yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
shearer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English shear
English -er
English shearer
From shear + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: shearers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person employed to remove the wool from animals, such as sheep. using shears.
pos: noun
gloss: A person employed in a roller mill to shear off the uneven side of the hot metal plate.
pos: noun
gloss: A piece of industrial equipment used to grind up long shafts of coal in underground mines.
pos: noun
Derived words: gun shearer
sheepshearer
woolshearer
Translations:
wainscot
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: From Middle English waynscot, from Middle Low German wagenschot or Middle Dutch waghenscote, assumed to be from wagen (“wagon”) (from Old Saxon wagan) + schot, meaning “partition, crossbar," which is from or related to skiotan (“to shoot”).
Inflected forms:
form: wainscots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wainscots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wainscoting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wainscotting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wainscoted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wainscoted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: wainscotted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wainscotted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An area of wooden (especially oaken) panelling on the lower part of a room’s walls.
pos: noun
examples: […] this fellow will but join you together as they join wainscot; then one of you will prove a shrunk panel, and like green timber, warp, warp.
Entering that gable-ended Spouter-Inn, you found yourself in a wide, low, straggling entry with old-fashioned wainscots, reminding one of the bulwarks of some condemned old craft.
gloss: Any of various noctuid moths.
pos: noun
gloss: To decorate a wall with a wainscot.
pos: verb
Synonyms: panelling
Derived words: wainscot veneer
Translations:
Halacha
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hebrew הֲלָכָה (halakhá), from the root הלך (“to walk”).
Inflected forms:
form: Halachot
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Halachoth
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Halachos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Halachas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: halacha
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: halachah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: halakah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: halakha
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: halakhah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Halachah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Halakha
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Halakhah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A law or tradition by which Jews live. They are derived from the Torah and from later rabbinic literature.
pos: noun
gloss: A law or tradition established by the Halacha.
pos: noun
Translations:
Talmudic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Talmud
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English Talmudic
From Talmud + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: talmudic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Talmudick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the Talmud.
pos: adj
tags: Judaism
not-comparable
examples: Talmudic tradition (Shabbat 92a) connects them with a hekesh, teaching that both reached full stature: “Just as the mishkan was ten cubits tall, so too the altar was ten cubits tall.”
Various textual analyses are provided by a criminologist, an anthropologist, a researcher in lexicometry and a Talmudic exegete.
gloss: Of or relating to the era of Jewish history, immediately following the destruction of the Second Temple, during which the Talmud was being compiled (c. 70–500 AD).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: the Talmudic period
post-Talmudic writers
gloss: Making extremely fine distinctions in a manner reminiscent of the Talmud; (derogatory) casuistic.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
not-comparable
Translations:
hehe
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English hehe, from Old English he he.
Inflected forms:
form: he-he
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: hee-hee
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: hihi
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An approximation to the sound of a mischievous giggle.
pos: intj
examples: And then his trousers fell down, hehe.
Translations:
fallow
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
Etymology: [Alt: A photograph of a ploughed field.]
From Middle English falwe, from Old English fealh, fealg (“fallow land”), from Proto-West Germanic *falgu (compare Saterland Frisian Falge, West Frisian falig, felling, Dutch valg, German Felge), from Proto-Indo-European *polḱéh₂ (“arable land”) (compare Gaulish olca, Russian полоса́ (polosá)).
Inflected forms:
form: fallows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more fallow
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fallow
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fallows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fallowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fallowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fallowed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures
Whilst the landskip round it measures,
Russet lawns, and fallows gray,
Where the nibbling flocks do stray;
Mountains on whose barren breast
The labouring clouds do often rest;
Meadows trim with daisies pied,
Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.
gloss: Uncultivated land.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: By a complete summer fallow, land is rendered tender and mellow. The fallow gives it a better tilth than can be given by a fallow crop.
gloss: Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.
pos: adj
gloss: Left unworked and uncropped for some amount of time.
pos: adj
gloss: Inactive; undeveloped.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: a fallow period in one's career
After two more homeland hits and a fallow two years, Pickettywitch was parked and junked.
gloss: To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: dormant
latent
Derived words: bastard fallow
cropped fallow
dead-fallow
ecofallow
fallow-break
fallowchat
fallow crop
fallow-field
fallowfinch
fallow ground
fallow land
fallow syndrome
green fallow
pin-fallow
rag-fallow
summer fallow
winter fallow
fallow chat
fallow finch
fallowist
apple-fallow
fallowness
lay fallow
lie fallow
Translations:
doormat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From door + mat.
Compound parts: door
mat
Inflected forms:
form: doormats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A coarse mat at the entrance to a house, upon which one wipes one's shoes.
pos: noun
examples: Wipe your shoes on the doormat before you start plodding around in the house.
Mr. Simpson adds that the station at Stanmore appears practically unchanged from the time of its opening, even to the L.N.W.R. rubber doormat, which "shows no signs of wearing out."
Dimple glanced at an expensive-looking doormat with the words ‘LOSE THE SHOES’ woven into it and wondered why anyone would bother spending so much money on something people were going to wipe their feet on.
gloss: Someone who is overly submissive to others' wishes.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
figuratively
examples: He's such a doormat, he lets everyone walk all over him.
If you flipped through certain magazines at this time you could be forgiven for thinking that there was no right way to be a woman, only wrong ones — bimbo or frump, slut or prude, shrew or doormat.
Translations:
footwear
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English foot
Proto-Indo-European *wes-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Indo-European *woséyeti
Proto-Germanic *wazjaną
Proto-West Germanic *waʀjan
Old English werian
Middle English weren
English wear
English -wear
English footwear
From foot + -wear.
Inflected forms:
form: footwears
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Items or an item of clothing that is worn on the foot; a shoe, sandal, etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Yohji Yamamoto's strength was to stick with the sportswear that has inspired him since he teamed up with Adidas to create the imaginative pin-striped or painted-denim footwear that walked his grass-turf runway.
Translations:
Solarian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
Etymology: From Latin sōlāris + -ian, after Lunarian. By surface analysis, Solar + -ian.
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: more Solarian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Solarian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Solarians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the Sun.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to the Solar System.
pos: adj
examples: He grinned at the profanity that came out of the communicator-speaker. Then—back at the irreverently nicknamed Galloping Cow which was the base ship of the Extra-Solarian Research Institute expedition to this star-cluster—McRae cut off.
gloss: Of or relating to the inhabitants of the Solar system.
pos: adj
examples: The Solarian one-man ships were even smaller than the Nigrian one-man ships, and some of these did a tremendous amount of damage.
gloss: An inhabitant of the Sun.
pos: noun
examples: It will be proved that a Solarian, supposing him to have a stature equal to our own, would do as much work as seven of our cultivators; and yet the Solarians are the happiest of beings; their lot is the highest degree of happiness to which we can aspire until the epoch when there shall exist stars of a more exalted rank, that are not yet to be found in our young universe.
"There has been another dive since our meeting, Jacob, and on that dive, we are told, only the first and more prosaic species of Solarian was observed. Not the second variety which has caused Dr. Kepler so much concern." Jacob was still confused by the hurried explanations Kepler had given of the two types of Sun-creatures so far observed.
gloss: An inhabitant of any part of the solar system of the Sun.
pos: noun
examples: The small ships of the Nigrians were beginning to take a terrific toll in the thin ranks of the Solarians. The coming of the Rocket Squad had been welcomed indeed!
Is it true that all Terrans, and other Solarians are frightfully rich, and go simply everywhere, and do as they please, and that almost nobody works?
Translations:
earthling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English erthling (“farmer, ploughman”) [and other forms] (in glossaries), from Old English ierþling, eorþling (“farmer, husbandman, ploughman”) [and other forms], from eorþe (“ground; dirt; planet Earth”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁er- (“earth”)) + -ling (suffix forming personal nouns). The English word is analysable as earth + -ling.
Base: earth
Affixes: -ling
Inflected forms:
form: earthlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who tills the earth; a farmer, a husbandman, a ploughman.
pos: noun
examples: Eoꞃðlinᵹ [Eorthling], is a Husbandman, or Earthling.
And we have not imagination enough to believe, that either the Danish boors, who were earthlings (yrthlingas) in the country, or the Danish soldiers, who, as history tells us, were dandies at the court of King Canute, could, in the brief space of twenty years, have so overlaid or interlarded the pure Anglo-Saxon with their provincialisms, as to give it a new character, and thus form a new period in its history, as was afterwards done by the Normans.
Translations:
garbo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Clipping of garbage + -o (colloquialising suffix).
Affixes: -o
Inflected forms:
form: garbos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rubbish collector; a garbage man.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
countable
informal
examples: Then believe it or not, I worked for some time as a garbo, collecting the rubbish in the wee hours of the morning.
The referendum papers, accompanied by a strong statement of Council′s position, was to be letterboxed by the Council′s “garbos” (rubbish collectors) and inspectors on a Thursday and collected by volunteers over the weekend.
As far as Jasper was concerned, his mum being a garbo was pretty cool. She got to drive a truck and be home in time to take his little sisters to school. Before she got the job as a rubbish collector, his mum had done shift work and it was left to Jasper to get his sisters to school.
The priest would bring salvation while the garbo took the rubbish.
gloss: Garbage; something considered worthless.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
US
colloquial
derogatory
uncountable
examples: "Any quartz in the Mountain?" / "Just garbo quartz, not enough to produce any electrical fields." / "No disruption in the magnetic field?" / "No, sir."
Then they beat me and burned me and locked me up, before handing me back like a piece of garbo, when I acted up or they got tired of me.
Another Twitter user wrote, "I could lie to you and say that I'm totally not interested in that game [but] I am interested. It sucks so much that JKR is a transphobic piece of garbo. ... I think if I do play it, I'll make it clear in all promotions my feelings about JKR and also promote a trans charity for folks to donate their funds towards. Maybe it's not enough, and I might not have a lot of funds, but I do wanna use my voice to do what I can to support my trans friends."
Then Noelle told me she's a Paralympian and I was like, "Well, my lie was just garbo. That was terrible. Noelle, you're a beast!"
Synonyms: bin man
dustman
garbage collector
garbage man
refuse collector
sanitation engineer
trashman
garbage collector
Translations:
sniffle
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sniff + -le (frequentative suffix). Compare snivel.
Base: sniff
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: sniffles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sniffling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sniffled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sniffled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sniffles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To make a whimpering or sniffing sound when breathing, because of a runny nose.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Her dad heard her sniffling and passed her a handkerchief.
gloss: To utter with a whimpering or sniffing sound.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He sniffled a pathetic apology.
gloss: The act, or the sound of sniffling; the condition of having a runny or wet nose, as from a cold or allergies.
pos: noun
examples: I sometimes have a sniffle during allergy season.
Related words: snivel
snuff
snuffle
Derived words: asniffle
sniffler
snifflingly
sniffly
Translations:
gravedigger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From grave + digger.
Compound parts: grave
digger
Inflected forms:
form: gravediggers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person employed to dig graves.
pos: noun
gloss: A necrophore, or burying beetle.
pos: noun
Related words: sexton
Translations:
pip-squeak
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Onomatopoeic from pip + squeak. Cited to 1900 as a name for a small artillery shell; later uses are largely also onomatopoeic, with influence from popular culture tidbits such as Pip, Squeak and Wilfred, a comic strip.
Base: pip
Inflected forms:
form: pip-squeaks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pipsqueak
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small and insignificant person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
informal
gloss: A form of radio-based navigation used by the British Air Force immediately preceding the development of radar.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Derived words: pipsqueakery
Translations:
Hehe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A Bantu people of Tanzania.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
commode
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French commode (literally “convenient”). Doublet of comodo.
Inflected forms:
form: commodes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A low chest of drawers on short legs.
pos: noun
gloss: A stand for a washbowl and jug.
pos: noun
gloss: A chair containing a chamber pot.
pos: noun
examples: Changing bandages and emptying the commode doesn’t exactly create a sexy environment, but we never talk about doctors’ appointments or heart problems when we’re in our room – we preserve that little bit of space for ourselves.
gloss: A toilet.
pos: noun
tags: South-Asia
US
euphemistic
gloss: A kind of woman's headdress, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Then at the Play-Houſe ye ogle the Boxes, and dop and bovv to thoſe you do not knovv, as vvell as thoſe you do. […] You nuzzle your Noſes into their Hoods and Commodes, […]
Now under high Commodes with Looks Erect,
Bare-fac’d devours in gawdy Colours deck.
Related words: accommodation
commodious
discommode
incommode
air commode
bidet
Translations:
rumbustious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Uncertain but probably variation of robustious (“robust, large, noisy, violent”), from robust + -ious. Alternatively, from rum- (“nonsense syllable”) + bust + -ious.
Base: rum
Inflected forms:
form: more rumbustious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rumbustious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: rambustious
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: rumbumptious
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Boisterous and unruly.
pos: adj
tags: UK
informal
examples: “Childer! Borne ’em I ’ave, an’ buried ’em I ’ave, but now I can’t seem to do wi’ their clatter no more—young things is that restless an’ rumbustious.”
In the rumbustious atmosphere of the mania years, 1845 and 1846, this state of things gave rise to acrimony which both sides faced with confidence; but as the reaction set in during 1847, it seemed better to come to terms.
Joe Githongo had paid a personal price during the Moi era, and proved his credentials during the rumbustious multi-party years, working as a fundraiser for Kibaki’s Democratic Party.
Since Trump returned to office in January last year, Pete Hegseth, the rumbustious defense secretary who has made it his mission to remake a military ethos he denounced as “woke”, has fired or forcibly retired 24 generals and senior commanders, with no performance-related reason given.
Translations:
Argus-eyed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek mythological figure Argus.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: ever vigilant
pos: adj
Translations:
irreplaceable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English ir-
English replaceable
English irreplaceable
From ir- + replaceable.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Incapable of being replaced, especially because of uniqueness or finiteness.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: irreplaceable batteries
irreplaceable family portrait
irreplaceable team member
For some purposes lead is unique and, apparently, irreplaceable. Battery plates may be an example of this.
But whether or not the VCR makes a complete comeback, VHS enthusiasts agree that these tapes occupy an irreplaceable place in culture.
Antonyms: replaceable
Translations:
retracted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
monarchy
nobility
phonetics
phonology
politics
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Withdrawn back and in, as the claws of a cat.
pos: adj
gloss: Pronounced further back in the vocal tract.
pos: adj
examples: My guess is that he substitutes a schwa sound for the retracted r in final position.
gloss: Couped bendwise: cut off by a line diagonal to the main direction.
pos: adj
examples: Pale, retracted, that is, shortened. It is a French term, used when pales are borne cut off, either pendent from the chief, or issuant from the base, which should be particularly noticed in the blazon.
RETRACTED, said of charges when borne one shorter than another; as, three pales or palets issuant from the chief, retracted, that is, cut off bend ways, and hanging of different lengths.
Derived words: retracted tongue root
unretracted
Translations:
lithology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From litho- + -ology.
Base: litho
Inflected forms:
form: lithologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The study of rocks, with particular emphasis on their description and classification.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The general composition of a rock or rock sequence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The ‘monomict’ meteorites are samples of a single lithology while the polymict meteorites are those containing two or more lithologies.
Derived words: astrolithology
geolithology
lithologic
lithological
lithologically
lithologist
phytolithology
Translations:
paleoenvironment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek πᾰλαιός (pălaiós)der.
English paleo-
Middle French environnementbor.
English environment
English paleoenvironment
From paleo- + environment.
Inflected forms:
form: paleoenvironments
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: palaeoenvironment
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The past environment of an area during a given period of its history.
pos: noun
Translations:
infauna
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: infaunas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: infauna
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: infaunae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any aquatic organism that lives within the dominant medium of its environment, but especially within aquatic sediments.
pos: noun
examples: Burrowing bivalves are infauna that filter-feed from within seafloor sediments.
Translations:
subtribe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
Etymology: From sub- + tribe. In taxonomy, a semantic loan from New Latin subtribus.
Base: tribe
Affixes: sub-
Inflected forms:
form: subtribes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tribe making up part of a larger tribe.
pos: noun
examples: This leaves for consideration of this group of small tribes, or subtribes, so far as mapped by the writer quoted, the Teule, Cazcan, and Tecuexe.
gloss: A taxonomic category ranking below tribe.
pos: noun
examples: The tempo of evolution in South American hamsters was very rapid – in the course of the Pliocene and Anthropocene 40 genera were formed here, at which time a series of them attained the level of tribe and subtribe (Oxymycteri, Phyllotiini, Ichthyomyini).
Brieger and his associates first divide the subtribe Epidendrinae […] into what could be called series, distinguishing four such series in the subtribe.
Translations:
scrutinize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English scrutiny
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 scrutinize
From scrutiny + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: scrutinizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scrutinizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scrutinized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scrutinized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: scrutinise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To examine something with great care or detail, as to look for hidden or obscure flaws.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to scrutinize the conduct or motives of individuals
whose votes they were obliged to scrutinize
Those pronounced him youngest who scrutinized his face the closest.
gloss: To audit accounts etc in order to verify them.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: inscrutable
scrutineer
scrutiny
Translations:
respecter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English respect
English -er
English respecter
From respect + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: respecters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: respector
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who regards or judges with partiality; one who respects.
pos: noun
examples: For these two were old friends, old mates both at school and college, both thorough respecters of themselves and of each other, […]
gloss: A person who respects someone or something.
pos: noun
examples: X is no respecter of Y.
Derived words: respecter of persons
Translations:
matter-of-fact
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From matter of fact.
Inflected forms:
form: more matter-of-fact
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most matter-of-fact
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to facts only; literal, realistic.
pos: adj
gloss: Lacking emotion or color.
pos: adj
gloss: Straightforward, blunt, frank; treating the situation as normal; not embarrassed, coy, or dramatic.
pos: adj
examples: The students appreciated the health teacher for her matter-of-fact way of talking about sex.
The detective felt his interest quicken but he sounded matter-of-fact as he asked, "What makes you so sure this Harris could be one of the guys in on this hit?"
Derived words: matter-of-factish
matter-of-factly
matter-of-factness
Translations:
nonlinear
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English non-
English linear
English nonlinear
From non- + linear.
Inflected forms:
form: non-linear
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of a set of points, not lying on a straight line.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a molecule, whose atoms do not lie in a straight line.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a function, having a product of independent variables, or a variable with an exponent not equal to one.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a system, whose output is not directly proportional to its input.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Erratic and unpredictable; tending to jump back and forth.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a film with a nonlinear plot
Derived words: nonlinear editing
nonlinear editor
nonlinearity
nonlinearization
nonlinearize
nonlinearly
Translations:
lang: German
word: nicht linear
lang: German
word: nichtlinear
manhunt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From man + hunt.
Compound parts: man
hunt
Inflected forms:
form: manhunts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An organized search for a criminal or enemy.
pos: noun
examples: After the murderer escaped, there was a full-scale manhunt to catch him.
gloss: A variant of hide and seek in which a player who is caught by the seeker themselves becomes a seeker, and the final player remaining is declared the winner.
pos: noun
examples: Manhunt is a variant of hide-and-seek, she tells me. One person is the seeker. Everyone else hides. If the seeker finds you, you become a seeker, too.
Derived words: manhunter
manhunting
womanhunt
Translations:
sobriety
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French sobriete, from Latin sobrietas.
Inflected forms:
form: sobrieties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being sober.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He celebrated five years of sobriety.
The judge spoke with calm sobriety about the case.
maintain sobriety
period of sobriety
gloss: The quality or state of being sober.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The quality or state of being sober.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The quality or state of being sober.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The quality or state of being sober.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The quality or state of being sober.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Soundness of judgment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: drunkenness
intoxication
Derived words: field sobriety test
insobriety
unsobriety
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: трезвеност
roman: trezvenost
lang: Czech
word: střízlivost
lang: Dutch
word: nuchterheid
lang: French
word: sobriété
lang: Georgian
word: სიფხიზლე
roman: sipxizle
lang: German
word: Nüchternheit
lang: German
word: Ernsthaftigkeit
lang: German
word: Gedecktheit
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌲𐌰𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌸𐌾𐌴𐌹
roman: gafraþjei
lang: Greek
word: νηφαλιότητα
roman: nifaliótita
lang: Hungarian
word: józanság
lang: Italian
word: sobrietà
lang: Japanese
word: しらふ
roman: shirafu
lang: Latin
word: sōbrietās
lang: Portuguese
word: sobriedade
lang: Portuguese
word: austeridade
lang: Romanian
word: sobrietate
lang: Romanian
word: cumpătare
lang: Russian
word: тре́звость
roman: trézvostʹ
lang: Slovak
word: triezvosť
lang: Spanish
word: austeridad
lang: Spanish
word: sobriedad
lang: Swedish
word: nykterhet
lang: Turkish
word: ayıklık
lang: Ukrainian
word: твере́зість
roman: tverézistʹ
discharging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dischargings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process by which something is discharged.
pos: noun
examples: From the magnificent ejaculation of the Waimangu geyser, to the tiniest of gaseous emissions, descriptions of the thermal reserve were rife with dischargings, bubblings and stinkings, quiverings and palpitations, orifices and protuberances.
Translations:
vomiting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: vomitings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who vomits, or the matter that is vomited.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Epilepsies, or fallings and reelings, and beastly vomitings. The least of these, even when the tongue begins to be untied, is a degree of drunkenness.
It is certainly probable that these black vomitings and stools may be absent, and in that case it would be extremely difficult to diagnose between simple ulcer of the stomach and non-ulcerative gastritis.
Translations:
hating
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: hatred
pos: noun
Translations:
claiming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: claimings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of making a claim.
pos: noun
examples: He had many wars; inextricable coil of claimings, quarrellings and agreeings […]
Translations:
frisket
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: media
printing
publishing
Etymology: Etymology tree
French frisquettebor.
English frisket
Borrowed from French frisquette.
Inflected forms:
form: friskets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A thin frame in a printing press that holds the sheet of paper in position and acts as a mask.
pos: noun
examples: And while the Tympan is coming, he slips his Left Hand Fingers from under the Frisket to the hither outer corner of it, as well to keep the Sheet close to the Tympan in its position, as to avoid the jobbing of the lower side of the Frisket against the small square shoulder
As the pressman returns the inkballs to the inkstone, the journeyman closes the frisket and tympan.
Translations:
bacne
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Blend of back + acne. Equivalent to back + -ne.
Base: back
Affixes: -ne
Inflected forms:
form: backne
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: back-ne
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Acne on the back.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
examples: ACNE BACNE SACNE CRACKNE
“Horrible time, puberty. Years of sadness, rejection and confusion. He'll look weird, smell weird. His voice'll change. He'll get painful acne, back-ne, ass-ne, inner ear-ne. He comes from an oily family. Plus he'll be getting his butt kicked through it all.” “Oh, the senseless beatings.”
“And in what used to be the Cinnaubonpain,” Dr. Trudeau continued in an overly cheerful voice, “lab technicians are whipping up aromatherapy to cure everything from backne to ingrown toenails with little more than a sniff!
“We spent years lifting weights and shooting steroids. I literally can't see my balls, they've shrunk so much. And then there's the acne.” “We're talking backne, crackne, and sackne. The Holy Trinity, yo.”
Translations:
philodendron
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From New Latin philodendron, from Ancient Greek φῐλόδενδρον (phĭlódendron), neuter of φῐλόδενδρος (phĭlódendros, “loving trees”). First known use: 1877.
Inflected forms:
form: philodendrons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: philodendra
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several climbing plants, of the genus Philodendron, native to America and the West Indies that are often grown as house plants.
pos: noun
Translations:
cloying
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, cloy + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more cloying
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cloying
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Unpleasantly excessive.
pos: adj
examples: The cloying fondness she displayed was what, in the end, drove me away.
It was a cloying sense of deja vu attached to the team that finished seventh last season, 22 points off the top and drastically in need of some more dynamism.
gloss: Excessively sweet.
pos: adj
examples: Oliver (Barry Keoghan): I don't normally like chocolate cake. / Elspeth (Rosamund Pike): Yes, it can be cloying, can't it?
Synonyms: unpleasantly excessive
Related words: clove
Derived words: cloyingly
cloyingness
noncloying
uncloying
Translations:
coasting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: coastings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of sailing along a coast, or from port to port.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Glory be to God, all sublunary coastings will soon be over. Yet a little while, and we shall get into an eternal harbour.
She had been lying quietly in the harbour and making little coasting trips ever since we arrived in her twelve months before.
gloss: The act of disengaging the gears of a moving vehicle and rolling along without the use of engine power.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Avanti West Coast has introduced the use of coasting with its Pendolino fleet, in an effort to keep disruption during overhead line equipment failures to a minimum. [...] The Class 390s coasted for three miles without power between Harrow & Wealdstone and Wembley Central, running under damaged OLE.
gloss: A progression of symptoms after treatment, before gradual improvement begins.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Drinking nolo drinks so as to imbibe less alcohol while still enjoying tippling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Christmas and New Year's Eve celebrations often used to result in a hangover, but with moderation now the order of the day the new drinks industry buzzword is "coasting". This involves choosing a white wine, lager or even a cocktail that is about half the strength of the traditional version — meaning you can have the same number of drinks without feeling the worse for wear. Vanessa Pearson, Ocado Retail's trading manager for beers, wines and spirits, credits "coasting" for a "huge increase in customer interest in mid-strength wine". In 2025 its sales of these types of wines soared 4,000% as the new category gained ground. "Mid-strength" drinks occupy the middle ground between no and low-alcohol (nolo) and standard options, and such beers and ciders are about 2-3% alcohol by volume, wines 3-9% and spirits 15-20%. The advent of coasting chimes with data showing Britons are drinking less alcohol than before. The average UK adult consumed 10.2 alcoholic drinks a week in 2024, according to the latest figures from the drinks industry data company IWSR. This is the lowest figure since data collection began in 1990 and down from a high of 14 weekly drinks two decades ago. However, total abstention is not on the rise despite the decline in consumption, which suggests more cautious drinking habits.
Derived words: coasting trade
coasting vessel
Translations:
cocked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
firearms
games
gaming
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Drunk.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: He is totally cocked right now, about thirteen beers into his 12-pack.
gloss: Having a specified form of penis or a specific number of penises.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
slang
vulgar
examples: The large-cocked pornstar came into shot.
gloss: Of a firearm or crossbow; to have the cock lifted or prepared to be fired.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a die: having landed in a tilted position, rather than flat.
pos: adj
gloss: slanted or tipped.
pos: adj
examples: She was now standing arms akimbo, her shoulders drooping a little, her head cocked to one side, her glasses winking in the sunlight. We knew she wore a grin of the uttermost wickedness.
Derived words: cocked die
cocked hat
cocked-up
go off half-cocked
half-cocked
Translations:
tearing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: tearings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: enormous; of great size or impact
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: a tearing great giant of a man
gloss: very hasty
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: a tearing hurry
The gallant young Indian dandies at home on furlough—immense dandies these—chained and moustached—driving in tearing cabs […]
gloss: The act by which something is torn; a laceration.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Distortion of an animated display when the contents of the framebuffer are rendered while it contains portions of two or more frames.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Even in this case, tearing still results if the swap occurs in the middle of a refresh cycle.
Derived words: antitearing
display tearing
hot tearing
screen tearing
tearingly
Translations:
commenting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: commentings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The making of a comment; commentary.
pos: noun
examples: 1921?, E. F. Benson, Our Family Affairs
That eager reverence was like a lover's adoration: his interpretations might be fanciful, and such as he would never have made in any other commentings, but here his search for hidden meanings in simple phrases had just that quality […]
Translations:
commissioning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: commissionings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of assuring that all systems and components of a major piece of equipment, a process, a building or similar are designed, installed and tested according to the operational requirements of the owner or final client.
pos: noun
examples: The destroyer's commissioning will be held on February 1st.
It was taken out of passenger service in early 2013, for conversion into a test bed for the commissioning of the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) on the Hertford Loop and elsewhere.
Translations:
trochaic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
Etymology: Either via the French trochaïque or directly from its etymon, the Latin trochaicus, from the Ancient Greek τροχαικός (trokhaikós), from τροχαῖος (trokhaîos), whence trochee.
Inflected forms:
form: troch.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: trochaick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: trochaics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: troch.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: trochaick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Composed of or relating to trochees, feet of one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Therefore, in precisely these languages a mechanism could be maintained which preserves the contrast between stressed and unstressed syllables in the trochaic word structure pattern (see 42.3.1) by weakening the onset of a longer or weightier unstressed syllable.
gloss: A poetical composition of this kind.
pos: noun
Translations:
carbonless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃-der.?
Latin carbōlbor.
French carbonebor.
English carbon
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 carbonless
From carbon + -less.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Without carbon.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
entryway
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From entry + way.
Compound parts: entry
way
Inflected forms:
form: entryways
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An opening or hallway allowing entry into a structure; a pathway allowing entry into a locality or region.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: There were greeters handing out programmes in the entryway to the museum.
In those days the North Pass was the only entryway to the valley that was passable by cart or wagon traffic.
Translations:
cassis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French cassis (“black currant”), probably from Latin cassia, from Hebrew קציעה (qetzi'ah).
Inflected forms:
form: cassises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A blackcurrant plant (Ribes nigrum); the flavor of its berries.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A liqueur made from these berries, especially crème de cassis.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Cassis and soda is a popular drink.
The bartender looked at her malevolently for a moment, shook his head, and walked away to mix the drink. "I never had one of those, those vermouth cassises," Freddie said.
gloss: A wine flavor note, suggesting the fruity and full-bodied characteristics of the fruit; mostly referred to as simply blackcurrant in the UK, where the fruit is common.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
usually
Related words: kir
Derived words: cream de cassis
Translations:
subclinical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-
Proto-Indo-European *-éyti
Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-
Proto-Indo-European *-né-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱl̥néyti
Proto-Hellenic *klíňňō
Ancient Greek κλῑ́νω (klī́nō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek κλῑ́νη (klī́nē)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
Ancient Greek κλῑνῐκός (klīnĭkós)bor.
Late Latin clīnicus
French cliniquebor.
English clinic
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 clinical
English subclinical
From sub- + clinical.
Inflected forms:
form: sub-clinical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Without signs and symptoms that are detectable by physical examination or laboratory test; not clinically manifest.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Some conditions may remain subclinical until they resolve without intervention, whereas others worsen from subclinical to clinical status.
gloss: Where some criteria are met but not enough to reach the status of a clinical diagnosis.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Less than is needed for clinical reasons.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Off-label use of certain drugs at subclinical dosages has been a theme in realms of activity such as metabolic optimization, weight loss, body hacking, and neurohacking (e.g., nootropics); such drugs include metformin, beta-blockers, and others.
Related words: asymptomatic
subsyndromal
undiagnosed
Derived words: subclinically
Translations:
counterspy
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Italic *-teros
Proto-Italic *komterosder.
Proto-Italic *komterād
Latin contrāder.
Old French contre-
Anglo-Norman countre-bor.
Middle English counter-
English counter-
English spy
English counterspy
From counter- + spy.
Inflected forms:
form: counterspies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: counterspies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: counterspying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: counterspied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: counterspied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A spy working in counterintelligence.
pos: noun
gloss: To carry out counterespionage.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
compliantly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English compliant
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English compliantly
From compliant + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more compliantly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most compliantly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: in a compliant manner
pos: adv
Translations:
cookies
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Referring to a steal in basketball. Rarely used in the singular (most commonly, even when referring to a single steal, one simply exclaims, "Cookies!").
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Jrue Holiday taking people's cookies for 3 minutes straight (on-ball steals)
"COOKIES!!" Craziest Off the Dribble Steals in HS Basketball!
Cookies and cream, they opened a cookie shop on em!
Derived words: fruckies
Translations:
cinderblock
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cinder + block.
Compound parts: cinder
block
Inflected forms:
form: cinder-block
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Made of cinder blocks.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: They lived in an old cinderblock apartment building.
Translations:
looker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *lōkōn
Old English lōcian
Middle English loken
English look
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English looker
From look + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: lookers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One that looks or is actively looking; a watcher; an observer.
pos: noun
tags: literally
gloss: One having a specific look or appearance.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone or something who is remarkably good-looking.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Wow, your new man is much more of a looker than your last one!
gloss: A person who pretends to be interested in purchasing something but has no intention of doing so.
pos: noun
examples: A good real estate agent will screen and separate potential buyers from lookers at the door […]
Related words: looker-on
onlooker
looker-upper
Derived words: bad looker
downlooker
good looker
lookership
underlooker
Translations:
hairbrush
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From hair + brush.
Compound parts: hair
brush
Inflected forms:
form: hairbrushes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hair-brush
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hair brush
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hairbrushes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hairbrushing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hairbrushed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hairbrushed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hair-brush
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: hair brush
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A brush used in hair care for brushing, tidying, and detangling hair
pos: noun
gloss: To spank with a hairbrush.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Bad feeding, adolescence—always a dangerous period for the male—and the brutality and bestiality in the dormitories made life a hell on earth. An apathy settled on me. I withered. I learned nothing; I did nothing. I was kicked, hounded, caned, flogged, hairbrushed, morning, noon, and night.
Do you know what it’s like, Brannan, to be flogged and hairbrushed, kicked and cursed every day of your school life? I’m treated worse than a dog and nobody gives a damn—least of all the masters.
Translations: