polish
word: destylacja
lang: Portuguese
word: destilação
lang: Russian
word: дистилля́ция
roman: distilljácija
lang: Russian
word: перего́нка
roman: peregónka
lang: Spanish
word: destilación
lang: Swedish
word: destillering
lang: Swedish
word: destillation
lang: Tagalog
word: singawkintay
lang: Turkish
word: destilasyon
lang: Turkish
word: distilasyon
lang: Urdu
word: تقطیر
roman: taqtīr
lang: Volapük
word: steil
lang: Volapük
word: steilam
disinter
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Old French des-
Middle French des-
French dés-
French enterrer
French désenterrerbor.
English disinter
Borrowed from French désenterrer.
Inflected forms:
form: disinters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disinterring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disinterred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disinterred
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To take out of the grave or tomb.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To bring out, as from a grave or hiding place; to bring from obscurity into view.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: Why disinter dead faith from mouldering hidden?
At this moment, however, the rooms bore every mark of having been recently and hurriedly ransacked; clothes lay about the floor, with their pockets inside out; lockfast drawers stood open; and on the hearth there lay a pile of gray ashes, as though many papers had been burned. From these embers the inspector disinterred the butt end of a green cheque book, which had resisted the action of the fire; […]
In his lectures he is equally wide-ranging and allusive, making strange links and analogies between apparently unrelated texts and ideas, and disinterring etymologies which writers cannot have been aware of.
Derived words: disinterment
Translations:
disparage
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English disparage (noun), disparagen (verb), from Old French desparage (noun), desparagier (verb), from des- (“dis-”) + parage (“equal rank, rank”).
Inflected forms:
form: disparages
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disparaging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disparaged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disparaged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To match unequally; to degrade or dishonor.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Alas! that any of my nation
Should ever so foul disparaged be.
gloss: To dishonor by a comparison with what is inferior; to lower in rank or estimation by actions or words; to speak slightingly of; to depreciate; to undervalue.
pos: verb
examples: August 30, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, at the funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennet
those forbidding appearances which sometimes disparage the actions of men sincerely pious
Thou durst not thus disparage glorious arms.
gloss: To ridicule, mock, discredit.
pos: verb
examples: Had he disparaged my personal appearance I should in all probability have laughed at him with lively indifference
Derived words: disparageable
disparagement
disparager
disparaging
undisparaged
Translations:
dispersal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English disperse
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 dispersal
From disperse + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: dispersals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or result of dispersing or scattering; dispersion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For a time, Okeh picked up the disk for national dispersal.
Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, […]. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they are ripe.
gloss: A dispersal prison.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Problems of control in dispersals and in other prisons necessarily instigated a multiplicity of working theories to explain the difficulties […]
Derived words: codispersal
dispersal accommodation
dispersalism
dispersalist
geodispersal
nondispersal
overdispersal
postdispersal
predispersal
radiological dispersal device
redispersal
Translations:
divest
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: Alteration of devest, from Middle French devester (“strip of possessions”), from Old French desvestir, from des- (“dis-”) + vestir (“to clothe”).
Inflected forms:
form: divests
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: divesting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: divested
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: divested
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To strip, deprive, or dispossess (someone) of something (such as a right, passion, privilege, or prejudice).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You shall never divest me of my right to free speech.
When I wake up, I make a point to divest myself of all my prejudices, ready to start the day.
The report divested the organization of its mystique.
{{ux|en|I never divested myself of my coat.]]
gloss: To sell off or be rid of through sale, especially of a subsidiary.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In 2011, the company divested an 81% majority stake in its foreign subsidiary.
Glasgow will become the first university in Europe to divest from fossil fuels.
It is argued that from a fiscal point of view, governments should divest only if this leads to an improvement in the intertemporal budget constraint. However, it is shown that policymakers are instead inclined to divest public assets as a means of […]
Building from this argument, we can now turn to arguing the moral case why individuals should divest from fossil fuels. We can flesh out what is wrong with continuing investments in the fossil fuel industry in terms of the role that an agent […]
gloss: To undress.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Having divested the child he kissed her gently and gave her a little pat to make her stand off.
Related words: disinvest
deinvest
Derived words: divestable
divester
divestible
divestitive
divestiture
divestive
divestment
divestor
undivested
Translations:
diversification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: From Medieval Latin diversificatiō, from diversificātus, past participle of diversificō (“diversify”), from Latin diversus (“turned in different ways”) + faciō (“make, do”). By surface analysis, diverse + -ification.
Inflected forms:
form: diversifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act, or the result, of diversifying.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In 2024, the campaigns are against video game consulting companies such as Sweet Baby for performing what some gamers believe is “forced diversification.”
gloss: A corporate strategy in which a company acquires or establishes a business other than that of its current product.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An investment strategy involving investing in a range of assets with differing features in order to reduce specific risk.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: antidiversification
biodiversification
codiversification
glycodiversification
hyperdiversification
magic of diversification
nondiversification
overdiversification
rediversification
time diversification
underdiversification
under-diversification
Translations:
divination
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French divination, from Latin divinatio.
Inflected forms:
form: divinations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The apparent art of discovering secrets or the future by preternatural means.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An indication of what is to come in the future or what is secret; a prediction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Synonyms: divination
Related words: divine
divinatory
predivination
Methods of divination on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Derived words: dice divination
runic divination
star divination
Translations:
divorcee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French divorcée, equivalent to divorce + -ee.
Base: divorce
Affixes: -ee
Inflected forms:
form: divorcees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: divorcée
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A divorced person.
pos: noun
Antonyms: spouse
Translations:
dogmatism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French dogmatisme, from Ecclesiastical Latin dogmatismus. Derived from Latin dogma (“philosophical tenet”), from Ancient Greek δόγμα (dógma, “opinion, tenet”), from δοκέω (dokéō, “to seem good, think”). Treated in the 17th and 18th century as Greek, with plural dogmata.
Inflected forms:
form: dogmatisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The manner or character of a dogmatist; arrogance or positiveness in stating opinion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
dolly
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From doll + -y, from the given name Dorothy, originally applied either to a woman or female pet or to a children's toy, and expanded to refer to various types of contrivances or devices. The Online Etymology Dictionary, while considering the reason for applying it to such devices unobvious, compares how the names jack, jenny and jimmy are also applied to devices.
Base: doll
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: dollies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dollying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dollied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dollied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dollie
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: more dolly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dolly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To hit a dolly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To move (an object) using a dolly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To move a camera (usually toward or away from its subject) using a dolly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To wash (laundry) in a tub using the stirring device called a dolly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To beat (red-hot metal) with a hammer.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To crush ore with a dolly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To make somebody or something look attractive.
pos: verb
tags: often
with-up
examples: Referring to the "hero of the day," No. 92220, Mr. Hanks acceded that she was not of the Great Western breed, but they had done their best to make up for that by "dollying her up in good old Western colours and conferring upon her the finest honour we can—the halo or crown of Swindon, the copper top to her chimney."
gloss: Pretty; attractive.
pos: adj
tags: Polari
examples: Divine. Sitting, sipping a tiny drinkette, vadaïng the great butch omis and dolly little palones trolling by, or disporting yourself on the sable plage getting your lallies all bronzed - your riah getting bleached by the soleil.
She minces past the brandy latch / to vada dolly dish for trade, silly / with oomph and taste to park.
gloss: Left-handed (also dolly-handed, dolly-pawed, dolly-posh).
pos: adj
tags: Sheffield
Yorkshire
especially
Derived words: dollier
Translations:
doltish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dolt
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English doltish
From dolt + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more doltish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most doltish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Like a dolt; dull in intellect; stupid.
pos: adj
examples: Take off thine eye! more intolerable than fiends' glarings is a doltish stare!
Translations:
domestication
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
translation-studies
Etymology: Etymology tree
English domesticate
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English -ion
English domestication
From domesticate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: domestications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals or breeding plants.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of domesticating, or making a legal instrument recognized and enforceable in a jurisdiction foreign to the one in which the instrument was originally issued or created.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of domesticating a text.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: dedomestication
domestication syndrome
geodomestication
neodomestication
overdomestication
peridomestication
postdomestication
predomestication
self-domestication
semidomestication
undomestication
Translations:
dominant
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: BDSM
biology
entertainment
genetics
lifestyle
medicine
music
natural-sciences
sciences
sexuality
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle French dominantbor.
English dominant
Borrowed from Middle French dominant.
Inflected forms:
form: dominants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more dominant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dominant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The fifth major tone of a musical scale (five major steps above the note in question); thus G is the dominant of C, A of D, and so on.
pos: noun
gloss: The triad built on the dominant tone.
pos: noun
gloss: Of an allele, that a heterozygote for the allele has the same phenotype as the homozygote.
pos: noun
examples: Finally, if we suppose provisionally that the mutant genes are dominant just as often as they are recessive, selection will be far more severe in eliminating the disadvantageous dominants than in eliminating the disadvantageous recessives.
gloss: A species or organism that is dominant.
pos: noun
examples: Landowners cannot afford to cut submerchantable trees, yet many hesitate to cut merchantable dominants and codominants at the risk of downgrading the residual stand.
gloss: The dominating partner in sadomasochistic sexual activity.
pos: noun
examples: This calendar is not for the faint of heart (unless you have some strong butch dominant to hold you while you swoon)
His story was a fable you told dominants in training to stress the importance of comprehending the depths of your submissive's needs.
gloss: Ruling; governing; prevailing
pos: adj
examples: The dominant party controlled the government.
The member of a dominant race is, in his dealings with the subject race, seldom indeed fraudulent, […] but imperious, insolent, and cruel.
gloss: Predominant, common, prevalent, of greatest importance.
pos: adj
examples: The dominant plants of the Carboniferous were lycopods and early conifers.
All other elements are mere "impurities" when their abundances are compared with those of these two dominant elements.
It's the water that makes this area famous. […] That water is still being used to supply Blackford's two dominant industries, Tullibardine whisky distillery to the south of the village and, more significantly, Highland Spring Group's bottling plant to the north.
gloss: Preferred and used with greater dexterity than the other, as the right hand of a right-handed person or the left hand of a left-handed one.
pos: adj
gloss: Designating the follicle which will survive atresia and permit ovulation.
pos: adj
gloss: Being the dominant
pos: adj
examples: Dominant seventh
Synonyms: dominator
Antonyms: obedient
submissive
defiant
rebellious
Derived words: secondary dominant
subdominant
antidominant
codominant
co-dominant
dominance
dominantly
dominant seventh
dominant seventh chord
equidominant
eudominant
heterodominant
hyperdominant
immunodominant
monodominant
nondominant
overdominant
phenodominant
postdominant
pseudodominant
quasidominant
semidominant
serodominant
superdominant
transdominant
tremordominant
underdominant
undominant
Translations:
douceur
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French douceur (“sweetness”), from Old French dolçor, dulcur, etc., from Latin dulcōr + -em, from dulcis (“sweet”). Naturalized in Middle English as douceoure, dousour but treated as a French loanword from the 17th century onward. Doublet of dulcour.
Base: dulcor
Affixes: -em
Inflected forms:
form: douceurs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Sweetness of manner: agreeableness, gentleness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Sweet speech: a compliment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: A sweetener: a gift offered to sweeten another's attitude, a tip or bribe.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: When Dangerfield put the little roll in his hand, Irons looked suspicious and frightened, and balanced it in his palm, as if he had thoughts of chucking it from him, as though it were literally a satanic douceur. But it is hard to part with money, and Irons, though he still looked cowed and unhappy, put the money into his breeches' pocket, and he made a queer bow […]
gloss: A tax break provided as an inducement to sell valuable items (especially art) to public collections rather than on the open market.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
Synonyms: gratuity
and Thesaurus:bribe
Translations:
douche
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French douche (“shower”), from Italian doccia (“shower”).
Inflected forms:
form: douches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: douching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: douched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: douched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To administer a douche to; to shower; to douse
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] a frizzy half-white woman who looked as if she had fallen into a flour-sack, her face was so deep in powder, and her frizzy hair and her brown silk dress so douched with the white dust of it.
Mrs. McLash's anger was gone completely, douched not nearly so much by the beer as by this attention to her son.
The boxes would reek of the smell of rich plum cake, with brandy or sherry douched over it.
Tragedy acts then like a laxative […] or an aperient […] to douche our systems of humors and emotions that unbalance the soul, so that we may return to the virtuous golden mean, to homeostatic equilibrium.
gloss: To use a douche.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: (In a 2002 study, 58.5 percent of Black women reported douching and 35.6 percent of Hispanic women said they did the same, compared with 26.6 percent of white women.)
Derived words: douche down
undouched
Translations:
douse
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish dunsa (“to plumb down, fall clumsily”), Danish dunse (“to thump”). Compare Old English dwǣsċan (“to extinguish”) and douse below.
Inflected forms:
form: douses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dousing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: doused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: doused
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dowse
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: douze
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: douce
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: dause
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: douses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dowse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: douze
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: douce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dause
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Set fire to your matches! / Douse them in gasoline!
gloss: To fall suddenly into water.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: swing i' th'air, or douse in water
gloss: To put out; to extinguish.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The man who doused the fire was told to put the remainder of the coal into the bucket and then give the bucket to the soldier.
Once you feel confident in your visualizations, you may douse the candle by blowing it out.
Now he rushed to the platform edge carrying a full fire bucket, in a forlorn attempt to douse the flames as the now brightly burning wagon rolled past.
Trump made efforts to douse the flames with ever-shifting explanations, excuses and distractions but merely poured fuel on the fire.
gloss: A sudden plunging into water.
pos: noun
examples: In winter a douse in cold water helps the looks and adds to the style of the carcass, but they should be thoroughly dried before packing.
Derived words: douser
Translations:
dowel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
construction
manufacturing
Etymology: From Middle English dowle, dule, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old French doelle (“the hollow part of a tool where the handle is”), from Frankish *duli (“hollow tube, pipe”), from Proto-Germanic *dulją (“pipe”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰel- (“curvature, hollow”). If so, then cognate with French douelle, douille.
Alternatively from Middle Low German dövel (“peg, plug”), from Old Saxon *dubil, from Proto-Germanic *dubilaz. If so, then cognate with Dutch deuvel (“wooden peg”), German Dübel (“dowel”).
Inflected forms:
form: dowels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: doul
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: dowels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: doweling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: dowelling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: doweled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: doweled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: dowelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: dowelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
form: doul
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position.
pos: noun
gloss: A wooden rod, as one to make short pins from.
pos: noun
examples: This twenty-four-piece starter set uses twelve thirty-six-inch-long dowels (or nine forty-eight-inch dowels) cut to these rod lengths. Lay out the cuts so you use the entire length of each dowel without any leftover scraps.
gloss: A piece of wood or similar material fitted into a surface not suitable for fastening so that other pieces may be fastened to it.
pos: noun
gloss: To fasten together with dowels.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The wheels were solid, two half discs dowelled against the hub, and the chariots were pulled along by oxen or asses.
gloss: To furnish with dowels.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask.
Derived words: cross dowel
dowel joint
dowel pin
Translations:
dramatization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dramatizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dramatisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of dramatizing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A version that has been dramatized.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This is a dramatization of life 1000 years ago.
Derived words: overdramatization
redramatization
Translations:
drape
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
Etymology: From Middle English drape (“a drape”, noun), from Old French draper (“to drape; to full cloth”), from drap (“cloth, drabcloth”), from Late Latin drappus, drapus (“drabcloth, kerchief”), a word first recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne, probably from Frankish *drapi, *drāpi (“that which is fulled, drabcloth”, literally “that which is struck or for striking”), from Proto-Germanic *drapiz (“a strike, hit, blow”) and Proto-Germanic *drēpiz (“intended for striking, to be beaten”), both from *drepaną (“to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreb- (“to beat, crush, make or become thick”). Cognate with English drub (“to beat”), North Frisian dreep (“a blow”), Low German drapen, dräpen (“to strike”), German treffen (“to meet”), Swedish dräpa (“to slay”). More at drub.
Inflected forms:
form: drapes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: drapes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: draping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: draped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: draped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A curtain; a drapery.
pos: noun
gloss: The way in which fabric falls or hangs.
pos: noun
examples: The herringbone-twill sample is soft and smooth, with an easy drape that allows the fabric to move beautifully.
gloss: A member of a youth subculture distinguished by its sharp dress, especially peg-leg pants (1950s: e.g. Baltimore, MD). Antonym: square.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A dress made from an entire piece of cloth, without having pieces cut away as in a fitted garment.
pos: noun
gloss: To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to drape a bust, a building, etc.
The whole people were still draped professionally.
These starry blossoms, pure and white, / Soft falling, falling, through the night, / Have draped the woods and mere.
The pair sat before a brilliant gold Buddha statue inside the ornate temple, built 150 years ago by the former Thai King – the supreme patriarch barefoot and draped in orange robes as they spoke.
gloss: To spread over, cover.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I draped my towel over the radiator to dry.
I cycled the three miles each morning between hedges draped with spangled cobwebs and berried bryony.
gloss: To rail at; to banter.
pos: verb
examples: 1672-679, William Temple, Memoirs
At my Arrival , the King asked me many questions about my Journey, about the Congress, draping us for spending him so money
gloss: To make cloth.
pos: verb
gloss: To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.
pos: verb
gloss: To hang or rest limply.
pos: verb
examples: I draped myself elegantly over the couch.
Related words: drapes
Derived words: bedrape
drapeless
drapelike
drapey
grand drape
main drape
drapability
drapeable
drape off
misdrape
overdrape
redrape
undrape
Translations:
draper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English draper, from Anglo-Norman draper, from Old French drapier, from drap + -ier.
Inflected forms:
form: drapers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; a textile merchant.
pos: noun
examples: [S]uch was the aberration of mind attending converse with a successful draper.
Translations:
dredge
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Scots dreg-boat, dreg-bot (from Old English *dreċġ); or alternatively from Middle Dutch dregghe (“drag-net”), probably ultimately from the same root as drag.
Inflected forms:
form: dredges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dredges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dredging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dredged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dredged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as:
pos: noun
gloss: Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as:
pos: noun
examples: The section includes also combination bucket and suction dredges, true suction dredgers, the Friihling dredge, the reclamation dredge, the longshoot dredge, the hopper barge, the self-propelling hopper, and the rock cutter.
gloss: Any instrument used to gather or take by dragging; as:
pos: noun
gloss: The act of dredging.
pos: noun
examples: A dredge of the river is not possible at this time due to the strong currents and dangerous riptides which plague the St. Lawrence after the ice melts.
gloss: Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water.
pos: noun
gloss: To make a channel deeper or wider using a dredge.
pos: verb
gloss: To bring something to the surface with a dredge.
pos: verb
examples: Subject to flooding by the six small rivers coming together just west of the city, the main river below the city has long been shallow and subject to silting. The Communists have both maintained the earlier pattern of dredging the river, and have built a bypass flood canal around the city on the south side to relieve flood pressures. Though dredging can keep the river navigable for small ships, a new artificial port, Sinkang, able to take 10,000 ton ships at all times, was created at T'ang-ku. This is kept open for about two months during winter by icebreakers.
gloss: To unearth.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
usually
examples: to dredge up someone's unsavoury past
Friday night’s crowning victory at The Hawthorns was the 25th in 30 league matches since Antonio Conte’s decisive re-gearing of his team in September, the tactical switches that have coaxed such a thrilling run from this team of bolt-ons and upcycled squad players, most notably Victor Moses, who was dredged out of the laundry bin in the autumn to become a key part of the title surge.
Derived words: dredgeboat
data dredging
dredgable
dredger
dredge up
dredging
dredging box
redredge
undredged
Translations:
drowsiness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English drowsy
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English drowsiness
From drowsy + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: drowsinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being drowsy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: And most neurologists are in the habit of prescribing antispasticity drugs like tizanidine and baclofen, which are oral and inexpensive, but which cause drowsiness and weaken every muscle in the body, not just the target ones.
Translations:
drowsy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From drowse + -y, despite the fact that drowsy (1520) is recorded before drowse (1570). Compare Old English drūsian (“to droop, drowse, become languid”).
Base: drowse
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: drowsier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: drowsiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness
pos: adj
examples: I was feeling drowsy and so decided to make a cup of coffee to try to wake myself up.
gloss: Causing someone to fall sleep or feel sleepy; lulling; soporific.
pos: adj
examples: It was a warm, drowsy summer afternoon.
drowsy medicine
gloss: Boring.
pos: adj
examples: The narrative throughout holds the reader; it Is not a drowsy book.
gloss: Dull; stupid.
pos: adj
examples: ... the hoofbeats of the mule made a sound as drowsy as a fly's buzz on a summer afternoon.
Derived words: drowsihead
drowsily
drowsiness
nondrowsy
non-drowsy
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: приспивателен
roman: prispivatelen
lang: Czech
word: uspávající
lang: Finnish
word: unettava
lang: Finnish
word: nukuttava
lang: French
word: soporifique
lang: German
word: einschläfernd
lang: Italian
word: soporifero
lang: Macedonian
word: дре́млив
roman: drémliv
lang: Māori
word: harotu
lang: Māori
word: pōuruuru
lang: Russian
word: усыпля́ющий
roman: usypljájuščij
lang: Russian
word: снотво́рный
roman: snotvórnyj
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: suaineach
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: по̏спа̄н
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: дрѐмљив
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: pȍspān
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: drèmljiv
lang: Spanish
word: somnífero
lang: Spanish
word: soñoliento
lang: Spanish
word: soporífero
dunce
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 1530, named after John Duns Scotus (c. 1266–1308). Scotus was ironically a well-known Scottish thinker; his followers, however, opposed the philosophers of the Renaissance, and thus "dunce" was first used to describe someone rejecting new knowledge in 1530; later, any person deemed stupid.
Inflected forms:
form: dunces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An unintelligent person.
pos: noun
examples: When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
[...] Dunce, / Dotard, a-dozing at the very nonce, / After a life spent training for the sight!
Translations:
duplication
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English duplicacioun, from Middle French duplication, from Late Latin duplicātiō, duplicātiōnem, from Latin duplicō. Morphologically duplicate + -ion.
Base: duplicate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: duplications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of duplicating.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Another argument for closing Woodhead was simply one of route duplication, and this was the main reason put forward by BR at the time.
gloss: A duplicate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Counting crimes as given in the index to the Penal Code, their number is nearly twice as great as that stated, but as some are only duplications I have reduced my estimate that it may be well within the limits of the fact.
Registration of trademarks had been revised and a unit had been set up to clear up duplications.
Duplications were made by carbon paper. If you had a pleading to be sent to three parties, you typed an original and four carbon copies, including an office copy.
gloss: A folding over; a fold.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: duplication of cartilage cells
gloss: The act of copying a nucleotide sequence from one chromosome to another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A nucleotide sequence copied through such a process.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: doubling
duplation
duplication
twicing
Antonyms: bisection
Derived words: 8p23.1 duplication syndrome
alloduplication
antiduplication
bioduplication
deduplication
duplication of the cube
endoduplication
hyperduplication
isoduplication
microduplication
misduplication
multiduplication
nonduplication
overduplication
penile duplication
photoduplication
preduplication
reduplication
retroduplication
transduplication
whole-genome duplication
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: удвояване
roman: udvojavane
lang: Bulgarian
word: вадене на копия
roman: vadene na kopija
lang: Catalan
word: duplicació
lang: Finnish
word: monistaminen
lang: Finnish
word: monistus
lang: French
word: duplication
lang: German
word: Duplikation
lang: Italian
word: duplicazione
lang: Kazakh
word: қайталаным
roman: qaitalanym
lang: Māori
word: tāruatanga
lang: Polish
word: duplikacja
lang: Portuguese
word: duplicação
lang: Romanian
word: duplicare
lang: Spanish
word: duplicación
earnest
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English ernest, eornest, from Old English eornest, eornost, eornust (“earnestness, zeal, seriousness, battle”), from Proto-Germanic *ernustuz (“earnest, strength, solidity, struggle, fight”), a derivative of Proto-Germanic *arniz (“efficient, capable, diligent, sure”), from Proto-Indo-European *er- (“to cause to move, arouse, increase”).
Cognate with West Frisian earnst (“earnest, seriousness”), Dutch ernst (“seriousness, gravity, earnest”), German Ernst (“seriousness, earnestness, zeal, vigour”), Icelandic ern (“brisk, vigorous”), Gothic 𐌰𐍂𐌽𐌹𐌱𐌰 (arniba, “secure, certain, sure”).
The adjective is from Middle English eornest, from Old English eornoste (“earnest, zealous, serious”), from the noun. Cognate with North Frisian ernste (“earnest”), Middle Low German ernest, ernst (“serious, earnest”), German ernst (“serious, earnest”).
Inflected forms:
form: earnests
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: earnesting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: earnested
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: earnested
pos: verb
tags: past
form: earnester
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more earnest
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: earnestest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most earnest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Gravity; serious purpose; earnestness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Take heed that this jest do not one day turn to earnest.
That high All-Seer which I dallied with / Hath turn'd my feigned prayer on my head / And given in earnest what I begg'd in jest.
1914, February 13, The Times, Obituary: Canon Augustus Jessopp
He wrote well in a forcible, colloquial style, with the air of being tremendously in earnest, and full of knowledge which overflowed his pages, tricked out with somewhat boisterous illustrations.
gloss: Seriousness; reality; actuality (as opposed to joking or pretence)
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: To be serious with; use in earnest.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Let's prove among ourselves our armes in jest, That when we come to earnest them with men, We may them better use.
gloss: Serious, sincere, ingenuous.
pos: adj
gloss: Focused in the pursuit of an objective; honestly eager to obtain or do.
pos: adj
examples: earnest prayers
gloss: Intent; focused; showing a lot of concentration.
pos: adj
examples: earnest attention
gloss: Possessing or characterised by seriousness.
pos: adj
examples: an earnest disposition
gloss: Strenuous; diligent.
pos: adj
examples: earnest efforts
gloss: Serious; weighty; of a serious, weighty, or important nature; important.
pos: adj
Derived words: earnestful
in earnest
earnestly
earnestness
earnesty
overearnest
unearnest
Translations: