yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
starkers
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: * "naked": British slang, from 1923, combining (like a popular etymology) two meanings of stark (“strong, utterly; barren”) with stark naked, which is from Old English steort (“tail”), referring to the tail-end (as in butt-naked).
* "crazy": stark (“shortening of stark raving mad”) + -ers
Base: stark
Affixes: -ers
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Completely nude.
pos: adj
tags: UK
not-comparable
slang
examples: Entering the bathroom, I found Bill there, still starkers after his bath.
gloss: Stark raving mad.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
Synonyms: nude
Antonyms: dressed
Related words: stark bollock naked
Derived words: Harry starkers
Translations:
penny-pinching
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From pinchpenny.
Inflected forms:
form: more penny-pinching
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most penny-pinching
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pennypinching
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: penny-pinchings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pennypinching
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: reluctant to spend money; close-fisted
pos: adj
examples: If there is an overall lesson, it is that train quality should be seen as part of the battle against climate change, with penny-pinching specifications robustly opposed as a false economy.
gloss: reluctance to spend money; thrift or parsimony; extreme economy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
trillionaire
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English trillion
English -aire
English trillionaire
From trillion + -aire.
Inflected forms:
form: trillionaires
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Somebody whose wealth is at least one trillion (10¹²) currency units.
pos: noun
examples: Elon Musk could become the world's first trillionaire.
One popular foreign currency transaction scheme labelled 'burning money' made people instant quadrillionaires and trillionaires in Zimbabwean dollars.
A trip to Zimbabwe might make you a trillionaire.
At its worst, the hyperinflation in Zimbabwe's currency rendered one US dollar worth 2,621,984,228,675,650,147,435,579,309,984,228 Zimbabwe dollars. At that point pretty much every Zimbabwean became a de facto trillionaire.
Move over billionaires. The first trillionaires are on their way. […] Their net worth expanded so quickly that Oxfam revised its estimate from last year that only one trillionaire would be crowned in the next decade.
SpaceX has grown since its founding in 2002 into the most valuable piece of Musk’s vast tech empire. Its forthcoming IPO also stands to make the world’s richest person even wealthier, moving him closer to becoming a trillionaire from a current net worth of $807bn, according to Forbes.
Translations:
arbitrage
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: An unadapted borrowing from French arbitrage, from arbitrer (“to arbitrate”); see arbitrate.
Inflected forms:
form: arbitrages
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: arbitrages
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: arbitraging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: arbitraged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: arbitraged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A market activity in which a security, commodity, currency or other tradable item is bought in one market and sold simultaneously in another, in order to profit from price differences between the markets.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But in recent years, for reasons we shall develop later, the field of "arbitrages and workouts" became riskier and less profitable.
gloss: Arbitration.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: To employ arbitrage
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He has arbitraged by purchasing in one market and simultaneously selling the same or similar merchandise in another market.
gloss: To engage in arbitrage in, between, or among
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Indeed, as banks become more adept at internal risk classifications, their incentives to arbitrage economic and regulatory capital can only increase
Related words: arbiter
arbitrable
arbitrary
arbitrate
arbitration
arbitrator
Derived words: arbitrageable
arbitrage pricing model
arbitrage pricing theory
arbitrager
arbitrageur
arbitragist
geoarbitrage
information arbitrage
rumortrage
time-zone arbitrage
Translations:
toolshed
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From tool + shed.
Compound parts: tool
shed
Inflected forms:
form: toolsheds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tool shed
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An outdoor shed for storing tools and other equipment.
pos: noun
Translations:
storyteller
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From story + teller.
Compound parts: story
teller
Inflected forms:
form: storytellers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: story-teller
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who relates stories through one medium or another to an audience.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: storywriter
"Charlotte is the best storyteller I ever heard," said Fern, poking her dish towel into a cereal bowl.
gloss: A liar; a fibber.
pos: noun
examples: There was once upon a time a king, who had a daughter, and she was such an awful story-teller, that you couldn't find a greater anywhere.
gloss: A game master, particularly in games focused on collaborative storytelling.
pos: noun
Related words: storybook
storylines
storytelling
Derived words: ST
Translations:
quaintly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English quaint
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English quaintly
From quaint + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more quaintly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most quaintly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a quaint manner; oddly; strangely.
pos: adv
examples: The aged man was leaning back in a quaintly embossed oaken chair, on whose carving the arms of his family were gorgeously painted and inlaid.
Translations:
refereeing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: refereeings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is refereed.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The peer review process.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
teenaged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English teen
English aged
English teenaged
From teen + aged.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Aged between thirteen and nineteen inclusive; teenage.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a teenaged girl
Dexter's vocals are competent enough: his timbre is thin and eternally teenaged, but he can go apeshit on the hiccupy histrionics like no one's business.
In one photograph, a teenaged Leah crouches by a tall cylindrical tank containing what she identified to me as a giant Pacific octopus named Pamela. We were pals, she said, in a voice that I thought seemed to strive for offhandedness, did you know they taste with their skin? Octopuses, I mean.
Translations:
effectuate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the participle stem of Renaissance Latin effectuare, or its source, Latin effectus (“effect”); probably after Middle French effectuer.
Inflected forms:
form: effectuates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: effectuating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: effectuated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: effectuated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cause, bring about (an event); to accomplish, to carry out (a wish, plan etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [T]he next necessary step was to elude the vigilance of my guard: and in this manner did I effectuate my purpose.
A military draft derives from Congress’s power to raise armies; federal jury duty effectuates the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial.
Translations:
victimology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French victimologie. From victim + -ology.
Base: victim
Affixes: -ology
Inflected forms:
form: victimologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The study of the victims of crime, and especially of the reasons some people are more prone to be victims.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The attitude of seeing oneself as a victim, especially in a way that is self-absorbed or indulgent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The whole thing has rotted into a festival of bad faith and victimology, those twin markers of the Trump-Twitter Decade: rather an irony for a show organized under the sign of friendship.
Derived words: victimological
victimologist
Translations:
boride
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle Persian *bōragbor.
Arabic بَوْرَق (bawraq)der.
Medieval Latin boraxder.
Anglo-Norman boreisbor.
Middle English boras
English borax
English boro-
Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃-der.?
Latin carbōlbor.
French carbonebor.
English carbonbf.
English -on
English bor(on)
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idusder.
English -ide
English boride
From bor(on) + -ide.
Inflected forms:
form: borides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The B³⁻ anion.
pos: noun
gloss: Any binary compound of boron and a more electropositive element.
pos: noun
Derived words: beryllium boride
boriding
calcium boride
cerium boride
cobalt boride
diboride
dodecaboride
fluoboride
heptaboride
hexaboride
monoboride
pentaboride
tetraboride
titanium boride
triboride
yttrium boride
zirconium boride
Translations:
gruelling
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
Etymology: From present participle of gruel (“to exhaust, punish”), from gruel (noun).
Inflected forms:
form: more gruelling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gruelling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: gruellings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Very difficult or taxing; exhausting; backbreaking.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: Diggle Station lies high up in the Pennine Chain, subject to extreme low temperatures. With this and heavy snowfall in the winter months, Diggle bids fair to compete with the Scottish lines under similar weather conditions, and the provision of unfrozen water in the higher ambient temperature of the tunnel must be a boon to harassed engine drivers whose thirsty steeds run short of water up the gruelling 1 in 125 seven-mile climb from Stalybridge.
gloss: A race in which the animal being raced finishes in a state of physical exhaustion.
pos: noun
examples: The expenses are considerably reduced, and one or two men are prevented from carrying off nearly all the races ; for though " the spirit" may be ever so " willing," the " flesh is weak," and cannot stand more than five or six gruellings in a single day.
Miss Harriet just got there first from Vauban, the latter being leg weary from his previous gruellings ; the bitch scored four more before giving way to the dog, who made some nice driving points ; Miss Harriet, coming again, finished a good trial an easy winner.
The course was given to the black puppy, but his chance was generally considered to have been utterly destroyed by the two gruellings he had received.
When "Red Robin's" other great son, "Dee Rock", was retired to stud in 1935 I recollect, too, the pessimistic prophecies of those sceptics that a dog that had endured so many gruellings in the field would never accomplish much at stud.
gloss: A gruelling ordeal.
pos: noun
examples: It was the hardest fighting that our Canadians have been up against, and the manner in which they took these terrible gruellings and assaults is one of the most creditable occurrences in the annals of this great war."
Its life may be but for its hour, amid the gruellings of the world, but for this hour it justifies both its kind and nature, which has produced it, and though it fade and perish, yet it lives as the patterning embodiment of a whole striving after beauty of a creative nature.
'Give me a buzz when you think you can squeeze me in between English lit and the pinball championships and the gruellings of overwork, OK?'
Translations:
ministerium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ministeriums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ministeria
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An association of ministers from various religious groups who come together to work for a specific purpose, such as meeting the socioeconomic needs of a community.
pos: noun
Translations:
quarantined
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In quarantine; isolated.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
qualifier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English qualify
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 qualifier
From qualify + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: qualifiers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who qualifies for something, especially a contestant who qualifies for a stage in a competition.
pos: noun
gloss: A preliminary stage of a competition.
pos: noun
examples: But England's final qualifier, played out in the hostile surroundings of Podgorica City Stadium, turned on two incidents that will have cast a cloud over Capello's delight at reaching another major tournament.
Rice is maturing at such a rate that he is now indispensable. Yes, these qualifiers may not be the most exacting examinations but he has also looked a class act at club level under manager David Moyes this season.
gloss: A word or phrase, such as an adjective or adverb, that describes or characterizes another word or phrase, such as a noun or verb; one that adds or subtracts attributes to another.
pos: noun
gloss: A marker that qualifies or modifies another code element.
pos: noun
examples: The qualifier const may be prefixed to any declaration, and specifies that the value to which the data object is initialised cannot subsequently be changed.
Related words: determiner
Derived words: nonqualifier
prequalifier
Translations:
armillary
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Early 1700s, from Latin armilla (“bracelet; armlet; arm ring”), from Latin armus (“shoulder; upper arm”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Resembling a bracelet or armilla; consisting of rings or circles.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
corroborated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Strengthened; confirmed; rendered more certain.
pos: adj
Translations:
corrosivity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English corrosive
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English corrosivity
From corrosive + -ity.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Corrosiveness, especially when related to water.
pos: noun
Translations:
corrosiveness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English corrosive
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 corrosiveness
From corrosive + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The quality or property of corroding or being corrosive, of eating away or disintegrating; acrimony.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Such property in some immaterial agent.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
gloss: Some property characteristic of a corrosive substance, as its taste.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Synonyms: corrosivity
Translations:
backlighting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The illumination of a photographic subject from the rear, causing edges to glow while other areas remain in shadow.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
susceptibility
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English susceptible
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English susceptibility
From susceptible + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: susceptibilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being susceptible; vulnerability.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: It has been reported that periparturient cows undergo a period of immunosuppression of various immunological parameters associated with a high susceptibility to uterine and mammary infections […]
gloss: A way in which one is susceptible.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: It seems that the spiritual fermentation of the cabbalists, who in the sixteenth century established a center in Northern Palestine (Safed) and aroused the dormant susceptibilities of the Orient, penetrated also into Yemen and had the effect of a messianic message to the languishing souls longing for redemption.
gloss: emotional sensitivity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The eyes were large and black, and had the moonlight's melancholy, with that tearful lustre which is the certain sign of keen susceptibility.
gloss: Being vulnerable to a treatment (usually an antibiotic or antifungal); also, the degree of such vulnerability (i.e., weak, moderate, or strong).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: electric susceptibility, a measure of how easily a dielectric polarizes in response to an external electric field (compare permittivity).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: immunity
Derived words: atherosusceptibility
chemosusceptibility
hypersusceptibility
immunosusceptibility
insusceptibility
magnetic susceptibility
nonsusceptibility
supersusceptibility
trypanosusceptibility
unsusceptibility
Translations:
holmes
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Possibly from homeboy + -s (hypocoristic suffix), with the spelling influenced by Sherlock Holmes.
Base: homeboy
Affixes: -s
Inflected forms:
form: homes
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An informal term of address, like man or dude.
pos: noun
tags: no-plural
slang
examples: Hey, holmes! What's up?
Translations:
smokescreen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English smoke
English screen
English smokescreen
From smoke + screen.
Inflected forms:
form: smokescreens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: smoke screen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: smoke-screen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover, as of troops in battle.
pos: noun
examples: Ensign Whitely began to tell of the surprise encounter of Admiral Sprague’s escort-carrier force with the main battle line of the Japanese Navy off Samar, in a chaos of rain squalls and smoke screens.
C.I.E. Class "D14" 4-4-0 No. 89 covers its tracks with a magnificent smokescreen as it pulls out of Dun Laoghaire with the 9.0 a.m. boat train for Dublin.
However, before most of this was experimentally and observationally discovered, they were perhaps best known for their “almost unique” ability to squirt ink when harangued, creating a smokescreen before jetting off to safety.
gloss: Anything used metaphorically to conceal or distract.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: All that talk is just a smokescreen to disguise the fact that he has nothing to say.
It was all very plausible and, as he poured out his smokescreen of words, I became fidgety for fear Fallon would be too direct with him.
Related words: smoke test
Translations:
escarpment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French escarpement. By surface analysis, escarp + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: escarpments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach.
pos: noun
examples: After the canyons, the most remarkable features of the country are the long lines of cliffs. These are bold escarpments scores or hundreds of miles in length,—great geographic steps, often hundreds or thousands of feet in altitude, presenting steep faces of rock, often vertical.
The railway winds down the face of the escarpment on a steady grade of 1.05 per cent, which is considerably better than the old route, up which trains took 2 hr. to struggle 15 miles, with two stops.
One of [the] defining characteristics of [the northern Horn of Africa] is its separateness, and this is partly due to its physical diversity. A detailed description of physical geography falls outside the scope of this book. It may simply be noted that the region comprises highlands that are bounded on the east by the precipitous escarpment bordering the Danakil lowlands and the Red Sea. To the west, the country descends more gradually to the extensive plains of the Nile Valley but is riven by the rugged valleys of the Takezze and other Nile tributaries. In the north, with decreasing altitude, the terrain becomes progressively more arid as the Sudanese lowlands converge with the Red-Sea coast. It is only to the south that the highlands continue, linking them with the principal mass of the Ethiopian plateau, near the western edge of which lies Lake Tana and the source of the Blue Nile.
Translations:
sfumato
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
Etymology: From Italian sfumato (“shaded, toned down”).
Inflected forms:
form: sfumatos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A painting technique, prominent during the Italian Renaissance, involving the application of subtle layers of translucent paint, blurring the transition between colors, tones and often objects and creating the illusion of depth.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Another quality which was adopted from Leonardo, and of which the Florentines were especially enamoured, was the ‘sfumato’ system—the imperceptible softening of the transitions in half-tints and shadows.
1960, Helmut Ruhemann, Leonardo's Use of Sfumato, in The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 1, British Society of Aesthetics, page 233,
The interpretation of ‘sfumato’ is equally wrong. In ‘sfumato’ there is no blurring of the outlines which delineate the contours of figures and there is no blending or diminution of the definition of forms or for that matter any mellowing of colours.
It could be said that sfumato is less exact than line and that its forms are less precisely defined, but with these apparent omissions comes a sense of atmosphere. By casting its shadow over concrete form, sfumato dissolves it.
In baroque painting, sfumato is the blurring of outlines and colors amongst objects, as clouds and mountains, or the sea and the sky. Sfumato allows baroque subjectivity to create the near and the familiar among different intelligibilities, thus making cross-cultural dialogues possible and desirable.
2018, Lena Redman, Knowing with New Media, Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature, page 234,
No smeared sfumatos—blurred lines and borders—or anaemic chewing of emotions, just forcefully chopped slabs of substance.
As I was saying, I was worried because my sfumatos didn't look anything like they did in the original.
Translations:
undreamt
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English un-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ-
Proto-West Germanic *draum
Old English drēam
Middle English drem
English dream
English -t
English dreamt
English undreamt
From un- + dreamt.
Inflected forms:
form: more undreamt
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most undreamt
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not dreamed; not dreamt.
pos: adj
examples: In the end, he regretted only the words left unspoken and the dreams left undreamt.
Translations:
hardback
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From hard + back, formed in analogy to earlier paperback.
Compound parts: hard
back
Inflected forms:
form: hardbacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A book with a solid binding.
pos: noun
gloss: Having a solid binding.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: hardcover
Translations:
nitrated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Reacted, or treated with, nitric acid or a nitrate.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Treated with silver nitrate.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: nonnitrated
overnitrated
unnitrated
Translations:
valved
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English valve
English -ed
English valved
From valve + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having valves.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
flowerbed
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From flower + bed.
Compound parts: flower
bed
Inflected forms:
form: flowerbeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flower bed
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: flower-bed
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A part of a garden or park where flowers are grown.
pos: noun
Translations:
nitrification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: nitrifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of nitrifying
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: denitrification
Translations:
Gusii
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A tribe from Kenya.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
douchebag
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From douche + bag.
Compound parts: douche
bag
Inflected forms:
form: douchebags
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: douche bag
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A sterile container which holds the fluid used for giving a vaginal douche.
pos: noun
tags: literally
gloss: A jerk or asshole; a mean or rude person; someone seen as being arrogant, snobby or obnoxious.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
derogatory
figuratively
slang
vulgar
examples: Near-synonym: dirtbag
That douchebag ruined my shrimp cocktail.
Why doesn't that guy get a job? He’s a regular douchebag.
It's fine to help your friends eat healthy, but don't be a douchebag and harass them about it.
gloss: Any social misfit: a doofus, dork, nerd, or loser.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
derogatory
figuratively
slang
vulgar
examples: Near-synonym: dirtbag
That pocket protector makes you look like a douchebag.
Derived words: Deutschbag
douchebaggery
douchebagism
Douchebagistan
douchebagness
douchebro
douchehole
douchetuber
Schrödinger's douchebag
Translations:
inequitable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French inéquitable.
Morphologically in- + equitable.
Base: equitable
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: unfair, unequal or unjust.
pos: adj
Translations:
nitriding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English nitr(ogen)
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idusder.
English -ide
English nitride
English -ing
English nitriding
From nitride + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: nitridings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A method of case hardening steel by the surface absorption of nitrogen by heating with ammonia.
pos: noun
examples: Stabilization of fluctuations by carbon creates prerequisites during nitriding for the transformation of the chromocarbon cluster into the nitride phase.
Translations:
oxidizable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-der.?
Ancient Greek ὀξύς (oxús)
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Proto-Hellenic *génos
Ancient Greek γένος (génos)
French oxygène
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱéh₁yeti
Proto-Italic *akēō
Latin aceō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin acidusbor.
French acide
blend
French oxidebor.
English oxide
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English oxidize
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English oxidizable
From oxidize + -able.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being oxidized.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
oxidant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French oxydantbor.
English oxidant
Borrowed from French oxydant.
Inflected forms:
form: oxidants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: an oxidizing agent
pos: noun
Antonyms: antioxidant
Translations:
oxygenator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English oxygenate
English -or
English oxygenator
From oxygenate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: oxygenators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: any device that releases oxygen (or air) into water, especially one in an aquarium
pos: noun
Translations:
spasmodic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From New Latin spasmōdicus, from Ancient Greek σπασμώδης (spasmṓdēs, “spasmodic”), from σπασμός (spasmós, “spasm”).
Inflected forms:
form: more spasmodic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most spasmodic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: spasmodics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a spasm; resembling a sudden contraction of the muscles.
pos: adj
gloss: Convulsive; consisting of spasms.
pos: adj
examples: spasmodic asthma
[…] Dr. Francis Fuller, […] upon wearing a Quick-ſilver Girdle, for the Cure of the Itch, (and that after an inconſiderate and raſh manner) was brought under a violent Spaſmodick Diſtemper, which was ſupposed by himſelf and others to be owing to ſome Mercurial Particles lodg'd in ſome excretory Ducts of the Brain.
Kennedy’s vocal rasp is not caused by an infection or respiratory condition. Instead, he has spasmodic dysphonia, a rare neurological condition in which the muscles that open and close his vocal cords spasm involuntarily, creating a strained or strangled quality to his speech.
gloss: Intermittent or fitful; occurring in abrupt bursts.
pos: adj
examples: spasmodic zeal or industry
The chin was heavy, the nostrils were low and wide, and the lower lip hung loosely except in his moments of spasmodic earnestness, when it shut like a steel trap.
gloss: Erratic or unsustained.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to the spasmodic poets, a group of British Victorian poets who wrote introspective drama in verse.
pos: adj
gloss: A medicine for suppressing spasms.
pos: noun
Related words: spasm
spasmic
Derived words: nonspasmodic
postspasmodic
spasmodically
spasmodicity
spasmodicness
spasmodism
spasmodist
Translations:
nagger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English nag
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 nagger
From nag + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: naggers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who nags.
pos: noun
Translations:
phrasal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English phrase
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 phrasal
From phrase + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more phrasal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most phrasal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: phrasals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relating to, or used in the manner of, a phrase.
pos: adj
gloss: Consisting of multiple words, but behaving as a single part of speech.
pos: adj
examples: phrasal preposition
gloss: A grammatical construct that consists of multiple words, but behaves as a single part of speech.
pos: noun
examples: Furthermore, children demonstrated that they understood the mapping by elaborating phrasals to sententials, and reducing sententials to phrasals when imitating.
gloss: A grammatical construct that consists of multiple words, but behaves as a single part of speech.
pos: noun
Derived words: interphrasal
multiphrasal
nonphrasal
phrasal adjective
phrasal adverb
phrasally
phrasal noun
phrasal preposition
phrasal prepositional verb
phrasal typology
phrasal verb
Translations:
revised
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more revised
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most revised
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
puja
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Sanskrit पूजा (pūjā, “reverence or worship”).
Inflected forms:
form: pujas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pooja
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A religious ritual performed in South Asia as an act of worship.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Grunth, the holy book of the Sikhs, seems to be becoming an object of idolatrous worship. They do puja to it, and carry it in procession daily.
‘Godbole's pujah did it,’ cried the Englishman.
The priest had performed the puja and tied a string around his father's silk purse to make sure that the Rana didn't spend even a copper coin while he was a guest of Merta.
Deeming the tank ‘polluted’ and its water unfit for consumption, a puja ceremony was performed by Brahmin men to ‘purify’ the reservoir.
Translations:
Zanzibari
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Zanzibar
English -i
English Zanzibari
From Zanzibar + -i.
Inflected forms:
form: Zanzibaris
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Zanzibar.
pos: noun
examples: Once a white man in an unbuttoned uniform, camping on the path with an armed escort of lank Zanzibaris, very hospitable and festive, not to say drunk.
gloss: of, or relating to Zanzibar or its inhabitants
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
troll-friendly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more troll-friendly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most troll-friendly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not taking any steps to combat trolling.
pos: adj
tags: Internet
slang
Translations:
bleeding-heart
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bleeding + heart.
Compound parts: bleeding
heart
Inflected forms:
form: bleeding-hearts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more bleeding-heart
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bleeding-heart
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Any of several species of bird in the genus Gallicolumba of the pigeon family, native to the Philippines, characterised by a red patch on the plumage of the breast.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who is overly sympathetic to the plight of the underprivileged or exploited.
pos: noun
gloss: Overly sympathetic to the plight of the underprivileged or exploited.
pos: adj
Derived words: Luzon bleeding-heart
Gallicolumba luzonica
Mindanao bleeding-heart
Gallicolumba crinigera
Mindoro bleeding-heart
Gallicolumba platenae
Negros bleeding-heart
Gallicolumba keayi
Sulu bleeding-heart
Gallicolumba menagei
Translations:
bleary-eyed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bleary + eyed.
Compound parts: bleary
eyed
Inflected forms:
form: more bleary-eyed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bleary-eyed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bleareyed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Tired, because of lack of sleep, and having blurred or reddened eyes.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: exhausted, weary; see also Thesaurus:fatigued
Bleary-eyed walkers prepared their kit for the final mountain, while the onboard crew fed and watered them, boosting people's energy levels for the last challenge.
Translations:
painless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English paynles, peynlees, equivalent to pain + -less. Compare West Frisian pynleas (“painless”), Dutch pijnloos (“painless”).
Base: pain
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
form: more painless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most painless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Free from pain; without pain or trouble.
pos: adj
examples: There are now washless dishes, painless razors, painless shoes, painless corsets, prepared soups, painless photographs (it used to give you a stiff neck for three days to have your picture taken)[…]
gloss: Not difficult; easy.
pos: adj
examples: At first it seemed like a very painless way to get my work done and I told Milly to let me sleepwrite as much as I liked. We discovered, however, that although my subconscious might lead me to the typewriter, it couldn't make me think.
Antonyms: painful
Related words: pain-free
Derived words: painlessly
painlessness
Translations:
obs
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
law-enforcement
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Police observation.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: But I now knew I was under obs by the Gardai as well as by GMP.
Had you under obs for three weeks.
gloss: An observation hut.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
painlessly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English painless
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English painlessly
From painless + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more painlessly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most painlessly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a painless manner.
pos: adv
examples: The marina was filled with yachts and powerboats, sleek multihulls fitted with the latest satellite-navigation gear that would steer the owners painlessly towards similar luxury berths at Portofino and Bandol.
Translations:
nominated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having received a nomination.
pos: adj
examples: The nominated candidates will each give a speech before the election.
Translations:
keek
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English kyken, kiken, keken (“to look, peep”), probably from Middle Dutch kiken, kieken or Middle Low German kîken (“to look, peep”), from Old Saxon *kīkan (“to look”), from Proto-West Germanic *kīkan, from Proto-Germanic *kīkaną (“to look”).
Cognate with Dutch kijken (“to look”), German Low German kieken (“to look”), Estonian kiikama (“to look, to peek”), German kieken (“to look”), Danish kigge, kikke (“to look, peep”), Swedish kika (“to peep, peek, keek, pry”), Icelandic kíkja (“to look, check”). Perhaps related to kick.
The words peek, keek and peep were used more or less synonymously in the 14th and 15th centuries.
Inflected forms:
form: keeks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: keeking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: keeked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: keeked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: keeks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To peek; peep.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
intransitive
examples: She was laid in my arms. Not able to sit up, I just keeked at her beautiful facie.
gloss: A look, especially a quick one; a peek.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
examples: "And now let's take another keek at the red-coats," says Alan, and he led me to the north-eastern fringe of the wood.
Translations:
vorpal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Coined by British author and scholar Lewis Carroll in the poem Jabberwocky to describe a sword, likely modeled after warp and vortex + -al.
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more vorpal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most vorpal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Sharp or deadly.
pos: adj
gloss: Having a special power making decapitation likely.
pos: adj
Derived words: vorpalize
Translations:
obligated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more obligated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most obligated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Committed.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
Scotland
US
gloss: Having an obligation; obliged.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
Scotland
US
examples: Under a provision of a larger piece of legislation, popularly known as the Customs Bill, that has been approved by the House and is expected to soon pass the Senate, American officials will be obligated to treat the settlements as part of Israel in future trade negotiations.
Related words: obligate
Derived words: nonobligated
obligatedly
unobligated
Translations:
iterative
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
French itératifbor.
English iterative
Borrowed from French itératif.
Inflected forms:
form: iter.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: iteratives
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: iter.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of a procedure that involves repetition of steps (iteration) to achieve the desired outcome; in computing this may involve a mechanism such as a loop.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Expressive of an action that is repeated with frequency.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A verb showing the iterative aspect.
pos: noun
Synonyms: frequentative
Antonyms: noniterative
Related words: iterate
iteration
Derived words: iterative aspect
iterative deepening search
iteratively
iterativeness
iteron
past iterative
subiterative
Translations:
personalization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle English personal
English personal
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English personalize
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English personalization
From personalize + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: personalizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: personalisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of personalizing something, or adapting it for somebody's needs or tastes.
pos: noun
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of personalizing something, or adapting it for somebody's needs or tastes.
pos: noun
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of personifying; personification.
pos: noun
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
countable
dated
uncountable
Related words: configuration
profile
Derived words: depersonalization
overpersonalization
repersonalization
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: олицетворяване
roman: olicetvorjavane
lang: Catalan
word: personalització
lang: Dutch
word: personalisatie
lang: French
word: personnalisation
lang: Galician
word: personalización
lang: German
word: Personalisierung
lang: Greek
word: εξατομίκευση
roman: exatomíkefsi
lang: Hungarian
word: személyre szabás
lang: Indonesian
word: personalisasi
lang: Italian
word: personalizzazione
lang: Polish
word: personalizacja
lang: Portuguese
word: personalização
lang: Spanish
word: personalización
lang: Tagalog
word: pagpapasadya
wispy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wisp
English -y
English wispy
From wisp + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: wispier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: wispiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Consisting of or resembling a wisp; like a slender, flexible strand or bundle.
pos: adj
examples: The wispy smoke rose from chimneys all around town.
Translations:
quitting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: quittings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The deliberate ending of something.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The ceasing of a habit, especially smoking cigarettes or other addictive behaviors.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The termination of employment, initiated by the employee.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Derived words: quiet quitting
quitting time
revenge quitting
Translations:
shieling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Scots shiel (“hut”) (from Old Norse skjól (“shelter, cover”)) + -ing. Akin to Danish skjul (“cover”).
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: shielings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shealing
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sheeling
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shielin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sheilin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sheiling
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sheelin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An area of summer pasture used for cattle, sheep etc.
pos: noun
examples: The cattle at Mosfell were kept in a shieling, and Thordis stayed there while the Thing took place.
gloss: A shepherd's hut or shack.
pos: noun
examples: And what are twenty beds, when all the drovers,
And all the shieling herdsmen from Bengorach,
Must have a lair provided for the night.
Cabins and shielings had been torn down and burned.
Translations:
shiel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
Etymology: From Middle English schele. Akin to Old Frisian skiāle (“stable”) and Old Norse skjōl (“shelter”). See also sheal.
Inflected forms:
form: shiels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shiels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shieling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shieled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shieled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A shepherd's hut or shieling.
pos: noun
gloss: A cottage.
pos: noun
examples: The craik amang the claver hay, The pairtrick whirrin o'er the ley, The swallow jinkin round my shiel, Amuse me at my spinnin wheel.
gloss: To use a place as a shieling.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Patrick Robertson, who shieled on the Atholl side of Drumochter, confirmed this practice: his cattle 'continued there till about midsummer, when they were brought down to his farm, having continued there about three weeks, and were then sent back to the shealing.
Translations:
telecine
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der.
Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor.
English tele-
English cine
English telecine
From tele- + cine.
Inflected forms:
form: telecines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: telecines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: telecineing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: telecined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: telecined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The process of transferring motion picture film into electronic form.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A machine used to carry out this process.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To transfer (motion picture film) into electronic form.
pos: verb
Derived words: detelecine
Translations:
rotoscope
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
Etymology: From roto- + -scope.
Base: roto
Inflected forms:
form: rotoscopes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rotoscoping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rotoscoped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rotoscoped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A technique in which animators trace live-action movement frame by frame.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: To use this technique upon.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations: