yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
suncatcher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sun + catcher.
Compound parts: sun
catcher
Inflected forms:
form: suncatchers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small piece of reflective glass or nacre that is hung indoors at a window to "catch the light".
pos: noun
Translations:
Lumbee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain. Said to be first attested in reference to the tribe in 1914. Supposed by some to be of Siouan origin. Thought by others to have been coined by Turkey Tayac (1895-1978, the twenty-seventh hereditary chief of the Piscataway) as a combination of Lumber (“a river that flows through the tribe's lands”) and Piscataway bee (“bend”).
Inflected forms:
form: Lumbees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Lumbee
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a certain Native American tribe or group of North Carolina.
pos: noun
Translations:
diabeetus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the pronunciation of diabetes used by American actor Wilford Brimley in advertisements for the medical supplies home delivery service Liberty Medical.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Diabetes.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
uncountable
examples: Carbohydrates are bad? There are weight-loss schemes that involve avoiding them, and you don't want to go crazy on sugars unless you want diabeetus, but in general, i reckon they're okay.
Yeah, but I'm trying to decide what to do about it before all the saccharine gives me diabeetus or something.
Tell Cake we sent you, and she might be persuaded to hook you up with her signature Red Velvet Cake martini. The perfect blend between cirrhosis and the diabeetus, this is probably what Oompa-Loompas unwind with at the end of an everlasting workday.
Translations:
eidos
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos, “species”)
Inflected forms:
form: eidoi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Form; essence; type; species.
pos: noun
Translations:
ooey-gooey
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Reduplicative.
Inflected forms:
form: more ooey-gooey
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ooey-gooey
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: gooey; sticky
pos: adj
tags: childish
informal
examples: Ooey-gooey stuff. Whipped cream, guacamole, chocolate sauce, maple syrup, potato salad, cottage cheese, fruit salad, jello, pies. He'd even mix cake batter and pour it on me.
Purple ones, green ones, ooey-gooey ones—all kinds of nasty monsters!
We both agree that the best chocolate chip cookie is one with an ooey-gooey center, loads of chocolate chips, and freshly toasted nuts.
Translations:
visa-on-arrival
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A simplified method of issuing visa (a permit to enter and leave a country) on arrival, as an alternative to a complete visa-free entry.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
sunnyside
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The top of a cooked egg.
pos: noun
Translations:
naginata
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 薙刀 (naginata, literally “mowing hatchet”).
Inflected forms:
form: naginatas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A traditional Japanese halberd: a polearm historically used to cut down infantry and cavalry.
pos: noun
Translations:
paleoart
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Coined by American artist Mark Hallett in 1987, from paleo- + art.
Base: art
Affixes: paleo-
Inflected forms:
form: paleo art
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: palaeoart
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: Art that depicts subjects related to paleontology.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
gloss: The primitive art of Paleolithic peoples.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
Translations:
pregaming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The drinking of cheap alcohol at home before going out socially.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
Translations:
hunt-and-pecker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hunt-and-peck + -er.
Base: hunt-and-peck
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: hunt-and-peckers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who types with the hunt-and-peck technique.
pos: noun
Translations:
keeno
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From keen + -o?
Base: keen
Affixes: -o
Inflected forms:
form: keenos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pupil who works hard; a swot.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: There was a perception that a pupil could be clever, yet not a 'keeno', so long as one's display of ability was not too overt. Such 'cool' cleverness is an attribute for the astute teacher to foster in boys!
Those in the back row are the rebels, who are hoping to get away with messing around or doing some marking. Those who sit at the front are the keenos who have all the answers.
I was one of my year's only sad keenos, which resulted in me at perhaps thirteen years old competing in the district sports 1500-metres event[…]
Translations:
baked-in
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more baked-in
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most baked-in
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Built in; inseparably included.
pos: adj
Translations:
teucrium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From the genus name (New Latin Teucrium).
Inflected forms:
form: teucriums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the genus Teucrium of lamiaceous plants; a germander.
pos: noun
Translations:
blue-ocean
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
Inflected forms:
form: more blue-ocean
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most blue-ocean
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: blue ocean
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or related to an industry lacking competition.
pos: adj
Translations:
fivehead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of five + forehead. Wordplay based on adding one to the "fore" (homophonous to four) of forehead, thus implying a brow that is larger than average.
Compound parts: five
forehead
Inflected forms:
form: fiveheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large forehead.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
examples: His splashiest trick is balancing a glass of grape juice on his forehead (which is so big, he says, that everyone calls it a fivehead) while playing the ukulele, whistling and doing a backward somersault.
It also helps that my hair has left for higher ground and instead of a forehead, as the joke goes, I have a fivehead.
For starters, thin me tanned easily and didn't have a forehead so wide it was called a fivehead.
Translations:
head-initial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having the head (primary morpheme) at the beginning of a phrase.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
head-final
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having the head (primary morpheme) at the end of a phrase.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A fascinating generalization across languages is that if a language has head-initial verb-object word order, then its head-argument word order rules tend to be head-initial, as in English and in lots of other subject-verb-object (SVO) languages such as Mandarin, Spanish, French, or Swahili. But if a language has object-verb word order, then all of its head-argument word order rules tend to be head-final.
Translations:
snip-snap
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Reduplication of snap.
Inflected forms:
form: snip-snaps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: snip-snapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: snip-snapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: snip-snapped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: snip-snaps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To shut, close, bite, etc., with a brisk snap.
pos: verb
examples: He had picked a small section of scrub behind his shanty which the lagoon below cut into paintable patterns, and with easel snip-snapped up and palette set, was going through the essential preliminary of peering at it[.]
No doubt of it, Edmund was at grips with that bumptious little hairy dog. They were going it at the very top note of sadistic fury, screaming and snip-snapping in such a lightning mixture of black and white murder that the eye could not follow it.
gloss: A sharp snapping sound.
pos: noun
gloss: A tart dialogue with quick replies.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
examples: snip-snap short, and interruption smart
The daily snip-snaps and hubbubs between the cross-purposed couple accentuated that tendency in her. After each altercation Mrs. Coley was seized with an hysterical attack, and my services were needed.
Translations:
windpower
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wind + power.
Compound parts: wind
power
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: power harnessed or generated from the wind
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
neurostimulation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From neuro- + stimulation.
Base: stimulation
Affixes: neuro-
Inflected forms:
form: neurostimulations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: stimulation of neurons
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
neurostimulator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From neuro- + stimulator.
Base: stimulator
Affixes: neuro-
Inflected forms:
form: neurostimulators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A device that stimulates neurons
pos: noun
Translations:
jalebi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hindustani जलेबी / جلیبی (jalebī). Doublet of zalabiya.
Inflected forms:
form: jalebis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jallebi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jelabee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jilabi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jilapi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jilebi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: zulbia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mushabak
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A sweet popular in the Indian subcontinent, made by deep-frying a maida flour batter and soaking it in sugar syrup.
pos: noun
examples: You will not believe how quickly jalebis can be made. I have used yeast to ferment the jalebi batter quickly and so it does not require to be left for a day to ferment. The trick here is to immediately start frying the jalebis once the batter has rested for 10 minutes.
On the way he saw a sweetmeat seller making jalebis (spiral sweet). He was tempted. In his mind he thought he'd have some jalebis.
But Bhole refused to listen. He became very angry and started to scream, “I want jalebis! Give me jalebis! I want them now!”
Mr. Alam and his staff often insist that visitors enjoy a free treat like chocolate barfi, condensed milk mixed with chocolate, or jalebis, deep fried rice flour coated in a sugary syrup, while they shop. “I want my customers to feel welcome and offering mithai is a way to show hospitality,” Mr. Alam said.
Translations:
maida
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hindi मैदा (maidā), from Classical Persian مَیْدَه (mayda).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A finely milled, refined and bleached wheat flour, used in making Indian foods such as samosa, chakli and bhatoora.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
flubber
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of flying + rubber; originally the name of a fictional substance in the film The Absent-Minded Professor (1961).
Compound parts: flying
rubber
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A rubbery polymer formed by cross-linking of polyvinyl alcohol with a boron compound, used as a plaything or to demonstrate physical properties.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
ice-free
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ice + -free.
Base: ice
Affixes: -free
Inflected forms:
form: icefree
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Free of all ice; not covered in ice.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Generally speaking, in the summer the ore from Kiruna is sent to Narvik, and that from Gällivare to Luleå, but, as Luleå is not ice-free (as is Narvik), all traffic in the winter must go to the latter, though this is to some extent mitigated by the fact that the output of the mines tends to be lower.
Ch’in-huang-tao had the largest glass factory in China. As the only ice-free port of north China, it developed an important transit trade by rail for Tientsin and south Manchuria, since the town is on the main rail line between Manchuria and north China.
Translations:
ill-considered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more ill-considered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ill-considered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Poorly considered.
pos: adj
Translations:
ill-conditioned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more ill-conditioned
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ill-conditioned
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a high condition number.
pos: adj
gloss: In a poor condition.
pos: adj
Translations:
ill-disguised
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more ill-disguised
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ill-disguised
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Poorly disguised.
pos: adj
Translations:
ill-doer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ill-doers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wrongdoer; malefactor.
pos: noun
Translations:
ill-fitting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more ill-fitting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ill-fitting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: illfitting
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Poorly fitted.
pos: adj
examples: The amateur stood in the glare of the spot, his brown shoes mismatched to the blue, ill-fitting suit. He rolled his eyes nervously toward the balcony.
There was no First Class accommodation, and there were always strong draughts from their ill-fitting doors.
gloss: Improperly matched; unsuitable.
pos: adj
examples: It was as if, because of the very strangeness of my heritage and the worlds I straddled, I was from everywhere and nowhere at once, a combination of ill-fitting parts, like a platypus or some imaginary beast, confined to a fragile habitat, unsure of where I belonged.
Translations:
great-great-great-granddaughter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From great- + great-great-granddaughter.
Base: great-great-granddaughter
Affixes: great-
Inflected forms:
form: great-great-great-granddaughters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: greatgreatgreatgranddaughter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The daughter of one’s great-great-grandchild.
pos: noun
examples: Foremost is Mrs. Gladys Santen, of Paris, Kentucky, the great-great-great-granddaughter of Peter Houston.
The great-great-great-granddaughter of both the czar and Pushkin, she remembers her formidable grandmother being related to practically every royal in Europe, including Queen Elizabeth II of England.
A great-great-great-granddaughter of the Swedish painter Carl Larsson leads a tour of the country house where the artist lived with his wife, Karin.
Translations:
blim
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: blims
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small piece of cannabis resin.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
examples: Last night I went out driving in my car. I sparked up a fat spliff of fucking soap bar. A blim-burn burned right down to my dick and while I was distracted I fucking crashed into a brick wall, the car was fucking battered. The bonnet flipped up and the windscreen shattered. You're better of smoking the green instead cause it don't blim-burn and it's better for your head.[…]Lying in your bed dropping blims on your pubes. Selling draw to your mates but it's really Oxo cubes.[…]Well anyway, I think it's better myself to lean forwards when smoking soap bar because you are less likely to blim-burn.
Getting stoned in Afghanistan was an extreme sport, a very long way indeed from the polite blims of hash that middle-class Londoners sometimes consume at parties.
Have those chaps nothing better to do than to bust me for a blim?
It's when you get a blim of hash and get it between two really hot knives, and then honk it up through a bottle or something … I think.
— Can anyone spair us a blim? Mags sez.
Translations:
Sowetan
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Soweto + -an.
Base: Soweto
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: more Sowetan
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Sowetan
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Sowetans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Soweto.
pos: adj
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Soweto.
pos: noun
Translations:
wheatland
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wheat + land.
Compound parts: wheat
land
Inflected forms:
form: wheatlands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An area where wheat is produced.
pos: noun
Translations:
wedding-cake
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The adjective is from wedding cake.
Inflected forms:
form: more wedding-cake
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most wedding-cake
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Extremely ornate.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
examples: Nightlife in Strumstad boils down to Skagerack, a very loud, very young music venue in the classic wedding-cake building where the Stockholm elite once parried.
Translations:
weeny-bopper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From weeny + bopper by analogy with teenybopper.
Compound parts: weeny
bopper
Inflected forms:
form: weeny-boppers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A preteen child, especially one who enjoys pop music
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
well-oiled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The figurative sense of smoothrunning is an extension from the literal sense involving lubrication.
Inflected forms:
form: more well-oiled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most well-oiled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Well-run; smoothrunning; efficiently run.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
examples: Pro-Trump political influencers have spent years building a well-oiled media machine that swarms around every major news story, creating a torrent of viral commentary that reliably drowns out both the mainstream media and the liberal opposition.
gloss: Drunk.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
examples: Well, in 2000, a pair of well-oiled strangers hit the news and were arrested – after groping each other and undressing on a transatlantic flight – but it’s usually less extreme, as with the couple who were intensely snogging in 2020.
Swinging onto the Treherbert branch under the new OLE, the train's onboard Passenger Information Screens announce we have entered a 'no alcohol' zone. That doesn't seem to help, as some of the passengers who joined us earlier seem 'well oiled' already.
gloss: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see well, oiled.
pos: adj
Related words: overoiled
underoiled
well-oiled machine
Translations:
shetland
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Shetland sheep.
Inflected forms:
form: shetlands
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Shetland
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Lightweight, loosely twisted wool fabric.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
megawatt-hour
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, megawatt + hour, or, by surface analysis, mega- + watt-hour.
Inflected forms:
form: megawatt-hours
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A unit of energy equal to that provided by one megawatt acting for one hour (3·6 × 10⁹ joules).
pos: noun
examples: Holonyms: kilowatt-year (31.536e9 J) < terajoule (1.000e12 J) < gigawatt-hour (3.600e12 J) < megawatt-year (31.536e12 J) < petajoule (1.000e15 J) < terawatt-hour (3.600e15 J) < gigawatt-year (31.536e15 J) < exajoule (1.000e18 J) < petawatt-hour (3.600e18 J) < terawatt-year (31.536e18 J)
Meronyms: yoctojoule (1.000e-24 J) < zeptojoule (1.000e-21 J) < attojoule (1.000e-18 J) < hartree (4.35974e-18 J) < femtojoule (1.000e-15 J) < picojoule (1.000e-12 J) < nanojoule (1.000e-9 J) < microjoule (1.000e-6 J) < millijoule (1.000e-3 J) < joule (1 J) < milliwatt-hour (3.6 J) < microwatt-year (31.536 J) < kilojoule (1.000e3 J) < watt-hour (3.600e3 J) < milliwatt-year (31.536e3 J) < megajoule (1.000e6 J) < kilowatt-hour (3.600e6 J) < watt-year (31.536e6 J) < gigajoule (1.000e9 J)
Translations:
self-medicate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From self- + medicate.
Base: medicate
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: self-medicates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: self-medicating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: self-medicated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: self-medicated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To consume a substance as a medication without the advice of a physician.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Translations:
bust-up
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bust-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An angry argument.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: “It was a real old bust-up. I do wish I knew what it was all about.”
Donald Trump warned Elon Musk on Saturday that he faces “very serious consequences” if he funds Democratic candidates following the pair’s epic public bust-up this week.
Translations:
poreless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pore + -less.
Base: pore
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Without pores.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
self-abasing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + abasing.
Base: abasing
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: more self-abasing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-abasing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Humbling by the consciousness of guilt or by shame.
pos: adj
Translations:
self-acting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + acting.
Base: acting
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Acting of or by itself.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The door is fitted with a powerful spring and a feather-touch self-acting lock. It cannot be left unlocked unless you deliberately prop it open.
On this railway there were three inclined planes of the self-acting type, the full wagons pulling up the empty.
Translations:
self-action
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + action.
Base: action
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Action by or originating in one's self or itself.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
self-activity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti
Proto-Italic *agō
Latin agō
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
▲
Ancient Greek ἐνεργητῐκός (energētĭkós)sl.
Latin āctīvus
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Latin -tās
Latin āctīvitāsder.
Middle French activitébor.
English activity
English self-activity
From self- + activity.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Self-motion or the power of moving one's self or itself without foreign or external aid.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: If it can intrinsically stir itself […] it must have a principle of self-activity which is life and sense.
Translations:
self-admiration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Admiration of oneself.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
self-annihilation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + annihilation.
Base: annihilation
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Annihilation by one's own act.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: self-destruction, suicide; self-murder
If technologically advanced civilizations can avoid self-annihilation for a period L_(lifetime) at least as long as the existence of Homo sapiens (over 100 000 years), the consequences suggested by the Drake equation are enormous for how we view ourselves. But perhaps our solar system is far from typical. Some people would claim that it is unique, in the strongest sense. […] The original suggestion that civilizations may be able to communicate with radio signals for about 10 000 years was considered by many to be far too long a period. Human self-annihilation through nuclear war was being much debated at the time of the Green Bank conference, and there are of course many other scenarios in which a technologically advanced society perishes, due to actions of the inhabitants or to natural disasters. But even if the typical L_(lifetime) is much shorter than 10 000 years, the Drake equation suggests that the search for extraterrestrial life is worthwhile, and many enthusiasts are engaged in that endeavor.
Translations:
self-conceited
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + conceited.
Base: conceited
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: more self-conceited
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-conceited
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having self-conceit; vain; having a high or overweening opinion of one's own person or merits.
pos: adj
Translations:
self-confiding
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + confiding.
Base: confiding
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: more self-confiding
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-confiding
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Confiding in one's own judgment or powers; self-confident.
pos: adj
Translations:
self-convicted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + convicted.
Base: convicted
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Convicted by one's own consciousness, knowledge, or avowal.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In a better cause, what fortitude, what endurance, would have belonged to her nature! even humiliated, self-convicted as she felt, her native pride could not quite desert her.
Translations:
self-conviction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + conviction.
Base: conviction
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Conviction proceeding from one's own consciousness, knowledge, or confession.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: No wonder such a spirit, in such a situation, is provoked beyond the regards of religion or self-conviction.
Translations:
self-culture
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + culture.
Base: culture
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Culture, training, or education of oneself without the aid of teachers.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
self-destroyer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + destroyer.
Base: destroyer
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: self-destroyers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who destroys himself/herself.
pos: noun
Translations:
self-devoted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + devoted.
Base: devoted
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: more self-devoted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-devoted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Devoted in person, or voluntarily devoted.
pos: adj
Translations:
self-devotion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + devotion.
Base: devotion
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The act of devoting one's self; willingness to sacrifice one's own interests or happiness for the sake of others; self-sacrifice.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
self-distrust
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + distrust.
Base: distrust
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Distrust of, or lack of confidence in, oneself or in one's own powers.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
self-evolution
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + evolution.
Base: evolution
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Development by inherent power or quality.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The geth are a humanoid race of networked A.I.s. They were created by the quarians 300 years ago as tools of labor and war. When the geth showed signs of self-evolution, the quarians attempted to exterminate them. The geth won the resulting war. This example has led to legal, systematic repression of artificial intelligences in galactic society.
Translations:
self-exaltation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + exaltation.
Base: exaltation
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The exaltation of oneself.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
self-interested
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + interested.
Base: interested
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: more self-interested
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-interested
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having self-interest; particularly concerned for oneself.
pos: adj
Translations:
self-involution
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + involution.
Base: involution
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Involution in oneself; hence, mental abstraction; reverie.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
self-involved
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + involved.
Base: involved
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: more self-involved
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-involved
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Wrapped up in oneself or in one's thoughts.
pos: adj
examples: Leave the phone calls, leave the music, leave the TwitFace, and leave all your self-involved portal devices in the house. Take the brain and body out for some fresh air.
Translations:
self-justification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + justification.
Base: justification
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Justification of oneself.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
self-justifier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + justifier.
Base: justifier
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: self-justifiers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who excuses or justifies himself/herself.
pos: noun
Translations:
self-killed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + killed.
Base: killed
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Killed by oneself.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
self-knowing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + knowing.
Base: knowing
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: more self-knowing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-knowing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Knowing of itself, or without the communication from another.
pos: adj
Translations:
self-motion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + motion.
Base: motion
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: self-motions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Motion given by inherent powers, without external impulse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
self-offence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + offence.
Base: offence
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: self-offences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One's own offence.
pos: noun
Translations:
self-opinion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + opinion.
Base: opinion
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: self-opinions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One's own opinion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Exalted opinion of oneself; overweening estimate of oneself; self-conceit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
self-partiality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + partiality.
Base: partiality
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That partiality by which people overrate their own worth when compared with others.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
self-pleached
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + pleached.
Base: pleached
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: more self-pleached
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-pleached
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pleached or interwoven by natural growth; intertwined; intertwisted.
pos: adj
Translations:
self-praise
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + praise.
Base: praise
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: self-praises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The praise of oneself.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
self-pride
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + pride.
Base: pride
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pride in one's own character, abilities, or reputation; self-esteem.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
self-regulated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + regulated.
Base: regulated
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: more self-regulated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-regulated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Regulated by oneself or itself.
pos: adj
Translations:
self-renunciation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + renunciation.
Base: renunciation
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: self-renunciations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of renouncing one's own rights or claims; self-abnegation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
self-repellency
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + repellency.
Base: repellency
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The inherent power of repulsion in a body.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
self-satisfying
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + satisfying.
Base: satisfying
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: more self-satisfying
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-satisfying
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Giving satisfaction to oneself.
pos: adj
examples: When one has an intimate knowledge of a business it is easy—and to some extent self-satisfying—to find fault with the way it is run by those in charge.
Translations:
self-slaughtered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + slaughtered.
Base: slaughtered
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Slaughtered or killed by oneself.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
self-slain
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + slain.
Base: slain
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Slain or killed by oneself.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
self-violence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + violence.
Base: violence
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Violence to oneself.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
semi-column
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From semi- + column.
Base: column
Affixes: semi-
Inflected forms:
form: semi-columns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A half column.
pos: noun
Translations:
semple
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more semple
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most semple
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: simple; low-born; of mean birth.
pos: adj
examples: […] he interprisit the ane new fassioun of delay, that, gif ony semple man had interprisit like, it had bene to the dangear and hasard of his lyff […]
Antonyms: gentle
Translations:
senate-house
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: senate-houses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A house in which a senate meets, or a place of public council.
pos: noun
Translations:
Bolivarian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Bolivar + -ian.
Base: Bolivar
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: more Bolivarian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Bolivarian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Bolivarians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the South American independence hero Simón Bolívar or his beliefs.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to Bolivarianism.
pos: adj
gloss: A supporter of Bolivarianism.
pos: noun
Translations:
fatphobic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From fat + -phobic.
Base: fat
Affixes: -phobic
Inflected forms:
form: more fatphobic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fatphobic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fat-phobic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to, or exhibiting, fatphobia.
pos: adj
examples: Blake McCoy, a FOX5 DC anchor, was suspended for a fatphobic tweet he made about the vaccine on Feb. 23.
Translations:
fatphobia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: c. 1980s, fat + -phobia
Base: fat
Affixes: -phobia
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Fear and/or dislike of obese people and/or obesity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: sizeism, weightism
This is because medical authorities and proponents of public health are drawing from and amplifying the Western cultural fear and loathing of fatness, or fatphobia, with claims about a global 'obesity epidemic' (WHO 1998).
Celebrity culture is intricately tied to fatphobia.
From long-lost high school friends found on Facebook to total strangers whom I'll probably never meet in person, I get asked questions from where to buy a good bra (my minimizer days are dead and buried) to how to deal with a spouse's fatphobia.
There are a lot of ways for people in the obese/eligible category to feel about it: […] Ambivalent about fatphobia in medicine working in their favor, for once.
gloss: Fear or obsessive avoidance of consuming fat.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: fatphobe
fatphobic
Translations:
no-lifer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From no life + -er.
Base: no life
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: no-lifers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who has no social life; a friendless introvert.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
Translations:
square-up
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: square-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A message shown before an exploitation film, indicating what social or moral issue the film attempts to address.
pos: noun
Translations:
paid-up
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
insurance
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Fully paid (for).
pos: adj
examples: a paid-up member of the organization
A local Chrysler dealer had 68 paid-up back orders for cars.
gloss: Full-fledged, wholehearted.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Among Wall Street economists, Mr. Roach has not been a paid-up member of the alarmist camp.
Makoni […] had a reputation as a technocrat who tended toward moderation and pragmatism, but one who was also a fully paid-up member of the Mugabe machine.
While [Alister] McGrath is a paid-up believer of a familiar type—albeit with an unusual hinterland in biophysics and Marxism—the others really aren't.
gloss: Of an insurance policy, still in force but with the policyholder no longer paying any premiums (typically resulting in a reduced sum assured).
pos: adj
Translations:
biomethane
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bio- + methane.
Base: methane
Affixes: bio-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A biogas composed mostly of methane.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
co-incineration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From co- + incineration.
Base: incineration
Affixes: co-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The incineration of waste using some of the waste as fuel
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
firekeeper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From fire + keeper.
Compound parts: fire
keeper
Inflected forms:
form: firekeepers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who tends a ceremonial fire.
pos: noun
Translations:
dorr
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dorrs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dor, or dorbeetle.
pos: noun
gloss: A drone or idler; a lazy person.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: […]live idle themselves, lyke dorres
Translations:
Plutonic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
human-sciences
mineralogy
mysticism
mythology
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Πλούτων (Ploútōn, “Pluto, Greek and Roman god of the underworld”) (from πλοῦτος (ploûtos, “riches, wealth”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *plew- (“to fly; to flow; to run”)) + -ων (-ōn)) + -ic (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘of or pertaining to’). The English word is cognate with Middle French plutonique (modern French plutonique (“of or pertaining to Pluto, the underworld, or the interior of the Earth”)).
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more Plutonic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Plutonic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: plutonic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Plutonian (“of or relating to Pluto, the Greek and Roman god of the underworld; demonic, infernal”).
pos: adj
tags: Greek
Roman
gloss: Synonym of Plutonian (“of, relating to, or having characteristics associated with the underworld; dark, gloomy; mournful”).
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: a dark, handsome lady, of no little majesty, and rather like a plutonic Madonna
gloss: Of or pertaining to rocks formed deep in the Earth's crust, rather than by volcanoes at the surface of the Earth.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: These cliffs, I may remark, are basaltic, and therefore plutonic.
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or supporting plutonism (“the theory that the rocks of the Earth were formed in fire by volcanic activity, with a continuing gradual process of weathering and erosion, then deposited on the sea bed, re-formed into layers of sedimentary rock by heat and pressure, and raised again”).
pos: adj
tags: broadly
historical
Translations:
Wahhabist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
Inflected forms:
form: Wahhabists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a follower of Wahhabism; a Wahhabite.
pos: noun
Translations:
Jonestown
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Jones + town, after Reverend Jim Jones, leader of the Peoples Temple.
Compound parts: Jones
town
Inflected forms:
form: Jonestowns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any mass suicide or murder, especially one with religious or cultic overtones.
pos: noun
Translations:
self-certification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + certification.
Base: certification
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: self-certifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of an employee certifying their absence from work due to sickness, and the eligibility for statutory sick pay.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
Translations:
self-certified
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In accordance with self-certification.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Confirmed or certified without the substantiation of another person or party.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Patrician
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Saint Patrick.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
duckface
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From duck + face, suggesting a duck's bill.
Compound parts: duck
face
Inflected forms:
form: duckfaces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: duck-face
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A facial expression in which the lips are pushed outwards in a pout.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: She turned pages in the album, gave a wry little smile to a shot of the four lads making duckfaces and faux-gangster hand signs.
For example, Mary has a severe case of duckface in this picture. Her lips are scrunched together as if someone pumped collagen and lemon juice in them at the same time. She is doing this for attention and thinks men will find it cute.
Translations:
Ismaili
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Arabic إِسْمَاعِيلِيّ (ʔismāʕīliyy).
Inflected forms:
form: Ismailis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Isma'ili
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Ismāʿīlī
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Isma'ili
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Ismāʿīlī
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A follower of Ismailism.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or pertaining to Shi'ism or Ismailism.
pos: adj
Translations:
spyder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: For the resemblance of the carriages' long, thin spokes to a spider's legs; the name was extended by analogy to open-topped automobiles.
Inflected forms:
form: spyders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spider
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A lightweight, open-topped horse-drawn carriage.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: An open-topped sports car; a roadster.
pos: noun
Translations:
stooling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: stoolings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The production of stool or feces; defecation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Infrequent stooling in the first month of life is almost always due to insufficient intake of milk. A baby who is voiding but not stooling or gaining weight may not be receiving enough high fat hindmilk. Stooling frequency will correct itself with additional feeds or making sure the infant receives more hind milk at a feed.
Normal stooling is widely variant. Some infants only have one stool per day, especially those on formula feeding. Others may stool with each feeding. Such frequent stooling is common in breast-fed infants during the first month of life.
Translations:
blash
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unclear. Perhaps ultimately imitative; compare plash, pash (“heavy rain”), dialectal clash (“heavy rain”).
Inflected forms:
form: blashes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blashes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blashing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blashed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blashed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A heavy fall of rain.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:blash.
gloss: To pour heavily.
pos: verb
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
Translations:
cossette
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French cossette.
Inflected forms:
form: cossettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of the thin strips into which sugar beets are cut as part of the sugar-making process.
pos: noun
Translations:
whiteys
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of tighty-whiteys.
Inflected forms:
form: whities
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Men's or boys’ traditionally white briefs.
pos: noun
tags: US
plural
plural-only
slang
examples: Like a hot knife through butter the razor parted the tissue and muscle and nerves and like the Red Sea to Moses those two visible vertebrae split away from one another. Instantly rendering his legs useless and even before the bright red blood began to stain the tidiness of his whiteys, Abraham began to fall.
Translations:
mini-trench
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From mini- + trench.
Base: trench
Affixes: mini-
Inflected forms:
form: mini-trenches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A very narrow trench dug in an urban environment in order to lay fibre optic cable.
pos: noun
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