yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
sporter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Anglo-Norman des-
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.
Proto-Indo-European *pr̥téh₂
Proto-Italic *portā
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Proto-Italic *portāō
Latin portāre
Anglo-Norman porter
Anglo-Norman desporterbor.
Middle English disporten
Middle English sporten
English sport
English -er
English sporter
From sport + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: sporters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who sports something.
pos: noun
examples: But today, the mustache cannot shake its ties to the sexy-yet-buffoonish machismo of the mid-1970s, epitomized by Burt Reynolds, Sam Elliott and the Village People, 'stache sporters all.
gloss: A firearm suitable for sporting use.
pos: noun
gloss: One who takes part in sport or games.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: Charles Lack-wit will have it given out, he is retired into the country, only for the reputation of being thought a man of fashion, when all the while his retirement is to be incessantly hurried with the violence of a madman after a pack of yelping hounds; or brutally murdering whole months of delicious time in noisy laughter, wine, and ribaldry, with Sir Jolly Timberscull, 'Squire Humdrum, and the rest of the club of gentlemen sporters.
gloss: One who sports or plays with something; a trifler.
pos: noun
examples: We have, however, good reason to suspect the Legislature will soon adopt means of rewarding the ingenuity of these indirect sporters with human life.
Derived words: sporterize
Translations:
condenser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English condense
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English condenser
From condense + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: condensers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A device designed to condense a gas into a liquid, either as part of a still, steam engine, refrigerator or similar machine.
pos: noun
gloss: A capacitor.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A lens (or combination of lenses) designed to gather light and focus it onto a specimen or part of a mechanism.
pos: noun
gloss: A dental instrument used to pack filling into a cavity in a tooth.
pos: noun
Derived words: Abbe condenser
condenser mic
condenser microphone
Liebig condenser
reflux condenser
siphon condenser
spray condenser
steam condenser
straight condenser
ultracondenser
Translations:
feverfew
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English feverfu, feverfeu, feverfugie, modified by folk etymology from either Old French fevrefue or Old English feferfuge, both from Latin febrifugia, from febris (“fever”) + fugō (“to drive away”). Doublet of febrifuge.
Inflected forms:
form: feverfews
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A European aromatic perennial herb, Tanacetum parthenium (or Chrysanthemum parthenium or Pyrethrum parthenium), having daisy-like flowers; valued as a traditional medicine, especially for headaches.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
bidirectionally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bidirectional
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English bidirectionally
From bidirectional + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In opposite directions.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The whole of the South Shields branch passed to the Tyne & Wear Metro in 1984 under the Tyneside Metropolitan Rail Act 1973, apart from a short section that was divided into two bi-directionally signalled lines (although interconnected by a series of loops that allow Metro trains to pass each other).
Translations:
bifocal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: By surface analysis, bi- + focal, or, by surface analysis, bi- + foc(us) + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having two focal lengths.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: His hair is black and well greased, with individual strands of gray, and he wears wire-rimmed bifocals with a subtle brownish tint.
gloss: Divided into two parts, one of which corrects for distance vision and the other for near vision.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: bifocals
trifocals
Derived words: bifocality
Translations:
biggish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English big
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English biggish
From big + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more biggish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most biggish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Somewhat big.
pos: adj
Translations:
biographic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more biographic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most biographic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: biographical
pos: adj
Translations:
biographically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English biographical
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English biographically
From biographical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In the form of a biography.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
birdbath
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bird + bath.
Compound parts: bird
bath
Inflected forms:
form: birdbaths
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bird bath
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A shallow basin, sometimes ornamental, filled with water for wild birds to drink from or in which to bathe.
pos: noun
gloss: Random, inconsequential amounts of residual water on a roof membrane.
pos: noun
gloss: A light or superficial wash of the body, using a sink or similar.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Hardly an hour had gone by, barely time to drink a cold sarsaparilla and take a birdbath in a bowl of water, but Kincaid had gotten into more trouble, Angie reflected.
“And if a person happens not to be on the block at shower time?” Ty pinched the bridge of his nose.“It’s birdbath time,” Ralph pointed at the sink before remembering Ty was blind.
There was nowhere for us to wash and to prepare ourselves for work and school, so I decided to drive to a nearby gas station. We took a quick birdbath, washed our faces, and brushed our teeth.
Translations:
iritis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: iritides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An inflammation of the iris.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
bloodcurdling
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more bloodcurdling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bloodcurdling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: blood-curdling
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Causing great horror or terror.
pos: adj
examples: Out of nowhere, in the middle of the night, came a bloodcurdling scream.
Yet the old-time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as “historical” in the children’s library; for the time has come for a series of newer “wonder tales” in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and bloodcurdling incident devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale.
Translations:
flatworm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From flat + worm, a calque of taxonomic name Platyhelminthes.
Base: flat
Inflected forms:
form: flatworms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of very many parasitic or free-living worms, of the phylum Platyhelminthes, having a flattened body with no skeleton or body cavity.
pos: noun
Translations:
microlending
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 lending
English microlending
From micro- + lending.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Lending of small amounts of money per loan as part of a microcredit program.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
microcredit
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 credit
English microcredit
From micro- + credit.
Inflected forms:
form: microcredits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The practice of making very small loans, especially to poor people to promote self-employment; microlending.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A microloan.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
haram
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic حَرَام (ḥarām). Doublet of harem and herem.
Inflected forms:
form: harams
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: haraam
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: haraam
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A sin.
pos: noun
examples: In case of necessity it is permissible to change one's madhhab or to do a few things according to another madhhab. It is haram to cheat in order to omit a fard or commit a haram.
In Arabic, haram is the noun derived from the verb hrm, the opposite of what it allowed.
gloss: Forbidden by Islam: unlawful, sinful.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I can’t speak about sex with my friends in Arabic. The words are too heavy and culturally loaded. It all sounds haram (sinful).
[…] collateral assets must not be debt, cash or prohibited as haram (sinful activity) and must not be associated in any way with unethical or exploitative operations or with speculation and uncertainty (gharar) […]
A year ago, the Party didn't even exist; some Salafi preachers had deemed democracy haram—forbidden under Islamic law.
Translations:
self-employed
Part of speech: adj
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 employed
English self-employed
From self- + employed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Working for oneself, rather than for an employer.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Police said Ko Sasaki, of no fixed address and who claims to be self-employed, took two packs of condoms, worth about 2,000 yen, and tried to leave the store without paying for them.
Translations:
pop-science
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: popular science
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
perseveration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: perseverations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An uncontrollable repetition of a particular response, such as a word, phrase, or gesture, despite the absence or cessation of a stimulus, usually caused by a brain injury or other organic disorder.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The tendency to continue or repeat an act or activity after the cessation of the original stimulus.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act or an instance of persevering; perseverance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An argument by repetition; a mantra.
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
uncountable
examples: Being subjected to this mantra once more re-evokes the perseveration we routinely suffer in the moral ambiguity characterising our supposedly post-politics milieu.
Perseveration with demonstrably false arguments. This is illustrated for creationism by the ability to construct an Index to Creationist Claims which describes the plethora of such false arguments, rebutted over and over in the scientific literature but persisted in by creationists.
Related words: perseverance
perseverate
Translations:
pretentiously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pretentious
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English pretentiously
From pretentious + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more pretentiously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most pretentiously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a manner with unwarranted claim to importance or distinction.
pos: adv
gloss: Ostentatiously; in a manner intended to impress others.
pos: adv
examples: Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy—[…]—distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its flavor.
gloss: In a manner demanding of skill or daring.
pos: adv
Related words: pretentious
pretentiousness
Translations:
skinship
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Phono-semantic matching of Japanese スキンシップ (sukinshippu), itself a wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism) derived from skin + ship. Recorded as early as 1966 by the OED in a Japanese context. In Japanese, this form was also observed in the Latin script as early as 1955.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Bonding through physical (touch, skin-to-skin) contact; particularly between family members, relatives and loved ones.
pos: noun
tags: South-Korea
uncountable
examples: In Mexico, interdependence among people in emphasized and expressed through cosleeping and "skinship." … A similar type of "skinship" also exists throughout Mexico—all one had to do is look at the way people walk or sit together. … women are always patting touching ...
However, there were times that folks needed that skinship to feel hearten'd and Dan often felt when others had that need.
gloss: Spending time together naked for social bonding.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: This relationship of parents to children is especially enhanced by bathing together—commonly known as skinship (sukinshippu). Other groups, from businessmen or to neighboring housewives to hikers and classmates, often seek to increase the strength of a relationship by engaging in hadaka no tsukiai at a sentō, health center, or onsen.
Translations:
ductwork
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From duct + work.
Compound parts: duct
work
Inflected forms:
form: ductworks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: duct-work
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: duct work
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The system of ducts in a particular building.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
disbelieving
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more disbelieving
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most disbelieving
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: refusing to believe; skeptical or incredulous
pos: adj
Translations:
ill-famed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more ill-famed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ill-famed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a bad reputation.
pos: adj
examples: It seems she was not ordinarily ill-famed, as men use the word. She was maybe sixty years in age, small and trig, with her grey hair folded neatly under her mutch. But the sight of her eyes was not a thing to forget.
Translations:
homogenise
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: homogenises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: homogenising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: homogenised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: homogenised
pos: verb
tags: past
form: homogenize
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To make homogeneous, to blend or puree.
pos: verb
gloss: Specifically, to treat milk so that the cream no longer separates.
pos: verb
Related words: homogenisation
Derived words: rehomogenise
unhomogenised
Translations:
intranasal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *h₁énterosder.
Latin *interus
Latin intrābor.
English intra-
English nasal
English intranasal
From intra- + nasal.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Within the nose.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: As to the question of hay fever and asthma, intranasal disease is not the cause of every case of these two diseases.
I speak in this manner because, recognizing the greater benefits of intranasal surgery, we can not but admit that there is always the danger of the pendulum swinging too far, of our being impelled by overzeal or ignorance, thus bringing discredit on measure which, if properly considered, would ever remain of inestimable value.
The functioning of these nontaste and nonolfactory sensory systems in oral and intranasal stimulation is the subject of a recent volume.
gloss: Taken through the nose.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an intranasal vaccine
Puppies are usually immunized with intranasal vaccine before weaning.
A randomized controlled clinical trial (N = 187) using an intranasal morphine-chitosan formulation (Rylomine) postoperatively following bunionectomy in 187 opioid-naïve patients demonstrated that the intranasal analgesic was comparable to IV morphine for both pain relief and systemic adverse effects.
In comparative studies, intranasal azelastine was more effective than placebo and at least as effective as oral antihistamines or intranasal corticosteroids in relieving allergic rhinitis.
Derived words: intranasally
Translations:
periosteum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek περί (perí, “about, around”) + ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”).
Inflected forms:
form: periostea
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: periosteums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A membrane surrounding a bone.
pos: noun
examples: Periosteum and endosteum are connective tissue sheaths of bone. […] The periosteum is a layer of connective tissue covering the external surface of a bone. The periosteum may be divided into two components: / a. An outer fibrous layer consists of dense irregular connective tissue. / b. An inner cellular layer consists of osteoprogenitor (osteogenic) cells.
The periosteum is constrained and interrupted by tendons, ligaments, and fibrocartilage, whereas the endosteum is awash with hematopoitic bone marrow[…].
Translations:
cron
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From chrono-, from Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”). Originating as the name of a specific program, but since generalized to analogous ones.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A scheduler or timer that automatically starts a job, program, task.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
opaline
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English opal
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ine
English opaline
From opal + -ine.
Inflected forms:
form: more opaline
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most opaline
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: opalines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Resembling opal in having a milky white iridescence.
pos: adj
examples: She was so alive that night, opaline points in her eyes, mouth parted to bare her teeth.
gloss: A clear to white liquid secreted by sea hares (genus Aplysia) that becomes viscous upon contact with water.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The attack on a sea hare by a spiny lobster causes release of the whitish opaline, followed the co-release of both opaline and ink.
gloss: Any of several minerals resembling opal, including a variety of yellow chalcedony.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Synonym of opal glass.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: opalescent
Translations:
microstructure
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: climatology
engineering
geography
metallurgy
meteorology
natural-sciences
oceanography
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
English structure
English microstructure
From micro- + structure.
Inflected forms:
form: microstructures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Fine-scale structure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Fine-scale structure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Fine-scale structure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: macrostructure
Derived words: microstructural
ultramicrostructure
Translations:
gloved
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Wearing a glove or gloves.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The harnessing done, he barked suddenly at the house, and there appeared Millie, hatted and gloved[.]
Holding your gloved right hand under the cuff of the left glove, insert your left hand in the left glove.
Translations:
firelight
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English fire liȝt, fyre lyghte, from Old English fȳrlēoht, equivalent to fire + light.
Compound parts: fire
light
Inflected forms:
form: firelights
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The light of a fire, such as from a campfire or fireplace.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He sat on by the cheerful firelight thrown from a bundle of green ash-sticks laid across the dogs; the sticks snapped pleasantly, and hissed out bubbles of sap from their ends.
He glanced continually at the diamond-panes of the casement, gleaming dimly in the firelight, and cocked his ear toward the door, as if half expecting to hear the pad of furtive feet in the corridor without.
Dane was startled out of the contemplation of his misery to see the medic on his knees before their row of canteens, the vial of water purifier held to the firelight for a closer inspection.
Translations:
hoarsely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English hosely; equivalent to hoarse + -ly.
Base: hoarse
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more hoarsely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most hoarsely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: With a dry, harsh voice.
pos: adv
examples: She spoke hoarsely because of her cough.
`Say, hast thou seen enough!' `I have looked on beauty, and I am blinded,' I said hoarsely, lifting my hand to cover up my eyes.
I hope that my philosopher may yet walk on the hills with me, if only for the sake of the love I bear the green valleys; and when I see the great stream passing silently from translucent pool to pool, overhung by rowans and sun-warmed rocks, I shall be glad to think that I have walked on the heights where it was gathered and drawn, and that I have heard it talk hoarsely to itself, cold and uncomforted, among the bleak and dripping stones.
"Where do you keep your cash, bub?" asked Idris hoarsely. His American was better than Hassan's English.
Translations:
plyometric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to, or by means of, plyometrics.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
plyometrics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πλείων (pleíōn, “more”) + -metric (“measure”). Additional details are available in Wikipedia at plyometrics § Etymology.
Affixes: -metric
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A form of exercise that involves the rapid stretching and contracting of muscles to develop muscular power.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: She was not one of those women who needed to endure complicated half hours of rubbing and prodding and explosive plyometrics before her body tensed and the dam holding back her pleasure burst.
Translations:
Zapatista
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Spanish zapatistabor.
English Zapatista
Borrowed from Spanish zapatista.
Inflected forms:
form: Zapatist
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Zapatistas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Zapatist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Zapatismo.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to the Zapatistas.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A member of the Liberation Army of the South, a group formed and led by Emiliano Zapata that took part in the Mexican Revolution.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A member of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, an indigenous leftist group that formed in the jungles of Chiapas in 1983 and coordinated an uprising on January 1, 1994, the day NAFTA took effect.
pos: noun
Translations:
Harrington
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Harringtons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Harington
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A short, light jacket with a zip front and often a tartan lining.
pos: noun
Translations:
strafing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: strafings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who strafes.
pos: noun
examples: Through these intense two days, the provisional battalion endured sporadic artillery attacks, aircraft strafings, and small arms fire. However, fighting back was nearly impossible.
Translations:
conniving
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more conniving
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most conniving
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That connives; conspiratorial.
pos: adj
examples: I waited. Then those two / Strange pilgrims of the sanctuaries of sin / Brought from beneath their large conniving cloaks / Two hidden baskets brimming with rich store / Of broken viands — pasties, jellies, meats, / Crumbs of Belshazzar's table, evil waste / Of that interminable nightly feast […]
Translations:
connivance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From early 18th c., replaced earlier form connivence (late 16th c.), from Latin connīventia, from connīvēns (“winking”).
Inflected forms:
form: connivances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: connivancy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: connivence
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: connivency
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The process of conniving or conspiring.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Abbot’s house, which formed the third side of the square, was, though injured, still inhabited, and afforded refuge to the few brethren who yet, rather by connivance than by actual authority, were permitted to remain at Kennaquhair.
Translations:
ayahuasca
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish ayahuasca, from Quechua ayawaska, from aya (“spirit, ancestor”) + waska (“vine”). First use appears c. 1870. See cite below.
Inflected forms:
form: ayahuascas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A giant vine native to South America (especially Banisteriopsis caapi), noted for its psychotropic properties.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Any of various psychoactive infusions or decoctions prepared from this vine.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: They make use of a narcotic drink called Ayahuasca, which produces effects similar to those of opium.
As the Amazon forest people would take ayahuasca and enter into that place of Group Mind where they would make decisions for the tribe, the psychedelic shamanic acts that McKenna was promulgating would involve the experience of ecstasy and the contemplation of wholeness.
Like many young women in that cultural era, she was excited to explain ayahuasca, and informed me that her appointment was scheduled for next week, when she would be leaving New York to visit family in Rio.
Police in eastern Spain have arrested three people and seized 11 litres of ayahuasca, 117 San Pedro cactus plants and several bottles of toad poison after raiding two rural properties that were used to host lucrative spiritual retreats promising “astral journeys”.
Translations:
dimethyltryptamine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From dimethyl + tryptamine.
Compound parts: dimethyl
tryptamine
Inflected forms:
form: dimethyltryptamines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An N-methylated indoleamine derivative, a serotonergic hallucinogen found in several plants, especially Prestonia amazonica (Apocynaceae), and in mammalian brain, blood, and urine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
brisket
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English brusket, probably from Old Danish bryske (“cartilage, gristle”), from Old Norse brjósk, from Proto-Germanic *briuskiz (compare German Brausche (“knot on the head”)). Cognate with Danish brusk, Icelandic brjósk.
Inflected forms:
form: briskets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The chest of an animal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A cut of meat taken from the chest, especially from the section under the first five ribs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Right after chili, smoked beef brisket could easily be the state food of Texas.
gloss: A smoked meat dish made from cow brisket popular in Texas.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: brisket disease
Translations:
wavefront
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From wave + front.
Compound parts: wave
front
Inflected forms:
form: wavefronts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An imaginary surface passing through points of a medium oscillating in phase.
pos: noun
Translations:
overburden
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: archaeology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
sciences
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-
English burden
English overburden
From over- + burden.
Inflected forms:
form: overburdens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: overburdening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: overburdened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: overburdened
pos: verb
tags: past
form: overburthen
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: overburdens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: overburthen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To overload or overtax.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In reality, the levels of work varied: some internationals seemed overburdened with tasks and responsibility, some seemed underburdened, and some faced apparently just the right amount of work.
He said the increase would avoid overburdening taxpayers who have subsidised the railways by £31 billion since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic.
gloss: The rock and subsoil that lies above a mineral deposit such as a coal seam, or any other underground feature.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Before much progress was made with the inverts, however, the movement became accelerated, and it was decided to lighten the load over the tunnel by removing some of the soil, […]. This reduction in the overburden arrested the movement, and the inverting and centring were completed, and the tunnel opened again to traffic on April 9, 1949.
Such rocks have been changed by baking in a terrestrial pressure-cooker. Then they have been disinterred: kilometres of overburden must have been removed.
Settari (2002) and Osorio et al. (1999) also suggest that the analysis domain should include overburdens, sideburdens and underburdens for better accommodation of the coupling effects of stress changes and flow.
gloss: A sterile stratum that lies above the stratum being investigated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
reduplicate
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
human-sciences
linguistics
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Medieval Latin reduplicātus, from reduplicāre, from re- with duplicāre.
Inflected forms:
form: more reduplicate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most reduplicate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: reduplicates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reduplicating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reduplicated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reduplicated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: doubled
pos: adj
gloss: valvate with the margins curved outwardly
pos: adj
gloss: folded, with the abaxial surfaces facing one another
pos: adj
gloss: To double again: to multiply: to repeat.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To repeat (a word or part of a word) in order to form a new word or phrase, possibly with modification of one of the repetitions.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: reduplication
Derived words: reduplicately
endoreduplicate
endoreduplicated
reduplicative
unreduplicated
Translations:
reduplication
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
human-sciences
linguistics
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English duplication
English reduplication
From re- + duplication.
Inflected forms:
form: reduplications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of, or an instance of, reduplicating.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Her Malay was the Malay of the Staate of Lanchap [...] and she spoke it fierily, with crisp glottal checks, with much bubbling reduplication.
Grammatically, Malay uses reduplication for plurals (burung = bird, burung-burung = birds) and thus repeated words are commonly heard in Malay speech[.]
gloss: The folding or doubling of a part or organ.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: contrastive focus reduplication
endoreduplication
reduplicational
Translations:
giardiasis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English giardia
English -iasis
English giardiasis
From giardia + -iasis.
Inflected forms:
form: giardiases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An infectious diarrheal disease in humans and mammals caused by the Giardia duodenalis parasite.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any disease in animals caused by parasites of the genus Giardia.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: beaver fever
Derived words: antigiardiasis
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 藍氏賈第鞭毛蟲病 /蓝氏贾第鞭毛虫病
roman: lánshì gǔdì biānmáochóngbìng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 賈第蟲病 /贾第虫病
roman: gǔdìchóngbìng
lang: Finnish
word: giardiaasi
lang: French
word: giardiase
lang: German
word: Giardiasis
lang: German
word: Lamblienruhr
lang: German
word: Lambliasis
lang: Portuguese
word: giardíase
lang: Russian
word: лямблио́з
roman: ljamblióz
lang: Russian
word: гиардиа́з
roman: giardiáz
lang: Spanish
word: giardiasis
halligan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Ellipsis of Halligan bar.
Inflected forms:
form: halligans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tool, used mostly by firemen, to pry open buildings, manholes, wrecked cars, etc.
pos: noun
Translations:
outfall
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From out- + fall. Compare Dutch uitval (“outburst, sally, eruption”), German Ausfall (“falling out, sally”), Swedish utfall (“sally, issue”).
Base: fall
Affixes: out-
Inflected forms:
form: outfalls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sudden eruption of troops from a fortified place; sally.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A quarrel; a falling out.
pos: noun
tags: dialectal
gloss: The point or place of discharge of a river, drain, culvert, sewer, etc.; mouth; embouchure.
pos: noun
examples: West of Keswick a short descent at 1 in 122 brings the train down to the low-lying and marshy ground between Derwentwater and Bassenthwaite Lake and to the crossing of the Derwent - the outfall from Derwentwater, [...].
The rules focus primarily on two crucial operating features: seawater intakes and outfalls.
Derived words: flapped outfall
outfall sewer
sea outfall
Translations:
tunneling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
computing
engineering
finance
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: tunnelings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tunnelling
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of burrowing a tunnel.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The practice of exploring tunnel.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The quantum mechanical passing of a particle through an energy barrier.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A type of fraud where assets and profits are transferred out of firms for the benefit of those who control them.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A feature of the file system that allows files to preserve certain properties, such as creation date, even after being deleted and recreated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: cotunneling
nanotunneling
scanning tunneling microscope
tunneling time
Translations:
gluten-free
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gluten
Proto-Indo-European *preyH-
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *priHós
Proto-Germanic *frijaz
Proto-West Germanic *frī
Proto-West Germanic *-frī
Old English -frēo
Middle English -fre
English -free
English gluten-free
From gluten + -free.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of food, containing no gluten.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 8 Jan 2020, Felicity Cloake in The Guardian, How to make the perfect gluten-free chocolate brownies – recipe
there are as many ways to make a brownie as there are ways to cover yourself in chocolate in the process, but the real difference between the gluten-free recipes are in what they replace the wheat with.
gloss: Of a person, not eating gluten.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: gluten-free madness
Translations:
riverbed
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
hydrology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From river + bed. Compare Dutch rivierbedding (“riverbed”), German Flussbett (“riverbed”), Swedish flodbädd (“riverbed”).
Base: river
Inflected forms:
form: riverbeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: river bed
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: river-bed
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The path where a river runs, or where a river once ran; the bottom earthen part of a river, not including the riverbanks.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: streambed, creekbed
The Hang En tour involves a difficult daylong trek over limestone mountain paths and along riverbeds to the remote indigenous village of Ban Doong.
Detailed laser surveys carried out by Network Rail revealed that fast-flowing water on the River Eden has caused parts of the riverbed to wash away, posing a risk to the viaduct foundations.
Potential signs of microbial life were found in a rock sample collected by the rover in 2024 from an ancient dry riverbed on Mars' Jezero Crater -- an area of rocky outcrops on the edges the Neretva Vallis, a river valley carved by water rushing to the canyon billions of years ago, NASA officials announced in a press conference on Wednesday.
Translations:
dewatering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dewaterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various techniques for the removal of water, either from a solid or from a structure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An instance of the removal of water, typically from a structure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As this went on, some of the pumps were activated, and the dewatering of the ship began. Apart from anything else, it was thought this might raise Nevada somewhat, reducing the workload for the clearance crews who were trying to get enough room for the big patch to fit underneath the ship.
Translations:
lang: French
word: exondation
lang: German
word: Entwässerung
terraform
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
Etymology: From Terra (“planet Earth”) + -form (“having the form of”). Coined by American science fiction author Jack Williamson in 1942 as part of his novella Collision Orbit.
Base: Terra
Affixes: -form
Inflected forms:
form: terraforms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: terraforming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: terraformed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: terraformed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To transform the atmosphere (or biosphere) of another planet into one having the characteristics of Earth.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He had been the original claimant of Obania, forty years ago; and Drake was the young spatial engineer he employed to terraform the little rock, only two kilometers through—by sinking a shaft to its heart for the paragravity installation, generating oxygen and water from mineral oxides, releasing absorptive gases to trap the feeble heat of the far-off Sun.
Translations:
sketchiness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sketchy
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 sketchiness
From sketchy + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The property of being sketchy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
unremarkable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English remarkable
English unremarkable
From un- + remarkable.
Inflected forms:
form: more unremarkable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unremarkable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not remarkable.
pos: adj
examples: The temptation is to regard him [John Ogdon] as an idiot savant, a big talent bottled inside a recalcitrant body and accompanied by a personality that seems not just unremarkable, but almost entirely blank.
Delivered to British Railways' Royston depot (near Barnsley) as D3378 in August 1957, the '08e' prototype led an unremarkable life for its first 35 years, working from Farnley Junction, Healey Mills and Holbeck before being withdrawn (for the first time) from Sheffield's Tinsley depot in February 1992.
Antonyms: remarkable
Translations:
misaligned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Out of alignment.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Then there is the concern (which I don’t know how to seriously to take) that an A.I. actor, like any A.I., can become “misaligned.”
Translations:
pixelation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pixel
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English pixelation
From pixel + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: pixelations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pixellation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A blocky effect caused by enlarging a bitmap so that individual pixels can be distinguished.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The deliberate obscuring or censoring of part of an image by reducing the resolution, resulting in a blocky blur.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: pixelisation
Derived words: pixelation ratio
Translations:
kotatsu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 炬燵 (kotatsu).
Inflected forms:
form: kotatsu
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kotatsus
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A knee-high table with a heater inside which is used with a coverlet during winter.
pos: noun
examples: I dreamed my way through cold winters with my family at the kotatsu, with my friends at their kotatsus, huddled under my futon alone in the cold nights.
Translations:
shinigami
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Borrowing from Japanese 死に神 (shinigami).
Inflected forms:
form: shinigami
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A deity and/or personification of death.
pos: noun
tags: Japanese
Translations:
psychon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From psycho- + -on.
Base: psycho
Inflected forms:
form: psychons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hypothetical unit of consciousness.
pos: noun
examples: Thirty years later, in his book How the Self Controls Its Brain (Springer Verlag, 1994), [John] Eccles posited that the “mind” produces “psychons” (i.e., fundamental units of consciousness, a term previously mostly used in cheesy science fiction) […]
Translations:
bioreactor
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 react
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Latin -ātor
Old French -eorbor.
Middle English -our
▲
Latin -torlbor.
English -or
English reactor
English bioreactor
From bio- + reactor.
Inflected forms:
form: bioreactors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A vat or pressure vessel, containing microorganisms or biochemically active substances, used for biotechnological processes such as fermentation, waste recycling, or making drugs.
pos: noun
examples: First, there will be little reaction in the settler so that the concentrations of soluble constituents in the recycle stream are the same as those in the bioreactor.
Translations:
uncontainable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English containable
English uncontainable
From un- + containable.
Inflected forms:
form: more uncontainable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most uncontainable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That cannot be contained.
pos: adj
examples: The uncontainable fire and restlessness of the Allegro is subdued in the Adagio to a sweet, resigned, spiritually sustained mood of melancholy.
Antonyms: containable
Translations: