yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
longshoreman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From alongshoreman, from alongshore + -man.
Base: alongshore
Affixes: -man
Inflected forms:
form: longshoremen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A man employed to load and unload ships; any person thus employed.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: After that, Mr. Givens thought little more of his illness and returned to work as a longshoreman at the Port of New Orleans.
With hours to go before their labor contract expired, longshoremen on the East and Gulf Coasts prepared on Monday to go on strike at midnight, halting most activity at some of the busiest U.S. ports.
gloss: One who makes a living along the shore by oyster-fishing, etc.
pos: noun
Related words: longshorewoman
Derived words: longshoreman's cap
Translations:
auscultate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from auscultation.
Inflected forms:
form: auscultates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: auscultating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: auscultated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: auscultated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To listen (for example to the heart or lungs) by auscultation; to examine by auscultation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The doctor, listening past him, had had the same bovine stare as when he was auscultating.
Translations:
auscultatory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Probably from Latin auscultātor (“listener, heeder”) + -y
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to auscultation
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
loyalist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From loyal + -ist. Piecewise doublet of legalist.
Base: loyal
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: loyalists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who is loyal to a cause, generally used as a political affiliation.
pos: noun
examples: Most estimates place one-third of Americans as loyalist, one-third on the fence, to be swayed by whomever was winning, and one-third rebel.
Cobble Hill’s “first hipster bar” sports a “funky living room-ish setting” with “interesting” artwork on the walls and a “low-key” vibe in the air; a “cool” back garden and occasional “dorktastic trivia” contests lead loyalists to label it “one of the best on Atlantic” Avenue.
In this sense, a new loyalist aesthetic can also be perceived in simplistic works such as anticommunist literature and melancholic works such as nostalgic fiction and prose.
An obvious characteristic of a kakistocrat is inserting unqualified loyalists into positions of power. Nepotism and kakistocracy go hand-in-hand.
President-elect Donald Trump plans to nominate firebrand loyalist Kash Patel to serve as FBI director, an extraordinary move that would put a self-described enemy of the so-called deep state as the head of the nation’s top law enforcement agency — a role that would give Patel power to carry out Trump’s threats to go after his political opponents.
Translations:
lowness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English lownesse; equivalent to low + -ness.
Base: low
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: lownesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being low.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Then I was forced to rest; and, sitting down on the ground, saw that the glimmering streak of light had faded, and that the awful blackness of the previous night was creeping up again. And now I had no heart to face it, being cowed with hunger, thirst, and weariness; and so flung myself upon my face, that I might not see how dark it was, and groaned for very lowness of spirit.
My attention was attracted to the next box [booth] by a conversation which was, from its lowness, evidently intended not to be heard.
gloss: Something that is low or vulgar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: lownesses of expression
Translations:
latchkey
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From latch + key.
Compound parts: latch
key
Inflected forms:
form: latch key
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: latch-key
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: latchkeys
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: latchkeying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: latchkeyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: latchkeyed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: latch key
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: latch-key
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Equipped with a key; generally in the phrase latchkey kid.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Pertaining to unsupervised children in afterschool care contexts.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In fashionable Potomac, for instance, almost 50 percent of the nonparental care was latchkey.
Be available as a "safety net" for the parents, especially if both parents work and/or the child is latchkey.
When coded, it was found that 224 children were latchkey or bordering on latchkey status.
gloss: To open something by means of a latchkey.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: latchkey child
latchkey kid
latchkey program
Translations:
tough-skinned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more tough-skinned
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tough-skinned
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resilient; able to endure hardship or criticism, with no apparent adverse effects.
pos: adj
examples: She's tough-skinned, if she can work for slave-drivers like those guys.
Translations:
precentor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French précenteur, from Latin praecentor, from praecentus (“sung before”), from praecinō (“to sing before”) + -or (“agent suffix”), from prae- + canĕre (“to sing”).
Base: -or
Affixes: -
Inflected forms:
form: precentors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: præcentor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: precentour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The person who leads songs or prayers in a cathedral, church, monastery, or synagogue and generally facilitates worship.
pos: noun
Translations:
austerely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English austere
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English austerely
From austere + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more austerely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most austerely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an austere manner.
pos: adv
examples: "You'd better hurry," said Hetty austerely.
Translations:
austerity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: economics
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αὐστηρότης (austērótēs, “bitter, harsh”). Morphologically austere + -ity.
Base: austere
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: austerities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The most rigid and noted of the English ladies resident in the French capital acknowledged and countenanced her; the virtuous Lady Elderbury, the severe Lady Rockminster, the venerable Countess of Southdown—people, in a word, renowned for austerity, and of quite a dazzling moral purity:—so great and beneficent an influence had the possession of ten (some said twenty) thousand a year exercised upon Lady Clavering’s character and reputation
gloss: Freedom from adornment; plainness; severe simplicity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: One critic [Madeleine Schwartz] recently noted that the politics of Rooney’s novels were largely “gestural,” with airy mentions of Gaza or austerity protests but not much radical substance.
The war-torn first half of the 20th century, together with the railway grouping of 1923, ushered in further austerity in design.
After millenniums of austerity and poverty, the age of limitless “superabundance” was at hand.
gloss: A policy of deficit-cutting, which by definition requires lower spending, higher taxes, or both.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He said France clearly wanted to "close one page and open another". He reiterated his opposition to austerity alone as the only way out of Europe's crisis: "My final duty, and I know I'm being watched from beyond our borders, is to put Europe back on the path of growth and employment."
gloss: Sourness and harshness to the taste.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Antonyms: comfort
Related words: austere
austerely
austeriate
Derived words: antiausterity
austeritarian
Translations:
authentically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English authentic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English authentically
From authentic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more authentically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most authentically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: authentickly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: authenticly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: In an authentic manner; genuinely
pos: adv
examples: It is in the nature of all party systems that the authentically political talents can assert themselves only in rare cases, and it is even rarer that the specifically political qualifications survive the petty maneuvers of party politics with its demands for plain salesmanship.
Contrary to popular belief, sushi doesn't have to be served over a bar. A favorite place to get authentically sushified.
[…]one genuinely shocking scene when Evelyn fat-shames her daughter – an authentically upsetting moment of family dysfunction that seems to come from another film, one in a parallel universe.
Translations:
authenticate
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Medieval Latin authenticōbor.
English authenticate
Borrowed from Medieval Latin authenticō. By surface analysis, authentic + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: authenticates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: authenticating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: authenticated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: authenticated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more authenticate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most authenticate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To prove authentic; to determine as real and true.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He didn’t manage to authenticate the portrait: it’s probably a fake.
The server could not authenticate the request.
gloss: Synonym of authentic.
pos: adj
Synonyms: authentify
Related words: authentification
Derived words: authenticatable
authentication
authenticator
deauthenticate
reauthenticate
self-authenticating
unauthenticated
Translations:
authentics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: So called on account of its authenticity.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A collection of the Novels or New Constitutions of Justinian, by an anonymous author.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
promissory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English promissorye, from Medieval Latin prōmissōrius. By surface analysis, promise + -ory.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Containing or consisting of a promise.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Stipulating the future actions required of the parties to an insurance policy or other business agreement.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: nonpromissory
promissorily
promissory note
Translations:
psalmist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Etymology tree
English psalm
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English psalmist
From psalm + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: psalmists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A composer of psalms.
pos: noun
examples: An environment which would have made a contented woman a poet, a suffering woman a devotee, a pious woman a psalmist, even a giddy woman thoughtful, made a rebellious woman saturnine.
gloss: A composer of one of the Biblical Psalms.
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
examples: The hunter is taken in his own snare, as the great Psalmist says.
Either man is the creature whom the Psalmist described as "a little lower than the angels," crowned with glory and honor, holding "dominion over the works" of his Creator; or man is a soulless, animated machine to be enslaved, used and consumed by the state for its own glorification.
More than 2,500 years ago, the Psalmist of the Old Testament, for example, wrote that “the days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow.”
Translations:
pyogenic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pyo- + -genic.
Base: pyo
Inflected forms:
form: more pyogenic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pyogenic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Referring to bacterial infections that make pus.
pos: adj
Translations:
forgetfulness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English forgetfulnes, forgetfulnesse, forȝetfulnesse, equivalent to forgetful + -ness.
Base: forgetful
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: forgetfulnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being forgetful; proneness to let slip from the mind.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Failure to bear in mind; careless omission; inattention.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: forgetfulness of duty
Related words: amnesia
memory loss
Derived words: unforgetfulness
Translations:
implicature
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
pragmatics
sciences
Etymology: Coined by British philosopher Paul Grice before or in 1967.
Inflected forms:
form: implicatures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An implied meaning that does not semantically entail.
pos: noun
Translations:
organza
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Attested since about 1820, of uncertain origin. Suggestions include: alteration of Lorganza (supposedly a trade name at the time for such a fabric) and/or ultimate derivation from Urgench or Old Urgench (supposedly associated with fabric production).
Inflected forms:
form: organzas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A thin, stiff, sheer fabric that is made from silk or a synthetic yarn, which resembles organdy, and is used in dressmaking.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: But Pinky, at night, toward the morning, to become a woman, was that it? How the white legs would glow against the fire-colored chiffon and bright pink organza, Pinky's white white legs.
Translations:
hypercapnia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From hyper- + capn- + -ia; more at capno- § Etymology.
Base: hyper
Affixes: capno-
Inflected forms:
form: hypercapnias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of abnormally elevated carbon dioxide in the blood.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Antonyms: hypocapnia
Translations:
impeached
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Removed from office in accordance with Article II, Section 4 of the United States Constitution.
pos: verb
Derived words: unimpeached
Translations:
ass-licker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Said because the ass is considered vulgar and being willing to kiss another's is considered a sign of submission and patronage.
Inflected forms:
form: ass-lickers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: asslicker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ass licker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: arse-licker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: arselicker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: arse licker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: Someone who performs anilingus.
pos: noun
tags: US
literally
slang
vulgar
gloss: Someone who succumbs to authority, someone who excessively flatters or submits to authority figures in order to gain favor or secure a reward.
pos: noun
tags: US
figuratively
slang
vulgar
examples: If they’re to make anything of themselves, they must instead become ass-lickers, lap dogs and sycophants.
gloss: Any contemptible person.
pos: noun
tags: US
broadly
figuratively
slang
vulgar
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: perseennuolija
lang: German
word: Arschlecker
lang: German
word: Arschleckerin
lang: Italian
word: leccaculo
lang: Russian
word: жополи́з
roman: žopolíz
lang: Russian
word: жополи́зка
roman: žopolízka
lang: Spanish
word: lameculos
renewal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
English renew
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 renewal
From renew + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: renewals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of renewing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The renewal of track by cranes and special tracklaying machines which lift out entire 60 ft. lengths of old track and lay in pre-assembled 60 ft. lengths of new, allows the process of renewal to proceed at a considerably faster rate than possible by older methods.
gloss: An offensive action made immediately after a parried one.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: renew
Derived words: autorenewal
Markov renewal process
nonrenewal
non-renewal
postrenewal
prerenewal
renewalism
renewalist
renewal theory
urban renewal
Translations:
Nathan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: dancing
hip-hop
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From a 2014 meme which suggested that white people should replace the word nigga in rap songs with Nathan. The present meaning of the term dates from around 2017.
Inflected forms:
form: Nathans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A white hip-hop fan, especially one who listens to white rappers and looks down on mumble rap.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: A Nathan is a stereotype who usually listens to white rappers like Eminem,logic and NF, and hates new rap
Nathans are infinitely worse than mumble/trap fans
it would be nice if the new fans would go away or at least change who they are completely. i love seeing bladee & company win but these 100 gec ass nathans are like locusts going from one artist's chronically online fanbase to the next. sematary went down quick lol. once fantano reviewed rb3 it was over
Translations:
gorget
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
surgery
zoology
Etymology: From Middle English gorget, from Old French gorgete, from gorge (“throat”).
Inflected forms:
form: gorgets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A piece of armour protecting the throat and/or the upper part of the chest.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: About his neck a threefold gorget, / As rough as trebled leathern target
Unfix the gorget's iron clasp.
Hawkmoon whipped his sword from the scabbard, leaped forward, and drove the blade into the throat of the warrior just below his gorget.
Renly lifted his chin to allow Brienne to fasten his gorget in place.
I heard he presented Hygd with a gorget,
the priceless torque that the prince's daughter
Wealhtheow, had given him.
gloss: A crescent-shaped ornamental metal plate suspended around the neck from the crescent's points by a length of chain or ribbon, used to indicate rank or authority and was worn as part of a dress military uniform by officers.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A type of women's clothing covering the neck and breast; a wimple.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: An ornament for the neck; a necklace, ornamental collar, torque etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.
pos: noun
gloss: A grooved instrument used in performing various operations; called also blunt gorget.
pos: noun
gloss: A crescent-shaped coloured patch on the neck of a bird or mammal.
pos: noun
examples: There was […] the golden-winged woodpecker, with his crimson crest, his broad black gorget, and splendid plumage […]
gloss: A hake caught in a net set for other fish.
pos: noun
tags: Cornwall
UK
dialectal
Related words: gorge
gorgelet
Derived words: gorget hummer
gorgeted
Translations:
infeasible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From in- + feasible. Cognate to French infaisable.
Base: feasible
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: more infeasible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most infeasible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not feasible.
pos: adj
examples: "With magic in limited use and hidden, it was possible to enhance the various magic resistances of humans, and to keep certain forms of magic from being possible. If magic enters common usage, this interference becomes infeasible."
Labour's Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh said: "There is a cost-of-living crisis, and the Prime Minister blew nearly £1m of public money on an utterly infeasible vanity project. That's enough to fill 18,000 potholes. This shows the Tories' sheer disrespect for public money."
Translations:
toom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English toom, tom, from Old English tōm (“empty”), from Proto-West Germanic *tōm(ī), from Proto-Germanic *tōm(ij)az (“free, available, empty”), from Proto-Indo-European *doma- (“to tame”), *dema- (“to build”). Cognate with Danish and Swedish tom (“empty, vacant”), Icelandic tómur (“empty”).
Inflected forms:
form: tooms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A piece of waste ground where rubbish is deposited.
pos: noun
tags: Scottish
Translations:
religiosity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From religio(u)s + -ity, from Latin religiositas.
Base: religious
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: religiosities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being religious or pious, especially when zealous.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “At least part of the stir over Carter’s shirtsleeve religiosity is that he seems to practice what he preaches,” Newsweek magazine mused a few days after the “born again” question made headlines across the country. “Kennedy went to Mass and Richard Nixon spoke affectionately of his Quaker mother, but neither appeared to be truly religious.”
Translations:
spritzing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: spritzings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The amount applied by a spritz; a small amount of liquid, lightly applied; a sprinkling.
pos: noun
examples: He gave the shirt a spritzing of water and ran the iron across the collar.
Employees even help pool guests stay cool on hot summer days with spritzings of Evian water.
Translations:
cooled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cool
English -ed
English cooled
From cool + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Brought to a lower temperature.
pos: adj
examples: Set one of the cooled cakes, with its top side down, on a cake stand or plate […].
gloss: With a descriptive word: brought to a lower temperature by means of.
pos: adj
examples: a water-cooled engine
gloss: Brought to a reduced degree of anger or fervour.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
Derived words: air-cooled
cryocooled
noncooled
overcooled
subcooled
ultracooled
uncooled
water-cooled
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: -jäähdytteinen
frustrated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more frustrated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most frustrated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Foiled, stopped, disappointed.
pos: adj
gloss: Suffering from frustration; dissatisfied, agitated, discontent and/or slightly angry because one is unable to perform an action or fulfill a desire, or something happened or someone else did something in a way one did not hope for, expect, or desire.
pos: adj
examples: She easily gets frustrated when it comes to financial matters.
Alan Pardew finished by far the most frustrated man at the Emirates, blaming fatigue for the fact that Arsenal were able to kill his team off in the dying minutes.
Related words: frustrating
Derived words: average frustrated chump
flustrated
frustratedly
fuckstrated
unfrustrated
Translations:
salmagundi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French salmigondis (“seasoned salt meats”), from Middle French salmigondin, probably related to Middle French salomene (“hodgepodge of meats or fish cooked in wine”), from Old French salemine.
Inflected forms:
form: salmagundis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: salmagundy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: solomongundy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: solomon gundy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Solomon Gundy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A food consisting of chopped meat and pickled herring, with oil, vinegar, pepper, and onions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Hence, any mixture of various ingredients; an olio or medley; a potpourri; a miscellany.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Partly too it reflected the nature of Revolutionary politics throughout the 1790s, which was invariably a kind of inspired bricolage, which involved yoking together a wide range of pre-existent elements into an unanticipated and constantly changing salmagundi of political forms.
This is not, however, a mere salmagundi of alphabetical arcana.
Derived words: Solomon Gundy
Translations:
reimbursement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: accounting
business
finance
management
Etymology: Etymology tree
English reimburse
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English reimbursement
From reimburse + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: reimbursements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of compensating someone for an expense.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: expense reimbursement
medical reimbursement
seek reimbursement
Employees can claim reimbursement for travel expenses.
The patient received full reimbursement for the cost of treatment.
Translations:
prescient
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin praesciēns (“foreknowing; foretelling, predicting”), present participle of) Latin praesciō (“to foreknow”), from prae- (prefix meaning ‘before; in front’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- (“before; in front”)) + sciō (“to know, understand; to have knowledge of”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to dissect; to split”)). The word is cognate with Middle French prescient (modern French prescient (“prescient”)), Italian presciente (“prescient”). By surface analysis, pre- (“earlier in time, beforehand”) + scient (“knowing, aware”).
Inflected forms:
form: more prescient
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most prescient
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: præscient
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: praescient
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Exhibiting or possessing prescience: having knowledge of, or seemingly able to correctly predict, events before they take place.
pos: adj
examples: And if the præſcient Muſes guide my Lay, / Or, future Secrets, Phœbus can diſplay, / The Day ſhall ſhine diſtinguiſh'd from the reſt, / That Anna dignify'd, and Hymen bleſt; […]
Mean time the king, aſtoniſh'd at the ſign, / Haſtes to conſult his præſcient ſire divine.
Benignant Heaven, præscient and kind, / Made man for toil, and left sweet Sleep behind, / To nerve the arm which labour had unstrung— […]
It seems that human nature, when its original habits are cultivated and attended to, possesses something upon the same occasion of that prescient foreboding, which announces the approaching tempest to the inferior ranks of creation.
The kind sorrowful blue eyes looked at me for a moment with the prescient sadness of a coming and a long farewell.
Members opposite seem to be prescient; they seem to know what I am going to say before I have said it.
[Neil] Warnock described City as the best team in Europe in the build-up to this match and joked that his players had been preparing for the game – and City's inevitable dominance – by training without a ball. It proved to be a prescient quip, as the home side had to toil for long periods, struggling to lay a glove on their stylish opponents.
The 2017 report […] discussed the possibility of a pandemic plunging the world into economic chaos. While it forecast that a pandemic would begin in 2023, as opposed to 2020, its warnings about travel restrictions, economic distress and isolation were prescient.
Translations:
delocalized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Describing the π-electrons in a conjugated, aromatic or mesoionic compound that are not associated with any particular atom or bond
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
physical
Translations:
aromaticity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From aromatic + -ity, from aroma.
Base: aromatic
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: aromaticities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of having an aroma.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The property of being aromatic, i.e. having at least one conjugated ring.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: aromaticness
Derived words: amidicity
antiaromaticity
homoaromaticity
Translations:
benzo
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a ring compound, especially a heterocycle, which also has a fused benzene ring.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
chemically
Part of speech: adv
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor.
Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor.
Medieval Latin alchēmia
▲
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)influ.
New Latin chēmia
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
New Latin chēmicus
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 chemical
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English chemically
From chemical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more chemically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most chemically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: more chemically
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most chemically
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Using a chemical reaction, process, or operation.
pos: adv
gloss: According to the principles of chemistry.
pos: adv
examples: This letter, inscribed in a feminine, but irregular hand, and in some places almost illegible, plainly attesting the state of the mind which had dictated it;—stained, too, here and there, with spots of tears, which chemically acted upon by the ink, assumed a strange and reddish hue […]
“This material has a specific hardness and is chemically very stable. It forms naturally from calcium alone, but bacteria accelerate the transformation into calcium carbonate,” explains Alejandro Montesinos, head of the Decarbonization, Climate Change, and Circular Economy Research Group at Tec de Monterrey and a member of the Institute of Advanced Materials and Sustainable Manufacturing.
gloss: Reminiscent of chemicals.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: It starts out as kind of a chemically taste, sharp and irritating, but then there's another taste underneath, like some kind of plant, maybe . . . flowers?
Derived words: allelochemically
chemically imbalanced
chemically impaired
chemically inconvenienced
chemically peculiar star
cytochemically
fluorochemically
hydrochemically
infochemically
microchemically
nanochemically
Translations:
metallocene
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From metallo- + c(yclopentadi)ene. First used in ferrocene.
Base: cyclopentadiene
Affixes: metallo-
Inflected forms:
form: metallocenes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a class of organic compounds containing two cyclopentadienyl anions and a transition metal whose bonding involves overlap of ns and np orbitals of the metal with molecular orbitals of appropriate symmetry of each cyclopentadienyl ring; the rings are parallel to each other, or sometimes canted.
pos: noun
Translations:
cyclopentadienyl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cyclopentadiene
Proto-Indo-European *swel-der.?
Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der.
Frenchder.
English -yl
English cyclopentadienyl
From cyclopentadiene + -yl.
Inflected forms:
form: cyclopentadienyls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The univalent anion derived from cyclopentadiene; contains a ring of delocalized electrons; forms metallocene compounds with transition metals.
pos: noun
Translations:
metasomatism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: metasomatisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which the bulk chemical composition of a rock is changed by the introduction of components from an external source, especially by a hydrothermal fluid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
waving
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: wavings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The motion of something that waves.
pos: noun
gloss: Repeated moving of arms or hands to signal.
pos: noun
Derived words: dick-waving
dick-waving contest
flag-waving
hand waving
hand-waving
shroud-waving
Translations:
walkathon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English walk
English -athon
English walkathon
From walk + -athon.
Inflected forms:
form: walkathons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A long-distance walk, either as a race or in aid of charity.
pos: noun
examples: [In 1946.] Some tattered walkathon tune of the early thirties went banging like a one-wheeled Good Humor cart of those same years through his head as the cards slipped mechanically about the board and his fingers went lightly dividing change in the middle, taking the house's percentage without making the winner too sharply aware of the cut.
The student-led group has consistently ranked among the top 20 fundraisers for the walkathon, organizers said. Started 15 years ago by a determined 7-year-old named Leo Beckerman, Kids Who Care has raised more than $500,000 for AIDS organizations, according to the Beckerman family, of Studio City.
Translations:
hypnotise
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Derived from hypnot(ic) + -ise (verbal derivational suffix).
Base: hypnotic
Affixes: -ise
Inflected forms:
form: hypnotises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hypnotising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hypnotised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hypnotised
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hypnotize
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To induce a state of hypnosis in.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
hypnotize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Derived from hypnot(ic) + -ize (verbal derivational suffix).
Base: hypnotic
Affixes: -ize
Inflected forms:
form: hypnotizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hypnotizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hypnotized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hypnotized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hypnotise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To induce a state of hypnosis in.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: hypnotize a subject
hypnotize into obedience
be hypnotized by someone or something
The magician claimed he could hypnotize anyone in the audience.
She was hypnotized by the flickering flames of the fire.
Translations:
haat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: haats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A local open-air market held regularly.
pos: noun
tags: India
Translations:
angioplasty
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: From angio- + -plasty.
Base: angio
Inflected forms:
form: angioplasties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: angioplasties
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: angioplastying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: angioplastied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: angioplastied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The mechanical widening of a narrowed or totally obstructed blood vessel generally caused by atheroma.
pos: noun
gloss: To perform angioplasty upon.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Stenotic lesions identified were angioplastied if deemed to narrow the lumen by greater than 50% compared with the adjacent normal artery or vein and deemed to be flow restricting.
Translations:
ampicillin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Egyptian jmnbor.
Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓́μμων (Ắmmōn)bor.
Latin Ammōn
Latin ammoniacusder.
English ammonia
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ine
English amine
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English am(ino)-
Proto-Indo-European *pes-
Proto-Indo-European *pes-ni-s
Proto-Italic *peznis
Latin pēnis
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Proto-Italic *-kelos
Latin -culus
Latin pēniculus
▲
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -lus
Latin -illum
Latin pēnicillum
Translingual -ium
Translingual Penicillium
▲
English -ineclip.
English -in
English p(en)icillin
English ampicillin
From am(ino)- + p(en)icillin.
Inflected forms:
form: ampicillins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A semisynthetic form of penicillin C₁₆H₁₉N₃O₄S that is effective against gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria and is used to treat infections of the urinary, respiratory, and intestinal tracts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
Quaalude
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Supposedly a blend of quiet + Maalox + interlude.
Compound parts: quiet
Maalox
interlude
Inflected forms:
form: Quaaludes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: quaalude
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A dose of this drug, sometimes taken recreationally.
pos: noun
examples: On a daily basis I consume enough drugs to sedate Manhattan, Long Island, and Queens for a month. I take Quaaludes 10-15 times a day for my "back pain", Adderall to stay focused, Xanax to take the edge off, pot to mellow me out, cocaine to wake me back up again, and morphine... Well, because it's awesome.
Hef was the grinning pimp of the sexual revolution, with quaaludes for the ladies and Viagra for himself — a father of smut addictions and eating disorders, abortions and divorce and syphilis, a pretentious huckster who published Updike stories no one read while doing flesh procurement for celebrities, a revolutionary whose revolution chiefly benefited men much like himself.
Translations:
toxoplasmosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French toxoplasmose, from translingual Toxoplasma + -osis.
Affixes: -osis
Inflected forms:
form: toxoplasmoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A disease, caused by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, that primarily affects felids, but also other mammals including humans.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Some profiles are particularly associated with severe toxoplasmoses, but this relationship is especially true for experimental infections in the murine model.
In a study of treatment of the infected mother during pregnancy with spiramycin, pyrimethamine, and sulfonamides there was a significant reduction in the severity of congenital toxoplasmosis.
Like other Australian marsupial taxa, wombats appear particularly susceptible to toxoplasmosis due to exposure to the coccidian parasite Toxoplasma gondii.
Well, yes, boss, it’s a parasite called toxoplasmosis. It can be transferred from cats to humans and bring about some complications.
Translations:
tetherball
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compound of tether + ball.
Inflected forms:
form: tetherballs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A two-person sport where players hit a ball on the end of a tether attached to the top of a pole in opposite directions, and the winner is the one who manages to make the tether wrap all the way round the pole.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The ball in the sport of tetherball.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Derived words: tetherballer
Translations:
lang: Danish
word: stangtennis
lang: Finnish
word: salkopallo
lang: French
word: spirobole
lang: French
word: spiroballe
lang: Italian
word: tetherball
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: smashball
lang: Portuguese
word: espirobol
strychnine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From French strychnine, from Greek στρύχνος (strýchnos, “sleepy nightshade”) (or directly from Ancient Greek στρύχνον (strúkhnon)) + -ine.
Affixes: -ine
Inflected forms:
form: strychnines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A very toxic, colorless crystalline alkaloid, derived from nux vomica, used as a pesticide.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Only don’t say I didn’t warn you if he burns Green Gables down or puts strychnine in the well—I heard of a case over in New Brunswick where an orphan asylum child did that and the whole family died in fearful agonies.
[…] strychnine is a fairly rapid drug in its action. The symptoms appear from one to two hours after it has been swallowed.
Translations:
stamper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *stampōną
Proto-Germanic *stampijaną?
Proto-West Germanic *stampijander.
Old English stempan
Old English *stampian
Middle English stampen
English stamp
English -er
English stamper
From stamp + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: stampers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who stamps.
pos: noun
gloss: An instrument for pounding or stamping.
pos: noun
examples: The best crushing seasons had to be wasted, for this reason - for months the busy din of the stampers was not to be heard, the machinery lay idle, and the only thing those men who were able to hold on for better times could do was to see, at all events, they were not left without a sufficient supply of food.
gloss: A physical template from which many identical vinyl records or compact discs can be produced.
pos: noun
Translations:
sloshed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: In sense “drunk”, circa 1946.
Inflected forms:
form: more sloshed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sloshed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very drunk.
pos: adj
tags: slang
Translations:
schnauzer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
German Schnauzerbor.
English schnauzer
Borrowed from German Schnauzer.
Inflected forms:
form: schnauzers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dog of a particular breed originating in Germany.
pos: noun
examples: The five-year-old Giant Schnauzer was also awarded Best in Show at the AKC National Championship in December.
Translations:
paintball
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From paint + ball.
Compound parts: paint
ball
Inflected forms:
form: paintballs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: paintballs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: paintballing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: paintballed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: paintballed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A sport where teams shoot each other with gelatin capsules filled with paint-like dye.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The dye-filled capsule fired in the sport of paintball.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: To engage in the sport of paintball.
pos: verb
gloss: To shoot someone using a paintball gun.
pos: verb
Related words: airsoft
archery tag
dart tag
laser tag
MilSim
tagball
wargames
Derived words: paintballer
Translations:
minimalist
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English minimum
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 minimal
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English minimalist
From minimal + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: more minimalist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most minimalist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: minimalists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Believing in or seeking a minimal state; seeking to minimize or reduce to a minimum.
pos: adj
examples: I am sure such a minimalist style of furniture would never fit well with my packrat nature.
gloss: One who believes in or seeks a minimal state; one who seeks to minimize or reduce to a minimum.
pos: noun
examples: He's a minimalist: when it comes to formal processes, the fewer the better.
Antonyms: maximalist
Translations:
straggler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English straggle
English -er
English straggler
From straggle + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: stragglers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who goes against the direct or proper course, or from the company to which they belong.
pos: noun
examples: She recounted her life in pre-World War II Eastern Europe and how a ragtag band of Red Army stragglers, escaped prisoners of war and Jewish and gentile Resistance fighters — including some women — harassed the Germans behind the Wehrmacht’s front lines in the forests and swamps of what is now Belarus.
gloss: One who falls behind the rest, for example in a race.
pos: noun
examples: This isn't the 1970s, when the UK stood out as the European straggler.
gloss: One who roams without any settled direction.
pos: noun
gloss: A migratory animal found away from its usual range.
pos: noun
gloss: A roving vagabond.
pos: noun
gloss: Something that shoots, or spreads out, beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth.
pos: noun
gloss: Something that stands alone or by itself.
pos: noun
Derived words: blue straggler
straggler daisy
Translations: