yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
node
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
biology
botany
business
computational
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
geometry
graph-theory
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
syntax
technical
Etymology: From Middle English node, borrowed from Latin nōdus. Doublet of knot, knout, and nodus.
Inflected forms:
form: nodes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
pos: noun
gloss: The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from South to North and N to S; their respective symbols are ☊ and ☋.
pos: noun
gloss: A leaf node.
pos: noun
gloss: A computer or other device attached to a network.
pos: noun
gloss: The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions.
pos: noun
gloss: The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.
pos: noun
gloss: A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.
pos: noun
gloss: A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
pos: noun
gloss: A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.
pos: noun
gloss: A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
pos: noun
gloss: The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.
pos: noun
tags: rare
gloss: A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the Sun's declination, its place in the ecliptic, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.
pos: noun
gloss: A region of an electric circuit connected only by (ideal) wires (i.e. the voltage between any two points on the same node must be zero).
pos: noun
gloss: A point in a parse tree that can be assigned a syntactic category label.
pos: noun
gloss: A point in a cladogram from which two clades branch, representing the presumed ancestor.
pos: noun
Synonyms: host
vertex
Related words: knot
nodal
noded
nodule
neurode
Derived words: acnode
anti-node
antinode
ascending node
AV node
binode
child node
Cloquet's node
crunode
descending node
eigennode
end-node
exit node
hardware node
Heberden's node
heminode
hypernode
internode
intranode
leaf node
lymphatic node
lymph node
lymphnode
lymphoneogenesis
lymphonode
lymphonodectomy
macronode
metanode
multinode
nodeless
nodelike
nodelist
node of Ranvier
node of Rouvière
nodeset
nodesize
node-voltage analysis
nodewise
nodical
nodiform
nodopathy
oscnode
Osler node
paranode
Ranvier's node
Rosenmüller's node
SA node
S-A node
sinoatrial node
sinus node
stem node
subnode
supernode
tacnode
tidal node
Virchow's node
Translations:
noisy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
Etymology: Etymology tree
English noise
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English noisy
From noise + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: noisier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: noisiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: noisey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: Making a noise, especially a loud unpleasant sound
pos: adj
examples: the noisy crowd.
For obvious reasons the percussion is normally arranged along the back of the platform, whether centrally or to one side, and sometimes also in two tiers, the heavy, noisier instruments behind, and the pitched, agile instruments such as vibraphone, marimba, etc. in front. An outstanding exception, however, exists in Roberto Gerhard's Epithalamion where the composer expressly desired that the all-important kitchen department be spread out in front of the strings and hence nearest the audience.
gloss: Full of noise.
pos: adj
examples: a noisy bar
This market is the noisiest and swarmiest centre of noisy and swarming Florence, and I always like to pass through it on that account.
gloss: Unpleasant-looking and causing unwanted attention
pos: adj
examples: noisy clothes
gloss: Accompanied by or introducing random fluctuations that obscure the real signal or data
pos: adj
examples: Looked at more carefully, and over a longer time period, the relationship between the economy and the incumbent’s performance is positive, but noisy. “The incumbent wins when the economy is good” is a useful, weak prior, but not an iron law, and one that historically has had many exceptions.
Synonyms: blaring
blasting
booming
cacophonous
clangorous
clamorous
clattering
deafening
dinsome
earsplitting
loud
noisy
obstreperous
piercing
rackety
raucous
resounding
roisterous
rowdy
strepitous
strident
thundering
tumultuous
uproarious
vociferous
Antonyms: quiet
silent
Derived words: noisily
noisiness
noisy miner
noisy pitta
noisy scrubbird
shallow brooks are noisy
unnoisy
Translations:
nominee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English nomin(ate)
English -ee
English nominee
From nomin(ate) + -ee.
Inflected forms:
form: nominees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person named, or designated, by another, to any office, duty, or position; one nominated, or proposed, by others for office or for election to office.
pos: noun
gloss: A person or organisation in whose name a security is registered though true ownership is held by another party, called nominator, especially for the purpose of concealing the identity of the nominator.
pos: noun
examples: The Supreme Court confiscated half of Thaksin Shinawatra's fortune after finding that, while being Prime Minister, he held shares in commercial companies through nominees.
gloss: A person to whom the holder of a copyhold estate surrenders their interest.
pos: noun
Synonyms: nominatee
Derived words: conominee
nominee interest
nomineeism
nominee purchase
Translations:
nonchalance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French nonchalancebor.
English nonchalance
Borrowed from French nonchalance.
Inflected forms:
form: nonchalances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Indifference, unconcern; carelessness; coolness; disregard, detachment.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
nonsensical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Germanic *ne
Proto-Indo-European *ís?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos
Proto-Germanic *ainaz
Proto-Germanic *nainaz
Proto-West Germanic *nain
Old English nān
Middle English non
▲
Old English nān
Old English nān-
Middle English non-
English non-
Proto-Indo-European *sent-der.
Proto-Italic *sentjō
Latin sentiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin sēnsusbor.
Proto-Germanic *sinnaz
Frankish *sinnbor.
Vulgar Latin *sennus
Old French sensbor.
Middle English sense
English sense
English nonsense
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
English nonsensical
From nonsense + -ical.
Inflected forms:
form: more nonsensical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nonsensical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: nonsensic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
rare
form: non-sensical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Without sense; absurd.
pos: adj
examples: Well, her very foolish grandmother has mixed herself up in some nonsensical correspondence with the court of St. Germains; or, rather, has let herself be made a tool by Mr. Trevanion, who, I am happy to say, is not Ethel's husband; they arrested him just in time.
President Donald Trump’s presidential memorandum ordering an investigation of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and his use of the autopen […] is also nonsensical fan service, amplifying addled MAGA conspiracy theories that contend, with a straight face, that Biden was really a robotic clone.
Conspiracy theories have become so mainstream that they are even prompting nonsensical legislation. Earlier this month, Louisiana lawmakers sent a bill to the state’s governor seeking to ban “chemtrails” – which don’t actually exist.
Translations:
nourish
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English norischen, from Old French nouriss-, stem of one of the conjugated forms of norrir, from Latin nutriō (“to suckle, feed, foster, nourish, cherish, preserve, support”).
Inflected forms:
form: nourishes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: nourishing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: nourished
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: nourished
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To feed and cause to grow; to supply with food or other matter which increases weight and promotes health.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.
other carnivorous Animals are difficultly nourished by Plants alone
Children nourished exclusively upon this simple food will be found to enjoy more perfect health
we have ample evidence that male Bobolinks do not shirk the labor of nourishing their families. In a four-year study, Wittenberger (1980, 1982) found that males delivered about 60 Bobolink percent of the food.
gloss: To support; to maintain; to be responsible for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I in Ireland nourish a mighty band.
gloss: To encourage; to foster; to stimulate
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to nourish civility
to nourish a sense of self-worth
When we slow down to pay attention to our own experience, we open ourselves to the love and richness that is here all the time. These are moments that can nourish your connection to your heart.
I thanked the Fort Leavenworth military historian, Colonel von Schlemmer, for nourishing my first hope to memorialize the Buffalo Soldiers
gloss: To cherish; to comfort.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Ye have nourished your hearts.
gloss: To educate or bring up; to nurture; to promote emotional, spiritual or other non-physical growth.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Nourished up in the words of faith.
gloss: To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: This type of nourishes very well.
gloss: To gain nourishment.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: a kingdom may have good limbs, but will have empty veins, and nourish little
Related words: nurse
nurture
nutriment
nutrition
Derived words: malnourish
malnourishment
nourishable
nourish a viper in one's bosom
nourisher
nourishing
nourishment
overnourish
renourish
undernourish
well-nourished
Translations:
novelette
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
literature
media
music
publishing
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *nu
Proto-Indo-European *néwos
Proto-Italic *nowos
Latin novus
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -lus
Latin -ellus
Latin novellus
Vulgar Latin *novella
Italian novellabor.
English novel
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
Latin -ittus
Old French -ettebor.
Middle English -ette
English -ette
English novelette
From novel + -ette.
Inflected forms:
form: novelettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A short novel, synonymous with novella.
pos: noun
gloss: A story longer than a short story, but shorter than a novella.
pos: noun
examples: Best novella was Nnedi Okorafor’s African-flavoured space opera Binti (Tor), while best novelette was Folding Beijing by Hao Jingfang, translated by Ken Liu.
Nebula Awards® will be made in the following categories […] Novelette: at least 7,500 words but less than 17,500 words[…]
gloss: A short piece of lyrical music, especially one for the piano.
pos: noun
Derived words: novelettish
novelettist
noveletty
Translations:
nullification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin nullificatio, from nullifico, equivalent to null + -ification.
Base: null
Affixes: -ification
Inflected forms:
form: nullifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of nullifying; a rendering void and of no effect, or no legal effect.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Mason and I had an entirely civil debate about the merits of nullification versus an official "apology" for what had been done to Oppenheimer. I argued that an apology was not sufficient and that nullification was required precisely to restore the integrity of the security-review system.
gloss: The nullification crisis in U.S. history, confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government in 1832–33 over the former's attempt to declare null and void within the state the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He infused the threat with credibility, and the nullification movement fizzled, though Jackson also helped craft a compromise reduction in tariff rates to somewhat mollify South Carolinians.
gloss: Surgical removal of genitals (and sometimes nipples) as a form of body modification.
pos: noun
tags: countable
neologism
uncountable
examples: Surgeons talk about procedures that result in bodies that don't exist in nature: those with both sets of genitals – the "phallus-preserving vaginoplasty"; double mastectomies that don't have nipples; "nullification" surgery, where there are no genitals at all, just smooth skin.
Related words: nullo
Derived words: jury nullification
nullificationist
Translations:
nurture
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English norture, noriture, from Old French norriture, norreture, from Late Latin nutritura (“nourishment”), from Latin nutrire (“to nourish”).
Inflected forms:
form: nurtures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nouriture
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: nutriture
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: nurtures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: nurturing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: nurtured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: nurtured
pos: verb
tags: past
form: nouriture
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: nutriture
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: That which nourishes; food; diet.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Other great houses there bee of the English in Ireland, which thorough licentious conversing with the Irish, or marrying, or fostering with them, or lacke of meete nurture, or other such unhappy occasions, have degendred from their auncient dignities, and are now growne as Irish, as O-hanlans breech, as the proverbe there is.
gloss: The environmental influences that contribute to a person’s development (as opposed to "nature").
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A Deuill, a borne-Deuill, on whoſe nature / Nurture can neuer ſticke :
[…]a man neither by nature nor by nurture wiſe.
gloss: The act or process of encouraging the growth or development of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The problem is aggravated by the fact that much of the gay sub-culture is not conducive to the nurture of the radical ego integrity of which Erikson speaks.
gloss: To nourish or nurse.
pos: verb
examples: Look where he would, some heap of ruins afforded him rich promise of a working off; the whole town appeared to have been ploughed, and sown, and nurtured by most genial weather; and a goodly harvest was at hand.
gloss: To encourage, especially the growth or development of something.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
figuratively
examples: 2009, UNESCO, The United Nations World Water Development Report – N° 3 - 2009 – Freshwater and International Law (the Interplay between Universal, Regional and Basin Perspectives), page 10, →ISBN
The relationships between universal norms and specific norms nurture the development of international law.
Synonyms: encourage
foster
feed
grow
cultivate
promote
raise
Antonyms: destroy
hinder
Related words: nourish
nourishment
nurse
nursery
nurturance
nutrient
nutriment
nutrition
nutritional
nutritious
nutritive
Derived words: nature vs nurture
nurtural
nurturant
nurtureless
nurturement
nurtureship
nurturist
misnurture
nurturable
nurturer
unnurtured
Translations:
obstinate
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English obstinat(e) (“obstinate, stubborn”), from Latin obstinātus, perfect passive participle of obstinō (“set one's mind firmly upon, resolve”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ob (“before”) + *stinare, from stare (“to stand”). Doublet of ostinato.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: more obstinate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most obstinate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: obstinant
pos: adj
tags: alternative
proscribed
Senses:
gloss: Stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent.
pos: adj
examples: From this consideration it is that we have derived the custom, in times of war, to punish […] those who are obstinate to defend a place that by the rules of war is not tenable […]
[…] the junior Osborne was quite as obstinate as the senior: when he wanted a thing, quite as firm in his resolution to get it; and quite as violent when angered, as his father in his most stern moments
gloss: Of an inanimate object, not easily subdued or removed.
pos: adj
examples: an obstinate blockage in the pipe
1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part IV, Chapter XXIX,
Now it happened that Kasturbai […] had again begun getting haemorrhage, and the malady seemed to be obstinate.
gloss: Of a facial feature or expression, fixed and unmoving.
pos: adj
examples: He had the same pile of curly hair, but he was clean-shaven with a heavy, obstinate jowl.
Synonyms: persistent
stubborn
pertinacious
adamant
ardent
grim
bent on
bullheaded
certain
chronic
confirmed
determined
diehard
dogged
hard-hearted
hard-nosed
hardheaded
headstrong
immovable
incalcitrant
inflexible
irrefragable
insistent
intractable
intransigent
intrepid
inveterate
mulish
obdurate
obstinate
obstreperous
peevish
peremptory
pigheaded
recalcitrant
refractory
resolute
resolved
rigid
self-willed
stalwart
staunch
steadfast
steady
stubborn as a mule
sullen
tenacious
terminal
thran
thwart
tough
truculent
unbending
uncompromising
unyielding
vehement
wilful
willful
Antonyms: compromising
transigent
flexible
sycophantic
yielding
Related words: recidivist
contrary
obstinacy
persist
Derived words: obstinacy
obstinately
obstinateness
unobstinate
Translations:
obstreperous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin obstreperus, first attested circa 17th c. Compare obstropulous.
Inflected forms:
form: more obstreperous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most obstreperous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; boisterous.
pos: adj
examples: [O]n a clear still summer evening you may hear from the battery of New York the obstreperous peals of broad-mouthed laughter of the Dutch negroes at Communipaw.
This disposition his subsequent life had not tended to change in any considerable degree, though increased knowledge, with much observation, and a little reading, had rendered the gaiety of the young man a very different thing to the obstreperous mirth of the boy.
[…] my hope
Dwindled into a ghost not fit to cope
With that obstreperous joy success would bring
He developed an obstreperous baritone—it was the same voice, now more specifically in action, that I had first heard on the devastated prairie; and he made himself rather preponderant, whether he happened to know the song or not.
The train was soon filled to the brim with obstreperous American tourists brandishing Pina Coladas from the upper deck, and started to resemble a smallish dry-land cruise ship.
gloss: Stubbornly defiant; disobedient; resistant to authority or control (whether in a noisy manner or not).
pos: adj
examples: [W]e came to Whittingham. Thence to Newcastle, where an obstreperous horse retarded us for an hour at least.
My dress was draggled, my hat had slipped back, and the kinks and curls of my obstreperous hair were something awful.
They reviled the committee collectively and singly; bragged that they would shoot Coleman, Truett, Durkee, and some others at sight; flourished weapons, and otherwise became so publicly and noisily obstreperous that the committee decided they needed a lesson.
Now [Judah] becomes their surrogate in being subject to a bizarre but peculiarly fitting principle of retaliation, taken in by a piece of attire, as his father was, learning through his own obstreperous flesh that the divinely appointed process of election cannot be thwarted by human will or social convention.
This is what your boyfriend did, honey. When he was in one of his more obstreperous moods.
He said he loved making movies like Luca Guadagnino’s “A Bigger Splash,” in which his charismatic, obstreperous character, Harry Hawkes, a music producer described by the Italian director as “a pagan fawn,” does a Dionysian dance to the Rolling Stones song “Emotional Rescue.”
Derived words: obstreperosity
obstreperously
obstreperousness
stroppy
unobstreperous
Translations:
offshoot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English off-
Middle English schoten
English shoot
English offshoot
From off- + shoot.
Inflected forms:
form: offshoots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something which shoots off or separates from a main stem or branch of a plant.
pos: noun
examples: the offshoots of a tree
gloss: Something which develops from something else.
pos: noun
examples: an offshoot of a criminal organization
The reason is that the Berks & Hants Railway Company, under the powers of which the line was built, also included the Reading-Basingstoke section. The company was an offshoot of the G.W.R., which absorbed it before any section was opened.
Synonyms: spin-off
spinoff
Translations:
onslaught
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From on- + slaught. Formed after Middle Dutch aenslag, aenslach, equivalent to aen + slag, although slaught corresponds to Middle Dutch slacht; slag is cognate with the English weaving term sley. Compare Dutch aanslag and German Anschlag.
Base: slaught
Affixes: on-
Inflected forms:
form: onslaughts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: anslaight
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A fierce attack.
pos: noun
gloss: A large number of people or things resembling an attack.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: They opened the doors and prepared for the onslaught of holiday shoppers.
The inevitable Baggies onslaught followed as substitute Simon Cox saw his strike excellently parried by keeper Bunn, with Cox heading the rebound down into the ground and agonisingly over the bar.
Related words: slew
Derived words: onslaughter
Translations:
operant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English operant, from Latin operāns.
Inflected forms:
form: more operant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most operant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: operants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That operates to produce an effect.
pos: adj
examples: thy most operant poison
I tell you frankly, if Paul Aubry is guilty I hope is convicted and punished; but if one of the others is guilty I hope he—or she—is punished, and if I knew anything operant to that end I certainly would not withhold it.
gloss: An operative person or thing.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of a class of behaviors that produce consequences by operating (i.e., acting) upon the environment.
pos: noun
Antonyms: inoperant
Related words: Skinner box
Translations:
ophidian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin ophidia (from Ancient Greek ὄφις (óphis, “snake”)) + -ian.
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: ophidians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more ophidian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ophidian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Any species of the suborder Serpentes; a snake or serpent.
pos: noun
examples: Vertebral structure is critical for the identification of fossil snakes, because vertebrae are among the most easily fossilized parts of ophidians.
It has long been known that ophidians have lost not only their front legs but also every embryonic trace of these limbs and their associated shoulder girdle (to such a degree that we cannot determine how many cervical vertebrae they have).
Siamese or double monsters are well known in saurians, chelonians, and ophidians, as are bicephalic, two-tailed and conjoined bodies (thoracodymus, ischiodymus, etc.).
gloss: Of or pertaining to the suborder Serpentes; of, related to, or characteristic of a snake or serpent.
pos: adj
examples: The ophidian beast began to glow eerily, and Aaron could discern a fine webwork of veins and capillaries running throughout the creature's body.
A less obvious asset of snakes is their very light and supple jaws, which arose in the course of ophidian evolution to permit the ingestion of extraordinarily large meals (at maximum, more than 100% of their body mass).
Another ophidian deity recognizable in Classic reliefs is the Feathered Serpent, known to the Maya as Kukulcán (and to the Toltecs and Aztecs as Quetzalcóatl).
Translations:
originate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Medieval Latin orīginātus, perfect passive participle of orīginō (“to begin, give rise to”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more), from orīgō (orīgin- in compounds) + -ō. Compare Italian originare and Spanish originar.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: originates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: originating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: originated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: originated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cause (someone or something) to be; to bring (someone or something) into existence; to produce or initiate a person or thing.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Einstein originated the theory of relativity.
At Putney Bridge the train description transmissions for eastbound trains must be originated as there is no manned signal cabin on the London Transport system beyond this point; [...].
For the first time since Douglas Fairbanks Sr. originated the role in the 1920 silent "The Mark of Zorro," the hero will be played by a Hispanic actor.
The financial backers who originated the Encyclopédie project in 1745 had no idea about what they were getting into.
Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.
gloss: To come into existence; to have origin or beginning; to spring, be derived (from, with).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The scheme originated with the governor and council.
The idea of fitting a crane to an engine for shunting duties, primarily in works yards, appears to have originated with the North London Railway engine in 1872.
Synonyms: initiate
take shape
Antonyms: terminate
end
destinate
Related words: origin
original
origination
originator
Derived words: nonoriginating
originating summons
self-originated
unoriginate
unoriginated
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: пора́ждам
roman: poráždam
lang: Bulgarian
word: създавам
roman: sǎzdavam
lang: Catalan
word: originar
lang: Ngazidja Comorian
word: uhentsi
lang: French
word: instituer
lang: Galician
word: orixinar
lang: German
word: entwickeln
lang: German
word: erzeugen
lang: Greek
word: γεννώ
roman: gennó
lang: Hungarian
word: megteremt
lang: Italian
word: originare
lang: Italian
word: dare origine
lang: Korean
word: 비롯하다
roman: birothada
lang: Māori
word: take
lang: Māori
word: pūtake
lang: Portuguese
word: originar
lang: Russian
word: создава́ть
roman: sozdavátʹ
lang: Russian
word: созда́ть
roman: sozdátʹ
lang: Russian
word: порожда́ть
roman: poroždátʹ
lang: Russian
word: породи́ть
roman: porodítʹ
lang: Scots
word: oreeginate
lang: Spanish
word: originar
lang: Ukrainian
word: породжувати
roman: porodžuvaty
lang: Ukrainian
word: створювати
roman: stvorjuvaty
lang: Vietnamese
word: sáng tạo
lang: Vietnamese
word: phát minh
lang: Vietnamese
word: bắt đầu
outmanoeuvre
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 manoeuvre
English outmanoeuvre
From out- + manoeuvre.
Inflected forms:
form: outmanoeuvres
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outmanoeuvring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outmanoeuvred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outmanoeuvred
pos: verb
tags: past
form: outmaneuver
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: outmanoeuver
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: outmanœuvre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: outmanœuver
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To perform manoeuvres or movements more successfully or better than; to surpass or get the advantage of in manoeuvring; to outgeneral.
pos: verb
tags: UK
transitive
Translations:
outplay
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 play
English outplay
From out- + play.
Inflected forms:
form: outplays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outplaying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outplayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outplayed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To excel or defeat in a game; to play better than.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We were outplayed at tennis, but we outplayed them at football.
When Littlefinger really starts to bare his teeth, talking about a game he plays where he assumes the worst of people’s intentions, I started to hope the producers had outplayed us one last time, and that he was aware they were trying to play him.
Translations:
outstay
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 stay
English outstay
From out- + stay.
Inflected forms:
form: outstays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outstaying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outstayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outstayed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To stay beyond or longer than.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Podson stayed till after five, though he handsomely apologized for outstaying a call. "The fact is, I never think of the time, when I get talking to a really intelligent woman..."
Translations:
outspoken
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From outspeak, equivalent to out- + spoken.
Base: spoken
Affixes: out-
Inflected forms:
form: more outspoken
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most outspoken
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Speaking, or spoken, freely, openly, or boldly; vocal; frank.
pos: adj
examples: an outspoken man
an outspoken rebuke
Critics were vehemently outspoken; but while they fretted about looks, they missed the cleverer points in the design itself.
Transmission: An Alliance officer named Major Kyle has set up a small compound in the Hawking Eta cluster. He's attracted a number of followers. Mostly biotics.
Transmission: He's become an outspoken critic of the Alliance, and we believe he's mentally unstable. This could be trouble, Shepard.
Safdar constantly chews a betel nut derivative, which has a stimulant effect – a common habit among drivers in Pakistan. He is outspoken and talks a million miles a minute, his rapid hand movements expressing a range of emotions.
The late Professor Pat White was an outspoken critic. In his 1986 book Forgotten Railways, he dismissed as smoke and mirrors the oft-used argument that 33% of rail routes carried only 1% of the traffic, as it ignores the fact that a third of the national road network also only carried 2% of cars and lorries. But unlike rail, road got away with it because no mention was made of how much it cost the taxpayer to keep them usable.
Translations:
outwards
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English outwardes, from Old English ūtweardes; equivalent to outward + -s or out + -wards. Cognate with German auswärts.
Base: outward
Affixes: -s
Inflected forms:
form: more outwards
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most outwards
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: From the interior toward the exterior; in an outward direction.
pos: adv
examples: Light falling on them is not reflected outwards.
gloss: Outwardly; (merely) on the surface.
pos: adv
tags: obsolete
examples: Wo be to you scrybes, and pharises ypocrites, for ye are lyke unto paynted tombes which appere beautyfull outwardes: but are within full off deed mens bones and of all fylthynes.
Synonyms: outward
Antonyms: inwards
Translations:
outweigh
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-
Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰeti
Proto-Germanic *weganą
Proto-West Germanic *wegan
Old English wegan
Middle English weyen
English weigh
English outweigh
From out- + weigh.
Inflected forms:
form: outweighs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outweighing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outweighed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outweighed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To exceed in weight or mass.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The King your brother is now hard at hand,
Meete with the foole, and rid your royall ſhoulders
Of ſuch a burden, as outweighs the ſands
And all the craggie rockes of Caſpea.
gloss: To exceed in importance or value.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The advantage […] was so great that it would have taken a lot of failures to outweigh it.
The trials have revealed that the advantage of extra seating capacity is more than outweighed by slower station working, as the double-deck train affords one door for 22 seats, compared with 10 or 12 in ordinary compartment stock.
A few trains, mostly at peak periods, will still terminate at Barnsley because the convenience to workpeople of their current times outweighs the advantages of through working.
Flores said the images’ negative impact outweighs their historical and artistic value.
Related words: outnumber
Translations:
overstay
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
English stay
English overstay
From over- + stay.
Inflected forms:
form: overstays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: overstaying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: overstayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: overstayed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: overstays
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To remain present after the agreed or appropriate departure time.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To remain present beyond the limits of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He overstayed his welcome.
"[H]e had overstayed his three-score and ten years by something like twenty years. He must have been ninety, if he was a day!"
Thailand’s Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday that Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha must suspend his active duties while the court decides whether he has overstayed his legal term in office.
gloss: The act of staying too long.
pos: noun
examples: For example, if USCIS approves a change of status or extension of stay for a nonimmigrant, the alien may be authorized to remain in the country beyond his or her original period of admission without qualifying as an overstay.
Derived words: overstayal
overstayer
overstay one's welcome
Translations:
oyster
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English oystre, from Old English ostre, reinforced or superseded by Anglo-Norman oistre, which is from Old French oistre, uistre (compare modern French huître); both lines (Old English and Old French) from Latin ostrea, from Ancient Greek ὄστρεον (óstreon). Doublet of ostro (“a purple dye”).
Inflected forms:
form: more oyster
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most oyster
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: erster
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: oister
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: oystre
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: oysters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: oystering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: oystered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: oystered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: erster
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: oister
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: oystre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Of a pale beige colour tinted with grey or pink, like that of an oyster.
pos: adj
gloss: To fish for oysters.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Most Fishneck watermen oystered in winter, using the same small skiffs from which they potted crabs in summer. Sometimes two men oystered from the same boat or took along a son or younger brother to cull oysters (separate those of legal size from undersized ones and shell).
Translations:
pallor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English pallour, from Old French palor (“paleness, pallor”), from Latin pallor, from palleō (“to look pale, blanch”).
Inflected forms:
form: pallors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pallour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Unnatural paleness, especially as a sign of sickness or distress.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: pallor of the complexion
‘Sir,’ said the butler, turning to a sort of mottled pallor, ‘that thing was not my master, and there’s the truth. My master’—here he looked round him and began to whisper—‘is a tall fine build of a man, and this was more of a dwarf.’
For the rest, his ears were pale, and at the tops extremely pointed; the chin was broad and strong, and the cheeks firm though thin. The general effect was one of extraordinary pallor.
Over those seamed cheeks there was a certain pallor, a grayness caught from many a vigil
Catch-22 is defined by the sickly pallor of its visual palette (a jaundiced tint that at least goes with Yossarian’s point of view and phony liver pains) and the way it makes the slog of its characters’ deployment a little too literal.
Translations:
pappy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pap
English -y
English pappy
From pap + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: pappier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: pappiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Like pap; soft; mushy.
pos: adj
Translations:
parthenogenesis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
lifestyle
natural-sciences
religion
theology
Etymology: From partheno- + -genesis, from Ancient Greek παρθένος (parthénos, “virgin”) and γένεσις (génesis, “origin, creation, generation”).
Affixes: partheno-
-genesis
Inflected forms:
form: parthenogeneses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Referring to various aspects of asexual reproduction:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
usually
examples: Scientists say the birth is the second confirmed instance of a shark being conceived by parthenogenesis, a process in which an unfertilised egg develops into a new individual.
gloss: Referring to various aspects of asexual reproduction:
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: An all female race, the asari reproduce through a form of parthenogenesis. Each asari can attune her nervous system to that of another individual of any gender, and of any species, to reproduce. This capability has led to unseemly and inaccurate rumors about asari promiscuity.
As an “all-female” humanoid species not bound to the traditional forms of mating, in that they reproduce through a form of telepathic parthenogenesis, the design of the Asari collapses boundaries of sex and sexuality. The Asari are a species rendered as Other, even in comparison to the various beings populating the gameworld.
gloss: figurative uses of the biological senses
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
usually
examples: We may learn, to be sure, plenty of lessons from Shakespeare. We are not likely to have kingdoms to divide, crowns foretold us by weird sisters, a father’s death to avenge, or to kill our wives from jealously ; but Lear may teach us to draw the line more clearly between a wise generosity and a loose-handed weakness of giving ; Macbeth, how one sin involves another, and forever another, by a fatal parthenogenesis, and that the key which unlocks forbidden doors to our will or passion leaves a stain on the hand, that may not be so dark as blood, but that will not out ; Hamlet, that all the noblest gifts of person, temperament, and mind slip like sand through the grasp of an infirm purpose ; Othello, that the perpetual silt of some one weakness, the eddies of a suspicious temper depositing their one impalpable layer after another, may build up a shoal on which an heroic life and an otherwise magnanimous nature may bilge and go to pieces.
gloss: Virgin birth, in reference to the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: So one might reasonably be led to hold, for instance, that the parthenogenesis of Christ does not beget faith in Christ […]
His theology offers four objections on dogmatic grounds commonly adduced by contemporary Protestant criticism to cast doubt on Mary’s parthenogenesis.
Christ’s parthenogenesis exalts woman.
Related words: parthenogen
parthenogenetic
parthenote
Derived words: tychoparthenogenesis
Translations:
parthenogenetic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or produced by, parthenogenesis.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: parthenogenetic forms
"And that the germ plasm is different from the parthenogenetic egg?" "Why, surely!" I cried, and gloried in my own audacity.
Translations:
patchy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English patch
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English patchy
From patch + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: patchier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: patchiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Full of, or covered with, patches; abounding in patches.
pos: adj
gloss: Not constant or continuous; intermittent or uneven.
pos: adj
examples: patchy clouds
a patchy performance
Added to these woes was the Treasury's demands for across-the-board train operator cost-cutting of broadly 10%. Passenger rail's slow, patchy and fragile recovery had the stuffing knocked out of it once more.
Synonyms: stop-start
Derived words: patchily
patchiness
Translations:
patrician
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French patricien, from Latin patricius, derived from patrēs cōnscrīptī (“Roman senators”).
May also have been derived from Latin patricius + -ian
Inflected forms:
form: patricians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: patritian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: more patrician
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most patrician
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: patritian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A member of any of the families constituting the populus Romanus, or body of Roman citizens, before the development of the plebeian order; later, one who, by right of birth or by special privilege conferred, belonged to the senior class of Romans, who, with certain property, had by right a seat in the Roman Senate.
pos: noun
tags: Ancient-Rome
examples: Noble Patricians, Patrons of my right, / Defend the iuſtice of my Cauſe with Armes.
gloss: A person of high birth; a nobleman.
pos: noun
examples: The emperor elevated several loyal families to the status of patricians.
gloss: One familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers; one versed in patristic lore or life.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Roman patres (“fathers”) or senators, or patricians.
pos: adj
examples: […] I ſee
Th’ Inſulting Tyrant prancing o’er the Field
Strow’d with Rome’s Citizens, and drench’d in Slaughter,
His Horſe’s Hoofs wet with Patrician Blood.
The cognomen was first used in patrician families, who were distinguished from the plebeians by their three names.
gloss: Of or pertaining to a person of high birth; noble; not plebeian; aristocratic.
pos: adj
examples: born in the patrician file of society
gloss: Characteristic of or appropriate to a person of high birth; classy.
pos: adj
examples: Hanks' taste in projects and directors is undoubtedly patrician and with a few exceptions like 1993's Philadelphia, the first mainstream film about the Aids crisis, rarely provocative
gloss: Politically active to help people in lower classes, especially in a patronizing or condescending way.
pos: adj
examples: It will speed the shrivelling of the patrician “one nation” Tories, who tried to curb the extremes of Thatcherism and ended by providing its veils.
Saint-Simon was certainly a radical, and hostile to inherited privilege, but his bourgeois 'socialism' was of a patrician kind. Science, being a firm and certain kind of knowledge, a 'religion of Newton' or 'cult of Reason' essentially plays the key role in his grand scheme for social engineering.
Where Ruskin's patrician socialism sought to create better conditions and 'higher' aspirations for the 'Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain', Sickert painted his working- and lower-middle-class subjects as if history, in the advance of mass culture and popular democracy, were on their side.
Related words: father
patriarch
Patricia
patron
pattern
matrician
Derived words: patrician blue
patricianhood
patricianism
patricianly
patricianness
patricianship
unpatrician
Translations:
patriotic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French patriotique, from Late Latin patriōticus, from Ancient Greek πατριωτικός (patriōtikós), from πατριώτης (patriṓtēs), equivalent to patriot + -ic.
Base: patriot
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more patriotic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most patriotic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: patriotick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: patriotics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: patriotick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Inspired by or showing patriotism; done out of love of one's country; zealously and unselfishly devoted to the service of one's country
pos: adj
examples: a patriotic statesman
a patriotic song
But if patriotic sentiment is wanted,
I've patriotic ballads cut and dried;
For where'er our country's banner may be planted,
All other local banners are defied!
[Hakeem] Jeffries hailed the Obamas as “brilliant, compassionate and patriotic Americans” and denounced Trump as “a vile, unhinged and malignant bottom feeder”.
gloss: A postage stamp, Civil War token, etc. bearing a patriotic design.
pos: noun
examples: Most patriotics in copper or brass are common. They are rare in off-metals.
Antonyms: unpatriotic
Translations: