yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
hardball
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From hard + ball.
Compound parts: hard
ball
Inflected forms:
form: hardballs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more hardball
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hardball
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hardballs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hardballing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hardballed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hardballed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: In baseball, a type of ball and baseball game, as opposed to softball.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Tough or ruthless behavior, especially in combat, politics or business.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
gloss: Being or exhibiting tough or ruthless behavior, especially in combat, politics or business.
pos: adj
gloss: To exhibit tough and ruthless behavior towards another individual.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
Derived words: hardballer
Translations:
hardboard
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From hard + board.
Compound parts: hard
board
Inflected forms:
form: hardboards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hardboards
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hardboarding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hardboarded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hardboarded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A high-density chipboard.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The compartment ceiling panels are of plastic material backed with ply or hardboard panels.
For convenience and versatility, no mass-produced wood paneling can beat hardboard—a tough, pliable, water-resistant material made from wood fibers.
gloss: To cover with hardboard.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
chipboard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *kippōną
Proto-West Germanic *kippōn
Old English *ċippiander.
Old English ċipp
Middle English chippe
English chip
English board
English chipboard
From chip + board.
Inflected forms:
form: chipboards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A building material made from wood chips compressed and bound with synthetic resin.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
UK
countable
uncountable
Translations:
hardbound
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compound of hard + bound.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a hardcover; hardback.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Unable to be remapped.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
hardener
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English harden
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 hardener
From harden + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: hardeners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, hardens.
pos: noun
examples: the hardener of hearts
gloss: A chemical substance added to something in order to harden it; used especially with paints, varnishes and resins.
pos: noun
Translations:
hardstand
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From hard + stand.
Compound parts: hard
stand
Inflected forms:
form: hardstands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Open ground, having a hard surface, used for the storage of material or the parking of vehicles.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
harpooner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English harpoon
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 harpooner
From harpoon + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: harpooners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who uses a harpoon, especially to hunt whales.
pos: noun
examples: Y.T. laughs. So does Raven.
"What's your job?" Y.T. asks.
"I'm a harpooner," he says.
Translations:
hauler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English halere, equivalent to haul + -er. Doublet of haulier.
Base: haul
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: haulers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person or thing that hauls another person or thing.
pos: noun
examples: Hauler, noun.
"Then, holding myself in position by grasping the part of the rope that falls from the other side of the fork, I unclip the loop round the trunk and let it swing clear. Next, combining the roles of hauler and haulee, I climb up, hand over hand using irons as much as possible, until I am right under one of the dividing limbs of the fork."
Hauler, noun.
"'Bizarre' and 'normal' remind me of the classic scenario of someone being hauled off to the insane asylum and an argument starts about who is insane and who is normal — hauler or haulee?"
gloss: A person or company engaged in the haulage of goods.
pos: noun
gloss: A miner who hauls coal from the coalface to the bottom of the shaft.
pos: noun
gloss: A truck, lorry (vehicle used to transport heavy goods)
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who makes a haul video.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: The majority of a haul video's content, however, is dedicated to the “haul” itself: meaning, these users' recent purchases. And an entire wing of YouTube is occupied by these videos, some with remarkably high viewership. Haulers will go through their purchased goods one-by-one, placing them near the camera so viewers can see the details in each object, and often making observations and recommendations as they go along. Within YouTube's haul discourse, there remain two […]
Derived words: gear hauler
long-hauler
subhauler
Translations:
haycock
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English haycok, hacoke, haycoke; equivalent to hay + cock (“conical heap”).
Compound parts: hay
cock
Inflected forms:
form: haycocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hay-cock
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small conical pile of hay, or a heap of hay thrown up in a hayfield while the hay is being cured or awaiting relocation to a haystack or barn.
pos: noun
examples: Brother Kempe, as many alhailes to thy perſon as there be haicocks in Iuly at Pancredge: […]
And then in haste her bow'r she leaves,
With Thestylis to bind the sheaves;
Or if the earlier season lead
To the tann'd haycock in the mead.
[T]hey perceived lying closely concealed beneath the thick foliage of a Haycock, a beautifull little Girl not more than 3 months old.
And willows, willow-herb, and grass, / And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry, / No whit less still and lonely fair / Than the high cloudlets in the sky.
Translations:
arthrodesis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-der.
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́ρθρον (ắrthron)der.
New Latinder.
English arthro-
English -desis
English arthrodesis
From arthro- + -desis.
Inflected forms:
form: arthrodeses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The surgical fusion of a joint between two or more bones so that the joint can no longer move; artificial ankylosis.
pos: noun
Translations:
unheeded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English heeded
English unheeded
From un- + heeded.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not heeded; not listened to; ignored
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The TSSA said that access to the furlough scheme should be reinstated for the cross-Channel operator to protect jobs, while the RMT said a financial 'safety net' was needed to prevent Eurostar "tipping over". It follows similar but unheeded calls made at the very start of the pandemic, when international travel fell by more than 95% and Eurostar was forced to scale back its operation to just one service between London and Paris each day.
gloss: not followed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
monozygotic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos)
Ancient Greek μονο- (mono-)der.
English mono-
English zygotic
English monozygotic
From mono- + zygotic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That has developed from a single fertilized ovum.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
knop
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
art
arts
biology
botany
business
manufacturing
natural-sciences
sewing
textiles
Etymology: From Middle English knop, from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch knoppe, from Proto-Germanic *knuppô, *knuppaz, *knappô, which is perhaps related to *knappō (“knob, boy”). Possible doublet of knave and knob.
Inflected forms:
form: knops
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A knob, usually ornamental
pos: noun
examples: The thin shaft of each stick, composed of two cylinders on either side of a central knop, is engraved with a scrollwork pattern known as vermicule for its wormlike appearance.
In the thirteenth century come the chalices of the treasuries of Troyes and Orléans, the one in the latter having been dug up with its paten. They are of very simple design, squat in outline, with a circular foot and a gadrooned knop; the same design occurs in the fourteenth century, on the chalice in the Bordeaux Treasury.
gloss: A finial, or swelling termination
pos: noun
examples: In the three upper elements, the knop-finial-fillet, both masters use all three squares from the base plan forming widths of 1:2:√2 (another pleasing rhythm). In the gable over the window the finials have width in the ratio of √2:4:2. The elements on the pinnacle relate to those on the gable as 1:√2, 1:2 and √2:2.
gloss: A tuft or overthickened bunch of looped or twisted yarn
pos: noun
examples: The thick places are created by winding effect yarn around the core yarn. We can distinguish the length of the knop L, its thickness D, the distance between them Q, and the nominal diameter of continuously twisted component yarns d. The sum of the distance between the knops and the length of a knop is the stitch of this kind of fancy yarn.
gloss: A closed bud or bud-like, swelling protuberance of a plant, or the representation thereof in the decorative arts
pos: noun
examples: On these shawl borders the knop and flower are often also combined, the knop becoming the cone or Cypress-like trunk of a tree, the branches of which fam out like the fronds of the Hom. [Plate III., fig. 6]. In some Indian and Persian carpets the knop or cone throws out graceful Hom fronds, one on either side, from the ends of which hangs a large flower, presenting the alternation of a branching cone and flower.
Derived words: horseknop
knoppy
Translations:
rehome
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English home
English rehome
From re- + home.
Inflected forms:
form: rehomes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rehoming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rehomed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rehomed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To find a new home for (especially a pet).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The cat recovered after treatment by a vet and has now been rehomed.
Lucy added: "Working in a busy station means that acquiring animals on shift isn't particularly unusual. At the start of lockdown last year, we had to rehome a baby dove.
The old footbridge will now be rehomed to Brechin station, on the Caledonian Railway heritage operation in Angus.
gloss: To find a new family for (one or more adopted children) without using official adoption agencies.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: rehomable
rehomer
Translations:
Internet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
pos: noun
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
factionalism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English factional
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English factionalism
From factional + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: factionalisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The splitting of a group into factions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Conflict between factions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: factionalistic
factionalist
Translations:
keet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of parakeet.
Inflected forms:
form: keets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: 'keet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A lorikeet or parakeet.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
Translations:
divisi
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
Italian divisibor.
English divisi
Borrowed from Italian divisi.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: divided (within one instrumental part, simultaneous notes between two or more players)
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
frilled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more frilled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most frilled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having frills, frilly.
pos: adj
Translations:
hectolitre
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French hectolitre. By surface analysis, hecto- + litre.
Inflected forms:
form: hectolitres
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hectoliter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A unit of volume or capacity equivalent to 100 litres. Symbol: hL
pos: noun
Translations:
serjeanty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English sergeauntie, serjaunte, from Old French serjantie, sergantie and Medieval Latin serjantia, sergantia. Compare sergeancy.
Inflected forms:
form: serjeanties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sergeanty
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sergeantry
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: serjanty
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: serjeantry
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A land tenure in which a tenant provided his liege with some kind of personal service, as opposed to nonpersonal service, such as paying tax (socage)
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: The manor of Scrivelsby in England, has since the Middle Ages, been held by the Marmion family in grand serjeanty in exchange for their service as King's or Queen's Champion.
Translations:
supercoiling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-lbor.
English super-
English coiling
English supercoiling
From super- + coiling.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The coiling of the DNA helix upon itself, which can disrupt transcription and lead to cell death.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
topoisomerase
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos)
English topo-
English isomer
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.
Ancient Greek διά (diá)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ- (dĭă-)
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti
Proto-Hellenic *hístāmi
Ancient Greek ῐ̔́στημῐ (hĭ́stēmĭ)
Ancient Greek δῐῐ̈́στημῐ (dĭĭ̈́stēmĭ)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́στᾰσῐς (dĭắstăsĭs)
English diastase
English -ase
English isomerase
English topoisomerase
From topo- + isomerase.
Inflected forms:
form: topoisomerases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several enzymes that affect the topology of DNA, especially ones that relax supercoiling.
pos: noun
Translations:
interleaving
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: interleavings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of interleaving.
pos: noun
gloss: Data that has been interleaved.
pos: noun
gloss: Data that has been interleaved.
One interleaving of abc and 123, out of twenty, is 1ab2c3.
pos: noun
Translations:
osmoregulation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ὠθέω (ōthéō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek ὠσμός (ōsmós)der.
English osmo-
English regulation
English osmoregulation
From osmo- + regulation.
Inflected forms:
form: osmoregulations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The homeostatic regulation of osmotic pressure in the body in order to maintain a certain water content (concentration of electrolytes, pH, etc).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
wastewater
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English waste
Proto-Indo-European *wed-
Proto-Indo-European *-r̥
Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥
Proto-Germanic *watōr
Proto-West Germanic *watar
Old English wæter
Middle English water
English water
English wastewater
From waste + water.
Inflected forms:
form: wastewaters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: waste water
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: waste-water
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any water that has been used in some human domestic or industrial activity and, as a result, now contains waste products.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: sewage, sullage, graywater, blackwater, washwater, poop water (informal)
The commission's recommendations would require the removal of toxins and heavy metals from wastewaters that now run into regional rivers and New York Harbor untreated, and collect at their bottom.
As the zoogleal slime reenters the wastewater, excess solids and waste products are stripped off the media as sloughings. These sloughings are transported with the wastewater flow to a settling tank for removal.
Flash forward to 2017, early in the Trump presidency. From the wastewaters of the internet, cryptic comments float up from an anonymous figure known only as Q.
Translations:
shogunal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English shogun
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 shogunal
From shogun + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: shōgunal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a shogun.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: ordered to comply with shogunal demands in accord with the law...
gloss: Resembling a shogun.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: the military-aristocratic Ch'oe family, which passed its shogunal type authority down hereditarily through four generations.
Derived words: shogunally
Translations:
tumoral
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tumor
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 tumoral
From tumor + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a tumor/tumour.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
fulla
Part of speech: noun
prep
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Corruption of fellow, 1970s.
Inflected forms:
form: fullas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Man, especially one of indigenous descent.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
examples: While we was wanderin round the stalls tryin, in vain it turns out, ta find a food stall that sold tucker with meat in it, we came across a stall sellin didjeridoos, or yidakis as the fulla sellin em liked to call em.
Pick me up later young fulla, ten past five.
'Too many of our own fullas like that as well,' Brayling said darkly.
gloss: Full of.
pos: prep
tags: informal
examples: Both parts, fulla shit.”
He's fulla . . . fulla crap.
Ted's always fulla good stories.
Translations:
reassuringly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English reassuring
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English reassuringly
From reassuring + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more reassuringly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most reassuringly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a reassuring manner.
pos: adv
examples: In the very heart of the herd the din was terrific. It was almost dizzying in its effect. I paused and smiled reassuringly at Maud, for I had recovered my equanimity sooner than she.
He had been with the Furnesses for years. Not like Muriel’s butlers who changed every month or so. He smiled reassuringly down at Jane.
She made several gulps and controlled her breath. She released her grip on Podson and stared at him without recognition. Podson went on patting her reassuringly, relieved from administering first aid to an attack of the vapours.
Translations:
recurrently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English recurrent
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English recurrently
From recurrent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more recurrently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most recurrently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a recurrent manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
reliably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rely
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English reliable
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 reliably
From reliable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more reliably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most reliably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a reliable manner.
pos: adv
examples: Genuine cowards follow the wicked and cannot reliably sustain any virtue.
Above all, rail needs to be boring. By that, I mean that it must run its timetable reliably, day-in and day-out. Punctuality and reliability remain the bedrock of a successful railway.
Translations:
repulsively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English repulsive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English repulsively
From repulsive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more repulsively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most repulsively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a repulsive manner.
pos: adv
examples: I was walking up and down, putting her to sleep one evening, when I found myself treading on something most repulsively soft; and as I did so, the reptile uncoiled itself and quietly glided off the verandah.
Translations:
defang
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
English fang
English defang
From de- + fang.
Inflected forms:
form: defangs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: defanging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: defanged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: defanged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To remove the fangs from (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The snake was defanged.
gloss: To render (something) harmless.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: The Government's new security supremo, Admiral Sir Alan West, said the danger from home-grown and foreign terrorists was at its greatest level ever, and warned that it could take up to 15 years to defang Islamic radicalism.
Translations:
overawed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more overawed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most overawed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Impressed or convinced by someone to an unreasonable degree, sometimes with an implication of gullibility.
pos: adj
examples: One of the most depressing things about you, the people, says Daniel Hannan, is the way you're so overawed by experts. - Best articles: Britain: Our naive faith in non-political experts,The Week, 14 July 2007, 622, 14.
Translations:
Anschluss
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From German Anschluss (“annexation”) (formerly Anschluß), from anschließen (“to join, unite”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Political annexation, specifically that of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
examples: ‘Some of us students protested against the Anschluss.’
Riane Eisler was born in Vienna in 1931. After the German Anschluss of Austria she fled with her family, first to Cuba and then to the U.S.
Anton Kuh […] was one of the Viennese coffee-house wits whose mastery of the brief critical essay reached its apotheosis in the last nervous years before the Anschluss.
Not far from where we are sitting is Heldenplatz, where in March 1938 Adolf Hitler addressed a cheering crowd to proclaim the Anschluss—the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany, in defiance of the post-first world war treaties of Versailles and Saint-Germain.
Translations:
barer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bare
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 barer
From bare + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: barers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who bares or exposes something.
pos: noun
examples: What on earth do they think they are doing, this legion of barers of poets' souls: apart, of course, from making a few bob for, and enhancing the reputations of, their publishers and themselves?
Translations:
Foucauldian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Foucault + -ian, perhaps by contamination with the French surname Foucauld as borne by Charles de Foucauld.
Base: Foucault
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: more Foucauldian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Foucauldian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Foucauldean
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Foucaldian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Foucaultian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Foucauldians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Foucauldean
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Foucaldian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Foucaultian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the philosophy of Michel Foucault.
pos: adj
examples: The best guide to this change is a New York University lecturer named Geoff Shullenberger, who has written a pair of essays exploring the political valence of Foucauldian ideas.
gloss: A proponent of the philosophy of Michel Foucault.
pos: noun
Translations:
smallholding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English small
English holding
English smallholding
From small + holding.
Inflected forms:
form: smallholdings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: small holding
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small farm.
pos: noun
gloss: The owning of such a farm.
pos: noun
gloss: A small plantation or land with a small number of slaves (generally 19 or less).
pos: noun
tags: US
historical
examples: […] the larger plantations implemented different crop choices, surveillance strategies, and labor management practices than did smallholdings.
Related words: landholder
smallholder
Translations:
smallholder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: smallholders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who owns or runs a smallholding (small farm): a minor independent farmer.
pos: noun
gloss: A small slaveholder: a person who owns a smallholding (small plantation with slavery).
pos: noun
tags: US
historical
examples: […] planters and smallholders alike controlled far more than their equitable share of the political power and economic resources in their communities. Because small slaveholders aspired to be planters, they did not often align themselves with the political and economic interests of nonslaveholders.
Related words: landholding
Translations:
Shrovetide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English shrove
English -tide
English Shrovetide
From shrove + -tide.
Inflected forms:
form: Shrovetides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The three days immediately preceding Lent; Shrove Sunday, Shrove Monday, and Shrove Tuesday, preceding Ash Wednesday.
pos: noun
Translations:
wynd
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English wynde, probably from wynden (“to wind, proceed, go”). Compare also Old English ġewind; Old Norse venda.
Inflected forms:
form: wynds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A narrow lane, alley or path, especially one between houses.
pos: noun
tags: Northumbria
Scotland
examples: Fortune favoured us, and we got home without meeting a soul. Once we saw a man, who seemed not quite sober, passing along a street in front of us; but we hid in a door till he had disappeared up an opening such as there are here, steep little closes, or wynds, as they call them in Scotland.
He flew through the moonlight streets, clattering over cobbles, darting down narrow alleys and up twisty wynds, racing to his love.
Stirling's called an Edinburgh mini-me: the same winding wynds, the same historic core, castle, looming romantic hills. Only a lot cheaper.
gloss: A stack of hay.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
dated
examples: This was then used as the base for the cocks of hay, or wyndes as we called them. […] A piece of hay with its ends firmly embedded in the base of the wynde was wound around the hay twine and knotted with it. The ball of twine was then thrown across the wynde and tied at the other side in the same way, and this process was repeated crossways.
Translations:
tastefulness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tasteful
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 tastefulness
From tasteful + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic of being tasteful.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
tastelessness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English taste
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English tasteless
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
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 tastelessness
From tasteless + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: tastelessnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality, state, or characteristic of being tasteless.
pos: noun
gloss: The quality, state, or characteristic of being tasteless.
pos: noun
Related words: nontaster
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: mdlost
lang: Finnish
word: mauttomuus
lang: Georgian
word: უგემოვნება
roman: ugemovneba
lang: German
word: Geschmacklosigkeit
lang: Polish
word: bezguście
lang: Russian
word: безвку́сица
roman: bezvkúsica
lang: Russian
word: безвку́сность
roman: bezvkúsnostʹ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: bezokusnost
lang: Spanish
word: insipidez
lang: Turkish
word: tatsızlık
lang: Turkish
word: lezzetsizlik
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: طاتسزلق
roman: tatsızlık
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: لذتسزلك
roman: lezzetsizlik
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: یاوانلق
roman: yavanlık
lang: Ukrainian
word: не́смак
roman: nésmak
tenseness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tense
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 tenseness
From tense + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: tensenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic of being tense.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A particular vowel or consonant quality that is phonemically contrastive in many languages, including English.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
terribleness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old French terriblebor.
Middle English terrible
English terrible
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 terribleness
From terrible + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: terriblenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic of being terrible.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
terseness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English terse
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 terseness
From terse + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: tersenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic of being terse.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
installable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English install
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English installable
From install + -able.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being installed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
portlet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English portal
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -lus
Latin -ellus
Old French -el
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
Late Latin -ittus
Old French -et
Old French -eletbor.
Middle English -let
English -let
English portlet
From portal + -let.
Inflected forms:
form: portlets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pluggable user interface component making up part of a portal, such as a fragment displaying weather or news headlines.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
Translations:
pondweed
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From pond + weed.
Compound parts: pond
weed
Inflected forms:
form: pondweeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several plants that grow in ponds or similar aquatic conditions:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of several plants that grow in ponds or similar aquatic conditions:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of several plants that grow in ponds or similar aquatic conditions:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: If you have ever had a pond you will know Azolla, a.k.a. pondweed, duckweed fern or fairy moss.
gloss: Any of several plants that grow in ponds or similar aquatic conditions:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of several plants that grow in ponds or similar aquatic conditions:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Charales, an order of green algae
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: American pondweed
broad-leaved pondweed
Canadian pondweed
Cape pondweed
choke pondweed
curled pondweed
curly-leaf pondweed
curly pondweed
fennel pondweed
horned pondweed
loddon pondweed
long-stalked pondweed
perfoliate pondweed
ribbonleaf pondweed
sago pondweed
white-stem pondweed
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: verkkolehti
barbican
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French barbacane, of uncertain origin: compare Arabic بَرْبَخ (barbaḵ, “aqueduct, sewer”), and Persian بابخانه (bâb-xâne, “gatehouse”).
Inflected forms:
form: barbicans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: barbacan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A tower at the entrance to a castle or fortified town.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: guardhouse
The stone part of the drawbridge with its barbican and the bartizans of the gatehouse are in good repair. […] There was a large hidden trapdoor in the floor of the barbican, which would let them into the moat after all.
gloss: A fortress at the end of a bridge.
pos: noun
gloss: An opening in the wall of a fortress through which the guns are levelled; a narrow loophole through which arrows and other missiles may be shot.
pos: noun
examples: Two shafts of soft daylight fell across the flagged floor from the high barbacans.
gloss: A temporary wooden tower built for defensive purposes.
pos: noun
Related words: bartisan
portcullis
porte cochère
Derived words: barbicanage
barbicaned
Translations:
loquitur
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin loquitur (literally “[he/she] speaks”), from loquor.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Speaks.
pos: verb
examples: R.D. loquitur: Clarice has omitted to tell you that she looked exceedingly pretty at dinner, and made a conquest by which she has bound herself to learn the Greek alphabet.
Translations:
black-house
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: black-houses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blackhouse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: black house
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A traditional house, in some parts of Scotland, having drystone walls and a turf roof.
pos: noun
Translations:
tealight
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From tea + light, since they are sometimes used to keep a teapot warm. Compare Dutch theelicht (“tealight”), German Teelicht (“tealight”).
Compound parts: tea
light
Inflected forms:
form: tealights
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tea light
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tea-light
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tealite
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small, typically circular candle encased in a thin metal cup, so that it liquefies completely when lit and burns as a wick immersed in molten wax.
pos: noun
examples: 2004, Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service https://web.archive.org/web/20071027212506/http://www.staffordshirefire.gov.uk/ccm/content/press-releases/2004/april-2004/tea-lights-pose-potential-danger.en
Candles and tealights can be hazardous and must be used in accordance with any instructions.
Translations:
escapologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English escape
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
Latin -logialbor.
French -logiebor.
English -logy
English -ology
English escapology
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 escapologist
From escapology + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: escapologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An entertainer skilled in the art of escapology.
pos: noun
Translations:
amb
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
palynology
physical-sciences
Etymology: From ambit, from Latin.
Inflected forms:
form: ambs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The outline of a spore or pollen grain, as seen in a polar view.
pos: noun
examples: This genus is distinguished from Duplopollis Krutzsch, 1959a, and Cupanieidites Cookson and Pike, 1954, by being syncolpate rather than syncolporate and by the islands at the angles of the amb.
Translations:
coachbuilder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From coach + builder.
Compound parts: coach
builder
Inflected forms:
form: coachbuilders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A builder of horse-drawn coaches.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A person or company who makes and fits the bodywork of vehicles such as cars, buses, and railway carriages.
pos: noun
examples: The bus has been stripped down and coachbuilders, mechanics and upholsterers have been rebuilding the chassis, fittings and engine. "Home straight for bus restoration", BBC News
gloss: A person or company who makes and fits the bodywork of vehicles such as cars, buses, and railway carriages.
pos: noun
Related words: coachbuilding
coach-built
coachbuilt
coacher
coachman
coachmaster
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: autokoritehdas
lang: German
word: Coachbuilder
groundsheet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From ground + sheet.
Compound parts: ground
sheet
Inflected forms:
form: groundsheets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sheet of waterproof material that is spread on the ground, often beneath a tent, and upon which a person may sit or sleep.
pos: noun
Translations:
afterworld
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From after + world.
Compound parts: after
world
Inflected forms:
form: afterworlds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: after-world
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A supposed world that is entered after death; the realm of the afterlife.
pos: noun
examples: […] your bookes shall be out worne in your age I warrant you. Onelie if some surviue by the mercy of a friends Library, the after-world shall rather pittie your lost time, then commende your diligence.
[…] a person […] to whom, be who he may, I return my thanks in this public manner; hoping he will meet with a reward in some future day, or after world if he does not in this.
I’m finished now, but the last word on my life rests with you. If you turn out well, I can still claim some kind of success in the afterworld, if there is one.
1995, Kai Hansen, "Afterlife", Gamma Ray, Land of the Free.
Do you believe in the afterworld / Or the afterlife?
Translations:
chinwag
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From chin + wag.
Compound parts: chin
wag
Inflected forms:
form: chinwags
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chin wag
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: chin-wag
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: chinwags
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chinwagging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chinwagged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chinwagged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: chin wag
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: chin-wag
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An informal conversation, usually about everyday matters; a chat, a gossip.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
informal
examples: Reg liked a chat about old times and we used to go and have a chinwag in the pub.
Every major network has at least one prime-time newsmagazine, which features extended coverage of gruesome crimes or amazing trials, intimate chinwags with the stars, and exposés of the horrors lurking in your own home, […]
Hundreds of Reading folk got together for coffee, cake and a good old fashioned chinwag during a national cancer charity's coffee morning fundraiser.
"I have a bone to pick with you and I can't possibly nap until we've had a jolly good chin-wag about it." / "Chin-wag?" / "A powwow. A council of war."
gloss: To chat, to gossip.
pos: verb
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
informal
examples: I saw the pair of them chinwagging by the water-cooler.
We stamped around to get some circulation into our legs after a stint of three hours in the cold water, had a pull at a bottle of wine, and chinwagged with some of the other fishermen who were clambering out of their waders beside their parked cars.
[Trevor] Nunn gives the play [All's Well That Ends Well] more than a touch of [Anton] Chekhov; he gives it the great Slav physician's context: arrivals and departures and a country estate and house in which Helena is gentlewoman to the Countess Rossilion (Peggy Ashcroft) who has an old gnarled retainer, Lavache, the Clown (Geoffrey Hutchings), with whom she chinwags and at whom she affectionately rails.
By the light of the big candles on stakes clusters of people were eating and drinking and chinwagging about the topics of the past four days.
Translations:
forecourt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fore-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer-
Proto-Indo-European *gʰórtos
Proto-Italic *hortosder.?
Proto-Italic *horti-
Latin cohortem
Latin cōrtem
Old French cortbor.
Middle English court
English court
English forecourt
From fore- + court.
Inflected forms:
form: forecourts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The area in front of a petrol station where the petrol pumps are situated; pumping area.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: Any open area in front of a building.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: Limerick terminus has changed but little since its opening, and travellers still ascend the same flight of steps from the forecourt to enter the handsome two-storey stone building, which contains the offices and a recently-modernised refreshment room.
The first group is incised on the east wall and eastern part of the south wall of the temple forecourt. The second group is incised into the floor and paving stones of the forecourt, extending onto the pavement of the Podium.
Other improvements include a new station forecourt on Love Lane, new cycle parking, improved CCTV and an additional ticket vending machine in the ticket hall.
gloss: In racket sports, the front part of the court.
pos: noun
Related words: frontcourt
midcourt
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: etupiha
lang: French
word: parvis
lang: German
word: Vorhof
lang: German
word: Vorplatz
lang: Irish
word: urlios
lang: Latin
word: vestibulum
lang: Persian
word: جلوخان
roman: jelôwxân
lang: Portuguese
word: átrio
lang: Spanish
word: atrio