yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
werewolf
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: fantasy
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English werwolf, from Old English werewulf, from Proto-West Germanic *werawulf, from Proto-West Germanic *wer (“man”) + *wulf (“wolf”). Cognate with Dutch weerwolf, Low German Warwulf, German Werwolf, Danish varulv, Swedish varulv, and even possibly Finnish vironsusi. By surface analysis, were- + wolf.
* Compare French garou in loup-garou; French dialectal gairou, varou (“werewolf”); Medieval Latin gerulphus, garulphus (“werewolf”); all from Germanic, probably Frankish *werawulf.
Inflected forms:
form: werewolves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: warwolf
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: wehrwolf
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: were wolf
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
form: were-wolf
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: werwolf
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A person who is transformed or can transform into a wolf or a wolflike human, often said to do so during a full moon.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: dogman
Translations:
onomatopoeic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥
Proto-Hellenic *ónomə
Ancient Greek ὄνομᾰ (ónomă)
Proto-Indo-European *kʷey-der.
Proto-Hellenic *kʷoiwéyō
Ancient Greek ποιέω (poiéō)
Ancient Greek ὀνομᾰτοποιός (onomătopoiós)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek ὀνομᾰτοποιῐ́ᾱ (onomătopoiĭ́ā)der.
Latin onomatopoeïabor.
English onomatopoeia
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English onomatopoeic
From onomatopoeia + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: onomatopeic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: onomatopœic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
form: onomatopoetic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to onomatopoeia.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having the property of onomatopoeia.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: There are also three ways in which katakana is used for writing Japanese words:
1 to make words stand out, for example, in advertising: トヨタ (Toyota)
2 to classify species of plants and animals, for example in botanical gardens
3 to write onomatopoeic words
Some of them are onomatopoeic like hrududu (which is a car), but overall they simply came from my subconscious.
Synonyms: echoic
imitative
mimetic
phonomimetic
onomatopoeial
onomatopoetic
Derived words: onomatopoeically
Translations:
sheath
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
entomology
fashion
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
zoology
Etymology: From Middle English sheth, shethe (“holder for a sword, knife, etc., scabbard, sheath”) [and other forms], from Old English sċēaþ (“sheath”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaiþiju, from Proto-Germanic *skaiþiz (“sheath; covering”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to dissect, split”) (possibly from the notion of a split stick with a sword inserted).
The English word is cognate with Danish skede, Dutch schede, Icelandic skeið, German Scheide, Low German scheed, Norwegian skjede.
Inflected forms:
form: sheaths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A holster for a sword; a scabbard.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything that has a similar shape to a scabbard that is used to hold an object that is longer than it is wide.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: The base of a leaf when sheathing or investing a branch or stem, as in grasses.
pos: noun
gloss: The insulating outer cover of an electrical cable.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the elytra of an insect.
pos: noun
gloss: A tight-fitting dress.
pos: noun
gloss: The foreskin of certain animals (for example, dogs and horses).
pos: noun
gloss: A condom.
pos: noun
tags: UK
informal
Related words: sheathe
heliosheath
resheath
resheathe
unsheath
unsheathe
Derived words: astrosheath
desheath
exsheath
exsheathment
femoral sheath
leaf sheath
magnetosheath
medullary sheath
myelin sheath
penile sheath
penis sheath
presheath
rhizosheath
rice sheath mite
root sheath
Schwann's sheath
sheathbill
sheath cake
sheath dress
sheather
sheathfish
sheath knife
sheathless
sheathlike
sheathotomy
sheath-tail bat
sheath-tailed bat
sheath-tailed mouse
sheathy
sub
Translations:
lycanthrope
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin lycanthrōpus, from Ancient Greek λυκάνθρωπος (lukánthrōpos) – a compound of λύκος (lúkos, “wolf”) + ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “man, human”). By surface analysis, lyc- + -anthrope.
Inflected forms:
form: lycanthropes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A werewolf.
pos: noun
gloss: More generally, any sort of werecreature.
pos: noun
Synonyms: werewolf
shape-shifter
Related words: lycanthropic
lycanthropy
werebear
wereboar
wererat
weretiger
werewolf
Translations:
immense
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English immens, inmens, from Old French immense, from Latin immensus, from in- (“not”) + mensus (“measured”). Compare incommensurable.
Inflected forms:
form: immenser
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: immensest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: immenses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Huge, gigantic, very large.
pos: adj
examples: Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
As Elon Musk returns his focus to his businesses, one of his most important companies just had another setback: A SpaceX Starship rocket exploded in an immense fireball Wednesday during a routine ground test.
gloss: Supremely good.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
gloss: Major; to a great degree.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: The gallant young Indian dandies at home on furlough—immense dandies these—chained and moustached—driving in tearing cabs […]
gloss: Immense extent or expanse; immensity.
pos: noun
tags: poetic
examples: The half of Asia is my prison-house,
Myriads of convicts lost in its Immense—
I look with terror to my crowning day.
The events that took place in the immenses of the former USSR three years ago remind one about ancient rule of everyday life which is equally applicable both to daily routine and to politics: […]
Derived words: immensely
immenseness
immensity
immensive
superimmense
Translations:
girth
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English girth, gerth, gyrth, from Old Norse gjǫrð, from Proto-Germanic *gerdō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- (“to encircle, enclose; belt”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌳𐌰 (gairda), Icelandic gjörð. Also related to German Gurt, English gird, Albanian ngërthej (“to tie, bind, fasten”).
Inflected forms:
form: girths
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: girths
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: girthing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: girthed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: girthed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A band passed under the belly of an animal, which holds a saddle or a harness saddle in place.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He was standing on the offside of his horse, holding up the flap of his saddle, with the surcingle loosened, and was pointing to the girths. Close to their attachment to the saddle they had been almost cut through with a knife.
gloss: The part of an animal around which the girth fits.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: One's waistline circumference, most often a large one.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: He's a lusty, jolly fellow, that lives well, at least three yards in the girth.
gloss: A small horizontal brace or girder.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The distance measured around an object; the circumference.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The length of the shortest cycle in a graph.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To bind as if with a girth or band.
pos: verb
Synonyms: circumference
cinch
Derived words: breastgirth
breast girth
breast-girth
digirth
girthen
girthful
girth-galled
girthless
girthline
girthly
girthsome
girth strap
girthy
ungirth
Translations:
earwax
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English erewax, from ere + wax. Equivalent to ear + wax.
Compound parts: ere
wax
Inflected forms:
form: earwaxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ear wax
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ear-wax
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A waxy substance secreted by the ear.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Her's Agamemnon, an honeſt fellow inough and one that loues quailes, but hee has not ſo much braine as eare-wax, […]
Translations:
cerumen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Medieval Latin caerūmen, from cera + -men. The appearance of the u is unexplained, but may have been influenced by words like albūmen and bitūmen.
Base: cera
Affixes: -men
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Earwax.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
waxy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English waxi, wexy, equivalent to wax (“soft oily substance”) + -y.
Base: wax
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: waxier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more waxy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: waxiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most waxy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling wax in texture or appearance.
pos: adj
examples: There's far more than just hot dogs to feast on too. The pizzas—gigantic, floppy, with a hyperreal waxy sheen—are mythic. They arrive exclusively in cheese, pepperoni, or supreme—the holy trinity—and will run you an eminently affordable $1.99 for a ridiculously huge wedge-shaped slice.
gloss: Low in starch; tending to remain firm when cooked.
pos: adj
examples: As we all know, there are great differences among potatoes; some are waxy, others floury; and these, again, vary according to the manner and degree of cooking.
Related words: earwaxy
Derived words: waxily
waxiness
waxy cap
waxycap
waxy cast
waxy corn
waxy degeneration
waxy disease
waxy finger
waxy flexibility
waxy kidney
waxy liver
waxy maize
waxy monkey leaf frog
waxy potato
waxy rice
waxy screw shell
waxy spleen
Translations:
henge
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from Stonehenge, although it is not strictly a henge.
Inflected forms:
form: henges
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A prehistoric enclosure in the form of a circle or circular arc defined by a raised circular bank and a circular ditch usually running inside the bank, with one or more entrances leading into the enclosed open space.
pos: noun
gloss: A stone circle.
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
Derived words: Dronehenge
hengelike
hengiform
Translations:
diaeresis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: communications
human-sciences
journalism
linguistics
literature
media
medicine
orthography
phonology
prosody
publishing
sciences
surgery
writing
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwís
Unadapted borrowing from Late Latin diaeresis (“distribution; division of a diphthong into two syllables”), from Ancient Greek δῐαίρεσῐς (dĭaíresĭs, “distribution, division; division of a poetic line when the end of a word and a metrical foot coincide; division of a diphthong into two syllables”), from δῐαιρέω (dĭairéō, “to divide; to distinguish; to resolve a diphthong or contracted form”) + -σῐς (-sĭs, suffix forming abstract nouns or nouns of action, process, or result). Δῐαιρέω (Dĭairéō) is derived from δῐᾰ- (dĭă-, prefix meaning ‘across; through; in different directions’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dwís (“doubly, twice; in two”)) + αἱρέω (hairéō, “to grasp, seize, take”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to grasp, seize, take”)).
Inflected forms:
form: diaereses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dieresis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
form: diæresis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: diaëresis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
nonstandard
rare
Senses:
gloss: A separation of one syllable (especially a vowel which is a diphthong, that is, beginning with one sound and ending with another) into two distinct syllables; distraction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An occurrence of separate vowel sounds in adjacent syllables without an intervening consonant; a hiatus.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The diacritical mark consisting of two dots (¨) placed over a letter (especially the second of two consecutive vowels) to indicate that it is sounded separately, usually as a distinct syllable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Diæreſis is vvhen tvvo points ouer a vovvell diuide it from another vovvel, as bouë, queuë, read bou-e, queu-e, not bo-ue, que-ue.
The Diæresis is used to divide a diphthong into two syllables; as, Creätor.
An 85-year injustice has been rectified at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey with the corrected spelling of one of the greatest of all literary names. Reader, it is finally Brontë, not Bronte. An amended memorial to Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë was unveiled on Thursday with added diaereses (two dots) that ensure people pronounce it with two syllables. As if it rhymed with Monty, not font. The memorial was installed in 1939 and, for whatever reason, came without the diaereses that the Brontës used.
gloss: A division, a separation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
rare
rhetoric
uncountable
gloss: A natural break in rhythm when a word ends at the end of a metrical foot in a line of verse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An act of separating body parts or tissues which are normally together.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: There are four^([sic]) manners of performing the Diæreſis: viz. by Cutting, Pricking, Tearing, Dravving, and Burning.
Synonyms: trema
Related words: exaeresis
prosthaphaeresis
prosthaphæresis
synaeresis
synæresis
syneresis
Translations:
connective
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
logic
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
zoology
Etymology: For connexive, borrowed from Latin connexīvus. Displacement of x by ct in Latin loanwords is very common. Compare connect, connectivum, connection.
Inflected forms:
form: connectives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Serving or tending to connect; connecting.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Society is doomed to an ignominious death as soon as the connective tissue of institutions and the ossified material of officialdom with its rank growth of unyielding red tape and formalism begin to spread, choking, and strangling the free, personal life of the individual.
gloss: That which connects.
pos: noun
gloss: A function that operates on truth values to give another truth value.
pos: noun
examples: Condition iii) ensures that the truth-rules for the sentential connectives and quantifiers are satisfied within one and the same valuation νₛ.
gloss: A word used to connect words, clauses and sentences, most commonly applied to conjunctions.
pos: noun
gloss: The tissue which connects the locules of an anthers together.
pos: noun
gloss: A connective tissue.
pos: noun
Synonyms: connexive
connective
Derived words: connectively
connectiveness
Translations:
low-end
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more low-end
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: lower-end
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most low-end
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: lowest-end
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: low end
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: lowend
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Cheap, inexpensive or low-quality.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: downmarket
In trade, it is an almost infallible law that a hungry low-end market, an eager dumping grouund for the shoddiest work, is an irresistible market force.
12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
With the help of some low-end boosting, Dinklage musters a decent amount of kid-appropriate menace—although he never does explain his gift for finding chunks of ice shaped like pirate ships—but Romano and Leary mainly sound bored, droning through their lines as if they’re simultaneously texting the contractors building the additions on their houses funded by their fat sequel paychecks.
Translations:
gerbil
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French gerbille, from Latin gerbo, from Arabic جَرْبُوع (jarbūʕ) or يَرْبُوع (yarbūʕ, “jerboa”). Doublet of jerboa.
Inflected forms:
form: gerbils
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gerbille
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: jerbil
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: gerbill
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: gerbils
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gerbiling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: gerbilling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: gerbiled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: gerbiled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: gerbilled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: gerbilled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
form: gerbille
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
form: jerbil
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
form: gerbill
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A member of one of several species of small, jumping, mouselike rodents of the subfamily Gerbillinae, native to Africa, India, and Southern Europe.
pos: noun
gloss: To rotate inside a monowheel or similar apparatus due to sudden acceleration or braking.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To insert a small animal (typically a gerbil, supposedly) into one's rectum (a sexual practice in urban myth).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
Related words: guinea pig
hamster
jerboa
jird
mouse
rat
Translations:
postposition
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pós
Proto-Indo-European *-ti
Proto-Indo-European *pósti
Proto-Italic *posti
Old Latin poste
Latin post
English post-
English position
English postposition
From post- + position.
Inflected forms:
form: postpositions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: postpositions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: postpositioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: postpositioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: postpositioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A word that has the same purpose as a preposition but comes after the noun.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of placing after, or the state of being placed after.
pos: noun
examples: the postposition of the nominative case to the verb
gloss: To be placed after a the word that it modifies.
pos: verb
examples: Nonetheless, PPs in my dataset not only make up the bulk of the non-clausal postpositionings, but they are also postpositioned at a relatively high rate, particularly in comparison to adverbs, the second most frequent form.
Synonyms: postpositive preposition
Antonyms: preposition
Related words: postposed
postpositive
Derived words: postpositional
Translations:
lingam
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Sanskrit लिङ्गम् (liṅgam, nominative singular of लिङ्ग (liṅga, “sign, mark”)).
Inflected forms:
form: lingams
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: linga
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The aniconic phallic representation traditionally worshipped as a symbol of or in connection with Shiva.
pos: noun
examples: Then we have the very numerous lingams (conventional representations of the male organ) to be seen, scores and scores of them, in the arcades and cloisters of the Hindu Temples - to which women of all classes, especially those who wish to become mothers, resort, anointing them copiously with oil, and signalizing their respect and devotion to them in a very practical way.
Caylus presents Pan in the act of pouring water upon the male member; that is, invigorating the creative power by the application of the prolific element upon which it acted. In India, it was customary to pour sacred water from the Ganges upon the Lingam, the symbol of Siva.
gloss: The penis.
pos: noun
examples: Then when his lingam is erect he should touch her with his hands in various places, and gently manipulate various parts of the body.
This compound, when applied to the lingam, results in sexual dominance.
When the sages saw the great god Siva so haggard and sad, they treated him with scorn and saluted him only with bent heads.
Sica^([sic – meaning Siva]), tired and weary, asked only for "alms". Thus the god went about begging along the roads of Darauvanam.
As the women looked at him, they felt a pang in their heart. Their minds were perturbed and their hearts agitated by the sensations of love. They forsook the beds of the sages and followed Siva.
As the sages saw their wives following Siva, they pronounced a curse upon him;
"May his lingam fall to the ground."
He still enjoys a tumble with her now as much as when they were youngsters, his voice cracking and his lingam a sprout that seemed never to get soft.
I gaze into the starry void, into Dominique’s eyes, into the blackness behind my own sealed eyelids as her lips envelop my lingam, and I feel a feedback channel opening between this creature of obsession and the dormant natural man.
Once both partners have felt the connection it is up to the woman to give the signal that permission to enter has been granted. She may whisper her invitation to enter, use her hands to guide his lingam, or press against him, causing his lingam to open her.
Derived words: jyotirlinga
lingamic
lingam massage
Translations:
circumference
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geometry
graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin circumferentia, from circum (“around”) + ferō (“to carry”). Displaced native Old English ymbgang.
Inflected forms:
form: circumferences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The line that bounds a circle or other two-dimensional figure.
pos: noun
gloss: The length of such a line.
pos: noun
gloss: The surface of a round or spherical object.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: The length of the longest cycle of a graph.
pos: noun
Synonyms: perimeter
umstroke
lap
Related words: diameter
radius
perimeter
Derived words: circumferenceless
semicircumference
Translations:
housebreak
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From house + break, back-formed from housebroken in the animal-training sense.
Compound parts: house
break
Inflected forms:
form: housebreaks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: housebreaking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: housebroke
pos: verb
tags: past
form: housebroken
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: housebreaks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To train an animal to avoid urinating or defecating in the house, except within a litterbox, toilet, or other receptacle.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
gloss: To break into a house, typically to burgle it.
pos: verb
tags: US
intransitive
gloss: Synonym of housebreaking.
pos: noun
Related words: housebreaker
housebreaking
Translations:
sheeple
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of sheep (“likened to sheep in a herd that follow without independent thought”) + people.
Compound parts: sheep
people
Inflected forms:
form: sheople
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: People who are perceived as conforming unquestioningly to authority or mainstream beliefs.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
plural
plural-only
slang
examples: War protesters . . . did appear along Mr. Rumsfeld's path carrying signs saying "Bush is a Liar" and "Wake Up, Sheeple".
[F]ormer MP Garth Turner’s new book . . . is entitled Sheeple, a term apparently applied to people who often take on the characteristics—curly white hair covering most of the body, fondness for grazing, tendency to do as told—of sheep.
Harmless vapour trails left by planes? That's what they want you to think, sheeple.
He'll take himself down.
Yeah, history always proves that, right? Just wait for justice, you sheeple…
Being a sheeple isn't always dangerous. A lot of the time it can just make a person look foolish, more than anything.
I think it's the HYDRA, the group of whatevers that rule the world, those elitists that laugh at us, joke about their environmentalist sheeples doing their bidding while they sip the best wine on the planet, ride around in private jets, […]
Translations:
cannibalism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Cariban *kariponader.
Spanish caribeder.
Spanish caríbalder.
Spanish caníbalbor.
English cannibal
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English cannibalism
From cannibal + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: cannibalisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of eating another of one's own species.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Cannibalism does not openly figure amongst aboriginal misdeeds, but in the northern part of Queensland it is no uncommon vice.
Evidence for cannibalism abounds - even if circumstantial - both from the modern world and throughout history, but academic anthropology has found itself in a funk of denial. […] Considered globally, cannibalism should be less a moral issue than one of custom. I like Marmite, but then I have been raised on the stuff.
HuFu and was promoting it as “the healthy human flesh alternative!” Mark Nuckols, inventor of HuFu, says, “I have to admit that I myself have never sampled human flesh. . . . However, I've done quite a bit of research on the history and anthropology of cannibalism and read enough accounts to have come up with a fairly good approximation”
gloss: An act in which one thing consumes or takes over another of the same kind.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
usually
gloss: In speech, the occurrence of one word eliding part or all of the next word, because the syllables are the same.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: anticannibalism
cannibal
cannibalistic
galactic cannibalism
kuru
mad cow disease
prion
anthropophagy
Translations:
prion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From (a reordering of) the initial letters of proteinaceous infectious particle. Coined by American neurologist and biochemist Stanley B. Prusiner in 1982.
Inflected forms:
form: prions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A self-propagating misfolded conformer of a protein that is responsible for a number of diseases that affect the brain and other neural tissue.
pos: noun
examples: Prions retain deep mysteries, the foremost of which is what on earth they exist for.
Five public research institutions in France have imposed a 3-month moratorium on the study of prions—a class of misfolding, infectious proteins that cause fatal brain diseases—after a retired lab worker who handled prions in the past was diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), the most common prion disease in humans.
Translations:
haem
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: haems
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and UK standard spelling of heme.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Haem is ubiquitous, abundant and necessary for energy metabolism. Most bacteria have a haem biosynthesis pathway, but nevertheless, since haem is a major source of iron (an essential metal), microbes take up exogenous haem to retrieve iron.
Translations:
tesseract
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geometry
literature
mathematics
media
publishing
science-fiction
sciences
Etymology: From tessara- (“four-”) + Ancient Greek ἀκτίς (aktís, “ray”).
Base: ἀκτίς
Affixes: tessara-
Inflected forms:
form: tesseracts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tessaract
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The four-dimensional analogue of a cube; a 4D polytope bounded by eight cubes (analogously to the way a cube is bounded by six squares).
pos: noun
examples: Hence the cube determined by these axes is the face of the tesseract which we now have before us.
[…]then it would trace out a higher cube, or tesseract, and each of the six surrounding cubes, carried on in the same motion, would trace tesseracts also,[…].
gloss: Any of various fictional mechanisms that explain extradimensional, superluminal, or time travel outside the geometry of the physical universe.
pos: noun
examples: "I shall just sit down for a moment and pop on my boots and then I'll be on my way. Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract."
When the Tesseract's energy levels spiked, Selvig proved unable to stop it and Loki arrived on Earth via a Tesseract-created portal.
Cooper sees his younger self due to the tesseract in Interstellar.
Related words: tessera
Derived words: dekeract
enneract
octeract
tesseractic
Translations:
Zaza
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Zazaki Zaza. Several hypotheses exist for the etymology of the word:
* It might be an exonym of non-Iranian substrate (possibly Northwest Caucasian or Northeast Caucasian) origin
* It may stem from the name of a Kurdish tribe called “Ekrad-i Zaza”,
* or a clipping of the term Zozan al-Akrad
* or an exonym meaning "stuttering" or "speaking unintelligibly", as the term Zaza is considered derogatory. Zazas prefer to call their language Zazaki Dımliki, while the people are called Zazaki Dımli (“Dimlî”), which could be related to the Iranian tribe Daylamites.
Inflected forms:
form: Zazas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Zaza
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of an ethnic minority of Iranian origin in eastern Turkey.
pos: noun
Translations:
optimize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi
Proto-Indo-European *-tm̥mos
?
Latin optimus
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)der.
Latin -ismusbor.
French -isme
French optim(isme)
▲
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istabor.
French -iste
French optimistebor.
English optimistbf.
English optimize
Back-formation from optimist. First attested in 1844.
Inflected forms:
form: optimizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: optimizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: optimized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: optimized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: optimise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To act optimistically or as an optimist.
pos: verb
gloss: To make (something) optimal.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We need to optimize the supply chain to reduce costs.
gloss: To make (something) more efficient, such as a computer program.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The website was redesigned to optimize user experience.
He used software to optimize the performance of his computer.
A high level of analyst expertise is required to optimize instrument parameters and correct for matrix interferences either during the sample preparation phase or the data analysis phase.
Source-to-source program transformations which optimize the resulting code are central to the approach described here.
It is the policy of the United States to optimize and target Federal investments in workforce development to align with our country's reindustrialization needs.
gloss: To become optimal.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Synonyms: to make optimal
Related words: optimal
optimism
optimist
optimum
Derived words: deoptimize
deoptimized
misoptimize
nonoptimized
optimizable
optimization
optimize out
optimizer
overoptimize
preoptimize
reoptimize
underoptimize
unoptimized
Translations:
eques
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin eques (“horseman, knight; equestrian”).
Inflected forms:
form: equites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the equestrian order (Latin: ordo equester), the lower of the two aristocratic classes of Ancient Rome, ranking below the patricians.
pos: noun
tags: Ancient-Rome
historical
Translations:
principle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English principle, from Old French principe, from Latin prīncipium (“beginning, foundation”), from prīnceps (“first”). By surface analysis, prīmus (“first”) + -ceps (“catcher”); the former ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- (“before”); see also prince.
Inflected forms:
form: principles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: principling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: principled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: principled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To equip with principles; to establish, or fix, in certain principles; to impress with any tenet or rule of conduct.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Let an enthusiast be principled that he or his teacher is inspired.
Translations:
back-formation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From back- + formation. Coined by British lexicographer and philologist, primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary James Murray in 1888.
Inflected forms:
form: back-formations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: backformation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: back formation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The process by which a new word is formed from an older word by interpreting the former as a derivative of the latter, often by removing a morpheme (real or perceived) from the older word, such as the verb burgle, formed by removing -ar (perceived as an agent-noun suffix) from burglar.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A word created in this way.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Back-formations, such as tambour (for “play the tambourine”), are a staple of comedic wordplay.
Related words: disfixation
Derived words: back-form
back-formed
Translations:
polytope
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from German Polytop, originally coined by German mathematician Reinhold Hoppe in 1882, and first used in English by British mathematician Alicia Boole Stott in her 1910 paper Geometrical deduction of semiregular from regular polytopes and space fillings. By surface analysis, poly- (“many”) + -tope (“surface”), from Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos, “region; area”).
Inflected forms:
form: polytopes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A geometric shape (of any number of dimensions) which is fully enclosed and has flat sides, making it a member of the generalized class of shapes which includes the two-dimensional polygon and three-dimensional polyhedron; (formally) a finite region of n-dimensional space bounded by hyperplanes.
pos: noun
examples: As is well known, the theory of linear inequalities is closely related to the study of convex polytopes.
This polytope is mapped into a Cartesian force polytope (resp. torque polytope) in the Cartesian space. Such a polytope represents the exact force (resp. torque) that can be produced on the vehicle main body.
Verify the Hirsch conjecture for the 3-cube, 4-cube and any other polytope that takes your fancy.
The Steinitz theorem is a very satisfactory understanding of the graphs of three-dimensional polytopes.
Translations:
hypercube
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
geometry
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Hellenic *hupér
Ancient Greek ῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér)
Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)der.
English hyper-
English cube
English hypercube
From hyper- + cube.
Inflected forms:
form: hypercubes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A geometric figure in four or more dimensions, which is analogous to a cube in three dimensions. Specifically, the n-dimensional equivalent of a cube for any non-negative integer n.
pos: noun
gloss: Such a figure in four dimensions; a tesseract.
pos: noun
gloss: A data cube with more than three dimensions.
pos: noun
gloss: A computer architecture in which each processor is connected to n others, by analogy with a hypercube of n dimensions.
pos: noun
Related words: dekeract
enneract
hepteract
hexeract
hypersphere
octeract
penteract
polytope
tesseract
Derived words: demihypercube
hyperhypercube
Translations:
conservationist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English conservation
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English conservationist
From conservation + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: conservationists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who maintains natural areas or protects threatened species.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who advocates for these actions.
pos: noun
examples: Over the past two years, particularly in 2018, Network Rail has come under fire about its approaches to trackside tree-felling across its 52,000-hectare estate. Conservationists accused it of wanton destruction.
Related words: environmentalist
Translations:
four-dimensional
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: algebraic-geometry
geometry
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: 4-dimensional
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having four dimensions; being measurable along four mutually perpendicular axes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Relating to the four dimensions of space-time (three spatial dimensions with the addition of time as the fourth).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: We live in a four-dimensional universe.
Related words: four-dimensionalism
four-dimensionally
hyperspace
multidimensional
n-dimensional
tesseract
Derived words: four-dimensional chess
Translations:
petrolhead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English petrol
English -head
English petrolhead
From petrol + -head.
Inflected forms:
form: petrolheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who is overly reliant on the use of their car, resisting any suggestion to use other means of transport.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: A bogan who is overly fond of their car or motorbike and enjoys showing it off and making noise with it.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
colloquial
derogatory
examples: 2000, Chris Baker, Kokopu Dreams, Huia Publishers, New Zealand, page 87,
There were four of them, old-style petrolheads, with greasy jeans and leather jackets. Each had a rifle trained on the pair. They looked barely out of their teens.
gloss: A person involved in motor racing as either participant or dedicated spectator.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
colloquial
gloss: A car enthusiast.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
colloquial
examples: 2009, Stuart Prebble, Grumpy Old Drivers: The Official Handbook, unnumbered page,
In the early years it had been very much a series for people I believe are known by the curiously unappealing term ‘petrolheads’. Since most petrolheads are probably out in the evenings, burning up the rubber or the tarmac or whatever it is that petrolheads do, the show had a fairly limited audience.
Translations:
pisshead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English piss
English -head
English pisshead
From piss (“alcohol”) + -head.
Inflected forms:
form: pissheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who regularly overindulges in alcoholic drink.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
derogatory
slang
vulgar
gloss: A stupid or obnoxious person.
pos: noun
tags: US
derogatory
slang
vulgar
examples: Sergeant Eller faced him. "Take a swing at me, I don't have a knife! Go ahead, you oversized pisshead!"
"Who you calling a pisshead?" the man demanded.
"You, you ugly pisshead!" Sergeant Eller declared.
The large convict swung a ham-like fist!
Translations:
cokehead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English coke
English -head
English cokehead
From coke + -head.
Inflected forms:
form: cokeheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cocaine addict.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: […] she knew that a closeted cokehead would always be in the WC.
Lira baselessly branded Ukraine's leader a "cokehead," and described the Russian operation as "one of the most brilliant invasions in military history."
Translations:
giblets
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English giblets, from Old French gibelet (“game bird stew”), probably from gibier (“birds hunted for sport”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The internal organs of poultry birds, used as food.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
pothead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pot (“marijuana”) + -head. First sense appears c. 1957 in the writings of Jack Gelber. Third sense appears c. 1639.
Base: pot
Affixes: -head
Inflected forms:
form: potheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who smokes cannabis frequently, or to excess.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: That pothead Shane has a nasty bong.
With the exception of college campuses — where I suspect you’ll be able to find Bob Marley posters for as long as dorms exist — it feels as if the old stoner subculture, the classic pothead aesthetic, has been almost eliminated from mainstream consciousness.
gloss: An electric motor's terminal connection or wiring box.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
gloss: A stupid individual; a fool.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
obsolete
slang
Translations:
offal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English offal, offall, offalle (“offal, refuse, scrap waste”), equivalent to off- + fall. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Oufal (“offal”), West Frisian ôffal (“offal”), Dutch afval (“waste, refuse”), German Low German Offall (“offal”), German Abfall (“waste, refuse”), Danish affald (“waste, refuse”), Swedish avfall (“waste, refuse”), Old English offeallan (“to cut off”).
Base: fall
Affixes: off-
Inflected forms:
form: offals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The internal organs of an animal (entrails or innards), used as food.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A by-product of the grain milling process, which may include bran, husks, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1817, John Taylor, Arator; Being a Series of Agricultural Essays Practical and Political in Sixty-One Numbers, Baltimore: John M. Carter, No. 32, Indian Corn, p. 96, https://books.google.ca/books?id=paMBAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
The whole of the corn offal is better food than wheat straw, but its blades and tops are so greatly superiour, that cattle prefer them to hay, and will fatten on them as well.
Our standard wheat flour contains only the endosperm and represents practically a 75 per cent. extraction. The remaining 25 per cent. is known in the trade as grain offal or mill-feed, and is used largely as a concentrated food for live stock, being prized in the feeding of dairy cattle.
[…] the fragments are broken down and the finer particles are collected by sieving; finally, there is the bolting of the assembled fine fractions, with exclusion of the wheat offal which includes bran and a number of other commercial fractions like red dog and shorts.
gloss: A dead body; carrion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: That which is thrown away as worthless or unfit for use; refuse; rubbish.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: giblets
sweetbread
gizzard
Derived words: offally
Translations:
heme
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Back-formation from hemoglobin.
Inflected forms:
form: hemes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: haem
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: haeme
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: The component of hemoglobin (and other hemoproteins) responsible for binding oxygen. It consists of an iron ion that binds oxygen and a porphyrin ring that binds the globin molecules; one molecule binds one molecule of oxygen.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The binding of oxygen to the iron molecule causes the hemoglobin molecule to undergo conformational changes that affect the binding of oxygen to other heme sites.
Impossible's breakthrough was in discovering that meat's essence comes from heme—the iron-rich molecule in blood that carries oxygen and is responsible for the deep-red color.
Translations:
mace
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English mace, borrowed from Old French mace, mache, from Vulgar Latin *mattia, *mattea, matia, (compare Italian mazza, Spanish maza), probably from Proto-West Germanic *mattjō (“cutting tool, hoe”).
Inflected forms:
form: maces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: maces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: macing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: maced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: maced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A heavy fighting club.
pos: noun
examples: The Mace is an ancient weapon, formerly much used by cavalry of all nations, and likewise by ecclesiastics, who in consequence of their tenures, frequently took the field, but were by a canon of the church forbidden to wield the sword.
gloss: A ceremonial form of this weapon.
pos: noun
examples: I am a king that find thee; and I know 'Tis not the balm, the sceptre, and the ball, The sword, the mace, the crown imperial, The intertissued robe of gold and pearl
gloss: A long baton used by some drum majors to keep time and lead a marching band. If this baton is referred to as a mace, by convention it has a ceremonial often decorative head, which, if of metal, usually is hollow and sometimes intricately worked.
pos: noun
gloss: An officer who carries a mace as a token of authority.
pos: noun
examples: On the left were the Commons with their Speaker, attended by the mace. The southern door opened: and the Prince and Princess of Orange, side by side, entered, and took their place under the canopy of state.
gloss: A knobbed mallet used by curriers to make leather supple when dressing it.
pos: noun
examples: In the foreground one man uses the "head knife” to work over the skin on the beam, while another softens a skin with the currier's mace.
gloss: A billiard cue.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: To hit someone or something with a mace.
pos: verb
Derived words: mace-bearer
mace head
macelike
maceman
reedmace
sergeant at mace
Translations:
n-dimensional
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English n-
Latin dis-
Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-
Proto-Italic *mētis
Latin mētior
Latin dīmētior
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin dīmēnsiōder.
English dimension
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English dimensional
English n-dimensional
From n- (“number”) + dimensional.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having an arbitrary number of dimensions.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: We now have good reason to question the pursuits of the vaunted innovators with whom Liu consorted in California – the blissed-out cultists at Google, whose only worry is over “the wrong kind of sparkling water in the microkitchens”, or the manic experts who specialise in “envisioning hyperplanes in n-dimensional space”.
Translations: