yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
priestcraft
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English priestcraft; equivalent to priest + -craft.
Base: priest
Affixes: -craft
Inflected forms:
form: priestcrafts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The craft of performing the duties of a priest.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: There is philosophercraft as well as priestcraft, both from one source, both of one spirit. In English cities and towns, the minister of religion has been tamed: so many weapons are bared against him when he obtrudes his office in a dictatory manner, that, as a rule, there is no more quiet and modest member of society than the urban clergyman.
One of the most complex of all the poems in the mythological cycle is "Inanna's Descent into the Nether World." This work does not have the air of a dairymaid's song but rather seems to be an expression of priestcraft, astrology, and an investigation into the nature of time.
Whilst caring for a congregation is fundamental, it is a long way from being the only tool in the priestcraft toolbox.
gloss: Priestly policy directed towards worldly ends.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
uncountable
usually
examples: In pious times, ere priestcraft did begin, before polygamy was made a sin
He commandeth that there shall be no priestcrafts; for, behold, priestcrafts are that men preach and set themselves up for a light unto the world, that they may get gain and praise of the world; but they seek not the welfare of Zion.
Perhaps thou wert a priest,--if so, my struggles / Are vain, for priestcraft never owns its juggles.
Derived words: antipriestcraft
Translations:
billet
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English bylet, from Anglo-Norman billette (“list, schedule”), from bille + -ette, from Latin bulla (“document”).
Base: bille
Affixes: -ette
Inflected forms:
form: billets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: billets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: billeting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: billetting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
rare
form: billeted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: billeted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: billetted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
rare
form: billetted
pos: verb
tags: past
rare
Senses:
gloss: A short informal letter.
pos: noun
examples: However, when his cool reflections returned, he plainly perceived that his case was neither mended nor altered by Sophia's billet[…]
On their return home, however, she was greatly consoled by Lady Mandeville's reading aloud a billet from Edward Lorraine, regretting that unexpected business,...
gloss: A written order to quarter soldiers.
pos: noun
gloss: A sealed ticket for a draw or lottery.
pos: noun
examples: A murmur of applause and gratitude arose from the crowd, which was soon interrupted by the preparations for distributing the tickets. Four pages, clothed in white and crimson, brought in two massive salvers, whose delicate carving was from the unrivalled graver of Benvenuto Cellini. These were filled with small sealed billets, from which the company were to draw, and afterwards open, in succession. The pages first approached and knelt before the Queens, who each took one of the billets, and then proceeded to distribute the remainder among the rest.
gloss: To lodge soldiers, or guests, usually by order.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Billeted in so antiquated a mansion.
Destroy, with entire unpity, raze to the ground, those detestable houses where you billet the progeny of the libertinage of the poor, appalling cloacas, wherefrom there every day spews forth into society a swarm of new-made creatures […]
gloss: To lodge, or be quartered, in a private house.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: billet reading
billetable
billetee
rebillet
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: majoittaa
bedbug
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *badją
Proto-West Germanic *badi
Old English bedd
Middle English bed
English bed
English bug
English bedbug
From bed + bug.
Inflected forms:
form: bedbugs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bed bug
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bed-bug
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small nocturnal insect pest of humans, of species Cimex lectularius (common bedbug) and Cimex hemipterus (tropical bedbug) that feeds on the blood of humans during sleep.
pos: noun
examples: Fiona rapidly discovered that the hotel was infested with bedbugs.
In Morocco, love philtres are composed of yolk of egg and bedbugs.
gloss: Any similar insect of family Cimicidae, that feeds on the blood of humans and certain other warm-blooded animals.
pos: noun
Derived words: antibedbug
bedbuggy
bedbuglike
crazy as a bedbug
don't let the bedbugs bite
Translations:
objection
Part of speech: noun
intj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle French objection, from Old French objeccion, from Latin obiectio. Equivalent to object + -ion.
Base: object
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: objections
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: objection!
pos: intj
tags: canonical
Senses:
gloss: The act of objecting.
pos: noun
examples: last-minute objection
In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.
gloss: A statement expressing opposition, or a reason or cause for expressing opposition (generally followed by the adposition to).
pos: noun
examples: I have no objection to any person's religion.
There are millions of Jews living in this country, who have known no other home than America, many of whom have strong objections to racism–and who vote, in a supermajority, for the Democratic Party.
gloss: An official protest raised in a court of law during a legal trial over a violation of the rules of the court by the opposing party.
pos: noun
examples: Counsel for the property owner immediately raised an objection which was sustained following argument outside the presence of the jury.
gloss: An assertion that a question or statement is in violation of the rules of the court.
pos: intj
tags: US
examples: Objection! That is irrelevant to this case, Your Honor!
Related words: objector
Derived words: conscientious objection
counterobjection
nonobjection
objectionable
objectional
objectioner
objectionism
objectionist
speaking objection
Translations:
andropause
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: endocrinology
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From andro- + -pause, based on menopause.
Affixes: andro-
-pause
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The male equivalent of the menopause in women; characterized by a decline in libido and overall energy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
pseudopod
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
Etymology: From pseudo- + -pod.
Base: pseudo
Inflected forms:
form: pseudopods
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pseudopodia
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A temporary projection of the cytoplasm of certain cells, such as phagocytes, or of certain unicellular organisms, such as amoebas, that serves in locomotion.
pos: noun
gloss: A projection acting as a foot in certain insect larvae.
pos: noun
gloss: An extension or projection from something.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: A pseudopod of blackness elongated itself from the central mass and like a great tentacle clutched the corpse-like being, dragged it back to the pit and over the brink.
Synonyms: pseudopodium
Derived words: pseudopodal
pseudopodial
pseudopodic
subpseudopod
Translations:
phagocyte
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From the German Phagocyt, modified on the pattern of -cyte; phago- + -cyte.
Base: phago
Inflected forms:
form: phagocytes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: phagocytes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: phagocyting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: phagocyted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: phagocyted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A cell of the immune system, such as a neutrophil, macrophage or dendritic cell, that engulfs and destroys viruses, bacteria and waste materials, or in the case of mature dendritic cells; displays antigens from invading pathogens to cells of the lymphoid lineage.
pos: noun
gloss: To phagocytize
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
bloodstream
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From blood + stream.
Compound parts: blood
stream
Inflected forms:
form: bloodstreams
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The flow of blood through the circulatory system of an animal
pos: noun
examples: virus in the bloodstream
directly into the bloodstream
spread through the bloodstream
The drug quickly entered the bloodstream.
Translations:
mesial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
dentistry
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Irregular derivation from Ancient Greek μέσος (mésos).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the midline of the body.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: His pale Galilean eyes were upon her mesial groove. Venus Kallipyge. O, the thunder of those loins!
gloss: Facing the side of a tooth which faces the middle of the jaw.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: antonym(s) of
Derived words: admesial
anteromesial
axiomesial
buccomesial
distomesial
dorsomesial
frontomesial
labiomesial
mesially
mesialmost
mesial plane
orbitomesial
paramesial
posteromesial
temporomesial
ventromesial
Translations:
buccal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
dentistry
human-sciences
linguistics
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Celticbor.?
Latin bucca
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 buccal
From Latin bucca (“the cheek”) + -al. By surface analysis, bucc- + -al.
Base: bucca
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, near, involving, or supplying the cheek.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
relational
examples: buccal surface of the molars
buccal branch of the facial nerve
Obtained buccal epithelium and newly drawn, uncentrifuged blood collected in an EDTA tube were used for analysis of gene expression: a control GAPDH gene and Osteocalcin gene.
gloss: Of, relating to, or lying in the mouth.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: buccal cavity
gloss: Administered in the mouth, not by swallowing but by absorption through the skin of the cheek; often by placing between the top gum and the inside of the lip.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: supralaryngeal, not laryngeal or glottal.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: alveolobuccal
anterobuccal
axiobuccal
buccal cavity
buccal fat extraction
buccal fat removal
buccalization
buccalize
buccally
buccal mass
buccal nerve
buccal pit
buccal pumping
buccalwards
bucco-
cerebrobuccal
cervicobuccal
circumbuccal
distobuccal
dorsobuccal
extrabuccal
gingivobuccal
infrabuccal
intrabuccal
ipsilateralbuccal
mesiobuccal
mesobuccal
midbuccal
nasobuccal
nonbuccal
occlusobuccal
orobuccal
parabuccal
peribuccal
postbuccal
posterobuccal
prebuccal
suprabuccal
transbuccal
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 頰的 /颊的
roman: jiáde
lang: Finnish
word: poski-
lang: Polish
word: policzkowy
lang: Russian
word: щёчный
roman: ščóčnyj
lang: Russian
word: букка́льный
roman: bukkálʹnyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: щі́чний
roman: ščíčnyj
occlusal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: occlusals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: On the side of a tooth which mates with the opposing tooth.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to occlusion.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: occlusion
pos: noun
Derived words: interocclusal
nonocclusal
occlusal guard
occlusally
subocclusal
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: oclusal
lang: Finnish
word: okklusaalinen
lang: Italian
word: occlusale
dentistry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
French dent
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 -istabor.
French -iste
French dentistebor.
English dentist
Middle English -re,-ri,-rie,-ry,-rye
English -ry
English dentistry
From dentist + -ry.
Inflected forms:
form: dentistries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The field of medicine concerned with the study, diagnosis, and treatment of conditions of the teeth and oral cavity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Some provision should be made for the truly suffering poor, and also for our present students of dentistry to learn something about dental surgery before commencing a profession which has almost become a science.
A corporation may not operate a dentistry office unless all of its stockholders are licensed to practice dentistry.
He was born near Middleton in 1853, graduated from Mount Allison, and took his dentistry degree at Philadelphia in 1878.
Wig-workers were not the only tradesmen who practiced dentistry on the side, or "assumed the role" of dentist, as the arrival of a thespian dentist from London attests in this ad from Boston's Independent Chronicle and Universal Advertiser
gloss: Operations performed on teeth and adjoining areas such as drilling, filling cavities, and placing crowns and bridges.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: POOR Australians are resorting to do-it-yourself dentistry, including filing their own teeth and attempting their own extractions, because of lengthy queues for public dental services.
This patient is an out-of-town physician who had to wait until retirement to complete his dentistry. He had holding pattern type dentistry done to get him by.
gloss: A dental surgery, an operation on the teeth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: Dr. Landsberg, of Posen, states that when children's teeth are put in order by means of school dentistries, anaemia, one of the most frequent school diseases, will be greatly diminished.
I speak now only of your pet's bad breath. Dentistries will specifically improve the oral health of the pet as well as its overall health in the long term.
gloss: A place where dental operations are performed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncommon
usually
examples: They are very fond of sweet things; and the ladies especially crowd the “candystores,” which are not less numerous than the dentistries—with which business they are intimately connected.
The author could dilate at great length on the possibilities in plant groceries, restaurants, and dentistries.
As a first step, the law with be amended to prepare for the privatization of pharmacies and dentistries by end-2003.
Derived words: animal dentistry
cosmetic dentistry
predentistry
teledentistry
Translations:
orthodontics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From orthodontic + -s, equivalent to ortho- (“correct, straight”) + -odont + -ics.
Base: orthodontic
Affixes: -s
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A specialty of dentistry concerned with correcting misalignment of teeth.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
dentifrice
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English dentifricie, from Latin dentifricium (“powder for rubbing the teeth”), from dens (“tooth”) + fricāre (“to rub”). Compare French dentifrice.
Inflected forms:
form: dentifrices
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Toothpaste or any other substance, such as a powder or liquid, for cleaning the teeth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
toothpaste
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From tooth + paste. Compare Saterland Frisian Tuskepasta (“toothpaste”), West Frisian toskpoetserguod (“toothpaste”), Dutch tandpasta (“toothpaste”), German Zahnpasta, Zahnpaste (“toothpaste”), Danish tandpasta (“toothpaste”), Swedish tandpasta (“toothpaste”), Icelandic tannkrem (“toothpaste”).
Compound parts: tooth
paste
Inflected forms:
form: toothpastes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: toothpastes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: toothpasting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: toothpasted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: toothpasted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A paste, normally used with a toothbrush, for cleaning the teeth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: fluoride toothpaste
whitening toothpaste
tube of toothpaste
squeeze toothpaste
She squeezed a bit of toothpaste onto her brush.
The dentist recommended a fluoride toothpaste.
The child chose a strawberry-flavored toothpaste.
gloss: To cover, or smear, with toothpaste.
pos: verb
Translations:
toothbrush
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From tooth + brush. Compare Saterland Frisian Tuskebäärsel (“toothbrush”), West Frisian toskboarstel (“toothbrush”), Dutch tandenborstel (“toothbrush”), German Zahnbürste (“toothbrush”), Danish tandbørste (“toothbrush”), Swedish tandborste (“toothbrush”), Icelandic tannbursti (“toothbrush”).
Compound parts: tooth
brush
Inflected forms:
form: toothbrushes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: toothbrushes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: toothbrushing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: toothbrushed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: toothbrushed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A brush, used with toothpaste, for cleaning the teeth.
pos: noun
examples: A Turkiſh tooth-bruſh
gloss: To clean or scrub with a toothbrush.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In Rome, a restorer toothbrushed away some candle-grime over God's Sistine Chapel eye to reveal an eyebrow of Groucho Marx proportion.
I toothbrushed the stale rum stink from my mouth and stared at myself in the cabinet mirror.
Translations:
mutton
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: media
publishing
typography
Etymology: From Middle English motoun, moton, from Old French mouton (“sheep”), from Vulgar Latin moltō, from Gaulish *multon-, from Proto-Celtic *moltos (“ram, wether”). Doublet of mouton.
Inflected forms:
form: muttons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The meat of sheep used as food; especially, that of adults.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Mutton, eaten with caraway seed, is eaten as an aphrodisiac among Arabs.
gloss: The meat of a goat, urial, or other caprine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This prejudice against goat mutton is founded upon ignorance rather than experience. The most ill-smelling “billy” of the worst possible type is made the standard of goat flesh for the whole goat family.
Generally urial mutton is excellent in spite of their strongly scented food, especially if the beasts are young. Their skins are valueless even to the Dard, who can turn most things to some account, and so one commonly finds them [discarded].
The mutton from goats is not considered nearly as good as mutton from sheep. Angora and common goats are found in almost every state in this country. They seem to do well under a wide range of climatic conditions.
BAKED HASH HOW TO COOK AND PREPARE GOAT MEAT / By Mrs. Finley Gilchrist / We have used goat mutton for three years. Everyone likes it. Dress and cool 48 hours before cooking, except liver and heart.
( 2 ) Goat mutton means meat derived from the carcasses of goats. ( b ) Ceiling prices. Ceiling prices for the sale at retail and at wholesale of locally produced sheep mutton and goat mutton not inspected by United States Government[…]
The choice was beef from water buffalo, and mutton from goats. Pork was not an option, of course; Muslims, like Jews, don't eat it. The trick was to get to the meat market early enough to be ahead of the flies.
Suddenly, a herd of what Gallaher believed to be musk ox came into view, and he shot one. [...] “The next seven days we had mutton.
gloss: A sheep.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: Em, a unit of measurement equal to the height of the type in use.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: A prostitute.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
slang
uncountable
gloss: An old Anglo-French gold coin impressed with the image of a lamb.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
gloss: deaf.
pos: adj
tags: Cockney
not-comparable
slang
examples: He's been a bit mutton in one ear for a long time; not due to my mother, but as a result of all the years spent working in a noisy car factory.
Derived words: leg-of-mutton fist
leg-of-mutton sleeve
leg-o'-mutton sleeve
macon
mutton bird
mutton busting
muttonchop
mutton chop
mutton-chop whiskers
mutton dagger
mutton dash
mutton dressed as lamb
mutton dressed up as lamb
mutton fat
muttonfish
mutton fist
mutton-fisted
mutton flaps
muttongrass
mutton ham
muttonhead
muttonheaded
muttonhood
muttonish
muttonmonger
mutton quad
mutton shunter
mutton snapper
mutton-thumper
muttonwood
muttony
poor man of mutton
reestit mutton
shoulder-of-mutton sail
underground mutton
Translations:
mouton
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French mouton (“sheep”). Doublet of mutton.
Inflected forms:
form: moutons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A 14th-century French gold coin, weighing about 70 grains.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
gloss: Sheepskin processed to resemble beaver or seal fur.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The knit constructions include the knit krimmers, the brushed knit fur prints, and knit mouton.
Related words: mouton enragé
return to one's muttons
Translations:
merde
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French merde (“shit”). Doublet of mierda and merd.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Shit.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
mildly
uncountable
vulgar
Translations:
pisser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English pissere; equivalent to piss + -er (agent noun). The sense referring to a urinal formed from piss + -er (patient suffix).
Base: piss
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: pissers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who pisses.
pos: noun
tags: mildly
vulgar
gloss: That which pisses, particularly a penis.
pos: noun
tags: mildly
vulgar
gloss: Someone or something either viewed as good, impressive or remarkable.
pos: noun
tags: mildly
slang
vulgar
gloss: A disappointing or frustrating situation or event.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
mildly
slang
vulgar
gloss: An extremely amusing person or thing.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
mildly
slang
vulgar
gloss: A toilet or urinal.
pos: noun
tags: US
mildly
slang
vulgar
gloss: A pub.
pos: noun
tags: mildly
slang
vulgar
gloss: Synonym of piss clam.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Synonyms: shitter and Thesaurus:toilet
Derived words: pissah
popcorn pisser
Translations:
piddle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown. Compare regional German piddlen, pitteln, pütteln, pühteln (“to pick at something, pick at one's food”), dialectal German Pitzel (“small effort, small task”). Alternatively, perhaps originally from paw or put + -le (suffix forming verbs involving continuous or repeated movement). In later use, a euphemistic diminutive of piss, though not directly related to it. The noun derives from the verb.
Inflected forms:
form: piddles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: piddel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: pidle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: piddles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: piddling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: piddled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: piddled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: piddel
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: pidle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Piss: urine.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
UK
euphemistic
slang
examples: The spunk with his piddle comes bubbling.
gloss: A piss: an act of urination.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
UK
euphemistic
slang
examples: Piddle, urine; occ. the act of making water.
On the way out to the gardens, he had to stop for a piddle but was so weak he couldn't maintain his balance while lifting his rear leg.
gloss: Nonsense or a trivial matter.
pos: noun
tags: UK
figuratively
examples: It's the alteration of the little words that makes all the difference between Poetry & piddle.
gloss: (Often followed by about or around): to act or work ineffectually and wastefully.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: […] neuer ceaſinge piddeling about theyr bowe and ſhaftes, when they be well, […]
I watch Dag and Claire piddle about the desert[.]
gloss: Synonym of peck: to attack or eat with a beak.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: As [Mahomet] was preaching... there commeth a doue flying towards him, & alighteth vpon his shoulder, and pidleth in his eare, looking for meate, hauing vsed her before to feede in his eare for the same purpose.
gloss: Synonym of nibble: to pick at or toy with one's food, to eat slowly or insubstantially.
pos: verb
tags: Southern-US
intransitive
often
examples: Diseases... that make them eate nothing at all, or else they doe but piddle and trifle.
As about seven seniors quietly eat meat patties, mashed potatoes and canned peaches, Newberry piddles with the food.
gloss: To urinate.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
Namibia
South-Africa
UK
euphemistic
intransitive
reflexive
slang
examples: Ha, ha, ha, Paddy shit in his breaches, ha, ha, ha, I shall laugh till I piddle myself.
Related words: pightle
widdle
Derived words: piddle away
piddle pack
piddlepants
piddler
piddling
piddly
piffle
Translations:
piddling
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Insignificant, negligible, paltry, trivial, useless.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: After all the work I'd done, he gave me a piddling amount of money.
the ignoble hucksterage of piddling tithes
Los Angeles would still be a piddling little town in a desert if it weren’t for Sierra snowmelt and city officials crafty enough to snooker eastern California farmers out of their water rights.
[…]last month the Pentagon spent $400mn to take a 15 per cent stake in MP Materials, a Nevada-based group that aims to be “a fully integrated rare earths producer”. That is a piddling sum.
Translations:
non-verbal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English non-
English verbal
English non-verbal
From non- + verbal.
Inflected forms:
form: nonverbal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: non-verbals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nonverbal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In a form other than written or spoken words, such as gestures, facial expressions or body language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to a word that belongs to any part of speech other than that of verbs.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
rare
examples: In the Moroccan dialect of Meknès, verbal negation is by means of the circumfix ma...-š, as in (15), while nonverbal negation is primarily by means of invariable ma-ši before the nonverbal predicate, as in (16).
Negative prefix in Russian is a distinctive feature of nonverbal parts of speech, namesly, nouns (even those that do not denote situations, e.g. 3a), adjectives (3b), and adverbs (3c): […]
gloss: Unable to speak.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A sound, gesture, etc. that is not a word.
pos: noun
Antonyms: verbal
Translations:
cartel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: economics
government
law
nautical
politics
sciences
transport
Etymology: In the business sense, borrowed from German Kartell, first used by Eugen Richter in 1871 in the Reichstag. In the political sense, which was the vehicle for this metaphor, the English sense, like the German sense, was borrowed from French cartel in the sixteenth century, from Italian cartello, diminutive of carta (“card, page”), from Latin charta.
Inflected forms:
form: cartels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A group of businesses or nations that collude to limit competition within an industry or market.
pos: noun
examples: oil cartel
drug cartel
Over the past decade, the very nature of organized crime has changed, with many groups diversifying their income beyond drug trafficking, and large cartels splintering into smaller, oftentimes more nimble groups.
gloss: A combination of political groups (notably parties) for common action.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A written letter of defiance or challenge.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: He is cowed at the very idea of a cartel.
Xerxes whipped the Sea, and writ a cartell of defiance to the hill Athos.
gloss: An official agreement concerning the exchange of prisoners.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: He then sent down a flag of truce in military style, proposing a cartel or exchange of prisoners – the corporal for the notary.
gloss: A ship used to negotiate with an enemy in time of war, and to exchange prisoners.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Derived words: anticartel
cartelism
cartelist
cartelization
cartelize
citation cartel
drug cartel
intercartel
Translations:
emphasize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Latin, from Ancient Greek – see emphasis.
Inflected forms:
form: emphasizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: emphasizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: emphasized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: emphasized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: emphasise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Australia
New-Zealand
South-Africa
UK
Senses:
gloss: To stress, give emphasis or extra weight to (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: His two-fingered gesture emphasized what he had told his boss to do with his job.
Antonyms: de-emphasize
downplay
Translations:
emphasis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
media
phonology
publishing
sciences
typography
Etymology: From Latin emphasis, from Ancient Greek ἔμφασις (émphasis, “significance”), from ἐμφαίνω (emphaínō, “to present; to indicate”), from ἐν- (en-, “in”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “to show”).
Inflected forms:
form: emphases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He paused for emphasis before saying who had won.
gloss: Special attention or prominence given to something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Anglia TV's emphasis is on Norwich and district.
Put emphasis on the advantages rather than the drawbacks.
The second level of reading we will call Inspectional Reading. It is characterized by its special emphasis on time.
gloss: Prominence given to a syllable or words, by raising the voice or printing in italic or underlined type.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He used a yellow highlighter to indicate where to give emphasis in his speech.
gloss: The phonetic or phonological feature that distinguishes emphatic consonants from other consonants.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The use of boldface, italics, or other such formatting to highlight text.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: de-emphasisation
de-emphasization
emphasisation
emphasise
emphasiser
emphasising
emphasization
emphasize
emphasizer
emphasizing
emphatic
emphatical
emphatically
emphaticalness
emphaticness
Derived words: deemphasis
de-emphasis
hyperemphasis
misemphasis
my emphasis
overemphasis
preemphasis
reemphasis
superemphasis
underemphasis
Translations:
wavelength
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From wave + length.
Compound parts: wave
length
Inflected forms:
form: wavelengths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The length of a single cycle of a wave, as measured by the distance between one peak or trough of a wave and the next; it is often designated in physics as λ, and corresponds to the velocity of the wave divided by its frequency.
pos: noun
examples: I'd take requests on the telephone / I'm on a wavelength far from home
gloss: A person's attitude and way of thinking as compared to another person's.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: I think you and I are on a different wavelength.
And just when you mean to tell her / That you have no love to give her / Then she gets you on her wavelength / And she lets the river answer
Derived words: Compton wavelength
de Broglie wavelength
medium-wavelength infrared radiation
multiwavelength
on the same wavelength
quarter-wavelength film
three-wavelength
two-wavelength
Translations:
longwave
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: broadcasting
media
radio
Etymology: From long + wave.
Compound parts: long
wave
Inflected forms:
form: long wave
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: long wave
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having a wavelength of greater than 1000 meters.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Capable of transmitting or receiving signals at such a wavelength.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Radio having a wavelength greater than 1000 meters.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: He likes to listen to BBC Radio 4 on longwave.
Derived words: LW
Translations:
rapport
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French rapport. Doublet of report.
Inflected forms:
form: rapports
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A relationship of mutual trust and respect; a close and harmonious relationship in which the people or groups concerned understand each other's feelings or ideas and communicate well.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He always tried to maintain a rapport with his customers.
Such a man would almost certainly be pouring out a constant stream of loving thought towards humanity, and this thought would be a real and potent shower of blessing, tending generally towards the spiritual helping of those upon whom it fell; and there is no doubt that the man who was earnestly thinking of or praying to that saint would come into rapport with him, and would therefore draw down upon himself a great deal of that force, though entirely without the knowledge of the saint from whom it came.
"You can't have less than nothing. They ignore them altogether. Some time ago I had a series of cases of telepathic rapport which I wished to lay before the Royal Society."
She'd expected to sleep fitfully. Her bunk was in an alcove separated from the others physically by a server partition and sonically by an extra-loud electronic hum, which didn't surprise her since she'd only started attempting a chummier rapport with her troops in the year which hadn't happened.
gloss: Relation; proportion; conformity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 'Tis obvious enough, what rapport there is, and muſt ever be, between the Thoughts and Words, the Conceptions and Languages of every Country, [...]
Related words: en rapport
rapportage
Derived words: rapportive
Translations:
flora
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin Flōra (goddess of flowers).
Inflected forms:
form: floras
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: florae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: floræ
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world.
gloss: A book describing the plants of a country, region, time, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He intended to publish a flora of the island, and drafted out a synonymic catalogue, into which he inserted from time to time elaborate descriptions drawn up from living specimens of the species which he was able to procure.
Nowhere was the victory of Linnaeanism more complete than in Britain. When William Hudson's Flora Anglica, organized in the Linnaean manner, appeared in 1762, it displaced all previous floras.
gloss: The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: gut flora, intestinal flora
The host effects upon the flora of both the small intestine and the large intestine must be examined.
Approximately 3% of healthy adults harbor C. difficile in the intestinal tract. […] In contrast, the flora of the cecum is predominantly gram negative, with Bacteroides and Selenomonas being the major constituents.
[…] Lactobacillus, Pseudomonas, Bifidobacterium, Eubacterium, Peptococcus, Peptostreptococcus, Bacteroides and Spirochetes that characterize the flora of the large intestine.
Derived words: bacterial flora
cryptoflora
dendroflora
disaster flora
ethnoflora
flora and fauna
Flora Day
floriferous
floristic
intestinal flora
lamp flora
macroflora
megaflora
mycoflora
palaeoflora
paleoflora
palynoflora
subflora
Translations:
contusion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French contusion, from Latin contūsiōnem, accusative singular of contūsiō, from contūsus, past participle of contundō (“to beat”), from com- + tundō (“to beat”).
Inflected forms:
form: contusions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of bruise.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Synonym of bruising.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: contuse
Derived words: contusional
hemicontusion
microcontusion
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: رَضّ
roman: raḍḍ
lang: Armenian
word: սալջարդ
roman: salǰard
lang: Bulgarian
word: натъртване
roman: natǎrtvane
lang: Catalan
word: contusió
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 瘀青
roman: yūqīng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 瘀傷 /瘀伤
roman: yūshāng
lang: Czech
word: zhmožděnina
lang: Czech
word: pohmožděnina
lang: Dutch
word: kneuzing
lang: Dutch
word: contusie
lang: Finnish
word: ruhjevamma
lang: Finnish
word: kontuusio
lang: French
word: ecchymose
lang: French
word: contusion
lang: French
word: sang extravasé
lang: Galician
word: contusión
lang: German
word: Prellung
lang: Hungarian
word: zúzódás
lang: Indonesian
word: kontusio
lang: Indonesian
word: lebam
lang: Indonesian
word: memar
lang: Italian
word: contusione
lang: Japanese
word: 挫傷
roman: zashō
lang: Korean
word: 타박상
roman: tabaksang
lang: Latin
word: contūsiō
lang: Macedonian
word: модрица
roman: modrica
lang: Malay
word: lebam
lang: Malay
word: memar
lang: Māori
word: hautūtanga
lang: Polish
word: kontuzja
lang: Portuguese
word: contusão
lang: Portuguese
word: negra
lang: Portuguese
word: pisadura
lang: Russian
word: уши́б
roman: ušíb
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: pronnadh
lang: Spanish
word: contusión
lang: Tagalog
word: kontusyon
cataloguing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cataloguings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of arranging in, or as if in, a catalogue.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
examples: […] he has made astonishingly subtle cataloguings of the kinds of interactions and situations which strip the child of his own powers in the most benign and loving ways […]
Translations:
habitant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French habitant.
Inflected forms:
form: habitants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a habitation colony at Stadacona founded by Samuel de Champlain, where Quebec City now lies.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
Translations:
mycelium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From New Latin mycelium; synchronically, myc- + -el- + -ium, where the infix -el- is of unknown origin, perhaps introduced from a rebracketing of epithelium.
Affixes: myc-
-ium
Inflected forms:
form: mycelia
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The vegetative part of any fungus, consisting of a mass of branching, threadlike hyphae, often underground.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
vegetative
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French végétatif, from Medieval Latin vegetativus, from past participle stem of vegetare.
Inflected forms:
form: more vegetative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most vegetative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to plants; especially to their growth.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to functions such as growth, nutrition and asexual reproduction rather than sexual reproduction.
pos: adj
examples: In Lejeuneaceae vegetative branches normally originate from the basiscopic basal portion of a lateral segment half, as in the Radulaceae, and the associated leaves, therefore, are quite unmodified.
gloss: Physically inactive.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a state of impaired brain function, where a person can respond to some stimuli but is incapable of voluntary acts.
pos: adj
Related words: comatose
brain dead
Derived words: persistive vegetative state
vegetative cell
vegetatively
vegetative nervous system
vegetativeness
Translations:
inactive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti
Proto-Italic *agō
Latin agō
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
▲
Ancient Greek ἐνεργητῐκός (energētĭkós)sl.
Latin āctīvus
Latin ināctīvuslbor.
French inactifder.
English inactive
From French inactif. See also earlier unactive.
Inflected forms:
form: more inactive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inactive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: inactives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not active, temporarily or permanently.
pos: adj
examples: The volcano is inactive, but is only dormant.
Inactive user accounts may be deleted after 90 days.
gloss: Not engaging in physical activity.
pos: adj
examples: […] exercise in general will lead to dramatic improvements in comparison with an inactive lifestyle.
gloss: Not functioning or operating; broken down
pos: adj
examples: The photocopier is inactive pending repair.
gloss: Retired from duty or service.
pos: adj
examples: Admiral Jones is now on the inactive list.
gloss: Relatively inert.
pos: adj
examples: Aluminium is inactive towards water.
gloss: Showing no optical activity in polarized light.
pos: adj
examples: Synthetic glycine is optically inactive as it contains equal amounts of the d- and l- form.
gloss: A person who does not take action.
pos: noun
examples: Typically inactives are poorly educated older women. Their lack of education is overwhelmingly the key factor in assigning the inactives to a life devoid of political activity of any sort.
Synonyms: dormant
abeyant
at rest
cessant
fallow
inactive
inert
languid
latent
nonactive
passive
quiescent
silent
sedent
sedentary
slow
suspended
torpid
unactive
unbusy
unemployed
unoccupied
Antonyms: antonym(s) of
active
in action
Related words: delayed
Derived words: bioinactive
inactivate
inactivation
inactive ingredient
inactively
inactiveness
inactivity
inactose
photoinactive
Translations:
lang: Polish
word: obojętny
lang: Polish
word: bierny
optical
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
Etymology: Etymology tree
English optic
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 optical
From optic + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more optical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most optical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: opticals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to sight; visual.
pos: adj
examples: Strabismus is an optical defect.
gloss: Designed to assist or enhance sight
pos: adj
examples: A microscope is an optical instrument.
gloss: Of or relating to optics.
pos: adj
examples: Refraction is an optical effect.
gloss: Of or relating to visible light.
pos: adj
examples: Optical telescopes don't work when it is cloudy.
gloss: Incorporating light-sensitive devices.
pos: adj
examples: An optical switch opens the door automatically.
gloss: Any special effect requiring laboratory work on the film.
pos: noun
examples: It is a glossy film with gross, opulent opticals and little comic, or any, relief; it has the jaundiced complexion of an early 60s underground film, which it is; it is ponderous, Wagnerian, and feels about five hours long (its running time is about an hour).
If you plan to output back to film, opticals and effects can be shot on film or generated by computer and then transferred to film.
Derived words: autoptical
biooptical
bioptical
electrooptical
extraordinary optical transmission
fast blue optical transient
floptical
floptical disk
integrated optical circuit
magnetooptical
magnetoptical
monoptical
nonoptical
non-optical
optical activity
optical art
optical astronomy
optical axis
optical bank
optical black hole
optical character recognition
optical delusion
optical depth
optical disc
optical disc drive
optical disk
optical disk drive
optical double
optical drive
optical extent
optical fiber
optical fibre
optical flat
optical glass
optical illusion
optical infinity
optical isomer
optical isomerism
opticality
optical landing system
optical lattice
optical levitation
optically
opticalman
optical media
optical microscope
optical mouse
optical power
optical pulsar
optical rotation
optical rotatory dispersion
opticals
optical spectrum
optical switch
optical telescope
optical trackpad
optical trap
optical tweezer
optical tweezers
optical wand
optrode
piezooptical
quasioptical
Raman optical activity
suboptical
Translations: