yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
polyketide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús
Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor.
English poly-
English ketide
English polyketide
From poly- + ketide.
Inflected forms:
form: polyketides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any polymer whose monomer is a ketide.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of many biochemical intermediates, having such a structure, that have a role in biosynthesis and metabolism.
pos: noun
Synonyms: acetogenin
Derived words: polyketidic
polyketide synthase
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: polyketidi
lang: Italian
word: polichetide
biosynthesis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os)
Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der.
English bio-
English synthesis
English biosynthesis
From bio- + synthesis.
Inflected forms:
form: biosyntheses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The synthesis of organic compounds within a living organism, especially the synthesis of large compounds from small ones.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The rate-limiting step for cytokinin biosynthesis involves a group of isopentenyltransferase (IPT) enzymes.
Translations:
ladyboy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From lady + boy.
Compound parts: lady
boy
Inflected forms:
form: ladyboys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A trans woman or transfeminine person in or from Asia, especially Thailand.
pos: noun
tags: Thailand
offensive
Translations:
microloan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: banking
business
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
English loan
English microloan
From micro- + loan.
Inflected forms:
form: microloans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small loan, especially one extended to a poor person as part of a microcredit program of such lending intended to alleviate poverty.
pos: noun
examples: He got a one hundred dollar microloan.
Translations:
negotiable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
law
Etymology: Etymology tree
English negotiate
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English negotiable
From negotiate + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more negotiable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most negotiable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: negotiables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Able to be traversed; navigable.
pos: adj
gloss: Able to be transferred to another person, with or without endorsement, in exchange for money.
pos: adj
examples: The court had to decide if a "telecheck" had been "signed" by the purported "drawer," and in doing so the court had to determine whether a "telecheck" is a negotiable instrument[…]
gloss: Open to negotiation or bargaining.
pos: adj
examples: Salary is negotiable, according to education and experience.
gloss: Something that is open to negotiation.
pos: noun
examples: “It is only once you start looking at houses that you realize what you do and don’t like, and what your negotiables and nonnegotiables are,” Ms. Wexler said.
Antonyms: non-negotiable
Derived words: negotiability
negotiable instrument
negotiableness
negotiably
nonnegotiable
unnegotiable
Translations:
mifepristone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English (a)mi(no)phe(nyl)
English pr(opargyl)
English ist-
German Ketonbor.
English ketone
English -one
English mifepristone
From (a)mi(no)phe(nyl) + pr(opargyl) + ist- (“alteration of (o)est(radiol)”) + -one.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A steroid medication that inhibits the action of progesterone, typically given orally in combination with misoprostol in early pregnancy to induce abortion.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Now a year later, as the courts consider the fate of mifepristone and abortion providers gird for the possibility of a miso-only protocol, Cristina says that she’s grateful she was able to end her unwanted pregnancy, although she knows not everyone has access to the same resources […]
Translations:
self-medication
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English medication
English self-medication
From self- + medication.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The treatment or medication of oneself without professional advice in order to treat a real or imagined condition.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
fieldwork
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
Etymology: From Middle English *felde-werk (found in plural felde werkes), equivalent to field + work.
Compound parts: field
work
Inflected forms:
form: fieldworks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: field work
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Work done out in the fields as opposed to that done elsewhere on the farm (e.g., barn, house, outbuildings, office).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The days now were occupied in field work and more field work; he cleared new bits of ground, getting out roots and stones; plowing, manuring, harrowing, working with pick and spade, breaking lumps of soil and crumbling them with hand and heel; a tiller of the ground always, laying out fields like velvet carpets. He waited a couple of days longer―there was a look of rain about―and then he sowed his grain.
Besides the bookkeeping and marketing, there's a ton of fieldwork to get done this week.
gloss: Work done out in the real world rather than in controlled conditions.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: That well Bob set up last weekend was some good fieldwork.
gloss: The collection of raw data in the field, field research, field study, field studies.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I thought the fieldwork in the course I was taking was going to be hard, but it was just interviewing people.
gloss: A temporary fortification built by troops in the field; a defensive earthwork in the field.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
examples: Billy's out building some fieldwork so that our enemies don't walk right over us.
Related words: fieldhand
field test
field trip
in the field
Translations:
lang: Dutch
word: veldwerk
lang: Finnish
word: peltotyö
lang: French
word: travaux des champs
lang: Old English
word: æcerweorc
lang: Polish
word: praca na roli
lang: Russian
word: полевы́е рабо́ты
roman: polevýje rabóty
shiso
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 紫蘇 (shiso).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Any of several varieties of the herb Perilla frutescens, related to basil and mint, used in Japanese cooking.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
sha
Part of speech: noun
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Russian ша (ša)bor.
English sha
Borrowed from Russian ша (ša).
Inflected forms:
form: shas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The letter Ш, ш.
pos: noun
gloss: dear, honey, hon
pos: intj
tags: endearing
Translations:
neckerchief
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English nekkyrchefe, neckercheve, equivalent to neck + kerchief.
Base: neck
Inflected forms:
form: neckerchiefs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: neckerchieves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: neck kerchief
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: neck-kerchief
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: neckkerchief
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A scarf that is worn looped or tied around the neck.
pos: noun
examples: The Boy Scout wore a red neckerchief, the ends clasped with a sliding knot ornament.
Self-assured, peripatetic and unfailingly dapper — he favored dark double-breasted suits and the occasional neckerchief, and once made the cover of Men’s Vogue in Italy — Mr. Enwezor never doubted that an African had every right to take the lead at Western art institutions.
The fella in question was still sitting at his table, sans everything above the neckerchief. There was blood everywhere, and brain matter, and bits of skull, and what looked like very expensive bone china.
Translations:
overpass
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
Proto-Indo-European *peth₂-der.
Proto-Italic *pattus
Vulgar Latin passus
Proto-Italic *-āzi
▲
Vulgar Latin -ereinflu.
Vulgar Latin -āre
Vulgar Latin *passāre
Old French passerbor.
Middle English passen
English pass
English overpass
From over- + pass.
Inflected forms:
form: overpasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: o'erpass
pos: noun
tags: alternative
poetic
form: overpasses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: overpassing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: overpassed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: overpassed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: o'erpass
pos: verb
tags: alternative
poetic
Senses:
gloss: A section of a road or path that crosses over an obstacle, especially another road, railway, etc.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
Philippines
US
examples: The homeless man had built a little shelter, complete with cook-stove, beneath a concrete overpass.
By visible evidence, this Saturday morning is a comparatively placid one. Earlier in the week a young man had died after being stabbed in a flat, and from the overpass at Archway Road, darkly referred to as “suicide bridge,” another man had jumped to his death.
gloss: To pass above something, as when flying or moving on a higher road.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
Philippines
US
examples: Gillian watched the overpassing shoppers on the second floor of the mall, as she relaxed in the bench on the ground floor.
gloss: To exceed, overstep, or transcend a limit, threshold, or goal.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
Philippines
US
transitive
examples: Marshall was really overpassing his authority when he ordered the security guards to fire their tasers at the trespassers.
The precocious student had really overpassed her peers, and was reading books written for children several years older.
Thou who didst fling on Troia's every tower / The o'er-roofing snare, that neither great thing might, / Nor any of the young ones, overpass / Captivity's great sweep-net— […]
For as was the land, such was the art of it while folk yet troubled themselves about such things; it strove little to impress people either by pomp or ingenuity: not unseldom it fell into commonplace, rarely it rose into majesty; yet was it never oppressive, never a slave’s nightmare or an insolent boast: and at its best it had an inventiveness, an individuality, that grander styles have never overpassed: […]
gloss: To disregard, skip, or miss something.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
Philippines
US
transitive
examples: A youth, how all the beauties of the East / He slightly viewed and slightly overpassed.
Synonyms: surpass
transgress
miss
overlook
take no notice of
fail to notice
Antonyms: underpass
subway
Translations:
thunderbird
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From thunder + bird.
Compound parts: thunder
bird
Inflected forms:
form: thunderbirds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mythological bird, often associated with stormy weather, especially in various indigenous North American mythologies.
pos: noun
examples: A man there was, grim his expression, just like a Thunderbird his features were frightening.
The Thunderbird, one of the most powerful symbols of Indigenous American mythology, borrows heavily from eagle features.
Candace Thomas, a Tsleil-Waututh artist, provided the design for the crosswalk which now spans the intersection of Dollarton Highway and Sleil-Waututh Road. It depicts a thunderbird embracing both residential school survivors and missing and murdered Indigenous women, according to the news release.
gloss: The golden whistler, an Australian insectivorous songbird (Pachycephala pectoralis, formerly Pachycephala gutturalis), whose male is conspicuously marked with black and yellow, and has a black crescent on the breast.
pos: noun
Translations:
cropper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See come a cropper.
Inflected forms:
form: croppers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fall, a tumble; a decided failure.
pos: noun
examples: But to myself I thought: ‘Considering that for eight whole years I sat on the front bench as top of the class while he drifted about somewhere in the middle, he can hardly fail to nourish a wish, left over from his schooldays, that some day or other I may come a complete cropper.’
You're riding for a fall, Healey, you know that? There are hedges and ditches ahead and you are on course for an almighty cropper.
Translations:
cooing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cooings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A coo; a cooing sound.
pos: noun
gloss: A stage in the development of child language after crying and before babbling; the baby is able to control their sounds but tongue muscles are not well developed.
pos: noun
Translations:
badged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more badged
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most badged
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Wearing a badge
pos: adj
Translations:
obfuscated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more obfuscated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most obfuscated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having undergone obfuscation.
pos: adj
gloss: Drunk.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
slang
Synonyms: hidden
Derived words: unobfuscated
Translations:
supermini
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: superminis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small motor car, especially a hatchback, which is powerful for its size or class
pos: noun
gloss: A superminicomputer
pos: noun
Translations:
tajine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: From Moroccan Arabic طَجِين (ṭajīn), from Arabic طَاجِن (ṭājin, “shallow earthen pot”), from Ancient Greek τάγηνον (tágēnon, “frying pan, saucepan”), further etymology unknown.
Inflected forms:
form: tajines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tagin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tagine
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tajin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An earthenware cooking pot of North African origin, consisting of a shallow, round dish without handles and a tall, conical or dome-shaped lid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: On a round table, food is served in a central platter or tagine or in shallow dishes so that it can be easily picked up with the fingers.
Sometimes, in very densely populated urban areas in Egypt, one can still see children navigating their way through the labyrinthine maze of shops in the souk (marketplace) to bring their tagins to the bread baker.
A tajine is a heavy ceramic plate covered with a conical lid of the same material. The prettiest tajines, decorated in all sorts of colours and designs, come from Safi, but the best tajines for actual use are plain reddish-brown in colour, and come from Salé. The food in a tajine is arranged with the meat in the middle and the vegetables piled up around it.
gloss: A stew, originally from Morocco, the ingredients of which are traditionally cooked slowly in such a pot; the dish is normally served with couscous.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: [T]he term couscous is applied to the cereal along with a great variety of accompanying tajins (stews) and desserts.
One of Morocco's most famous traditional specialities tajine (also spelled tahine or tadjine) gets its name from glazed earthenware pot used to prepare it, the tajine slaoui. It consists of a saucepan with a tall, often nicely decorated, very tight-fitting, cone-shaped lid that transforms it into a sort of Dutch oven. The high "hat" lets steam circulate, making it the ideal vessel for cooking stews.
Vegetarian entrees include vegetable tagin, stuffed squash, and maklouba (mixed vegetables with rice and yogurt), and come with a choice of soup or one of four Middle Eastern salads [...].
Fresh broad beans are used when in season, the young beans added to tagines with the skin on; when more mature, the beans are blanched and skinned before cooking.
While they were finishing an excellent fish tagin—fish and tomato stew with rice cooked in a clay pot—he listened to her fantastic story.
The specialized restaurants that only serve tajin dishes are one of the essential destinations of Morocco. [...] When at a tajin restaurant in Morocco, relax, unwind, and converse like the locals while waiting for the food to be prepared.
The classic tajines combine meat with fruit and spices. [...] When eating a tajine, you start on the outside with the vegetables, and work your way to the meat at the heart of the dish, scooping up the food with bread.
Translations:
cleistogamous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κλειστός (kleistós, “closed”) + -gamous.
Affixes: -gamous
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to cleistogamy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
half-ass
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From half + -ass, see half-assed.
Base: half
Affixes: -ass
Inflected forms:
form: more half-ass
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most half-ass
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: half-arse
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
form: half-asses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: half-assing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: half-assed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: half-assed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: half-arse
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
Senses:
gloss: Produced in an incompetent or desultory manner, or of something lacking in quality or substance; of low rank; incompetent.
pos: adj
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: the only abortion she could get even in the city would be a half-ass job by some half-ass doctor who could mess her up for the rest of her life
gloss: To perform a task incompletely or carelessly.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
vulgar
examples: Near-synonyms: phone in, shortchange, underdo
Now, we go out there and we half-ass it because we're scared, all we're left with is an excuse. We're always gonna wonder. But, we go out there and we give it absolutely everything… that's heroic.
if you're working for me and I send you to do a job and you half-ass it, that reflects on me. In civilian life, we'd just fire you. Here I can't get rid of you.
Translations:
half-assed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Possibly a humorous mispronunciation of haphazard.
Inflected forms:
form: more half-assed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most half-assed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: half-arsed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
Senses:
gloss: Poorly or incompetently done; desultory.
pos: adj
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: Near-synonym: halfhearted
a half-assed attempt at something
We’ve been settling for half-assed bullshit for too long.
Translations:
T-ball
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: T-balls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tee ball
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tee-ball
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: T ball
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A form of baseball, played by young children, in which the batter hits a ball placed on a tee rather than being thrown by a pitcher.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
examples: His dad found that the store-bought baseball stand broke every time the bat hit the tee, but using a medium sized pylon let the kids play a full game of T-ball without any fuss.
gloss: The lightweight wiffleball used to play a game of T-ball.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
Translations:
thigh-high
Part of speech: noun
adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: thigh-highs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hold-up stocking.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: My bureau drawers were knotted with nylon stockings and "thigh hi's," my closet was cluttered with little pointed shoes.
Every once in a while a girl has to stop brooding over gender injustice, start thinking about sexual revenge, and slip into her thigh-highs and stiletto heels to lure a few dopes to destruction.
The resulting outfit: a cape, a breath-stealing corset, and a sheer black skirt atop a black vinyl thong and fishnet thigh-highs.
One of them wore a microskirt, and he could see the tops of black or navy thigh-highs as he stopped to pick them up.
gloss: That is at thigh level; that reaches up to thigh level.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Ashley: If you expect to get me in a tinfoil miniskirt and thigh-high boots, I want dinner first.
Shops' shelves were emptied on Friday as people began stockpiling food, with some unable to leave their homes due to the thigh-high snow.
gloss: Up to the thigh.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
undercard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: card-games
government
poker
politics
Etymology: From under- + card.
Base: card
Affixes: under-
Inflected forms:
form: undercards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A list of minor or supporting contests printed on the same bill as the main event (primarily fighting or racing, such as the main fight at a boxing match or wrestling, horse or car racing, etc.), occurring before or after the main event.
pos: noun
examples: Phil Foden can hardly be called a member of Manchester City's undercard given his consistent brilliance, but his precious value was underlined again with a show of dazzling brilliance against Aston Villa.
gloss: The events so listed.
pos: noun
gloss: A card lower than another given card or pair.
pos: noun
examples: The eight on the turn was another undercard to her pair of nines
gloss: The supporting candidate on a ticket, such as vice president.
pos: noun
Translations:
unelectable
Part of speech: adj
noun
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 electable
English unelectable
From un- + electable.
Inflected forms:
form: more unelectable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unelectable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unelectables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Incapable or unlikely of being elected to political office, especially due to a lack of suitable qualities or policies.
pos: adj
examples: Just to be on the safe side, the Kremlin has also banned any of Putin's serious critics from standing. Three unelectable misfits have been allowed to mount token challenges.
gloss: A person who is unable, unlikely, or unfit to be elected to office.
pos: noun
Translations:
deconversion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
English conversion
English deconversion
From de- + conversion.
Inflected forms:
form: deconversions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Undoing or dissolution of conversion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Undoing or dissolution of conversion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: convert
deconvert
reconvert
Translations:
nonbeliever
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English non-
English believer
English nonbeliever
From non- + believer.
Inflected forms:
form: nonbelievers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: non-believer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who does not believe, especially regarding religion.
pos: noun
examples: The many nonbelievers he interviewed[…] were anything but antireligious, for example. […] At one point, he queries Jens, a 68-year-old nonbeliever, about the sources of Denmark’s very ethical culture.
Translations:
zayde
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Yiddish זיידע (zeyde, “grandfather”).
Inflected forms:
form: zaydes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zada
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: zaida
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: zaide
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: zaideh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: zaidy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: zayda
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: zaydee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: zaydeh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: zaydie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: zeda
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: zeideh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: zeidi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: zeidy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: zeyde
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: zeydie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: grandfather
pos: noun
tags: Jewish
examples: Perhaps, in these circumstances, he would greet his granddaughter as a zayde should, with love and affection.
gloss: elderly man (as a term of respect)
pos: noun
tags: Jewish
examples: The zayde is, as the hoary formula demands, gruff on the outside but wonderful to his horse and David...
To many people, the phrase "Jewish elderly" still conjures up images of bearded zaydes with yarmulkes...
Translations:
e-passport
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English electronic
English e-
English passport
English e-passport
From e- + passport.
Inflected forms:
form: e-passports
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a biometric passport
pos: noun
examples: A Home Office analysis seen by the Guardian has concluded that changes announced by Philip Hammond on Wednesday, which allow citizens from seven other countries including the US to use e-passports to travel through Britain, will slow down UK citizens’ journey times.
The government has said in a paper on the UK’s post-Brexit border operating model that it will “ensure that EU, EEA and Swiss citizens may also continue to use our e-passport gates and the existing queueing arrangements”.
Translations:
biometric
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bio- + -metric, or biometry + -ic.
Base: bio
Inflected forms:
form: biometrics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or using biometrics.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to biometry.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A metric that measures a biologic characteristic.
pos: noun
Related words: bioscientific
biotechnological
Derived words: biometrically
biometric passport
chronobiometric
multibiometric
nonbiometric
unibiometric
Translations:
biometrics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os)
Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der.
English bio-
English metrics
English biometrics
From bio- + metrics.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The automated measurement of biological data.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The automated recognition or authentication of an individual's identity based on their behavioural and biological characteristics, such as iris appearance, fingerprint, or face shape.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: cliometrics
Derived words: biometrician
multibiometrics
nanobiometrics
Translations:
skywriter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sky + writer.
Compound parts: sky
writer
Inflected forms:
form: skywriters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who does skywriting. A pilot who writes messages, by leaving a trail of smoke from the plane, that are visible from the ground.
pos: noun
Translations:
skywriting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sky + writing.
Compound parts: sky
writing
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Messages, left by leaving a trail of smoke from an airplane, that are visible from the ground.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
skywards
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sky
English -wards
English skywards
From sky + -wards.
Inflected forms:
form: skyward
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In the direction of the sky; upwards.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The explosion sent him skywards.
It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. [...] He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.
The lights of Luluabourg disappeared, and we were in the blackness of the African night, which was continuously pierced by the showers of red sparks ejected skywards and red hot ashes deposited on the track as the fireman rocked his fire.
[I]f your neighbour is not exploiting their potential to go skywards, you can buy it off them and make your building even taller. It seems fitting that in the cut-throat capital of capitalism, even the air is for sale.
Translations:
skycap
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sky + cap, modeled after redcap (“railroad porter”).
Compound parts: sky
cap
Inflected forms:
form: skycaps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A porter at an airport.
pos: noun
examples: JAMES CARTER: You put your own shit in the back; I'm not a skycap.
Translations:
skulker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English skulk
English -er
English skulker
From skulk + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: skulkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Agent noun of skulk; one who skulks.
pos: noun
examples: 1894, William Taylor Adams (as Oliver Optic), Brother Against Brother, or The War on the Border, Boston: Lee and Shepard, Chapter 22, p. 274,
Our men, from their position, can’t see these skulkers, who will have a good chance to pick off some of them at their leisure.
The Lyonesse army cautiously advanced into the forest, but came upon no Daut resistance. Cassander’s dissatisfaction was compounded by the pulsing pain in his shoulder. He began to curse under his breath. “Where are the skulkers? Why do they not reveal themselves?”
gloss: Agent noun of skulk; one who skulks.
pos: noun
examples: Afterwards he was again taken by Ethiopian Skulkers, and carry’d away into the Maritime Parts of Ethiopia.
1800, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (translator), The Death of Wallenstein by Friedrich Schiller, Act I, Scene 7, in Wallenstein. A Drama in Two Parts, London: Longman and Rees, p. 24,
O that thou hadst believ’d me! Yester evening
Did we conjure thee not to let that skulker,
That fox, Octavio, pass the gates of Pilsen.
Thou gav’st him thy own horses to flee from thee.
1911, Charles G. D. Roberts, Neighbors Unknown, New York: Macmillan, Chapter “The Bull of the Barrens,” p. 205,
In the meantime the pack, maddened by failure and ravenous from the view of food denied, had resumed the trail of the man. They were different beings now from the wary skulkers who had been following him from afar.
gloss: Agent noun of skulk; one who skulks.
pos: noun
examples: When we appeared upon deck, the captain bid the doctor, who stood bowing at his right hand, look at these lazy, lubberly sons of bitches, who were good for nothing on board, but to eat the king’s provision, and encourage idleness in the skulkers.
John himself was no skulker in joy. He not only bestowed on Mr. Morland the high commendation of being one of the finest fellows in the world, but swore off many sentences in his praise.
A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations. I must be up and doing; I must be no skulker in life’s battle.
Mr. Ap Dave, the Chancellor […] had risen in his place to make an unprovoked apology for having alluded in a recent speech to certain protesting taxpayers as “skulkers.”
Translations:
skoal
Part of speech: intj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Danish/Norwegian/Swedish skål, which is used when making a toast and also means "bowl".
Inflected forms:
form: skoals
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: skoaling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: skoaled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: skoaled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A toast when drinking, roughly equivalent to cheers.
pos: intj
gloss: To make such a toast.
pos: verb
examples: With their aquavit the Scandinavians observe a lovely ritual called skoaling, or "toasting." Skoaling is more formal, however, than toasting is in our country. At a dinner party the host always skoals first.
Translations:
sky-high
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sky + high.
Compound parts: sky
high
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: extremely tall
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a sky-high building
She is elegant on sky-high heels in spite of the rubble and the cracks in the paving.
gloss: excessive, exorbitant
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The fees were sky-high, so I refused to pay.
Superinflation blew prices sky-high.
They had to bid against a private buyer, which pushed the price sky high.
Translations:
exorbitantly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English exorbitant
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English exorbitantly
From exorbitant + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more exorbitantly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most exorbitantly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an exorbitant manner, excessively.
pos: adv
examples: Now on adding of a single gene to it, the entire variety is claimed by some other body as if it is its own property and is attempting to exorbitantly economically misexploit at the cost of Indian Agriculture.
[…] parasiting and aerial refueling as range-extension measures. Second, parasiting would be exorbitantly expensive, because each parasite bomber would need its own carrier. Two bombers could be serviced by a single tanker, however,[…]
Translations:
nodular
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English nodule
English -ar
English nodular
From nodule + -ar.
Inflected forms:
form: more nodular
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nodular
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a nodule or nodules.
pos: adj
gloss: Possessing, composed of, or similar in form to nodules.
pos: adj
examples: Loose nodular deposits of gold metal are commonly referred to as nuggets.
The disease causes nodular black growths that may become pustular.
The capsule in both families is spherical, with a bistratose wall; the outer cell layer usually bears nodular thickenings[…]; the inner layer (of nearly equally large cells) lacks the regular semiannular or annular thickenings of most other leafy liverworts[…]
Derived words: acinonodular
extranodular
fibronodular
granulonodular
internodular
lymphonodular
macronodular
micronodular
muconodular
multinodular
nodularity
nonnodular
papulonodular
paranodular
perinodular
pseudonodular
reticulonodular
septonodular
uninodular
Translations:
nuttiness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English nutty
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 nuttiness
From nutty + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: nuttinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or degree of having a nutty flavor or texture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The nuttiness of the Belgian chocolates was remarkable.
gloss: The quality or degree of having a nutty aspect; craziness or zaniness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He watched a little of the sitcom, but the nuttiness was off-putting, so he decided to read a book instead.
Translations:
invertible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English invert
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 invertible
From invert + -ible.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being inverted or turned.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Able to be inverted, having an inverse.
pos: adj
tags: especially
not-comparable
gloss: Capable of being changed or converted.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: invertible sugar
Derived words: invertibility
invertible matrix
noninvertible
uninvertible
Translations:
Monsieur
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French Monsieurbor.
English Monsieur
Borrowed from French Monsieur.
Inflected forms:
form: Monsieurs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Messieurs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Mister, especially in a French context.
pos: noun
examples: It will appear by the Minutes sent You to June i6th last, and by those which accompany this Letter, that Messieurs Smith and Schlatter have done their Part; [...]
As the Monsieurs suddenly showed up and confronted the situation with wicked grins on their faces, the gang members decided to sullenly disperse and slink away. It was like a scene from an old West showdown.
Estella smiled when she considered how very different her circumstances were now to those when, not so long ago, she had feared Monsieur Jones, and thought of him only as her captor. Now, he was something else: her liberator, ...
Translations:
neo-pagan
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *nu
Proto-Indo-European *néwos
Proto-Hellenic *néwos
Ancient Greek νέος (néos)
Ancient Greek νεο- (neo-)der.
English neo-
English pagan
English neo-pagan
From neo- + pagan.
Inflected forms:
form: neopagan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: neo-pagans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: neopagan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to neo-paganism; a modern form of paganism.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The neopagan impulse of the classical revival.
1901, J. A. Symonds, American Journal of Sociology 6, page 560,
The Italian Renaissance produced a brief but astounding burst of neo-pagan individualism.
gloss: An adherent of neo-paganism; a modern pagan.
pos: noun
examples: 1868 April 5, William James, letter, in R. B. Perry (ed.), The thought and character of William James as revealed in unpublished correspondence, together with his published writings 1842–1910, (1935), volume I, page 268,
The very persons who would most writhe and wail at their surroundings if transported back into early Greece, would, I think, be the neo-pagans and Hellas worshipers of today.
Translations:
activewear
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old French actifbor.
Middle English actyf
English active
Proto-Indo-European *wes-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Indo-European *woséyeti
Proto-Germanic *wazjaną
Proto-West Germanic *waʀjan
Old English werian
Middle English weren
English wear
English -wear
English activewear
From active + -wear.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Casual clothing that is comfortable to wear when exercising or partaking in sport; sportswear.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
sportswear
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sports
Proto-Indo-European *wes-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Indo-European *woséyeti
Proto-Germanic *wazjaną
Proto-West Germanic *waʀjan
Old English werian
Middle English weren
English wear
English -wear
English sportswear
From sports + -wear.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Casual clothing that is comfortable to wear when exercising or partaking in sport; activewear.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Yohji Yamamoto's strength was to stick with the sportswear that has inspired him since he teamed up with Adidas to create the imaginative pin-striped or painted-denim footwear that walked his grass-turf runway.
Translations:
short-timer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Inflected forms:
form: short-timers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A soldier during the Vietnam War who had less than two months to serve.
pos: noun
tags: US
historical
slang
examples: Almost every Marine in Viet Nam carries a short-timer’s calendar of his tour of duty—the usual 365 days—plus a bonus of 20 days for being a Marine.
gloss: A person who would not be required to do a difficult or dangerous task.
pos: noun
gloss: An employee who has given notice of their intent to leave.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: The customer of a prostitute.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
Translations:
retiarius
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin rētiāriuslbor.
English retiarius
Learned borrowing from Latin rētiārius.
Inflected forms:
form: retiari
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: retiarii
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A gladiator who uses a casting net (a rete or iaculum) as a weapon.
pos: noun
tags: Ancient-Rome
Translations:
common-or-garden
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: An extension of the practice of naming domestic – and therefore non-exotic – plants as common or garden, such as common lavender/garden lavender (Lavandula angustifolia).
Inflected forms:
form: common or garden
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: ordinary, standard.
pos: adj
tags: Ireland
UK
not-comparable
examples: It's just a common-or-garden fridge but it works fine.
It is to do away entirely with both the magicians and their magic and run our civilization according to practical and comprehensible rules, dedicated to non-legal justice, to common-or-garden fairness that the ordinary man can understand, in the regulation of human affairs.
Comparing Quantum Mechanics to Common-or-Garden Mechanics.
For what was objective existence in the long run but a series of common-or-garden situations?
Translations:
common-and-garden
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: ordinary, standard.
pos: adj
tags: UK
idiomatic
examples: It's just a common-and-garden fridge, but it works fine.
Translations:
backwardly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English backward
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English backwardly
From backward + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more backwardly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most backwardly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a backward direction.
pos: adv
examples: 1552, Richard Huloet, Abcedarium Anglico Latinum
Bowed backwardlye, recuruue.
Antonyms: forwardly
Translations:
well-appointed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: PIE word
 *h₂éd
From well (adverb) + appointed (“provided with necessities, equipped, fitted-out”, adjective).
Compound parts: well
appointed
Inflected forms:
form: better-appointed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more well-appointed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: best-appointed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most well-appointed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Chiefly of accommodation: properly supplied with a complete set of whatever furniture, equipment, etc., is needed; fully equipped or fitted-out; also, beautifully decorated.
pos: adj
examples: a well-appointed kitchen
VVhat vvel appointed Leader fronts vs heere?
She to the Scottiſh her faire courſe adreſt, / Nor vvould deſiſt till ſhe had raiſde agen, / Ten thouſand valient vvell-appointed men.
In him, thy vvell appointed proxy ſee, / Armed for a vvork too difficult for thee, […]
Boat trains are dealt with on either side of a 1,010-ft. long island platform, from which escalators and lifts convey passengers and luggage to the vast upper floor, laid out on the modern, spacious and well-appointed lines that ought to grace the concourse of all the biggest and busiest stations in the country.
Translations:
folderol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Originally a nonsense refrain in songs, since circa 1701, as "fal, al, deral!", and 1820, used to make the song longer without adding more meaningful content (see non-lexical vocables in music). Compare falleri, fallera, extended as falleralla or fallerallera, in Swedish and German songs.
Inflected forms:
form: folderols
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fol-de-rol
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fol de rol
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: falderal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Nonsense or foolishness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: William Maclay, a Pennsylvania Democrat and a senator, was a watchdog against the development of any monarchial folderol gathering about the office of the president.
[The librarian] rang the bell at nine. I hurried over to Philosophy and grabbed anything. It was another Nietzsche: Man and Superman. I knew that would get her. Before stamping it, she flipped a few pages.
"My!" she said. "What books you read!"
I said, "Haw. That's nothing. I never read folderol."
She smiled good night.
In this confrontation with the magic of science and the magic of folderol, it is almost impossible not to side with the magic of folderol, and the silly, but relatively benign, Merlin.
“To say the essay has 'development of ideas' is absolute folderol.”
“I beg your pardon?” Maria asked.
“Folly,” he explained pedantically. “Poppycock. Gibberish.”
“I know what folderol means,” Maria said. “I just think you better watch what you say.”
gloss: A decorative object of little value; a trifle or gewgaw.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: And they made a mistake there: the prizes were a lot of folderols and doodads like poetry books and illustrated Testaments, instead of something a real live kid would want to work for, like real cash or a speedometer for his motor cycle.
He didn't share Miss Flora's penchant for collecting gaudy, useless knickknacks, and wouldn't have bought any of those foolish, foreign fandangles and folderols if he did have the money to waste.
“I notice you're not keen on folderols.”
“Folderols?” Amanda echoed uncomprehendingly.
“My grandmother's term for decorative items, pictures, knick-knacks,” Connor's hand swept the room.
Related words: frippery
scat singing
Translations:
benignly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English benignely; equivalent to benign + -ly.
Base: benign
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more benignly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most benignly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a benign manner.
pos: adv
examples: When he recovered sufficiently to articulate, Bunson had stalked away, and Quin was regarding him benignly, like an adjutant bird who had just concluded an interesting experiment on a worm.
Modern doctors nod benignly at some of the remedies and principles in Bald's Leechbook, but none has a good word to say for bloodletting - nor for cautery, the other medieval method of balancing the humours.
Translations: