yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
trike
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortening of tricycle, modelled on bike.
Inflected forms:
form: trikes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trikes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: triking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: triked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: triked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A tricycle, typically that of a child.
pos: noun
gloss: A three-wheeled motorbike.
pos: noun
examples: As a trike, his motorbike gave him more stability at the price of some speed.
gloss: A kind of railroad maintenance vehicle: a speeder or jigger.
pos: noun
gloss: To tricycle; to travel by tricycle.
pos: verb
Related words: bike
Derived words: e-trike
triker
Translations:
anti-Semitic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From anti- + Semitic; calque of German antisemitisch, which was first used in 1860 by Jewish scholar Moritz Steinschneider.
For more see anti-Semitism.
Base: Semitic
Affixes: anti-
Inflected forms:
form: more anti-Semitic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most anti-Semitic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: antisemitic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to or exhibiting anti-Semitism.
pos: adj
examples: Craig McDermott (Josh Lucas): Are you sure that's Paul Allen over there?
Timothy Bryce (Justin Theroux): Yes. McDufus, I am.
Craig McDermott: He's handling the Fisher account.
Timothy Bryce: Lucky bastard.
Craig McDermott: Lucky Jew bastard.
Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale): Jesus, McDermott, what does that have to do with anything?
Craig McDermott: I've seen that bastard sitting in his office, talking on the phone to the CEOs, spinning a fucking menorah.
Patrick Bateman: Not a menorah. You spin a dreidel.
Craig McDermott: Oh, my God. Bateman, do you want me to fry you up some fucking potato pancakes? Some latkes?
Patrick Bateman: No. Just cool it with the anti-Semitic remarks.
Craig McDermott: Oh, I forgot. Bateman's dating someone from the ACLU.
[W]hen a Hamas spokesman recently stood by his statement that Jews used the blood of non-Jewish children for their matzos – one of the oldest anti-Semitic canards around – European elites were largely silent.
The Anti-Defamation League reported a dramatic increase in antisemitic incidents in 2021 in this country, with a total of 2,717 incidents of assault, harassment and vandalism reported to ADL, the highest number on record since the organization began tracking antisemitic incidents in 1979.
Translations:
anti-Semite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 1881, from German Antisemit (coined by Wilhelm Marr in 1879 as a scientific-sounding self-identification), from German antisemitisch (coined by Moritz Steinschneider in 1860), from anti- + semitisch
Inflected forms:
form: anti-Semites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone with anti-Semitic views.
pos: noun
examples: Aw yes, nothing screams Scottish freedom quite like a millionaire Australian anti-Semite on horseback.
Translations:
blanc
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French blanc (“white”). Doublet of blank.
Inflected forms:
form: blancs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A white person; a person of European or Caucasian descent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
ethnic
offensive
slur
uncountable
gloss: A white sauce of fat, broth, and vegetables, used especially for braised meat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A white cosmetic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Had Miss Fipps not told her what they were, she would have taken them for ladies of fashion. In an age when women wore less than they had ever done but wore just as much blanc and rouge, there was little difference between the ladies in the side boxes and the ladies in the centre.
A guest at a party in 1764 was described as wearing on her face "rather too much yellow mixed with the red; she . . . would look very agreeable if she added blanc to the rouge instead of gamboge."
A white mask of cosmetic face paint, or blanc, had long been the norm for formally dressed ladies in the eighteenth century, but by the 1790s the deliberate artifice of the white mask was supplanted by a desire for a "natural" whiteness without additional coloring. "Rouge is no longer used; pallor is more interesting," wrote one commentator in 1804; "The ladies only use the blanc, and leave the rouge to the men."
Related words: film blanc
Sauvignon blanc
Translations:
maestro
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian maestro, from Latin magistrum (“master”). Doublet of magister, master, and meister.
Inflected forms:
form: maestros
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: maestri
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A master in some art, especially a composer or conductor.
pos: noun
examples: You've never been on a ride like this before; with a producer who can rap and control the maestro.
gloss: A gang elder in prison.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Synonyms: master
Related words: maestra
maestro di cappella
magister
magisterium
magistra
meister
miss
missus
mister
mistress
Mr.
Mrs.
MS
Derived words: maestrolike
Translations:
noir
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
Etymology: Shortened from film noir, and from French noir. Doublet of negro.
Inflected forms:
form: more noir
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most noir
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: noirs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to film noir, or the atmosphere associated with that genre
pos: adj
examples: As a neo-Sherlock Holmes, however, Mulder is also a very noir version of the classic detective (just as Scully is a very noir Watson).
gloss: Film noir.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A production in the style of film noir.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Several noirs, including “Raw Deal,” have been set here.
Translations:
libel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English libel, from Old French libelle, from Latin libellus (“petition”, literally “booklet”). Doublet of libelle.
Inflected forms:
form: libels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: libels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: libeling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: libelling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: libeled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: libeled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: libelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: libelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: A written or pictorial false statement which unjustly seeks to damage someone's reputation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The act or tort of displaying such a statement publicly.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Any defamatory writing; a lampoon; a satire.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A written declaration or statement by the plaintiff of their cause of action, and of the relief they seek.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: These provisions of law being in force, the steamer Rio Grande, owned, as was alleged, by persons in Mexico, being in the port of Mobile, in the Southern District of Alabama, certain materialmen, on the 26th of November, 1867, filed separate libels against her in the district court for the said district.
gloss: A brief writing of any kind, especially a declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: a libel of forsaking [divorcement]
gloss: To defame (someone), especially in a manner that meets the legal definition of libel.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He libelled her when he published that.
But vvhat ſo pure, vvhich envious tongues vvill ſpare? / Some vvicked vvits have libell'd all the fair.
gloss: To proceed against (goods, a ship, etc.) by filing a legal claim.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: libel chill
libel tourism
defamation
Derived words: antilibel
libellize
libelous
libellous
belibel
libelant
libelee
libeler
libeller
libelist
libellist
unlibelled
Translations:
archery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos
Proto-Italic *arkuos
Vulgar Latin arcus
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Vulgar Latin -ārius
Vulgar Latin arcuārius
Vulgar Latin *arcārius
Old French archier
Old French archeriebor.
Middle English archerie
English archery
From Middle English archerie, from Old French archerie, from archier (“archer”). Equivalent to archer + -ery.
Base: archer
Affixes: -ery
Inflected forms:
form: archeries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The practice or sport of shooting arrows with a bow.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A group of archers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Related words: archer
bowman
bowmanship
toxophilite
Derived words: archery ground
archery tag
dartchery
flight archery
para-archery
Translations:
belligerent
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin belligerans (“waging war”), present active participle of belligerō (“to wage war”), from belliger (“waging war, warlike”), from bellum (“war”) + -ger (from gerō (“to lead, wage, carry on”)).
Inflected forms:
form: more belligerent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most belligerent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: belligerents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Engaged in warfare, warring.
pos: adj
gloss: Eager to go to war, warlike.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or pertaining to war.
pos: adj
gloss: Aggressively hostile, eager to fight.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: And I think the facts are that Beijing is a belligerent bully jealous and envious of what Taiwan has accomplished- mainland China- that's what I get out of all of this.
England were not allowed to give their chariot the momentum it had a week ago. It was stopped dead in its tracks by a belligerent Springboks defence that simply refused to yield.
gloss: Acting violently towards others.
pos: adj
gloss: Uncooperative.
pos: adj
gloss: A state or other armed participant in warfare
pos: noun
examples: The UN sent a treaty proposal to the belligerents.
Antonyms: conciliatory
friendly
peaceful
Related words: bellicose
belligerence
belligerency
Derived words: antibelligerent
belligerati
belligerently
interbelligerent
nonbelligerent
non-belligerent
unbelligerent
cobelligerent
Translations:
oily
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English oylei, equivalent to oil + -y. Compare German ölig (“oily”), Swedish oljig (“oily”).
Base: oil
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: oilier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: oiliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: oyly
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: oilies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: oyly
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Covered with or containing oil.
pos: adj
examples: oily machinery;   oily rags;   oily fish;   oily cooking
His clothes were apt to look oily and smell of eating-houses.
[…] overdressed young men of enigmatic appearance, with oily thick hair, shifty eyes, and hands covered with cheap rings, swaggered about smoking cigarettes and talking in loud, ostentatious voices.
Dyes listed with the word “lake” indicate the dye is a fat-soluble version, meaning it can dissolve in oily foods or drinks.
gloss: Resembling oil.
pos: adj
examples: oily swells;   oily seas
There were no breakers and no waves, for not a breath of wind was stirring. Only a slight oily swell rose and fell like a gentle breathing, and showed that the eternal sea was still moving and living.
gloss: Excessively friendly or polite but insincere.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Near-synonyms: slick, buttery; smarmy
[…] for I want that glib and oyly Art,
To ſpeake and purpoſe not, ſince what I well entend
Ile do’t before I ſpeake, […]
Mr. Carker the Manager, sly of manner, sharp of tooth, soft of foot, watchful of eye, oily of tongue, cruel of heart, nice of habit, sat with a dainty stedfastness and patience at his work, as if he were waiting at a mouse’s hole.
‘He had an inflexible will beneath all that oily kindness which passed for spiritual […]’
gloss: A marble with an oily lustre.
pos: noun
examples: Lustered (also called lusters, rainbows, oilies, and pearls).
But marbles are not only used to play games: they are also traded. In this market, the value of the different kinds of marbles (oilies, emperors, etc.) is determined by local supply and demand and not by the price of the marbles […]
gloss: Oilskins. (waterproof garment)
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
informal
Related words: oilfish
oilseed
olive-oily
Derived words: nonoily
oilily
oiliness
oily bitterling
oilyish
oily rag
oily rice
oily-wad
smell of an oily rag
unoily
Translations:
astute
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin astūtus, from astus (“craft”).
Inflected forms:
form: astuter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: astutest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Quickly and critically discerning.
pos: adj
gloss: Shrewd or crafty.
pos: adj
examples: astute analysis
astute observation
astute remark
The best headteachers are like submarine captains – cool-headed, astute decision-makers – who trust their colleagues and surroundings to indicate where their ship is headed.
Synonyms: crafty
shrewd
wily
knowing
Derived words: astutely
astuteness
unastute
Translations:
dogging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: doggings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who dogs or harasses.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] free from the doggings of the common informer, but under the superintendence of the bishop […]
gloss: The practice of having sexual intercourse in public places, especially parks, deliberately taking the chance of being watched.
pos: noun
tags: UK
uncountable
examples: We do it because we've found / When people crowd around / It is somehow more profound / When you're dogging.
Even that […] had been less awful than this date-rape opportunity and likely dogging hotspot, with its hasty skim of tarmac spread like cheap, stale caviar across the pink pedestrian tiles beneath […].
gloss: The job of killing wild dogs and dingos in a rural area.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
uncountable
examples: ‘Has a good plant. Wanders around on his own doing a bit of dogging (dingo-hunting).’
Related words: alpha dogging
chute dogging
hog-dogging
Translations:
acuity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English acuite, acuyte, from Middle French acuité, from Medieval Latin acuitas, irreg., from Latin acuō (“sharpen”).
Inflected forms:
form: acuities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Sharpness or acuteness, as of a needle, wit, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: The ability to think, see, or hear clearly.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The old woman with dementia lost her mental acuity.
And yet [Ray] Dalio’s acuity prompts an awkward question: how much of Bridgewater’s success comes not from the way it is organized, or any notion of “radical transparency,” but from the boss’s raw investment abilities?
Donald Trump’s frequently bizarre public appearances[…] have once again raised questions about his mental acuity, experts say. […] During his presidency, Joe Biden was subjected to intense speculation over his mental acuity – including from Trump.
Synonyms: wisdom
Related words: acute
acutance
acuteness
acuition
Derived words: hyperacuity
stereoacuity
visual acuity
Translations:
packed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more packed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most packed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Put into a package.
pos: adj
examples: packed lunch
gloss: Filled with a large number or large quantity of something.
pos: adj
examples: packed with goodness
[…] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
A packed schedule of 13 different inquiries ranged from parking on pavements to filling potholes, plus a hard-hitting examination of the Government's proposed Airports National Policy Statement and its recommendation to grant approval for a third runway to be built at Heathrow.
gloss: Filled to capacity with people.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: The bus was packed and I couldn't get on.
On a steamy summer late afternoon the Luzhniki was once again packed. It is a vast space, with a roof that almost closes in on itself capturing the air like a superheated bubble.
We picked up returning Millwall supporters at New Street, together with a couple of British Transport Police officers, and the train, an 11-car set, was now packed.
Synonyms: rammed
Derived words: action-packed
badly packed kebab
close-packed
cram-packed
flatpacked
hardpacked
jam-packed
manpacked
nonpacked
packed cells
packed decimal
packed house
packed like sardines
packed lunch
packed meal
packed to the gills
packed to the rafters
pamper packed
prepacked
ram-packed
unpacked
vacuum-packed
Translations:
pow
Part of speech: intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Inflected forms:
form: pows
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sound of a violent impact, such as a punch.
pos: intj
examples: Whap, Biff, Ooooof, Sock, Pow, Zok! Batman is back. Gotham City is again leaving its law and order in the hands of a man who wears plastic underpants over his tights.
gloss: The sound of an explosion or gunshot.
pos: intj
examples: Pow, they took off.
‘Pow-pow-pow...’ Monte drew and slaughtered the besiegers.
gloss: The sound of a violent impact.
pos: noun
gloss: The sound of an explosion.
pos: noun
Derived words: kerpow
Translations:
acupressure
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Blend of acupuncture + pressure. By surface analysis, acu- + pressure.
Inflected forms:
form: acupressures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An alternative medicine technique, derived from acupuncture, in which physical pressure is applied to acupoints.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: An act or instance of applying an acupressure technique.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The warm needles of water acted like tiny acupressures on his face.
gloss: A mode of arresting hemorrhage resulting from wounds or surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
Related words: acupuncture
circumclusion
retroclusion
torsoclusion
Derived words: acupressurist
Translations:
puke
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: Probably imitative; or, alternatively related to Proto-Germanic *pukaną (“to spit, puff”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). If so, then related to German pfauchen, fauchen (“to hiss, spit”), Dutch spugen (“to spit, spit up”), German spucken (“to spit, puke, throw up”), and Old English spīwan (“to vomit, spit”). More at spew.
Attested as early as 1581, first mention is the derivative pukishness (“the tendency to be sick frequently”). In 1600, "to spit up, regurgitate", recorded in the Seven Ages of Man speech in Shakespeare's As You Like It.
Inflected forms:
form: pukes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pukes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: puking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: puked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: puked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: vomit.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
uncountable
examples: 2007, The Guardian, The Guardian Science blog, "The latest in the war on terror: the puke saber"
the puke saber … pulses light over rapidly changing wavelengths, apparently inducing "disorientation, nausea and even vomiting"
gloss: A drug that induces vomiting.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
examples: "at 8 a.m. took a puke of vinum antimoniale; which operated very kindly; was very weak the remainder of the day."
gloss: A worthless, despicable person.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
gloss: A person from Missouri.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
derogatory
slang
examples: "Pukes" and "suckers" had badly mauled the Saints, the first pummeling them from Missouri and the second from Illinois.
gloss: To vomit; to throw up; to eject from the stomach.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
colloquial
examples: Unfortunately, he could not hold it long enough till the end of the ride, so he puked on the bus seat.
At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms
I obſerue our Ducheſſe / Is ſicke a dayes, ſhe puykes, her ſtomacke ſeethes, […]
gloss: To sell securities or investments at a loss, often under duress or pressure, in order to satisfy liquidity or margin requirements, or out of a desire to exit a deteriorating market.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
Synonyms: vomit
rotter
regurgitate
barf
spew
throw up
spew up
Derived words: fairy puke
pukeball
pukeface
pukefest
puke for brains
pukehole
pukestain
puketastic
pukewad
pukeweed
pukeworthy
pukey
pukish
Pukistani
unicorn puke
choke and puke
puke one's brains out
puke one's guts out
puke one's ring
puker
puke up
Translations:
lang: Sicilian
word: cessu
lang: Sicilian
word: merda
lang: Spanish
word: mierda
lang: Spanish
word: basca
acupuncture
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-der.
Proto-Italic *akus
New Latin acus
Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ-der.
Proto-Italic *pungō
New Latin pungō
New Latin pūnctus
Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?
Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?
New Latin -tūra
New Latin pūnctūra
New Latin acūpūnctūralbor.
English acupuncture
Learned borrowing from New Latin acūpūnctūra, from acus + pūnctūra. First attested in 1684. By surface analysis, acu- + puncture.
Inflected forms:
form: acupunctures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: acupunctures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: acupuncturing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: acupunctured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: acupunctured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The insertion of needles into the (living) tissue of the body affecting the Qi or energy along energetic pathways of the body called meridians. This modality is traditionally used as a form of internal medical treating all disease and illnesses, in Western countries it is widely used for the purposes of pain relief.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Chinese doctors at Chishan County Hospital in Shansi Province have used acupuncture on the scalp to cure a patient suffering from paralysis of the right limbs caused by inflammation of the brain’s blood vessels.
gloss: To treat with acupuncture.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
adage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French adage, from Latin adā̆gium.
Inflected forms:
form: adages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An old saying which has obtained credit by long use.
pos: noun
examples: According to an old adage, oysters are best in months containing the letter R.
He describes the operation thus: "The heavy ram employed to impart the finishing strokes, hoisted up with double purchase and snail's pace to the summit of the Piling Engine, and then falling down like a thunderbolt on the head of the devoted timber, driving it perhaps a single half inch in to the stratum below, is well calculated to put to the test the virtue of patience, while it illustrates the old adage of—slow and sure."
gloss: An old saying which has been overused or considered a cliché; a trite maxim.
pos: noun
tags: rhetoric
examples: Like the poore Cat i’ th’ Addage.
Derived words: adagial
Translations:
adamite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: adamites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A descendant of Adam; a human being.
pos: noun
Translations:
trajectory
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aerospace
astronomy
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
Etymology: From New Latin trāiectōria f (“trajectory”) (used by Newton), the feminine of trāiectōrius (“of or pertaining to throwing across”), from Latin trāiectus (“thrown over or across”), past participle of trāiciō, from trans- (“across, beyond”) (see trans-) + iaciō (“to throw”) (from Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- (“to throw, impel”)). Middle French and Middle English had trajectorie (“end of a funnel”), from Latin trāiectōrium.
Inflected forms:
form: trajectories
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The path an object takes as it moves.
pos: noun
examples: The USA were dominant but, to England’s immense credit, they repeatedly rallied, refusing to fold. Indeed they could conceivably have gone in level at the interval had Naeher not made an acrobatic, stretching, fingertip save to divert Walsh’s 25-yard thunderbolt as it whizzed unerringly on its apparently inexorable trajectory towards the top corner.
gloss: The path of a body as it travels through space.
pos: noun
gloss: The ordered set of intermediate states assumed by a dynamical system as a result of time evolution.
pos: noun
gloss: A course of development, such as that of a war or career.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.
Derived words: microtrajectory
multitrajectory
pseudotrajectory
subtrajectory
trajectoid
trajectorywise
Translations:
affray
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English affraien (“to terrify, frighten”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman afrayer (“to terrify, disquiet, disturb”) and Old French effreer, esfreer (“to disturb, remove the peace from”) (compare modern French effrayer), from Vulgar Latin *exfridāre.
The second part of this is in turn from Frankish *friþu (“security, peace”), from Proto-Germanic *friþuz (“peace”), from *frijōną (“to free; to love”), from Proto-Indo-European *prāy-, *prēy- (“to like, love”). Cognate with Old High German fridu (“peace”), Old English friþ (“peace, frith”), Old English frēod (“peace, friendship”), German Friede (“peace”). More at free, friend.
Inflected forms:
form: affrays
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: afray
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of suddenly disturbing anyone; an assault or attack.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A 22-year-old man was also arrested in connection with the incident for affray towards attending paramedics.
gloss: A tumultuous assault or quarrel.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The patient, who had a full view of the skirmish, was so tickled at the affray, that he burst into a laughter, which broke the quinsey, and cured him.
gloss: The fighting of two or more persons, in a public place, to the terror of others.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The affray in the busy marketplace caused great terror and disorder.
gloss: Terror.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: full of ghastly fright and cold affray
Synonyms: fray
brawl
alarm
terror
fright
Related words: fray
Translations:
agenesis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From a- + -genesis.
Base: a
Inflected forms:
form: ageneses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any imperfect development of the body, or any anomaly of organization
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
ageratum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name.
Inflected forms:
form: ageratums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the genus Ageratum of tropical American herbs, annuals and perennials, from the sunflower family Asteraceae, tribe Eupatorieae; they are sometimes used in floral displays.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: 1888, George Washington Cable, Bonaventure, New York: Scribner, “Grande Pointe,” Chapter 2, pp. 77-78,
The way before him was little more than a bridle-path along the earth […] . The soft blue tufts of the ageratum were on each side continually.
They helped carry things up a sidewalk bordered with a purple fringe of ageratums into the small house behind the parsonage.
A stone path edged with ageratum leads to the grape arbor […]
Translations:
agential
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti
Proto-Italic *agō
Latin agō
Latin agēnsder.
English agent
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisder.
Old French -ialder.
Middle English -ial
English -ial
English agential
From agent + -ial.
Inflected forms:
form: more agential
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most agential
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: agentials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency.
pos: adj
examples: Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
gloss: That forms agent nouns.
pos: adj
examples: Even if the suffix be formally identical with the agential suffix, it has not the same function.
gloss: An affix that forms agent nouns.
pos: noun
examples: Semantically, a majority of agentials refer to avian vocalization. Examples are: screamer, whistler, warbler, trumpeter, and the suffixless chat.
Derived words: agentially
Translations:
agger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English agger (“heap, pile”), from Latin agger (“earthwork, rubble, rampart”), from ad- (“toward, towards”) + gerere (“to carry”).
Inflected forms:
form: aggers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A double tide, particularly a high tide in which the water rises to a given level, recedes, and then rises again (or only the second of these high waters), but sometimes equally a low tide in which the water recedes to a given level, rises, and then recedes again
pos: noun
examples: The phænomenon of long continued high water or double high water in estuaries is, we believe, not uncommon. [...] The first high water appears to be considered by the Dutch, in common language, as the real high water, and the second is called the agger, but so little difference is there between them, that, in making the extensive series of simultaneous tide-observations proposed by Mr. Whewell, the agger was sometimes observed for high water.
A double tide or agger is a high tide consisting of two maxima of nearly the same height, separated by a relatively small depression; or a low tide consisting of two minima separated by a relatively small elevation.
[page 62:] As can be seen [...], once the water has reached the lowest level, it remains low for some time. After rising slightly, it then drops again and a second low tide follows. Only then does the water rise quickly and the flood sets in. A slight rise like this followed by a drop is called an agger or a double tide. […] [page 279:] […] these 'overtones' may cause the phenomena of agger or double high water […]
gloss: Synonym of earthwork in ancient Roman contexts, particularly a defensive wall or mound.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: By the Augustan period, however, the old ashlar circuit with its earthen agger was beginning to be dismantled in some places.
Related words: agger nasi
Translations:
agglomerate
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: climatology
geography
geology
meteorology
natural-sciences
volcanology
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Latin glomus, glomeris
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin glomerō
Latin agglomerō
Latin agglomerātusbor.
English agglomerate
From Latin agglomerātus, past participle of agglomerō (“to wind into a ball”), from ad- (“to”) + glomerō (“to wind into a ball”), from glomus (“a ball”), akin to globus (“a ball”).
Inflected forms:
form: more agglomerate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most agglomerate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: agglomerates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: agglomerates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: agglomerating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: agglomerated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: agglomerated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: collected into a ball, heap, or mass
pos: adj
gloss: A collection or mass.
pos: noun
gloss: A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; distinguished from conglomerate.
pos: noun
gloss: An ice cover of floe formed by the freezing together of various forms of ice.
pos: noun
gloss: To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The bustle of a croud is not ill-adapted to the pencil: but the management of it requires great artifice. The whole must be massed together, and considered as one body. ¶ I mean not to have the whole body so agglomerated, as to consist of no detached groups: but to have these groups […] appear to belong to one whole, by the artifice of composition, and the effect of light.
1820, William Hazlitt, “Explanations—Conversation on the Drama with Coleridge” in Dramatic Essays London: Scott, 1895, p. 197,
His [Jean Racine’s] tragedies are not poetry, are not passion, are not imagination: they are a parcel of set speeches, of epigrammatic conceits, of declamatory phrases, without any of the glow, and glancing rapidity, and principle of fusion in the mind of the poet, to agglomerate them into grandeur, or blend them into harmony.
There were few white friends in the social life of the peasants. The white colony agglomerated in the towns and the peasants were 80 per cent of a population of a million.
It feels like doing eighty on the freeway / as little towns agglomerate and blur:
gloss: To extend an urban area by contiguous development, so as to merge the built-up area of one or more central cities or settlements and their suburbs (thus creating an agglomeration).
pos: verb
Synonyms: gather
gather up
merge
pile up
coalesce
Related words: agglomeration
agglomerative
Derived words: agglomeratic
heteroagglomerate
deagglomerate
disagglomerate
reagglomerate
Translations:
agglutinate
Part of speech: adj
verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *gleyH-
Proto-Indo-European *glóh₁ytn̥
Proto-Italic *gloiten
Latin glūten
Latin glūtinō
Latin agglūtinō
Latin agglūtinātuslbor.
English agglutinate
From Latin agglūtinātus, past participle of agglūtināre, adglūtināre (“to glue or cement to a thing”), from ad (“to”) + glūtināre (“to glue”), from glūten (“paste, glue”).
Inflected forms:
form: agglutinates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: agglutinating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: agglutinated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: agglutinated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: agglutinates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: United with glue or as with glue; cemented together.
pos: adj
gloss: Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning.
pos: adj
examples: an agglutinate language
an agglutinate family of languages
gloss: To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This is a medicine, and hath a mud of that nature, that it both agglutinateth and hardneth that whereupon it is applied.
This is farther evident in the making glue of the dry skins of beasts and of fishes; and paste of starch; whose agglutinating quality is owing solely to the proportions of water absorbed, or intermixed by infusion, maceration, or decoction.
The mud of the streets of London is then merely the dust or detritus of the granite of which they are composed, agglutinated either with rain or the water from the watering-carts.
[…] sea water in which unfertilized eggs have been left for some time […] agglutinates the spermatozoa by their heads, increases their motility, and keeps them active for a longer time.
gloss: To form clusters or lumps; to clump.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: It is […] a strong and valuable coal which does not agglutinate in burning.
If the test cells are contaminated with bacteria, they may agglutinate even in the absence of specific antibodies.
In this test, if the [red blood cells] agglutinate, it indicates that antibodies are present in the serum.
gloss: To form through agglutination.
pos: verb
gloss: A clump of agglutinated material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: In some soils, agglutinates are a major constituent.
gloss: Agglutinated material.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The formation of agglutinate is more abundant in mature regolith.
Related words: agglutination
agglutinative
agglutinant
Derived words: agglutinator
agglutinin
antiagglutinating
autoagglutinate
autoagglutinating
haemagglutinating
macroagglutinate
nonagglutinated
nonagglutinating
subagglutinating
unagglutinated
Translations:
aggrandizement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French agrandissement, from agrandir; equivalent to aggrandize + -ment.
Base: aggrandize
Affixes: -ment
Inflected forms:
form: aggrandizements
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: aggrandisement
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family.
He contented himself therefore with repeating, that his attachment was to Miss Ashton personally; that he desired neither wealth nor aggrandizement from her father's means and influence, and that nothing should prevent his keeping his engagement, excepting her own express desire that it should be relinquished—and he requested as a favour that the matter might be no more mentioned betwixt them at present, assuring the Marquis of A—— that he should be his confident in its progress or its interruption.
The political analyst, speaking on the second installment of the show after its debut on Saturday, said the president's motivation has always been either 'self-aggrandizement' or 'self-preservation.'
Translations:
aggress
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ-der.
Latin gradior
Latin aggredior
Latin aggressuslbor.
English aggress
From Latin aggressum, past participle of aggredi (“to attack, assail, approach, go to”), from ad (“to”) + gradi (“to walk, go”), from gradus (“step”); see grade.
Inflected forms:
form: aggresses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: aggressing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: aggressed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: aggressed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Aggression.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: his aggress / Was made with such precaution as to quench / Douay's intent and throw him in a mess.
gloss: To set upon; to attack.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To commit the first act of hostility or offense against; to begin a quarrel or controversy with someone; to make an attack against someone.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: aggression
aggressive
aggressiveness
aggressor
Derived words: microaggress
Translations:
agistment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English agist
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English agistment
From agist + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: agistments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The taking in by anyone of other people's livestock to graze at a certain rate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The taking and feeding of other people's cattle in the king's forests; the price paid for such a feeding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
gloss: A charge or rate against lands.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: an agistment of sea banks (i.e. charge for banks or dikes)
Related words: agist
agister
agistor
Translations:
agitatedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English agitated
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English agitatedly
From agitated + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more agitatedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most agitatedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an agitated manner.
pos: adv
examples: She has long, raven-colored hair with a floppy widow's peak, and tosses it agitatedly as she speaks.
Translations:
scientist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Coined by English philosopher and historian of science William Whewell in March 1834 in an anonymous review of Mary Somerville's book On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences in the Quarterly Review as a suggested replacement for, and later seriously introduced by him in 1840 (see the quotation) as a more precise substitute for, the terms natural philosopher and man of science. Modeled after artist, from the Latin stem scientia (“knowledge”) + -ist.
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: scientists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One whose activities make use of the scientific method to answer questions regarding the measurable universe. A scientist may be involved in original research, or make use of the results of the research of others.
pos: noun
examples: As we cannot use physician for a cultivator of physics, I have called him a physicist. We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a Scientist. Thus we might say, that as an Artist is a Musician, Painter, or Poet, a Scientist is a Mathematician, Physicist, or Naturalist.
Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.
Translations:
lagoon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French lagune, from Italian laguna, from Latin lacūna. Related to Old English lagu via Proto-Indo-European. Doublet of lacuna and lacune.
Inflected forms:
form: lagoons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lagune
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A shallow body of water separated from deeper sea by a bar.
pos: noun
Translations:
ambulatory
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin ambulatorius. By surface analysis, ambulate + -ory, or, by surface analysis, ambulator + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: more ambulatory
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ambulatory
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: ambulatories
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or adapted to walking.
pos: adj
examples: ambulatory exercise
The princess of whom his majesty […]had an ambulatory view in his travels.
gloss: Able to walk about and not bedridden.
pos: adj
tags: comparable
examples: an ambulatory patient
gloss: Performed on or involving an outpatient.
pos: adj
examples: an ambulatory electrocardiogram
ambulatory medical care
Those who left the sanatoria received ambulatory care that included regular doctor's care, visits to specialists and dietary supplements.
Just a week after vetoing a ban on gender-affirming care for minors, Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio issued an executive order on Friday banning gender-transition surgeries for anyone under 18 at state hospitals or ambulatory clinics.
gloss: Relating to ambulances.
pos: adj
examples: ambulatory fleet
gloss: Accustomed to move from place to place; not stationary; movable.
pos: adj
examples: an ambulatory court, which exercises its jurisdiction in different places
As ſoon as God began to conſtitute a Church and fix the Prieſthood, which before was very ambulatory, and diſpenſed into all families, but ever officiated by the Major domo, God gives the power and deſigns the perſon.
gloss: Not yet legally fixed or settled; alterable.
pos: adj
examples: The dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator.
gloss: The semicircular walkway behind the altar and apse in many cathedrals.
pos: noun
gloss: Any part of a building intended for walking in; a corridor.
pos: noun
Related words: ambulate
ambulation
ambulator
perambulation
perambulator
perambulatory
out of bed
Derived words: ambulatorily
ambulatory care
nonambulatory
Translations:
frigid
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sríHgos
Proto-Italic *srīgos
Latin frīgus
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Italic *-ēō
Latin -eō
Latin frīgeō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin frīgidusbor.
English frigid
Borrowed from Latin frīgidus (“cold”), from frīgeō (“to be cold”), from frīgus (“cold, coldness”), from Proto-Indo-European *sríHgos.
Inflected forms:
form: more frigid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: frigider
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most frigid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: frigidest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very cold; lacking warmth; icy.
pos: adj
examples: A frigid, fine rain was falling.
Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.
gloss: Chilly in manner; lacking affection or zeal; impassive.
pos: adj
gloss: Sexually unresponsive, especially of a woman.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: In Italy, a plant called Pizza ugurdu is said to excite powerful erotic feelings even in the most frigid.
Antonyms: fervid
Derived words: anemofrigid
frigidity
frigidization
frigidly
frigidness
frigid zone
infrigidant
nonfrigid
unfrigid
Translations:
haunted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more haunted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most haunted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hauntedest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a location, frequented by a ghost or ghosts.
pos: adj
examples: The hotel was haunted by a disembodied spirit.
gloss: Obsessed (by an idea, threat, etc.).
pos: adj
examples: a soldier haunted by the memories of combat
gloss: Showing a feeling of being disturbed.
pos: adj
examples: a haunted expression
Related words: cursed
Derived words: haunted fish tank
haunted house
hauntedly
hauntedness
unhaunted
Translations: