yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
countervail
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman countrevaloir (Old French contrevaloir), from Latin contrā valēre (“to be strong against”).
Inflected forms:
form: countervails
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: countervailing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: countervailed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: countervailed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To have the same value or number as.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Nay could their numbers counteruaile the ſtars
Or [euer] driſling drops of April ſhowers,
Or withered leaues that Autume ſhaketh down,
Yet would the Souldane by his conquering power:
So ſcatter and conſume them in his rage,
That not a man ſhal liue to rue their fall.
gloss: To counter, counteract, counterbalance, neutralize, or negate.
pos: verb
examples: It cannot counteruaile the exchange of joy / That one ſhort minute giues me in her ſight:
[…] should I find thine ear closed and thy heart hardened, what hope for myself could countervail the despair for thee?
When justice stops being effective (or when crimes of corruption stop being punished) and when political vio­lence is no longer a threat, there is nothing left to cause fear in those who govern shamelessly, that is, buoyed by a mood they aren’t in control of and that no one is on hand to countervail.
gloss: To compensate for.
pos: verb
examples: I am one of those who thinke their fruit can no way countervaile this losse.
countervail a very confiderable Advantage to all Men of Letters
If [Wilfred] Owen preserves his youthful romanticism, or at least a shell of it, he uses it to countervail the horrifying scenes he describes, just as he poses his own youth against the age-old spectacle of men dying in pain and futility.
Related words: counterargue
counterexample
prevail
Derived words: countervailability
countervailable
countervailance
countervailingly
uncountervailed
Translations:
country-and-western
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Describing country music.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
countrywoman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English country
Proto-Germanic *wībą
Proto-West Germanic *wīb
Old English wīf
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Old English wīfmann
Middle English woman
Middle English -woman
English -woman
English countrywoman
From country + -woman.
Inflected forms:
form: countrywomen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A feminine compatriot.
pos: noun
gloss: A woman who lives in the country (countryside) or has retained country ways.
pos: noun
examples: (to Prince Philip) You don't think I would have preferred to grow up out of the spotlight? Away from court, away from the scrutiny and the visibility? A simpler life, happier life, as a wife, a mother, an ordinary English countrywoman?
Translations:
coveralls
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A coverall.
pos: noun
tags: US
plural
plural-only
Translations:
cowhand
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cow + hand, or perhaps blend of cowboy + farmhand.
Compound parts: cow
hand
Inflected forms:
form: cowhands
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cow hand
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West.
pos: noun
examples: Though a first rate cow hand he very shortly proved himself to be wholly incapable of acting as head.
I'm an old cowhand from the Rio Grande / but my legs ain't bowed and my cheeks ain't tan […]
Say, you ever run into a cowhand by the name of Woodsy Niles?
gloss: Cowman or herdsman, especially to a dairy cattle herd.
pos: noun
Translations:
cowherd
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English couherde, from Old English cūhierde, equivalent to cow + herd (“herder”). Doublet of Coward (the surname). Cognate with German Kuhhirte (“cowherd”). Compare shepherd, goatherd, swineherd, etc.
Base: cow
Inflected forms:
form: cowherds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cowheard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: One who herds cattle; a cowboy.
pos: noun
Translations:
cowling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws
Proto-Germanic *kōz
Proto-West Germanic *kō
Old English cū
Middle English cow
English cow
English -ling
English cowling
From cow + -ling.
Inflected forms:
form: cowlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A young or little cow; calf.
pos: noun
examples: She nuzzled between the legs—a bull calf. She continued to nuzzle and clean the little pea-green body that was blue with white patches about his cowling parts.
Translations:
cowpuncher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cow + puncher.
Compound parts: cow
puncher
Inflected forms:
form: cowpunchers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cow-puncher
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cowboy
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: The miscellaneous setting of horses, dogs, saddles, wagons, guns, and cow-punchers' paraphernalia oppressed the metropolitan eye of the wrecked sportsman.
"They might keep you in jail six months before trial, that's a scheme this new prosecutor's got to break a man and make him so weak he'll convict himself. My advice to you is keep out of it. A cowpuncher's got no business to set up as a killer in these degenerate times, Gustin; that's a luxurious distinction only a man with money can afford. Let that feller go. If he deserves killin', somebody'll come along in time and do it, and save you the trouble and expense."
Translations:
crabber
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From crab (“crustacean having five pairs of legs”) + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (relational noun suffix).
Base: crab
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: crabbers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who catches crabs.
pos: noun
examples: Many shrimpers complain that the crabbers place their traps too close together and that they can't go between the traps without snagging their nets.
gloss: A boat used for catching crabs.
pos: noun
examples: In the bright haze of morning they came into Hort Harbor, where a hundred craft were moored or setting forth: fishermen's boats, crabbers, trawlers, trading-ships, two galleys of twenty oars […]
It is standard practice for search and rescue authorities to ask other vessels in the area to assist. Usually, this is done. The weather on the night of 31 December was too atrocious, and when at 11pm the Coast Guard asked the crabber Ruff & Reddy to head to the scene, its skipper refused, as a skipper has a right to do if he believes conditions to be too treacherous.
Translations:
crassly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English crass
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English crassly
From crass + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more crassly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most crassly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a crass manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
fizzer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
government
hobbies
lifestyle
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fizz
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English fizzer
From fizz + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: fizzers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something which fizzes.
pos: noun
gloss: A party or social gathering which turns out to be a disappointment.
pos: noun
examples: It's probably for the best you didn't come to the birthday party on Saturday: it was a fizzer.
gloss: A disciplinary charge.
pos: noun
tags: British-Army
slang
examples: The soldier was put on a fizzer for being improperly dressed.
gloss: A fast ball.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
creatively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English creative
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English creatively
From creative + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more creatively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most creatively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a creative manner.
pos: adv
examples: Postcards that are billboardlike communications with an immediate message stated boldly and creatively.
However, this can also cause increasing problems for those not prepared to think differently and creatively in an escalatingly competitive and crowded global marketplace.
Parkour – often referred to as freerunning – entails creatively moving through an urban environment: flipping, jumping and vaulting across various obstacles.
Translations:
creepily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *grewbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *kreupaną
Proto-West Germanic *kreupan
Old English crēopan
Middle English crepen
English creep
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English creepy
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English creepily
From creepy + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more creepily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most creepily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a creepy manner.
pos: adv
gloss: With a furtive creeping motion.
pos: adv
examples: I returned quietly, creepily, to the tent, first taking another exhaustive look round and—yes, I confess it—making a few measurements.
Translations:
criminally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English criminal
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English criminally
From criminal + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more criminally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most criminally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a criminal manner.
pos: adv
examples: The move will transfer the facility’s more than 200 prisoners, including 50 deemed criminally insane, from a fortresslike building with bars on the windows and cement walls and ceilings into a unit of Manhattan Psychiatric Center, a civilian hospital close by on Wards Island.
Translations:
crucially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English crucial
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English crucially
From crucial + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more crucially
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most crucially
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a crucial manner.
pos: adv
examples: England were again thankful for the brilliance of Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford, who has yet to concede a goal in the tournament and saved crucially from Timo Werner and Kai Havertz in each half, while Thomas Muller missed a glorious chance to equalise before Kane struck.
Translations:
crudely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English crude
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English crudely
From crude + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more crudely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most crudely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a crude manner.
pos: adv
examples: Her features had been crudely handsome, too, like Millie's, but booze had splodged their outlines.
Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
Mr Netanyahu also called Mr Shapiro’s observations “unacceptable”. The ambassador too was accused of demonstrating a “double standard” and was crudely dismissed by a former Mr Netanyahu aide as a “little Jew boy” courting favour.
Translations:
cryptically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cryptic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English cryptically
From cryptic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more cryptically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most cryptically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a cryptic manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
culpably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English culpable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English culpably
From culpable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more culpably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most culpably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a culpable manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
cumulatively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱuh₁mósder.?
Latin cumulus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin cumulō
Latin cumulātusbor.
English cumulate
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English cumulative
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 cumulatively
From cumulative + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more cumulatively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most cumulatively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a cumulative manner.
pos: adv
examples: Rather, the object is to consider them cumulatively in order to obtain an overall picture of the lexicography of Indian English.
Translations:
cuttingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cutting
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English cuttingly
From cutting + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more cuttingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most cuttingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a cutting manner.
pos: adv
examples: "[…] Oh, Uncle Max, do you think—"
"No, I don't," anticipated Uncle Max cuttingly; […]
Translations:
crackly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English crackle
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English crackly
From crackle + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: cracklier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: crackliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Involving or producing a crackle.
pos: adj
examples: the crackly sound of a fire
Translations:
crackup
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English crack updeverb.
English crackup
Deverbal from crack up.
Inflected forms:
form: crackups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crack-up
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A crash or wreck, generally involving a car or airplane.
pos: noun
examples: They shook the head of the unconscious pilot and when the latter opened his eyes, blinking wildly, the other members of the family lifted up the tail of the overturned crate sufficiently high enough to enable the dazed pilot, after releasing his belt, to fall out of the cockpit head first and disengage himself from the crack-up.
Translations:
crawly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English crawl
English -y
English crawly
From crawl + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: crawlier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: crawliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Crawling around.
pos: adj
examples: 1969-1970, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Another out-of-site thing is in the 2 yrs I've known that place no-one has ever seen a crawly bug, only flies. Not even a spider.
a crawly insect
gloss: As if covered in moving things such as insects.
pos: adj
examples: a crawly sensation
Related words: creepy-crawly
Translations:
crenelated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more crenelated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most crenelated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: crenellated
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having crenellations or battlements.
pos: adj
gloss: Having a series of square indentations; (in particular, heraldry) embattled.
pos: adj
examples: The coat of the Vicomtes de Grandlieu is the same quartered with that of Navarreins : gules, a fess crenelated or, surmounted by a knight's helmet, with the motto : Grands faits, grand lieu.
Derived words: crenelated molding
Translations:
criminality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French criminalité, from Latin criminalitas, from Latin criminalis. By surface analysis, criminal + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: criminalities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being criminal.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: A more limited universe of studies specifically examine criminality among immigrants in the U.S. illegally but also find that they do not commit crimes at a higher rate.
gloss: Criminal activity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: rampant criminality
The memorandum of understanding between the Rail Accident Investigation Branch, the Office of Rail and Road and the police states: "In the absence of a clear indication that serious criminality has caused the accident, RAIB will normally have precedence in respect of the investigation and will assume lead responsibility for the investigation."
gloss: A criminal act.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The storm-centre of a combined newspaper attack lasting for months, Daylight's character had been torn to shreds. There was no fact in his history that had not been distorted into a criminality or a vice. This public making of him over into an iniquitous monster had pretty well crushed any lingering hope he had of getting acquainted with Dede Mason.
Derived words: cybercriminality
double criminality
Translations:
crinkled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more crinkled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most crinkled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having crinkles
pos: adj
Translations:
crippler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cripple
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English crippler
From cripple + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: cripplers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who, or thing which cripples.
pos: noun
gloss: A corrugated board used to grain leather.
pos: noun
gloss: A sighting of an extraordinarily rare bird, such that it almost has an paralysing effect on the birder.
pos: noun
examples: Blue-headed Wagtails and migrant Warblers were nice but hardly ‘cripplers’.
Translations:
crippling
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more crippling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most crippling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: cripplings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That cripples or incapacitates
pos: adj
examples: crippling depression
gloss: Causing a severe and insurmountable problem; detrimental.
pos: adj
examples: The high cost of capital has a crippling effect on many small firms.
The company, appreciating the crippling affect ^([sic]) that this scheme will have on its activities unless the railway is diverted, has petitioned against the North Wales Hydro-Electric Power Bill at present before the House of Lords.
gloss: Causing serious injuries, damage, or harm; damaging.
pos: adj
examples: crippling debt
Today, the world is seeing record-shattering storms in California and catastrophic drought in places like East Africa. But by the 2030s, as temperatures rise, climate hazards are expected to increase all over the globe as different countries face more crippling heat waves, worsening coastal flooding and crop failures, the report says.
gloss: The act by which somebody or something is crippled.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: cripplingly
Translations:
crisply
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English crisp
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English crisply
From crisp + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more crisply
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most crisply
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a crisp manner.
pos: adv
examples: 'It was quite abominable,' said the girl crisply.
`Off you go then,' she said crisply.
I can smell the smells and see the sights in crisply focused detail.
Translations:
croaky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English croak
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English croaky
From croak + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: croakier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: croakiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Like that of a frog.
pos: adj
examples: a croaky voice
Translations:
crocheter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English crochet
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English crocheter
From crochet + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: crocheters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who crochets.
pos: noun
Translations:
crocheting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: crochetings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A form of needlework that is made using a crochet.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
crop-dusting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: crop-dustings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cropdusting
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: crop dusting
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The application of fertilizers, pesticides, and fungicides onto crops from an aircraft
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The act of farting in public while passing by people.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
informal
uncountable
usually
Related words: cropduster
crop-duster
crop duster
Translations:
lancing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lancings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is lanced.
pos: noun
examples: Bernardo's physicians treated their lawyer-patient in the ordinary ignorant ways, with debilitating bleedings, plus helpful lancings of the abscessed boils.
Translations:
cropland
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From crop + land.
Compound parts: crop
land
Inflected forms:
form: croplands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: arable land
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
crossbones
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cross + bones.
Compound parts: cross
bones
Inflected forms:
form: cross-bones
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A representation of two femurs (thighbones) crossed diagonally, chiefly combined with a human skull as a symbol of danger or death.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
cross-cultural
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cross-
Latin cultūrader.
Middle French cultureder.
English culture
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English cultural
English cross-cultural
From cross- + cultural.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Between two or more cultures; intercultural.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Neolithic culture from 8000 to 6000 B.C., however, was a brilliant period of the revival of crafts, the transformation of gathering into gardening, the growth of a cross-cultural obsidian trade, and the rise of towns.
Translations:
crosscut
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
business
computing
engineering
film
mathematics
media
mining
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
television
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cross-
English cut
English crosscut
From cross- + cut.
Inflected forms:
form: crosscuts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cross-cut
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: crosscuts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: crosscutting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: crosscut
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: crosscut
pos: verb
tags: past
form: cross-cut
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A crosswise cut.
pos: noun
gloss: A shortcut.
pos: noun
gloss: An instance of filmic crosscutting.
pos: noun
gloss: A crosscut saw.
pos: noun
gloss: A tunnel or level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another through the country rock.
pos: noun
gloss: To cut across something.
pos: verb
examples: Matter of doubt and dread suspitious, / That doth with curelesse care consume the hart, / Corrupts the stomacke with gall vitious, / Croscuts the liuer with internall smart, / And doth transfixe the soule with deathes eternall dart.
gloss: To cut across something.
pos: verb
gloss: To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes.
pos: verb
gloss: To affect several modules of a program, without the possibility of being encapsulated in any one of them. See Cross-cutting concern.
pos: verb
examples: Once we've implemented a concern in the component language, we need to perform an analysis to determine where ancillary concerns might crosscut the code.
Translations:
cross-examiner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cross-examiners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who carries out a cross-examination.
pos: noun
Translations:
fibro
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Abbreviations.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Fibro-cement; a building material consisting of asbestos fibres and cement pressed into sheets.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
uncountable
examples: Her house was a little grey fibro job. Nondescript really, with cracked and broken fibro louvres, sad and sorry walls.
There are a few faded colourless fibro buildings, jagged black holes punched here and there in the panels.
gloss: Fibromyalgia.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
examples: When I got fibro, the Internet was not in common use, so I didn't have the resources that a newly diagnosed person would have now.
Translations:
triumphalist
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English triumphal
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 triumphalist
From triumphal + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: more triumphalist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most triumphalist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: triumphalists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Proud of one's belief or culture, and having a feeling of superiority.
pos: adj
gloss: A triumphalist person.
pos: noun
examples: All the old gang were there: a reunion of the Brexit triumphalists.
Translations:
cross-eye
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cross-eyes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A form of strabismus in which the eyes converge; esotropia
pos: noun
Translations:
cross-fertilize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cross-
English fertilize
English cross-fertilize
From cross- + fertilize.
Inflected forms:
form: cross-fertilizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cross-fertilizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cross-fertilized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cross-fertilized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: cross-fertilise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To undergo (or cause to undergo) cross-fertilization.
pos: verb
Translations:
slighter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English slight
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English slighter
From slight + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: slighters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who slights.
pos: noun
Translations:
pausa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: From Latin pausa (“break”), from Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis). Doublet of pause.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The hiatus between prosodic units, e.g. at the end of a sentence.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The rule is that in the pausa a word must never end on a short vowel, but it may do so in the context.
Besides, the pausa endposition may have served to highlight the informational value of the substituendum.
In pausa you say 'ih, in the jussive la- ta'ih, analogous to 'ih, la- ta'ih. And since t' is complete as two letters, the tongue utters both of them in the pausa.
For instance, the perfect in -miš (> -mi before pausa) always has the high unrounded vowel, the abstract noun suffix appears in a single variant +luġ, the infinitive is -maġ and the instrumental +ine.
Translations:
allograft
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos
Proto-Hellenic *áľľos
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́λλος (ắllos)der.
English allo-
English graft
English allograft
From allo- + graft.
Inflected forms:
form: allografts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: allografts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: allografting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: allografted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: allografted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A surgical transplant of tissue between genetically different individuals of the same species.
pos: noun
gloss: To perform a transplant of this kind.
pos: verb
Translations:
Africana
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin āfricāna, the neuter plural of āfricānus (“African”). By surface analysis, Africa + -ana (“things (plural)”), analogous to Americana. First attested in 1908.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Collectible objects, such as maps, documents and artifacts, peculiar to Africa, especially Southern Africa.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: Africana is a word of many different meanings; to one it means books and other printed or manuscript material, to another it means objects other than books. For Africana Notes and News it is used in its widest sense ... it is restricted only from a geographical point of view; it denotes not the whole of Africa but only Southern Africa. (Africana Notes & News, 1943)
gloss: The various cultures and peoples of Africa and the African diaspora, considered collectively.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
cross-grained
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having an irregular rather than a parallel grain.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Difficult to deal with; contrary or troublesome.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
not-comparable
examples: It is quite wonderful to me, in such a cross-grained, hardening, and harsh world as ours, where she can have contrived to keep so much of open, fresh, and kindly feeling.
It was my old cross-grained companion, Professor Summerlee. "What!" he cried. "Don't tell me that you have had one of these preposterous telegrams for oxygen?" I exhibited it.
For five minutes, Tommy sat on the bed in the dingy room next door. His heart was beating violently. He had risked all on this throw. How would they decide? And all the while that this agonized questioning went on within him, he talked flippantly to Conrad, enraging the cross-grained doorkeeper to the point of homicidal mania.
Related words: knurl
Derived words: cross-grainedness
Translations:
crosshatching
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
Inflected forms:
form: crosshatchings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A method of showing shading by means of multiple small lines that intersect.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A method of indicating terrain on a map by using the same technique.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
cross-legged
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having one leg over and across the other.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
gloss: Having one ankle over and across the other, and the knees far apart.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: She sits cross-legged on her charpai' as I look at old pictures.
gloss: In a cross-legged position.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
crossness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cross
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English crossness
From cross + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: crossnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the state of being cross; mild anger
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Elizabeth […] wished he were beside her, and was so glad to think he would soon be beside her always, with all his humours and weaknesses, all his little crossnesses and complainings[…]
At any other time Jessamy would have laughed at the expressions that chased each other over his freckled face: crossness left over from his struggle with the baby; incredulity; distress; and finally delight.
Translations:
cross-pollinate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cross-
English pollinate
English cross-pollinate
From cross- + pollinate.
Inflected forms:
form: cross-pollinates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cross-pollinating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cross-pollinated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cross-pollinated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To fertilize by the transfer of pollen from an anther of one plant to the stigma of another.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To inspire, stimulate, or influence between diverse elements.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
Derived words: cross-pollination
Translations:
cross-purpose
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Attested (in the plural form) since the 1660s, originally meaning ‘contradictory intentions.’
Inflected forms:
form: cross-purposes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cross purpose
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A contrary or conflicting purpose or understanding, especially an unintentional or misconceived one.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
examples: We are working at cross-purposes here, if you're trying to reduce the count and I'm trying to increase it.
Translations:
cross-refer
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cross-
English refer
English cross-refer
From cross- + refer.
Inflected forms:
form: cross-refers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cross-referring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cross-referred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cross-referred
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make or use a cross-reference
pos: verb
Translations:
cross-sectional
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cross section
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 cross-sectional
From cross section + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: cross sectional
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: crossectional
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or being a cross section.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
cross-stitch
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cross-
English stitch
English cross-stitch
From cross- + stitch.
Inflected forms:
form: cross-stitches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cross-stitches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cross-stitching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cross-stitched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cross-stitched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A double stitch that forms a cross.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Embroidery or needlework made using such stitches.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: To embroider with such stitches.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Derived words: counted cross-stitch
cross-stitcher
Translations:
cross-train
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cross-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-der.?
Latin trahere
Vulgar Latin *tragīnāre
Old French traïnerder.
Old French trainder.
Middle English trayne
English train
English cross-train
From cross- + train.
Inflected forms:
form: cross-trains
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cross-training
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cross-trained
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cross-trained
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To train in a different task, skill or sport
pos: verb
gloss: To train in a variety of tasks, skills or sports
pos: verb
Derived words: cross-trainer
Translations:
crossways
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cross
English -ways
English crossways
From cross + -ways.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: transversely; crosswise
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I stared and stared again - he was perfectly right - the torches that were to light our entertainment were human mummies from the caves! On rushed the bearers of the flaming corpses, and, meeting at a spot about twenty paces in front of us, built their ghastly burdens crossways into a huge bonfire.
Translations:
crowfoot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From crow + foot.
Compound parts: crow
foot
Inflected forms:
form: crowfoots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crowfeet
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of many plants, mostly of subgenus Ranunculus subg. Batrachium, that have a leaf shaped somewhat like a bird's foot; especially the buttercups.
pos: noun
Translations:
cruller
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch kruller (“curler”), from krullen + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: crullers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kruller
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A donut in the form of a twisted ring.
pos: noun
tags: Northeastern
US
examples: "Take a cruller, any way," said she, handing him a cake-basket containing a dozen or so of those unspeakable, Dutch indigestibles.
Whoa. Pastry Pete's Patisserie. Pastry Pete is so brilliant. Did you know he won a Tasty Num Nums Award last year for combining crullers and Bundt cakes? They're called "crunts"!
Translations:
crustal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English crust
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 crustal
From crust + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more crustal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most crustal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or forming a crust, especially the crust of the Earth or other planet.
pos: adj
examples: The hope was to lower a drill through over 4,000 metres of Pacific Ocean water off the coast of Mexico and drill some 5,000 metres through relatively thin crustal rock.
Translations:
cuber
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cube
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English cuber
From cube (verb) + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: cubers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any device designed to cut things into cubes.
pos: noun
examples: Another interesting exhibit was a bread cutter with circular revolving blade. Their newest machine is the Sterling vegetable cuber […]
Translations:
cultism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
literature
media
publishing
sciences
Etymology: From cult + -ism. The linguistic sense is from Spanish cultismo.
Base: cult
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: cultisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The system or practice of a cult.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Also keep in mind that the Democrats of today are part of a new woke cultism – They are not necessarily the same Democrats from 30 years ago.
gloss: Synonym of culteranismo.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: learned borrowing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: cultist
Derived words: anticultism
Translations:
cultivable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French cultivable, from Old French coutivable.
Inflected forms:
form: more cultivable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cultivable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being cultivated or farmed.
pos: adj
examples: 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IX. "The Sea and the Desert", page 183.
These, and such as these, were all the cultivated and cultivable land in Provincetown.
Translations:
curbing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: curbings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A row of curbstones; the material used to construct such a curb
pos: noun
gloss: The damage caused to a wheel or tire by curbing (running the wheel or tire into or over a curb).
pos: noun
Translations:
curer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cure
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English curer
From cure + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: curers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A healer.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who, or device which preserves food by curing.
pos: noun
Translations:
curler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
surfing
Etymology: Etymology tree
English curl
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English curler
From curl + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: curlers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of a set of small cylindrical tubes used to curl hair.
pos: noun
examples: Waiting for a girl who's got curlers in her hair / Waiting for a girl, she has no money anywhere
There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;[…].
gloss: A sportsman who plays curling.
pos: noun
gloss: A pass or a shot of the ball which swerves.
pos: noun
examples: The captain sent a curler into the top corner of the net.
Lampard was replaced by Kalou but the substitute immediately gave the ball to Jonas, whose 25-yard curler was tipped wide by Cech.
Liverpool were energised at the start of the second half, with ­Curtis Jones shaping a curler just past the far post.
gloss: A wave which breaks with a barrel
pos: noun
examples: Oft considered the most even playing field on which to measure surf mastery, Slater’s innovative machine is a barrel-synthesizing environment and engineering feat. In a single round, The Wave produces a 6-foot curler capable of traveling 2,300 feet for up to one gnarly minute.
There’s the mesmeric, thrumming beat. (Sound very much “on” for this one.) Dark purples and roiling seas under heavy storms. Then Manuel, barreling perfect curler after perfect curler.
Derived words: amen curler
butter curler
curlered
eyelash curler
hair curler
hot curler
lash curler
Translations:
curlicue
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From curly + cue.
Compound parts: curly
cue
Inflected forms:
form: curlicues
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: curlycue
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: curlicues
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: curlicuing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: curlicued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: curlicued
pos: verb
tags: past
form: curlycue
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A fancy twisting or curling shape usually made from a series of spirals and loops.
pos: noun
examples: I put in plenty of curlicues after the figures so that no one could raise the check into $400,000; then I got out my old rattan suit case and put in some clothes.
There was not the slightest use in trying to make its twisty curlicue streets conform to any engineering plan on earth; so those sensible old-time folk didn't try.
(Curlicue hand-drawn cartoons blossom frequently throughout, touching base with the source material’s distinctive visual style while adding an aptly hallucinogenic vibe when required.)
gloss: To make or adorn (something) with curlicues, or as if with curlicues.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: A chandelier the shape of an anchor, hanging over Smith's head as he passed out through this vestibule. Walls curlicued with comb marks of some fancy plasterer.
I was looking, obliquely, at Bunny slumped over his bowl when all of a sudden, in the window behind his head, I saw the distant figure of Mr. Hatch, walking across the open field beyond the garden, carrying the dark, curlicued ruins of the Malacca chair to the rubbish heap.
“Here We Go Again” is the gentlest kiss-off imaginable, with strings and harp and curlicued guitars cushioning Ms. Stone’s farewell[…]
Translations:
iteratively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English iterative
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English iteratively
From iterative + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In an iterative manner; using iteration.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
curmudgeonly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English curmudgeon
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-West Germanic *-līk
Old English -līċ
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English curmudgeonly
From curmudgeon + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: curmudgeonlier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more curmudgeonly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: curmudgeonliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most curmudgeonly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characteristic of a curmudgeon; churlish.
pos: adj
examples: In A League of Their Own (1992), as the shouty baseball coach to an all-girls team, he's once again a curmudgeonly but lovable mentor figure.
Since Swift and Kelce debuted their relationship early in the season, certain (curmudgeonly) NFL fans grumbled over the numerous camera shots of the singer’s private box.
Translations: