yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
ottoman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
furniture
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
Etymology: From Ottoman in the early 19th century; so named because reclining on a couch was associated with Middle Eastern customs.
Inflected forms:
form: ottomans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An upholstered sofa, without arms or a back, sometimes with a compartment for storing linen etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In the middle of the room there is a big ottoman; and this, with the carpet, the Morris wall-papers, and the Morris chintz window curtains and brocade covers of the ottoman and its cushions, supply all the ornament, and are much too handsome to be hidden by odds and ends of useless things.
These hefty features were on display together with dry-point engravings, marble busts, and mahogany whatnots, which the guests now squeezed between, plumping themselves down on over-stuffed ottomans beneath gleaming crystal electroliers.
A 39-year-old British woman was killed when a malfunctioning ottoman bed fell on her neck and asphyxiated her, a coroner’s report said.
gloss: A low stool or thick cushion used to rest the feet or as a seat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This ottoman is set on casters, and is a great convenience for holding articles, while serving also as a seat.
gloss: A fabric with a pronounced ribbed or corded effect, often made of silk or a mixture of cotton and silk-like yarns.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: chesago
Derived words: ottomanlike
Translations:
footstool
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From foot + stool.
Compound parts: foot
stool
Inflected forms:
form: footstools
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: foot stool
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: foot-stool
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A low stool for supporting the feet while seated.
pos: noun
examples: In Christianity, the world is called the footstool of Christ; in this Sumerian vision, the awakened body would be called the bed of the Queen of Heaven.
gloss: Anything trodden upon or treated as subservient.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Thereafter, when I have eaten and drunken and made merry in my royal palace at Carcë, I will sail with my armies over the teeming deep to many-mountained Demonland. And it shall be my footstool, and these other Demons the slaves of me, yea, and the slaves of my slaves.
Related words: stepstool
Derived words: footstooled
Translations:
semitone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sēmi
Latin sēmi-bor.
English semi-
English tone
English semitone
From semi- + tone.
Inflected forms:
form: semitones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of two parts, equal or unequal, in which a whole tone is divided.
pos: noun
gloss: One of two parts, equal or unequal, in which a whole tone is divided.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of the pitches of a chromatic scale.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: An interval equal to an augmented unison or a minor second, depending on the context and tuning system used.
pos: noun
Synonyms: half step
halftone
Related words: hemitonic
cent
Derived words: chromatic semitone
diatonic semitone
semitonic
subsemitone
Translations:
encourage
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English encouragen, encoragen, from Anglo-Norman encoragier, from Old French encoragier. Displaced native Old English hiertan, tyhtan, and trymman. By surface analysis, en- + courage.
Inflected forms:
form: encourages
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: encouraging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: encouraged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: encouraged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: incourage
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I encouraged him during his race.
Delia's coach encouraged her to focus on the positives.
The visitors we do not encourage are the many small boys who slip in unobserved and are a danger to themselves and the staff.
"It's a lose-lose situation. It can be turned into a win-win. We should be encouraging and supporting expensive bi-mode freight locomotives, especially where capacity is constrained.
gloss: To spur on, strongly recommend.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We encourage the use of bicycles in the town centre.
We encourage you to cycle instead of taking the car.
gloss: To foster, give help or patronage.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The royal family has always encouraged the arts in word and deed.
In addition the Marquess built a brickworks adjacent to the colliery, and also greatly improved the harbour to encourage coastal shipping.
They remove all sense of self-responsibility from us prisoners. We have virtually no control over any aspect of our lives. This does not encourage our ability to return to community life outside.
And this is where the larger problem lies: when states try to enforce impossible bans, everyone loses. 3D printing farragoes have all the hallmarks of the absolute worst kind of ineffectual ban: one which encourages overly draconian laws that carry huge side effects, and that ultimately to have little to no effect.
Related words: courage
Derived words: disencourage
encourageable
encouragement
encourager
encouraging
encouragingly
overencourage
reencourage
Translations:
hexagram
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hexa- + -gram.
Base: hexa
Inflected forms:
form: hexagrams
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hexagramme
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A hollow six-pointed star formed by overlapping two equilateral triangles.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of the 64 sets of solid and broken lines, formed by pairs of trigrams, used for divination in the I Ching.
pos: noun
gloss: A large silver coin minted during the Byzantine Empire.
pos: noun
Translations:
overlap
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: art
arts
ball-games
biology
business
games
genetics
hobbies
insurance
lifestyle
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
rugby
sciences
sports
Etymology: From over- + lap.
Cognate with Dutch overlap.
Base: lap
Affixes: over-
Inflected forms:
form: overlaps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: overlapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: overlapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: overlapped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: overlaps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To extend over and partly cover something.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: The mouse-mat overlapped the edge of the desk.
gloss: To co-occur, to happen at the same time.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: To have an area, range, character or function in common.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: The two maps overlapped at the east and west edges.
Memento unfolds over 22 scenes—or, more accurately, 22 strands of time, the main strand (in color) moving backward in increments, and another strand (in black and white) going forward, though the two overlap profoundly.
gloss: Of sets: to have some elements in common.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: The set (all men) overlaps the set (vegetarians).
gloss: To have some similar nucleotide sequences.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: An illusion of depth is created when one object partially covers another.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: Something that overlaps or is overlapped.
pos: noun
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: a situation in the game where an attacking line has more players in it than the defensive line coming to meet it. The attacking side may exploit the overlap by using their superior numbers to break the opposition's defensive line. If attackers outnumber defenders by more than one player this is often termed a two man overlap or three man overlap, etc. If the attacking side fails to break through usually due to poor execution, they are said to waste an overlap.
pos: noun
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: The payment of a spouse's or other dependant's annuity benefits concurrently with the member's benefits, on death of the member during the guarantee period.
pos: noun
tags: intransitive
transitive
Related words: coexist
coincide
coinstantiate
intersect
override
coexistence
coincidence
coinstantiation
co-occurrence
intersection
Derived words: nonoverlap
nonoverlapped
overlappable
overlapper
overlap syndrome
Translations:
lang: French
word: se chevaucher
lang: Italian
word: sovrapporsi
lang: Portuguese
word: sobrepor-se
lang: Spanish
word: superponerse
lang: Spanish
word: sobreponerse
dishcloth
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compound of dish + cloth.
Inflected forms:
form: dishcloths
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dish cloth
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dish-cloth
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cloth used to wash dishes.
pos: noun
gloss: A cloth used to dry dishes.
pos: noun
Derived words: dishcloth gourd
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: شيفون
roman: šifūn
lang: Catalan
word: baieta
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 洗碗布
roman: xǐwǎnbù
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: yuvğuç
lang: Dutch
word: schotelvod
lang: Dutch
word: vaatdoek
lang: Finnish
word: tiskirätti
lang: Finnish
word: keittiöliina
lang: French
word: lavette
lang: German
word: Spültuch
lang: German
word: Spüllappen
lang: Hungarian
word: mosogatóruha
lang: Irish
word: ceirt soithí
lang: Italian
word: strofinaccio
lang: Limburgish
word: sjotelsplak
lang: Norman
word: laveux
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: oppvaskklut
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: oppvaskklut
lang: Polish
word: ścierka do naczyń
lang: Polish
word: ścierka kuchenna
lang: Polish
word: ręcznik kuchenny
lang: Portuguese
word: esfregão da louça
lang: Russian
word: тря́пка для мытья́ посу́ды
roman: trjápka dlja mytʹjá posúdy
lang: Spanish
word: trapo de fregar
lang: Spanish
word: bayeta
lang: Swedish
word: disktrasa
lang: Swedish
word: diskhandduk
lang: Turkish
word: bulaşık bezi
lang: Turkish
word: sarı bez
lang: Turkish
word: temizlik bezi
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: پاچاوره
roman: paçavra
lang: Walloon
word: strifion
lang: Walloon
word: lagnet
lang: Walloon
word: rilavete
lasso
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Spanish lazo, from Vulgar Latin *laceum, from Latin laqueus. Doublet of lace.
Inflected forms:
form: lassos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lassoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lassu
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: lazo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: lassoes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lassoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lassoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lassoed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: lassu
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: lazo
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A long rope with a sliding loop on one end, generally used in ranching to catch cattle and horses.
pos: noun
examples: He managed to catch the runaway bull with a lasso.
She threw the lasso skillfully around the post.
gloss: An image-editing function allowing the user to capture an irregularly-shaped object by drawing an approximate outline.
pos: noun
gloss: To catch with a lasso.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He had to lasso the wild horse before it ran off.
Synonyms: rope
lariat
Derived words: lasso cell
lassolike
lasso peptide
unlasso
Translations:
seabed
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sea + bed.
Compound parts: sea
bed
Inflected forms:
form: seabeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The floor or bottom of the sea or ocean.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: Davy Jones's locker
Translations:
catechol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From catech(u) + -ol. Compare catechin and catecholamine.
Base: catechu
Affixes: -ol
Inflected forms:
form: catechols
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The biologically important diphenol ortho-dihydroxy benzene; isomeric with hydroquinone and resorcinol.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
scrubber
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: audio
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English scrub
English -er
English scrubber
From scrub + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: scrubbers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person or appliance that cleans floors or similar by scrubbing.
pos: noun
gloss: A soft and flexible handheld polymer-fiber implement for scrubbing tasks.
pos: noun
gloss: A device that removes impurities from gases.
pos: noun
gloss: A machine for washing leather after the tanpit.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: An animal (especially cattle) that has broken away from the herd and established itself in the bush.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
gloss: Someone who lives in the bush; a wild person, someone only partly assimilated into society.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: ‘He was a real scrubber that old feller,’ he confided gleefully. ‘No one never got a tag on him before this.’
gloss: A prostitute or a slovenly woman.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
slang
examples: What did you think, it was happy ever after with a Woodlands Road scrubber in a seaside resort?
gloss: A dirty or unhygienic person.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
slang
gloss: A horizontal bar allowing the user to set the playback position.
pos: noun
Derived words: amine scrubber
back scrubber
HCl scrubber
pot scrubber
pot scrubber brush
venturi scrubber
Translations:
oxyacetylene
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-der.?
Ancient Greek ὀξῠ́ς (oxŭ́s)bor.
English oxy-
French acétylènebor.
English acetylene
English oxyacetylene
From oxy- + acetylene.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A mixture of oxygen and acetylene, which burns at a high temperature and is used for cutting and welding metals.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Using this mixture.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an oxyacetylene torch
The first stage of the demolition work consisted of removing, by oxy-acetylene cutting, the whole of the plate floor, cross-girders, and lattice parapets.
Translations:
cricketer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cricket
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English cricketer
From cricket + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: cricketers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who plays cricket.
pos: noun
examples: Described by witnesses as a keen cricketer and pubgoer until contacts with Islamic militants radicalized him on a trip to Pakistan, he was ordered to serve at least 14 years for the plot, and for supplying militants in Afghanistan with money and equipment.
Several cricketers came up to them and asked Pradeep about his effortless action mimicry and his promising chinaman bowling.
Translations:
daggy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dag
English -y
English daggy
From dag + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: daggier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more daggy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: daggiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most daggy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Uncool, unfashionable, but comfortably so.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
slang
examples: "But I remember everything about that day. What everyone was wearing, all the daggy things people said in the car on the way into town. The smell of stubble, upholstery. The taste of tomato in my throat from lunch."
We wore hippie clothes, looking more daggy than cool.
I began to feel even more daggy when Bianca swanned me around to meet her sexy, skinny and beautiful friends.
The daggiest house in the Bay, that was how people talked about the Isherwood House.
Actually this wasn′t too bad as a jazz venue, being in the daggiest pub in the daggiest part of Capalaba which, in 2004 was still a pretty daggy suburb.
“Yeah, I know, I-I was starting to like her too, even though she said I dress "daggy," whatever that means.”
In a daggy Canadian nightclub, Clark Kent lookalike Clif asked Pilar Mitchell for a dance – and her life changed[.]
Translations:
subfamily
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
English family
English subfamily
From sub- + family.
Inflected forms:
form: subfamilies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A taxonomic category ranking between a family and a genus; formerly called a tribe.
pos: noun
gloss: A secondary or subordinate grouping.
pos: noun
examples: There is a handy font editor tool in the engine, where you can import your font and create family and subfamily for your font (for example, the same font can have a family for its bold, italic, light, and dark style as its subfamily).
Derived words: intersubfamily
Translations:
doublethink
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From double + think. Coined by George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Compound parts: double
think
Inflected forms:
form: doublethinks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: doublethinks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: doublethinking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: doublethought
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: doublethought
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The holding of two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them as true or correct, without acknowledging the contradiction.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them. Do you suppose our mathematicians are unequal to that? Have you forgotten doublethink?
Any effort by the United States to halt these creeping advances of Communist imperialism became, by the same mad process of double-think, the only kind of "intervention" there ever could be.
Or does the hypocrisy and doublethink go beyond a loathing of the human body and an acceptance of violence to a very practical fear that such a club in a predominantly middle-class Caucasian neighborhood will drive down property values?
The same sort of doublethink is evident in the White House’s treatment of firsthand impeachment witnesses.
gloss: To engage in doublethink.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: "So we both doublethought our way around the inevitable as long as we could because we both really want the same thing and we both have policy problems with our superiors.” “I'm not sure I follow you,” Lindblad said, in a tone of voice[…]
... but, as they believed they had other reasons for supporting the invasion – be they moral, monetary or something else entirely – they doublethunk (or doublethought) it and endorsed the 'evidence' despite its lack of merit.
Translations:
godless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From god + -less. Compare Saterland Frisian godloos (“godless”), West Frisian goddeleas (“godless; wicked”), Dutch goddeloos (“godless; wicked”), German Low German gottlos (“godless”), German gottlos (“godless”), Danish gudløse (“godless”), Swedish gudlös (“godless; ungodly”), Icelandic guðlaus (“godless”), Gothic 𐌲𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍃 (gudalaus, “godless”).
Base: god
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
form: more godless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most godless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: god-less
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not acknowledging any deity or god; without belief in any deity or god.
pos: adj
gloss: Evil, wicked, worldly.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
slang
Synonyms: agnostic
atheistic
blasphemous
graceless
impious
infidel
iniquitous
irreligious
Related words: godlessness
godlessly
Translations:
landmark
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English *landmark, from Old English landmearc (“boundary”), from Proto-West Germanic *landamarku (“boundary, landmark”). Equivalent to land + mark. Cognate with German Landmarke (“landmark”), Danish landemærke (“landmark”), Swedish landmärke (“landmark”), Norwegian landemerke (“landmark”) and Faroese landamark (“land frontier”). Compare also Middle English londes-mark (“boundary”).
Compound parts: land
mark
Inflected forms:
form: landmarks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: land-mark
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: land mark
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: landmarks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: landmarking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: landmarked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: landmarked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: land-mark
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: land mark
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An object that marks the boundary of a piece of land (usually a stone, or a tree).
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A recognizable natural or man-made feature used for navigation.
pos: noun
examples: Anyone have any weird landmarks they often remember seeing along roads in the olden days?
gloss: A notable location with historical, cultural, or geographical significance.
pos: noun
examples: Founded in 1876 by disheartened gold prospectors, today downtown Rapid City is a mix of historic landmarks such as the 1928 Hotel Alex Johnson and the 1912 Elks Theatre, along with restaurants, coffee shops, specialty stores, boutiques and art galleries that reflect the busy modern city.
gloss: A major event or discovery.
pos: noun
tags: also
attributive
figuratively
examples: an important landmark in human history
a landmark paper in neurosurgery
a landmark ruling/case
He called the overthrow of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and the recent elections in Afghanistan landmark events in the history of liberty.
Leicester closed out the win to spark emotional scenes as those inside Wembley rejoiced in a landmark victory.
gloss: To officially designate a site or building as a landmark.
pos: verb
tags: US
examples: St Mary's Church stands on the north side of the village, a building of flint and stone with a 140 ft high steeple that landmarks one of the most beautiful churches in Suffolk.
“Permitted demolition or stripping rarely occurs on landmarked buildings,” she said. Ms. de Bourbon also noted that the city already requires the Buildings Department to hold permits for 40 days for “calendared” properties — those currently under landmarks consideration — so the commission has a chance to designate them.
Derived words: interlandmark
landmarkable
landmark case
Landmarker
Landmarkism
Landmarkist
pseudolandmark
semilandmark
Translations:
gracious
Part of speech: adj
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English gracious, from Old French gracieus, from Latin gratiosus, from gratia (“esteem, favor”). See grace. Displaced native Old English hold (“gracious”). Doublet of gracioso and grazioso.
Inflected forms:
form: more gracious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gracious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: gratious
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: gratious
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: kind and warmly courteous
pos: adj
gloss: tactful
pos: adj
gloss: compassionate
pos: adj
gloss: indulgent
pos: adj
gloss: benignant
pos: adj
gloss: full of grace; graceful; charming; elegant (in appearance, conduct, movement)
pos: adj
examples: The gracious movements of the figure skaters impressed the judges.
gloss: magnanimous, without arrogance or complaint, benevolently declining to raise controversy or insist on possible prerogatives.
pos: adj
examples: The actress's gracious acceptance of being named only in the end credits allowed her character's appearance in the episode to remain a surprise.
gloss: Expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, or frustration.
pos: intj
Related words: graceful
Derived words: graciously
graciousness
ingracious
overgracious
ungracious
Translations:
odious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English odious, from Old French odieus, from Latin odiōsus, from odium (“hate”).
Inflected forms:
form: more odious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most odious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Arousing or meriting strong dislike, aversion, or intense displeasure.
pos: adj
examples: Scrubbing the toilets in the bar at the end of a Saturday night is an odious task.
You told a lie, an odious damned lie: / Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie!
I own no crime, unless it be a crime to've hindered you from perpetrating that which would have made you odious to mankind, at least the fairest half.
He looks upon study as an odious fetter; his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake.
He always detested the trade, and it was only necessity, and the offer of his mother’s brother, a London apothecary of low family, into which Pendennis’s father had demeaned himself by marrying, that forced John Pendennis into so odious a calling.
"He was a dreadful person, a bully to everyone else, but to me something infinitely worse. He made odious love to me, boasted of his wealth, said that if I married him I would have the finest diamonds in London, and finally, when I would have nothing to do with him, he seized me in his arms one day after dinner—he was hideously strong—and he swore that he would not let me go until I had kissed him."
Gedeon Van Rompay had the dubious distinction of being the only Site employee personally hired by Edwin Falkirk, former All Sections Chief and perennial piece of human trash. Lillian had found it easy not to hold this against the man, but only because there were so many other odious things about him to choose from. He was misogynist, he was chauvinistic, he was boorish, he was violent. Just about the only metric on which she rated Van Rompay higher than Falkirk was transphobia; the big man made no distinction between varieties of womanhood, feeling superior to all of them equally.
Translations:
godparent
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰutós?
Proto-Germanic *gudą
Proto-West Germanic *god
Old English god
Middle English god
English god
English god-
English parent
English godparent
From god- + parent, modelled after godfather, godmother, godsib, etc.
Base: parent
Affixes: god-
Inflected forms:
form: godparents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who, at a child's naming ceremony or baptism, agrees to help raise the child, originally and especially in regard to their religious development.
pos: noun
gloss: A child's designated guardian in the case that the child's parents die.
pos: noun
Derived words: fairy godparent
godparental
godparenthood
godparenting
Translations:
anti-abolitionism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́)
Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der.
English anti-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
Proto-Italic *ap
Latin abder.
Latin ab-
Proto-Indo-European *h₃elh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *olō
Proto-Italic *oleō
?
Latin aboleō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin abolitiōnemlbor.
Old French abolucion
Middle French abolitionbor.
English abolition
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English abolitionism
English anti-abolitionism
From anti- + abolitionism.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The campaign against the abolition of the slave trade and/or slavery.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
icicle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English isykle, isikel, from Old English *īsġicel, from Proto-West Germanic *īsajikil, *īsajekul, equivalent to ice + ickle. It was assimilated to nouns in -icle, from Latin -iculus—the expected spelling would have -ickle. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Iesjuukel (“icicle”), German Low German Iesjökel, dialectal Danish jisegel (“icicle”), Norwegian isjukel (“icicle”) and Elfdalian aisikkel.
Compound parts: ice
ickle
Inflected forms:
form: icicles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A drooping, tapering shape of ice.
pos: noun
examples: Mor. Miſlike me not for my complexion, / The ſhadowed liuerie of the burniſht ſunne, / To whom I am a neighbour,and neere bred. / Bring me the faireſt creature North-ward borne, / Where Phœbus fire ſcarce thawes the yſicles, / And let vs make inciſion for your loue, / To proue whoſe blood is reddeſt,his or mine.
Several days of sub-zero temperatures caused icicles up to 1.5 metres long to form in tunnels across Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Cumbria.
Translations:
turner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
biology
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
sports
zoology
Etymology: From Middle English turner, torner, tornere, turnere, turnare, equivalent to turn + -er. Also from Middle English turnour, tornour, tournour, turnoure, from Old French tornour, tourneour, tourneur, tornëor (“one who fashions something by turning”).
Base: turn
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: turners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who or that which turns.
pos: noun
examples: Everyone kept turning around and craning their necks to look at the gaps, and Miss Griffin gave all the turners and craners paralyzing stares whenever she caught their eye.
gloss: A person who turns and shapes wood etc. on a lathe.
pos: noun
gloss: A kitchen utensil used for turning food.
pos: noun
gloss: A variety of pigeon; a tumbler.
pos: noun
gloss: A very dry pitch on which the ball will turn with ease.
pos: noun
Derived words: cooking turner
head-turner
kitchen turner
leaf-turner
neck-turner
page-turner
pancake turner
table-turner
trick turner
Turnerism
U-turner
woodturner
Translations:
god-awful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more god-awful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most god-awful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: God-awful
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: god awful
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: godawful
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: goshawful
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: gawdawful
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Extremely awful, unpleasant or dreadful.
pos: adj
tags: US
derogatory
slang
examples: Your roast beef was the most god-awful piece of meat I ever ate.
LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets god-awful cold in the winter but there’s a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.
It's a god-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair
Translations:
rudiment
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
entertainment
lifestyle
music
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Old French, from Latin rudimentum (“a first attempt, a beginning”), plural rudimenta (“the elements”), from rudis (“rude”); see rude. By surface analysis, rude + -i- + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: rudiments
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rudiments
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rudimenting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rudimented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rudimented
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A fundamental principle or skill, especially in a field of learning.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
often
examples: We'll be learning the rudiments of thermodynamics next week.
This boy is forest-born, / And hath been tutored in the rudiments / Of many desperate studies.
The very emphasis on reading readiness and on the methods employed to teach children the rudiments of reading has meant that the other, the higher, levels of reading have tended to be slighted.
gloss: A form that lacks full or complex development.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
often
examples: I have the rudiments of an escape plan.
But I will bring thee where thou soon shalt quit / Those rudiments, and see before thine eyes / The monarchies of the earth.
The single leaf is the rudiment of beauty in landscape.
gloss: A body part that no longer has a function
pos: noun
gloss: In percussion, one of a selection of basic drum patterns learned as an exercise.
pos: noun
examples: Show me your rudiments.
gloss: To ground; to settle in first principles.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: erudite
Derived words: rudimental
rudimentary
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: perusajatus
lang: Finnish
word: peruskuvio
lang: French
word: rudiment
lang: German
word: Ansatz
lang: Spanish
word: rudimento
oxygenate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From oxygen or French oxygéner + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Base: oxygéner
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: oxygenates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: oxygenating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: oxygenated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: oxygenated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To treat or infuse with oxygen.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: After we oxygenated the river, the fish returned.
The function of the respiratory system is to oxygenate the blood and remove carbon dioxide.
gloss: To give (a patient) oxygen therapy.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: deoxygenate
disoxygenate
hyperoxygenate
overoxygenate
overoxygenation
oxygenation
oxygenator
preoxygenate
reoxygenate
superoxygenate
underoxygenate
Translations:
Popsicle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of pop (“father”) + Epsicle, from Epperson + icicle. Named after Frank Epperson, its inventor. The inventor's children renamed it Popsicle, from Pop's 'sicle.
Compound parts: pop
Epsicle
Inflected forms:
form: Popsicles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Popsicle brand popsicle, a type of ice lolly.
pos: noun
Translations:
canine
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
card-games
medicine
poker
sciences
Etymology: From Latin canīnus (“of dogs, doglike, dogtooth”), from canis (“dog”). Compare French canin.
Inflected forms:
form: canines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, or pertaining to, a dog or dogs.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Two canine animals in a time of dearth, may be truly said to struggle with each other which shall get food and live.
We carried the dog round to the yard, and I examined his head. […] I accepted the care of the canine patient.
Police in a West Springfield arrested a man named Kenneth Appleby and suggested that he might be a local version of Houston's Dean Corll (this was before John Gacy's Illinois murders had been discovered). Appleby's yard was dug up, but the only bones discovered was canine.
A lost dog sniffed around the flower beds wishing it had some canine company[…]
gloss: Dog-like.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In many respects she made me an admirable wife. Her affection for me was canine—positively.
I look for reflections, in your face
Canine devotion, time can't erase
Out on the corner, locked in your room
I never believe them and I never assume
gloss: Of or pertaining to mammalian teeth which are cuspids or fangs.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Then his upper lip may be seen to be raised, especially at the corners, so that his huge canine teeth are exhibited.
gloss: Of an appetite: depraved or inordinate; used to describe eating disorders.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
gloss: Any member of Caninae, the only living subfamily of Canidae.
pos: noun
examples: Whatever the case, the pair’s adventure certainly became famous in 2016, when a large dating program of fossils and artefacts from Chauvet Cave, which included the smear of charcoal discarded by the child, confirmed that the tracks constitute the oldest unequivocal evidence of a relationship between humans and canines.
gloss: Any of certain extant canids regarded as similar to the dog or wolf (including coyotes, jackals, etc.) but distinguished from the vulpines, which are regarded as fox-like.
pos: noun
tags: formal
examples: The canine ran across the room to the open window, put his front paws on the sill and pointed his nose at the sidewalk below.
gloss: Synonym of cuspid, the pointed tooth between the incisors and premolars in heterodont mammals.
pos: noun
examples: He tried to push Kissu into his cage, but the cougar charged back out and sank his canines into Wilson's rump.
gloss: A king and a nine as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em due to phonetic similarity.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: You have been dealt King-9 unsuited ("canine") in your pocket.
Related words: lupine
vulpine
Canini
Derived words: canicross
caninal
canine council
canine distemper
canine distemper virus
canine epileptoid cramping syndrome
canine hysteria
caninekind
canine letter
caninelike
caninely
canine madness
canineness
canine tooth
caniniform
caninity
caninize
caninophile
condylocanine
intercanine
noncanine
postcanine
precanine
pretercanine
pseudocanine
supercanine
uncanine
caninoid
K9
Translations:
facetiously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English facetious
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English facetiously
From facetious + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more facetiously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most facetiously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a facetious or flippant manner; in a manner that treats serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor.
pos: adv
examples: Pirates are revered as the original Pastafarians, and Pastafarians facetiously assert that a steady decline in the number of pirates has resulted in a significant rise in global temperature.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked on Thursday about Trump suggesting multiple times that the midterms should be canceled. She claimed Trump was just “speaking facetiously,” and “simply joking.”
gloss: In a pleasantly humorous or playful fashion.
pos: adv
tags: dated
Related words: facetious
facetiousness
Translations:
cascabel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Spanish cascabelbor.
English cascabel
Borrowed from Spanish cascabel (“bell, rattle”).
Inflected forms:
form: cascabels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small, round, hot variety of chili pepper, Capsicum annuum, which rattles when dry.
pos: noun
examples: The very pungent Mexican Cascabel looks a lot like the Cherry pepper when it is growing.[…]In the dry state the skin becomes translucent and the seeds are loose so that they rattle, hence cascabel, which means sleigh or jingle bells. Another cultivar, the elongate Catarina, is often called Cascabel because its dry seeds also make a noise within its translucent dry skin.
Cascabels are available dried in Latin American markets. Hot and nutty in flavor, cascabels are good in sauces, beans, and chilis.
Prepare the cascabels using one of the methods in the Preparing Cascabels box, at left.
gloss: A knob at the end of a cannon, cast onto the gun breech, to which a heavy rope is attached in order to control recoil.
pos: noun
examples: The cascabel, instead of being permanently attached to the breech of the piece, is set into it by means of a screw, and thus in reality the bore extends the entire distance of the gun, so that when the cascabel is taken off one can look directly through the gun.
This iron cannon with a single muzzle band, without trunnions and with an oversized cascabel is believed by many to be the original “Come and Take It” cannon and is displayed at the Gonzales Memorial Museum and occasionally elsewhere within Texas.
I was looking at a 151 mm caliber cannon, which used the twentyfour pound cannon ball and displayed a beautiful lion′s head on the back end of its breach area. An elaborate cascabel stuck out of the mouth of each animal. The cascabel was primarily used to attach ropes that secured the cannon during the recoil blowback that came from firing.
gloss: A bell attached to a sleigh or sleigh harness.
pos: noun
Translations:
confessio
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Latin cōnfessiō. Doublet of confession.
Inflected forms:
form: confessiones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A confession; a defense of one's faith, or a confession of guilt.
pos: noun
Translations:
deferred
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: accounting
business
computing
engineering
finance
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more deferred
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most deferred
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: deferreds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Delayed; put off till later.
pos: adj
examples: requested a deferred payment
In retrospect, it was small wonder that Railtrack found its finances under pressure, as with ever increasing demand there was an inevitable effect on infrastructure renewals. Matters came to a head with the Hatfield accident on October 17 2000, when there was a high-speed derailment as a result of deferred track maintenance.
gloss: Yielded to someone else's decision or judgment.
pos: adj
examples: The decision was deferred to the regional manager
gloss: Whose value is not realized until a future date: e.g. annuities, charges, taxes, and income, either as an asset or liability.
pos: adj
gloss: Synonym of promise (“object representing delayed result”).
pos: noun
gloss: A deferred bond.
pos: noun
examples: Now you can take the papers back. And let it be a warning to you, Parkinson, not to invest your savings in speculative railway deferreds.
Only some Eurobonds are Euro straights with normal fixed coupons: many have innovative coupon structures, like zeros, deferreds, or step-ups; many are dual-currency (coupon and principal currencies are not the same); […]
Derived words: deferred prosecution agreement
deferred time
nondeferred
undeferred
Translations:
cislunar
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cis-
English lunar
English cislunar
From cis- + lunar.
Inflected forms:
form: cis-lunar
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Situated between the Earth and the Moon.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Lt. Gen. Zhang Yulin, a former deputy commander of China’s astronaut program, wrote in The People’s Daily last year that cislunar space — the area between the Earth and moon — would “become another broad field for the expansion of human living space.”
The economic viability of commercial operations in cislunar space – meaning the region extending from Earth’s atmosphere to the lunar surface and beyond – might be even more remote.
gloss: Situated below the orbit of the Moon, or equivalent distance from the Earth.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: sublunar
Related words: translunar
Translations:
frosted
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *prews-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *prustós
Proto-Germanic *frustaz
Proto-West Germanic *frost
Old English frost
Middle English frost
English frost
English -ed
English frosted
From frost + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more frosted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most frosted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: frosteds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Covered in frost; frosty.
pos: adj
examples: Eiswein is made from frosted grapes.
gloss: Translucent, appearing to be covered in frost.
pos: adj
examples: She installed frosted windows, since there was a clear view of her bathroom from her neighbor's bedroom.
At the far end of the wide corridor were the doors of a ward. The panels were frosted save for ovals of clear glass at face level.
The point of interest about this particular specimen was that it must have remained intact for at least a quarter of a century, as it had embossed in the frosted glass the initials of the old Great North of Scotland Railway in the form of a scroll, the sort of relic of pre-grouping days that can still be found here and there if one is observant.
The vestibule has a row of brass mailboxes and a varnished umbrella rack and a rubber mat on the marble floor and two doors, one to the right with frosted glass and another in front of them of wire-reinforced glass through which he sees rubber-treaded stairs.
gloss: Damaged by frost.
pos: adj
examples: Frosted fruit will be unsalable.
gloss: Extremely intoxicated.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: I was so frosted after drinking that 12-pack.
gloss: A kind of milkshake made with ice cream.
pos: noun
examples: Except for those times when I am drugging myself with movies, vanilla frosteds, the latest novel, or cremes de nepenthe, it is difficult for me to avoid the bothersome thought […]
They had continued to laugh at the milk bar, tasting in the chocolate frosteds the unlikely flavor of Mr. Mather's turpitude.
Opening with standard flavors and moving quickly to grape, raspberry, blueberry, cinnamon, apple and the frosteds, the variety is putting many chains in a one-out-for-every-one-in frame of mind.
Related words: cold-sensitive
Derived words: frosted heart
frosted liver
frosted ribbon loaf
frosted ribbon sandwich
frosted tips
hoarfrosted
nonfrosted
unfrosted
Translations: