yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
motherland
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr
Proto-Germanic *mōdēr
Proto-West Germanic *mōder
Old English mōdor
Middle English moder
English mother
English land
English motherland
From mother + land.
Inflected forms:
form: motherlands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The country of one's ancestors.
pos: noun
gloss: The country of one's birth.
pos: noun
gloss: Country of origin.
pos: noun
gloss: Mother country in contrast to its colonies.
pos: noun
Synonyms: fatherland
homeland
Derived words: muddaland
Translations:
wholeheartedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From wholehearted + -ly.
Base: wholehearted
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more wholeheartedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most wholeheartedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: whole-heartedly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In a wholehearted (“showing enthusiastic and unconditional commitment”) manner; without reserve; enthusiastically, unreservedly.
pos: adv
examples: He jumped in wholeheartedly and began to learn the language.
[T]hough Augustus and Tiberius discouraged the desire to deify them in their lifetime, Caligula had no sooner expressed his designs on godhead than the Alexandrians wholeheartedly fell in with his wishes, and worshipped him.
Thus unreservedly, promptly, and wholeheartedly did the people of New Mexico, through their chosen representatives, throw themselves and all their resources into the Great War. The Sunshine State fears no storm.
[H]e had a natural bias against all change, and he hated wholeheartedly what he regarded as the central doctrine of the French Revolution, […]
We are wroth with these go-betweens and meddlers—the drifting clouds: these half-and-halfs that have learned neither to bless nor to curse wholeheartedly.
Fans relished the traditional FA Cup fanfare from the Coldstream Guards and the hymn Abide With Me before throwing themselves wholeheartedly into an experience they have been largely deprived of since the first coronavirus lockdown began in March 2020.
Translations:
carbonic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃-der.?
Latin carbōlbor.
French carbonebor.
English carbon
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English carbonic
From carbon + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to carbon.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: [I]t sank down through the air and poured over the ground in a manner rather liquid than gaseous, abandoning the hills, and streaming into the valleys and ditches and water-courses even as I have heard the carbonic acid gas that pours from volcanic clefts is wont to do.
Translations:
nitre
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: nitres
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: UK standard spelling of niter.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me.
Had he bought nitre before, I have since tried to recall and I cannot. It is a common enough article and I sell it every day.
Translations:
procuress
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Old French procureresse (compare French procureuse), corresponding to procure + -ess.
Base: procure
Affixes: -ess
Inflected forms:
form: procuresses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A middlewoman: a woman who performs as a go-between, an intermediary.
pos: noun
gloss: A female procurer.
pos: noun
examples: The Spaniard, who will seduce any girl he can, is pitiless under like circumstances to his own womenkind; so there is much weeping, the girl is turned out of doors and falls readily into the hands of the procuress. In the brothels of Seville or of Madrid she finds at least a roof and bread to eat.
Old witches in the cities and country-side throve upon the sale of death spells and love philtres. They also made a trade of abortificants, and frequently practised the whiles of the procuress.
Knox takes us through the lives of memorable seducers and their critics, in sometimes academic and sometimes rococo prose dappled with doges, coups de foudre, rakes, bawds, coquettes, coxcombs and procuresses — with guest appearances by members of the Frankfurt School sunning themselves in La Jolla.
Translations:
procurer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English procurour, from Anglo-Norman procurour and continental Old French procureor, from Latin prōcūrātor; by surface analysis, procure + er. Doublet of proctor and procurator.
Inflected forms:
form: procurers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who procures or obtains things
pos: noun
gloss: A person who procures or obtains things:
pos: noun
tags: especially
gloss: A person who incites or riles; an instigator.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
Translations:
lang: Swedish
word: skaffare
Pomeranian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Pomerania + -an. Through Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“off”), distant doublet of pomegranate, whose first element is from Latin pomum, which itself is from Proto-Italic *poomos (“taken off > fruit”).
Base: Pomerania
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: more Pomeranian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Pomeranian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Pomeranians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, from or relating to Pomerania, a historic region split between the German states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Brandenburg and the Pomeranian Voivodeship, West Pomeranian Voivodeship and Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship of Poland.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to Pomerania.
pos: adj
examples: In my 2002 research project I focused on the documentation of the Pomeranian Low German as spoken in the state of Wisconsin.
This was expressed by a Pomeranian Low German speaker born in 1903 in Hamburg, Marathon County:
…
Runge's version, published by Arnim in 1808, is in Pomeranian (low German) dialect, and …
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Pomerania.
pos: noun
gloss: A breed of small, fluffy, energetic toy dogs in the canine family of spitzes.
pos: noun
Derived words: Pomapoo
Pomsky
pugeranian
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: померански
roman: pomeranski
lang: Catalan
word: pomerani
lang: Finnish
word: pommerilainen
lang: French
word: poméranien
lang: French
word: poméranienne
lang: Friulian
word: pomeran
lang: German
word: pommersch
lang: German
word: pommerisch
lang: Greek
word: πομερανικός
roman: pomeranikós
lang: Greek
word: πομερανική
roman: pomeranikí
lang: Greek
word: πομερανικό
roman: pomeranikó
lang: Hungarian
word: pomerániai
lang: Irish
word: Pomaerach
lang: Irish
word: Pomaránach
lang: Italian
word: pomerano
lang: Kashubian
word: pòmòrsczi
lang: Kazakh
word: поморлық
roman: pomorlyq
lang: Ligurian
word: pomeran
lang: Polish
word: pomorski
lang: Portuguese
word: pomerano
lang: Russian
word: помера́нский
roman: pomeránskij
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: pomorski
lang: Spanish
word: pomerano
promotional
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
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 *m(y)ewh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *moweō
Latin moveō
Latin prōmoveō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Late Latin prōmotiōder.
Old French promocionbor.
Middle English
English promotion
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English promotional
From promotion + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more promotional
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most promotional
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: promotionals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to an advertising promotion; serving to promote a service, institution, business, etc.
pos: adj
examples: Collect five promotional vouchers to claim your prize.
In addition to this signage there are promotional videos broadcast in English on television screens around the campus.
The cartoon dog made its debut in half-term week in October, featuring on promotional children's tickets as well as fun children's activities such as colouring sheets and spot the difference.
gloss: Of or relating to promotion to a post of higher status.
pos: adj
examples: In some departments, tiebreakers on the promotional list are determined by who turned their application in first.
gloss: An advertising promotion
pos: noun
Derived words: antipromotional
copromotional
nonpromotional
phytopromotional
promodizer
promotional copy
promotionalism
promotionally
self-promotional
Translations:
pangenesis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-énts
Proto-Indo-European *ph₂énts?
Proto-Hellenic *pánts
Ancient Greek πᾶς (pâs)der.
Ancient Greek πᾰν- (păn-)bor.
English pan-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis
Proto-Hellenic *génetis
Ancient Greek γένεσῐς (génesĭs)bor.
Latin genesisbor.
English genesis
English pangenesis
From pan- + genesis.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A mechanism for heredity proposed by Charles Darwin by which the cells of the body shed "gemmules" which collect in the reproductive organs prior to fertilization.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
persecutory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to persecution.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
sachet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French sachet.
Inflected forms:
form: sachets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small scented cloth bag filled with fragrant material such as herbs or potpourri.
pos: noun
gloss: A cheesecloth bag of herbs or spices added during cooking and then removed before serving.
pos: noun
gloss: A small, sealed packet containing a single-use quantity of any material.
pos: noun
examples: My burger arrived with a plastic sachet of tomato ketchup.
In the Philippines and other parts of Southeast Asia, the problem was compounded by a new kind of plastic packaging that took flight in the 1980s — the sachet. It was a plastic pouch but often bulked up with layers of aluminum or paper for shape or durability. […] Sachets are cheap, flashy and convenient.
Derived words: sacheted
sachet water
water sachet
Translations:
cheesecloth
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cheese + cloth.
Compound parts: cheese
cloth
Inflected forms:
form: cheesecloths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A loosely woven cotton gauze, originally used to wrap cheese, but now used for various culinary tasks and by farmers to shade crops and keep birds off.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
periodization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
sciences
sports
weightlifting
Etymology: Etymology tree
English period
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English -ization
English periodization
From period + -ization.
Inflected forms:
form: periodizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: periodisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The process of categorizing something (e.g. history) into named periods.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Training in segments of a few weeks or months, so that training begins at lower intensity and is gradually increased to high intensity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The operation of forming a periodic function from a non-periodic function.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: period
periodize
Translations:
prepaid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: prepaids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Paid for in advance.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Something paid for in advance.
pos: noun
examples: The number of unfilled orders has increased, including prepaids.
Translations:
pericardial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: cardiology
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.
Ancient Greek περῐ́ (perĭ́)der.
English peri-
English cardial
English pericardial
From peri- + cardial.
Inflected forms:
form: pericardiac
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: pericardian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: pericardic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to the pericardium.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Surrounding or next to the heart.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: epipericardial
hepatopericardial
intrapericardial
myopericardial
pericardial cell
pericardial fluid
pericardially
pericardial septum
pericardial sinus
pericardial tap
pleuropericardial
postpericardial
prepericardial
renopericardial
sternopericardial
subpericardial
visceropericardial
Translations:
broiler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: From broil + -er (agent noun suffix) or, for the chickens, + -er (patient suffix).
Base: broil
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: broilers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who broils, someone who cooks by broiling.
pos: noun
gloss: A device used to broil food; part of an oven or a small stove; known as a grill in British English.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
gloss: A chicken raised for meat.
pos: noun
examples: In the 1960's culling hens and cockerels accounted for the main share of all live poultry exports. In more recent years, exports of live stewers, ducks, and geese have trended downward while foreign trade of live broilers and turkeys has greatly increased.
gloss: A chicken raised for meat.
pos: noun
gloss: One who engages in or promotes noisy quarrels, or broils.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: What doth he but turn broiler, […] make new libels against the church?
Derived words: broaster
broiler chicken
broiler house
broilerhouse
broilerman
conveyor-broiler
nonbroiler
turbo broiler
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: бройлер
roman: brojler
lang: Dutch
word: vleeskuiken
lang: Finnish
word: broileri
lang: German
word: Brathähnchen
lang: Indonesian
word: ayam broiler
lang: Italian
word: broiler
lang: Marathi
word: ब्रॉयलर
roman: brŏylar
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: broiler
lang: Persian
word: مرغ گوشتی
roman: morġ-e gušti
lang: Polish
word: brojler
lang: Spanish
word: broiler
lang: Swedish
word: broiler
lang: Swedish
word: gödkyckling
lang: Ukrainian
word: бро́йлер
roman: brójler
lang: Yiddish
word: בראָטהון
roman: brothun
lang: Bulgarian
word: кавгаджия
roman: kavgadžija
lang: Finnish
word: riitapukari
lang: German
word: Krachmacher
lang: German
word: Krachmacherin
preordained
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: determined in advance; predestined
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The difficulty of each puzzle would increase as the number of miners increased, which would keep production to one block of transactions roughly every 10 minutes. In addition, the size of each block bounty would halve every 210,000 blocks—first from 50 bitcoins to 25, then from 25 to 12.5, and so on. Around the year 2140, the currency would reach its preordained limit of 21 million bitcoins.
Translations:
perfective
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English perfect
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English perfective
From perfect + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: more perfective
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most perfective
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: perfectives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relative to, the perfective aspect.
pos: adj
gloss: Of, or relative to, a perfect tense.
pos: adj
gloss: Tending to make perfect, or to bring to perfection.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: a perfective alteration
It is not likely that Eternal Life ſhall be a torpid and unactive ſtate, or that it ſhall conſiſt only in an uninterrupted and endleſs Act of Love; the other Faculties ſhall be employed as well as the Will, in Actions ſuitable to, and perfective of their Natures; […]
gloss: A perfective verb form.
pos: noun
Derived words: imperfective
perfectively
perfectiveness
perfectivity
perfectivization
perfectivize
Translations:
premiership
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English premier
Proto-Germanic *skapjaną
Proto-Germanic *-skapiz
Proto-West Germanic *-skapi
Old English -sċiepe
Middle English -schipe
English -ship
English premiership
From premier + -ship.
Inflected forms:
form: premierships
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The office of a premier or prime minister.
pos: noun
examples: There is a familiar pattern that has come to define Theresa May’s premiership. Encouraging rhetoric gets periodically wheeled out: the pledges to ease the burden on the “just about managing”; the promises to fight the “burning injustices” of social inequality. But then a few weeks later, the chancellor gets up at the dispatch box to deliver a budget or an autumn statement and it’s as if those words had never been uttered.
And for the EU a Johnson premiership would mean “a mini-Trump across the Channel, dedicated to its sabotage”. Britain would become “a hostile principality, built on social, fiscal and environmental deregulation.”
gloss: The position held by the champion team at the end of a particular season (especially as used in Australian rules football).
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Synonyms: prime ministership
championship
title
Derived words: minor premiership
premiership quarter
Translations:
pyloric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pylorus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English pyloric
From pylorus + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the pylorus.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
salmonella
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name Salmonella, named after American veterinarian Daniel Elmer Salmon.
Inflected forms:
form: salmonellas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: salmonellae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the serotypes of the two species of rod-shaped bacteria, of the genus Salmonella, especially Salmonella enterica, that cause typhoid fever and salmonellosis, manifest as food poisoning and other diseases.
pos: noun
examples: Everyone got sick from salmonella in the undercooked meat.
gloss: Food poisoning, especially in humans, caused by such organisms.
pos: noun
Derived words: salmonellacidal
salmonellal
salmonellosis
Translations:
salmonellosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English salmonella
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Ancient Greek -ωσις (-ōsis)bor.
New Latin -ōsislbor.
English -osis
English salmonellosis
From salmonella + -osis.
Inflected forms:
form: salmonelloses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several diseases caused by infection with Salmonella bacteria
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
preliterate
Part of speech: adj
noun
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 literate
English preliterate
From pre- + literate.
Inflected forms:
form: preliterates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: that has not yet developed a written language
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: who has not yet learned to read and write
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: a member of such a culture
pos: noun
Translations:
illegally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From illegal + -ly or il- + legally.
Base: illegal
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more illegally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most illegally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a manner contrary to law.
pos: adv
examples: He received a ticket for illegally parking next to a fire hydrant.
The dangers of scofflawry vary wildly. The person who illegally spits on the sidewalk remains disgusting, but clearly poses less risk to others than the company that illegally buries hazardous chemical waste in an unauthorized location.
Translations:
compositor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From French compositeur, from Latin compositor.
Inflected forms:
form: compositors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who sets type; a typesetter.
pos: noun
examples: Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.
All Spaniards, we discovered, knew two English expressions. One was 'O.K., baby', the other was a word used by the Barcelona whores in their dealings with English sailors, and I am afraid the compositors would not print it.
However late medieval copyists were supervised — and controls were much more lax than many accounts suggest — scribes were incapable of committing the sort of "standardized" error that was produced by a compositor who dropped the word "not" from the Seventh Commandment and thus created the "wicked" Bible of 1631.
gloss: One who, or that which, composes or sets in order.
pos: noun
examples: I work as an image compositor.
gloss: A system that puts images together in a buffer (such as individual windows on a desktop) to generate a final display image.
pos: noun
Related words: compose
composer
composite
composition
compositionist
Derived words: compositorial
compositress
Translations:
typesetter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From type + setter.
Compound parts: type
setter
Inflected forms:
form: typesetters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who sets type; an employee in a printshop who manually selected pieces of movable type and assembled them for printing.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: It’s hard to say who has the longest name in history, but a Philadelphia-area typesetter from the early 1900s chose a very long name for himself. Known, among other things, as Hubert Blaine Wolfe+590, Sr., his name has been published in many different forms since.
My writing all took place over weekends, and because I only lived about ten miles away, Peter would hot-foot it to my home on a Monday morning to collect a large parcel of hand-typed sheets of copy, for despatch to the typesetters.
gloss: A machine that combines type in the correct order for printing.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
obstructionist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English obstruction
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 obstructionist
From obstruction + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: obstructionists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more obstructionist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most obstructionist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Someone who systematically obstructs the actions of others.
pos: noun
examples: "And you, sir, have lived an unimaginative obstructionist and never can hope now to emerge from it."
The obstructionists didn't have their own plan, but they counted, successfully, on delay to frustrate any alternative.
gloss: Someone who systematically obstructs the actions of others.
pos: noun
gloss: Pertaining to obstructionism.
pos: adj
gloss: Obstructionistic.
pos: adj
Translations:
chorizo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Spanish chorizobor.
English chorizo
Borrowed from Spanish chorizo.
Inflected forms:
form: chorizos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: choritso
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: chorizzo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A spicy Spanish sausage flavoured with paprika, often crumbled for use in filling tacos, quesadillas, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Substitute three chopped scallions and a minced jalapeño for the onion, and 6 ounces crumbled chorizo for the tomatoes. Sub ½ cup queso fresco for the Parmesan in step 2. Serve with salsa.
A plate of queen scallops on the half shell with chorizo crumbs and garlic butter was only over-shadowed by the quality of its companions.
Translations:
plentifully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English plentefully, plentefullych, plentyfullyche, equivalent to plentiful + -ly.
Base: plentiful
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more plentifully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most plentifully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: in a plentiful manner.
pos: adv
examples: O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
Translations:
preferment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English preferment, preferrement, prefferment; equivalent to prefer + -ment.
Base: prefer
Affixes: -ment
Inflected forms:
form: preferments
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: perferment
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Prior claim (on payment, or on purchasing something); the first rights to obtain a particular payment or product.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
gloss: The fact of being pushed or advanced to a more favourable situation; furtherance, promotion (of a candidate, action, undertaking etc.).
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: But consider—you need not be afraid of delegating power to me. I am no young lady on her preferment. Married women, you know, may be safely authorised.
A mind warranted from prejudice, hath a marvellous preferment [translating avancement] to tranquility.
gloss: Advancement to a higher position or office; promotion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A position (especially in the Church of England) that provides profit or prestige.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: One hall called Civil Law Hall or School, flouriſhed about this time (though in its buildings decayed) by the care of the learned and judicious Dr. Will. Warham Principal or Moderator thereof; which he leaving this year (having before had ſeveral Deputies therein) becauſe of his preferment to the ſee of London, became void for ſome time. The year following the ſaid Warham was tranſlated to Canterbury […]
gloss: The fact of preferring something; preference.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
Derived words: preferment-hunting
Translations:
penologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English penology
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 penologist
From penology + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: penologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A student of, or expert in, penology.
pos: noun
Translations:
preferable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From prefer + -able, probably after Middle French preferable. Compare preference, preferential, etc.
Base: prefer
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: more preferable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most preferable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: præferable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: preferrable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Better than some other option; preferred.
pos: adj
examples: This work has been the care and ſtudy of ſome years; as far as health, and other affairs, would permit. For, this appeared, to the author, of as much greater importance, than any other hiſtory whatever; as morality and religion are more excellent, than any temporal affairs; and the hiſtory of true religion, præferrable to that of impoſtures and deluſions.
It is not to the point that an inequality of material goods, at high levels, may not be preferable to an equality of material goods at a lower level, precisely for such reasons as self-respect.
While adopting the pronoun as a nonbinary description is vastly preferable for some, Merriam-Webster says, there has also been some debate that it is ungrammatical.
If you’re looking for the most breathable mask, Lukovics says, “Cotton is preferable, mainly for absorbing moisture/sweat.” She says multiple layers may be more protective but will also impact breathability.
Translations:
putrescent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Attested since circa 1730, from Latin pūtrēscēns (“rotting”), present participle of pūtrēscō (“rot”).
Inflected forms:
form: more putrescent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most putrescent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Becoming putrid; putrefying.
pos: adj
examples: When it is combined with that quantity of water with which it is found united in the gall-bladder, it is not more putrescent than the serum of the blood
This same reason accounts to a considerable extent for the fact, that soft steeping liquor, if seldom changed, becomes much more putrescent than hard water retained with the same barleys for a similar period in cistern.
although in some instances these spores are elliptical and smooth, they are often coarsely warted and angular. The group in itself seems to be a very natural one, for the species are all soft and fleshy, and even more putrescent than
Translations:
predominance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From predominant + -ance. By surface analysis, pre- + dominance.
Base: predominant
Affixes: -ance
Inflected forms:
form: predominances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition or state of being predominant; ascendancy, domination, preeminence, preponderance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Inside classrooms and lecture theatres, all signage is in English, as is the signage in the staff office blocks. There were only three exceptions to this complete predominance of English.
Translations:
Pleiad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: Pleiads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any one of the Pleiades.
pos: noun
tags: Greek
gloss: A member of the Pleiades cluster.
pos: noun
tags: demonym
Translations:
pleiad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably from the English Pleiades, divine sisters in Greek mythology who were believed to have been placed in the heavens as a well known group of seven stars.
Inflected forms:
form: pleiads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A group of illustrious or talented people, especially one with seven members.
pos: noun
Translations:
penological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English penology
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
English penological
From penology + -ical.
Inflected forms:
form: pœnological
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to penology.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
purgation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English purgacioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman purgacion, itself borrowed from Latin pūrgātiō; equivalent to purge + -ation.
Base: purge
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: purgations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process or act of purging, such as by the use of a purgative.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] Lanfrank takes Notice of Tract. 3. Doct. 3. cap. 18. ſaying, "I have ſeen many who being full of Humours, have made an Iſſue under the Knee, before due Purgation had been premis'd; whence, by reaſon of the too great Defluxion of Humours, the Legs tumified, ſo that the cauterized Place corrupted, and a Cancer (or rather cacoethic Ulcer) was thereby made, with which great Difficulty was cur'd."
Seven or eight annual bloodings, and as many purgations — such was the common regimen the theory prescribed to ensure continuance of health[…].
But those females who conceive without menstrual purgations, or who conceive during the time of the menstrual efflux, and not afterwards, […] and in the second instance because, after the completion of the menstrual purgations, the mouth of the womb becomes closed.
William evidently does not have the appreciation for women that Hildegard exhibits, yet he does not consider their monthly purgations to be a source of evil.
gloss: The process or act of cleansing from sin or guilt.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Secondly, The branches of Plants have been us'd in religious Purgations or Expiations. In the Moſaical Law there was one general kind of Sacrifice commanded for Purgation, which conſiſted of an Heifer ſacrificed and burnt to Aſhes; with which, and ſpring water, a Lee was made to ſerve for many ſorts of Purgations.
Records concerning the individual purgations, which tell us about the crime of the offender and the date of his release, are much more capriciously registered: four dioceses, or some eight counties, yield only fifty-four examples between 1450 and 1530; out of twenty-four registers eleven have no such entries.
An intriguing puzzle is set by the Lincoln register of Thomas Bek in which many of the commissions to receive purgations are followed by a space in which the report of the result was to be entered.
gloss: Exoneration or the act undertaken to achieve exoneration.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: Thus do all traitors;
If their purgation did consist in words,
They are as innocent as grace itself.
Let it suffice thee that I trust thee not.
If any man doubt that, let him put me to my purgation.
I have trod a measure; I have flatt'red a lady; I have been
politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy; I have undone
three tailors; I have had four quarrels, and like to have fought
one.
Related words: emesis
Derived words: superpurgation
Translations:
penmanship
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pen
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
Middle English -man
English -man
Proto-Germanic *skapjaną
Proto-Germanic *-skapiz
Proto-West Germanic *-skapi
Old English -sċiepe
Middle English -schipe
English -ship
English -manship
English penmanship
From pen + -manship.
Inflected forms:
form: penmanships
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of handwriting or chirography, one's own style of writing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Synonym of calligraphy, the art of beautiful writing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: penwomanship
penpersonship
Translations:
penlight
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pen
Proto-Indo-European *lewk-der.
Proto-Germanic *leuhtaz
Proto-West Germanic *leuht
Old English lēoht
Middle English light
English light
English penlight
From pen + light.
Inflected forms:
form: penlights
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small torch or flashlight that resembles a fountain pen.
pos: noun
Translations:
playoff
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Deverbal from play off; by surface analysis, play + -off.
Inflected forms:
form: playoffs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: play-off
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A final game in a series needed to break a tie.
pos: noun
gloss: A short series of games to select a league champion.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
gloss: A short series of games to select the last team to be promoted (to elevate to a higher league).
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A short piece of underscore played during a scene transition in a stage musical, usually reprising a song from the preceding scene.
pos: noun
Related words: play off
Derived words: nonplayoff
playoff beard
preplayoff
Shaughnessy playoff
Translations:
knout
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Via French knout from Russian кнут (knut), from Old East Slavic кнутъ (knutŭ), from Old Norse knútr (“knot in a cord”). Doublet of knot, node, and nodus.
Inflected forms:
form: knouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: knouts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: knouting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: knouted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: knouted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A leather scourge (multi-tail whip), in the severe version known as 'great knout' with metal weights on each tongue, notoriously used in imperial Russia.
pos: noun
examples: In Moscow, a Court carbonadoes / His ignorant serfs with the knout; / […] / But Eton has crueller terrors / Than these,—in the Windsor Express.
Torture in a public school is as much licensed as the knout in Russia.
“I don't suppose a Russian convict under the knout is able to amuse the rest of his gang; and all our men-folk here are gilded convicts.”
Spray and then slogging knouts of water hit the windows or lights like snarling disaffected at a mansion of the rich and frivolous.
The lieutenant gave him twenty strokes of the knout and stuck him in a cage for a few days till the snow was ankle deep.
gloss: To flog or beat with a knout.
pos: verb
examples: Different, isn’t it? It’s called kava, by the way. The Fijians make it by knouting some root or other.
Translations:
taverna
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Greek ταβέρνα (tavérna), from Latin taberna. Doublet of taberna and tavern.
Inflected forms:
form: tavernas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small Greek restaurant.
pos: noun
examples: The streets of Palizzi, through which no Englishman perhaps had as yet descended, were swarming with perfectly naked, berry-brown children, and before I reached the taverna I could hardly make my way through the gathering crowd of astonished mahogany Cupids. The taverna was but a single dark room, […]; still it was a better resting-place than the hut at Condufóri, inasmuch as it was free from many intruders.
In the tavernas of Loutro I had the best octopus I’ve ever eaten, grilled simply with garlic, olive oil and sage over a charcoal fire.
Translations:
vaginal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin vāgīnālis, from vāgīna (“a covering, sheath; the vagina”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to vagina + -al.
Base: vāgīna
Affixes: -ālis
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or affecting the vagina.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
relational
examples: You may have a vaginal birth, C-section, or surrogacy; it's up to you.
A non-hormonal birth control capsule that women can insert just before sex. A rape kit that gives victims more agency and streamlines the evidence collection process. An overhauled design for a 150-year-old tool used in postpartum vaginal tearing.
gloss: Of or relating to a theca.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
relational
Related words: yonic
Derived words: abdominovaginal
anovaginal
antevaginal
brachiovaginal
cervicovaginal
circumvaginal
clitourethrovaginal
colovaginal
endovaginal
enterovaginal
extravaginal
ileovaginal
intervaginal
intravaginal
intra-vaginal
ischiovaginal
neovaginal
nonvaginal
orovaginal
palatovaginal
paravaginal
penovaginal
perineovaginal
perivaginal
pervaginal
postvaginal
prevaginal
pubovaginal
rectovaginal
sacrovaginal
subvaginal
supravaginal
transvaginal
ureterovaginal
urethrovaginal
urovaginal
uterovaginal
vaginal birth
vaginal discharge
vaginal epithelium
vaginal flatulence
vaginal fluid
vaginal introitus
vaginalist
vaginality
vaginalize
vaginal lubrication
vaginally
vaginal opening
vaginal process
vaginal ring
vaginal seeding
vaginal sex
vaginal vault
vesicovaginal
vulvovaginal
Translations:
pearling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pearlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which grain is pearled.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The barley underwent three pearlings in a pearler.
gloss: The process of hunting for pearls.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: fishing and pearling craft
Translations:
azerty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the first six letters on the top row of the standard French keyboard.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having or using the layout of a French/Francophone keyboard.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
liposuction
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *leyp-
Proto-Hellenic *lípos
Ancient Greek λῐ́πος (lĭ́pos)der.
English lipo-
English suction
English liposuction
From lipo- + suction.
Inflected forms:
form: liposuctions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: liposuctions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: liposuctioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: liposuctioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: liposuctioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A cosmetic surgery procedure in which excess fat is removed from a specific area by suction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Wasn't my Mom a betty? She died when I was just a baby. A fluke accident during a routine liposuction. I don't remember her, but I like to pretend she still watches over me.
Dr. Peter Normann, the physician who performed liposuctions and other procedures, has been charged in Superior Court with two counts of second-degree murder and one count of manslaughter.
One of my patients, a beautiful 25-year-old woman, was left with shark bite-sized divots all over her thighs and stomach after undergoing laser liposuction by a family medicine doctor.
But a number of surgeons and clinics have reported an increased demand for surgery on those body parts most visible during video calls – neck liposuctions, lower facelifts and under-eye fillers.
gloss: To remove by liposuction.
pos: verb
examples: It’s not easy to get curves like theirs. The most common type of buttock enhancement, called the “Brazilian Butt Lift,” involves liposuctioning fat from the thighs or hips, purifying it, and then re-injecting it into the buttocks.
When Randi Wright got a Brazilian butt lift in 2020 — a complex surgery in which fat is liposuctioned from the abdomen or lower back or other fleshy parts and used to enlarge and shape the buttocks — she knew she couldn’t afford the most expensive post-op care.
Translations:
dissection
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dissectiōnem, perhaps via Middle French dissection. By surface analysis, dissect + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: dissections
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of dissecting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something dissected.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A minute and detailed examination or analysis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
gloss: Surgical removal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: neck dissection
lymph node dissection
Related words: dissect
Derived words: antidissection
cryodissection
equidissection
hydrodissection
immunodissection
macrodissection
microdissection
redissection
stereodissection
Translations:
dissonance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French dissonance, from Latin dissonantia; by surface analysis, dis- + son- + -ance.
Inflected forms:
form: dissonances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A harsh, discordant combination of sounds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Conflicting notes that are not overtones of the note or chord sounding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A state of disagreement or conflict.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Cognitive dissonance exists when a person possesses two cognitions, one of which is contradictory to the other
gloss: An instance of that state.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: In this polyphony of images in the unconscious which is beyond and outside historical time, there are complex harmonies but no dissonances: the images do not clash, but that, of course, is an aesthetic judgment and not a scientific one.
Related words: assonance
sonic
sonorous
sound
Derived words: cognitive dissonance
critical dissonance
dissonancy
dissonant
lyrical dissonance
Translations:
demijohn
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Partial calque of French dame-jeanne (literally “Lady Jane”), of uncertain origin. Note that the French Jeanne (“Jane, feminine of John”) has changed to the masculine form John, rather than the cognate English Jane.
Inflected forms:
form: demijohns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: demi-john
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A large bottle with a short neck, sometimes with two small handles at the neck, sometimes encased in wickerwork.
pos: noun
examples: “Reckon it's first-drink time,” the old prospector cried cheerily, and unearthed Monica's two-gallon demijohn.
Toby, placing his gold-rimmed spectacles on his nose, set our dinner to simmer and uncorked a demijohn of the old Verfeuille red which glowed in our glasses with the embers of old recollections of half-forgotten journeys and excursions of our youth by the light of the moon.
Translations: