yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
seduce
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin sēdūcō (“to lead apart or astray”), from sē- (“aside, away, astray”) + dūcō (“to lead”); see duct. Compare adduce, conduce, deduce, etc. and Middle English seduct.
Inflected forms:
form: seduces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: seducing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: seduced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: seduced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To beguile or lure (someone) away from duty, accepted principles, or proper conduct; to lead astray.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] they alledged, That becauſe I had ſome Rudiments of Reaſon, added to the natural pravity of thoſe Animals, it was to be feared, I might be able to ſeduce them into the woody and mountainous parts of the Country, and bring them in Troops by night to deſtroy the Houyhnhnms Cattle, as being naturally of the ravenous kind, and averſe from Labour.
As a parish priest in England he had dabbled in the black arts, seduced a number of his congregation from their faith and finally celebrated the Black Mass.
Your father was seduced by the dark side of The Force.
gloss: To entice or induce (someone) to engage in a sexual relationship.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She also approaches the fires, and seeks to seduce young men.
"Mrs. Robinson, are you trying to seduce me?"
"Do you want me to seduce you?"
gloss: To have sexual intercourse with.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
euphemistic
transitive
examples: He had repeatedly seduced the girl in his car, hotels and his home.
gloss: To win over or attract.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He was seduced by the bright lights and glamour of the city.
Related words: seduction
seductive
seducement
seducer
seductress
Derived words: seduceable
seducee
seducible
unseduce
unseduced
Translations:
peddler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English pedlere, pedlare, pedeler, alteration of Middle English peddere (“hawker, peddler”), of uncertain origin. Compare Medieval Latin pedārius, from Latin pedāre (“to furnish with feet; prop up”).
Inflected forms:
form: peddlers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pedlar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: pedler
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: An itinerant seller of small goods.
pos: noun
gloss: A drug dealer.
pos: noun
examples: Here's a cure for all your troubles
 Here's an end to all distress
 It's the old dope peddler
 With his powdered happiness
gloss: A fake-news disseminator; A conspiracy-theory propagator.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
Derived words: essence peddler
peddle
peddleress
peddlery
Translations:
Inuit
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested 1755–65. From Inuktitut ᐃᓄᐃᑦ (inoit, “the people”), singular ᐃᓄᒃ (inok, “person”), from Proto-Inuit *inuɣ.
Inflected forms:
form: Inuit
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Inuits
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
form: Innuit
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more Inuit
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Inuit
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Innuit
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of any of several Aboriginal peoples of coastal Arctic Canada, Alaska, and Greenland.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or pertaining to Inuit people, language, or culture.
pos: adj
Translations:
ulu
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Inuktitut ᐅᓗ (olo)bor.
English ulu
Borrowed from Inuktitut ᐅᓗ (olo, “woman's knife”).
Inflected forms:
form: ulus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: uluit
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more ulu
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ulu
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An all-purpose knife traditionally used by Yup'ik, Inuit, and Aleut women.
pos: noun
gloss: Remote; deserted
pos: adj
tags: Singlish
colloquial
examples: Sembawang Park is considered to be one of the country's most ulu spots because of its comparative isolation, and it was almost empty.
Just pretend you're walking in a more ulu part of Botanic Gardens.
Translations:
credulous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Originated in 1576, borrowed from Latin crēdulus (“that easily believes a thing, credulous”), from crēdō (“to believe”).
Inflected forms:
form: more credulous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most credulous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Excessively ready to believe things; gullible.
pos: adj
examples: […]purſued his vnneighbourly purpoſe in ſuch ſort: that hee being the ſtronger perſwader, and ſhe (belike) too credulous in beleeuing or elſe ouer-feeble in reſiſting, from priuate imparlance, they fell to action; and continued their cloſe fight a long while together, vnſeene and vvithout ſuſpition, no doubt to their equall ioy and contentment.
The doctor was a small, black, plump man with fuzzy hair and round, credulous eyes.
gloss: Believed too readily.
pos: adj
examples: 'Twas he possess'd me with your credulous death
In the beginning of the ſixteenth century, John Major and Hector Boethius publiſhed their hiſtories of Scotland, the former a ſuccinct and dry vvriter, the latter a copious and florid one, and both equally credulous.
The powerful mind of Aristotle, which led him to reject with disdain the credulous tales and fabulous stories of the age, can nowhere be traced in the writings of Pliny, whose works, on the contrary, abound in fables and in prodigies, at once manifesting that weakness of mind inseparable from credulity, or that disinclination to investigate truth, which is the sure mark of a secondary order of intellect.
The media (and politicians) are replete with credulous stories about machine learning and AI, but these stories are often based on commercial claims.
Related words: incredulous
noncredulous
Derived words: credulity
credulosity
credulously
credulousness
discredulous
omnicredulous
overcredulous
ultracredulous
uncredulous
Translations:
hypersensitive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hyper- + sensitive. Doublet of supersensitive.
Base: sensitive
Affixes: hyper-
Inflected forms:
form: more hypersensitive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hypersensitive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Highly or abnormally sensitive to some substances or agents, especially to some allergen.
pos: adj
gloss: Excessively sensitive; easily offended.
pos: adj
Related words: hypersensitivity
hypersensitize
hypersensitized
Derived words: electrohypersensitive
hypersensitive avoidant
hypersensitively
hypersensitiveness
nonhypersensitive
pseudohypersensitive
Translations:
self-absorption
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
Proto-Italic *ap
Latin abder.
Latin ab-
Proto-Indo-European *srebʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Indo-European *srobʰéyeti
Proto-Italic *sorβeō
Latin sorbeō
Latin absorbeō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin absorptiōder.
English absorption
English self-absorption
From self- + absorption.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Preoccupation with oneself to the exclusion of everything else.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
prescriptivist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English prescriptive
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English prescriptivist
From prescriptive + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: prescriptivists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more prescriptivist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most prescriptivist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Someone who lays down rules regarding language usage, or who believes that traditional norms of language usage should be upheld.
pos: noun
examples: The plutocratic tone and styptic wit of Safire and Newman and the best of the Prescriptivists is often modeled after the mandarin-Brit personas of Eric Partridge and H. W. Fowler, the same Twin Towers of scholarly Prescriptivism whom Garner talks about revering as a kid.
gloss: Having a tendency to prescribe.
pos: adj
examples: In short, they tend to present Indian English as nothing more than "standard" English with a select collection of lexical peculiarities tacked on, as it were, many of which would be regarded as "errors" by prescriptivist language scholars.
Synonyms: prescriptionist
Antonyms: descriptionist
descriptivist
descriptionistic
descriptivistic
Related words: prescribe
prescriptivism
prescriptivistic
Translations:
ages
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A long time.
pos: noun
tags: excessive
examples: haven't seen them in ages
haven't seen them for ages
It'll be ages until/before we meet again.
Does the Station go on still? That was ages and ages ago. It must be crumbling to pieces. All except the Amirtollah kutcha road. I don't believe that could crumble till the Day of Judgment.
“He's been gone ages,” she said, and she went with little light steps to the door, opened it, and crossed the passage into his room.
Judith, aged 58, described her experience of seeking help for persistent back pain: "You don't actually see the consultant. You wait for ages and ages and ages and you come out feeling totally baffled really."
gloss: History (past events): Astronomic and geologic history; human history.
pos: noun
examples: Trees have continually evolved throughout the ages.
Humans have warred with one another throughout the ages.
Derived words: ageslong
for the ages
one for the ages
Translations:
psoriasis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Late Latin psōriasis (“mange, scurvy, psoriasis”), from Koine Greek ψωρίασις (psōríasis), from Ancient Greek ψώρα (psṓra, “itch”) + -σις (-sis, “-sis: forming nouns of action & medical disorders”). Cognate with psora.
Inflected forms:
form: psoriases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A noncontagious disease whose main symptom is gray or silvery flaky patches on the skin which are red and inflamed underneath when scratched.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He suffers from a skin complaint, psoriasis, which has rendered his hands scaly, hard and red.
Translations:
larynx
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin larynx, from Ancient Greek λᾰ́ρῠγξ (lắrŭnx, “larynx; windpipe; gullet, throat”).
Inflected forms:
form: larynges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: larynxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hollow muscular organ of the neck of mammals situated just below where the tract of the pharynx splits into the trachea and the oesophagus. It is involved in breath control and protection of the trachea, and, as it houses the vocal cords, sound production.
pos: noun
examples: There is one thing, among abundance of others, in Anatomy, which has always much affected me with Admiration, [...] It is the Situation and Elaſticity of the Epiglottis, a ſoft Cartilaginous Cover to the Larynx, or Orifice of the Wind-pipe; that this Epiglottis ſhould, all a Man's life, be drawn up, for the Benefit of Reſpiration, and fall down and ſhut, whilſt every bit we eat, and every drop we drink, paſſes over it into the Gullet and Stomach; and that we ſhould ſo ſeldom have Occaſion to cough up a crum, or drop, that may accidentaly ſlip into the Larynx; [...]
The larynx is the instrument of the voice, of which the rima glottidis is the immediate organ. [...] The change of the voice from acute to grave at the time of puberty, when the larynx undergoes a remarkable development, as well as its acuteness in females, whose glottis is less by one third than that of man, shew that the size of the aperture has a great influence.
The differences in the voices of man and woman cannot but have been always obſerved; and their larynxes exhibit, on a merely ſuperficial inſpection, a great diſproportion in ſize.
I hope to be understood as not implying that there is no peculiarity of the larynges and tracheæ, except in some genera; for I believe all have the admirable mechanism of the organ of voice differently constructed, with corresponding muscles, and distribution of nerves, producing those various modulations of sound so familiar to us, and destined for the excitement of love, as well as for other purposes.
The work on larynx transplantation has been discussed in the previous paragraphs. Corollary to this is the possible development of an artificial larynx which can be implanted just as an artificial heart might be implanted. Design of such larynxes might permit a quick solution to the problem of tissue rejection.
The ability of Red Deer stags to lower their larynx when roaring appears to be one of the exaggerators of formant dispersal, since the resting position of the male larynx is already lower than the typical mammalian position. [...] Size exaggeration provides an intriguing, non-linguistic explanation for the descent of the human larynx [...].
Study of intubated larynges from infants of 22 to 40 weeks' gestation who survived a few hours to 300 days showed acute injury was almost invariable, and up to 100% of the subglottic epithelium was lost within a few hour of intubation, but progression of injury was relatively short-lived.
Translations:
enfilade
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: Etymology tree
French enfiladebor.
English enfilade
Borrowed from French enfilade.
Inflected forms:
form: enfilades
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: enfilading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: enfiladed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: enfiladed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To rake (something) with gunfire.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A great quantity of artillery was placed upon the eminence, so as to batter and enfilade the left of their intrenchments.
As they scrambled up a narrow path they every where found holes dug to cover the defenders of the mountain, and sticks crossed for resting their guns, with which they enfiladed every angle, that from the steepness it was necessary to make in ascending.
It was by his order the shattered leading company flung itself into the houses when the Sin Verguenza were met by an enfilading volley as they reeled into the calle.
He killed the machine gun crew, and without further orders pushed on and enfiladed a ditch from which three officers and 160 men subsequently surrendered.
gloss: To be directed toward (something) like enfilading gunfire.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: Together they saw the market thicken, and in course of time thin away with the slow decline of the sun towards the upper end of town, its rays taking the street endways and enfilading the long thoroughfare from top to bottom.
From her rocking chair in the parlour, Mrs. Zell’s scrutiny enfiladed the entire block.
gloss: To arrange (rooms or other structures) in a row.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] the house had been boldly planned with a ball-room, so that, instead of squeezing through a narrow passage to get to it (as at the Chiverses’) one marched solemnly down a vista of enfiladed drawing-rooms (the sea-green, the crimson and the bouton d’or), seeing from afar the many-candled lustres reflected in the polished parquetry […]
Synonyms: flank
Derived words: unenfiladed
Translations:
monotony
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From French monotonie, from Late Latin monotonia, from Ancient Greek μονοτονία (monotonía, “sameness of tone, monotony”).
Inflected forms:
form: monotonies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Tedium as a result of repetition or a lack of variety.
pos: noun
examples: It matters little to trace the rapidity of the land journey, or the monotony of the sea voyage—alike unmarked by adventure. Robert Evelyn landed at Southampton,...
Yet second-hand romance and second-hand emotion are surely better than the dull, soul-killing monotony which life brings to most of the human race.
Transform my death into a conduit
This body separate from the fear of fear
Inside a coping mechanism of monotony
I will destroy the double vision that I was forced to leave
gloss: The property of a monotonic function.
pos: noun
gloss: The quality of having an unvarying tone or pitch.
pos: noun
Synonyms: sameness
Antonyms: polytony
Derived words: monotone
monotonist
monotonous
Translations:
clamour
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin clāmor (“a shout, cry”), from clāmō (“cry out, complain”).
Inflected forms:
form: clamours
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: clamor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
form: clamours
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: clamouring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: clamoured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: clamoured
pos: verb
tags: past
form: clamor
pos: verb
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: UK and Canada standard spelling of clamor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Sickly eares Deaft with the clamours of their owne deare grones.
For when he knew his Rival freed and gone, / He ſwells with Wrath; he makes outrageous Moan: / He frets, he fumes, he ſtares, he ſtamps the Ground; / The hollow Tow'r with Clamours rings around: […]
gloss: UK and Canada standard spelling of clamor.
pos: verb
examples: The second argument , against the integrity of the Law from this Omission , has been clamoured by a large Body of Answerers
gloss: To salute loudly.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: At ſight of him the people with a ſhout / Rifted the Air clamouring thir god with praiſe,
gloss: To stun with noise.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Let them not come..in a Tribunitious Manner; For that is, to clamour Counsels, not to enforme them.
gloss: To repeat the strokes quickly on (bells) so as to produce a loud clang.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
Derived words: clamourer
clamoursome
outclamour
Translations:
pairwise
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pair
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-s-ós
Proto-Germanic *wīsaz
Proto-Germanic *-wīsaz
Proto-West Germanic *-wīs
Old English -wīs
Middle English -wis
English -wise
English pairwise
From pair + -wise.
Inflected forms:
form: pair-wise
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: pair-wise
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Occurring in pairs; two at a time.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: They proceeded to make pairwise comparisons.
gloss: In or by pairs.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
fort
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English fort, from Middle French fort (“strong”) (adjective use is from Old French). Doublet of fortis and forte.
Inflected forms:
form: forts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: forts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: forting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: forted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: forted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A fortified defensive structure stationed with troops.
pos: noun
gloss: Any permanent army post.
pos: noun
gloss: An outlying trading-station, as in British North America.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A structure improvised from furniture, bedding, etc., for playing games.
pos: noun
examples: The kids built a fort out of chairs and pillows.
gloss: To create a fort, fortifications, a strong point, or a redoubt.
pos: verb
Related words: fortress
fortification
hold the fort
Derived words: blanket fort
climbing fort
fairy fort
Fort Archambault
Fort Augustus
Fort Bend County
Fort Benton
Fort Collins
Fort Davis
Fort Dix
Fort Dodge
Fort Edward
Fort Erie
Fort Fairfield
Fort Gaines
Fort Gay
Fort George
Fort Gratiot
Fort Huachuca
Fort Kinnaird
Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lee
fortlet
fortlike
Fort Lupton
Fort Madison
Fort Matilda
Fort Mill
Fort Morgan
Fort Payne
Fort Pierce
Fort Pierre
Fort Saskatchewan
Fort Scott
Fort Smith
Fort St. John
Fort Stockton
Fort Sumner
Fort Valley
Fort Victoria
Fort Walton Beach
Fort Washington
Fort Wayne
Fort William
Fort Worth
forty
Fort Yates
hill-fort
hold down the fort
man the fort
Navan Fort
pillow fort
polygonal fort
ringfort
snow fort
star fort
Translations:
boustrophedon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: epigraphy
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
Etymology: PIE word
 *gʷṓws
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws
Proto-Hellenic *gʷous
Ancient Greek βοῦς (boûs)
Ancient Greek στρέφω (stréphō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek στροφή (strophḗ)
Ancient Greek -ηδόν (-ēdón)
Ancient Greek βουστροφηδόν (boustrophēdón)lbor.
English boustrophedon
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek βουστροφηδόν (boustrophēdón, adverb, literally “turning like an ox”), from βοῦς (boûs, “ox”) + στροφή (strophḗ, “turning”) + -ηδόν (-ēdón, adverbial suffix), in reference to the back-and-forth course traced by boustrophedon text resembling the path taken by an ox ploughing a field.
Base: βοῦς
Affixes: -ηδόν
Inflected forms:
form: boustrophedons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bustrophedon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Text written such that its direction alternates on each line, resulting in a continuous stream of characters spanning multiple lines; frequently also involving the corresponding alternation of letter directionality using mirrored letters, indicating the direction of the text at any given point.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The number of Attic boustrophedon texts is fairly small; most of those just cited have been brought down by the experts to a date close to 550 B.C., a date to which several texts of more than one line inscribed left to right may also be assigned (cf. pp.56—57 infra), besides the four-line retrograde sep. mon. of Pediarchus cited in the previous section (cf. p.52 supra). Stone texts only really become numerous in Attica about 550, and by this time it is clear that left-to-right writing is just as common as boustrophedon, and may have been so even earlier.[…]After 540 boustrophedon was certainly unusual.
(Venetic apparently had both kinds of boustrophedon, either flipping the face of the characters when switching direction or else inverting them (Lejeune, 1974, pages 180-181).)
He draws a sharp distinction between true boustrophedon, which has the tops of the runes pointed in the same direction, but with a change in the direction of writing with each line, and false boustrophedon, which changes from upright to inverted runes with each line, but the lines themselves are each written in the same direction.
Translations:
appositive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: appositives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: of or being in apposition
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: a word or phrase that is in apposition
pos: noun
Translations:
apposition
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English apposicioun, from Middle French apposition, from Latin appositiō, past participle of appōnere (“to put near”).
Inflected forms:
form: appositions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, both of them having the same syntactic function in the sentence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The apposition in the title has been read as indicating that ‘Hobson-Jobson’ is equivalent to ‘colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases’.
gloss: The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The quality of being side by side, apposed instead of opposed, next to each other.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The growth of successive layers of a cell wall.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Appositio, the addition of an element not syntactically required.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rhetoric
uncountable
gloss: A public disputation by scholars.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A (now purely ceremonial) speech day at St Paul's School, London.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
Derived words: appositional
malapposition
reapposition
Translations:
avowed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English avow
English -ed
English avowed
From avow + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: openly acknowledged
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: positively stated
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: There was considerable scepticism as to whether the line would pay, but its avowed intention was to put an end to the slave trade.
An avowed aim of the 1962 Transport Act was to concentrate the BRB's attention on running trains.
gloss: asserted under oath, or vow
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: His first avowed intent, to be a pilgrim - Who would true valour see
Related words: avowable
Derived words: avowedly
avowedness
unavowed
Translations:
backpack
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der.?
Proto-Germanic *baką
Proto-West Germanic *bak
Old English bæc
Middle English bak
English back
English pack
English backpack
From back + pack.
Inflected forms:
form: backpacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: back pack
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: backpacks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: backpacking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: backpacked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: backpacked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: back pack
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A knapsack, sometimes mounted on a light frame, but always supported by straps, worn on a person’s back for the purpose of carrying things, especially when hiking, or on a student's back when carrying books.
pos: noun
examples: Rachel discovered that she could also keep things in her backpack that were important to her, nobody would know about them because they would be hidden. These important things included a small round rock that she had found […]
Many seats carry reservation labels, while the luggage racks are festooned with backpacks and suitcases.
gloss: A similarly placed item containing a parachute or other life support equipment.
pos: noun
gloss: To hike and camp overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I spent a month backpacking in the Rockies.
gloss: To engage in low-cost, generally urban, travel with minimal luggage and frugal accommodation.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To place or carry (an item or items) in a backpack.
pos: verb
tags: rare
transitive
examples: Astronauts backpack oxygen during spacewalks.
I planned to go to jungle today and backpacked my things which contained^([sic]) food and a note book.
Synonyms: book bag
bookbag
booksack
haversack
knapsack
packsack
rucksack
Derived words: backpack funding
backpack nuke
backpack rap
I lost my backpack
backpackable
backpacker
backpacking
fastpack
packing
slackpack
Translations:
baddie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bad
English -ie
English baddie
From bad + -ie.
Inflected forms:
form: baddies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: baddy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person of bad character, especially in a work of fiction.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: In a western, the baddie typically wears a black hat.
All the press, the people and their elected leaders want to know are the goodies and who are the baddies.
What really gets to me in these goodies versus baddies movies is just how useless the baddies are.
Have you noticed that our caps have actually got little pictures of skulls on them… Hans, are we the baddies?
It’s important not to brand all the Russians as the baddies in the world.
gloss: An attractive, confident woman, especially one who is a social media influencer.
pos: noun
tags: neologism
slang
examples: Aside from all of the abstract aspects (things we cannot see), you do not have to be an Instagram model/baddie to be a bad bitch.
All day long, she can immerse herself in the world of crop tops and contour and IG “baddies” that do not look like any Indian girl she knows.
Miriam noted that Instagram had “Insta baddies,” who made names for themselves by posing “with scandalous clothes on and maybe they'll have a bunch of makeup on.”
On Instagram, baddies and models of every ethnicity rock fashion and beauty trends that Black women either created or popularized: cornrows, oversized door knocker earrings, long, intricately designed acrylic nails, artfully sculpted baby hairs.
gloss: An attractive, confident woman, especially one who is a social media influencer.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
neologism
slang
Related words: badling
Translations:
blithering
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: blitherings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Talking incoherently; jabbering.
pos: adj
gloss: Incoherent or foolish talk.
pos: noun
examples: the blitherings of a madman
Translations:
examine
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English examinen, examenen, from Old French examiner, from Latin exāmināre.
Inflected forms:
form: examines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: examining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: examined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: examined
pos: verb
tags: past
form: examin
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: examines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: examin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To observe carefully or critically to learn about someone or something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He examined the crime scene for clues.
She examined the hair sample under a microscope.
Well, nobody knows about the little things / Nobody knows what they really mean / Nobody ever wants to take the time / To examine what's on your mind
With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]
The new study examines development activities for different AI technologies worldwide.
gloss: To check the health or condition of something or someone.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The doctor examined the patient.
gloss: To determine the aptitude, skills or qualifications of someone by subjecting them to an examination.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To interrogate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The witness was examined under oath.
gloss: An act of examining.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Soutar scratched the back of his neck then had a quick examine of his nails. Deep-ingrained purple they were.
Synonyms: pore over
undersee
analyze
check
examine
inspect
thresh
look over
luster
lustrate
overlook
probe
scrutinate
scrutinize
study
survey
Antonyms: fail to notice
ignore
Related words: exam
examen
examinant
examinate
examination
examinator
examinatorial
look at
Derived words: cross-examine
examinability
examinable
examinee
examiner
examinership
examiningly
overexamined
preexamine
reexamine
re-examine
underexamined
unexamined
Translations:
neither
Part of speech: det
conj
pron
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Alteration (after either) of nauther, from Middle English neiþer, from Old English nāwþer, contraction of nāhwæþer, corresponding to no + whether. Compare Latin neuter (“neither”). By surface analysis, not + either.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not one of two; not either; not one or the other.
pos: det
examples: Neither definition seems correct.
She was neither learned nor intelligent, but she contrived to dress both herself and her daughter out of a meagre jointure, supplying with her clever fingers what her purse could not buy;[…].
gloss: Not either (used with nor).
pos: conj
examples: Neither you nor I likes it.
For most people, this sacrifice is made easily and instinctively. Not so for otroverts, who are neither willing nor able to passively adopt the social scripts that others do. To the otrovert, who is constantly engaged with the choices and consequences of their individual life, social norms follow a circular logic: […]
gloss: Not either one of two.
pos: pron
examples: I’ve tried on both shirts, but neither fits properly.
Her words of advice will help neither of us.
gloss: Similarly not.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Just as you would not correct it, neither would I.
Neither can she stop him, nor can he stop her.
Neither now, nor ever will he forsake his mother.
The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
Translations:
improve
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman emprouwer, from Old French en- + prou (“profit”), from Vulgar Latin prode (“advantageous, profitable”).
Inflected forms:
form: improves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: improving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: improved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: improved
pos: verb
tags: past
form: emprove
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Painting the woodwork will improve this house.
Buying more servers would improve performance.
Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.
gloss: To become better.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I have improved since taking the tablets.
The error messages have improved since the last version, when they were incomprehensible.
“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
gloss: To use or employ to good purpose; to turn to profitable account.
pos: verb
tags: dated
examples: to improve one's time;  to improve his means
We shall especially honour God, by discharging faithfully those offices which God hath entrusted us with: by improving diligently those talents which God hath committed to us
[A] hint that I do not remember to have seen opened and improved […]
How doth the little busy bee / Improve each shining hour.
[T]he court has alſo an opportunity, which it ſeldom fails to improve, […]
March 7, 1778, George Washington, letter
True policy, as well as good faith, in my opinion, binds us to improve the occasion.
Synonyms: better
batten
enhance
aprimorate (non-native speakers’ English (chiefly Portuguese))
amend
hone
improve
meliorate
refine
get better
look up
Antonyms: deteriorate
worsen
deteriorate
aggravate
make matters worse
pejorate
Related words: repair
empower
Derived words: disimprove
improvability
improvable
improvement
improve on
improver
improve the occasion
improve upon
improving
improving agent
improving lease
misimprove
on the improve
reimprove
self-improve
Translations:
worsen
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wursnen; equivalent to worse + -en.
Base: worse
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: worsens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: worsening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: worsened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: worsened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make worse; to impair.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Near-synonyms: aggravate, exacerbate; degrade, deteriorate; see also Thesaurus:aggravate
Global warming has worsened the weather.
As for further retaliation: adding such fuel to the fire, as it were, will only worsen the already unpleasant state of affairs.
It is apparent that, in the particular point of which we have been conversing, their condition is greatly worsened.
gloss: To become worse; to get worse.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The weather has worsened.
During the day conditions worsened quickly—for example, a 2-6-0 on the Uckfield line suddenly encountered flood water high enough to enter its ashpan and extinguish its fire—until lock gates up-river at Barcombe gave way and a tidal wave rolled down the valley meeting head-on a spring tide rolling up from the coast.
TPE's cancellation score worsened from 7.2% to 23.8% when adjusted to include pre-cancellations (P*-coded) owing to a shortage of train crew.
gloss: To get the better of; to worst.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
Synonyms: atrophy
break down
crack
decline
deteriorate
degenerate
devolve
confound
fade
fall off
go bad
go downhill
go left
go off
go pear-shaped
go sideways
go south
go to hell
go to pot
go to seed
go to the dogs
go wrong
lapse
molder
pejorate
retrograde
suffer
spend
sweal
shrivel
tabefy
wither
wither away
wane
wanse
worsen
Antonyms: better
improve
ameliorate
Related words: aggravate
bad
deteriorated
Translations:
ageism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From age + -ism. Coined by American academic Robert N. Butler in 1969.
Base: age
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: ageisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: agism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The treating of a person or people, especially older people, differently from others based on assumptions, prejudices or/and stereotypes relating to their age.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But a half-hour into this third Democratic debate, many Democrats had to be wondering: Can he [Joe Biden] go three hours? It’s our own collective ageism.
Translations:
ageist
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey-
Proto-Indo-European *-u
Proto-Indo-European *h₂óyu
Proto-Italic *aiwom
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Proto-Italic *aiwotāts
Vulgar Latin aetātem
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Vulgar Latin -ātus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Vulgar Latin -icus
Vulgar Latin -āticus
Vulgar Latin -āticum
Vulgar Latin *aetāticum
Old French eagebor.
Middle English age
English age
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English ageist
From age + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: more ageist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ageist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: ageists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Unfairly discriminatory against someone based on their age.
pos: adj
examples: Upon hearing that his employer would soon require yearly physical examinations and vision screening, my father exclaimed that the policy was ageist.
Even though she had succeeded in the phone interview, when the ageist employer learned that the candidate was only 18 years old, she became hesitant.
Finally, the participants expressed an ageist and ableist view of romantic relationships as unsuitable for autistic people under the age of 18, thus explaining why this issue is not, or should not, be addressed as part of the curriculum. Alex, for example, thought it was important to engage autistic students with this subject only from age 19, as part of preparing them for independent living: […]
gloss: A person who behaves in an ageist manner.
pos: noun
examples: He didn’t like to think of himself as an ageist, but he had to admit that he hadn’t considered the needs of some of the more elderly participants.
Translations:
Chaldean
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Latin chaldaeus [from Ancient Greek Χαλδαῖος (Khaldaîos)] + -an.
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: Chaldaean
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Chaldæan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: Chaldee
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Chaldeans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Chaldaean
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Chaldæan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: Chaldee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Chaldea specifically, or ancient Babylonia in general.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Honour me! Chaldean priests / Bow to me in adoration
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Chaldea.
pos: noun
examples: The Chaldeans had great faith in Ea, their god of healing, to whom prayers were said in case of sickness, but herb remedies were also given the patient by the god's representative in the community.
The Chaldeans worshipped the seven planets. These seven planets were the "Seven Great Gods" of the ancients, and constituted a polytheism, the component members of which varied in importance, with the moon occupying the premier position.
Astrologers, when they observe this pattern, insist that it corresponds to the zodiacal progression. I am not an astrologer and I hold no brief for it, but I do believe the origins of astrology are not with the Chaldeans of Mesopotamia but with the hunters and gatherers of the Stone Age.
gloss: A member of the Chaldean Catholic Church.
pos: noun
gloss: A diviner or astrologer.
pos: noun
examples: Older Babylonian astrology, which flourished in Kassite and Assyrian times (1400-700 B.C.) had a quite different character: it aimed at short-range predictions of general public events, such as wars and harvests, from striking phenomena such as eclipses, clouds, annual rising and setting of planets, whereas the Hellenistic "Chaldaeans" predicted individual fates from positions of planets and zodiacal signs at the date of birth or conception. [...] So the individual character of horoscopic astrology should not be stressed too much. The essential new feature is, that positions of planets and zodiacal signs are used for long-range predictions. Now these positions are by no means striking events: planets may be invisible, and signs are never visible. The data needed for a horoscope had, in most cases, to be calculated from tables. We ignore how, when and why this transformation took place. But it could only take place in Babylonia, where tables were available for calculating positions of planets at remote dates. Not without reason astrologers were called "Chaldaeans" throughout the Roman Empire!
Translations:
narwhal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Dutch narwal or Danish/Norwegian Bokmål narhval, from Old Norse náhvalr, from nár (“corpse”) + hvalr (“whale”). Compare Icelandic náhvalur.
Inflected forms:
form: narwhals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: narwhal
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: narwal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: narwhale
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An Arctic toothed whale (Monodon monoceros) that grows to about 20 feet (6 meters) long, the male having a single horn-like tusk, a twisted, pointed cuspid that projects forward.
pos: noun
examples: Moreover, both narwhals and bowheads can occur in late summer in southern Prince Regent Inlet (coming from Lancaster Sound) and may reach Fury and Hecla Strait and northern Foxe Basin.
Often, in the morning, narwhals played around the boat and reminded me of the dolphins, so far away in the North Atlantic. But these narwhals were not like the Atlantic sea-dogs; they had little of their flashing vibrancy; these Turkish narwhals were much more relaxed, and rolled over lazily, with a sigh, as if they were going to retire to a sofa and smoke a hookah.
At over 2.5 m in length, the tusk of the male narwhal (Monodon monoceros) is one the most impressive instruments of male-male competition among mammals.
Translations:
cetacean
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From translingual Cetacea, from Latin cētus (“whale”), + -an.
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: more cetacean
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cetacean
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: cetaceans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the zoologic infraorder Cetacea, or associated with species falling under that taxonomic hierarchy.
pos: adj
examples: The poached blubber was definitely cetacean in origin, but the particular species could not be identified.
She was not as demure as she was in Roanoke; she seemed at the beginning rather like she felt more comfortable in the oceanic atmosphere harpooning her opponent. Indeed, at times, it seemed she was Ahab and the witherwin Allen was her Moby Dick; but while she sails her Pequod just as intently toward a singular goal, her alastor is much less clear and she bears no visible scars of a cetacean attacker.
gloss: Resembling or relating to large aquatic mammals.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
figuratively
sometimes
examples: The obese woman, ungainly on land, moved with a kind of cetacean grace in the water.
[…] I would propose that external dependencies to the document would be automatically downloaded if a local copy doesn't exist so that the core distribution no longer is quite so cetacean in size.
gloss: A marine mammal belonging to the infraorder Cetacea, including dolphins, porpoises, and whales, characterized by a streamlined body, one or two blowholes, tail flukes, and fin-like forelimbs without hind limbs.
pos: noun
examples: The tour promised spiritual experiences with humpback whales and other cetaceans, but all we saw were seagulls and a dead sea otter.
Translations: