yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
gardenia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From New Latin, named after Scottish naturalist Dr. Alexander Garden.
Inflected forms:
form: gardenias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various tropical evergreen small trees or shrubs, of the genus Gardenia, having glossy leaves and white flowers.
pos: noun
gloss: The flower of these plants.
pos: noun
examples: The aroma given off by flowers has an aphrodisiac effect, especially on women. This is so particularly in the case of lilies of the valley, gardenia, frangipani, and henna.
Heed remembered the baby-powder smell from the bowl of gardenias, their edges browning like toast.
Related words: Cape jasmine
Derived words: native gardenia
Translations:
gasworks
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂-der.
Ancient Greek χαῦνος (khaûnos)
Ancient Greek χάος (kháos)der.
Dutch gasbor.
English gas
English works
English gasworks
From gas + works.
Inflected forms:
form: gasworks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gaswork
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A factory where gas is generated or distributed (whether for industrial consumption or for residential distribution).
pos: noun
examples: Meronyms: gasholder, gasometer, gas line, gasline, pipeline
gloss: A factory where gas is generated or distributed (whether for industrial consumption or for residential distribution).
pos: noun
gloss: A factory where gas is generated or distributed (whether for industrial consumption or for residential distribution).
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A factory where gas is generated or distributed (whether for industrial consumption or for residential distribution).
pos: noun
Related words: coal gas
illuminating gas
producer gas
synthesis gas
town gas
water gas
gaslight
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: plynárna
lang: Danish
word: gasværk
lang: Finnish
word: kaasulaitos
lang: French
word: usine à gaz
lang: Georgian
word: გაზის ქარხანა
roman: gazis karxana
lang: German
word: Gaswerk
lang: Hungarian
word: gázművek
lang: Hungarian
word: gázgyár
lang: Māori
word: whare tahu kēhi
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: gassverk
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: gassverk
lang: Occitan
word: fabrica de gas
lang: Polish
word: gazownia
lang: Romanian
word: uzină de gaz
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: plinara
lang: Spanish
word: fábrica de gas
lang: Turkish
word: gazhane
lang: Ukrainian
word: га́зовий заво́д
roman: házovyj zavód
gelignite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Base: gelatin
Affixes: -ite
Inflected forms:
form: gelignites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An explosive mixture of nitroglycerine and nitrate absorbed onto a base of wood pulp.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Three small gelignite bombs, with pocket watch timing devices, were concealed in packets small enough to fit through the slot of the standard cast-iron post box, the cylindrical bright red colored boxes so common throughout London.
Translations:
geochemistry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Pre-Greek der.
Proto-Hellenic *gayader.
Ancient Greek γαῖᾰ (gaîă)clip.
Ancient Greek γῆ (gê)
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)
Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-)der.
English geo-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor.
Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor.
Medieval Latin alchēmia
▲
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)influ.
New Latin chimiabor.
Middle French chymie
French chimie
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istabor.
French -iste
French chimistebor.
English chemist
Middle English -re,-ri,-rie,-ry,-rye
English -ry
English chemistry
English geochemistry
From geo- + chemistry.
Inflected forms:
form: geochemistries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical composition of the Earth and other planets, and with the chemical processes that occur in the formation of rocks and minerals etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
geologically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English geological
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English geologically
From geological + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: As part of a geologic process.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Concerning geology.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The El Dorado-Searchlight area is geologically a north-south trending orogenous zone, paralleled on the east by the valley of the Colorado, and by an alluvial valley on the west.
Derived words: hydrogeologically
Translations:
geomagnetic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Pre-Greek der.
Proto-Hellenic *gayader.
Ancient Greek γαῖᾰ (gaîă)clip.
Ancient Greek γῆ (gê)
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)
Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-)der.
English geo-
Old French magnetebor.
Pre-Greekbor.?
Ancient Greek Μάγνης (Mágnēs)
Ancient Greek μᾰ́γνης (mắgnēs)bor.
Latin magnēsbor.
Middle English magnete
English magnet
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English magnetic
English geomagnetic
From geo- + magnetic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to geomagnetism.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: One of the earliest (and biggest) space weather events on record occurred in September 1859, when a massive solar eruption crashed into the Earth's magnetosphere, triggering a geomagnetic storm that lasted for days.
Translations:
geometrically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English geometric
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English geometrically
From geometric + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more geometrically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most geometrically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a geometric manner.
pos: adv
examples: Vistas in San Francisco—a city whose real estate development platted out land geometrically and gridded over a series of hills—offer vertical, stunning viewscapes of architecture and the Bay, natural and built environments.
gloss: Concerning geometrics.
pos: adv
examples: We give a sharp lower bound for the number of geometrically distinct contractible periodic orbits of dynamically convex Reeb flows on prequantizations of symplectic manifolds that are not aspherical.
Translations:
geophysical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Pre-Greek der.
Proto-Hellenic *gayader.
Ancient Greek γαῖᾰ (gaîă)clip.
Ancient Greek γῆ (gê)
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)
Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-)der.
English geo-
English physical
English geophysical
From geo- + physical.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to geophysics.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
geophysicist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Pre-Greek der.
Proto-Hellenic *gayader.
Ancient Greek γαῖᾰ (gaîă)clip.
Ancient Greek γῆ (gê)
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)
Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-)der.
English geo-
English physicist
English geophysicist
From geo- + physicist.
Inflected forms:
form: geophysicists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A physicist who specializes in geophysics.
pos: noun
examples: Yevgeny K. Fedorov, one of the Soviet Union's leading geophysicists, died Wednesday, Tass, the official press agency, reported today. He was 71 years old.
“The lack of an agreement to phase out fossil fuels was devastating,” said Prof Michael Mann, a climatologist and geophysicist at the University of Pennsylvania in the US.
Translations:
bagatelle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
literature
media
music
publishing
Etymology: Borrowed from French bagatelle, from Italian bagattella.
Inflected forms:
form: bagatelles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A trifle; an insubstantial thing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Sir C. Oh! dear madam, don't ask me, it's a very foolish song—a mere bagatelle.
Char. Oh! Sir Callaghan, I will admit of no excuse.
[…] the jails were larger and fuller, the number of murders was incomparably greater, the thefts and swindlings in the old country were a bagatelle to the large depredations there […]
The repayment of the cost of the western part of the road, whatever it might be, would be a mere bagatelle, for the older provinces would have been enriched by the stimulus given to business by the opening up of the plains,[…]
They'd purchased a little house in the eighth arrondissement in Paris that for them was just a bagatelle, since they rarely lived there.
gloss: A short piece of literature or of instrumental music, typically light or playful in character.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: One afternoon in 1920. a young pianist sat down in a shuttered room in the capital of defeated Germany and played a Bagatelle by Beethoven.
gloss: A game similar to billiards played on an oblong table with pockets or arches at one end only.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: For some time they did nothing save box, but at last they went down to the bagatelle room, and played bagatelle for a bit. They marked this advance in civilization by prodding holes in the ceiling with the bagatelle cues, which gave the ceiling the appearance of a cloth target after a Gatling gun had been shooting at it.
gloss: Any of several smaller wooden tabletop games developed from the original bagatelle in which the pockets are made of pins.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: carom
pachinko
pinball
Derived words: bagatellize
Russian bagatelle
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: fortuna
gerontological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵerh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Proto-Indo-European *ǵérh₂onts
Proto-Hellenic *géronts
Ancient Greek γέροντος (gérontos)der.
English geronto-
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
Latin -logialbor.
French -logiebor.
English -logy
English gerontology
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
English gerontological
From gerontology + -ical.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to gerontology.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
gerontologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵerh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Proto-Indo-European *ǵérh₂onts
Proto-Hellenic *géronts
Ancient Greek γέροντος (gérontos)der.
English geronto-
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
Latin -logialbor.
French -logiebor.
English -logy
English gerontology
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English gerontologist
From gerontology + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: gerontologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A physician who specializes in gerontology
pos: noun
Translations:
gladiola
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: gladiolas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Gladiolus.
pos: noun
tags: US
Translations:
glassblower
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From glass + blower.
Compound parts: glass
blower
Inflected forms:
form: glassblowers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person skilled in the art of glassblowing.
pos: noun
examples: But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
Translations:
glassblowing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From glass + blowing.
Compound parts: glass
blowing
Inflected forms:
form: glass blowing
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The art of making objects from molten glass, especially by manipulating a lump of molten glass on the end of a tube whilst blowing into it.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
grammatically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English grammatical
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English grammatically
From grammatical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more grammatically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most grammatically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a grammatical manner.
pos: adv
gloss: Concerning grammar.
pos: adv
examples: For example, once the child is able to parse (i.e. grammatically analyse) an adult utterance such as Help Daddy and knows that it contains a verb phrase comprising the head verb help and its complement Daddy, then (on the assumption that the language faculty specifies that all heads of a given type behave uniformly with regard to whether they are positioned before or after their complements), the child will automatically know that all verbs in English are canonically (i.e. normally) positioned before their complements.
Derived words: chronogrammatically
lexicogrammatically
metagrammatically
Translations:
granitic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English granite
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English granitic
From granite + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more granitic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most granitic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or containing granite.
pos: adj
examples: Castles and houses […] sat on top of mountains and granitic outcroppings.
Translations:
guardhouse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From guard + house.
Compound parts: guard
house
Inflected forms:
form: guardhouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A station for guards, especially at the entrance of a town, castle, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of military prison.
pos: noun
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: караулно помещение
roman: karaulno pomeštenie
lang: Bulgarian
word: будка
roman: budka
lang: Danish
word: vagthus
lang: Esperanto
word: gardistejo
lang: Finnish
word: vartiotupa
lang: Macedonian
word: стража́рница
roman: stražárnica
lang: Polish
word: strażnica
lang: Polish
word: wartownia
lang: Polish
word: kordegarda
lang: Swedish
word: vakthus
lang: Turkish
word: bekçi evi
lang: Turkish
word: bekçi kabini
lang: Turkish
word: bekçi kulübesi
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: نوبتخانه
roman: nevbethâne, nöbethâne
gunboat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From gun + boat.
Compound parts: gun
boat
Inflected forms:
form: gunboats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the various types of small armed vessels.
pos: noun
examples: Nothing beats a gunboat. HMS Illustrious glided out of Portsmouth on Monday, past HMS Victory and cheering crowds of patriots. Within a week it will be off Gibraltar, a mere cannon shot from Cape Trafalgar.
Knock knock. It's the United States. With huge boats (with guns); gunboats.
Translations:
air-freight
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: air-freights
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: air-freighting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: air-freighted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: air-freighted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: airfreight
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To ship cargo by the use of aircraft.
pos: verb
examples: Because of their urgency the agent will air-freight the parts.
It was the river up which the chinook and sockeye and silver and humpy and dog salmon migrated to lay their eggs and dies or to be tangled in set nets and air-freighted to Anchorage, there to be cleaned and frozen and shipped to restaurants and supermarkets half a world away.
Translations:
co-educate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin co-der.
English co-
English educate
English co-educate
From co- + educate.
Inflected forms:
form: co-educates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: co-educating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: co-educated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: co-educated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To educate children of both sexes together.
pos: verb
examples: Fiercely academic and successful, these schools, arguably, had resisted the 'egalitarian' impulse to co-educate and were providing a space where girls could aspire to be doctors, mathematicians and politicians.
Translations:
coarsening
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: coarsenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process or the result of becoming coarse
pos: noun
Translations:
commentate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Back-formation from commentator. Equivalent to comment + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Base: comment
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: commentates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: commentating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: commentated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: commentated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To provide a commentary; to act as a commentator; to maintain a stream of comments about some event.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: For the radio audience he will commentate on the match.
Translations:
concuss
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Latin concussus, the perfect passive participle of concutiō (“shake violently”), from con- + quatiō (“shake, hit”).
Inflected forms:
form: concusses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: concussing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: concussed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: concussed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To injure the brain of, usually temporarily, by violent impact.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The blow will concuss him.
gloss: To force to do something, or give up something, by intimidation; to coerce.
pos: verb
examples: The opposite principle , or rather the opposite practice of intrusion , is the reverse of this : it consists in concussing the Presbytery to ordain , and in concussing the people to receive.
Derived words: concussion
concussive
deconcuss
subconcuss
Translations:
concussed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more concussed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most concussed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Knocked out; temporarily confused or unconscious due to a blow to the head.
pos: adj
examples: But, for whatever combination of reasons - and, to be fair, he'd been blasted in the face by shrapnel, was probably badly concussed, and, indeed, would actually remember nothing from the battle after he'd been hit when he was later debriefed - aside from two destroyers left behind to help Hiei, the rest of the Japanese forces withdrew north just before 0300 in the morning.
Translations:
helminthic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ἕλμῐνς (hélmĭns)der.
English helminth
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English helminthic
From helminth + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: helminthics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to worms; used especially of parasitic worms.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Causing the expulsion of intestinal worms.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Any medicine that expels intestinal worms.
pos: noun
Related words: helminthiasis
Derived words: geohelminthic
Translations:
bug-eyed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having bulging or protruding eyes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
wettability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wet
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Latin -tās
Latin -abilitas
Middle French -abletébor.
Middle English -ablete
English -ability
English wettability
From wet + -ability.
Inflected forms:
form: wettabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The ability of a solid surface to reduce the surface tension of a liquid in contact with it such that it spreads over the surface and wets it.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
harebell
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English harebelle, equivalent to hare + bell.
Compound parts: hare
bell
Inflected forms:
form: harebells
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hairbell
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A perennial flowering plant, Campanula rotundifolia, native to the Northern Hemisphere, with blue, bell-like flowers.
pos: noun
examples: How Snow-drops cold, and blue-eyed Harebells blend / Their tender tears, as o'er the stream they bend […].
Her most striking feature, then as now, was her eyes: both large and expressive, but while one was the brown of a fresh hazelnut, the other was pale bluey-violet, the colour of harebells.
gloss: foxglove
pos: noun
examples: I wonder whether the witches would be wearing on their fingers their ornaments of foxglove blossoms, often called witches' bells or harebells, sometimes known as witches' thimbles.
Synonyms: bluebell
blawort
lady's thimble
witch's bells
witch's thimbles
Translations:
humidor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From humid, modeled after cuspidor (“spittoon”).
Inflected forms:
form: humidors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A container designed to keep its contents at a constant humidity; especially such a box for storing cigars.
pos: noun
examples: Don't just toss them in the humidor; you need to progressively re-humidify them. You're definitely going to want a thermometer to put inside your humidor, as well as a hygrometer […]
Translations:
scourer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English scourer, skourer, scowrrere, equivalent to scour + -er.
Base: scour
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: scourers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tool used to scour, usually used to clean cookware.
pos: noun
examples: A scourer may be in the form of a mesh (ball) of wires, a flat piece of a rough fabric, or a pad with a soft sponge-like side and a more abrasive side.
gloss: A rover or footpad; a prowling robber.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: in those days of highwaymen and scourers
Derived words: gong scourer
scourer pad
Translations:
scriptwriter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-?
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreybʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kréybʰeti
Proto-Italic *skreiβō
Latin scrībō
Latin scrīptum
Old French escritbor.
Middle English scrit
English script
Proto-Indo-European *wreyd-der.?
Proto-Germanic *wrītaną
Proto-West Germanic *wrītan
Old English wrītan
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Old English wrītere
Middle English writer
English writer
English scriptwriter
From script + writer.
Inflected forms:
form: scriptwriters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who writes scripts.
pos: noun
Translations:
scrupulousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English scrupulous
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English scrupulousness
From scrupulous + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: scrupulousnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being scrupulous.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The result or product of being scrupulous.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Synonyms: scrupulosity
Translations:
scrounger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English scrounge
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 scrounger
From scrounge + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: scroungers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who scrounges.
pos: noun
examples: You get out of me kitchen, you low-down scrounger! I ain't going to have you in here, giving me cheek to me face and drinkin' beer I got to pay for.
For a mad two hours, artists, critics, hangers-on, insiders, befuddled outsiders and outright scroungers mingle, collide, preen, dish, fawn, toady, snub and, as a last resort, take a fleeting glance at the art on the wall.
Elwood seems at first a typical army scrounger and lurkman with his latest model Mercedes and every creature comfort but he is a ruthless and greedy drug pedlar.
Harbert was our dog robber (scrounger), had been since he joined the outfit in Guadalcanal.
Antonyms: doer
worker
Translations:
illo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Diminutive of illustration with -o.
Inflected forms:
form: illos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An illustration.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: We will also begin paying for art work: about $20 to $35 for a full-page illo, and others in proportion.
2008, Vibe (November 2008): "Idol Worship" by Keith Murphy
[…] this 188-page photo/illo tome is a gorgeously provocative companion piece for music heads consumed with the classic and the current.
Translations:
theming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: themings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The application of a theme.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
farse
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Medieval Latin farsa. Doublet of farce.
Inflected forms:
form: farses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: farses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: farsing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: farsed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: farsed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: farce
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A vernacular paraphrase inserted into Latin liturgy.
pos: noun
gloss: To insert vernacular paraphrases into (a Latin liturgy).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: There is also evidence of glossing (or farsing) the texts of the Epistles read in the masses of the Christmas Octave.
Translations:
tumescent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin tumēscēns (“swelling, bloating”).
Inflected forms:
form: more tumescent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tumescent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Swollen or distended with fluid, as of erectile tissue.
pos: adj
gloss: Inflated or overblown.
pos: adj
examples: I think that in Gloria MacMillan uses this tumescent language for a comparatively modest purpose — to show how it was between men and women in the war — and the language inflates and perverts his meaning unconscionably.
Synonyms: tumid
turgescent
turgid
Related words: contumely
tumor
tumult
Derived words: detumescent
nontumescent
tumescently
Translations:
tumescence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested 1725, from French tumescence, from Latin tumescēns (“swelling”), present participle of tumēscō (“to begin to swell”), from tumeō (“to swell”) + -ēscō (incohative suffix) (English -esce, in this form -escence), stem from Proto-Indo-European *tum-éh₁- (“to be swelling”), stative stem of *tum- (“to swell”).
Affixes: -escence
Inflected forms:
form: tumescences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A swelling due to the presence of fluid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It is still more remarkable that the reeves also, even in the presence of the males, will court each other and have intercourse. We may associate this with the high erotic development of birds, the difficulty with which tumescence seems to occur in them, and their long courtships.
gloss: A swollen bodily organ; used especially of erectile tissue.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: detumescence
nocturnal penile tumescence
Translations:
ephemeris
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
nautical
transport
Etymology: From New Latin ephēmeris, from Ancient Greek ἐφημερίς (ephēmerís, “diary, calendar”), from ἐφήμερος (ephḗmeros, “daily”).
Inflected forms:
form: ephemerides
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ephemerises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A journal or diary.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Wee heard the King was solacing at the Caspian Sea, whither now wee are travelling. Till then let us keepe an Ephemerides or day-journey.
gloss: A table giving the apparent position of celestial bodies throughout the year; normally given as right ascension and declination.
pos: noun
examples: […]Mr. Samuel got 150 pounds of bread, with a small quantity of rum and wine, also a quadrant and compass; but he was forbidden on pain of death to touch either map, ephemeris, book of astronomical observations, sextant, timekeeper, or any of my surveys or drawings.
gloss: Computer software that calculates the apparent position of celestial bodies.
pos: noun
Related words: ephemerid
ephemeride
Derived words: ephemeris time
Translations:
autotomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: From auto- + -tomy, after German Autotomie or French autotomie.
Base: auto
Inflected forms:
form: autotomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The spontaneous removal of a limb, tail etc, especially by some invertebrates as a self-defense mechanism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She has dropped it by autotomy, like the tail or claw of a fleeing lizard, lobster, or starfish.
Translations:
Byzantium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰuǵ-der.
Thracian *būzasder.
Ancient Greek Βῡ́ζᾱς (Bū́zās)
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)?
Ancient Greek -ῐον (-ĭon)
Ancient Greek Βῡζᾰ́ντῐον (Būzắntĭon)bor.
Latin Bȳzantiumbor.
English Byzantium
From Latin Bȳzantium, from Ancient Greek Βῡζᾰ́ντῐον (Būzắntĭon), named after its legendary founder, Byzas.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A dark shade of purple, close to Tyrian purple and palatinate purple.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
futurist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: art
arts
Etymology: Etymology tree
English future
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English futurist
From future + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: futurists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more futurist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most futurist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An adherent to the principles of the artistic movement of futurism.
pos: noun
examples: The distinction, however, seems to be that the warriors of the past went in for tournaments, which were at least dangerous for themselves, while the Futurists go in for motor-cars, which are mainly alarming for other people.
‘A passion for destruction is also a creative passion.’ This statement by the Russian revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin in 1842 could have been the rallying cry of the Italian Futurists around 1910.
gloss: One who studies and predicts possible futures.
pos: noun
examples: Two multibillion-dollar industries—the computer manufacturers and telephone companies—had each developed its technologies separately. But as futurist Howard Rheingold suggests in his book Virtual Communities, the industries inadvertently gave private consumers access to those billion of dollars by selling them a tiny device to link the two technologies together: a computer modem.
gloss: In the style of futurism.
pos: adj
examples: Salvat took to heart what Marinetti was provocatively clamoring: “Futurist poetry, having already destroyed traditional metrics and created free verse, now destroys the Latin period and its syntax. Futurist poetry is a spontaneous uninterrupted flow of analogies, each synthesized in an essential noun”.
Derived words: Afrofuturist
cubo-futurist
retrofuturist
Translations:
maidenhair
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From maiden + hair.
Compound parts: maiden
hair
Inflected forms:
form: maidenhairs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: maiden-hair
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A woman's pubic hair.
pos: noun
tags: poetic
uncountable
examples: He fingered shreds of hair, her maidenhair, her mermaid's, into the bowl
His fingers tore at her maidenhair. Gasping, she recoiled for long enough to allow him entry.
Some said they'd seen her over by Death's-Door, with bloodstains on her dress, which was so white and transparent they were seized with shame and fear at the faint beauty of her breasts and the eternal modesty of her maidenhair.
She grabbed at her maidenhair as the garment eluded her frantic grasp and formed a puddle of cloth at her feet.
She turns and her small breasts are firm in the fading light, the flower of her navel, the darkening delta of her maidenhair and her thighs rising out of the water, the water tiny golden gifts against her skin
gloss: Either of two species of genus Adiantum of fern with delicate, hair-like stalks, especially Adiantum capillus-veneris.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Our common Maidenhair does from a number of hard black fibres, send forth a great many blacking shining brittle stalks, hardly a span long [...].
Among herbs that have traditionally been considered to possess aphrodisiac virtue are, maidenhair, navelwort, anemone, wild poppy, valerian, cyclamen, male fern, pansy, periwinkle.
gloss: Either of two ericaceous plants: creeping snowberry (Gaultheria hispidula) or checkerberry (G. procumbens).
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
countable
regional
uncountable
Derived words: climbing maidenhair fern
maidenhair moss
maidenhair spleenwort
maidenhair tree
maidenhair vine
northern maidenhair
Translations:
meadowlark
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From meadow + lark.
Compound parts: meadow
lark
Inflected forms:
form: meadowlarks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis).
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several songbirds of the genera Sturnella and Leistes, native to the Americas.
pos: noun
examples: Closing it behind me and away I do run / To the meadow where the meadowlark is singing in the trees
Your voice is like a meadowlark / But your heart is like an ocean / Mysterious and dark
Derived words: eastern meadowlark
long-tailed meadowlark
Western meadowlark
western meadowlark
Translations:
megabit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s
Proto-Hellenic *mégas
Ancient Greek μέγᾰς (mégăs)der.
English mega-
English bit
English megabit
From mega- + bit.
Inflected forms:
form: megabits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One million (10⁶, or 1,000,000) bits or 1,000 kilobits. Equals 125,000 bytes (125 kilobytes).
pos: noun
examples: When reading clock pulses only, the signal frequency is 625 kHz. The bit rate, however, is twice the signal frequency, or 1.25 megabits/sec.
gloss: a mebibit.
pos: noun
gloss: one megabit per second
pos: noun
tags: informal
Synonyms: Mbit
Related words: mebibyte
megabyte
Derived words: multimegabit
submegabit
Translations:
megalithic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: PIE word
 *méǵh₂s
From mega- (prefix meaning ‘very large, great’) + -lith (suffix meaning ‘stone’) + -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’, forming adjectives from nouns), probably modelled after monolithic; according to the Oxford English Dictionary the word is first attested earlier than megalith. It is analysable as megalith + -ic.
Affixes: mega-
-lith
-ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to megaliths, to the people who made them, or to the period when they were made.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
counterintuitively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English counterintuitive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English counterintuitively
From counterintuitive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more counterintuitively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most counterintuitively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a manner contrary to intuition or common sense.
pos: adv
examples: Somewhat counterintuitively, but perhaps due to indirect effects on the renin–angiotensin system, Scherer and colleagues (2013) found that appropriate uptitration of BBs improves HRQoL in elderly HF patients with reported benefits in general health, vitality, and physical function, although physical capacity was not objectively quantified. Regarding the renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system, as discussed above, administration of ACE inhibitors in normal aging may have a modest effect in slowing the progression of muscle-related weakness, although results are variable.
Similarly, people who regularly post political content on social media counterintuitively have a 50% wider perception gap than those who don’t.
Translations:
Naija
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: 9ja
pos: adj
tags: alternative
slang
form: Naij
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Multicultural-London-English
form: Naijas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: 9ja
pos: noun
tags: alternative
slang
form: Naij
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Multicultural-London-English
Senses:
gloss: Of or from Nigeria.
pos: adj
examples: ‘If you come [...] you will meet a lot of Naija people there.’
gloss: A person from Nigeria.
pos: noun
Translations:
torchlight
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From torch + light.
Compound parts: torch
light
Inflected forms:
form: torchlights
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The dim light produced by a burning torch.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A number of towns in East Sussex, and on the borders of Kent and Surrey, make a special feature of huge bonfires and torchlight processions with fireworks on Guy Fawkes day or an early November Saturday.
gloss: The light produced by a flashlight.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A torch or flashlight.
pos: noun
tags: India
Malaysia
Nigeria
Singapore
countable
Translations:
lang: Hungarian
word: fáklyafény
lang: Irish
word: solas tóirse
sculler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English scull
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 sculler
From scull + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: scullers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who sculls; an athlete who participates in sculling races.
pos: noun
examples: […] each man discharged their péece, and killed the sayd waterman, which forthwith falling downe dead, the Sculler with much payne rowed through the Bridge to the Tower wharffe with the Lieutenants man, and the dead man in his boate […]
The first and second guns had been fired, and the scullers in their boats, each some ten yards apart from the other, are anxiously waiting the firing of the third, which is the signal for starting.
gloss: A boat rowed by one person with two sculls, or short oars.
pos: noun
examples: 1675, John Dryden, The Mistaken Husband, London: J. Magnes and R. Bentley, Act III, p. 33,
Alas! the Story's short: Your Father’s dead. He would needs take water in a Sculler; And to save part of the Charges, going to row, overturned the Boat upon a Buoy […]
The Boats being clear, the Captain’s Boat, which was Oars, and consequently had two Watermen, went before the Maid’s Boat, which was but a Sculler; and as he passed by, looking at the Wench, he thought he knew her Face, but did not call to mind who she was […]
At that time, the steam-traffic on the Thames was far below its present extent, and watermen’s boats were far more numerous. […] Early as it was, there were plenty of scullers going here and there that morning, and plenty of barges dropping down with the tide […]
They watched that boat. It was a double sculler, with two female figures in the stern; it came slothfully up past the ferry; the sculling was not very good […]
Translations:
seaworthiness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English seaworthy
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English seaworthiness
From seaworthy + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The property of a watercraft that makes it fit to go to sea.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The ship leaked like a sieve and rode like a barrel; in other words it was completely lacking in seaworthiness.
Translations:
rallying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: rallyings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who rallies.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We are convinced that these public rallyings around the banner of Christ the King are a most effective means of counteracting "the diabolical program" and "the brazen unfurlings of the satanical banners of war against God and religion" […]
gloss: A wide-ranging form of motorsport with various competitive elements such as test of speed and navigation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: rallying cry
rallying point
Translations:
discriminative
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more discriminative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most discriminative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having or relating to the ability to discriminate between things.
pos: adj
gloss: Which serves to distinguish its bearer.
pos: adj
tags: attributive
usually
Synonyms: excludent
Related words: discriminating
Derived words: antidiscriminative
discriminatively
discriminativeness
discriminative stimulus
indiscriminative
nondiscriminative
undiscriminative
Translations:
dym
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Corruption of the word dumb.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: dumb, stupid
pos: adj
tags: Internet
derogatory
humorous
not-comparable
Translations:
hardwired
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: From hard + wired.
Compound parts: hard
wired
Inflected forms:
form: more hardwired
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hardwired
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hard wired
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: hard-wired
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Designed to perform a specific task.
pos: adj
gloss: Of devices, closely or tightly coupled.
pos: adj
gloss: Having a fixed placement (on a screen format for example).
pos: adj
gloss: Not changeable.
pos: adj
gloss: Having made a belief or a pattern of behavior or a habit.
pos: adj
examples: I'm hardwired to have a shower every morning.
gloss: Describing genetically determined, instinctive behavior.
pos: adj
Translations:
Indo-Pak
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Indo-Pakistani
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
examples: the Indo-Pak War
Translations:
jacked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more jacked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most jacked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: High on drugs or stimulants.
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: Broken; imperfect.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: This computer is so jacked, I'm surprised it can still turn on!
gloss: Strong and/or muscled.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Near-synonyms: ripped, shredded
Wow, that guy is jacked!
Derived words: unjacked
Translations:
sniffer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sniff
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 sniffer
From sniff + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: sniffers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who sniffs.
pos: noun
gloss: The nose.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A software or hardware tool for intercepting and logging network traffic.
pos: noun
Derived words: diaper sniffer
glue sniffer
jock sniffer
packet sniffer
people sniffer
petrol sniffer
posy sniffer
sniffer dog
sniffer plane
throne sniffer
Translations:
maharishi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Sanskrit महर्षि (maharṣi, “great seer”) from महा (mahā, “great”) + ऋषि (ṛṣi, “saint, seer”).
Inflected forms:
form: maharishis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A teacher of Hindu mysticism.
pos: noun
examples: His lineage of teachers and masters included several famous maharishis.
Translations:
mahatma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit महात्मा (mahātmā, “great spirit”).
Inflected forms:
form: mahatmas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In India or Tibet, a person thought to have great knowledge and love of humanity.
pos: noun
examples: Certain cults and individuals from the West look towards Tibet as the abode of mysterious Mahatmas and "Masters", and the home of the Great White Brotherhood.
Translations:
smell-o-meter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *smalljan
Old English *smiellan
Middle English smellen
English smell
English -o-meter
English smell-o-meter
From smell + -o-meter.
Inflected forms:
form: smell-o-meters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That which registers the magnitude of odor.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Perhaps the American Library Association should commission high tech wizards to develop a "smell-o-meter" which could standardize our judgments.
1997 May 7, William Greene, misc.fitness.weights, Usenet
Somebody needs to invent a "smell-o-meter" for gyms
In other words, the wolf scent that is old, though it registers on the deer’s “smell-o-meter,” causes a far different behavioral reaction than one that is fresh.
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