yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
messuage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Late Middle English mesuage, messuage (“dwelling house, residence; farmstead; household”), from Anglo-Norman mesuage, messuage (“residence; holding”), probably from Late Latin mesuagium, messuagium, probably ultimately from Latin mānsiō (“abode, dwelling, habitation, home”) or its etymon mānsus (“having remained or stayed”), the perfect passive participle of maneō (“to abide; to remain, stay”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to remain, stay”).
Cognates
* Late Latin mansuagium
* Old French masuage (“property rented on an annual basis”)
Inflected forms:
form: messuages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Originally, a plot of land as the site for a dwelling house and its appurtenant interests; now, a dwelling house or residential building together with its outbuildings and assigned land.
pos: noun
examples: Dying intestate, Juan was sole heir / To a chancery suit, and messuages, and lands, / Which, with a long minority and care, / Promised to turn out well in proper hands: […]
And be it further ordained and enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Right and Title of the said Ecclesiastics of the Seminary of Saint Sulpice of Montreal, in and to all and singular the said Fiefs and Seigniories of the Island of Montreal, of the Lake of the Two Mountains, and of Saint Sulpice, and their several Dependencies, and in and to all Seigniorial and Feudal Rights, Privileges, Dues, and Duties arising out of and from the same, and in and to all and every the Domains, Lands, Reservations, Buildings, Messuages, Tenements, and Hereditaments within the said several Fiefs and Seigniories now held and possessed by them as Proprietors thereof, […] shall be and they are hereby confirmed and declared good, valid, and effectual in the Law; […]
She went—and in one month / They wedded her to sixty thousand pounds, / To lands in Kent and messuages in York, / And slight Sir Robert with his watery smile / And educated whisker.
Page 174, line 25. Perhaps the Richard Longebothome here mentioned was the same man as the Richard who herioted the property in 1509. Apr. 23, I Hen. VIII (1509). Ric. Longebothome paid xxiijˢ iiijᵈ [23s 4d] fine for license of herioting one messuage called Longebothome, one cottage, and 40 acres of land and meadow in Soureby after the death of Ric. Longebothome and Agnes, his wife, grandfather […]
Matthias turned his lonely house into a mart where furniture, plate and titledeeds to fields and messuages could be brought, evaluated, and transferred to the hands of the primal twelve as administrators.
Translations:
metastasis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin metastasis (“(rhetoric) rapid or sudden transition from one argument, point, or topic to another”), and from its etymons Koine Greek μετάστασις (metástasis, “(rhetoric) rapid or sudden transition from one argument, point, or topic to another”) and Ancient Greek μετάστασις (metástasis, “change; removal; (medicine) movement of disease, pain, etc., from one part of the body to another”), from μετᾰ- (metă-, prefix denoting change in condition or position) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meth₂) + στᾰ́σῐς (stắsĭs, “condition, state; position”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”)), modelled after μεθιστάναι (methistánai, “to change; to remove”). By surface analysis, meta- + stasis.
In reference to the spread of cancer, a semantic loan from French métastase, whose use to refer to it was coined in 1829 by the French gynecologist Joseph Récamier (1774–1852).
The plural form metastases is a learned borrowing from Late Latin metastases.
Inflected forms:
form: metastases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A change in nature, form, or quality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Stayed in her own house, searched her body each morning and examined her conscience each night for progressive symptoms of the metastasis she feared was in her.
gloss: The spread of something harmful to another location, such as the metastasis of a cancer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
gloss: A sudden or rapid transition from one point, topic or argument to another, often to evade an uncomfortable subject or to redirect the discussion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rhetoric
uncountable
gloss: The transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body, specifically the development of a secondary area of disease remote from the original site, as with some cancers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Among the hypothesized diagnoses was metastatic carcinoma. In metastatic cancer, metastases are most frequent in the axial skeleton and are rare in the distal parts of the appendicular skeleton[…].
Derived words: antimetastasis
genometastasis
macrometastasis
metastasectomy
metastasic
metastasize
metastasized
metastasizing
metastatic
metastatogenic
metastin
micrometastasis
multimetastasis
oligometastasis
polymetastasis
prometastasis
Translations:
prata
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Tamil பரோட்டா (parōṭṭā), related to Hindi पराठा (parāṭhā). Doublet of parotta and paratha.
Inflected forms:
form: pratas
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: prataing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: prataed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: prataed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of roti prata (a type fried flatbread that is cooked over a flat grill)
pos: noun
tags: Singapore
uncountable
examples: The fact that these guys were cocky enough to not merely name this snack a perfectly acceptable prata and curry, but egg prata with fish curry, made us quite certain[…].
A trio upset with a cook who had denied them free prata slashed him with a knife and left him with a deep wound.
gloss: To change one's position repeatedly, vacillate, flip-flop (following the repeated flipping when making prata).
pos: verb
tags: Singapore
intransitive
slang
transitive
examples: With all this roti-prataing still can trust not?
I have no issue with them flip-flopping, or in local parlance, roti-prataing. It's a fluid situation, which demands fluid solutions.
Translations:
thoroughbred
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From thorough + bred.
Compound parts: thorough
bred
Inflected forms:
form: more thoroughbred
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most thoroughbred
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Bred from pure stock.
pos: adj
gloss: Well-bred and properly educated.
pos: adj
Related words: thoroughbreed
Derived words: nonthoroughbred
thoroughbredness
Translations:
narcissistic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English narcissist
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English narcissistic
From narcissist + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more narcissistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most narcissistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: narcissistics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the nature of narcissism.
pos: adj
gloss: Having an inflated idea of one's own importance.
pos: adj
gloss: Obsessed with one's own self image and ego.
pos: adj
examples: Anyone who goes into a voting booth on November the 8th and comes out saying, “I feel a hundred percent great about what I just did in there!,” is either lying to themselves, or did something unspeakable in that booth! And that means, as uncomfortable as this is, everyone has to own the floors of whoever you vote for, whether they are a lying handsy narcissistic sociopath, a hawkish Wall Street-friendly embodiment of everything that some people can’t stand about politics, an ill-tempered mountain molester with a radical dangerous tax plan that even he can’t defend, or a conspiracy-pandering political neophyte with no clear understanding of how government operates and who once recorded this folk rap about the virtues of bicycling.
gloss: A narcissist.
pos: noun
examples: Because narcissistics cannot handle failure, they will take great lengths to avoid risks and situations in which defeat is a possibility.
Related words: narcissism
narcissist
narcissize
megalomania
Derived words: narcissistically
narcissistic number
narcissistic personality disorder
narcissistic supply
nonnarcissistic
Translations:
Thoroughbred
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Thoroughbreds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: thoroughbred
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A horse of a breed derived from crosses between Arabian stallions and English mares, bred for racing, with its breeding history recorded in an official stud book.
pos: noun
examples: He wanted to be at the white-hot center of equine sport, to become a jockey, to be able to feel the thrust and power of a Thoroughbred in its ultimate competition: racing flat out, surging to the head of the herd.
Translations:
prefixed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: præfix’d
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: præfixed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: præfixt
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: prefixt
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: prefix’d
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having a (specified) prefix.
pos: adj
gloss: Added as a prefix.
pos: adj
Derived words: nonprefixed
prefixedly
unprefixed
Translations:
delicatessen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested 1864. From German Delikatessen, plural of Delikatesse (“delicacy, fine food”), at the time also spelt Delicatesse(n), from French délicatesse, from délicat (“fine”), from Latin delicatus (“alluring”).
The sense of store is much more recent, originating in ellipsis from the common attributive use, as in delicatessen shop, delicatessen store, etc.
Inflected forms:
form: delicatessens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: delikatessen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A shop that sells cooked or prepared foods ready for serving.
pos: noun
Translations:
throughway
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From through + way. Compare thoroughway.
Compound parts: through
way
Inflected forms:
form: throughways
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: thruway
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: (Normally and officially spelled thruway) A broad highway fit for high-speed traffic; a thoroughfare.
pos: noun
tags: US
Translations:
deli
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Attested since 1954. Clipping of delicatessen, from German Delikatessen, plural of Delikatesse (“delicacy, fine food”), from French délicatesse, derived from the adjective délicat, from Latin delicatus.
Inflected forms:
form: delis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A shop that sells cooked or prepared food ready for serving.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Delis usually offer a broader, fresher menu than fast food chains.
The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.
Where rectangular storage containers make a mess of mismatched lids and sometimes unstackable shapes, the ordinary cylindrical deli cups used for food delivery are far superior.
Part of the 'western arcade' (as it's known) is lined with delis, cafes and other shops, giving it the feeling of a bazaar.
gloss: Food sold at a delicatessen.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Derived words: deli meat
Translations:
mezuzah
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From post-Biblical Hebrew מְזוּזָה (m'zuzá, məzûzâ, “doorpost”), with reference to Deuteronomy 6:9, a mitzvah (Biblical commandment as interpreted in Jewish law) ordering to “write the words of God on the gates and doorposts of your house”.
Inflected forms:
form: mezuzahs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mezuzot
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mezuzoth
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mezuza
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mezuzza
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mezzuza
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mezzuzah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mezuze
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A piece of parchment inscribed with specific Hebrew verses from the Torah (Deuteronomy 6:4–9 and 11:13–21) and attached in a case to the doorpost of a house.
pos: noun
examples: On the other hand, one may feel profoundly moved with the spirit of true piety, love of God and loyalty to his commandments in the performance of a so-called "traditional commandment," like the fastening of a "mezuzah" to the door-post.
Slothrop gives him the mandala. He hopes it will work like the mantra that Enzian told him once, mba-kayere (I am passed over), mba-kayere . . . a spell against Marvy tonight, against Tchitcherine. A mezuzah. Safe passage through a bad night. . . .
If, for some strange reason, you want to eat the fair fruit on the date of purchase, you buy one that's already flecked, race home, and devour it as soon as you've crossed your threshold and kissed the mezuza.
Lubavitchers, Penansky says, believe mezuzahs need no adornment and simply wrap them in cellophane.
When Manny or either of his parents went through their front door they put a finger on their lips and then to the mezuzah on the door frame.
gloss: An object of similar function in the Samaritan tradition.
pos: noun
Translations:
thumping
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: more thumping
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most thumping
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more thumping
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most thumping
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: thumpings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Exceptional in some degree.
pos: adj
tags: informal
gloss: Exceptionally. Very.
pos: adv
tags: informal
examples: A thumping good wizard you'll be, I'm sure.
gloss: A dull, heavy sound.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They were a regular series of thumpings from the interior of the house, occasioned by the violent rocking of a cradle upon a stone floor, to which movement a feminine voice kept time by singing, in a vigorous gallopade[.]
There was nothing to be seen, but he could hear loud thumpings and bumpings which seemed to come from the back of the house.
gloss: A beating.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He received a thumping from the school bully.
And in our times, in Philadelphia, there have been specimens of violent shruggings of the shoulders, and brachial twitches, and prodigious wry faces, and thumpings on the pews.
gloss: A heavy defeat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Grant's future has been the subject of rumour after rumour for much of the season and last week's horrific 5-0 thumping at Newcastle was the catalyst for another round of fevered speculation.
Translations:
mistral
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French mistral, from Occitan. Doublet of magistral.
Inflected forms:
form: mistrals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A strong cold north-west wind in southern France and the Mediterranean.
pos: noun
examples: I saw him, the sea gray under the mistral and foam-flecked, watching the vanishing coast of France, which he was destined never to see again; and I thought there was something gallant in his bearing and dauntless in his soul.
The mistral had been blowing for three days now and the sea showed more white than blue
Translations:
Mixolydian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μιξο-Λυδιος (mixo-Ludios, “half-Lydian”), from μιξο- (mixo-) (from base of μιγνυναι (mignunai, “to mix”)) + Λυδιος (Ludios, “Lydia (an ancient country in Asia Minor)”); named in reference to Lydian (another Greek mode).
Inflected forms:
form: mixolydian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Designating the Mixolydian mode, the highest of the ancient Greek modes, and now having final G and D dominant.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Johann Jakob Froberger's piece Canzona V in G is in the mixolydian mode.
It is susceptible of nodes or modes as far apart as hyperphrygian and mixolydian and of texts so divergent as priests haihooping round David's that is Circe's or what am I saying Ceres' altar and David's tip from the stable to his chief bassoonist about the alrightiness of his almightiness.
Translations:
thundercloud
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From thunder + cloud.
Compound parts: thunder
cloud
Inflected forms:
form: thunderclouds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large, dark cloud, usually a cumulonimbus, charged with electricity and producing thunder and lightning.
pos: noun
gloss: Something menacing and brooding.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
figuratively
examples: the ominous thunderclouds of war
Related words: cumulonimbus
rain cloud
Translations:
moble
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Frequentative mob + -le.
Base: mob
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: mobles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mobling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mobled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mobled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To muffle or wrap someone's head or face (normally with up).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: But who, O who, had ſeen the inobled Queen.
She was all mobled up at the window, her tawniness flat and dull in this snowlight, and I felt pity.
Translations:
thunderstruck
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From thunder + struck. Compare synonymous and cognate Latin attonitus. Also compare typologically Ancient Greek ἐμβρόντητος (embróntētos) (< βροντή (brontḗ)) (whence Greek εμβρόντητος (emvróntitos)); Czech ohromený (< ohromit), Bulgarian като ударен от гръм (kato udaren ot grǎm), Russian как гро́мом поражённый (kak grómom poražónnyj) (akin to гром (grom)). See also German wie vom Donner gerührt.
Compound parts: thunder
struck
Inflected forms:
form: more thunderstruck
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most thunderstruck
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Astonished, amazed or so suddenly surprised as to be unable to speak.
pos: adj
examples: The overthrown he rais’d, and as a Heard
Of Goats or timerous flock together throngd
Drove them before him Thunder-struck,
Therefore he whacked the old nigger mercilessly, while a big crowd of his people watched him, thunderstruck, till some man, - I was told the chief's son, - in desperation at hearing the old chap yell, made a tentative jab with a spear at the white man - and of course it went quite easy between the shoulder-blades.
Tarzan was thunderstruck, but in an instant he realized a part of the truth.
And for days Europe and the great powers were thunderstruck, again and yet again, by the news of Turkish forts falling, Turkish cohorts collapsing, the unconquerable Crescent going down in blood.
1927-29 — Mohandas Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of my Experiments with Truth, Part V, The Fast, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai
'Unless the strikers rally,' I declared to the meeting, 'and continue the strike till a settlement is reached, or till they leave the mills altogether, I will not touch any food.' The labourers were thunderstruck.
“Look, I tell you what, Mac. Seeing how as you're my best friend” “Yeah!” “Maybe you can look into it for me. Go snoop around the shop.” “Can-can I stop you for a second? I'm sorry. I'm a little confused here. You-you just said that he was your best friend? How is he your best friend over me?” “Well, I mean... You banged the waitress. Do I even have to explain that to you? That kind of rubbed me the wrong way, dude.” “Okay. I mean, you know, I don't see how that should factor into whether we're best friends or not. Y'know, to be honest with you, man, I'm a little shocked. I'm-I'm kinda-- I'm thunderstruck.” “Oh, well, I'm sorry, man. But y'know I didn't mean to hurt you. I didn't mean to thunderstrike you. But that's just-- I don't know what to tell you. What do you want to hear?” “I need for you to explain to me how it is that you consider Mac to be a better friend to you.” “Look, now this is just becoming awkward when I have a real problem! And all of a sudden it's about some weird feelings thing! And it's not about your feelings right now! It's about my feelings 'cause I have a problem, okay?. Now, Mac, please, do you think you can find this guy and kick his ass for me?”
Translations:
thymic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English thyme
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English thymic
From thyme + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the thymus gland
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Zinc deficiency may contribute to immune suppression suppression in people who have AIDS and ARC, report researchers who have found thymic hormone failure and zinc deficiency in seven people with AIDS and seven with ARC.
gloss: Derived from thymol
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: alexithymic
athymic
cyclothymic
dysthymic
euthymic
extrathymic
extrathymically
hyperthymic
intrathymic
intrathymical
intrathymically
leipothymic
lipothymic
nonthymic
normothymic
parathymic
perithymic
prethymic
prethymically
schizothymic
thymically
thymic alymphoplasia
thymic corpuscle
thymic vein
Translations:
monteith
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Scottish surname Monteith.
Inflected forms:
form: monteiths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large 18th-century punchbowl, usually of silver, fluted and scalloped.
pos: noun
examples: In the taper-lit, perhaps pre-sixteeth-century room—a piece of Laughing and Triumphing needlework in the style of Rubens completely hid the walls—the capacious oval of the dinner-table, crowned by a monteith bowl filled with slipper-orchids, showed agreeably enough.
The Punch is a secret Receipt of the Landlord, including but not limited to peach brandy, locally distill’d Whiskey, and milk. A raft of long Icicles broken from the Eaves floats upon the pale contents of the great rustick Monteith.
gloss: A cotton handkerchief with white spots on a coloured background.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Translations:
morphew
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Medieval Latin morphea, perhaps from Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ, “form, shape”). Doublet of morphea.
Inflected forms:
form: morphews
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A blemish or mark on the skin, especially a blister caused by scurvy.
pos: noun
Translations:
ortholog
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: orthologs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of two or more homologous gene sequences found in different species related by linear descent.
pos: noun
Translations:
tic-tac-toe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: games
Etymology: Imitative; from tick-tack, used earlier to denote games in which the pieces made clicking sounds.
Inflected forms:
form: tick-tack-toe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tick-tat-toe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tit-tat-toe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tic tac toe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tick tat toe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tit tat toe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A game in which two players take turns placing circles and crosses on a 3x3 grid and attempt to obtain three of the same symbols in a straight line.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
conversationalist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English conversation
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 conversational
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 conversationalist
From conversational + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: conversationalists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who participates in a conversation.
pos: noun
examples: If you can just ask questions about a person and nod sagely then they will leave thinking you are a brilliant conversationalist.
gloss: A person skilled in general conversation.
pos: noun
examples: But Shulgin, while a nimble conversationalist, can have trouble with names — of people and places, never chemicals.
Derived words: conversationalistic
Translations:
ticket-collector
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ticket-collectors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a person who collects the tickets of patrons entering a cinema, theatre etc so that they cannot be used again
pos: noun
Translations:
primordial
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From the Latin prīmōrdiālis (“of the beginning”). Compare primordium and -al.
Inflected forms:
form: primordials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: First, earliest or original.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: the primordial facts of our intelligent nature
As an archetypal image of primordial unity, the cosmic egg suggests that there is unity and fragmentation, eternity and time.
gloss: Characteristic of the earliest stage of the development of an organism, or relating to a primordium.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a primordial leaf; a primordial cell
gloss: Primeval.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of an element or isotope: occurring primordially (on Earth) (i.e. inherited from when the Earth was formed); because it is stable, or radioactive but so long-lived that some is left over from when the Earth was formed. For example, primordial radioisotopes (T = half-life in years) include uranium-235 (T = 7×10⁸), potassium-40 (T = 1.25×10⁹), uranium-238 (T = 4.5×10⁹), and thorium-232 (T = 1.4×10¹⁰).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A first principle or element.
pos: noun
gloss: A primordial condition or state.
pos: noun
examples: With a horrified shriek she tore herself from Tarzan’s arms, and the ape-man turned just in time to ward with his arm a terrific blow that De Coude had aimed at his head. Once, twice, three times the heavy stick fell with lightning rapidity, and each blow aided in the transition of the ape-man back to the primordial.
Related words: exord
exordium
primordium
Derived words: equiprimordial
nonprimordial
primordial black hole
primordial cell
primordial chaos
primordial element
primordial fluctuations
primordialism
primordiality
primordially
primordial ocean
primordial ooze
primordial phallus
primordial sea
primordial sludge
primordial soup
Translations:
ticket-holder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ticket-holders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ticketholder
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ticket holder
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: someone who has a valid ticket for an event or for a journey
pos: noun
examples: For $50 ticketholders were invited to see "Little Miss Sunshine" and clips from past Arkin films, and to attend a question-and-answer session.
The Ambassador Group also pulled the plug on almost half of its shows, including Carousel, Wicked, Zorro, The Sound of Music, Sunset Boulevard, Joseph, Jersey Boys, Hairspray, Grease, and Be Near Me. It said ticketholders would be entitled to rebook.
Translations:
ticking-off
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tickings-off
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: an admonition or reprimand
pos: noun
Translations:
ticking-over
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: the idling of an engine
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: doing a gentle amount of work
pos: noun
tags: broadly
uncountable
Translations:
tickety-boo
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Chiefly and originally British slang. Possibly from an Indo-Aryan language: compare Hindi ठीक है, बाबू (ṭhīk hai, bābū, “it's all right, sir”). The phrase could have been picked up by British personnel in India before independence and spread in modified form to the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the Commonwealth. It may also be a corruption from French: "ce que t'es beau", "how beautiful you are", adopted similarly to "toodeloo' (bye-bye), which is a corruption of "À toute à l'heure" (see you later, today). Likely from WW1 Tommies. Alternately, it may be an extended version of that's the ticket, possibly influenced by peekaboo. Attested in English since the 1920s.
Inflected forms:
form: ticketty-boo
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: tickety boo
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: ticketyboo
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: tiggity-boo
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: diggity boo
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Correct, satisfactory.
pos: adj
tags: UK
informal
not-comparable
examples: I want everything to be all tickety-boo. I want to marry you properly according to the English law so that your people will know that I'm playing straight with you.
Great days! The dawn’s breaking over no-man’s-land – Dewdrops glistening on the poppies in the early morning sun! ‘Good morning, corporal! All quiet on the Western Front?’ … ‘Tickety-boo, sir!’
'Whit's up wi' yer John Greig (leg) then? Ye didnae have that before.' / 'Aw ye noticed!' said the mercenary, 'We were in a fight one day w' some o' that Taliban mob and I copped a hit wi' a grenade, but I've got an artificial one on, so am tickety boo.'
Miriam begins to type: Unfortunately, it looks as if our time and place for meeting has been confused once again. We do hope that everything is tickety-boo for you— / […] Gloria stands. “Am I mad? You just used the word ‘tickety-boo’ in an e-mail to a young girl who didn’t grow up in England and who probably doesn’t watch PBS.”
Translations:
absconding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: abscondings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instance in which someone absconds.
pos: noun
examples: The factors related to increase in number of abscondings were younger age, psychiatric problems, multi-drug abuse and living alone.
Translations:
abid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Arabic عَبِيد (ʕabīd), plural of عَبْد (ʕabd, “slave”).
Inflected forms:
form: abid
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: abids
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: abeed
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: 'abd
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: abd
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: slave
pos: noun
gloss: servant
pos: noun
gloss: worshipper
pos: noun
Translations:
abridging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: abridgings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An abridgment.
pos: noun
Translations:
meconium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin mēcōnium (“opium; excrement of a newborn child”), from Ancient Greek μηκώνιον (mēkṓnion, “poppy-juice, opium”), from μήκων (mḗkōn, “poppy”).
Inflected forms:
form: meconiums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dark green mass, the contents of the fetal intestines during the later stages of mammalian gestation, that forms the first feces of the newborn.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The meconium is dark brownish-green in color. The first meconium passed is semi-solid, having been partially dried out in the large intestine.
gloss: Opium.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Derived words: meconic
meconium aspiration
meconium ileus
Translations:
abseiling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: abseilings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process or act of abseiling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He pictured the abseiling, literally a flight down the mountain on the doubled cord of his long rope, and he thought that those hours speeding down the cliffs would be the finest of his life.
Greenpeace offers its supporters the chance to fund brave and glamorous adventures (inflatables pitted against whalers; abseilings against smokestacks), and in exchange to wear something very like the medieval pilgrim's token: to put a rainbow sticker in their car windows.
Moderate ravines, with some drops requiring rope or prolonged swims, include Oscuros de Balce/s, Estrechos de Balce/s and Gorgoncho/n, all close to Bierge, while experts-only abysses above Rodellar include Gorgas Negras, Otin and Mascu/n Superior, all involving thirty-metre abseilings and strenuous clambering.
Between that and the abseiling, I think I left enough skin behind on those rocks to cover an entire second person.
Translations:
dealing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English delynge, from Old English dǣling; equivalent to deal + -ing.
Base: deal
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: dealings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A business transaction.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: One's manner of acting toward others; behaviour; interactions or relations with others.
pos: noun
examples: Shylock:
O father Abram, what these Christians are,
Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect
The thoughts of others![…]
Derived words: double-dealing
fair dealing
inside dealing
insider dealing
plain dealing
slavedealing
switch dealing
underdealing
wheeler-dealing
wheeling and dealing
Translations:
tidiness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tidy
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English tidiness
From tidy + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: tidinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being tidy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The amount of external pipework is also unusual in a British locomotive, though apparent in the most recent L.M.S.R. designs, such as the Class "4" 2-6-0s; but while lacking the tidiness of the old school of British locomotive engineering, this has obvious application for maintenance purposes in present circumstances.
Antonyms: untidiness
Translations:
tidy-up
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tidy-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tidy up
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An instance of something being tidied up.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: A final tidy-up and his masterpiece is complete.
Translations:
tickling
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ticklings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That tickles
pos: adj
examples: a tickling sensation
gloss: A sensation that tickles.
pos: noun
examples: ticklings and muscular aches
gloss: The act by which someone is tickled.
pos: noun
examples: It is quite true that the yells and shrieks, the bonnetings and ticklings, the hat throwing and fighting, give way for the instant to an intense desire to behold the sight, and the immense concourse was momentarily hushed in the depth of its excitement […]
Translations:
tightening
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tightenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of making more tight.
pos: noun
examples: There are lingering feelings among some board members, especially in the developing world, that the fund joined with the United States and other wealthy countries in demanding overly austere budget cuts and other fiscal tightenings for the countries that were bailed out in the previous decade.
Translations:
tight-fisted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tight
English fist
English -ed
English tight-fisted
From tight + fist + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more tight-fisted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tight-fisted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: tightfisted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: reluctant to spend money; miserly or stingy
pos: adj
Translations:
tightness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tight
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English tightness
From tight + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: tightnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or degree of being tight.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The preference for tightness during intercourse is so well known in Western culture that U.S. obstetricians even have a term for the extra stitch they often perform when doing episiotomy repairs following childbirth: the "husband's stitch." The husband's stitch is intended to produce a smaller vaginal opening, to counteract the natural stretching of the tissues from sexual activity and childbirth and even to make the opening more constricted than it might have been before.
Translations:
tightrope
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From tight + rope.
Compound parts: tight
rope
Inflected forms:
form: tightropes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tight-rope
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tight rope
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tightropes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tightroping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tightroped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tightroped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: tight-rope
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: tight rope
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A tightly stretched rope or cable on which acrobats perform high above the ground.
pos: noun
gloss: A difficult or desperate situation.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: To walk on a tightrope.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: tightrope artist
tightrope dancer
tightrope walker
tightrope walking
walk a tightrope
tightroper
Translations:
herbage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English herbage, from Old French erbage, from Early Medieval Latin herbāticum, from Latin herba (“grass”). By surface analysis, herb + -age.
Inflected forms:
form: herbages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Herbs collectively.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Herbaceous plant growth, especially grass.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: I threw myself upon my face, and clung to the scant herbage in an excess of nervous agitation.
The dank breath of herbage, sodden with rain, came to her; the mists were barely visible, hovering above the dark ravines.
gloss: The fleshy, often edible, parts of plants.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The natural pasture of a land, considered as distinct from the land itself; hence, right of pasture (on another man's land).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Derived words: herbaged
Translations:
endogamous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From endo- + -gamous.
Base: endo
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Taking place within a social group.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Many recent immigrants' marriages are endogamous.
gloss: Relating to endogamy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: exogamous
Related words: endogamy
Derived words: endogamously
Translations:
cortege
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French cortègebor.
English cortege
Borrowed from French cortège.
Inflected forms:
form: corteges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cortège
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A ceremonial procession, especially for a wedding or funeral or following a monarch.
pos: noun
examples: Upon the morrow after their marriage, the bride and bridegroom perambulate the streets, followed by a numerous cortege, the guests at the wedding festival, two and two
Translations:
direct-to-video
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a motion picture, originally released in a home video format (historically VHS) without being released to cinemas or broadcast on television.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
jing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Chinese 精 (jīng, “essence”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: According to traditional Chinese medicine, a dense essence stored in the kidneys that is the material basis for the physical body. It is yin in nature.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
naphtha
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrochemistry
petrology
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Akkadian napṭumbor.?
Old Persian *naftahbor.
Ancient Greek νάφθα (náphtha)bor.
Latin naphthabor.
English naphtha
From Latin naphtha, from Ancient Greek νάφθα (náphtha, “naphtha”), from Old Persian *naftah, probably borrowed or assimilated from Akkadian 𒉌𒆳𒊏 (napṭu, “naphtha”) . The Greek mediation is reflected in the spelling – ‘ph’ and ‘th’ (from ‘φ’ and ‘θ’).
Inflected forms:
form: naphthas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Naturally occurring liquid petroleum.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
gloss: Any of a wide variety of aliphatic or aromatic liquid hydrocarbon mixtures distilled from petroleum or coal tar, especially as used in solvents or petrol.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.
No, this is not a disentanglement from, but a progressive knotting into — they go in under archways, secret entrances of rotted concrete that only looked like loops of an underpass... certain trestles of blackened wood have moved slowly by overhead, and the smells begun of coal from days far to the past, smells of naphtha winters, of Sundays when no traffic came through...
The Common Room and the Library were lit by anbaric light, but the Scholars preferred the older, softer naphtha lamps in the Retiring Room.
Derived words: napalm
naphthacene
naphtha lamp
naphthalene
naphthalenide
naphthalide
naphthalimide
naphthene
naphthenic
Translations:
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 石腦油 /石脑油
roman: sek⁶ nou⁵ jau⁴
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 石腦油 /石脑油
roman: shínǎoyóu
lang: Finnish
word: öljyjae
lang: Finnish
word: jae
lang: French
word: naphte
lang: German
word: Naphtha
lang: Irish
word: nafta
lang: Italian
word: nafta
lang: Japanese
word: ナフサ
roman: nafusa
lang: Korean
word: 나프타
roman: napeuta
lang: Polish
word: benzyna surowa
lang: Portuguese
word: nafta
lang: Russian
word: лигрои́н
roman: ligroín
lang: Russian
word: на́фта
roman: náfta
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: на̏фта
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: nȁfta
lang: Sicilian
word: nàffita
lang: Turkish
word: neft
nates
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
Etymology: From Latin natēs, plural of natis.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
gloss: The buttocks.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: Enderby watched her warily as she lay prone, having kicked the clothes off the bed, her nates silvered by the Roman moonlight to the likeness of a meringue.
He sat cross-legged on a damask pillow and scrutinized the pale puckered nates with the air of an epicure examining a fly in his vichyssoise.
gloss: The umbones of a bivalve shell.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
gallstone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From gall + stone.
Compound parts: gall
stone
Inflected forms:
form: gallstones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small, hard object, in the shape of a pebble, that sometimes forms in the gallbladder or bile duct; composed of cholesterol, bile pigments and calcium salts.
pos: noun
Translations:
upchuck
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From up- + chuck, from chuck up.
Base: chuck
Affixes: up-
Inflected forms:
form: upchucks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: upchucking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: upchucked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: upchucked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Vomit.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
gloss: To vomit.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: Joel began to upchuck all over the grandstand.
Translations:
timecard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From time + card. Piecewise doublet of time chart.
Compound parts: time
card
Inflected forms:
form: timecards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: time card
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: time-card
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A paper card that is timestamped by a time clock to record the times when an employee starts and stops work.
pos: noun
gloss: A digital record representing the same concept.
pos: noun
Related words: clock in
clock on
punch in
clock out
clock off
punch out
Translations:
pictograph
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin pictus + -o- + graph.
Affixes: -o-
Inflected forms:
form: pictographs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A picture that represents a word or an idea.
pos: noun
examples: The Seleucid and Dendera Zodiacs are illustrations of the pictograph tradition from the 5th phase, showing the zodiac plus the four ‘parazodiacal’ animals (crow, serpent, eagle, and southern fish).
gloss: A graphic character.
pos: noun
gloss: A graph that represents numerical data using pictures.
pos: noun
Derived words: pictographic
Translations:
plantar
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin plantāris, from planta (“sole of the foot”) + -āris. By surface analysis, planta + -ar.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the sole of the foot.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a plantar wart
Translations:
sleuth
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of sleuthhound.
Inflected forms:
form: sleuths
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sleuths
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sleuthing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sleuthed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sleuthed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A detective.
pos: noun
examples: 1908, Edith Van Dyne (Frank L. Baum), Aunt Jane’s Nieces at Millville
Do ye want me to become a sleuth, or engage detectives to track the objects of your erroneous philanthropy?
“This is a great piece of sleuth work for sure, and it significantly advances efforts to understand the origin of SARS-CoV-2,” said Michael Worobey, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona who was not involved in the study.
gloss: A sleuthhound; a bloodhound.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: An animal’s trail or track.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: To act as a detective; to try to discover who committed a crime, or, more generally, to solve a mystery.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: We must discover where he lives, what he does — sleuth him, in fact!
Derived words: cybersleuth
sleuth dog
sleuthery
sleuthhound
sleuthlike
sleuthwork
sleuthy
supersleuth
websleuth
Translations: