yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
euphony
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French euphonie, from Ancient Greek εὐφωνία (euphōnía), from εὐ- (eu-, prefix meaning ‘good, well’) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound; (human) voice; discourse, speech”) (from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to say, speak”)) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns). The English word is analysable as eu- + -phony.
Base: eu
Inflected forms:
form: euphonies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pronunciation of letters and syllables which is pleasing to the ear.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: When I hear you speak, I hear beautiful euphony.
A correspondent of The American has taken exception to the use, in a recent paragraph in this column, of the word “electrocution.” The writer of the paragraph referred to is conscious that the word, like other etymological hybrids, lacks euphony and consistency; but during the formative period succeeding the introduction of a new idea not yet provided with a verbal exponent, the safest course is to follow general popular usage. The idea must be expressed, and the choice lies between a cumbrous word and a cumbrous sentence, the former of which seems the lesser evil. “Electrocution” has been widely used, even by scientific men, while the only plausible alternative thus far suggested—“electrothany”—though possessing the merit of unmixed ancestry, is inadequate in that it carries no penal signification.
Mandalay. In the name there was a euphony which beckoned to the imagination, yet this was the bitter, withered reality.
gloss: The tendency to make phonetic change for ease of pronunciation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: concord
consonance
euphonism
euphony
harmony
unisonance
Antonyms: cacophony
Related words: ideophone
phonaesthesia
euphonious
Derived words: euphonic
euphonious
euphonize
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: благозвучие
roman: blagozvučie
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 諧音 /谐音
roman: xiéyīn
lang: Finnish
word: eufonia
lang: Galician
word: eufonía
lang: German
word: Eufonie
lang: Portuguese
word: eufonia
lang: Romanian
word: eufonie
euchre
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
games
Etymology: Possibly from German Juckerspiel, name of an eighteenth-century Alsatian card game, itself apparently a compound of Jucker (“joker?”, may be dialectal) + Spiel (“game”). Likely a doublet of joker.
Inflected forms:
form: euchres
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: eucre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: euchres
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: euchring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: euchred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: euchred
pos: verb
tags: past
form: eucre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A trump card game played by four players in two partnerships with a reduced deck of 24 cards.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To deceive or outwit.
pos: verb
examples: Well: he guesses They have euchred Mexico into some such Byzantine exercise, probably to do with the Americans. Perhaps the Russians.
Translations:
calorie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Borrowed from French calorie, formed from Latin calor. It was originally defined as the large calorie in the early 19th century, with the small calorie being defined some decades later.
Inflected forms:
form: calories
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: calory
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A non-SI unit of energy, equivalent to 4.184 kilojoules, that can raise the temperature of a kilogram of water by one degree Celsius. This is the unit normally used in food labeling.
pos: noun
examples: Holonyms: megacalorie < gigacalorie
Meronyms: calorie (small-calorie sense), small calorie, gram calorie, thermochemical calorie
Biotics possess extraordinary abilities, but they must live with minor inconveniences. The most obvious issue is getting adequate nutrition. Creating biotic mass effects takes such a toll on metabolism that active biotics develop ravenous appetites. The standard Alliance combat ration for a soldier is 3000 calories per day; biotics are given 4500, as well as a canteen of potent energy drink for quick refreshment after hard combat.
Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
gloss: A non-SI unit of energy, equivalent to 4.184 joules, that can raise the temperature of a gram of water by one degree Celsius. This unit was formerly widely used in chemistry and physics.
pos: noun
tags: physical
examples: Holonyms: kilocalorie, calorie (large-calorie sense), large calorie, Calorie (capital C) < megacalorie < gigacalorie
Related words: caldera
cauldron
chalorous
chowder
nonchalant
scald
Derived words: 15° calorie
20° calorie
4° calorie
a calorie is a calorie
a calorie is a calorie is a calorie
caloric
calorics
Calorie
calorie bomb
calorie-conscious
calorie deficit
calorie-ful
calorieless
calorie-restricted
calorific
calorific value
calorimetre
calorize
empty calorie
food calorie
gram calorie
high-calorie
kilogram calorie
large calorie
low-calorie
mean calorie
megacalorie
microcalorie
millicalorie
small calorie
thermochemical calorie
Translations:
evaporite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: evaporites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The salty, crusty sediment that remains after salt water evaporates.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Astonished scientists conducted a drilling program, and a decade later confirmed that the layers of salts and other evaporites could mean only one thing: at some point the Mediterranean Sea had dried out.
Translations:
independently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English independent
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English independently
From independent + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more independently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most independently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an independent manner.
pos: adv
examples: Both teams worked out the answers independently.
The business partners had radically different ideas for the company, and each decided to work on a project independently of the other.
By the end of this period pupils are expected to be reading simple books independently and with enthusiasm.
The most likely conclusion, the researchers say, is that the Levallois method was not taken to Eurasia by African migrants, but evolved there gradually and independently.
Translations:
separately
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English separate
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English separately
From separate + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a separate manner; not together; apart.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: We've been living separately for three years.
Tackle the different parts of the climb separately before attempting the whole thing in one go.
Syntactically, hendiadic constructions differ from synthetonic sequences in that the latter are separate clauses, and hence are separately negatable and may have different tenses and aspects and different subjects.
Translations:
Malthusian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Malthus
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Malthusian
From Malthus + -ian.
Inflected forms:
form: more Malthusian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Malthusian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Malthusians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to Thomas Malthus (1766–1834) or his views on human population and world resources.
pos: adj
examples: For first, this college life, opening to scholarships, and ending, perchance, as you political economists would desire, in Malthusian fellowships,—premiums for celibacy,— consider what manner of thing it is!
Even under the best of circumstances, however, no one would depend on this Malthusian adjustment process to account for the ability of modern economies to maintain a constant saving rate and steady growth for 20 years at a time without catastrophe.
A mixture of this Malthusian and ethno-nationalist thinking is being distilled into political campaigning, as in a political pamphlet described in Turner and Bailey’s research paper from SVP, the largest party in Switzerland’s federal assembly, which shows a city crowded by people and cars belching out pollution, with a tagline that translates to “stop massive immigration”.
This paper develops a dynamic Schumpeterian growth model to analyze how extractive institutions in the form of the resource appropriation by a politically dominant elite shape the transition from Malthusian stagnation to sustained long-run economic growth.
gloss: A supporter of the ideas of Thomas Malthus.
pos: noun
examples: As Tess grew older, and began to see how matters stood, she felt quite a Malthusian towards her mother for thoughtlessly giving her so many little sisters and brothers, when it was such a trouble to nurse and provide for them.
Translations:
percentage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From percent, from Latin per centum (“for every hundred”), + -age (suffix indicating a rate).
Affixes: -age
Inflected forms:
form: percentages
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: per-centage
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A high percentage of secondary school leavers take a gap year.
The replacement percentages are based largely on household spending data from the Department of Labor's Consumer Expenditure Survey.
Kramer said California’s legislation is weak compared to the laws in Norway and other European countries, which require a certain percentage of women on boards.
gloss: A share of the sales, profits, gross margin or similar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She gets a percentage for every vacuum cleaner sold.
gloss: Benefit or advantage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: There was no percentage in staying at home.
Related words: percent
percentile
permillage
permyriad
Derived words: baker's percentage
field goal percentage
free throw percentage
on-base percentage
percentage dice
percentage point
percentage rate
percentagewise
slugging percentage
subpercentage
Translations:
kilocalorie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English kilo-
English calorie
English kilocalorie
From kilo- + calorie.
Inflected forms:
form: kilocalories
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A non-SI unit of energy equal to 1,000 calories (small calories), used (now rare) in chemistry or physics; equal to 1 calorie as used in nutrition. Symbol kcal.
pos: noun
examples: Holonyms: megacalorie < gigacalorie
Meronyms: calorie (small-calorie sense), small calorie, gram calorie, thermochemical calorie
Translations:
Malthusianism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: economics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Malthus
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Malthusian
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English Malthusianism
From Malthusian + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: Malthusianisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The viewpoint that the population will always grow faster than the food supply that it needs to survive and prosper.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “[…] The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.” [citing Dune] Gloomy Malthusianism was much in vogue in the 1960s and 70s.
Translations:
bow-wow
Part of speech: intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Inflected forms:
form: bow wow
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: bowwow
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: bow-wows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bow wow
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bowwow
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bow-wows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bow-wowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bow-wowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bow-wowed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bow wow
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: bowwow
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Representing the sound of a dog barking.
pos: intj
examples: Harke, harke, bowgh wawgh: the watch-Dogges barke, bowgh-wawgh.
She […] hath ſtiled him with an immortall penne, the bawewawe of ſchollars, the tutt of gentlemen, the tee-heegh of gentlewomen, the phy of citizens, the blurt of Courtiers, the poogh of good letters, the faph of good manners, and the whoop-hooe of good boyes in London ſtreetes.
gloss: The sound of a dog barking.
pos: noun
examples: And a chorus of quadruped, white and brown, / Bark’d affirmative, “gone to town,” / With affable bursts of French bow-wow; / (As part of the family they knew how!)
The pack commenced to work back and forth along the ridge. We neared a hollow where Prince barked eagerly. Curley answered, and likewise Queen. Mux’s short, angry bow-wow showed that he was in line.
gloss: A dog.
pos: noun
tags: childish
humorous
examples: 1902, Theodore Roosevelt, letter to Kermit Roosevelt dated 13 October, 1902, in Joseph Bucklin Bishop (editor), Theodore Roosevelt’s Letters to His Children, New York: Scribner, 1919, p. 36,
Gem is really a very nice small bow-wow, but Mother found that in this case possession was less attractive than pursuit.
My grandchild, who, when walking, wobbles,
Calls dogs Bow-wows, and turkeys, Gobbles.
Today I called a cow Moo-moo;
She’s got me talking that way too.
gloss: To make the sound of a dog, to bark, to bow-wow
pos: verb
Related words: yap and yip
bark
growl
howl
snarl
whimper
whine
woof
yelp
Derived words: bow-wow theory
go to the bow-wows
Translations:
footy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: footies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: footie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Football (association football) (soccer in US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand).
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
uncountable
gloss: The game or sport of football, usually Australian rules football or rugby league, but not soccer.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
uncountable
examples: But footy, especially this kind of footy, transcended family drama — that went without saying — so Erik Falk had of course invited his son.
gloss: The ball used in a game of footy.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
countable
examples: Me and Charlie and Ben were out there one afternoon, messing around, kicking a footy and stuff, and this girl rode by.
gloss: A short sock.
pos: noun
tags: countable
plural-normally
uncountable
gloss: A football fan.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
examples: Sam is a real footy, he's always watching it on TV and talking about it.
gloss: Footsy (flirting game where two people touch their feet together).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He didn't even play footy under the table. I kept wishing he would!
[…] playing footy under the table with Bee Amidon finished that for her.
gloss: A footjob.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: he's getting a footy under the table
Derived words: footy tipping
touch footy
Translations:
designer
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English design
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 designer
From design + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: designers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who designs something, or who designs things as a profession.
pos: noun
examples: While the thought of a home urinal may seem vaguely “Animal House,” Mr. Scherer’s interior designer, Ashley Astleford, wasn’t surprised by his request. This was the second time in the last few months that she was asked to install a urinal in a luxury residential project, and she said she knows many other designers and architects who have been specifying home urinals in their projects.
The ­festival, held every two years, showcases work by more than 180 designers across disciplines including textiles, homeware and more. […] “For us, it’s about getting design and creativity out into communities across the city. With the festival, we want to build capacity, grow skills, employ people and create opportunities to make a living from being a designer here.”
gloss: A plotter or schemer.
pos: noun
gloss: A software tool for designing things.
pos: noun
examples: a font designer
a level designer for a video game
gloss: Created by a designer, especially a fashion designer.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: designer swimwear
a designer briefcase
Derived words: codesigner
designerati
designer dyke
designer label
designerless
designerly
designership
designer stubble
designerwear
fashion designer
graphic designer
industrial designer
intelligent designer
interior designer
motion designer
nondesigner
set designer
sound designer
type designer
web designer
Translations:
cross-dresser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cross-dress
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 cross-dresser
From cross-dress + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: cross-dressers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crossdresser
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: xdresser
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who wears clothing which society considers appropriate only for members of the opposite sex.
pos: noun
examples: For the buildings John uses plastic sheeting employed in the window banners of a particular ladies' clothing chain. [...] I asked John if the sales assistants in those shops thought he was odd, walking in and asking for bits of plastic. 'What you've got to remember,' he said, 'is that they get a lot of cross-dressers going in there, so I'm not that weird in comparison.'
Translations:
tomboyish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Aramaic תאמא
Aramaic תאומאbor.
Ancient Greek Θωμᾶς (Thōmâs)bor.
Latin Thōmāsbor.
Middle English Thomas
Middle English Thomme
English Tom
English tom
Proto-Indo-European *bʰā-
Proto-Germanic *bō-
Proto-West Germanic *bōjō
Old English *bōia
Middle English boye
English boy
English tomboy
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English tomboyish
From tomboy + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more tomboyish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tomboyish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Displaying behavior associated with a tomboy.
pos: adj
Translations:
A-frame
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: A-frames
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An architectural structure, in the shape of an "A", having two straight sides meeting at the top.
pos: noun
Translations:
comedian
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French comédien, from comédie + -ien, from Old French comedie, from Latin cōmoedia, from Ancient Greek κωμῳδία (kōmōidía). By surface analysis, comed(y) + -ian.
Base: comédie
Affixes: -ien
Inflected forms:
form: comedians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: comedienne
pos: noun
tags: feminine
Senses:
gloss: An entertainer who performs in a humorous manner, especially by telling jokes.
pos: noun
examples: According to Jared Freid, a 39-year-old comedian and co-host of the dating podcast "U Up?," this is known as hoodfishing, a coinage — though not his own — referring to people claiming to be from the city they are dating in but really are living somewhere else entirely.
gloss: Any person who is humorous or amusing, either characteristically or on a particular occasion.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: It's been my job for many years and taken me to many places, and into many a tight spot, but, on the railway, you'll always find a comedian in the gang, to raise a laugh and keep you going.
gloss: A person who performs in theatrical plays.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: […] the quick comedians
Extemporally will stage us, and present
Our Alexandrian revels;
1714, Susanna Centlivre, The Wonder, London: E. Curll and A. Bettesworth, Preface,
I Don’t pretend to write a Preface, either to point out the Beauties, or to excuse the Errors, a judicious Reader may possibly discover in the following Scenes, but to give those excellent Comedians their Due, to whom, in some Measure the best Dramatick Writers are oblig’d.
When a Comedian, celebrated for his excellence in the part of Shylock, first undertook that character, he made daily visits to the center of business, the ’Change, and the adjacent Coffee-houses; that by a frequent intercourse and conversation with “the unforeskinn’d race,” he might habituate himself to their air and deportment.
Becky, the nightingale, took the flowers which he threw to her and pressed them to her heart with the air of a consummate comedian.
gloss: A writer of comedies.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: This doth the Comedy handle ſo in our priuate and domeſtical matters, as with hearing it, we get as it were an experience, what is to be looked for of a nigardly Demea: of a crafty Danus: of a flattering Gnato: of a vaine glorious Thraſo: and not onely to know what effects are to be expected, but to know who be ſuch, by the ſignifying badge giuen them by the Comedian.
Neither is it recorded that the writings of those old Comedians were supprest, though the acting of them were forbid;
1783, Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, London: Whitestone et al., Volume 3, Lecture 47, p. 377,
[…] the Dramatic Author, in whom the French glory most, and whom they justly place at the head of all their Comedians, is, the famous Moliere.
Synonyms: funnyman
funnywoman
Derived words: prop comedian
sitcomedian
Translations:
euryhaline
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁wer-
Proto-Indo-European *-us
Proto-Indo-European *h₁wérus
Proto-Hellenic *eurús
Ancient Greek εὐρῠ́ς (eurŭ́s)der.
English eury-
English haline
English euryhaline
From eury- + haline.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Able to tolerate various saltwater concentrations.
pos: adj
Translations:
polymorphism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
chemistry
crystallography
genetics
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: * (object-oriented programming) Coined by British computer scientist Christopher Strachey in 1967.
By surface analysis, poly- + -morphism.
Inflected forms:
form: polymorphisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The ability to assume different forms or shapes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The coexistence, in the same locality, of two or more distinct forms independent of sex, not connected by intermediate gradations, but produced from common parents.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A feature pertaining to the dynamic treatment of data elements based on their type, allowing for a method to have several definitions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The property of certain typed formal systems of allowing for the use of type variables and binders/quantifiers over those type variables; likewise, the property of certain expressions (within such typed formal systems) of making use of at least one such typed variable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The ability of a solid material to exist in more than one form or crystal structure; pleomorphism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The regular existence of two or more different genotypes within a given species or population; also, variability of amino acid sequences within a gene's protein.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Since 1990 they have found an entirely new role: they promise understanding of how and why our genes are all so different. They hold the key to human polymorphism.
Some polymorphisms can be quite stable – so stable that they span the change from an ancestral to a descendant species.
Related words: dimorphism
metamorphism
monomorphism
polymorph
polymorphic
polymorphistic
polymorphous
RFLP
riflip
Derived words: micropolymorphism
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: polimorfisme
lang: Dutch
word: polymorfisme
lang: Finnish
word: polymorfia
lang: Finnish
word: polymorfismi
lang: French
word: polymorphisme
lang: Greek
word: πολυμορφισμός
roman: polymorfismós
lang: Icelandic
word: fjölbrigðni
lang: Icelandic
word: fjölbreytni
lang: Italian
word: polimorfismo
lang: Japanese
word: 多形
roman: takei
lang: Japanese
word: 同質異像
roman: dōshitsu-izō
lang: Kazakh
word: полиморфизм
roman: polimorfizm
lang: Polish
word: polimorfizm
lang: Portuguese
word: polimorfismo
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: polimorfizam
lang: Ukrainian
word: поліморфі́зм
roman: polimorfízm
aftertaste
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep(o)teros
Proto-Germanic *after
Old English æfter
Middle English after
English after
▲
Old English æfter
Old English æfter-
Middle English after-
English after-
English taste
English aftertaste
From after- + taste.
Inflected forms:
form: aftertastes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: after-taste
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: after taste
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A taste of something that persists when it is no longer present.
pos: noun
examples: Canopy 19 is perfectly placed
For the reasonably frightening fall from the aftertaste
You'll have to slip away, I am unhappy to say
Behold as the crook in the hammock plays
gloss: The persistence of the taste of something no longer present.
pos: noun
examples: Many people think certain artificial sweeteners have an unpleasant aftertaste.
gloss: finish.
pos: noun
Translations:
meteoritics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English meteor
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der.
Latin -ītēsbor.
French -iteder.
English -ite
English meteorite
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
Old English -as
Middle English -es
English -s
English -ics
English meteoritics
From meteorite + -ics.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The science that deals with meteors, meteorites, and meteoroids.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: From the beginning of the nineteenth century forward, meteoritics progressed steadily to an exacting and highly interdisciplinary field.
Following the precedents set in previous editions of the Catalogue of Meteorites, it is not the intention of this Introduction to discuss the science of meteoritics, but simply to provide a summary of the nomenclature and classification of meteorites and the system of entries adopted.
Meteoritics, the laboratory study of meteorites, was regarded as our best window on events at the time of the origin of the planets even before their age could be measured.[…]Recently, discoveries in both meteoritics and asteroid research have brought forward several interesting connections with comets, and even the Voyager revelation of the nature of ice-rich satellites has influenced our understanding of meteorite origins.
Translations:
distro
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
Etymology: Shortened form of distribution, + -o.
Affixes: -o
Inflected forms:
form: distros
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A set of software components, often open source, that have been packaged into a larger product or component for distribution to end-users.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
countable
gloss: The propagation of warez by distributing it to various sites.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
uncountable
examples: If anyone can help me with obtaining a source with an updated ftp list, either distro sites or non ratio sites, please contact me on ICQ […]
gloss: The act of distributing printed material such as magazines or newspapers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I started writing my own zine, Thought Bombs, and organized a distro of other good, anarchist, anti-racist/abolitionist and feminist zines.
Related words: software package
Derived words: distro-hopping
Translations:
polysyllabic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús
Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor.
English poly-
English syllabic
English polysyllabic
From poly- + syllabic.
Inflected forms:
form: polysyllabics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having more than one syllable; having multiple or many syllables.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: "Antidisestablishmentarianism" definitely qualifies as a polysyllabic word.
gloss: Characterized by or consisting of words having numerous syllables.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I have a particularly off-putting predilection for the utilization of ponderously polysyllabic linguistic constructions.
gloss: A word having more than one syllable
pos: noun
Synonyms: multisyllabic
Antonyms: monosyllabic
brachysyllabic
Related words: polysyllable
polysyllabicism
polysyllabicity
polysyllabism
Derived words: hyperpolysyllabic
nonpolysyllabic
polysyllabically
Translations:
soar
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English soren, from Old French essorer (“to fly up, soar”), from Vulgar Latin *exaurare (“to rise into the air”), from Latin ex (“out”) + aura (“the air, a breeze”), from Ancient Greek αὔρα (aúra, “breath”). Compare aura, and exhale.
Inflected forms:
form: soars
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: soaring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: soared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: soared
pos: verb
tags: past
form: soars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To fly high with little effort, like a bird.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: When soars Gaul's Vulture, with his wings unfurl'd,
gloss: To mount upward on wings, or as on wings, especially by gliding while employing rising air currents.
pos: verb
gloss: To remain aloft by means of a glider or other unpowered aircraft.
pos: verb
gloss: To rise, especially rapidly or unusually high.
pos: verb
examples: The pump prices soared into new heights as the strike continued.
A planning document produced in October 1984 said that Class 46 maintenance costs were soaring and rapid withdrawal would occur, and this came to pass by the end of the year.
gloss: To rise in thought, spirits, or imagination; to be exalted in mood.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: Such where the deep tranſported mind may ſoare / Above the wheeling poles,
Valour soars above What the world calls misfortune.
KORRIS: I have tasted your heart. You have been with them, but you are still "of" us. Do not deny the challenge of your destiny. Get off your knees and soar. Open your eyes and let the dream take flight.
gloss: The act of soaring.
pos: noun
examples: c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Jeremy Taylor
this apparent soar of the hooded falcon
gloss: An upward flight.
pos: noun
Derived words: outsoar
oversoar
self-soar
soarable
soaraway
soarer
upsoar
Translations:
cheekbone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English chekebon, chekbone, from Old English ċēacbān (“cheekbone”); equivalent to cheek + bone. Compare Dutch kaakbeen (“jawbone”).
Compound parts: cheek
bone
Inflected forms:
form: cheekbones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cheek bone
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The small prominent bone of the cheek.
pos: noun
examples: She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.
A youngish-looking man came up to him, and aggressive-looking type with a hook mouth, a lantern nose, and small beady little cheekbones.
Translations:
zygoma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ζύγωμα (zúgōma), from ζυγόν (zugón, “yoke”).
Inflected forms:
form: zygomas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zygomata
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The cheekbone.
pos: noun
Translations:
appal
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: appals
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: appalling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: appalled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: appalled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: UK spelling of appall.
pos: verb
Translations:
perusal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English peruse
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 perusal
From peruse + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: perusals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of perusing, or an instance of it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Please find attached the relevant documents for your perusal.
Having therefore no assistance but from general grammar, I applied myself to the perusal of our writers;
These were business hours, and a feeling of loneliness crept over him, perhaps germinated by his sight of the illustrated papers, and accentuated by an attempted perusal of them.
gloss: The act or process of perusing, or an instance of it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: reperusal
Translations:
perusing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English peruse
English -ing
English perusing
From peruse + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: perusings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of perusal.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
champers
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Clipping of champagne + -ers.
Affixes: -ers
Inflected forms:
form: champers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Champagne (wine).
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
Translations:
fleur-de-lis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: From earlier flower-de-luce, from Middle English flourdelis, from Anglo-Norman flour de lis (“lily flower”); later remodelled after modern French fleur de lis (“lily flower”).
Inflected forms:
form: fleurs-de-lis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fleur-de-lises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fleur-de-lisses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fleur de lis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fleur-de-lys
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: flower-de-lis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: flower de lis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fleur-de-luce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: flour-delice
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: flower delice
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: flower-de-luce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A design representing a flower whose three petals are joined together at the bottom (⚜, ⚜️), often used in heraldry, where it is particularly associated with the French monarchy.
pos: noun
examples: Adorned all with gemmes of endlesse price, […] And all embost with Lyons and with Flour-delice.
And waſh the Sanguin’d Fleur-de-Liſſes white.
The pillars of the door that opens to this room are compoſed of pikes, on the top of which are two coats of mail, probably thoſe of John king of France, and David king of Scotland, who were priſoners here: they are both inlaid with gold, and are ornamented with fleur-de-liſſes and thiſtles.
The tressure flowerie encompasses the lion of Scotland, to shew that he should defend the fleur-de-lisses, and these to continue a defence to the lion, the ancient imperial ensign of Scotland since Fergus I.
Just then, an attendant to whom the Queen had whispered returned; and taking a small case from her hand, Anne produced a bracelet somewhat similar to the very one with which Francesca had parted, excepting that it had her cipher, surrounded by a wreath of fleurs-de-lis. "Louis, will you offer this to Mademoiselle Carrara?"
“We was not ridin’ with a shipment of fleur-de-lisses,” Phineas countered.
The shield was silver, charged with a red cross voided (that is, with the centre cut out and only the edges left), between in chief (that is, above the horizontal limb of the cross) two black dragon's wings, and in base two red daggers, and in the centre of the cross a black winged helmet; on a red chief (a broad band across the top of the shield), a silver pale (a broad vertical band), and thereon eight black arrows crossed X-wise, four and four, and encircled with a black band, between on the dexter three bendlets (narrow bands slanting from dexter chief to sinister base) enhanced (that is, raised above the centre), and on the sinister a fleur-de-lis, all of gold.
One room has a pink marble bathroom with a gold fleur de lys pattern around the tub.
gloss: The main element in the logo of most Scouting organizations, representing a major theme in Scouting: the outdoors and wilderness.
pos: noun
Related words: cross flory
gold lily
Derived words: fleur-de-lised
Translations:
Passamaquoddy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Malecite-Passamaquoddy Peskotomuhkat (“those who spear pollock / those who live where there are pollock”).
Inflected forms:
form: Passamaquoddies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Passamaquoddy
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of an Algonquian people who reside in Maine (US) and New Brunswick (Canada).
pos: noun
Translations:
chicane
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: bridge
card-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
road
sports
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
French chicanebor.
English chicane
Borrowed from French chicane.
Inflected forms:
form: chicanes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chicanes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chicaning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chicaned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chicaned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A quibble, a pedantic or dishonest objection; an act of deception.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The use of dishonest means or subterfuge to achieve one's (especially political) goals; chicanery, trickery.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1775, Edmund Burke, speech on conciliation with America
In this character of the Americans, a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes the whole; and as an ardent is always a jealous affection, your Colonies become suspicious, restive, and untractable whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for.
‘That they may be unlearned in the detestable chicane of politics, is certain; but, they are also uncorrupted by the odious and pernicious maxims of the unfeeling tools of despotism.’
gloss: The holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A sharp double bend on a racecourse, designed to prevent unsafe speeds; an obstacle creating a curve.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: On lap 23, Hamilton got a run on Leclerc into the second chicane after the two had overtaken Nico Hulkenberg's out-of-stop-sequence Renault down the main straight.
gloss: A raised area or other obstacle around which vehicles must drive, especially designed to reduce speed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To use chicanery, tricks, or subterfuge.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To deceive.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: chicanery
Derived words: bus stop chicane
double chicane
mobile chicane
moving chicane
Translations:
sinuous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sinos
Proto-Italic *sinus
Latin sinus
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos
Latin -ōsus
Latin sinuōsuslbor.
English sinuous
Learned borrowing from Latin sinuōsus.
Inflected forms:
form: more sinuous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sinuous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having curves in alternate directions; meandering.
pos: adj
examples: We followed every bend of the sinuous river.
[W]hen a transverse, or, within certain limits, an oblique impulse, impinges laterally upon a continuous mountain range, two movements of vibration are communicated; the one, a wave transmitted along and in the line of the axis, the other a transverse wave, which causes the axial line to sway laterally, and transmit a quam prox. horizontal transverse wave, along from one end to the other; like the sinuous movement which travels along a long rope when, hanging suspended between two points at the same level, it is jerked suddenly at one end, transversely to its length.
[A] peculiar luminous and sinuous marking appeared on the unillumined half of the inner planet, and almost simultaneously a faint dark mark of a similar sinuous character was detected upon a photograph of the Martian disc.
The way through the wood was shorter, but it was also sinuous. He missed his way, and, as a direct consequence, missed his train.
My own apprehension rose again to a superlative pitch as we swept down from St. Neots at all but 110 m.p.h. towards those sinuous curves round the bank of the Ouse near Offord, and were almost on to them before we suddenly braked.
This is the perfect climbing tree: wrought by two centuries of good London living, its sinuous spread presents any number of routes into the canopy.
gloss: Moving gracefully and in a supple manner.
pos: adj
examples: We were entranced by her sinuous dance.
Once a dark, clumsy tapir stared at us from a gap in the bushes, and then lumbered away through the forest; once, too, the yellow, sinuous form of a great puma whisked amid the brushwood, and its green, baleful eyes glared hatred at us over its tawny shoulder.
gloss: Morally crooked; shifty.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: On 16 December 1999, Lanny Davis, one of the President's more sinuous apologists, was asked on an MSNBC chat show to address the issue and replied that Ms. Broaddrick had been adjudged unreliable by the FBI.
Related words: sine
insinuate
Derived words: sinuosity
sinuous ballweed
sinuously
sinuousness
subsinuous
unsinuous
Translations:
scammer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English scam
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 scammer
From scam + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: scammers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who commits fraud by making dishonest scams and business deals: swindler, cheat, grifter.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: According to Netsafe, scammers send out a bunch of emails, hoping to snag a few gullible people, but simply deleting the offending email won’t do anything to impede the con.
TransPennine Express has removed all QR codes from its 71 car parks after scammers covered up a genuine code sticker with a false one and stole £13,000 from a woman's bank account.
Translations:
supple
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
wine
Etymology: From Middle English souple, from Old French souple, soupple (“soft, lithe, yielding”), from Latin supplic-, supplex (“suppliant, submissive, kneeling”), of uncertain formation. Either from sub + plicō (“bend”) (compare complex), or from sub + plācō (“placate”). More at sub-, placate.
Inflected forms:
form: suppler
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: supplest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: supples
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: suppling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: suppled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: suppled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Pliant, flexible, easy to bend.
pos: adj
examples: Global supply chains, meanwhile, have grown both tighter and more supple since the late 1990s—the result of improving information technology and of freer trade—making routine work easier to relocate.
gloss: Lithe and agile when moving and bending.
pos: adj
examples: supple joints
supple fingers
My hands are supple and small. A woman in a bread shop once said to me: “You have the hands for making fine little pastries.”
gloss: Compliant; yielding to the will of others.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: a supple horse
If punishment […] makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
gloss: Smooth and drinkable.
pos: adj
gloss: To make or become supple.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The flesh therewith she suppled and did steepe
The Stones (a Miracle to Mortal View, / But long Tradition makes it paſs for true) / Did firſt the Rigour of their Kind expel, / And ſuppled into ſoftneſs, as they fell; […]
gloss: To make compliant, submissive, or obedient.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They should supple our stiff wilfulness.
a mother persisting till she had bent her daughter's mind and suppled her will
Derived words: supplejack
supplely
suppleness
supply
unsupple
unsuppled
Translations:
flexibly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English flexible
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English flexibly
From flexible + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more flexibly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most flexibly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a flexible manner.
pos: adv
examples: But while the decline in season ticket sales as a proportion of fares income has continued, commuting has by no means died. Instead, people are working more flexibly. Therefore, a monthly or annual season ticket is not worthwhile.
Translations:
swindler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schwindler, 1774.
Inflected forms:
form: swindlers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who swindles, cheats or defrauds.
pos: noun
examples: But I got somethin’ to say bearin’ on that swindler who got what was comin’ to him.
There’s good reason to worry. In an earlier memoir, “Five-Finger Discount,” Stapinski recreated the terrifying world of swindlers, embezzlers, burglars and mobster wannabes who made up her extended Jersey City family.
Translations: