yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
Higgs
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From Hick + -s. From Hick + the patronymic suffix -s.
Base: Hick
Affixes: -s
Inflected forms:
form: Hicks
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Higgses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Higgsing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Higgsed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Higgsed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: Hicks
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: pertaining to the Higgs mechanism/Higgs force
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: to make subject to the Higgs mechanism
pos: verb
examples: When the matter fields condense the U(1) gauge symmetry is Higgsed to #92;mathbbZ#95;n.
Translations:
format
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
radio
sciences
Etymology: Via French format and German Format, from New Latin liber fōrmātus (“book fashioned”), from fōrmō (“to shape, fashion”).
Inflected forms:
form: formats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: formats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: formatting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: formatted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: formatted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The layout of a publication or document.
pos: noun
examples: The older manuscripts had been written in a much larger format than that found convenient for university work.
gloss: The form of presentation of something.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: The type of programming that a radio station broadcasts; such as a certain genre of music, news, sports, talk, etc.
pos: noun
examples: The radio station changed the format of its evening program.
gloss: A file type.
pos: noun
gloss: To create or edit the layout of a document.
pos: verb
gloss: Change a document so it will fit onto a different type of page.
pos: verb
gloss: To prepare a mass storage medium for initial use, erasing any existing data in the process.
pos: verb
examples: I lost weeks of work when I inadvertently formatted my hard drive.
Synonyms: initialize
Derived words: container format
E-format
file format
formatize
format string
Harvard format
large format
letterbox format
medium format
microformat
multiformat
package format
radio format
subformat
zoo format
wildmat
autoformat
deformat
formattable
formatter
formatting
misformat
overformat
preformat
unformat
Translations:
formatting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: formattings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The visual style of a document, including fonts, borders, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The code in a markup language which determines a document's format.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
fund
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: PIE word
 *bʰudʰmḗn
Borrowed from Latin fundus. Doublet of fond and fundus.
Inflected forms:
form: funds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: funds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: funding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: funded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: funded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A sum or source of money.
pos: noun
examples: the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc.
a fund for the maintenance of underprivileged students
gloss: An organization managing such money.
pos: noun
gloss: A money-management operation, such as a mutual fund.
pos: noun
examples: Several major funds were declared insolvent recently.
gloss: A large supply of something to be drawn upon.
pos: noun
examples: He drew on his immense fund of knowledge.
an inexhaustible fund of stories
He was a most likeable and generous man, a Whitworth Scholar, and possessed of a fund of knowledge which seemed to cover every subject under the sun.
gloss: To pay or provide money for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He used his inheritance to fund his gambling addiction.
gloss: To place (money) in a fund.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To form a debt into a stock charged with interest.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: alternative fund
alternative investment fund
balanced fund
bond fund
CAT fund
chit fund
closed-end fund
collateralized fund obligation
consolidated fund
contingencies fund
equity fund
exchange-traded fund
feeder fund
forfeiture fund
fundage
fundholder
fundholding
fund house
fundless
fund manager
fund of funds
fundraise
fundraiser
fund-raiser
fundraising
fund-raising
fun fund
go-go fund
green fund
growth fund
health fund
hedge fund
honey fund
honeyfund
income fund
index fund
interfund
investment fund
load fund
master fund
megafund
microfund
money-market fund
money market fund
mutual fund
no-load fund
open-end fund
pension fund
pooled fund
provident fund
quant fund
road fund licence
sinking fund
slush fund
sovereign wealth fund
stabilization fund
stock fund
subfund
Superfund
superfund
trust fund
trust fund baby
umbrella fund
vulture fund
wage-fund doctrine
yellow dog fund
co-fund
crowdfund
defund
fundable
funder
outfund
overfund
part-fund
self-fund
underfund
unfund
Translations:
funder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fund
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 funder
From fund + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: funders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who funds.
pos: noun
examples: I think funding sources do have an impact on the political direction of any organization. An organization that is not politically palatable to the funder is going to lose the funder. That has had an impact on the direction of the gay liberation event.
Network Rail's funder in Scotland, Transport Scotland, published a plan in 2020 saying that by 2035 the rail routes to Aberdeen (and to Inverness, Tweedbank and Carlisle via Kilmarnock) would be electrified.
Translations:
donation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English donacion, donation, from Middle French donation, from Latin dōnātiō (“a present”), from dōnō (“to give”), from dōnum (“a gift”). Recorded in English since the 15th century. Equivalent to donate + -ion.
Base: donate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: donations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A voluntary gift or contribution for a specific cause.
pos: noun
examples: They were collecting donations for the elderly at Christmas.
And some donation freely to estate
On the bless'd lovers.
gloss: The act of giving or bestowing; a grant.
pos: noun
examples: After donation there is an absolute change and alienation of the property of the thing given.
Related words: donate
fundraising
Derived words: backdonation
blood donation
donationware
dono
DonoWall
e-donation
egg donation
hemodonation
living donation
microdonation
nondonation
organ donation
postdonation
Translations:
dispose
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French disposerbor.
English dispose
Borrowed from French disposer.
Inflected forms:
form: disposes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disposing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disposed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disposed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To eliminate or to get rid of something.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
with-of
examples: I dispose of my trash in the garbage can.
gloss: To distribute or arrange; to put in place.
pos: verb
examples: Now, dear soldiers, march away: / And how thou pleasest, God, dispose the day!
Marianne’s pianoforte was unpacked and properly disposed of, and Elinor’s drawing were affixed to the walls of their sitting rooms.
I sat down within three feet of the entrance door, and I had no sooner got disposed than the door opened and a man came in[…].
By disposing the driving power over a number of cars instead of concentrating it in a single locomotive a great advance was made towards a high rate of acceleration.
gloss: To deal out; to assign to a use.
pos: verb
examples: what he designed to bestow on her funeral, he would rather dispose among the poor
gloss: To incline.
pos: verb
examples: In these uncertain times, I am disposed towards caution.
Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose / To future good our past and present woes.
They [suspicions] dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy.
At twilight in the summer[…]the mice come out. They[…]eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly[…]on the floor.
gloss: To bargain; to make terms.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: She had disposed with Caesar.
gloss: To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: the knightly forms of combat to dispose
Synonyms: incline
discard
Antonyms: indispose
disincline
Derived words: disposability
disposable
disposal
disposement
dispose of
disposition
disposophobia
foredispose
misdispose
redispose
Translations:
pebble
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
curling
games
geography
geology
graph-theory
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
sports
Etymology: From Middle English pibel (also in pibleston), from Old English papolstān (“pebble-stone”), from Old English *papol, *pyppel, *pæbbel of unknown origin + Old English stān. Compare Albanian popël.
Inflected forms:
form: pebbles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pebbles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pebbling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pebbled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pebbled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Then let the pebbles on the hungry beach
Fillip the stars;
And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge;
As children gathering pebbles on the shore.
gloss: A particle from 4 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A small droplet of water intentionally sprayed on the ice that cause irregularities on the surface.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Transparent and colourless rock crystal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Brazilian pebble
gloss: A form of slow-burning gunpowder in large cubical grains.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A small piece of crack cocaine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: You ain't got your Glock for the summer / And you ain't gonna pop for your gunner / You ain't in the whip with them pebbles (Nah) / You ain't on the strip with the rebels (Nah)
gloss: To pave with pebbles.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To deposit water droplets on the ice.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to pebble the ice between games
gloss: To give (leather) a rough appearance with small rounded prominences.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To place a pebble at (a vertex of a graph) according to certain rules, in a pebble game.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: pebble-bed reactor
pebble dash
pebble-dash
pebble in one's shoe
pebble lens
pebbleless
pebblelike
pebble mill
pebble plant
pebbler
pebblesnail
pebblestone
pebble toad
pebbleware
pebbly
snatch the pebble
Translations:
calix
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: calixes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: calices
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Dated spelling of calyx.
pos: noun
Translations:
dismount
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
government
gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
sports
war
Etymology: From dis- + mount, probably a calque of Old French desmonter.
Base: mount
Affixes: dis-
Inflected forms:
form: dismounts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dismounting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dismounted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dismounted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dismounts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To (cause to) get off (something).
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: She carefully dismounted from the horse.
She carefully dismounted the horse.
Cadel Evans was the first to suffer, quickly dismounting and waiting to take a bike from one of his BMC Racing team-mates, only to discover that the first of them had also punctured.
gloss: To make (a mounted drive) unavailable for use.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The VMS operator tried to dismount the Unix hard drive with the DISMOUNT DISK$NFSMOUNT command, instead of umount /mnt/nfshome.
PROBLEM: A volume periodically dismounts. There are two drives with one volume on each. From time to time, the second volume dismounts and the drive shuts down.
gloss: To come down; to descend.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount.
gloss: To throw (cannon) off their carriages.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: The act of stepping down from something being ridden, such as a skateboard.
pos: noun
examples: Nice dismount!
gloss: The part of a routine in which the gymnast detaches from an apparatus.
pos: noun
examples: It was a stylish routine, let down by a sloppy dismount.
Synonyms: umount
unmount
Antonyms: get on
mount
Derived words: dismountable
dismounter
Translations:
tenuous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Irregularly formed from Latin tenuis (“thin, slight”) + -ous. Compare tenuious.
Base: tenuis
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more tenuous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tenuous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Thin in substance or consistency.
pos: adj
examples: The aether was thought to be of tenuous strands.
Far from being amicable, the numbers seemed to turn their backs on each other, and I couldn't find a pair with even the most tenuous connection.
gloss: Insubstantial.
pos: adj
examples: His argument was not convincing in the debate, considering how tenuous it was.
July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Riseshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/
Picking up eight years after The Dark Knight left off, the film finds Gotham enjoying a tenuous peace based on Harvey Dent’s moral ideals rather than the ugly truth of his demise.
gloss: Precarious, dependent upon unreliable things.
pos: adj
examples: Paulina's repeated, almost anxious iteration of the lawfulness of her actions serves as a reminder of women's tenuous stance before the law in early modern English society.
Is this connected to "pro-gay" Governor Weld's contract with some in the community—gay rights in exchange for keeping sex out of the picture? Those willing to make this 'bargain with the devil' depend for their tenuous status on keeping the rest of us in line, moralizing about the need to behave "beyond reproach," clarifying to the straight public that there are good gays and bad ones.
Related words: attenuate
extenuate
tenuities
tenuity
tendrilous
wispy
Derived words: tenuosity
tenuously
tenuousness
Translations:
gray-collar
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From gray and collar by extension of white-collar and blue-collar, perhaps with gray being seen as intermediate between white and blue.
Inflected forms:
form: more gray-collar
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gray-collar
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: gray collar
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: grey-collar
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: grey collar
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to working-class professions that do not involve significant manual labor, such as skilled technical professions, combining elements of blue-collar and white-collar.
pos: adj
examples: But if you look at the employment trends in the country, you find that the white-collar (and gray-collar) activities have become increasingly important...
1964, National Ice Association: Forty-Seventh Annual Convention, Democratic Party Convention, OK State Fed of Labor
Your present plan is rated, not for the so-called blue collar people, it’s rated for white-collar and that thin gray line, the gray-collar worker. In many small businesses you don’t know who is blue-collar and who is white-collar, the boss often doing all kinds of work around the firm.
1971, Richard Patrick Coleman, Social Status in the City, Jossey-Bass, page 68,
At the lower-middle level, the typical Negro male was a gray-collar worker in one of the civil services, worked for the railroads as a Pullman porter or dining car waiter, or owned a small business.
1989, United States Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs, U.S. Efforts to Commercialize Superconductivity: Hearing Before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Government Printing Office, page 152,
Vocational training reaches greater fractions of the labor force in nations like West Germany; large Japanese companies invest more heavily in job-related training for blue- and gray-collar employees than do American firms.
Translations:
open-collar
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to work that is performed from home, especially by means of the Internet.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
informal
not-comparable
examples: The white-collar worker and open-collar professional have been imbued from earliest schooling with an individualist, anti-labor organizational ethic. Added to this, the new technologies are being utilized, in some cases, to restore patterns of home work and piece work.
In qualitative studies, open-collar workers said they felt they accomplished more because there were fewer interruptions. Employers also find that offering telecommuting positions can give them a recruiting advantage.
Far from being some special breed in three-button suits, these hard-working people are blue collar as often as white collar and, increasingly, the open collar workers of the information age.
Translations:
black-collar
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From black market and -collar.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to employment in the black market; that is, to engagement in illicit trade or distribution of untaxed goods and services.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
rare
examples: Rewards necessarily drop for the former — not only because their numbers increase relatively but also because their output per man-hour does not rise as rapidly as that of the black-collar worker.
What attitudes, types of ideas and particular experiences would lead a "blue collar worker" to perceive the evidence of the defendant's guilt differently than a white, pink or black collar worker?
Why can't we pass a law whereby every white/blue/black-collar worker with children pay into a fund about P20.00 a week from his pay.
gloss: Relating to creative work.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
examples: black-collar worker
In Helsinki, the inner-city workers' housing which was once uniformly red, now occupied by ‘black-collar’ workers—creative industry types who wear a T-shirt to work—votes solidly green.
gloss: Relating to coalminers and oil workers.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Even if you add to this the 4200 jobs created each year by the energy-efficiency measures for which the Rudd government claims credit, it is completely negated by the ‘black-collar’ jobs being added as Queensland and New South Wales expand coal exports.
gloss: Relating to the clergy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
rare
examples: This is scarcely the first crisis involving what an Australian victims' group, Broken Rites, has termed black-collar crime. But never before has a scandal cast doubts on the judgment and authority of a pope.
Related words: black market
Not to be confused with black-coated
Translations:
green-collar
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: By analogy with other compounds in -collar, especially white-collar and blue-collar, and taking green to represent the environment, environmentalism, and so on.
Inflected forms:
form: more green-collar
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most green-collar
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to employment in the environment or environmentalism industries.
pos: adj
examples: 1976, Patrick Heffernan, “Jobs for the Environment — The Coming Green Collar Revolution”, in Jobs and Prices in the West Coast Region: Hearing before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-Fourth Congress, Second Session, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 134,
1997, Geoff Mulgan, Perri 6 [sic], et al., The British Spring: A Manifesto for the Election After Next, Demos, page 26,
The United States, Canada, Germany, and Denmark are all generating hundreds of thousands of new 'green collar' jobs, especially for young people, achieving remarkable reductions in energy, water, waste disposal and materials costs.
2001, Diane Warburton and Ian Christie, From Here to Sustainability: Politics in the Real World, Earthscan, page 75,
Studies for the UK suggest that the more than 100,000 existing 'green collar' workers in environmental occupations could be joined by many thousands more, both in the private sector and in the 'social economy' of community enterprises.
gloss: Of or pertaining to rural, agricultural employment; often contrasted with urban blue-collar employment.
pos: adj
examples: 1983, U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Forestry, Water Resources, and Environment, Cultivation of Marihuana in National Forests: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Forestry, Water Resources, and Environment, […], U.S. Government Printing Office, page 32,
American [marihuana] growers, who have more recently become known as America's "green-collar" workers because of the bright green color of their product, […]
Blue-collar 29.7 33.5
Green-collar 21.2 10.0
White-collar 25.0 31.7
Grey-collar 24.0 24.8
Related words: green-collar crime
green collar crime
Translations:
ergo
Part of speech: adv
conj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English ergo, from Latin ergō.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Consequently, therefore, or thus.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: "I merely made an individual application of a general rule. All women love flattery—ergo, Miss Arundel liked it."
The pirates who invaded this fort left Sparrow locked in his cell; ergo, they are not his allies.
gloss: therefore (especially in syllogisms)
pos: conj
Translations:
facsimile
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin fac simile (“make like”), from fac (“make”) (imperative of facere (“make”)) + simile (neuter of similis (“like, similar”)).
Inflected forms:
form: facsimiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: facsimilia
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fac-simile
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: facsimiles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: facsimileing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: facsimiled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: facsimiled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: facsimilied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: facsimilied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: fac-simile
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A copy or reproduction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: To paraphrase the critic of the Times, if one may make the facsimile of a human being out of bronze, why not the facsimile of a Brillo carton out of plywood?
gloss: Reproduction in the exact form as the original.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Indeed his rendering is so excellent an example of mediæval learning and latinity that, even at the risk of sating the learned reader with too many antiquities, I have made up my mind to give it in fac-simile, together with an expanded version for the benefit of those who find the contractions troublesome.
gloss: A fax, a machine for making and sending copies of printed material and images via radio or telephone network.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The image sent by the machine itself.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To send via a facsimile machine; to fax.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To make a copy of; to reproduce.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: “What is a turtle?” asked I, facsimileing the graceful attitude of Don José, and leaning both my arms full-length on the table, while I stared him undauntedly in the face, as if he had been no more than an ordinary man.
The branch at the top [of the figure] is facsimiled from that in the hand of Adam, in Durer’s Adam and Eve.
The letter was photographed, facsimiled and copied out by hand, then the original was resealed and sent on to its destination.
Synonyms: facsimile machine
fax
fax machine
telefax
Derived words: facsimilist
facsimilize
microfacsimile
nonfacsimile
telefacsimile
Translations:
microorganism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
English organism
English microorganism
From micro- + organism.
Inflected forms:
form: microorganisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: micro-organism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: microörganism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An organism that is too small to be seen by the unaided eye; especially, a single-celled organism, such as a bacterium.
pos: noun
examples: The cud is then reswallowed by the ruminant and further digested by specialized microorganisms that live in the rumen.
Bacillus anthracis: from the first up to the sixth day, this microorganism was isolatable, or in other words still alive.
The differences in biofilm penetration patterns of both tested photosensitisers and the light source could have played an important role for the survival of microorganisms after the application of aPDT. In a recent own study, we showed that the deepest layers of the oral biofilm were not affected by the aPDT [4 ].
Translations:
fecundity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin fēcunditās (“fruitfulness, fertility”), from fēcundus, equivalent to fecund + -ity.
Base: fecund
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: fecundities
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fœcundity
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Ability to produce offspring.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: In the early days the reviewers compared him to the late Douglas Adams, but then Terry went on to write books as enthusiastically as Douglas avoided writing them, and now, if there is any comparison to be made of anything from the formal rules of a Pratchett novel to the sheer prolific fecundity of the man, it might be to P. G. Wodehouse.
gloss: Ability to cause growth or increase.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: [I]t would not be very much less absurd for someone to write about New York City after having spent only a few years or a few decades in this metropolis of inexhaustible adventure, of terrifying emotional fecundity, of uncapturable character.
gloss: Number, rate, or capacity of offspring production.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The soil spawned humanity, as it bred frogs in the Rains, and the gap of the sickness of one season was filled to overflowing by the fecundity of the next.
gloss: Rate of production of young by a female.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: fecund
fecundation
Derived words: antifecundity
infecundity
subfecundity
superfecundity
Translations:
octet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
mathematics
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From oct- (“eight”) + -et.
Affixes: oct-
-et
Inflected forms:
form: octets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: octett
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
form: octette
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: A group or set of eight of something.
pos: noun
gloss: A group of eight musicians performing together.
pos: noun
examples: An octet of waiters sang her "Happy Birthday".
gloss: A composition for such a group of musicians.
pos: noun
gloss: A byte of eight bits. Abbreviation: o
pos: noun
gloss: A group of three bits, representing any of eight possible values.
pos: noun
tags: rare
examples: This is done by breaking down each set of permissions (user, group, and other) to represent an octet.
Related words: octa-
octuple
duet
nonet
quartet
quintet
septet
sextet
solo
trio
Derived words: color-octet
octetonium
octet rule
Translations:
dine
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English dynen, from Old French disner (“to dine, eat the main meal of the day”), from Vulgar Latin *disiūnāre (“to eat breakfast”), from *disieiūnāre (“to break the fast”), from Late Latin, from dis- + iēiūnō (“to fast”), from Latin ieiūnus.
Inflected forms:
form: dines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To eat; to eat dinner or supper.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Brown accompanied his jolly landlord and the rest of his friends into the large and smoky kitchen, where this savoury mess reeked on an oaken table, massy enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry-men.
I dined them, treated them, listened to the truth of their hearts, stole their names and through this means bluffed and bartered my way into courthouse, palace and colonial manor.
gloss: To dine upon; to have to eat.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
Synonyms: dinner
Related words: dinner
Derived words: dine and dash
dine at the Y
dine in
dine-in
dine on ashes
dine out
dine out on
diner
dinery
dinette
dineware
dine with Duke Humphrey
dining
interdine
undined
wine and dine
Translations:
pernicious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French pernicios, from Latin perniciōsus (“destructive”), from perniciēs (“destruction”), from per (“through”) + nex (“slaughter, death”).
Inflected forms:
form: more pernicious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pernicious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causing much harm in a subtle way.
pos: adj
examples: pernicious influence
pernicious effects
They warned of the pernicious effects of misinformation.
The weed has a pernicious influence on local crops.
Ang. Belieue me on mine Honor,
My words expreſſe my purpoſe.
Iſa. Ha? Little honor, to be much beleeu'd,
And moſt pernitious purpoſe: Seeming, ſeeming.
I will proclaime thee Angelo, looke for't.
[…]her health also having suffered by the change, she immediately, when told of Douglas's projected departure from India, felt the strongest desire to accompany him; and to which Colonel Melbourne the more readily consented, having with reluctance yielded to her request of quitting England, willing as he had been to sacrifice the enjoyment of her society rather than that she should submit to the disadvantages attendant upon a residence in a clime usually found so pernicious to the female constitution.
Puritanism no longer employs the thumbscrew and lash; but it still has a most pernicious hold on the minds and feelings of the American people.
In January, the company laid off a third of its staff and renounced ads as a pernicious influence on the world, without mentioning that Google and Facebook are so good at ads there’s hardly room for anyone else to compete.
A man has always been a woman’s best excuse to avoid her destiny; that a man is her destiny is one of patriarchy’s most pernicious tenets. What a scam.
gloss: Causing death or injury; deadly.
pos: adj
gloss: Insidiously villainous: intending to cause harm, especially in a subtle way.
pos: adj
Derived words: antipernicious
pernicious anemia
perniciously
perniciousness
pernicious scale
Translations:
embark
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French embarquer, from em- + barque (“small ship”). Compare with Portuguese embarcar, Spanish abarcar.
Inflected forms:
form: embarks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: embarking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: embarked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: embarked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To go aboard a craft or vessel for transportation.
pos: verb
examples: All passengers please embark now.
[S]ee them embarqued; / And tell me if the VVinds and Seas befriend them.
It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
gloss: To start, begin.
pos: verb
examples: Phil embarked on his journey yesterday.
"This is uncommonly nice of you, Nora," he said, before she had had the chance to embark on any explanation; […]
gloss: To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He embarked his fortune in trade.
It was the reputation of the sect upon which St. Paul embarked his salvation.
Nor seek to get his patron's favour, by embarking himself in the factions of the family; to enquire after domestic simulties, their sports or affections.
Antonyms: disembark
Derived words: disembarkation
disembarkee
embarkation
embarkee
embarker
re-embark
reembark
Translations:
forty-five
Part of speech: num
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
Inflected forms:
form: forty-fives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Cardinal number after forty-four and before forty-six.
pos: num
gloss: A .45-caliber firearm.
pos: noun
examples: The robber brandished a forty-five at the cashier to make her empty the till for him.
The phoenix he helped create
Out of control boy without a dad
Shot the gun that startled my life
While I drove him with a forty-five
Translations:
expire
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English expire, from Middle French expirer, from Latin expīrō, exspīrō, from ex- (“out”) + spīrō (“breathe, be alive”).
Inflected forms:
form: expires
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: expiring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: expired
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: expired
pos: verb
tags: past
form: exspire
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To die.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The patient expired in hospital.
And then, his head ſinking on his pillow, he expired; at about half an hour after ten.
Hippolita, ſcarce more alive than her daughter, was regardleſs of every thing but her: but when the tender Iſabella’s care would have likewiſe removed her, while the ſurgeons examined Matilda’s wound, ſhe cried, remove me! never! never! I lived but in her, and will expire with her.
Soon the patient had no longer sufficient strength to sit up; the trunk of the body was inclined to the right side, the head high and thrown backward, the mouth wide open: she seemed to stifle rather than respire: lastly, speech and respiration failed her; she uttered, however, in a feeble voice, some incoherent words, said she felt she was dying, and, accordingly, expired the sixth day after entrance.
People bled to death like gentlemen in an operating room or expired without comment in an oxygen tent.
gloss: To lapse and become invalid.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: My library card will expire next week.
gloss: To come to an end; to conclude.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: And when the thousand yeeres are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, […]
gloss: To exhale; to breathe out.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air.
This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire.
Animals expire carbon and plants inspire it; plants expire oxygen and animals inspire it.
gloss: To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapour; to emit in minute particles.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: the expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter
gloss: To bring to a close; to terminate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Expire the term / Of a despised life.
gloss: To cause to lapse; to invalidate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The site expires cached pages that are older than 24 hours.
Related words: expiration
inspire
respiration
respire
spirit
Derived words: expirable
expiree
expiry
unexpire
Translations:
hermit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English hermite, heremite, eremite, from Old French eremite, from Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin eremita, from Ancient Greek ἐρημίτης (erēmítēs, “person of the desert”) from ἐρημία (erēmía, “desert, solitude”), from ἔρημος (érēmos) or ἐρῆμος (erêmos, “uninhabited”) plus -ίτης (-ítēs, “one connected to, a member of”). Doublet of eremite. Displaced native Old English ānsetla.
Inflected forms:
form: hermits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: eremite
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: heremit
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: heremite
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A religious recluse; someone who lives alone for religious reasons; an eremite.
pos: noun
gloss: A recluse; someone who lives alone and shuns human companionship.
pos: noun
examples: Solitary the thrush, / The hermit withdrawn to himself, avoiding the settlements, / Sings by himself a song.
Millie told him he sounded like some batty hermit who lived in a cave.
gloss: A spiced cookie made with molasses, raisins, and nuts.
pos: noun
gloss: A hermit crab.
pos: noun
examples: Because hermits are decapods and do not live within their own shells, they are not considered to be true crabs.
gloss: Any in the subfamily Phaethornithinae of hummingbirds.
pos: noun
Related words: monachos
monk
Derived words: bald-headed hermit
garden hermit
hermie
hermitage
hermitary
hermit-bird
hermit crab
hermit-crow
hermitess
hermithood
hermitic
hermitical
hermitically
hermitish
hermitism
hermitization
hermitize
hermit kingdom
hermitlike
hermitness
hermitry
hermitship
hermit thrush
hermitty
hermitude
hermit warbler
house hermit
ornamental hermit
thinstripe hermit
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: colibrí ermità
lang: Finnish
word: erakkokolibri
lang: Navajo
word: tsintah dahiitį́hii
lang: Spanish
word: ermitaño
hermitage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English hermytage, ermitage, from Old French ermitage, hermitaige, from Latin erēmīta, borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐρημίτης (erēmítēs, “hermit”). By surface analysis, hermit + -age.
Inflected forms:
form: hermitages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A house or dwelling where a hermit lives.
pos: noun
examples: But vvhat a vvretched, and diſconſolate Hermitage is that Houſe, vvhich is not viſited by thee [God], and vvhat a VVayue, and Stray is that Man, that hath not thy Markes vpon him?
I saw the huge rocking-stone, that had been violently depressed by him as he sprang, fly back when relieved of his weight till, for the first time during all these centuries, it got beyond its balance, fell with a most awful crash right into the rocky chamber which had once served the philosopher Noot for a hermitage, and, I have no doubt, for ever sealed the passage that leads to the Place of Life with some hundreds of tons of rock.
gloss: A place of seclusion.
pos: noun
examples: Temptation is an obsequious servant that has no objection to the country, and we know that it takes up its lodging in hermitages as well as in cities; and that in the most remote and inaccessible desert it keeps company with the fugitive solitary.
gloss: A period of seclusion.
pos: noun
Synonyms: retreat
Related words: hermit
Derived words: Hermitage Flat
Translations:
friar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: media
printing
publishing
Etymology: PIE word
 *bʰréh₂tēr
From Middle English frere, from Old French frere, from Latin frāter (“brother”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr (“brother”). Doublet of bhai, brother, bru, frater, pal, and vai.
Inflected forms:
form: friars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: frier
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: fryar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A member of a mendicant Christian order such as the Augustinians, Carmelites (white friars), Franciscans (grey friars) or the Dominicans (black friars).
pos: noun
gloss: A white or pale patch on a printed page caused by poor inking.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: An American fish, the silverside.
pos: noun
gloss: An American fish, the silverside.
pos: noun
Derived words: black friar
curtal friar
friarbird
friar bird
friaress
friarhood
friarlike
friarly
Friar Minor
Friar Preacher
friar's balsam
friar's cap
friar's cowl
friarship
friar's omelette
friary
greyfriar
grey friar
grayfriar
gray friar
preaching friar
white friar
Translations:
friary
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From friar (“brother in a religious order”) + -y (nominal suffix), from Latin frater (“brother”), from Latin. Piecewise doublet of fratery.
Base: friar
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: friaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more friary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most friary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A house or convent where friars (members of certain religious communities) live.
pos: noun
examples: For this reason, Francis asked that part of the friary garden always be left untouched, so that wild flowers and herbs could grow there, and those who saw them could raise their minds to God, the Creator of such beauty.
gloss: Like a friar; relating to friars or to a convent.
pos: adj
examples: Saint Francis with his Friery kowle in a corne-field.
Translations:
celibate
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Probably from the noun (“celibacy”) or from celibacy on the model of privacy/private, etc. Alternatively, from Latin caelebs (“single”) + -ate.
Base: caelebs
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: cælibate
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: cœlibate
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: cælibate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: cœlibate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Not married.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Abstaining from sexual relations and pleasures.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
not-comparable
examples: Members of religious communities sometimes take vows to remain celibate.
Juanita went celibate for a while and then started going out with Da5id and eventually got married to him.
gloss: One who is not married, especially one who has taken a religious vow not to get married, usually because of being a member of a religious community.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Even during the ages that priestly marriage was permitted, celibates obtained a higher reputation for sanctity and virtue than married priests, who infinitely more than celibates were believed subject to infestation by demons.
Synonyms: celibate
celibatist
abstinent
Antonyms: copulator
libertine
sexual partner
person
Related words: celibacy
virgin
Derived words: celibatarian
celibately
celibatist
incelibate
noncelibate
Translations:
ambivalence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from German Ambivalenz (“simultaneous conflicting feelings”), from Latin ambi- (“both”) and valentia (“strength”), from the verb valere (“to be strong”) (see valiant); spelled on the model of French-origin words ending in -ence. The German term was coined by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler in 1910; by 1929, it had taken on a broader literary and general sense. Equivalent to ambi- + valence.
Affixes: -ence
Inflected forms:
form: ambivalences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings (such as love and hate) towards a person, object or idea.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "I dearly loved my master, son," she said.
"You should have hated him," I said.
"He gave me several sons," she said, "and because I loved my sons I learned to love their father though I hated him too."
"I too have become acquainted with ambivalence, I said.
The great sociologist Zygmunt Bauman argued that philo-Semitism and anti-Semitism both fall under “allosemitism”: literally Othering the Jew. He defined it not as resentment of what is different, which is xenophobia, but rather of what defies order and clear categories. In 1997, he wrote, “The Jew is ambivalence incarnate. And ambivalence is ambivalence mostly because it cannot be contemplated without ambivalent feeling: it is simultaneously attractive and repelling.”
gloss: A state of uncertainty or indecisiveness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: ambivalent
Derived words: unambivalence
Translations:
Slovakian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Slovakia + -an or Slovak + -ian.
Base: Slovakia
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: Slovakians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Slovakia, a country in Central Europe.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: One Terrorgram user livestreamed himself stabbing five people outside of a mosque in Turkey, she said, and a 19-year-old Slovakian man praised the group in a manifesto before killing two people at an LGBTQ bar in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.
gloss: A person from Slovakia or of Slovakian descent.
pos: noun
examples: But he was arrested crossing the Polish-Slovak border, and the Slovakians handed him to the Germans.
Translations:
ducal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Middle French ducal, from Latin ducālis.
Inflected forms:
form: more ducal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ducal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a duke, a duchess, or the duchy or dukedom they hold.
pos: adj
examples: Ahead of the king’s coming, the Duke of Norfolk will arrive to guarantee order [...] and he will not come with an army, but only his ducal train.
Translations: