yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
thusly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From thus + -ly, dating from the 19th century, seemingly coined by educated writers to make fun of uneducated persons trying to sound genteel, with a false inference that thus is not an adverb.
Base: thus
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: thus (in this way).
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
proscribed
examples: Ar, tell me it is not so thusly as this thusness wouldst seem!
His course can only be akkounted for thusly:
He had an attack of catarrh not long ago, and it happened, as J. Billings would say, "thusly:"
Stories never lose anything in the recital, and consequently this one grew thusly.
The history of the Universe has been summed up thusly: "Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people."
Going thusly, unwillingly at the bell,
Answering the call to recycle my time.
gloss: thus (therefore)
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
proscribed
examples: Lately, they [the prison authorities] came up with a new excuse. Seems like they consider owning a Gay publication is an expression of a person's sexuality and would thusly identify the person as a homosexual which would then subject him to assault or pressures.
Translations:
flamboyant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: Borrowed from French flamboyant (“flaming, wavy”), participle of flamboyer (“to flame”), from Old French flamboier, from flambe (“flame”). The architectural style derives its name from the flame-like shapes in the tracery.
Inflected forms:
form: more flamboyant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most flamboyant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Flamboyant
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: flamboyants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Flamboyant
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Showy, bold or audacious in behaviour, appearance, style, etc.; ostentatious.
pos: adj
examples: When we see some of the monstrous and flamboyant blossoms that enrich the equatorial woods, we do not feel that they are conflagrations of nature; silent explosions of her frightful energy. We simply find it hard to believe that they are not wax flowers grown under a glass case.
1920, Frederic Taber Cooper, The Craftsmanship of Writing, Chapter VI: The Question of Clearness,
But a scorn of flamboyant neckties and checkerboard trousers is no excuse for going to the opposite extreme of a blue flannel shirt and overalls; […] .
The unbelievers will say they are but words, but a slogan, but a flamboyant phrase.
Health of flamboyant media tycoon who led three Italian governments had deteriorated in recent years[.]
gloss: Referring to the final stage of French Gothic architecture from the 14th to the 16th centuries.
pos: adj
examples: S. Pierre is a flamboyant church, the details passing into Renaissance.
The second is a chapel of two storeys, the lower dating from 1150, while the upper was rebuilt in the 15th century, and there is a rich Flamboyant entrance with a stairway (1533).
The nave and central tower, more flamboyant in design, were finished early in the sixteenth century after the original plan.
gloss: Of a blade: forged in a wavy, undulating pattern, like a flame-bladed sword or a kris.
pos: adj
examples: Ancient swords were frequently “flamboyant,” or with waved edges; more especially those used for purposes of state. The Dukes of Burgundy bore a two-handed sword of this form. Indeed, “flaming swords,” as they were called, were worn down to the times of our Charles II., and perhaps later.
gloss: The royal poinciana (Delonix regia), a showy tropical tree from Madagascar.
pos: noun
examples: The schooners moored to the quay are trim and neat, the little town along the bay is white and urbane, and the flamboyants, scarlet against the blue sky, flaunt their colour like a cry of passion.
Derived words: flamboyance
flamboyancy
flamboyant cuttlefish
flamboyantly
flamboyantness
unflamboyance
unflamboyant
unflamboyantly
Translations:
rugose
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
entomology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
Etymology: From Latin rūgōsus (“wrinkled”).
Inflected forms:
form: more rugose
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rugose
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having rugae or wrinkles, creases, ridges, or corrugation.
pos: adj
gloss: Rugged, rough, unrefined.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
rare
gloss: Having a rough, wrinkled, or wavy surface; commonly in parasynthetic usage e.g. "rugose-veined" or "rugose-leaved".
pos: adj
examples: Petraea foliis rugosis ovatis. The oval, rugose-leaved Petraea. The root is brachiated; the shrub rises to ten feet high: the leaves are three inches long, an inch and a half broad, even at the edges, and very rough to the touch: (Note: In modern nomenclature, the plant in question probably is Petrea rugosa, as the spelling "Petraea" does not seem to match any extant genus,)
The original leaves were flat and very rugose, and almost hid by the numerous single-stemmed flowers; while the leaves produced in the umbellate state were larger, more upright, and less wrinkled.
gloss: Describing fossil corals of the extinct order †Rugosa (also called Tetracoralla), that have horn-shaped corals with surfaces covered with ridges.
pos: adj
gloss: Used when combined with another adjective, for example, rugose-reticulate or rugose-punctate.
pos: adj
Synonyms: purfly
wrinkly
harsh
squarrose
Derived words: lacuno-rugose
rugosely
rugose mosaic
rugoseness
rugosimeter
rugosity
rugulose
subrugose
Translations:
excitement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English excitement, from Old French excitement, equivalent to excite + -ment.
Base: excite
Affixes: -ment
Inflected forms:
form: excitements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being excited (emotionally aroused).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: to get caught up in the excitement
By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement.
In 1825, the first public railway carried passengers across the English countryside, setting in motion not just an engineering revolution, but an industrial one too. Imagine the awe and excitement of those first passengers as they boarded the train, unaware that they were witnessing the dawn of a new era.
gloss: Something that excites.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Derived words: counterexcitement
hyperexcitement
overexcitement
Translations:
rejoinder
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: intellectual-property
law
patent-law
Etymology: From Middle English rejoinder, rejonder, rejoynder, from Middle French rejoindre, with infinitive used as noun frequent in Law French. Doublet of rejoin.
Inflected forms:
form: rejoinders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rejoinders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rejoindering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rejoindered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rejoindered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The defendant's answer to the replication.
pos: noun
gloss: A response that answers another response.
pos: noun
examples: "76. ... P-R8(N) mate! Certainly not 76... P-R8(Q), though threatening mate on the move in seven different ways--as 77 Q-N5 mate would have been the painful rejoinder."
gloss: A quick response that involves disagreement or is witty, especially an answer to a question.
pos: noun
examples: I have passed perhaps more time than any other man of my age and country in visits and assemblies, where the polite persons of both sexes distinguish themselves; and could not without much grief observe how frequently both gentlemen and ladies are at a loss for questions, answers, replies, and rejoinders.
"I'm starting to-morrow. This is perhaps the last time we shall ever meet." I made an appropriate rejoinder, and he smiled wanly.
The simplest rejoinder to all of Daenerys’ justifications is that this bloodshed could have been avoided. She was given a moment to choose, and she chose blind vengeance, the kind that eliminates any benevolence she hoped to bring to the seven kingdoms by burning it right out of the minds of anyone who saw her astride Drogon, mowing down men, women, and children with abandon.
gloss: Re-insertion, typically after allowance of a patent application, of patent claims that had been withdrawn from examination under a restriction requirement.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: To issue a rejoinder.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To say as a rejoinder.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: surrejoinder
Translations:
guillotine
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
law
medicine
politics
sciences
surgery
Etymology: Borrowed from French guillotine, named after the French physician Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (1738–1814), who proposed its use for capital punishment.
Inflected forms:
form: guillotines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: guillotines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: guillotining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: guillotined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: guillotined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A machine used for the application of capital punishment by decapitation, consisting of a tall upright frame from which is suspended a heavy diagonal-edged blade which is dropped onto the neck of the person to be executed; also, execution using this machine.
pos: noun
tags: also
figuratively
historical
examples: For two-and-twenty years he [Joseph-Ignace Guillotin], unguillotined, shall hear nothing but guillotine, see nothing but guillotine; then dying, shall through long centuries wander, as it were, a disconsolate ghost, on the wrong side of Styx and Lethe; his name like to outlive [Julius] Cæsar’s.
gloss: A device or machine with a cutting blade.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A device or machine with a cutting blade.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A parliamentary procedure for fixing the dates when various stages of discussion of a bill must end, to ensure that the enactment of the bill proceeds expeditiously.
pos: noun
tags: UK
broadly
informal
examples: The right hon. Gentleman is making a great stooshie about time in relation to this Bill, but was it not the case that, when the SNP [Scottish National Party] Scottish Government introduced their continuity Bill in the Scottish Parliament, they operated a ruthless guillotine to prevent proper scrutiny of it? That is the case; they ran a guillotine on that Bill, and there was a very limited amount of time allowed for debate and scrutiny, yet he complains about that happening here.
gloss: A legislative motion that debate be ended and a vote taken; a cloture.
pos: noun
tags: US
broadly
informal
gloss: To use a guillotine (on someone or something).
pos: verb
tags: also
figuratively
transitive
examples: Many counterrevolutionaries were guillotined during the French Revolution.
Besides providing online courses to their own (generally fee-paying) students, universities have felt obliged to join the MOOC revolution to avoid being guillotined by it.
gloss: To use a guillotine (on someone or something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To end discussion (about a parliamentary bill or part of one) by invoking a guillotine procedure.
pos: verb
tags: UK
informal
transitive
gloss: To end (a legislative debate) by invoking cloture.
pos: verb
tags: US
informal
transitive
Derived words: antiguillotine
dry guillotine
guillotine choke
guillotine clause
guillotine shear
guillotine shears
guillotinism
guillotinist
Hume's guillotine
guillotinable
guillotined
guillotinee
guillotinement
guillotiner
guillotining
unguillotined
Translations:
fulsome
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English fulsom, equivalent to full + -some. The meaning has evolved from an original positive connotation "abundant" to a neutral "plump" to a negative "overfed". In modern usage, it can take on any of these inflections. See usage note.
The negative sense "offensive, gross; disgusting, sickening" developed secondarily after the 13th century and was influenced by Middle English foul (“foul”). In the 18th century, the word was sometimes even spelled foulsome.
Base: full
Affixes: -some
Inflected forms:
form: fulsomer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more fulsome
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: fulsomest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most fulsome
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fullsome
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Offensive to good taste, tactless, overzealous, excessive.
pos: adj
examples: [T]he Weather exceeding hot, I entreated him to let me bathe in a River that was near. He conſented, and I immediately ſtripped myſelf ſtark naked, and went down ſoftly into the ſtream. It happened that a young Female Yahoo ſtanding behind a Bank, ſaw the whole proceeding, and enflamed by Deſire, as the Nag and I conjectured, came running with all ſpeed, and leaped into the Water within five Yards of the Place where I bathed. [...] She embraced me after a moſt fulſome manner; [...]
You will hear the advanced enfans perdus, as the French call them, and so they are indeed, namely, children of the fall, singing unclean and fulsome ballads of sin and harlotrie.
gloss: Excessively flattering (connoting insincerity).
pos: adj
examples: And by hideous contrast, a redundant orator was making a speech to another gathering not thirty steps away, in fulsome laudation of "our glorious British liberties!"
He addressed me in several handwritings with fulsome compliments as a Venus in furs [...]
City overcame a spirited effort from Cardiff's Championship rivals Bristol City in a keenly contested Carabao Cup semi-final on Tuesday night, with manager Pep Guardiola fulsome in his praise for Lee Johnson's men over two legs.
gloss: Characterised or marked by fullness; abundant, copious.
pos: adj
examples: The fulsome thanks of the war-torn nation lifted our weary spirits.
These extra services before Christmas Day were in addition to fulsome train facilities on the day, with many companies running a Sunday service.
gloss: Fully developed; mature.
pos: adj
examples: Her fulsome timbre resonated throughout the hall.
Synonyms: gross
Related words: fulsomely
fulsomeness
Derived words: fulsamic
unfulsome
Translations:
surely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English surely; equivalent to sure + -ly.
Base: sure
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: surelier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more surely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: sureliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most surely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without fail.
pos: adv
examples: slowly but surely
gloss: Certainly, undoubtedly.
pos: adv
examples: Surely, you must be joking.
You don’t suppose we're going to pay for you, surely?
She’s surely got the letter by now.
But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window[…].
The money feels good / And your life you like it well / But surely your time will come / As in heaven, as in hell
Ted Striker: The stewardess said... both pilots?!
Dr. Rumack: Can you fly this plane and land it?
Ted Striker: Surely you can't be serious.
Dr. Rumack: I am serious; and don't call me Shirley.
Here perhaps one of you might interrupt me and say, 'But what is it that you do, Socrates? How is it that you have been misrepresented like this? Surely all this talk and gossip about you would never have arisen if you had confined yourself to ordinary activities, but only if your behaviour was abnormal. Give us the explanation, if you do not want us to draw our own conclusions.'
gloss: With confidence.
pos: adv
examples: His feet were planted surely on the ground.
Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us[…].
Synonyms: certainly
wis
Derived words: almost surely
Translations:
quadriplegia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From quadri- (“four”) + -plegia, from Ancient Greek πλήσσειν (plḗssein, “to strike”); probably patterned after paraplegia.
Base: quadri
Inflected forms:
form: quadriplegias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Paralysis from the neck down.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Paralysis of all four limbs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: tetraplegia
Related words: paraplegia
paraplegic
quadriplegic
Translations:
speechless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English specheles, from Old English sprǣċlēas (“speechless; without the power of speak”), from Proto-Germanic *sprēkalausaz, equivalent to speech + -less. Cognate with West Frisian sprakeleas (“speechless”), Dutch sprakeloos (“speechless”), German Low German spraaklos (“speechless”), German sprachlos (“speechless”).
Base: speech
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not speaking; not knowing what to say; silent, especially due to surprise, amazement, etc.; wordless.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: When he walked into his surprise birthday party, he was completely speechless.
The attack was so unwarranted and delivered with such venom that his unpreparedness for it left him speechless.
gloss: Synonym of unspeakable.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
not-comparable
examples: Immortal Pleaſures round my ſwimming Eyes did dance,
And ſpeechleſs Joys, in whoſe ſweet Tumult toſt,
I thought my Breath, and my new Being loſt.
O Mother Earth, O Sun that makest clean,
What poison have I heard, what speechless sin !
Derived words: speechlessly
speechlessness
Translations:
quadriplegic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From quadri- (of Latin origins) and -plegic, from Ancient Greek πλήσσειν (plḗssein, “to strike”); probably patterned after paraplegic from the Ancient Greek παραπληγή (paraplēgḗ, “the paralysis of half of the body”).
Affixes: quadri-
Inflected forms:
form: quadriplegics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, related to, or suffering from quadriplegia.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: One who suffers from quadriplegia.
pos: noun
examples: Their life together changed on November 13, 1983, when Kowalski was involved in a car accident that left her a quadriplegic.
Translations:
maligned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more maligned
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most maligned
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Assailed with contemptuous language
pos: adj
Translations:
username
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From user + name.
Compound parts: user
name
Inflected forms:
form: usernames
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: user name
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A name or string of characters used as a person's identification on an individual computer system.
pos: noun
examples: His username and password on his Apple PC is VolvestarcXXX.
Translations:
fervently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English fervently; equivalent to fervent + -ly.
Base: fervent
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more fervently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most fervently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a fervent manner.
pos: adv
examples: It was cheap, and a spirit, he protested fervently, but despite such cogent argument as the MacQuibble saw fit to indulge in, the mighty thirst of the company ruled him out of the debate.
The Besht preached that the simple man, imbued with native faith and able to pray fervently and wholeheartedly with a sense of joy in his heart, was nearer and dearer to God than the learned but joyless formalist spending his whole life in the study of Talmud.
Translations:
variability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Derived form of variable, from Old French variable; see variable + -ity.
Base: variable
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: variabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or characteristic of being variable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The experiment showed considerable variability in the results.
Climate variability affects crop production.
genetic variability
natural variability
high variability
gloss: The degree to which a thing is variable. In data or statistics this is often a measurement of distance from the mean or a description of data range.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: variableness
Derived words: biovariability
covariability
histovariability
hypervariability
intervariability
microvariability
Translations:
oversight
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From over- + sight. Verb sense 2 is a semantic loan from German Aufsicht.
Base: sight
Affixes: over-
Inflected forms:
form: oversights
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: oversights
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: oversighting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: oversighted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: oversighted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An omission; something that is left out, missed, or forgotten.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A small oversight at this stage can lead to big problems later.
gloss: Supervision or management.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: oversight mechanism
The bureaucracy was subject to government oversight.
It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
The drone operation is subject to strict regulatory oversight. Russell notes that due to UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and privacy laws, BTP can only fly its drones if they have a named specific purpose to do so.
"Yeah." It was him, alright; if the world's weariest pair of workboots hadn't tipped her off, his world-weary voice certainly would have. "Where were you?"
"My quarters. We've got a full ticket set today, and techs work best without oversight." Neither of these things was untrue, though the curation was more than a little dishonest.
"Maybe yours do." Nascimbeni rolled out, back flat against a neon orange creeper, and sat up with an audible wince. "Mine fuck the dog."
gloss: Overview.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A large map of the kingdom, in which the Protestant churches, including the Unitarian, are indicated in colors, gives a convenient oversight of the matter treated of by the writer.
gloss: To oversee; to supervise.
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
transitive
gloss: To suppress content in a way that removes or minimizes its visibility or viewability.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
transitive
Derived words: alternative episcopal oversight
oversighter
Translations:
purloin
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English purloynen (“to remove”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman purloigner (“to put far away”), one of the variants of Old French porloignier. Doublet of prolong.
Inflected forms:
form: purloins
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: purloining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: purloined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: purloined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To take the property of another, often in breach of trust; to appropriate wrongfully; to steal.
pos: verb
tags: formal
humorous
transitive
usually
examples: Had from his wakeful custody purloined / The guarded gold.
Probably my acquaintance, Mr Blank, therefore, would have been able, if he had so wished to do, to purloin the papers which he mentioned.
The refreshment room was full of chatter and babble, which attracted everybody's envious glances. Some one had left his set in the middle of the dance, purloined a sandwich from the buffet, and was now chewing away proudly as he swerved and stamped, to the amusement of the rest.
Or was this simply another item Mr. Stink had purloined during his career as a gentleman thief?
gloss: To commit theft; to thieve.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The Apostle expressly forbiddeth servants to purloin (Titus 2:10).
Derived words: purloiner
purloinment
unpurloined
Translations:
vernalization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English vernal
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
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 -ization
English vernalization
From vernal + -ization.
Inflected forms:
form: vernalizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vernalisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The treatment of seeds or bulbs by exposure to low temperatures so as to decrease the vegetative period or to cause the plant to flower or bear fruit more quickly.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: This low temperature requirement for flowering, called vernalization, begins at germination. Vernalization is assumed to occur at temperatures between 0 and 18°C (Ahrens and Loomis, 1963; Tirone and Metzer, 1970).
Species needing vernalization do not flower when grown in a warm climate.
For some plants, however, exposure to low temperatures during winter is an essential step in their development. Two of these processes, vernalisation and the breaking of winter dormancy, have important implications for gardeners.
Furthermore, vernalization has been shown to override the late-flowering phenotype. […] Both VRN1 and VRN2 genes have been identified to be associated with vernalization.
Translations:
supervise
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin supervisus, from supervidere, from Latin super + videre. Doublet of survey.
Inflected forms:
form: supervises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: supervising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: supervised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: supervised
pos: verb
tags: past
form: supervize
pos: verb
tags: alternative
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: To oversee or direct (a task or organization).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Without someone to supervise them, the group will lack direction.
Strong personal government is, I believe, the only form of government possible in Kashmir for many years to come, but it is difficult for the Maharajas to supervise the administration of the valley when they are away in their winter capital Jammu.
Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
While both the Northeast and the Korean Peninsula were under the jurisdiction of Ho-pei Province, a Protectorate of An-tung was established at P'ing-jang to supervise the Peninsular states and two High Commanders were stationed at You-chou and P'ing-lu[…]
[…] grievability-arbitrability cases; supervises the conduct of representation elections; and holds hearings as […]
I had learned a lot about supervising by observing other supervisors—the good things and the not-so-good things they did.
The knowledge worker may have a supervisor, but he or she is never supervised in the same way that a manual or process worker is supervised.
gloss: To oversee a task, organization, etc.; to provide supervision; to act as a supervisor.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Under the Medicare Benefits Schedule, doctors can’t claim payment from the government for a Covid-19 vaccination provided in their clinic by a nurse, unless a GP is on the premises to supervise.
gloss: To look over so as to read; to peruse.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Let me supervise the canzonet.
If any Man for that reaſon has an Inclination to divert himſelf, and Sail with me round the Globe, to ſuperviſe almoſt all the Conditions of Humane Life, without being infected with the Vanities, and Vices that attend such a Whimſical Perambulation; let him follow me, who am going to Relate it in a Stile, and Language, proper to the Variety of the Subject: For as the Caprichio came Naturally into my Pericranium, I am reſolv’d to purſue it through Thick and Thin, to enlarge my Capacity for a Man of Buſineſs.
Synonyms: superintend
Related words: supervisee
supervision
supervisor
supervisory
Derived words: cosupervise
supervisable
supervisal
supervisive
Translations:
nightie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English night
English -ie
English nightie
From night + -ie (diminutive suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: nighties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nighty
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A woman's nightgown or nightdress for wearing to bed.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: I was too embarrassed to answer the door in my nightie.
The clip shows the 67-year-old enfant terrible of French letters in pyjamas lying on a bed next to a woman in a nightie, smoking and laughing.
Translations:
nightly
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
Etymology: From Middle English nyȝtly, nihtlich, nihtlic, from Old English nihtlīċ, nihtelīċ (“nocturnal, nightly, of the night, at night”), equivalent to night + -ly. Cognate with Scots nichtlie (“nightly”), West Frisian nachtlik (“nightly, nocturnal”), Dutch nachtelijk (“nightly, nocturnal”), German nächtlich (“nocturnal, nightly”), Danish natlig (“nightly”), Swedish nattlig (“nightly, nocturnal”).
Base: night
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: nightlies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Happening or appearing in the night; night-time; nocturnal.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: nightly dews
A cobweb spread above a blossom Is sufficient to protect It from nightly chill.
gloss: Performing, occurring, or taking place every night.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The dog demanded to go out for his nightly walk.
gloss: Used in the night.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Every night.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: He checks his email nightly.
It was the Nightingale, and not the Larke, / That pier'st the fearefull hollow of thine eare, / Nightly she sings on yond Pomgranet tree,
This tunnel assumed some measure of importance during the second world war, when it was used nightly as an air raid shelter for multiple unit electric trains which were propelled over the branch by a steam engine.
I practice nightly, I try to keep ahead / This art of surfacing is all but dead
gloss: A build of a software program with the latest changes, released every night.
pos: noun
examples: Depending on how brave you are, you can even set it to update to the “bleeding edge nightlies” instead of just the point release nightlies if you want to really see the cutting edge of WordPress core development.
Translations:
nightshirt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From night + shirt.
Compound parts: night
shirt
Inflected forms:
form: nightshirts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A shirt-like garment (often oversized) that is worn to bed.
pos: noun
examples: He wore a blue striped nightshirt and bedroom slippers.
Translations:
nightlight
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From night + light.
Compound parts: night
light
Inflected forms:
form: nightlights
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: night light
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small, dim light or lamp left on overnight.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: She had brought in with her the night-light that had been burning outside her door. She blew it out.
They made you give up / your nightlight / and your teddy / and your thumb.
1988, Joseph Brodsky, "Gorbunov and Gorchakov" Canto 13 in In Urania, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, p. 165,
Your light cannot drive off the dark from me— / not any more than night-lights by the bed / drive off my dreams.
He put a small nightlight in the bathroom to find his way around in the dark.
gloss: Light that shines at night, such as moonlight or starlight.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The floor-cloth deadened his footsteps as he moved in that direction through the obscurity, which was broken only by the faintest reflected night-light from without.
[…] the man held up two small objects faintly twinkling in the nightlight;
Their made-up faces were garish in the night-light and as they walked they stared fixedly ahead, afraid to make a sideways glance in case it should be called soliciting.
Derived words: nightlighter
Translations:
north-northeast
Part of speech: noun
adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: north northeast
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: north-north-east
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: nor'-nor'-east
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: NNE
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: north northeast
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: north-north-east
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: nor'-nor'-east
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: NNE
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: north northeast
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: north-north-east
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: nor'-nor'-east
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: NNE
pos: adv
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: The compass point halfway between north and northeast; specifically at a bearing of 22.5°.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Of, in or pertaining to the north-northeast; north-northeastern.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Situated toward or in the direction of the north-northeast; north-northeastward; north-northeasterly.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A north-northeast course.
gloss: Coming from the north-northeast; north-northeasterly.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A north-northeast wind.
gloss: Towards or in the direction of the north-northeast; north-northeastwards.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: We are travelling north-northeast at the moment.
Translations:
north-northwest
Part of speech: noun
adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: north northwest
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: north-north-west
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: nor'-nor'-west
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: NNW
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: north northwest
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: north-north-west
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: nor'-nor'-west
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: NNW
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: north northwest
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: north-north-west
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: nor'-nor'-west
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: NNW
pos: adv
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: The compass point halfway between northwest and north; specifically at a bearing of 337.5°.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Of, in or pertaining to the north-northwest; north-northwestern.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Situated toward or in the direction of north-northwest; north-northwestward; north-northwesterly.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A north-northwest course.
gloss: Coming from the north-northwest; north-northwesterly.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A north-northwest wind.
gloss: Towards or in the direction of the north-northwest; north-northwestwards.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: We are travelling north-northwest at the moment.
Translations:
nutcase
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From nut + case. Compare headcase, mental case etc.
Compound parts: nut
case
Inflected forms:
form: nutcases
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nut-case
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An eccentric or odd person.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
humorous
often
gloss: Someone who is insane.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
Synonyms: kook
nutbag
nutter
odd duck
wacko
weirdo
crackpot
loon
nut
screwball
Translations:
nursemaid
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From nurse + maid.
Compound parts: nurse
maid
Inflected forms:
form: nursemaids
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nursemaids
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: nursemaiding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: nursemaided
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: nursemaided
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A woman or girl employed to care for children.
pos: noun
gloss: To tend to as a nursemaid.
pos: verb
gloss: To care for or look after.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
examples: I don't believe I have to nursemaid these two rookies through their entire probationary period.
‘Make the most of it,’ said Ford. ‘Because what I want you to do is to nursemaid that package out of the building.
Translations:
fidget
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From fidge (“to fidget”) + *-et (frequentative ending), possibly from Middle English *-ten, from Old English -ettan.
Base: fidge
Affixes: -
Inflected forms:
form: fidgets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fidgeting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fidgetting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
rare
form: fidgeted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fidgeted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: fidgetted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
rare
form: fidgetted
pos: verb
tags: past
rare
Senses:
gloss: To wiggle or twitch; to move the body, especially the fingers, around nervously or idly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: "Look, Jim, how my fingers fidget," he continued, in the pleading tone. "I can't keep e'm still, not I."
Will you stop fucking about and fidgeting in my peripherals? I'm trying to concentrate.
gloss: To cause to fidget; to make uneasy.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: “Do I fidget you ?” he asked apologetically, whilst his long bony fingers buried themselves, string, knots, and all, into the capacious pockets of his magnificent tweed ulster.
Derived words: fidget-bottom
fidgeter
fidgetin
fidgetingly
fidgetsome
unfidgeting
Translations:
ill-advised
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more ill-advised
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ill-advised
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Carried out without the benefit of wise counsel or careful deliberation, or carried out with unwise counsel.
pos: adj
examples: Ashley Young's ill-advised attempt to dribble out of danger ended in a corner and when Steven Gerrard's delivery was headed goalwards by Daniel Agger, Sturridge deflected it home from virtually on the line.
gloss: Acting unwisely.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: You are ill-advised to boast of that foul deed.
Derived words: ill-advisedly
Translations:
affective
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Medieval Latin affectivus, from Latin affectus, past participle of afficere (“to affect”). By surface analysis, affect + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: more affective
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most affective
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to, resulting from, or influenced by the emotions.
pos: adj
gloss: Emotional; emotionally charged; affecting.
pos: adj
Related words: affect
affectation
affecter
affection
affectionate
effective
cognitive
motor
Derived words: affective computing
affective disorder
affective labor
affectively
affectiveness
affective partisan polarization
affectivity
cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome
homoaffective
neuroaffective
nonaffective
psychoaffective
schizoaffective
seasonal affective disorder
socioaffective
subaffective
Translations:
ambient
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astrology
entertainment
human-sciences
lifestyle
mathematics
music
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Latin ambiēns (“going around”), from ambiō (“go around”).
Inflected forms:
form: more ambient
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ambient
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: ambients
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Encompassing on all sides; surrounding; encircling; enveloping.
pos: adj
examples: A cup of warm tea eventually cools to the ambient temperature.
This which yields or fills all space / The ambient air wide interfused
Then gazing up, a glorious Pile beheld, / VVhoſe tovv'ring Summit ambient Clouds conceal'd.
Diggle Station lies high up in the Pennine Chain, subject to extreme low temperatures. With this and heavy snowfall in the winter months, Diggle bids fair to compete with the Scottish lines under similar weather conditions, and the provision of unfrozen water in the higher ambient temperature of the tunnel must be a boon to harassed engine drivers whose thirsty steeds run short of water up the gruelling 1 in 125 seven-mile climb from Stalybridge.
gloss: Evoking or creating an atmosphere: atmospheric.
pos: adj
gloss: Relating to, or suitable for, storage at room temperature.
pos: adj
examples: ambient food
ambient warehousing
gloss: Containing objects or describing a setting that one is interested in.
pos: adj
examples: These, then, are characterizations of the system of natural numbers within an ambient set theory. And they seem to work, in the sense that in a sufficiently strong set theory it can be shown that Peano's axioms have (up to isomorphism) a unique model (cf. Rem. 6.1.8).
As much of the work in determinacy must proceed without AC, ZF serves as the ambient theory for this section, and uses of AC will be explicitly noted, reversing the usual procedure.
A point in the manifold is classically represented by a vector in the ambient space.
gloss: Something that surrounds; encompassing material, substance or shape.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Much after this same manner, when the Air is exceeding cold through which it passes; do we find the drops of Rain, falling from the Clouds, congealed into round Hail-stones by the freezing Ambient.
gloss: The atmosphere; the surrounding air or sky; atmospheric components collectively such as air, clouds, water vapour, hail, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It might be also, that attracted by that great void Vacuum ... all the ambients would be rarified, and particularly, the air.
gloss: A type of modern music that creates a relaxing and peaceful atmosphere.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Ambient can be flabby synth mulch that needs to access cyberism and external philosophies to convince you you're not being scammed.
Synonyms: ambient music
chillout
Derived words: nonambient
subambient
superambient
ambient device
ambient findability
ambient food
ambient house
ambient-like
ambiently
ambientness
ambient pressure
dark ambient
illbient
psybient
Translations:
actuator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
computer-hardware
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti
Proto-Italic *agō
Latin agō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin āctus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin āctuō
Medieval Latin āctuātusder.
English actuate
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Latin -ātor
Old French -eorbor.
Middle English -our
▲
Latin -torlbor.
English -or
English actuator
From actuate + -or. First attested in 1652.
Inflected forms:
form: actuators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that actuates something else.
pos: noun
examples: The mind is the actuator of the body.
[…] and God is the Author and Actuator of nature, as well as of grace; […]
gloss: A usually electric device that causes a mechanical device (i.e., a mechanism) to be switched on or off. For example; an electric motor that opens and closes a valve.
pos: noun
gloss: The mechanism that moves the head assembly on a disk drive.
pos: noun
gloss: A relay that controls the flow of electricity.
pos: noun
Derived words: bioactuator
microactuator
multiactuator
nanoactuator
piezoactuator
thermoactuator
vibroactuator
Translations:
workload
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From work + load.
Compound parts: work
load
Inflected forms:
form: workloads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The amount of work assigned to a particular worker, normally in a specified time period.
pos: noun
gloss: The amount of work that a machine can handle or produce.
pos: noun
Related words: caseload
Translations:
rapture
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French rapture, from Latin raptūra, future active participle of rapiō (“snatch, carry off”).
Inflected forms:
form: raptures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rapturing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: raptured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: raptured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
examples: She raptured me in summer by giving me Fitzgerald's flawed and gorgeous masterpiece, the book that held his tortured heart.
gloss: To experience great happiness or excitement.
pos: verb
tags: dated
intransitive
gloss: To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "If she's raptured," Ellen said to them on the fifth night after Marylee's disappearance, as they sat on the roof of the building on their old beanbags and rusting garden furniture hauled up from the Museum, "if that's what happened to her, then […]"
These fiction books told the story of some church people who were raptured but focused on the people who were not raptured.
The third person raptured by God into heaven was Elijah […]
“Praise the Lord, he's been raptured.” Good grief. “I don't think so, Mrs. Farris. 'Course, I'm Episcopalian, and I'm pretty sure we don't get raptured. But, Baptists get raptured, don't they?”
gloss: To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
rare
gloss: To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.
pos: verb
tags: uncommon
examples: And then the flowers! May-day indeed. Hester had been in Switzerland at the end of June, years on years before, and often had she raptured to Effie about the day's ride, in which they collected a hundred varieties of flowers, most of them new to them.
Pulling her leggings down over unshaven legs, she raptured "I'm dry!" to her audience.
They're called angora with wonderfully long, soft fleece,” she raptured on about her first venture.
Translations:
widdle
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: widdles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: widdles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: widdling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: widdled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: widdled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: widdler
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: widdlest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Urine.
pos: noun
tags: UK
childish
countable
uncountable
gloss: An act of urination.
pos: noun
tags: UK
childish
countable
uncountable
gloss: To urinate.
pos: verb
tags: UK
childish
gloss: To play guitar (especially the electric guitar) quickly.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
gloss: Little.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
Synonyms: piddle
Derived words: widdler
widdly
Translations:
victimization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From victim + -ization or victimize + -ation.
Base: victim
Affixes: -ization
Inflected forms:
form: victimizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: victimisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An act that victimizes or exploits someone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Adversity as a result of being a victim.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: secondary victimization
self-victimization
Translations: