yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
bastable
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown. It is believed by some to be a corruption of Barnstaple, which was known for manufacturing metal pots. Compare Barnstaple oven.
Inflected forms:
form: bastables
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bastible
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cast iron pot that is suspended over an open fire, often with hot coals placed on the lid for more even cooking.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
examples: There was no such thing as a bastable in those days.
Erika cooked over a turf fire and roasted meat in a bastable perched over the flames.
We'd always have it stewed in a bastable hung over the kitchen fire way back in those days.
Translations:
war-weariness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From war-weary + -ness.
Base: war-weary
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: warweariness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A state of exhaustion brought on by fighting in a war.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Bouts of war-weariness now began to grip me from time to time, rather after the fashion of bouts of malaria.
gloss: Weariness of war.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: One common imputed cause of this changed attitude toward force in the nineteenth century and the anomalous peace of that century in general is war-weariness.
Translations:
wring-house
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From wring (“press”) + house.
Base: wring
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The room or building where a cider press is stored.
pos: noun
examples: A building comprising granary and corn-store and machinery under, provided with the requisites to be worked by a water-wheel 20 ft. diameter; also, cyder-store, wring-house, and apple-loft over, is attached to a mill-stream adjacent, close to the homestead at a much lower level[…]
Down in the heart of the apple-country nearly every farmer kept a cider-making apparatus and wring-house for his own use, building up the pomace in great straw 'cheeses', as they were called[…]
Apples from the estate orchards are collected and stored in the lofts above the wring-house[…]
Translations:
stiff-lipped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The term refers to a person having a stern expression with the mouth closed and the lips pressed together.
Inflected forms:
form: more stiff-lipped
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stiff-lipped
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Maintaining a stiff upper lip.
pos: adj
examples: There is no accessible public roll of the knights of the order. [...] At this moment any stiff-lipped impostor may enter the jeweller's shop at the corner of Essex-street and the Strand, furnish himself with an imitation cross, and parade his counterfeit hero-certificate with impunity.
Again, in art, who holds the scales of notice for the Academy and the Grosvenor, and such like exhibitions? [...] a stiff-lipped, white-faced man, no longer young, whose creed is that no good pictures were painted in the English school before 1880.
Stiff-lipped, stiff-haired, the father gave his orders to the man in red.
Twyla watched it all with the stiff-lipped shock he recalled seeing on patients when he had done his emergency medicine rotation. "Don't tell me," Rob said to her. "Let me guess. Your ex-husband."
Radical youth, who later became educated liberals, saw in the old-school factory workers of his father's generation an image of stiff-lipped industrial union men as "the principal perpetrators of racism, sexism and narrow-mindedness in American society. [...]"
[T]he zippy musical numbers in which Mary Poppins (a stiff-lipped Emily Blunt) whisks cherubs Annabel, John, and Georgie (Pixie Davies, Nathanael Saleh, and Joel Dawson, respectively) away into colorful hyperreal fantasias impress.
Translations:
healy-feely
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From heal + -y (from how New Age pseudoscience often promotes a "healing" narrative to sell products) + feely (from the importance of feelings and emotions in such practices).
Base: heal
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more healy-feely
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most healy-feely
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to, or believing in, New Age pseudoscience.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
informal
examples: Not to get all healy-feely on you or anything, but I believe that is what they call a “breakthrough” in the therapy game. For one thing, it shed some light on a behavior I'm now working through […]
[…] much more palatable to me than talking of chakras and clearing bad energy. It sounded more magical, less New Age. Once we settled on a not too healy-feely compromise, we sent out email flyers to everyone we knew.
As anyone who has been around the healy-feely crowd long enough knows, the second Noble Truth of Buddhism states that the cause of all suffering is attachments.
Translations:
hick-hop
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of hick + hip-hop.
Compound parts: hick
hip-hop
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A genre that combines country and hip-hop, often equated with country rap.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
diego
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish Diego.
Inflected forms:
form: diegos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Spanish-speaker, especially from Latin America.
pos: noun
tags: ethnic
slang
slur
examples: They're just like Ludds, them diegos — nothing but a load of scum. I've seen 'ow they live. O' course, we soldiers dwell in mud 'alf the time, but that's different. We're building an empire. But them diegos! Them Jimmies! Well, I tell you!
"... Around twenty years old and pretty tall for a diego, maybe five-seven or five-eight." / "A diego?" Armand said. "He's a diego?" / "From Napoli."
Now I don't know what it is with the diegos, but as we were walking back to the hotel a couple of them started giving us a bit of verbals.
Translations:
nerve-racked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more nerve-racked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nerve-racked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: nerveracked
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: nerve-wracked
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: nervewracked
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Experiencing nerve rack.
pos: adj
examples: He was the last person a nerve-racked trader wanted to see.
But as things are to-day it is scarcely an exaggeration to say that the majority of wives are left wakeful and nerve-racked to watch with tender motherly brooding, or with bitter and jealous envy, the slumbers of the men who, through ignorance and carelessness, have neglected to see that they too had the necessary resolution of nervous tension.
Siana spent a nerve-racked night, searching her conscience as she tossed and turned.
Translations:
crutcher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From crutch + -er (relational noun suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix).
Base: crutch
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: crutchers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A vessel in which the ingredients of soap are stirred with a crutch (form of prop).
pos: noun
examples: The conveyance of soap to the crutchers from the kettle may be by pump or by gravity. In the latter case, which is simpler and involves less trouble, the top level of the crutchers should be below that of the nigre.
gloss: One who shears the hindquarters of a sheep.
pos: noun
examples: Summing up the advantages of the "Tally-Hi" crutching method, Senator Bull said: It makes crutching safer for the crutcher and the sheep. It reduces, as far as is practical, the effort and physical exertion required by the crutcher, bearing in mind the requirements of the owner.
It provides terms and conditions including rates of pay, hours of work and general conditions for shearers, crutchers, wiggers, ringers, shedhands, wool-pressers and cooks.
Translations:
Afro-Brazilian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Brazilian and of African roots
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
many-bodied
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From many + bodied.
Base: many
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Composed of multiple bodies.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
re-lease
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: re-leases
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: re-leasing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: re-leased
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: re-leased
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To lease again; to renew a lease.
pos: verb
examples: In a statement, it said: "Angel Trains recognises the importance of innovation and modernisation for the future of Britain's railways, and does not have plans to re-lease the Pacers to franchise operators."
Translations:
jagirdar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani (Hindi जागीरदार (jāgīrdār) / Urdu جَاگِير دَار), from Classical Persian جَاگِير دَار (“jagirdar”).
Inflected forms:
form: jagirdars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jageerdar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jagheerdar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jaghirdar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who holds a jagir.
pos: noun
Translations:
macam
Part of speech: prep
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Malay macam (“like”).
Inflected forms:
form: macham
pos: prep
tags: alternative
form: machiam
pos: prep
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Like, similar to, resembling.
pos: prep
tags: Malaysia
Singapore
Singlish
examples: Eee! Who-ah? You-ah? Oi! Cannot tahan man. Never shit so long-ah? Macham atomic bomb man. Uncle! Your old backside got big gas refinery is it?
Macham [like] monster like that. My eyes lagi [even more] worse.
Macam like rats stuck in pigeon holes
Translations:
half-finished
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From half- + finished.
Base: finished
Affixes: half-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Only partially completed, being more or less at the halfway stage.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: As we contemplate the half-finished arterial roads and electrification plans of our own age, and the town-planning schemes that gather dust in the public libraries, we can admire the drive and action of the railway pioneers.
Translations:
double-acting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Applying power in two directions.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Producing a double result.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
rot-steep
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
Inflected forms:
form: rot-steeps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rot-steeping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rot-steeped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rot-steeped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To steep (cotton) to remove impurities.
pos: verb
tags: UK
transitive
Translations:
wheat-eel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: wheat-eels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of species Anguina tritici of nematode worm that causes earcockle in wheat.
pos: noun
Translations:
overspeed
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From over- + speed.
Base: speed
Affixes: over-
Inflected forms:
form: overspeeds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: overspeeding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: oversped
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: oversped
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: overspeeded
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: overspeeded
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
form: overspeeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To travel excessively fast or beyond the permitted rate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Caully-flowers over-speeding to pome and head..should be quite erradicated ^([sic – meaning eradicated]).
gloss: To operate an engine or machine too fast.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
sometimes
transitive
usually
examples: The device should be periodically tested by overspeeding the engine say once a month.
gloss: To speed; to drive a vehicle faster than the permitted speed limit.
pos: verb
tags: India
intransitive
gloss: Speed that exceeds a reasonable or permitted rate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Trashes are clogs strapped round the neck of a dog to prevent his overspeed.
Protection devices are provided for engine and locomotive overspeed (maximum service speed is set at 90 m.p.h.); [...].
Investigating four 'overspeed' incidents during hot weather on July 18/19, RAIB discovered that confusion over where the BESRs [blanket emergency speed restrictions] started and finished, as well as the routes to which they applied, were contributory factors. […] There were no consequences from the overspeeds, [resulting from the BESRs] which had been put in place owing to danger of buckled rails.
Antonyms: underspeed
Translations:
elf-bolt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
fantasy
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
Etymology: From the folk belief that they were used by elves.
Inflected forms:
form: elf-bolts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A belemnite
pos: noun
examples: A proof much ſtronger of the diſtance at which the firſt poſſeſſors of this iſland lived from the preſent time, is afforded by the ſtone heads of arrows which are very frequently picked up. The people call them Elf-bolts, and believe that the fairies ſhoot them at the cattle.
gloss: A magical bolt used by elves as a weapon.
pos: noun
examples: [A] bow, in order that they may discharge little arrows at men, and tease them, as they otherwise do with small pebbles; for the dangerous Elf-bolt of the Scotch tradition hath doubtless its counterpart in one that is harmless.
The Elf-bolt is associated with many rustic fancies not yet altogether eradicated from the popular mind. It occupied no unimportant part among the paraphernalia of Scottish witches of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; and the occurrence of any sudden disease amongst cattle was ascribed until a comparatively recent period, to their having been shot by the fairies with Elfin arrows.
Translations:
take-in
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Deverbal from take in.
Inflected forms:
form: take-ins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fraud or deception.
pos: noun
examples: ‘Ma'am,’ cried Mr Sheridan, turning to me abruptly, ‘you should send and order him not, – it is a take in, and ought to be forbid […].’
Translations:
trife
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: dancing
hip-hop
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: A conceptual and phonetic blend of tripe and trifle
Inflected forms:
form: more trife
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most trife
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A trivial matter or matters.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: Trife is trife even, in a reform synagogue.
l thought niggahs was trife, but bitches ain't no joke.
This life is trife!
You may refurbish your life But, you can't avoid trife
gloss: Unforgiveable; reprehensible.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Okay, you wanna act trife and flip the script / With your Wonderama drama slash coma riff.
My life is as trife as your favorite rap record.
This shit is trife!
He bought her that drug, Satan's so trife, Now she addicted to the needle, A friend done ruined her life,
Just get out of my crib with your trife ass!
Translations:
philip
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: philips
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: English sparrow, house sparrow (Passer domesticus)
pos: noun
Translations:
low-paid
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lower-paid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: lowest-paid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a worker: earning poor pay, less than the average wage.
pos: adj
Translations:
chicken-heart
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: chicken-hearts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cowardly person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
Translations:
opara
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowing from Igbo
Inflected forms:
form: opara
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The oldest son, who has inherited the rights and responsibilities of his father after his father has died.
pos: noun
tags: Nigeria
examples: Since the opara was the rightful successor to his father, and more or less inherited his father's political and religious functions upon his death, sending him to school, where he became ipso facto a Christian convert, meant that when his ...
He summoned all the opara (the first sons) of each family in the clan.
Many mothers would give an arm and a leg to have an opara like me.
Translations:
cross-battery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
human-sciences
military
politics
psychology
sciences
war
Etymology: From cross- + battery.
Base: battery
Affixes: cross-
Inflected forms:
form: cross-batteries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The use of information from multiple batteries of tests in order to guide diagnostic decisions and to gain a fuller picture of an individual.
pos: noun
gloss: A pair of batteries commanding the same spot from different directions.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
Translations:
party-spirited
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From party spirit + -ed.
Base: party spirit
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more party-spirited
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most party-spirited
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Exhibiting party spirit.
pos: adj
Translations:
old-womanish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From old woman + -ish.
Base: old woman
Affixes: -ish
Inflected forms:
form: more old-womanish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most old-womanish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having the negative traits of a stereotypical elderly woman: peevish, superstitious, prim and proper, etc.
pos: adj
examples: He did not say that he thought her position stiff, and her dress too old for her, though he had thought it, and smiled at the prim, old-womanish figure, sitting so erect in the high-backed chair.
If we would exercise ourselves unto godliness, we must refuse profane and old-womanish tales. Much of the teaching and preaching in Christianity today falls in the category of old-womanish tales.
Translations:
self-tormentor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + tormentor.
Base: tormentor
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: self-tormentors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who torments himself or herself.
pos: noun
examples: [Anger] macerates, and vexes the soul with fury, so that they become self-tormentors; Rage, and fury, tortures more then wrong and injury.
[…] a little observation upon the affairs of men, assured me, that I might kick, and prance, and give myself airs, but it would all be to no purpose: that I should only live anxious, and go down into the grave sooner, for acting the self-tormentor; and tearing my body and constitution all to pieces:
The very willingness with which she performed these duties, the cheerfulness with which she bore her reverses, and the kindness which withheld her from imputing the smallest blame to him, were all perverted by this ingenious self-tormentor into further aggravations of his sufferings.
[…] his will was not always the servant of his intelligence; he was an agonist, a self-tormentor, who ran to meet suffering halfway.
Translations:
supersub
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From super- + sub.
Base: sub
Affixes: super-
Inflected forms:
form: supersubs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: super sub
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A substitute player who significantly contributes to a team's success.
pos: noun
gloss: In non-standard cricketing rules, a substitute player who is able to come on and replace any player at any point during the game, and to take over the other player's batting and bowling duties.
pos: noun
gloss: A particularly well-equipped and powerful submarine (underwater vehicle).
pos: noun
Translations:
neshama
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hebrew נְשָׁמָה (n'shamá, “spirit”).
Inflected forms:
form: neshamas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: neshamah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The soul.
pos: noun
tags: Judaism
gloss: One of the cabalistic aspects of the soul, related to intellect and the awareness of God.
pos: noun
tags: Judaism
Translations:
gallows-bitts
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A frame fixed in a ship's deck to support spare spars.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
anti-kangaroo
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From anti- + kangaroo.
Base: kangaroo
Affixes: anti-
Inflected forms:
form: more anti-kangaroo
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most anti-kangaroo
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Countering kangaroos.
pos: adj
examples: An anti-kangaroo bar was installed.
Translations:
ice-saw
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From ice + saw.
Compound parts: ice
saw
Inflected forms:
form: ice-saws
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large saw for cutting through ice to free ships, etc.
pos: noun
Translations:
nicky-nicky-nine-doors
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: knicky-knocky-nine-doors
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of knock down ginger (“prank of knocking on a front door and running away”).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
gamb
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: From Middle French gambe (variant of jambe) from Late Latin gamba (hoof, leg, shank). Doublet of jamb, gamba, and gam.
Inflected forms:
form: gambs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gambe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The leg or shank, typically of an animal, especially of a lion, on a coat of arms, crest, etc.
pos: noun
examples: Vachell, Eng. a bull's gamb in pale, couped, argent. […] Vaughan of Littleton, Middlesex, a lion's gamb, or, holding a human heart, gules.
gloss: A person's leg; gam.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: […] but Heavens above what a pair of gambs! Stems. What the vulgar call legs.
Related words: related terms of gamba
Translations:
e-circle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + circle.
Base: circle
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
form: e-circles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A circle of friends on the Internet.
pos: noun
examples: Virtual communities, Web-conferencing, chat rooms, e-circles — the names for the new computer technologies of the 1990s resonate with images of collaboration.
His godfather, part of yet another family, helps him maintain an e-circle of friends who make up his garage band.
Translations:
fanbook
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fanbooks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fan book
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A book designed for person who is enthusiastically devoted to something or somebody, for example a sports team or movies series.
pos: noun
Translations:
cost-book
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cost-books
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A book containing the names and shares of the joint speculators in a mining enterprise.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
silverleaf
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: silverleafs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: silverleaves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several plants that have silvery leaves
pos: noun
Translations:
chikoo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compare English chico.
Inflected forms:
form: chikoos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chiku
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of sapodilla (“the tree and its fruit”)
pos: noun
tags: India
examples: Regarding seasons of other fruits in Bombay it is seen that oranges, mosambis and chikoos are available almost throughout the year, the peak period of chikoos being December and January.
The chikoo grafts which were prepared here were of "Kalipatti Variety". This variety was of very good quality and one of the best in the country.
Translations:
maindeck
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From main + deck.
Base: main
Inflected forms:
form: maindecks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: main-deck
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The principal deck of a ship or vessel
pos: noun
Translations:
strip-lit
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Illuminated by one or more striplights.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
cloud-first
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Based predominantly on cloud computing.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Years ago there were many discussions on whether a company should declare a cloud-first model, or not chase the latest and greatest technologies […]
Translations:
duck-legged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more duck-legged
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most duck-legged
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having short legs.
pos: adj
Translations:
rough-hewer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: rough-hewers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who rough-hews.
pos: noun
Translations:
drag-chain
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Etymology: From drag + chain.
Compound parts: drag
chain
Inflected forms:
form: drag-chains
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: drag chain
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The chain that connects together engine and tender, or carriages and wagons.
pos: noun
Translations:
solopreneur
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From solo + -preneur.
Base: solo
Affixes: -preneur
Inflected forms:
form: solopreneurs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An entrepreneur who operates a business alone.
pos: noun
gloss: A person that creates a business and runs it on their own without the help of other employees; in contrast to a traditional entrepreneur who hires employees to work under them.
pos: noun
Translations:
wash-gilding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The process of gilding with an amalgam of gold from which the mercury is driven off by heat, leaving a coating of gold.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
falcon-gentil
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: falcon-gentle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The female and young of the goshawk.
pos: noun
Translations:
ship-pound
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ship-pounds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A unit of weight once used in the Baltic ports.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
drop-drill
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From drop + drill.
Compound parts: drop
drill
Inflected forms:
form: drop-drills
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An agricultural device for dropping seed and manure into the soil simultaneously.
pos: noun
Translations:
washup
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Deverbal from wash up.
Inflected forms:
form: washups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wash-up
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is washed.
pos: noun
gloss: Something or somebody that is washed up; a has-been.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A meeting to gauge the success or failure of an operation or war game.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: I found it quite interesting that the players had gone to great lengths not to fire nuclear weapons, even in games that pitted Soviet and Western forces against each other in demanding situations. […] Huge arguments would take place in the post-game analyses or "washups."
gloss: The period prior to dissolution of parliament, in which any remaining bills are quickly pushed through or else abandoned.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
Translations:
dead-rope
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
form: dead-ropes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rope not running in any block.
pos: noun
Translations:
bromo-seltzer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bromo- + seltzer.
Base: seltzer
Affixes: bromo-
Inflected forms:
form: bromo-seltzers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bromo seltzer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A type of proprietary effervescent sedative containing a mixture of bromides.
pos: noun
examples: "Wait a minute." Ida, with bedroom slippers clattering, hurried back to her room, returned with a bottle of bromo seltzer and in the bathroom fixed Susan a dose. "You'll feel all right in half an hour or so. Gee, but you're swell—with your own bathroom."
He heard Carling addressing a remark to the bartender: “Give him a bromo-seltzer.” Amory shook his head indignantly. “None that stuff!”
Translations:
sheer-to-waist
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sheer to waist
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: of tights or pantyhose, having the same denier (thickness) for the top or panty as for the legs, creating a more see-through effect right up to the waistband.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
shin-kicking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A traditional English sport in which two combatants hold each other by the collar while trying to kick each other's shin
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
non-drop
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a Christmas tree, retaining its needles, not shedding them onto the floor.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
well-developed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: better-developed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: best-developed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: well developed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
predicative
Senses:
gloss: Developed to a great extent, highly developed.
pos: adj
tags: attributive
examples: He has well-developed muscles.
She has a well-developed sense of humour.
The reputations of our universities and our research base are already under threat because of the fallout from the EU referendum result, which is making the UK an unfriendlier place for overseas scholars and students, as well as cutting off access to an important stream of research funding and to a vibrant and well-developed ecosystem for collaborative work.
Translations:
nasri
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic نَاصْرِي (nāṣrī).
Inflected forms:
form: nasris
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A coin formerly used as a currency unit in Tunisia from medieval to Ottoman times, set at one point as one eightieth of a sultani.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
unrep
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
Etymology: Short for underway replenishment.
Inflected forms:
form: unreps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: unreps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unrepping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unrepped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unrepped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The act of taking on fuel without putting into port.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To take on fuel without putting into port.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
schneid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Clipping of schneider, from German Schneider (“tailor”).
Inflected forms:
form: schneids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A losing streak.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
slang
gloss: A loss with no points scored.
pos: noun
Translations:
upclose
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From up- + close.
Base: close
Affixes: up-
Inflected forms:
form: upcloses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: upclosing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: upclosed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: upclosed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To close up.
pos: verb
tags: poetic
examples: My pains are otherwise: upclosing cramps / And stiffened tendons from this country's damps.
a. 1843, unknown author (initialled N. P. S.), "Lines to an Alabaster Sarcophagus"
Some pious Thebans, when the storm was past, / Upclosed the sepulchre with cunning skill.
Translations:
hillstar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hillstars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of several varieties of hummingbirds, principally of genus Oreotrochilus, which live at higher altitudes.
pos: noun
Translations:
peggy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the name Peggy.
Inflected forms:
form: peggies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several small warblers, the whitethroat, etc.
pos: noun
Translations:
nightfire
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From night + fire.
Compound parts: night
fire
Inflected forms:
form: nightfires
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fire that is lit outdoors at night.
pos: noun
examples: So I go on with my clowns & ponies, angels floating over peasants warming themselves by nightfires, devils, laborers, simple country girls, of donkey-bodied men & mystic bursts of rain over symbolic volcanoes.
I mean to have them all garrisoned again within the year, and nightfires burning before their gates.
Around the nightfires, I read Ezekiel and Leviticus and then spoke mysteriously about the quarry we chased, lengthening all I knew of the Harp gang into flatulent legend.
gloss: A will o' the wisp.
pos: noun
Translations:
state-run
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From state + run, past participle of run.
Compound parts: state
run
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: which is run by the state
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In Tingri county six out of the nine state-run enterprises (including collectives, which are quasi state enterprises) were without a bookkeeper. The county's truck team had not even kept accounts for the past few years.
The power sharing deal came as ScotRail, which will be entirely state-run by March 2022, released its Fit for Purpose document that plans to axe 300 services per day compared with pre-pandemic levels [...].
Translations:
Champy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Clipping of Champlain + -y.
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: Champies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Champ
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Champie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of a class of aquatic monsters said to inhabit Lake Champlain.
pos: noun
Translations:
spinella
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
entomology
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: spinellae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of the small hard tooth-like structures that may be present on the gonosaccus.
pos: noun
gloss: A small spine; a prickle.
pos: noun
examples: […] the small areola at base scarcely forked, closely muricate with silvery-gray spinellae on a brown background.
Translations:
log-log
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Describing a relationship (or a graph) between logarithmic quantities (or scales)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
rapier-fish
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: rapier-fish
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of swordfish.
pos: noun
Translations:
father-out-law
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From father + -out-law, by analogy to father-in-law.
Base: father
Affixes: -out-law
Inflected forms:
form: fathers-out-law
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The father of one's boyfriend or girlfriend.
pos: noun
gloss: The father of any of one's friends.
pos: noun
gloss: The father of one's ex-spouse.
pos: noun
examples: One day, in an argument with his wife, Haydar, he made a terrible mistake. He refused to acknowledge Henock Beamare as his father-in-law. Instead, he referred to him as his father-out-law.
In the absence of the father in his role as father-in-law to Malone, the would be son-in-law comes under the direction of another father figure, the scientist Challenger, who rather than a substitute father-in-law can more pertinently be seen as a father-out-law.
With this exit of the normal father, the would-be son-in-law ends up in the hands of a kind of father-out-law;, Challenger whose science will lead the young man to the fantasy space and the king of the ape-men.
Related words: brother-out-law
daughter-out-law
mother-out-law
sister-out-law
son-out-law
Translations:
sister-out-law
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sister + -out-law, by analogy to sister-in-law.
Base: sister
Affixes: -out-law
Inflected forms:
form: sisters-out-law
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sister of one's boyfriend or girlfriend.
pos: noun
gloss: Girlfriend of one's brother or sister.
pos: noun
examples: I, on the other side, was ready to strangle my almost sister-in-law. (My sister out-law.)
This included Prunella Tuff, my “sister-out-law”, a term we invented to describe the relationship between us as she was the sister of my brother in-law, Tim Tuff.
“If you're openly gay, wouldn't that make you his sister-out-law?”
I, on the other side, was ready to strangle my almost sister-in-law. (My sister out-law.)
gloss: The sister of one's ex-spouse.
pos: noun
Related words: brother-out-law
daughter-out-law
father-out-law
mother-out-law
son-out-law
Translations:
mother-out-law
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From mother + -out-law, by analogy to mother-in-law.
Base: mother
Affixes: -out-law
Inflected forms:
form: mothers-out-law
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The mother of one's boyfriend or girlfriend.
pos: noun
gloss: The mother of any of one's friends.
pos: noun
gloss: The mother of one's ex-spouse.
pos: noun
examples: The old Cape Cod commune-istas had caught up enough with my mother out-law and were now asking after notable events in the lives of her offspring.
Related words: brother-out-law
daughter-out-law
father-out-law
sister-out-law
son-out-law
Translations:
brother-out-law
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From brother + -out-law, by analogy to brother-in-law.
Base: brother
Affixes: -out-law
Inflected forms:
form: brothers-out-law
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The brother of one's boyfriend or girlfriend.
pos: noun
gloss: The boyfriend of one's sister or brother.
pos: noun
examples: Eust[ace]. My brother Out-lavv, and my ovvne true brother! / Cha[rles]. For euer thus let vs embrace each other.
The Church, therefore, decided to declare Richard a brother-out-law and condemned him.
gloss: The brother of one's ex-spouse.
pos: noun
examples: Going home and hanging out with his daughter and brother-in-law, Ex-brother-in-law? Brother-out-law? seemed a whole lot better than whatever was going to happen inside that restaurant.
Related words: daughter-out-law
father-out-law
mother-out-law
sister-out-law
son-out-law
Translations:
goldmining
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: gold mining
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gold-mining
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The mining of gold.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
stand-to-pee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: stand-to-pees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stand to pee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: STP
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A device that enables a person with a vagina to more easily urinate while standing.
pos: noun
Translations:
anarcho-leftism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From anarcho- + leftism.
Base: leftism
Affixes: anarcho-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A form of anarchism that emphasizes community and social equality as well as mutual responsibility.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Yes, of course, all three filmmakers are working from different viewpoints: Vidor from a rural Populism, Disney from a somehow suburbanized eupepsia, and Chaplin from his anarcho-leftism.
But, more importantly in the long-term, in interring Bookchin's work it also performs the last rites over anarcho-leftism.
Type 1 refers to anarcho-leftism and type 2 to anarcho-capitalists, even though he is quick to dismiss them as unrepresentative of the anarchist tradition.
Translations:
down-ballot
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the organization of most electoral ballots, which list electoral offices in descending order of the amount of power wielded by the officeholder.
Inflected forms:
form: more down-ballot
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most down-ballot
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the election of a relatively minor officeholder.
pos: adj
examples: Just as I stepped out of the shower, I got a call from a state senator who was planning to run for a down-ballot statewide office against the mayor of a suburban city.
In 2012, Coleman again secured his reelection with more than 90 percent of the vote, and Democratic candidates in his district secured a greater share of the mean precinct down-ballot vote in 2012 than in 2000.
In down-ballot races, television advertising is rare.
One task of these developers at the party was to create tools for state parties and down-ballot candidates built from this data architecture.
Translations:
down-ticket
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more down-ticket
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most down-ticket
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of down-ballot.
pos: adj
examples: He should form a PAC to dole out dollars to down-ticket Republicans.
Second, each percentage point gain for Obama among whites translated into a 1.16 point gain for the down-ticket Democrats (all of whom except for the challengers to Jeff Sessions [R-Ala.] and Thad Cochran [R-Miss.] are white).
When one uses linear regression to test the relationship between white vote shares of down-ticket candidates for U.S. Senate and governor and the Obama performance among whites, while controlling for incumbency in the contest, the following patterns emerge.
Translations:
bioeconomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bio- + economy.
Base: economy
Affixes: bio-
Inflected forms:
form: bioeconomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An economy based on biotechnology
pos: noun
Translations:
post-tropical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having previously been a tropical storm.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having previously had a tropical climate or involved tropical characteristics.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Saulteaux
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French saulteux, or French saulteurs, from French sault (“waterfall”) in reference to Sault Ste. Marie (then called Sault de Gaston) where the French first encountered them.
Inflected forms:
form: Saulteau
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: an indigenous nation from the northern Great Plains and southern Canadian Shield, the Westernmost branch of the Ojibwe or Anishnaabe
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
death-damp
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: death-damps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cold, clammy sweat preceding death.
pos: noun
Translations:
no-hander
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: no-handers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A move performed without the use of one's hands.
pos: noun
Translations:
livewell
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: livewells
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: live well
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A well in a fishing boat where fish are kept alive.
pos: noun
Translations:
back-spelling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From back + spelling.
Base: back
Inflected forms:
form: backspelling
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An unetymological, often hypercorrect, spelling of a word created by analogy with other words which (usually through loss of a sound or its phonetic merger with other sounds) have become similar to it.
pos: noun
examples: Modern English numb is a back-spelling, because this word never had a /b/ in it. The back-spelling is based on words such as lamb, which had once ended in /b/, but where this sound was lost and the letter b became silent.
For example, in D and w, e is a possible reflex for OE y: (29) cysan, presumably a back-spelling for cesen < ceosen, and (40) hylle, a back-spelling for helle.
Another very important type is hypercorrect or inverse spelling (Rückschreibung, backspelling). Here a segment that has been lost or altered is spelled in the 'wrong' environment, suggesting that the writer knows that some words have it by convention, but not precisely which.
The absence of the epenthetic consonant in ⲖⲈⲬⲞⲨⲬⲞⲨⲘⲈⲢⲈ lekhukhumere seems to reflect a phenomenon of backspelling.
Translations:
bone-mouth
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bone-mouths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of shar-pei.
pos: noun
Translations:
sub-moon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sub- + moon.
Base: moon
Affixes: sub-
Inflected forms:
form: sub-moons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of moonmoon.
pos: noun
Translations:
teru-tero
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: teru-teros
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of southern lapwing.
pos: noun
examples: The teru-tero (Vanellus cayanensis), is another bird, which often disturbs the stillness of the night.
Translations:
gundy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: gundies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A front claw of a crab.
pos: noun
tags: Trinidad-and-Tobago
examples: They said that crabs folded their gundies inwards when the crabs were in their holes and were therefore unable to bite anyone from that position.
The experience of eating crab meat out of a gundy, if you film a session on that it's a big thing for experiential tourism.
Translations:
minecraft
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From mine + -craft.
Base: mine#Etymology 2
Affixes: -craft
Inflected forms:
form: minecraft
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: minecrafts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A warship which lays naval mines.
pos: noun
examples: Each was marked by lighted dan buoys spaced at one-mile intervals, laid by Fairmile motor launches of the Royal Navy, which followed immediately behind the minecraft.
By the end of May 8 the Japanese had lost one light carrier, a destroyer and several minecrafts. One large carrier had to be retired from the battle and sent home for repairs. The U.S. losses included one destroyer and an oiler, ...
In reality, the ship was named (on 3 July 1990) along with several other MCMs to "commemorate the service of World War II minecraft that saw significant service."
I had finally joined "the big boys" on a ship other than one called a craft . . . landing crafts or minecrafts. Now, after serving only 71 days, I was being booted off my first warship.
Translations:
kaisa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Borrowed from Finnish kaisa.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A variant of the game billiards played chiefly in Finland and Russia.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations: