yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
socialite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From social (“pertaining to high society”) + -ite, perhaps as a play on social light, in imitation of words in -ite.
Base: social
Affixes: -ite
Inflected forms:
form: socialites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person (often a woman) of social prominence, considered to be an influential figure.
pos: noun
examples: Donald Trump has lashed out against his own supporters, calling them gullible “weaklings” for questioning the transparency of a secretive government inquiry into the late high-profile socialite and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
gloss: A person who goes to fashionable parties and is often written about in the newspapers, etc.
pos: noun
examples: Goodnight all you socialites don't wait up for me.
Related words: social climber
socialize
Translations:
camerlengo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian camerlengo (“chamberlain”). Doublet of chamberlain.
Inflected forms:
form: camerlengos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: camarlengo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: camerlingo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The cardinal who administers the Roman Catholic Church in the interregnum between Popes.
pos: noun
examples: Benedict will also stop using the so-called fisherman’s ring to seal documents. It will be destroyed by the cardinal camerlengo, the acting head of state of Vatican City during the “sede vacante,” the canon law term used when the papacy is vacant.
For the conclave, the camerlengo is now responsible for ensuring an “orderly election and its privacy”, according to Universi Dominici Gregis—the apostolic constitution governing papal succession.
Translations:
mock-up
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First use appears c. 1915–1920, deverbal from mock up (verb), by imitation of French maquette.
Inflected forms:
form: mock-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mockup
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A scale or full-size model of a design or device which is not fully functional, used for teaching, demonstration, design evaluation, promotion, or other purposes.
pos: noun
examples: The second-class accommodation shown in mock-up at last year's Railway Design exhibition in London was open saloon, but there is still nagging concern that the public has expressed a clear preference for compartments.
A full-size mock-up carriage of a Liverpool City Region Class 777, built as a part of the design process, has been transferred to the National College for Advanced Transportation & Infrastructure (NCATI) in Doncaster, to be used as a teaching aid.
gloss: A prototype, usually low-fidelity, such as a paper illustration, screenshot, or simple screen configuration with limited interaction.
pos: noun
examples: I knew that the software was a mock up and as such it would require the team at least half an hour to put together the components before I could proceed.
This 5mm square grid notebook is great to use for diagrams, mock-ups, designs, everyday use, notes, calculations, lists, doodling, musings or other creativity projects.
Translations:
militaria
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, military + -ia (“collection of things”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Military or police artifacts.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: According to Denby, who has a store at 20 Birch Ave., the militaria market has grown up in recent years. "It used to be that only school boys were interested in collecting these things." Now with cap badges going for up to $4,000, the market has matured to the point where the collector has to know what he's doing or he can get "stung."
Translations:
cordite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cord + -ite, because the material is manufactured into long cordlike cylinders.
Base: cord
Affixes: -ite
Inflected forms:
form: cordites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A smokeless propellent made by combining two high explosives, nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine, used in some firearm ammunition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
smokeless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: Etymology tree
English smoke
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English smokeless
From smoke + -less.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Without smoke.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: smokeless fuel
smokeless gunpowder
The position will then differ little from that under previous legislation, but any infringement of the law will be much more noticeable in smokeless zones.
gloss: Of a gun, that does not produce smoke when fired.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I run home, jumped in the bed,
Laid a forty-four smokeless under my head.
gloss: Of tobacco, to be consumed through methods other than smoking.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: smokelessly
smokelessness
smokeless powder
smokeless zone
Translations:
projected
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more projected
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most projected
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: displayed
pos: adj
Translations:
stogie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown. Presumably from stoga + -ie, the former of which is derived from Conestoga, Pennsylvania; the Conestoga Cigar Company (1880s) was one of the first Pennsylvanian cigar factories.
Inflected forms:
form: stogies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stoagie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cigar.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
gloss: A large joint.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: It's on, wrap my lips around the forty / And when it comes to getting another stogie
Translations:
greatly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English gretly, gretely, gretliche, greteliche, equivalent to great + -ly.
Base: great
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more greatly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: greater
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: greatlier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
rare
form: most greatly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: greatest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: greatliest
pos: adv
tags: rare
superlative
Senses:
gloss: To a great extent or degree.
pos: adv
examples: Expenses greatly exceeded revenues this year, much to nobody's surprise.
He was more greatly beloved than anyone in living memory.
I admire Elvis Presley greatly.
There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,[…], and all these articles[…] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
Terry's goal looked to have put Chelsea in control on the stroke of half-time but Arsenal's response presented a compelling case for Wenger's insistence that reports of his side's demise have been greatly exaggerated.
Instead of retracing my route, I have elected to walk across Blackpool to the town's remaining large station, although even this has been greatly reduced in size.
gloss: Nobly; magnanimously.
pos: adv
tags: archaic
examples: His Suff’rings ſhine, and ſpread a Glory round him;
Greatly unfortunate, he fights the Cauſe
Of Honour, Virtue, Liberty, and Rome.
But all this our fisher, who was neither a poet, nor a dependent, did not know, so he concluded, that all who were truly great, were truly greatly minded, and noble in soul, as they were exalted by birth, and rich in splendour.
Antonyms: slightly
Translations:
constructed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Artificial; man-made.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Durham County uses both approaches, preserving rural open space as well as cleaning parking lot runoff. Constructed wetlands that include trees can serve many purposes: purify drinking water by filtering stormwater, cool the city,[…]
Translations:
missing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
Etymology: By surface analysis, miss + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: missings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not able to be located; gone, misplaced.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: my missing socks
Forty three killed and 80 wounded in action with the Implacable. 180 killed and miſſing in action with the Centaur.
She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.
gloss: Not present when it (they) should be.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: missing data point
Joe went missing last year. He had all teeth missing when he was finally found.
We've got some flatware missing - There seem to be some cooking utensils missing too!
How likely is it that all the people who are described as missing are living together in a small town somewhere?
gloss: Of an internal combustion engine: running roughly due to an occasional lack of a spark or other irregular fault.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A value that is missing.
pos: noun
examples: The treatment of missings is a problem in statistical software.
Patterns of missings across the whole data set are readily visible, but also patterns which only apply to small subgroups of cases.
Derived words: go missing
missing boundary
missing in action
missing in time
missingly
missing man formation
missing market
missing middle
missingness
missing piece
missing stair
missing time
missing trader fraud
missing white girl syndrome
missing white woman syndrome
nonmissing
turn up missing
Translations:
criticism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English critic
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 criticism
From critic + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: criticisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of criticising; a critical judgment passed or expressed.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The politician received a lot of public criticism for his controversial stance on the issue.
Criticism has been leveled at a number of prominent figures.
Bret Stephens believed that, by virtue of his comfortable position at the New York Times, he ought to be immune from insult or criticism.
gloss: A critical observation or detailed examination and review.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The politician received several detailed criticisms of his stance on the issue.
Her attitude was that of a person who listens, either to the external world of sound, or to the discourse of thought. A close criticism might have detected signs proving that she was intent on the latter alternative.
Buried in the article – meant to demonstrate the urgent need of adopting KOSA by linking minors’ online presence with anything from anxiety and depression to cognitive decline, sex trafficking, and death by overdose – is the mention of one of the key criticisms of the bill, namely, that it will bring in even more censorship.
Synonyms: admonishment
blame
brickbatting
castigation
censure
onus
chastisement
criticism
critique
dispraise
discommendation
panning
reprehension
vituperation
Antonyms: advice
praise
Related words: armchair criticism
critic
critical
criticise
criticize
Derived words: anticriticism
autocriticism
biocriticism
constructive criticism
contextual criticism
countercriticism
cybercriticism
destructive criticism
ecocriticism
form criticism
geocriticism
gynocriticism
higher criticism
historical criticism
historic criticism
hypercriticism
literary criticism
lower criticism
metacriticism
neocriticism
New Criticism
oneirocriticism
overcriticism
self-criticism
source criticism
technocriticism
textual criticism
Translations:
bridezilla
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bride
English -zilla
English bridezilla
From bride + -zilla.
Inflected forms:
form: bridezillas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An unpleasant, difficult, overdemanding bride-to-be, stressed over the planning of her wedding.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
usually
Translations:
whimsical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English whimsy
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
English whimsical
From whimsy + -ical.
Inflected forms:
form: more whimsical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most whimsical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Given to whimsy.
pos: adj
examples: "But perhaps he may be a little whimsical in his civilities," replied her uncle. "Your great men often are; and therefore I shall not take him at his word, as he might change his mind another day, and warn me off his grounds."
Mr. Sherlock Holmes was leaning back in his chair after his whimsical protest, and was unfolding his morning paper in a leisurely fashion, […].
The childish and savage taste of men and women for new patterns keeps how many shaking and squinting through kaleidoscopes that they may discover the particular figure which this generation requires today. The manufacturers have learned that this taste is merely whimsical.
Her lips wavered into a smile—she had been distracted by the whimsical remembrance of the confidences she had made to him, two years earlier, in that very room.
Lovers of the movies may well date a new screen era from the day those whimsical pantomimers set their wholesome and humane talent at the service of the arc light and the lens.
Even the putatively innocuous whimsical shapes and designs of cakes and pastry, notably in Central Europe, retain to this day the phallic concept[.]
There is nothing innocuous, innocent or whimsical in a Totalitarian society, at least in the public sphere.
Translations:
playful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English pleiful, equivalent to play + -ful.
Base: play
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: playfuller
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more playful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: playfullest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most playful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: playfull
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Enjoying play; sportive; prone to playing frequently, in the manner of a child or young pet (viz. puppy or kitten).
pos: adj
examples: Actually, we are pretty playful in our romantic life.
gloss: Funny; humorous; jesty; frolicsome; frisky.
pos: adj
examples: John is a playful fellow.
A party hat is a playful conical hat people wear at parties.
Why this already very fast train should be speeded up still further, when none of the other more easily timed S.R. West of England trains has a single minute pared from its schedule, is unexplained - unless this is a playful dig at the Western Region, most of whose expresses, by reason of additional stops, will be decelerated from the same date.
gloss: Fun; recreational; unserious.
pos: adj
examples: A brainteaser is a playful puzzle posed as a test of intelligence.
gloss: Experimental.
pos: adj
examples: He was a rather playful artist.
Derived words: nonplayful
overplayful
playful as a kitten
playfully
playfulness
unplayful
Translations:
olden
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English olden, probably originally an inflected plural form of old (compare Old English ealdum, dative plural of eald (“old”)), but later reanalysed as equivalent to old + -en (“made of”).
Otherwise derived from Old Norse aldinn (“ancient, old”).
Base: old
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: From or relating to a previous era.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: olden days, olden times
"You are right to some extent in what you say. In the olden days people had a stronger belief in all kinds of witchery; now they pretend not to believe in it, that they may be looked upon as sensible and educated people, as you say."
In olden days, a glimpse of stockings
 Was looked on as something shocking;
 Now, heaven knows,
 Anything goes.
gloss: Old; ancient.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
not-comparable
examples: We […] told over the story of past sufferings, and renewed olden vows of devotion.
Beowulf, behind his shield, thrust forth only his right arm. In it he had picked up the sword of Ing, well known in olden lore.
Synonyms: historical
eldern
Derived words: olden time
Translations:
newfangled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From new + fangled, from obsolete fangle (“to fashion”).
Compound parts: new
fangled
Inflected forms:
form: new-fangled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: new fangled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: New and often needlessly novel or gratuitously different; recently devised or fashionable, especially when not an improvement.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
disapproving
humorous
not-comparable
usually
examples: newfangled electronic gadgets that cost a lot and do little
We notice by our exchanges that great efforts are being made throughout the western States especially, to palm off upon the farming public various kinds of patent churns, or to induce many mechanics to give large sums for the Right to manufacture the same—while in a majority of cases, we believe, the articles are absolutely worthless, or inferior to older kinds that might be procured for less money. We have repeatedly cautioned our readers against purchasing these new fangled churns until after they have been more fully tested; and we are happy to know that our remarks have saved not a few of our friends from imposition. To set this matter in a clearer light before our readers, we will glance at a few of the different churns, now most prominently before the public—some valuable, some useless.
Premier Mussolini operated a “new-fangled automobile” driven by electricity on a trial run yesterday, the German Transocean agency reported in a wireless transmission to the United States recorded by the New York Times.
From the Marvel Mixmaster to the Miracle Microwave, every time a new-fangled gadget has lobbed into the Aussie kitchen, Aussie mums have changed their cooking styles accordingly.
I have tried all the medium and short acting non-barbiturate sedatives since the war (including thalidomide) but they don’t work and I don’t trust the newfangled long acting, “safe” analgesics.
[US president Donald Trump] might have in mind a newfangled protectionism that lasts generations.
gloss: Fond of novelty.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: danfangled
newfangle
Derived words: danfangled
newfangledly
newfangledness
newfanglement
Translations:
smarmy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From smarm + -y. Apparently coined by "B.R.L., of Brighton" with sense "saying treacly things which do not sound genuine" in a competition for neologisms in The Academy (London) published on 14 January 1899.
Base: smarm
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: smarmier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: smarmiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Falsely earnest, smug, ingratiating, or pious.
pos: adj
examples: a smarmy salesman with a big smile
Starring a smarmy dog and scores of hapless flying wildfowl, Duck Hunt was the game that introduced many to the joys of the NES Zapper lightgun.
gloss: Unctuous, greasy, as hair from pomade.
pos: adj
tags: dated
rare
examples: He looked faintly loutish, with smarmy hair and a hint of a moustache.
I pulled on my smarmy t-shirt and my ragged jeans and dragged myself to report to my supervisor.
Related words: smarm
smarmily
smarminess
Translations:
surgeon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English surgien, borrowed from Anglo-Norman surgien, sirogen (Old French surgien et al.), from Vulgar Latin *chīrurgiānus, from Latin chīrūrgia (“surgery”), from chīrurgus (“surgeon”), borrowed from Ancient Greek χειρουργός (kheirourgós), from χείρ (kheír, “hand”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”). Doublet of chirurgeon.
Inflected forms:
form: surgeons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chirurgeon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who performs surgery; a doctor who performs operations on people or animals.
pos: noun
examples: The surgeon refused to operate because the patient was her son.
gloss: A surgeonfish.
pos: noun
Synonyms: sawbones
cutter
chirurgeon
Derived words: aesthetic surgeon
barber surgeon
bottom surgeon
brain surgeon
cardiosurgeon
cosmetic surgeon
cryosurgeon
cybersurgeon
dental surgeon
dermasurgeon
electrosurgeon
heart surgeon
microsurgeon
nanosurgeon
neurosurgeon
nonsurgeon
oral surgeon
orthopedic surgeon
orthosurgeon
otosurgeon
plastic surgeon
psychic surgeon
psychosurgeon
rocket surgeon
sea-surgeon
staff surgeon
supersurgeon
surgeoncy
surgeon-dentist
surgeoness
surgeonfish
surgeon general
surgeon-general
surgeonless
surgeonlike
surgeonly
surgeon major
surgeonry
surgeonship
surgeon's knot
telesurgeon
top surgeon
tree surgeon
veterinary surgeon
Translations:
ornate
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin ōrnātus, perfect passive participle of ōrnō (“to equip, adorn”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of orné.
Inflected forms:
form: more ornate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ornate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Elaborately ornamented, often to excess.
pos: adj
examples: The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth ;[…]. As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.”
gloss: Flashy, flowery or showy.
pos: adj
gloss: Finely finished, as a style of composition.
pos: adj
examples: a graceful and ornate rhetoric
Related words: ornament
Derived words: inornate
ornate aphid
ornate hawk-eagle
ornate horned toad
ornateness
ornate rainbowfish
ornate shrew
ornate tinamou
overornate
unornate
Translations:
ornithologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ornithology
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English ornithologist
From ornithology + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: ornithologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who studies or practices ornithology.
pos: noun
examples: Mr. Worple in his spare time was what is known as an ornithologist. He had written a book called American Birds, and was writing another, to be called More American Birds.
Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported […] that pine siskins (Spinus pinus) undergo an irregular, nomadic type of nocturnal migration.
Translations:
ya
Part of speech: intj
noun
particle
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Apparently from German ja and cognates in other Germanic languages; related to English yeah.
Inflected forms:
form: yas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: yeah
pos: particle
tags: alternative
form: yea
pos: particle
tags: alternative
form: yah
pos: particle
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Yeah; yes.
pos: intj
tags: informal
gloss: A letter of the Cyrillic alphabet: Я, я.
pos: noun
gloss: Used to form a confirmation-seeking tag question, expecting an affirmative response.
pos: particle
tags: Manglish
Singlish
examples: What about yourself Mr Chee, never look a day older, you'll see the rest of us six feet under… Really you look very well. I heard you went for new treatment in Switzerland ya?…
Translations:
ornithology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From New Latin ornithologia, coined by Ulisse Aldrovandi from Ancient Greek ὀρνιθολόγος (ornithológos), from ὄρνις (órnis) and λόγος (lógos). See also ornitho- + -logy.
Affixes: ornitho-
-logy
Inflected forms:
form: ornithologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The branch of zoology that deals with the scientific study of birds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Gesner says in his Ornithology, that this fact was attested by a great many moderns of his own time, and he even quotes Albert the great, who asserts that he has seen a cock foster chickens.
Jerome A. Jackson, an ivory bill specialist at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, has now increased the intensity of the discussion in a 15-page article in the current issue of The Auk, a quarterly ornithology journal published by the American Ornithologists' Union.
Translations:
orphanage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Attested since the 1570s; orphan + -age.
Base: orphan
Affixes: -age
Inflected forms:
form: orphanages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A residential institution for the care and protection of orphans.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: children's home (not always different)
gloss: Orphanhood; the state of being an orphan.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Translations:
orthodoxy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀρθοδοξία (orthodoxía), from ὀρθός (orthós, “correct”) + δόξα (dóxa, “way, opinion”). By surface analysis, orthodox + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: orthodoxies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Correctness of doctrine and belief in regard to any doctrinal (i.e. philosophical or theological) system.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] these tributes studiously ignore another aspect of his life: how, throughout his later career, Mr. Rustin repeatedly challenged progressive orthodoxies.
gloss: Conformity to established and accepted beliefs (usually of religions).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Orthodoxy of any kind, any pretense that a system of ideas is final and must be unquestioningly accepted as a whole, is the one view which of necessity antagonizes all intellectuals, whatever their views on particular issues.
The Satan of the mystery plays was a Trickster, but a dignified one. Performances were sanctioned only for religious festival occasions, and both Church and town authorities saw to it that the guildsmen did not stray far from orthodoxy in their dramatic enthusiasm. This need to adhere to scriptural and traditional accounts of Satan constrained dramatic innovation in his long-established character.
The two concepts are so distinct within Christianity that they have different names — orthodoxy (right belief) and orthopraxy (right conduct).
Synonyms: homodoxy
orthodoxy
Antonyms: unorthodoxy
Related words: orthodox
Orthodox
orthodoxic
orthodoxical
orthodoxically
Orthodoxy
orthogonal
orthogonality
Derived words: counterorthodoxy
hyperorthodoxy
Neo-orthodoxy
neo-orthodoxy
paleo-orthodoxy
ultraorthodoxy
unorthodoxy
Translations:
oscillate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1726; borrowed from Latin ōscillātus, perfect passive participle of Latin ōscillō (“to swing”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ōscillum (“a swing”), usually identified with ōscillum (“a little face or mask hung on a tree that sways with the wind”), diminutive of ōs (“mouth, face”). See also osculate.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: oscillates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: oscillating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: oscillated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: oscillated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To swing back and forth, especially if with a regular rhythm.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: A pendulum oscillates slower as it gets longer.
By placing the 0.02μF capacitor on top of the whistle chip, the circuit oscillates at a lower frequency.
gloss: To vacillate between conflicting opinions, etc.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The mood for change oscillated from day to day.
gloss: To vary above and below a mean value.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Synonyms: vacillate
Related words: oscillation
undulate
Derived words: oscillative
oscillaton
oscillator
unoscillated
Translations:
oscillator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English oscillate
English -or
English oscillator
From oscillate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: oscillators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tuned electronic circuit used to generate a continuous output waveform.
pos: noun
gloss: An instrument for measuring rigidity by the torsional oscillations of a weighted wire.
pos: noun
gloss: A pattern that returns to its original state, in the same orientation and position, after a finite number of generations.
pos: noun
examples: He has turned up a number of new oscillators of periods 2,3,4,5,6, & 8.
Two track segments, each of which realizes the same transformation in a different number of generations are particularly useful for obtaining oscillator periods.
Synthesis of spaceship flotillas is even more complicated than synthesis of oscillators, since spaceships are like oscillators that move[…]
Derived words: Armstrong oscillator
beat frequency oscillator
electronic oscillator
harmonic oscillator
Hartley oscillator
Meissner oscillator
nanooscillator
Oudin oscillator
piezoelectric oscillator
ring oscillator
simple harmonic oscillator
suboscillator
wobbulator
wobulator
Translations:
ostentatious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Originated 1590; from Latin ostentātus + -ious.
Affixes: -ious
Inflected forms:
form: more ostentatious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ostentatious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of ostentation.
pos: adj
gloss: Intended to attract notice.
pos: adj
examples: Over the course of the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin has drawn several “red lines” – with ostentatious references to Russia’s huge strategic nuclear arsenal – only to seemingly do nothing when these lines are crossed by Ukraine or its Western backers.
gloss: Of tawdry display; kitsch.
pos: adj
Related words: ostensible
ostensive
Derived words: nonostentatious
ostentatiously
ostentatiousness
unostentatious
Translations:
outboard
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
form: outboards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Situated outside the hull of a vessel.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Positioned away from the centre line of a ship or aircraft.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The outboard bales in each tier should be placed on their edges so that their flats will be presented to the sweat battens. This precaution is necessary to lessen the damage in case of chafage.
gloss: Being or relating to an external effects unit such as compressor or equalizer.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: An outboard motor.
pos: noun
examples: Coordinate term: inboard
gloss: A vessel fitted with an outboard motor.
pos: noun
examples: Coordinate term: inboard
gloss: A studio having outboard gear (compressor, equalizer, etc.).
pos: noun
Derived words: outboarder
outboarding
Translations:
outburst
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English outbersten, outbresten. Cognate with Dutch uitbarsten (“to erupt; burst out”), German ausbersten (“to burst out; erupt”). By surface analysis, out- + burst.
Inflected forms:
form: outbursts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: outbursts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outbursting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outburst
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outburst
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A sudden, often violent expression of emotion or activity.
pos: noun
examples: The man greeted us with an outburst of invective.
an outburst of anger
gloss: To burst out.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Antonyms: inburst
Translations:
outclass
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úd
Proto-Germanic *ūt
Proto-Germanic *ūt-
Old English ūt-
Middle English ut-
English out-
English class
English outclass
From out- + class.
Inflected forms:
form: outclasses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outclassing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outclassed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outclassed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: to surpass something or somebody else, so as to appear to be in a higher class
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In the IQ test, he outclassed all the other applicants.
The 7th and 8th classes are identical with the Cape engines placed in service at the turn of the century, and are now outclassed for main line work but are used for shunting at the large depots and on one or two of the branch lines.
The openly ridiculous plot has The Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) scheming to win the Pirate Of The Year competition, even though he’s a terrible pirate, far outclassed by rivals voiced by Jeremy Piven and Salma Hayek.
Translations:
outcry
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English outcry, outcri, outcrye, equivalent to out- + cry.
The verb is from Middle English outcrien.
Base: cry
Affixes: out-
Inflected forms:
form: outcries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: outcries
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outcrying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outcried
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outcried
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A loud cry or uproar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His appearance was greeted with an outcry of jeering.
gloss: A strong protest.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: The proposal was met with a public outcry.
The Western Region has sought approval for the withdrawal of passenger services between Ashchurch Junction and Upton-on-Severn. There was a proposal to withdraw the trains as long ago as 1951, but an outcry from Tewkesbury that it would suffer as a tourist centre secured a reprieve.
This is a scorched earth policy, leaving Labour - which has made the right noises, but not loudly enough - with the job of picking up the pieces. Given the incoherence of the plans, the best hope is that the public outcry - even the Daily Telegraph is against them - delays them enough for a new government to rescue most of the ticket offices from closure, but this is no way to run a railway.
gloss: An auction.
pos: noun
tags: India
archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: to send goods to an outcry
gloss: To cry out.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I think any man who outcries against the power of the government in Germany soon ceases to cry at all, because he is crushed.
gloss: To cry louder than.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] outcrying the clacking of train wheels, the shrill of the whistle […]
The dogs added their voices to the din, howling for hours, each trying to outcry the others.
Derived words: open outcry
outcrier
Translations:
outfitter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English outfit
English -er
English outfitter
From outfit + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: outfitters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person or shop that sells specialized clothes and equipment.
pos: noun
examples: Before his first walking holiday, he went to a specialist outfitter to buy some boots.
gloss: A business that provides services for outdoor activities including accommodations.
pos: noun
Translations:
outing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From out + -ing. Compare Old English yting ("outing, journey").
Base: out
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: outings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pleasure trip or excursion.
pos: noun
examples: This was a fine day's outing for anybody who had been cooped up in the shops for a few months.
gloss: A performance in public, for example in a drama, film, on a musical album, as a sports contestant etc.
pos: noun
examples: The role is the latest dramatic outing for Radcliffe since the end of the successful Potter franchise.
Other erstwhile stalwarts are also wavering. Southampton had two of the best full-backs in the league last season but Ryan Bertrand has been below par this season and Cédric Soares made an uncharacteristic lapse that led to Stoke’s winning goal in Southampton’s last outing.
gloss: The act of publicly revealing that a person is homosexual or transgender without that person's consent.
pos: noun
examples: Advocates for gay and lesbian issues suggest the increase in discharges reflects the hostility of the military towards homosexual soldiers and a growing number of "forced outings" of gay and lesbian troops.
gloss: The act of revealing somebody as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective.
pos: noun
Derived words: outing flannel
Translations:
outlast
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úd
Proto-Germanic *ūt
Proto-Germanic *ūt-
Old English ūt-
Middle English ut-
English out-
English last
English outlast
From out- + last.
Inflected forms:
form: outlasts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outlasting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outlasted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outlasted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To live, last or remain longer than.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The tool outlasted its need.
Some think that classical music would outlast pop.
At the time of writing the halts have been reprieved due to doubts as to the legality of the withdrawal of services. It is feared that this reprieve may not outlast the summer timetable which, on the section in question, provides only a skeleton of the former service.
Translations:
outlay
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úd
Proto-Germanic *ūt
Proto-Germanic *ūt-
Old English ūt-
Middle English ut-
English out-
English lay
English outlay
From out- + lay.
Inflected forms:
form: outlays
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: outlays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outlaying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outlaid
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outlaid
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A laying out or expending; that which is laid out or expended.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The spending of money, or an expenditure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Without too much outlay, you could buy a second-hand car.
Regard must be had to the extent to which the original capital outlay has not been covered by the sum of the annual provisions for renewal, that is to say, in insurance terms, to the unexpired life of the original work, although this financial factor has to be modified in the light of the actual physical condition of the work to be replaced.
Getting the right manager has just been made more difficult by not having Champions League to offer. There will also be a huge churn of players after the lavish, unrewarding outlay this season.
Lion hunts are highly choreographed, rarefied affairs; you’re looking at $70,000 before you even load your rifle. Then there are the game fees for the bait you’ll need − a zebra, warthog and a kudu, say − and for the lion itself. All in, you’re looking at a six-figure outlay with no guarantee that you’ll come home with a lion skin for a rug. (Taxidermy not included.)
gloss: A remote haunt or habitation.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: I know her and her haunts, Her lays, leaps, and outlays, and will discover all.
gloss: To lay or spread out; expose; display.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Their boggy breasts out-lay, and Skipton down doth crawl
gloss: To spend, or distribute money.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
outlook
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úd
Proto-Germanic *ūt
Proto-Germanic *ūt-
Old English ūt-
Middle English ut-
English out-
Proto-West Germanic *lōkōn
Old English lōcian
Middle English loken
English look
English outlook
From out- + look.
Inflected forms:
form: outlooks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A place from which something can be viewed.
pos: noun
examples: Perched on the edge of the cliff was a hidden outlook.
This fetched tears from the innocent eyes, those Caſements and out-looks of the tender heart of our Lord Jeſus, vvho beholding the City Jeruſalem vvept over it, […]
gloss: The view from such a place.
pos: noun
examples: Fully air-conditioned and fluorescently lit, it is strikingly decorated and there is a magnificent outlook through the wide windows.
gloss: An attitude or point of view.
pos: noun
examples: He has a positive outlook on life.
gloss: Expectation for the future.
pos: noun
examples: The outlook for temperature rises is worrying.
Derived words: on the outlook
Translations:
outlying
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English outlie
English -ing
English outlying
From outlie (Etymology 2) + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more outlying
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most outlying
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: outlyings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relatively remote from some central location.
pos: adj
examples: The more outlying villages were never visited by their member of parliament.
During the first year or so of British Railways, some of the simpler and more obvious inter-regional transfers of outlying sections were effected, such as those of the London, Tilbury & Southend Railway from the London Midland Region to the Eastern Region; the South Wales lines of the former L.M.S.R. to the Western Region; the Carlisle-Silloth branch (an L.N.E.R. legacy of a North British "border raid") to the London Midland, and so on.
Lorries collect the milk from the various outlying farms, whence it is taken to the district distribution centre to undergo pasteurisation.
The causeways were laid as hard paths for heavily laden pack-animals bringing in wool from outlying hamlets and farms.
gloss: Located outside of some boundary or limit.
pos: adj
examples: When the map was redrawn after the war, our cousin found herself living in outlying territory.
gloss: A region relatively remote from a central location.
pos: noun
examples: The other areas and the outlyings will have to come in at a later date, although the council wrestles with that periodically. But the amount of money involved would be substantial.
Synonyms: far
Related words: outlier
Derived words: nonoutlying
outlying field
outlyingness
United States minor outlying islands
Translations:
outmatch
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úd
Proto-Germanic *ūt
Proto-Germanic *ūt-
Old English ūt-
Middle English ut-
English out-
English match
English outmatch
From out- + match.
Inflected forms:
form: outmatches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outmatching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outmatched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outmatched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To surpass or be better than something or someone else.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
outmoded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more outmoded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most outmoded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Unfashionable.
pos: adj
examples: His pipe was as outmoded as his ideas.
gloss: Obsolete.
pos: adj
examples: His outmoded word processor was a heap of junk.
His outmoded record player is now useless.
Derived words: outmodedly
outmodedness
Translations:
outnumber
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úd
Proto-Germanic *ūt
Proto-Germanic *ūt-
Old English ūt-
Middle English ut-
English out-
Latin numerus
Anglo-Norman noumbrebor.
Middle English nombre
English number
English outnumber
From out- + number.
Inflected forms:
form: outnumbers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outnumbering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outnumbered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outnumbered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To be more in number than somebody or something.
pos: verb
tags: stative
transitive
examples: Women outnumbered men by two to one.
There are 105 D.B. Type "23" engines and they were intended to replace the famous Prussian "P8" class 4-6-0s (Type "38"), but dieselisation prevented further construction and they are greatly outnumbered by the thousand or so "P8s" which are still in service and which can be seen on a great variety of duties.
Vastly outnumbering the Jews, Palestinian Arabs during the period after the 1917 Balfour Declaration and the British Mandate always refused anything that would compromise their dominance.
When reports surfaced early this summer that our contractors in Iraq (180,000, of whom some 48,000 are believed to be security personnel) now outnumber our postsurge troop strength, we yawned.
The striking aspect of clinicide is the scale of suspicious deaths with which it is associated, which outnumbers proven murders by an order of magnitude (in [Harold] Shipman's case, a factor of (240-15)#47;15#61;15), a figure that only hints at the enormous interpersonal disruption and family grief which follows in its wake.
The group assembled in Romare Bearden Park shortly after 6 p.m., just barely outnumbering a dozen city police officers stationed in clusters around the area’s edge. The crowd grew to more than 50 people within the hour, many draped in keffiyehs and hoisting Palestinian flags high above their heads.
Translations:
Austin
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English Austin, from Anglo-Norman Aostin, Austin, similar to Old French Aostin, Austin, a popular variant of Old French Agustin, from Latin Augustīnus, from Augustus (literally “majestic”). Doublet of Augustine.
Inflected forms:
form: more Austin
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Austin
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Augustinian.
pos: adj
examples: Austin friars
Translations:
ligament
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English ligament, from Latin ligāmentum, from ligō (“tie, bind”).
Inflected forms:
form: ligaments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A band of strong tissue that connects bones to other bones.
pos: noun
examples: It so chanced that at this juncture the decayed ligaments of the skeleton gave way, and the dry bones fell together in a heap, thus causing the dusty wreath of cypress to drop upon the table.
Her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and medial collateral ligament (MCL) are torn and Vonn has a lateral fracture of the tibial plateau, the upper end of the tibia or shin bone.
gloss: That which binds or acts as a ligament.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: It remains to mention one consideration which naturally occurred in the reflections upon the expediency of assuming the State Debts. This is its tendency to strengthen our infant Government by increasing the number of ligaments between the Government and the interests of Individuals.
1845, Daniel Webster, oration on Justice Joseph Story
Justice is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Related words: sinew
tendon
Derived words: acrocoracohumeral ligament
anterolateral ligament
broad ligament
capsular ligament
Cooper's ligament
cruciate ligament
falciform ligament
Hensing's ligament
inguinal ligament
lienophrenic ligament
ligamental
ligamentary
ligamentomuscular
ligamentoplasty
ligamentotaxis
ligamentous
Lisfranc ligament
medial collateral ligament
multiligament
oblique ligament
ovarian ligament
patellar ligament
periodontal ligament
phrenicolienal ligament
phrenicosplenic ligament
Poupart's ligament
round ligament
spring ligament
stylohyoid ligament
suspensory ligament
uterosacral ligament
Translations: