yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
undecidable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English un-
English decide
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 decidable
English undecidable
From un- + decidable.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Incapable of being algorithmically decided in finite time. For example, a set of strings is undecidable if it is impossible to program a computer (even one with infinite memory) to determine whether or not specified strings are included.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The first-order procedure SP differs from the proposi-
 tional procedure CP°₁ in an essential feature. Namely, CP°₁
 always terminates while SP may run forever as we have seen with
 the example immediately after (3.7). This is not a specific
 defect of SP. Rather it is known that first-order logic is an
 undecidable theory while propositional logic is a decidable
 theory. This means that for the latter there are decision pro-
 cedures which for any formula decide whether it is valid or
 not — and CP°₁ in fact is such a decision procedure — while
 for the former such decision procedures do not exist in princi-
 ple. Thus SP, according to these results for which the reader
 is referred to any logic texts such as [End], [DrG] or [Lew],
 is of the kind which we may expect, it is a semi-decision
 procedure which confirms if a formula is valid but may run
 forever for invalid formulas. Therefore, termination by running
 out of time or space after any finite number of steps will
 leave the question for the validity of a formula unsettled. [...]
gloss: (of a WFF) logically independent from the axioms of a given theory; i.e., that it can never be either proved or disproved (i.e., have its negation proved) on the basis of the axioms of the given theory. (Note: this latter definition is independent of any time bounds or computability issues, i.e., more Platonic.)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: decidable
Related words: noncomputable
Translations:
flageolet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
entertainment
food
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
French flageoletbor.
English flageolet
Borrowed from French flageolet.
Inflected forms:
form: flageolets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of small flute of the fipple family.
pos: noun
gloss: A technique for playing stringed instrument that produces high-pitched overtones.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of small light green kidney-shaped bean, common in France.
pos: noun
Derived words: flageoletist
flageolet register
Translations:
switchgrass
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From switch + grass.
Compound parts: switch
grass
Inflected forms:
form: switchgrasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tall North American perennial grass, of species Panicum virgatum, used as forage and to make hay.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He peers from the road to the woods, tangled with switchgrass and swamp myrtle.
Translations:
Scotswoman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Scots
Proto-Germanic *wībą
Proto-West Germanic *wīb
Old English wīf
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Old English wīfmann
Middle English woman
Middle English -woman
English -woman
English Scotswoman
From Scots + -woman.
Inflected forms:
form: Scotswomen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A woman from Scotland.
pos: noun
Translations:
cellulosic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-der.
Latin cella
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -ula
Latin cellulabor.
French cellule
French -ose
French cellulosebor.
English cellulose
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English cellulosic
From cellulose + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: cellulosics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or derived from cellulose.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A synthetic plastic derived from cellulose.
pos: noun
Translations:
full-throated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From full + throated.
Inflected forms:
form: more full-throated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most full-throated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Using all the power of one's voice; communicated loudly or vociferously.
pos: adj
tags: also
figuratively
examples: [T]hou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, / In some melodious plot / Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, / Singest of summer in full-throated ease.
The laughter was not quite so full-throated as before. Such excessive cleverness was a little Satanic.
The purr grew louder, and ended in the full-throated 'Aaarh!' of the tiger's charge.
Amid the crashing full-throated shouts of the soldiers, the peasants formed in line, unfurling the great red banner of the Executive Committee of the All-Russian Peasants' Soviets, embroidered newly in gold, "Long live the union of the revolutionary and toiling masses!"
The heavy motor warmed up with a full-throated roar, then there was a grinding clash of gears, and George felt the old house tremble under him as the truck swung out into the street and thundered off.
gloss: Showing strong feelings.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: [Andy] Warhol's portraits of Jackie [Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis] could not be more full-throated in their sorrow because they are so obviously felt, a silent agony.
Governor [Nikki] Hayley's full-throated insistence that the [Confederate] flag be removed—she called it a "deeply offensive symbol of a brutally offensive past"—played an instrumental role in building consensus in the state's Republican Party.
[Donald] Trump never received the full throated backing of his party colleagues and mainstream consensus until about 2am last night was that he was a joke.
The result was a full-throated rebuke of France's traditional mainstream parties, setting the country on an uncertain path in an election that could also decide the future of the European Union.
gloss: Of a woman: having ample breasts.
pos: adj
tags: dated
euphemistic
examples: There she sits, at the very opposite corner, just as far off as accident could put her from this handsome fellow, by whose side she ought, of course, to be sitting. [...] Tawny-haired, amber-eyed, full-throated, skin as white as a blanched almond.
And this was Miggles! this bright-eyed, full-throated young woman, whose wet gown of coarse blue stuff could not hide the beauty of the feminine curves to which it clung; [...]
Derived words: full-throatedly
Translations:
throated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English throat
English -ed
English throated
From throat + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having the specified type of throat.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
Translations:
close-cropped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more close-cropped
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most close-cropped
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Cut very short.
pos: adj
examples: A soldier with close-cropped hair walked past.
gloss: Having the hair cut very short.
pos: adj
examples: Minutes later, several more close-cropped fellows passed by in an evident hurry.
Bradly could see the livid mark of scars on the close-cropped sandy skull. They were recent, and still showed contused edges[.]
Translations:
speechifying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: speechifyings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The art of making speeches; rhetoric or oratory.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of speaking, especially at excessive length.
pos: noun
examples: "I thank you," said Lorraine, "for reinforcing my favourite theory, which maintains that a love of talking is the great feature of the present time. Steam is not half so much its characteristic as speechifying."
“To literary readers, the books look cheesy, sexist in a hairy-chest, gold-chain kind of way. His [Robert Heinlein's] stuff hasn’t stood the test of time,” because of characters’ windy speechifying and their frontier optimism.
Translations:
obdurately
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English obdurate
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English obdurately
From obdurate + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more obdurately
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most obdurately
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an obdurate manner; stubbornly, intractably or inflexibly.
pos: adv
examples: The sparse grey locks he combed were fewer and greyer: and though the accustomed mouth circle was as obdurately set as of old, his head waggled purposelessly: and his hands fumbled stiffly as he folded and replaced his pocket comb.
Translations:
cowskin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cow + skin.
Compound parts: cow
skin
Inflected forms:
form: cowskins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Leather made from the hide of a cow or similar animal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A whip made of that material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Mr. Plummer was a miserable drunkard, a profane swearer, and a savage monster. He always went armed with a cowskin and a heavy cudgel.
Translations:
decapitated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: With the head removed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
cablegram
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cable + -gram.
Base: cable
Affixes: -gram
Inflected forms:
form: cablegrams
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A telegram transmitted via a submarine cable.
pos: noun
examples: A cablegram was received also from Susan Lawrence, chairman of the Labor party.
Translations:
phalloplasty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: From phallo- + -plasty.
Base: phallo
Inflected forms:
form: phalloplasties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Plastic surgery to construct or repair a penis, performed to repair injury or as part of sex reassignment surgery.
pos: noun
gloss: Plastic surgery to enlarge the penis.
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
Related words: vaginoplasty
metoidioplasty
Translations:
caddish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cad
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English caddish
From cad + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more caddish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most caddish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characteristic of a cad, discourteous, ungentlemanly, dishonorable.
pos: adj
examples: To introduce into philosophical discussions a sneer at a creed's antiquity is like introducing a sneer at a lady's age. It is caddish because it is irrelevant. The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.
'I think it's absolutely—absolutely caddish of you to mention such things!'
Translations:
panicking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: panickings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A state of panic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We have various events or processes, therefore: cuttings, kickings, humiliatings, panickings, puncturings, smashings, blowings, and swellings. These are the things that really go on in the world and causation is perhaps just a label […]
Translations:
heer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain.
Inflected forms:
form: heers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A yarn measure of six hundred yards, or 1/24 of a spindle.
pos: noun
Translations:
cagily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cagy
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English cagily
From cagy + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more cagily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most cagily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a cagy manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
canonically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English canonical
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English canonically
From canonical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more canonically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most canonically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a canonical manner.
pos: adv
examples: For example, once the child is able to parse (i.e. grammatically analyse) an adult utterance such as Help Daddy and knows that it contains a verb phrase comprising the head verb help and its complement Daddy, then (on the assumption that the language faculty specifies that all heads of a given type behave uniformly with regard to whether they are positioned before or after their complements), the child will automatically know that all verbs in English are canonically (i.e. normally) positioned before their complements.
Translations:
carnally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English carnal
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English carnally
From carnal + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more carnally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most carnally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a carnal manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
catastrophically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English catastrophic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English catastrophically
From catastrophic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more catastrophically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most catastrophically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a catastrophic manner, or to a catastrophic extent; disastrously.
pos: adv
Translations:
categorically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From categorical + -ly.
Base: categorical
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more categorically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most categorically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a categorical manner.
pos: adv
examples: Near-synonyms: (sometimes synonymous) generically, classically, typically
a welfare scheme for the categorically needy
gloss: In a categorical manner.
pos: adv
tags: modal
examples: She categorically denied all allegations of misconduct.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has categorically ruled out any new negotiations saying the future of the Falklands can only be decided by the islanders themselves in accordance with the UN principle of self-determination.
Synonyms: definitively
unconditionally
Antonyms: exceptionally
conditionally
Derived words: protocoligorically
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: категорѝчно
roman: kategorìčno
lang: Catalan
word: categòricament
lang: Dutch
word: categorisch
lang: French
word: catégoriquement
lang: Georgian
word: კატეგორიულად
roman: ḳaṭegoriulad
lang: Hungarian
word: kategorikusan
lang: Italian
word: categoricamente
lang: Japanese
word: 遍く
roman: amaneku
lang: Japanese
word: 漏れなく
roman: morenaku
lang: Japanese
word: 例外無く
roman: reigai naku
lang: Japanese
word: 無条件に
roman: mujōken ni
lang: Macedonian
word: категорично
roman: kategorično
lang: Polish
word: kategorycznie
lang: Portuguese
word: categoricamente
lang: Russian
word: категори́чески
roman: kategoríčeski
lang: Spanish
word: tajantemente
lang: Spanish
word: categóricamente
lang: Spanish
word: terminantemente
lang: Spanish
word: en redondo
lang: Spanish
word: rotundamente
lang: Swedish
word: kategoriskt
lang: Ukrainian
word: категори́чно
roman: katehorýčno
caudally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English caudal
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English caudally
From caudal + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a caudal manner; with regard to a tail
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: However, articulated specimens reveal that in hadrosaurids the radius articulates with the lateral condyle of the humerus, as in other vertebrates, and the palms face caudomedially, though more medially than caudally.
Translations:
causally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English causal
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English causally
From causal + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a causal manner.
pos: adv
examples: Sometimes the attempt was made to reduce the inner to the outer world (Condillac, Mach, Avenarius, materialism); sometimes the outer to the inner world (Descartes, Berkeley, Fichte); sometimes the sphere of the absolute to the others (e.g., by trying to infer causally the essence and existence of something divine in general);
Translations:
caustically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English caustic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English caustically
From caustic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more caustically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most caustically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a caustic manner.
pos: adv
examples: As conformist and inarticulate as the other man vying for Lelaina's affections — her roommate Troy (Ethan Hawke), who slackerishly fronts a grunge band — is caustically rebellious, Michael can at least help her career.
Translations:
categorical
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Late Latin catēgoricus + -al. By surface analysis, category + -ical.
Base: catēgoricus
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more categorical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most categorical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: categoricals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Absolute; having no exception.
pos: adj
examples: We now see that they [propositions] are either conditional or unconditional, or, as the logicians say, hypothetical (conditional) or categorical (unconditional).
Daytime interests are clearly not such far-reaching psychical sources of dreams as might have been expected from the categorical assertions that everyone continues to carry on his daily business in his dreams.
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or using a category or categories.
pos: adj
gloss: A categorical proposition.
pos: noun
Antonyms: exceptional
conditional
hypothetical
relative
Related words: categoricity
Derived words: acategorical
bicategorical
categorical dual
categorical imperative
categorically
categoricalness
categorical product
categorical variable
intercategorical
intracategorical
multicategorical
noncategorical
subcategorical
transcategorical
uncategorical
Translations:
cadenced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
form: more cadenced
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cadenced
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a regular, rhythmic cadence.
pos: adj
Translations:
extrahepatic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsteros
Proto-Italic *eksteros
Latin exter
Latin extrā
English extra-
English hepatic
English extrahepatic
From extra- + hepatic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Originating or occurring outside the liver.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Research is needed to define extrahepatic processes for uptake and distribution.
Translations:
airglow
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From air + glow.
Compound parts: air
glow
Inflected forms:
form: airglows
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A faint illumination in the sky due to photochemical luminescence in the upper atmosphere, now rarely observed by earthbound humans without the assistance of instruments.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
clonk
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
Etymology: Imitative. Compare clink, clank, clunk.
Inflected forms:
form: clonks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: clonks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: clonking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: clonked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: clonked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The abrupt sound of two hard objects coming into contact.
pos: noun
examples: Our milkman is a jovial character, but not one given to yodelling at the customers on his round. Only the resounding "clonk" of bottles advises us that a couple of pints have been left on the doorstep.
He passed under a low branch now. It hit the top of his helmet with a clonk.
The minute hand moved with a clonk, and shuddered to a halt on the 9.
gloss: A stick-like tool used to strike the surface of the water and produce a sound that causes nearby fish to attack the bait.
pos: noun
gloss: To make such a sound.
pos: verb
examples: One half-naked kid with a garrison cap clonked on the marimba; the little black rubber balls on his sticks struck fast.
gloss: To wallop, clobber.
pos: verb
tags: informal
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: kolahdus
clop
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Perhaps from German or Dutch kloppen (“to hit, knock”), from Middle Dutch cloppen (“to make a clopping sound”), of onomatopoeic origin. See also clap.
Inflected forms:
form: clops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: clops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: clopping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: clopped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: clopped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The sound of a horse's shod hoof striking the ground.
pos: noun
tags: onomatopoeic
examples: Holonym: clip-clop
gloss: To make this sound; to walk so as to make this sound.
pos: verb
examples: Robert Loo sat and listened behind his counter, his heart aching, his eyes staring at nothing, while his brothers cheerfully clopped around, occasionally calling to the kitchen, as customers drifted somnambulistically in.
Translations:
reinsurer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
insurance
Etymology: Etymology tree
English reinsure
English -er
English reinsurer
From reinsure + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: reinsurers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A provider of reinsurance.
pos: noun
Translations:
alginate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English alginic acid
English -ate
English alginate
From alginic acid + -ate (“salt, ester”).
Inflected forms:
form: alginates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any salt or ester of alginic acid.
pos: noun
Translations:
sterilizer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sterile
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English sterilize
English -er
English sterilizer
From sterilize + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: sterilizers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: steriliser
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A device used to sterilize, killing pathogens by means such as heat, UV light, chemicals, etc.
pos: noun
examples: The hospital was in trouble when the sterilizer broke; they almost had to shut down the operating room.
Translations:
stiflingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stifling
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English stiflingly
From stifling + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more stiflingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most stiflingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a stifling manner; so as to suffocate.
pos: adv
examples: The air was stiflingly hot.
On one stiflingly hot afternoon I padded across the corridor from my bedsit to the bathroom in my dressing gown.
Translations:
teratology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
toxicology
Etymology: From terato- + -logy, from Ancient Greek τέρας (téras, “monster”) + -λογία (-logía, “study of”).
Affixes: terato-
-logy
Inflected forms:
form: teratologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The study of congenital malformations, their development, and people with them.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The study of the mechanisms, teratogenic agents, or teratogens, in bringing about malformations.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The study or cataloging of monsters.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ...I would identify a more recent and widespread tendency to remove evil from the realm of a properly human interpretation: what I call a postmodern teratology of the sublime.
Despite being productive in embodying and critiquing human problems, however, the incorporation of the cyborg into teratology overlooks one important aspect that distinguishes this cybernetic creature from the rest of the monster phylum: we are able to choose how to fabricate and use the cyborg.
In this way, this analysis has aimed at expanding gaga feminism by undertaking a critical teratology, that is, of course, the study of monsters
Miranda Francus notes that in the West, the image of the fecund female has often been associated with monstrosity: 'misogyny and teratology have always met in the image of the maternal monster'.
Related words: teratogen
teratogenesis
teratogenetic
teratogenicity
teratogeny
Derived words: phytoteratology
teratologic
teratological
teratologist
Translations:
pearlescent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pearl
English -escent
English pearlescent
From pearl + -escent. First attested in 1926.
Inflected forms:
form: more pearlescent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pearlescent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pearl-like, either in color or luster.
pos: adj
examples: Everyone who has the slightest chance of eve going on a honeymoon is a potential customer for “The Story of Bermuda” by Hudson Strode (Smith & Haas). With its beautiful photographs and pearlescent binding, this book makes Bermuda seem a delightful place before even a word of its pleasant text is read.
Successful continuous extrusion of a variety of lead alloys for power and communications cable sheathing has opened still other possibilities. There are new lead pigments, including those of the pearlescent type, low-firing porcelain enamels for aluminum, steel and other metals, and low-loss dielectric ceramics for electronics, all of which will be given attention, [Robert L.] Ziegfeld said.
In the silvery belly scales of the herring, deposits of minute, platelike crystals lie parallel to the scales’ surface, giving a pearly gleam to the grey fish. As long as 200 years ago, this pearlescent pigment was extracted from the fish and injected into beads to simulate pearls.
The pearlescent moon peeked over the mountains, bathing the land in a ghostly reflection of daylight. Everything looked bleached and flat.
The pearlescent inks have bits of shimmery, light-reflective material in them that make them look glittery; these are all transparent.
Translations:
storminess
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stormy
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 storminess
From stormy + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: storminesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being stormy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The severity of a storm.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
storybook
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From story + book.
Compound parts: story
book
Inflected forms:
form: storybooks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A book containing stories, especially children's stories.
pos: noun
gloss: As in a story for children; pleasant and idealized, or having a happy conclusion.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
not-comparable
examples: I remember one couple that truly created their own storybook wedding by selecting a remote waterfall as their wedding location.
Translations:
stiletto
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian stiletto. By surface analysis, Latin stilus + Italian -etto. Doublet of stylet.
Inflected forms:
form: stilettos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stilettoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stiletti
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stilettos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stilettoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stilettoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stilettoed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small, slender knife or dagger-like weapon intended for stabbing.
pos: noun
examples: There the cause of death was soon ascertained; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which, I may tell you, was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom.
gloss: A rapier.
pos: noun
gloss: An awl.
pos: noun
gloss: A woman's shoe with a tall, slender heel (called a stiletto heel).
pos: noun
gloss: A beard trimmed into a pointed form.
pos: noun
tags: historical
obsolete
examples: The very quaik of faſhions, the very hee that / VVeares a Steletto on his chinne.
gloss: To attack or kill with a stiletto (dagger).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The recollection of former atrocities by the populace in plundering the city and stilettoing the inhabitants, is sufficiently fresh in the remembrance of the government to serve as an additional stimulus to prevent similar disorders.
Derived words: stiletto fly
stiletto heel
stilettolike
stiletto snake
Translations:
brickbats
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: From brickbat + -s. The plural only sense (“small rocky particles moving as a group in space”) was coined by the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) and is used chiefly in reference to his writings.
Base: brickbat
Affixes: -s
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Small rocky particles moving as a group in space, especially as forming rings around planets.
pos: noun
tags: informal
plural
plural-only
Translations:
clopping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cloppings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sound or action of something that clops.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But this morning was different. Disturbingly, because mysteriously, different. No wheels rumbled, no busses roared, no sound of a car of any kind, in fact, was to be heard; no brakes, no horns, not even the clopping of the few rare horses that still occasionally passed; nor, as there should be at such an hour, the composite tramp of work-bound feet.
The hooves' cloppings came to them down the path.
gloss: The act of masturbating to erotic fanart of My Little Pony characters.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: According to an internal study undertaken by bronies themselves, 19.05 per cent of respondents engaged in clopping.
You prove your ability to procreate by tastefully introducing your Mother to your My Little Pony collection and your fervent love of clopping (Urban Dictionary it) and your amazing fedora hat rack!
And the most uncomfortable question bronies get is about “clopping,” that is, masturbating to pony porn.
Derived words: clopfic
Translations:
scantron
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: education
Etymology: Genericized trademark. By genericization of Scantron (from scan + -tron), a manufacturer and brand name of the devices.
Base: scan
Affixes: -tron
Inflected forms:
form: scantrons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Scantron
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A device used to scan prepared forms used for multiple-choice and true-or-false testing.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
often
examples: The Grievant, however, insisted on using the scantron himself.
2008, Audrey Denise Bowser, Transforming Teacher Education to Support Multicultural Technology Pedagogy, PhD Dissertation, Iowa State University, page 66,
Additionally, a scantron bubble sheet and a statement of informed consent were given to students for review and a signature was required before the survey was administered.
Applicants must submit a completed application form together with the scantron sheet; cover sheet; student activity and community activity sheets; personal essay; and a copy of unofficial transcript (signed by the counselor).
According to Jenny's story, everything each of us does, every decision made during each day, is indelibly marked on a lifetime scantron sheet in Heaven. (This, of course, made sense because it was very similar to the scantron sheets we filled out every day in school.)
gloss: A prepared form for use in such a device.
pos: noun
Translations:
Adriatic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin Adriāticum, variant of Hadriātricum, from Hadria, ultimately from either:
* an Etruscan settlement at the northern shore of the Adriatic Sea.
* Illyrian *adur, from Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ (“water”), related to Proto-Albanian *udrijā, or from Venetic [script needed] (adur, “water”), in either case related to Latin unda and Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr), more at water.
Inflected forms:
form: Adriatical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: Adriatick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Adriatic Sea.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: She moves me not, or not removes, at least,
Affection's edge in me, were she as rough
As are the swelling Adriatic seas:
Translations:
partite
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin partītuslbor.
English partite
Learned borrowing from Latin partītus.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Divided into parts.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
sunshiny
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sunshine + -y. By surface analysis, sun + shine + y.
Base: sunshine
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more sunshiny
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sunshiny
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sunshiney
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Sunny; having, characterised by, full of, or illuminated by sunshine.
pos: adj
examples: There are men that roll through life, like a fire-new red ball going across Mr. Lord's cricket-ground on a sunshiny day […]
A sunshiny shower / Won't last half an hour.
gloss: Beautiful and bright, as if illuminated by sunshine; radiant; beaming; glowing; resplendent; shining.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: The blazing brightneſſe of her beauties beame, / And glorious light of her ſunſhyny face / To tell, vvere as to ſtriue against the ſtreame.
He to her lept vvith deadly dreadfull looke, / And her ſunſhynie helmet ſoon vnlaced, / Thinking at once both head and helmet to haue raced.
gloss: Cheerful; happy; pleasant.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: a sunshiny disposition
Flowers can make any room sunshiny.
He had always been a sunshiny sort of boy, but that sun was gone now, buried behind heavy banks of cloud which were still building.
Derived words: sunshininess
Translations:
vacillating
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more vacillating
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most vacillating
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: vacillatings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Liable to vacillate.
pos: adj
gloss: Vacillation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It was vacillatings, misgivings, and deliberate calculations of this kind that paved the way […]
Translations:
valvuloplasty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: From valvulo- + -plasty.
Base: valvulo
Inflected forms:
form: valvuloplasties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Plastic surgery to repair a valve, such as a heart valve or venous valve.
pos: noun
Translations:
turtling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: card-games
computer-games
games
nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English turtle
English -ing
English turtling
From turtle + -ing.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The hunting of turtles (the reptiles).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Turning turtle.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Any slow progression or build-up.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
gloss: A defensive strategy of avoiding conflict, by maintaining strong defense and little to no offense, while remaining in a fixed position.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
calamitously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English calamitous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English calamitously
From calamitous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more calamitously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most calamitously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a calamitous manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
calculatingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English calculating
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English calculatingly
From calculating + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more calculatingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most calculatingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a calculating manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
capably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English capable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English capably
From capable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more capably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most capably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a capable manner.
pos: adv
examples: They will all go down in polar history as leaders, these men. I believe Bowers would also have made a great name for himself if he had lived, and few polar ships have been commanded as capably as was the Terra Nova, by Pennell.
Pederson capably channeled the emotions of every Dodgers fan in the building, punctuating his rowdy trip around the bases with a fist in the air, a chest-thump, a get-on-your-feet gesture to the crowd and a double-barreled finger-point to his dugout.
Although it is more burdensome to handle than a Bermudan rig, a 'well-found gaff rig copes with heavy weather at least as capably as its triangular equivalent.
Translations:
capitally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English capital
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English capitally
From capital + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more capitally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most capitally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Chiefly; principally.
pos: adv
gloss: Excellently.
pos: adv
tags: dated
examples: We enjoyed ourselves capitally.
"And I'll get into this vehicle," he said. "The horse is quiet, and the princess drives capitally."
gloss: By capital punishment.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: It was decreed regarding him also, that whoever should say he had been a man should be capitally punished.
Translations:
charitably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English charitable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English charitably
From charitable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more charitably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most charitably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a charitable manner.
pos: adv
examples: Both of those albums contained lots of what's charitably called filler--in the form of noodly hip-hop-inspired loops that never went anywhere--and it took the band five years to release the new Handcream for a Generation (Wiija/Beggars Banquet).
... pairtly married, but specially of this bearer, and requests you maist affectiously to receive him and use him charitably, as ye are bound, both be the law of nature and grace, as also, to contribute your helping hand and assistance, […]
Three or four men noticed my condition; and, evidently setting it down to the results of over many pegs, charitably endeavoured to draw me apart from the rest of the loungers.
I took a video and posted it to YouTube, where my fellow YouTubians charitably pointed out I was crazy.
Translations:
charmingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English charming
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English charmingly
From charming + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more charmingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most charmingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a charming manner.
pos: adv
examples: How charmingly sweet you sing.
This does not take into account the tens of thousands of New Yorkers who are harmlessly and charmingly insane in a peculiarly Manhattanite manner.
Now, Vimeo user Alejandro Prullansky has compiled a super cut of Anderson's slo-mo shots from across the director's filmography, charmingly – and maybe a tad cheekily – set to The Shins' "New Slang."
The Wikilambda developers charmingly admit that they are not very experienced in language design.
Translations:
muggles
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of muggle (“marijuana”).
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
Translations:
chauvinistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English chauvinist
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English chauvinistic
From chauvinist + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more chauvinistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most chauvinistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to chauvinism or chauvinists.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
examples: It would be smallmindedly chauvinistic to pretend that Scotland was other than a strong participant in the furthering of British Imperial ambitions.
Translations:
cheekily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cheeky
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English cheekily
From cheeky + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more cheekily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most cheekily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a cheeky or impudent manner.
pos: adv
examples: The time passed. The two mice, careering wildly, scampered cheekily over his slippers. He had not moved a muscle.
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Translations:
chiding
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: chidings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more chiding
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most chiding
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A scolding.
pos: noun
examples: The cause I never knew; one would have thought the knowledge of the guilt and misery which followed his former career, and above all the chidings of a wife whom he loved would have deterred him; […]
gloss: Reproachful; critical.
pos: adj
examples: it is better to dwell in a desert Desolate country, than in a house with a chiding and an angry wife.
And the said Mr. Hale did not say this in a chiding, quarrelsome, or brawling manner.
How expressive this little parenthesis: "Sakuntalâ makes a chiding gesture with her finger"!
Translations:
childishly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English childish
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English childishly
From childish + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a childish manner.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I knew, of course, it was but an innocent game on her part, a bit of backfisch foolery in imitation of some simulacrum of fake romance, and since (as the psychotherapist, as well as the rapist, will tell you) the limits and rules of such girlish games are fluid, or at least too childishly subtle for the senior partner to grasp—I was dreadfully afraid I might go too far and cause her to start back in revulsion and terror.
Translations:
chivalrously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English chivalrous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English chivalrously
From chivalrous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more chivalrously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most chivalrously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a chivalrous manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
chromatically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English chromatic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English chromatically
From chromatic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more chromatically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most chromatically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a chromatic manner.
pos: adv
examples: "Let's focus on the ones you can see, if your delicate sensibilities will allow it." Lillihammer leaned on the wall, next to a pair of figures frozen mid-gyration who bore, even in their chromatically-reduced state, a striking resemblance to Chelsea Smits and the late, unlamented Sergey Vanchev.
Translations:
classically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English classical
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English classically
From classical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more classically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most classically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a classical manner; according to the manner of classical authors.
pos: adv
examples: In the derivation of novel no-signaling monogamies, we uncover a new feature, namely that two-party Bell expressions that are trivially classically saturated can become non-trivial upon the addition of an expression involving a third party with a single measurement input.
gloss: In the manner of classes; according to a regular order of classes or sets.
pos: adv
Derived words: nonclassically
Translations:
climatically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English climate
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English climatic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English climatically
From climatic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a climatic manner; regarding the climate.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The summer has been a good one climatically, even if it has been a disastrous one in some other ways. The Falklands had more than their usual share of sun, and the last six weeks or so has been remarkably warm and dry.
Translations:
churro
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Spanish churrobor.
English churro
Borrowed from Spanish churro.
Inflected forms:
form: churros
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fried pastry from Spain, typically eaten as a dessert and with chocolate beverage.
pos: noun
Translations: