yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
flapjack
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From flap (“to toss sharply”) + jack (“generic object”). So called from the process of baking it by flipping and catching it in the griddle when done on one side.
Base: flap
Inflected forms:
form: flapjacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pancake.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Sven ordered a stack of flapjacks with maple syrup, two strips of bacon, and an egg, sunny side up.
There is CCTV in the coach, so anyone planning to pilfer a flapjack may well be seen!
gloss: A bar made with rolled oats, butter, golden syrup, and brown sugar, baked in a tray.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: fudgy flapjacky fudge […] I always buy one of those flapjacks with a layer of yoghurt on top. But even with the topping, they are just never sweet enough for me. I also love fudge but that can be toe-curlingly sweet. So, in my search for a middle ground, I decided to combine the two.
Derived words: flapcake
flapjacky
Translations:
flyspeck
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From fly + speck.
Compound parts: fly
speck
Inflected forms:
form: flyspecks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flyspeck
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flyspecks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flyspecking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: flyspecked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: flyspecked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Housefly excrement, visible as a minuscule black dot.
pos: noun
examples: The wall of the kitchen above the fruitbowl was dotted with flyspeck.
gloss: Anything tiny or insignificant.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: From the foothills below, Jean, Jan, and James were mere flyspecks, easily lost among the straggly pines that formed the treeline.
We passed through some flyspeck town, barely more than a gas station and a stoplight, but I never saw the name.
gloss: To bespeckle with tiny spatters of color.
pos: verb
examples: To flyspeck, you need an old toothbrush, the paint color of your choice, glazing medium, a palette knife, and a mixing surface such as a palette or plastic container.
gloss: To inspect in minute detail to ensure that something contains no flaws; nitpick.
pos: verb
examples: Your criticism will seem like flyspecking. They'll be mad at you for pointing out that there's more crime than they like to think, and especially mad that you're saying their own group—privileged middle-aged white males—are just as bad as young African-American inner-city toughs, walking the streets in packs of four and looking mean.
Related words: flyblow
Derived words: sooty blotch and flyspeck
Translations:
frosting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *prews-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *prustós
Proto-Germanic *frustaz
Proto-West Germanic *frost
Old English frost
Middle English frost
English frost
English -ing
English frosting
From frost + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: frostings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Icing, a sweet, often creamy and thick, covering for cakes and other baked goods.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: “[…] Cities aren’t like frosted cake — and, anyhow, even the cake didn’t keep very well. I tried it, and it dried up, ’specially the frosting. I reckon the time to take frosting and good times is while they are going; so I want to see all I can now while I’m here.”
gloss: A layer of frost.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The theft of a car while it is left unattended, especially when its engine is left running in the winter to defrost the car.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: flood frosting
frostinged
frostinglike
frosting on the cake
frosting spatula
Translations:
nacho
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from nachos.
Inflected forms:
form: nachos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A single tortilla chip from a dish of nachos.
pos: noun
Translations:
duckweed
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From duck + weed. Supposedly so-named for often being consumed by ducks and other waterfowl. Compare Middle English dokemete (“duckweed”, literally “duck-food”).
Compound parts: duck
weed
Inflected forms:
form: duckweeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: duckweed
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several reduced floating aquatic plants in the subfamily Lemnoideae of the family Araceae.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He that vvould diſcern the rudimentall ſtroak of a plant, may behold it in the Originall of Duckvveed, at the bigneſſe of a pins point, from convenient vvater in glaſſes, vvherein a vvatchfull eye may alſo diſcover the puncticular Originals of Perivvincles and Gnats.
But his face was a face of such happiness that, had you seen it, you would have understood indeed how that he had died happy, never knowing that cool and streaming silver for the duckweed in the pond.
Translations:
Bashkir
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Russian башки́р (baškír).
Inflected forms:
form: Bashkirs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a certain Turkic ethnic group that lives mostly in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A Bashkir person; a member of the Bashkir ethnic group.
pos: noun
Translations:
overlapping
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more overlapping
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most overlapping
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: overlappings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That overlaps something else
pos: adj
examples: A long-skirted, cabalistically-cut coat of a faded walnut tinge enveloped him; the overlapping sleeves of which were rolled up on his wrists.
gloss: The situation in which things overlap.
pos: noun
examples: This overlapping is reflective of hybrid languages, where certain features (phonetic, orthographic, semantic, syntactic) are also difficult to disentangle.
Translations:
vair
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: From Middle English veir, veire, from Old French vair, veir, from the accusative singular masculine form of Latin varius (“variegated”).
Not related to Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“squirrel”).
Inflected forms:
form: vairs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of fur from a squirrel with a grey back and white belly, much used on garments in the Middle Ages.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Bran wore grey breeches and white doublet, his sleeves and collar trimmed with vair.
gloss: An heraldic fur formed by a regular tessellation of bell shapes in two colours, (for example in the image, blue and white).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: countervair
vairy
varriated
ermine
fur
potent
Translations:
weights
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Any collection of weighted objects, such as dumbbells or barbells, used for exercise and training the muscles.
pos: noun
Synonyms: iron
steel
Translations:
ultramodern
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ultra- + modern.
Base: modern
Affixes: ultra-
Inflected forms:
form: more ultramodern
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ultramodern
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Extremely modern.
pos: adj
Translations:
unassailable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English assailable
English unassailable
From un- + assailable.
Inflected forms:
form: more unassailable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unassailable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unassailables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Secure against attack; impregnable.
pos: adj
examples: Yet in the number, I do know but One
 That vnaſſayleable holds on his Ranke,
 Vnfhak’d of Motion : and that I am he,
 Let me a little ſhew it, euen in this :
 That I was conſtant Cymber ſhould be baniſh’d,
 And conſtant do remaine to keepe him ſo.
His recourse to written documents to make his discourse unassailable has created a virtually unalterable situation even as he is on the verge of being forced to “see through” Tartuffe.
None of the processes, however, is either uniform or unassailable. The contradictions and distortions within any hegemonic discourse, as well as the discrepancies between it and the popular understandings of common sense, leave it ever vulnerable to penetration, criticism, and refusal.
gloss: Undeniable, incontestable or incontrovertible.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: She won the debate with her unassailable logic.
So the French National Railways have secured a record which is likely, one imagines, to remain unassailable for a long time to come.
gloss: Something, such as a belief, that cannot be assailed.
pos: noun
Derived words: unassailably
unassailableness
Translations:
Trotskyite
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Trotsky
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der.
Latin -ītēsbor.
French -iteder.
English -ite
English Trotskyite
From Trotsky + -ite.
Inflected forms:
form: Trotskyites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An advocate of the communist doctrines of Leon Trotsky (born Лев Дави́дович Бронште́йн (Lev Davídovič Bronštéjn) / Lev Davidovich Bronstein).
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: A great number of disillusioned young men in the Western world are saying now that it is Stalin who is to blame and proclaiming themselves Trotskyites.
gloss: Of, relating to, supporting, or advocating the doctrines of Leon Trotsky.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
examples: […] [her] father had fought in the Lincoln Brigade but now provided janitorial supplies to factories by day and attended Trotskyite meetings by night […]
Synonyms: Trotskyist
Translations:
goalpost
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From goal + post.
Compound parts: goal
post
Inflected forms:
form: goalposts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of the two vertical side poles of a goal.
pos: noun
examples: Some kids were having a kickabout on the grass beside the walkway, cheering, groaning, calling for the ball, absorbed in the game, a self-contained universe marked out by jackets for goalposts and invisible touchlines.
gloss: The tall Y-shaped upright, now usually of fiberglass, at either end of the playing field, through which a football must go in order for a field goal to be scored. (They were originally H-shaped, with one wooden post on either side.)
pos: noun
gloss: A rule or target that is "moved" (changed) unfairly; see move the goalposts.
pos: noun
examples: […] whatever you eat, how much you drink, you know the goalposts keep moving all the time, and it's difficult to be sure that, but I don't think it's harmful, not the amount I drink.
Derived words: jumpers for goalposts
move the goalposts
Translations:
steamship
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From steam + ship.
Compound parts: steam
ship
Inflected forms:
form: steamships
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A ship or vessel propelled by steam power.
pos: noun
examples: Steamship arrivals, however, are less predictable and the best arrangements of shipping companies and the railway operating department may be upset by weather and tide.
The shipwreck is the earliest examples yet found of a propeller-driven steamship on the Great Lakes.
India’s half-hour zone dates back to colonial rule of India and the era when ever-faster steamships and trains were shrinking the world.
Translations:
steamboat
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compound of steam + boat.
Inflected forms:
form: steamboats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: steam-boat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: steam boat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: steamboats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: steamboating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: steamboated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: steamboated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: steam-boat
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: steam boat
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A boat or vessel propelled by steam power.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: By and by the steamboat intruded. Then for fifteen or twenty years, these men continued to run their keelboats down-stream, and the steamers did all of the upstream business, the keelboatmen selling their boats in New Orleans, and returning home as deck passengers in the steamers.
gloss: Hot pot (Chinese dish).
pos: noun
tags: Malaysia
Singapore
uncountable
gloss: A metal pan, sometimes divided into sections or having a central flue, for heating this kind of hot pot.
pos: noun
tags: Malaysia
Singapore
countable
gloss: To travel by steamboat.
pos: verb
Derived words: steamboater
steamboatman
steamboats
Steamboat Springs
Translations:
meteorologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English meteorology
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English meteorologist
From meteorology + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: meteorologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who studies meteorology.
pos: noun
gloss: A weather forecaster.
pos: noun
examples: For a micromoon and Friday the 13th full moon to occur together is extraordinarily rare. The last time it happened was in 1832 and it won't happen again for more than 500 years according to Tony Rice, a meteorologist and engineer at NASA.
Rees-Mogg has claimed that “climate alarmism” is responsible for high energy prices and that it is unrealistic for scientists to project future changes to the climate because meteorologists struggle to correctly predict the weather.
Derived words: astrometeorologist
biometeorologist
hydrometeorologist
micrometeorologist
Translations:
underfeeding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: underfeedings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Inadequate feeding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Since malnutrition and underfeedings occur among every group of children, the school lunch is essential in improving this state of nutrition.
Translations:
under-kimono
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí
Proto-Indo-European *-ér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér
Proto-Germanic *under
Proto-West Germanic *undar
Old English under-
Middle English under-
English under-
English kimono
English under-kimono
From under- + kimono.
Inflected forms:
form: under-kimonos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: under-kimono
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: underkimono
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A garment worn underneath a kimono.
pos: noun
examples: The same radio broadcast had also warned that red undergarments should be hidden, because the glimpse of that colour would inflame the passions of the troops to rape. And so it was that the red under-kimono were also cut up or otherwise disposed of.
Translations:
unfed
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English un-fedd, unfedd, equivalent to un- + fed.
Base: fed
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unfeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not fed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Unmentioned in the existing document, Henry would be left alone after I died: unfed, unwalked, unloved.
“Every day, the California dream is dimmed by the wrenching reality of families and children and seniors living unfed on a concrete bed.”
gloss: Unsupported.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
gloss: A mosquito that has not had a blood meal.
pos: noun
examples: The captured mosquitos were divided into feds and unfeds.
Translations:
unfiltered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English filtered
English unfiltered
From un- + filtered.
Inflected forms:
form: more unfiltered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unfiltered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without a filter (e.g., a cigarette).
pos: adj
examples: He's got chainsaws and bombs and an axe / And some unfiltered cigarettes too / He will unleash mass destruction, you're dead / You just got trashed... it's the ¶ Attack of the Wrath of the / War of the Death of the / Strike of the Sword of the / Blood... of the Beast
gloss: Having not been filtered (e.g., coffee grounds).
pos: adj
gloss: unrestrained, unrestricted, frank
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: She is a classic omnivert who loves playing around with a bunch of unfiltered thoughts and biochemical things. She is a firm believer of 'everyone & everything around has a story to tell' and is on the journey to decipher all those tales.
Antonyms: filtered
Translations:
unladen
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + laden, from lade (“to load or burden”).
Base: laden
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not carrying anything; unburdened.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Translations:
unsubtle
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English subtle
English unsubtle
From un- + subtle.
Inflected forms:
form: unsubtler
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: unsubtlest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not subtle; obvious.
pos: adj
examples: The minute I got there I realized that I didn't need the loo at all, and so the person in the stall next to me was going to think I was either quite mad, an unsubtle drug fiend or some kind of Rebecca Loos-type pervy textaholic.
Translations:
unthinking
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English thinking
English unthinking
From un- + thinking.
Inflected forms:
form: more unthinking
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unthinking
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without proper thought; thoughtless.
pos: adj
gloss: Showing no regard; careless or unconcerned.
pos: adj
Translations:
upthrust
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English up-
English thrust
English upthrust
From up- + thrust.
Inflected forms:
form: upthrusts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: upthrusts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: upthrusting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: upthrusted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: upthrusted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An upward thrust.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Buoyancy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An upward movement of part of the Earth's crust.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To thrust something upwards.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To be thrust upwards.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
vacantly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English vacant
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English vacantly
From vacant + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more vacantly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most vacantly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a vacant manner; inanely or foolishly.
pos: adv
examples: Mao gave no indication that he had heard or understood Jakob; his clouded eyes were fixed vacantly on one of the long windows of the old Ming dwelling beyond which the waters of Chung Nan Hai — the Central and South lakes — sparkled in the afternoon sunshine.
Translations:
voiceprint
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ-der.
Proto-Indo-European *wṓkʷs
Proto-Italic *wōks
Latin vōcem
Anglo-Norman voizbor.
Middle English voys
English voice
English print
English voiceprint
From voice + print, analogous to fingerprint.
Inflected forms:
form: voiceprints
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A digitally recorded sample of a person's voice to be used as a means of identification.
pos: noun
Translations:
wheeler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English whelere, equivalent to wheel + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (measurement suffix) (sense 4). Piecewise doublet of cycler.
Base: wheel
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: wheelers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wheelwright, a wheelmaker.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: Someone who operates a wheel.
pos: noun
gloss: A wheelhorse (horse near wheel of carriage).
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: How proud felt Pierre: In fancy’s eye, he saw the horse-ghosts a-tandem in the van; “These are but wheelers”—cried young Pierre—“the leaders are the generations.”
gloss: A vehicle having the specified number or type of wheels.
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
examples: "Excellent," said Sherlock Holmes. "Send the boy for a four-wheeler, and we shall be off at once."
gloss: A sett in a stoneway.
pos: noun
tags: UK
historical
examples: These wheelers are now made from the same class of rock as the rest of the pavement, […]
Related words: eighteen-wheeler
four-wheeler
4-wheeler
high-wheeler
one-wheeler
paddlewheeler
sidewheeler
single-wheeler
six-wheeler
sternwheeler
ten-wheeler
three-wheeler
two-wheeler
wheeler-dealer
wheeler-dealing
Translations:
wagonload
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: railways
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wagon
English load
English wagonload
From wagon + load.
Inflected forms:
form: wagonloads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wagon load
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: wagon-load
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: waggonload
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The amount that can be loaded onto a wagon.
pos: noun
examples: Then they piled up the forests they had cut down into a vast pyre in circuit equal to a city, and having let a lake into the caldron that was to seethe it, and carried for eight months in succession a hundred daily wagons[-]load of salt to season the pot, they kindled the crackling mass, and as it flamed up five galleys, every one of which carried its five banks of rowers complete, cruised round the margin of the caldron sea, and as it bubbled up from below, issued prompt directions to the crowd not to overboil the contents.
The countryside through which the line passes grows some beet, too. Ten wagonloads a day are despatched from Fethard and smaller quantities from Farranaleen, Laffan's Bridge and Horse & Jockey.
gloss: The load of a wagon.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of freight train service in which individual wagons have separate destinations and/or cargos.
pos: noun
examples: This firm regularly consigns margarine in palletised wagon-loads to a wide variety of destinations.
Tinsley Yard in Sheffield was once one of the largest and most advanced 'hump' marshalling yards in the world. But a decline in wagonload freight led to its swift demise and much of the site has lain derelict since the 1980s. MICHAEL RHODES examines this rise and fall in Tinsley's fortunes, and the new lease of life it has been offered by rising container traffic
gloss: A very large amount.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
wattled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a wattle.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Az., on a fesse, embattled, counterembattled, arg., between three cocks' heads, erased, of the last, beaked, combed, and wattled, gu., two roses, also gu.
Translations:
waza-ari
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
hobbies
judo
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: From Japanese 技有り (waza-ari).
Inflected forms:
form: waza-ari
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a throw in which the opponent is thrown with control and accuracy, but not to the extent of an ippon, or held on the back for between 20 and 25 seconds on the mat; the score of half a point awarded for this throw
pos: noun
Translations:
well-rounded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more well-rounded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most well-rounded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: well rounded
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of a person's development or education, having a balanced variety of attributes.
pos: adj
examples: “It’s a problem if anyone isn’t taking advantage of an incredible artistic medium,” he said. “It’s hurtful not to be well-rounded.”
gloss: Of a person's body shape, being plump, shapely or curvaceous.
pos: adj
examples: In this meditative walk his foot met the floor with heel and toe simultaneously, and his fine, reddish-fleshed face was bent downwards just enough to render obscure the still mouth and the well-rounded though rather prominent and broad chin.
gloss: Of language, using words which have been carefully chosen.
pos: adj
examples: Afterward, in his small room, Nikky composed a neat, well-rounded speech, in which he expressed his loyalty, gratitude, and undying devotion to the Crown Prince. It was an elegant little speech. Unluckily, the occasion for it had gone by two hours.
Translations:
whipsaw
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
finance
government
politics
Etymology: From whip + saw.
Compound parts: whip
saw
Inflected forms:
form: whipsaws
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: whipsaws
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: whipsawing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: whipsawed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: whipsawn
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: A rip saw often operated by two people.
pos: noun
gloss: To operate a whipsaw.
pos: verb
gloss: To cause (a trader) to lose potential profit by buying shares just before the price falls, or by selling them just before the price rises.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To defeat someone in two different ways at once.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Whipsawed by events and facing another midterm electoral defeat, President Obama has directed his team to forge a policy agenda to regain momentum for his final two years in office even as some advisers urge that he rethink the way he governs.
gloss: Of a trade union: to coerce employers into capitulating by bringing them the news that other (more easily convinced) employers have already done so.
pos: verb
gloss: To accept bribes from multiple parties at once, with the intent of letting down one or more of them.
pos: verb
tags: US
gloss: Having the characteristic of arguing two sides at once.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: During the Porter crisis, Kelly found himself under intense scrutiny for the veracity of his whipsaw statements. He publicly praised Porter and privately urged him to stay.
Translations:
whistle-blowing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: whistle-blowings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of a whistleblower.
pos: noun
Translations:
whorled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English whorl
English -ed
English whorled
From whorl + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more whorled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most whorled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Formed from whorls; having whorls.
pos: adj
examples: [A]cross the gannet’s bath,
over the broad sea, whorled prows will bring
presents and tokens.
Translations:
kaka
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Māori kākābor.
English kaka
Borrowed from Māori kākā.
Inflected forms:
form: kakas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kākā
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of four taxa of birds in the genus Nestor in the parrot family confined to New Zealand and adjacent islands.
pos: noun
Translations:
Socratic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin Sōcratic(us), from Ancient Greek Σωκρατικός (Sōkratikós, “of Socrates”), from Σωκράτης (Sōkrátēs, “Socrates”). By surface analysis, Socrat(es) + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: Socratics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the philosopher Socrates or his philosophy or methods.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: His closest companions were handsome young boys who worshipped him and his game, whom Bill sought to remake in his own image. He had no family, no real heirs, and so his boys were his spiritual sons as well as his heirs in tennis. They were his lovers as well. Theirs was a relationship of a Socratic sort, a pedagogical eroticism between an adolescent protege which ingaged them in a mutual project of spiritual and physical development.
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the philosopher Socrates or his philosophy or methods.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
specifically
examples: a Socratic question
gloss: A proponent of the philosophy or methods of Socrates.
pos: noun
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: socràtic
lang: Czech
word: sokratovský
lang: Danish
word: sokratisk
lang: French
word: socratique
lang: Georgian
word: სოკრატული
roman: soḳraṭuli
lang: German
word: sokratisch
lang: Ancient Greek
word: Σωκρατικός
roman: Sōkratikós
lang: Italian
word: socratico
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: sokratisk
lang: Polish
word: sokratejski
lang: Polish
word: sokratyczny
lang: Portuguese
word: socrático
lang: Russian
word: сократи́ческий
roman: sokratíčeskij
lang: Spanish
word: socrático
lang: Swedish
word: sokratisk
Presocratic
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
English Socratic
English Presocratic
From pre- + Socratic.
Inflected forms:
form: Presocratics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Pre-Socratic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pre-Socratic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Pre-Socratic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: pre-Socratic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any Ancient Greek philosopher who preceded or was roughly contemporaneous with Socrates and whose methods and views were influenced neither directly nor indirectly by Socrates or his primary student, Plato.
pos: noun
examples: The Great Mother is no simple notion from primitive religion, but an idea in a complex mythology that became demythologized and secularized by the Presocratics, but not changed.
gloss: of, or characteristic of, such a philosopher (or these philosophers) as a whole.
pos: adj
Translations:
four-wheeler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: four-wheelers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: 4-wheeler
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A horse-drawn hackney cab with four wheels, as opposed to a hansom or dogcart .
pos: noun
examples: The local doctor was often seen passing by in a four-wheeler on his way to a house call.
At length we saw a four-wheeler drive up. Out of it, in leisurely fashion, got Lord Godalming and Morris. And down from the box descended a thick-set working man with his rush-woven basket of tools. Morris paid the cabman, who touched his hat and drove away.
In front a continuous stream of hansoms and four-wheelers were rattling up, discharging their cargoes of shirt-fronted men and be-shawled, be-diamonded women.
"Excellent," said Sherlock Holmes. "Send the boy for a four-wheeler, and we shall be off at once."
gloss: A small off-road four-wheeled powered vehicle, usually used for recreation or farm work.
pos: noun
examples: The ranchhands use four-wheelers to move about the ranch, ferrying supplies and patrolling distant fields and pastures.
Reid pressured the teen to ride with him on the four-wheeler, but the teen said no "several times" because he saw Reid drinking liquor beforehand, and the ATV had bad brakes, documents state.
gloss: Any vehicle with four wheels.
pos: noun
examples: Many of the earliest locomotives in the 1830s were four-wheelers; larger models with more axles would come later.
The cars, of which there were five, were four-wheelers seating 32, and had wrought-iron railings round the end platforms.
Translations:
windflower
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wind
English flower
English windflower
From wind + flower.
Inflected forms:
form: windflowers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa).
pos: noun
examples: Herba venti, Anemone. Wind flower, the juyce snuffed up the nose purgeth the head, it cleanseth filthy ulcers, encreaseth milk in nurses, and outwardly by ointment helps Leprosyes.
“When windflowers blossom on the sea
And fishes skim along the plain,
Then we who part this weary day,
Then you and I shall meet again.”
The first windflowers were out, and all the wood seemed pale with the pallor of endless little anemones, sprinkling the shaken floor.
“[…] We spent an hour in a hazel copse, picking primroses and looking at the little white windflowers. One doesn’t pick the windflowers,” he explained, “because in an hour they’re withered. […]”
Here is spring were celandine, marsh marigold, wind-flower, primrose, cowslip and dog's violet.
Translations:
wonted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English woonted (“usual, customary”), from wont (“custom, habit, practice”), alteration of wone (“custom, habit, practice”), from Old English wuna (“custom, habit, practice; usual, wonted”), from Proto-Germanic *wunô (“custom, practice”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to wish, love”). Cognate with Old Frisian wona, wuna (“custom”), Old High German giwona (“custom”). More at wont, wone.
Inflected forms:
form: more wonted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most wonted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Usual, customary, habitual, or accustomed.
pos: adj
examples: They were faire Ladies, till they fondly ſtriu’d / With th’Heliconian maides for mayſtery; / Of whom they ouer-comen, were depriu’d / Of their proud beautie, and th’one moyity / Transform’d to fiſh, for their bold ſurquedry, / But th’vpper halfe their hew retayned ſtill, / And their ſweet skill in wonted melody; / Which euer after they abuſd to ill, / T’allure weake traueillers, whom gotten they did kill.
Rose Villa has once again resumed its wonted appearance; the dining-room furniture has been replaced; the tables are as nicely polished as formerly; the horsehair chairs are ranged against the wall, as regularly as ever [...]
But the oath is alterable; and in the wonted fluctuations of parties not improbably it will undergo alteration, assuming such a form, perhaps, as not to bar the admission into the National Legislature of men who represent the populations lately in revolt.
I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.
Superficially, the affairs of 'Every Other Week' settled into their wonted form again, and for Fulkerson they seemed thoroughly reinstated.
2008 (tr.?), Lodovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso
But not with wonted welcome;—inly moved …
Translations:
subproject
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *pér
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *pró
Proto-Indo-European *pro-
Proto-Italic *pro-
Latin prō-
Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *(H)ih₁kyeti
Proto-Italic *jīkjō
Proto-Italic *jakjōder.
Latin iaciō
Latin prōiciō
Latin prōiectusbor.
English project
English subproject
From sub- + project.
Inflected forms:
form: subprojects
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A project within a larger project.
pos: noun
examples: Holonym: project
Translations:
footsore
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From foot + sore.
Compound parts: foot
sore
Inflected forms:
form: more footsore
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most footsore
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having sore feet, but perhaps also a certain sense of satisfaction, after walking or hiking too much.
pos: adj
examples: One yoke of cattle became so foot sore that they were unserviceable, and we were obliged to drive them behind the wagon.
A quarrelsome band of footsore sulky niggers trod on the heels of the donkey.
Translations:
apparate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fantasy
Etymology: From Late Latin apparēre (“to appear”), as of a servant who appears on being summoned. A back-formation from apparition.
Inflected forms:
form: apparates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: apparating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: apparated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: apparated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To appear magically; to teleport to or from a place.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: "Reivers!" he bellowed. His valet appeared — or really, it seemed rather more like he apparated — in the doorway.
What had silenced her, however, was the enormous demonic object that had apparated in the air beyond the tunnel's exit.
if it is an emergency, I will be able to apparate directly to wherever you are and help you.
Translations:
gazer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gaze
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English gazer
From gaze + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: gazers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who gazes.
pos: noun
examples: I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; / I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk;
Like lightening flash, that hath the gazer burned, / So did the sight thereof their sense dismay, / That backe againe upon themselves they turned, / And with their ryder ranne perforce away:
Knots of gazers and gossips were collected in the churchyard, at the bridge, and at the spot where the hat and pumpkin had been found.
I would observe, by the way, that it costs me nothing for curtains, for I have no gazers to shut out but the sun and moon, and I am willing that they should look in.
A few years before I had been one of the gazers at the Zoolus, and the Aztecs in London. Now the tables were turned upon me, for I was to these people a new and strange variety of man, and had the honour of affording to them, in my own person, an attractive exhibition, gratis.
Keen lemon-yellow hurts the eye in time as a prolonged and shrill trumpet-note the ear, and the gazer turns away to seek relief in blue or green.
Translations:
winepress
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English wyne-presse, equivalent to wine + press.
Compound parts: wine
press
Inflected forms:
form: winepresses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wine-press
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A press used to extract juice from grapes as the first step of winemaking.
pos: noun
examples: Which make oyle within their walles, and tread their winepreſſes, and ſuffer thirſt.
And the Angel thruſt in his ſickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, & cast it into the great winepreſſe of the wrath of God.
Translations:
boatload
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From boat + load. The figurative sense is extended from the literal sense.
Base: boat
Inflected forms:
form: boatloads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Cargo or passengers that fill a boat.
pos: noun
examples: a boatload of ferry passengers
Just then two boats[-]load of natives appeared, and our owner having agreed with them to tow us into harbour, they tried to do so, assisted by our own boat, but could make no way. […] Those who live on the coast have plenty of fish; but when inland, as we are here, they only go to the sea occasionally, and then bring home cockles and other shell-fish by the boatload.
gloss: A large quantity.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: He showed up an hour later with a whole boatload of hamburgers, chips, cookies, and assorted other munchies, not to mention sodas and beer, and we all fell in and stuffed ourselves silly.
What's a fair price to pay for video perfection, or even something that looks a lot like it? In the case of high-definition movie discs, the answer may not just be "a boatload of money," but having to keep two incompatible players under the TV set.
Translations:
deathless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: literature
media
publishing
Etymology: Etymology tree
English death
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English deathless
From death + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more deathless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most deathless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Undying or immortal.
pos: adj
examples: Athena For mighty is the potency of the revered Erinyes both with the deathless high gods and with the powers of the world below; […]
Like the deathless vampire who must repeat its stalk-and-kill cycle in order to satisfy a recurring blood hunger, the earliest film horrors cannibalized its literary ancestry again and again.
“Hey, how do I kill this guy anyway?” “Finn, you can't kill my Dad!” “Oh, I-I'm sorry. I didn't mean --” “No, you literally can't kill my Dad. He's deathless.” “Oh.”
gloss: Guaranteed not to be lost or forgotten due to its importance or conspicuous excellence.
pos: adj
tags: usually
examples: Her novels are filled with unforgettable characters and deathless prose.
"We cannot do less than call it Ixodes Maloni. The very small inconvenience of being bitten, my young friend, cannot, I am sure, weigh with you as against the glorious privilege of having your name inscribed in the deathless roll of zoology."
Finally, one voice in England proclaimed him a deathless dramatist and portrayer of character (Morgann) (<422).
Derived words: deathlessly
deathlessness
Translations:
moonbow
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From moon + bow, by analogy with rainbow.
Compound parts: moon
bow
Inflected forms:
form: moonbows
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rainbow formed by moonlight diffracted by water droplets in the air, usually fainter than a daytime rainbow and with fewer distinguishable colours.
pos: noun
examples: Often rainbows by night or moonbows span the lake.
Among the rarer optical effects associated with the moon are also moonbows or lunar rainbows.
When the sun shines over Kentucky's Cumberland Falls, the mist creates a rainbow on most days. If the moon shines brightly enough, it can create a moonbow, too!
Translations:
successively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English successive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English successively
From successive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a serial or successive manner; one following another.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: My last to you was of Oct. 8 by the Count de Moustier. Yours of July 18. Sep. 6. & Oct. 24. have been successively received, yesterday, the day before & three or four days before that.
Allan was first William Buddicom's and then Trevithick's second-in-command, at Edge Hill and at Crewe successively, for the period of 13½ years from February, 1840, to September, 1853, when he left Crewe to become Superintendent of the Scottish Central Railway.
Founded about 1000 bc by Aeolian Greeks, the city [Assos] was successively ruled by Lydians, Persians, Pergamenes, Romans, and Byzantines, until Sultan Orhan Gazi (1288–1360) took it over for the Ottomans in 1330.
Translations:
crippled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility.
pos: adj
tags: offensive
usually
examples: A crippled man, twenty years older than you, whom you will have to wait on?
So they gathered the crippled, the wounded, the maimed, and they shipped us back home to Australia. The legless, the armless, the blind, the insane, those proud wounded heroes of Suvla.
gloss: Having any difficulty or impediment which can be likened to a crippling injury.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: a crippled version of the software, lacking many features
Antonyms: noncrippled
uncrippled
Derived words: crippledness
Translations:
malignity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: fantasy
Etymology: From Middle English malignete, malignitee, malignyte, malyngnite, from Middle French maligneté, from Latin malignitās. By surface analysis, malign + -ity.
* (a group of goblins): Coined by David Malki in the 30 October 2009 Wondermark webcomic strip “Supernatural Collective Nouns”.
Inflected forms:
form: malignities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being malign or malignant; badness, evilness, monstrosity, depravity, maliciousness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He had some advantage in the difference of our weapons; for his sword, as I recollect, was longer than mine, […] His obvious malignity of purpose never for a moment threw him off his guard, and he exhausted every feint and strategem proper to the science of defence; while, at the same time, he mediated the most desperate catastrophe to our rencounter.
His enjoyment of the spectacle I furnished, as he sat with his arms folded on the table, shaking his head at me and hugging himself, had a malignity in it that made me tremble.
On the door-threshold Mina turned, and her eyes fastened on Woona in concentrated malignity.
gloss: A non-benign cancer; a malignancy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The absence of any histological sign of malignity in the primary tumor and in the metastases, as observed in our patient, is remarkable.
gloss: A group of goblins.
pos: noun
tags: collective
countable
neologism
uncountable
examples: There was a whole malignity‡ of goblins up on the roof, but if you wanted your clacks to fly fast, you didn’t use the term out loud.
A malignity of goblins chattered loudly, some of them standing on their table.
As a malignity of goblins giggled drunkenly in a corner booth, Fabian and I approached the table with Isaac and Hakim.
Translations: