yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
PlayStation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: video-games
Etymology: From play + station; coined by American multinational software company Sony Interactive Entertainment.
Compound parts: play
station
Inflected forms:
form: PlayStations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A video game console of the PlayStation brand.
pos: noun
examples: His dad bought him a Playstation 5 yesterday.
Back then, kids didn't have TV or video games, so I guess slaughtering your mom and dad was a bit like the Playstation^([sic]) of its day.
The Everlasting Treat Ball landed like the PlayStation of the pet products world back in 2004.
He was obsessed with bullfighting, which was the PlayStation of the day, only considerably more dangerous; he was soon gored to death.
gloss: The original PlayStation.
pos: noun
Translations:
devalue
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 value
English devalue
From de- + value.
Inflected forms:
form: devalues
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: devaluing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: devalued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: devalued
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To lower or remove the value of something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Scotland is beaten only by properties in London, which increase in value by 64% on average when within half a mile of a station - although in some cases in the capital, being near to a station devalues the house.
gloss: To lose value; to depreciate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: devaluer
nondevalued
Translations:
devaluation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: economics
sciences
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 valuation
English devaluation
From de- + valuation.
Inflected forms:
form: devaluations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The removal or lessening of something's value.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: According to Braverman's thesis, Taylorism, or scientific management, has been the key feature in the devaluation and dequalification of work.
gloss: The intentional or deliberate lowering of a currency's value compared to another country's currency or a standard value (e.g. the price of gold).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Depreciation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: postdevaluation
predevaluation
Translations:
Serbo-Croat
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Serbo-
English Croat
English Serbo-Croat
From Serbo- + Croat.
Inflected forms:
form: Serbo-Croats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Serbo-Croat
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Serbo-Croat
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Serbo-Croatian.
pos: noun
examples: Of the Serbo-Croats, some are included in the Austrian, some in the Ottoman empire, and two small states govern themselves.
The Slovenes, geographically neighbours and linguistically akin to the Serbo-Croats, are very different from them anthropologically, the Nordic element being predominant among them.
The place had been haunting him ever since Peggy had left—well, ever since he had got those Serbo-Croats in and moved her out.
gloss: Synonym of Serbo-Croatian.
pos: adj
Translations:
digitization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English digit
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English digitize
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English digitization
From digitize + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: digitizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: digitisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The conversion of data or information from analog to digital or binary.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Hence, the transformation of a process or system from mainly analogue form to digital form
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: digitation
digitize
Derived words: interdigitization
retrodigitization
Translations:
diving
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
Etymology: By surface analysis, dive + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: divings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of the verb to dive in any sense.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The sport of jumping into water, often acrobatically.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Descending below the surface of the water to interact with the environment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of pretending to be tripped or brought to the ground by an opposition player in order to secure an undeserved penalty.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: That or who dives or dive.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: altitude diving
bin diving
buddy diving
cage diving
cage-diving
cave diving
cave-diving
clearance diving
cliff diving
cliff-diving
death diving
deep diving
deep-sea diving
diving bell
diving-bell
diving board
diving-board
diving boat
diving brick
diving chamber
diving cylinder
diving dress
diving-dress
diving event
diving helmet
diving knife
diving mask
diving medicine
diving plane
diving-plane
diving platform
diving reel
diving reflex
diving regulator
diving scooter
diving shot
diving sphere
diving suit
diving-suit
diving support vessel
drift diving
ducking and diving
dumpster diving
dumpster-diving
fancy diving
fire diving
free diving
free-diving
freediving
group diving
hedge-diving
ice diving
kayak diving
land diving
land-diving
mammalian diving reflex
mud diving
muff diving
muff-diving
naval diving
night diving
no clear surface diving
nondiving
Olympic diving
open-water diving
pearl diving
pearl-diving
penetration diving
plunge diving
police diving
professional diving
recreational diving
saturation diving
scuba diving
scuba-diving
skin diving
skin-diving
skindiving
skip diving
sky diving
sky-diving
skydiving
smoke diving
snorkel diving
solo diving
sport diving
sportdiving
stage diving
stage-diving
surface supplied diving
surface-supplied diving
synchronised diving
synchronized diving
tec diving
tech diving
technical diving
trash diving
Trumpster diving
underwater diving
web diving
wreck diving
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: гмуркане
roman: gmurkane
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 潛水 /潜水
roman: qiánshuǐ
lang: Danish
word: dykning
lang: Finnish
word: sukellus
lang: French
word: plongée sous-marine
lang: German
word: Tauchen
lang: Greek
word: κατάδυση
roman: katádysi
lang: Hebrew
word: צלילה
lang: Hungarian
word: búvárkodás
lang: Indonesian
word: penyelaman
lang: Italian
word: subacquea
lang: Japanese
word: ダイビング
roman: daibingu
lang: Korean
word: 다이빙
roman: daibing
lang: Macedonian
word: нуркање
roman: nurkanje
lang: Polish
word: nurkowanie
lang: Russian
word: ныря́ние
roman: nyrjánije
lang: Russian
word: да́йвинг
roman: dájving
lang: Russian
word: подво́дное пла́вание
roman: podvódnoje plávanije
lang: Spanish
word: buceo
lang: Spanish
word: submarinismo
lang: Swedish
word: dykning
lang: Ukrainian
word: да́йвінг
roman: dájvinh
practicality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English practical
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English practicality
From practical + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: practicalities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being practical or feasible.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The practical aspect of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
plural-normally
examples: They might acknowledge that such practicalities are necessary to sustain life itself, but they would immediately add that culture gives life a value beyond the scope of the merely practical.
Synonyms: practicalness
Antonyms: impracticality
Derived words: unpracticality
Translations:
feasibility
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English faisible, from Anglo-Norman fesable + English suffix -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: feasibilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being feasible or possible.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: DB Cargo is understood to be looking at the feasibility of re-gearing some of its Class 66s to allow them to haul the same tonnages as the Class 60s it has taken out of its fleet in the latter part of 2023.
Antonyms: infeasibility
unfeasibility
unrealizability
Translations:
dolour
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: economics
ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English dolour (“physical pain, agony, suffering; painful disease; anguish, grief, misery, sorrow; grieving for sins, contrition; hardship, misery, trouble; cause of grief or suffering, affliction”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman dolour, Old French dolour, dolor, dulur (“pain”) (modern French douleur (“pain; distress”)), from Latin dolor (“ache, hurt, pain; anguish, grief, sorrow; anger, indignation, resentment”), from doleō (“to hurt, suffer physical pain; to deplore, grieve, lament”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *delh₁- (“to divide, split”)) + -or (suffix forming third-declension masculine abstract nouns). The English word is a doublet of dol.
Inflected forms:
form: dolours
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dolor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow.
pos: noun
tags: UK
literary
uncountable
examples: Who dyes the vtmoſt dolor doth abye, / But who that liues, is lefte to waile his loſſe: / So life is loſſe, and death felicity.
But for all this thou ſhalt haue as many Dolors for thy Daughters, as thou canſt tell in a yeare.
Gon[zalo]. When euery greefe is entertaind, / That's offer'd comes to th'entertainer. / Seb[astian]. A dollor. / Gon. Dolour comes to him indeed, you haue ſpoken truer then you purpos'd / Seb. You haue taken it wiſelier then I meant you ſhould.
This Duke (ſaith [Richard] Grafton) being an aged man, and fortunate before in all his vvarres, vpon this diſtaſture impreſſed ſuch dolour of mind, that for verie griefe thereof he liued not long after.
[E]very ſentence of that Book, every groan of that Man [Francesco Spiera], with all the reſt of his actions in his dolours, […] was as knives and daggers in my Soul; […]
[T]o think that I am going to leave her—and to leave her in distress and dolour—No, Miss Lucy, you need never think it!
Perchance a congregation to fulfil / Solemnities of silence in this doom, / Mysterious rites of dolour and despair / Permitting not a breath or chant of prayer?
gloss: In economics and utilitarianism: a unit of pain used to theoretically weigh people's outcomes.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
examples: Supposedly, utilitarians are able to add and subtract hedons (units of pleasure) and dolors (units of pain) without any signs of cognitive or affective distress […]
Related words: dol
dole
doloriferous
dolorific
dolorimeter
doloroso
dolorous
dolorously
dolorousness
endolour
undolorous
pain
Translations:
inhibition
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
human-sciences
law
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English inhibicioun, inhibicione from Old French inibicion, from Latin inhibitio.
Morphologically inhibit + -ion.
Base: inhibit
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: inhibitions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of inhibiting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A personal feeling of fear or embarrassment that stops one behaving naturally.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Often the guests, affected by the wine drinking, released all inhibitions and made erotic overtures, particularly to the slave cup-bearers.
gloss: The process of stopping or retarding a reaction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A writ from a higher court to an inferior judge to stay proceedings.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A recusal.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
countable
uncountable
Related words: inhibit
Derived words: angioinhibition
autoinhibition
baroinhibition
cardioinhibition
chemoinhibition
coinhibition
contact inhibition
counterinhibition
cross-inhibition
disinhibition
hyperinhibition
immunoinhibition
mitoinhibition
mixed inhibition
noninhibition
osteoinhibition
overinhibition
phosphoinhibition
photoinhibition
response inhibition
retroinhibition
sympathoinhibition
thermoinhibition
tissue thromboplastin inhibition time
topoinhibition
transinhibition
transmarginal inhibition
uninhibition
Translations:
dumbfounding
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more dumbfounding
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dumbfounding
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dumfounding
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Bewildering; astonishing.
pos: adj
Translations:
B-movie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
Etymology: Analogous to the B-side (i.e. the second side, the primary side being designated A) of a musical recording.
Inflected forms:
form: B-movies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A low-budget motion picture, especially one with poor production values.
pos: noun
Translations:
wudu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Etymology tree
Arabic وُضُوء (wuḍūʔ)bor.
English wudu
Borrowed from Arabic وُضُوء (wuḍūʔ).
Inflected forms:
form: wudu'
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: wudhu
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: wuzu
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: woodoo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A ritual washing of the forearms, head, and feet, required after minor impurity, frequently performed immediately before prayer.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The state of purity that is achieved by this washing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Synonyms: abdest
ablution
Translations:
whitey
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English white
English -y
English whitey
From white (“bright and colorless; a white-skinned person”) + -y (“forming diminutives”).
Inflected forms:
form: whiteys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: whities
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: whitie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: whity
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: yt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: YT
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A white person, a person of Western European descent.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
ethnic
offensive
slur
examples: I can't pay no doctor bills / But whitey’s on the moon / Ten years from now I'll be payin' still / While whitey’s on the moon
She's a whitey in jeans / She's an outlaw
"Whites don't like us because they think we're niggies. And blacks don't like us because they think we're whiteys. We don't fit anywhere. That's why we've gone off alone, created a totally separate thing."
Touché, honky. So, whitey, what did you do today? Oppress a new land and make the people there Christians against their will?
gloss: A state or bout of sickness, especially induced by cannabis use.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
examples: (Drug users consuming this much alcohol are either slumpped in the corner having a whitey or already on their way to casualty in an ambulance.)
'Youths' happily do both and they're almost seen as weird if they don't smoke themselves into a whitey with their mates.
Ocasionaly^([sic]) things don't work quite as expected but seriously i can't remeber^([sic]) last time i had a "whitey" not for many years that a certainty.
'Dead bodies. Up in trees,' I said.
I handed him the crisps.
'I'm gonnae have a whitey,' he said and fucked off up to the toilet to be sick.
Tristan: I'm having a whitey.
 He seems about to be sick.
 Connie: You're on a placebo, Tristan, you're not on the drug.
Related words: lightie
Translations:
emigrant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Classical Latin ēmigrāns, present participle of ēmigrāre (“to emigrate”).
Inflected forms:
form: emigrants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who leaves a country to settle in a new country.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Catopsilia. Also called a migrant.
pos: noun
Antonyms: immigrant
Related words: emigration
Derived words: economic emigrant
nonemigrant
Translations:
mined
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more mined
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mined
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That has been mined (in various senses).
pos: adj
examples: The mined block is added to the "blockchain", a big, unbreakable ledger that lives on the bitcoin network and serves as a record of all transactions.
Fifteen years after the end of one of Africa's longest wars, Angola remains one of the world's most heavily mined countries. Swaths of Angola are still littered with land mines, some produced decades ago in countries that no longer exist.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ruled in 2018 that lab-grown diamonds are included in the same definitional universe as mined diamonds but warned against the use of terms like "natural" in marketing that confused the two categories.
Some diamond industry analysts believe artificial diamonds are about to become their own market, separate from that for the traditional – and more exclusive – one for mined diamonds.
In a year and a half of conflict, land mines — along with unexploded bombs, artillery shells and other deadly byproducts of war — have contaminated a swath of Ukraine roughly the size of Florida or Uruguay. It has become the world's most mined country.
Translations:
positivism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
law
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French positivisme, from positif (“positive”). By surface analysis, positiv(e) + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: positivisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A doctrine that states that the only authentic knowledge is scientific knowledge, and that such knowledge can only come from positive affirmation of theories through strict scientific method, refusing every form of metaphysics.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The goal of positivism is to construct an objective, empirical and systematic foundation for knowledge. Given the above five tenets, it follows that positivists would hold that the world is composed of ‘facts’, or ‘sense data’ (or ‘atoms’).
History, and its literary expression, narrative, were not scientific, and so did not deserve the attention that true sciences did. Only science could yield positive knowledge—hence the passion for positivism, and the origin of the term.
gloss: A school of thought in jurisprudence in which the law is seen as separated from moral values; i.e., the law is posited by lawmakers (people).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: positivist
Comtism
Derived words: legal positivism
logical positivism
neopositivism
postpositivism
Translations:
doorstep
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: architecture
journalism
media
Etymology: Etymology tree
English door
Proto-Germanic *stapjaną
Proto-West Germanic *stappjan
Old English stæppan
Middle English steppen
English step
English doorstep
From door + step.
Inflected forms:
form: doorsteps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: doorsteps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: doorstepping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: doorstepped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: doorstepped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An outside step leading up to the door of a building, usually a home.
pos: noun
examples: Ailie was standing by the doorstep as he came down the road, and her heart stood still with joy.
With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.
The narrow streets that twist and turn through the compact heart of Dent are surfaced with cobbles which, in the absence of pavements, spread right across from doorstep to doorstep.
gloss: One's immediate neighbourhood or locality.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: They want to build the prison right on our doorstep; it will only be half a mile away and being that close scares me.
As a Hitchin signalman once pointed out to me, when a regulating quandary arises concerning a fast-moving Class A train there is no time to consult Control and get their answer before the express is on one's doorstep.
Milk from the Eden Valley could be on London doorsteps the next morning. Limestone and agricultural lime from the Ribble Valley and gypsum from further north could at last be transported long distances by the trainload. The railway had been driven along, over and through the valuable substances that were on its doorstep, much akin to the situation in Britain's coalfields.
gloss: A thick slice, especially of bread.
pos: noun
tags: UK
informal
examples: I cut myself a doorstep of bread with masses of butter and went along to see Romanov while I was eating it.
gloss: To visit one household after another to solicit sales, charitable donations, political support, etc.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To corner somebody for an unexpected interview.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Throughout her time in journalism, she doorstepped politicians, the child of a politician, crime victims, armed robbers, murderers, suspected murderers...
Surprisingly few people refused to talk, even those I doorstepped or telephoned out of the blue.
Related words: ambush journalism
Derived words: darken someone's doorstep
doorstepper
doorsteppy
on death's doorstep
on someone's doorstep
sit on death's doorstep
Translations:
colonialism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti
Proto-Italic *kʷelō
Latin colō
Latin colōnus
Latin colōniader.
Middle English colane
English colony
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 colonial
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 colonialism
From colonial + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: colonialisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The seizure of geographical area to extract its natural resources or exploit the labor of the indigenous peoples to remotely benefit a distant country.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Though most of the cases here cover European encounters with non-Europeans, it is not the intention of the book to give the impression that genocide is a function of European colonialism and imperialism alone.
gloss: The subjugation of a weaker country, population, or people by a dominant country, population, or people.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
derogatory
often
uncountable
examples: It was the racist, settler colonialism that created whiteness, that created blackness, half-caste, quarter-caste, octoroon, that saw mixed-race people as a third race.
gloss: Any form of foreign influence seen as undesirable.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
derogatory
uncountable
gloss: A colonial word, phrase, concept, or habit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Although the settlement seems so far to have made but slow progress, there are many things which show that, to use a colonialism, "the place was going ahead."
gloss: Colonial life.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: anticolonialism
biocolonialism
biocolonialist
Coca-Colonialism
cybercolonialism
Eurocolonialism
green colonialism
internal colonialism
neocolonialism
paracolonialism
postcolonialism
pseudocolonialism
semicolonialism
settler colonialism
Translations:
lang: Cebuano
word: kolonyalismo
lang: Polish
word: kolonializm
lang: Swahili
word: beberu
lang: Tagalog
word: koloniyalisasyon
lang: Tagalog
word: koloniyalismo
orientalism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: architecture
art
arts
literature
media
publishing
Etymology: From French orientalisme, from oriental (“eastern, Oriental”). In the sense “patronizing Western attitude” popularized by Edward Said's 1978 book Orientalism. Equivalent to Oriental + -ism.
Base: Oriental
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: orientalisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Orientalism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The tendency to represent eastern subjects, to assume stylistical characteristics original of the East, especially in 19th century Europe.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Moreover, among the group that was associated with the short-lived Institut historique, of which Senancour was a member from 1834 to 1840, was Eugène Burnouf, the great orientalist, to whom much of the responsibility for the revived interest in orientalism of the mid-nineteenth century must be attributed.
gloss: An Eastern word, expression, or custom.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The Scriptural style and the Scriptural language are not meant for one age, but for all ages. Its orientalisms will grow in the west; its archaisms will be found still young in the nineteenth century.
gloss: A patronizing Western attitude towards Middle Eastern, Asian, and North African societies.
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
countable
uncountable
examples: Unlike the Americans, the French and the British—less so the Germans, Russians, Spanish, Portuguese, Italians, and Swiss—have had a long tradition of what I shall be calling Orientalism, a way of coming to terms with the Orient that is based on the Orient’s special place in European Western experience.
But he [Robert Irwin] is more lucid and reliable when he sets out to demonstrate the complexity and diversity of Orientalism, to defend his profession from the charge of being a conscious or unconscious accomplice of empire, and to decry the damage done by those whose reading even of Orientalism was probably superficial.
Related words: orientalist
Derived words: techno-orientalism
Translations:
mannerism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
English man
English -er
English manner
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 mannerism
From manner + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: mannerisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A noticeable personal habit, a verbal or other (often, but not necessarily unconscious) habitual behavior peculiar to an individual.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Inspector looked round. He knew well enough that they were alone in the study at The Turrets, but the action had become something of a mannerism with him.
In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.
gloss: Exaggerated or affected style in art, speech, or other behavior.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: artists […] dabblingly pursuing a kind of formalist mannerism merely in the interest of careerism
He generally spoke without academic mannerism, though on occasion he dipped into the over-wrought thickets of eduspeak to find words like “antithetical” or “foci” or “interface.”
Synonyms: idiosyncrasy
quirk
Translations:
roadrunner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From road + runner, probably a calque of Spanish correcaminos (“roadrunner”), from correr (“to run”) + caminos (“roads”).
Compound parts: road
runner
Inflected forms:
form: roadrunners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Either of two species of fast-running bird in the genus Geococcyx of the cuckoo family native to North and Central America, the lesser roadrunner (Geococcyx velox) and, especially, the greater roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus).
pos: noun
Translations:
spiritualism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)peys-der.?
Latin spīrō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin spīritus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Late Latin spīrituālisder.
Old French spirituelbor.
Middle English spiritual
English spiritual
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 spiritualism
From spiritual + -ism. In Allan Kardec's book The Spirits Book (1857) (Le Livre des Esprits in the original French), in which a distinction between spiritism and spiritualism is defined.
Inflected forms:
form: spiritualisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A doctrine, opposing materialism, that claims transcendency of the divine being, the altogether spiritual character of reality and the value of inwardness of consciousness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: What is called spiritualism should, I think, be called a mental species of materialism.
gloss: A belief that the dead communicate with the living, especially through a medium. Used in a broader sense than spiritism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I wish it were possible to impress this truth upon people who rush into spiritualism from curiosity, or who try "table rapping" or some similar phenomenon "for fun".
gloss: The quality or state of being spiritual.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: antispiritualism
conspiritualism
spiritualist
Translations:
shearwater
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From shear + water.
Compound parts: shear
water
Inflected forms:
form: shearwaters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sheerwater
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of the long-winged pelagic seabirds of the family Procellariidae in genera Puffinus, Ardenna, and Calonectris, that breed on islands and coastal cliffs.
pos: noun
examples: At first I would not eat a frigate bird, a booby or a shearwater, but after a few months on the island I tried one broiled over coconut-shell coals, and I have never since missed an opportunity for such a feast.
gloss: Any of the entire family Procellariidae, including certain of the petrels.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
Synonyms: haglet
Derived words: Audubon's shearwater
Baillon's shearwater
Balearic shearwater
Bannerman's shearwater
Barolo shearwater
black-vented shearwater
Boyd's shearwater
Bryan's shearwater
Buller's shearwater
Cape Verde shearwater
Christmas shearwater
Cory's shearwater
flesh-footed shearwater
fluttering shearwater
Galápagos shearwater
great shearwater
Hawaiian shearwater
Heinroth's shearwater
Hutton's shearwater
lava shearwater
little shearwater
Macronesian shearwater
Manx shearwater
Mediterranean shearwater
Newell's shearwater
Olson's shearwater
Persian shearwater
pink-footed shearwater
Scopoli's shearwater
short-tailed shearwater
sooty shearwater
streaked shearwater
subantarctic shearwater
Townsend's shearwater
tropical shearwater
wedge-tailed shearwater
yelkouan shearwater
Yelkouan shearwater
Translations:
provincialism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
human-sciences
linguistics
politics
sciences
Etymology: From French provincialisme, equivalent to provincial + -ism.
Base: provincial
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: provincialisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being provincial; having provincial tastes, mentality, manners.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The blacksmith's provincialism showed in his speech and manner
gloss: A word or locution characteristic of a region or district.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Prose is allowed less liberty in this respect; but no one nowadays would maintain that the adoption of a provincialism into the literary dialect is absolutely prohibited.
gloss: Synonym of regionalism: belief in the superiority of one's regional government; the belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to provincial governments.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: regionalism
Translations:
shoveler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English schoveler, equivalent to shovel + -er.
Base: shovel
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: shovelers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shoveller
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, shovels.
pos: noun
examples: The sand was loaded by 3 shovelers into wheelbarrows holding 3.6 cu. ft. each...
Translations:
regionalism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
human-sciences
linguistics
politics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English regional
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 regionalism
From regional + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: regionalisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Affection, often excessive, for one's own region and to everything related to it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Whereas organizations such as the WIFA and CU confirmed regional West Indian identifications and represented the connections between transnational West Indian organizations and black diaspora politics, the JPL, as a transnational Jamaican organization, demonstrates that the regionalism that took root among many West Indian expatriates in these years did not negate all expatriates' islandist perspectives and allegiances.
gloss: The belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to regional governments.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A word or phrase originating in, characteristic of, or limited to a region.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: ... the formal normative variety of the language as it is used today in formal writing by educated native speakers. As a result, we have eschewed dialectisms and regionalisms. The English variety employed in the book is formal British English, ...
gloss: Regional character, local color.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Director Deitch has filled the sountrack with country music classics […] and this adds to the regionalism of the film as well as to the feeling which buoys the movie up from simplistic formula to romantic reverie.
Synonyms: provincialism
Related words: regionalist
regionism
Derived words: bioregionalism
Translations:
smee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: smees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The pintail, wigeon, pochard, or smew.
pos: noun
Translations:
floozie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Corruption of flossy in the sense of showy.
Inflected forms:
form: floozies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: floozy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: floosy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: floosie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: floogy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman; a hussy or slattern.
pos: noun
examples: A bunch of ugly-looking gangsters had taken the joint over for a big party, and they were all wobbling around the floor with their floozies, so drunk they could hardly stand.
«Sure thing. You going with that little Mexican floozy?»
Now I was a forsaken codger snuffling disgracefully from a beautiful floozy's abuse.
[T]he lead singer found his girlfriend bumping uglies in the dark with the roadie. But then said singer was with a blonde floozie himself—see what being on an L.A. trash-band bill can do to ya?
gloss: A prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets.
pos: noun
examples: There are refugees and black marketers, defrocked bankers and resistance fighters, gamblers, floozies, French colonial policemen, American and Spanish entertainers, and, eventually, Nazi officers (who in reality never set foot in Casablanca).
Synonyms: promiscuous woman
Translations:
smew
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Origin unknown. In use since the 17th century.
Inflected forms:
form: smews
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small compact diving duck, Mergellus albellus, that breeds in the northern taiga of Europe and Asia and winters on sheltered coasts or inland lakes.
pos: noun
Translations:
pintail
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sports
surfing
Etymology: From pin + tail.
Compound parts: pin
tail
Inflected forms:
form: pintails
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pintail duck, a type of dabbling duck with a characteristic pointed tail.
pos: noun
gloss: A pintail duck, a type of dabbling duck with a characteristic pointed tail.
pos: noun
gloss: A pin-tailed snipe, Gallinago stenura.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various species of libellulid dragonfly of the genus Acisoma, endemic to Africa and Asia.
pos: noun
gloss: The end of a fastening pin or mandrel on a Huckbolt or pop rivet that is broken off when installation is complete.
pos: noun
examples: The collar is placed over the fastener pintail and the installation tool is placed over the pintail. The tool pulls on the pin drawing the parts together until the collar is swaged into locking grooves.
gloss: A surfboard with a pointed back end.
pos: noun
Related words: pin-tailed
Derived words: pintail beetle
pintail comb
Translations:
peregrine
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English peregrin, borrowed from Old French peregrin, from Latin peregrīnus (“foreign”). Doublet of pilgrim.
Inflected forms:
form: more peregrine
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most peregrine
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: peregrines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Wandering, travelling, migratory.
pos: adj
examples: The Romani are perpetually peregrine people.
gloss: Not native to a region or country; foreign; alien.
pos: adj
gloss: Lacking essential debility.
pos: adj
gloss: Extrinsic or from without; exotic.
pos: adj
examples: peregrine and preternatural heat
As soon as she had smiled her face altered again, and the petulant expression peregrine to her features took control.
gloss: With "tone" Referring to the tonus peregrinus or 'wandering tone' in ecclesiastical chant and mode theory.
pos: adj
gloss: The peregrine falcon.
pos: noun
gloss: A foreigner; a person resident in a country other than his or her own.
pos: noun
tags: dated
Synonyms: outlander
strangeling
Related words: peregrine hawk
peregrinate
peregrination
Derived words: peregrinism
peregrinity
perlin
Translations:
mandolin
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From French mandoline, from Italian mandolino, diminutive of mandola, a large stringed instrument.
Inflected forms:
form: mandolins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mandoline
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mandolins
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mandolining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mandolined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mandolined
pos: verb
tags: past
form: mandoline
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A stringed instrument of the lute family, having eight strings in four courses, frequently tuned as a violin, and with either a bowl-shaped back or a flat back.
pos: noun
gloss: A kitchen tool for julienning vegetables.
pos: noun
gloss: To slice using a madolin; to julienne.
pos: verb
examples: One Monday night I peeled potatoes over the sink, ready to mandolin them into thin slices and bake on top of a pie I had a recipe for in the newspaper on Saturday.
Related words: mandola
manjo
mandolin-banjo
banjo-mandolin
banjolin
Derived words: banjo mandolin
banjo-mandolin
combolin
guitalin
Japanese mandolin
mandocello
mandolin-banjo
mandolinist
mandoliner
mandolinlike
mandolute
potato bug mandolin
Translations:
phalarope
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From New Latin Phalaropus, formed irregularly from Ancient Greek φαλαρίς (phalarís, “coot”) + πούς (poús, “foot”).
Compound parts: φαλαρίς
πούς
Inflected forms:
form: phalaropes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of three small wading birds in the genus Phalaropus, of the family Scolopacidae, that have lobed toes.
pos: noun
Translations:
bloodhound
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English blodhound, blodhond; equivalent to blood + hound. Cognate with Dutch bloedhond (“bloodhound”), Middle Low German blōthunt (“bloodhound”), German Bluthund (“bloodhound”), Danish blodhund (“bloodhound”), Swedish blodhund (“bloodhound”). The detective sense follows from the dog's ability to follow a trail.
Compound parts: blood
hound
Inflected forms:
form: bloodhounds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blood-hound
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bloudhound
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bloud-hound
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A large scenthound famed for its ability to follow a scent many days old, over vast distances. This dog is often used as a police dog to track missing people, fleeing suspects, or escaped prisoners.
pos: noun
examples: Someone stole our bloodhounds, but we got the backup bloodhounds to chase the first tier of bloodhounds.
gloss: A detective or other person skilled at finding people or clues.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
informal
gloss: A bloodthirsty person.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: For now the despot’s blood-hounds with their prey,
Unarmed and unaware, were gorging deep
Their gluttony of death; the loose array
Of horsemen o’er the wide fields murdering sweep,
And with loud laughter for their tyrant reap
A harvest sown with other hopes; […]
Derived words: bloodhounding
bloodhoundish
Translations:
noel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English nowel, from Anglo-Norman noel, Middle French noel, a variant of nael, from Latin adjective nātālis (“natal, having to do with birth”).
Inflected forms:
form: noels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: noël
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: nowell
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: nowel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A kind of hymn, or canticle, of mediaeval origin, sung in honor of the birth of Christ; a Christmas carol.
pos: noun
examples: The first Nowell the Angel did say / Was to three poor Shepherds in the fields as they lay[…]
Translations:
mockumentary
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
Etymology: Blend of mock + documentary.
Compound parts: mock
documentary
Inflected forms:
form: mockumentaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A film or television programme presented as if it were a documentary but that is not factual and often a parody or satire.
pos: noun
examples: “This Is Spinal Tap” is one of the most famous mockumentaries.
Perlman devised a format inspired by the seminal mockumentary Spinal Tap, where the spot started with an ESPN announcer speaking to camera in a serious, straight voice, framing the story as “real” documentary.
The resonances between This is Spinal Tap and other documentary and mockumentary texts is pervasive, […]
In the 2004 film A Day Without a Mexican, Sergio Arau imagines, in mockumentary style, what would happen to California if its entire Mexican-immigrant population vanished. With so many housekeepers and farmworkers, teachers and gardeners, line cooks and police gone, the state seizes up.
Translations:
credentialism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English credential
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 credentialism
From credential + -ism.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Excessive emphasis on the importance of educational, academic, legal, or regulatory qualifications.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
all-seeing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂elnós
Proto-Germanic *allaz
Proto-Germanic *ala-
Proto-West Germanic *ala-
Old English æl-
Middle English all-
English all-
English see
English -ing
English seeing
English all-seeing
From all- + seeing.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Seeing everything.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having knowledge of all things said or done.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: omnipotent
all-powerful
omnipresent
ever-present
Derived words: all-seeing eye
all-seeingness
Translations:
showstopper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From show + stopper.
Compound parts: show
stopper
Inflected forms:
form: showstoppers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: show-stopper
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: show stopper
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A performance or segment of a theatrical production that induces a positive audience reaction strong enough to pause the production.
pos: noun
gloss: Any impediment that prevents all further progress.
pos: noun
gloss: Any impediment that prevents all further progress.
pos: noun
Related words: showstopping
deal breaker
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: välitön este
lang: French
word: clap de fin
lang: German
word: KO-Kriterium
lang: German
word: K.O.-Kriterium
lang: German
word: Ausschlusskriterium
lang: German
word: Showstopper
lang: Italian
word: intoppo
lang: Italian
word: ostacolo
lang: Italian
word: falla
lang: Italian
word: impedimento
lang: Russian
word: препя́тствие
roman: prepjátstvije
lang: Russian
word: поме́ха
roman: poméxa
lang: Ukrainian
word: зава́да
roman: zaváda
lang: Ukrainian
word: перешко́да
roman: pereškóda
lang: Ukrainian
word: перепо́на
roman: perepóna
malevolence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French malevolence, from Latin malevolentia (“malevolence”), derived from malevolēns (“malevolent”).
Inflected forms:
form: malevolences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Hostile attitude or feeling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: to show someone malevolence
He said it with malevolence.
Esai Morales appears as the enforcer for “the entity‘’ and brings such simmering malevolence to the character that he should have been the villain instead.
gloss: Behavior exhibiting a hostile attitude.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: benevolence
Related words: malevolent
Derived words: omnimalevolence
Translations: