yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
brainiac
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Blend of brain + maniac, with influence from ENIAC, the name of an early computer. The term was coined as the name of the fictional supervillain Brainiac in the Superman series and first appeared in Action Comics comic book #242 in July, 1958. By surface analysis, brainy + -ac.
Inflected forms:
form: brainiacs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A very intelligent and usually studious, erudite person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
sometimes
examples: With all the brainiacs in the world ... you'd think somebody would come up with a sunblock for ice cream.
With nearly 900,000 Twitter followers, Popova is a member of a rare pantheon of “influencers” for the brainiac crowd. Miraculously, she makes a living writing a blog about science, literature, philosophy, feminism and whatever else takes her voracious and generous fancy.
Translations:
trifling
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, trifle + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more trifling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most trifling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: triflings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Trivial, or of little importance.
pos: adj
examples: […] It is not ſo decorous in reſpect of God, that he ſhould αὐτουργεῖν ἅπαντα [autourgeîn hápanta], ſet his ovvn hand as it vvere to every vvork, and immediately do all the meaneſt and triflingſt things himſelf drudgingly, vvithout making uſe of any inferior or ſubordinate Miniſters.
However, upon a ſtrict Review, I blotted out ſeveral Paſſages of leſs Moment which were in my firſt Copy, for fear of being cenſured as tedious and trifling, whereof Travellers are often, perhaps not without Juſtice, accuſed.
Trifling, apparently, was the circumstance that led to the restoration of Charles. But there is nothing really little or trifling in the government of God.
[…] it doesn't take him long to make any of them, and he sells them for some trifling sum of money.
gloss: Frivolous.
pos: adj
examples: For, really, as it is a trifling Age, ſo nothing but Trifles are valued in it. Men read none but trifling Authors, purſue none but trifling Amusements, and contend for none but trifling Opinions. A trifling Fellow is prefer'd, a trifling Woman admir'd.
gloss: Good-for-nothing; shady or lazy; scrub.
pos: adj
examples: You trifling good for nothin’ type of brother.
My hand was aching to slap that silly heifer. I told her to take her trifling ass down to Burger King and get herself a job flipping burgers […]
"To hell with that trifling nigga!", and "You deserved every bad thing you got!"
After all my loyalty of not letting Ice Mike['s] hoes choose me when I didn't even have any hoes[, he let one of mine abandon me]. Now I needed some support to keep this trifling hoe focused on getting bond money to get me out of jail.
gloss: The act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He writes on the principle, of course, that in one's dotage we are privileged to return to the triflings of our infancy, and that Downing Street cannot be better employed in these days than as a chapel of ease to Eton.
Related words: trifle
Derived words: triflingly
triflingness
untrifling
Translations:
lovingkindness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From loving + kindness. The word arises in the King James Version of the Bible as a translation of Hebrew חסד (ḥeseḏ, “grace, kindness, love; chesed”).
Compound parts: loving
kindness
Inflected forms:
form: lovingkindnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: loving kindness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: loving-kindness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Kindness or mercy which is based on, or arises from, love; (countable) an act of such kindness or mercy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: But let him that glorieth, glory in this, that hee vnderſtandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exerciſe louing kindneſſe, iudgement, and righteouſneſſe in the earth: for in these things I delight, ſaith the Lord.
[…] My loving kindneſſe, my mercifull diſposition is a great bond, but my faithfulneſſe ſhall binde me also, I will be content to ingage my ſelfe to you, to ingage all that I am, and all that I have to you, that you may certainly confide in me, ſo as you may not onely expect it from my love, but challenge it from my faithfulneſſe.
What a comfort is it for chriſtian friends to relate to each other the loving-kindneſs of the Lord? O let his praiſes be ever in our mouths, that we may be telling of his ſalvation from day to day.
Awake, my soul, to joyful lays, / And sing the great Redeemer's praise; / He justly claims a song from me: / His loving-kindness, oh, how free!
Have we ever had the shadow of a reason to doubt our Father's goodness? Have not His loving-kindnesses been marvellous? Has he once failed to justify our trust? Ah, no! our God has not left us at any time.
In just the same way, the force of metta, lovingkindness, allows us to cohere, to come together within ourselves and with all beings. The beauty of this truth moved the Buddha to say that sustaining a loving heart, even for the duration of the snap of a finger, makes one a truly spiritual being.
When we look at the grains of sand – countless in number – they speak to us of the multitude of God's lovingkindnesses to us.
After you have spent your second week of meditation on developing mindfulness, your third week of meditation will involve developing lovingkindness. Lovingkindness Meditation, which is the third core practice, focuses bringing love, compassion, sympathy, and joy into your life.
Translations:
cha-ching
Part of speech: intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, imitative of the sound of a mechanical cash register when an amount is rung up. Popularized by the movie Wayne's World (1992) and by an advertisement in 1992 featuring Seth Green. The spoken term is also, in the US, a trademarked sound of Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc.
Inflected forms:
form: chiching
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: chi-ching
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: chaching
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: ca-ching
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: ka-ching
pos: intj
tags: alternative
UK
form: kerching
pos: intj
tags: alternative
UK
form: cha-chings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chiching
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: chi-ching
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: chaching
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ca-ching
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ka-ching
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: kerching
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: cha-chings
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cha-chinging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cha-chinged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cha-chinged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: chiching
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: chi-ching
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: chaching
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: ca-ching
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: ka-ching
pos: verb
tags: alternative
UK
form: kerching
pos: verb
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: Score!; wow!; said to celebrate something that has made or will make a large amount of money.
pos: intj
examples: Cha-ching! More profit, more jobs.
gloss: Money, cash.
pos: noun
examples: 2005, Lee Mylne, advertisement, Frommer′s Portable Australia′s Great Barrier Reef, page 207,
They find the best offerings on Travelocity. For very little cha-ching.
[…]but the majority of hotels see guests′ phone calls as a major cha-ching opportunity and charge ridiculously inflated rates.
gloss: To make the noise of a cash register or slot machine.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The young guy bought the woman a refill of the same fine chardonnay that made her dad′s cash register cha-ching with pleasure.
gloss: To make the noise of coins falling.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
tumbledown
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tumble downdeverb.
English tumbledown
Deverbal from tumble down.
Inflected forms:
form: more tumbledown
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tumbledown
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: tumble-down
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In disrepair; poorly maintained.
pos: adj
examples: They lived in a tumbledown shack on the edge of the woods.
The cab pulled up in front of a tumbledown cheap ‘villa’ in an unfinished cheap neighbourhood, — the whole place a living monument of the defeat of the speculative builder.
Some distance north of both stations was a rather small and tumbledown shed for Great Central engines, and there was generally one or more goods tank engines outside it, painted black and lined out in red.
Translations:
ramshackle
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in 1830, a back-formation from ramshackled, from ransackled, past participle of ransackle (“to ransack”), frequentative of Middle English ransaken (“to pillage”).
Inflected forms:
form: more ramshackle
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ramshackle
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In disrepair or disorder; poorly maintained; lacking upkeep, usually of buildings or vehicles.
pos: adj
examples: They stayed in a ramshackle cabin on the beach.
Steady old Curés come jolting past, now and then, in such ramshackle, rusty, musty, clattering coaches as no Englishman would believe in;[…]
There came […] my lord the cardinal, in his ramshackle coach.
I called for the cheeses, and took them away in a cab. It was a ramshackle affair, dragged along by a knock-kneed, broken-winded somnambulist, which his owner, in a moment of enthusiasm, during conversation, referred to as a horse.
A ramshackle old empire. (of Austria-Hungary).
The villa was a roomy white house, which, as is the case with most continental houses, looked to an English eye frail, ramshackle, and absurdly frivolous, more like a pagoda in a tea-garden than a place where one slept.
When they got out of the Gare du Nord, and trundled along the cobbled streets in a ramshackle, noisy cab, it seemed to him that he was breathing a new air so intoxicating that he could hardly restrain himself from shouting aloud.
The back of the Radley house was less inviting than the front: a ramshackle porch ran the width of the house; there were two doors and two dark windows between the doors. Instead of a column, a rough two-by-four supported one end of the roof. An old Franklin stove sat in a corner of the porch; above it a hat-rack mirror caught the moon and shone eerily.
gloss: Badly or carelessly organized.
pos: adj
examples: So ramshackle was the locals' attempt at defence that, with energetic wingers pouring into the space behind panicked full-backs and centre-halves dizzied by England's movement, it was cruel to behold at times.
The alliance that pushed the Inflation Reduction Act into law in August was always a somewhat fragile and ramshackle one: Green New Dealers and the coal-state senator Joe Manchin, carbon-capture geeks and environmental justice warriors, all herded together in the sort of big-tent play you get with a 50-50 Senate and one party functionally indifferent on climate.
Synonyms: shabby
tacky
scroungy
beat
beat up
beaten up
bedraggled
broken-down
crumbling
derelict
dilapidated
draggled
neglected
ramshackle
ruinous
run-down
seedy
tatterdemalion
timeworn
tumbledown
Antonyms: intact
in good repair
like new
rustless
spick-and-span
thrifty
unbroken
undamaged
unimpaired
untainted
well-kept
well-preserved
Derived words: ramshackleness
ramshackly
Translations:
upkeep
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From up + keep.
Compound parts: up
keep
Inflected forms:
form: upkeeps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: upkeeps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: upkeeping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: upkept
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: upkept
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Maintenance; the act or effort of keeping something in good and working condition.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: I would enjoy having a swimming pool, but I don't want to deal with the upkeep.
[…] it was unnecessary to fence off pasture from arable land, which saved a lot of labour on the upkeep of hedges and gates.
The story of upkeep has been never-ending. Between 1997-2000, a major programme of maintenance entailed replacing superstructure timbers - 50 main rail beams were replaced with greenheart, along with a similar number of edge beams.
gloss: To maintain (something) or keep it in good repair.
pos: verb
tags: UK
transitive
examples: Do you know how to upkeep a boat?
As for the city's buildings, it mostly resembled a town of white spires and cobblestone streets lined with flowerbeds that were upkept by magical means.
Translations:
steadfastness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English stedfastnesse, stedefastnesse, from Old English stedefæstnes (“steadfastness”), equivalent to steadfast + -ness.
Base: steadfast
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: steadfastnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Loyalty in the face of trouble and difficulty.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A steadfast resolution.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [H]e [Paul] laboureth to comfort Timothy vvith the remembrance of the ſtedfaſtneſs of Gods eternal decree of Election, becauſe grounded on his foreknowledge; […]
Translations:
steadfast
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English stedefast, from Old English stedefæst, from Proto-Germanic *stadifastuz, equivalent to stead (“place; spot; position”) + fast (“firm; fixed”). Cognate with Middle Dutch stedevast (“steadfast”), Icelandic staðfestur (“steadfast”), Danish stedfast (“firmly attached, secured”), Danish stadfæste (“to confirm; ratify”), Norwegian Nynorsk stadfesta (“confirm, ratify; establish”), Swedish stadfästa (“to confirm; establish”).
Compound parts: stead
fast
Inflected forms:
form: steadfaster
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more steadfast
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: steadfastest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most steadfast
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: stedfast
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Fixed or unchanging; steady.
pos: adj
gloss: Firmly loyal or constant; unswerving.
pos: adj
examples: steadfast support
steadfast commitment
Derived words: oversteadfast
steadfastly
steadfastness
unsteadfast
Translations:
threnody
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek θρηνῳδία (thrēnōidía, “lamentation”). Compare the New Latin thrēnōdia.
Inflected forms:
form: threnodies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: threnedy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: A song or poem of lamentation or mourning for a dead person; a dirge; an elegy.
pos: noun
examples: The fifer actually knew but one tune "The Bonnie Blue Flag"—and did not know that well. But it was all that he had, and he played it with wearisome monotony for every camp call. . . . I never hated any piece of music as I came to hate that threnody of treason.
[…] in the case of the well-circumstanced narration of the contest at Salamis and of the choral ode, which[…] is, in its panoramic marshalling of the conquests of Darius, a threnody on the ruin of his sea empire.
A strongly personal note runs through Kenneth Leighton's Improvisation (Novello, 35p), which is a threnody in memory of Maurice de Sausmārez. Gently undulating, cantabile lines of ‘mourning’ alternate with sharp, anguished note-clusters which work up to a fierce paroxysm of grief.
Translations:
theremin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after Russian inventor Léon Theremin (1896–1993). Theremin is a French version of his Russian name, Ле́в Терме́н (Lév Termén).
Inflected forms:
form: theremins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An electronic musical instrument that generates sound of varying pitch and volume depending on the proximity of the musician’s hands to two antennas mounted on the instrument.
pos: noun
Translations:
desperado
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: board-games
chess
games
Etymology: From obsolete Spanish desperado, past participle of desperar, archaic form of desesperar (“to despair”), from Latin disperare (“to despair, to lose hope”), from prefix dis- + sperare (“to hope”). Doublet of desperate.
Inflected forms:
form: desperadoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: desperados
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the Wild West.
pos: noun
examples: The kind of persons who excite or give signal to such revolutions — students, young men of letters […], or fierce and justly bankrupt desperadoes, acting everywhere on the discontent of the millions and blowing it into flame, — might give rise to reflections as to the character of our epoch.
Surely this was the face of a desperado.
gloss: A person in desperate circumstances or who is at the point of desperation, such as a down-and-outer, an addict, etc.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: The shortstops and desperados were not permitted to play in this marker crap game.
gloss: A person who is desperately in love or is desperate for a romantic or sexual relationship.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: A piece that seems determined to give itself up, typically to bring about stalemate or perpetual check.
pos: noun
Derived words: desperadoism
Translations:
doggerel
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
Etymology: Probably from dog + -rel (“pejorative suffix”), akin to Dog Latin, late 14th c.
Base: dog
Affixes: -rel
Inflected forms:
form: dogrel
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: doggrel
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: doggerels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dogrel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: doggrel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Of a crude or irregular construction.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: True Wit has ſeen its best days long ago, / It ne're look'd up, ſince we were dipt in Show: / When Senſe in Dogrel Rimes and Clouds was loſt, / And Dulneſs flouriſh'd at the Actors coſt.
[I'll] haſten Og and Doeg to rehearſe, / Tvvo Fools that Crutch their Feeble Senſe on Verſe; / VVho by my Muſe to all ſucceeding times, / Shall live in ſpight of their ovvn Dogrell Rhimes.
gloss: A comic or humorous verse, usually irregular in measure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Taffy drew a long breath into his manly bosom, and kept it there as he read this characteristic French doggerel (for so he chose to call this touching little symphony in ère and ra).
As he marched he sang a bit of doggerel in a high and quavering voice: / "Sing a song 'a vic'try, / A pocketful 'a bullets, / Five an' twenty dead men / Baked in a—pie."
gloss: Any writing of crude composition.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: It is very rare to find good, personal analysis of events that does not degenerate into chest-beating, pettiness, pomposity, or political doggeral ^([sic]).
Translations:
ciliated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having cilia.
pos: adj
examples: a ciliated leaf
gloss: Endowed with vibratory motion.
pos: adj
examples: the ciliated epithelium of the windpipe
Derived words: aciliated
monociliated
multiciliated
nonciliated
preciliated
unciliated
Translations:
sullied
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sully + -ied (suffix forming participial adjectives and past participal forms of verbs ending in -y).
Base: sully
Affixes: -ied
Inflected forms:
form: more sullied
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sullied
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Stained, soiled.
pos: adj
gloss: Defiled, tainted.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: O that this too too ſallied fleſh vvould melt, / Thavv and reſolue it ſelfe into a devve, […]
Antonyms: unsullied
Translations:
captious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English capcious, from Middle French captieux, or its source, Latin captiōsus, from captiō.
Inflected forms:
form: more captious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most captious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That captures; especially, (of an argument, words etc.) designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments; sophistical.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: […]I know I loue in vaine, ſtriue againſt hope :
 Yet in this captious, and intemible Siue
 I ſtill poure in the waters of my loue
 And lacke not to looſe ſtill[…]
A captious queſtion, Sir, and your’s is one,
 Deſerves an anſwer ſimilar, or none.
Were you aware that in your discourse last Sunday you attributed the captious Problem of the Sadducees to the Pharisees, as a proof of the obscure and sensual doctrines of the latter?
gloss: Having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections; cavilling, nitpicky.
pos: adj
examples: ...not an irritable word had escaped him; and as every captious conclusion and petulant observation had been in days past always attributed, very justly, by Isabella either to the dyspepsia, brought on by his grief for Margarita, or the fever he sustained from the climate,...
But Peter Petrovich did not accept this retort. On the contrary, he became all the more captious and irritable, as though he were just hitting his stride.
The "Our Bold" column, nitpicking at errors in other periodicals, can look merely captious, and its critics often seem to be wildly and collectively wrong-headed.
Related words: caption
capture
Derived words: captiously
captiousness
overcaptious
uncaptious
Translations:
suffuse
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin suffundō.
Inflected forms:
form: suffuses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: suffusing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: suffused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: suffused
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more suffuse
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most suffuse
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To spread through or over (something), especially as a liquid, colour or light; to bathe.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The entire room was suffused with a golden light.
gloss: To spread through or over in the manner of a liquid.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: The warmth suffused his cold fingers.
Marie's face was suffused with a sleepy, appreciative look.
His newest work, The Beach Bum, shares a gauzy neon aesthetic and Florida setting with Spring Breakers, and it’s marked by the usual plethora of drug use, free love, and pirate’s-life-for-me lawlessness that suffuses every Korine movie.
gloss: To pour underneath.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Suffused; diffuse.
pos: adj
examples: This limonite-colored mud is most often very suffuse and only faintly apparent.
Most of us mortals choose a very suffuse, dim light to have in our room, others push the switch to the maximum.
Synonyms: perfuse
Related words: infuse
Derived words: suffusable
suffusate
suffusedly
suffusely
suffusion
suffusive
unsuffused
Translations:
refulgent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin refulgentem, accusative singular of refulgēns, present active participle of refulgeō, from re- (“back”) + fulgeō (“shine”). By surface analysis, re- + Latin fulg(ere) + -ent.
Inflected forms:
form: more refulgent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most refulgent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resplendent, or shining brightly and radiantly.
pos: adj
gloss: As if giving off light or warmth.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: She had a refulgent smile.
Related words: effulgent
refulgence
Derived words: refulgently
unrefulgent
Translations:
gustatory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin gustātus, participle of gustō (“to taste”), + -ory.
Affixes: -ory
Inflected forms:
form: more gustatory
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gustatory
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to, the sense of taste.
pos: adj
examples: WHERE TO DINE—Well, Mary Ward, our courageous gustatory investigatress, has finally completed her rounds of the eateries and, with her last despairing effort, dashed off this report on the road houses: […]
The point, Goldstein discovered through a lot of long days hanging out in parking lots, is that tailgating — the gustatory madness, the multigenerational camaraderie, the decked-out vans — is as essential a part of football as the game itself.
Translations:
gawping
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: gawpings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That gawps or gawp.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: gawping faces
gloss: The action of the verb gawp.
pos: noun
tags: UK
Translations:
encrust
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French incruster, from Latin incrustare, from in- (“in”) + crustare (“to cover with a crust”). By surface analysis, en- + crust.
Inflected forms:
form: encrusts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: encrusting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: encrusted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: encrusted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: incrust
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To cover with a hard crust.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: iron encrusted with rust
a doughnut encrusted with sugar
And by the frost refin'd the whiter snow,
 Incrusted hard.
gloss: To form a crust.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To inset or affix decorative materials upon (a surface); to inlay into, as a piece of carving or other ornamental object.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The jeweller encrusted the ring with gems.
Derived words: encruster
encrustment
nonencrusting
Translations:
morgan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Named for Thomas Hunt Morgan.
Inflected forms:
form: morgans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A unit for expressing the relative distance between genes on a chromosome.
pos: noun
Translations:
trans-equatorial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English trans-
English equatorial
English trans-equatorial
From trans- + equatorial.
Inflected forms:
form: transequatorial
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: On the other side of, or crossing the equator.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Birth of Hurricane Agnes—Triggered by the Transequatorial Movement of a Mesoscale System Into a Favorable Large-Scale Environment -Monthly Weather Review: Vol. 101, No. 2, pp. 177–179
Translations:
transferable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From transfer + -able. Compare inferable, deferrable.
Base: transfer
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: transferrable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: transferrible
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Able to be transferred.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: To start a new career, you need transferable skills.
The rights of men in ſociety, are neither deviſeable, nor transferable, nor annihilable, but are deſcendable only; and it is not in the power of any generation to intercept finally, and cut off the deſcent.
Translations:
transferal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: transferals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: transferral
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A transfer.
pos: noun
gloss: A transfer.
pos: noun
Translations:
transferase
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-t
Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t
Proto-Indo-European *-ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts
Proto-Italic *trāns
Proto-Italic *trāns-
Latin trāns-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti
Proto-Italic *ferō
Latin ferō
Latin trānsferōder.
English transfer
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.
Ancient Greek διά (diá)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ- (dĭă-)
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti
Proto-Hellenic *hístāmi
Ancient Greek ῐ̔́στημῐ (hĭ́stēmĭ)
Ancient Greek δῐῐ̈́στημῐ (dĭĭ̈́stēmĭ)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́στᾰσῐς (dĭắstăsĭs)
English diastase
English -ase
English transferase
From transfer + -ase.
Inflected forms:
form: transferases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various enzymes that catalyze the transfer of a functional group, such as amine or phosphate from one molecule to another.
pos: noun
Translations:
transferee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin trānsferōder.
English transfer
English -ee
English transferee
From transfer + -ee.
Inflected forms:
form: transferees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who is transferred.
pos: noun
gloss: A person to whom title or ownership is conveyed.
pos: noun
Translations:
transferrin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-t
Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t
Proto-Indo-European *-ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts
Proto-Italic *trāns
Proto-Italic *trāns-
Latin trans-bor.
English trans-
English ferr-
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ineclip.
English -in
English transferrin
From trans- + ferr- + -in.
Inflected forms:
form: transferrins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A glycoprotein, a beta globulin, in blood serum that combines with and transports iron.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
transfigure
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French transfigurer.
Inflected forms:
form: transfigures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: transfiguring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: transfigured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: transfigured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To transform the outward appearance of; to convert into a different form, state or substance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To glorify or exalt.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: transfigurate
transfiguration
transfigurative
transfigurement
transfiguringly
Derived words: retransfigure
transfigurability
transfigurable
transfiguringly
untransfigured
Translations:
transfiguration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English transfiguracioun, from Old French transfiguracion, Anglo-Norman transfiguraciun, and Latin transfigūrātio.
Inflected forms:
form: transfigurations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A major change in appearance or form; a metamorphosis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A change that exalts or glorifies.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: superposition of one or more ideal-elements in comparison with other real ones, often through imagination but sometimes at the risk of confusing when not clearly realized.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: retransfiguration
Translations:
transformable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-t
Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t
Proto-Indo-European *-ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts
Proto-Italic *trāns
Proto-Italic *trāns-
Latin trāns-
Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ)der.?
Latin fōrma
Latin fōrmō
Latin transformo
Old French transformer
Middle French transfourmerbor.
Middle English transformen
English transform
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 transformable
From transform + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more transformable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most transformable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Able to be transformed.
pos: adj
Translations:
curd
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English curd, a metathetic variant of crud, crudde (“coagulated substance”). Doublet of crud.
Inflected forms:
form: curds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: curds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: curding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: curded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: curded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The part of milk that coagulates when it sours or is treated with enzymes; used to make cottage cheese, dahi, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Little Miss Muffet, She sat on a tuffet, Eating of curds and whey; There came a little spider, Who sat down beside her, And frighted Miss Muffet away.
gloss: Dahi.
pos: noun
tags: India
countable
uncountable
gloss: The coagulated part of any liquid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Broccoli should not be allowed to remain till the compactness of the head is broken, but should always be cut while the 'curd,' as the flowering mass is termed, is entire
This beautiful vegetable [Romanesco broccoli] looks rather like a green cauliflower designed by a mathematician and has lime-green 'spiralled' curds. The curds are nutty and tasty, and romanesco is worth growing just for its good looks. You can use romanesco in the same ways that you would normally use cauliflower but the flavour is sweeter and they look far more impressive. I try to leave them in large pieces when serving them because they're so beautiful.
gloss: To form curd; to curdle.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To cause to coagulate or thicken; to cause to congeal; to curdle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Does it curd thy blood
 To say I am thy mother?
Related words: buttermilk
milk
yoghurt
Derived words: bean curd
blood curd
crud
curd cheese
curdless
curds and whey
curd soap
curdy
fruit curd
glazed curd
lemon curd
soapcurd
stirred-curd cheese
stirred curd cheese
curdle
Translations:
sinusoidal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
mathematics
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sinusoid
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English sinusoidal
From sinusoid + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more sinusoidal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sinusoidal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sinusoidals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having the shape or characteristics of a sine wave.
pos: adj
examples: An averager of the sort described earlier would operate such that, as the frequency of sinusoidal variation of ITD was increased, more and more samples of the dynamically varying ITD would fall within the averaging window and the effective ITD would tend toward their mean of zero.
gloss: Relating to any of several channels (the sinusoids) through which venous blood passes in various organs.
pos: adj
gloss: A sine wave (or combination of such waves)
pos: noun
Derived words: cosinusoidal
intrasinusoidal
nonsinusoidal
parasinusoidal
perisinusoidal
postsinusoidal
presinusoidal
sinusoidal function
sinusoidalize
sinusoidally
Translations:
emergy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Blend of embodied + energy.
Compound parts: embodied
energy
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: the total energy used in the life cycle of some product; the available energy of one kind that has to be used up directly and indirectly to make a product or service.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
transfuse
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From trans- + fusus, past participle of fundō (“to pour, to melt”). By surface analysis, trans- + fuse.
Affixes: trans-
Inflected forms:
form: transfuses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: transfusing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: transfused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: transfused
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To administer a transfusion of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A few years subsequent to his investigation, Richard Lower, also working on dogs, successfully tranfused the blood of one dog to that of another.
gloss: To pour liquid from one vessel into another.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To diffuse or permeate through something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: autotransfuse
microtransfused
mistransfuse
nontransfused
polytransfused
retransfuse
transfusable
transfusible
untransfused
xenotransfuse
Translations:
lang: Azerbaijani
word: köçürmək
lang: Bulgarian
word: преливам
roman: prelivam
lang: French
word: transfuser
lang: Ido
word: transfuzar
lang: Norwegian
word: transfundere
lang: Spanish
word: transfundir
transfusion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-t
Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t
Proto-Indo-European *-ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts
Proto-Italic *trāns
Latin trans
Latin fundō
Latin trānsfundō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin transfūsiōbor.
English transfusion
Borrowed from Latin transfūsiō.
Inflected forms:
form: transfusions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The transfer of blood or blood products from one individual to another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of pouring liquid from one vessel to another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: autotransfusion
haemotransfusion
hemotransfusion
hypertransfusion
intertransfusion
microtransfusion
mistransfusion
myelotransfusion
posttransfusion
pretransfusion
retransfusion
transfusional
transfusionist
transpoosion
twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome
xenotransfusion
Translations:
transgress
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English transgressen, from Old French transgresser and Latin transgressus, past participle of transgredior.
Inflected forms:
form: transgresses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: transgressing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: transgressed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: transgressed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To exceed or overstep some limit or boundary.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: surpassing common faith, transgressing nature's law
They sometimes transgressed colonial boundaries, forming border communities with Native Americans and escaped black slaves.
gloss: To act in violation of some law.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: For man will hearken to his glozing lies,
 And easily transgress the sole command.
There were some young men who transgressed the ḥerem and danced with foreign women [i.e. non-relatives] and forbidden women.
gloss: To commit an offense; to sin.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Why give you peace to this untemperate beast
 That hath so long transgressed you?
gloss: To spread over land along a shoreline; to inundate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Synonyms: surpass
transcend
Related words: transgressible
transgression
transgressive
transgressor
Derived words: intransgressible
transgressable
transgressingly
untransgressed
Translations:
transgressor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English transgressour, from Anglo-Norman transgressour, from Latin transgressor. Equivalent to transgress + -or.
Base: transgress
Affixes: -or
Inflected forms:
form: transgressors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: transgressour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Someone who transgresses.
pos: noun
Translations:
kerching
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative of the sound made by an old-fashioned cash register when an amount is rung up.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Suggesting the arrival of a large amount of money.
pos: intj
tags: UK
humorous
informal
onomatopoeic
examples: I asked a smiling lawyer what she thought of this policy. She replied, 'I have one word to say on the prospect of taking MPs to court: "Kerching!"'
Translations:
deforestation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
English forest
English deforest
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English deforestation
From deforest + -ation. First attested in 1870.
Inflected forms:
form: deforestations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else, especially with an agricultural system.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
The world leaders gathered at a crucial climate summit secured new agreements on Tuesday to end deforestation and reduce emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane, building momentum as the conference prepared to shift to a more grueling two weeks of negotiations on how to avert the planet’s catastrophic warming.
gloss: A transformation to eliminate intermediate data structures within a program.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: antideforestation
nondeforestation
Translations:
climatic
Part of speech: adj
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
From climate + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or influenced by climate.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The people of the United States, owing, no doubt, to climatic reasons, have been thoroughly educated in the use of ice[…]
Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.
The biological and social effects of climate change can be viewed through an^([sic]) paleopathological lens. Nerlich and Lösch […] offer many examples of groups that dealt with the consequences of and adapted to environmental change. There are myriad lessons to be learned as we navigate through climatic changes today.
Translations:
warming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English warmyng, warmynge, from Old English wærming, wirming, equivalent to warm + -ing.
Base: warm
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: warmings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small rise in temperature.
pos: noun
gloss: A beating; a thrashing.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: More than once had he caught me in the act and given me, as he put it, “a good warming,” with his hard hand so, however much I was tempted so to do, I steadfastly refrained.
Related words: cockwarming
flat-warming
global warming
greenhouse warming
heart-warming
house-warming
house warming
strapwarming
sudden stratospheric warming
warming center
warming centre
warming drawer
warming pan
warming room
warming station
warming up
Translations:
heart-warming
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more heart-warming
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most heart-warming
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: heartwarming
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Eliciting cosy feelings of tenderness and sympathy.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
examples: It was a heart-warming movie about a child overcoming adversity.
Every heartwarming human interest story in america is like "he raised $20,000 to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan-crushing machine" and then never asks why an orphan-crushing machine exists or why you'd need to pay to prevent it from being used.
Translations:
treason
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English tresoun, treison, from Anglo-Norman treson, from Old French traïson (“treason”), from trair, or from Latin trāditiō (“a giving up, handing over, surrender, delivery, tradition”), from trādō (“give up, hand over, deliver over, betray”, verb), from trāns- (“over, across”) + dō (“give”). Doublet of tradition; also related to betray.
Base: dō
Affixes: trāns-
Inflected forms:
form: treasons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The crime of betraying one’s own country.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Treaſon doth never [pro]ſper: what's the reaſon? / For yf yt [pro]ſper none dare call yt treaſon
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unleſs on the Testimony of two Witneſses to the same overt Act, or on Confeſsion in open Court.
If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination: treason in high places can be found at almost every turning.
M. Vonel: 'Your involvement with a group calling themselves THE ORDER OF THE EZIC STAR has been uncovered. […] At least one EZIC member has confessed to receiving your help. This represents treason of the highest order. Goodbye inspector.'
gloss: An act of treachery, betrayal of trust or confidence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: traitor
traitorlike
traitorly
traitorous
traitorously
traitorousness
sedition
Derived words: constructive treason
high treason
petit treason
petty treason
treasonable
treasonableness
treasonably
treasonful
treasonish
treasonist
treasonistic
treasonistically
treasonless
treasonmonger
treasonous
treasonously
treasonousness
Translations:
crouching
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: crouchings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of the verb crouch.
pos: noun
examples: […] so this gathering of rabbits in the dark, beginning with hesitant approaches, silences, pauses, movements, crouchings side by side and all manner of tentative appraisals, slowly moved, like a hemisphere of the world into summer, to a warmer, brighter region of mutual liking and approval, until all felt sure that they had nothing to fear.
gloss: That crouches or crouch.
pos: adj
examples: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Translations:
transhumanism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From trans- + humanism, coined by British evolutionary biologist, philosopher, author Julian Huxley in 1957.
Base: humanism
Affixes: trans-
Inflected forms:
form: transhumanisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: H+
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: h+
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: H-plus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A philosophy favouring the use of science and technology, especially neurotechnology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology, to overcome human limitations and improve the human condition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: posthumanism (in one of its senses)
Those who favor transhumanism speak the language of individual choice and freedom from institutional authoritarianism; those who challenge it speak the language of human dignity and human nature as embodied in the individual.
Translations: