yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
Johnny-come-lately
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Johnny-come-latelies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Johnnies-come-lately
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: johnny-come-lately
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
form: Jonny-come-lately
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: A newcomer; a novice; an upstart.
pos: noun
tags: also
attributive
idiomatic
examples: She might take offense if some Johnny-come-lately thinks he can do a better job.
Morris now shared financial decisions with a woman, a female Johnny-come-lately. Imagine the eventuality of Morris's share of their fortune ever falling into such Johnny-come-lately hands. God forbid!
In a field increasingly populated with Johnnies-come-lately, Gittings is a Johnny-come-early: one only has to read this book to feel the depth and span of his knowledge.
The government should give the agency its independence back so that it can get on with the task of protecting consumers in relation to food without political interference from johnny-come-lately ministers.
All these Johnny-come-latelies typically come out as irreverent, vulgar or immature and childlike.
Translations:
hillbilly
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From hill + billy (“fellow”). Compare Scots chapman billie (“travelling salesman”).
Compound parts: hill
billy
Inflected forms:
form: hillbillies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hillbillies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hillbillying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hillbillied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hillbillied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Someone who is from the hills; especially from a rural area, with a connotation of a lack of refinement or sophistication.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
often
gloss: A white person from the rural southern part of the United States, especially the Southeastern states.
pos: noun
tags: ethnic
slur
examples: Thanks to the massive migration from the poorer regions of Appalachia to places like Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Illinois, hillbilly values spread widely along with hillbilly people.
gloss: To emphasize one's rural or humble upbringing; to use unsophisticated charm.
pos: verb
examples: Hillbillying troubadors, the bohemians of a new world, not cafe society but more like the poor white origins of an Elvis Presley.
Like Ken Lay, [Rebecca] Mark came from a small town in Missouri, one of four children in a farm family with deep fundamentalist beliefs. Her conversational style has been polished in Texas, and she is a master of “hillbillying,” the trick of playing up one’s humble origins.
And Kerry doesn’t know how to hillbilly. And it is not a Texas thing, by the way. John F. Kennedy used to hillbilly us. And that meant that he flirted with us. He had a twinkle. Bill Clinton hillbillied us. And Kerry has got to learn how to do that. He has got to dial back and show some relaxed affability.
gloss: To portray or act as an uneducated and unsophisticated fool.
pos: verb
examples: I think that 20 to 30 years ago nonfundamentalists in America did make a great mistake by typing them, by hillbillying and backwoodsing and holy-rollering them.
God damned mother fuckin son of a bitch cock suckin' asshole, who the fuck does he think he is, that dumb ass, half-brained, hillbillied redneck, given me that Jew shit when he's coppin' money and nobody's got the balls to stand up to him and they're gonna let me take the rap?
The Warner Bros. cartoons, after having hillbillied themselves nearly to death during the 1930s, did not return to the trend during the late 1940s.
gloss: To perform or experience stereotypically hillbilly-like actions.
pos: verb
Related words: hillsman
hillspeople
mountain man
redneck
Derived words: fuckabilly
glitterbilly
grillbilly
hellbilly
hillbilly heroin
hillbilly hot tub
hillbillyish
hillbillyism
hillbilly jacuzzi
hillbillylike
hillbilly mango
hillbilly music
MAGAbilly
rockabilly
snowbilly
Translations:
polychromatic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús
Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor.
English poly-
English chromatic
English polychromatic
From poly- + chromatic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Showing a variety, or a change, of colours; having many colours.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: With our water goggles adjusted we gazed at the fishes displaying their polychromatic scales to the sea world, as, with true Puka-Pukan languor, they finned from coral to coral.
As I rounded the corner nearest my hotel the Afrite coachman of the polychromatic, nonpareil coat seized me, swung open the dungeony door of his peripatetic sarcophagus, flirted his feather duster and began his ritual: […]
gloss: Composed of more than one wavelength.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: multicolored
polyhued
Antonyms: monochromatic
Derived words: polychromatic acid
polychromatically
Translations:
reactionary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
government
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
Etymology: Borrowed from French réactionnaire, equivalent to reaction + -ary. Used in the time of the French revolution to refer to a person opposing the revolution; as in favoring a reaction against the revolution.
Base: reaction
Affixes: -ary
Inflected forms:
form: more reactionary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most reactionary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: reactionaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Extremely conservative; opposing revolution (such as the French Revolution); favoring a return to a "golden age" of the past.
pos: adj
examples: There's a fairly simple reason for the embrace of radicalism on the right, and it has to do with the reactionary imperative that lies at the core of conservative doctrine. […] If he is to preserve what he values, the conservative must declare war against the culture as it is.
[Jeffrey] Epstein was interested in transhumanism, a theory of human perfection via technological manipulation that—like its predecessor, eugenics—is shot through with racist and reactionary ideas.
Within certain MAGA circles, to criticize someone for being too racist or reactionary is a betrayal, signaling an acceptance of the very liberal morality that the movement’s vanguard seeks to destroy.
gloss: Of, pertaining to, participating in, or inducing a chemical reaction.
pos: adj
examples: Psychiatry extends the theory into biology in the belief that all human behavior is nothing more than a series of reactionary chemical processes in the brain that determine pre-coded genetic responses built up from the conditioning of one’s environment.
gloss: In reaction to; as a result of.
pos: adj
examples: The regulator noted that reduced service levels and passenger numbers helped deliver strong performance, with fewer reactionary delays.
gloss: One who opposes revolution, wanting to reverse it, favoring a return to a past golden age, often used derogatorily by revolutionaires.
pos: noun
examples: Hindu reactionaries, whose conception of a well-ordered society had not moved beyond the laws of Manu, fell into line for the moment with the intellectual products of the modern Indian University.
He was not a drunkard, not a chronic bankrupt. For the rest, Mr. Woodward depicts [Thomas] Paine as a highminded controversialist, persecuted by reactionaries on both sides of the Atlantic for no more than liberal political views.
It is not simply a conservative preference for things as they are, with a few nudges back, but a passionate loathing of the status quo and a desire to return to the past in one emotionally cathartic revolt. If conservatives are pessimistic, reactionaries are apocalyptic.
Antonyms: progressive
Derived words: neo-reactionary
reactionarily
reactionariness
reactionarize
reactionaryism
Translations:
illuminated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more illuminated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most illuminated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Irradiated by light, lit.
pos: adj
examples: A flash of emerald light briefly illuminated the forest, and the stone vanished.
gloss: Decorated and illustrated.
pos: adj
examples: On the table lay an illuminated missal and a silver crucifix. The Abbess herself was seated in the chair—pale, abstracted, and with features whose expression, in repose at least, was severe.
From this list are purposely omitted books printed upon vellum, Books of Hours of the Virgin Mary, and illuminated books; for these are rarities within reach of the wealthy only.
Synonyms: alight
illuminated
inlighted
lighted
lighty
lit
lit up
luminous
Antonyms: dark
dim
gloomy
illlit
shaded
shadowed
Related words: illuminate
shining
Derived words: nonilluminated
underilluminated
unilluminated
Translations:
antisubmarine
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́)
Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der.
English anti-
English submarine
English antisubmarine
From anti- + submarine.
Inflected forms:
form: anti-submarine
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Intended for use against submarines.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A depth charge is an antisubmarine weapon.
NATO held extensive wargames to practice antisubmarine warfare.
Translations:
antitank
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́)
Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der.
English anti-
Prakrit 𑀝𑀁𑀓 (ṭaṃka)
Gujarati ટાંકી (ṭā̃kī)bor.
Portuguese tanquebor.
English tank
English antitank
From anti- + tank.
Inflected forms:
form: anti-tank
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of weapons or tactics, designed for thwarting or (especially) attacking tanks or other armored fighting vehicles.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A TOW missile is an antitank weapon capable of killing everyone in a tank from great distance.
Translations:
antiship
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
lifestyle
military
politics
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́)
Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der.
English anti-
Proto-Indo-European *sek-?
Proto-Indo-European *-éyti
Proto-Indo-European *skey-der.?
Proto-Germanic *skipą
Proto-West Germanic *skip
Old English scip
Middle English schip
English ship
English antiship
From anti- + ship.
Inflected forms:
form: anti-ship
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: antiships
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: antishipping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: antishipped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: antishipped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: anti-ship
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Designed to attack a naval ship.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A single EXOCET antiship missile can sink a destroyer. Try not to get hit.
gloss: Pertaining to the activities of anti-shippers
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
gloss: To participate in the activities of anti-shippers
pos: verb
tags: slang
Related words: anti-shipped
antishipped
anti-shipper
antishipper
anti-shipping
antishipping
Derived words: anti-ship missile
Translations:
astronautical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English astronaut
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
English astronautical
From astronaut + -ical.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: referring to travel in outer space
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
anti-lock
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From anti- + lock.
Base: lock
Affixes: anti-
Inflected forms:
form: antilock
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Preventing something from becoming stuck or jammed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Anti-lock brakes are designed to continue rotating for better steering control while slowing the vehicle, rather than locking and causing the car to skid.
Translations:
overpopulate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
English populate
English overpopulate
From over- + populate.
Inflected forms:
form: overpopulates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: overpopulating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: overpopulated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: overpopulated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To fill with too many individuals; to exceed the capacity of a region to contain the population.
pos: verb
Translations:
overeager
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From over- + eager.
Base: eager
Affixes: over-
Inflected forms:
form: more overeager
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most overeager
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Excessively eager.
pos: adj
examples: He got a bad haircut from an overeager fellow who had just begun his career as a barber.
Olivia’s dress was too formal, her lipstick was too bright, her hair was freshly trimmed, she was slightly too attentive in the way she looked at Jonathan, and the combined effect was overeager.
Translations:
outpace
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úd
Proto-Germanic *ūt
Proto-Germanic *ūt-
Old English ūt-
Middle English ut-
English out-
English pace
English outpace
From out- + pace.
Inflected forms:
form: outpaces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outpacing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outpaced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outpaced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To go faster than; to exceed the pace of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The youngster outpaced his grandfather and ran on ahead.
Walters outpaced Raio Piiroja from a long ball forward and curled a powerful shot over the crossbar from a tight angle in the 33rd minute.
Translations:
bibimbap
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Korean 비빔밥 (bibimbap)bor.
English bibimbap
Borrowed from Korean 비빔밥 (bibimbap).
Inflected forms:
form: bibimbaps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bibimbab
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bibimbop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bibimpap
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Korean dish of white rice topped with vegetables, beef, a whole egg, and gochujang (chili pepper paste).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She'd made bibimbap with beansprouts, minced beef, and pre-soaked rice stir-fried in sesame oil.
Translations:
buffer
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
Etymology: From buff + -er.
Base: buff
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: buffers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: buffers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: buffering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: buffered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: buffered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Someone or something that buffs (polishes and makes shiny).
pos: noun
gloss: Someone or something that buffs (polishes and makes shiny).
pos: noun
gloss: A boxer.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
archaic
slang
examples: Such a buffer as Donnelly, / Ereland never again will see.
gloss: To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.
pos: verb
examples: The electronic apparatus is designed to buffer up the sorted wagons in the sidings at a speed not exceeding 4.7 m.p.h.—a particularly important provision in this yard, with its substantial traffic in whisky.
gloss: To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.
pos: verb
examples: Some games let you buffer jumps—if you hold the jump button mid-air, your character will jump as soon as they touch the ground.
gloss: To store (data) in memory temporarily while it is awaiting processing.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: To maintain the acidity of a solution near a chosen value by adding an acid or a base.
pos: verb
Derived words: buffer lass
buffer rodeo
bufferable
buffer up
debuffer
pause buffer
prebuffer
rebuffer
unbuffer
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: kiillottaja
lang: Finnish
word: kiillotuskone
lang: Spanish
word: escrepa
lang: Dutch
word: inperken
lang: Finnish
word: eristää
lang: Finnish
word: puskuroida
lang: Māori
word: tauārai
lang: Spanish
word: amortiguar
lang: Spanish
word: aislar
lang: Spanish
word: interceder
lang: Spanish
word: mediar
crochet
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
business
manufacturing
natural-sciences
sewing
textiles
zoology
Etymology: From French crochet, from Middle French crochet, from Old French crochet, crokét (“curved instrument, hook”), diminutive of Old French croc (“hook”), from Old Frankish *krōk (“hook”) or from Old Norse krókr (“hook, bend, bight”), both from Proto-Germanic *krōkaz (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerg- (“tracery, basket, twist”). Cognate with Middle English crōc (“crook, hook”), Middle Dutch croec, crōc (“curl”). Doublet of crocket, croquet, and crotchet. More at crook, crooked.
Inflected forms:
form: crochets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crotchet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: crochets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: crocheting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: crocheted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: crocheted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: crotchet
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A form of needlework that is made by looping thread with a hooked needle.
pos: noun
gloss: A certain crest of enamel on the molar teeth of some rhinoceroses.
pos: noun
gloss: To make (a piece of) needlework using a hooked needle; to make interlocking loops of thread.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Derived words: antecrochet
crocheter
crochet hook
crochetlike
crochetwork
double crochet
magnetic crochet
single crochet
Translations:
hypermarket
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hyper- + market, calque of French hypermarché.
Base: market
Affixes: hyper-
Inflected forms:
form: hypermarkets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A shop combining elements of a department store and a supermarket.
pos: noun
examples: Cherry Jones as Nan Pierce (2023), 42:37 from the start, in Succession, season 2, episode 8: “I got a taste for hypermarché vin ordinaire when I was 19 years old and I have never been able to shake it.”
Translations:
poach
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English pochen (“to poach (eggs)”), from Old French pocher "to put (egg yolks) in pockets" (i.e. in bags formed by the whites), from Old French poche (“pocket”).
Inflected forms:
form: poaches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: poaching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: poached
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: poached
pos: verb
tags: past
form: poaches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To cook (something) in simmering or very hot liquid (usually water; sometimes wine, broth, or otherwise).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Eldridge closed the despatch-case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car. Mulligatawny soup, poached turbot, roast leg of lamb—the usual railway dinner.
gloss: To be cooked in such manner.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The white of an egg with spirit of wine, doth bake the egg into clots, as if it began to poach.
gloss: The act of cooking in simmering liquid.
pos: noun
examples: Peaches are so perfect they need very little to make them extra special—just a quick poach in basil-scented rosé wine and a few adoring strawberries.
Derived words: poached egg
poach up
Translations:
boo-boo
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: * Possibly from bug-a-boo, an imaginary evil goblin.
* Possibly from bubo, a swollen lymph node especially obvious in sufferers of bubonic plague.
* Possibly from the sound a baby or young toddler might make.
* Possibly borrowed from French bobo (“boo-boo”)
Inflected forms:
form: boo-boos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: booboo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: boo boo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: boo-boos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: boo-booing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: boo-booed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: boo-booed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: booboo
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: boo boo
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A mistake or error.
pos: noun
tags: childish
colloquial
countable
often
examples: Oh, gosh, golly, I made a boo-boo, and I gave it to Stephen Hawking!
gloss: A minor injury, such as a cut or a bruise.
pos: noun
tags: childish
colloquial
countable
gloss: Feces.
pos: noun
tags: childish
colloquial
uncountable
examples: I been A-1 since day one, you niggas boo-boo
Your home boy, your block that you're from, boo-boo
Lil' hoes you went to school with, boo-boo
Baby mama and your new bitch, boo-boo
gloss: To make a mistake.
pos: verb
tags: childish
colloquial
intransitive
examples: We boo-booed in giving the address of California Electric Railway Enthusiasts, and we realized it while mailing the last issue. Correct address is […]
If you do this and feel that you have boo-booed, press Shift+F5, the Go Back keyboard shortcut, to return from whence you came (that is, back to your previous edit).
gloss: To defecate.
pos: verb
tags: childish
colloquial
transitive
examples: I went upstairs and Joseph, my husband, he came upstairs and found some boo boo on the floor. My little girl boo booed on herself downstairs as I was getting ready to clean her up.
“Ya know, I don't know what is wrong with my stomach. I must have eaten something spoiled at the job. I was at a customer's home climbing a pole, and I started boo-booing on myself. I got off the pole and took some of the leaves to wipe my butt. Man, that's a horrible feeling.”
I'm still going through so much shock. I can't go through all this. My stomach is rumbling. I have to use the restroom so bad. I was about to boo boo on myself but I remembered what the nurse told me the earlier.
We didn't start demonizing Socialists until the 50s when everyone boo-booed they pants about communist russia.
Imagine a little kid in a big ass button down coat sitting in a car and then just saying I boo booed on myself.
Related words: na-na na-na boo-boo
Translations:
pitter-patter
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Reduplication of patter.
Inflected forms:
form: pitter-patters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pitter-pattering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pitter-pattered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pitter-pattered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A soft, percussive sound, as of tiny feet, or of rain on a rooftop; patter.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Once or twice I heard a faint pitter-patter like the feet of the dog going hither and thither on the sand far below me, and there were more bird-like sounds, but that was all.
Pitter-patter the rain falling down / Little glamor sun coming round / Take a walk when autumn comes to town
gloss: To patter; to scurry.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The rain was coming down heavier now, the drops pitter-pattering on the roof of the truck.
Translations:
razzle-dazzle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Reduplication of dazzle.
Inflected forms:
form: razzle dazzle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: razzle-dazzles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: razzle-dazzling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: razzle-dazzled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: razzle-dazzled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: razzle dazzle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Glitz, glamor/glamour, showiness, or pizazz.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The razzmatazz of a razzle-dazzle of pairs figure skating.
The big musical number at the end didn't have quite the razzle-dazzle they had hoped.
There are some razzle-dazzle descriptions of various computer programs — including one that transports users to vividly realized virtual paradises — but there are also lots of tired complaints about “sewers of greed” and consumerism in millennial Manhattan.
“Looking snazzy, Mr. Sarner.” “[screams] I have a body.” “Fucking hell. Yes, we brought you back to life.” “I was floating in the eternal glow for a million years. Safe, warm.” “You need to remember what you were going to say to the board of directors to justify expensing a ping ping table.” “I've been here before.” “I've made some flashcards to help jog your memory. "Ping ping increases productivity by 50 percent." I mean, that's bullshit, but let's see if it flies.” “How did I get back on this plane of existence?” “Would you shut up? Literally no one has ever cared about what happens after you die.” “The board is here.” “I need more time, Terry. Sarner's being a baby about his resurrection.” “I traversed the black mountain. Why am I back?” “Okay, I'll just have to stall them with the old razzle-dazzle.”
gloss: dazzle camouflage
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
gloss: To confuse or overcome with glamour or showiness; to dazzle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: on the razzle-dazzle
razzle-dazzly
razzly-dazzly
Translations:
climatological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English climatology
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
English climatological
From climatology + -ical.
Inflected forms:
form: more climatological
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most climatological
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to climatology.
pos: adj
Translations:
brilliancy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: board-games
chess
games
Etymology: From brilliant + -ancy; attested earlier than brilliance. Compare French brillance.
Base: brilliant
Affixes: -ancy
Inflected forms:
form: brilliancies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brilliance
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A shining quality; brilliance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The beauty and brilliancy of this insect are indescribable, and none but a naturalist can understand the intense excitement I experienced when I at length captured it.
[…] to assist greatly in the consumption of the lamp, and to diminish the aqueous precipitations produced on the interior of the lantern glass, which has the effect of reducing more or less the brilliancy of the light.
[H]is ideal of grandeur was a splendid façade, diffusing its brilliancy outward too, irradiating hospitality.
gloss: An act of being brilliant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His brilliancy lay in combining old concepts from far-flung fields into a new idea.
Surely it must have been his brilliancy that accounted for Vardon standing out as a stroke or two better than such a model of steadiness as J. H. Taylor[.]
2013, Hannah Eichler, The Key to Brilliancy: How to Unlock Your Child's Genius
gloss: A spectacular and beautiful game of chess, generally featuring sacrificial attacks and unexpected moves.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Bobby Fischer, one of the greatest chess players who ever lived, died at the age of sixty-four from kidney failure. He had lived one year for each square on a chessboard. / THE GOOD / First of all, you should learn the term “brilliancy.” It refers to a game that is played with spectacular strategy and beauty, typically featuring unexpected moves and ingenious ideas. In other words, the game is extraordinary! At age thirteen, Bobby Fischer won a brilliancy against twenty-six-year-old Donald Byrne.
Derived words: overbrilliancy
Translations:
hydrolyze
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: hydrolyzes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hydrolyzing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hydrolyzed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hydrolyzed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hydrolyse
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To subject to hydrolysis.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
gloss: To undergo hydrolysis.
pos: verb
tags: US
intransitive
Derived words: hydrolyzability
hydrolyzable
hydrolyzation
hydrolyzer
nonhydrolyzed
prehydrolyzed
unhydrolyzed
Translations:
dinero
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥
Proto-Italic *dekəm
Latin dec(em)
Latin -nus
Latin dēnus
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -ārius
Latin dēnārius
Vulgar Latin *dīnārius
Old Spanish dinero
Spanish dinerobor.
English dinero
Borrowed from Spanish dinero (“money”). Doublet of denar, denarius, denier, dinar, diner, and dinheiro.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Money.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
Translations:
diva
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian diva (“diva, goddess”), from Latin dīva (“goddess”), female of dīvus (“divine, divine one; notably a deified mortal”), from Old Latin deivā, from Proto-Italic *deiwā (“goddess”), feminine of *deiwos (“god”), from Proto-Indo-European *deywós (“god”).
Inflected forms:
form: divas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dive
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any female celebrity, usually a well known singer or actress.
pos: noun
gloss: A person with an inflated sense of self, who has high expectations of others, and who is extremely demanding and fussy when it comes to personal privileges.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
informal
slang
gloss: One who amazes or stuns, especially in a confident and feminine manner; (by extension) a term of endearment.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: Who is this DIVA 💜.
What a diva i love her
Derived words: diva cup
divadom
divaesque
diva house
diva-ish
divaism
divalike
divo
Translations:
boyo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰā-
Proto-Germanic *bō-
Proto-West Germanic *bōjō
Old English *bōia
Middle English boye
English boy
English -o
English boyo
From boy + -o.
Inflected forms:
form: boyos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A boy or lad.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
gloss: A stereotypically Welsh form of address for a man, usually younger than the speaker.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
sometimes
examples: “Don't be daft, boyo. First chance I get, and I'm skipping!”
“Can’t get onboard the boat,” Dai finished for me. “Bloody typical, it is, boyo.”
“What brings you around, boyo?” Deane asked, offering Case a narrow bonbon wrapped in blue-and-white checked paper.
‘This, er, initiator of polonium and lithium, would it be used in an anti-personnel bomb?’ he asked. ‘Oh yes, you could say so, boyo,’ replied the Welshman.
A taff is a Welshman. Everyone in the doctors’ mess calls me taff or taffy. Mr Swain, the mortuary attendant, calls me boyo, especially during the rugby season when Wales lose badly.
“You’re crazy boyo!” Taffy gaped at his shipmate’s rosy cheeks, their hugh brightened by the Canadian blasts. “Now, what in the bloody hell were you doing out there boyo?”
Translations:
housebroken
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From house + broken.
Compound parts: house
broken
Inflected forms:
form: house-broken
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: trained to avoid urinating or defecating in the house, except within a litterbox, toilet, or other receptacle.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Hey. At least I'm housebroken.
Week in and week out you come back like a housebroken Pomeranian loyal to the bitter end. Good boy.
Translations:
self-sustaining
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English sustaining
English self-sustaining
From self- + sustaining.
Inflected forms:
form: more self-sustaining
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-sustaining
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Able to provide for one's own needs without help from others; self-sufficient.
pos: adj
examples: There was nothing odd, or futuristic, or exotically “eco” about the house — no solar panels to be seen, no giant arrays of thermopane windows passively drinking up light and heat; yet here, I’d been told, in the Sourland Mountains in New Jersey, an hour from Manhattan, was a house that had the potential — not long from now, not 20 years from now, but maybe within 5 to 10 years — to help turn millions of American homes into fully self-sustaining power plants, each one capable of producing hydrogen to fuel cars as well.
gloss: Able to provide for one's own needs without help from others; self-sufficient.
pos: adj
gloss: Opposing or rejecting exterior influence; independent.
pos: adj
Related words: self-sufficient
Translations:
lang: German
word: autark
lang: German
word: unabhängig
lang: German
word: selbstständig
lang: Polish
word: niezależny
lang: Polish
word: samodzielny
fissile
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin fissilisbor.
English fissile
Borrowed from Latin fissilis.
Inflected forms:
form: more fissile
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fissile
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Able to be split.
pos: adj
gloss: Easily split along a grain.
pos: adj
examples: This Cryſtal is a pellucid fiſſile Stone, clear as Water or Cryſtal of the Rock, and without Colour; enduring a red Heat without loſing its tranſparency, and in a very ſtrong Heat calcining without Fuſion.
gloss: Capable of sustaining a nuclear fission chain reaction.
pos: adj
examples: North Korea may soon have access to regular amounts of fissile material if it doesn’t already and could be preparing Punggye-ri for a number of nuclear tests if the above analysis is correct.
Derived words: fissban
fissileness
fissility
nonfissile
subfissile
unfissile
Translations:
languorous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French langoreux.
Inflected forms:
form: more languorous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most languorous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: langorous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: langourous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: languourous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: lacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality; languid, lackadaisical.
pos: adj
examples: The atmosphere beneath is languorous, and is so tinged with azure that what artists call the middle distance partakes also of that hue, while the horizon beyond is of the deepest ultramarine.
Warm as a Lesbian valley's afternoon Made langourous ^([sic]) with June
8 August 2018, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky in AV Club, Jason Statham fighting a giant shark should be a lot more fun than The Meg
After a languorous stretch of exposition that introduces a lot of pseudoscientific mumbo-jumbo and enough supporting characters to fill a Dickens novel (played by the likes of Rainn Wilson, Cliff Curtis, and Ruby Rose), we follow a three-person submersible down to the ocean depths.
Translations:
pasteurize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French pasteuriser. From Louis Pasteur, the inventor of the process, + -ize.
Affixes: -ize
Inflected forms:
form: pasteurizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pasteurizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pasteurized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pasteurized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pasteurise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To heat food for the purpose of killing harmful organisms such as bacteria, viruses, protozoa, molds, and yeasts.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
arras
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English arras, from Middle French draps d'Arras, from the city of Arras, which was a major source for tapestries in the 15th century.
Inflected forms:
form: arrases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tapestry or wall hanging.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: At such a time I'll loose my daughter to him: / Be you and I behind an arras then
And with their conſorts chaſte at night they ſleep / On ſtatelieſt couches with rich arras ſpread.
The room was hung with coarſe arras, which concealed the cloſet; […]
Dozens of walls were covered with arrases like acts of homage, recognition, or flattery.
Translations:
gooch
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A corruption of guiche, another slang term for the male perineum.
Inflected forms:
form: gooches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gooches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gooching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gooched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gooched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The perineum.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: For those unfamiliar, Johnson helpfully informs us that 'it's for your gooch, your Biffin's bridge, your perineum (the bit on your bum that after days in the saddle starts to chaffe).'
The feather traced the crevices in Dan's ball-skin. It danced lightly around his gooch (it really liked that, staying there for a whole ten minutes). It traced along the inside of his thigh, and then lightly licked the base [of] Dan's cock.
His whole life Albert Fish had this habit/fascination with jamming sewing needles up into his gooch, that weird little area between your ass and balls.
gloss: To blunder or bungle; goof.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: 2017 Ansi, "Rise and Shine Sleepyhead", Welcome to the Wayne episode 1, 10 minutes
Olly, you gooched it! Fix it!
Translations:
iamb
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
Etymology: From French iambe in the mid-1800s, from Latin ïambus, from Ancient Greek ἴαμβος (íambos). Displaced iambus which shares the same classical origin.
Inflected forms:
form: iambs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A metrical foot in verse consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
pos: noun
Translations:
trochee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French trochée, via Latin trochaeus from the Ancient Greek τροχαῖος (trokhaîos), derived from τρέχω (trékhō, “run”).
Inflected forms:
form: trochees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: troch.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: trocheus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A metrical foot in verse consisting of a stressed or heavy syllable followed by an unstressed or light syllable.
pos: noun
examples: ‘He made us read James Fenton on the genius of the trochee.’
Translations:
bleakly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bleak
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English bleakly
From bleak + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more bleakly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most bleakly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a bleak manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
tongue-in-cheek
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: This phrase alludes to the facial expression created by putting one's tongue in one's cheek. The term first appeared in print in 1828, but it isn't entirely clear that it was used with the modern, rather than a literal, sense. A later citation from Richard Barham is unambiguous.
Inflected forms:
form: more tongue-in-cheek
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tongue-in-cheek
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: tongue in cheek
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: tongue in cheek
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not intended seriously; jocular or humorous.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
examples: He gave a tongue-in-cheek explanation of why the sky was blue, offering a theory about some primordial discount on light blue paint.
It was in this era, too, that author and Scotland the Brave songwriter Cliff Hanley penned The Glasgow Underground, a tongue-in-cheek love letter to the Subway in song.
The tongue-in-cheek sendup wasn’t far from Silicon Valley’s reality.
gloss: With contempt.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
gloss: With irony.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: He portrayed them tongue-in-cheek as great lawgivers, as Solons.
Translations:
neighboring
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: neighbouring
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Situated or living nearby or adjacent to.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
examples: Han-yang is the smallest of the three cities. It was founded about A.D. 600 but, like neighboring Han-k'ou, remained relatively unimportant until the last half of the 19th century.
Translations:
encode
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
communication
communications
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Old French en-bor.
Middle English en-
English en-
English code
English encode
From en- + code.
Inflected forms:
form: encodes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: encoding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: encoded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: encoded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: encodes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To convert (plain text) into code.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: encode a secret message to be sent
gloss: To convert source information into another form.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The blotchy black mark she impresses on my hand will still be there tomorrow morning, a confused barcode, unsure of what exactly it encodes.
gloss: To constitute the code necessary for the biosynthesis of a protein by means of a matrix so as to transcribe DNA material.
pos: verb
examples: Berg, Jeremy M. with Tymoczko, John and Stryer, Lubert (2002), “RNA Synthesis and Splicing”, in Biochemistry, Fifth eidtion edition, W H Freeman and Company, →ISBN, retrieved 05 Dec 2009: “The ability of one gene to encode more than one distinct mRNA and, hence, more than one protein may play a key role in expanding the repertoire of our genomes.”
gloss: An encoding operation.
pos: noun
examples: When each encode is finished a notification will appear on your screen to let you know it's completed […]
Related words: code
codec
Derived words: encodability
encodable
encodement
encoder
encoding
misencode
percent-encode
re-encode
reencoder
unencode
Translations:
encoded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more encoded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most encoded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a meaning that is different from a simple straightforward interpretation; acting as code for another meaning.
pos: adj
examples: Curiously, background sound can be quite complex without becoming confusing, because it comprises elements that vary from very encoded to highly embodied.
The data discussed above have considerable implications for the Liberman et al. (1967) theory of encodednes—consonants being very encoded and vowels being less encoded and therefore perceived continuously whereas consonants are perceived categorically.
While sitting in the hospital, the captain asked me since I was the Ordnance Officer what should we do, and I told him we needed to report this immediaqtely, but we needed to report it in such a way that it didn't sound like it was as bad as it was. I crafted up a message and sent it out that night, and the message was very encoded as we wrote it.
The beginning of relative decline of New York City, financially and culturally, was also the point at which the artistic production turned from a very encoded, private, “talking to ourselves," abstract minimalism, to a more broadly intelligible narrative, decorative, realistic form of language across the different arts.
Translations:
casing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: casings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That which encloses or encases.
pos: noun
examples: Some people like to split the casing of a sausage before cooking so it doesn’t burst.
And, by your leave, for all the marvellous rich and sumptuous coat a weareth, he is very like a false jewel in a rich casing.
It was expected that the whole of the "3700" and "3900" classes would be so treated, but it was found that the streamlined casing caused the engines to run hot on express work and they were relegated to goods trains; the casings were removed during the war.
gloss: The decorative trim around a door or window.
pos: noun
gloss: A metal pipe used to line the borehole of a well.
pos: noun
gloss: The state of letter case across a whole phrase or whole lines of text; the collective state/arrangement of uppercase and lowercase letters.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The replacement string should have the same casing as the matched text.
gloss: A tire.
pos: noun
tags: Appalachia
dated
Derived words: casing bead
casing hanger
casingless
casing string
sausage casing
shell casing
subcasing
upcasing
Translations:
codification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: codifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of precisely formulating a statement, such as a code of laws.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The task force spent months on the codification of their mandate.
gloss: The act or result of arranging something into a code; the act of setting down a body of knowledge in a systematic way.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The link between language norms and the codification of a language – in dictionaries, grammars and usage guides – is well accepted.
Related words: legal code
Derived words: codificationist
recodification
Translations:
botulism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From German Botulismus, from Latin botulus (“sausage”), the first identified source of the disease, + -ism.
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: botulisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Poisoning caused by the toxin from Clostridium botulinum, an anaerobic bacterium that grows in improperly prepared food.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
canning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cannings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of preserving food by heat processing in a sealed vessel (a jar or can).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Although aluminium can replace tin in most dry cannings, it is not satisfactory for the canning of acid fruits […]
gloss: The practice of collecting aluminum cans or other recyclable objects; making money by collecting and selling such things.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Canners know when they hear the clink of a bottle going into a garbage bin.[…]
CORNISH: Now, there's also this sense of loss in hearing people in the movie describe what they had been doing before canning became a way of life for them.
“In canning, you go where you want and do what you want,” Gadsden says. “You’re your own boss.”
But the income that many Californians rely on from canning is imperiled by a crisis for recycling centers.
Derived words: precanning
Translations: