yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
derailment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
rail-transport
railways
sciences
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
French déraillementbor.
English derailment
Borrowed from French déraillement.
Inflected forms:
form: derailments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The length ganger saw the train passing with the van derailed and promptly telephoned the Sandbach signalman, who restored his signals to danger, but not in time to stop the train before the final derailment occurred.
In retrospect, it was small wonder that Railtrack found its finances under pressure, as with ever increasing demand there was an inevitable effect on infrastructure renewals. Matters came to a head with the Hatfield accident on October 17 2000, when there was a high-speed derailment as a result of deferred track maintenance.
gloss: An instance of diverting a conversation or debate from its original topic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An instance of thwarting or frustrating something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But when the second stage set in, in which man became preponderantly self-conscious, he inevitably set about deflecting sex-activities to his own private pleasure and advantage; he employed his budding intellect in scheming the derailment of passion and desire from tribal needs and, Nature's uses to the poor details of his own gratification.
gloss: A pattern of discourse (in speech or writing) that is a sequence of unrelated or only remotely related ideas.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
perceptiveness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English perceptive
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 perceptiveness
From perceptive + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The state of being perceptive; acumen, discernment, insight
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
itis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from -itis (“disease characterized by inflammation”). Compare phobia, from -phobia, sophy, from -sophy, ism, from -ism, and ana, from -ana.
Inflected forms:
form: itises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A medical condition accompanied by inflammation.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: 1973, April 16, “Scorecard”, Robert W. Creamer ed., in Sports Illustrated
“. . . Arthritis, tendinitis and all those other itises will eventually catch up with you.”
gloss: Food coma.
pos: noun
tags: Caribbean
informal
Translations:
uncontaminated
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 contaminated
English uncontaminated
From un- + contaminated.
Inflected forms:
form: more uncontaminated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most uncontaminated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not contaminated; unpolluted.
pos: adj
examples: These people, it may be noted, belong to a primitive race, uncontaminated by contact with white races, and practically still in the Stone Age.
Translations:
unpolluted
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 polluted
English unpolluted
From un- + polluted.
Inflected forms:
form: more unpolluted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unpolluted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not polluted; uncontaminated.
pos: adj
examples: "Hetch Hetchy water is the purest, wholly unpolluted, and forever unpollutable."
Translations:
proprioceptive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Coined by English neurophysiologist Charles Sherrington in 1906, originally in the spelling proprio-ceptive, from proprius + clipped receptive.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to proprioception.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: [I]t’s becoming clear, as our understanding of it improves, that improving or maintaining our proprioceptive ability is key to our quality of life as we age.
Antonyms: exteroceptive
Translations:
bullhorn
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bull + horn, attested since the 1950s.
Compound parts: bull
horn
Inflected forms:
form: bullhorns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bull horn
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bull-horn
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A megaphone which electronically amplifies a person’s natural voice.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Iʼll press the trigger, and with a loud squeal of ear-piercing feedback, the bullhorn buzzes to staticky life.
[Mark Zuckerberg] didn’t found Facebook to manipulate elections; Jack Dorsey and the other Twitter founders didn’t intend to give Donald Trump a digital bullhorn.
CNews, the news network created by the billionaire Vincent Bolloré, topped the ratings in May by giving a new bullhorn for right-wing views on crime, immigration, climate and Covid.
Translations:
bicameralism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Italic *dwi-
Latin bi-bor.
English bi-
Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em-der.
Proto-Indo-Iranian *kmárati
Proto-Iranian *kamarāder.
Ancient Greek καμάρᾱ (kamárā)bor.
Latin camera
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 bicameral
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English bicameralism
From bicameral + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: bicameralisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The practice of dividing legislative bodies into two chambers with complementary powers and limitations designed to provide checks and balances against one another.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Ambiguous misnomer for Julian Jaynes's theory of bicamerality, probably never used by Jaynes, rarely used in academic literature based on his work, but often found informally (compare bicameral mind and bicameral mentality)
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: 1978, Edward Proffitt, "Romanticism, Bicamerality, and the Evolution of the Brain", The Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 9, No.1, reprinted with permission in Kuijsten, 2016, page 134.
Coleridge...could not revert to bicameralism either.
As a result of this bicameralism, they were not conscious as we are today, and had no unified sense of self.
"...the evidence for bicameralism in early China." p. 2
"...to elucidate the evidence for bicameralism and the transition to consciousness..." p. 3
"...presents detailed evidence for bicameralism and the development of consciousness..." p. 14
Related words: bicameral
bicamerality
Translations:
barnacled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English barnacle
English -ed
English barnacled
From barnacle + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more barnacled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most barnacled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Crusted with barnacles.
pos: adj
gloss: Thickly covered in something, as if with barnacles.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
figuratively
gloss: Familiar with the ocean and/or seafaring.
pos: adj
gloss: Old and weathered, particularly with respect to persons or things associated with the ocean.
pos: adj
gloss: Marked by personal experiences; worldly.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
gloss: Encumbered with something unnecessary or undesirable, especially through a slow, gradual process of accumulation.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
Derived words: unbarnacled
Translations:
behaviorist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi
Proto-Germanic *bider.
Proto-Germanic *bi-
Proto-West Germanic *bi-
Proto-Indo-European *kap-der.
Proto-Germanic *habjaną
Proto-West Germanic *habbjan
Proto-West Germanic *bihabbjan
Old English behabban
Middle English behaven
Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *gʰh₁bʰéh₁yeti
Proto-Italic *haβēō
Latin habeō
Old French avoirbor.
Middle English havour
Middle English behavoure
English behavior
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English behaviorist
From behavior + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: behaviorists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: behaviourist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more behaviorist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most behaviorist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: behaviourist
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who studies behavior of humans or animals.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: Relating to behaviorism; behavioristic.
pos: adj
tags: US
Translations:
beekeeping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bee + keeping.
Compound parts: bee
keeping
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The practice or profession of keeping and caring for bees.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
bashing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bashings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instance of bashing; a physical or verbal attack.
pos: noun
examples: I gulped a bit of tea. ‘I bet, Dad,’ I said, ‘you give those poor old 1930s of yours a bit of a bashing.’
Jean-Claude Juncker has called for an end to “Russia-bashing” two months after scores of Moscow’s diplomats across the EU were expelled in response to the use of a nerve agent in the UK.
Translations:
bejeweled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi
Proto-Germanic *bider.
Proto-Germanic *bi-
Proto-West Germanic *bi-
Old English be-
Middle English bi-
English be-
English jewel
English bejewel
English -ed
English bejeweled
From bejewel + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more bejeweled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bejeweled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bejewelled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Covered in jewels, especially as decoration.
pos: adj
examples: It is their silly pope and the rich, bejeweled bishops who are to blame and not the Catholic people.
Saturday, he was at the center. And amid a day of carefully staged celebration, he looked somber, even weighed down by it. Each piece of royal hardware presented to him during his installation — orb, bejeweled sword, robes upon robes — seemed to add psychic poundage.
Translations:
erosive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more erosive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most erosive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to erosion.
pos: adj
gloss: Causing or tending to cause erosion.
pos: adj
Derived words: bioerosive
erosively
erosiveness
erosivity
nonerosive
Translations:
grabby
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English grab
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English grabby
From grab + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: grabbier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: grabbiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: grabbies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Tending to grab, especially rudely or greedily.
pos: adj
gloss: Attention-grabbing; striking, stimulating.
pos: adj
examples: Nearly every bookstore contains a designated Colleen Hoover table, display case or section, stuffed with vague but grabby titles, like “All Your Perfects” and “Ugly Love.” I slorped down three of them in one week.
By “this” he meant that the platform was filled with videos that have sensationalized titles, heavily edited content and grabby thumbnails, often featuring a person’s emotive face.
gloss: Humanlike hand of some animals, mainly rodents and primates.
pos: noun
tags: childish
plural-normally
examples: Look at that gerbil and his little grabbies! So cute.
Related words: cash-grabby
Derived words: grabbily
grabbiness
grabby arm
Translations:
basset
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
games
geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From French bassette, from Italian bassetta.
Inflected forms:
form: bassets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bassets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: basseting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: basseted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: basseted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The edge of a geological stratum at the surface of the ground; the outcrop.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A basset hound.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A card game resembling faro.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Some dress, some dance, some play, not to forget / Your piquet parties, and your dear basset.
We are to go and see Pope's new grotto, opened for the first time; then try Hampton Court, and see if Mrs. Howard will stake a little princely gold on a pool of basset.
gloss: To incline upward so as to appear at the surface.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: A vein of coal bassets.
Derived words: bagle
Translations:
plakat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Thai ปลากัด (bplaa gàt, “biting fish”)
Inflected forms:
form: plakats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Siamese fighting fish.
pos: noun
Translations:
leakproof
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English leak
English -proof
English leakproof
From leak + -proof.
Inflected forms:
form: more leakproof
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most leakproof
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: leak-proof
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: leakproofs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: leakproofing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: leakproofed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: leakproofed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: leak-proof
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Resistant to leaks; hermetic, sound; as of a dry cell battery.
pos: adj
examples: 1904, Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (Great Britain), Bulletin, Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (Great Britain) (1904), p. 22,
"In mining work difficult laying conditions, limited space, and movements of the ground, all combine to make the installation of a leakproof main with ordinary joints a very difficult matter."
1929, Victor Wilfred Pagé, Modern Aviation Engines: design-construction-operation and repair, […], Norman W. Henley Publishing Company (1929), p. 1589,
"Leakproof tanks shall be provided on all airplanes for service use unless the tanks are completely protected by armor."
1967, Edward Locker Delmar-Morgan, Maintenance of Inboard Engines, Newnes (1967), p. 115,
"There are two subdivisions in the flashlight dry cell range, the ordinary cheap one and the better-quality leakproof cell."
gloss: To make resistant to leakage.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
bigness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English bignesse (“size”), equivalent to big + -ness.
Base: big
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: bignesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bignesse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Size.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: His [a hart's] head when it commeth firſt out, hath a ruſſet pyll vpon it, the which is called Veluet,[…]. When his head is growne out to the full bigneſſe, then he rubbeth of that pyll, and that is called fraying of his head.
Mine old lord, whiles he liv'd, was so precise, / That he would take exceptions at my buttons, / And, being like pins' heads, blame me for the bigness; / Which made me curate-like in mine attire,
And, fast by, hanging in a golden chain, / This pendent World, in bigness as a star / Of smallest magnitude close by the moon.
He that vvould diſcern the rudimentall ſtroak of a plant, may behold it in the Originall of Duckvveed, at the bigneſſe of a pins point, from convenient vvater in glaſſes, vvherein a vvatchfull eye may alſo diſcover the puncticular Originals of Perivvincles and Gnats.
Do not several sorts of Rays make Vibrations of several bignesses, which according to their bignesses excite Sensations of several Colours, much after the manner that the Vibrations of the Air, according to their several bignesses excite Sensations of several Sounds?
Eighty Poles, each of one Foot high, were erected for this purpoſe, and very ſtrong Cords of the bigneſs of Packthread were faſtned by Hooks to many Bandages, which the Workmen had girt round my Neck, my Hands, my Body, and my Legs.
Among the ornaments […] was a small mirror, about the bigness of a lady's hand glass, […]
gloss: The characteristic of being big.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It was big—and Babbitt respected bigness in anything; in mountains, jewels, muscles, wealth, or words.
They liked what they liked—would tolerate no innovations. My change in thought and expression had angered them into fierce denouncement. To expose a thing deeper than its skin surface was to them an indecency. They ridiculed my striving for bigness, depth.
Derived words: overbigness
Translations:
generativity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From generative + -ity. In the psychology sense coined by psychoanalyst Erik Erikson in 1950.
Base: generative
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: generativities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The ability to create or reproduce.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Generativity is a broad property of systems that denotes the capacity of agents within them to connect to others and produce unanticipated outcomes and change.
gloss: The ability to transcend personal interests to provide care and concern for younger and older generations.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Most broadly, Erikson (1975) considers generativity to mean any caring activity that contributes to the spirit of future generations, such as the generation of new or more mature persons, products, ideas, or works of art.
Translations:
babied
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more babied
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most babied
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Spoiled or coddled.
pos: adj
Translations:
babying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: babyings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of coddling or pampering somebody.
pos: noun
examples: She thought that if she had been beautiful instead of so plain then she might have made out better, but the plainness perhaps went the worst against her; it worked together with the babyings from an Indian; […]
Translations:
craton
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κράτος (krátos, “strength, might”). Shortened from original cratogen which was analogical to orogen.
Inflected forms:
form: cratons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A part of the Earth’s crust that has survived the splitting and merging of continents.
pos: noun
examples: 1988, L. L. Sloss, Chapter 1: Introduction, L. L. Sloss (editor), Sedimentary Cover—North American Craton: U.S., Geological Society of America, The Geology of North America, Volume D-2, page 2,
Application of the concept of a craton circumscribed by surrounding miogeosynclines was particularly vexing to stratigraphers whose study areas extended across the line theoretically delineating distinct tectonic terranes.
2008, Nasser Ennih, Jean-Paul Liégeois, The boundaries of the West African craton, with reference to the basement of the Moroccan metacratonic Anti-Atlas belt, N. Ennih, J.-P. Liégeois (editors), The Boundaries of the West African Craton, Geological Society, Special Publication Number 297, page 1,
Although cratons are not tectonically active, they can be located near active margins, such as the Brazilian craton at the rear of the Andean active margin.
2009, Ram Sharma, Cratons and Fold Belts of India, Springer, Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, LNES 127, page 58,
The Bastar craton (BC) is also called Bastar-Bhandara craton. It lies to ENE of the Dharwar craton (DC), separated from the latter by the Godavari rift (see Fig. 2.1).
Translations:
colorimetry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English color
Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Proto-Hellenic *-tron
Ancient Greek -τρον (-tron)
Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -μετρία (-metría)der.
Latin -metriader.
Old French -métrieder.
English -metry
English colorimetry
From color + -metry.
Inflected forms:
form: colorimetries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: colourimetry
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The science of measuring colours and assigning them numeric values.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Analysis involving the quantitative measurement of colour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: colorimeter
colorimetric
colorimetrically
Derived words: colorimetrist
immunocolorimetry
microcolorimetry
photocolorimetry
spectrocolorimetry
Translations:
additionality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: economics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English additional
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English additionality
From additional + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: additionalities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being additional.
pos: noun
gloss: Net positive difference that results from economic development intervention. The extent to which an activity (and associated outputs, outcomes and impacts) is larger in scale, at a higher quality, takes place quicker, takes place at a different location, or takes place at all as a result of intervention. Additionality measures the net result, taking account of deadweight, leakage, displacement, substitution and economic multipliers.
pos: noun
Translations:
button-down
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: buttoned-down
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: button-downs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: buttoned-down
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of a collar, able to be buttoned down to the shirt, as over a necktie.
pos: adj
gloss: Serious; staid; businesslike.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
gloss: Conservative; conventional; unimaginative.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
gloss: A shirt with a button-down collar
pos: noun
examples: Wearing a stylish pink button-down with white pinstripes, Ozzie Guillen beamed about feeling like he had "come home" when he was presented Wednesday as the manager of the Miami Marlins.
gloss: A button-up shirt
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
Translations:
entrepreneurial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English entrepreneur
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisder.
Old French -ialder.
Middle English -ial
English -ial
English entrepreneurial
From entrepreneur + -ial.
Inflected forms:
form: more entrepreneurial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most entrepreneurial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having the spirit, attitude or qualities of an entrepreneur; enterprising.
pos: adj
examples: Homer’s entrepreneurial spirit proves altogether overly infectious. Homer gives Barney a pep talk when he encounters him dressed up like a baby handing out fliers (Barney in humiliating costumes=always funny) and it isn’t long until Barney has purchased a truck of his own and set up shop as the Plow King.
It is a canard trotted out by lazy or tendentious journalists that nationalised British Railways lacked entrepreneurial flair.
Translations:
supervisorial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having supervision, or the leadership or oversight of others, as a quality, function or role.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
singleminded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From single + minded.
Compound parts: single
minded
Inflected forms:
form: more singleminded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most singleminded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very focused; having a single goal, purpose, or idea.
pos: adj
Translations:
colorimetric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English color
Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Proto-Hellenic *-tron
Ancient Greek -τρον (-tron)
Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek μετρῐκός (metrĭkós)bor.
▲
Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron)der.
Latin metrum
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
Latin metricusder.
French -métriquebor.
English -metric
English colorimetric
From color + -metric.
Inflected forms:
form: colourimetric
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to colorimetry.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Obtained by using a colorimeter.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: colorimetrically
colorimetric correction
immunocolorimetric
microcolorimetric
photocolorimetric
Translations:
unbelieving
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 believing
English unbelieving
From un- + believing.
Inflected forms:
form: more unbelieving
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unbelieving
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That does not believe; incredulous, skeptical.
pos: adj
examples: One Sunday morning I woke up, saying to my sister N., " Do you know, I have had such a vivid dream about the Roper party that I can hardly believe T am awake now." "What did you dream?" said N., in rather an unbelieving and sleepy tone of voice.
The burnt and bleeding man staggered to his feet, dazed and unbelieving, and asked the startled townspeople who came running whether his fireman and guard were safe. He was kept away from the smouldering crater where his engine had been, and taken to hospital.
Translations:
practicability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From practicable + -ability.
Base: practicable
Affixes: -ability
Inflected forms:
form: practicabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being practicable; feasibility
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: impracticability
Translations:
embossing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: embossings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A raised design or symbol that has been embossed.
pos: noun
Translations:
unquenchable
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 quenchable
English unquenchable
From un- + quenchable.
Inflected forms:
form: more unquenchable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unquenchable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That cannot be quenched.
pos: adj
examples: After a twelve-mile run in the hot sun, his thirst felt unquenchable.
Alas! thus ever does the weakness of our nature rebuke its strength, and genius is brought to the level—ay, below the level—of common humanity, by an unquenchable thirst for its applause.
With an unquenchable enthusiasm for locomotives and their work, at an early age I had commenced to keep engine and traffic-recording notebooks, compiled in a schoolboy's round hand.
President Trump did not need to warp intelligence to justify his decision. But he did anyway, to satisfy his unquenchable ego.
Translations:
best-selling
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
marketing
Inflected forms:
form: bestselling
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Highly popular with consumers purchasing goods within a specific class.
pos: adj
examples: The set includes all of the LTM's [London Transport Museum's] best-selling vintage and modern moquette patterned socks, [...].
Translations:
bloodstain
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From blood + stain.
Compound parts: blood
stain
Inflected forms:
form: bloodstains
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A spot or area that has been discolored by having absorbed blood.
pos: noun
Translations:
bloodstained
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic inh
Proto-West Germanic gem-pro>*blōþą>blood
Proto-West Germanic *blōd
Old English blōd
Middle English blood
English blood
English stained
English bloodstained
From blood + stained.
Inflected forms:
form: more bloodstained
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bloodstained
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: blood-stained
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Stained, spotted or otherwise discolored with blood.
pos: adj
gloss: Having the color of something which has been stained with blood.
pos: adj
gloss: Responsible for the deaths of others; guilty of murder.
pos: adj
examples: This self-delusion is even more the case with Trotsky, whose bloodstained intolerance is generally passed over because the 1960s student generation pretended then, and pretends still, that Trotsky was in some way a freedom-loving, Gulag-free alternative to Stalin.
gloss: Guilty of wrongdoing.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
Related words: bloodsoaked
Derived words: blood-stained cockatoo
Translations:
barkeeper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bar + keeper.
Compound parts: bar
keeper
Inflected forms:
form: barkeepers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bar-keeper
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A bartender; a person preparing and serving drinks at a bar.
pos: noun
Translations:
batterer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: Etymology tree
English batter
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 batterer
From batter + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: batterers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who batters.
pos: noun
examples: "If you've been assaulted and battered," said the Mayor, "we shall have to arrest the assaulters and batterers, as well."
gloss: One who batters their spouse: one who commits domestic violence.
pos: noun
gloss: One who applies batter.
pos: noun
examples: "This is serious," replied the potential fish batterer.
Translations:
barreled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having the specified number of barrels.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
examples: a four-barreled shotgun
Translations:
barnstormer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English barnstorm
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 barnstormer
From barnstorm + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: barnstormers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who barnstorms.
pos: noun
examples: Also a prince's cook; and even the water-carrier of that sublime lord of lords and king of kings, the Governor-General of India! How broad they were in their tastes! They also murdered actors—poor wandering barnstormers.
“Craig’s final film as the diva of British intelligence is an epic barnstormer, […]
Translations:
debitage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: debitages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sharp-edged waste material that remains after creation of a stone tool
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
bell-bottom
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A style of pants in which the end of each pantleg flares out dramatically from the knee downward, like the mouth of a bell.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
bell-bottomed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more bell-bottomed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bell-bottomed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a style of pants in which the end of each pantleg flares out dramatically from the knee downward, like the mouth of a bell.
pos: adj
Translations:
bottomed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- ~ *dʰubʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-mḗn
Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn
Proto-Germanic *butmaz
Proto-West Germanic *botm
Old English botm
Middle English botme
English bottom
English -ed
English bottomed
From bottom + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having some specified type of bottom.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
examples: It was furnished with long, cane-bottomed chairs made in the jail […]
Translations:
bottoming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
dyeing
engineering
manufacturing
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
textiles
Inflected forms:
form: bottomings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of something that bottoms; the point at which something bottoms (in various senses).
pos: noun
examples: In the course of this investigation, it was learned that the mean number of bottomings per second could be calculated theoretically […]
A hundred and fifty yards from its bottoming, the cliff trail squeezed between a pair of portal rocks.
Many analysts point to the slowing building rate for new office space as evidence of a bottoming of the commercial real estate market.
gloss: A foundation (literal and figurative senses).
pos: noun
examples: These and the like are the maine truths in your esteeme, which I conceive have no bottoming in the holy Scripture.
a road made with six inches of broken stone of great hardness, laid either on a foundation of large stones, set in the form of a pavement, or upon a bottoming of concrete
[The ramparts of] Rough Castle and Bar Hill […] like that of Birrens, rest upon stone bottomings. The Antonine Wall is of the same construction, only on a larger scale.
One cannot take a Holmes precedent and spin out the resolution of companion cases; one cannot go to Holmes to find the substantive bottomings of an area of law
gloss: Material used to line the bottom of something.
pos: noun
examples: […] we were overtaken by a storm, and camped ten miles short of the ranch; we could afford to do this, as his wagon had a good tilt and a bottoming of straw.
A bottoming of linen or hessian covering can be omitted if the outside covering is folded under whilst being tacked on the underside of the base members.
gloss: A substance used to prepare a material for dyeing.
pos: noun
examples: Sumach is generally used as a bottoming when the metallic base or mordant is iron or tin, and for dyeing deep colours, such as blacks, reds, &c.
For white-haired calf’s-skin a bottoming of walnut or gallnut extract is used.
gloss: Residue left at the bottom of something.
pos: noun
examples: [His porridge] was, as usual, composed of the scraps and bottomings of bowls which had been left unfinished by the rest of the household.
[…] the cage bottomings make a fine addition to the mulch pile.
gloss: The contouring of the wooden seat of a chair.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: A critical feature seems to be the subtle contouring of the seat known as its ‘bottoming’. This was hand carved […]
The sculpting, or bottoming of the seat should be well defined and quite deep, with smooth, boldly cut contours, to a certain extent mirroring the form it is intended to support.
gloss: The act of thoroughly cleaning something.
pos: noun
tags: UK
colloquial
examples: Mag gave [the office] a “bottoming” once a week with carbolic soap and disinfectant […]
‘And I’ll give the place a proper bottoming, cupboards and all, before you’re back,’ said Mrs Pringle, in a tone which sounded more like a threat than a promise.
Translations:
bureaucratically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥
Proto-Hellenic *pāwər
Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr)
Proto-Indo-European *-rós
Proto-Hellenic *-rós
Ancient Greek -ρός (-rós)
Ancient Greek πῠρρός (pŭrrhós)bor.
Latin burrus
Latin burra
Old French *bure
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -lus
Latin -ellus
Old French -el
Old French burel
French bureau
Proto-Indo-European *kret-
Ancient Greek κρᾰ́τος (krắtos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -κρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (-krătĭ́ā)lbor.
French -cratie
French bureaucratie
French bureaucrate
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -ique
Middle French -ique
French -ique
▲
French bureaucratie
▲
French -ique
French bureaucratiquebor.
English bureaucratic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English bureaucratically
From bureaucratic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more bureaucratically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most bureaucratically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a bureaucratic manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
buoyantly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English buoyant
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English buoyantly
From buoyant + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more buoyantly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most buoyantly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a buoyant manner.
pos: adv
examples: He's the FBI agent antagonist in Catch Me if You Can (2002) opposite a buoyantly charming young Leonardo DiCaprio as con artist Frank Abagnale, but his character is more of a determined cat to Leo's mouse than a real foil; he's simply a prim Eisenhower-era man with a job to do.
Translations:
blandly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bland
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English blandly
From bland + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more blandly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most blandly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a bland manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
brusquely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English brusque
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English brusquely
From brusque + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more brusquely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most brusquely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a brusque manner; abruptly; rudely.
pos: adv
examples: Hanks shepherds the young girl to safety – first brusquely, and then with a sudden outburst of affection made all the more poignant for the way it is reserved previously. He once again reminds us, quite literally, that he is in many ways the ultimate dad.
Translations:
brokenhearted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From broken + hearted.
Compound parts: broken
hearted
Inflected forms:
form: more brokenhearted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most brokenhearted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: broken-hearted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Grieved and disappointed, especially by the loss of a beloved person or thing, such as the end of a romantic relationship.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
examples: Although it's always crowded
You still can find some room
For broken-hearted lovers
To cry there in their gloom.
Translations:
broad-mindedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English broad-minded
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English broad-mindedly
From broad-minded + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more broad-mindedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most broad-mindedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a broad-minded manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
breathtakingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English breathtaking
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English breathtakingly
From breathtaking + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more breathtakingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most breathtakingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a breathtaking manner.
pos: adv
examples: The view was breathtakingly beautiful.
The ensuing two hours features an energetic, unpredictable, and breathtakingly hilarious confrontation that will have you giggling for hours and perhaps days.
gloss: To a degree that causes shock or awe; shockingly.
pos: adv
examples: It was a breathtakingly foolish thing to say in public.
Translations:
brazenly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English brazen
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English brazenly
From brazen + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more brazenly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: brazenlier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most brazenly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: brazenliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a brazen (shamelessly shocking and offensive) manner.
pos: adv
gloss: Boldly or cheekily.
pos: adv
examples: It was playtime - or rather ‘break’ - and I had brazenly joined in a game of football on the school parade ground.
Synonyms: audaciously
intrepidly
Translations:
brashly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English brash
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English brashly
From brash + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more brashly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most brashly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a brash manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
boyishly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English boyish
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English boyishly
From boyish + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more boyishly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most boyishly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a boyish manner.
pos: adv
examples: A shock of white hair fell boyishly across the side of his face, a face as wrinkled as an elephant hide.
Translations:
bountifully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bountiful
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English bountifully
From bountiful + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more bountifully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most bountifully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a bountiful manner.
pos: adv
examples: And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.
Translations:
boundlessly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English boundless
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English boundlessly
From boundless + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more boundlessly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most boundlessly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a boundless manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
bombastically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bombastic
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 bombastically
From bombastic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more bombastically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most bombastically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a bombastic manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
boisterously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English boisterous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English boisterously
From boisterous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more boisterously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most boisterously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a boisterous manner.
pos: adv
examples: The best of the joke, too, is, that the very coal-merchant who is loudest in his complaints against the person who defrauded him, is the identical man who sat in the centre of the very front row of the pit last night and laughed the most boisterously at this very same thing,--and not so well done either.
Such indiscriminating stuff is difficult to treat as it deserves, because it is such a mixture of truth and nonsense (Miss Rehan, for instance, is clever in Katharine and boisterously bellowsome in Julia), but it may serve to emphasize the necessity of providing somewhere in newspaper offices for the education of critics in the fundamentals of the arts they profess to understand.
A month earlier, we would have been shocked if a onehanded, fifty-four-year-old Norwegian fisherman had hailed us boisterously from the end of his wharf, but as we'd traveled north, we'd found the country less developed and less populated, and its people more outgoing.
The Wuhan forces had won the battle at Chumatien (the victory Tom Mann had so boisterously celebrated) but, as those back in Wuhan subsequently found out, only at a terrible cost.
Translations:
bloodlessly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bloodless
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English bloodlessly
From bloodless + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more bloodlessly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most bloodlessly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a bloodless manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
emotionless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ex-
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *moweō
Latin moveō
Latin ēmoveō
Vulgar Latin *exmovēre
Old French esmovoir
Middle French esmouvoir
Middle French emotionbor.
English emotion
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 emotionless
From emotion + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more emotionless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most emotionless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking emotion.
pos: adj
examples: Overhanging her precarious body was a jaundiced face whose skin resembled a sheet of parchment paper punctured by two emotionless eyes.
“I'd admit the past & monsterize myself in the eyes of the jury,” he wrote. “I would try to be emotionless, to add credibility to that monsterization.
Translations:
blisteringly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English blistering
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English blisteringly
From blistering + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more blisteringly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most blisteringly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a blistering manner.
pos: adv
examples: blisteringly hot weather
a blisteringly fast pace
Translations: