yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
snoek
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans snoek, from Dutch snoek, from Middle Dutch snoec, from Old Dutch *snuoc. Some senses come from or are influenced by Dutch zeesnoek (“barracuda”, literally “sea pike”), a word that Van Riebeeck applied to the Thyrsites atun.
Inflected forms:
form: snook
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An edible fish, Thyrsites atun, native to South African (Cape), South American and Australian waters, often smoked or salted.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
examples: 2003, Oceanographic Literature Review, Volume 50, Issues 1-2600, page 348,
Snoek (Thyrsites atun) is a valuable commercial species and an important predator of small pelagic fishes in the Benguela ecosystem. The South African population attains 50% sexual maturity at a fork length of ca.73.0 cm (3 years). Spawning occurs offshore during winter-spring, along the shelf break (150-400 m) of the western Agulhas Bank and the South African west coast
My friend Jeffrey Jowell, who grew up in Cape Town, has lived away from South Africa for more than forty years, yearning for snoek the entire time. He thinks about fried snoek and grilled snoek and dried snoek and snoek made into pâté. He may miss smoked snoek most of all. Any mention of snoek—a long, bony fish that looks like a second cousin of a barracuda—triggers memories in Jeffrey of his childhood.
Snoek need not be scaled. The scales are very fine and usually slip off during handling.
gloss: The queen mackerel, Scomberomorus lineolatus.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
gloss: Any of several species of barracuda.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
Synonyms: barracouta
Derived words: smoor snoek
snoeker
snoeking
Translations:
comforter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English comfortour et al, from Anglo-Norman confortour, from Old French conforter. See comfort.
Inflected forms:
form: comforters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who comforts someone who is suffering.
pos: noun
examples: Let no comforter delight mine ear / But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine.
The comforters, relaxed in sarongs after the day's work, kicked off their sandals at the top of Syed Omar's steps and made their obeisances to the wives, to the elder children, and to the gloomy head of the house.
There are 157 men with AIDS/ARC in the small unit where I am housed. Many of us are abandoned by friends, family, lovers and spiritual comforters. And this is why I am reaching out to you.
gloss: A padded cover for a bed, duvet, continental quilt.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: A vast quilt or comforter was heaped beside the bed, in a broad puddle of congealed blood, thick and shiny on the patterned rugs.
gloss: A woollen scarf for winter.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dated
examples: […] round his neck he wore a flaming red worsted comforter, whereof the straggling ends peeped out beneath his threadbare Newmarket coat, which was very tight and buttoned all the way up.
The American schoolboy takes off his comforter and unbuttons his jacket before going in for a snowball fight.
“[…] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared. […]”
gloss: A pacifier.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
Derived words: comfortress
Job's comforter
Translations:
hibiscus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Latin hibiscus, from Latin hibiscum, from Ancient Greek ἰβίσκος (ibískos, “marsh mallow”), probably ultimately from Gaulish.
Inflected forms:
form: hibiscuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hibisci
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A flowering plant of the genus Hibiscus, especially Hibiscus syriacus, found in tropical to temperate regions, of some species used for making infusions/tea.
pos: noun
examples: There were red hibiscus flowers splashed all over it, yellow dots quivering at the stamens.
gloss: A cocktail made with champagne and cranberry juice.
pos: noun
Derived words: Chinese hibiscus
cottonwood hibiscus
sea hibiscus
Translations:
dashpot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From dash + pot.
Compound parts: dash
pot
Inflected forms:
form: dashpots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mechanical damping device consisting of a piston that moves through a viscous fluid (usually oil); used, in conjunction with a spring, in shock absorbers.
pos: noun
Translations:
aliyah
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hebrew עלייה / עֲלִיָּה (aliyá, “ascent”).
Inflected forms:
form: aliyahs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: aliyot
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: aliyoth
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: aliyos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: aliya
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: 'aliyah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The calling up of someone to the bimah for the reading of the Torah.
pos: noun
tags: Judaism
countable
gloss: A subsection of a parashah (weekly Torah reading) read by (or on behalf of) one person.
pos: noun
tags: Judaism
countable
gloss: The immigration of Jews to Israel.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: In the past, Yemenite Jews did not have a Bar Mitzvah ceremony at all; they first encountered this ceremony when they made Aliyah to Israel.
gloss: One of the major waves of immigration of Jews to Israel.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Antonyms: yerida
yeridah
Translations:
amah
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Portuguese ama (“female nurse”), from Medieval Latin amma (“wet nurse, amma”), perhaps an alteration of Latin mamma, of imitative origin, or from Ancient Greek.
Inflected forms:
form: amahs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ama
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A woman employed to look after children; (formerly) a wet nurse.
pos: noun
tags: India
gloss: A female domestic helper; a maid.
pos: noun
tags: Brunei
Indonesia
Malaysia
Singapore
examples: Then one day he disappeared and when Luke called apprehensively at his apartment the old amah told him that ‘Whisky Papa runrun London fastee.’
Related words: amma
Translations:
proa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Malay perau, a variant of perahu. In some forms via Portuguese parão or Dutch prauw; in some forms assimilated to prow.
Inflected forms:
form: proas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: parao
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: perahu
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: prahu
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: prau
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: prow
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A sailing vessel found in the waters of Micronesia and Indonesia; it has a single, large outrigger and a triangular sail.
pos: noun
examples: 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XXII, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt
I noticed that on the sea were numerous fantastically shaped canoes—or rather boats—like Malay proas, or the canoes used by many of the South Sea islanders.
Malay ‘prahu’ or proa were said to be more than a match for British vessels.
Translations:
extensibility
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English extensible
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English extensibility
From extensible + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: extensibilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The capability of being extended.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The capability of being extended.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: Extensible Markup Language
forward compatibility
future-proofing
Derived words: hyperextensibility
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: разтегаемост
roman: raztegaemost
lang: Catalan
word: extensibilitat
lang: Czech
word: rozšiřitelnost
lang: German
word: Erweiterbarkeit
lang: Greek
word: εκτατότητα
roman: ektatótita
lang: Italian
word: estensibilità
lang: Italian
word: prolungabilità
lang: Manx
word: yn-sheeyntaght
lang: Portuguese
word: extensibilidade
periodontal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek περί (perí, “around”) + ὀδούς (odoús, “a tooth”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: surrounding a tooth
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Relating to the periodontium
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Relating to periodontics
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Recently it has been shown that the bacterial flora of endodontic and periodontal abscesses differ in certain aspects. Thus, in an endodontic abscess, the number of spirochetes is between 0 and 10%, whereas in a periodontal abscess the spirochete count is about 40%.
Related words: periodontally
Derived words: endoperiodontal
gingivoperiodontal
nonperiodontal
periodontal curette
periodontal disease
periodontality
periodontal ligament
periodontal pocket
periodontal scaler
Translations:
periodontics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.
Ancient Greek περῐ́ (perĭ́)der.
English peri-
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-ónts
Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts
Proto-Hellenic *odónts
Ancient Greek ὀδούς (odoús)der.
English odonto-
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
Old English -as
Middle English -es
English -s
English -ics
English periodontics
From peri- + odonto- + -ics.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The study of supporting structures of teeth, including the gums, alveolar bone, cementum, and the periodontal ligament, and the diseases and conditions that affect them.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Saddlebred
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Saddlebreds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A horse of the American Saddlebred breed.
pos: noun
Translations:
shrubbery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English shrub
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Old French -ie
Old French -eriebor.
Middle English -erie
English -ery
English shrubbery
From shrub + -ery.
Inflected forms:
form: shrubberies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A planting of shrubs; a wide border to a garden where shrubs are thickly planted; or a similar larger area with a path winding through it.
pos: noun
examples: dense shrubbery
trim the shrubbery
garden shrubbery
The path was lined with thick shrubbery.
gloss: Shrubs collectively.
pos: noun
Derived words: shrubberied
undershrubbery
Translations:
vindicated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: justified, avenged or cleared of blame
pos: adj
Translations:
slaked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more slaked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most slaked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Allayed; quenched; extinguished.
pos: adj
examples: a slaked thirst
gloss: Mixed with water so that a true chemical combination has taken place.
pos: adj
Derived words: slaked lime
unslaked
Translations:
quilting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
form: quiltings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A layer or layers of quilted padding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A coating of strands of rope for a water vessel.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: The practice of creating quilts
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: quilting bee
quilting needle
Translations:
oophorectomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: By surface analysis, oophor- + -ectomy.
Inflected forms:
form: oophorectomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: oöphorectomy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Surgical removal of one or both ovaries.
pos: noun
Translations:
salpingo-oophorectomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: By surface analysis, salpingo- + oophor- + -ectomy.
Inflected forms:
form: salpingo-oophorectomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A surgical procedure in which one or both fallopian tubes and ovaries are removed, typically performed to treat or prevent conditions such as tubal or ovarian cancer, severe infection, or other diseases affecting the adnexal structures of the female reproductive system.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: bilateral oophorosalpingectomy
unilateral oophorosalpingectomy
Translations:
devil-may-care
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From attributive use of a shortened idiom of the original oath or expression: The devil may care, but I do not.
Inflected forms:
form: more devil-may-care
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most devil-may-care
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Carefree, reckless, irresponsible.
pos: adj
examples: This is the sort of witchery, not easily defined—but, by its votaries, pretty sensibly felt, in hunting the fox. The light-hearted, high-spirited stripling, when cigaring it careless to cover, with a kind of a knowing demi-devil-may-care twist of his beaver, receives in his transit a benison from every real friend of the chase he may chance to pass; and the airy, eager zeal of the youthful aspirant to rolls, tumbles, and the brush, will flush his memory with the frolic gayety of other days, and animate his mind with reflections most welcome to his heart.
Not that this would have worried him much, anyway—he was a mighty free and easy, roving, devil-may-care sort of person.
Now, upon his whole person, from the crown of his unkempt head down to his broken, dusty boots, there yet clung that air of jaunty, devil-may-care rakishness.
Collins' death can be put down to his devil-may-care attitude—his decision to journey through hostile territory in a large convoy, the inadequate choice of the members of the convoy, and the tactics he adopted in the ambush. For all the debate about ballistics and entry and exit wounds, and the use of powerful historical imaginations, it matters more that Collins was killed than how he was killed. Concentration on the events at Béal na mBláth has, moreover, often meant a failure to place them in the overall context of the war.
Tiny Albania emerged from communist dictatorship in 1990 only to tumble into a rough world of gangsters, fraudulent financial machinations and incompetent governance, exacerbated by lawless capitalism and devil-may-care politics.
It is no real surprise that half the UK's stations and 5,000 miles of route were recommended to close. Nevertheless, some great mistakes were made in Marples' devil-may-care purge that left commuters stranded and seaside resorts without a lifeline.
Translations:
incisively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English incisive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English incisively
From incisive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more incisively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most incisively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an incisive manner.
pos: adv
examples: `Yesterday,' said Rupert Hardman, incisively, forensically.
Translations:
incisiveness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English incisive
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 incisiveness
From incisive + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being incisive; incisivity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: "Merely an amateur," put in Carrados, suavely, but with the incisiveness of a scalpel.
Translations:
imprecatory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English imprecate
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -tōriusder.
Middle English -orie
English -ory
English imprecatory
From imprecate + -ory.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That imprecates or invokes evil.
pos: adj
Translations:
shunting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
Inflected forms:
form: shuntings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The connection of an electrical component in parallel with another, the current being divided between them.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The manipulation of railway rolling stock into different combinations or onto different tracks.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Nine-car 800109 hit LNER 43300 Craigentinny during late-night shunting.
gloss: Arbitrage conducted between certain local markets without the necessity of the exchange involved in foreign arbitrage.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
Derived words: shunting engine
shunting neck
shunting signal
shunting-yard algorithm
Translations:
sideband
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From side + band.
Compound parts: side
band
Inflected forms:
form: sidebands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The band of frequencies each side of the frequency of a carrier wave; formed as a result of modulation of the carrier.
pos: noun
Translations:
stylo
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Clipping of stylographic pen, from stylo- + graphic.
Base: graphic
Affixes: stylo-
Inflected forms:
form: stylos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more stylo
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stylo
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A stylographic pen.
pos: noun
examples: Malone put his stylo in his pocket. There was no use reporting a lunatic.
gloss: Stylish; fashionable.
pos: adj
tags: Singapore
informal
examples: We so stylo, they just vile-o / We speak Singlish, awmost English-lah
Translations:
minutely
Part of speech: adv
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English minute
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English minutely
From minute + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more minutely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most minutely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: With attention to tiny details.
pos: adv
examples: To describe them in full, and to recount minutely the ideas held by the Japanese rustics concerning them, would be to compile an octavo work on dragonology.
gloss: On a minute scale.
pos: adv
gloss: Happening every minute.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Continuing; unceasing.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Throwing themselves absolutely upon God's minutely providence.
Translations:
barefooted
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bare + footed.
Compound parts: bare
footed
Inflected forms:
form: more barefooted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most barefooted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more barefooted
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most barefooted
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Wearing nothing on the feet; barefoot.
pos: adj
examples: By following the sound I came upon a bare-footed old woman with a yellow dried-up countenance, who was bending down over the pigs' trough, busy filling it with food, for which the noisy little creatures were fighting, tearing, pushing, and yelling, with expectation and delight.
There were no roads, only paths through the grass worn away by barefooted boys and women.
gloss: Wearing nothing on the feet; barefoot.
pos: adv
Translations:
subscribing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: subscribings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A subscription.
pos: noun
Translations:
sophism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English sophim, from Old French soffime, sofime, sofisme, sophisme, from Latin sophisma (“fallacy, sophism”), from Ancient Greek σόφῐσμᾰ (sóphĭsmă), from σοφίζω (sophízō) + -μα (-ma).
Inflected forms:
form: sophisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The school of the sophists in antiquity; their beliefs and method of teaching philosophy and rhetoric.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
examples: Within the framework of democracy a new ideology, born of sophism, took root and proclaimed the rights of the individual in all spheres, political as well as moral.
Empiricism has its roots in Greek and Roman sophism and skepticism, and continues through Kant and American pragmatism.
Sophistic teachers did not, in general, consciously aim at corrupting the young or turning them against their parents, but the radical skepticism and moral relativism of later sophism indirectly achieved something like this.
gloss: A flawed argument, superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The hope of improvement is a quality at once so strong and so excellent in the human mind, that I, for one, disapprove of any sophism—or, if you will, argument—that tends to repress it.
gloss: An intentional fallacy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Sophistic, fallacious reasoning or argumentation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: What! No demonstration of the Being of God! No abstract arguments! No proofs a priori! Are these, which have hitherto been so much insisted on by philosophers, all fallacy, all sophism? Can we reach no further in this subject than experience and probability?
30 Oct 1980, H. Dieter Zeh, letter to John Archibald Wheeler.
I expect that the Copenhagen interpretation will some time be called the greatest sophism in the history of science, but I would consider it a terrible injustice if—when some day a solution should be found—some people claim that ‘this is of course what Bohr always meant’, only because he was sufficiently vague.
Related words: sophist
sophistic
sophisticate
sophisticated
sophistry
half-truth
Translations:
unfailing
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 failing
English unfailing
From un- + failing.
Inflected forms:
form: more unfailing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unfailing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: inexhaustible
pos: adj
gloss: changeless, constant
pos: adj
examples: There is an unfailing charm about his novels, an unwearing freshness.
It is a work of love, made in difficult times at complex locations, with the unfailing support of dozens of brilliant professional people.
gloss: infallible
pos: adj
Translations:
myelopathy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From myelo- + -pathy.
Base: myelo
Inflected forms:
form: myelopathies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A disorder in which the tissue of the spinal cord is diseased or damaged.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A disturbance or disease of the spinal cord.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: myelitis
Derived words: myelopathic
neuromyelopathy
radiculomyelopathy
spondylomyelopathy
Translations:
mortuary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English mortuary, from Anglo-Norman mortuarie (“gift to a parish priest from a deceased parishioner”), from Medieval Latin mortuārium (“receptacle for the dead; mortuary”), neuter form of mortuārius (“of or pertaining to the dead”), from Latin mortuus, perfect passive participle of morior (“to die”).
Inflected forms:
form: mortuaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to death or a funeral; funereal.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The leftwise action aims at what drifts out of the nunka domain of the nefarious. Similarly for mortuary arrangements, what is leftwise is more momentous than what is rightwise.
gloss: A place where dead bodies are stored prior to burial or cremation; broadly, synonym of funeral home.
pos: noun
examples: It was anciently usual to bring the mortuary to church along with the corpse when it came to be buried
gloss: A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Related words: mortician
soulscot
Derived words: mortuary pole
mortuary science
Translations:
siderite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σιδηρίτης (sidērítēs, “made of iron”), from Ancient Greek σίδηρος (sídēros, “iron”), or from Latin sideritis (“lodestone”), from Ancient Greek σιδηρῖτις (sidērîtis, “loadstone”). By surface analysis, sider- + -ite.
Inflected forms:
form: siderites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A widespread brown mineral, FeCO₃, having the structure of calcite.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: An iron meteorite.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: An indigo blue variety of quartz.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Magnetic iron ore; lodestone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Synonyms: chalybite
sparry iron
spathic iron
Derived words: aerosiderite
holosiderite
mesosiderite
oligosiderite
phosphosiderite
sideritic
spherosiderite
xanthosiderite
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: сидерит
roman: siderit
lang: Catalan
word: siderita
lang: Finnish
word: sideriitti
lang: French
word: sidérite
lang: German
word: Siderit
lang: Greek
word: σιδηρίτης
roman: sidirítis
lang: Italian
word: siderite
lang: Polish
word: syderyt
lang: Portuguese
word: siderita
lang: Spanish
word: siderita
siderophore
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From sidero- + -phore, literally iron carrier.
Base: sidero
Inflected forms:
form: siderophores
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any medium-sized molecule that has a high specificity for binding or chelating iron; they are employed by microorganisms to obtain iron from the environment
pos: noun
gloss: a siderophage
pos: noun
Related words: siderophoric
siderotyping
siderovar
Derived words: aposiderophore
cefiderocol
phytosiderophore
xenosiderophore
Translations:
sillimanite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Silliman + -ite. Named after American chemist and geologist Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864) in 1824.
Base: Silliman
Affixes: -ite
Inflected forms:
form: sillimanites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fibrous neosilicate mineral, polymorphic with andalusite and kyanite, with the chemical formula Al₂SiO₅.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
congest
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
business
history
human-sciences
lifestyle
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: congests
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: congests
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: congesting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: congested
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: congested
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A farmer whose lands do not support him adequately.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
Scotland
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:congest.
gloss: To hinder or block the passage of something moving, for example a fluid, mixture, traffic, people, etc. (due to an excess of this or due to a partial or complete obstruction), resulting in overfilling or overcrowding.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: congest traffic
congest roads
congest lungs
Pollution can congest the city’s streets with smog.
gloss: To become blocked or obstructed
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Nasal passages can congest during a cold.
Related words: congeries
congestant
congestion
congestive
Derived words: congestable
congestee
congester
congestible
congestor
decongest
recongest
Translations:
sintering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sinterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A process in which the particles of a powder are welded together by pressure and heating to a temperature below its melting point.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The idea was to build a thick pavement of high-density dry snow, allowing it to "age-harden" like concrete. The latter process, technically known as sintering, depends on the progressive formation of intergranular bonds, mainly by temperature-dependent vapor diffusion.
Translations:
endocarp
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From endo- + -carp.
Base: endo
Inflected forms:
form: endocarps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The woody inner layer of the pericarp of some fruits that contains the seed: the tissue (uncountable) or the structure that it composes (countable).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Holonyms: pyrena < drupe, stone fruit
A few years ago a message from God was found in a tomato in Yorkshire. The Arabic letters were clearly visible, for those who could see them, spelled out in two halves of mesocarp, endocarp and seeds cradled within mandalas of indigestible skin.
Translations:
endocytosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: endocytoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which the plasma membrane of a cell folds inwards to ingest material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: exocytosis
Translations:
endodontics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥dóm
Proto-Hellenic *éndon
Ancient Greek ἔνδον (éndon)der.
English endo-
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-ónts
Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts
Proto-Hellenic *odónts
Ancient Greek ὀδούς (odoús)der.
English odont-
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
Middle English -es
English -s
English -ics
English endodontics
From endo- (“within”) + odont- (“tooth”) + -ics.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The branch of dentistry dealing with the dental pulp and root, including the root canal (structure) and providing root canals (treatment).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
endolymph
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥dóm
Proto-Hellenic *éndon
Ancient Greek ἔνδον (éndon)der.
English endo-
English lymph
English endolymph
From endo- + lymph.
Inflected forms:
form: endolymphs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The watery fluid inside the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
endometriosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English endometrium
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Ancient Greek -ωσις (-ōsis)bor.
New Latin -ōsislbor.
English -osis
English endometriosis
From endometrium + -osis.
Inflected forms:
form: endometrioses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A generally painful condition characterised by the presence of endometrial-like tissue in places other than the lining of the uterus; an instance of such tissue being present.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The cyclic changes characterizing endometrioses are particularly apparent in endometriosis of the bladder.
This chapter will cover all types of extragenital endometriosis reported in the literature, besides bowel and urinary tract endometriosis, which are dealt with in detail elsewhere in this book.
One can treat all adnexal diseases including cysts and endometrioses of the rectovaginal septum.
Endometriosis is classically defined as the presence of endometrial glands and stroma in ectopic locations. Affecting from 6% to 10% of reproductive-aged women, endometriosis may result in dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, chronic pelvic pain and/or subfertility.
Endometriosis, which involves tissue similar to uterine tissue growing elsewhere in the body, has myriad symptoms, including GI distress, migraines, discomfort during sex and abdominal pain that can range from debilitating to excruciating.
But [Lena] Dunham also writes, in a wry and rueful voice, about her struggles with painful chronic illness (Dunham has endometriosis and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome); […].
Translations:
endomorphism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From endo- + -morphism.
Base: endo
Inflected forms:
form: endomorphisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The assimilation of surrounding rock by an intrusive igneous rock.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A homomorphism that maps a system to itself.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Derived words: Frobenius endomorphism
Translations:
endonuclease
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: endonucleases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any enzyme which catalyzes the cleavage of nucleic acids so as to produce variously sized fragments.
pos: noun
Translations:
endophyte
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From endo- (“inside”) + -phyte (“plant, growth”). The -phyte suffix refers to the microorganism, not the plant within which it grows.
Base: endo
Inflected forms:
form: endophytes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any organism (generally a bacterium, fungus or alga) that lives inside a plant.
pos: noun
examples: Take a grass from salty coastal soils, grow it without its fungal endophytes, and it won't be able to survive in its natural salty habitat.
Translations:
endophytic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English endophyte
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English endophytic
From endophyte + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to an endophyte.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Growing inside another organism, e.g. of parasites or cancer tumors.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: endophytically
endophyticity
Translations:
endoplasmic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥dóm
Proto-Hellenic *éndon
Ancient Greek ἔνδον (éndon)der.
English endo-
English -plasm
English endoplasm
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English endoplasmic
From endoplasm + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to endoplasm.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
endorsee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English endorse
English -ee
English endorsee
From endorse + -ee.
Inflected forms:
form: endorsees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: indorsee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: The person to whom something is transferred by endorsement.
pos: noun
Translations:
endosperm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: endosperms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The tissue surrounding the embryo of flowering plant seeds, that provides nutrition to the developing embryo; usually triploid.
pos: noun
Translations:
triploid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *tréyes
Proto-Indo-European *tri-
Proto-Italic *tri-
Latin tri-der.
English tri-
English -ploid
English triploid
From tri- + -ploid.
Inflected forms:
form: triploids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having three sets of chromosomes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A triploid cell.
pos: noun
gloss: A triploid organism.
pos: noun
Related words: haploid
diploid
polyploid
Translations:
endosulfan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥dóm
Proto-Hellenic *éndon
Ancient Greek ἔνδον (éndon)der.
English endo-
English sulfon(ic acid)
Egyptian jmnbor.
Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓́μμων (Ắmmōn)bor.
Latin Ammōn
Latin ammoniacusder.
English ammonia
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idusder.
English -ide
English amide
English sulfonamide
English sulfa-
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English endosulfan
From endo- + sulfa- + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: endosulfans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: endosulphan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: A toxic chlorinated polycyclic insecticide used to control mites.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Diagnostic doses of six acaricides (fenothiocarb, endosulfan, chlorfenapyr, tebufenpyrad, cyenopyrafen and cyflumetofen) resulted in a 68.0~71.8% mortality rate (on average) in the test mite populations, whereas the remaining six acaricides (monocrotophos, omethoate, bifenthrin, abamectin, etoxazole and bifenazate) caused slightly reduced mortality rates (on average 36.5~59.3%).
Translations:
tiddlywinks
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tiddlywink + -s, possibly from tiddly (“(informal) little, tiny”) + wink (“blinking of one eye”), perhaps borrowed from tiddlywink, etymology 1 (“unlicensed beerhouse or pawnshop; game played using dominoes”, etc.). The game was patented by a British bank clerk, Joseph Assheton Fincher (1863–1900), on 19 October 1889, and the name Tiddledy-Winks trademarked by him the same year. Tiddlywinks is the preferred modern spelling; the earliest known use of this spelling dates from 1894.
Base: tiddlywink
Affixes: -s
Inflected forms:
form: Tiddledy-Winks
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Tiddley Winks
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tiddleywinks
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tidley winks
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs (each called a tiddlywink or wink) as possible into a container (the pot) by pressing on their edges with a larger disc (a shooter or squidger), causing them to jump up from the surface on which they are placed.
pos: noun
tags: also
attributive
plural
plural-only
examples: Can any of your correspondents inform me what is the derivation of the word "kiddlewink," or "tiddledy winks"? A friend tells me in the Midland Counties it denotes a house where beer is sold without a licence. Lately a game has been introduced here bearing the name of "Tiddledywinks."
Recreation rooms were provided for both boys and girl, and the long winter evenings were anything but dreary, for when school was done and work over the children gathered in the brilliantly lit, hot-pipe-heated rooms and played draughts, bagatelle, lotto, or tiddly-winks.
What had been his hypothetical singular solutions? Parlour games (dominos, halma, tiddledywinks, spilikins, cup and ball, nap, spoil five, bezique, twentyfive, beggar my neighbour, draughts, chess or backgammon): […]
Mantrap—Sinclair Lewis—Harcourt, Brace. The great realist plays an amusing game of tiddlywinks in the north woods.
gloss: Especially in the form to play tiddlywinks: a meaningless or unimportant activity.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
plural
plural-only
Translations:
jali
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: Borrowed from Gujarati જાળી (jāḷī, “net”).
Inflected forms:
form: jalis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A stone screen, perforated or latticed, usually with a geometrical ornamental pattern, used in Indian and Islamic architecture as a climate-controlling element.
pos: noun
examples: The main purpose of jali is to control light, air flow, visual privacy, aesthetic and social role, and spatiality. The central technical aspect of the jali's construction is its function as a climate-controlling element, where the distances between the interstices, the size, and the volume of the balusters all have a direct effect on glare, temperature, humidity, and airflow inside the structure (Fathy, 1986).
Translations:
subtropical
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
English tropic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English tropical
English subtropical
From sub- + tropical.
Inflected forms:
form: sub-tropical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: subtropicals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sub-tropical
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the regions of the Earth further from the equator than the tropical regions.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having some characteristics of a tropical cyclone but also some characteristics of an extratropical cyclone.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A subtropical plant.
pos: noun
Derived words: subtropical cyclone
subtropical depression
subtropical storm
Translations:
vang
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Dutch vang, from vangen (“to catch”), under influence of earlier English fang. Ultimately a doublet of Etymology 1 above.
Inflected forms:
form: vangs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fank
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fang
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A line extended down from the end of a gaff to regulate its position.
pos: noun
examples: Having the vang and the Cunningham in the right spot can be beneficial.
Translations:
argumentum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
law
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin arguō
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Latin argūmentumlbor.
English argumentum
Learned borrowing from Latin argūmentum. Doublet of argument.
Inflected forms:
form: argumenta
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An argument or appeal, especially as used in various Latin phrases.
pos: noun
tags: formal
examples: Argumentum anti-Normannicum: or, An argument proving, from ancient histories and records, that William, Duke of Normandy, made no absolute conquest of England by the sword...
Translations:
superinfection
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-lbor.
English super-
English infection
English superinfection
From super- + infection.
Inflected forms:
form: superinfections
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An infection which follows or occurs during another infection or disease process
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
endotracheal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥dóm
Proto-Hellenic *éndon
Ancient Greek ἔνδον (éndon)der.
English endo-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰreh₂gʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰréh₂gʰ-us
Proto-Hellenic *tʰrākʰús
Ancient Greek τρᾱχεῖᾰ (trākheîă)bor.
Late Latin trāchīa
Medieval Latin trāchēader.
Middle English
English trachea
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English tracheal
English endotracheal
From endo- + tracheal.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Within, or through the trachea.
pos: adj
examples: endotracheal anesthesia
endotracheal intubation
endotracheal tube
Translations:
ectothermic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ectotherm
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English ectothermic
From ectotherm + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to an ectotherm; having a body temperature that varies depending on the outside temperature.
pos: adj
Translations:
blastoff
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From blast + off.
Compound parts: blast
off
Inflected forms:
form: blastoffs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The countdown and launch of a rocket, missile or spacecraft
pos: noun
Translations:
kshatriya
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Sanskrit क्षत्रिय (kṣatriya, “(the warrior or military caste or a member of this caste”), from क्षत्र (kṣatra, “rule, dominion, authority”). Akin to satrap.
Inflected forms:
form: kshatriyas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Kshatriya
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: kṣatriya
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cshatriya
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: kshatri
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Khatri
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: chittery
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of the second-highest of the four castes or varnas in traditional Hindu society: the warrior or military caste.
pos: noun
examples: The kshatriya could only hope to become a monk in his next life, but given the nature of his daily karma, it seemed unlikely that he could achieve even this limited goal.
"Bṛhannaḍā said, 'It is not the habit of a kṣatriya to flee like this; death in battle is preferable to flight in fear.'" (Mahābhārata: "Virāṭa Parva")
Translations:
jerry-built
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown; there are many theories. See jerry (possibly etymologically related).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Built cheaply and shoddily.
pos: adj
examples: 1832, Liverpool Mercury, ‘…members of the Bluebell Club, the Jerry-Building society, &c…’ (via https://theprioryandthecastironshore.wordpress.com/2017/07/06/jerry-builder-origin-of-the-term/)
He had tried other building speculations, had run up other “jerry-built” houses, and had failed utterly, hopelessly.
Reigns supreme for jerry-built
Houses tricked out with gorgeous gilt,
Like cakes o' gingerbread, that crumble,
And in another century 'll tumble
Translations:
snowfield
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From snow + field.
Compound parts: snow
field
Inflected forms:
form: snowfields
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large permanent expanse of snow on a mountain or at the head of a glacier.
pos: noun
Translations:
soapstone
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From soap + stone; so called because the archetypal varieties of the stone resemble soap in multiple ways: their feel, appearance, and carvability. First use appears c. 1681, in the writings of Nehemiah Grew.
Compound parts: soap
stone
Inflected forms:
form: soapstones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: soapstones
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: soapstoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: soapstoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: soapstoned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A soft rock, rich in talc, also containing serpentine and either magnetite, dolomite or calcite.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: To have a reliable fire, you'll need to carve a lamp from soapstone (you know what soapstone looks like, right?), render some oil for the lamp from blubber, and make a wick out of a particular species of moss.
gloss: Synonym of saponite.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To scrub with soapstone.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: soapstoner
Translations: