ending,termination- the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme); "I don't like words that have -ism as an ending" Verb1.suffix- attach a suffix to; "suffix words" affix- attach or become attached to a stem word; "grammatical morphemes affix to the stem" ...
We don't have it in the UK as much with places because of how the various parts of the UK has been conquered & renamed over its history, but it's still recognisable as a place name ending, and so sometimes it can be used to make a joke about a town/city that is populated by ...
6、e: the small dense structure in the middle of the centrosome细胞中心粒;中心体-omatumor; swelling refers to a doerdermatofibroma: fibrous tumor of the skin皮肤纤维瘤-or/-ereither a person or thingreceptor: a sensory nerve ending that responds to various stimuli感受器,受体-orycharacterized ...
adverbial suffix of Germanic origin expressing direction or tendency to or from a point, Old English-weard"toward," sometimes-weardes(with genitive singular ending of neuter adjectives), from Proto-Germanic*werda-(cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian-ward, Old Norse-verðr, German-wärts), var...
In English it marks sex only in personal names (Julia,Maria,Alberta) and in a few words from Italian or Spanish where a corresponding male form also is in use (donna,senora). -a(2) nominative neuter plural ending of certain nouns and adjectives in Latin and Greek that have been adopted...
-es, -ies Noun: plural of most nouns ending in -ch, -s, -sh, -o and -z and some in -f and -y passes, glasses, ladies, heroes -es, -ies Verb: third person singular present indicative of verbs that end in -ch, -s, -sh, - and some in -y blesses, hushes, fizzes, defies...
We add '–s' (or sometimes '–es') after most nouns for plurals (more than one). We use ‘-es’ to make it easier to hear the plural ending after words ending in ‘s’ or similar sounds. (Other sounds: ‘x’, ‘ch’, or ‘sh,’ some words ending with ‘o’ and all ...
ending,termination- the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme); "I don't like words that have -ism as an ending" Verb1.suffix- attach a suffix to; "suffix words" affix- attach or become attached to a stem word; "grammatical morphemes affix to the stem" ...
Abolishis a strong word, and signifies a complete removal, generally but not always by a summary act. It is the word specially used in connection with things that have been long established or deeply rooted, as an institution or a custom : as toabolishslavery or polygamy. [Century Dictionary...
Also comparewhitester"one who bleaches cloth;"kempster(c. 1400; Halliwell has it askembster) "woman who cleans wool." Chaucer ("Merchant's Tale") haschidester"an angry woman" (the 17c. hadscoldster). "Piers Plowman" (late 14c.) haswaferster"woman who bakes or sells wafers." A c...