yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
lighter
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From light (“to ignite”) + -er. Cognate with Middle Dutch lichtere, lichter (“one who spreads light, illuminator”), Dutch lichter, luchter (“candle-holder, chandelier”). Compare also Middle English lightnere, liȝtnere (“one who enlightens or illuminates”).
Base: light
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: lighters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lighters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lightering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lightered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lightered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A person who lights things.
pos: noun
examples: a lighter of lamps
gloss: A device used to light things, especially a reusable handheld device for creating fire to light cigarettes.
pos: noun
examples: Cigarette in mouth, he clutched his pockets in search of a lighter.
gloss: To transfer (cargo or passengers) to or from a ship by means of a lighter or other small vessel.
pos: verb
examples: 1900. Report of the Commission Appointed by the President to Investigate the Conduct of the War Department in the War with Spain. Vol. 7, pg. 3227.
Troops and stores were lightered to the wharves inside the harbor by steamers Orizaba and Berkshire.
Beyond the station an extension descends at 1 in 30, the steepest gradient on the line, to Government Wharf, where cargo is lightered to and from ships at anchor in the harbour.
gloss: To transfer cargo or fuel from (a ship), lightening it to make its draft less or to make it easier to refloat.
pos: verb
Derived words: candlelighter
cigar lighter
fag lighter
fag-lighter
gaslighter
jet lighter
lighterage
lighter fluid
lighterful
lighterman
lighter screw
lump the lighter
pipe lighter
sandlighter
table lighter
torch lighter
Translations:
gantry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From earlier gauntree, possibly from dialectal gaun (“gallon”) + tree, perhaps as a reinterpretation of Middle English *gaunter, from Old Northern French gantier, from Late Latin cantarium, from Latin canterius (“trellis, sort of frame”).
Base: gaun
Inflected forms:
form: gantries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gauntree
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: gauntry
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: gawntree
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A framework of steel bars resting on side supports to bridge over or around something.
pos: noun
gloss: A supporting framework for a barrel.
pos: noun
gloss: A gantry crane or gantry scaffold.
pos: noun
gloss: A faregate or turnstile controlling the entry and exit of people at a location.
pos: noun
tags: Singapore
broadly
gloss: A cylindrical scanner assembly in the bore of which the response of bodies or tissues to some specific exposure can be detected for 3D imaging.
pos: noun
examples: In the tomographic images of the 30-day-old cheeses, the gantry had to be removed with image processing techniques: first, the binarised image (grey level larger than 10⁴) was eroded with a disk of three pixels.
Derived words: gantried
gantry crane
gantryless
gantryman
gantry scaffold
signal gantry
Translations:
vote-by-mail
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A system for conducting elections in which voters receive and return ballots via the mail
pos: noun
tags: attributive
sometimes
uncountable
examples: In Oregon, elections are conducted using vote-by-mail.
You must send your vote-by-mail ballot by Friday for it to arrive in the election office in time to be counted.
Translations:
bedrock
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
construction
engineering
geography
geology
manufacturing
mining
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From bed (“a layer on top of which something else rests.”) + rock.
Compound parts: bed
rock
Inflected forms:
form: bedrocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bedrocks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bedrocking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bedrocked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bedrocked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The solid rock found at some depth below the ground surface.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The denudation of the land was upon a grand scale. All superficial accumulations were swept away, and the bedrock was exposed.
Listen! It's big. Only eight to twenty feet to bedrock. There won't be a claim that don't run to half a million.
gloss: A basis or foundation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: If culture is the bedrock of a society, then language is the cornerstone of culture.
Now, although like most young people, Godfrey was indolent and evasive of difficulties, fearful of facing troubles also, he had a bedrock of character.
Many of the bedrock assumptions of American culture — about work, progress, fairness and optimism — are being shaken as successive generations worry about the prospect of declining living standards.
The research on the Like button was an example of how Facebook has questioned the bedrock features of social networking.
Above all, rail needs to be boring. By that, I mean that it must run its timetable reliably, day-in and day-out. Punctuality and reliability remain the bedrock of a successful railway.
gloss: The bones.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
countable
uncountable
gloss: To establish on a solid foundation.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: Bedrocked in the formative race relations of the Heart of Dixie, the governor declined an invitation to the unveiling of artist Maya Lin's civil rights memorial in downtown Montgomery.
Derived words: bedrocky
get down to bedrock
Translations:
introduction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English introduccioun, introduccyon, borrowed from Old French introduction, itself a borrowing from Latin intrōdūctiōnem, accusative of Latin intrōdūctiō, from intrōdūcō. By surface analysis, intro- + Latin dūctiō or introduce + -tion.
Base: introduce
Affixes: -tion
Inflected forms:
form: introductions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of introducing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the introduction of a new product into the market
gloss: A means, such as a personal letter, of presenting one person to another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: David was feeling groggy at his introduction to Sophie, and didn't remember her name.
gloss: An initial section of a book or article, which introduces the subject material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This book features a preface by a well-known botanist, and an introduction by the author's mentor at university.
gloss: A written or oral explanation of what constitutes the basis of an issue.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ECON 101: introduction to economics
Synonyms: isagoge
lead-in
lead
lede
Derived words: card of introduction
cointroduction
e-introduction
introduction agency
introductionless
introductory
letter of introduction
need no introduction
postintroduction
preintroduction
reintroduction
rolling introduction
superintroduction
Translations:
self-help
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
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 help
English self-help
From self- + help.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The practice of bettering oneself without relying on the assistance of others.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: a self-help book
Look at the self-help titles in the bookstore, and you'll get a few clues about our culture. They're all about aggression and acquisition. It wouldn't be at all surprising to see a book called How to Force your Will on Other People by Giving Them the Shaft and Fucking Them out of Their Money.
Amanda Straw estimates that she has read nearly 200 self-help books.
gloss: An act of redressing or preventing a wrong by one's own actions rather than through legal proceedings.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Murder is dealt with by the law of blood-revenge, but the innocent manslayer may seek asylum at God's altar. With murder are ranked man-stealing, offences against parents, and witchcraft. Other injuries are occasions of self-help or of private suits to be adjusted at the sanctuary.
self-help repossession
Derived words: self-helpy
Translations:
seagull
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: ball-games
communications
games
hobbies
journalism
lifestyle
literature
media
orthography
publishing
rugby
sports
writing
Etymology: From sea + gull. The second element is from a Brythonic language. Compare Welsh gwylan, Breton gouelan.
Compound parts: sea
gull
Inflected forms:
form: seagulls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sea gull
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sea-gull
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: seagulls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: seagulling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: seagulled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: seagulled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sea gull
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: sea-gull
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of several white, often dark-backed birds of the family Laridae having long, pointed wings and short legs.
pos: noun
examples: And while there are plenty of benches, there's little shelter from the wind (or predatory seagulls the size of dogs) out on the platforms.
gloss: The symbol ̼, which combines under a letter as a sort of accent.
pos: noun
gloss: A fan or member of Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
gloss: To run in the back line rather than concentrate on primary positional duties in open play.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
slang
examples: […] and when you need cover for the fullback because of the bombs raining down, when the walking maul requires every forward to quit seagulling and actually do some hard graft, then the rest of the game opens up.
On hand was seagulling number eight Dave Hodges to cross for the all-important try.
That occurred in the 12th minute when flanker George Smith, seagulling out wide, enjoyed the rewards of a two-man overlap to score.
France was full of running and continued to spread the ball wide or kick in behind the defence, where towering right-winger Aurelien Rougerie and the seagulling French back row had a height advantage contesting the high ball.
Samo seagulled for Australia's final try two minutes from time.
gloss: To use a British Seagull outboard.
pos: verb
examples: It should be considered a style of outboarding I believe. Seagulling arround^([sic]) and all.
gloss: To work as a non-union casual stevedore.
pos: verb
tags: New-Zealand
examples: Bill had been seagulling on the wharf since he got back from the war.
At that time many of them seagulled on the Mt Maunganui wharf to make a crust in order to carry on with their ideal of kiwifruit as a major exporting industry.
The only stories he told of his life were of how hard he had worked, seagulling on the wharf, standing in blood and guts at the Works, loading trucks with sacks of fertiliser and grain at the Farmers' Co-op.
Derived words: seagulling
Translations:
butty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Clipping of buttered sandwich or bun + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian Buutje (“buttered bread (sandwich)”).
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: butties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sandwich, usually with a hot or cold savoury filling buttered in a barmcake. The most common are chips, bacon, sausage and egg.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
New-Zealand
Northern-England
UK
examples: Let's have a bacon butty!
Translations:
Gullah
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in 1739 as a male black slave's proper name, of unclear origin. Traditionally linked by folk etymology to an apheresis of Angola (where many African slaves were carried from), or an apparent West African ethno-tribal group called the Gola people.
See more at the Wikipedia article Gullah, including other theories.
Inflected forms:
form: Gullahs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Gullah
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Gullah culture.
pos: noun
gloss: Pertaining to the Gullah language and culture.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The music of George Gershwin’s Porgie and Bess was inspired in part by Gullah "shouts".
Translations:
swordfish
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English swerdfysche, from Old English *sweordfisċ. Equivalent to sword + fish.
Compound parts: sword
fish
Inflected forms:
form: swordfish
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: swordfishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: swordfishes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: swordfishing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: swordfished
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: swordfished
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A large marine fish with a long, pointed bill, Xiphias gladius.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.
One reason, the department suggested, was that affluent New Yorkers were likely to eat expensive fish high in mercury, like swordfish and tuna.
gloss: A sudoku technique involving possible cell locations for a digit, or pair, or triple, in uniquely three rows and three columns only. This allows for the elimination of candidates around the grid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To fish for swordfish.
pos: verb
Derived words: Chinese swordfish
swordfish sucker
swordie
Translations:
MILF
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
media
pornography
sexuality
Etymology: Acronym of mother I'd like to fuck, mom I'd like to fuck, mum I'd like to fuck (and similar variants).
First attested in 1992 among college students in the East Bay of San Francisco, popularized via the sex comedy American Pie (1999) and the porn industry.
Inflected forms:
form: MILFs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: MILVEs
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
form: milf
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Milf
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A (putative) mother found sexually attractive
pos: noun
tags: abbreviation
acronym
slang
vulgar
examples: Dude, that chick's a MILF!
She was instantly a gay icon (for men and women), and latterly has become a bit of a milf to young straight guys.
gloss: A pornographic actress in her thirties or older.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
lang: Azerbaijani
word: xalaşka
lang: Basque
word: TXEMA
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 熟女
roman: shúnǚ, shóunǚ
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 徐娘半老
roman: xúniángbànlǎo
lang: Franco-Provençal
word: MÂB
lang: French
word: MILF
lang: German
word: MILF
lang: Hungarian
word: milf
lang: Japanese
word: 熟女
roman: jukujo
lang: Norwegian
word: MILF
lang: Polish
word: MILF
lang: Portuguese
word: MILF
lang: Russian
word: ми́лфа
roman: mílfa
lang: Russian
word: MILF
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: милфача
roman: milfača
lang: Spanish
word: MQMF
lang: Spanish
word: madurita
lang: Swedish
word: MILF
lang: Swedish
word: milf
lang: Ukrainian
word: мі́лфа
roman: mílfa
lang: Ukrainian
word: MILF
half-uncle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: half-uncles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A half-brother of one's parent.
pos: noun
gloss: A half brother-in-law of one's parent.
pos: noun
Antonyms: half aunt
half nephew
half niece
Translations:
agnosticism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Coined by Thomas Henry Huxley. From a- + gnostic + -ism (see also agnostic).
Base: a
Inflected forms:
form: agnosticisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The view that absolute truth or ultimate certainty is unattainable, especially regarding knowledge not based on experience or perceivable phenomena.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The view that the existence of God or of all deities is unknown, unknowable, unproven, or unprovable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Holonyms: epistemology, cosmology, ontology, philosophy
gloss: Doubt, uncertainty, or scepticism regarding the existence of a god or gods.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1956, January 31ˢᵗ: Alan Alexander Milne; quoted in:
1988: James B. Simpson, Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, № 4,393 (Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief — call it what you will — than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.
gloss: Doubt, uncertainty, or scepticism regarding any subject of dispute.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
Related words: agnosia
agnosy
Gnostic
Gnosticism
ignostic
ignosticism
Derived words: agnostic
agnostically
agnostics
antiagnosticism
Translations:
chalcocite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek χαλκός (khalkós)
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der.
Latin -ītēsbor.
French -iteder.
English -ite
English chalcocite
From Ancient Greek χαλκός (khalkós) + English -ite.
Inflected forms:
form: chalcocites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Cuprous sulfide, Cu₂S, an important ore of copper.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Their croppings are either entirely barren or contain only a moderate amount of copper, but much richer ore is ordinarily found just above the chalcocite zone.
Translations:
stumped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: more stumped
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stumped
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Perplexed, confused.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: I'm stumped by this question.
So if women don’t come on flirty or maternal, she thinks, some men get stumped.
gloss: out as a result of the wicket-keeper breaking the wicket with the ball while the batsman is out of his crease.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Done for; bankrupt or ruined.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
slang
examples: "Why, Walsher," said Mr. Stubber, "how many times a day do you rub your face with a brass candlestick? Why, I lent you a pony when you were stumped, and you carried off a cool hundred."
Derived words: unstumped
Translations:
feldspar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Partial calque of German Feldspat, formed from Feld (“field”) + Spat (“spar”), the second element replaced with the English cognate spar.
Inflected forms:
form: feldspars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: felspar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of a large group of rock-forming aluminosilicate minerals containing potassium, sodium, or calcium that, together, make up about 60% of the Earth's outer crust.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
hoodie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hood + -ie (diminutive suffix). In sense “person wearing a hoodie”, influenced by sense -ie (“person associated with suffixed noun, often derogatory”); compare townie.
Base: hood
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: hoodies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hoody
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A sweatshirt with an integral hood and, sometimes, a large kangaroo pocket at the front.
pos: noun
examples: You can buy hoodies on the cheap in summer.
gloss: A young person wearing such a sweatshirt, usually a male, stereotypically associated with antisocial behaviour.
pos: noun
tags: UK
derogatory
often
slang
examples: David Cameron will completely re-engineer the Conservatives' image on crime this week with a remarkable speech calling for more understanding of 'hoodies' and criticising what he calls short-term solutions to curb youth crime such as anti-social behaviour orders and curfews.
En route, we dropped by the home of Lips — one of the very few gang members who still lived with his mother — to pick up some clothes for Tuggy. There, we discussed which pair of trainers to bring him — no small decision, as the soul of the hoodie resides in his trainers.
gloss: A foreskin.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: The hooded crow, Corvus cornix.
pos: noun
Derived words: hoodied
hug-a-hoodie
Translations:
protrusion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French protrusion.
Inflected forms:
form: protrusions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of protruding.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The tortoise, with its characteristic protrusion of the head and neck, was a symbol sacred to Venus. It represented the procreative principle.
gloss: The state of being protruded.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: A reduction in growth was accompanied by protrusion of the calyx.
gloss: Anything that protrudes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Antonyms: indentation
Related words: protuberance
hernia
Derived words: microprotrusion
nanoprotrusion
protrusional
Translations:
surfer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle English suffe?
English suff?
English surf
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English surfer
From surf + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: surfers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who rides a surfboard.
pos: noun
examples: When the surfer has passed the point where the waves are breaking, and is among the waves which are known as “greenbacks”, he may either dive through them or float over them, […]
A road that runs due west from Dale passes the village church and Dale Castle, and a footpath continues to Westdale Bay, a sandy beach used by surfers when the westerlies send great rollers crashing in from the Atlantic.
gloss: A person who surfs the Internet.
pos: noun
gloss: A duck, the surf scoter (Melanitta perspicillata).
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Synonyms: surf rider
Derived words: bed surfer
bodysurfer
couch surfer
couch-surfer
crowd surfer
cybersurfer
elevator surfer
kitesurfer
netsurfer
para-surfer
parasurfer
para surfer
sex surfer
shoulder surfer
silver surfer
skysurfer
snowsurfer
snurfer
sofa surfer
surferish
surfie
wakesurfer
web surfer
websurfer
windsurfer
Translations:
desolately
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English desolate
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English desolately
From desolate + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more desolately
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most desolately
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a desolate manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
despairing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English despeyringe, equivalent to despair + -ing.
Base: despair
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: despairings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Feeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He was beginning to forget his burdening, despairing mood of a short while ago.
gloss: A mood or display of despair.
pos: noun
examples: But what things soever passed in him, when he ceased to see it; what ragings and despairings soever Teufelsdröckh's soul was the scene of, he has the goodness to conceal under a quite opaque cover of Silence.
Translations:
despondence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English despond
English -ence
English despondence
From despond + -ence.
Inflected forms:
form: despondences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being downcast or despondent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: When adverse winds and waves arise,
And in my heart despondence sighs,
....
Grateful I hear the kind decree
That "as my day,—my strength shall be."—
Translations:
burger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kónh₂mder.
Proto-Indo-European *kónh₂méh₂-der.
Proto-Germanic *hanmōder.?
Proto-Germanic *hammō
Old High German hammeder.?
Old High German Hamme
Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *bʰérǵʰsder.?
Proto-Indo-European *bʰergʰ-der.?
Proto-Germanic *burgz
Proto-West Germanic *burg
Old High German burg
Old High German Hammaburg
German Hamburg
Proto-Indo-European *wer-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Germanic *warjaną
Proto-Germanic *warjaz
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Proto-Germanic *-ārijazinflu.
Old High German -āri
Middle High German -ære
German -er
German Hamburgerder.
English hamburgerclip.
English burger
Clipping of hamburger, rebracketing it as ham + burger. First use appears c. 1937. Sense 5 is likely a back-formation from Burgerland.
Base: ham
Inflected forms:
form: burgers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hamburger.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A similar sandwich or patty.
pos: noun
examples: She was planning to have a burger for dinner.
gloss: Any sandwich that uses two bread rolls or buns (in North America it only refers to a sandwich with two buns or bread rolls and a meat patty).
pos: noun
tags: Australia
India
Ireland
New-Zealand
South-Africa
UK
gloss: A stereotypical well-off Pakistani aspiring to a westernized lifestyle.
pos: noun
tags: Pakistan
derogatory
slang
usually
gloss: An American.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
derogatory
Synonyms: burger
Related words: cheeseburger
Translations:
bruja
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: brujas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A female practitioner of brujería.
pos: noun
Translations:
ichneumon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin ichneumōn, from Ancient Greek ἰχνεύμων (ikhneúmōn, “tracker”), from ἴχνος (íkhnos, “track, footstep”).
Inflected forms:
form: ichneumons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An Egyptian mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon), found in Africa and southern Europe.
pos: noun
examples: when the Ichneumon is to grapple with the Crocodile, he walloweth his body in the mire, then lets the same drie and harden upon him[…].
gloss: An ichneumon wasp.
pos: noun
examples: Ada's unique Lorelei Underwing had died, paralyzed by some ichneumon that had not been deceived by those clever prominences and fungoid smudges.
gloss: a legendary animal, which kills crocodiles and dragons
pos: noun
Related words: ichnology
ichnogram
ichneumia
Derived words: ichneumoned
ichneumonized
ichneumonology
Translations:
beastmaster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: video-games
Etymology: From beast + master.
Compound parts: beast
master
Inflected forms:
form: beastmasters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A character in video games who fights monsters and other creatures.
pos: noun
gloss: A role-playing video game character of a character class that is able to control beasts or draw upon their aspects or powers.
pos: noun
gloss: A fierce wrestler.
pos: noun
Translations:
orthoclase
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From ortho- + -clase.
Base: ortho
Inflected forms:
form: orthoclases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Potassium aluminum silicate, KAlSi₃O₈, a common feldspar of igneous, plutonic, and metamorphic rocks. Orthoclase is the main feldspar of pegmatite occurrences, where it is most commonly flesh-colored. Orthoclase is used in the ceramic and glass industries and as a decorative gravel.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
obesogenic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English obese
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Proto-Hellenic *génos
Ancient Greek γένος (génos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -γενής (-genḗs)lbor.
French -gènebor.
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English -genic
English obesogenic
From obese + -genic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Causing obesity.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Some authors have characterized the so-called obesogenic family and have observed the similarity between this kind of family constellation and that of the schizophrenic patient
Thus the changes of lifestyle, concerning diet and physical activity, ie obesogenic environment, was assumed responsible. In addition, the effect of thrifty genotype has been also considered - especially in the countries where obesity […]
Ironically, the US's obesogenic environment is one that societies through the ages have dreamed of: tasty cheap food in abundance, and barely a lick of hard work to be done.
Antonyms: leptogenic
Translations:
sanidine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σανίς (sanís, “board”) + -ine.
Inflected forms:
form: sanidines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A variety of orthoclase feldspar found as tabular crystals embedded in volcanic rocks. Some forms (called moonstone) exhibit adularescence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
run-of-the-mill
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From 1922; from the fact that product produced by a mill should be uniform and like that of any other similar run.
Inflected forms:
form: more run-of-the-mill
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most run-of-the-mill
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: run of the mill
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: run-o'-the-mill
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Ordinary; not special.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: This isn’t your run-of-the-mill refrigerator; you’ll find the extra features well worth the price.
The other had the most run-of-the-mill news which make some of my recent run-of-the-mill columns appear like the raciest escapist fare.
For a deeper, less familiar philosophy, you have to listen to your more run-of-the-mill dossers, and they don't come more run-of-the-mill than Ratso.
In one side of the prestigious commissions, public and private, sacred and profane, which could make the name of an artist, there was a more run of the mill style of painting which already enjoyed a vast clientéle at all levels of society.
Who the more run-of-the-mill victims were is unclear, since they are often not named or have no emblem glyphs attached to them.
Or even more run-of-the-mill murders which usually turn out to be family or business affairs and where someone's usually heard something or, in the case of the more professional killings, someone wants to do a deal.
Someone Great review - another run-of-the-mill romcom from Netflix [title]
Translations:
burb
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of suburb.
Inflected forms:
form: burbs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: 'burb
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A suburb.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
in-plural
Translations:
Botox
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of botulinum + toxin.
Compound parts: botulinum
toxin
Inflected forms:
form: Botoxes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Botoxing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Botoxed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Botoxed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: botox
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To inject Botox.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: The heavily Botoxed, stylishly black-clad, elegantly blinged women who organized this evening may not want to imitate Bette's style, but they certainly love her sass.
His thirty year younger wife, Monica, has apparently graduated with a magna cum laude honors degree from an Ivy League, but obviously lost it somewhere down the line when she visited her plastic surgeon; double D silicones and Botoxed face!
To be clear, I have no problem with anybody who Botoxes and fills.
[…]I probably Botox twice a year.
Translations:
mantilla
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish mantilla (“large veil; small cape”), from manta (“blanket, cloth, cloth banner”) + -illa (diminutive).
Base: manta
Affixes: -illa
Inflected forms:
form: mantillas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A lace veil of Spanish origin worn over a woman's hair and shoulders.
pos: noun
examples: [M]y eyes were oft times [on the] charmante maitresse de la maison, who glided among her guests in her flowing Spanish mantilla, and train of the clearest blonde, doing her devoirs with winning kindness, and showing how much benevolence of manner adds to beauty.
Still the mantilla preserved its sway; it had taken a fast hold of the affections of all classes of the feminine gender; and there is now as much chance of driving roast-beef from our shores as there is of transporting black mantillas. […] no squire's lady, no duke's duchess, no countess, and no queen, can or need, in these days of mantillas, be without one of these coverlids for the shoulders, these hiders of all deformities, and these friends to all ages and proportions. For there are mantillas from seven shillings to seven pounds,—of all sizes and shapes, with or without fringe, lace, tassels, and other ornaments.
Mantillas are larger than last year, and are generally all worn with a deep flouncing, either of the same material, or of black lace; the mantilla itself is also much trimmed with small ruchings of ribbon, guip and guipure lace, laid on quite flat. […] Black lace shawls and mantillas will always be in the best taste—the Spanish origin of the Empress Eugénie, having given her a penchant for these articles, the national mantilla of her country, of which we have borrowed the name.
gloss: A woman's light cloak or cape made of silk, velvet, lace, or other material.
pos: noun
examples: The Duchess of Alba wrapped herself in a mantilla coat, asked her guest to take a chair in the middle of the patio and placed herself three steps behind him in the shade of a magnolia.
Related words: mandil
mandylion
Translations:
nerdy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English nerd
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English nerdy
From nerd + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: nerdier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: nerdiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Being or like a nerd.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
derogatory
examples: That guy is nerdy and weird.
gloss: Of, pertaining to, in the style of, or appealing to nerds.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
derogatory
examples: That is a nerdy song.
I got a pair of nerdy glasses and clothes for Halloween.
The cleverest and most prolific inventors, such as Reiner Knizia (who lives in England) are nerdy superstars. Euro (also “German-style”) games must not be confused with “Ameritrash” games, which generally involve high drama and employ plastic pieces, though arguing over what the difference is seems to be gamers' second-favourite pastime.
Related words: geeky
Derived words: nerdily
nerdiness
semi-nerdy
supernerdy
ubernerdy
ultranerdy
Translations:
hologram
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From holo- + -gram, from Ancient Greek ὅλος (hólos, “whole”) + γρᾰ́μμᾰ (grắmmă, “that which is written or drawn”), coined by Hungarian-born British scientist Dennis Gabor in 1948, the Nobel prize winner in physics in 1971 for his work in holography.
Base: holo
Inflected forms:
form: holograms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hologramme
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A three-dimensional image of an object created by holography.
pos: noun
examples: He turned his head and stared out to sea, longing for the hologram logo of Fuji Electric, for the drone of a helicopter, anything at all.
Translations:
mediation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English mediacion, mediacioun, medyacion, medyacyoun from Middle French mediacion and its etymon Late Latin mediātiō, from mediārī (“intervene”), from Latin medius (“middle”). By surface analysis, mediate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: mediations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Negotiation to resolve differences conducted by an impartial party.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Heritage interpretation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: mediate
mediator
mid
arbitration
Derived words: cybermediation
hypermediation
mediational
telemediation
transmediation
Translations:
extensible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin extēnsibilis, from extendō (“to extend”).
Inflected forms:
form: more extensible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most extensible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being extended.
pos: adj
Antonyms: inextensible
Translations:
microcline
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
English -cline
English microcline
From micro- (“small”) + -cline.
Inflected forms:
form: microclines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A common feldspar of igneous, plutonic, and metamorphic rocks, made of potassium aluminum silicate, with the chemical formula KAlSi₃O₈.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
caisson
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
politics
transport
war
Etymology: Borrowed from French caisson. Doublet of cassone and cajón.
Inflected forms:
form: caissons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A (permanent) enclosure from which water can be expelled, in order to give access to underwater areas for engineering works etc.
pos: noun
examples: During the construction of the viaduct, the sinking of the caissons in the river bed caused much difficulty to the engineer and contractors, as a bed of running sand was encountered; in consequence, the expenditure for these foundations proved almost prohibitive.
Caissons were enclosed dry chambers built on river beds to facilitate the construction of bridge piers.
gloss: A structure with similar function that is temporary.
pos: noun
gloss: A coffer (sunken panel).
pos: noun
gloss: The gate across the entrance to a drydock.
pos: noun
gloss: A floating tank that can be submerged, attached to an underwater object and then pumped out to lift the object by buoyancy.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: pontoon
gloss: A two-wheeled, horse-drawn military vehicle used to carry ammunition (and a coffin at funerals).
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: limber
Over hill, over dale / As we hit the dusty trail, / And those caissons go rolling along.
gloss: A large box to hold ammunition.
pos: noun
gloss: A chest filled with explosive materials, used like a mine.
pos: noun
Derived words: caisson disease
Translations:
granite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From French granit (“granite”), from Italian granito (“granite”), from granire (“to granulate”), from grano (“grain”), from Latin grānum (“grain”). Compare granita.
Inflected forms:
form: granites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A group of igneous and plutonic rocks composed primarily of feldspar and quartz. Usually contains one or more dark minerals, which may be mica, pyroxene, or amphibole. Granite is quarried for building stone, road gravel, decorative stone, and tombstones. Common colors are gray, white, pink, and yellow-brown.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Many monuments sold in the US are crafted from granite produced in China, India and elsewhere overseas, while a lot of stone-working equipment comes from Europe.
gloss: Toughness; the quality of having a thick skin or being rough.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
examples: ‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?
The neighbor is eventually able to sell her home despite Homer’s pants-less affronts to propriety and decency and Bart falls deeply and instantly for one of its new inhabitants, a tough but charming and funny tomboy girl named Laura (voiced by Sara Gilbert) with just the right combination of toughness and sweetness, granite and honey.
Related words: pegmatite
feldspar
quartz
granodiorite
Derived words: bite on granite
cumulogranite
Granite Bay
granite blue
Granite City
Granite County
Granite Falls
Granite Flat
granitelike
granite poison
Graniteville
graniteware
granitic
granitical
granitification
granitiform
granitisation
granitise
granitite
granitization
granitize
granitized
granitoid
granodiorite
granolith
leucogranite
microgranite
monzogranite
pregranitic
take for granite
Translations:
stonefish
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From stone + fish.
Compound parts: stone
fish
Inflected forms:
form: stonefishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stonefish
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stone fish
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: stone-fish
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A venomous tropical marine fish resembling a piece of rock, of the genus Synanceia, found in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean
pos: noun
Translations:
pegmatite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πήγνυμι (pḗgnumi, “to attach, join”) + -ite
Affixes: -ite
Inflected forms:
form: pegmatites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A coarsely crystalline igneous or plutonic rock composed primarily of feldspar and quartz, normally with muscovite and/or biotite mica.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
supra
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Proto-Italic *superos
Proto-Italic *superād
Old Latin suprād
Latin suprābor.
English supra
Borrowed from Latin suprā.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Used to indicate that the current citation is from a source cited earlier in the text.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Above, mentioned earlier in a text.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Set aside the very recent #MeToo discussion, which as noted supra is deserved and should actually influence how we read his work.
Related words: vide supra
super-
Translations:
infra
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin infra (“below”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Discussed later.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: supra
Translations:
meatspace
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From meat + space, by analogy with cyberspace. Compare in the flesh and meatbag.
Compound parts: meat
space
Inflected forms:
form: meat space
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: meat-space
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The physical world, as opposed to the virtual world of the Internet.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
derogatory
idiomatic
sometimes
uncountable
examples: In this short manifesto, Barlow erects an 'electronic frontier' between the legislature, marketsand social mores of what he terms elsewhere 'Meatspace' and the radical otherness of cyberspace.
The HBO sci-fi blockbuster Westworld has been an inspiring look into what humanlike robots can do for us in the meatspace.
Translations:
calcareous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin calcārius (“of or pertaining to lime”), derived from calx (“lime”). Similar to calcium.
Inflected forms:
form: more calcareous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most calcareous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling, containing, or composed of calcium carbonate or limestone; chalky.
pos: adj
examples: The next morning I went to see the hot-springs and mud volcanoes, for which this place is celebrated. A picturesque path among plantations and ravines brought us to a beautiful circular basin about forty feet in diameter, bordered by a calcareous ledge, so uniform and truly curved, that it looked like a work of art.
The traveller from the coast, who, after plodding northward for a score of miles over calcareous downs and corn-lands, suddenly reaches the verge of one of these escarpments[.]
Cellariiform, the orifices nearly confined to the convex frontal and lateral surfaces; the basal surface with a strong median calcareous keel, almost concealed by a flat membranous epitheca, which covers the whole zoarium […]
Instead, the spoil will be used in part to create 127 hectares of new calcareous grassland (alkaline grassland), woodland, wood pasture, and wetland habitats.
gloss: Growing in a chalky habitat.
pos: adj
Related words: calciferous
Derived words: calcareously
calcareousness
calcareous sponge
corneo-calcareous
noncalcareous
semicalcareous
subcalcareous
uncalcareous
Translations:
biphasic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Italic *dwi-
Latin bi-bor.
English bi-
English phase
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English phasic
English biphasic
From bi- + phasic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having two phases.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
diptych
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
art
arts
Etymology: From Late Latin diptycha, plural, from Ancient Greek, neuter plural of δίπτυχος (díptukhos, “folded, doubled”), from δι- (di-) + πτυχή (ptukhḗ, “fold, layer”).
Inflected forms:
form: diptychs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A writing tablet consisting of two leaves of rigid material connected by hinges and shutting together so as to protect the writing within.
pos: noun
gloss: A picture or series of pictures painted on two tablets, usually connected by hinges.
pos: noun
gloss: A double catalogue, containing in one part the names of living, and in the other of deceased, ecclesiastics and benefactors of a church.
pos: noun
gloss: A catalogue of saints.
pos: noun
gloss: Artistically-wrought tablets distributed by consuls, etc. of the later Roman Empire to commemorate their tenure of office; hence (transferred sense) a list of magistrates.
pos: noun
tags: Ancient-Rome
historical
gloss: A novel published in two volumes forming one continuous story (as opposed to a duology or dilogy).
pos: noun
gloss: A literary work consisting of two contrasting parts, such as a narrative telling the same story from two opposing points of view.
pos: noun
examples: A very simple narrative, a diptych, a pastoral in which the author narrates the birth of Christ […] first as it has impressed the rich countryman Asveer, then as it has been seen by the skeptic Nicodemus.
gloss: Any work made up of two parts treating complementary or contrasting aspects of one general topic.
pos: noun
examples: “Vegetation of the Sonoran Desert” is the first volume of a diptych “Vegetation and Flora of the Sonoran Desert,” for which Ira L. Wiggins is to write the companion volume on the flora.
Related words: triptych
Translations: