yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
metacarpophalangeal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English metacarpo-
English phalangeal
English metacarpophalangeal
From metacarpo- + phalangeal.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the metacarpus and the phalange
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: metacarpophalangeal articulation
Translations:
inbounds
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From in bounds.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Within bounds
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: An inbounds clearing attempt follows either a goalie save or a turnover in the defensive half of the field.
gloss: Into the inbounds area
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: She passed the ball inbounds.
Translations:
multiparty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mel-der.
Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós?
Proto-Italic *moltos
Latin multus
Latin multīder.
Middle English multi-
English multi-
English party
English multiparty
From multi- + party.
Inflected forms:
form: multi-party
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Involving several different political parties.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Lawyers from Tobruk and Benghazi claim to be running civilian committees, and have called for the restoration of the 1952 constitution, amended to uphold a multi-party republic.
gloss: Having multiple parties (involved persons).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a multiparty telephone call
Related words: multipartisan
Derived words: multipartyism
multipartyist
Translations:
molasse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From French molasse, a kind of sandstone, from Latin mollis (“soft”).
Inflected forms:
form: molasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A shallow deposit of sandstone, shale and conglomerate in front of a rising mountain chain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The molasse provides a record of the wearing down of the Alpine range at a late stage; unlike the Flysch, it is largely non-marine.
Translations:
bogglingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English boggling
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English bogglingly
From boggling + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more bogglingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most bogglingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a stupefying manner or to a stupefying degree.
pos: adv
examples: It was bogglingly complex, with 212 speaking parts, more than 1000 camera setups, 95 scenes, 15 separate film stocks, and endless intercuts and flashbacks -- "everything but footnotes," Stone joked.
gloss: While boggling; with an amazed expression.
pos: adv
examples: The prisoner rises with a bit of paper in his hand, and slowly and bogglingly reads from it what has been written down for him to say, and what is delivered thus, reads to the public in the newspaper report like shrewd spontaneous suggestions.
Related words: mind-bogglingly
Translations:
nowness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English now
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 nowness
From now + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: nownesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of happening now, or relating to the present time.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: With events cascading so quickly that last year often feels like another era, Armstrong wanted to create what he called, when I spoke to him last week, “a feeling of nowness.”
Translations:
helmetless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English helmet
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English helmetless
From helmet + -less.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Without a helmet.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The helmetless rider was killed in the crash.
Translations:
postelection
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pós
Proto-Indo-European *-ti
Proto-Indo-European *pósti
Proto-Italic *posti
Old Latin poste
Latin post
English post-
English election
English postelection
From post- + election.
Inflected forms:
form: post-election
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Occurring after an election.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The postelection television coverage was canceled.
Translations:
geocode
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Pre-Greek der.
Proto-Hellenic *gayader.
Ancient Greek γαῖᾰ (gaîă)clip.
Ancient Greek γῆ (gê)
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)
Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-)der.
English geo-
English code
English geocode
From geo- + code.
Inflected forms:
form: geocodes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: geocoding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: geocoded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: geocoded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: geocodes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To find the latitude and longitude coordinates of an address.
pos: verb
examples: I geocode my customers' addresses to provide them with more relevant promotional material.
gloss: A code made up of latitude and longitude, indicating a geographical location.
pos: noun
Translations:
geocoded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: identified by a geocode
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
douching
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: douchings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A washing or irrigation with a douche.
pos: noun
examples: For ordinary douchings of the vagina I use lysol, and employ entirely lysol soap for washing purposes. Carbolic acid, save for keeping silk, drainage tubes, taps, douche pipes, and other appliances in, I never employ.
Translations:
dual-band
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Capable of operating on two frequency ranges.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
beachside
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der.
Proto-Germanic *bakiz
Proto-West Germanic *baki
Old English bæċ
Middle English bache
English beach
Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der.
Proto-Germanic *sīdaz
Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ
Old English sīde
Middle English side
English side
English beachside
From beach + side.
Inflected forms:
form: beachsides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The land bordering a beach.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
coalface
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
mining
Etymology: From coal + face.
Compound parts: coal
face
Inflected forms:
form: coalfaces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The surface of coal exposed by mining, or a part of a coal seam that is currently being mined.
pos: noun
gloss: The end of a drift, entry, or room in a coal mine.
pos: noun
gloss: A place where difficult or strenuous work is done.
pos: noun
tags: UK
figuratively
examples: Works of this kind are necessarily parasitic upon the research of other scholars and I should like to express my gratitude to all those whose hard labour at the coalface has made my own endeavours possible.
Lizzie had paid her own dues at the coalface of teething babies and gave the young mother an understanding grin in return.
However, my mother, who had been at the coalface of the marital collapse, felt the need to have an in-depth debrief.
But we both know that all of this wonderful equilibrium comes at a cost: there is the tacit understanding that it's my turn to pursue my dreams whilst my husband slogs at the coalface.
gloss: A place where more tangible, practical, or direct work of an activity is done, as opposed to theoretical or managerial work.
pos: noun
tags: UK
figuratively
examples: While schools were seen to be at the coalface of administering arts education, teachers, artists and children were rarely consulted in relation to the development of arts education policy.
By all means look at streamlining systems, look at changing the way that you produce public services for sure, but please do not cut at the coalface. That goes for a teacher, it goes for a policeman and it goes for a nurse.
I wondered which next superstar I might have the privilege of seeing live at the coalface of stardom in Hollywood.
It’s been terrific doing six shows a week, but what with all the prep work for the programmes and the ever-increasing volume of new music to listen to, there’s not been nearly enough time left over for my family. And to be honest, after nearly 40 years at the coalface of new music, I think I need a bit of breather.
A council of cardinals was established to tackle key areas, notably the perilous state of the Vatican’s finances. All of the nine Francis appointed had, like him, substantial experience at the coalface, as heads of large dioceses. Most were also outsiders in the overheated corridors of power at the Vatican.
Related words: chalkface
code face
faceworker
salt mine
shopfloor
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 實務現場 /实务现场
roman: shíwù xiànchǎng
lang: Finnish
word: paja
ecosphere
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *wóyḱos
Proto-Hellenic *wóikos
Ancient Greek οἶκος (oîkos)
Latin oeco-
French éco-
English eco-
Ancient Greek σφαῖρᾰ (sphaîră)bor.
Latin sphaera
Late Latin sphērader.
Old French spherebor.
Middle English spere
English sphere
English -sphere
English ecosphere
From eco- + -sphere.
Inflected forms:
form: ecospheres
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The portion of the atmosphere from sea-level to about 4000 meters in which it is possible to breathe without technological assistance.
pos: noun
gloss: The biosphere.
pos: noun
Derived words: ecospheric
Translations:
repin
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
Proto-Germanic *pinnaz
Proto-West Germanic *pinn
Old English pinn
Middle English pinne
English pin
English repin
From re- + pin.
Inflected forms:
form: repins
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: repinning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: repinned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: repinned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To pin again.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The doctor repinned the bandage.
Translations:
fungibility
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fungible
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English fungibility
From fungible + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: fungibilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of a good or a commodity whereby individual units are capable of mutual substitution.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
utopic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek οὐ (ou)
Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
New Latin Ūtopiader.
English utopia
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English utopic
From utopia + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more utopic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most utopic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Seeming to originate in utopia; utopian
pos: adj
examples: They dismissed the work as utopic, unpractical.
… and those issues and the potentialities out of which they arise are such as would to any previous age, could it have so much as conceived them, have seemed the distant problems of utopic speculation.
It would be so much easier if homosexuality were accepted — period. "Coming out," that life-long process of letting people know that you are a certain way, and that you're upset by their homophobic actions, would not have to occur. Of course I'm speaking in utopic terms; this won't happen for a long time, if ever.
By contrast, in the utopic vision of Hilton and Capra it is space which is traversed and not time; both utopic and dystopic exist in the same moment but occupy a different terrain.
Translations:
isabelle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of isabella.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The muzzle and forehead is of a greyish isabelle colour; the hairs are blackish from their base to half their extent, and then of an isabelle tint; those of the abdomen are the same at their base, but cinnamon coloured at the tip.
Translations:
morra
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian morra; further etymology is unknown.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A game in which two (or more) players each suddenly display a hand showing zero to five fingers and call out what they think will be the sum of all fingers shown.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
microencapsulation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
English encapsulation
English microencapsulation
From micro- + encapsulation.
Inflected forms:
form: microencapsulations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A process in which tiny capsules of one substance are embedded in another so as to be released when force is applied
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The encapsulation of small pieces of hazardous waste
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: macroencapsulation
Translations:
clonidine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: From chlo(ro)- + -(gua)nidine.
Affixes: chloro-
-(gua)nidine
Inflected forms:
form: clonidines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A drug that acts as an α₂-adrenoreceptor agonist, used in the treatment of hypertension, opiate withdrawal, and a variety of other conditions.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
circumferentially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English circumferential
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English circumferentially
From circumferential + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a way that encircles; around the circumference.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The pipes were cracked circumferentially.
Translations:
Jobcentre
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From job + centre.
Compound parts: job
centre
Inflected forms:
form: Jobcentres
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A government-funded agency that helps the unemployed to find work; a local office of this agency.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: The attack campaign depicted snaking queues outside a jobcentre.
Translations:
disarrayed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a state of disarray; unkempt.
pos: adj
examples: "And my hair is all atangle," Sara said, running her fingers through her disarrayed locks and praying time would heal the child's wounded soul.
Translations:
hyperintensity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Hellenic *hupér
Ancient Greek ῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér)
Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)der.
English hyper-
English intensity
English hyperintensity
From hyper- + intensity.
Inflected forms:
form: hyperintensities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An area of high intensity (for example, as seen in magnetic resonance imaging).
pos: noun
Antonyms: hypointensity
Translations:
ombudsperson
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ombudspersons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ombudspeople
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of ombudsman.
pos: noun
tags: gender-neutral
Translations:
neuroethics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-wr̥
Proto-Indo-European *snéh₁wr̥der.
Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron)
Ancient Greek νευρο- (neuro-)der.
English neuro-
English ethics
English neuroethics
From neuro- + ethics.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The ethics of neuroscience and neurotechnology.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Nearctic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Coined by English zoologist, ornithologist, and lawyer Philip Sclater in 1858. Compound of neo + arctic — New World arctic — in contrast to Palearctic (paleo- + Arctic), Old World arctic.
Base: Arctic
Affixes: paleo-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the Nearctic ecozone.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
mulatta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: mulattas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A female mulatto.
pos: noun
Translations:
resect
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin resectus, past participle of resecare (“to cut off”), formed in turn from re- + secare (“to cut”).
Inflected forms:
form: resects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: resecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: resected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: resected
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To remove (some part of an organ or structure) by surgical means.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The tumor was resected after chemotherapy.
Translations:
achievability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English achieve
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Latin -tās
Latin -abilitas
Middle French -abletébor.
Middle English -ablete
English -ability
English achievability
From achieve + -ability.
Inflected forms:
form: achievabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or condition of being achievable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Fuelling the Future report states: "The Government must increase the current pace of electrification. The lifespan of rolling stock alone means that any rail projects currently being developed that are not wholly electrified - such as East West Rail - place in doubt the achievability of the 2040 target [for net zero emissions]."
Translations:
firebombing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: firebombings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An attack with a firebomb.
pos: noun
examples: On November 9, anti-abortion crusader Curtis Beseda confessed in U.S. District Court to three successive firebombings that destroyed the Feminist Women's Health Center in Everett, Wash., and to torching a doctor's clinic in nearby Bellingham.
A Queens man who faces charges related to five firebombings in the New York City metropolitan area is undergoing a psychiatric evaluation, authorities said late Tuesday.
The horrors Nihei saw that night were the result of Operation Meetinghouse, the deadliest of a series of firebombing air raids on Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces, between February and May 1945.
Translations:
tarmacked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more tarmacked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tarmacked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
druglord
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From drug + -lord.
Compound parts: drug
-lord
Inflected forms:
form: druglords
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: drug lord
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who controls a large network of people involved in the illegal drug trade.
pos: noun
Translations:
infantilization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English infantile
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 infantilize
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 infantilization
From infantilize + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: infantilizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: infantilisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of infantilizing, treating a non-infant as an infant, or more generally treating an adult like a young child.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Nursing homes lead to an infantilization of the elderly.
In both cases, a key ingredient has been the drastic infantilization of the national culture: from the pious idea of ‘family reading’ that launched the Bowdlerization of Victorian literature, to the syrupy replica—the family, smiling at its TV—that has put American entertainment to sleep.
In the context of asexuality, it has led to the infantilization of people who are aspec, and in a lot of cases has pressured ace people to have sex, simply because they didn’t think not wanting to have sex was an option.
Translations:
civilizational
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English civilization
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 civilizational
From civilization + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: civilisational
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to or arising from civilization
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: There are various civilizational factors at work.
From the Baltics to Central Asia, former Soviet states are seen by President Vladimir Putin as part of “the Russian world,” with supposedly a distinct civilizational identity that justifies Moscow’s meddling.
“We’ve got civilizational suicidal empathy going on,” Musk said, borrowing the term from Gad Saad, a Canadian scholar who is also a frequent Rogan host.
U.S. President Donald Trump, whose recent National Security Strategy warned longtime European allies that they risked “civilizational erasure,” regards the centuries-old legacy of Christian Europeans as imperiled by a series of threats.
Translations:
ice-jack
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From ice + jack.
Compound parts: ice
jack
Inflected forms:
form: ice-jacks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ice-jacking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ice-jacked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ice-jacked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: icejack
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: ice jack
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To freeze underneath an element or between two elements and jacking up the overlaying element, thereby separating it from its underlayment
pos: verb
examples: The support pylon for the ski gondola collapsed because of ice-jacking.
Translations:
erf
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₃erbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *arbiją
Proto-West Germanic *arbī
Old English ierfe
Middle English erve
English erf
From Middle English erve, erfe, from Old English yrfe, ierfe (“heritage, bequest, inheritance, property, inherited property, property that passes to an heir, cattle, livestock”), from Proto-West Germanic *arbī, from Proto-Germanic *arbiją (“heritage”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃erbʰ- (“to change ownership”) (whence also *h₃órbʰos (“orphan”)).
Cognate with Dutch erf (“inheritance, patrimony, ground, courtyard”), German Erbe (“heritage, legacy, inheritance”), Danish arv (“heritage, inheritance”), Swedish arv (“heritage, inheritance”), Gothic 𐌰𐍂𐌱𐌹 (arbi, “inheritance”), Latin orbus (“orphan”), Ancient Greek ὀρφανός (orphanós, “orphan”), Old English ierfa (“heir”). Related to orf and odal and athel.
Inflected forms:
form: erfs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Inheritance; patrimony.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
rare
examples: Son, you will have this farm to erf.
gloss: Stock; cattle.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
Derived words: erfkin
Translations:
watercolorist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: art
arts
Etymology: Etymology tree
English watercolor
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English watercolorist
From watercolor + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: watercolorists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A painter who paints watercolors.
pos: noun
Translations:
woodstove
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wood + stove.
Compound parts: wood
stove
Inflected forms:
form: woodstoves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wood-stove
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A stove designed to burn wood.
pos: noun
examples: They gathered around the woodstove for warmth.
In my grandfather's log cabin, the woodstove is the heat source for the whole place as well as the cookstove.
Translations:
blackwork
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
Etymology: From black + work.
Compound parts: black
work
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A form of counted-thread embroidery that is usually stitched on even-weave fabric with a twisted thread.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: All those garments are long gone since, that Katherine embroidered with Spanish blackwork.
gloss: Work connected with funerals, as an undertaker's assistant or a maker of mourning clothes, etc.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
examples: In Mary Barton (1848), the seamstress sewing black mourning clothes is referred to as being engaged in 'blackwork', while the manufacturing company, the Courtaulds, held a monopoly on crapes from the onset of funeral practices […]
gloss: A style of tattoo with areas of solid black ink.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: redwork
scarletwork
Translations:
antigovernment
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́)
Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der.
English anti-
English government
English antigovernment
From anti- + government.
Inflected forms:
form: more antigovernment
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most antigovernment
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: anti-government
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: antigovernments
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: anti-government
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Opposed to a government currently in power.
pos: adj
examples: Antigovernment protesters marched in the capital.
And finally, the transnational discourses of antiapartheidism and divestiture had led the U.K. television industry to ban sales of current programs to South Africa, again shaping the ways Bop-TV could enact its particular form of antigovernment, antiapartheid cultural politics.
gloss: Opposed to government in general.
pos: adj
examples: They have an antigovernment philosophy.
This diverse set of extremists reflects an increasingly complex threat landscape, including racially or ethnically motivated threats and antigovernment or antiauthority threats.
Domestic extremists are motivated by a range of ideologies which “reflects an increasingly complex threat landscape, including racially or ethnically motivated threats and antigovernment or antiauthority threats,” the report says.
It is tempting to see these vacancies through the feature-not-a-bug lens of the Republican Party’s antigovernment politics. If a party doesn’t care about governing, why would it care that the government isn’t functioning?
gloss: A government set up to oppose another government.
pos: noun
examples: Insurrection and subversion are primarily the weapons of indigenous antigovernments. Foreign governments, of course, may encourage antigovernments.
Synonyms: anarchist
Antonyms: progovernment
pro-government
Translations:
midcourt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *me
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-?
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe
Proto-Indo-European *médʰi
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos
Proto-Germanic *midjaz
Proto-West Germanic *midi
Old English midd
Middle English mid
English mid
English mid-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer-
Proto-Indo-European *gʰórtos
Proto-Italic *hortosder.?
Proto-Italic *horti-
Latin cohortem
Latin cōrtem
Old French cortbor.
Middle English court
English court
English midcourt
From mid- + court.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The area near the center of a court, such as a basketball or tennis court
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Smith passes the ball to Jones at midcourt.
Translations:
meatpacker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d-der.
Proto-Germanic *matiz
Proto-West Germanic *mati
Old English mete
Middle English mete
English meat
English packer
English meatpacker
From meat + packer.
Inflected forms:
form: meatpackers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person or company involved in the meatpacking industry, including slaughtering and meat processing
pos: noun
examples: After breaking up the big meatpackers in the early 1920s, the federal government prevented the industry from consolidating for more than half a century, part of a broader commitment to checking corporate power throughout the economy. […] When a rival meatpacker filed an antitrust lawsuit to block the deal, the Reagan administration intervened on the side of Cargill.
Translations:
mid-level
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *me
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-?
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe
Proto-Indo-European *médʰi
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos
Proto-Germanic *midjaz
Proto-West Germanic *midi
Old English midd
Middle English mid
English mid
English mid-
Proto-Indo-European *leyH-der.
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰromder.
Proto-Italic *līðrā?
Latin lībra
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -la
Latin libella
Old French nivel
Old French livelbor.
Middle English level
English level
English mid-level
From mid- + level.
Inflected forms:
form: midlevel
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: midlevel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: At a medium level; neither high nor low in rank.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a mid-level official
gloss: A medium level.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The first of the two meticulously composed shots offers a medium-distance look at an individual man in the right foreground, the widescreen lens showing three industrial snow machines arranged at midlevel in the background.
Translations:
moviegoing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From movie + going.
Compound parts: movie
going
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Attending movies, especially habitually or regularly.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: the moviegoing public
gloss: The act of attending movies.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: She understands my moviegoing but in her own antic fashion. There is a scene which shows the very neighborhood of the theater. Kate gives me a look—it is understood that we do not speak during the movie.
I would say that roughly 30 percent of the film is invisible, and some 40 to 50 inaudible. I cannot remember when—in moviegoing or life—I so longed for an honest bit of daylight as I did while groping my way through Bird.
Here are some little-known facts (and one lie) that will make your moviegoing even more fun. 1. The longest film ever produced and shown was 85 hours long and was aptly titled The Cure for Insomnia.
Translations:
moviemaking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From movie + making.
Compound parts: movie
making
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The production of movies
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Moviemaking is a very different art from stage production.
Translations:
deepwater
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From deep + water.
Compound parts: deep
water
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Brine collected in a seafloor depression (brine pool).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
homesite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From home + site.
Compound parts: home
site
Inflected forms:
form: homesites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The plot of land on which a house is or can be built
pos: noun
examples: Sales of homesites fell sharply this quarter.
Translations:
intraepithelial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *h₁énterosder.
Latin *interus
Latin intrābor.
English intra-
English epithelial
English intraepithelial
From intra- + epithelial.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Within the epithelium.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
micrococcus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From micro- + -coccus.
Base: micro
Inflected forms:
form: micrococci
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a group of spherical, aerobic, gram-positive bacteria, of the genus Micrococcus, that are wide-ranging and harmless.
pos: noun
Translations:
postapocalyptic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pós
Proto-Indo-European *-ti
Proto-Indo-European *pósti
Proto-Italic *posti
Old Latin poste
Latin post
English post-
English apocalyptic
English postapocalyptic
From post- + apocalyptic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Occurring after an apocalypse or catastrophic event.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The novel dealt with life in a postapocalyptic France.
Now she’s been spending her days hanging out at KMUN, learning about the seemingly outmoded technology of terrestrial radio, which she thinks will gain a kind of “postapocalyptic” usefulness to humanity as the internet is overrun with AI slop.
Translations:
relist
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English list
English relist
From re- + list.
Inflected forms:
form: relists
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: relisting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: relisted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: relisted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To list again.
pos: verb
examples: We relisted our house after it failed to sell.
Translations:
relisting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: relistings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of listing something again; a second or subsequent listing.
pos: noun
examples: Relistings are treated as new listings and will be allocated through the allocation process pursuant to Exchange Rule 103B, Section Ill.
Relistings are your indicator that a deal might be in the works.
For simplicity, we have omitted the mean correlations below the diagonal since those are simply relistings of mean correlations shown above the diagonals.
Translations:
megahit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s
Proto-Hellenic *mégas
Ancient Greek μέγᾰς (mégăs)der.
English mega-
English hit
English megahit
From mega- + hit.
Inflected forms:
form: megahits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large success or hit.
pos: noun
examples: We settle on our target: a group of women riding around on a Manhattan tour bus and visiting sites featured in HBO's '90s megahit Sex and the City.
[Jean] Twenge […] isn’t necessarily a household name like her sometimes collaborator Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist and the author of the megahit “The Anxious Generation,” which has spent 75 weeks hovering near the top of the New York Times best-seller list.
Translations:
multicity
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *moltos
Latin multus
Latin multīder.
Middle English multi-
English multi-
English city
English multicity
From multi- + city.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Taking place between or relating to two or more cities.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The multicity competition was a success.
Translations:
erlang
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
Etymology: Named after Danish mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang (1878–1929).
Inflected forms:
form: erlangs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dimensionless statistical measure of the volume of telecommunications traffic relative to the capacity of a single channel.
pos: noun
examples: One erlang (1 Erl) is defined as the amount of traffic generated by the user when he or she uses one traffic channel for one hour (this one hour is usually the busy hour of the network).
Translations:
hot-swap
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hot-swaps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hot-swapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hot-swapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hot-swapped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To change a part of something, typically a computer, while it is running.
pos: verb
Translations:
mythically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mythical
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English mythically
From mythical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more mythically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most mythically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In relation to or by means of myth
pos: adv
examples: The philosophy of ancient times was often expressed mythically.
Translations:
growingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English growing
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English growingly
From growing + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more growingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most growingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To a growing or increasing degree
pos: adv
examples: This society is growingly democratic.
Translations:
suffocatingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English suffocating
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English suffocatingly
From suffocating + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more suffocatingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most suffocatingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a suffocating manner, or to a degree that suffocates
pos: adv
examples: The hall was suffocatingly crowded.
[...] then, after about ½-mile of level through Pilning the climb is resumed at 1 in 100 for another three miles, including over a mile through a suffocatingly smoky single line tunnel (the down line being on a different and steeper location) to Patchway station.
Translations:
undeath
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + death, on the pattern of undead.
Base: death
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The state of being undead.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: After the vampire bit me, I passed from life to undeath.
gloss: The moment of passing into an undead state.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: "That invitation was made before your death. Or undeath. Or whatever you call it." "Rebirth," he whispered. "Begone!"
No one could decide for certain whether the specimen as a whole were alive or dead, only that some organ function remained and the cells continued to regenerate, albeit at a much slower rate than before their death. Or undeath.
Related words: unlife
Translations:
supersweet
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-lbor.
English super-
Proto-Indo-European *sweh₂d-
Proto-Indo-European *-us
Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus
Proto-Germanic *swōtuz
Proto-Germanic *-jaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ī
Proto-West Germanic *swōtī
Old English swēte
Middle English swete
English sweet
English supersweet
From super- + sweet.
Inflected forms:
form: more supersweet
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most supersweet
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Extremely sweet
pos: adj
examples: She dipped her finger in a steaming portable spa and inhaled the heavenly scent of fair food,[…]. Philly cheesesteak sandwiches and funnel cakes, caramel corn and special-recipe baked beans, fresh-picked supersweet corn and homemade boysenberry-apple pies.
It tasted supersweet and creamy, and had a nice crunch.
Translations:
swingman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From swing + man.
Compound parts: swing
man
Inflected forms:
form: swingmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A player who can swing between two different positions, often the small forward and shooting guard positions in basketball.
pos: noun
Translations:
trembly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tremble
English -y
English trembly
From tremble + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: tremblier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: trembliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a trembling or shaking state
pos: adj
examples: […] they found they couldn't look at him and went all trembly.
Translations:
histiocytic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English histiocyte
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English histiocytic
From histiocyte + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to connective tissue containing large white blood cells
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Zorro
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish zorro (“fox”).
Inflected forms:
form: Zorros
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any daring and mysterious avenger.
pos: noun
examples: I told her about the Z found etched in Hector Peña's blood and my theory that the killer may indeed picture himself or herself as some kind of avenger, a modern-day Zorro with a twist.
[…] he made himself visible at certain crucial and dramatic moments, like a kind of Zorro of the ecodefense movement.
You are a real Zorro. You ride in, rescue the fair damsel (Maartje), start massive fires and vanish — until the next perceived injustice.
Translations:
returner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English return
English -er
English returner
From return + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: returners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who returns from another place.
pos: noun
examples: Returning to school is fairly simple, but remaining there proves to be a challenge for the returners.
gloss: One who returns something, such as defective goods.
pos: noun
examples: For instance, some merchants suppress the names of “serial returners”; basically, customers who repeatedly buy products that they quickly return after using them once.
gloss: A player who runs back a ball which has been punted or kicked
pos: noun
Derived words: kickoff returner
kick returner
nonreturner
punt returner
Translations:
underboss
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From under- + boss, calque from Italian sotto capo.
Base: boss
Affixes: under-
Inflected forms:
form: underbosses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An assistant to the boss of a crime family
pos: noun
examples: An alleged "underboss" of the Bonanno family, Carmine Galante, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison […]
Translations:
enduringly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English enduring
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English enduringly
From enduring + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more enduringly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most enduringly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an enduring manner or fashion; so as to endure or last.
pos: adv
examples: The painter's works were enduringly popular.
Originally written in the era of the Cold War, Clavell's enduringly relevant, extraordinary allegory on the impressionability of the human mind is still read in schools around the globe today, and is a call to every person to keep questioning and keep learning.
Translations:
backbend
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: dance
dancing
gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From back + bend.
Compound parts: back
bend
Inflected forms:
form: backbends
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: back bend
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: back-bend
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: backbends
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: backbending
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: backbended
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: backbended
pos: verb
tags: past
form: backbent
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: backbent
pos: verb
tags: past
form: back bend
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: back-bend
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A move in which the performer bends backwards until the hands touch the floor or catches him/herself with the hands.
pos: noun
examples: The gal's backbends, the father's hoofology, the boy's fast steps and the mother's taps all won solid mitting.
gloss: To perform such a move.
pos: verb
Translations:
unpiloted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English piloted
English unpiloted
From un- + piloted.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Lacking a pilot
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The ship was unpiloted and adrift.
The trouble has been mainly due to the preceding 6.40 p.m. Sheffield express, which since being demoted from an "XL Limit" to a "Special Limit" schedule had presented unpiloted Class "6" 4-6-0s with loads at times up to 12 bogies. [In railway parlance "unpiloted" means the train had no pilot engine double-heading it.]
Translations:
flulike
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English flu
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-West Germanic *-līk
Old English -līċ
Middle English -like
English -like
English flulike
From flu + -like.
Inflected forms:
form: more flulike
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most flulike
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: flu-like
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of influenza.
pos: adj
examples: The patient presented with flulike symptoms.
Translations: