yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
top-rope
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
nautical
sports
transport
Inflected forms:
form: top-ropes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: top-ropes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: top-roping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: top-roped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: top-roped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A rope used for hoisting and lowering a topmast, and for other purposes.
pos: noun
gloss: A rope, used for the climber's safety, which runs from a belayer at the foot of a route through one or more carabiners connected to an anchor system at the top of the route and back down to the climber, usually attaching to the climber by means of a harness.
pos: noun
gloss: To belay from a fixed anchor point above the climber.
pos: verb
Translations:
marotte
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French marotte.
Inflected forms:
form: marottes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A jester's dummy, bauble, or sceptre.
pos: noun
examples: The cover seemed to sum it all up—a depressed jester gazing forlornly at his ‘marotte’ as if desperate for inspiration.
gloss: A quirk, an obsession.
pos: noun
examples: They were a substitute for real tapestries, which could not be obtained in sufficient numbers, or for which there was neither the time nor the skill to embroider them with images appropriate to the occasion. It is true that this view contradicts that of Raoul-Rouchette, who remains faithful to his marotte, which admits only paintings on wood, because they are called tabulae.
During the summer Henry had been on the best of terms with his chief, but he had been first irritated, and then alarmed at Picquart’s fixation on Esterhazy, his ‘marotte’.
Translations:
standard-wing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From standard + wing, with the sense of standard (“pennon, flag on a long pole”).
Compound parts: standard
wing
Inflected forms:
form: standard-wings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: standardwing
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A species of bird of paradise (Semioptera wallacii) having two long ornamental erectile lesser covert feathers on each wing.
pos: noun
Translations:
Landwehr
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From German Landwehr, from Land (“land, country”) + Wehr (“defense”).
Inflected forms:
form: Landwehrs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A segment of the armed forces of Germany, Austria, or Switzerland, often made up of older people, used for defense of the homeland.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
coppin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
Etymology: See cop.
Inflected forms:
form: coppins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cop of thread.
pos: noun
Translations:
all-hail
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From all hail (interjection).
Inflected forms:
form: all-hails
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: all-hailing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: all-hailed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: all-hailed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To greet or salute (someone) with a cry of "all hail"; hence, to greet or welcome (someone).
pos: verb
tags: literary
often
poetic
transitive
examples: Missives from the king, who all-hailed me Thane of Cawdor
Translations:
unrepairable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + repairable.
Base: repairable
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unrepairable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unrepairable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Impossible to repair.
pos: adj
Translations:
shotted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From shot + -ed.
Base: shot
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: loaded with, or made of, shot
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: shotted guns
a single-shotted guns
shotted musket
a shotted cannon
a shotted salute
[…] the peculiar commotion in the water resulting from the heavy sloped dive of the shotted hammock into the sea […]
gloss: Having a shot attached or administered.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a shotted suture
a double-shotted patient
Related words: mug-shotted
Translations:
neo-colony
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From neo- + colony.
Base: colony
Affixes: neo-
Inflected forms:
form: neo-colonies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: neocolony
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A country, especially a former colony, controlled or dominated by another country, by the use of economic pressure, political suppression and cultural dominance.
pos: noun
examples: Cuba was the last of the independent Latin American countries to throw off the Spanish yoke and the first to become a full-fledged neo-colony of the United States.
Translations:
mercurochrome
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From a trademark.
Inflected forms:
form: mercurochromes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: merbromin
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Then the doctor came bustling in, brown-mustached, blue-tied, spectacled, carrying a tan bag, and behind him followed the two ambulance men, one with a thatch of flaming red hair and the other with a stain of mercurochrome on his jacket-sleeve.
Jenny was sining on the closed lid of the toilet, her long legs stretched out in front of her so that he could treat the cuts with mercurochrome.
Oocyst counts in mosquitoes were made 7 days postinfection on midguts dissected from 30 gravid females and then stained with 0.5% mercurochrome.
While expounding the other day on the lost antiseptic mercurochrome, I mentioned that vaccines once contained an antibacterial and antifungal agent called thimerosal.
Translations:
top-hamper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
form: top-hampers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The rigging, spars, etc., stored above the deck of a ship.
pos: noun
examples: There were the pitching of the vessel, the hissing of the waters, the dashing of spray, the shocks that menaced annihilation to the little craft as she plunged into the seas, the undying howl of the wind, and the fearful drift. The last was the most serious danger; for, though exceedingly weatherly under her canvas, and totally without top-hamper, the Scud was so light, that the combing of the swells would seem at times to wash her down to leeward with a velocity as great as that of the surges themselves.
At the same time sleet and hail were driving with all fury against us. We clewed down, and hauled out the reef- tackles again, and close-reefed the fore-topsail, and furled the main, and hove her to on the starboard tack. Here was an end to our fine prospects. We made up our minds to head winds and cold weather; sent down the royal yards, and unrove the gear; but all the rest of the top hamper remained aloft, even to the sky-sail masts and studding-sail booms.
"Want to make land, eh?" I girded down at him. "Getting hungry, eh? Well, you won't make land or anything else in a thousand years once you get all your top-hamper piled down on deck."
Translations:
queue-jumper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: queue-jumpers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who jumps the queue.
pos: noun
examples: Instead, travellers are directed to the respective assembly points; this facilitates any last-minute changes in platform arrangements and also frustrates any would-be queue-jumpers.
Translations:
Dongola
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The original form was Tungul, possibly from Old Nubian ⲧⲟⲩⳟ (touŋ, “to be secure”), hence fortress.
Inflected forms:
form: Dongolas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A horse of a large Middle Eastern breed.
pos: noun
Translations:
Griqua
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Afrikaans Griekwa.
Inflected forms:
form: Griquas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Griqua
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a subgroup of South Africa's heterogeneous and multiracial black people, originally populating the frontiers of the infant Cape Colony, living as seminomadic commandos of mounted gunmen.
pos: noun
Translations:
e-marketing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + marketing or e-market + -ing.
Base: marketing
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: marketing by electronic means, especially the Internet
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The problem for e-marketing is that the use of DRM in its most restrictive manner limits the value and use of purchased goods (maximum numbers of reinstalls, limited numbers of redownloads of the software).
Translations:
e-marketer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + marketer.
Base: marketer
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
form: e-marketers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: one who engages in e-marketing
pos: noun
Translations:
cook-up
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cook-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A get-together for the purposes of cooking, especially one that produces large quantities of food.
pos: noun
Translations:
fish-out-of-water
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: in which someone is out of their familiar environment; pertaining to a fish out of water
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Sequels to fish-out-of-water comedies make progressively less sense the longer a series continues. By the time Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles rolled around in 2001, 15 years after the first Crocodile Dundee became a surprise blockbuster, the title character had been given an awfully long time to grow acclimated to those kooky Americans
Translations:
stone-faced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more stone-faced
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stone-faced
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of stony-faced.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: Empty jumbo jets arriving at deserted airports. Masked passengers disinfecting their own seats. Stone-faced airline executives huddling with President Trump.
Translations:
twinkly-eyed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more twinkly-eyed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most twinkly-eyed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: happy, of a happy character.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
examples: In the abstract, Stuhlbarg’s twinkly-eyed sidekick suggests Joe Pesci in Lethal Weapon 2 by way of late-period Robin Williams with an alien twist, but Stuhlbarg makes a character that easily could have come across as precious into a surprisingly palatable, even charming man.
Translations:
anthemis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name taxonomic name Anthemis.
Inflected forms:
form: anthemises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: camomile, in genus Anthemis.
pos: noun
Translations:
Carlist
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more Carlist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Carlist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Carlists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to Carlism
pos: adj
gloss: Supporting Prince Carlos, Duke of Parma
pos: adj
gloss: Supporting Charles X of France.
pos: adj
gloss: A partisan of Prince Carlos, Duke of Parma; one who supports Carlism.
pos: noun
gloss: A partisan of Charles X of France.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Related words: Carlism
Translations:
e-prescription
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + prescription.
Base: prescription
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
form: e-prescriptions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A medical prescription transmitted electronically.
pos: noun
Translations:
socketed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From socket + -ed.
Base: socket
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a socket.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The later division of the Bronze age is characterised by the appearance of swords, spears, palstaves, and socketed celts.
Translations:
Trojan-horse
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Trojan-horses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Trojan-horsing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Trojan-horsed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Trojan-horsed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To introduce slyly, to sneak in, to subvert.
pos: verb
tags: idiomatic
transitive
examples: We all know how genius “Kamp Krusty,” “A Streetcar Named Marge,” “Homer The Heretic,” “Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie” and “Mr. Plow” are, but even the relatively unheralded episodes offer wall-to-wall laughs and some of the smartest, darkest, and weirdest gags ever Trojan-horsed into a network cartoon with a massive family audience.
Suddenly he realized that the arguments and social criticism he wanted to assert[…]could live and breathe on their own. He didn’t have to Trojan-horse them into his novels’ characters or plot points anymore.
They have successfully Trojan-horsed into your heart and mind, and that is exactly where they want to be so they can control you most effectively.
gloss: To install a Trojan horse on (a system).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To install a Trojan horse on the system of (a person or organization).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A world writable file or two later, and a customer has been trojan-horsed.
Translations:
B-story
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: authorship
broadcasting
communications
film
journalism
literature
media
publishing
television
writing
Inflected forms:
form: B-stories
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A subplot that appears in a screenplay or script for a movie or television show; a subplot that concerns the side-characters or less important aspects of a television show.
pos: noun
examples: In the B-story, Bart goes from metaphorically crying wolf to literally crying wolf when a timber wolf escapes from Krusty’s studio after getting freaked by loud noises. The wild beast ultimately menaces Bart in his schoolroom before Groundskeeper Willie strips down and saves the day by defeating the wolf in combat.
Translations:
baby-to-be
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From baby + -to-be.
Base: baby
Affixes: -to-be
Inflected forms:
form: babies-to-be
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An embryo or fetus; an unborn child.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: At twenty-six weeks, your baby-to-be can move freely in your womb.
Translations:
EPT
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: EPTs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A European Poker Tour event.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
Sidonian
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Sidon + -ian.
Base: Sidon
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: Sidonians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Zidonian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Sidon.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
Wunderkammer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From German Wunderkammer (literally “room of wonders”).
Inflected forms:
form: Wunderkammers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Wunderkammern
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wunderkammer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cabinet of scientific curiosities, especially during the late Renaissance.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Despite the frequent bric-à-brac dimension to such collections, these theatres of nature invited an appreciation of nature rather different from the Renaissance Wunderkammer which had preceded them.
Tucked into a small storefront on Venice Boulevard, the museum has been called a modern-day wunderkammer and is the subject of a 1995 book, Mr. Wilsons Cabinet of Wonders (Pantheon), by Lawrence Weschler.
gloss: A place where a collection of curiosities and rarities is exhibited.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
Translations:
Dodger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Dodgers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Dodgers US professional baseball team, either before or after they moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.
pos: noun
Translations:
mansplainer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From mansplain + -er.
Base: mansplain
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: mansplainers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One (especially a man) who mansplains.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Think about the men you know. Do any of them display that delightful mixture of privilege and ignorance that leads to condescending, inaccurate explanations, delivered with the rock-solid conviction of rightness and that slimy certainty that of course he is right, because he is the man in this conversation?
Translations:
mansplain
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Blend of man + explain, equivalent to man + -splain.
Base: man
Affixes: -splain
Inflected forms:
form: mansplains
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mansplaining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mansplained
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mansplained
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To explain (something) condescendingly (to a female listener), especially to explain something the listener already knows, presuming that she has an inferior understanding of it merely because she is female.
pos: verb
tags: derogatory
informal
examples: But what's getting all of the attention in the bill is the part where legislators have banded together to mansplain the various shadings of the crime of "rape" to America.
There were some Occupy-style solutions: those whose voices dominate should “step back” for an entire meeting. […] Men should notice when they are “mansplaining” (this one got a thunderous ovation).
Positioning himself as the white guy mansplaining to a black woman what’s best for her, The New York Times’s John Caramanica argues that Rihanna’s attempt, on the album, “to make public art with the person who physically abused you is immature, pre-feminist, post-ethics.”
Translations:
tatta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Hindi [Term?]
Inflected forms:
form: tattas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bamboo frame or trellis hung at a door or window of a house, over which water is allowed to trickle, in order to moisten and cool the air as it enters.
pos: noun
tags: India
Translations:
clobetasol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: From chlo(ro)- + -betasol (“prednisone or prednisolone derivative”).
Affixes: chloro-
-betasol
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A corticosteroid used to treat various skin disorders including eczema and psoriasis.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
vityaz
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Russian ви́тязь (vítjazʹ).
Inflected forms:
form: vityazes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Russian noble knight who rode a horse.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
retrofuturism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From retro- + futurism.
Base: futurism
Affixes: retro-
Inflected forms:
form: retro-futurism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The revival of historical conceptions of the future in media and design.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Even the aesthetics of its interface, with a kind of Star Trek-like retrofuturism, makes users feel as if their computer is doing the things we imagined computers would be doing, rather than the humdrum business of typing, filing and storing.
Translations:
anti-monarchism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: From anti- + monarchism.
Base: monarchism
Affixes: anti-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The fact or principles of being opposed to monarchism; opposition to monarchy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Designed by the Parlement, the grisly mise-en-scène, which horrified many philosophes, was intended to wipe the Parlement's slate clean of any putative stain of anti-monarchism.
Translations:
single-acting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having simplicity of action; especially acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Snuggie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From snug + -ie, a trade name.
Base: snug
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: Snuggies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: snuggie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A sleeved blanket worn as an item of clothing.
pos: noun
Translations:
melvin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Used in the 1990s American TV show Salute Your Shorts and 1991 film Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey. Earlier origin unknown.
Inflected forms:
form: melvins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wedgie performed from in front of the victim.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
Mathurin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after the founder.
Inflected forms:
form: Mathurins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Trinitarian order.
pos: noun
examples: A deputation came to the Hotel de Ville from the district of the Mathurins, where the people had assembled, appointed a president and other officers, and begun to make a list of the citizens who were able to bear arms.
Translations:
pirot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Introduced by British philosopher Paul Grice, who took the word from Rudolf Carnap's example sentence "Pirots karulize elatically".
Inflected forms:
form: pirots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A notional living being used in discussing certain aspects of the philosophy of language.
pos: noun
examples: Suppose we are genitors — demigods — designing living creatures, creatures Grice calls pirots. To design a type of pirot is to specify a diagram and table for that type (plus evaluative procedures, if any).
Pirots are much like ourselves, and inhabit a world of obbles very much like our own world.
Translations:
chanoyu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 茶の湯 (ちゃのゆ, cha no yu).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A traditional Japanese tea ceremony in which matcha is prepared and presented.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Epicurean
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French Epicurien, from Latin Epicureus, from Ancient Greek Ἐπικούρειος (Epikoúreios, “Epicurean”), from Ἐπίκουρος (Epíkouros, “Epicurus”) + -ειος (-eios, “-ey: forming adjectives”).
Inflected forms:
form: more Epicurean
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Epicurean
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Epicureans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Epicurus or Epicureanism, his philosophy.
pos: adj
gloss: a follower of Epicurus and Epicureanism
pos: noun
Translations:
antiphospholipid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From anti- + phospholipid.
Base: phospholipid
Affixes: anti-
Inflected forms:
form: antiphospholipids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Counteracting phospholipids.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: antiphospholipid antibodies
gloss: Any antiphospholipid antibody
pos: noun
Translations:
do-little
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: do-littles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who does, performs or achieves little
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: Great talkers are commonly do-littles.
"Is that all I am good for now? I was good for mair than that in the great fight between our folk and Patrico Salmon's; if I had not helped you with these very fambles, (holding up her hands) Jean Baillie would have frummagem'd you, ye feckless do-little."
I know an instance of a woman, who by labor and economy had scraped together a little maintenance for herself and a do-little husband, who was left, at his death, by virtue of his last will and testament, to be supported by charity.
Joe Ed was a stocky blond boy who could play a guitar and shoot the eye out of a possum at fifty yards—but not much else. What astonished everyone was Florella’s regard for such a do-little, since she was halfway promised to a boy from Owl’s Hollow.
Translations:
spirifer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
Etymology: From Latin spira (“a coil”) + fero (“to bear”).
Inflected forms:
form: spirifers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of numerous species of fossil brachiopods of the genera †Spirifer and †Delthyris and allied genera in order †Spiriferida, in which the long calcareous supports of the arms form a large spiral, or helix, on each side.
pos: noun
Translations:
cyclopedic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cyclopedia + -ic.
Base: cyclopedia
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more cyclopedic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cyclopedic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: cyclopaedic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Belonging to the circle of the sciences, or to a cyclopedia
pos: adj
gloss: wide-ranging
pos: adj
examples: a man of cyclopedic knowledge
Derived words: cyclopedically
Translations:
flea-louse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: flea-lice
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various jumping plant lice of the family Psyllidae.
pos: noun
Translations:
thrum-eyed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having the anthers raised above the stigma, and visible at the throat of the corolla, as in long-stamened primroses.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: thrum-eyed flower
Translations:
foldback
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: biology
entertainment
genetics
human-sciences
lifestyle
medicine
music
natural-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
Etymology: From fold + back.
Compound parts: fold
back
Inflected forms:
form: foldbacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An overturned flap.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A current-limiting feature in power supplies and amplifiers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The use of rear-facing heavy-duty loudspeakers on stage during live music performances, to improve sound for the audience or to allow performers to hear and monitor themselves.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A denatured (single-strand) DNA molecule that has formed base pair bonds with itself.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A chromosome that contains sequences which support foldback; A DNA molecule with a base sequence or sequences that are repeated in reverse order.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A portion of a storyline that branches based on user choices but where all branches eventually reconverge to a single inevitable event.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A multimethod research approach that includes open-ended interviewing, nominal group dialogue, survey and attitude scaling techniques, and multidimensional and cluster analyses.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: foldback clip
Translations:
Tartarian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Tartar + -ian.
Base: Tartar
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: more Tartarian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Tartarian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Tartary or the Tartars; Tartaric.
pos: adj
examples: Then hauing paſt Armenian deſerts now,
And pitcht our tents vnder the Georgean hills,
Whoſe tops are couered with Tartarian theeues,
That lie in ambuſh, waiting for a pray:
What ſhould we doe but bid them battel ſtraight,
And rid the world of thoſe deteſted troopes?
Translations:
coal-meter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English colmetere, equivalent to coal + meter (“one who measures”).
Compound parts: coal
meter
Inflected forms:
form: coal-meters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: coalmeter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: coal meter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A licensed or official measurer of coal; (especially in London) One responsible for supervising the loading, unloading, and weighing of coal to ensure accurate quantity and payment.
pos: noun
tags: UK
historical
Translations:
omnishambles
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: From omni- + shambles. Introduced by the television show The Thick of It in 2009.
Base: shambles
Affixes: omni-
Inflected forms:
form: omnishambles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A situation that is bad or mismanaged in every way.
pos: noun
tags: UK
informal
examples: Near-synonyms: clusterfuck, debacle, fiasco, hot mess, perfect storm, shit show, shitstorm
Between the car accident, the food poisoning and the lost keys, the holiday was an omnishambles.
Rail unions also rounded on ministers to intervene in the energy "omnishambles", with ASLEF General Secretary Mick Whelan calling on the Government to "do the right thing for people, the right thing for business, and the right thing for our rail network. Because it is also the right thing for our planet."
Translations:
action-packed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From action + packed.
Compound parts: action
packed
Inflected forms:
form: more action-packed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most action-packed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Full of action; dramatic and exciting.
pos: adj
Translations:
wild-ass
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more wild-ass
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most wild-ass
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Crazy; lacking caution or certainty.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: That's nothing but a wild-ass rumor.
Translations:
Nicene
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Latin Nīcaenus
Inflected forms:
form: Nicaene
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Nicæne
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Nicenes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Nicaene
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Nicæne
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Nicaea.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or pertaining to the First Council of Nicaea convened by the Roman Emperor Constantine I, or to the churches that profess the Nicene Creed, the formulation of which began at this council.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A supporter of the Nicene Creed.
pos: noun
Translations:
piquette
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French piquette.
Inflected forms:
form: piquettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A drink of marc and water.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: At dinner Pierre takes a glass of piquette, saying that they had too much wine the day before (the fête day). I look at Charles, and he has piquette too.
She gave him a glass of piquette and a hunch of bread.
The latter is usually utilized in the South of France for the production of piquettes, or the manufacture of spirit; the alcohol may be obtained by direct distillation or by the distillation of the piquettes. […] Through the same procedure the third vessel charged with the liquid from the second will yield a piquette containing 8·75 per cent. of alcohol, and the fourth vessel charged with the liquid from the third will yield a piquette containing 9·5 per cent.
With bread for his soup, a bottle of piquette on the table, onions and potatoes, he can carry on.
The men were given a daily ration of a small bottle of piquette or watered down wine with their lunch and evening meal.
Translations:
Norsk
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Norwegian Bokmål norsk. Doublet of Norse.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Scandinavian, especially Norwegian.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The station buildings include a customs room, a waiting room decorated in Norsk style, and a small hotel.
Translations:
sea-bow
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sea-bows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sea bow
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A rainbow seen in the spray of the ocean.
pos: noun
Translations:
trou-de-loup
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: French, literally "wolf-hole".
Inflected forms:
form: trous-de-loup
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pit in the form of an inverted cone or pyramid, constructed as an obstacle to the approach of an enemy, and having a pointed stake in the middle.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
Brahmo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Brahmos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Brahmoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An adherent of the Brahmoism religion.
pos: noun
Translations:
tous-les-mois
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French tous les mois (“all the months, i.e. every month”), since the tubers of the plant are edible throughout the year.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A kind of starch with large, oval, flattened grains, often sold as arrowroot or used for adulterating cocoa, made from the rootstocks of a species of Canna, probably Canna edulis.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
examples: The East India arrowroot was considered the best; and the French West India arrowroot not so good. The East India arrowroot had the finest grains; the second finest were those from the potato; and third the tous les mois or French West India arrowroot; […]
Translations:
dabigatran
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: From dabi- (of unknown origin) + -gatran (“thrombin inhibitor”).
Affixes: dabi-
-gatran
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A direct thrombin inhibitor used as an oral anticoagulant for atrial fibrillation and other clinical conditions.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
spur-royal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: spur-royals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spur-rial
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: spur-ryal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A former English gold coin, first made in the reign of Edward IV, when it was worth ten shillings, and worth fifteen shillings during Mary I and Elizabeth I's reign. It had a star on the reverse.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
chaud-medley
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French chaude mêlée (“hot affray”).
Inflected forms:
form: chaud-mellé
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of chance-medley.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
hard-boil
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from hard-boiled.
Inflected forms:
form: hard-boils
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hard-boiling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hard-boiled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hard-boiled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hard boil
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: hardboil
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To cook (an egg) to a solid consistency: to cause to be hard-boiled.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
Abuna
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ge'ez አቡነ (ʾäbunä, “our father”), from Arabic أَبُونَا (ʔabūnā, “our father”), from أَبُو (ʔabū), a form of أَب (ʔab, “father”), and ـنَا (-nā, “our”).
Inflected forms:
form: Abunas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The title of the leader, or patriarch, of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
pos: noun
examples: Two weeks later, before Abunas Pēṭros and Mātēwos, Menilek publicly swore not to deceive Mangashā nor cause him any harm.
Thus, four Ethiopian monks were consecrated in Cairo in June 1929 (Abunas Abreham, Petros, Mikael, Yeshaq), and the fifth (Abuna Sawiros) was consecrated in Addis Ababa in January 1930.
Translations:
church-ale
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English cherche ale.
Inflected forms:
form: church-ales
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: churchale
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: church ale
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A church or parish festival (as in commemoration of the dedication of a church), at which much ale was drunk.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: If many be at an Alehouse , a Christmaſſe dinner, or Churchale, and ( without any intention of an Affray) they ſodainly fall together by the eares[…]
gloss: The strong ale brewed for this purpose.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
five-twenties
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Five-twenty bonds of the United States (bearing six per cent interest), issued in 1862, '64, and '65, redeemable after five and payable in twenty years.
pos: noun
tags: US
historical
plural
plural-only
Translations:
salt-green
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Sea green.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Even till the eastern gate, all fiery-red, / Opening on Neptune with fair blessed beams, / Turns into yellow gold his salt-green streams.
Translations:
stick-tight
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: stick-tights
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: beggar's ticks
pos: noun
Translations:
rudie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From rudeboy + -ie.
Base: rudeboy
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: rudies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A juvenile delinquent.
pos: noun
tags: Jamaica
slang
examples: He thinking surely a boy wearing glasses can't be a rudie.
Translations:
non-iron
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From non- + iron.
Base: iron
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That does not need ironing.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: non-iron shirt
Translations:
proto-industry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From proto- + industry.
Base: industry
Affixes: proto-
Inflected forms:
form: proto-industries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Domestic manufacturing or commercial activity seen as being a precursor to industrialization.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: cottage industry
It is now generally recognised that the rise of cottage industry, or proto-industry as it is now more fashionably called, played an important role in the transformation of the West European economy during the modern era.
Proto-industry allowed women family members (and sometimes children too) to engage in spinning, weaving and other menial industrial tasks within their homes, and thereby to supplement the income their husbands and fathers derived from agricultural work.
Translations:
trimix
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
Etymology: From tri- + mix.
Base: mix
Affixes: tri-
Inflected forms:
form: trimixes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mixture of helium, nitrogen, and oxygen used in deep diving as a breathing gas instead of air.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
sarcoptic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From translingual Sarcoptes + -ic.
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to, or caused by mites of the genus Sarcoptes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
nyan
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Japanese onomatopoeia にゃん (nyan).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The cry of a cat; meow, miaow.
pos: intj
Translations:
thermae
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin thermae, plural of therma. See thermal.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Roman-style spring or baths with warm or hot water.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: The Greeks and Romans constructed in their homes special sun parlors (called helioses or thermae).
Translations:
ipi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The long-tailed pangolin (Manis tetradactyla)
pos: noun
tags: no-plural
Translations:
storify
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: agriculture
beekeeping
business
lifestyle
Etymology: From story + -fy.
Base: story
Affixes: -fy
Inflected forms:
form: storifies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: storifying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: storified
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: storified
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To form or tell stories of; to narrate or describe in a story.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: There are narratives that use nova to storify the transfiguration itself; they render the alteration (as mistake, or correction, or both), within the narrative, via actual time-travel, presenting us with the jump back to change the course of history […]
gloss: To store (additional honey) in additional tiers or stories of a hive.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The advocates for the storifying system boast, that it is highly favourable to the formation of artificial swarms; it should, however, be previously demonstrated, that any actual advantage is to be derived from an artificial swarm.
Translations:
karam
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The tree Adina cordifolia.
pos: noun
examples: So Prince Earth-worm secured Prince Tortoies with chains and raised the earth on his back, and in a short time there was an island in the midst of the waters. Thakur Jiu then caused a karam tree to spring up, and at the foot of the karam tree he caused sirom grass to grow. He then caused dhobi grass to spring up, after which he covered the earth with all kinds of trees and herbs. In this manner the earth became firm and stable.
The bride is given a comb made locally of karam wood, bracelets, chawar, which is a braid of false hair, and a blouse
Translations:
mezzo-rilievo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
Etymology: Italian mezzorilievo
Inflected forms:
form: mezzo-rilievos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: half-relief; a middle degree of relief in figures, between high and low relief
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: a sculpture in this kind of relief
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: alto-rilievo
Translations:
storge
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek στοργή (storgḗ, “affection, love (especially of parents and children)”), from στέργω (stérgō, “to love (chiefly of non-sexual affection); to show affection”) (from Proto-Indo-European *sterg- (“to cover; to protect”)) + -η (-ē, suffix forming action nouns).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Natural affection or love, especially of parents for their children.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: [The virgins] haue choſen to expreſſe their ſeuerall qualities, thus in ſeuerall colours. The firſt, in citron colour, is natural affection, vvhich giuen vs to procure our good, is ſomtime called Storge, and as euery one is neereſt to himſelfe, ſo this hand-maid of reaſon, allovvable ſelfe-loue, as it is vvithout harme, ſo are none vvithout it: […]
VVherefore as this Love has reference to Propagation; ſo Storge, or Natural Tenderneſs, referreth chiefly to Children that are begot. And if more of the Storge appear in Parents, than vvhat is reciprocal; it ſhevvs, this Paſſion is implanted by Nature, as others, to a greater Degree, or a leſs, ſuitable to the Uſe or VVant there may be thereof.
As ſoon as the ſeeds are formed, it [the American cowslip (Primula sect. Dodecatheon)] erects all the flovver-ſtalks to prevent them from falling out; and thus loſes the beauty of its figure. Is this a mechanical effect, or does it indicate a vegetable ſtorgé to preſerve its offspring?
I saw a Jewish lady, only yesterday, with a child at her knee, and from whose face towards the child there shone a sweetness so angelical, that it seemed to form a sort of glory round both. I protest I could have knelt before her too, and adored in her the Divine beneficence in endowing us with the maternal storgē, which began with our race and sanctifies the history of mankind.
The Greeks called this love storge (two syllables and the g is "hard"). I shall here call it simply Affection. My Greek Lexicon defines storge as "affection, especially of parents to offspring"; but also of offspring to parents. The image we must start with is that of a mother nursing a baby, a bitch or a cat with a basketful of puppies or kittens; all in a squeaking, nuzzling heap together; purrings, lickings, baby-talk, milk, warmth, the smell of young life.
[John Alan] Lee (1973), on the basis of interviews with adults about their love relationships, postulated three primary love styles—Eros, Ludus, and Storge. These could be combined to form three further styles, Mania (eros and ludus), Pragma (ludus and storge), and Agape (storge and eros). […] [T]hose "in love now" endorsed eros, storge, mania, and agape more strongly, and ludus less strongly, than those not in love.
Unlike the eros and ludus love styles, storge lovers emphasize companionship and compatibility over physical attraction. Also known as the friendship style of love, storge lovers are typically characterized as being honest and loyal with a desire to develop a relationship rather than spontaneously fall into one[…].
Translations:
be-all
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: be-alls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The whole; all that is to be.
pos: noun
tags: poetic
examples: That but this blow / Might be the be-all and the end-all!
Bowen also spoke of […] teaching her daughter to rely not just on a mother, but on a community. "No one person should try to be the be-all to another person. We must surround our children with people they can count on."
[…] to be happy with their lot in life, content with things as they are, things that may once have been be-alls and absolute end-alls but that lost their intoxication after five years, put them on automatic pilot after ten and became a prison after fifteen.
Translations:
radionavigation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From radio- + navigation.
Base: navigation
Affixes: radio-
Inflected forms:
form: radio navigation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Radio navigation; navigation using radio signals to provide positional information.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: In Region 2, the use of the band 435-495 kHz by the aeronautical radionavigation service is limited to non-directional beacons not employing voice transmission.
Translations:
rascasse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French rascasse.
Inflected forms:
form: rascasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Scorpaena scrofa, the red scorpionfish.
pos: noun
Translations:
after-sail
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From after + sail.
Compound parts: after
sail
Inflected forms:
form: after-sails
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: after sail
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: aftersail
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One of the sails towards the aft, i.e. on the mizzenmast, or on the stays between the mainmast and mizzenmast.
pos: noun
examples: On this final leg home, these experiments were taken a step further by putting an extra-large sail on the after mast, increasing sail area and changing the balance of the rig in that the after sail was then larger than the forward sail.
Translations:
cauter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French cautère, Latin cauterium, from Ancient Greek καυτήρ (kautḗr), variant of καυστήρ (kaustḗr, “cauterizing apparatus”), from καίω (kaíō, “burn”)). Compare caustic, cautery.
Inflected forms:
form: cauters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hot iron for searing or cauterizing.
pos: noun
examples: The punctuall, or pointed cauter; is almost square, and altogether Sharpe pointed
Translations: