yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
celluloid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Former trademark of Celluloid Manufacturing Company; from cellulose + -oid.
Base: cellulose
Affixes: -oid
Inflected forms:
form: celluloids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a variety of thermoplastics created from nitrocellulose and camphor, once used as photographic film.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1894 June, Antonia Dickson, W. K. L. Dickson, Edison's Invention of the Kineto-Phonograph: Account of the Invention, article in Century Magazine, Volume 48, Issue 2,
Then followed some experiments with drums, over which sheets of sensitized celluloid film were drawn, the edges being pressed into a narrow slot in the surface, similar in construction to the old tin-foil phonograph.
"And will you now, sir, take off your celluloid collar and permit me to burn it in the candle? Thank you, sir. And will you allow me to smash your spectacles for you with my hammer? Thank you."
gloss: The genre of cinema; film.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
countable
figuratively
often
uncountable
examples: Celluloid railway comedy was hardly to appear again until the mid-thirties and, later, in Britain.
In particular, they set Kerouac and Ginsberg to the specifications of an emergent superficial form—celluloid antiheroes—attractive to those in want of adventure and who would soon be reading On the Road (1957).
gloss: An item, such as a jacket, made from celluloid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: 'What with that bearded Assyrian bull in London, and this Thug down here, who has ruined my clean celluloid, you seem to be keeping queer company, Ted Malone.'
Related words: cellophane
cellulose
cellulosic
nitrocellulosic
cell
cellular
cellule
cellulite
cellulitis
Galalith
viscoid
viscose
xylonite
Derived words: celluloid ceiling
celluloided
loid
Translations:
processed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English process
English -ed
English processed
From process + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more processed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most processed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That has completed a required process.
pos: adj
examples: The processed data can now be used to generate statistics.
The bank returned her processed application by mail.
gloss: Modified through manufacture such as refinement or food processing.
pos: adj
examples: Processed foods are of dubious nutritional value.
You know why I stopped eating processed foods? I began to picture the people who might be processing them.
Antonyms: unprocessed
modified through manufacture
Related words: synthetic
Derived words: cryo-processed
Dutch-processed
hydroprocessed
hyperprocessed
immunoprocessed
microprocessed
nonprocessed
processed cheese
processed food
processed meat
semiprocessed
ultraprocessed
ultra-processed
ultra-processed food
Translations:
non-past
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English non-
English past
English non-past
From non- + past.
Inflected forms:
form: nonpast
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of a tense, not pertaining to the past; in particular, applicable to both the present and the future.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In the phrases ‘I am running tomorrow’ and ‘I am running now,’ the main verb is in the non-past tense.
Translations:
bluescreen
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From blue + screen; derived from "blue screen of death".
Compound parts: blue
screen
Inflected forms:
form: bluescreens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bluescreening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bluescreened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bluescreened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To experience a stop error and shut down to prevent damage to system hardware.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: His computer bluescreened because of the prerelease software.
gloss: To emotionally shut down, such as in response to a traumatic personal crisis.
pos: verb
tags: informal
Translations:
non-Witness
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English non-
English Witness
English non-Witness
From non- + Witness.
Inflected forms:
form: non-Witnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who is not a Jehovah's Witness.
pos: noun
gloss: Not pertaining to or reserved for Jehovah's Witnesses.
pos: adj
Translations:
anti-Witness
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English anti-
English Witness
English anti-Witness
From anti- + Witness.
Inflected forms:
form: more anti-Witness
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most anti-Witness
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: anti-Witnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Opposed or hostile to Jehovah's Witnesses or their beliefs or doctrines.
pos: adj
examples: The most spectacular manifestation of anti-Witness hostility was a sharp outbreak of violence. In June, 1940, several hundred incidents occurred in which force was directed against Jehovah's Witnesses […]
But it wasn't till he was at Bethel that he began reading them in connection with all the old magazines they had there, and even a few of the anti-Witness books that managed to find their way into little obscure boxes and corners in the library.
gloss: A person who is opposed or hostile to Jehovah's Witnesses or their beliefs or doctrines.
pos: noun
Translations:
finder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English findere. By surface analysis, find + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: finders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who finds or discovers something; a discoverer.
pos: noun
examples: Finders keepers, losers weepers.
The finder of treasure trove owns it against the landowner and everyone else except the true owner.
gloss: A device, such as a viewfinder, used to locate a target or other object of interest.
pos: noun
examples: Perhaps some electrical finder could have been developed so delicate that it could have located the source of all this spreading joy and fortune.
gloss: A person who picks up scraps and oddments to sell to make a living.
pos: noun
tags: UK
historical
examples: Even the Whitechapel meat-market is less the scene of prey, for it is a series of shops, while Leadenhall presents many stalls, and the finders seem loath to enter shops without some plausible pretext.
Derived words: Albada finder
comet-finder
ditchfinder
factfinder
fact-finder
faultfinder
finderlist
finder of fact
finderscope
fire finder
fishfinder
gold-finder
key finder
object finder
pathfinder
pure finder
radio direction finder
rangefinder
range finder
rootfinder
statefinder
stud finder
ugly-finder
ugly finder
viewfinder
wayfinder
witchfinder
witch-finder
Translations:
snappy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle Dutch snappen
Dutch snappenbor.
Low German snappenbor.
English snap
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English snappy
From snap + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: snappier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: snappiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Rapid and without delay.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: a snappy response
Make it snappy!
gloss: Irritable.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: You're snappy this morning; did you not sleep well?
She, Ellen, was sorry she had spoken so sharp-like to the girl, but after all it wasn’t wonderful that she had been snappy.
gloss: Tidy; well-dressed; sharp.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Here he is, looking snappy in his brand-new suit.
The niftiest, snappiest slacks you ever saw!
gloss: Chilly, brisk, sharp.
pos: adj
examples: snappy weather; snappy pace; snappy rejoinder
The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:[…].
gloss: Tending to snap or bite.
pos: adj
examples: a snappy dog
These spring-loaded seats are a bit harder and very snappy when you get off them.
gloss: Clever, catchy.
pos: adj
examples: a snappy motto
Derived words: look snappy
make it snappy
snappily
snappiness
snappy gum
snazzy
Translations:
careworn
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From care (“sorrow, worry”) + worn.
Compound parts: care
worn
Inflected forms:
form: more careworn
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most careworn
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: care-worn
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Worn down by cares: showing the signs of long-term stress, tired and haggard due to prolonged worry.
pos: adj
examples: The weeks of working hard to look after his sick family left him looking careworn.
At length the long-expected knock was heard. She hurried to the door, and met her husband; a man whose face was care-worn and depressed, though he was young. There was a remarkable expression in it now; a kind of serious delight of which he felt ashamed, and which he struggled to repress.
The effect upon his personal appearance of this wear and tear of his intellect was striking and manifest. The hue of youth and health entirely departed from his cheeks, and he looked so sad and careworn, that it was quite a terrible thing to look upon a young lad so, as it were, upon the threshold of existence, and in whom anxious thoughts were making such war upon the physical energies.
Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
I don't find the pose of careless youth charming and engaging any more than you find the pose of careworn age fascinating and eccentric, I should imagine.
Played acoustically, glacially paced and sung in Kristofferson's parched, age-weathered voice, even his more lighthearted songs – Jesus Was a Capricorn, Best Of All Possible Worlds – were leant^([sic – meaning lent]) an eerie gravitas, while Me and Bobby McGee and Sunday Morning Coming Down sounded heartbreakingly careworn and poignant.
Translations:
tsotsi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain. Compare Shona tsotsi (“criminal”)
Inflected forms:
form: tsotsis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hoodlum or street thug, especially one from the townships; a township skollie.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
examples: A gang of tsotsis – hooligans – attacked a group of older men, and when the owner tried to throw them out they ran amok in the place, smashing everything in their way.
Gangsters – known as tsotsis – carrying flick-knives or switchblades were plentiful and prominent [...].
Mandela, standing up for all the tsotsis out there, said: "Don't dismiss any youngsters who are not behaving according to your wishes."
Translations:
hubby
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Diminutive of husband + -y.
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: hubbies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hubbier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: hubbiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Husband.
pos: noun
tags: endearing
informal
examples: Laura thought Jack was the most wonderful hubby in the world.
“But they have done more than talk — they have written — written to my hubby — I'm sure of it,” said the Man's Wife, and she pulled a letter from her husband out of her saddle-pocket and gave it to the Tertium Quid.
gloss: Full of hubs or protuberances.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: A road that has been frozen while muddy is hubby.
Translations:
chicle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish chicle, from a Nahuan language; compare Classical Nahuatl tzictli.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The milky latex of the sapodilla tree, used after coagulation as the principal ingredient of chewing gum.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
cleanliness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cleanly
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 cleanliness
From cleanly + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: cleanlinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being cleanly, or habitually clean; good hygiene.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Both engines and carriages were maintained in admirable cleanliness, and a very high standard of neatness characterised the permanent way and lineside buildings.
gloss: Ritual purity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: cleanness
Derived words: cleanliness is next to godliness
Translations:
cleanly
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English clenly, clenliche, clanly, from Old English clǣnlīċ (“cleanly, pure, excellent”), equivalent to clean + -ly.
Base: clean
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: cleanlier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more cleanly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: cleanliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most cleanly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: clenly
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: cleanlier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more cleanly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: cleanliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most cleanly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Being habitually clean, practising good hygiene.
pos: adj
examples: I'l now lead you to an honeſt Ale-houſe, where we ſhall find a cleanly room, Lavender in the windowes, and twenty Ballads ſtuck about the wall; […]
[H]is lov'd partner boaſtful of her hoard,
Diſplays the cleanly platter on the board; […]
There were some flat slabs of rock in the centre, with an excellent well close by, and there we sat in cleanly comfort while we made our first plans for the invasion of this new country.
gloss: Cleansing; fitted to remove moisture; dirt, etc.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: In our Fantaſtic Climes the Fair / With cleanly Powder dry their Hair: […]
gloss: Adroit; dexterous; artful.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Yet at the laſt (ſo well he him applyde,) / Through his fine handling, and cleanly play, / He all thoſe royall ſignes had ſtolne away, / And with the Foxes helpe them borne aſide, / Into a ſecret corner vneſpide.
gloss: In a clean way, neatly.
pos: adv
examples: He was very cleanly dressed, in a blue coat, striped waistcoat, and nankeen trowsers; […]
gloss: Not causing a mess or unnecessary damage.
pos: adv
examples: We agreed to break off our relationship cleanly.
Fortunately, the bullet passed cleanly through your shoulder.
gloss: Innocently; without stain.
pos: adv
examples: If I do growe great, ile growe leſſe, for ile purge and leaue Sacke, and liue cleanlie as a noble man ſhould do.
gloss: Adroitly; dexterously
pos: adv
examples: The boy will do well certain : give him grace To have a quick hand and convey things cleanly
Antonyms: uncleanly
dirty
Derived words: cleanlily
cleanliness
overcleanly
uncleanly
Translations:
unstinting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + stint (“to be mean or sparing”) + -ing (suffix forming present participles of verbs), or un- + stinting (“mean, sparing”). Stint is derived from Middle English stinten, from Old English styntan (“to make blunt”) and *stintan (attested in āstintan (“to assuage; to make dull; to stint”)), from Proto-West Germanic *stuntijan (“to make dull; to shorten”), from Proto-Germanic *stuntijaną (“to make dull; to shorten”) and Proto-Germanic *stintaną (“to make short”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewd- (“to hit; to push”), probably influenced by Old Norse *stynta, stytta (“to make short, shorten”).
Base: stint
Affixes: un-
-ing
Inflected forms:
form: more unstinting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unstinting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Generous and tireless with one's contributions of money, time, etc.
pos: adj
examples: We thank her for her unstinting support of our new hospital.
Tactically smart, Leeds' work-rate was also admirable, their players often doubling up on Everton's main threats like Marouane Fellaini, while Victor Anichibe[sic] found he had unwelcome, unstinting company throughout.
Translations:
doggedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English doggedlich, doggetly, doggidly, doggydly; equivalent to dogged + -ly.
Base: dogged
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more doggedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most doggedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a way that is stubbornly persistent.
pos: adv
examples: I grew moody, silent, and unsocial, but studied on doggedly and incessantly.
I continued to pound along doggedly. I was grimly resolute.
She was married to someone.
He was doggedly determined he would get her.
Unemployment hovered doggedly near 10%.
The announcement was made in Leeds - the largest city in Europe without a mass transit system. It's also a city which has been doggedly pressing (to little avail) for an integrated transport system for two decades.
gloss: sullenly, gloomily
pos: adv
tags: dated
examples: 'Nay,' said Dr Johnson, 'a man may write at any time, if he will set himself DOGGEDLY to it.' [Footnote: This word is commonly used to signify sullenly, gloomily and in that sense alone it appears in Dr Johnson's Dictionary. I suppose he meant by it 'with an OBSTINATE RESOLUTION, similar to that of a sullen man'.]
Translations:
misconception
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-?
Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der.
Proto-Germanic *missaz
Proto-Germanic *missa-
Proto-West Germanic *missa-
Old English mis-
Middle English mys-
English mis-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti
Proto-Italic *kapjō
Old Latin kapiō
Latin capiō
▲
Ancient Greek σῠλλᾰμβᾰ́νω (sŭllămbắnō)calq.
Latin concipiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin conceptiōlbor.
Old French conceptionbor.
Middle English concepcioun
English conception
English misconception
From mis- + conception.
Inflected forms:
form: misconceptions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mistaken belief, a wrong idea.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There are several common misconceptions about the theory of relativity.
You're obviously under the misconception that I care about your problems.
He had the misconception that the word "misconception" meant becoming pregnant with a girl.
From November 28 to December 8, 1958, the CCP Central Committee held its sixth plenum in Wuhan, Hopei^([sic – meaning Hupei]), and at the end of the session it issued a revealing resolution that declared there had been some misconception about the system and that party committees throughout the countryside should make full use of the five months from December 1958 to April 1959 to tidy up the communes.
It is a common misconception that anal intercourse is an exclusively homosexual male practice. […] As elsewhere in Africa, little data exist on the role of anal sex in HIV acquisition in women in the general population […]
We also found that because of the prevalence of cannabis in serious and fatal crashes, the changes in state laws regarding its legal use, and the public’s misconceptions about its impairing effects on driving, educating drivers on the impairing effects of cannabis use and the illegality of driving under its influence is critical to highway safety.
Translations:
carter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English carter, cartere, cartare, equivalent to cart + -er. Merged with Middle English careter, caretier (“coachman, charioteer”, a surname), from Anglo-Norman careter (compare French charretier).
Base: cart
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: carters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who transports a load on a cart that is drawn by a beast of burden.
pos: noun
examples: They were all two-horse wagons with sacks piled high above their sides and covered with tarpaulins. The wagon train had evidently only just moved out, and the carters had not yet taken their seats but were walking alongside.
gloss: A fish, the whiff or Marysole.
pos: noun
Related words: cartman
cartwright
Derived words: cane carter
carterly
shit-carter
under-carter
undercarter
Translations:
Collins
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: * As an English surname, variant of Colin.
* As an Irish and Manx surname, from Ó Coileáin (“descendant of Coileán”), see Cullen, McQuillan, and McCallion.
* As a French surname, Americanized from Collin and Colette.
* As a Slovene surname, Americanized from Kolenc, from koleno (“knee”) and the obsolete kolenc (“nipplewort”).
Inflected forms:
form: Collinses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various alcoholic drinks made with lemon juice, sugar, and carbonated water.
pos: noun
examples: He ordered a schpritzer for himself (it was a hot summer day) and after she'd finished her Collins, he asked if she wanted to order.
Translations:
retract
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
human-sciences
linguistics
natural-sciences
phonetics
phonology
sciences
zoology
Etymology: From Late Middle English retracten, retract (“to absorb, draw in”), from Latin retractus (“withdrawn”), the perfect passive participle of Latin retrahō (“to draw or pull back, withdraw; to bring back; to compel to turn back; to recall; to get back, recover; to hold back, restrain, withhold; to remove, take away; to bring to light again; (Late Latin) to delay”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + trahō (“to drag, pull; to extract, withdraw”). Doublet of retreat.
Inflected forms:
form: retracts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: retracting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: retracted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: retracted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To pull (something) back or back inside.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: An airplane retracts its wheels for flight.
The collector shoes are automatically retracted when the electric handle is moved from "service off" to "lock off".
gloss: To pull (something) back or back inside.
pos: verb
tags: specifically
transitive
examples: A cat can retract its claws.
gloss: To avert (one's eyes or a gaze).
pos: verb
tags: rare
transitive
gloss: To pronounce (a sound, especially a vowel) farther to the back of the vocal tract.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To hold back (something); to restrain.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To draw back; to draw up; to withdraw.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The bus was stuck at the stop as its wheelchair ramp wouldn’t retract after use.
Muscles retract after amputation.
Related words: nonretraction
retraction
retractive
retreat
Derived words: nonretractable
nonretractile
nonretracting
retractability
retractibility
retractable
retractible
retracter
retractility
unretractable
unretracted
unretractile
withtract
retracted
retractile
retracting
retractor
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: прибирам
roman: pribiram
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 收起
roman: shōuqǐ
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 收回
roman: shōuhuí
lang: Czech
word: vtáhnout
lang: Czech
word: zatáhnout
lang: Finnish
word: vetää sisään
lang: Greek
word: συμπτύσσω
roman: symptýsso
lang: Hungarian
word: behúz
lang: Hungarian
word: visszahúz
lang: Māori
word: whakakopa
lang: Portuguese
word: retrair
lang: Romanian
word: retracta
lang: Romanian
word: retrage
lang: Russian
word: втягивать
roman: vtjagivatʹ
lang: Russian
word: вбира́ть
roman: vbirátʹ
lang: Spanish
word: retraer
opposable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English oppose
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English opposable
From oppose + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more opposable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most opposable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Susceptible to being opposed or resisted.
pos: adj
gloss: Capable of being placed opposite something else.
pos: adj
examples: The thumb is opposable to the forefinger.
Derived words: opposable thumb
opposably
unopposable
Translations:
chapeau
Part of speech: noun
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: beverages
food
government
heraldry
hobbies
law
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
oenology
politics
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Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French chappeau. The interjection is after Modern French chapeau in similar use, originally short for chapeau bas.
Inflected forms:
form: chapeaus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chapeaux
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hat.
pos: noun
gloss: A cap of maintenance.
pos: noun
gloss: The mass of grape solids that floats on the surface during the fermentation of wine.
pos: noun
gloss: The text at the start of a numbered section of a legal document that appears directly beside the section number, ahead of any numbered subsections.
pos: noun
gloss: A passage of introductory text appearing in a treaty that broadly defines its principles, objectives, and background.
pos: noun
gloss: well done, thank you a verbal representation of a hat tip
pos: intj
examples: Chapeau to you for the presence of mind.
I fully understand the mother's concerns; and I say chapeau to her twice. The first for allowing her daughter the opportunity to study abroad, and secondly for accompanying her during the first months of study to ease her homelessness.
Hopefully you see it as a good promotion for your blog and chapeau to you for being awesome!
Related words: chapeau-bras
chapeaugraphy
Derived words: chapeaued
Translations:
rinse
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English rinsen, rincen, rencen (“to rinse”), from Old French rincier, reinser, Old Northern French raïncer (“to rinse, cleanse”). Of contested origin. Possibly from Old Norse hreinsa, from Proto-Germanic *hrainisōną (“to clean, purify”), from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to separate, divide”). Alternatively from a dissimilation of Old French recincier, from Latin recentare (“to make fresh”).
Cognate with French rincer. From the Germanic verb are Danish rense, Norwegian rense, Swedish rensa (all “to clean”), Old High German reinisōn (“to clean, purify, atone”). It is related to German rein (“pure”), Gothic 𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (hrains, “clean”), and English riddle. The Latin verb is related to recent.
Inflected forms:
form: rinses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rinsing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rinsed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rinsed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rinses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To wash (something) quickly using water and no soap.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You'd better rinse that stain before putting the shirt in the washing machine.
gloss: To remove soap from (something) using water.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Rinse the dishes after you wash them.
gloss: To drink and hangout with friends.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Let's Rinse later tonight at my house.
gloss: To swish (a liquid) around the inside of something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Oscar uncapped his beer, rinsed the first mouthful around.
gloss: To thoroughly defeat in an argument, fight or other competition.
pos: verb
tags: UK
slang
examples: You got rinsed.
I think that's a British thing though. Like, I got rinsed for playing video games.
gloss: The action of rinsing.
pos: noun
examples: I'll just give this knife a quick rinse.
gloss: A liquid used to rinse, now particularly a hair dye.
pos: noun
examples: I had a henna rinse yesterday.
Derived words: prerinse
rerinse
rinseable
rinse and repeat
rinse down
rinse off
rinse out
rinse-pitcher
rinser
unrinsed
blue rinse
cream rinse
mouthrinse
rinse aid
Translations:
aequalis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin aequālis (“equal”). Doublet of equal and egal.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The case conveying an equality with another noun, equivalent to “like” or “as” in English. This case is used in some languages like Inuktitut.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
curling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: curlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action or motion of something that curls or is curled.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: curlings of smoke
a scornful curling of the lip
Wherefore are all your sleekings, and your curlings,
Crispings, and paintings, and your skin made soft,
And your face smooth with ointments […]
gloss: A winter sport where players aim and slide stones down a sheet of ice and attempt to get their color stones closest to the house (a circular target marked on the ice).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: crokicurl
curling parent
curling stick
curling stone
wheelchair curling
Translations:
Hittite
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Biblical Hebrew חִתִּי (ḥittî), from Hittite 𒄩𒋾 (ḫati), perhaps ultimately an exonym related to Hatti. In reference to the Indo-European-speaking people of Asia Minor (as opposed to the Biblical Hittites), this term was first used in the early 20th century in confusion with the neighboring Hattites (Hattic) whose language was recorded in discovered texts as [script needed] (ḫattili). It is now known that the Hittites called themselves 𒉈𒋗𒈨𒉌𒌍 (ne-šu-me-né-eš /⁠nešumeneš⁠/, “people from the city of Nesha”), hence the much less used alternative name Nesite or Neshite.
Inflected forms:
form: Hittites
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Hitt.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: Hitt.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: A person of the Hittite Kingdom, a Bronze Age kingdom of Anatolia.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or relating to the Hittite people.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to the Hittite language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to the Hittite Kingdom, located in central Anatolia (modern Turkey), that flourished from about 1800 to 1400 B.C.E.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: Indo-Hittite
Neo-Hittite
post-Hittite
Proto-Hittite
Translations:
mastiff
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English mastif, mastyf, an aberrant derivation (with influence from Old French mestif) from Old French mastin (modern French mâtin), from Vulgar Latin *mansuetinus (“tamed (animal)”), from Latin mansuetus (“tamed”).
Inflected forms:
form: mastiffs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mastives
pos: noun
tags: archaic
plural
form: Mastiff
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One of an old breed of powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dogs, used chiefly as watchdogs and guard dogs.
pos: noun
examples: At which time, they wryte that Demoſthenes told the people of Athens, the fable of the ſheepe and woulues, how that the woulues came on a time, and willed the ſheepe, if they woulde haue peace with them, to deliuer them their maſtiues that kept them.
As ſaluage Bull, whom two fierce maſtiues bayt, / When rancour doth with rage him once engore, / Forgets with wary warde them to awayt, / But with his dreadfull hornes them driues afore, / Or flings aloft or treades downe in the flore, / Breathing out wrath, and bellowing diſdaine, / That all the foreſt quakes to heare him rore: […]
They fill’d the Capitoll, and Pompei’s Circke: / Where, like ſo many Maſtiues, biting ſtones, / As if his Statues novv vvere ſenſitiue / Of their vvild fury, firſt they teare them dovvne: / Then faſtning ropes, drag them along the ſtreetes, […]
Avaunt, you curs! Be thy mouth or black or white, Tooth that poisons if it bite; Mastiff, greyhound, mongrel grim, Hound or spaniel, brach or him.
The conquering foe they soon assail’d; / First Trulla stav’d, and Cerdon tail’d, / Until their Mastives loos’d their hold: / And yet alas! do what they could, / The worsted Bear came off with store / Of bloudy wounds, but all before.
Soon as Ulyſſes near th’encloſure drew, / With open mouths the furious maſtives flew: […]
Her, who did erst the lengthened fight maintain, / And heaped the death-pile red with Prankish gore, / The Vert fangs now to vassalage constrain: / The mastives old and young, Verrucchio bore, / Who in their lawless rule Montagna slew, / Make their teeth augres where they wont of yore: […]
The Mastiff is a good fighter, and can kill a wildcat, taking the necessary punishment well, as we found out when we once trapped one of these small lynxes.
Neither of them could say how many years it had been since the week-long poisoning epidemic, which first took their father’s bulls, then his mastives, then the man himself; […]
Milei’s allies reject his portrayal as an unbalanced powder keg, although they do not refute claims their leader takes counsel from his cloned mastiffs.
Translations:
informative
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English inform
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātuslbor.
English -ate
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English -ative
English informative
From inform + -ative.
Inflected forms:
form: more informative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most informative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Providing information; especially, providing useful or interesting information.
pos: adj
examples: I read a very informative newspaper article on that subject last week.
gloss: Of a standard or specification, not specifying requirements, but merely providing information.
pos: adj
gloss: Formative; having power to form.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
Related words: inform
information
informational
informatory
Derived words: bioinformative
counterinformative
disinformative
informatively
informativeness
informativity
metainformative
misinformative
noninformative
overinformative
superinformative
underinformative
Translations:
tell-all
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tell-alls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Telling all; revealing everything, particularly details or information that are normally withheld.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The statesman's tell-all memoirs were not published until long after death.
Open source is a tell-all software development strategy.
Mr. Will, whose inkhornisms remain a weekly treat, has had tough words for former White Housers who write tell-all books, so the younger George had better watch his tongue.
More unsettling was the origin story of the infamous tell-all book Princess in Love. Diana claimed to be outraged in 1994 when Daily Express journalist Anna Pasternak spilled the beans of her affair with former army officer James Hewitt[…]
The Princess of Canada is a “sorority girl, actress, influencer, victim”, while her husband, the prince, has written a tell-all book about his family and the media called “Waaagh!”.
gloss: A publication, usually a book or magazine article, which tells all, revealing every detail, particularly information that is normally withheld.
pos: noun
examples: At this point, we could all write a tell-all about our tabloid childhoods and contrive an autobiographical performance about the pleasures of humiliation.
Mikerra had been offered a seven-figure book deal for a tell-all chronicling her relationship with Senator McCaffrey, his death, and the project's ultimate demise.
Surprise! I wrote a tell-all about each and every one of you!
Of all the people in the world to write a tell-all about The Lunch Club, it had to be Missy Adams?!
The highly anticipated proceedings are poised to serve as a tell-all on FTX and Alameda’s shocking downfall, with jurors weighing whether Bankman-Fried callously lined his pockets with hapless investors’ money. Ellison will play a pivotal role in the case.
Translations:
for-pay
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Available by subscription; used to describe a product or service that must be purchased to use; synonymous with pay in pay version.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The website's for-pay access provides premium options.
The freeware version will be supplanted by an overhauled for-pay release.
Antonyms: free
Translations:
massless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mass
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English massless
From mass + -less.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having no mass.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The photon is a massless particle.
On the other hand, Pauli had just proposed a massless, chargeless, colorless, flavorless particle whose sole reason for existence was to preserve the principle of momentum conservation.
Antonyms: massive
Translations:
icebreaker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
nautical
theater
transport
Etymology: From ice + breaker, in the figurative sense from the expression to break the ice.
Compound parts: ice
breaker
Inflected forms:
form: icebreakers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ice breaker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ice-breaker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A ship designed to break through ice so that it, or other ships coming behind, can navigate on frozen seas.
pos: noun
examples: The steel hulls of ice-breakers are much thicker than those of standard vessels.
My father's Bonneville was cutting its way toward us like an icebreaker moving through my whole state of consciousness.
The Australian Antarctic Division’s chartered icebreaker the Aurora Australis on a previous mission wedged in ice in Commonwealth Bay 10 nautical miles from Mawson’s Hut in Antarctica.
gloss: A game, activity, humorous anecdote, etc., designed to ease tension and encourage interaction among individuals in a situation where they do not know each other well.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The new college hallmates were awkward with each other at first, but after a game of charades as an icebreaker, they were laughing like old friends.
The key purpose of an icebreaker is to introduce your group members to each other and to introduce your training session topic. A well-planned icebreaker ensures that a training session will start with more involvement and focus.
gloss: A lively song and dance routine at the start of a musical.
pos: noun
examples: At the moment the curtain went up there had to be a lively ensemble number of principals and chorus singing and dancing, the traditional “icebreaker” that also covered up the noise of late-arriving ticket holders getting to their seats.
Related words: break the ice
passagemaker
social lubricant
Derived words: heavy icebreaker
light icebreaker
medium icebreaker
oblique icebreaker
Translations:
idolater
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English ydolatrer, from Middle French idolatre, from Latin idololatra. Displaced native Old English dēofolġielda (literally “devil worshiper”).
Inflected forms:
form: idolaters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: idolatress
pos: noun
tags: feminine
form: idolator
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who worships idols; (historical) a pagan.
pos: noun
examples: [T]he state of idolaters is two ways miserable: first, in that which they worship they find no succour; and secondly, at his hands, whom they ought to serve, there is no other thing to be looked for but the effects of most just displeasure, the withdrawing of grace, dereliction in this world, and in the world to come confusion.
I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
You who can smash the idols, do so with a good courage; but do not be too fierce with the idolaters,—they worship the best thing they know.
Translations:
illusory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French illusorie (modern French illusoire), derived from Latin illūsōrius (“mocking, ironical”).
Inflected forms:
form: more illusory
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most illusory
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resulting from an illusion; deceptive, imaginary, unreal.
pos: adj
examples: The invalidity of a cognition is the otherwiseness of its object, and is known by a sublating cognition. The illusory cognition of silver knows illusory silver, but does not know its otherwiseness.
Yet for this new womanosphere, the response is not advancing policies like paid family leave or affordable childcare, but to return to an idealized, illusory past where being a wife and mother was viewed as a woman’s sole purpose.
Translations:
illustrator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English illustrate
English -or
English illustrator
From illustrate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: illustrators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a person who draws pictures (especially illustrations in books or magazines)
pos: noun
examples: Mary is one of the best illustrators of children's books in the country.
Translations:
dyspeptic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: First attested in 1694. From Ancient Greek δύσπεπτος (dúspeptos, “difficult to digest”), from δυσ- (dus-, “bad”) + πέπτω (péptō, “to digest”).
Base: πέπτω
Affixes: δυσ-
Inflected forms:
form: more dyspeptic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dyspeptic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dyspeptics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or having dyspepsia or indigestion.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: ...but Lady Anne could not be deceived—in five years' time he would become dyspeptic, be surrounded by physicians, consigned to all the Badens in Germany, and think much more of a renovating draught than a beautiful young wife.
gloss: Irritable or morose.
pos: adj
tags: comparable
figuratively
examples: He was a sallow, dyspeptic man, with a premature shock of grey hair, attached to the stage as an occupation but not a vocation. His only passion was gambling on the race-course, which was attended with perpetual bad luck, though that appeared to act as a stimulus rather than to dampen his fervour.
Sir Maurice made a rough, dyspeptic sound, as if chewing a mint.
gloss: A dyspeptic person.
pos: noun
examples: Medical management of peptic ulcers is employed along with psychotherapy to greater advantage than the multitude of operations employed twenty years ago for the unfortunate dyspeptic.
There is, for example, the hamburg-steak, of which the alliaceousness can seduce all but saints and the worst of dyspeptics.
Derived words: antidyspeptic
dyspeptone
nondyspeptic
Translations:
oligochaete
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: oligochaetes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: oligochete
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of various hermaphroditic aquatic and terrestrial annelid worms, of the subclass Oligochaeta, that have single bristles along the body.
pos: noun
Translations:
oligopoly
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: economics
sciences
Etymology: PIE word
 *h₃ligos
From oligo- (prefix meaning ‘few; several’) + -poly (suffix meaning ‘pertaining to the number of sellers in a market’), by analogy with monopoly.
Affixes: oligo-
-poly
Inflected forms:
form: oligopolies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An economic condition in which a small number of sellers exert control over the market of a commodity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Because of the ease of collusion, particularly price fixing, duopolies and oligopolies easily produce outcomes as bad for the general public as outright monopolies.
For the sheep are falling into few and powerful hands; and these, if they have not a monopoly, have at least an oligopoly, and can keep up the price.
[Thomas] More makes an antithesis between monopolium and oligopolium. We have ‘monopoly,’ but not ‘oligopoly’ (the sale by a few), and so cannot preserve the point of the sentence.
An embarrassing infelicity is the use of Russianised consonants, where for six of the consonants, an additional set is made by supersigns, representing the letter h. […] The specialist offices have it all to themselves; not a 'monopoly’, but an ‘oligopoly’, if we may coin the term.
The major difference between pure and differentiated oligopoly cases is that in pure oligopolies less "shock" is needed to alter the organization of the market.
Although the power source had shifted from the king's near monopoly into an elite oligopoly, the masses were still afflicted when they sought wood fuel. But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tile makers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal. This only magnified the indispensable nature of the oligopolists.
By the late 1930s, however, the major film companies had consolidated their status as vertically-integrated oligopolies that dominated movie production, distribution and exhibition.
Not only does the tech oligopoly seamlessly record our preferences, habits, and choices, it also uses that data to guide our future choices, rendering us increasingly useful to the tech companies and useless to ourselves.
Depending on whether they are collusive or competitive, oligopolies can be more like monopolies or more like perfect competition, respectively, as a Khan Academy video explains.
Translations:
oligotrophic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
geography
medicine
natural-sciences
physiology
sciences
Etymology: From oligo- + -trophic.
Base: oligo
Inflected forms:
form: more oligotrophic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most oligotrophic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: deficient in nutrition (providing little nourishment)
pos: adj
gloss: being poor in nutrients and minerals
pos: adj
gloss: deficient in plant nutrients, such as nitrogen or phosphorus.
pos: adj
Related words: oligotrophy
eutrophy
hypereutrophy
Derived words: oligotrophication
ultraoligotrophic
Translations:
top-spinner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: top-spinners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a type of ball, bowled by a leg spin bowler, that spins forward and, when bouncing off the pitch, bounces higher than expected and slows down
pos: noun
Translations: