yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
condolences
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Expressing sympathy to someone, especially after learning of a close death.
pos: intj
examples: "What were you doing at the cemetery?"
 "Burying my father."
 "Oh." Rodionov grunted as if he had expected a more imaginative excuse. "Condolences."
Let's get another caller on the line. This is Camille. Camille with us from Visalia in California.
 Visalia, California that's correct.
 Go ahead please.
 Hi. I'm an African-American woman and when I first saw the cover – let me preface this. I'm in central California, which is very conservative. And...
 Condolences.
Translations:
shopping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, shop + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: shoppings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of buying goods or services, or searching for those suitable to buy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: On Saturdays we usually do the shopping.
After a hard day's shopping, they had come home laden with bargains, and the dressing-room was strewed with Indian fans, ivory boxes, and lace.
Here I began my shopping, was interviewed by dressmakers, and naturally had much to do to habit myself for civilized life again.
Mother[…]considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, from which every Kensingtonian held aloof, except on the conventional tip-and-run excursions in pursuit of shopping, tea and theatres.
gloss: Recently bought goods.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: I carried three heavy bags of shopping up the stairs.
gloss: An area's combination of stores and other infrastructure and products available for people who want to shop.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Boston has good shopping.
gloss: Placement in a workshop for overhaul.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The five roller-bearing A1s are now averaging 120,000 miles between shopping; this figure is an improvement of about 50 per cent on the norm of other ex-L.N.E. Pacific types.
Derived words: antishopping
asylum shopping
body shopping
comparison-shopping
comparison shopping
cybershopping
deshopping
doctor shopping
e-shopping
forum shopping
home shopping
jurisdiction shopping
law shopping
mystery shopping
nonshopping
personal shopping
relationshopping
revenge shopping
sex and shopping
shopping agent
shopping bag
shopping basket
shopping bot
shopping cart
shopping center
shopping centre
shopping guide
shopping list
shopping mall
shopping net
shopping precinct
shopping spree
shopping trolley
shwopping
teleshopping
thrift shopping
vaccine shopping
window-shopping
window shopping
Translations:
failing
Part of speech: noun
prep
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: failings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: weakness; defect
pos: noun
examples: His worst failing is his temper.
At the High Court in Aberdeen in September, NR pleaded guilty to a series of failings, including failing to tell the driver that it was unsafe to drive the train at the 75mph line speed.
gloss: If what follows is not possible; without.
pos: prep
examples: A large proportion of the females employed in other firms are said to have signified their intention of going on strike, failing a settlement.
Translations:
concentrated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more concentrated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most concentrated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not dilute; having a high concentration.
pos: adj
examples: We made a drink from concentrated orange juice.
gloss: Intense; directed towards a specific location.
pos: adj
examples: The concentrated fire from the enemy destroyed our fortifications.
Derived words: concentratedly
concentratedness
equiconcentrated
hyperconcentrated
nonconcentrated
overconcentrated
preconcentrated
superconcentrated
ultraconcentrated
unconcentrated
Translations:
lifeboat
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: literature
media
nautical
publishing
science-fiction
transport
Etymology: From life + boat.
Compound parts: life
boat
Inflected forms:
form: lifeboats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lifeboats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lifeboating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lifeboated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lifeboated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people or people in distress at sea (either launched from the shore with a crew, or else carried on board a larger ship).
pos: noun
examples: I've got a watch that turns into a lifeboat
In a corner of the churchyard, where old headstones mark the graves of many mariners, is a striking white statue of a lifeboatman, erected as a memorial to three members of the local lifeboat crew who lost their lives in 1916 while trying to reach a ship in distress.
gloss: An emergency vehicle carried aboard a spaceship.
pos: noun
gloss: To rescue; to carry to safety
pos: verb
Synonyms: quarter boat
rowboat
raft
Derived words: LEM lifeboat
lifeboat ethics
lifeboatism
lifeboatman
lifeboatsman
LM lifeboat
lunar lifeboat
Translations:
lifework
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From life + work. Compare Saterland Frisian Lieuwendswierk, West Frisian libbenswurk, Dutch levenswerk, German Low German Levenswark, German Lebenswerk, Danish livsværk, Swedish livsverk.
Compound parts: life
work
Inflected forms:
form: lifeworks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: life's work
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The main occupation or vocation of a person's life.
pos: noun
Translations:
lifeguard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Etymology: From life + guard, calque of Dutch lijfgarde, where life has the sense of Dutch lijf (“body”) (hence literally “bodyguard”). Compare German Leibgarde (“bodyguard”), Danish livgarde (“bodyguard”), Swedish livgarde (“bodyguard”). Compare also Old English līfweard (“guardian of life”).
Base: life
Inflected forms:
form: lifeguards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: life-guard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A lifesaver: a rescuer, usually an expert swimmer, employed to save swimmers in trouble or near drowning at a body of water.
pos: noun
examples: It's also generally wise to recruit lifeguards to ensure visitor safety, as bathers can panic in the water and require assistance.
gloss: A bodyguard or unit of bodyguards, a guard of someone's (especially a king's) life or person.
pos: noun
tags: uncommon
examples: "The people's love is the king's lifeguard."
[I]n the reserve were the king's lifeguard, commanded by the earl of Lindsey, and prince Rupert's regiment of foot[.]
Constantine the Great is known to have raised the five scholae of horsemen who formed the actual lifeguard of the prince, and followed his person whenever he went out to war.
gloss: A sturdy metal bracket fixed in front of each of the leading wheels of a train to deflect small objects away from the wheels to prevent derailment.
pos: noun
examples: It also looked at what effect stronger lifeguards might have had. They protect the leading wheels from small obstacles and in modern trains have coped with hitting landslip debris.
Derived words: lifeguarded
lifeguarding
Translations:
capacious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin capāx (“wide, spacious, large; capable”) + -ious. Displaced native Old English numol.
Base: capāx
Affixes: -ious
Inflected forms:
form: more capacious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most capacious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a lot of space inside; roomy.
pos: adj
examples: I turnd my thoughts, and with capacious mind / Conſiderd all things viſible in Heav'n
‘There’s rummer things than women in this world though, mind you,’ said the man with the black eye, slowly filling a large Dutch pipe, with a most capacious bowl.
The Malabar, that huge sea monster, in whose capacious belly so many human creatures lived and suffered, had dwindled to a walnut-shell, and yet beside her bulk how infinitely small had their own frail cockboat appeared as they shot out from under her towering stern!
There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to my evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.
“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.
Profitable operation is being made possible by the widespread introduction of capacious diesel railcars, which for their comfort and speed are very popular with the travelling public.
The only outfit I could conjure up was a capacious linen shift and a saggy cotton-wool cardigan.
gloss: Capable, able.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: [T]he fresh brave school-life, so full of games, adventures, and good fellowship, so ready at forgetting, so capacious at enjoying, so bright at forecasting, outweighed a thousandfold their troubles with the master of their form, and the occasional ill-usage of the big boys in the house.
As you will read, Trump himself has a capacious understanding of his power.
Related words: capable
capacity
Derived words: capaciously
capaciousness
incapacious
uncapacious
Translations:
prefatory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Medieval Latin *praefator + -ory (“agent”), from Medieval Latin prefatia (whence preface), for classical Latin praefatio (“a saying beforehand”) – see preface for details.
Note that this is borrowed from Latin, not derived in English from preface, as in occasional misspelling *prefecatory.
Affixes: -ory
Inflected forms:
form: more prefatory
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most prefatory
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: præfatory
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Serving as a preface or prelude; introductory, preliminary.
pos: adj
examples: We must begin by showing how the Diamond first fell into the hands of my uncle Herncastle, when he was serving in India fifty years since. This prefatory narrative I have already got by me in the form of an old family paper, which relates the necessary particulars on the authority of an eye-witness.
The "5th Mo. (May) 1939" issue of Bradshaw's Railway Shipping, and Hotel Guide for Great Britain and Ireland appears in a cream cover printed in blue and gold, and a prefatory note explains that, as 1939 is being celebrated as the centenary year of Bradshaw, it is intended to adopt this livery from now until the September issue inclusive. For October, the centenary month, Bradshaw will be published in a gold cover printed in red and blue.
This dialogue over coinage was itself prefatory to the attempt to cover up the mosaics of the Great Mosque in Damascus with white cloths by Caliph Umar II (who reigned from 717 to 720 and was the defeated party when Emperor Leo III broke the Muslim siege of Constantinople in 717–18) and to the subsequent edict against images by Umar’s successor, Yazid II (r. 720–24), although doubt has been cast on whether this edict really happened.
Translations:
introductory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin intrōductōrius, from Latin intrōductus.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Introducing; giving a preview, idea or foretaste of.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He enrolled in an introductory wine-making course.
Translations:
degrade
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle French dégrader.
Inflected forms:
form: degrades
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: degrading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: degraded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: degraded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To lower in value or social position.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Fred degrades himself by his behaviour.
[…] [William] Prynne was sentenced by the Star-Chamber Court to be degraded from the bar, to stand in pillory at two places in London and lose an ear at each, to be branded on the forehead, to pay a fine of five thousand pounds, and to be imprisoned for life.
gloss: To reduce in quality or purity.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
intransitive
examples: The DNA sample has degraded.
gloss: To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: biodegrade
degradability
degradable
degradant
degradation
degradee
degrade gracefully
degradement
degrader
degradome
degradomics
degradosome
degron
photodegrade
Translations:
retinue
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English retenue, from Old French retenue, past participle of retenir (“retain”). Doublet of ritenuto.
Inflected forms:
form: retinues
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A group of attendants or servants, especially of someone considered important.
pos: noun
examples: the queen’s retinues
And not any longer as a king did Winter appear in those streets, as when the city was decked with gleaming white to greet him as a conqueror and he rode in with his glittering icicles and haughty retinue of prancing winds, but he sat there with a little wind at the corner of the street like some old blind beggar with his hungry dog.
12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
Preceded by a Simpsons short shot in 3-D—perhaps the only thing more superfluous than a fourth Ice Age movie—Ice Age: Continental Drift finds a retinue of vaguely contemporaneous animals coping with life in the post-Pangaea age.
gloss: A group of warriors or nobles accompanying a king or other leader; comitatus.
pos: noun
examples: Then Igor looked up at the bright sun and saw all his warriors / darkened from it by a shadow. / And Igor said to his retinue: / “Brothers and companions! It is better to be slain than taken captive. / Mount, brothers, your swift horses that we may glimpse the Blue Don.”
gloss: A service relationship.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Related words: hangers-on
Derived words: queen retinue pheromone
retinued
Translations:
trident
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
From Latin tridēns, from tri- (“three”) + dēns (“tooth”).
Base: dēns
Affixes: tri-
Inflected forms:
form: tridents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A three-pronged spear somewhat resembling a pitchfork.
pos: noun
examples: Poseidon's trident
I recall the height of comfort attained by the green-cushioned "first" with starched white antimacassars and a pretentious grey floor mat on which it seemed a sacrilege to stand, as it was embellished with the North Western conception of Britannia, complete with trident.
gloss: A curve of third order of the form
pos: noun
examples: xy+ax³+bx²+cx=d,
Related words: trisula
tryzub
Derived words: impossible trident
tridental
trident bat
Trident Board
tridented
tridentlike
Translations:
genial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: climatology
human-sciences
meteorology
mysticism
mythology
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
weather
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French génial, borrowed from Latin geniālis (“of or pertaining to marriage; festive”), from genius (“guardian spirit”) + -ālis.
Inflected forms:
form: more genial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most genial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Friendly and cheerful; enlivening.
pos: adj
examples: a genial glow
Such a face was calculated to awaken not only the calm sentiment of esteem, the distant one of admiration, but some feeling more tender, genial, intimate—friendship, perhaps, affection, interest.
This genial girl, like her brother, was in the grand situation of having no home and of carrying on life, such a splendid kind of life, by successive visits to relations; […].
There had been the shine of candles, and the laughter of the women, the old Judge's genial humor.
George Relph plays the part of the Vicar of the Parish, a railway enthusiast, who becomes amateur engine driver, with Sir Godfrey Tearle (the Bishop) as his fireman, while Stanley Holloway is the genial toper who provides the cash to buy the line.
[Abdullah] Shami, a genial and open-faced man of forty-five, greeted me warmly.
Last month, Tucker Carlson’s genial interview with the white nationalist Nick Fuentes detonated a bomb that further fractured the Trump-era conservative movement he once helped galvanize.
gloss: Pleasantly mild and warm.
pos: adj
tags: especially
examples: genial warmth
We met other families on the Long Walk, enjoying like ourselves the return of the genial season.
gloss: Marked by genius.
pos: adj
tags: uncommon
examples: Men of genius have so often attacht the highest value to their less genial works.
About fifty years later, in 1675, the Danish astronomer Ole Roemer (1644-1710) had the genial idea of using astronomical rather than terrestrial distances.
gloss: Pertaining to marriage; nuptial.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: the genial bed
gloss: Contributing to, or concerned in, propagation or production; generative; procreative; productive.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
broadly
examples: Creator Venus, genial power of love.
The well breath'd youth, hot-mettled, and flush with genial juices, was now fairly in for making me know my driver.
In time the bells ceased, and the bakers were shut up; and yet there was a genial shadowing forth of all these dinners and the progress of their cooking, in the thawed blotch of wet above each baker's oven; where the pavement smoked as if its stones were cooking too.
The all-generating powers and genial heat / Of Nature, when she strikes thro’ the thick blood / Of cattle, […]
gloss: Belonging to one's genius or natural character; native; natural; inborn.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
uncommon
examples: natural incapacity and genial indisposition
gloss: Relating to or resembling a genius (Roman tutelary deity).
pos: adj
tags: Roman
uncommon
Derived words: congenial
geniality
genialize
genially
genialness
overgenial
ungenial
Translations:
ew
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, ideophonic. Compare oh, ugh.
Inflected forms:
form: eww
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: euw
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: ieuw
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: ehw
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Expression of disgust or nausea.
pos: intj
examples: Ew! There’s a fly in my soup.
Ew! This peanut butter tastes disgusting!
Translations:
eww
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Elongated form of ew.
pos: intj
Translations:
feels
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more feels
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most feels
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of emotional.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
Translations:
inspect
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin inspectum, past participle of inspicere (“to look into”), from in (“in”) + specere (“to look at”), equivalent to in- + -spect.
Base: in
Inflected forms:
form: inspects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: inspecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: inspected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: inspected
pos: verb
tags: past
form: enspect
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To examine critically or carefully; especially, to search out problems or determine condition; to scrutinize.
pos: verb
examples: Inspect the system for leaks.
gloss: To observe the status or nature of an object beyond what is found obvious upon its initial presentation; to 'view within' the object.
pos: verb
examples: After speaking with the building owner, hearing that the building's steam pipes were over eighty years old, and noticing areas where the pipes had been patched with duct tape, we decided to thoroughly inspect the system for leaks.
After talking with and observing his new patient for a few minutes, the doctor began to inspect his charge by means of a formal physical examination.
gloss: To examine officially.
pos: verb
examples: The general inspected the troops and their barracks.
‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”.[…]’.
Derived words: inspectability
inspectable
inspectee
inspecter
inspectingly
inspection
inspector
inspectoscope
inspect the plumbing
misinspect
preinspect
reinspect
superinspect
uninspected
Translations:
embarrass
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Akkadian 𒆟 (rakāsum)
Akkadian 𒄙 (markasu)bor.
Classical Syriac ܡܰܪܫܳܐ (maršā)bor.
Arabic مَرَسَة (marasa)der.
Old Galician-Portuguese baraço
Old Galician-Portuguese embaraçarbor.
Old Spanish embaraçar
Spanish embarazarbor.
French embarrasserbor.
English embarrass
Borrowed from French embarrasser, from Middle French embarrasser, embarasser (“to embarrass; to block, obstruct”), from Spanish embarazar, either from Italian imbarazzare or from Portuguese embaraçar.
Inflected forms:
form: embarrasses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: embarrassing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: embarrassed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: embarrassed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To disrupt someone's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The crowd's laughter and jeers embarrassed him.
gloss: To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The motion was advanced in order to embarrass the progress of the bill.
If they [registers] act It all, it must be by opposing their flat surfaces to the current of rising smoke in a manner which cannot fail to embarrass and impede its motion..
This will... be the principal part of education; and this alone will effectively dispel that theological philosophy, which, in its decline, is still powerful enough to embarrass the course both of intellectual and social progress.
In the case at bar, there is very little beyond bare assertions and bald statements against the unidentified and unspecified Defendant(s). The claim is vexatious in that the Defendant, if identifiable, is left both embarrassed and unable to defend itself. The Court is left with a proceeding so ill-defined that it is unable to discern an argument, or identify any specific material facts.
gloss: To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to encumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A man or his business is embarrassed when he cannot meet his pecuniary engagements.
gloss: To perplex mentally; confuse, disconcert; catch off guard.
pos: verb
tags: formal
transitive
Derived words: disembarrass
embarrassability
embarrassable
embarrassingly
embarrassing
embarrassment
Translations:
trollop
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Origin uncertain; apparently connected with the Middle English trollen (“to go about, stroll, roll from side to side”). Ostensibly influenced, if not derived, in some way by a word from Old Norse trǫll (“troll, witch, mage, monster, etc.”).
Inflected forms:
form: trollops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trollops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trolloping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trolloped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trolloped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A strumpet; a whore.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: Many an unfortunate Tuppenny trollop has gone from the old hag's den to the special ward at Little Bay, but not before the fell disease of the harlotic slums has been spread broadcast among the reckless patrons.
However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie--did actually solicit me, did actually say 'coming home to-night, dearie' and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman.
Aarfy's buxom trollop had vanished with her smutty cameo ring, and Nurse Duckett was ashamed of him because he had refused to fly more combat missions and would cause a scandal.
gloss: to act in a sluggish or slovenly manner
pos: verb
gloss: to dangle soggily: become bedraggled
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
gloss: to behave like a trollop
pos: verb
gloss: Of a horse: to move with a gait between a trot and a gallop; to canter.
pos: verb
Translations:
touch-up
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English touch updeverb.
English touch-up
Deverbal from touch up.
Inflected forms:
form: touch-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A slight correction or adjustment.
pos: noun
examples: The frosting just needs a little touch-up to be smooth and even.
Translations:
vint
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably a back-formation from vintage, interpreted as vint + -age. Ultimately from Latin vinum (“wine”).
Inflected forms:
form: vints
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vinting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vinted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vinted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make wine from fruit.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
ultima
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
Etymology: From the Latin feminine of ultimus (“last”).
Inflected forms:
form: ultimas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The final syllable of a word.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of vomma with respect to changes in the volatility of the underlying asset.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: ultima ratio
ultima Thule
Translations:
gainsboro
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A color named "gainsboro" was added to the X11 color chart by Paul Raveling in 1989. Raveling explained that he introduced a number of "light and off-white colors, copied from several Sinclair Paints color samples", of which gainsboro appears to be one.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A neutral light grey colour.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: By using light gray or Gainsboro we are using Edward Tufte's principle of "minimum effective difference" to put in ancillary information.
When the temperature reached to^([sic]) about 40 °C, the color of characters began to change, and it changed completely from black to gainsboro when the temperature rose to about 50 °C. As the[…]film cooled down to the room temperature, the color returned to black.
gloss: Of a neutral light grey colour.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
goldenrod
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From golden + rod.
Compound parts: golden
rod
Inflected forms:
form: goldenrods
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more goldenrod
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most goldenrod
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Any tall-stemmed plant principally from genus Solidago (also Oligoneuron), usually with clusters of small yellow flowers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A golden-yellow colour, like that of the goldenrod plant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She wore a goldenrod dress with a scooping neckline.
gloss: Of a golden-yellow colour, like that of the goldenrod plant.
pos: adj
Derived words: goldenrod tree
stiff-leaf goldenrod
sweet goldenrod
Translations:
lang: Belarusian
word: залатацень
roman: zalatacjenʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: сумнік
roman: sumnik
lang: Bulgarian
word: златник
roman: zlatnik
lang: Bulgarian
word: енчец
roman: enčec
lang: Catalan
word: vara d'or
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 一枝黄花
roman: yīzhīhuánghuā
lang: Czech
word: zlatobýl
lang: Danish
word: gyldenris
lang: Dutch
word: guldenroede
lang: Esperanto
word: solidago
lang: Estonian
word: kuldvits
lang: Finnish
word: piisku
lang: French
word: verge-d'or
lang: French
word: gerbe-d'or
lang: German
word: Goldrute
lang: Hungarian
word: aranyvessző
lang: Irish
word: slat óir
lang: Italian
word: verga d'oro
lang: Japanese
word: アキノキリンソウ
roman: akinokirinsō
lang: Japanese
word: 秋の麒麟草属
roman: akinokirinsōzoku
lang: Kazakh
word: алтыншыбық
roman: altynşybyq
lang: Korean
word: 미역취
roman: miyeokchwi
lang: Latin
word: solidago
lang: Latvian
word: zeltgalvīte
lang: Lithuanian
word: rykštenė
lang: Macedonian
word: златица
roman: zlatica
lang: Navajo
word: mąʼii chʼil
lang: Norman
word: vèrge d'or
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: gullris
lang: Polish
word: nawłoć
lang: Portuguese
word: virgáurea
lang: Portuguese
word: vara-de-ouro
lang: Romanian
word: splinuță
lang: Romanian
word: splină
lang: Romanian
word: vargă-de-aur
lang: Russian
word: золота́рник
roman: zolotárnik
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: zlatnica
lang: Slovak
word: zlatobyľ
lang: Spanish
word: vara de oro
lang: Turkish
word: altınbaşak
lang: Ukrainian
word: золотушник
roman: zolotušnyk
lang: Unami
word: wisaòtaèk
lang: Welsh
word: eurwialen
mesocyclone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *me
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-?
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe
Proto-Indo-European *médʰi
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos
Proto-Hellenic *métsos
Ancient Greek μέσος (mésos)der.
English meso-
English cyclone
English mesocyclone
From meso- + cyclone.
Inflected forms:
form: mesocyclones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An area of vertical atmospheric rotation in supercell thunderstorms, which signals the threat of a possible tornado.
pos: noun
Translations:
supercell
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
climatology
geography
geology
meteorology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-lbor.
English super-
English cell
English supercell
From super- + cell.
Inflected forms:
form: supercells
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A severe thunderstorm with updrafts and downdrafts that are in near balance, allowing the storm to maintain itself for several hours. Supercells often produce large hail, powerful downpours, very strong winds and sometimes tornadoes.
pos: noun
examples: They watched the supercell that spawned the F5 killer that struck Oklahoma City spit out one tornado after another. In two cases, the researchers believe, the Dopplers captured tornadoes being formed — including the Oklahoma City monster.
The storm system was a supercell, the kind that brew the deadliest tornadoes and most damaging hail in the United States, said Walker Ashley[…]
gloss: A repeating unit cell of a crystal that contains several primitive cells.
pos: noun
Translations:
cumulus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱuh₁mósder.?
Latin cumulusbor.
English cumulus
Learned borrowing from Latin cumulus. Doublet of comble.
Sense 2 (“type of cloud”) was coined by the British chemist and amateur meteorologist Luke Howard (1772–1864): see the 1803 quotation.
Inflected forms:
form: cumuli
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A heap or mound.
pos: noun
gloss: A large white, puffy cloud that develops through convection.
pos: noun
examples: [page 99] Cumulus. […] Convex or conical heaps, increasing upward from a horizontal base. […] [page 101] The cumulus of fair weather has a moderate elevation and extent, and a well defined rounded surface. Previous to rain it increases more rapidly, appears lower in the atmosphere, and with its surface full of loose fleeces or protuberances.
In the sketch (which is taken about 75 Jovian days after that of the 2nd July) there is shown a dark copper-coloured streak along the southern margin of the south brown belt, butting on to a bluff-headed streak of cumulus cloud which may be the same remarkable bluff head noticed on July 2.
There were some new cumuli in the east, out above the water, and they began to take the late afternoon sun.
2007 September 1, "Who’s afraid of Google?: The world’s internet superpower faces testing times", in The Economist, The Economist Newspaper Ltd, ISSN 0013-0613, volume 384, number 8544, page 9,
Ironically, there is something rather cloudlike about the multiple complaints surrounding Google. The issues are best parted into two cumuli: a set of “public” arguments about how to regulate Google; and a set of “private” ones for Google’s managers, to do with the strategy the firm needs to get through the coming storm.
Derived words: cumulus oophorus
fumulus
pyrocumulus
roll cumulus
stratocumulus
Translations:
Jedi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Coined by American filmmaker George Lucas as early as 1973 (in the manuscript Journal of the Whills) and first used in his 1977 film Star Wars. Said to have been adapted from Japanese 時代劇 (jidaigeki, “‘period drama’ motion pictures about samurai”), or perhaps inspired by the words Jed (King) and Jeddak (Emperor) in the Barsoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs, which Lucas had considered adapting to film. Another potential influence on the word "Jedi" is Hebrew ידיד (yadíd, “beloved; male friend”). In his book The Secret History of Star Wars, Michael Kaminski suggests that Lucas may have been influenced by this term when creating the name for his knights. Kaminski notes that Lucas has cited Jewish mysticism as an inspiration for his work, and that he may have been drawn to the idea of his heroes being beloved protectors.
Inflected forms:
form: Jedi
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Jedis
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
Senses:
gloss: One of a fictional order of beings from the Star Wars universe who are gifted with heightened awareness of the Force.
pos: noun
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Jedi.
gloss: A follower of Jediism.
pos: noun
Derived words: Jedicide
Jedi flip
Jedi flipping
Jediism
Jediist
Jedi Knight
Jedi Master
Jedi mind trick
Translations:
focaccia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Italian focaccia, from Late Latin focācium (via its plural focācia), derived from Latin focus (“hearth”). Doublet of fougasse and pagash. Cognate with Sicilian fugazza, Serbo-Croatian pogača (“unleavened bread”).
Inflected forms:
form: focaccias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A flatbread similar in style, composition, and texture to modern pizza doughs and topped with herbs, cheese and other products. Focaccia typically consists of high-gluten flour, oil, water, sugar, salt and yeast.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The same dough can be used for bread, rolls, breadsticks, bruschetta, focaccia, calzone, or pizza. The only practical difference between pizza and focaccia is the thickness of the crust: Traditional pizza crust is thin, and something an inch or two thick […] is more like focaccia.
Sweetgreen told CNN the company was “proud to share that we are currently in the process of rolling out new PFAS-free focaccia bags that will be available in all Sweetgreen locations by the end of Q2.”
gloss: A sandwich made with this type of bread.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
grizzle
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English grisel, gryselle, from Old French grisel, from gris (“grey”), from Frankish *grīs, from Proto-Germanic *grīsaz.
Inflected forms:
form: grizzles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: grizzles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: grizzling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: grizzled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: grizzled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A dark grey colour.
pos: noun
gloss: Grey hair.
pos: noun
gloss: A grey wig.
pos: noun
gloss: Of a grey colour.
pos: adj
gloss: To make or become grey, as with age.
pos: verb
examples: R. F. Burton
hardship of the way such as would grizzle little children
Pall Mall Magazine
I found myself on the Nubian desert shaking hands with a grizzling man whom men addressed as Collins Bey.
Related words: grizzly
gristle
Translations:
tomo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tomos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A shaft formed in limestone rock dissolved by groundwater.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
Translations:
gunmetal-grey
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: gunmetal-gray
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of a dark grey colour with a tint of blue.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Altamaha-ha, as the serpent has been named, is said to be from twelve to twenty feet long, about two feet in diameter, and gunmetal gray on top with a creamy underside. Most descriptions suggest a creature that is part eel, part alligator, ...
Translations:
tornadic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tornado
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English tornadic
From tornado + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more tornadic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tornadic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a tornado.
pos: adj
examples: tornadic destruction
gloss: Having the ability to produce a tornado.
pos: adj
examples: a tornadic thunderstorm
Derived words: nontornadic
tornadic waterspout
Translations:
mitch
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English mychen, müchen (“to rob, steal, pilfer”), from Old English *mȳċan (“to steal”), from Proto-West Germanic *mūkijan, from Proto-Germanic *mūkijaną (“to waylay, ambush, hide, rob”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mūg-, *(s)mewg- (“swindler, thief”). Cognate with Scots mich, myche (“to steal”), Saterland Frisian mogeln (“to act secretively and deceitfully”), Dutch mokkelen (“to flatter”), Alemannic German mauchen (“to nibble secretively”), German mogeln (“to cheat”), German meucheln (“to assassinate”), Norwegian i mugg (“in secret, secretly”), Latin muger (“cheater”). Related to mooch.
Inflected forms:
form: mitches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mitching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mitched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mitched
pos: verb
tags: past
form: mich
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: mych
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: myche
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: meech
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: meach
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: miche
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To pilfer; filch; steal.
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
transitive
gloss: To shrink or retire from view; lurk out of sight; skulk.
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
intransitive
gloss: To be absent from (school) without a valid excuse; to play truant, to skive off.
pos: verb
tags: Ireland
Wales
ambitransitive
examples: "Did you ever mitch school?" he asked.
"No. But I think this is what it would feel like."
John said he was going to mitch the last lesson today.
I was young once. God, the things we used to get up to in the seminary. Me and a bunch of the lads there, once we mitched off to see a Dana concert.
gloss: To grumble secretly.
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
intransitive
gloss: To pretend poverty.
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
intransitive
Derived words: go on the mitch
mitcher
mitchery
mitching
Translations:
Norrie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: Norries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person from the north side of Cork City, Ireland.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
countable
slang
gloss: A genetic X-linked recessive disease that primarily affects the eye and leads to blindness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Retinal dysplasia may occur in isolation but is usually part of a syndrome such as Edwards, Patau, Norrie, Walker–Warburg, or incontinentia pigmenti.
Derived words: norrin
Translations:
convection
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From Latin convectiōnem, from convectiō (“act of carrying”), from convect-, past participle stem of convehō (“to carry together”), combination of com- and vehō. By surface analysis, convect + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: convections
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: convexion
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The process of conveying something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: The transmission of heat in a fluid by the circulation of currents.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The mantle is important to our discussion in that its viscous nature can conduct convection currents that have effects on the crust upon which we live.
gloss: The vertical movement of heat and moisture, especially by updrafts and downdrafts in an unstable air mass. The terms convection and thunderstorm are often used interchangeably, although thunderstorms are only one form of convection. Towering cumulus clouds are visible forms of convection.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: convect
Derived words: autoconvection
bioconvection
convectional
convectionary
convection cell
convection microwave
convection microwave oven
convection oven
electroconvection
forced convection
free convection
gravitational convection
magnetoconvection
microconvection
natural convection
photoconvection
pyroconvection
Rayleigh-Bénard convection
semiconvection
thermoconvection
trivection
Translations:
interchangeably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English interchangeable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English interchangeably
From interchangeable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: With the ability of being interchanged or swapped.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Traditionally, 'ticket office' seems to have been the preferred term in America, with Britain using the term 'booking office' (as an 1881 edition of The Railway Age Monthly and Railway Service Magazine explains). Today, the two are often used interchangeably (as the recent 'Save our ticket offices' campaign shows), with the term 'ticketing' perhaps capturing more of the point-of-sale transaction and issuing of tickets within stations.
Translations:
freezing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: By surface analysis, freeze + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more freezing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most freezing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: freezings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Suffering or causing frost.
pos: adj
tags: literally
gloss: Very cold.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
excessive
gloss: The freezing point of water, zero degrees celsius.
pos: adj
examples: Despite this, the average temperature at the surface [of Mars] is 50–60K below freezing, making it hard to imagine that any plants or animals could survive.
gloss: Aloof, unfriendly.
pos: adj
examples: He turned at the door of the inner office and dropped a freezing eye on the offender. "Get those letters copied before you go out to lunch, Binns," he remarked in a sufficiently loud voice.
Jeff unconsciously reached out to touch the pewter casket, but was intercepted by the mother. She whisked his hand away with freezing politeness and said simply, "He's gone now."
gloss: The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The temp in the mountains may/can fall below freezing at this time of year.
Hence, there is a succession of thawings and freezings. The former expand, and endeavour to restore the surface of the ground to its natural condition, while the latter contract and harden it.
[…] and the sloping collection of fractured rocks—known as talus—that tumbled down from the quartzite bluffs during the repeated freezings and unfreezings of the last Ice Age.
gloss: The action of numbing with anesthetics.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Synonyms: frosty
frigorific
frost
Related words: freeze-dry
freezer
Derived words: freezingly
freezingness
nonfreezing
subfreezing
antifreezing
cryofreezing
postfreezing
refreezing
Translations:
squeak
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: games
Inflected forms:
form: squeaks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: squeaks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: squeaking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: squeaked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: squeaked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A short, high-pitched sound, as of two objects rubbing together, or the sounds made by mice and other small animals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A card game similar to group solitaire.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A narrow squeak.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
examples: "I had the very devil of a squeak for it," he went on. "I did the hurdles over two or three garden-walls, but so did the flyer who was on my tracks, and he drove me back into the straight and down to High Street like any lamplighter. […]
gloss: To emit a short, high-pitched sound.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: But I must warn you that chipboard floors are always likely to squeak. The material is still being used in new-builds, but developers now use adhesive to bed and joint it, rather than screws or nails. I suspect the adhesive will eventually embrittle and crack, resulting in the same squeaking problems as before.
gloss: To inform, to squeal.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: If he be obstinate, put a civil question to him upon the rack, and he squeaks, I warrant him.
gloss: To speak or sound in a high-pitched manner.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To empty the pile of 13 cards a player deals to oneself in the card game of the same name.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To win or progress by a narrow margin.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: […] allowing Parkinson to squeak into the final by a half-point margin.
France were transformed from the feeble, divided unit that had squeaked past Wales in the semi-final, their half-backs finding the corners with beautifully judged kicks from hand, the forwards making yards with every drive and a reorganised Kiwi line-out beginning to malfunction.
Synonyms: grass up
snitch
Derived words: batsqueak
bubble and squeak
pip-squeak
squeakery
squeakish
squeakless
squeakproof
squeakquel
squeaky
squeak by
squeaker
squeakingly
squeak out
squeak through
unsqueaking
until the pips squeak
Translations:
lidless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lid
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English lidless
From lid + -less.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Without a lid.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Ode on the Departing Year,” Epode II, in Poems, Bristol: J. Cottle & Messrs. Robinsons, 2nd edition, p. 15,
[…] yet, as she lies
By livid fount, or roar of blazing stream,
If ever to her lidless dragon eyes,
O Albion! thy predestin’d ruins rise,
The Fiend-hag on her perilous couch doth leap,
Mutt’ring distemper’d triumph in her charmed sleep.
Two or three minutes later the murdered man, the blanketed corpse, the lidless coffin, and the open grave were under no inspection but the moon’s.
You can scarce imagine how nauseatingly inhuman they looked—those pale, chinless faces and great, lidless, pinkish-grey eyes!—as they stared in their blindness and bewilderment.
When I exercised the pony, old Johnny, after school hours I loved to ride through the Cook Street chaos of garbage. High and safe on the horse’s back I could look down into it and see wild rose bushes forcing their blooms up through lidless cook stoves and skunk cabbage peeping out of bottomless perambulators, beds tipped at any angle, their years of restfulness all finished and done with.
One foot caught on a ridge in the blacktop driveway and I stumbled. The cup of café mocha flew out of my grasp and settled lidless on the pavement.
Translations: