yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
unfavourable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English favourable
English unfavourable
From un- + favourable.
Inflected forms:
form: more unfavourable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unfavourable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unfavorable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Serving to hinder or oppose; adverse, disadvantageous, inconducive, unsuitable.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: The shade of a dense pine wood, is more unfavorable to the springing up of pines of the same species than of oaks within it.
About 200 guests were invited and entertained to lunch in the so-called booking hall at Waterloo; the contractors, Spiers & Pond Limited, were much praised for organising the repast, with attendant cloak room facilities, so well in such unfavourable surroundings.
gloss: Not auspicious; ill-boding.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: Elizabeth was now most heartily sorry that she had, from the distress of the moment, been led to make Mr. Darcy acquainted with their fears for her sister; for since her marriage would so shortly give the proper termination to the elopement, they might hope to conceal its unfavourable beginning from all those who were not immediately on the spot.
The fact that the bride went through the ceremony without her bridal bouquet is looked upon by many as an unfavorable omen.
gloss: Of a belief, state of mind, etc.: not favourable; disapproving.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: [Y]et the thing she most dreaded was to offend the gypsies, by betraying her extremely unfavourable opinion of them, [...]
gloss: Of wind or weather: causing delay or obstacles; not conducive to travel or work; inclement.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: The wind was right under the land, the tide unfavorable.
Derived words: unfavourability
unfavourableness
unfavourably
Translations:
contra
Part of speech: prep
adv
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: accounting
business
dance
dancing
entertainment
finance
government
hobbies
lifestyle
music
politics
sports
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin contrā.
Inflected forms:
form: more contra
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most contra
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: contras
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: contras
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
Senses:
gloss: Against; contrary or opposed to; in opposition or contrast to.
pos: prep
gloss: Contrary to something.
pos: adv
examples: […] it is useless to pray “Thy kingdom come” and vote contra or stay away from the polls; […]
gloss: A deal to swap goods or services.
pos: noun
gloss: A conservative; originally tied to Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
gloss: An entry (or account) that cancels another entry (or account).
pos: noun
tags: attributive
often
examples: a contra position; a contra entry
The sum for each contra account is shown in the last column.
gloss: Any of the musical instruments in the contrabass range, e.g. contrabassoon, contrabass clarinet or, especially, double bass.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A contra dance.
pos: noun
gloss: A country dance.
pos: noun
tags: New-England
US
obsolete
examples: Folk histories record that contras were gradually displaced by the introduction of the quadrille and the new couple dances.
gloss: To undo; to reverse.
pos: verb
tags: no-past
no-present-participle
participle
past
examples: to contra a position (an entry)
Antonyms: for
pro
Derived words: anticontra
Translations:
percussion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
medicine
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English percussioun, from Middle French, Old French percussion, from Latin percussiō (“striking”), from percutiō (“to strike”).
Inflected forms:
form: percussions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The collision of two bodies in order to produce a sound.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The sound so produced.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The detonation of a percussion cap in a firearm.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The tapping of the body as an aid to medical diagnosis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The section of an orchestra or band containing percussion instruments; such instruments considered as a group; in bands, may be separate from drum kits.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The repeated striking of an object to break or shape it, as in percussion drilling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Moreover, a perfect Medal has its Profile and out-ſtroaks ſharp (Nummus aſper) and by no means rugged; the Figures clean and well poliſh'd; the Contours neatly trimm'd, and exactly round and carefully preſerv'd; that the Extancy and Relievos correſpond with the Ingraving, and have not ſuffer'd in Percuſſion; in all which, there is a certain Spirit of Antiquity and Excellency to be diſcern'd in Antient Medals almoſt inimitable.
gloss: The outer side of the hand.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: quash
Derived words: hand percussion
percussional
percussion break
percussion bullet
percussion cap
percussion drill
percussion fuse
percussion hammer
percussion idiophone
percussion instrument
percussionist
percussion lock
percussively
Translations:
criticize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From critic + -ize; first element from Ancient Greek κριτικός (kritikós, “of or for judging, able to discern”), from κρίσις (krísis, “decision, judgement”).
Base: critic
Affixes: -ize
Inflected forms:
form: criticizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: criticizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: criticized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: criticized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: criticise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To find fault (with something).
pos: verb
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
ambitransitive
transitive
examples: They criticized him for endangering people's lives.
Homophobia is based on criticizing any sexual expression outside of procreational sex.
Since when is it a hanging offense to criticize someone who's not doing the job he's paid generously to do?
But far from being naïve Scandinavist ideologists, Blix et al. continually criticizes the utopian Scandinavists' talk of brotherhood and 'one culture', but also—and perhaps most importantly—made cultural separatism and provincialism, particularly in Norway, the object of crass satire.
Then Federal Minister of Environment Antonin Vavrougek had strongly criticized the entire project while working at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague, taking a more limitationist view about the possibilities of generating electricity and a more alarmist view about the effect on drinking water supplies.
gloss: To evaluate (something), assessing its merits and faults.
pos: verb
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
ambitransitive
transitive
Synonyms: admonish
animadvert
bash
bawl out
slash
lash
blame
scorch
blast
berate
berisp
castigate
censure
charge
chastise
chew out
chide
condemn
criticize
denounce
denunciate
deprecate
derogate
dispraise
drag
dress down
eat someone alive
excoriate
find fault
fulminate
get at
get down
get up
give somebody a piece of one's mind
give somebody what-for
inveigh
lace into
lambaste
lay into
lecture
light into
objurgate
pooh-pooh
put someone on blast
rate
read somebody the riot act
rebuke
reprehend
reprimand
reproach
reprove
rip into
rubbish
savage
scold
skewer
slam
slate
tear into
tell off
threap
tick off
tosh
keelhaul
upbraid
vilify
vituperate
Antonyms: commend
compliment
congratulate
laud
praise
Related words: critic
critical
criticism
criticizable
critique
complain
scold
discipline
Derived words: countercriticize
criticization
criticizer
criticizingly
hypercriticize
overcriticize
recriticize
uncriticized
uncriticizing
Translations:
trick-or-treater
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English trick-or-treat
English -er
English trick-or-treater
From trick-or-treat + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: trick-
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: -treaters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who goes trick-or-treating on Halloween, usually a child dressed in a costume.
pos: noun
examples: Those darn trick-or-treaters egged my car.
Translations:
prosthesis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
medicine
phonology
prosody
sciences
Etymology: Via Latin, from Ancient Greek πρόσθεσις (prósthesis, “addition”), from προστίθημι (prostíthēmi, “to add”), from πρός (prós, “towards”) + τίθημι (títhēmi, “to place”), from Proto-Indo-European *próti, *préti + *dʰédʰeh₁ti (“to be putting, to be placing”). By surface analysis, prosth- + -esis.
Inflected forms:
form: prostheses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An artificial replacement for a body part, either internal or external.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Gong believes the fiber-reinforced hydrogel could be used to create biomaterials, such as artificial organs and prostheses, able to endure everyday wear-and-tear.
gloss: Prothesis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: prosthetic
prosthetics
prosthodontics
prothesis
Derived words: bioprosthesis
endoprosthesis
exoprosthesis
keratoprosthesis
neuroprosthesis
orthoprosthesis
Translations:
Balkan
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish بالقان, modern Turkish balkan (“wooded, craggy mountain range”), from which the name of the region of Turkmenistan is derived, too.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the Balkan Peninsula.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A man shot dead 12 people in a rampage in a small town in Montenegro before dying from self-inflicted injuries early on Thursday, authorities said, in one of the tiny Balkan nation’s worst mass killings.
gloss: Of or relating to the Balkan Mountains.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to the Balkan countries and their inhabitants.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: Balkanic
Balkanian
Derived words: Balkan Egyptian
Balkan endemic nephropathy
Balkaner
Balkan green lizard
Balkan heath
Balkanian
Balkanic
Balkanization
Balkan pine
Paleo-Balkan
Translations:
topographic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to topography.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
toponymic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English toponym
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English toponymic
From toponym + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or being a toponym, as:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: The endonym is the basic toponymic exemplar and as such it needs to be understood properly. To do so we need to appreciate the context of space and place that produces it. Most endonyms arise from the elemental human relationship with space and place, and possess an intrinsic and enduring value which cannot normally be either bestowed or removed by political arbitrariness.
gloss: Of, relating to, or being a toponym, as:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: toponymous
Related words: topical
Translations:
lang: Belarusian
word: тапанімічны
roman: tapanimičny
lang: Catalan
word: toponímic
lang: Czech
word: toponymní
lang: Czech
word: toponymické
lang: Dutch
word: toponymisch
lang: French
word: toponymique
lang: Galician
word: toponímico
lang: German
word: toponymisch
lang: Italian
word: toponimico
lang: Italian
word: toponomastico
lang: Norwegian
word: toponymisk
lang: Occitan
word: toponimic
lang: Polish
word: toponimiczny
lang: Portuguese
word: toponímico
lang: Romanian
word: toponimic
lang: Russian
word: топонимический
roman: toponimičeskij
lang: Spanish
word: toponímico
lang: Ukrainian
word: топонімічний
roman: toponimičnyj
lang: Uzbek
word: toponimiyaga
lang: Uzbek
word: toponimik
lang: Vietnamese
word: toponymic
topography
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in 1432. From Middle English topographye, from Latin topographia, from Ancient Greek τοπογραφία (topographía), from τόπος (tópos, “place”) + γράφω (gráphō, “to write”).
Inflected forms:
form: topographies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A precise description of a place.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A detailed graphic representation of the surface features of a place or object.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The features themselves.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The surveying of the features.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A figurative landscape; a structure of interrelated ideas, etc.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: With good humor if predictably, the emotional topography of the faire facilitates a kind of liberation from both the closet and the cruelty of high school cliquedom.
Related words: topograph
topographer
topographic
topographical
topographically
topographic prominence
topology
topometry
toponymy
Derived words: basin and range topography
corneal topography
craniotopography
diffraction topography
keratotopography
microtopography
nanotopography
ocean surface topography
palaeotopography
paleotopography
phototopography
phytotopography
selenotopography
sociotopography
Translations:
devise
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English devisen, devysen, from Old French deviser, from Vulgar Latin devisō, from Latin dīvisō, frequentative of dīvidō.
Inflected forms:
form: devises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: devising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: devised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: devised
pos: verb
tags: past
form: devises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Near-synonyms: lay, set, design, plan, create
to devise an argument; to devise a machine, or a new system of writing
Therefore to make complaynt
Of such mysadvysed
Parsons and dysgysed,
Thys boke we have devysed, […]
His fiery eies are fixt vpon the earth.
As if he now deuiſ’d some Stratageme:
Or meant to pierce Auernus darkſome vauts.
To pull the triple headed dog from hell.
devising schemes to realize his ambitious views
Thus, the task of the linguist devising a grammar which models the linguistic competence of the fluent native speaker is to devise a finite set of rules which are capable of specifying how to form, interpret, and pronounce an infinite set of well-formed sentences.
Thailand goes to the polls on Sunday under a new system that critics say the military government has devised to prevent the most popular political party, which has won every election since 2001, from returning to power.
gloss: To leave (property) in a will.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
examples: I thought, devised, and Pallas heard my prayer.
gloss: To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: For wisedome is most riches; fooles therefore / They are, which fortunes doe by vowes deuize,
gloss: To imagine; to guess.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: I do protest I neuer iniur’d thee,
But lou’d thee better then thou can’st deuise:
Till thou shalt know the reason of my loue.
gloss: The act of leaving real property in a will.
pos: noun
gloss: Such a will, or a clause in such a will.
pos: noun
examples: Fines upon devises were still exacted.
gloss: The real property left in such a will.
pos: noun
gloss: Design, devising.
pos: noun
examples: I don't know how I got to be so sour on life, but I'm constantly in solitary confinement of my own devise, […]
Related words: device
devising
Derived words: devisable
devisal
devisee
give, devise, and bequeath
redevise
devisor
point-devise
residuary devise
Translations:
ocker
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ocker, pet form of the name Oscar; popularised in a series of television sketches where the word was used as a general nickname.
Inflected forms:
form: more ocker
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ocker
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Uncultivated; boorish.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
slang
examples: page 44: What a contrast was Jack Hibberd's next exercise—from highbrow obscurantism to a show that was to spray the audiences of a score of theatres with the ockerest of ocker humour and set them going off to tell their friends. It was a play destined to set Jack Hibberd on the road to legendary popularity and financial wealth (in playwright terms, anyway).
I sidled up to a particularly Ocker character on the edge of a group and nervously explained my mission.
‘Non-erotic male bonding, that’s the thing isn’t it; what our ocker cousins call “mateyness”.’
Dave comes across like an ocker Australian.
In addition to these specialist skills he showed his individuality at school where he preferred karate to rugby and when his more ocker classmates went to celebrate in pubs he went with a friend to Chinese restaurants.
Singo′s subsequent campaigns became more creative, developing a louder, brasher, and decidedly more ocker image in the process.
His name is Bob Snapes, and you don′t get any more ocker than him.
Melbourne surf shop Mordy Surf triggered outrage after posting the YouTube clip, in which an ocker man says he is "gonna get a glass and smash it on some poof", on its website.
Translations:
unsupervised
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + supervised.
Base: supervised
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unsupervised
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unsupervised
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unsupervized
pos: adj
tags: alternative
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: Not supervised; not being constantly observed.
pos: adj
examples: unsupervised learning
Stop letting your children run around unsupervised!
A reminder:
Students are not allowed to visit each other's quarters, or to meet in rooms unsupervised by staff. Students are also forbidden from extranet communication without approval by senior staff members.
Translations:
escapade
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French escapade (“the act of escaping; a trick”), itself borrowed from Old Spanish escapada, from escapar (“to escape”), from Vulgar Latin *excappāre.
Inflected forms:
form: escapades
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against convention.
pos: noun
examples: The Manner of living among the Portugueze here is, with the utmost Frugality and Temperance. […] The beſt of them (excepting the Governor now and then) neither pay nor receive any Viſits of Eſcapade or Recreation; […]
[Nobody] stood more confounded than Oldbuck at this sudden escapade of his nephew. "Is the devil in him," was his first exclamation, "to go to disturb the brute?"
He is always doing something to make himself notorious. There was that breach-of-promise case, and that fight at the political meeting, and his escapades at Monte Carlo.
Glass breaks, the dimming lights / Sweat, heat and profane debate / The smart ones stay on the outside / While drunken heads and arms erupt / Centered man swings a punch / Spits a tooth, postures odd / A punk rock escapade / Five bucks a head to be king dick in the crowd / We are the ones who must sport the position / Cheap beer, trendy clicks / Lesbian love is accepted and right / Shaved heads meet hair in the mix / Blending the 80's and 90's with hate
He seems on the verge of winning the New York Senate election when the New York Post runs a photo of David’s exposed butt in a mooning escapade from his college days.
Translations:
tartrate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From tartaric acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Base: tartaric acid
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: tartrates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any salt or ester of tartaric acid.
pos: noun
Translations:
tartar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French tartre, from Medieval Latin tartarum, from Byzantine Greek τάρταρον (tártaron), said to be from Arabic دُرْدِيّ (durdiyy), though it is already found in Pelagonius’s Ars veterinaria 46 in the adjective tartarālis, if the reading is correct. Arabic etymon from Persian درد (dord, “dreg”) from Proto-Iranian *dr̥ti- (“manure, feces”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰṛ-to-, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreyd- (“to have diarrhea”), whence also doublet of dirt.
Inflected forms:
form: tartars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A red compound deposited during wine making, mostly potassium hydrogen tartrate; wine stone — a source of cream of tartar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A hard yellow deposit on the teeth, formed from dental plaque.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: cream of tartar
cream of tartar bread
detartrate
hemitartrate
oil of tartar
salt of tartar
tartar emetic
tartareous
tartaric
tartarine
tartarise
tartarization
tartarize
tartarlike
tartarly
tartaroborate
tartarous
tartralic
tartramic
tartramide
tartrate
tartrazine
tartrelic
tartronate
tartronic
tartronyl
tartrovinic
Translations:
leavening
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: leavenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which something is leavened.
pos: noun
examples: For these lighter leavenings of the heavy dough of debate, members were in Sir Winston's debt.
gloss: Synonym of leavening agent.
pos: noun
gloss: Making light by aeration.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: leaven
unleavened
Translations:
equality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French equalité (modern French égalité), from Latin aequālitās, aequālitātem. Doublet of equity. By surface analysis, equal + -ity
Inflected forms:
form: equalities
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: æquality
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The fact of being equal.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The most powerful of these general ideas which have shaped political development in recent times is of course the ideal of material equality.
gloss: The fact of being equal, of having the same value.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The equal treatment of people irrespective of social or cultural differences.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: I think somebody asked me the other day when I was holding a conference over here at the library if a woman could be President of the United States. Well I said they've taken over everything else in the world, why not that? [Laughter] And that wouldn't surprise me if it doesn't happen one of these days because the country believes in equality.
Jefferson was talking about the equality of natural human rights. You have freedom, and I have freedom. You and I have equal rights to freedom.
Why are women waiting for men — who are the majority of our politicians, justices and judges — to benevolently bestow equality unto us? Here you go, little ladies, welcome to our club, classroom, workplace and C-suite…if you play by our rules.
Synonyms: egality
equality
equation
evenness
par
sameness
Antonyms: difference
inequality
nonequivalence
discrimination
inequality
pecking order
hierarchy
inequality
Related words: equity
fairness
balance
equilibrium
stability
symmetry
Derived words: antiequality
coequality
comparative of equality
disequality
equalitarian
equality money
equality of arms
equality sign
marriage equality
nonequality
unequality
Translations:
hairball
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From hair + ball.
Compound parts: hair
ball
Inflected forms:
form: hairballs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A trichobezoar; a small wad of fur or mass of hair formed in the digestive system of a cat or other animal, from hair ingested while grooming.
pos: noun
gloss: A messy, tangled, intractable issue.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
slang
examples: The contract negotiations are turning into a real hairball.
Synonyms: bezoar
Translations:
charlotte
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French charlotte, or possibly from Middle English charlet, charlette (“dish made from eggs, meat, milk, etc.”), probably from Old French char laitée (“meat with milk”).
Inflected forms:
form: charlottes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dessert consisting of sponge cake filled with fruit, and cream or custard.
pos: noun
examples: A charlotte consists of a mold lined with buttered bread, filled with a fruit mixture and baked. […] A savory charlotte, also made with a bread lining, is an excellent way to dress up ratatouille, especially if picked up from a catering shop.
Translations:
hittable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hit
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English hittable
From hit + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more hittable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hittable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Able to be hit; fit to be hit
pos: adj
examples: Actually, we are both forgetting the most important step in why children are legally hittable and by whom.
he almost stops being a threat altogether because the pitcher knows there's nearly a 2-in-3 chance that Dunn won't even make contact. There's no incentive to throw him an even remotely hittable pitch.
Just because the Sox were able to hit the Angels pen doesn't make all pitchers hittable. Overconfidence is a bad thing right now. The Sox do have the best offense out there. BUt that doesn't make the good pitching hittable automatically.
Antonyms: unhittable
Translations:
agarose
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Malay [Term?]?
Malay agarbor.
English agar
Ancient Greek γλεῦκος (gleûkos)der.
French glucose
English glucosebf.
English -ose
English agarose
From agar + -ose.
Inflected forms:
form: agaroses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A polymeric cross-linked polysaccharide extracted from the seaweed agar; used to make gels that are used in electrophoresis.
pos: noun
Translations:
cross-linked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having links between adjacent chains.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
electrophoresis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
business
chemistry
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From electro- + -phoresis.
Base: electro
Inflected forms:
form: electrophoreses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The migration of electrically charged molecules through a medium under the influence of an electric field.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The separation and analysis of large molecules (such as proteins) by migrating a colloidal solution of them through a gel; gel electrophoresis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: electrophoretic
electrophoretize
Derived words: coelectrophoresis
counterelectrophoresis
immunoelectrophoresis
isoelectrophoresis
microelectrophoresis
minielectrophoresis
nanoelectrophoresis
Translations:
Sunni
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Arabic سُنِّيّ (sunniyy), from سُنَّة (sunna, “Sunna”) + ـِيّ (-iyy). By surface analysis, Sunna + -i.
Inflected forms:
form: more Sunni
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Sunni
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Sunnī
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Sunnee
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Sunnis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Sunnī
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Sunnee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Belonging or relating to the branch of Islam based on the Qur'an, the Kutub al-Sittah (the hadiths which record the Sunnah) and that places emphasis on the Sahabah.
pos: adj
examples: I therefore strongly advocate the formation of a local capital but not at Hillah, which is too Sunni and near Baghdad
members […] came to view themselves collectively as the righteous descendants of Husayn confronting an evil and fundamentally alien ruler: a shah more Zoroastrian than Muslim, more Sunni than Shi'i, more Arab than Iranian, more Yazid than Husayn.
Many Shias who had become more Sunni in their religious practices reverted back to their original sect.
gloss: A follower of Sunni Islam.
pos: noun
Translations:
Shiite
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Shi'a
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der.
Latin -ītēsbor.
French -iteder.
English -ite
English Shiite
From Shi'a + -ite.
Inflected forms:
form: Shi'ite
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Shīʻite
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Shiites
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Shi'ite
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Shīʻite
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the Shi'a.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A member of the Shi'a.
pos: noun
Translations:
Geraldine
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Gerald + -ine. c. 1540 by the Earl of Surrey as a poetic name for Lady Elizabeth Fitzgerald, "one of the Fitzgeralds". Taken up as a given name in the 19th century, and used as a feminine form of Gerald.
Base: Gerald
Affixes: -ine
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the medieval FitzGerald dynasty of Ireland.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
monte
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
games
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish monte (“mountain”): in the sense of the card game, referring to the stack of unplayed cards. Doublet of mount.
Inflected forms:
form: montes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A game in which three or four cards are dealt face-up and players bet on which of them will first be matched in suit by others dealt.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: A starry 20th-anniversary revival of “Topdog/Underdog,” her Pulitzer Prize-winning fable about two brothers, three-card monte and one troubling inheritance, is in previews on Broadway.
gloss: A wood or forest; timberland.
pos: noun
tags: Latin-America
countable
Related words: monte-jus
Translations:
encephalopathy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From encephalo- + -pathy.
Affixes: encephalo-
-pathy
Inflected forms:
form: encephalopathies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various conditions affecting the brain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Repeated trauma or shaking to the brain can be even worse, leading to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.
Translations:
dosa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Kannada ದೋಸೆ (dōse).
Inflected forms:
form: dosas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dosha
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dosai
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A type of thin south Indian pancake made from fermented lentils and rice blended with water, typically served with chutney or sambar.
pos: noun
examples: Eric dipped a piece of the dosa in the coconut chutney.
The restaurant's dosas were truly atrocious, so I stopped going there.
In those days she had admired his pluralistic openness of mind, and struggled, in her kitchen, towards a parallel eclecticism, learning to cook the dosas and uttapams of South India as well as the soft meatballs of Kashmir.
I carried the Mongoose's bags to the right carriage of the train, then went to a stall and bought a dosa, wrapped in paper, for him.
These condiments are provided as something for you to dip your dosa into. The dosa wrap itself has a slight tang to it, as it is a fermented bread made from rice and lentils, and is light and delicious.
The dosas all came with coconut chutney and sambar, a lentil broth — good dipping condiments.
Translations:
homelessness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱey-
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos
Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos
Proto-Germanic *haimaz
Proto-West Germanic *haim
Old English hām
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Old English hāmlēas
Middle English *homles
English homeless
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English homelessness
From homeless + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: homelessnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being homeless.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Houseless and Homeless. The estimate of the New York Housing Conference Secretary, Mr. Edward P. Doyle, that it will take half a billion dollars to overcome the present housing shortage, is probably not an exaggerated presentation of the plight New York is in in this respect. Furthermore, the housing-shortage conditions of New York reflect, proportionately, the conditions prevalent in almost every large city in the country. We seem to be threatened with widespread houselessness and homelessness, for the pitiable makeshifts to which so many are driven by house shortage, and the consequent exorbitant rents, are appalling travesties of what American homes should be. Just what Mr. Walter Stabler, Comptroller of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, meant when he said that "unless radical action is taken something drastic will happen," is not quite clear. "Something drastic" is a pretty vague term. Mr. Stabler could hardly mean riotous invasions of the premises of the "ins" by infuriated mobs of the "outs." Houselessness is undoubtedly a breeder of lawlessness, but it is not open to direct-action remedies of the bread riot variety which sheer hunger not infrequently precipitates. If people have not a place to lay their heads at night, not because they are penniless but because there are no roofs to shelter them, about the only thing they can do is to camp in parks and suburban fields. It has even come to that in Newark, and it may come to that elsewhere unless there is relief of some sort.
The devastating effect of the violence is illustrated by the unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe of the 1994 Rwandan genocide that caused deaths, homelessness, despair, poverty, political instability, and economic stagnation in this country.
Translations:
ptarmigan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic tarmachan, of unknown origin. The pt- comes from a mistaken belief in a Greek origin, as if related to ptero- (“wing”).
Inflected forms:
form: ptarmigan
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ptarmigans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of three species of small grouse in the genus Lagopus found in subarctic tundra areas of North America and Eurasia.
pos: noun
Translations:
detective
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
law-enforcement
Etymology: The adjective is from Classical Latin dētēct-, past participial stem of dētegō (“to detect”), + -ive. The noun is an ellipsis of detective policeman, detective officer, or a similar construction. By surface analysis, detect + -ive.
Affixes: -ive
Inflected forms:
form: detectives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A police officer tasked with collecting evidence and information in order to solve a crime; an investigator.
pos: noun
examples: He worked as a detective with the agency for five years.
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: A person employed to find information not otherwise available to the public.
pos: noun
examples: […] Sherlock Holmes remarked calmly. […] "Well, I have a trade of my own. I suppose I am the only one in the world. I'm a consulting detective, if you can understand what that is. Here in London we have lots of Government detectives and lots of private ones. When these fellows are at fault they come to me, and I manage to put them on the right scent. They lay all the evidence before me, and I am generally able, by the help of my knowledge of the history of crime, to set them straight. There is a strong family resemblance about misdeeds, and if you have all the details of a thousand at your finger ends, it is odd if you can't unravel the thousand and first.[…]"
Had they responded this way in France or America, this wouldn't have surprised me, but wasn't everyone in England supposed to be a detective? Wasn't every crime, no matter how complex, solved in a timely fashion by either a professional or a hobbyist? That's the impression you get from British books and TV shows. Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, Hetty Wainthropp, Inspector George Gently: they come from every class and corner of the country. There’s even Edith Pargeter's Brother Cadfael, a Benedictine monk who solved crimes in twelfth-century Shrewsbury. No surveillance cameras, no fingerprints, not even a telephone, and still he cracked every case that came his way.
gloss: Employed in detecting.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: DT
Det
Det.
sleuth
beagle
bloodhound
detective
hawkshaw
investigator
Sherlock
sleuthhound
'tec
Related words: detect
detection
detector
Derived words: antidetective
cyberdetective
detective gag
detectivelike
detective story
detective work
dogtective
house detective
detective chief inspector
detective chief superintendent
detective constable
detective inspector
detective sergeant
detective superintendent
woman detective constable
nondetective
private detective
store detective
stump detective
superdetective
Translations:
rupture
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
engineering
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *Hrew-?
Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp-
Proto-Indo-European *-né-
Proto-Indo-European *Hrunépti
Latin rumpō
Latin ruptūrader.
Middle French rupturebor.
▲
Latin ruptūrabor.
English rupture
Borrowed from Middle French rupture, or its source, Latin ruptūra (“a breaking, rupture (of a limb or vein)”) and Medieval Latin ruptūra (“a road, a field, a form of feudal tenure, a tax, etc.”), from the participle stem of rumpere (“to break, burst”). Doublet of roture.
Inflected forms:
form: ruptures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ruptures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rupturing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ruptured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ruptured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A burst, split, or break.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Hatch from the egg, that soon, / Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed / Their callow young.
gloss: A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family.
Thus a war was kindled with Lubec; Denmark took part with the king's enemies, and made use of a frivolous pretence, which demonstrated the inclination of his Danish majesty to come to a rupture.
gloss: A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The cracking sound, he explained, as far as I, a non-plumber, could understand, was the sound of the overworked, undermaintained and weirdly installed heating unit’s core rupturing and spilling water into the basement.
gloss: To dehisce irregularly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: macrorupture
microrupture
modulus of rupture
nonrupture
ruptureless
rupture of membranes
rupturewort
rupturist
rupturable
Translations:
ploy
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Possibly from a shortened form of employ or deploy. Or from earlier ploye, from Middle English, borrowed from Middle French ployer (compare modern plier), from Latin plicāre.
Inflected forms:
form: ploys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ploys
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ploying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ployed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ployed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A tactic, strategy, or scheme.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: ruse, stratagem, device
The free T-shirt is really a ploy to get you inside to see their sales pitch.
'Bide here,' he says, 'and boil the wine till I return. This is a ploy of my own on which no man follows me.' And there was that in his face, as he spoke, which chilled the wildest, and left them well content to keep to the good claret and the saft seat, and let the daft laird go his own ways.
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: Sport; frolic.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
UK
countable
dialectal
uncountable
gloss: Employment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision.
pos: verb
examples: Troops drawn up so as to show an extended front, with slight depth, are said to be deployed; when the depth is considerable and the front comparatively small, they are said to be in ployed formation.
Derived words: counterploy
ratings ploy
Trollope ploy
Translations:
gimmick
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Unknown. Possibly a rough anagram of magic or from gimme.
Inflected forms:
form: gimmicks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gimmicks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gimmicking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gimmicked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gimmicked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A trick or device used to attain some end.
pos: noun
examples: The box had a gimmick to make the coin appear to vanish.
Epperlein and Tucker focus on two featherweight hopefuls: Dustin Poirier, a formidable contender who’s looking to parlay a history of schoolyard violence and street-fighting into a potential career, and Albert Stainback, a more thoughtful yet more erratic and undisciplined fighter whose chief gimmick is entering the ring wearing a hat like the one Malcolm McDowell wore in A Clockwork Orange.
Rear Admiral Mikhailovich: I don't begrudge the politicians' decision to throw you to the Council. It's an... opportunity. I do begrudge this overdesigned piece of tin, though.
Shepard: The Normandy is a fine ship, sir. She's served us well so far.
Rear Admiral Mikhailovich: It's a gimmick, Commander. Useless in a stand-up fight.
Rear Admiral Mikhailovich: This experiment diverted billions from our apportions bills. For the same price, we could've had a heavy cruiser.
Rear Admiral Mikhailovich: But no, we had to make nice to the turians. Throw money at a co-developed boondoggle.
gloss: A ploy or strategy used to attract attention or gain traction.
pos: noun
examples: The contest was a gimmick to get people to sign up for their mailing list.
gloss: A gimmick capacitor.
pos: noun
gloss: A night out with one's friends.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
gloss: To rig or set up with a trick or device.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The magician's box was gimmicked with a wire that made it appear to open on its own.
Derived words: gimmick account
gimmick blog
gimmickery
gimmickless
gimmickry
gimmicky
Translations:
quintuple
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Middle French quintuple, from Latin quīntuplus, from quīntus (“fifth”) + -plus (“-ple”).
Base: quīntus
Affixes: -plus
Inflected forms:
form: quintuples
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: quintuples
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: quintupling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: quintupled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quintupled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: having five parts or members
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: five times as much
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: having five crotchets in a bar
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: a fivefold amount
pos: noun
gloss: To multiply by five.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To be multiplied by five.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Synonyms: pentuple
pentaplex
quintuplex
Related words: single
solo
double
twofold
triple
threefold
quadruple
fourfold
quintuple
pentuple
fivefold
loner
singleton
monad
pair
couple
twosome
duo
dyad
trio
threesome
triad
troika
foursome
quartet
tetrad
fivesome
quintet
pentad
only one
singlet
twin
one of two
doublet
triplet
one of three
quadruplet
one of four
quintuplet
pentuplet
one of five
sextuple
hextuple
sixfold
septuple
heptuple
sevenfold
octuple
eightfold
ninefold
nonuple
tenfold
decuple
sixsome
sextet
hexad
sevensome
septet
heptad
eightsome
octet
octad
ninesome
nonet
ennead
tensome
decet
decad
sextuplet
hextuplet
one of six
one of seven
septuplet
heptuplet
octuplet
one of eight
one of nine
nonuplet
one of ten
decuplet
elevenfold
undecuple
hendecuple
twelvefold
duodecuple
thirteenfold
tredecuple
a hundredfold
centuple
multiple
elevensome
twelvesome
thirteensome
hundredsome
one of eleven
undecuplet
hendecuplet
one of twelve
duodecuplet
one of thirteen
tredecuplet
one of a hundred
centuplet
one of many
multiplet
Derived words: Quintuple Alliance
quintuple-click
quintuple double
quintuple meter
quintuple star system
quintuple time
subquintuple
quintuplet
quintuplicate
Translations:
maggie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English magpie
English -ie
English maggie
From magpie + -ie.
Inflected forms:
form: maggies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: maggy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of several kinds of bird in the family Corvidae, especially Pica pica.
pos: noun
gloss: A superficially similar Australian bird, Gymnorhina tibicen or Cracticus tibicen.
pos: noun
Translations:
krone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Danish krone (“crown”) and Norwegian krone. Doublet of corona, crown, korona, koruna, krona, and króna.
Inflected forms:
form: kroner
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The currency of Iceland, Denmark (including Greenland and the Faroe Islands) and Norway, divided into 100 øre, except in Iceland where 1 króna = 100 aurar.
pos: noun
Translations: