yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
reverted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more reverted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most reverted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That has gone back (to an earlier place, state etc.).
pos: adj
gloss: Bent back, reversed.
pos: adj
gloss: Directed backwards.
pos: adj
examples: With many a pause and oft reverted eye / I climb the Coomb's ascent [...].
Derived words: unreverted
Translations:
furnishing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: furnishings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Furniture, fittings, and other detachable accessories.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: With her luxurious furnishings and spacious accommodation the Invicta, which is 350-ft. long and has a gross tonnage of 4,178, resembles a small liner.
gloss: A portion of longer hair within the coat of a dog, rabbit, etc.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: As plush and huggable as a child's stuffed toy with curly whiskers, ears full of curly ear furnishings
Derived words: housefurnishing
Translations:
prejudiced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more prejudiced
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most prejudiced
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having prejudices.
pos: adj
Translations:
spacing
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
Inflected forms:
form: spacings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of the verb space.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A way in which objects or people are separated by spaces.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The spacing of the desks in the exam hall was intended to prevent candidates from copying each other's work.
gloss: The space between two objects or people.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Put some more spacing between those two words to make them more readable.
If you are following a book like Starting Electronics, however, a breadboard is even more useful. […] Differences lie between breadboards in the spacings and the positionings of the holes, and the number of holes in each group.
gloss: The activity of working or living in outer space; the occupation of a spacer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He was a laconic old soul who loved spacing only a jot better than he loved Martian alky.
Shepard: You don't seem too broken up about your partner's death.
Pitne For: Dakni Kur knew the risks when he took to spacing. Right now, my worry is me.
Pitne For: It's unhealthy to be a volus in the Nos Astra spaceport right now. Especially a volus named Pitne For!
gloss: That inserts space between two objects.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: level spacing distribution
self-spacing tile
spacing effect
spacing mark
spacing mix
zero spacing flux
Derived words: bed spacing
letterspacing
linespacing
respacing
third spacing
Translations:
patterned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Conformed to a pattern, a model to be followed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Royal Navy kept patterned birches and patterned canes at the principal dockyards as specimens, intending to standardize the main implements used for formal corporal punishment on its ships
gloss: Supplied with a pattern
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: patternedness
prepatterned
Translations:
angered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more angered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most angered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having been made angry.
pos: adj
Translations:
reinforced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English inforce
English reinforce
English -ed
English reinforced
From reinforce + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more reinforced
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most reinforced
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having been or containing reinforcement.
pos: adj
Translations:
hiring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hirings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which an employee is hired.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: hirings and firings
Even the most seasoned analysts of British politics were struck by the brutality of Ms. May’s hirings and firings.
gloss: A fair or market where servants were engaged.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
Derived words: hiring hall
prehiring
quiet hiring
Translations:
admonishing
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: admonishings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more admonishing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most admonishing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: admonishment
pos: noun
gloss: Giving admonishment.
pos: adj
Translations:
illuminating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English illuminate
English -ing
English illuminating
From illuminate + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more illuminating
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most illuminating
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Providing illumination or light.
pos: adj
gloss: Providing clarification or explanation; educational, revealing.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: An illuminating article in a recent issue of the Eastern Region's Civil Engineering News points out that where coal is worked over a reasonably large area, it is not only the whole of the strata above the workings, but also an area beyond which is liable to subside at varying rates after the coal has been removed.
Synonyms: clarifying
explanatory
revelatory
Derived words: illuminating gas
illuminatingly
illuminating oil
underilluminating
unilluminating
Translations:
unloading
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: unloadings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is unloaded.
pos: noun
examples: Traders have been successfully indoctrinated with the necessity of quick unloading - or else seeing their coal hauled away again - [...]
Translations:
scooping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
form: scoopings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process or result of something being scooped.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I observed that a moulding descended obliquely from this entrance down to the bottom, while striae followed the same line, the whole sides indeed being marked by curious scoopings, and intermediate ridgings […]
gloss: A singing technique in which the singer begins by singing a note slightly below the desired pitch, and then slides up to it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
assuring
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more assuring
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most assuring
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of reassuring.
pos: adj
examples: And then we have this further most assuring statement: "The blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin."
Hoeness nodded shortly, but Gabriel was less assuring.
The news about the efficacy of these concoctions was very assuring and soothing at a time when caregivers were in daily contact with their relations or loved ones who were suffering from COVID-19, considering that total quarantine of the patients they were looking after was not feasible at home where most of the COVID-19 patients were recuperating.
Translations:
rearing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English rerynge (“raising”).
Inflected forms:
form: rearings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Act of raising young.
pos: noun
examples: We studied blowfly rearings in various environmental conditions.
In queening his apiary, he aims to keep about half of the queens of the current season's rearing, and the other of the summer preceding.
Translations:
babbling
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English bablyng, babelynge, equivalent to babble + -ing.
Base: babble
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: babblings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more babbling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most babbling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: a stage in child language acquisition, during which an infant appears to be experimenting with uttering sounds of language, but not yet producing any recognizable words
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: sounds produced by infant during the babbling period
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Idle senseless talk; prattle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A confused murmur, as of a stream.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: That babbles.
pos: adj
Translations:
battering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: batterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A heavy beating.
pos: noun
examples: Kalinin Bay is also in trouble, trading fire with Japanese destroyers and taking hits from both them and cruisers at the same time. Unlike the Gambier Bay, however, it does not appear that these ships have realized they need to switch to high explosive from armor-piercing, and, despite being riddled with shellfire, the ship stays afloat, despite this rather-unequal battering going on for another twenty to thirty minutes.
gloss: A large defeat.
pos: noun
examples: That will prove a trickier test, the management having pinpointed Oleh Blokhin's side as "one of the favourites in the group", though they will confront an England team buoyed by this battering.
gloss: Domestic violence
pos: noun
tags: dated
Derived words: batteringly
Translations:
baring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: barings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is laid bare.
pos: noun
examples: These woods loom large in my history — they were the site of two clumsy first kisses, one heart-crushing breakup, and countless whispered barings of the soul — but they are even more solidly a part of my present.
Translations:
beseeching
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: beseechings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A heartfelt plea.
pos: noun
examples: The ability to blithely make wrong turns without serious directional consequences is, of course, one of the hallmarks of PNDs — and a feature that allows me to ignore my wife’s beseechings and merrily proceed on my way without ever stopping to ask for directions.
Translations:
chattering
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: chatterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That chatters
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A noise that chatters.
pos: noun
examples: That speed mimics the natural electrical chatterings of the brain, said Dr. Karl Deisseroth, an assistant professor of bioengineering at Stanford.
gloss: Output fluctuation before reaching a stable condition.
pos: noun
Translations:
labouring
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: labourings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: laboring
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more labouring
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most labouring
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: laboring
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who labours; toil; work done.
pos: noun
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
burying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English biryinge, buryinge; by surface analysis, bury + ing.
Inflected forms:
form: buryings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A burial.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] itself will always be with you, despite all cuttings, excretings, and buryings.
Translations:
rumbling
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more rumbling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rumbling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: rumblings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Deep- and slow-sounding.
pos: adj
examples: rumbling discontent
His rumbling voice suited the solemn occasion.
rumbling stomachs
gloss: A muted sound of complaint or discontent (often used in the plural).
pos: noun
examples: The rumblings of the masses precede the crumbling of the state.
gloss: A deep low noise.
pos: noun
examples: The rumbling of distant thunder echoed from the hilltop.
The rumblin' from distant shores sends me to sleep / But the facts of life can sometimes make it hard to dream
Translations:
flavoring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: flavorings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flavouring
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Something that gives flavor, usually a food ingredient.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: This soda has an artificial flavoring, I can taste the after taste.
Translations:
bordered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: having a border
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
truncated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more truncated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most truncated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Deprived of one of its parts or of its end (e.g., a line of poetry with one syllable fewer in one of its feet).
pos: adj
gloss: Ending abruptly as if cut across at the base or tip.
pos: adj
gloss: shortened either by means of clipping or blending.
pos: adj
Derived words: antitruncated
bitruncated
nontruncated
truncated cube
truncated cuboctahedron
truncated dodecahedron
truncated domes
truncated icosahedron
truncated icosidodecahedron
truncatedness
truncated octahedron
truncated tetrahedron
untruncated
Translations:
ploughed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more ploughed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ploughed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: plowed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Turned over with the blade of a plough to create furrows (usually for planting crops).
pos: adj
gloss: Well-trodden or well-researched, previously explored.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
rare
gloss: Drunk.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: they stacked the glass up + right up to the level that you would normally have if you had ice in your drink anyway + and consequently I got ploughed
"I said are you allowed to drink? You know, beer. Whatever. Isn't it against your religion?" […] There were a few kids at school who said they were Mormon, but that didn't stop 'em from getting ploughed, and other kids who went to church but smoke and drank and cussed and screwed.
Derived words: unploughed
Translations:
flavoured
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more flavoured
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most flavoured
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: flavored
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having a specific taste, often due to the addition of flavouring.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: This is only grape flavoured soda, the flavouring is artificial; real grape juice tastes much richer.
Translations:
obscured
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more obscured
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most obscured
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Made hidden, less visible, or dark.
pos: adj
Translations:
threaded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English thread
English -ed
English threaded
From thread + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more threaded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most threaded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having threads.
pos: adj
gloss: Of messages: arranged in a thread or threads.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A threaded email will commonly have a number, (e.g., (5)) after the sender's name to show how many emails are in that thread. An unthreaded email, however, will not have that number marker because all the messages are listed separately.
gloss: Of messages in a digital forum conversation: displayed hierarchically (based on parent messages), rather than linearly (usually purely chronologically).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: unthreaded
Derived words: cross-threaded
double-threaded
fine-threaded
hyperthreaded
multithreaded
nonthreaded
threadedly
Translations:
lang: Spanish
word: hilado
lang: Spanish
word: enhilado
lang: Spanish
word: ahilado
lang: Spanish
word: rehilado
lang: Spanish
word: con cadena
lang: Spanish
word: catenario
tapering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: taperings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tapered shape.
pos: noun
Translations:
coated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Covered with a thin layer.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Wearing a coat.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I can just remember an old brown-coated man who was the Walton of this stream, who had come over from Newcastle, England, with his son, the latter a stout and hearty man who had lifted an anchor in his day.
Was sitting on a molar cusp nibbling a remnant of dry toast, when I looked out and saw a white-coated man with a shiney instrument in his hand.
A few seconds after photograph 17 was taken; note that the coated woman has stopped to chat to the group.
Derived words: biocoated
black-coated
coated felt sheet
coated paper
filmcoated
Flat-coated Retriever
flat-coated retriever
frock-coated
fur-coated
multicoated
nanocoated
noncoated
party-coated
pea-coated
pearl-coated
powder-coated
precoated
Prince Albert-coated
Soft-coated Wheaten Terrier
sugar coated
sugarcoated
sugar-coated
tricoated
Translations:
foiled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a foil.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
drumming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: drummings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of beating a drum.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A noise resembling that of a drum being beaten.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: In many species of catfish, the sound produced by contraction of specialized sonic muscles with subsequent reverberation through the swim bladder.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: air-drumming
Translations:
unfolding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: unfoldings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which something unfolds or becomes revealed.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
often
examples: Because most diesel failures can be traced to electrical faults, minor in themselves but often difficult to pin-point, any unscheduled halt during a trial run is often the signal for the frenzied unfolding of wiring diagrams and the appearance of an impressive array of voltmeters and circuit testers.
If I had the space, I'd cite dozens more examples of Gould's graceful unfoldings of various Beatle tunes.
The movie delivers a critical and analytical 'unfolding of the circumstances of Reality [Winner]’s life, starting with her childhood in Texas, in order to reveal her sense of deceptions and injustices that pass largely unchallenged in everyday American life.
Translations:
deciding
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: decidings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more deciding
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most deciding
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The act of making a decision.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: She saw to my meals; but the what and the when and the how of our eating was always controlled by her own decidings.
By keeping the court's public work mystified and secret, the justices, like [Clarence] Thomas, denigrate how important the actual deciding of cases is to the American people.
gloss: Resulting, having resulted, or having the potential to result in a decision or conclusion.
pos: adj
examples: The cost turned out to be the deciding factor in our final choice.
Do you know what was the deciding thing made me marry Mark Bycourt in the end? Yes: Cyril. I'm fond of boys, Mr Carrados, and I want them to have their chance in life.
Justice [Anthony] Kennedy often casts the deciding vote in closely divided cases on major social issues.
Translations:
hindering
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hinder
English -ing
English hindering
From hinder + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more hindering
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hindering
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Harmful; that hinders.
pos: adj
Translations:
consenting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more consenting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most consenting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Giving consent; agreeing to something.
pos: adj
examples: The law prohibits payment for sex, even between consenting adults.
gloss: Done with the consent of all parties involved.
pos: adj
examples: consenting sex
Derived words: consenting adult
consentingly
consentingness
nonconsenting
unconsenting
Translations:
confining
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more confining
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most confining
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Limiting; restrictive.
pos: adj
Translations:
deceiving
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: deceivings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: deception
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you[…]
Translations:
taxing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compare typologically Russian мыта́рство (mytárstvo) (< мы́тарь (mýtarʹ, “publican (tax collector)”)).
Inflected forms:
form: more taxing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most taxing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: taxings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: With respect to an experience: exhausting; draining.
pos: adj
gloss: Burdensome, difficult, exacting.
pos: adj
examples: a taxing problem
gloss: The act of imposing a tax.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: January 1834, Horace Binney, Speech on the Question of the Removal of the Deposites
Subscriptions, borrowings of money, taxings of the citizens and their property, may all be valid, as operations by virtue of laws for the government of the City […]
Derived words: nontaxing
taxingly
taxingness
untaxing
Translations:
pounding
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: poundings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more pounding
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pounding
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An act in which something or someone is pounded.
pos: noun
examples: “I took a few poundings in the past.”
gloss: An old-fashioned event to welcome someone (typically a new pastor) to a new community by bring gifts of storable food (a pound of coffee, flour, sugar, etc.) to help stock the pantry. It is somewhat similar to a “shower”.
pos: noun
gloss: Characterized by heavy or loud throbs.
pos: adj
examples: pounding rain
I have a pounding headache.
Derived words: ass pounding
heart-pounding
pounding block
pulse-pounding
pussy pounding
Translations:
grazing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: grazings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Grazeland.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The grazing is all parched and withered up, and it is wonderful how cattle get through the winter here as they do.
There are about one thousand common grazings across the Highlands and Islands. Typically 15-20 crofters share in an area of common grazings, on average 400-500 hectares, which is usually hill-land, unsuitable for cultivation.
gloss: The action of animals eating, mainly of grass in a field or on other grassland.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Here were the MacKays' cattle coming steadily up the track from their daily grazings on the lochside driven by Glen.
That story begins in rural Wyoming in 1963, when drifters Ennis and Jack are hired by a local rancher to herd sheep through grazing ground on the titular Brokeback Mountain.
Derived words: fly grazing
goat grazing problem
grazing fire
macrograzing
semi-zero grazing
sungrazing
Translations:
rebuilding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: rebuildings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of building something again.
pos: noun
examples: The complete 1892 rebuilding, indeed, followed an accident in 1890, when No. 6 ran away down the Buckley branch, and got badly smashed up in a collision at Connah's Quay.
These have certainly witnessed many events of interest, chief among them, undoubtedly, being the rebuilding of the Bulleid Pacifics.
Translations:
frowning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: frownings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of giving a frown.
pos: noun
examples: Let all the creatures above and below frown and scowl upon me; if my Creator smile, I am happy; nor can all their frownings diminish my complete joy.
Translations:
forgiving
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more forgiving
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most forgiving
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: forgivings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Inclined to forgive.
pos: adj
examples: I am inclined to take a forgiving attitude, since this is his first offence.
gloss: User-friendly, such that harmful mistakes are not easily made.
pos: adj
examples: A good WebApp interface is understandable and forgiving, providing the user with a sense of control. […] Work is carefully and continuously saved, with full option for the user to undo any activity at any time.
gloss: An act of forgiveness.
pos: noun
examples: And I receive your forgiveness only from you. A group's promises and forgivings are nothing more than the sum of its individual members' promises and forgivings.
Derived words: forgivingly
forgivingness
unforgiving
Translations:
fingering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
form: fingerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of using one's fingers in the playing of a musical instrument.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: She has a very good notion of fingering, though her taste is not equal to Anne's.
gloss: A specific method of using the fingers to play an instrument.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: That chord has two fingerings.
gloss: The act of using the fingers to stimulate one's own, or another person's, vulva, vagina, or anus.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A thin woollen yarn for stockings.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: fingerer
manual sex
Translations:
feasting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: feastings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A feast, or an occasion on which people or animals feast
pos: noun
examples: The lover at last fell ill; he fairly wasted away; and was so unhappy, that he gave up all his feastings and entertainments.
There was hooch galore, and meat and feastings, and they took kindly to the new order.
Despite many feastings, the wolves were hungry again.
Translations:
exploding
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having the appearance of an explosion.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
gloss: Only available for a very short period.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
Related words: exploded
Derived words: explodingly
Malaysian exploding ant
nonexploding
Translations:
incoming
Part of speech: adj
intj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From in (adverb) + coming (adjective).
Compound parts: in
coming
Inflected forms:
form: incomings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Coming (or about to come) in; arriving.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Incoming tides cause a tidal bore in many rivers.
Underneath a black cliff where the incoming tide smashed on the shingle, they stumbled upon the mail hood of Hrothgar's murdered vassal.
In dense fog at about 10.25 p.m. on the night of October 25, two tank barges carrying petroleum [...] missed the entrance to the docks at Sharpness and were carried up the River Severn by the incoming tide. They collided with one of the piers of the Severn Bridge, carrying the Berkeley Road-Lydney branch of the Western Region, and as a result of the collision both tankers blew up.
The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
"We landed in their killbox?" "We did. I am sor... No, belay that. Heads down! Cavalry incoming!"
gloss: Succeeding to an office or other position.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The incoming prime minister gave a press conference.
gloss: A warning that something is coming towards the addressee, especially enemy artillery fire.
pos: intj
gloss: The act of coming in; arrival.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Enemy fire directed at oneself.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Volume, however, was only part of the story because the incoming was almost always the heavier stuff. The hill received little 60mm or 82mm mortar fire but a deluge of 120mm mortar and 100mm artillery rounds.
I'll never forget the sight of those cannoneers standing at their guns firing back while the incoming was hitting all over. That was artillery's mission.
Things had improved a little bit compared to the Eastern Solomons, and three dozen F4F Wildcats on combat air patrol were vectored onto the oncoming hostiles, but once that initial task was accomplished, things began to collapse back into the cacophony and chaos that was all too familiar to those aboard the Enterprise, meaning that the end result was round about the same, the Japanese aircraft screaming into their attack runs on Hornet about the same time as most of the Wildcats managed to sort themselves out to begin their own attacks on the incoming.
Antonyms: outgoing
Derived words: stitch incoming
Translations:
exhilarating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, exhilarate + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more exhilarating
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most exhilarating
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Refreshingly thrilling.
pos: adj
examples: Mrs. Palmer added, "that this news, though it could scarcely be called exhilarating, had had such an effect on her elderly friends, that they had determined to set out to Bath, and, when rested, proceed thence to Exeter, in order to be nearer the place where the vessel was expected, and to be a support to Lord Meersbrook, in case of the worst."
The switchback road to Diabaig - pronounced 'Jer-vague' - passes through some of the most exhilarating scenery in Scotland. […] With a final swoop, the road plummets down into Diabaig, where cottages are dotted across the slopes of a rocky semi-circle.
What most delights us today in Candide is not the 'conte philosophique', nor its satire, nor the gradual emergence of a morality and vision of the world: instead it is its rhythm. With rapidity and lightness, a succession of mishaps, punishments and massacres races over the page, leaps from chapter to chapter, and ramifies and multiplies without evoking in the reader's emotions anything other than a feeling of an exhilarating and primitive vitality.
Writing a "Treehouse of Horror" segment has to be both exhilarating and daunting. It's exhilarating because it affords writers all the freedom in the world.
"Like many other large resorts, the town operated electric tramways, with open-topped cars. The journey down the steep incline to the harbour must have been exhilarating at times, testing the brakes on the vehicles to the limit."
Translations:
trailing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Inflected forms:
form: trailings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That converge in the direction of travel.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: On the far hillside we are approaching can be descried a bridge on the first section (Ruabon–Llangollen) of the important G.W.R. branch to Dolgelley, which will shortly join our main line by means of a trailing junction.
gloss: That follows behind; especially, that is attached and pulled behind.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: the trailing railcars
the trailing comments
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On the long, continuous downgrades of East Africa dynamic braking is of special value; the traction motors are used as generators and their energy output dissipated in force-ventilated banks of resistors. This facility enables a 700-ton trailing load, for example, to be brought down a 1 in 66 gradient at any selected speed between 14 and 25 m.p.h. without use of the air brakes.
Having reversed at Eastbourne, I am in the trailing car, which leaps and fishtails around so much on our way to Bexhill that I have trouble writing coherent notes.
gloss: Fabric or other material that trails.
pos: noun
examples: […] their roots, projecting in fibrous sprawls from their trunks, were their feet, and she pictured them advancing with wide trailings, and rustlings as of green draperies […]
All too often, the spout of a soap dispenser rests over the counter and leaves trailings of soap that must be wiped up frequently if a clean appearance is to be maintained.
Antonyms: facing
leading
Related words: trailer
semi-trailer
tractor-trailer
Derived words: nontrailing
trailingly
trailing spoke
trailing edge
Translations:
interfering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: interferings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: interference
pos: noun
examples: […] incessant interferings and bickerings, in every country, between the secular powers and the ecclesiastical.
Translations:
herding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: herdings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act by which individuals are herded.
pos: noun
examples: These herdings and stabbings and stranglings occurred five hundred years ago, before America felt the withering touch of Europe. Does that exclude them from our concern?
gloss: A hirsel.
pos: noun
examples: The whole flock is divided up into seven herdings (the equivalent of the Scottish "hirsels"), and it is through the head shepherd's herding that the only new blood is introduced. Every two or three years some rams are bought at Hawick […]
gloss: Manipulation of poll results by a polling organization so that they match those produced from other organizations.
pos: noun
examples: It’s what known in the polling industry as “herding”. And herding, not to put too fine a point on it, is when pollsters cheat. Each polling company knows that however accurate their results are, they will ultimately only be judged on one poll. The final poll before the election.
Some observers are concerned also that polling firms “play it safe” by trying to ensure that their own results don't differ too much from the findings of other firms. This practice has been called “herding.”
Pollsters often engage in a practice known as “herding,” which refers to the tendency to announce results similar to those other organizations have already published.
Derived words: herding dog
herding instinct
share-herding
shareherding
share herding
sheepherding
swineherding
Translations:
heaving
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more heaving
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most heaving
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: heavings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Crowded with people.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Kinlochewe was heaving with cyclists and their vehicles on Saturday morning but somehow,^([sic]) the organisers had found space for everyone and the main roads were kept clear.
The pool was heaving with screaming kids. By contrast the beach was virtually deserted, apart from the one day a cruise ship docked & a group of about 10 people appeared.
At this time it was pissing down and by the time Joe Satriani came on the tent was heaving with people just coming in to keep dry.
It is the opening weekend of the 25 Hours Bikini hotel and, despite being only one day old, the restaurant is fully booked and the bar's heaving.
Gem Concannon, 36, from Northwich in Cheshire, said the town was “heaving”, adding: “Hardly anyone was wearing masks or social distancing. It was shocking. I’ve never seen it that busy before.”
"You know what Paddington is like when it's absolutely heaving. There is nowhere for kids. You're holding their hands, you're holding the luggage, you're trying to move the pram, you're working out where to go. It really is quite stressful.
gloss: Of the chest, rising and falling noticeably from exertion, emotion, or laboured breathing.
pos: adj
gloss: Of the bosom, full, ample, or voluptuous in form, irrespective of movement.
pos: adj
tags: literary
examples: And here I might (if I followed the example of most travellers) launch out into a glowing description of the charms of these damsels, the elegant costumes they wore, and the gold and silver ornaments with which they were adorned. The jacket or body of purple gauze would figure well in such a description, allowing the heaving bosom to be seen beneath it, while "sparkling eyes," and "jetty tresses," and "tiny feet" might be thrown in profusely. But, alas!
We also prefer the past, I think, despite the bloodshed and absence of analgesia, because we’re so relentlessly served our own history, from the medieval murk of King & Conqueror to the heaving cleavage of Bridgerton.
gloss: An occasion on which something heaves or is heaved.
pos: noun
examples: No swellings tell that winds may be Upon some far-off happier sea-- No heavings hint that winds have been On seas less hideously serene."
His throne rocked with subterraneous heavings.
Then he set the jug down wrong side up, and remained glaring at it fixedly, while his chest rose and fell in deep heavings.
Derived words: heavingly
Translations:
haunting
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more haunting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most haunting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hauntings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Remaining in the mind; not easily forgotten.
pos: adj
examples: He had a haunting gaze.
gloss: A particular instance of haunting; a ghostly habitation.
pos: noun
examples: During the haunting, strange voices and noises were heard and objects flew off tables.
They [most ghosts] prefer taking trips back to Earth. ... They go and try to assert their ownership of some house that once belonged to them: and then ye get what's called a Haunting.
Translations:
hatching
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
biology
drafting
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
zoology
Inflected forms:
form: hatchings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A method of shading areas of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A group of birds, reptiles, fish, insects, etc., which emerge from their eggs at the same time.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We got a good hatching from the swallowtail eggs.
gloss: The act of an egg hatching, eclosion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Patterns used in construction drawings to represent various materials.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: cross-hatching
posthatching
prehatching
Translations:
clasping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: claspings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is clasped.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Nothing had been said during our drive, but the high thin breathing of our new companion, and the claspings and unclaspings of his hands spoke of the nervous tension within him.
Translations:
pained
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more pained
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pained
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In pain, especially in an emotional sense.
pos: adj
examples: The director looked as though his faith in human nature had received a rude blow.
"A hundred pounds would be a very large initial fee for a small firm like this, Mr Carrados," he remarked in a pained voice.
Translations:
infatuated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English infatuate
English -ed
English infatuated
From infatuate + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more infatuated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most infatuated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Foolishly or unreasoningly fond of, attracted to or in love with (someone); besotted.
pos: adj
examples: 1771, Elizabeth Griffith, The History of Lady Barton, London: T. Davies & T. Cadell, Volume 3, Letter 60, p. 40,
[…] I did not know her then, or I could never have been so infatuated as I was, to a creature so every way her inferior […]
“Gracious goodness,” the cry was, “how infatuated the mother is about that pert and headstrong boy who gives himself the airs of a lord on his blood-horse, and for whom our society is not good enough, and who would marry an odious painted actress off a booth, where very likely he wants to rant himself. …"
Augustus—you know my disreputable brother—such a trial to us all—well, Augustus is completely infatuated about her.
I never saw such an infatuated man. The more she talks and the odder the things she says, the more he’s delighted evidently.
Why, the poor woman was infatuated with him. He could have turned her round his little finger. She'd have given him anything he wanted.
gloss: Excessively fond of or enthusiastic about (something).
pos: adj
examples: Before I leave Switzerland I cannot but observe, that the Notion of Witchcraft reigns very much in this Country. […] The People are so universally infatuated with the Notion, that if a Cow falls sick, it is Ten to One but an Old Woman is clapt up in Prison for it […]
She was one of those people who are infatuated with patent medicines and all new-fangled methods of producing health or mending it.
gloss: Foolish, stupid, lacking good judgment (often as a result of some external influence).
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: […] that people must needs be madd or strangely infatuated, that build the chief hope of thir common happiness or safetie on a single person […]
It is possible, that had they not been so infatuated, as to imagine they could retrieve in Germany all that they had lost in America, the British court in the beginning of the year 1759 might have listened to terms of accommodation.
So deep did they go; and so ancient, and corroded, and weedy the aspect of the lowermost puncheons, that you almost looked next for some mouldy corner-stone cask containing coins of Captain Noah, with copies of the posted placards, vainly warning the infatuated old world from the flood.
Related words: fatuity
fatuous
infatuation
Derived words: infatuatedly
uninfatuated
Translations:
perturbed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more perturbed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most perturbed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Disturbed; flustered.
pos: adj
gloss: Slightly modified.
pos: adj
examples: The equation x² − 3.0001x + 2 = 0 is a perturbed version of x² − 3x + 2 = 0.
Derived words: imperturbed
nonperturbed
perturbedly
perturbedness
unperturbed
Translations:
overwrought
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Past participle of overwork; equivalent to over- + wrought.
Base: wrought
Affixes: over-
Inflected forms:
form: more overwrought
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most overwrought
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Excessively nervous, excited, tense, angry, anxious, or upset; overemotional; very uneasy.
pos: adj
gloss: Elaborate; baroque; overdone.
pos: adj
examples: Her book includes an incisive discussion of misogyny on the New Right. [Laura K.] Field notes how “gynocracy” and “the longhouse” have become overwrought MAGA epithets for an unbearably feminized and pluralist society.
Antonyms: calm
collected
composed
laid-back
placid
serene
tranquil
untroubled
austere
bare
conservative
denuded
modest
naked
plain
simple
stark
stripped
uncovered
restrained
subdued
toned-down
unadorned
Derived words: overwroughtness
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: развълнуван
roman: razvǎlnuvan
lang: Bulgarian
word: възбуден
roman: vǎzbuden
lang: Czech
word: podrážděný
lang: Czech
word: nervózní
lang: Dutch
word: geagiteerd
lang: Dutch
word: nerveus
lang: Esperanto
word: superfortita
lang: Finnish
word: kiihtynyt
lang: Finnish
word: hermostunut
lang: German
word: aufgeregt
lang: Italian
word: sovraeccitato
lang: Italian
word: alterato
lang: Portuguese
word: alterado
lang: Russian
word: перевозбуждённый
roman: perevozbuždjónnyj
lang: Spanish
word: nerviosisimo
lang: Spanish
word: sobrexitado
lang: Spanish
word: rabioso
unprincipled
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 principled
English unprincipled
From un- + principled.
Inflected forms:
form: more unprincipled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unprincipled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking moral values.
pos: adj
examples: But side by side with it was a baser conspiracy, among the more unprincipled and desperate friends of James, for the assassination of the King.
That’s what Joe Biden did. His pardon of his son Hunter was understandable from a paternal perspective (what father wants to see his son in prison?), but it was inexcusably unprincipled.
Early in his career, Trump apprenticed himself to Roy Cohn, an unprincipled lawyer who taught the young Trump how to gain wealth and influence through ruthless bullying, profane braggadocio, opportunistic bigotry, baseless lawsuits, lying, and more lying.
Yet as Trump’s “fixer” with politicians, judges and mob bosses, Cohn remained utterly loyal to Trump and his father, Fred.
Translations:
solitaire
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French solitaire, ultimately from Latin sōlitārius. Doublet of solitary.
Inflected forms:
form: more solitaire
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most solitaire
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Living or being alone; solitary.
pos: adj
Translations:
interject
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin interiectus, perfect passive participle of intericiō (“place between”).
Inflected forms:
form: interjects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: interjecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: interjected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: interjected
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To insert something between other things.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To say as an interruption or aside.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He roared with prodigious violence against George the Second. When he ceased, Moody interjected, in an Irish tone, and with a comick look, “Ah! poor George the Second.”
‘Please, sir, Richard says one of the horses has got a very bad cold, and he thinks, sir, if you could make it convenient to go the day after to-morrow, instead of to-morrow, he could physic it to-day, so as—’
‘Confound his impudence!’ interjected the master.
As I listened I interjected an occasional sentence of Japanese translation for our guests.
Virenque, in a panicky mishearing, replied, “Me a dealer? No, I am not a dealer.” […] Whereupon Virenque’s lawyer interjected, “No, Richard, the judge said leader. It’s not an offense to be a leader.”
gloss: To interpose oneself; to intervene.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: interjectable
interjection
interjector
Derived words: interjective
interjectory
Translations: