yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
merlion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From mer- + lion; sense 1 promoted by the Singapore Tourism Board as the name of a statue installed at the mouth of the Singapore River on 15 September 1972.
Base: lion
Affixes: mer-
Inflected forms:
form: merlions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Merlion
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Often Merlion: a symbolic creature having the head of a lion and the body of a fish, which is a national symbol of Singapore; an image, statue, or other depiction of this creature.
pos: noun
tags: Singapore
examples: In 1995, a second Merlion was built on the island of Sentosa. This new Merlion is actually a 37-metre high panoramic tower, from which it is possible to view mainland Singapore and the Straits of Singapore[…]. A new "ancient legend" was created for this creature with this tower. The legend alleged that the Merlion landed on Sentosa and saved Singapore from a storm. It would save Singapore again if the island ran into trouble (according to a film in the Merlion Tower). […] Some locals are upset by this fabrication. The STB [Singapore Tourism Board] maintains that the Merlion reflects the combination of Singapore's national animal (the lion) and Singapore being an island. Many Singaporeans have come to accept this mythical creature as a quintessential symbol of Singapore. To the unaware tourists, the product was packaged in a convincing manner, with the legend, film clip, and chronotopic dimensions of when and where the Merlion supposedly visited Singapore.
Like Changi Airport or the Merlion, Singlish is something that is quintessentially Singaporean. It is a dialect that everyone speaks and understands and is something that could provide the cornerstone for a unifying cultural identity.
Yeah, well, he went into a tourist shop, not the one with postcards and plastic Merlions. That one ah, the one in here for the towkays and businessmen for conference centres. They sell gold-plated Merlions, Eiffel Towers and Empire State Buildings, you know.
And in the fourteenth century / Because of Nila Utama's river mouth encounter with a merlion / The Lion City surged into being / And its people could travel the wide world
At his favorite, familiar hotel on busy Orchard Road, he paid his fare, hefted his small bag and walked past the gorgeous garden with flowers and a fountain. Under the spray of water was a statue of the so-called merlion, the mythical beast that was the symbol of the tourist industry here. Its top half was a lion and the bottom half a fish. A couple of years ago, when he'd taken a stuffed merlion home to Lexi, she'd insisted on calling it Lion King Little Mermaid from her two favorite Disney movies at that time.
gloss: A fictional creature of similar make-up.
pos: noun
examples: There were night penguins that emitted green light only when hunting in dark seas, and merlions whose manes were fringed with pallid lavender.
Translations:
dinged-up
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: see ding (v.)
Inflected forms:
form: more dinged-up
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dinged-up
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dinged up
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: battered, dented by blows, injured
pos: adj
examples: “Besides the possible concussion, I'm going to guess at least two dinged-up ribs—” She paused, probing, while he did his best not to lose his dignity and throw up on her very clean, white athletic shoes.
You have a concussion and are more use to the Navy with a working brain than without, plus you're 'bout as dinged up as that ship is. Look at your shoulder.”
2012, New York Times, 31st of July, by Adam Davidson
"The Dinged-Up, Broken-Down, Fender-Bended Economic Recovery Plan" (the name of the article)
Translations:
leaf-raking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Sense regarding employment: from the nature of some of the activities of the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression in the US.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of raking leaves.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Marginally productive government-financed employment.
pos: noun
tags: US
derogatory
uncountable
usually
examples: Relief was essential and began under Hoover; then, under Roosevelt, relief turned into leaf-raking, and leaf-raking turned into constructive enterprise.
public agencies were to plan building programs that would do the job and preserve communities from “the necessity of feeding hungry men through the expediency of 'leaf-raking' projects or the dole or soup lines.
Yet neither man came close to realizing his early political promise, or to forgiving the tendency of the average voter to sell his birthright for a leaf-raking job or Social Security card.
Translations:
Tyrrhenian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Tyrrhene + -ian.
Base: Tyrrhene
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: Tyrsenian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Tyrrhenians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Tyrsenian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Etruscan; of Etruria.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of the languages of the Tyrrhenian family: Etruscan, Raetic or Lemnian.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to the Tyrrhenian Sea.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: This word [mufrone, 'mouflon'] has no Latin etymology and, especially since it specifically refers to animals endemic to the Tyrrhenian islands, it is suspect of being of pre-Roman origin.
gloss: An Etruscan.
pos: noun
examples: Among the ancient Tyrrhenians also mixoscopy was prevalent.
Derived words: Tyrrhenian Sea
Translations:
Vril
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
literature
media
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
publishing
science-fiction
sciences
ufology
Etymology: Coined by British statesman and author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in the 1871 science fiction novel The Coming Race, later titled Vril, apparently as a clipping of virile.
Inflected forms:
form: vril
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A controllable form of energy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: These subterranean philosophers assert that by one operation of vril, which Faraday would perhaps call ‘atmospheric magnetism,’ they can influence the variations of temperature—in plain words, the weather; […]
It devoted its time to the study of vril, and taught that the secret of vril could be divined by contemplating the structure of an apple sliced in half.
I have written a second book, Vrilology, which explores the historic background of the Life Force, which we refer to as Vril, and another simple book explaining just what Vril is and how it can help people improve their lives, filling them with happiness, joy and prosperity.
gloss: A kind of flying saucer supposedly built by the Nazis.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
uncountable
examples: This technology led to the amazing German flying saucers of the Haunebu and Vril classes built under SS auspices.
However, some weeks after Ger-many surrendered, both Haunebu and Vril craft were spotted in the skies over occupied Germany.
Operation Highjump has turned out to be a hot topic for UFO conspiracy theorists over recent years, who claim it was a secret US military campaign to defeat and destroy supposed secret Nazi facilities in Antarctica and seize the German Vril flying discs, and the Thule mercury propelled spacecraft.
Translations:
earth-stopping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The act of blocking a fox's earth (burrow) while it is absent, so it is forced to stay above ground.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
half-caf
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Short for half-caffeinated.
Inflected forms:
form: half-cafs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: consisting of equal parts decaf and regular coffee.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Coffee of this kind, or a serving of it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
sub-renter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sub- + renter.
Base: renter
Affixes: sub-
Inflected forms:
form: sub-renters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: subleaser
pos: noun
Translations:
baaa
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Elongated form of baa.
pos: intj
Translations:
lob-worm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lob-worms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lob worm
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lobworm
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The lugworm, especially when used in angling.
pos: noun
Translations:
prepreg
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of pre-impregnated.
Inflected forms:
form: prepregs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pre-preg
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Fiber material impregnated with its matrix material, usually a plastic, well before its use to form a manufactured part.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
pre-impregnate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pre- + impregnate.
Base: impregnate
Affixes: pre-
Inflected forms:
form: pre-impregnates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pre-impregnating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pre-impregnated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pre-impregnated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To impregnate, as with a matrix material such as a plastic, before use.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
Hegelianism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Hegelian + -ism.
Base: Hegelian
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: Hegelianisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Hegelism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The system of logic and philosophy set forth by G. W. F. Hegel, which can be summed up by the dictum that "the rational alone is real", i.e. all reality is capable of being expressed in rational categories.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
anti-Hegelian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From anti- + Hegelian.
Base: Hegelian
Affixes: anti-
Inflected forms:
form: more anti-Hegelian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most anti-Hegelian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: anti-Hegelians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Opposing the Hegelian philosophy.
pos: adj
gloss: One who opposes the Hegelian philosophy.
pos: noun
Translations:
Morisco
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish morisco (“Moorish”), from moro (“Moor”).
Inflected forms:
form: Moriscos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Moriscoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Moresco
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Moor, especially one who had converted to Christianity.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: In May, 1600, the Count of Benavente, then viceroy of Valencia, was ordered to report whether the Moriscos of that kingdom had any intelligence with France.
It is not uncommon for the reader of many histories of the expulsion of the Moriscos, both those written at the time and more modern ones, to be left with the impression that the expulsion was an enterprise carried out without opposition, an act accepted both by the Moriscos, who directly suffered from it, […]
gloss: The Moorish style of architecture.
pos: noun
examples: Ambrosio de Letinez, a fictitious hero of the early nineteenth century, accurately described the typical architecture of northern Mexico: “The style of building is the Morisco … throughout … Mexico; that is to say, the houses are almost universally one story high, with flat terrace roofs and few windows to the street. […]”
gloss: The morris dance.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Your wit skips a morisco; but, by the brightest spangle of tire, I vouchsafe you entire unaffected favour.
gloss: A morris dancer.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: I have seen / Him caper upright like a wild Morisco, / Shaking the bloody darts as he his bells.
Translations:
Wintun
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Wintu wintʰu·n (“to be a person, to be a Wintun”).
Inflected forms:
form: Wintuns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Wintun
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Wintuan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Wintoon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Wintuan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Wintoon
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any member of a group of related Native American tribes who live in Northern California, including the Wintu (northern), Nomlaki (central), and Patwin (southern) tribes.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or relating to the Wintun people.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
underlayment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From underlay + -ment.
Base: underlay
Affixes: -ment
Inflected forms:
form: underlayments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that is underlaid, such as planking in a room of a house; underlay.
pos: noun
Translations:
superboy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From super- + boy.
From 1945's Superboy, published by DC Comics and dated January-February 1945.
Base: boy
Affixes: super-
Inflected forms:
form: superboys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A very remarkable, talented or otherwise exceptional boy.
pos: noun
Translations:
suited-booted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From suited (“wearing a suit”, adjective) + booted (“wearing a boot or boots”, adjective), the words chosen for the rhyme.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of suited and booted (“dressed smartly, especially in business or formal wear”).
pos: adj
tags: South-Asia
not-comparable
Translations:
preoperational
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pre- + operational.
Base: operational
Affixes: pre-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Prior to a surgical operation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: preoperational anxiety
gloss: In or relating to a Piagetian phase of child development characterized by sparse and logically inadequate mental operations and inability to reason or work with symbols.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: preoperative
preoperatory
Derived words: preoperationally
Translations:
galium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From the genus name, from Ancient Greek γάλα (gála, “milk”).
Inflected forms:
form: galiums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the genus Galium of annual and perennial herbaceous plants, including the bedstraws.
pos: noun
Translations:
Severan
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more Severan
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Severan
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the Ancient Roman emperor Septimius Severus.
pos: adj
Translations:
Transalpine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From trans- + Alpine.
Base: Alpine
Affixes: trans-
Inflected forms:
form: Transalpines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone from a country the other side of the Alps, seen from the point of view of Italy; a non-Italian.
pos: noun
Translations:
w-shingling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: w denotes the number of tokens in each shingle in the set.
Inflected forms:
form: w-shinglings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In natural language processing, a set of unique "shingles" (contiguous subsequences of tokens in a document) that can be used to gauge the similarity of documents.
pos: noun
Translations:
Jesuitical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more Jesuitical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Jesuitical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: jesuitical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Jesuitic.
pos: adj
examples: [S]he was one of your ſoft ſpoken, canting, whining hypocrites, who with a truly jeſuitical art, could wreſt evil out of the moſt inoffenſive thought, word, look or action; […]
There certainly was a kind of Jesuitical cast to him; she could imagine him sombre in a black cassock.
Translations:
Beaujolais
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French Beaujolais.
Inflected forms:
form: Beaujolais
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A light-bodied French red wine made from Gamay grapes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Educated the expensive way / He knows his claret from his Beaujolais
Translations:
fee-faw-fum
Part of speech: intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fee-faw-fums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A nonsensical exclamation attributed to giants and ogres.
pos: intj
gloss: A nonsensical exclamation attributed to giants and ogres.
pos: noun
examples: The kindly fee-faw-fums of childhood, how many delicious shivers we owe them; the Things that stood behind doors, that trooped into the church when the congregation went out, that lurked in closet corners and under the bed […]
gloss: Any expression calculated to impose upon the timid and ignorant.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
broadly
examples: J. H. Newman
impudent fee-faw-fums
One of the most successful fee-faw-fums worked off on the prospective patients of mine for the past twenty-five years has been: “If you go to Tilden, he will starve you to death.”
Translations:
Nipmuc
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Loup A Nippamaug, from nippe (“water”) + âmag (“fishing”).
Compound parts: nippe
âmag
Inflected forms:
form: Nipmucs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Nipmuc
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Nipmuck
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of a people descended from the indigenous Algonquian peoples of Nippenet, corresponding to central Massachusetts and immediately adjacent portions of Connecticut and Rhode Island.
pos: noun
Translations:
Scotchgard
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Brand name: a modified spelling of Scotch + guard.
Compound parts: Scotch
guard
Inflected forms:
form: Scotchgards
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Scotchgarding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Scotchgarded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Scotchgarded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To apply Scotchgard to (a surface).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
momager
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From blend of mom + manager.
Compound parts: mom
manager
Inflected forms:
form: momagers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: momanager
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A showbusiness manager who is also the performer's mother.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: A growing category of “bad” mother is the so-called “momager,” the woman who interferes with her famous children's affairs, exploits them, and contributes to their tarnished reputations—[...]
The most fitting occupation for my mother is no longer a stage actress or momager or anything like that; she would make—she is—a fantastic nurse.
The scope of ambition of the Hadids can be seen in the increased visibility of Yolanda, who accompanied Gigi to the Fashion awards, because you are no one without a momager.
It seems even Kris Jenner has got the pink memo. The momager followed up Kim's post with her own, sharing a throwback pic of herself in a neon pink '80s swimsuit.
Translations:
storying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: storyings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The telling of a story or series of events.
pos: noun
examples: As we hope to show in this chapter, though, it is not really different material that we need so much as different interpretations, different storyings, different “valuations” of the material that we have.
Other people's storyings were contributing to the storyings of my own life. The chapter which follows is a narrative of some of the understandings developed during the year in which this book was written.
Translations:
half-island
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From half- + island. Compare German Halbinsel (“peninsula”, literally “half-island”), Latin paeninsula (“peninsula”, literally “almost-island”).
Base: island
Affixes: half-
Inflected forms:
form: half-islands
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: half island
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A piece of land which is "halfway" an island; a byland; peninsula.
pos: noun
examples: Because of its half-island identity, the Korean peninsula has instilled among those who live along its coasts and on some of the over three thousand mostly small offshore islands, a long-term interest in fisheries.
For some time, the Midianites controlled part of the AraBa territories of Negeb desert and the half Island of Sinai.
Therefore, полуóстров is а half-island, or peninsula. Incidentally, the word peninsula is formed in the same way, from the Latin words раеnе (almost) and insula (island).
Here the Chinese navy sees little but trouble and frustration in what Chinese strategists call the First Island Chain, which, going from north to south, comprises Japan and the Ryuku^([sic – meaning Ryukyu]) Islands, the “half-island” of the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan, [...]
gloss: An area of land occupying part or half of an island.
pos: noun
examples: Yunen finds the "study of the half-island" to be no better than a "half-study," one whose artificially narrow scope blocks the understanding of shared problems and the finding of shared solutions.
Translations:
no-mark
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: no-marks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: no mark
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: no-marks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: no-marking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: no-marked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: no-marked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no mark
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An insignificant person; one who fails to make a mark.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
examples: My favourite bit – bar the attempt to enforce a ruthless caste system in the no-mark community – is the prissy way Danny asterisks the word fuck …
If you had a daughter, and I want you to think about this seriously, would you honestly want her wasting herself on a no mark like that?
She's said to be 'in pieces' after reading nasty comments calling her a 'no mark Brit' on American websites just as she's mentally girding her loins for her big move to Los Angeles.
gloss: A score in athletics having after having not set a valid ground marking in a distance measurement. A score of 0 metres, resulting from faulting/fouling out of competition.
pos: noun
gloss: To fail to record a valid score, and produce a score of 0 or no-mark (no distance), by failing to make a valid ground mark from an attempt, and fouling/faulting out of competition.
pos: verb
Translations:
glass-crab
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: glass-crabs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mollusk of the genus Palinurus and allied genera, during its larval state (phyllosoma) which is remarkable for its thinness and transparency. It was formerly thought to be a separate organism in the family Phyllosoma
pos: noun
Translations:
fetching
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From fetch + -ing.
Base: fetch
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: more fetching
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fetching
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fetchings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Attractive; pleasant to regard.
pos: adj
examples: Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.
I am not, I regret to say, a discreet and fetching sleeper. Most people when they nod off look as if they could do with a blanket; I look as if I could do with medical attention.
“The men in this town have a serious case of pussy affluenza,” says Amy Watanabe, 28, the fetching, tattooed owner of Sake Bar Satsko, a lively izakaya in New York’s East Village.
gloss: The act by which something is fetched.
pos: noun
examples: These lumpers were also in the habit of inducing their men during the week to send to their pay-house for fetchings of drink, besides the money they were compelled to spend on Saturday night.
Translations:
ship-to-ground
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: fired from ship at a target on the ground
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
ground-to-ship
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: fired from the ground at a target ship
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
ground-to-ground
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Fired from the ground at a target on the ground.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
myco-heterotrophic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From myco- + heterotrophic.
Base: heterotrophic
Affixes: myco-
Inflected forms:
form: more myco-heterotrophic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most myco-heterotrophic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a plant, obtaining all or part of its nutrients by parasitizing fungi rather than through photosynthesis.
pos: adj
Translations:
thunder-thighed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more thunder-thighed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most thunder-thighed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having thick thighs.
pos: adj
examples: a thunder-thighed cyclist
Translations:
schmooze-athon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From schmooze + -athon.
Base: schmooze
Affixes: -athon
Inflected forms:
form: schmooze-athons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: schmoozeathon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: schmoozathon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An event where people meet to make social connections; a prolonged period of schmoozing.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: "Currently, we're pretty well settled with everything we've been doing, and a visit to Cannes is more about working on existing relationships. Calling it a 'schmooze-athon' would best sum it up."
This annual March gathering of the digital elite, held at a resort near Tucson, is a combination of a three-day free-form think tank and schmooze-athon where the latest trends are dissected and, in the corridors or on the golf course, deals are hatched.
The mayor also suggested the Games would provide a big economic boost to the capital. “This is a gigantic schmooze-athon that’s about to begin,” he said.
Translations:
ship-to-air
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: fired from a ship at an aircraft in flight, or at an incoming missile
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
air-to-ship
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: fired from an aircraft in flight to a ship
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
ship-to-ship
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: fired from a ship at another ship
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ship, to.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a ship-to-ship message
Most ship-to-ship engagements are skirmishes between patrol vessels of cruiser weight and below, with dreadnoughts and carriers only deployed in full-scale fleet actions. Battles in open space are short and often inconclusive, as the weaker opponent generally disengages.
Related words: air-to-air
air-to-ground
air-to-ship
air-to-surface
ground-to-air
ship-to-air
Translations:
interview-worthy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From interview + -worthy.
Base: interview
Affixes: -worthy
Inflected forms:
form: more interview-worthy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most interview-worthy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: interviewworthy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Worthy of an interview; suitable for or befitting an interview.
pos: adj
examples: It's the Big Day today, but your sole interview-worthy suit is three years out of fashion, none of your shirts are ironed (or made of fabric with no-wrinkle, for that matter), and your one-and-only tie has somehow acquired a big brown beer-stain [...]
Still, I enjoyed the attention while I browsed through my closet, looking for something interviewworthy. Black, black, denim, and leather: my wardrobe had only become more rock and roll over the past few years.
She brought up the movie and he talked about it in a generic sense, but she noted how careful he was not to say anything even remotely interview-worthy.
Translations:
protohistoric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From proto- + historic.
Base: historic
Affixes: proto-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to protohistory.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: "The Arab al-Arabá" (or al-Aribah, or al-Urubíyat) are the autochthones, pre-historic, proto-historic and extinct tribes.
Translations:
surface-to-surface
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: fired from the surface at a target on land or water
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
NINA
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: See NINA loan.
Inflected forms:
form: NINAs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A NINA loan.
pos: noun
Translations:
multibus
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From multi- + bus.
Base: bus
Affixes: multi-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Involving or relating to more than one bus (electrical conductor or interface).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
eye-to-eye
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more eye-to-eye
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most eye-to-eye
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: eye to eye
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Facing the person under discussion.
pos: adv
examples: So in time Mother learned to perceive me through the mirror. Even to smile at me. (Not eye-to-eye! Never.)
There seemed to be a tacit understanding that the prisoners and the unit supervisor should not look at one another...at least not eye-to-eye.
But it does find these two adversaries speaking face to face, if not eye to eye, about the kinds of labor issues that don't often make it to the multiplex.
Translations:
nose-to-nose
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more nose-to-nose
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nose-to-nose
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Direct, confrontational.
pos: adj
examples: Almost indistinguishable from the earlier 115-horse airplane, the new model is designed from the ground up to go nose-to-nose with big-engine, high-performance kit planes.
Several. airlines. offer. domestic-partner. benefits. and. soar. into. a. nose-to-nose. battle. to. prove. which. carrier. can. take. you. higher.
"Nose to nose" describes the ongoing conflict between the two manufacturers over alleged subsidy levels each has received.
Translations:
gambrel-roofed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From gambrel roof + -ed.
Base: gambrel roof
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more gambrel-roofed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gambrel-roofed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a gambrel roof.
pos: adj
examples: It was an unlovely colonial farmhouse, box-shaped and gambrel-roofed, fast falling into the ground.
Translations:
cingular
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the cingulum
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
striped-pants
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: striped-pants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A diplomat or civil servant.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: ‘Ring Shallow Throat,’ Craw ordered, now quite furious. ‘Ring every damned striped-pants in the Colony!’
Translations:
wood-boring
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: woodboring
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: That bores through wood.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Seleucid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin Seleucides, from Ancient Greek Σελευκίδης (Seleukídēs), named after Seleucus I Nicator. Equivalent to Seleucus + -id.
Base: Seleucus
Affixes: -id
Inflected forms:
form: Seleucids
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Seleucides
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Seleucidae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the Greek-Macedonian dynasty which ruled (312–63 BCE) an empire created by Seleucus out of the eastern conquests of Alexander the Great.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Seleucid and Dendera Zodiacs are illustrations of the pictograph tradition from the 5th phase, showing the zodiac plus the four ‘parazodiacal’ animals (crow, serpent, eagle, and southern fish).
An extraordinary material reflection of close Ptolemaic-Seleucid relations was the gift, in 190 BCE or shortly thereafter, of a Ptolemaic gold mnaeion, the largest regularly minted gold issue in the Greek world, conveyed by some high Ptolemaic official to a similarly situated Seleucid counterpart, […]
gloss: A member of this dynasty.
pos: noun
Translations:
Cahuilla
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably from Cahuilla kawi'a (“master”).
Inflected forms:
form: Cahuillas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Cahuilla
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a group of Native Americans of the inland areas of southern California.
pos: noun
Translations:
kerrang
Part of speech: intj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative; see ker-.
Inflected forms:
form: kerrangs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: kerranging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: kerranged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: kerranged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The sound of a power chord on an electric guitar.
pos: intj
gloss: To play a power chord on an electric guitar.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: One of the best moments came during the flashpot blasts in "Closer to the Heart," when the whole crowd came alight, sixteen thousand faces hanging open as Alex, in his fringed monk's robe, kerranged a D-major chord[…]
Meanwhile, with Brain Stew, Green Day do some serious kerranging on their electric guitars, which they have mixed in with Godzilla vocals (!), to provide a tune of migraine-inducing proportions.
[…] he stretched his cordless guitar's reach to the limit (and possibly into the realm of apocrypha) by leaving the building mid-solo, taking a cab to a local radio station, and kerranging all the way up to its fiftieth-floor studio.
Translations:
carse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English kerrs, cars, of uncertain origin. Perhaps Celtic: the term is "first found in a semi-Gaelic form", Carsach (c. 1143); compare Welsh cars (“bog, fen”), carsen (“reed”), Armoric kars, korsen (“bog plant, reed”). Alternatively, perhaps related to carr (“bog, march, swampland”) (perhaps suffixed with a variant of -ish, -sæ); compare Swedish kärr (“fen; bog”).
Inflected forms:
form: carses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Low, fertile land; a river valley.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
examples: In the Carse of Gowrie to all the flat land , which is a great proportion of the district , is a deep rich clay
[…] and the parish of St. Madois, now in the carse of Gowrie, is said to have been once on the southern side of the river. Such parts of the carse as are called inches, are elevated above the flat ground which has been covered with water. The soil of these eminences is[…]
A carse is a district of country, consisting of deep horizontal depositions of alluvial or diluvial clay, on one or both sides of a considerable river; and may be of great or small extent, but generally comprehends a large tract of country[…]
Translations:
cottier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French cotier. See coterie, and compare cotter.
Inflected forms:
form: cottiers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who lives in a cot or cottage; a cottager.
pos: noun
examples: Because a cottier deeply in arrears to his landlord is not industrious, there are people who think that the Irish are naturally idle.
[W]hat he objects to giving, is a little return on rent-days to help a tenant to buy stock, or an outlay on repairs to keep the weather out at a tenant's barn-door or make his house look a little less like an Irish cottier's.
Translations:
U-tube
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From the shape of the letter U.
Inflected forms:
form: U-tubes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tube in the shape of a capital U, in certain applications having a semipermeable membrane in the middle.
pos: noun
Translations:
ontogenetically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ontogenetic + -ally.
Base: ontogenetic
Affixes: -ally
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of ontogenically.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
stolonifera
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the taxonomic name.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Any coral of suborder Stolonifera.
pos: noun
Translations:
suprathreshold
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From supra- + threshold.
Base: threshold
Affixes: supra-
Inflected forms:
form: suprathresholds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That is sufficiently strong (greater than a threshold strength) to generate a response
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a suprathreshold (above-threshold) stimulus at the trigger zone initiates the action potential
gloss: A threshold that is stronger than that needed to generate a response
pos: noun
Translations:
autocorrect
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From auto- + correct.
Base: correct
Affixes: auto-
Inflected forms:
form: autocorrects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: autocorrecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: autocorrected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: autocorrected
pos: verb
tags: past
form: autocorrects
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To make an autocorrection; to correct something automatically.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In [16], motion-free MR brain (Figure 2a) image was corrupted with motion artifacts and the resulting image (Figure 2b) was autocorrected to fix the motion artifacts.
But the good news is that it autocorrects all of your subcommunications.
The computer usually defaults to autocorrecting certain spellings and capitalising first words of sentences.
That is the angriest Lindsey Graham has been about a cellphone since his name got autocorrected to “Linty Grandma”. “Stupid phone! Luhn mah name, Ah am your bawss! Stupid! So duhmb!”.
The 50-year-old steel worker said he had meant to type Sawyers should win the "buffoon d'Or". He claimed a misspelling, of "bafoon", had autocorrected on his device to "baboon".
gloss: A software feature that attempts to correct presumed errors as soon as they are generated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Anthony Bourdain would have hated that autocorrect turns his name into Boursin, a bland cheese with zero culinary credibility.
Translations:
ur-type
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ur- (“original”) + type.
Base: type
Affixes: ur-
Inflected forms:
form: ur-types
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: urtype
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A basic, primitive, or original type; prototype.
pos: noun
examples: The simple ur-type is the value of the primitive type definition and base type definition properties of a simple type if—and only ... No simple types not defined in the Schema Recommendation may be directly derived from the simple ur-type.
The array in the following example is of type ur-type, which is the base type of all the other XML schema types. The ur-type is analogous to the Object type in Java.
Translations:
ur-mind
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ur- (“original, primitive”) + mind.
Base: mind
Affixes: ur-
Inflected forms:
form: ur-minds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ur mind
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The primitive, subconscious, latent, or unconscious mind; instinct.
pos: noun
examples: […] whose deification of personal vision, whose wildly romantic glorification of the inner light, first supplied Western thought with an imposing conceptual apparatus by which to justify its habitual excursions into the dark corners of the ur-mind.
[…] the non-specific 'deep structure', a deep structure that presumably lies so far down in the ur-mind as to realize itself again and again in all forms of cultural activity, basket-making no less than myth-making, cooking no less than love-making.
From the muse, from god, from literature itself, the subconscious mind, the Ur-mind, some kind of Jungian other, from the reptilian brain. Who knows? I ride horses a lot, and there's a lot that you feel coming from the horse when you're riding it.
This Ur-mind also contains information about the future, information available to everyone — but particularly the novelist.
Translations:
protectin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From protect + -in.
Base: protect
Affixes: -in
Inflected forms:
form: protectins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A membrane-bound protein that prevents lysis by complement
pos: noun
Translations:
Servite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Italian servita.
Inflected forms:
form: Servites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Servite Order, one of the five original Catholic mendicant orders.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
spherocytosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From spherocyte + -osis.
Base: spherocyte
Affixes: -osis
Inflected forms:
form: spherocytoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A medical condition in which the red blood cells are globular spheres, rather than having the normal biconvex shape, and are therefore more prone to physical degradation, leading to hemolytic anemia
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
Mechlin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: mechlin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Mecklin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A kind of lace made at, or originating in, Mechelen, having a bobbin ground and designs outlined by thread or flat cord.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: And if disputes of empire rise between / Mechlin, the queen of lace, and Colberteen.
[…]“Only think, my dear, of my having got that frightful great rent in my best Mechlin so charmingly mended, before I left Bath, that one can hardly see where it was.
People like the moth, / Of mechlin, frames, / Duties of gossamer, / And eider names.
Translations:
castle-guard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Inflected forms:
form: castle-guards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The guard or defence of a castle.
pos: noun
gloss: A tax or imposition on a dwelling within a certain distance of a castle, for the purpose of maintaining watch and ward in it; castleward.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
gloss: A feudal tenure, obliging the tenant to perform service within the realm, without limitation of time.
pos: noun
Synonyms: castleward
Related words: wardable
Translations:
revisional
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From revision + -al.
Base: revision
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more revisional
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most revisional
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to revision or change.
pos: adj
Translations:
genal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin gena (“cheek”) + -al.
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the cheeks
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Anglo-English
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Anglo- + English.
Base: English
Affixes: Anglo-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: British English
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
e-identity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + identity.
Base: identity
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
form: e-identities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One's identity on an electronic or digital system such as the Internet.
pos: noun
Translations:
e-shopping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + shopping.
Base: shopping
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Internet shopping; purchasing from e-shops
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: […] it should be possible to eliminate most of these mental "costs" by improving the e-shopping systems.
Translations:
e-shopper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + shopper.
Base: shopper
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
form: e-shoppers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who purchases from e-shops; an Internet shopper.
pos: noun
Translations:
Israelian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Israel + -ian, in the historical sense coined by American Jewish theologian Harold Louis Ginsberg in 1982 in contrast to Israelite.
Mostly used by non-native speakers of English, instead of the standard word Israeli.
Base: Israel
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the northern kingdom of ancient Israel, its people, or their language.
pos: adj
tags: historical
not-comparable
gloss: Israeli.
pos: adj
tags: nonstandard
not-comparable
rare
Translations:
encik
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Malay encik, from Hokkien 引叔 (ín-chek, “uncle”).
Inflected forms:
form: enciks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Informal term of address for a male warrant officer in the Singapore Armed Forces.
pos: noun
tags: Singapore
informal
Translations:
milk-and-water
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more milk-and-water
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most milk-and-water
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Something insipid or mawkish.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A light bluish color.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Insipid, wishy-washy, weak.
pos: adj
examples: […] she was still, as heretofore, a namby-pamby milk-and-water affected creature […]
He gave other equally milk-and-water examples and everyone grew sleepy, waiting for the last lap: ‘Our policy has been exactly the same each time.’
Translations: