yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
dunam
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hebrew דּוּנָם (dúnam) or Arabic دُونُم (dūnum), from Turkish dönüm, from dönmek (“to turn”). A probable calque of Byzantine Greek στρέμμα (strémma, “stremma”, literally “that which is turned”).
Inflected forms:
form: dunams
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dunum
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An Ottoman Turkish unit of surface area nominally equal to 1,600 square (Turkish) paces but actually varied at a provincial and local level according to land quality to accommodate its colloquial sense of the amount of land able to be plowed in a day, roughly equivalent to the Byzantine stremma or English acre.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: You pay eight marks and they plant a dunam of land for you with olives, oranges, almonds or citrons.
gloss: A modern Turkish unit of surface area equal to a decare (1000 m²), equivalent to the modern Greek stremma.
pos: noun
gloss: Various other units in other areas of the former Ottoman Empire, usually equated to the decare but sometimes varying (as in Iraq, where it is 2500 m²).
pos: noun
Synonyms: stremma
old stremma
Turkish stremma
Ottoman stremma
Translations:
heptane
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From hept- + -ane.
Base: hept
Inflected forms:
form: heptanes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the nine isomers of the saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon C₇H₁₆, obtained from petroleum, especially n-heptane (CH₃(CH₂)₅CH₃)
pos: noun
Translations:
dup
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English don up (“to open”), equivalent to a blend of do + up. Compare don, doff, dout, dub.
Compound parts: do
up
Inflected forms:
form: dups
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dupping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dupped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dupped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: to open (a door, gate etc.)
pos: verb
examples: Then up he rose and donned his clothes, / And dupped the chamber door;
He had seen, that Maundy Thursday afternoon, dupping their chamber door in all maaaaaaa innocence.
Translations:
moody
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English mody, modi, from Old English mōdiġ (“brave”), from Proto-Germanic *mōdagaz (“courageous”). By surface analysis, mood + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: moodier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: moodiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: moodie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Given to sudden or frequent changes of mind; temperamental.
pos: adj
examples: How now? moodie? / What is't thou canſt demand?
gloss: Sulky or depressed.
pos: adj
gloss: Dour, gloomy or brooding.
pos: adj
examples: There's something special about tidal estuaries, due to the abundance of wildlife and the ever-changing scenes as the water ebbs or rises. Throw in some moody skies and filtered sunlight, and the views can resemble a painting by Turner - only you don't have to go to the National Gallery to see this, it's brought to your seat on a train.
gloss: Of dubious origin; counterfeit or stolen.
pos: adj
tags: UK
slang
examples: Both Garry and Wally were dressed in dodgy suits and looked ready to hit the streets of Peckham to sell moody goods.
Derived words: moodily
moodiness
overmoody
Translations:
demi
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of demisexual.
Inflected forms:
form: more demi
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most demi
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Demisexual.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: “[...] I totally think she's demi.” “What?” “Demisexual? She only likes fucking people she's in love with, whereas I,” Maddie said, moving closer to Jordan, “like fucking anything and anyone. Everyone has such hang-ups about sex, it's like pathetic, you know? We are just, like, totally animals after all, evolved monkeys. I'm all for giving in to my primal instincts.”
Translations:
symmetrical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English symmetry
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
English symmetrical
From symmetry + -ical.
Inflected forms:
form: more symmetrical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most symmetrical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Exhibiting symmetry; having harmonious or proportionate arrangement of parts; having corresponding parts or relations.
pos: adj
examples: symmetrical design
perfectly symmetrical
The building had a perfectly symmetrical façade.
She admired the symmetrical pattern of the snowflake.
Translations:
strenuous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin strenuus (“quick”).
Inflected forms:
form: more strenuous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most strenuous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having great vigour or energy; forceful.
pos: adj
examples: strenuous exercise
strenuous activity
gloss: Requiring great exertion; very laborious.
pos: adj
examples: It [Troutbeck] has religious isolation also, for it is several miles—and very strenuous miles in winter—from the parish church at Mungrisdale, and the introduction of the harmonium to the waiting room was due to the zeal of a vicar of many years ago who, in the absence of any other room in the village, obtained permission to use the premises for services, including Sunday School. Most of his successors have continued this self-sacrificing duty.
We can achieve this god‐likeness only by unremitting and strenuous effort of the intellect.
Whether you need to recover from a stressful day, a strenuous workout or even an injury or surgery, restorative yoga may be just the thing for you.
Related words: strenuity
strenuosity
Derived words: nonstrenuous
overstrenuous
strenuously
strenuousness
superstrenuous
ultrastrenuous
unstrenuous
Translations:
deceitfully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English deceitful
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English deceitfully
From deceitful + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more deceitfully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most deceitfully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: deceiptfully
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: in a deceitful manner
pos: adv
gloss: with the intention to deceive
pos: adv
Translations:
kylie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From an Aboriginal Australian language, possibly Nyunga kylie.
Inflected forms:
form: kylies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kiley
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: kyley
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A boomerang.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Western
examples: Then we drove up to the cricket-ground to see them throw their boomerangs or kylies, which they did very cleverly. One of the kylies was broken against a tree, but most of the others flew with unerring precision.
The islanders have discovered that kylies made out of thin iron, such as ship′s tanks, are the most serviceable, and they show great dexterity in making them (see Fig. 6).
Far into the night the kylies kept sharply rattling in waves of metallic sound, the voices carrying far in bursts of song that ceased with startling abruptness.
Kylies were used by prehistoric people in all parts of the world. Usually made of wood, they were banana shaped; both faces of each arm were carved into curved, airfoil surfaces.
Translations:
eidetic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
medicine
neuroscience
phenomenology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From German eidetisch, from Ancient Greek εἰδητικός (eidētikós), from εἶδος (eîdos, “form”).
Inflected forms:
form: more eidetic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most eidetic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: edetic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Marked by or resulting from extraordinary ability to recall detailed and vivid mental images of visual images.
pos: adj
examples: an eidetic memory
‘Funny that I should remember it? I have an eidetic memory for numbers, can't help
Eidetic images are pictures in the head. They are internal images that have the full force of conventional vision, but which are retained solely in the mind of the eidetiker.
Les Assassins’ M. Fortier and M. Broullime and some others of his comrades-on-wheels believed Remy Marathe to be eidetic, near-perfect in recall and detail.
gloss: Of or relating to the essential forms of a phenomena.
pos: adj
Related words: photographic memory
Derived words: dyseidetic
eidetically
eidetic memory
eidetic reduction
eidetics
eidetiker
noneidetic
semi-eidetic
Translations:
portfolio
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
government
politics
Etymology: From Italian portafoglio; cognate with French portefeuille (“folder, wallet”), from Latin portāre (“to carry”) and folium (“sheet”). The meaning "collection of responsibilities" came by extension in the 1930s.
Inflected forms:
form: portfolios
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A case for carrying papers, drawings, photographs, maps and other flat documents.
pos: noun
examples: He opened an embroidered portfolio; and, from its perfumed depths, took out a letter, which he began to read aloud.
gloss: The collection of such documents, especially the works of an artist or photographer, or more generally, a presentation of an individual's work samples and skills (a career portfolio).
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: The post and the responsibilities of a cabinet minister or other head of a government department.
pos: noun
examples: His [Jared Kushner's] portfolio extended to foreign policy, as he brokered a new North American trade agreement and negotiated peace deals in the Middle East.
gloss: The group of investments and other assets held by an investor.
pos: noun
examples: Behind his [Terry Smith's] success is a simple formula: buy shares in companies that make basic necessities – from toilet paper to nappies, baby food to pet food, soap to shampoo. […] It's why his portfolio of just 20 companies includes names such as Unilever […] and Imperial Tobacco (Lambert & Butler, Gauloises, John Player Special, Rizla).
Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
gloss: A collection of assets; (figurative) any collection of things considered as investments or assets, (rarely) also liabilities.
pos: noun
examples: I would like to introduce you to our portfolio of services.
In the past, thoughts were too real to be kept like a cultural portfolio of stocks and bonds. But now we have mental assets.
Father: Darling, and no disrespect to you, Vicar, but what I'm thinking is this. How about a mixed portfolio, whereby we spread him through Judaism, Islam, Hindu, and so on, maintaining a firm base in the Church of England?
Mother: It does sound safer.
Father: Exactly.
Promising to protect the welfare state while adding further obligations to its portfolio has become customary for SPD and Greens.
gloss: A range of products.
pos: noun
examples: product portfolio
Related words: blad
curriculum vitae
repertoire
Derived words: e-portfolio
foreign portfolio investment
minister without portfolio
multiportfolio
nonportfolio
padfolio
portfolio career
portfolio frontier
portfolio worker
subportfolio
webfolio
Translations:
kif
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Moroccan Arabic كيف (kīf, “opiate”), from Arabic كَيْف (kayf, “joy”).
Inflected forms:
form: kaif
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: keef
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: kef
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: kief
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A kind of cannabis smoked in Morocco and Algeria, for its narcotic or intoxicating effects.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The kief, which is the flower and seeds of the plant, is the strongest, and a pipe of it half the size of a common English tobacco-pipe, is sufficient to intoxicate.
I perceived the odour of kif, and recognised the voices of Selam the Second, Abd-el-Rhaman, and others; it was an Arab orgie in full swing.
The trade goods – Persian rugs, salt, muskets, kif – trailed out behind them over the dunes, still lashed to the backs of rotting animals.
[…]then hung around the special Silver-Key-Members’ Lounge with the other ladies[…]smoking kif and making extremely delicate and oblique fun of their husbands’ sexual idiosyncrasies, […]
‘Some taxi driver, a Maghrebian…he suddenly swerved. They smoke kief, you know.’
Kif melts the brain; dexemyl sharpens the edges. (Kif makes you drift—makes you forget what someone said a minute before–hard to follow a long story or joke, […])
gloss: The state of relaxed stupor induced by cannabis.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The trichome of marijuana, a green powdery substance that falls from dry marijuana, high in THC and other cannabinoid compounds.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
indy
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From independent, by shortening, + -y.
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: indies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An independent entity.
pos: noun
examples: To survive, an indy needed hits big enough that distributors would pay up overdue accounts to get them
gloss: Independent, unaffiliated (especially not affiliated with a major organization or company).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
collinear
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English col-
English linear
English collinear
From col- + linear.
Inflected forms:
form: colinear
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Lying on the same straight line.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Coaxial.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: acollinear
bicollinear
collinear hoe
collinearity
collinearly
multicollinear
noncollinear
Translations:
moto
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: motos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: motos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: motoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: motoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: motoed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One of a series of motocross or BMX races.
pos: noun
examples: In fact, after the third of four motos, Hinkle had opened a comfortable lead toward the overall win, and perhaps he really didn't feel any pressure as he cruised home seventh in the final moto to lock up the crown.
gloss: A motorcycle or moped.
pos: noun
examples: He stood in the evening on the street in the haze of rain-flecked light. The backfire of a fucked moto cracked like a gunshot, but he did not flinch from it.
gloss: To use or ride a moto (noun).
pos: verb
gloss: Synonym of motor (“ride a vehicle”, verb).
pos: verb
Derived words: e-moto
mini-moto
moto-cross
moto-x
Translations:
pimpernel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman pimpernele et al., Middle French pimpinelle (“burnet saxifrage”) et al., from Medieval Latin pimpinella, pipinella, most likely from piper (“pepper”) because its fruit resembled peppercorns, although variants may suggest other derivations, bipinnella the bipennis (“two-winged”).
Inflected forms:
form: pimpernels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A plant of the genus Pimpinella, especially burnet saxifrage (Pimpinella saxifraga).
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: Any of various plants of the genus Anagallis, having small red, white or purple flowers, especially the scarlet pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis).
pos: noun
examples: Common Pimpernel has diverse weak square stalks lying on the ground, beset all along with two small and almost round leaves at every joint [...].
Pimpernel (poor man's weather glass) was also a protection, but as the gatherer collected the herbs, he must chant a certain incantation and continue to do so twice a day for 15 days[.]
gloss: Sanguisorba spp.
pos: noun
gloss: Sanguisorba spp.
pos: noun
gloss: A yellow pimpernel (Taenidia integerrima)
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
gloss: Someone resembling the fictional Scarlet Pimpernel; a gallant dashing resourceful man given to remarkable feats of bravery and derring-do in liberating victims of tyranny and injustice.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Lined up solidly with the Pimpernels and with the persecuted.
Derived words: bastard pimpernel
false pimpernel
scarlet pimpernel
water pimpernel
Translations:
concierge
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
healthcare
Etymology: Borrowed from French concierge (“caretaker; doorkeeper; lodge-keeper of a château”), from Old French conciarge, consierge, consirge, from Medieval Latin consergius; further etymology uncertain, probably from Vulgar Latin *cōnservius, from Latin cōnservus (“fellow servant; fellow slave”), from con- (prefix denoting a being or bringing together of several objects) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“beside, by; near; with”)) + servus (“servant; slave”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to guard; to take care of”) + *-wós (suffix forming adjectives from verb stems)).
Inflected forms:
form: concierges
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An employee of a hotel who attends to the requirements and wishes of guests.
pos: noun
gloss: An employee of a hotel who attends to the requirements and wishes of guests.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
broadly
examples: concierge banking (that is, private banking)    concierge medicine    concierge service
gloss: A nurse who provides support during fertility treatment.
pos: noun
gloss: One who attends to the maintenance of a building and provides services to its tenants and visitors.
pos: noun
tags: US
often
examples: Underground parking, private storage and daily housekeeping are offered as well, and the club's concierge can assist with prearrival grocery shopping, spa reservations, dinner plans and golf tee times.
Everyday life is increasingly unaffordable for most New Yorkers, but a new class of private, members-only and concierge services is emerging as a kind of gated community within the city.
gloss: A senior official in charge of a fortress, palace, etc.; also, a custodian of a house; a warden of a prison.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: Synonym of conciergerie (“the office of a concierge; also, the lodge or residence of a concierge”).
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Related words: conciergerie
front desk
Derived words: concierge mom
conciergeship
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: շվեյցար
roman: šveycʻar
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 看門人 /看门人
roman: kānménrén
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 門房 /门房
roman: ménfáng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 司閽 /司阍
roman: sīhūn
lang: Dutch
word: butler
lang: Estonian
word: portjee
lang: Estonian
word: šveitser
lang: Estonian
word: uksehoidja
lang: Finnish
word: hotelliportieeri
lang: French
word: concierge
lang: Galician
word: conserxe
lang: German
word: Concierge
lang: German
word: Hotelportier
lang: German
word: Hotelportierin
lang: German
word: Portier
lang: German
word: Portierin
lang: Hungarian
word: hotelportás
lang: Hungarian
word: portás
lang: Hungarian
word: recepciós
lang: Japanese
word: コンシェルジュ
roman: konsheruju
lang: Portuguese
word: concierge
lang: Romanian
word: portar
lang: Romanian
word: portăreasă
lang: Russian
word: консье́рж
roman: konsʹjérž
lang: Russian
word: консье́ржка
roman: konsʹjéržka
lang: Russian
word: портье́
roman: portʹjé
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: консијерж
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: konsijerž
lang: Spanish
word: conserje
lang: Turkish
word: uşak
arabesque
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: architecture
art
arts
entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Borrowed from French arabesque, from Italian arabesco, from arabo (“Arab”). By surface analysis, Arab + -esque.
Inflected forms:
form: arabesques
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: arabesk
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: arabesques
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: arabesquing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: arabesqued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: arabesqued
pos: verb
tags: past
form: arabesk
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: An elaborate design of intertwined floral figures or complex geometrical patterns, mainly used in Islamic art and architecture.
pos: noun
tags: also
attributive
examples: The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth ;[…]. As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “ near-aissance.”
gloss: An ornate composition, especially for the piano.
pos: noun
gloss: A dance position in which the dancer stands on one leg, with the other raised backwards, and the arms outstretched.
pos: noun
gloss: Elaborate or ornate creations in general.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
broadly
examples: It was a sort of scene which Adam had beheld almost weekly for years; he knew by heart every arabesque flourish in the framed specimen of Bartle Massey’s handwriting which hung over the schoolmaster’s head, by way of keeping a lofty ideal before the minds of his pupils; […].
For a man who condemned worldly pleasures he ate with elegance. She loved to watch the arabesque of fingers and two forks.
In characterizing some of his tales as 'Arabesque', Poe intended no specific reference to the Arab manner of telling stories. He only used the term to refer to intricately patterned tales (intricate as the design of an oriental carpet) in which the centre of interest lay in the cunningly crafted plot, […]
gloss: To move in an arabesque motion.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To decorate with an arabesque pattern.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: arabesqued
arabesquely
Translations:
meteorite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English meteor
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der.
Latin -ītēsbor.
French -iteder.
English -ite
English meteorite
From meteor + -ite.
Inflected forms:
form: meteorites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A metallic or stony object or body that is the remains of a meteoroid.
pos: noun
examples: The Vestan, Lunar, and Martian meteorites are achondrites.
Approximately 1.25 miles of Virginia Highway 58 was rerouted to merge with US Highway 25E south of the gap. This photograph shows the phenomenon of the “fogfall,” when fog trapped in the meteorite crater of Middlesboro escapes […]
Translations:
meteoritic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English meteor
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der.
Latin -ītēsbor.
French -iteder.
English -ite
English meteorite
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English meteoritic
From meteorite + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to meteorites, meteors, or meteoroids.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
deep-sky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: A modern term used primarily by amateur astronomers.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Existing outside of the Solar System; relating to that which exists outside of the Solar System.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
nebular
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English nebula
English -ar
English nebular
From nebula + -ar.
Inflected forms:
form: more nebular
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nebular
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a nebula.
pos: adj
gloss: Cloudy; diffuse.
pos: adj
Related words: nebulosity
nebulous
nebula
Derived words: nebular hypothesis
nebularization
nebularize
nonnebular
supernebular
Translations:
serval
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French serval, from Portuguese (lobo) cerval (“Iberian lynx”), from Latin lupus cervārius (literally “stag wolf”), i.e. "wolf that hunts stags", from cervus (“deer, stag”).
Inflected forms:
form: servals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A medium-sized African wild cat, Leptailurus serval, formerly Felis serval.
pos: noun
Translations:
margay
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old Tupi marakaîá via Spanish margay, Portuguese maracajá.
Inflected forms:
form: margays
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Leopardus wiedii, a spotted cat native to Central and South America.
pos: noun
examples: In Costa Rica margays were once widely distributed in dense forest from the coastal lowlands to about 3,000 meters elevation in the interior mountains.
Margays are small and slim spotted cats (60cm/40cm/3.5kg) with long bushy tails and long legs with large feet.
Typically found in mature forest, margays are nocturnal and arboreal, hunting mostly in trees (they can rotate their hind legs and descend a tree head first).
The margay has broad feet, flexible ankles, and a long tail, all adaptations for arboreality (Nowell and Jackson 1996). In captivity, the margay is well known for its climbing and jumping acrobatics.
Translations:
stationmaster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Etymology: From station + master.
Compound parts: station
master
Inflected forms:
form: stationmasters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The person in charge of a railroad station, usually an employee of a particular railroad by which the station is owned, but sometimes an employee of a separate corporation, such as one owning a station used by two or more railroads.
pos: noun
examples: The glare, the flies, while they waited, and he and the stationmaster put their heads together over the time-table, trying to find this other train, which, of course, they wouldn't catch.
A letter from the Stationmaster was issued to all the staff, thanking them for "sticking it out" through one of the most difficult periods ever experienced at Redhill. None of them will easily forget Christmas, 1957.
The stationmaster was an important part of the local community. Anyon Kay, in his reminiscences of Horwich in the early 20th century, remembers a Mr Horsfield as stationmaster - "a gentlemanly character who took his job very seriously".
Translations:
ventricular
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From New Latin *ventricularis, from ventriculus (“belly, stomach, ventricle”), diminutive of venter (“belly, stomach, womb”). Equivalent to ventricle + -ar; See ventricle.
Base: ventricle
Affixes: -ar
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a ventricle or ventriculus.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Commonly indicated for treatment of sour crop (Fig. 11-11, A), an ingluviotomy is done to retrieve crop calculi, ingluvioliths, or foreign bodies (which are not accessible per os) or to retrieve proventricular or ventricular foreign bodies (using micromagnets [glued in place within plastic tubes], lavage, or endoscopy) and for the placement of an ingluviotomy or proventriculotomy tube or the collection of crop wall biopsies.
Translations:
vanadyl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂-der.
Proto-Germanic *wanaz
Old Norse vanr
Old Norse Vana
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁sder.
Proto-Germanic *dīsiz
Old Norse dís
Old Norse Dís
Old Norse Vanadís
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
New Latin -ium
New Latin vanadiumder.
English vanadium
Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der.
Frenchder.
English -yl
English vanadyl
From vanadium + -yl.
Inflected forms:
form: vanadyls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The divalent radical VO, or the cation VO²⁺.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
odoriferous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin. By surface analysis, odor + -i- (“bearing, carrying”) + -ferous.
Inflected forms:
form: more odoriferous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most odoriferous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: odouriferous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having an odor or fragrance.
pos: adj
examples: Lewis the eleventh had a conceit everything did stinke about him, all the odoriferous perfumes they could get, would not ease him, but still hee^([sic]) smelled a filthy stinke.
True, the rich spices, the perfumed woods, the fragrant oils, which would feed the sacred fire of my funeral pyre, would save my mortal remains from that corruption which makes the disgust of death even worse than its dread. A few odoriferous ashes alone would be left for my urn.
Moreover, as that of Heidelburgh was always replenished with the most excellent of the wines of the Rhenish valleys, so the tun of the whale contains by far the most precious of all his oily vintages; namely, the highly-prized spermaceti, in its absolutely pure, limpid, and odoriferous state.
The males, and rarely the females, of many kinds of bats have glands and protrudable sacks situated in various parts; and it is believed that these are odoriferous.
While most fetishists were content to own any pair of tiny shoes, there remained a fanatical group more focused in their kinky desires, demanding shoes that were especially odoriferous.
Frankini disguised as Mr. Beefo: "Who wants to get out and smell that wet beef?"
Captain Man: "Me, I do, Me! Oh yes, so odoriferous!"
Translations:
astrological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin astrologicus + -al. By surface analysis, astrology + -ical.
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more astrological
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most astrological
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to astrology.
pos: adj
examples: astrological prediction
She read her astrological chart every morning.
Translations:
leper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English lepre, leprosy, from Old French [Term?], from Latin leprae, lepra, from Ancient Greek λέπρα (lépra).
Inflected forms:
form: lepers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who has leprosy, a person suffering from Hansen's disease.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of outcast: A person who is shunned, a pariah.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
Derived words: beleper
leper colony
leperdom
moral leper
Translations:
Rubenesque
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: art
arts
Etymology: From Rubens + -esque, from the women depicted in the paintings of Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640).
Base: Rubens
Affixes: -esque
Inflected forms:
form: more Rubenesque
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Rubenesque
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of the figure of a woman, plump and sensuous.
pos: adj
examples: Full figured? Full body! Massage sessions for Rubenesque WFs, 40-50s, by rugged/ gentle SWM.
gloss: In the style of Peter Paul Rubens.
pos: adj
examples: Throughout his career as an illustrator, van Diepenbeeck was clearly influenced by the Rubenesque style in his reflection on the effects of actual light, his ample, energic creation of figures, and their complexion.
Translations:
nubia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: nubias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nuby
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A light, knitted headscarf worn by women.
pos: noun
Translations:
dizziness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English disynes, duysenes, from Old English dysiġnes (“dizziness, folly, foolishness, blasphemy”), equivalent to dizzy + -ness.
Base: dizzy
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: dizzinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dizzyness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The state of being dizzy; the sensation of instability.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
post-partum
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: postpartum
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the period immediately after childbirth.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: antepartum
Translations:
parturition
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
obstetrics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin parturitiō (“parturition”), from parturiō, from pariō (“to give birth”).
Inflected forms:
form: parturitions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of a mother giving birth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: labour, delivery (the moment of emergence)
So strange is the scripture of the sky! Innumerable legends and customs connect the rebirth of the Sun with a Virgin parturition.
femoules emaciated by parturition
Translations:
ectoparasite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ecto- (from Ancient Greek ἐκτός (ektós, “outside”)) + parasite.
Base: parasite
Affixes: ecto-
Inflected forms:
form: ectoparasites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A parasite that lives on the surface of a host organism; such as the Demodex mite, which lives in human hair and eyelashes.
pos: noun
examples: Ordinarily, allergy to animals is due to either their fine dander which becomes aerosolized or to the exoskeleta, pupae, or feces of their ectoparasites.
Many of the chewing lice are highly host specific, but a few may occur on a variety of not more than a half dozen related host species. They feed on skin (epidermal cells), hair, feathers, body oils and secretions, dried blood (wounds), and even other ectoparasites, such as mites. Chewing lice are unable to survive for more than a day or two off the host and their dispersal is through direct contact of host animals.
I was so thrilled to see a live bedbug, I showed it off to every graduate student I ran into that day: Cimex lectularius[,] a small, flat, wingless, brown ectoparasite that hides in cracks and crevices in human dwellings and emerges under cover of darkness to feast on human blood. […] Bedbugs win neither praise for their sophisticated technique, nor very much respect for the fact that they don’t carry diseases, as most bloodsucking human ectoparasites do.
Translations:
chucks
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The game of jacks or jackstones.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
Translations:
elytron
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek εἰλύω (eilúō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Proto-Hellenic *-tron
Ancient Greek -τρον (-tron)
Ancient Greek ἔλυτρον (élutron)lbor.
English elytron
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἔλυτρον (élutron, “sheath”).
Inflected forms:
form: elytra
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sheath or outer covering, especially around the spinal cord or over the hindwings of certain insects.
pos: noun
examples: In a corner, the Darkling Beetle rustles in its Cage, its Elytra the same unforgiving white as the great sand-waste call’d ‘Kalahari’ lying north of here […]
[…] the elytra covering the hind wings of the firefly lift like a light leather, suppler than any other beetle’s.
Translations:
elytra
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Rare, wing-like items that allow players to glide and fly.
pos: noun
Translations:
drowned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That has died by drowning.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a drowned rat
Translations:
vagal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the vagus nerve.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
hydrocephalus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wed-
Proto-Indo-European *-r̥
Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥
Proto-Hellenic *údōr
Ancient Greek ῡ̆̔́δωρ (hū̆́dōr)
Ancient Greek ὑδρο- (hudro-)
Proto-Hellenic *kʰepʰəlā́
Ancient Greek κεφαλή (kephalḗ)
Ancient Greek ὑδροκέφαλον (hudroképhalon)bor.
English hydrocephalus
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὑδροκέφαλον (hudroképhalon).
Inflected forms:
form: hydrocephaluses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hydrocephali
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A usually congenital condition in which an abnormal accumulation of fluid in the cerebral ventricles causes enlargement of the skull and compression of the brain, destroying much of the neural tissue.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: She was born with a condition known as hydrocephalus, which doctors said was caused by a listeriosis infection that her mother contracted while pregnant.
Translations:
mau-mau
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Mau Mau, the name of a group of anti-British insurgents in Kenya, who were noted in Europe for their (alleged) extreme violence and brutality.
Inflected forms:
form: mau-maus
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mau-mauing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mau-maued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mau-maued
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To menace through intimidating tactics; to intimidate, harass; to terrorize.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It was my first experience with the phenomenon that would later be called "mau-mauing the flack catcher."
Translations:
chaperon
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French chaperon (“hood”), from Middle French, "head covering", from Old French chape.
Inflected forms:
form: chaperons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chaperone
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: chaperons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chaperoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chaperoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chaperoned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: chaperone
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An adult who accompanies or supervises one or more young, unmarried men or women during social occasions, usually with the specific intent of preventing some types of social or sexual interactions or illegal behavior.
pos: noun
examples: "I am, as it were," she concluded, "the chaperon of my young cousin, Lucy, and it would be a serious thing if I put her under an obligation to people of whom we know nothing. His manner was somewhat unfortunate. I hope I acted for the best."
gloss: A type of hood, often ornamental or official, with an attached cape and a tail, later worn as a hat with the face hole put over the top of the head instead.
pos: noun
examples: His head and face cover'd with a chaperon, out of which there are but two holes to look through.
gloss: A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.
pos: noun
gloss: To accompany; to escort.
pos: verb
gloss: To mother.
pos: verb
Derived words: chaperonage
Translations:
incredulity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Attested since 1430. From Middle English incredulite, from Old French incredulité, from Late Latin incredulitas, from Latin incredulus (“unbelieving”) + -itas (“-ity”), equivalent to incredulous + -ity.
Base: incredulous
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: incredulities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Unwillingness or inability to believe; doubt about the truth or verisimilitude of something; disbelief.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Wide went her eyes in wonder and incredulity, as she beheld this seeming apparition risen from the dead.
It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.
At any other time Jessamy would have laughed at the expressions that chased each other over his freckled face: crossness left over from his struggle with the baby; incredulity; distress; and finally delight.
gloss: Religious disbelief; lack of faith.
pos: noun
tags: rare
uncountable
usually
Synonyms: incredulousness
incredulosity
Antonyms: credulity
Related words: incredibility
incredulous
Translations:
wowser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From UK dialect. In the pro-temperance sense, Australian from early 1900s.
John Norton, an early enemy of wowsers (temperance sense), claimed it to be an acronym for "We Only Want Social Evils Remedied", but that is likely a folk etymology.
A story has it that gospellers in the streets of Clunes, Victoria in the 1870s were called rousers but one of the town councillors had a speech impediment and couldn't pronounce his "R"s, thus giving wowser. (Reference: Bill Wannan, Australian Folklore, Lansdowne Press, 1970, reprint 1979 →ISBN, under "Wowser", page 568.)
Inflected forms:
form: wowsers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One with strong moral views against excessive consumption of alcohol, gambling, pornography, etc., who seeks to promulgate those views.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
derogatory
examples: “I’d like to come with you one day up to the top end,” she said. “I suppose it’ll have to be after we’re married.”
He grinned. “Plenty of wowsers back in Willstown to talk about it, if you came before.”
As for the rest, the pay is not bad, coming as it does from the pockets of the three local warlords who hired me: two graziers, one of whom is also a terrible wowser (everyone calls him 'Mr Prophet', though I call him - privately, of course - Mr Brimstone, or Old Blood-and-Thunderguts); the third is the owner of the pub.
When they have paid attention to temperance advocates they have tended to dismiss them as ‘wowsers’ or ‘puritans’ intent on suppressing pleasure.
Quite simply, to a wowser, adults should not be allowed to see, hear and read as they wished, but should only be allowed to see hear and read that which fully conforms to Australia's Christian heritage[…].
He's a bit of a prig. A wowser. Very Methodist.
gloss: A lout or similar disruptive person.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: In size the wowser varies, for no matter where he's at, He takes up all the room there is— just like a cowboy's hat.
Related words: straight edge
Derived words: wowserdom
wowserian
wowserish
wowserism
wowsery
Translations:
bombora
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Australian Aboriginal, most likely Dharug bumbora (“a current off Dobroyd Head, Port Jackson”).
Inflected forms:
form: bomboras
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bomboora
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A shallow isolated piece of reef located a distance offshore.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: The superior local knowledge of the Easter Island boatmen was a distracting influence, but on the way in I had decided to anchor on the sandy patch close under the bombora.
The remainder of my life was indoor stuff […] but even from school I could see the bomboras breaking way out to sea on a high swell, there at the corner of my eye.
It took Sue Dockar a good half hour to swim out to her target bombora, a moderate swim in spearfishing terms.
He was also considered to be one of Australia's best big-wave riders, tackling the Queenscliff and Bare Island bomboras on the very biggest days.
Translations:
clancy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Clancy of the Overflow, a character in a poem of that name (also in The Man from Snowy River) by Australian poet Banjo Patterson.
Inflected forms:
form: clancies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An overflow or spillage.
pos: noun
examples: They'd had a clancy […]. He had dozed off with the water running and there was water slopping everywhere.
Translations:
admiringly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English admiring
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English admiringly
From admiring + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more admiringly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most admiringly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an admiring manner.
pos: adv
examples: Fanny showed slow approval. 'Good on yer!' she said admiringly.
Translations:
Johannes
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Latin Iōhannēs, variant of Latin Iōannēs, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννης (Iōánnēs), from Biblical Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (Yôḥānān).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A former Portuguese gold coin.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
sakura
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 桜(さくら) (sakura, “cherry tree”).
Inflected forms:
form: sakura
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sakuras
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: cherry tree
pos: noun
tags: Japanese
examples: Sakura represent the short-lived beauty of life. Sakura are often depicted in Japanese art and poetry.
And while the tree is found throughout Asia, its associations with Japan are so strong that in Korea many sakura were removed after the colonial period as an unwanted reminder of the Japanese presence.
“And inside Yamamuto, there continued to live the beauty of blooming sakuras, the transparency of flowing brooks, the blue of the sky, the foamy crests of waves, the blades of grass breathing in the sunlight, the sun rising over the calm ocean…”
On Bandai forest path / two poets walk / with frequent stops. / Blossoms of roses / sakuras, wildflowers / stream from their mouth.
The next day is Sunday, and because there are no Christian churches, and since Junko personifies Japanese hospitality, she has arranged to take us to the neighborhood Shinto shrine. / “I am so very sorry,” she says in English. “The sakura are late this year. I hope you are not very disappointed? Please excuse this problem.”
I’ll have to change my name and move to Japan, where people have given up on reproducing and have turned to much more enlightened, spiritually renewing social activities, like viewing blooming sakuras, bathing in onsens, etc.
gloss: cherry blossom (blossom of the Japanese cherry tree)
pos: noun
examples: In his hand, he holds a sakura. He plans to give it to his daughter, marking a milestone in her life and protection for the future.
gloss: a card game from Hawaii played with Japanese hanafuda playing cards
pos: noun
examples: In Hawaii there are a number of popular gambling games which have not invaded the mainland, except possibly in Oriental colonies. The basic game among the large Japanese population is sakura, which is played with a deck of forty-eight tiny one-by-two-inch Japanese cards.
Any beachboy was hailed as the day's hero who could scrape together enough money to buy a fresh box of sakura cards, and through the long hot days the gang would sit beneath coconut umbrellas, playing the silly game. No other was allowed, and if a man couldn't play sakura, he couldn't be a beachboy.
A variety of games are played with these cards, including a version of Hanafuda in Hawaii, called Sakura, that uses cards specifically designed with numerical values.
Translations:
lilo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the name of the company which made rubberised canvas air-mattresses from the 1940s to the 1970s under the trademark name "Li-Lo" (a sensational spelling of lie low).
Inflected forms:
form: lilos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: li-lo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An inflatable air mattress.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
UK
Translations:
scalloped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From scallop + -ed. In culinary sense, originally referred to a seafood dish baked and served in a scallop shell, but now used more generally.
Base: scallop
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more scalloped
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most scalloped
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having an edge or border marked with semicircles.
pos: adj
gloss: Cooked gratin; baked in a typical type of sauce, usually with cheese, as a casserole, e.g. scalloped potatoes; scalloped corn
pos: adj
gloss: Baked in a scallop shell.
pos: adj
Derived words: scalloped oyster
scalloped sack-bearer
unscalloped
Translations: