yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
meddler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English medlere, medelere, equivalent to meddle + -er.
Base: meddle
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: meddlers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who meddles or interferes in something not of their concern.
pos: noun
examples: The prudent man is not willing to ſubject himſelf to any responſibility which his duty does not impoſe upon him. He is not a buſtler in buſineſs where he has no concern; is not a meddler in other people’s affairs; is not a profeſſed counſellor or adviſer, who obtrudes his advice where nobody is aſking it.
“Yes, Mr. Coleman, I have,” answered Luke steadily. “I thought it my duty to inform this man of your character. I have advised him to put his money into a savings-bank.”
“Curse you for an impertinent meddler!” said Coleman wrathfully. “I’ll get even with you for this!”
“You can do as you please,” said Luke calmly.
“Stop!” The hoarse, oddly alien voice of the Swami held a tone beyond all mere earthly fright “I told you there was another form of proof which I could give if necessary, and I warned you not to provoke me to it. This red-faced old meddler is right; I’m not really an East Indian. This face is a mask, and what it covers is not human.”
Translations:
disadvantageous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English disadvantage
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos
Latin -ōsus
Old French -usbor.
Middle English -ous
English -ous
English disadvantageous
From disadvantage + -ous.
Inflected forms:
form: more disadvantageous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most disadvantageous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not advantageous.
pos: adj
examples: Another disadvantageous feature of the Perth yard, again dictated by the considerations of the site, is that the six double-ended reception roads are alongside the sorting sidings and not laid end-to-end with them.
Translations:
consciously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English conscious
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English consciously
From conscious + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more consciously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most consciously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a conscious manner; knowingly, volitionally.
pos: adv
examples: History is almost always distorted by those who write it. It may be consciously changed as in the censorship of certain items, or it may be a reflection of the writer's lack of perception.
Antonyms: subconsciously
unconsciously
Translations:
half-breed
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From half- + breed.
Base: breed
Affixes: half-
Inflected forms:
form: half-breeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: halfbreed
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: halfbreed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person of mixed racial parentage or ancestry, especially one of mixed white and American Indian parentage (metis, métis, Metis, Métis; mestizo).
pos: noun
tags: dated
derogatory
ethnic
offensive
slur
examples: Except for a few half-breeds in the town, there are no native Christians in the island of Timor.
It was at Para also that we engaged Gomez and Manuel, two half-breeds from up the river, just come down with a cargo of redwood.
The half-breeds or Metis along the Saskatchewan River asked that they be given a legal title to the land which they occupied. […] The half-breeds found that constitutional agitation was hopeless and began open hostilities.
Some oppose A.I.M. leaders as outsiders; some resent the leadership of Mr. Wilson; full‐blooded Indians resent halfbreeds; the have‐nots resent those with relative wealth.
gloss: A hybrid animal or plant.
pos: noun
gloss: having dual heritage; having mixed racial parentage or ancestry
pos: adj
tags: dated
derogatory
offensive
gloss: Hybridized; having one purebred parent; descended from parents of different breeds or with different traits
pos: adj
Synonyms: breed
Related words: half-bred
half-caste
mestizo
Métis
métis
Metis
metis
Mischling
mixed-race
mulatto
Translations:
unconditionally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English unconditional
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English unconditionally
From unconditional + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more unconditionally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unconditionally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without condition, absolutely.
pos: adv
examples: German armed forces surrendered unconditionally on May 7. Hostilities in Europe ended officially at midnight, May 8. 1945.
I love you unconditionally
Translations:
impassable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English im-
Proto-Indo-European *peth₂-der.
Proto-Italic *pattus
Vulgar Latin passus
Proto-Italic *-āzi
▲
Vulgar Latin -ereinflu.
Vulgar Latin -āre
Vulgar Latin *passāre
Old French passerbor.
Middle English passen
English pass
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English impassable
From im- + pass + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more impassable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most impassable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Incapable of being passed over, crossed, or negotiated.
pos: adj
tags: usually
examples: At the same time, the encroachment of vegetation proceeds apace, and broom and brambles have already made portions of the line impassable, even on foot.
[...] at Cowley Bridge Junction, east of Exeter, both lines were impassable from about 1.30 p.m.—the first flooding of the junction for 36 years—and by the evening the water had risen two-thirds of the way up the platforms at St. Davids as Exeter faced its worst flooding for 60 years.
gloss: Incapable of being overcome or surmounted.
pos: adj
gloss: Not usable as legal tender.
pos: adj
Synonyms: unpassable
Related words: impassible
Derived words: impassability
impassableness
impassably
Translations:
kidnapped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: subjected to kidnapping
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Mochi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Mochis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Mochi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a Hindu caste known traditionally as shoemakers.
pos: noun
Translations:
lovey-dovey
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English love
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-der.?
Proto-Germanic *dūbaną?
Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ
Proto-West Germanic *dūbā
Old English *dūfe
Middle English douve
English dove
English -y
English lovey-dovey
From love + -y + dove + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: more lovey-dovey
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lovey-dovey
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Affectionate in a rather mushy or oversentimental fashion.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: And then when she'd put me right off, and I didn't want her, she'd come all lovey-dovey, and get me. And I always went.
This ain't no fooling around / No time for dancing, or lovey dovey / I ain't got time for that now
Translations:
maternity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French maternité, from Latin māternitās.
Inflected forms:
form: maternities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being a mother; motherhood.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The state of being pregnant; pregnancy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A ward or department in a hospital in which babies are born.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She's working in maternity this month.
Antonyms: paternity
Derived words: co-maternity
grandmaternity
maternity bra
maternity dress
maternity hospital
maternity jeans
maternity leave
maternity pillow
maternity test
maternitywear
maternity wear
nonmaternity
prematernity
Translations:
reshape
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
Middle English shap
English shape
English reshape
From re- + shape.
Inflected forms:
form: reshapes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reshaping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reshaped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reshaped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make into a different shape.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Intentional skull reshaping is found in burials across Asia, Europe and Mesoamerica.
gloss: To reorganize.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It’s been nearly one week since the NFL’s legal tampering period began, and GM Joe Douglas has reshaped the New York Jets’ starting offensive line.
2024, Paul Salopek, New Map: Ancient Roads of China, National Geographichttps://outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/articles/2024-07-new-map-ancient-roads-china
It’s not hard to find antique roads in China. The place has been shaped and reshaped by engineers for thousands of years. As any Chinese schoolchild will tell you, grand civilizations dating to the Bronze Age blazed intricate communications networks that expanded trade and maintained military control.
President Donald Trump on Monday announced he had signed four executive orders that will reshape the military, including banning transgender service members from serving in the US armed forces; gutting the military’s diversity, equity and inclusion programs; and reinstating with back pay service members who were discharged for refusing to get vaccinated from Covid-19.
Courts and Congress are struggling to keep up with the breakneck pace as the Trump administration dramatically reshapes the American government, national politics and international order.
Derived words: reshapable
reshapeable
reshaper
unreshaped
Translations:
clownish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English clown
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English clownish
From clown + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more clownish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most clownish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of a circus clown; comical, ridiculous.
pos: adj
examples: Even worse, the zombies' clownish makeup, with a stark white base and black shoe polish around the eyes, looks amateurish.
Once again, City's defending was clownish. James McArthur drove into the area on the left and pulled a low cross towards the far post, where the horribly timid Gaël Clichy allowed Perch to bundle the ball past Costel Pantilimon.
Indeed, when in close quarters to Rooney, it must prove almost irresistible to stick a plastic moustache and silly clownish shoes on the potato-headed fool.
gloss: Pertaining to peasants; rustic.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
gloss: Uncultured, boorish; rough, coarse.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: Large were his limbes, and terrible his looke, / And in his clownish hand a sharp bore speare he shooke.
"He is very plain, undoubtedly—remarkably plain:—but that is nothing compared with his entire want of gentility. I had no right to expect much, and I did not expect much; but I had no idea that he could be so very clownish, so totally without air. I had imagined him, I confess, a degree or two nearer gentility."
Derived words: clownishly
clownishness
unclownish
Translations:
rockabilly
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Blend of rock + hillbilly.
Compound parts: rock
hillbilly
Inflected forms:
form: rockabillies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rockabillys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A genre of music originating from the South (United States) and mixing elements of rock, blues, country, hillbilly boogie and bluegrass music.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A member of the subculture associated with rockabilly music.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Derived words: funkabilly
gothabilly
metalbilly
polkabilly
pornabilly
pornobilly
psychobilly
punkabilly
thrashabilly
Translations:
sportive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Anglo-Norman des-
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.
Proto-Indo-European *pr̥téh₂
Proto-Italic *portā
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Proto-Italic *portāō
Latin portāre
Anglo-Norman porter
Anglo-Norman desporterbor.
Middle English disporten
Middle English sporten
English sport
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English sportive
From sport + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: more sportive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sportive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sportives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Lively; merry; spritely.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: Is it I
 That drive thee from the sportive court?
gloss: Playful, coltish.
pos: adj
gloss: Interested in sport.
pos: adj
gloss: Sporty, good at sport.
pos: adj
gloss: Synonym of cyclosportive.
pos: noun
examples: Such incidents, part of the cherished mythology of the Tour's early years, are rare in modern cycling, although a 62-year-old local councillor was arrested and subsequently released after tacks had been scattered during the 2009 Etape Caledonia, a sportive held on closed roads in Scotland, causing countless punctures among the 3,500 riders.
Derived words: sportive lemur
sportively
sportiveness
unsportive
Translations:
companionable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English companion
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English companionable
From companion + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more companionable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most companionable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having the characteristics of a worthy companion; friendly and sociable.
pos: adj
examples: She returned presently, bringing a smoking basin and a basket of work; and, having placed the former on the hob, drew in her seat, evidently pleased to find me so companionable.
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
All the disagreeable circumstances of my prison had become, as it were, to me friendly and companionable; not one of them gave me annoyance.
Then he strolled back again, kicking his heels carelessly, and a companionable silence fell between the three men.
They are a companionable food; they make a pleasant, crunching noise when they are bitten, and so, when one is eating carrots, one can listen to the sound of one's eating and make a story from it.
Bottles of rye, purgative waters and eaux for every conceivable toilette made a companionable click in his worn carpet bag.
The up and down lines ran next to each other in vault-like tunnels, whereas the Tube trains would occupy their own tunnels. That's why the cut-and-cover lines are more human than the Tubes. They are more companionable. You can see people going the other way - your perspective is broadened.
Translations:
companionably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English companionable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English companionably
From companionable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more companionably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most companionably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a companionable manner; agreeably, sociably.
pos: adv
examples: He had been sitting with her, it appeared, most companionably at home, till her usual hour of exercise — Jane Austen, Emma Volume 2, Chapter 6.
Translations:
rotatable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rotate
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English rotatable
From rotate + -able.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having the ability to rotate.
pos: adj
Translations:
fitment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fit
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English fitment
From fit + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: fitments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A thing fitted to another in order to accomplish a specific purpose.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Bottles also usually incorporate a fitment, which provides a pouring spout.
gloss: An item of permanent furniture or equipment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Poor Mole! The Life Adventurous was so new a thing to him, and so thrilling; and this fresh aspect of it was so tempting; and he had fallen in love at first sight with the canary-coloured cart and all its little fitments.
There might have been no planking beneath the mould, for all that our feet could feel. It gave under our tread with a spongy, puddingy feel. It covered the deck furniture of the old ship, so that the shape of each article and fitment was often no more than suggested through it.
A good sanitary fitment should be of the simplest possible design, constructed so as to be self-cleansing, and, as far as possible, free from any moving working parts.
gloss: The act of furnishing with fitments; an instance of such an act.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Upon such an indictment against the owner, charging him with fitting out the ship with intent to employ her in the illegal voyage, evidence is admissible, that he commanded, authorized, and superintended the fitment, through the instrumentality of his agents, without being personally present.
gloss: The proper positioning and orientation of a thing for it to serve its designed purpose.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He told Sancho to pick up the helmet, and he taking it in his hands said:
"By God the basin is a good one, and worth a real of eight if it is worth a maravedis," and handed it to his master, who immediately put it on his head, turning it round, now this way, now that, in search of fitment, and not finding it he said, "Clearly the pagan to whose measure this famous head-piece was first forged must have had a very large head; but the worst of it is half of it is wanting."
gloss: The categorisation of an employee, for the purpose of calculating salary or allowances.
pos: noun
tags: India
countable
uncountable
examples: As already stated, the Wage Board had recommended revised wage scales, revised categories and fitment of workmen in their respective categories on the revised wage scales as from November 1, 1960.
gloss: Something that suits or fits.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: I am, sir,
The soldier that did company these three
In poor beseeming; 'twas a fitment for
The purpose I then follow'd.
Translations:
ham-and-egger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
Etymology: From boxing, where a poor boxer would only win enough money to pay for meals; ham and egg + -er.
Base: ham and egg
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: ham-and-eggers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A worthless or undesirable person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
gloss: A preliminary wrestler; a jobber.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: An ordinary person; a simpleton.
pos: noun
gloss: A failed boxer; a tomato can.
pos: noun
examples: Well, it's just that, you see, uh, I fight in clubs, you know, and uh, I'm really a ham-and-egger. This guy, he's the best, and uh, it wouldn't be such a good fight.
Related words: tea and toaster
Translations:
rhodonite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”) + -ite.
Affixes: -ite
Inflected forms:
form: rhodonites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A manganese inosilicate mineral with some substitution by iron and magnesium, of composition (Mn²⁺,Fe,Mg,Ca)SiO₃.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)
Translations:
afternoons
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Every afternoon.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: We are closed afternoons.
Translations:
diffused
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more diffused
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most diffused
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having spread widely.
pos: adj
Translations:
cornered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more cornered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cornered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having corners.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a person or animal, forced into a difficult or inescapable situation.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
Derived words: cater-cornered
catty-cornered
kitty-cornered
sharp-cornered
three-cornered
three-cornered jack
tricornered
Translations:
certified
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having met an official standard.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a certified organization
a certified product
gloss: Authenticated or verified in writing.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: board-certified
certified accountant
certified check
certified copy
certified mail
certified nursing assistant
certified public accountant
certified safety professional
noncertified
non-certified
self-certified
uncertified
Translations:
spaced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more spaced
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most spaced
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
stocked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having been replenished with stock.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a well-stocked fridge
Translations:
angled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Arranged so as to form an angle.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Forming an angle of a particular type.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: the right-angled corner
Derived words: acute-angled
equiangled
multiangled
nonangled
unangled
Translations:
billed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a specified kind of bill (beak or beak-like projection).
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
examples: The toucan will not talk in the manner of the parrot, but he (or she) is an admirable listener. I have told the green-billed toucan many stories of bird-scandal without interruption, and, on the whole, the conversation has been most improving.
Translations:
boarded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Inflected forms:
form: more boarded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most boarded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: wooden, built with pieces of wood
pos: adj
tags: usually
Translations:
branded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Marked by branding
pos: adj
gloss: Having a brand
pos: adj
Derived words: branded app
multibranded
nonbranded
unbranded
Translations:
buzzed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more buzzed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most buzzed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Slightly intoxicated.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: But two bottles would alarm and confuse him, would lead to a conversation, so I smashed it merrily into a skip, buzzed and lit with the comforting foreknowledge of the second one on its way.
gloss: Slightly parted so that they will make a buzzing sound when air (from the lungs) is forced out through them.
pos: adj
examples: The jug used as a musical instrument is an empty jug (usually made of glass or stoneware) played with buzzed lips to produce a trombone-like tone.
Derived words: unbuzzed
Translations:
contaminated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more contaminated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most contaminated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: adulterated; impure
pos: adj
gloss: made unfit for use by the introduction of unwholesome or undesirable elements.
pos: adj
examples: A "contaminated" runway has over 25% of its surface area covered with standing water or slush (or loose snow) more than 3mm thick, or compressed snow and ice anywhere along the takeoff run or accelerate-stop surface.
Synonyms: adulterated
common
contaminated
corrupted
mixed
polluted
sophisticated
tainted
Antonyms: pure
raw
Derived words: hypercontaminated
noncontaminated
radiocontaminated
uncontaminated
Translations:
congested
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more congested
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most congested
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: overcrowded
pos: adj
examples: congested metro
congested roads
congested street
Translations:
tracked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Mounted on tracks.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A tank is a tracked vehicle used in the military.
Translations:
burdened
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more burdened
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most burdened
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: encumbered by a literal or figurative burden; having too much to deal with.
pos: adj
examples: Caregivers who do not feel burdened are unlikely to perceive a need for services.
When my clients describe themselves as the black sheep in their families, they often feel very burdened.
Not any more burdened by modesty than you used to be, I perceive, young lady.
Translations:
debased
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Inflected forms:
form: more debased
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most debased
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Brought low; degraded.
pos: adj
examples: 8), Azure, a thistle ensigned with an Imperial Crown, all proper; and its use is pretty frequent in the somewhat debased heraldry of the close of the last century and the beginning of the present.
58,) and also a new crest, viz. upon a wreath argent and vert, a demi-dragon erased gules P, gorged about the loins with a ducal coronet ... 59,) are an admirable specimen of the complex and debased heraldry of the day. 1515.
The badge itself is a remarkable medley of objects, and another good example of the debased heraldry of Tudor days. It represents a castle with the crowned hawthorn tree of the Tudors growing in the lower ward behind the principal[…]
DEBASED HERALDRY. Of debased heraldry there is no lack of examples, and a few are ancient. Thomas de Insula, bishop of Ely (1345-61), bore gules, three bezants, on each a crowned king, robed sable, doubled ermine, sustaining[…]
gloss: Abased, abaissé: (of a charge) borne lower than usual.
pos: adj
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:debased.
Derived words: debasedness
undebased
Translations:
nailed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having nails (of a specified kind).
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
often
examples: a red-nailed finger
Translations:
enlisted
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Belonging to the military, but not as a commissioned officer.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Those individuals who have enlisted in the military and who are not commissioned officers.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
enumerated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more enumerated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most enumerated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Specified (especially when fully specified) by an enumeration or list of steps, parts, values, amounts, etc.;
pos: adj
examples: Washington sided with Hamilton and the result was that an incidental or "implied" power was created that exceeded in size and scope the very enumerated power it was to implement!
The issue I have with H.R. 9 is I just look at it and think to myself, there are a lot of attorney's fees, and crossing T's and dotting I's, and is there going to be a little side litigation about did we fill the complaint out correctly? I mean, it just seems very enumerated.
The federal government would have very narrow, very defined, very enumerated powers , while the power of states would be more expansive.
gloss: Specified (especially when fully specified) by an enumeration or list of steps, parts, values, amounts, etc.;
pos: adj
examples: Enumerated types make your code easy to modify.
gloss: Having been included or listed in an enumeration of possibilities.
pos: adj
examples: Sugar was originally an enumerated commodity which could be exported only to Great Britain.
It will be seen that the scope of an enumerated motion is so wide that its determination disposes of the issues; while a nonenumerated motion, under which designation fall all motions other than those included in the enumerated class, concerns merely some matter incidental to the main course of the litigation.
For example, during the nineteenth century, courts often considered whether a claimed right fell within an enumerated right in the federal or state constitution.
As such , Congress has the very enumerated constitutional authority for requiring military service that it lacks for requiring the purchase of health insurance.
gloss: Having been included or listed in an enumeration of possibilities.
pos: adj
examples: Continuing the analogy, just as the numeric constant Math.PI can be assigned to a variable of its type (i.e., double), an enumerated constant can be assigned to a variable of its type (e.g. Team).
gloss: Having been specified by a precise numeric value.
pos: adj
examples: London, with an enumerated population of 3,814,571, showed the deaths from all causes to be 81,832, being an average of 21.5.
Certainly were the Congress through the Appropriations Committee to indicate to us that a certain enumerated amount of funds were to be made available, we would indicate to the committee how in our best judgment those funds should be distributed over the several management aspects of the total national forest system.
We said, at the time, that it was very enumerated relief . We could say very much to the dollar how much relief it would be, and that is the relief that Iran has gotten.
Derived words: afore-enumerated
enumerated articles
enumerated right
non-enumerated
nonenumerated
non-enumerated right
unenumerated
Translations:
royally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English royal
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English royally
From royal + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more royally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most royally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a royal manner; in a manner having to do with royalty.
pos: adv
examples: Unless it was decreed royally, it never got done.
gloss: Excessively; thoroughly.
pos: adv
tags: colloquial
idiomatic
examples: Bahira returned his stare, royally annoyed with herself for letting him affect her.
Still, it may be too soon to conclude that the Fed has royally screwed up.
Translations:
neighing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: neighings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sound made by a horse: an act or instance of the verb neigh.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And when the earth beneath his tameless tread,
Shook with the sullen thunder, he would spread
His nostrils to the blast, and joyously
Mock the fierce peal with neighings; […]
During the night a neighing of horses was heard, and when day broke, they found these three animals had joined those belonging to our party.
Old pigtailed seamen would tell of horseshoes found in the meat casks; of curious barkings and neighings heard in the slaughter-houses; and of negroes who disappeared near the victualling yards, to be seen no more.
Translations:
blasting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English blastyng, blastynge, equivalent to blast + -ing (gerundive ending).
Base: blast
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: blastings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A planned explosion, as in mining.
pos: noun
examples: But it was a different matter altogether when the blasting of the tunnel was commenced.
gloss: The act by which something is blasted, or blighted.
pos: noun
examples: If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller: if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities, whatsoeuer plague, whatsoeuer sicknes there be;
They showed signs of the blightings and blastings of time, in their outward aspect, but they were young within; young and cheerful, and ready to talk […]
gloss: Administering full dosage of PEDs as opposed to lowering them during times of so-called cruising.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Derived words: abrasive blasting
blasting cap
blastingly
microblasting
Translations:
blossoming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: blossomings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process by which something blossoms.
pos: noun
examples: “The Vagrants” begins on March 21, 1979 — the spring equinox — which is this careful writer’s way of telling us that a long winter of privation and darkness may be giving way, at last, to the blossomings of spring.
Translations:
boating
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English boat
English -ing
English boating
From boat + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: boatings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The activity of going out onto a body of water in a boat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I like nothing better than to hear of your ridings, and shootings, and boatings.
With the old boatmen holding annual re-unions at Rolling Green Park, tales and exciting moments of boatings and fishing in the old canal are told and re-told among veteran boatmen.
gloss: In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
Derived words: dragon boating
nonboating
playboating
swifboating
Translations:
bobbing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bobbings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The motion of something that bobs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
bounding
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: boundings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The use of fire protection products within limits determined by scientific tests.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A boundary.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Without buttings or boundings on any side.
gloss: The act of one who bounds or leaps.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Containing all points of a given set within it.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: harmonic bounding
Translations:
dimming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dimmings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of becoming dim.
pos: noun
examples: Then, as also happens, there were slowdowns; dimmings, even blackouts here and there.
Translations:
planking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English plank
English -ing
English planking
From plank + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: plankings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A series of planks; a group of planks.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The practice of lying face down with arms to the sides, in unusual public spaces, and taking photographs to record the act.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: First, there was planking. People taking pictures of themselves in a planked position and putting the photos on the Internet.
[…] but, like planking, horsemanning, Tebowing, Hadoukening, and other viral photography memes, as a genre of public performance, dance in public is greatly facilitated by the channels of distribution that social media offer, […]
Translations:
plating
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
Etymology: From Middle English *platynge, from Old English platung (“plate, thin piece of metal”), equivalent to plate + -ing.
Base: plate
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: platings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of determining where a postage stamp is positioned on a sheet.
pos: noun
gloss: A thin coating of metal laid upon another metal.
pos: noun
gloss: A coating or defensive armour of metal plates.
pos: noun
examples: Her fragility and vulnerability lie in the fact that her framework is overlaid with a relatively thin skin of plating, an inch or so in thickness, which, while amply strong to resist the inward pressure of the water, the impact of the seas, and the tensile and compressive stresses due to the motion of the ship in a seaway, etc., is readily fractured by the blow of a collision.
The back plating looks vulnerable, light that sucker up!
gloss: The presentation of food that is ready to be served.
pos: noun
Derived words: armour plating
barrel plating
chromium plating
dorsal plating
plating carrier
postplating
preplating
sideplating
tin-plating
Translations:
ceasing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ceasings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cessation.
pos: noun
examples: If one can discern the arising and ceasing of the four elements innumerable times in one day alone, the changes, arisings, and ceasings of the derivative material qualities are also discerned.
Translations:
chafing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: chafings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is chafed.
pos: noun
examples: The constant and irresistible pressure of such a ponderous mass in motion must occasion certain rubbings and chafings against the rugged bottoms and projecting sides of the rocks amid which they move.
Translations:
chirping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: chirpings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act, or an instance of, chirping.
pos: noun
tags: gerund
examples: Let the songs be loud and cheerful, and not chirpings or pulings.
We heard the peculiar note of the woodcock, which resembles the repeated croaking of the frog, followed by a sharp hissing sound, somewhat like the noisy chirping of the wagtail[.]
Adler's prose seeks to catch the whispers and chirpings of insanity rather than the lamentations of suffering.
Translations:
strangling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: stranglings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The crime of killing by strangling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
circling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: circlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A circular motion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] one of these birds came wheeling and screaming round his head in a maze of untrackably swift circlings.
gloss: The practice of sitting in a circle and taking turns to speak about one's emotions or experiences while the others listen, intended to be therapeutic or to strengthen relations within the group.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The mentoring curriculum included feminist strategies designed to facilitate egalitarian relationships in the groups, including circling, where each person takes a turn to speak while others in the group listen in situations involving decision making or conflict, […]
gloss: A class of secretive drinking games, each with an unknown set of rules which new players must learn by immersion, taking place with participants sitting in a circle and drinking upon certain conditions being met.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: circlingly
Translations:
forging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: forgings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of shaping by heating and hammering.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] repeated forgings and workings of wrought-iron […]
gloss: A component that is forged (shaped by heating and hammering).
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: […]one set of 16-inch steel gun forgings[…]
Fabrication has been the method used in the construction of many components that would normally be made from steel castings and forgings.
Derived words: drop forging
nanoforging
Translations:
coping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: architecture
falconry
hobbies
human-sciences
hunting
lifestyle
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From cope + -ing. The sense referring to a brick wall is cope (sense 2), used in the sense "dress in a cope," "to cover."
Base: cope
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: copings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […]
He stood a moment at the coping, looking over a land of hard little bungalows with abnormally large porches, and new apartment-houses, small, but brave with variegated brick walls and terra-cotta trimmings.
gloss: The process of managing taxing circumstances, expending effort to solve personal and interpersonal problems, and seeking to master, minimize, reduce or tolerate stress or conflict.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of clipping the beak or talons of a bird.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: coping mechanism
coping strategy
Translations:
dyeing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dyeings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is dyed.
pos: noun
examples: Ninety per cent of the dyeings on silk, 72 per cent of the dyeings on rayon, 70 per cent of the dyeings on cotton showed no color change.
In the traditional workshops of Surakarta, where the best quality batik tulis textiles are still created, low-paid women and girls use melted wax to meticulously hand-draw patterns before subsequent dyeings and rewaxings, […]
Translations:
jutting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: juttings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That which juts or protrudes.
pos: noun
examples: By degrees an union takes place between them, and at the same time the osseous substance thickens at its first points of existence, at the juttings representing the grinding tubercles[…]
He leaped forward, brandishing his knife, while the Sons of the Egg fell in behind him. The warlocks began to close ranks, falling back to make a stand under the jutting edge of the roof, where they could protect the orrery. Bork and Ser Perth were among them, bloody but hopelessly determined.
Translations:
courting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: courtings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: courtship; amorous advances
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
flogging
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: floggings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Infliction of punishment by dealing blows or whipping.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: What lawbreakers like that need is a good flogging. Do that and watch the crime rate plummet.
However, brutal floggings, increased terms of katorga, starvation diets, permanent chaining to a wheelbarrow and other fearsome sanctions failed to staunch the flow.
gloss: A minced oath of "fucking" as an intensifier.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
colloquial
euphemistic
not-comparable
examples: Will you get out of the flogging bathroom? We're already running late.
Cripes, this floggin’ rain’d make you cry, wouldn’t it?
Translations:
halting
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more halting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most halting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: haltings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Prone to pauses or breaks; hesitant; broken.
pos: adj
examples: his halting speech
her halting steps
Him we enlisted at Para, on the recommendation of the steamship company, on whose vessels he had learned to speak a halting English.
gloss: The action of one who halts; a stopping or hesitancy.
pos: noun
examples: But alas ! alas ! the faintings, the haltings, the back-slidings of Christians, are enough to make us tremble while we rejoice in the hope set before us.
Translations:
thingo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *tenk-?
Proto-Indo-European *tenkóm
Proto-Germanic *þingą
Proto-West Germanic *þing
Old English þing
Middle English thing
English thing
English -o
English thingo
From thing + -o.
Inflected forms:
form: thingos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A thingamajig; something the name of which is unknown or cannot be recalled.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: Windowsᵀᴹ and Microsoftᵀᴹ®; apparently are registered trademark thingos belonging to Microsoft Corporation.
‘Cup of coffee, Bonnie?’ Tan asked, appearing immediately at her side.
‘Camomile tea, I think,’ she said. ‘And one of those new orange and almond thingos that Fran and Sean were trying out.’
All those scanning thingos at the front of the store don′t make any difference if you know how to handle them.
Translations:
anole
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From a Cariban term.
Inflected forms:
form: anoles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the family Dactyloidae of chiefly arboreal dactyloid lizards native to the Americas, which feature a brightly colored dewlap and the ability to change color.
pos: noun
Translations: