yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
garniture
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English garnetture, from Anglo-Norman garniture, gerneiture, from Old French garneture (“accessory for a saddle”), from Old French garnir, guarnir, from Frankish *warnijan (“to prevent, deny”).
Inflected forms:
form: garnitures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that garnishes; a decoration, adornment or embellishment
pos: noun
examples: The Countess came forward to meet them, looking more beautiful than ever. But it was not now that Emily envied her beauty;—no philosopher like a girl in love, to feel, for the time being, utter indifference to all possible pomp and garniture.
[…] I fancied Cuthbert's reddening face / Beneath its garniture of curly gold, / Dear fellow, till I almost felt him fold / An arm in mine to fix me to the place / That way he used.
They believed that the ladies and the gentlemen alike had covered them with endearments, were candidly, gushingly glad to make their acquaintance. They had not in the least seen what was manner, the minimum of decent profession, and what the subtle resignation of old races who have known a long historical discipline and have conventional forms for their feelings—forms resembling singularly little the feelings themselves. Francie took people at their word […] It would not have occurred to the girl that such things need have been said as a mere garniture. Her lover, whose life had been surrounded with garniture and who therefore might have been expected not to notice it, had a fresh sense of it now […]
gloss: A matching array of plate armour and its accessories
pos: noun
Translations:
micrometer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French micromètre, equivalent to micro- + -meter.
Affixes: micro-
-meter
Inflected forms:
form: micrometers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A device used to measure distance very precisely but within a limited range, especially depth, thickness, and diameter.
pos: noun
Translations:
backslide
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: Christianity
dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From back + slide.
Compound parts: back
slide
Inflected forms:
form: backslides
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: backsliding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: backslid
pos: verb
tags: past
form: backslided
pos: verb
tags: past
form: backslidden
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: backslid
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: backslided
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: backslides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To regress; to slip backwards or revert to a previous, worse state.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He felt better for a little while, before his condition started to backslide.
[…] Monna Brigida, who had backslided into false hair in Romola's absence, but now drew it off again and declared she would not mind being gray, if her dear child would stay with her.
Despite backsliding in various parts of the globe, there's a very clear trend towards the decentralisation of governments.
gloss: To shirk responsibility; to renege on one's obligations or commitments.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Rich countries are backsliding on their commitment to agree to new WTO measures to help people in poor countries gain access to affordable medicines.
gloss: To revert back into a life of sin after being saved.
pos: verb
gloss: A backward regression; a reverting back to a worse state.
pos: noun
gloss: A dance move in which the feet are alternately slid back and the heels lifted, giving the illusion of walking forwards while actually moving backwards.
pos: noun
Derived words: backslider
backsliding
Translations:
depressant
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
medicine
mining
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English depress
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Latin -ns
Latin -āns
Old French -antbor.
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Proto-Germanic *-ndz
Proto-West Germanic *-andī
Old English -ende
Middle English -ant
English -ant
English depressant
From depress + -ant.
Inflected forms:
form: depressants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more depressant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most depressant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A pharmacological substance which decreases neuronal or physiological activity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Alcohol acts first as a stimulant and then as a depressant.
The prescription painkiller Emily Jackson took is a respiratory depressant that slows breathing. That in combination with the alcohol, another respiratory depressant, overwhelmed her brain, which stopped giving her heart and lungs the signal to keep functioning.
On the opposite end of the drug side effect spectrum are downers. This slang term refers to CNS depressants, the types of drugs that produce a sedative effect by slowing down the messages sent and received between the central nervous system and the brain.
gloss: An agent that inhibits the flotation of a mineral or minerals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Reducing functional or nervous activity.
pos: adj
examples: the conception of the asomatous depressant malaria
Derived words: antidepressant
cardiodepressant
immunodepressant
manic-depressant
neurodepressant
prodepressant
Translations:
bantam
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Bantam (Banten province in Java).
Inflected forms:
form: bantams
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several small chickens, especially of a breed that is a miniature version of another breed.
pos: noun
examples: From the dairy we passed into the poultry-yard; and there I was introduced to a train of milk-white turkeys, and fowls of the same colour, a few bantams, and three galenies, Mrs. Helen's especial favourites, […]
gloss: A competitor in an age division between peewee and midget.
pos: noun
gloss: Small or miniature.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Dragonflies may be bantam, but their appetite is bottomless.
gloss: Spirited or aggressive.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: bantamize
bantamweight
Sebright bantam syndrome
Translations:
bean-eater
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The sense referring to Mexicans is explained by beans being a staple of Mexican cuisine. The sense referring to Bostonians came from a time when navy beans were a staple in Boston, especially as Boston baked beans. It is sometimes said to have originated in reference to immigrants there, but in usage it more often has referred to Boston Brahmins just as much as other Bostonians, and the assertion may well be only an ill-founded assumption.
Inflected forms:
form: bean-eaters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bean eater
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: beaneater
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Mexican.
pos: noun
tags: US
derogatory
ethnic
offensive
slur
gloss: A Bostonian (a person from Boston, Massachusetts).
pos: noun
tags: US
dated
derogatory
Related words: beaner
potato eater
rice-eater
Translations:
bitchy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bitch
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English bitchy
From bitch + -y (adjectival suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: bitchier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: bitchiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Spiteful or malevolent; catty; malicious; unpleasant.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: What she said—and what she did—was really bitchy.
“Israel is trying to get Iran to attack us just like your bitchy ex who tried goading some dude in a bar to fight you,” Tim Pool, the popular rightwing podcaster, wrote on X.
gloss: Irritable.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: He’s really bitchy in the morning.
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of a female dog.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
informal
rare
examples: Greyhounds (dogs 4, bitches 2): All moderate; the small bitchy-looking Speculation was placed 1st in dogs, and Kate, by Cauld Kail—Graceful, was 1st in bitches, the former taking cup for best in both classes; […]
[…] Hatteraick is good in shape and well feathered, but bitchy in face; […]
The latter, though his muzzle is too weak and expression too bitchy, scores over his opponent in head properties, but he wants more bone, of better formation, is wide in front, very short and thick in neck and coarse in shoulders.
His head is bitchy and he is not a show dog. […] Sir Knight, V H C, is light in the quarters, bitchy in head, only fair in limb and not very strong in loin.
Where is the dog? One man would say Hard Cash; another would answer that he is too light and bitchy.
Entirely disregarding sex, Ch. Searchlight has a beautiful Cocker head, but as he is a dog, his head is too fine and far too much upon the bitchy order.
The little bitchy type dog who had nothing to recommend him except that he was small and popular with novice fanciers as a stud dog, has done more to set Boston terrier breeding back, than any other factor in its history.
Scrappy Downhill, not quite enough bone, rather flat ribbed, and a little bitchy headed.
You’re still a backyard breeder, and you’ve got a bad case of kennel blindness, for all you’ve got a pretty nice dog. If you’d study the Standard you’d know. Percival has his faults, too. He’s a little too bitchy, and just a little on the snipey side.
Derived words: bitchily
bitchiness
bitchy-pants
bitchy resting face
unbitchy
Translations:
dramedy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek δράω (dráō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek δρᾶμᾰ (drâmă)bor.
Late Latin drāmabor.
English drama
Ancient Greek κῶμος (kômos)
Proto-Hellenic *awéidō
Proto-Hellenic *-ā́
Proto-Hellenic *awoidā́
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓οιδή (ăoidḗ)
Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ)
Ancient Greek κῶμος (kômos)
Proto-Hellenic *awoidós
Ancient Greek ἀοιδός (aoidós)
Ancient Greek κωμῳδῐ́ᾱ (kōmōidĭ́ā)bor.
Latin cōmoediader.
Middle French comediebor.
Middle English comedie
English comedy
blend
English dramedy
Blend of drama + comedy.
Inflected forms:
form: dramedies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A genre of film or television that lies somewhere between drama and comedy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A film or television programme belonging to this genre.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: ”Fleabag,” Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s critically acclaimed British dramedy, featured a young woman whose strongest character trait — being horny — was decidedly not male.
Last year, the Daily Mail found that Emily in Paris, a bubblegum dramedy starring Lily Collins, plugged 37 brands throughout 10 episodes.
The online platform [OnlyFans] […] has been a plot point in “Industry” and “Euphoria,” was a sideline for some subjects of the docuseries “Neighbors” and is now central to a new Apple TV dramedy, “Margo’s Got Money Troubles.”
Related words: seriocomic
tragicomedy
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: dramatická komedie
lang: French
word: comédie dramatique
lang: German
word: Comedydrama
lang: German
word: Comedy-Drama
lang: German
word: Dramedy
lang: Italian
word: commedia drammatica
lang: Polish
word: komediodramat
lang: Portuguese
word: comédia dramática
lang: Russian
word: драматическая комедия
roman: dramatíčeskaja komédija
lang: Spanish
word: comedia dramática
lang: Spanish
word: dramedia
lang: Swedish
word: dramakomedi
hoodlum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in a December 1866 Daily Alta California article, which mentions "the 'Hoodlum Gang' of juvenile thieves". Several possible origins have been proposed. It may derive from a Germanic word like Swabian hudelum (“disorderly”) or Bavarian Haderlump (“ragamuffin”).
Herbert Asbury's book The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld (1933, A. A. Knopf, New York) says the word originated in San Francisco from a particular street gang's call to unemployed Irishmen to "huddle 'em" (to beat up Chinese migrants), after which San Francisco newspapers took to calling street gangs "hoodlums".
Inflected forms:
form: hoodlums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A gangster; a hired thug.
pos: noun
examples: When the hoodlums reach their headquarters...
There is no question the MS-13 gang must be stopped. It is a vile organization of hoodlums with no regard for life.
In Sam Mendes's excellent gangster movie Road to Perdition (2002), he tested the boundaries further playing a hitman – but while we know he's a killer, we never really see him go full-pelt hoodlum.
Caesar Enrico “Rico” Bandello is a hoodlum who rises swiftly in Chicago’s mob world, in the 1931 film “Little Caesar.” Played by Edward G. Robinson, Rico is tracked down by police and shot.
The state’s police spokesman Wasiu Abiodun told CNN in a statement that operatives arrested 11 armed “hoodlums” who set fire to a government building after looting it.
gloss: A rough or violent youth.
pos: noun
Derived words: hoodlumish
hoodlumize
hoodlumry
Translations:
jonquil
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French jonquille, itself a borrowing from Spanish junquillo. Possible doublet of junket.
Inflected forms:
form: jonquils
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jonquille
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A fragrant bulb flower (Narcissus jonquilla), a species of daffodil.
pos: noun
gloss: A shade of yellow.
pos: noun
examples: She had a jonquil silk pelisse, a bonnet of the same colour, with a bird of paradise plume, looking very much like an illuminated butterfly.
At sunset dusky ghosts of sampans, laden with families living up the river, glide homeward against a jonquil sky.
Translations:
marinade
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French marinade. By surface analysis, marine + -ade.
Inflected forms:
form: marinades
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: marinades
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: marinading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: marinaded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: marinaded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A seasoned, often acidic liquid mixture in which food is marinated, or soaked, usually to flavor and prepare it for cooking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I like to use a lemon marinade with chicken.
How much marinade you need depends on the amount of food to be marinated.
First, marinate the tofu. In a bowl, whisk the kecap manis, chilli sauce, and sesame oil together. Cut the tofu into strips about 1cm thick, mix gently (so it doesn't break) with the marinade and leave in the fridge for half an hour.
gloss: To marinate.
pos: verb
examples: You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.
Translations:
overexposed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more overexposed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most overexposed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Exposed too much, especially of film or a photograph.
pos: adj
examples: The snapshot was overexposed, giving its subjects a too-bright, washed out appearance.
A plant that is overexposed to the cold may die.
Translations:
pikeman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pike + -man. Compare the Middle English surname Pykeman.
Base: pike
Affixes: -man
Inflected forms:
form: pikemen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A soldier armed with a pike.
pos: noun
examples: Vitellius comming on couragiouſly with his pikemen and his harquebuſiers , deuided into two wings, charged them fiercely
gloss: A person who operates a turnpike.
pos: noun
examples: Then there was the music of the rattling harness, and the ring of the horses' feet on the hard road, and the glare of the two bright lamps through the steaming hoar frost, over the leaders' ears, into the darkness; and the cheery toot of the guard's horn, to warn some drowsy pikeman or the ostler at the next change ; and the looking forward to daylight — and last but not least, the delight of returning sensation in your toes.
gloss: A miner who works with a pick.
pos: noun
examples: “My missus told it me at the pit-head, when she brought me my breakfast,” said a pikeman to his comrade, and he struck a vigorous blow at the broad seam on which he was working.
Translations:
gambier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Malay gambirbor.
English gambier
Borrowed from Malay gambir.
Inflected forms:
form: gambiers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A flowering plant, of species Uncaria gambir, family Rubiaceae, native to Southeast Asia.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: When the entire coast-line becomes a sea of waving palms, with Chinese and Malay villages fringing the shores, which are at present mere barren wastes of mangroves, with plantations of pepper, of gambier, and of tapioca and rice, the Northern Territory, backed up by the unswerving energy of the Australian squatter, miner, and planter, will present a spectacle almost unknown in the scheme of British colonization.
gloss: An astringent substance prepared from the leaves of the plant, used in tanning and dyeing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
gadwall
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Origin unknown. In use since the 17th century.
Inflected forms:
form: gadwalls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A common, widespread dabbling duck which breeds in the northern hemisphere (Mareca strepera, syn. Anas strepera).
pos: noun
Translations:
garganey
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Italian/Lombard language word gargenei, variant of garganello, by dissimilation of earlier *gargalella, diminutive of *gargala, ultimately from Late Latin gargala (“tracheal artery”), from the root *garg (“throat”), imitative of gargling, see also Ancient Greek γαργαρεών (gargareṓn, “uvula, trachea”).
The English usage owes its origins to Conrad Gesner, who used the Italian name in the third volume of his Historiae Animalium (History of Animals) of 1555.
Inflected forms:
form: garganeys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small dabbling duck, Anas querquedula, that breeds in much of Europe and western Asia, and winters in Africa.
pos: noun
Translations:
goldcrest
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From gold + crest.
Compound parts: gold
crest
Inflected forms:
form: goldcrests
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A very small passerine bird, Regulus regulus, that breeds in Eurasia.
pos: noun
Translations:
firecrest
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From fire + crest.
Compound parts: fire
crest
Inflected forms:
form: firecrests
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A very small passerine bird, Regulus ignicapilla, that breeds in Eurasia.
pos: noun
Translations:
gyrfalcon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French gerfaucon (modern French gerfaut), with the first element probably from Old High German gīr (“vulture”) (whence the German Geier).
Inflected forms:
form: gyrfalcons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gerfalcon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gyr falcon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jerfalcon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any large falcon, especially as used to fly at herons.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: For I obſerve, that all vvomen of your condition are like the vvomen of the Play-houſe, ſtill Piquing at each other, vvho ſhall go the beſt Dreſt, and in the Richeſt Habits: till you vvork up one another by your high flying, as the Heron and Jerfalcon do.
gloss: Falco rusticolus, a large bird of prey that breeds on Arctic coasts and islands of North America, Europe and Asia.
pos: noun
examples: [T]he usurper Buljan ordered that his sukkah be erected on the donjon's roof, with its […] relative nearness to the stars, among which his sky-worshiping and uncircumcised ancestors still hunted with infallible gyrfalcons for celestial game.
Translations:
delinquent
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French délinquant, ultimately from Latin delinquens, present participle of delinquo.
Inflected forms:
form: more delinquent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most delinquent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: delinquents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.
pos: adj
examples: Fred is delinquent in making his car payment.
gloss: Of a payment or other financial obligation: late or otherwise unfulfilled.
pos: adj
examples: The company made a new effort to collect delinquent payments.
The station's financial difficulties came to a head last week when the Internal Revenue Service had its bank accounts frozen as a result of delinquent taxes.
gloss: Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense
pos: adj
gloss: One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws, or who acts against another's wishes.
pos: noun
examples: She had the consolation of knowing that any offence given to her dignity could be avenged on the delinquent who caused it, an act of justice which could not fail to be consolatory, since every one of her daughters had at times stood in stead of "guid King James's whipping-boy," when circumstances arose to disturb the equanimity of Lady Anne's imperious and irascible temper.
gloss: A person who has not paid their debts.
pos: noun
gloss: A royalist in the First English Civil War (1642-1646).
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
historical
Synonyms: cavalier
Related words: derelict
relic
relict
relinquish
Derived words: delinquency
delinquently
juvenile delinquent
nondelinquent
predelinquent
Translations:
binturong
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Malay binturungbor.
English binturong
Borrowed from Malay binturung.
Inflected forms:
form: binturongs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large species of civet, Arctictis binturong, of southern Asia.
pos: noun
Translations:
coming
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English coming, commyng, cumming, equivalent to come + -ing (gerundive ending).
Base: come
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: comings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of arriving; an arrival.
pos: noun
examples: The/this Sunday coming / coming Sunday.
But he found it strange to think […] of all these little things that cluster round the comings, and the stayings, and the goings, that he would know nothing of them, nothing of what they had been, as long as he lived, […]
gloss: Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: We expect great things from you this coming year.
She will have two or three paintings in the coming exhibition.
Oh! if you wish that happiness / your coming days and years may bless,
gloss: Newly in fashion; advancing into maturity or achievement.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Ergonomic wallets are the coming thing.
gloss: Ready to come; complaisant; fond.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: How coming to the poet every muse!
That he had been so affectionate a husband, was no ill argument to the coming dowager, that he might prove as kind to her.
Derived words: coming on
this coming
up-and-coming
Translations:
lived
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a specified duration of life.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
examples: a short-lived recycling scheme
Translations:
continued
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Prolonged; unstopped.
pos: adj
tags: dated
not-comparable
examples: 1797, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, J. S. Barr (editor and translator), Barr's Buffon: Buffon's Natural Hiſtory, page 20,
[…] and for the pronunciation of F, a more continued ſound is neceſſary than for that of any of the conſonants.
1819 [1736], Joseph Butler, Andrew Kippis (biography of the author), Samuel Hallifax (preface), The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature, page 93,
But when the exercise of the virtuous principle is more continued, oftener repeated, and more intense, as it must be in circumstances of danger, temptation, and difficulty of any kind and any degree, this tendency is increased proportionably, and a more confirmed habit is the consequence.
Instead of becoming more continued, intermittents sometimes become less so, which is always favourable.
gloss: Uninterrupted.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Resumed after a division or pause.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: This article is continued on page 57.
Related words: continuedly
Derived words: continuedness
to be continued
uncontinued
Translations:
paleoanthropologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek πᾰλαιός (pălaiós)der.
English paleo-
English anthropology
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 paleoanthropologist
From paleo- + anthropology + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: paleoanthropologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: palaeoanthropologist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: palaeanthropologist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A scientist who specializes in paleoanthropology.
pos: noun
Translations:
paleoanthropology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek πᾰλαιός (pălaiós)der.
English paleo-
English anthropology
English paleoanthropology
From paleo- + anthropology.
Inflected forms:
form: paleanthropology
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: palaeoanthropology
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: palæoanthropology
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The scientific study of ancient human remains.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
dweller
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰwel-der.
Proto-Germanic *dwalaz
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Germanic *-janą
Proto-Germanic *dwaljaną
Proto-West Germanic *dwalljan
Old English dwellan
▲
Old Norse dveljainflu.
Middle English dwellen
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
Middle English dweller
English dweller
From Middle English dweller, equivalent to dwell + -er.
Base: dwell
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: dwellers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An inhabitant of a specific place; an inhabitant or denizen.
pos: noun
examples: The new couple are apartment dwellers.
[T]he craggineſſe and ſteepineſſe of places up and dovvn is a great advantage to the dvvellers, and makes them inacceſſible, for they ſerve as Fortreſſes erected by Nature her ſelfe, to protect them from all incurſions: […]
To the left was a large pond, on which a fleet of white ducks were sailing; and huge barns and out-houses for receiving tithes in kind, added to the farm-like character which seemed to form a connecting link between the dweller for the time being in the Rectory-house, and his rural parishioners.
As a result of these causes the grazier marks himself off fairly sharply from the rest of Australia. He has always spent a considerable proportion of the time in the capital cities, in each of which he has formed a club to which, besides the graziers, only a few of the wealthiest and most prominent of the city dwellers are admitted.
Translations:
topmast
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From top + mast.
Compound parts: top
mast
Inflected forms:
form: topmasts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The highest mast in a fore-and-aft-rigged ship.
pos: noun
gloss: The mast below the topgallant mast in a square-rigged ship.
pos: noun
Derived words: foretopmast
maintopmast
Translations:
tremulous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin tremulus, from tremō (“to tremble, shake”) + -ulus. Doublet of tremor and tremble. By surface analysis, tremulate + -ous.
Inflected forms:
form: more tremulous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tremulous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Trembling, quivering, or shaking.
pos: adj
examples: Tremulous on the bladed graſs ſhone bright the pearly drops, like an aſſembly of ſparkling ſtars dancing on the plains of the zodiac; vocal was every bending ſpray, every reed was inſpired, each warbling throat ſeemed to emulate the melodious voice of the bird of a thouſand ſongs.
From the high tree the blossom wavering fell, / And over them the tremulous isles of light / Slided, they moving under shade: […]
The trying nature of his position drove the blood from his cheek, and made his lips tremulous.
[…] Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flame-like as theirs[.]
Again she holds me by the hand, I must not go, / I see her close beside me with silent lips sad and tremulous.
“Thank God!” he cried brokenly, all the pent emotion of the long night vibrant in his tremulous voice.
Light filtered in through the blinds of the french windows. It made tremulous stripes along the scrubbed pine floor.
gloss: Timid, hesitant; lacking confidence.
pos: adj
examples: In the mean time I worked on, and my labour was already considerably advanced. I looked towards its completion with a tremulous and eager hope, which I dared not trust myself to question, but which was intermixed with obscure forebodings of evil, that made my heart sicken in my bosom.
“You have lived here long?” Felix asked, with tremulous interest, as he took a seat on the bench under the big tree, towards which his new host politely motioned him.
This, hard on the heels of the death of Julia Child in 2004, makes one tremulous about the future.
Derived words: nontremulous
tremulously
tremulousness
untremulous
Translations:
collecting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English collect
English -ing
English collecting
From collect + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: collectings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hobby including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The task of data gathering is not a random walk, a sensual search, or the bemused collectings of a beachcomber.
Translations:
collected
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English collect
English -ed
English collected
From collect + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more collected
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most collected
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Gathered together.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: the collected works of Charles Dickens
gloss: Cool‐headed, emotionally stable, in focus.
pos: adj
examples: He stayed collected throughout the ordeal.
In an instant Francesca would become perfectly collected—every past event would stand out singularly clear, and she would turn, take one look at Guido, and then breathe again.
There is no man here so young—and we have some very young members—but he must have observed, must have known from the impulses of his own mind and his own feelings, that, when in a state of high excitement, a man's judgment is not so accurate, not so effectual, not to be relied upon to such an extent, as when he is cool, calm and collected. That is an axiom in morals, in the history of human life, about which I suppose there will be no question. Are we now in that condition?
He became very cool and collected all at once.
Related words: garbage-collected
garbage collected
Derived words: calm and collected
collectedly
collectedness
cool, calm and collected
precollected
uncollected
Translations:
stamping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: stampings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sound or action of one who stamps.
pos: noun
examples: But that night there were stampings, boots against the thick wall of darkness
And when they were gone I heard the wailing of women, wives and mothers […]
gloss: A method of manufacturing using dies and extreme pressure.
pos: noun
gloss: A part made by such a method.
pos: noun
Derived words: microstamping
stamping ground
stamping mill
ticket stamping machine
ticket-stamping machine
Translations:
amassed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having been gathered or assembled in a large group.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
conceited
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: literature
media
publishing
Etymology: Etymology tree
English conceit
English -ed
English conceited
From conceit + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more conceited
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: conceiteder
pos: adj
tags: comparative
nonstandard
rare
form: most conceited
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: conceitedest
pos: adj
tags: nonstandard
rare
superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having an excessively favourable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; egotistical and vain.
pos: adj
examples: If you think me too conceited / Or to passion quickly heated.
Conceited of their own wit, and science, and politeness.
And another asked me if I had come to get a Canadian sweetheart; and a third, one of the impudentest, most conceitedest fellows I ever did set eyes upon, nudged me, so that I spilled my coffee all over my second-best damask-silk apron—the one with bugle fringe, you know, Miss Capel—and says he, ‘Is it a case of Barkis is willin'?'
gloss: Having an ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
pos: adj
tags: rhetoric
examples: Conceited wit showed its character towards the end of the fifteenth century in the work of poets who made it their aim to exercise their hearers' minds with cleaver plays of metaphor and ingenious reasoning.
gloss: Endowed with fancy or imagination.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: AN EXCELLENT conceited Tragedie OF Romeo and Iuliet. As it hath been often (with great applause) plaid publiquely
He was […] pleasantly conceited, and sharp of wit.
gloss: Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: A conceited chair to sleep in.
Derived words: unconceited
conceited as a barber's cat
conceitedly
conceitedness
self-conceited
Translations:
wreckless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From wreck + -less.
Base: wreck
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
form: more wreckless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most wreckless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without causing or suffering a wreck.
pos: adj
examples: Hence to where our all-hallowed ark uprears / Its safe and wreckless sides.
Translations:
fundament
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old French fundement, fondement, from Latin fundāmentum (“foundation”), from fundō (“to lay the bottom, to found”). Doublet of fondamento.
Inflected forms:
form: fundaments
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: foundament
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Foundation.
pos: noun
gloss: The bottom; the buttocks or anus.
pos: noun
examples: It [the Sphincter Ani] serves to purse up the Fundament, and so hinders the involuntary Evacuation of the Fæces.
ANOTHER defect that new-born infants are liable to is, to have their fundaments closed up; by which they can never evacuate the new excrements engendered by the milk they suck […]
Bathe the parts frequently with cold water, and, if there be much pain at stool, always squirt up the fundament, beforehand, with a syringe, half a teacupful of cold water.
I flinched when he touched my rosebud, but pretty soon I was fucking his mouth like it was Hector's fundament.
gloss: The underlying basis or principle for a theoretical or mathematical system.
pos: noun
Related words: fundamental
Translations:
immigrant
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin immigrans, present active participle of immigrāre (“to migrate into”), from in- (“into”) + migrāre (“to migrate”).
Base: migrō
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: immigrants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A non-native person who comes to a country from another country to permanently settle there.
pos: noun
examples: Approximately 1.5 million Mexicans are descendants of Irish immigrants.
What Alexis de Tocqueville saw in America was a society of immigrants, each of whom had begun life anew, on an equal footing. This was the secret of America: a nation of people with the fresh memory of old traditions who dared to explore new frontiers, people eager to build lives for themselves in a spacious society that did not restrict their freedom of choice and action.
The village was once well known for its paper-milling, founded by Huguenot immigrants in 1648, which produced high-quality hand-made paper until 1952.
However, an accompanied undocumented immigrant child should not be removed from his or her family , unless there are grounds for removal in terms of section 14(4) of the Child Care Act, 1983.
[Stephen] Miller’s uncle, a neuroscientist, has been welcomed onto the public stage for his denunciations of his nephew’s immigration policies, which the elder Miller has characterized as hypocritical: the Millers’ not-so-distant Jewish ancestors were, of course, immigrants themselves.
Hamtramck is described in the resolution as “one of the most diverse cities in the United States.” The city has a large immigrant presence and all the city council members are of the Muslim faith, city manager Max Garbarino told CNN Thursday. Hamtramck was also the first known city in the US to inaugurate an all-Muslim government, CNN previously reported.
gloss: A plant or animal that establishes itself in an area where it previously did not exist.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or relating to immigrants or the act of immigrating.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: emigrant
Derived words: anti-immigrant
antiimmigrant
crimmigrant
digital immigrant
economic immigrant
Euroimmigrant
illegal immigrant
immigrant species
landed immigrant
new immigrant
nonimmigrant
trimmigrant
undocumented immigrant
Translations:
interlocking
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Inflected forms:
form: more interlocking
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most interlocking
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: interlockings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Linked, locked, or fitted closely together.
pos: adj
examples: All societies have three key interlocking elements: Religion, economics, and politics.
gloss: An arrangement of signal apparatus that prevents conflicting movements through a set of intersecting tracks, such as junctions or crossings.
pos: noun
examples: There was still no attempt to arrange interlocking between points and signals; that came later. In 1856, John Saxby carried out the principle involved in interlocking—the prevention of signals and points being in conflicting positions—and erected apparatus to do that at this same junction.
In addition to the usual interlocking between conflicting signal and point levers achieved by electric locks, track circuits, when occupied, hold signals governing entry to the relevant line at danger; [...] The up main through inner home signal was held at danger by interlocking, because the track circuits of a conflicting route ahead of it were occupied by another train [...].
Translations:
shelduck
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From obsolete/dialectal sheld (“variegated”) + duck.
Compare typologically Russian пега́нка (pegánka) (< пе́гий (pégij)).
Inflected forms:
form: shelducks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shelduck
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various waterfowl of the genus Tadorna, native to Eurasia, Africa and Australasia.
pos: noun
Translations:
lorikeet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of lory + parakeet.
Compound parts: lory
parakeet
Inflected forms:
form: lorikeets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various small, brightly coloured parrots native to Australasia. They are usually classified in the subfamily Loriinae.
pos: noun
Translations:
lory
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Malay luri, name of kind of parrot, said to be a dialectal variant of Malay nuri. Doublet of lourie. Unrelated to Spanish loro.
Inflected forms:
form: lories
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various small, brightly coloured parrots native to Australasia. They are usually classified in the subfamily Loriinae.
pos: noun
examples: Just as we were going away, a handsome tree, allied to Erythrina, was in blossom, showing its masses of large crimson flowers scattered here and there about the forest. Could it have been seen from an elevation, it would have had a fine effect; from below I could only catch sight of masses of gorgeous colour in clusters and festoons overhead, about which flocks of blue and orange lories were fluttering and screaming.
Translations:
razorbill
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From razor + bill.
Compound parts: razor
bill
Inflected forms:
form: razorbills
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large black and white auk of species Alca torda, native to the north Atlantic.
pos: noun
Translations:
encamp
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Old French en-bor.
Middle English en-
English en-
English camp
English encamp
From en- + camp.
Inflected forms:
form: encamps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: encamping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: encamped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: encamped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To establish a camp or temporary shelter.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We spent half an hour on the summit before returning to our camp, where we stuffed the frozen tent and all the gear into our packs and started the long descent of the southwest ridge to rejoin Harish and others who were still encamped on the col at the foot of it.
gloss: To form into a camp.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: England were encamped in San Marino territory for the entire game and the only disappointment for manager Gareth Southgate will be the fact their finishing was very poor.
Derived words: encampment
unencamped
Translations:
tips
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: tag (a popular children's chasing game)
pos: noun
tags: Australia
uncountable
Translations:
bobcat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bob (short hair; with reference to its tail) + cat.
Compound parts: bob
cat
Inflected forms:
form: bobcats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A North American wildcat (Lynx rufus), having tufted ears and a short tail.
pos: noun
examples: In the course of a single month this year, the following news reports emanated from Florida: […]A father from East Orlando punched a bobcat in the face for attacking his daughter’s dog.
Translations:
facemask
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: American-football
ball-games
diving
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
medicine
sciences
sports
underwater-diving
Etymology: From face + mask.
Compound parts: face
mask
Inflected forms:
form: facemasks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: face mask
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A covering used to protect or disguise the face.
pos: noun
gloss: A covering used to protect or disguise the face.
pos: noun
gloss: A covering used to protect or disguise the face.
pos: noun
gloss: A covering used to protect or disguise the face.
pos: noun
gloss: A covering used to protect or disguise the face.
pos: noun
gloss: A facial mask (cosmetic application).
pos: noun
gloss: The part of the helmet that directly covers the face, made of one or more plastic-coated metal bars.
pos: noun
tags: Canadian
gloss: The foul of grasping it during play.
pos: noun
tags: Canadian
Related words: facial mask
maskhole
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 面具
roman: miànjù
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 面罩
roman: miànzhào
lang: Finnish
word: naamari
lang: Finnish
word: naamio
lang: Finnish
word: maski
lang: French
word: couvre-visage
lang: Māori
word: ārai kanohi
lang: Spanish
word: máscara
lang: Spanish
word: cambuj
lang: Spanish
word: gambox (gambosh)
lang: Spanish
word: gambux (gambush)
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 潛水面罩 /潜水面罩
roman: qiánshuǐ miànzhào
lang: Dutch
word: gezichtsmasker
lang: Finnish
word: sukellusnaamari
lang: German
word: Tauchmaske
lang: German
word: Schnorchelmaske
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: ansiktsmaske
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: masg-aodainn
lang: Spanish
word: máscara
lang: Swedish
word: ansiktsmask
lang: Vietnamese
word: mặt nạ
detection
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin dētēctiōnem. By surface analysis, detect + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: detections
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of detecting, uncovering, or finding out, the discovery of something new, hidden, or disguised.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.
“Why should Eldridge commit murder?[…]There was only one possible motive—namely, he wished to avoid detection as James Selby of Anaconda Ltd.[…]”
gloss: Synonym of accusation, the exposure of concealed information about a crime or heresy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: The act or process of finding or detecting an electrical signal in a carrier wave.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: demodulation
Derived words: antidetection
autodetection
biodetection
Canny edge detection
chemodetection
codetection
collision detection
detection comb
detection dog
immunodetection
lie detection
microdetection
misdetection
multidetection
non-detection
nondetection
nuclear hydrogen detection meter
overdetection
photodetection
radiodetection
redetection
serodetection
subdetection
thermodetection
underdetection
Translations:
spondee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
Etymology: From Latin spondēus (“spondee”), from Ancient Greek σπονδεῖος (spondeîos, “associated with a libation”) from σπονδή (spondḗ, “libation”): spondees were often used in melodies sung at libations.
Inflected forms:
form: spondees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spondeus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A word or metrical foot of two syllables, either both long or both stressed.
pos: noun
Translations:
detecting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: detectings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of detection.
pos: noun
examples: Sensations then, are not perceivings, observings or findings; they are not detectings, scannings or inspectings; they are not apprehendings, cognisings, intuitings or knowings.
Translations:
discovering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: discoverings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A discovery.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As with all discoverings of the past this is an act that provides useful perspectives.
Translations: