yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
predation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin praedātiō, praedātiōnis, from praedor (“pillage, plunder”), from praeda (“plunder, spoils”).
Inflected forms:
form: predations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The preying of one animal on others.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The action of attacking or plundering.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: […]this priest roade in his goune of velvet, with a greate trayne, and was received into every Religion with Procession, as though the legate had bene there, and toke such greate sommes for his visitacion, that the religious sore were greved, and murmured much against it, and in especiall, for they were charged with greate sommes of money to the kyng, and now thys sodayn visitacion or predacion, cleane shaved them.
Related words: predator
depredation
prey
predate
Derived words: antipredation
hyperpredation
indirect predation
kleptopredation
macropredation
micropredation
secondary predation
Translations:
platitudinous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From platitude + -ous on analogy of other adjectives ending in -tudinous, from Latin -tūdin- + -ous, the oblique stem of -tūdō. Compare platitudinize.
Base: platitude
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more platitudinous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most platitudinous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characterised by clichés or platitudes.
pos: adj
examples: If [Lord George] Bentinck had been reared for office, if, as Wilberforce recommends, he had been harnessed early to official duty, and if he had been sent into Parliament a platitudinous thing, made up of statistics, red tape and priggishness, like Mr. [Benjamin] Disraeli's Tadpole and Taper, we could well understand his strong mind breaking the thralls of official conventionality, and forcing him to become the man he was, armed at all points, ever ready for attack or defence; […]
“House Decoration” is written with somewhat less verbosity and with a good deal more taste and common sense. But it is, however detailed in its suggestions, equally platitudinous where it is sensible.
As [Charles] de Gaulle's minister, he [André Malraux] was able to visit China in 1965 and to persuade the rather baffled Chinese authorities to grant him an audience with Mao [Zedong]. […] The meeting was brief and platitudinous, but in later accounts […] Malraux turned it into a major summit of great minds.
But surely it is possible for those tasked with ensuring public safety to imagine creative solutions beyond platitudinous expressions of sympathy, extra concrete barriers and additional airport security checks?
Translations:
diversified
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more diversified
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most diversified
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Diverse; various.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Against the huge boulderstones which lay scattered about on the shore, the mighty waves broke incessantly in the maddest and most diversified manner.
We thus see that these naturalised plants are of a highly diversified nature.
Men of diversified temperament can learn valuable lessons from those of the conserving type by not attempting to think of so many disassociated things; that is, by concentrating the mind.
gloss: Employing the use of diversification; deliberately using a variety of instruments, methods, ingredients, or products, typically to reduce risk.
pos: adj
examples: Diversified farming reduces the risk.
On-farm irrigation facilities require modifications to provide the proper water conditions for diversified crops.
The main lesson from East Asia is that improved access to infrastructure, a highly qualified workforce, and enforced rules of the game that reward investment and innovation are more likely to provide fertile ground for the emergence of a more efficient and diversified production base.
This also involves establishing a diversified portfolio that matches the investor's objectives and periodically examining and adjusting the portfolio to ensure it stays aligned with the investor's goals.
gloss: Changed in a way that creates more diversity.
pos: adj
examples: In West Pakistan during the second plan period efforts were made to introduce diversified courses in 600 middle schools but the difficulty in getting qualified teachers even by giving them shorter periods of training did not make it possible to implement the scheme successfully.
The diversified gene differs from the germline gene by multiple nucleotides.
Even in a highly diversified society, Durkheim (1933) wrote, Men submit to the same law .
Derived words: multidiversified
nondiversified
prediversified
stereodiversified
undiversified
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: diverzifikovaný
lang: Portuguese
word: diversificado
cautioned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That has received a caution (typically from the police)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
miffy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English miff
English -y
English miffy
From miff + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: miffier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: miffiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Easily irritated or offended.
pos: adj
tags: informal
gloss: Particular; fussy.
pos: adj
tags: dated
informal
examples: "Over-watering" is not the result of putting on too much water at one time, but from watering too often. Daily sprinkling or turning the hose on root areas can be most injurious — especially to some miffy plants like rhododendrons and dogwoods.
Derived words: miffily
miffiness
Translations:
deontological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From deontology + -ical (1832). The specialised sense in normative ethics is due to C. D. Broad (1930).
Base: deontology
Affixes: -ical
Inflected forms:
form: more deontological
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most deontological
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to deontology.
pos: adj
examples: Deontological theories hold that there are ethical propositions of the form: 'Such and such a kind of action would always be right (or wrong) in such and such circumstances, no matter what its consequences might be.'
Translations:
inspiringly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English inspiring
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English inspiringly
From inspiring + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more inspiringly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most inspiringly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an inspiring manner.
pos: adv
examples: That line was most beautifully written, and inspiringly put.
Translations:
marshalling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
monarchy
natural-sciences
nobility
physical-sciences
politics
rail-transport
railways
sciences
software
transport
Inflected forms:
form: marshallings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: marshaling
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The process of transforming the memory representation of an object to a data format suitable for storage or transmission, which is typically used when data must be moved between different parts of a computer program, or from one program to another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The arrangement of an escutcheon to exhibit the alliances of the owner.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The sorting of rolling stock in a marshalling yard.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It is the first British yard in which every activity of hump marshalling, except for the driving of the hump locomotive and the uncoupling and coupling of wagons, is fully automatic or drastically simplified by modern aids.
He wanted to see less marshalling of trains, and a move away from a culture that allowed 85% of a wagon's life to be spent "empty, being used as storage bins for goods or in sidings as coal scuttles".
Related words: dimidiation
enté en point
impalement
quartering
Translations:
doglike
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old English [Term?]?
Proto-Germanic *-gô
Proto-West Germanic *-gō
Old English -ga
Old English dogga
Middle English dogge
English dog
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-West Germanic *-līk
Old English -līċ
Middle English -like
English -like
English doglike
From dog + -like.
Inflected forms:
form: more doglike
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most doglike
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dog-like
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: more doglike
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most doglike
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: dog-like
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Similar to that of a dog; canine.
pos: adj
examples: doglike nose
doglike devotion
Weighing about 60 pounds and bearing powerful jaws, the thylacine had a doglike skull, was about the height and shape of a Doberman, and had tigerlike stripes on its back that may have helped conceal it in the bush from its prey.
gloss: Befitting a dog.
pos: adj
tags: rare
examples: doglike treatment
gloss: In a doglike way.
pos: adv
gloss: As one would act toward a dog
pos: adv
tags: rare
examples: She treated me doglike.
Related words: canine
Derived words: undoglike
Translations:
birdlike
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old English bridd
Middle English brid
English bird
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-West Germanic *-līk
Old English -līċ
Middle English -like
English -like
English birdlike
From bird + -like.
Inflected forms:
form: more birdlike
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most birdlike
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bird-like
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: more birdlike
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most birdlike
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: bird-like
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Similar to a bird or an aspect of a bird; reminiscent of birds.
pos: adj
examples: a birdlike song; birdlike eyes
Once or twice I heard a faint pitter-patter like the feet of the dog going hither and thither on the sand far below me, and there were more bird-like sounds, but that was all.
Frail, birdlike wrists and no muscle anywhere on his tiny frame.
gloss: In the manner of a bird; as, to fly.
pos: adv
tags: postpositional
Antonyms: non-avian
unavian
unbirdlike
unbirdly
Translations:
pilaf
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish پلاو (modern Turkish pilav), from Classical Persian پلاو (pilāw), from Hindi पुलाव (pulāv)/Urdu پُلاؤ (pulāo), from Sanskrit पुलाक (pulāka), which is probably of Dravidian origin. Akin to Tamil புழுக்கு (puḻukku, “cooked rice”).
Inflected forms:
form: pilafs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pilaff
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pillaf
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pillaff
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pillaw
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pilao
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pilau
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: plov
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: polao
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pulao
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pulau
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A dish made by browning grain, typically rice, in oil and then cooking it with a seasoned broth, to which meat and/or vegetables may be added.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: My spirits rose as I passed among the tents and savored the aroma of steaming pots of pilaf and the long skewers of shashlyk roasting over the open fires.
Charlie Vaughn, the tribal chairman, dismissed his critics at the opening as people who are "eating tofu and pilaf and sitting in Phoenix with their plasma-screen TVs".
Translations:
Druze
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Etymology tree
Arabic دُرُوز (durūz)bor.
English Druze
Borrowed from Arabic دُرُوز (durūz).
Inflected forms:
form: Druze
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Druzes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Druse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Druse
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of a secretive Ismaili Shiite community based mainly in the Middle East, specifically Lebanon, Syria, and Israel.
pos: noun
examples: At Acre, 15,000 Druzes elected a six-member council comprising sheiks and mukhtars, their first official representative body since the establishment of Israel.
This backlash also fails to take into account that Israel, for all its faults, is a multicultural society where almost half of graduating doctors today are Arabs or Druze.
gloss: Of or relating to this religious community.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: "The judges were very surprised when they found out I was Druze," she told Sonia Verma in The Times.
Druze men shouted insults when she walked down the street.
Translations:
enlightening
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Serving to enlighten.
pos: adj
examples: Again, voice change is not easy and vulnerability plays a big part, but if choral teachers and adolescent singers approach it with the right mindframe, the experience can be empowering, enlightening, and restorative for all involved.
Translations:
tubeless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin tuba
Latin tubusder.
Middle French tubeder.
English tube
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English tubeless
From tube + -less.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Without a tube.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Without an inner tube.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: tubeless tyres
Derived words: tubelessness
Translations:
unhealthily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English unhealthy
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English unhealthily
From unhealthy + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more unhealthily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unhealthily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an unhealthy manner.
pos: adv
examples: Full disclosure: I’m white, and I’ve been intrigued, unhealthily or not, for decades by the whitelessness of Georgetown basketball.
Translations:
deuterated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more deuterated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most deuterated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Describing a chemical compound which has had some of its normal hydrogen (protium) replaced with the heavy isotope deuterium.
pos: adj
Translations:
uncheck
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
tourism
transport
travel
Etymology: Etymology tree
English un-
English check
English uncheck
From un- + check.
Inflected forms:
form: unchecks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unchecking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unchecked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unchecked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To remove a checkmark.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
examples: Uncheck the “save my password” box.
If you uncheck either of these check boxes, [Microsoft] Expression Web 2 will create all new Web pages with uppercase tag names and/or attributes. Current Web standards require that HTML tag names and attributes be lowercase. Therefore, pages created with either of these boxes unchecked will not be compatible with existing standards.
gloss: To remove a previously checked-in passenger from the check-in system, allowing changes to the ticket.
pos: verb
Related words: unchecked
Translations:
checkmark
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English check
English mark
English checkmark
From check + mark.
Inflected forms:
form: checkmarks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: checkmarking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: checkmarked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: checkmarked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To mark with a ✓ symbol; to tick.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
Skinnerian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Skinner
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Skinnerian
From Skinner + -ian.
Inflected forms:
form: Skinnerians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Skinnerian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Skinnerian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A person who endorses the behavioristic tradition of B. F. Skinner, that is, psychology should study the conditions under which behavior occurs, and that behavior is observable and measurable, as are the environmental conditions that control it.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or pertaining to the methods and theories of B. F. Skinner
pos: adj
Translations:
druggy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English drug
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English druggy
From drug + -y (adjectival suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: druggier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: druggiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Acting as if on drugs; torpid, uncoordinated, etc.
pos: adj
examples: Allwhite is dominated, of course, by its white characters: the high-school mean girls Meagan, Maegan and Megan (abused, bulimic, druggy), their mothers (smothering, manipulative, viperish) and their boyfriends (psychotic, supportive, dissolute).
Translations:
unsuited
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: card-games
poker
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English suited
English unsuited
From un- + suited.
Inflected forms:
form: more unsuited
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unsuited
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not suited to a specific purpose.
pos: adj
examples: […] we are convinced, from considerable experience and observation, that the class of diseases described by Sir James as unsuited to the climate of Pau, et vice versâ […]
It might have been a good thing if he had, unsuited as he was physically, but the mood passed easily under fraternal dissuadings and a feeling of duty toward his father.
Reggie was a “release” from Guiding Eyes; he kept leading his trainers into light poles, so he was deemed temperamentally unsuited to be a service dog.
gloss: Not compatible; mismatched.
pos: adj
gloss: Not wearing a suit.
pos: adj
examples: an unsuited astronaut
gloss: Not of the same suit.
pos: adj
examples: You have been dealt King-9 unsuited ("canine") in your pocket.
Translations:
infective
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: epidemiology
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English infect
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English infective
From infect + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: more infective
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most infective
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: infectives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Able to cause infection; infectious
pos: adj
examples: Hirsch has followed a group of 85 health care workers who were exposed to blood and bodily fluids of persons with AIDS. Thirty had been exposed by accidentally sticking themselves with needles containing blood and three had been spattered or had an open wound exposed to potentially infective blood.
gloss: A person who is capable of spreading a disease by infecting others.
pos: noun
examples: It is evident that the greater the number of susceptibles, then the greater the increase in the number of infectives.
Translations:
finfish
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From fin + fish.
Compound parts: fin
fish
Inflected forms:
form: finfishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: finfish
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any fish, but especially fish other than flatfish
pos: noun
gloss: Clipped compound of finned fish, as in e.g. ray-finned fish; used to distinguish them from shellfish, cartilaginous fish and other similar aquatic creatures customarily used as food.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
underflow
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From under- + flow, modelled on overflow.
Base: flow
Affixes: under-
Inflected forms:
form: underflows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: underflows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: underflowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: underflowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: underflowed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A current flowing below the surface.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A condition in which the value of a computed quantity is smaller than the smallest non-zero value that can be physically stored; usually treated as an error condition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The error condition that results from an attempt to retrieve an item from an empty stack.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To trigger the condition in which the value of a computed quantity is smaller than the smallest non-zero value that can be physically stored.
pos: verb
gloss: To trigger the error condition resulting from attempting to retrieve a value from an empty stack.
pos: verb
examples: Upon an attempt to pop an empty stack, the stack underflows […]
Related words: overflow
Translations:
unjustifiable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English justifiable
English unjustifiable
From un- + justifiable.
Inflected forms:
form: more unjustifiable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unjustifiable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That cannot be justified, excused or pardoned.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: indefensible, inexcusable, unforgivable, unjustified, unpardonable, unprovoked, unreasonable, regrettable, unacceptable, unworthy, remiss, blameworthy, culpable, unwarrantable, excessive, immoderate, unconscionable, outrageous, groundless, unfounded, foundationless, baseless, unsupported, unsubstantiated, unconfirmed, uncorroborated, invalid, untenable, weak, shaky, flawed, defective
From track level, its operating floor looks particularly capacious, but there is a vacant space at one end which was designed to accommodate the control panel for the Perth-Inverness C.T.C. scheme; this was adumbrated as long ago as the 1955 Modernisation Plan, but now seems to be regarded as an unjustifiable luxury.
Translations:
unfairness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English unfair
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 unfairness
From unfair + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: unfairnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being unfair; lack of justice.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The reason why fairness in taxation matters is institutionalized unfairness rots society from the inside, and the social order and economy eventually collapse.
gloss: An unjust act or situation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: That this woman was Chip's little sister, Denise—i.e., was the only attractive young woman on the planet whom he was neither permitted nor inclined to feast his eyes on and imagine having sex with—seemed to him just the latest unfairness in a long morning of unfairnesses.
Translations:
unrewarding
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English rewarding
English unrewarding
From un- + rewarding.
Inflected forms:
form: more unrewarding
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unrewarding
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not providing reward or satisfaction.
pos: adj
examples: The work is unrewarding and arduous but nevertheless of prime importance to the maintenance of an open line.
Translations:
uninterruptedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English uninterrupted
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English uninterruptedly
From uninterrupted + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Without interruption.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: They adopted the singular, though in their case probably advantageous, decision to continue each to have a separate place of abode, in order that each might work uninterruptedly, […]
Speed downhill was not allowed to exceed 77½ m.p.h., then, after a 63 m.p.h. slowing through Creil, the more gradual rise to Gannes was climbed at between 75 and 79 m.p.h. uninterruptedly.
Save for the three brief ¼-mile descents, before Bakewell, Monsal Dale and Miller's Dale, the line is climbing uninterruptedly at round about 1 in 100 for 9 miles from Rowsley almost to Miller's Dale, [...].
Translations:
jackoff
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English jack offdeverb.
English jackoff
Deverbal from jack off (“to masturbate”).
Inflected forms:
form: jackoffs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A jerkoff (mean, nasty, or obnoxious person), a jerk, an asshole.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
derogatory
slang
vulgar
gloss: A lazy and unmotivated person.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
derogatory
slang
vulgar
Related words: jagoff
Translations:
andantino
Part of speech: adv
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Italian andantino, the diminutive of andante.
Inflected forms:
form: more andantino
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most andantino
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: andantinos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of a tempo that is slightly faster than andante but slower than moderato.
pos: adv
gloss: A piece of music played in this style.
pos: noun
Translations:
radiculopathy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From radiculo- + -pathy.
Base: radiculo
Inflected forms:
form: radiculopathies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any disease of the spinal nerve roots and spinal nerves.
pos: noun
Translations:
bluer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From blue + -er (“Oxford -er”). Used at Harrow School in London, United Kingdom.
Base: blue
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: bluers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A blue blazer, part of the school uniform at Harrow School.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: Bluer buttons illustrate the principle of 'keeping under'. The Knoll rule book states: 'It is a one year priv. [privilege] to have the bottom button on one's bluer undone [and] a three summer priv. to have all the buttons of one's bluer undone.'
He was alone in his room, in his bluer and his tie, seated on a chair, leaning over his bed like a desk—his preferred way to study—holding the stapled pages of the script, muttering the words.
Translations:
blacker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *blakaz
Proto-West Germanic *blak
Old English blæc
Middle English blak
English black
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English blacker
From black + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: blackers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who blacks (in various senses).
pos: noun
examples: Then "G. A. R." did shoulder his burden and with much labor made footprints for a hostelry afar off, where he might put it in for safe keeping, while the venders of papers and the ragged blackers of boots followed in his train and pelted him […]
gloss: Someone who creates black MIDI music.
pos: noun
examples: Blackers across the globe, many of them teens and preteens, are embroiled in a ferocious game of one-upsmanship, battling to see how many notes they can cram into a single composition. First it was 100K, then 500K, then a million—now upwards of five million notes are common.
Translations:
pinker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pinkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who pinks (in various senses).
pos: noun
examples: The job paid $65 a week. However, when she arrived for work, the employer informed her that she would also be required to do some pinking, and that she would be paid at the rate for pinkers, which was only $50 a week.
Translations:
bluffer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bluff
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English bluffer
From bluff + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: bluffers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: one who bluffs
pos: noun
Translations:
two-spirit
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From two + spirit.
Compound parts: two
spirit
Inflected forms:
form: two-spirits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: two spirit
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Involving two spirits; especially, pertaining to the doctrine of dualism espoused in the so-called Treatise on the Two Spirits in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Paul's grasp of the [Holy] Spirit as the sign of the erupting messianic age is at odds with the two-spirit thought of Qumran which never became incompatible with law observance.
gloss: A Native North American bisexual, homosexual, or gender-variant person; especially one belonging to a traditional tribal third-gender, fourth-gender, or transgender cultural category that has a ceremonial role.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: The Lakota, by the way, called their Two-Spirits winkte and wapetokeca which means "people with special powers."
"The elders will tell you the difference between a gay Indian and a Two-Spirit," he [Joey Criddle] said, underscoring the idea that simply being gay and Indian does not make someone a Two-Spirit.
The term/identity of two-spirit does not make sense unless it is contextualized within a Native American frame […] Today, most people associate the term with LGBT Natives; however, the work of the two-spirit organizations is more akin with the traditional understanding
Translations:
cun
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Chinese 寸 (cùn). Doublet of sun.
Inflected forms:
form: cuns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cun
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tsun
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A traditional Chinese unit of length, originally the width of a person's thumb at the knuckle.
pos: noun
Translations:
chu
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anime
broadcasting
film
manga
media
television
Etymology: From the Japanese ちゅっ (chu', onomatopoeia).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The sound of a kiss.
pos: intj
tags: slang
examples: By the way, isn't it interesting that the Japanese hear the sound "chu" when someone kisses? In the US, we usually say, "smooch," "smack," "smerp," or even "swock." Now, everytime^([sic]) I kiss my husband, I'm listening to hear if it sounds like "chu."
>Eldrick Tobin - Kiss worthiness of sig pending.
<chu!>
Seems fine to me. ^_^
movie Akio: [shoots a kiss to himself] Chu! ^.~
Translations:
deaccession
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
English accession
English deaccession
From de- + accession.
Inflected forms:
form: deaccessions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deaccessioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: deaccessioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: deaccessioned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: deaccessions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To officially remove an object from a ledger of a museum, art gallery or library so that it may be sold or disposed.
pos: verb
examples: Perhaps he forgets that museums, too, have basements full of stored art, and not every piece is equally adored. The temptation must be great to “deaccession” some of it, and museums often do succumb.
Over the past few years, the museum has quietly begun deaccessioning—the genteel art-world euphemism for “getting rid of”—large numbers of its city artifacts.
The second is an unwritten rule that when a museum deaccessions a picture, the money should be used to purchase art only of the same period.
gloss: The disposal of objects in this way, or the disposed object itself.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: At the last board meeting, trustee Edmund Carpenter moved to clamp down on private trades. All deaccessions, he proposed, should go to other museums, or failing that, to public sale with full disclosure of records and documentation. The motion failed to get a second and there the matter died.
Translations:
undeniably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From undeniable + -ly, equivalent to un- + deny + -ably.
Base: undeniable
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more undeniably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most undeniably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an undeniable manner, or to an undeniable extent.
pos: adv
examples: [A]nd gaunt though his figure, and far from elegant though his dressing-robe, there was that about him which spoke undeniably of the grand seigneur— [...]
It created inter-city and intermodal services, which were genuinely world leading. And it undeniably pushed British Railways into the modern era.
gloss: Used as a modal adverb to assert that the indicated statement is undeniable.
pos: adv
examples: The third movie was undeniably the best.
Translations:
Shriner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Freemasonry
freemasonry
lifestyle
Etymology: Etymology tree
English shrine
English -er
English Shriner
From shrine + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: Shriners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the fraternal Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.
pos: noun
Translations:
unobtrusively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From unobtrusive + -ly or un- + obtrusively.
Base: unobtrusive
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more unobtrusively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unobtrusively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an unobtrusive manner; in a manner that is not noticeable or blatant.
pos: adv
examples: He felt not the slightest doubt in his mind that this was the girl who had written him, and, having given an order to the waiter, he started to study her face as unobtrusively as possible.
Sometimes she and Miss Baker talked at once, unobtrusively and with a bantering inconsequence that was never quite chatter, that was as cool as their white dresses and their impersonal eyes in the absence of all desire.
Eudemis moved hastily but as unobtrusively as he could through the gaping crowd[.]
Most of the old fishermen's cottages have been unobtrusively modernised, the harbour is busy with summer yachts, and the sands are superb.
Translations:
torturous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English torterous, from Anglo-Norman torturous, from Old French tortureus, from Latin tortūra. By surface analysis, torture + -ous.
Inflected forms:
form: more torturous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most torturous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to torture.
pos: adj
gloss: Painful, excruciating, torturing.
pos: adj
Synonyms: tormentous
Derived words: torturously
Translations:
Pascha
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin pascha (“Passover”), from Ancient Greek πάσχα (páskha, “Passover”), from Aramaic פַּסְחָא (paskha), from Hebrew פֶּסַח (pésakh). Doublet of Pasch, paska, paskha, and Pesach.
Inflected forms:
form: Paschas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pascha
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pascha
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Passover (biblical, Israelite, Jewish, or Christian Passover; this term also includes Quartodeciman Passover, observed on Nisan 14, especially by Christians in Asia Minor)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Easter, the most important Christian religious holy day or feast.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Orthodox Christian church services during the week succeeding Easter.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Pertaining to either Passover or Easter (Pascha is an ambiguous term and its meaning depends on context).
pos: adj
tags: attributive
not-comparable
examples: In the Orthodox Christian church, Pascha week is the week succeeding Easter.
Derived words: Kyriopascha
Paschal
paschal
crucifixional Pascha
crucifixional pascha
resurrectional Pascha
resurrectional pascha
Translations:
primly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English prim
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English primly
From prim + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more primly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most primly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a prim manner.
pos: adv
examples: She was a small, neat, rather prissy-looking girl with primly smooth brown hair and rimless glasses […]
Translations:
extramarital
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsteros
Proto-Italic *eksteros
Latin exter
Latin extrā
English extra-
English marital
English extramarital
From extra- + marital.
Inflected forms:
form: extra-marital
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Occurring outside marriage.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Adulterous.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: David H. Petraeus, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency and one of America’s most decorated four-star generals, resigned on Friday after an F.B.I. investigation uncovered evidence that he had been involved in an extramarital affair.
Antonyms: intramarital
Derived words: extramaritally
Translations:
couched
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a chevron, issuing from the side rather than from the bottom or top of the shield; couché.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Holmes gives us the Arms of the Name of TOURNEY, Or, a Cheveron couched Gules, Fig. 15. IF it be turned to the other Side, says he, it is termed couched sinister;[…]
Argent, on a fesse sable, three chevronels couched sinister of the field. - TRENOWITH, Corn.
Translations:
prolifically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English prolific
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English prolifically
From prolific + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more prolifically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most prolifically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a prolific manner, or to a prolific extent; abundantly.
pos: adv
Translations:
unexplainable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + explainable. from explain + -able. from Latin explanō (“to flatten, spread out, make plain or clear, explain”).
Base: explainable
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unexplainable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unexplainable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That doesn't have a known or readily available explanation.
pos: adj
Antonyms: explainable
explicable
explicatable
Translations:
integrally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English integral
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English integrally
From integral + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more integrally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most integrally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an integral manner
pos: adv
gloss: By means of integration
pos: adv
Derived words: integrally closed
Translations:
integrator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English integrate
English -or
English integrator
From integrate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: integrators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who, or a device which, integrates.
pos: noun
gloss: A device that calculates definite integrals.
pos: noun
gloss: Any electronic device that sums a measurement over time.
pos: noun
Translations:
unfavourably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English unfavourable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English unfavourably
From unfavourable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more unfavourably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unfavourably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: unfavorably
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In an unfavourable manner.
pos: adv
tags: UK
examples: Neither the Type 2 nor the Type 3 locomotives have so far reached a satisfactory standard of performance. [...] The number of miles per failure is still too low and therefore compares unfavourably with steam engine performance.
Translations:
inauspiciously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English inauspicious
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English inauspiciously
From inauspicious + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more inauspiciously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most inauspiciously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an inauspicious manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
brandable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English brand
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English brandable
From brand + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more brandable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most brandable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Able to be branded or stigmatized.
pos: adj
examples: Far too confidently, we assume that perpetrators are human beings radically different from ourselves, brandable as totally evil or as fanatical or deranged, that we are in no moral respects like them and they in no moral respects like us.
gloss: Which may be marketed under a brand name.
pos: adj
Related words: rebranded
Translations:
unfavorably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English unfavorable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English unfavorably
From unfavorable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more unfavorably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unfavorably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: unfavourably
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In an unfavorable manner.
pos: adv
tags: US
Translations:
ill-timed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more ill-timed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ill-timed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Occurring at an unfavourable or inappropriate time.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: inopportune; see also Thesaurus:untimely
ill-timed bell
ill-timed comment
ill-timed event
ill-timed gust
ill-timed present
Translations:
puerility
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English puerilite, from Middle French puérilité and its etymon Latin puerīlitās, from puerīlis (“childish, juvenile”), from puer (“boy”). By surface analysis, puerile + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: puerilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state, quality, or condition of being childish or puerile.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This classification should have led to the discovery and study of remedies which act specifically upon the various textures and tissues of the body, such as the cellular, serous, mucous, parenchymatous, fibrous, gelatinous, &c., but it did not, except in the most imperfect manner—so imperfect, in fact, that most pathologists, despairing of finding such remedies, at one time sank into all the peurilities^([sic – meaning puerilities]) of the "expectant mode" of the French, or the nihilisms of the German.
gloss: That which is puerile or childish; especially, an expression which is insipid or silly.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: You treat his opinions (though he never thrusts them on you) about "the Church," and his duty, and the souls of his parishioners, with civil indifference, as much ado about nothing; and his rubrical eccentricities as puerilities.
Related words: puerilism
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 幼稚
roman: yòuzhì
lang: Russian
word: ребячество
roman: rebjačestvo
iron-fisted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the idea of having an iron fist.
Inflected forms:
form: more iron-fisted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most iron-fisted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by ruthless control.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
examples: In his book, The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution," David Carter offers a detailed and important overview of the iron-fisted state repression during the Cold War.
Translations:
imbibing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: imbibings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is imbibed.
pos: noun
examples: Many women neglected the daily herbal baths and imbibings which helped pelvic dilation.
Translations:
enchantress
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English enchaunteresse, from Old French enchanteresse; equivalent to enchanter + -ess.
Base: enchanter
Affixes: -ess
Inflected forms:
form: enchantresses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: enchauntress
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: inchantress
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A woman, especially an attractive one, skilled at using magic; an alluring witch.
pos: noun
examples: Him fortuned (hard fortune ye may gheſſe)
 To come, where vile Acraſia does wonne [live],
 Acraſia a falſe enchauntereſſe,
 That many errant knightes hath fowle fordonne: […]
The tablets upon which the events of the day were recorded refer to enchantresses, and we can conclude that they were by no means restricted to ancient beldames.
For even the enchantresses Circe and Medea could not, by their black arts, prevent the unfaithfulness of Odysseus and Jason.
gloss: A beautiful, charming and irresistible woman.
pos: noun
examples: She was the enchantress of men’s hearts.
gloss: A femme fatale.
pos: noun
examples: His desire for that enchantress led him to financial ruin.
Synonyms: beautiful woman
Translations:
wheedling
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wheedle
English -ing
English wheedling
From wheedle + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more wheedling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most wheedling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: wheedlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Coaxing, aiming to persuade.
pos: adj
examples: Then, in a soft, wheedling voice, "Canst thou not let me in, my little bird? Sure there are other lasses besides thyself who would like to trade with a poor peddler who has travelled all the way from Gruenstadt just to please the pretty ones of Trutz-Drachen."
ESTRAGON: That would be too bad, really too bad. [Pause.] Wouldn't it, Didi, be really too bad? [Pause.] When you think of the beauty of the way. [Pause.] And the goodness of the wayfarers. [Pause. Wheedling.] Wouldn't it, Didi?
gloss: The act of one who wheedles.
pos: noun
Translations: