yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
comeuppance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English come up
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -iader.
Old French -ancebor.
Middle English -aunce
English -ance
English comeuppance
From come up (“to appear before a judge”) + -ance.
Inflected forms:
form: comeuppances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: come-uppance
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: comeupance
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Retribution or outcome that is justly deserved.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: So when Brown's second wife turned out a reg'lar ternygrunt, I wa'n't in no wise upset, for he needed a comeuppance, an' he got it in her.
The Sunday edition of the principal morning paper even expressed some bitterness under the heading, "Gilded Youths of the Fin-de-Siecle"--this was considered the knowing phrase of the time, especially for Sunday supplements--and there is no doubt that from certain references in this bit of writing some people drew the conclusion that Mr. George Amberson Minafer had not yet got his comeuppance, a postponement still irritating.
The Yankees got their comeuppance in Milwaukee when the Braves piled up a record score for the first inning of a World Series game.
I have to say it again, my Dearest Friend. What a wonderful Comedown for the Godhead! What a wonderful Comeuppance for Humankind! That’s because You, Lord God, Creator, Bellows Maker of All That Breathes, deigned to come to my hovel of a soul; once there, to fatten up the leanness of my soul with the plumpitude of Your Sacrament; that’s to say, with the plenitude of Your Divinity and Humanity.
[…] in the anonymous A New Gift for Children (1750), perhaps America's first secular storybook, and its tales of children who are good and merit rewards, and tales of children who are otherwise and receive their comeuppances.
[I]ts main character, Henry (Mr. [Ewan] McGregor), is a successful, intellectual dramatist who seems quite capable of churning out fizzy, challenging works about brilliant but ambivalent revolutionaries, philosophers, etc. […] But this cleverer-than-thou creature gets his comeuppance in "The Real Thing," showing that a very human heart – just like those possessed by the less sesquipedalian – beats beneath his fancy words.
But even friends like Tom Downey thought a little comeuppance might not necessarily have been a bad thing for a man who approached life as if he were always the smartest person in the room.
But in medieval Scotland, the king had absolute power so there wasn't much comeuppance for him.
More comeuppance comes when the two play on the national team eight years later.
Translations:
jake
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more jake
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most jake
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: jakes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jakes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jaking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jaked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jaked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Adequate; satisfactory; acceptable.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: ‘What do you care? Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake.’
Wouldn't you just like to see me now, Marion, wouldn't you? I'm not bitter. O no. I'm quite calm. Completely relaxed. But when you come to me in Mayfair when things are as they ought to be, don't try to move in and think things are going to be jake again.
I never worry that your love is fake / I'm free and easy and I'm feelin' jake
gloss: A juvenile male turkey.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: The spring turkey woods are occupied by roaming bands of jakes — year-old males with strong mating urges but inferior body size.
gloss: A police officer, a law enforcement officer (sometimes especially one on foot rather than in a patrol car).
pos: noun
tags: Multicultural-London-English
New-York
countable
especially
slang
uncountable
examples: A radio is a box, a razor blade is a ox / fat diamonds is rocks and jakes is cops.
And I ain't trying to see no highway chase with Jake
gloss: Jamaica ginger.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
uncountable
examples: It is possible that the governments have found the cause of the poisoned “jake” in their investigations into the Jamaica ginger deaths throughout the South and Southwest.
gloss: A Discordian prank involving a large number of people sending bizarre letters or parcels to a targeted individual.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Hello, I'm afraid in some regards I'm too discordian for my own good and I forgot to either write down the jake-dupe's address, or include it in my repost when I suggested today as jake day....
It strikes me that organizing a jake over the net is a bad idea, because Hormel could conceivably find out about it before it happens. That's not going to stop me from participating though.
Call me old fashioned, but this situation is really inappropriate for a jake. […] I mean that a little girl was seriously injured, […] and we, as Discordians, should have more respect for the holy tradition of the jake, and use its powers only for those situations where it can actually do some good, or at least be worth a good laugh.
gloss: A rustic; a yokel.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: To play a Discordian prank on (somebody), involving a large number of people sending bizarre letters or parcels to that person.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: jake leg
Translations:
waved
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
natural-sciences
nobility
politics
Inflected forms:
form: more waved
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most waved
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a wave-like form or outline; undulating.
pos: adj
gloss: Wavy.
pos: adj
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:waved.
gloss: Having on the margin a succession of curved segments or incisions.
pos: adj
Translations:
moonlighting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: moonlightings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of, or a period of, working on the side (at a secondary job), often in the evening or during the night, either openly or secretly.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Aiming for sky-high productivity, the company discourages the distractions and fatigue of moonlighting by paying people enough that most choose not to bother with a second job.
gloss: Moonshining.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
rare
uncountable
Related words: moonlighter
at night
be on nights
night job
nightly
night owl
night shift
nightwork
night work
on the side
shiftwork
side gig
side hustle
Translations:
moonlighted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From moon + lighted.
Compound parts: moon
lighted
Inflected forms:
form: moon-lighted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Illuminated by moonlight.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: “It came downstairs as I went up,” said the trooper, “and crossed the moonlighted window with a loose black mantle on […]”
I sat for hours afterwards, gazing out of the cavern entrance at the moonlighted grove, silent and desolate beyond any telling.
Translations:
brilliance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From brilliant + -ance. Compare French brillance.
Base: brilliant
Affixes: -ance
Inflected forms:
form: brilliances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brilliancy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being exceptionally effulgent (giving off light).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: [G]arishly enough they [gas jets] glared there, transparently wannish as it were shamed, like blinking night-things surprised by the brilliance of day, they having so flared and stared for months, or years, inasmuch as they were now blazing diminished, with streaks and rays in the flame, as if by effort: […]
gloss: The quality of having extraordinary mental capacity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Magnificence; resplendence.
pos: noun
tags: UK
uncountable
usually
examples: What brilliance it took from Harry Kane to control the cross and place the ball into the top corner.
Related words: brilliant
brilliantly
brilliantness
beryl
beryllium
Derived words: overbrilliance
superbrilliance
Translations:
lang: Central Bikol
word: bansay
lang: Bulgarian
word: яркост
roman: jarkost
lang: Bulgarian
word: блясък
roman: bljasǎk
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 辉
roman: huī
lang: Finnish
word: kirkkaus
lang: Galician
word: brillantez
lang: Ancient Greek
word: λαμπρότης
roman: lamprótēs
lang: Ancient Greek
word: αὐγή
roman: augḗ
lang: Hindi
word: प्रतिभा
roman: pratibhā
lang: Polish
word: blask
lang: Polish
word: świetlistość
lang: Romanian
word: strălucire
lang: Spanish
word: brillantez
eavesdropping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
zoology
Etymology: Etymology tree
English eavesdrop
Proto-Germanic *-ungō
Old English -ung
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English eavesdropping
From eavesdrop + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: eavesdroppings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: verbal noun of eavesdrop:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.
gloss: verbal noun of eavesdrop:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: verbal noun of eavesdrop:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: tabhanging
Derived words: anti-eavesdropping
eavesdroppingly
Translations:
subliminal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
medicine
physiology
psychology
sciences
Etymology: PIE word
 *upó
The adjective is derived from sub- (prefix meaning ‘beneath, under’) + liminal (“of or pertaining to an entrance or threshold”) (from Latin līminālis, from līmen (“doorstep, threshold; doorway, entrance; beginning, commencement”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃l- (“to bend, bow; elbow”)) + *-mn̥ (suffix forming action nouns or result nouns from verbs)) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship from nouns)). The English word is borrowed from German subliminal, or a calque of German unterschwellig (“subliminal”, literally “beneath the threshold”).
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Base: liminal
Affixes: sub-
Inflected forms:
form: more subliminal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most subliminal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sub-liminal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: subliminals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of a stimulus: below the limen or threshold of conscious perception, especially if still able to produce a response; also (generally), below the threshold where a response can be produced.
pos: adj
gloss: Without directed awareness or thought; subconscious (dated), unconscious.
pos: adj
gloss: Of an advertisement, a message, etc.: conveyed in a manner that a person is unaware of being influenced by it.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
gloss: Chiefly preceded by the: something which is below the limen or threshold of conscious perception.
pos: noun
gloss: Chiefly preceded by the: the subconscious (dated) or unconscious self.
pos: noun
gloss: An advertisement, a message, etc., which is conveyed in a manner that a person is unaware of being influenced by it.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: An audio or video recording, often consisting of ambient music or white noise with hidden affirmations, intended to produce physical or psychological changes in the listener through repetition.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: She spent all night listening to a subliminal to change her eye color.
Derived words: limen
liminality
liminary
liminoid
sublime
subliminality
subliminalize
subliminally
Translations:
disciple
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Middle English disciple, discipul, from Old English discipul (“disciple, scholar”), from Latin discipulus (“pupil, learner”). Later influenced or superseded in Middle English by Old French deciple.
Inflected forms:
form: disciples
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: disciples
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: discipling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: discipled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: discipled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A person who learns from another, especially one who then teaches others.
pos: noun
gloss: An active follower or adherent of someone, or some philosophy etc.
pos: noun
examples: And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.
By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.
gloss: A wretched, miserable-looking man.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
gloss: To convert (a person) into a disciple.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To train, educate, teach.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: fraile youth is oft to follie led, / Through false allurement of that pleasing baite, / That better were in vertues discipled […]
gloss: To train, educate, teach.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Most recently, messengers to the 2025 SBC Annual Meeting passed the resolution On Restoring Moral Clarity through God’s Design for Gender, Marriage, and the Family, which resolves among many beliefs that “we encourage churches to disciple their members in a biblical view of marriage, sexuality, parenting, and the sanctity of life.”
Synonyms: student
Related words: discipleship
disciplic
discipline
apostle
Derived words: condisciple
disciplelike
discipless
discipler
Translations:
grumpily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English grumpy
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English grumpily
From grumpy + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more grumpily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most grumpily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a grumpy manner; in a cranky manner.
pos: adv
examples: A local doctor had bought one canvas and but for that lucky chance he would have been out of pocket. Now he was muttering grumpily at Edmund, "Have to get something better this trip, Edmund."
Translations:
eavesdropper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
English eavesdrop
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English eavesdropper
From eavesdrop + -er (“person or thing which does”).
Inflected forms:
form: eavesdroppers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who eavesdrops.
pos: noun
gloss: A surveillance aircraft.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: […] the Japanese Ministry of Defence rang the bell and informed the world's press about the Tokyo Express — the ironic Japanese nickname for the constant flow of Soviet flying eavesdroppers in Japanese airspace.
Translations:
fluorite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.
Proto-Indo-European *bʰlewH-der.
Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti?
Latin fluō
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *-ōs
Proto-Italic *-ōs
Latin -or
Latin fluorbor.
English fluor
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der.
Latin -ītēsbor.
French -iteder.
English -ite
English fluorite
From fluor + -ite.
Inflected forms:
form: fluorites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A widely occurring mineral comprising calcium fluoride plus or minus impurities, of various colours, used as a flux in steelmaking, and in the manufacture of glass, enamels and hydrofluoric acid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: calcium fluoride
Fluorite is an important natural resource of Thailand.
Translations:
dosimetry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dosimetries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The measurement of doses, especially of ionizing radiation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
luminescence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin lumen
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁sḱeti
Proto-Italic *-ēskō
Latin -ēscō
Latin -escensder.
English -escence
English luminescence
From Latin lumen + English -escence.
Inflected forms:
form: luminescences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any emission of light that cannot be attributed merely to the temperature of the emitting body.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
horsefly
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English horse fliȝe, equivalent to horse + fly.
Base: horse
Inflected forms:
form: horseflies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: horse-fly
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: horse fly
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of several medium to large flies, of the family Tabanidae, that suck the blood of mammals (not to be confused with Stomoxys calcitrans, the stable fly, or dog fly).
pos: noun
examples: It was not a horsefly and it was not a deerfly; it was bigger than either.
Translations:
correlative
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From correlate + -ive or cor- + relative.
Base: correlate
Affixes: -ive
Inflected forms:
form: more correlative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most correlative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: correlatives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Mutually related; corresponding.
pos: adj
examples: If we reinterpret these phenomena in terms of a consistently game-playing model of behavior, the need to distinguish between primary and secondary gains disappears. The correlative necessity to estimate the relative significance of physiological needs and dammed-up impulses on the one hand, and of social and interpersonal factors on the other, also vanishes. Since needs and impulses cannot be said to exist in human social life without specified rules for dealing with them, instinctual needs cannot be considered solely in terms of biological rules, but must also be viewed in terms of their psychosocial significance—that is, as parts of the game.
gloss: Either of two correlative things.
pos: noun
tags: formal
examples: The actual motivation for this separation was a curious mixture of arrogance and respect: the new arrogance of the administrators abroad who faced 'backward populations' or 'lower breeds' found its correlative in the respect of old-fashioned statesmen at home who felt that no nation had the right to impose its law upon a foreign people.
gloss: A pro-form; a non-personal pronominal, proadjectival, or proadverbial form
pos: noun
Derived words: objective correlative
Translations:
machete
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish machete, diminutive of macho (“sledgehammer”), from Latin mattea, possibly from mactare (“slaughter in sacrifice”); cognate with Old French machier, French massue, English mace.
Inflected forms:
form: machetes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: machetes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: macheteing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: macheted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: macheted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or used as a weapon.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: (all sometimes or regionally synonymous) bolo, golok, panga, parang, sundang
It breaks loose one rope at a time, haphazardly, tossing the Filipinos up into the air. A boy with a machete cuts the one remaining line, which pops up and lashes him across the face.
gloss: A small stringed instrument from Madeira, Portugal, having a double bulged body, traditionally of wood, with a small rib and four metallic strings, sometimes attached by wooden pegs.
pos: noun
gloss: To cut or chop with a machete.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: After some hours of intense work, we had macheted a path through the jungle to the bank of the river.
Related words: cleaver
fascine knife
hatchet
Derived words: machete beta
machetelike
Translations:
bilateral
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From bi- + lateral.
Base: lateral
Affixes: bi-
Inflected forms:
form: more bilateral
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bilateral
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bilaterals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having two sides.
pos: adj
examples: General Wego W.K. Chiang, secretary general of the National Security Council, said that the visit of El Salvador Vice President Merino to Taipei on behalf of President Alfredo Cristiani was in response to an invitation of the ROC [Republic of China] Government which hopes to further strengthen bilateral relations between the two countries.
gloss: Involving both sides equally.
pos: adj
gloss: Binding on both of the two parties involved.
pos: adj
gloss: Having bilateral symmetry.
pos: adj
gloss: Involving descent or ascent regardless of sex and side of the family (bilateral linearity).
pos: adj
gloss: A meeting between two people or groups.
pos: noun
Derived words: bilateral descent
bilateral gill trama
bilateralism
bilateralist
bilaterality
bilateralize
bilaterally
bilateralness
bilateral pneumonia
isobilateral
nonbilateral
Translations:
lyrebird
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From lyre + bird.
Compound parts: lyre
bird
Inflected forms:
form: lyrebirds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Either of two large ground-dwelling Australian songbirds, of the genus Menura, named because of the beautiful tail feathers of the male of one species, the superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae), which can be erected to look like a lyre, and notable for their extraordinary ability to mimic natural and artificial sounds from their environment.
pos: noun
examples: A lyrebird strolled past me on its large feet, among the granite boulders.
Translations:
prevalent
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Latin praevalēns. By surface analysis, pre- + -valent.
Inflected forms:
form: more prevalent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most prevalent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: prævalent
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: prevailent
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: prevalents
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: prævalent
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: prevailent
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Widespread or preferred.
pos: adj
examples: Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades. At the top of the list of popular herbs are echinacea and ginseng, whereas garlic, St. John's wort, soybean, ephedra and others are also surging in popularity or have been historically prevalent.
gloss: Superior in frequency or dominant.
pos: adj
examples: Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
gloss: A species that is prevalent in a certain area.
pos: noun
examples: The species I found to be most prevalent on the Spring Green study site were compared with lists of prevalents in compositionally related communities of Wisconsin developed by Curtis (1959).
Synonyms: rife
Derived words: immunoprevalent
nonprevalent
omniprevalent
prevalency
seroprevalent
unprevalent
Translations:
supplementary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From supplement + -ary; compare French supplémentaire.
Base: supplement
Affixes: -ary
Inflected forms:
form: more supplementary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most supplementary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: supplementaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Additional; added to supply what is wanted.
pos: adj
examples: Thus, leucine is already being seen as a pharmaconutrient of great relevance for the supplementary feeding of malnourished and frail elderly and for specific subpopulations.
gloss: Something additional; an extra.
pos: noun
Translations:
deductible
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
insurance
Etymology: Etymology tree
English deduct
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ibilis
Old French -ibleder.
Middle English -ible
English -ible
English deductible
From deduct + -ible.
Inflected forms:
form: more deductible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most deductible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: deductibles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Eligible to be deducted.
pos: adj
examples: (Normally forgiven debt is taxable and only business expenses paid for with company income are deductible.)
gloss: An amount of expenses that must be paid out of pocket before an insurer will pay further expenses.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: In a tweet, [Donald Trump] said that the deductibles are in many cases way over $7,000, which makes the coverage worthless or unusable. […] Family bronze plans have an average deductible of just under $12,200 and an average out-of-pocket maximum of nearly $14,000.
Antonyms: nondeductible
Translations:
elegantly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English elegant
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English elegantly
From elegant + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more elegantly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most elegantly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Gracefully, smoothly, and swiftly; with supreme style.
pos: adv
examples: Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
Mr. Burns is similarly perfectly cast as a heartless capitalist willing to do anything for a quick buck, even if it means endangering the lives of those around him and Marge elegantly rounds out the main cast as a good, pure-hearted and overly indulgent woman who sees the big, good heart (literally and metaphorically) of a monstrous man-brute.
Translations:
tutor
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English tutour, from Old French tuteur (French tuteur), from Latin tūtor (“a watcher, protector, guardian”), from tueor (“protect”); see tuition.
Inflected forms:
form: tutors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tutour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: tutors
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tutoring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tutored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tutored
pos: verb
tags: past
form: tutour
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: One who teaches another (usually called a student, learner, or tutee) in a one-on-one or small-group interaction.
pos: noun
examples: He passed the difficult class with help from his tutor.
gloss: A university officer responsible for students in a particular hall.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A homeroom.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: One who has the charge of a child or pupil and his estate; a guardian.
pos: noun
tags: Quebec
obsolete
gloss: To instruct or teach, especially an individual or small group.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: To help pay her tuition, the college student began to tutor high school students in calculus and physics.
gloss: To treat with authority or sternness.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
Related words: intuition
tuition
tutelage
tutelar
tutelary
tutorial
Derived words: cotutor
cybertutor
e-tutor
mistutor
nontutor
nontutored
overtutor
subtutor
teletutor
tutee
tutorage
tutorer
tutoress
tutorhood
tutorism
tutorize
tutorless
tutorly
tutorship
tutress
tutrix
undertutor
untutored
Translations:
motley
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English motle, from Anglo-Norman motteley (“parti-colored”), from Old English mot (“speck”). Doublet of mote. The English word can be analysed as mottle + -y.
Base: mottle
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more motley
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: motlier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: motleyer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most motley
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: motliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: motleyest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: motleys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: motleys
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: motleying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: motleyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: motleyed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Comprising greatly varied elements, to the point of incongruity.
pos: adj
examples: I met a fool i' th' forest, / A motley' fool.
Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
"One of them can see you, and one of them can see an empty hallway." Reynders narrowed her bleary eyes — she wasn't wearing her glasses, for some reason — as though momentarily uncertain which sight she was seeing. She apparently decided in favour of their motley group. "I'm the one who can see you. The one who can see you can talk to you. The one who can't talk to you can see you too, sometimes, but she doesn't want to because she knows you're not there. Where she is."
gloss: Having many colours; variegated.
pos: adj
gloss: An incongruous mixture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A jester's multicoloured clothes.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A jester; a fool.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
figuratively
examples: Wil you be married, Motley?
Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there, / And made myself a motley to the view, […]
gloss: To give something a patchwork appearance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To make something multicolored, variegated, or diverse in character.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
figuratively
transitive
Related words: mottled
Derived words: motley crew
motley fool
motley iron
motleyness
Translations:
fickle
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English fikil, fikel, from Old English ficol (“fickle, cunning, tricky, deceitful”), equivalent to fike + -le. More at fike.
Base: fike
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: fickler
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more fickle
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: ficklest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most fickle
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fickles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fickling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fickled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fickled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Quick to change one’s opinion or allegiance; insincere; not loyal or reliable.
pos: adj
examples: O Fortune, Fortune, all men call thee fickle, / If thou art fickle, what doſt thou with him / That is renown'd for faith? be fickle Fortune: / For then I hope thou wilt not keepe him long, / But ſend him backe.
Still onward winds the dreary way;
⁠I with it; for I long to prove
⁠No lapse of moons can canker Love,
Whatever fickle tongues may say.
As night has such a local ring / And love and rock are fickle things
gloss: Changeable.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: fickle breeze
fickle stock market
2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
To the south, the vast geometrical deserts of Arabian nomads, a redoubt of feral movement, of fickle winds, of open space, of saddle leather—home to the wild Bedouin tribes.
gloss: To deceive, flatter.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To puzzle, perplex, nonplus.
pos: verb
tags: UK
dialectal
transitive
Derived words: fickle finger of fate
fickle mistress
fickleness
ficklesome
ficklety
fickly
fucked by the fickle finger of fate
unfickle
Translations:
toque
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French toque (“toque”), from Arabic طَاقِيَّة (ṭāqiyya).
Inflected forms:
form: toques
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: touque
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A type of hat with no brim.
pos: noun
examples: Toques are for the most part indented in the mural style, in two rows, between which are placed marabout feathers. Flowers, feathers, ears of corn, in gold or silver: such are the chief ornaments on the heads of young ladies, either as separate decorations or all blended together. Black velvet toques are ornamented with marabout feathers of a light grey, mingled with a few ears of gold corn.
"Because Esmé said she was going out this afternoon to choose a new toque, and she hoped I should like it, and I’m not quite sure what it is, or where she'll wear it. Do you mind explaining?"
"Not at all. A toque is that which if it had strings would be a bonnet, and if it had brim, would be a hat. It is worn on the head."
"Thanks, now I know where I am," said the vicar of St. Machars, with a sigh of relief.
She drank a glass of wine mixed with water, took off her felt toque and her shoes, and slid beneath the red eiderdown.
1957—Samuel Beckett, "Endgame",
In a dressing-gown, a stiff toque on his head, a large blood-stained handkerchief over his face, a whistle hanging from his neck, a rug over his knees, thick socks on his feet, Hamm seems to be asleep.
gloss: A tall white hat with no brim of the sort worn by chefs.
pos: noun
tags: specifically
examples: Chef Felder was in her early forties, slender, with short wavy brown hair, almost all of which could be contained within her toque.
When I came to the back of a man's head, wearing a toque, I knew I'd spotted my quarry.
"Chef Reynoso?"
Minutes later, a red-faced man in a chef's toque approached our table.
gloss: A chef.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
informal
examples: 2007—October, Nicole Berrie, "Green Eggs and Sam", in Elle, page 360,
Sam Mason first grabbed the spotlight as the pastry chef ... for being the most rock 'n' roll toque in town.
gloss: A variety of bonnet monkey; toque macaque, Macaca sinica.
pos: noun
gloss: An African nominal money of account, equal to 40 cowries.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Derived words: betoqued
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: toka
lang: Dutch
word: toque
lang: French
word: toque
lang: Polish
word: toczek
lang: Polish
word: tok
lang: Russian
word: ток
roman: tok
lang: Swedish
word: mössa
gobbledygook
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in a memo by US Representative (Texas) Maury Maverick dated March 30, 1944, banning "gobbledygook language". Apparently coined in imitation of the sounds made by a turkey.
Inflected forms:
form: gobbledygooks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gobbledegook
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gobblygook
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: garbley gook
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gobbly-gook
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Nonsense; meaningless or encrypted language.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
usually
gloss: Something written in an overly complex, incoherent, or incomprehensible manner.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
usually
Related words: bureaucratese
doubletalk
gobblefunk
jargon
nonsense
officialese
Derived words: gobbledygooker
Translations:
profuse
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin profusus.
Inflected forms:
form: more profuse
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most profuse
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: abundant or generous to the point of excess; copious; volubly expressed.
pos: adj
examples: She grew profuse amounts of zucchini and pumpkins.
profuse hospitality; profuse apologies; profuse expenditure
On a green shadie Bank profuse of Flours
Translations:
profusely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English profuse
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English profusely
From profuse + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more profusely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most profusely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In great quantity or abundance; in a profuse manner.
pos: adv
examples: The run left him sweating profusely.
"Oh, I say! By Jove! What!" was his oration, after which he resumed his seat and perspired profusely.
A shrubby species suitable for beefarming, as it flowers profusely from November-January, and yields both pollen and nectar.
Translations:
rework
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
food
lifestyle
manufacturing
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom
Proto-Germanic *werką
Proto-West Germanic *werk
Old English weorc
Middle English werk
English work
English rework
From re- + work.
Inflected forms:
form: reworks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: reworks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reworking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reworked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reworked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rewrought
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
rare
form: rewrought
pos: verb
tags: past
rare
Senses:
gloss: The act of redoing, correcting, or rebuilding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Most product returns to the top retailers in the USA (either direct from the consumer or through non-sales) will be taken back by the original suppliers for rework or disposal.
gloss: Taking unsaleable food and using it in the manufacture of other food.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something redone, corrected or rebuilt.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They received the rework back from the shop.
gloss: Work done to correct defects associated with a deliverable product, plus any root cause analysis effort to identify the task(s) to be re-performed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The schedule has been pushed back because of the rework.
gloss: An instance of reworking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: To redo, correct, or rebuild.
pos: verb
examples: You'll have to rework the crank assembly to incorporate the changes.
Translations:
tutee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tutor
English -ee
English tutee
From tutor + -ee.
Inflected forms:
form: tutees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A student of a tutor.
pos: noun
examples: [Tutor and] tutee. English "pupil." I met this queer coinage in two academic publications.
2007, Julie Winkelstein, "Libraries help everyone into Internet age," Contra Costa Times (Califoronia), 23 Nov.,
To make sure the pairings were good ones, both tutor and tutee filled out an application, indicating interests, computer proficiency, and even language.
Translations:
collate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: From Latin collātus, perfect passive participle of conferō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of confer. See also infer, delate and defer (Etymology 2), relate and refer, as well as prelate and prefer among others. Not related to collateral.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: collates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: collating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: collated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: collated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To examine diverse documents and so on, to discover similarities and differences.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The young attorneys were set the task of collating the contract submitted by the other side with the previous copy.
collate data
collate findings
collate information
collate results
I must collate it, word by word, with the original Hebrew.
gloss: To assemble something in a logical sequence.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Detest your own age. Build a better one. And to set that on foot read incredibly dull essays upon Marlowe to your friends. For which purpose one must collate editions in the British Museum.
"Once collated, all files are sent to an external printing business with a turnaround time of about seven days, and then most of the distribution is done in-house.
gloss: To sort multiple copies of printed documents into sequences of individual page order, one sequence for each copy, especially before binding.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Collating was still necessary because they had to insert foldout sheets and index tabs into the documents.
gloss: To bestow or confer.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Becauſe thoſe hereticall Biſhops being depoſed and reduced into Lay-communion, could not therefore collate baptiſme for their want of holy Orders: […]
gloss: To admit a cleric to a benefice; to present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; followed by to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: collation
collator
decollate
decollation
decollator
recollate
recollation
Derived words: collatable
collatee
collater
miscollate
recollate
uncollated
Translations:
BDSM
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Contracted initialism of bondage/discipline, dominance/submission, sadism/masochism.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A variety of often erotic practices involving bondage, discipline, sadomasochism, dominance and submission, and other related interpersonal dynamics.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
infatuate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1533; from Middle English infatuate and/or borrowed from Latin infatuātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 2 for more.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: infatuates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: infatuating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: infatuated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: infatuated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To inspire with unreasoning love, attachment or enthusiasm.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If the mine was a “developed” one, and had no pay ore to show (and of course it hadn’t), we praised the tunnel; said it was one of the most infatuating tunnels in the land; driveled and driveled about the tunnel till we ran entirely out of ecstasies—but never said a word about the rock.
I declare the girl seems quite to infatuate the men, and see if trouble does not come of it.
gloss: To make foolish.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: […] wee beggard our selues by hearkning after false riches, and infatuated our selues by hearkning after false knowledge.
Heaven doubtless has infatuated these Infidels, and given them up to dote on the grossest Absurdities; other wise they could never swallow such open and notorious Impositions […]
Related words: fatuity
fatuously
fatuousness
infatuation
Derived words: infatuated
infatuative
infatuator
Translations:
collator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English collate
English -or
English collator
From collate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: collators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who collates.
pos: noun
gloss: A program or algorithm that collates.
pos: noun
gloss: A machine that selects, merges and matches decks of punch cards.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A police officer who maintains criminal records and analyzes them for intelligence.
pos: noun
Translations:
multipart
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mel-der.
Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós?
Proto-Italic *moltos
Latin multus
Latin multīder.
Middle English multi-
English multi-
English part
English multipart
From multi- + part.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: having multiple parts
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: of computer printout that is printed in multiple copies on paper having two or four continuous sheets rolled together with interleaving carbon paper; after printing it is separated on a decollator
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: multiparter
Translations:
indelicate
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English delicate
English indelicate
From in- + delicate.
Inflected forms:
form: more indelicate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most indelicate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Improper or immodest.
pos: adj
examples: As late as the 1950s and early 1960s, when "funk" and "funky" were used increasingly in the context of jazz music, the terms still were considered indelicate and inappropriate for use in polite company.
gloss: Coarse or tasteless.
pos: adj
gloss: Tactless or undiplomatic.
pos: adj
examples: Schuetz acknowledges that he knew about the Dale Barbre murder investigation as it was reported in GCN. Yet the Barbre murder saga provided only the skeleton — if I may be forgiven the indelicate word choice — for the story they concoct.
Derived words: indelicately
indelicateness
Translations:
impropriety
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French impropriété, from Latin improprietās. By surface analysis, improper + -iety or im- + propriety.
Base: propriety
Affixes: im-
Inflected forms:
form: improprieties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being improper.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: If so many ladies of rank wrote books, there could be no impropriety in her following their example,...
To see the impropriety of this noninformative prior, note that the posterior results (2.19)–(2.22) can be justified by as [sic] combining the likelihood function with the following ‘prior density’: […]
gloss: An improper act.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Bayh and his supporters ended up maintaining that it was no longer sufficient that a nominee had not engaged in any impropriety; now there must be no "appearance" of impropriety. Thus opponents of a nominee could raise an "appearance" of impropriety by false charges and thereby defeat him. It was a vicious circle: the nominee would not be condemned for what he had done but for what he had been accused of having done by his detractors.
gloss: Improper language.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations: