yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
imploringly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English imploring
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English imploringly
From imploring + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more imploringly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most imploringly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Beseechingly; in a manner that beseeches or implores.
pos: adv
examples: “You must help me,” she said imploringly.
For a week or two after Wendy came it was doubtful whether they would be able to keep her, as she was another mouth to feed. Mr. Darling was frightfully proud of her, but he was very honourable, and he sat on the edge of Mrs. Darling's bed, holding her hand and calculating expenses, while she looked at him imploringly.
Translations:
springboard
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From spring + board.
Compound parts: spring
board
Inflected forms:
form: springboards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: springboards
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: springboarding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: springboarded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: springboarded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A board consisting of a flexible, springy, cantilevered platform that propels one into the air, used for diving or gymnastics.
pos: noun
gloss: Something that acts as a catalyst to begin or accelerate an action or growth.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The opportunity acted as a springboard for their success.
It was the section of the North Midland Railway from Derby to Ambergate which provided the springboard for a scheme that took shape in the early part of 1845 for a route through the Peak to Manchester.
gloss: To launch or propel as if from a springboard, especially toward political office.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Such a change could amount to a seismic shift in the nation’s electoral dynamics, potentially springboarding a Republican into the White House, and the possibility has animated hopeful Republicans and fearful Democrats.
Related words: diving board
Derived words: springboard diving
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: منطلق
lang: Czech
word: odrazový můstek
lang: Danish
word: springbræt
lang: Finnish
word: ponnahduslauta
lang: French
word: tremplin
lang: German
word: Sprungbrett
lang: Hungarian
word: ugródeszka
lang: Icelandic
word: stökkpallur
lang: Italian
word: trampolino
lang: Italian
word: trampolino di lancio
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: springbrett
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: springbrett
lang: Polish
word: trampolina
lang: Portuguese
word: trampolim
lang: Russian
word: трампли́н
roman: tramplín
lang: Russian
word: плацда́рм
roman: placdárm
lang: Spanish
word: trampolín
lang: Swedish
word: språngbräda
lang: Ukrainian
word: трамплі́н
roman: tramplín
cantilevered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Fitted with, or constituting, a cantilever; projecting out laterally from a wall or similar support and thus hanging without other supports.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The cantilevered shelf of crumbling concrete where my mother sits has been declared unsafe.
Translations:
paradoxically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English paradoxical
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English paradoxically
From paradoxical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more paradoxically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most paradoxically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a paradoxical manner; so as to create a paradox.
pos: adv
examples: The proliferation of labor-saving devices has not given us more leisure time, paradoxically.
If there exists a non-empty set of uninteresting natural numbers, there must be a smallest uninteresting number, but this number is paradoxically interesting because it is the smallest uninteresting number.
Paradoxically enough, however, in general only the parties of the Left have done most to spread the belief that it was the numerical strength of the opposing material interests which decided political issues, whereas in practice these same parties have regularly and successfully acted as if they understood the key position of the intellectuals.
Paradoxically, the same faculty who complain about busyness are most likely to end up waiting passively. While they acquiescently wait to write, they busy themselves with other, often trivial, activities.
But Central Point, which had been a visibly mixed-race community since the 19th century, was home to a secret but paradoxically open interracialism.
Paradoxically, the deluge of writing itself contributes to declining readership. It's not just that if you're writing then you can't be reading. It's also that the sheer volume of what is now available acts as a disincentive to settle down with a single text. The literary equivalent of channel surfing replaces the prolonged concentration required to tackle a book.
Cottagecore is related to grandmacore, faeriecore, farmcore and goblincore; other nostalgia-ridden aesthetic communities that, paradoxically, thrive on many of the most popular internet platforms of the day.
Lacking the anthropomorphic elasticity of their hand-drawn counterparts in the original film, the animal characters of Favreau’s Lion King appeared, paradoxically, both lifelike and lifeless, their voices never matching their limited facial expressions
Translations:
mahout
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: PIE word
 *méǵh₂s
The noun is borrowed from Hindustani (Hindi महौत (mahaut)/Urdu مَہَوت (mahaut)), महाउत (mahāut), variants of महावत (mahāvat)/مَہاوَت (mahāvat), from Sanskrit महामात्र (mahāmātra, “elephant keeper; high official; king’s minister”), from महा (mahā, “great”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (“big, great”)) + मात्र (mātra, “measure; quantity”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (“to measure”)).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: mahouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mahouts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mahouting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mahouted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mahouted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An elephant trainer, keeper, and driver.
pos: noun
tags: South-Asia
examples: The Serrievvan hath the overſight of the Camels, and the Mahout, that of the Elephants.
The very best of all the elephants belonged to the very worst of all the drivers or mahouts; and the superior beast's name was Moti Guj. He was the absolute property of his mahout, which would never have been the case under native rule, for Moti Guj was a creature to be desired by kings; and his name, being translated, meant the Pearl Elephant.
[I]n a cabinet were about a hundred little elephants made of ivory. They were of different sizes, and some had their mahouts or palanquins on their backs.
Around mid-day elephants were taken into the forest by their mahouts to forage on foods of their choice, and then carried back a supply of food gathered by mahout and elephant. During the relaxed mid-day period, it was common to see mahouts sleeping on their elephants' backs, under an umbrella for shade.
gloss: To drive (an elephant or elephants).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Word was passed down the river, the call going out for the bravest of Brul mahouting only the strongest of mounts.
Don't forget, though, your wedding will always be memorable to you yourself, […] On the other hand, even if you arrive on an elephant mahouted by Lady Gaga, there will still be guests in years to come who won't be able to remember whose wedding that was because they were aged 26–32 at the time and it was the eighth wedding they were at that year.
gloss: To drive elephants.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: First a team of six ponied pulling a miniature fire engine jumping with midget firefighters, then a dozen scantily mahouted elephants painted pink, came out of the arc light and sawdut into neon glow and mirroring asphalt.
Traditionally they are hunters and gatherers but today they are agricultural labourers. […] They are experts at collecting honey and mahouting.
Translations:
defibrillator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: cardiology
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English defibrillate
Old French -eorbor.
Middle English -our
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -torlbor.
English -or
English defibrillator
From defibrillate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: defibrillators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An electronic device used internally or externally that delivers a controlled electric shock to a patient to correct ventricular fibrillation, a lack of coordination of the contraction of muscle tissue of the large chambers of the heart.
pos: noun
examples: Two deaths have been linked to St. Jude Medical heart defibrillators with batteries that failed. […] Losing battery in a defibrillator could mean the failure of pacing heartbeats or delivering shocks, a potentially deadly consequence for cardiac patients.
High intensity EMF can have adverse impacts on the operation of implantable medical devices (IMDs) such as pacemakers and defibrillators.
Translations:
thiolate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂-der.?
Ancient Greek θέειον (théeion)
Ancient Greek θεῖον (theîon)der.
English thio-
Akkadian 𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (guḫlum)bor.
Aramaic כוחלא (kuḥlā)bor.
Arabic كُحْل (kuḥl)
Andalusian Arabic اَلْكُحُول (al-kuḥūl)bor.
Medieval Latin alcoholder.
Middle English alcofol
English alcohol
English -ol
English thiol
English -ate
English thiolate
From thiol + -ate (“derivative”).
Inflected forms:
form: thiolates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any derivative of a thiol in which a metal atom replaces the hydrogen attached to sulfur RSH => RS⁻M⁺.
pos: noun
Translations:
chillaxing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more chillaxing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most chillaxing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: chillaxin
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: chillaxin’
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Relaxing, chilling.
pos: adj
examples: But these chillaxing engineers, led by Zuckerberg, were the ones who could bring the site back up with a few hours of frantic coding, and everyone else, considered ‘duller, incapable of quick and intelligent thought’, was there to serve the thing they had created and, therefore, them.
Translations:
foolishly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English folysly, folysschly; equivalent to foolish + -ly.
Base: foolish
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more foolishly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most foolishly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a foolish manner.
pos: adv
examples: He dressed foolishly to entertain the children.
I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural aukwardness.
“Nothing to speak of,” said Adam Woodcock, answering for the boy—“a foolish quarrel with me, which was more foolishly told over again to my honoured lady, cost the poor boy his place.[…]”
gloss: Without good judgment.
pos: adv
examples: Foolishly, he had decided that, because a home was the best investment, two homes were even better.
Now Mr. Bush plans to pour more arms into this unstable region and add fuel to the volatile powderkeg he has foolishly created.
Translations:
Excellency
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Excellencies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A form of address for certain high officials or dignitaries.
pos: noun
Translations:
sealion
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The verb is from “The Terrible Sea Lion”, a 2014 strip in the webcomic Wondermark, in which a character expresses a dislike of sea lions and a passing sea lion repeatedly, intrusively asks the character to justify this.
Inflected forms:
form: sealions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sealioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sealioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sealioned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sea lion
pos: verb
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: To intrude on a conversation with probing questions in an attempt to engage in unwanted debate, usually disingenuously as a form of harassment or trolling.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
derogatory
examples: There, Peggy speaks for every angry marginalised person who’s ever been sealioned or tone-policed in a disagreement.
The purpose of sealioning never to actually learn or become more informed.
I can attest to reactionary right-wing trolls being the black belt masters of Internet pile-ons, or as Wondermark has indelibly dubbed the practice, “sealioning.”
Popular definitions of harassment also extend to “sealioning” — a recently coined term based on an Internet comic, “The Terrible Sea Lion” — which seems to mean little more than unwelcome attempts to engage someone in debate.
Translations:
showbread
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From show + bread.
Compound parts: show
bread
Inflected forms:
form: showbreads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shew bread
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: shew-bread
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: shewbread
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: show bread
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The twelve loaves of bread placed daily by the Jewish priests in the Holy Place on the table.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: There is sett on the Board a high heap of Soule-cakes lyeing one upon another like the picture of the Sew-Bread in the old Bibles.
Translations:
breccia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrology
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian breccia, from French brèche, from Middle French breche, from Old French breche, from Vulgar Latin *breca, of Germanic origin, from Frankish *breka.
Inflected forms:
form: breccias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rock composed of angular fragments in a matrix that may be of a similar or a different material.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Courses of angular boulders line the rim of the volcano, the remains of its last explosive phase, resulting in a volcanic breccia.
Translations:
showmanship
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English show
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
Middle English -man
English -man
English showman
Proto-Germanic *skapjaną
Proto-Germanic *-skapiz
Proto-West Germanic *-skapi
Old English -sċiepe
Middle English -schipe
English -ship
English showmanship
From showman + -ship.
Inflected forms:
form: showmanships
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or skill of giving an engaging or compelling performance; a stage presence.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The act was clean and well-rehearsed, but the performers lacked the showmanship that would have made it great.
Translations:
petticoat
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English petticote, petycote, peticote, petite cote, equivalent to petty + coat.
Compound parts: petty
coat
Inflected forms:
form: petticoats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: petticoats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: petticoating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: petticoated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: petticoated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A tight, usually padded undercoat worn by women over a shirt and under the doublet.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A woman's undercoat, worn to be displayed beneath an open gown.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A fisherman's loose canvas or oilcloth skirt.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A type of ornamental skirt or underskirt, often displayed below a dress; chiefly in plural, designating a woman's skirts collectively.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
historical
gloss: A light woman's undergarment worn under a dress or skirt, and hanging either from the shoulders or (now especially) from the waist; a kind of slip, worn to make the skirt fuller, or for extra warmth.
pos: noun
examples: “Yes, and her petticoat; I hope you saw her petticoat, six inches deep in mud, I am absolutely certain; and the gown which had been let down to hide it not doing its office.”
“Your picture may be very exact, Louisa,” said Bingley; “but this was all lost upon me. I thought Miss Elizabeth Bennet looked remarkably well when she came into the room this morning. Her dirty petticoat quite escaped my notice.”
gloss: A woman.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A bell-mouthed piece over the exhaust nozzles in the smokebox of a locomotive, strengthening and equalising the draught through the boiler-tubes.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: To dress in a petticoat.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: underskirt
Derived words: petticoat breeches
petticoat discipline
petticoated
petticoatery
petticoat government
petticoating
petticoatless
petticoat pipe
petticoat punishment
petticoat tail
pettiloon
pettipants
pettiskirt
underpetticoat
Translations:
swayed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more swayed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most swayed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Bent backwards, as in swayback
pos: adj
Translations:
overlooked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
English looked
English overlooked
From over- + looked.
Inflected forms:
form: more overlooked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most overlooked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Missed, unnoticed.
pos: adj
examples: Jealousy: It's all the feelings that come over you when you think you're being overlooked by others. It comes from inside, from your insecurities and fears—fear of loss, fear of betrayal, and fear of hurt.
Translations:
attentively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English attentifly, attentifli, equivalent to attentive + -ly.
Base: attentive
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more attentively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most attentively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an attentive manner.
pos: adv
examples: 'It's a very clean cut,' said the Rat, examining it again attentively.
When Major saw that they had all made themselves comfortable and were waiting attentively, he cleared his throat and began
Translations:
nitroso
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin nitrōsus. Doublet of nitrous.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The univalent radical and functional group -N=O
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
triazole
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *tréyes
Proto-Indo-European *tri-
Proto-Italic *tri-
Latin tri-der.
English tri-
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-)
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós
Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti
Proto-Hellenic *gʷyṓw-ō
Proto-Hellenic *ďṓwō
Ancient Greek ζώω (zṓō)
Ancient Greek ζῶ (zô)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek ζωή (zōḗ)
French azotebor.
English azote
English azo-
English -ole
English azole
English triazole
From tri- + azole.
Inflected forms:
form: triazoles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Either of two isomeric heterocyclic compounds having a five-membered ring with three nitrogen atoms and two double bonds in the ring; any organic derivative of these compounds.
pos: noun
Translations:
phenolate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: phenolates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: phenoxide
pos: noun
Translations:
weakened
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more weakened
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most weakened
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Reduced; made less strong.
pos: adj
examples: His weakened immune system couldn't cope with the infection.
Translations:
idealism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: First attested 1796, from ideal + -ism.
Base: ideal
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: idealisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of a person of having high ideals that are usually unrealizable or at odds with practical life.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The practice or habit of giving or attributing ideal form or character to things; treatment of things in art or literature according to ideal standards or patterns;—opposed to realism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An approach to philosophical enquiry, which asserts that direct and immediate knowledge can only be had of ideas or mental pictures.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: idealist
idealistic
idealistically
perfectionism
realism
pragmatism
materialism
physicalism
Derived words: absolute idealism
epistemological idealism
metaphysical idealism
overidealism
transcendental idealism
unidealism
Translations:
haku
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batuʀ
Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *batuʀ
Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *batuʀ
Proto-Oceanic *patu(ʀ)
Proto-Polynesian *fatu
Hawaiian hakubor.
English haku
Borrowed from Hawaiian haku (“to braid a lei”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A three-ply braid incorporating additional materials, used in making lei.
pos: noun
tags: Hawaii
Translations:
alarum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English alarom, from Old Italian all'arme (“to arms, to the weapons”), from Latin arma, armorum (“weapons”).
Inflected forms:
form: alarums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: allarum
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A danger signal or warning.
pos: noun
examples: These are the only visible luxuries: the rest is the irreducible minimum of poverty's needs: a wretched bed heaped with all sorts of coverings that have any warmth in them, a draped packing case with a basin and jug on it and a little looking glass over it, a chair and table, the refuse of some suburban kitchen, and an American alarum clock on the shelf above the unused fireplace: the whole lighted with a gas lamp with a penny in the slot meter.
The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.[…]The second note, the high alarum, not so familiar and always important since it indicates the paramount sin in Man's private calendar, took most of them by surprise although they had been well prepared.
Just another forum, then, sounding the usual alarums on the looming threat from global warming?
gloss: A call to arms.
pos: noun
examples: Come let vs meet them at the mountain foot, / And with a ſodaine and an hot alarum / Driue all their horſes headlong down the hill.
It seems to me that by the same process they are also made less "real" - distinguished, in part, by the physical size of the television screen, which, for all the industry's advances, still shows one a picture of men three inches tall shooting at other men three inches tall, and trivialized, or at least tamed, by the enveloping cozy alarums of the household.
On the cable news channels, especially, there were teary-eyed interviews with bystanders; alarums from both the gun control advocates on the one side and the Second Amendment nuts on the other; and—inevitably, inappropriately—debates over what the shooting might mean for this closely-watched Senate race.
gloss: An alarm clock.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: Ten minutes passed by the measure of the battered old alarum on the dresser shelf before the young man returned.
Derived words: alarums and excursions
Translations:
nervously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English nervous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English nervously
From nervous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more nervously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most nervously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a nervous manner; feeling or displaying nervousness.
pos: adv
examples: He paced nervously as he waited for the important phone call.
Then he could see the modest bookseller, somewhat clammy in his extremities and lost within his academic robe and hood, nervously fidgeting his mortar-board, haled forward by ushers, and tottering rubescent before the chancellor, provost, president (or whoever it might be) who hands out the diploma.
She nervously undressed in the dancing beams of the Fidra lighthouse, giving it all away before it's too late
Translations:
blackness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English blaknesse, equivalent to black + -ness. Sense 5 most likely both originated from the masque The Masque of Blackness by Ben Jonson and later changed to its current positive sense.
Base: black
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: blacknesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Blackness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: blacknesse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being black in colour.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The blackness of outer space comes from the lack of anything to reflect light rather than the absence of light.
The lights of Luluabourg disappeared, and we were in the blackness of the African night, which was continuously pierced by the showers of red sparks ejected skywards and red hot ashes deposited on the track as the fireman rocked his fire.
gloss: Any space that such colour pervades.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Out of the blackness came some flickers of light.
The guest room was full of the noise of the rain falling on fragrant branches in the framed blackness of the open window.
gloss: Darkness, gloominess; depression.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
usually
gloss: The quality of being evil or dismal.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
usually
examples: She had seen so much of the blacker side of human nature that blackness no longer startled her as it should do.
gloss: The state of being of African descent.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: “Black Panther” is a stunning visual and cultural achievement that takes superhero cinema where it’s never gone before by not being afraid to embrace its blackness.
gloss: The experiences and culture of Black people.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Antonyms: blacklessness
whiteness
Derived words: antiblackness
blackness studies
pitch blackness
pitch-blackness
political blackness
postblackness
problackness
Translations:
barred
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more barred
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most barred
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having bars; striped.
pos: adj
examples: Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime.
gloss: Prevented, either by a physical barrier or by conditions.
pos: adj
examples: He is barred by term limits from running for a third term in office.
gloss: Indicating the start and end of words using thicker lines instead of black squares.
pos: adj
examples: The majority of the first 114 puzzles were of a 15 x 15 design, since when all the puzzles have been on a 14 x 14 barred grid, with one exception.
In this section of a barred crossword, the positions of 12 across and 9 down are highlighted.
In general the number of unchecked letters is greater in a blocked grid than in a barred one.
gloss: High on Xanax.
pos: adj
tags: slang
Derived words: Asian barred owlet
barred knifejaw
five-barred gate
nonbarred
overbarred
time-barred
tribarred
Translations:
bagged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having been placed in a bag.
pos: adj
examples: By arrangement with B.R., I.C.I. undertakes the cleaning and examination of the empty vans for leaks or other defects that might damage the bagged fertiliser, and also the labelling and marshalling of the loaded vans into trains.
I started general cartage work and hauling bagged cement to Pine Creek, south of Darwin.
gloss: Having been caught or successfully hunted.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
Derived words: prebagged
unbagged
Translations:
hitter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
baseball
card-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From hit + -er (agent noun suffix) or -er (measurement suffix).
Base: hit
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: hitters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who or that which hits.
pos: noun
examples: The boxer was renowned as a hard hitter.
gloss: An assassin for hire; a hitman.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Death was Halston's business; he had brought it to eighteen men and six women in his career as an independent hitter.
gloss: One who comes up to bat.
pos: noun
examples: He struck out six of the last seven batters, striking out the side in the eighth and fanning two hitters in the ninth.
gloss: A game with a team making a specified number of hits.
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
examples: Mike Flanagan (1-2) hurled a four-hitter in 50-degree weather made colder by wind gusting up to 25 miles an hour. […] Ross Baumgarten (2-1) combined with Lamarr Hoyt on a seven-hitter to hand Detroit its sixth straight loss.
Witt, who had thrown three two-hitters in his career, was in control throughout and showed no signs of fatigue.
You’ve never pitched a no-hitter or a one-hitter or a two-hitter or a three-hitter, because you’ve never pitched nine innings.
gloss: The point of 31 in the game of costly colours.
pos: noun
Derived words: banjo hitter
big hitter
cleanup hitter
contact hitter
designated hitter
heavy-hitter
heavy hitter
leadoff hitter
no-hitter
one-hitter
pinch hitter
pinch-hitter
pipe-hitter
power hitter
pull hitter
switch-hitter
switch hitter
trail hitter
Translations:
shinner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: An approximation of the pronunciation of Irish sinn (/ʃɪnʲ/) written using English orthography, with -er.
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: shinners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a member or supporter of Sinn Féin.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
derogatory
slang
Translations:
anthropogenic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From anthropo- + -genic, attested 1889.
Base: anthropo
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the origin of man (anthropogeny).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 1952 The cosmogonic and anthropogenic myths are of secondary importance in Yahwistic religiosity. (H. H. Gerth & D. A. Martindale (trans.), M. Weber's Ancient Judaism ix. 227)
gloss: Having its origin in the influence of human activity on nature.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: anthropogenic climate change
Wastewater is any water that has been adversely affected in quality by anthropogenic influence.
The approximately 4,000 remaining adult birds in this species are also threatened by the usual palette of anthropogenic factors, including habitat destruction, oil and gas drilling and disruption of fish movement by dams.
Related words: Anthropocene
anthropocenic
Derived words: anthropogenically
anthropogenicity
nonanthropogenic
Translations:
desirability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Morphologically desirable + -ity and desire + -ability.
Base: desirable
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: desirabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being desirable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Many a RP podcaster, blogger, and Youtuber^([sic]) have fired up their livesteaming software, to arrogantly beat their chests, boasting that men reach their “peak SMV” (“Sexual Marketplace Value”, or desirability to women) in their late 30s.
Antonyms: undesirability
Translations:
managing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: managings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: management
pos: noun
examples: […] a just story of learning, containing the antiquities and originals of knowledges and their sects, their inventions, their traditions, their diverse administrations and managings, […]
Translations:
ngoma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Bantu *ngòmà
Swahili ngomabor.
English ngoma
Borrowed from Swahili ngoma (“dance”), from Proto-Bantu *ngòmà.
Inflected forms:
form: ngomas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large social dancing event in parts of Africa.
pos: noun
Translations:
dysthymic
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dysthym(ia)
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English dysthymic
From dysthym(ia) + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: dysthymics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more dysthymic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dysthymic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A person diagnosed with dysthymia, or dysthymic depression.
pos: noun
gloss: Having or relating to dysthymia.
pos: adj
examples: John has always had a dysthymic personality.
Translations:
prelature
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From both French prélature and post-Classical Latin praelātūra.
Inflected forms:
form: prelatures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: prelates in general
pos: noun
gloss: the office of a prelate
pos: noun
Synonyms: prelacy
Derived words: prelatureship
Translations:
announced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Latin nūntius
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin nūntiō
Latin adnūntiō
Latin annūntiōder.
Old French anoncierder.
English announce
English -ed
English announced
From announce + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more announced
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most announced
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having been preceded by an announcement; declared.
pos: adj
examples: But this test's very announced purpose was to measure and evaluate seismic signals at effective distances extending from the point of testing out to all distances where the signal could be detected.
Rational-expectations believers presumably must fall back on unannounced and inappropriate policies (monetary or other) , having declared that announced policies will be discounted ex ante.
Boccherini's textural, lineless music offers many such passages that invite the listener to suppose something "barely announced."
The RCN calls for the CQC to undertake more announced and unannounced inspections, and for staffing metrics to be explicitly included within their approach.
Translations:
tetrarch
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tetrarchēs, from Ancient Greek τετράρχης (tetrárkhēs), from τετρα- (tetra-, “four”) + -άρχης (-árkhēs, “ruler, leader”).
Inflected forms:
form: tetrarchs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A governor or ruler of a quarter of a country, especially of a fourth part of a province in or client state of Ancient Rome.
pos: noun
gloss: Each of the four members of a jointly ruling tetrarchy, notably of the Roman Empire since Diocletian.
pos: noun
gloss: An officer in charge of a fourth part of a phalanx in Ancient Greece.
pos: noun
gloss: Having four vascular strands in a fibrovascular cylinder or stele.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
sharpened
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a sharp point or edge.
pos: adj
examples: a sharpened pencil
a sharpened knife
Antonyms: unsharpened
Translations:
Laphroaig
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Goidelic/Scottish Gaelic; possibly from lag (“hollow”) + Old Norse breidd (“breadth”) + Old Norse vík (“bay”).
Inflected forms:
form: Laphroaigs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Laphroaig whisky
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And when I am hungry, said MacK, they bring me the salmons of Argyll smoked over peat of the Hebrides, and a glass of Laphroaig.
Translations:
esterified
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more esterified
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most esterified
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: (of an acid) Combined with an alcohol or (of an alcohol) combined with an acid, to form an ester.
pos: adj
Translations:
alkoxy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Akkadian 𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (guḫlum)bor.
Aramaic כוחלא (kuḥlā)bor.
Arabic كُحْل (kuḥl)
Andalusian Arabic اَلْكُحُول (al-kuḥūl)bor.
Medieval Latin alcoholder.
Middle English alcofol
English alcohol
English alk-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-der.?
Ancient Greek ὀξύς (oxús)
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Proto-Hellenic *génos
Ancient Greek γένος (génos)
French oxygènebor.
English oxygen
English -oxy
English alkoxy
From alk- + -oxy.
Inflected forms:
form: alkoxys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: any univalent radical R-O-, or anion R-O⁻, where R is an alkyl group
pos: noun
Translations:
phosphorylation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English phosphor
Proto-Indo-European *swel-der.?
Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der.
Frenchder.
English -yl
English phosphoryl
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English phosphorylation
From phosphoryl + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: phosphorylations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the process of transferring a phosphate group from a donor to an acceptor; often catalysed by enzymes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Src worked by unleashing an indiscriminate volley of phosphorylation—throwing “on” dozens of molecular switches.
Translations:
coq
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French.
Inflected forms:
form: coqs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A trimming of cock feathers on a woman's hat.
pos: noun
examples: […] with a flat Tam crown of heliotrope velvet, a drapery under the brim, and two flat coq feathers.
A smart all-black model has just arrived from Jeanne Due. It is turban-trimmed with black coq which forms a bow drape.
It was the Spanish rooster, the bird that produced coq feathers, that sacrificed the most plumage. Coqs, the rooster's long, curved, and iridescent tail feathers, were plucked from the bird to trim hats or, in this case, masks.
Translations:
glaring
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, glare + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more glaring
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most glaring
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: glarings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Reflecting with glare.
pos: adj
gloss: Blatant, obvious.
pos: adj
examples: How could you miss this glaring error? It's right on page one!
gloss: The act of giving a glare.
pos: noun
examples: Take off thine eye! more intolerable than fiends' glarings is a doltish stare!
gloss: A group of cats.
pos: noun
tags: rare
examples: 2010, Chuck Lorre et al., The Big Bang Theory, episode “The Zazzy Substitution”
Leonard: You’re clearly upset about Amy being gone, and you’re trying to replace her with a bunch of cats.
Sheldon: Clowder.
Leonard: What?
Sheldon: A group of cats is a clowder. Or a glaring. It’s the kind of thing you ought to know now that we have one.
Derived words: glaringly
glaringness
Translations:
crumpling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: crumplings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something crumples.
pos: noun
examples: Watt saw the little movements of the stuff, the little bulgings and crumplings, and the sudden indrawings, where it was nipped, between forefinger and thumb probably, for those are the nippers.
gloss: A crumpled shape or structure.
pos: noun
examples: When strata are so unsymmetrically and abundantly folded that it becomes difficult or impossible to trace out the individual flexures and crumplings — the whole forming an irregular complex of folds — they are said to be contorted […]
Translations:
gurgling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: gurglings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A gurgling sound.
pos: noun
examples: […] the cries of the natives, the moanings and gurglings of camels, the trumpetings of elephants, the buglings of neighbouring regiments […]
Translations:
earthy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English erthy, equivalent to earth + -y. Compare German erdig (“earthy”), Swedish jordig (“earthy”).
Base: earth
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: earthier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: earthiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling dirt or soil (i.e. earth).
pos: adj
examples: The earthy smell of fresh turned loam told me the farmer had started plowing this morning, the definitive sign of spring for me.
gloss: Composed, or largely composed, of soil.
pos: adj
examples: Beyond here the tides are not felt, and we now entered upon a district of elevated forest, with a finer vegetation. Large trees stretch out their arms across the stream, and the steep, earthy banks are clothed with ferns and zingiberaceous plants.
gloss: Down-to-earth, not artificial, natural.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: She was an earthy soul, the salt of the earth as they say of such rural folk, untarnished by false civilization.
Meekly thou didſt reſign this earthy load / Of Death, call'd Life;
YSL, as he is often called, is equally capable of casual, aristocratic cruelty and earthy, spontaneous tenderness, and when you study his face it can be hard to distinguish boredom from rapture.
gloss: Coarse and unrefined, crude.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: earthy humour
gloss: Like or resembling the earth or of the earth.
pos: adj
gloss: Covered with earth (mud, dirt).
pos: adj
examples: He was wet through with the dew and quite earthy from diving into the burrows the Boy had made for him in the flower bed, and Nana grumbled as she rubbed him off with a corner of her apron.
Related words: earthish
Earthish
earthly
salt of the earth
Derived words: earthily
earthiness
Translations:
dali
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A timber tree (genus Myristica) of Guiana, whose wood is used for staves etc.
pos: noun
Translations:
storeroom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From store + room.
Compound parts: store
room
Inflected forms:
form: storerooms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: store-room
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A room used for storage.
pos: noun
examples: It was truly one of the most horrific filming experiences of my career there, contrasting neatly with some of the best of my career - filming in various off-limits storerooms at LTM's Acton Depot.
Translations:
supplier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English supply
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 supplier
From supply + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: suppliers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who supplies; a provider.
pos: noun
examples: A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.
gloss: Someone who assists (sets up) a goal.
pos: noun
examples: Regular supplier Barton played in another teasing corner, which was headed on towards goal by the impressive Ameobi and flicked in by expert poacher Nolan.
Related words: supplement
supply
provider
purveyor
vendor
Derived words: fuel supplier
nonsupplier
self-supplier
subsupplier
Translations:
mottled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: 1670-80 mottle + -ed.
Base: mottle
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more mottled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mottled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Colored in patches; spotted.
pos: adj
examples: The mottled skin of the snake was a camouflage that helped it blend in with the shadows.
Translations:
nobly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English nobeliche, nobely, nobilliche, nobilly, nobliche, noblike, nobly, noblye, equivalent to noble + -ly.
Base: noble
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more nobly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: noblier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
literary
rare
form: most nobly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: nobliest
pos: adv
tags: literary
rare
superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a noble manner.
pos: adv
examples: In the end he died nobly, trying to save the lives of others.
Translations:
rightful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English rightful, ryghtfull, riȝtful, from Old English *rihtfull (suggested by derivative unrihtfull (“unrightful”)), equivalent to right + -ful.
Base: right
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: By right; by law.
pos: adj
examples: rightful owner
rightful heir
Who shall pull this sword from the stone is rightful king of England.ᵂ
She claimed her rightful inheritance.
He was restored to his rightful position.
Among other things, the ECA requires that if Congress receives two electoral slates, it should count the slate carrying the state's executive's signature as the rightful slate.
Translations:
rustling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English *rustlynge, rustland, from Old English hrīstlende, *hrȳstlende, present participle of Old English *hrȳstlan (“to rustle”), equivalent to rustle + -ing.
Base: rustle
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The rounding up and theft of animals, cattle in particular.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: And if you would like one more fact about this worthy, he was responsible for an Act on the statute book abolishing the death penalty for cattle rustling.
Translations:
rustler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rustle
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 rustler
From rustle + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: rustlers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who rustles; a cattle (or other livestock) thief.
pos: noun
examples: Two years have now passed since Hayward’s farm in north Wales was raided, leading to the loss of tens of thousands of bees. But the rustlers have continued to be active. Most recently they have targeted the property of one of her Anglesey neighbours, where around 40,000 bees were taken last month.
gloss: A bovine animal that can care for itself in any circumstances.
pos: noun
gloss: An alert, energetic, driving person.
pos: noun
tags: US
Western
dated
especially
slang
gloss: That which makes a rustling noise.
pos: noun
examples: Like this weekend, with moderate temperatures, the sky a bowl of blue, and the wind not a cold curse or a hot furnace, but a bit of a leaf-rustler, a cooling refreshment.
Synonyms: cattle rustler
abactor
duffer
rustler
Translations: