yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
reproducibility
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *pér
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *pró
Proto-Indo-European *pro-
Proto-Italic *pro-
Latin prō-
Proto-Indo-European *dewk-
Proto-Indo-European *déwkti
Proto-Italic *doukō
Latin dūcō
Latin prōdūcōder.
Middle English produce
English produce
English reproduce
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ibilis
Old French -ibleder.
Middle English -ible
English -ible
English reproducible
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English reproducibility
From reproducible + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: reproducibilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being reproducible.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The quality of being reproducible.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: replicability
repeatability
replication
replication crisis
Derived words: nonreproducibility
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 再現性 /再现性
roman: zàixiànxìng
lang: Dutch
word: reproduceerbaarheid
lang: Finnish
word: toistettavuus
lang: French
word: reproductibilité
lang: German
word: Reproduzierbarkeit
lang: Hungarian
word: megismételhetőség
lang: Latvian
word: pavairojamība
lang: Mongolian
word: таарц
roman: taarc
lang: Polish
word: powtarzalność
lang: Spanish
word: replicabilidad
lang: Swedish
word: reproducerbarhet
lang: Swedish
word: upprepbarhet
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 再現性 /再现性
roman: zàixiànxìng
lang: Dutch
word: reproduceerbaar
lang: Finnish
word: toistettavuus
lang: French
word: reproductibilité
lang: German
word: Reproduzierbarkeit
lang: Mongolian
word: таарц
roman: taarc
fusible
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English fusible, from Old French fusible, from Medieval Latin fusibilis.
Inflected forms:
form: more fusible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fusible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fusibles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Able to be fused or melted.
pos: adj
examples: Although a fusible plug is provided in the firebox crown of every locomotive, so that by melting if the inner firebox crown becomes uncovered, and thereby releasing steam at full pressure into the firebox, the fire may be extinguished and the crew given an unmistakable warning of the danger, there is no absolute guarantee that the plug will melt.
gloss: Any substance that can be fused or melted.
pos: noun
examples: Try any fusibles you have on hand, making sure that they aren't too stiff for the project you have in mind.
Translations:
reproducible
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *pér
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *pró
Proto-Indo-European *pro-
Proto-Italic *pro-
Latin prō-
Proto-Indo-European *dewk-
Proto-Indo-European *déwkti
Proto-Italic *doukō
Latin dūcō
Latin prōdūcōder.
Middle English produce
English produce
English reproduce
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ibilis
Old French -ibleder.
Middle English -ible
English -ible
English reproducible
From reproduce + -ible.
Inflected forms:
form: more reproducible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most reproducible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: reproducibles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being reproduced at a different time or place and by different people.
pos: adj
gloss: Something that can be reproduced.
pos: noun
examples: transparencies and other reproducibles
Translations:
reproduce
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *pér
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *pró
Proto-Indo-European *pro-
Proto-Italic *pro-
Latin prō-
Proto-Indo-European *dewk-
Proto-Indo-European *déwkti
Proto-Italic *doukō
Latin dūcō
Latin prōdūcōder.
Middle English produce
English produce
English reproduce
From re- + produce.
Inflected forms:
form: reproduces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reproducing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reproduced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reproduced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To produce an image or copy of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To generate or propagate offspring or organisms sexually or asexually.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: The 12-page ruling notes that “Marriage is when a man and a woman are willing to live together, to build a husband and wife relationship to reproduce their offspring […] . Marriage is, therefore, reserved for only a man and a woman.” Other parts in the verdict also mention that members of the LGBTQIA+ community cannot reproduce, as it is against nature, and that people of those communities are no different to other animals with strange behaviours or physical features.
gloss: To produce again; to recreate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To bring something to mind; to recall.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: manifold
Related words: reproduction
Derived words: nonreproduced
nonreproducing
outreproduce
photoreproduce
reproduceable
reproducer
reproducibility
reproducible
reprography
unreproduced
Translations:
notoriety
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Derived from Middle French notoriété, from Medieval Latin nōtōrietās, from nōtōrius, from nōtus (“known”), perfect passive participle of nōscō (“get to know”). By surface analysis, notorious + -ety.
Inflected forms:
form: notorieties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An infamous or notorious condition or reputation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [H]e who portrays examples of disinterestedness and intrepidity, confers on virtue the notoriety and homage that are due to it, and rouses in the spectators, the spirit of salutary emulation.
I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.
This seems to me to be a reasonable request, and I will try to explain to you what it is that has given me this false notoriety; so please give me your attention.
Translations:
oregano
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 18th century, from Spanish orégano (“wild marjoram”), from Latin orīganum, from Ancient Greek ὀρίγανον (oríganon). Doublet of origanum.
Inflected forms:
form: oreganos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A herb of the mint family, Origanum vulgare, having aromatic leaves.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Other herbs with a similar flavor, including other species in the genus Origanum, and Mexican oregano, Lippia graveolens.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The leaves of these plants used in flavouring food.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Derived words: Cuban oregano
English oregano
Lebanese oregano
Mexican oregano
Mt. Pima oregano
oreganoed
Spanish oregano
Syrian oregano
Translations:
Angeleno
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish angeleño.
Inflected forms:
form: Angelenos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Angeleño
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Angelino
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Los Angeleno
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A native or resident of Los Angeles.
pos: noun
examples: The LAPD has asked Angelenos not to shoot at the alien spaceship, fearing it might trigger an interstellar war.
He expressed his concerns through a series of histrionic rhetorical questions concerning L.A.’s shortcomings, all of which Sadie, a native Angeleno, already knew: Did she know about the earthquakes? The fires? The floods?
Translations:
sporran
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic sporan (“purse”), from Middle Irish sparán, possibly from Late Latin bursa (“purse”), ultimately from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa, “leather, hide”).
Inflected forms:
form: sporrans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small pouch, usually made of either fur or plain or fur-trimmed leather, which is worn, suspended from a belt or chain, on the front of a kilt and used to hold various items normally carried in trouser pockets.
pos: noun
Translations:
geologic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From geology + -ic, perhaps after French géologique.
Base: geology
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more geologic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most geologic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to geology or a geologic time scale.
pos: adj
Translations:
sure-fire
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sure + fire, originally used to denote the efficacy of firearms (rifles) to fire.
Base: sure
Inflected forms:
form: more sure-fire
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sure-fire
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: surefire
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Guaranteed to work or happen.
pos: adj
examples: That hat should be a sure-fire way to spot him in a crowd.
[…] just as he knew that showing up for lunch with a brown bag full of dried squirrel jerky and mushrooms and lemongrass was a surefire way to end up social roadkill in the high school hierarchy, […]
There certainly looks to be a whole clutch of sure-fire winners among the 11 promised new productions.
I believe that dismissing people, dismissing their concerns or worse yet, shutting down media, shutting down elections or shutting people out of the political process protects nothing. In fact, it is the most sure-fire way to destroy democracy.
Translations:
Phanerozoic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φανερός (phanerós, “visible”) + ζωή (zōḗ, “life”) + -ic.
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: Phanaerozoic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Phanærozoic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the Phanerozoic eon.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Proterozoic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From protero- + -zoic.
Base: protero
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the geologic eon from 2,500 Ma to 541.0±1.0 Ma.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Archaean
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
geography
geology
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀρχαῖα (arkhaîa, “ancient”), neuter plural of ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos, “ancient”).
Inflected forms:
form: Archean
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Archæan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Arche, the Muse of beginnings in Greek mythology.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of, or relating to the geologic eon from about 4,031 to 2,500 million years ago; comprises the Eoarchean, Paleoarchean, Mesoarchean and Neoarchean eras; marked by an atmosphere with little oxygen, the formation of the first continents and oceans and the emergence of simple life.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The oldest vestiges of continental crust, which date from the Archaean aeon about 4 billion years ago, are in Acasta in north-west Canada.
gloss: Of or relating to the irregular Jovian moon named for Arche.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Hadean
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Hades + -an, from Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hāídēs). By surface analysis, had- + -e- + -an.
Base: Hades
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: Hadaean
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to Hades or hell.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: No Ceres weeps at the Hadean gate!
gloss: Of or relating to the Hadean geological eon.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Cenozoic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From ceno- + -zoic; from Ancient Greek καινός (kainós, “new”) + ζωή (zōḗ, “life”).
Affixes: ceno-
-zoic
Inflected forms:
form: Caenozoic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Cænozoic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Cainozoic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Kainozoic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Cenozoic era.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Mesozoic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From meso- + -zoic.
Base: meso
Inflected forms:
form: more Mesozoic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Mesozoic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a geologic era within the Phanerozoic eon that comprises the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods from about 230 to 65 million years ago, when life on earth was dominated by reptiles.
pos: adj
Translations:
specialty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English specialte, Old French specialte, especialte, from Latin specialitas.
Inflected forms:
form: specialties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: speciality
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: That in which one specializes; a chosen expertise or talent; bailiwick.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
US
examples: Near-synonym: discipline
medical specialty
academic specialty
They cook well overall, but their true specialty is pasta.
The doctor ordered a consultation with another doctor in a different specialty.
Even men of boundless knowledge, like Humboldt, must have had once their speciality, their pet subject, or they would have, strictly speaking, no knowledge at all.
gloss: A product that originates in and is characteristic of a place.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
US
examples: regional specialty
house specialty
gloss: Particularity.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
US
obsolete
examples: The specialty of rule hath been neglected:
And, look, how many Grecian tents do stand
Hollow upon this plain, so many hollow factions.
gloss: A particular or peculiar case.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
US
gloss: An attribute or quality peculiar to a species.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
US
gloss: A contract or obligation under seal; a contract by deed; a writing, under seal, given as security for a debt particularly specified.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
US
examples: Let specialties be therefore drawne betweene vs,
That couenants may be kept on either hand.
1812, Joseph Chitty, A Treatise on Pleading, with a Collection of Practical Precedents, and Notes Thereon, 2nd American edition, edited by Thomas Day, New York, Volume 2, section 456, note c,
[…] in a plea to an action of debt on specialty, it is still necessary to show that the debt on which the judgment was recovered was a specialty, or to aver that the judgment was recovered before the defendant had notice of the plaintiff’s demand.
Related words: specialist
subspecialty
subspecialist
Derived words: cross-specialty
interspecialty
multi-specialty
multispecialty
nonspecialty
specialty coffee
specialty crop
specialty shop
specialty store
sub-specialty
Translations:
Paleozoic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From paleo- + -zoic.
Base: paleo
Inflected forms:
form: more Paleozoic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Paleozoic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: paleozoic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Palæozoic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Palaeozoic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of a geologic era within the Phanerozoic eon that comprises the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian periods from about 542 to 250 million years ago, from the age of trilobites to that of reptiles.
pos: adj
examples: ‘Itʼs all Paleozoic rock under our feet, this part of the world: to think of it, laid down five hundred million years before, shrugging its shoulders and bringing down the steeples on the churches!’
Translations:
Neoproterozoic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *nu
Proto-Indo-European *néwos
Proto-Hellenic *néwos
Ancient Greek νέος (néos)
Ancient Greek νεο- (neo-)der.
English neo-
English Proterozoic
English Neoproterozoic
From neo- + Proterozoic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a geologic era within the Proterozoic eon; comprises the Tonian, Cryogenian and Ediacaran periods from about 1000 to 544 million years ago, when algae and sponges flourished.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Paleoproterozoic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek πᾰλαιός (pălaiós)der.
English paleo-
English Proterozoic
English Paleoproterozoic
From paleo- + Proterozoic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a geologic era within the Proterozoic eon from 2,500 to 1,600 million years ago.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
compartment
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biochemistry
biology
chemistry
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
medicine
microbiology
monarchy
natural-sciences
nobility
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin com-
Proto-Indo-European *perh₃-der.?
Proto-Italic *partis
Latin pars
Latin partiō
Latin partior
Latin compartīrībor.
Italian compartire
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Italian -mento
Italian compartimentobor.
Middle French compartimentder.
English compartment
First attested 1564, from Middle French compartiment, from Italian compartimento, from Late Latin compartiri (“to divide with, to share with”), from com- + partiri (“to apportion, to divide, to share”).
Inflected forms:
form: compartments
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: compartments
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: compartmenting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: compartmented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: compartmented
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A room, or section, or chamber, typically within a vehicle.
pos: noun
examples: Two men were seated in a well-lit compartment of a third-class railway carriage.
This is a second-class ticket. And you're sitting in the first class!” “I'd no idea,” Haldiram said. “I didn't know what compartment was this.” And looking around, he asked, “Where does it say First Class? I still can't see it.
Because of the heavy traffic, the 1960-61 Christmas guide to trains between King's Cross and the north stated: "To make travel conditions as comfortable as possible, passengers are requested to raise arm rests to enable four people to be seated on each side of those compartments which are fitted with arm rests."
gloss: One of the parts into which an area is subdivided.
pos: noun
gloss: The part of a protein that serves a specific function.
pos: noun
gloss: A mound (often of grass), shelf (of e.g. wall) or other thing beneath the shield in a coat of arms on which the supporters stand.
pos: noun
gloss: A region in the body, delimited by a biological membrane.
pos: noun
gloss: To arrange in separate compartments.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: biocompartment
compartmentable
compartmental
compartmentation
compartmentectomy
compartmentful
compartmentize
compartmentless
compartmentlike
compartment syndrome
driver's compartment
engine compartment
glove compartment
intercompartment
microcompartment
multicompartment
nanocompartment
passenger compartment
rhizocompartment
smoking compartment
subcompartment
Translations:
copse
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
Etymology: 1578, from coppice, by contraction, originally meaning “small wood grown for purposes of periodic cutting”.
Inflected forms:
form: copses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: copses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: copsing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: copsed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: copsed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A coppice: an area of woodland managed by coppicing (periodic cutting near stump level).
pos: noun
gloss: Any thicket of small trees or shrubs, coppiced or not.
pos: noun
examples: Agrimonie groweth in places not tylled, in rough stone mountaynes, in hedges and Copses, and by waysides.
The day is come when I again repose
Here, under this dark sycamore, and view
These plots of cottage-ground, these orchard tufts,
Which at this season, with their unripe fruits,
Among the woods and copses lose themselves,
Three thundercloven thrones of oldest snow, / Stood sunsetflushed: and, dewed with showery drops, / Upclomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse.
Striking the highway beyond the little copse she skirted the dark iron palings enclosing Hare.
gloss: Any woodland or woodlot.
pos: noun
gloss: To trim or cut.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To plant and preserve.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: coppice
Derived words: copselike
copsewood
copsy
Translations:
consignee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English consign
English -ee
English consignee
From consign + -ee.
Inflected forms:
form: consignees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The person to whom a shipment is to be delivered.
pos: noun
gloss: One to whom anything is consigned or entrusted.
pos: noun
examples: The letter had been given to the two Englishmen by a good friend of theirs in London, who had been in America two years previously, and had singled out Mr. J. L. Westgate from the many friends he had left there as the consignee, as it were, of his compatriots.
Related words: consignment
consignment shop
signatory
signee
signer
Derived words: consigneeship
Translations:
drifter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: automotive
business
hobbies
lifestyle
mining
nautical
parachuting
transport
vehicles
Etymology: Etymology tree
English drift
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English drifter
From drift (verb) + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: drifters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who moves from place to place or job to job.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
sometimes
examples: There are drifters painting beside you / They don't see the future that I do
gloss: A type of lightweight sail used in light winds like a spinnaker.
pos: noun
examples: In winds above 10 knots we usually run wing-and-wing with our 100 percent lapper set on a whisker pole opposite the mainsail. As the wind drops, we get out the drifter and set it flying to leeward (Fig. 1).
After trying a variety of light-wind sails, we've found the most versatile and simple one to be a nylon drifter.
Some people recommend a medium- to lightweight 140- or 150-percent headsail, and others go for a drifter/reacher.
gloss: A driver who uses driving techniques to modify vehicle traction to cause a vehicle to slide or power slide rather than drive in line with the tires.
pos: noun
examples: However, sensing the available traction may actually be more important to a drifter.
For professional drifters looking for even more fine-tuning of their suspension setups, some companies offer more advanced two-way adjustable shocks […]
While this method is used by a few drifters in rear-wheel drive cars, this technique is really the only way one can drift in a front-wheel drive car.
gloss: A parachutist who jumps before the rest of the group to determine wind direction.
pos: noun
examples: As we circled the area, the Dakota appeared and dropped a drifter.
[…] a circling Beverley dropped parachutists in small groups — a few hard words were said about R.A.F. organisation. The time came at last for the first four to get into the balloon car. First out was a drifter — an experienced parachutist who jumps first to assess conditions by allowing himself to drift at random.
gloss: A person employed in driving in rock other than coal.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Related words: plankter
plankton
Translations:
mortise
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
business
carpentry
construction
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
media
publishing
typography
woodworking
Etymology: From Middle English morteys, from Old French mortaise, from Arabic مُرْتَزّ (murtazz, “fastened”), from اِرْتَزَّ (irtazza).
Inflected forms:
form: mortises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mortice
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mortises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mortising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mortised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mortised
pos: verb
tags: past
form: mortice
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A hole that is made to receive a tenon so as to form a joint.
pos: noun
examples: If there is much gauging for the same size mortise and tenon to be done, and if a mortise gauge is not handy, a simple improvised gauge for the purpose can easily be made with two pieces of wood and four or five steel sprigs…
A keyed mortise-and-tenon joint is constructed the same as a doweled mortise and tenon joint except that the tenon projects far enough through the mortise to admit the insertion of a tapering key which draws the mortised piece firmly against the shoulder of the tenon.
gloss: Stability; power of adhesion.
pos: noun
gloss: To cut a mortise in.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A keyed mortise-and-tenon joint is constructed the same as a doweled mortise and tenon joint except that the tenon projects far enough through the mortise to admit the insertion of a tapering key which draws the mortised piece firmly against the shoulder of the tenon.
gloss: To join by a mortise and tenon.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Sculptures from Mohenjodaro and Tell Asmar in 2400 B.C. show wheels consisting of three pieces of wood mortised together, and bound with leather tyres which were attached with copper nails. These wheels turned in one piece with the axle, which was secured to the body of the sledge with leather thongs.
gloss: To adjust the horizontal space between selected pairs of letters; to kern.
pos: verb
Derived words: mortise-and-tenon joint
mortise gear
mortise lock
mortiser
mortise wheel
stub mortise
Translations:
expostulate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin expostulō (“demand, claim”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, ex- + postulate.
Base: expostulō
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: expostulates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: expostulating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: expostulated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: expostulated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To protest or remonstrate; to reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of conduct [(often) with with].
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The tears would run plentifully down my face when I made these reflections; and sometimes I would expostulate with myself why Providence should thus completely ruin His creatures, and render them so absolutely miserable; so without help, abandoned, so entirely depressed, that it could hardly be rational to be thankful for such a life.
[…] he affectionately loved many persons to whom he never or hardly ever shewed a countenance of love. Once on my venturing to expostulate with him on the subject, he reminded me of Solomon: “Many sons I have; it is not fit that I should smile on them.”
Men expostulate with erring friends; they bring accusations against enemies who have done them a wrong.
Translations:
anti-climb
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English anti-
English climb
English anti-climb
From anti- + climb.
Inflected forms:
form: anticlimb
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of a substance or device, intended to prevent a person from climbing the object to which the substance or device is applied.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: anti-climb paint
Translations:
outbuilding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From out + building.
Compound parts: out
building
Inflected forms:
form: outbuildings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A building, such as a barn, shed, or garage, that is separate from, but associated with some main building.
pos: noun
examples: Above him, the sun gleamed gold and white. Before him, trackless wilderness extended for many leagues before lapping against the outbuildings of some village.
Once they reach the remote farm, Jake insists on giving Lucy a tour of the outbuildings before they go into the house, a tour that includes some lambs that have frozen to death in a barn, and the spot where a pig was eaten alive by maggots.
Translations:
bloated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more bloated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bloated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Swollen with fluid or gas.
pos: adj
gloss: Excessively or extremely large or wealthy.
pos: adj
gloss: Excessively overloaded with features, like bloatware.
pos: adj
examples: For large firms, the SketchUp Workflow for Architecture will fit in where a bloated, overfeatured software suite is not necessary.
gloss: Slightly salted and lightly smoked.
pos: adj
examples: a bloated herring
Related words: overfeatured
Derived words: bloatedly
bloatedness
unbloated
overbloated
Translations:
Neogene
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From neo- + -gene. From Ancient Greek νέος (néos, “new”) + γενεά (geneá, “generation”). Compare Ancient Greek νεογενής (neogenḗs).
Base: neo
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a geologic period within the Cenozoic era, comprising the Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene and Holocene epochs from about 26 million years ago to the present.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Paleogene
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From paleo- + -gene. From Ancient Greek παλαιός (palaiós, “old”) + γενεά (geneá, “generation”).
Base: paleo
Inflected forms:
form: Palæogene
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Palaeogene
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of a geologic period within the Cenozoic era; comprises the Paleocene, Eocene and Oligocene epochs from about 65 to 23 million years ago.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Triassic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Trias (“three-layered geologic strata between the Permian and Jurassic”) < German Trias < Ancient Greek τριάς (triás, “triad”), + -ic. Coined in 1841 by geologist Friedrich August von Alberti (1795–1878).
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or from the geologic strata above the Permian and below the Jurassic; of or belonging to the period 250 to 200 million years ago when these strata were laid down.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: “Well,” Ellie said. “We know animals have survived. Crocodiles are basically Triassic animals living in the present. Sharks are Triassic. So we know it has happened before.”
Translations:
Permian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Perm
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Permian
From Perm + -ian.
Inflected forms:
form: Permians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Permian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Permian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An inhabitant of the Russian region of Perm; specifically, one belonging to a branch of the Finno-Ugric peoples, including Komis and Udmurts, who speak Permic languages.
pos: noun
gloss: Pertaining to the Perm region of Russia, or its inhabitants.
pos: adj
gloss: Pertaining to their language; Permic.
pos: adj
gloss: Pertaining to the last geologic period of the Paleozoic era; comprising the Cisuralian, Guadalupian and Lopingian epochs from about 280 to 248 million years ago.
pos: adj
examples: ‘In many ways modern art was a culture of the beach. They say it's the light, the special quality of quartz in the Permian rock.’
Translations:
scattershot
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English scatter
English shot
English scattershot
From scatter + shot.
Inflected forms:
form: more scattershot
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most scattershot
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Covering a broad range in a random and unsystematic way.
pos: adj
examples: They were appalled by his idea of making a spy service out of a scattershot collection of Wall Street brokers, Ivy League eggheads, soldiers of fortune, ad men, news men, stunt men, second-story men, and con men.
The result, disappointingly, is a scattershot work that is, by turns, entertaining and wearisome, energetic and hokey, delightfully evocative and cheaply sensational; dead-on in its conjuring of zeitgeist-y atmospherics, but often slow-footed and ham-handed in its orchestration of social details.
Don't Look Up aims too high for its scattershot barbs to consistently land, but Adam McKay's star-studded satire hits its target of collective denial square on.
Oh, and then there’s the hardest challenge of all: Google, famously scattershot in its product launches and quick to abandon things, has to stay focused on a new product and actually develop a meaningful replacement to search without killing it in a year and starting over.
Translations:
Carboniferous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From carboniferous (“producing carbon”), from carbon + -i- + -ferous.
Base: carbon
Affixes: -i-
-ferous
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a geologic period within the Paleozoic era; comprises the lower, middle and upper Mississippian and lower, middle and upper Pennsylvanian epochs from about 345 to 280 million years ago, when coal was laid down.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The earliest ink sacs appear in the fossil record in the Carboniferous period around 330 million years ago in cephalopods such as Donovaniconus, Gordoniconus and Saundersites which show a mix of features from older and more modern groups and are placed in their own order, Donovaniconida (Doguzhaeva 2012).
Translations:
Devonian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Medieval Latin Devōnia (“Devon”) + -an. By surface analysis, Devon + -ian. Doublet of Dumnonian.
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a geologic period within the Paleozoic era; comprises lower, middle and upper epochs from about 415 to 360 million years ago.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or pertaining to the English region of Devon.
pos: adj
tags: dated
not-comparable
examples: This relic may, perhaps, serve, as a reminder of busier and more prosperous days on this Devonian railway byway.
Translations:
Silurian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: archaeology
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin Silurēs
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Silurian
From Latin Silurēs + English -ian.
Inflected forms:
form: more Silurian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Silurian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Silurians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of a geologic period within the Paleozoic era; comprises the Llandovery, Wenlock, Ludlow and Pridoli epochs from about 439 to 409 million years ago.
pos: adj
examples: In some places, however, quartz reefs, payably auriferous while in Silurian rock, have been followed down to subjacent granite, and have there been found to thin out and become unprofitable […]
gloss: Of or related to the Silures, a pre-Roman British tribe.
pos: adj
gloss: A member of the Silures, an ancient tribe of Britannia.
pos: noun
Translations:
Ordovician
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₃erg-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.?
Proto-Celtic *ordosder.
Proto-Indo-European *weyk-der.
Proto-Celtic *wiketider.
Latin Ordovīcēslbor.
English Ordovices
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Ordovician
From Ordovices + -ian. Coined by English geologist Charles Lapworth in 1879 after the Celtic tribe of the Ordovices.
Base: Ordovices
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: more Ordovician
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Ordovician
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a geologic period within the Paleozoic era; comprises lower, middle and upper epochs from about 488 to 443 million years ago.
pos: adj
examples: Against the dark Ordovician gabbro, the black volcanic base, Rhynie is a streak of technicolour.
Translations:
Cambrian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Cambria
English -an
English Cambrian
From Cambria + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: more Cambrian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Cambrian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Cambrians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of a geologic period within the Paleozoic era; comprises lower, middle and Furongian epochs from about 542 to 490 million years ago.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to Wales.
pos: adj
gloss: A Welsh person.
pos: noun
Derived words: Cambrian explosion
Cambrian Mountains
Translations:
Ediacaran
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Ediacara + -an. After the Ediacara Hills in South Australia; from an Australian Aboriginal term (details disputed). See Ediacara Hills on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Base: Ediacara
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: Ediacarans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of a geologic period within the Neoproterozoic era from about 620 to 542 million years ago.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The widespread discoveries of fossil remains of Ediacaran aspect have generated continued excitement in respect of their possible evolutionary significance, and in terms of recent surrealistic interpretations of their morphology and inferred interrelationships (Pflug, 1970a,b, 1972a,b; Fedonkin, 1985 a,b; Gould, 1984, 1985; Seilacher, 1984, 1985, 1989; McMenamin, 1986; and Bergstrom, 1989, 1990), a reexamination of the actual fossil material is timely.
Swartpuntia (frondlike metazoans) and Ernietta (ribbed saclike metazoans) are part of the Ediacaran fauna.
Then in 1946, fossils of multicellular organisms were recovered from Vendian deposits around 570My old at the Ediacara copper mine in South Australia. Since then, geologists have found similar Ediacaran faunas in Precambrian rocks from other parts of the world as well.
The creature, Yilingia spiciformis — named after the Yiling district in which it was discovered — was a complicated one by the standards of the Ediacaran Period: mobile, segmented, trilobate (each body segment composed of three lobes) and bilaterally symmetrical.
Scientists who have analysed ancient fossils of Ediacaran biota – life forms that existed between 538.8m and 635m years ago – say they represent the earliest evidence of food consumed by animals.
gloss: An organism that lived in the Ediacaran period.
pos: noun
examples: Many Ediacarans seem to have lived quiet lives of very limited mobility on the bottom of the sea.
Translations:
involvement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English involve
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English involvement
From involve + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: involvements
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: envolvement
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of involving, or the state of being involved.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: His colorful life span might be regarded as the story of an adventurer rather than that of an artist; despite his lengthy involvements in many of the arts--painting, fiction, theater, and film--one often feels from his autobiography that it was the adventures that counted most for him.
Translations:
astounding
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more astounding
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most astounding
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That astounds or astound.
pos: adj
examples: astounding success    an astounding spectacle
[Y]ou ſhall heare the Scythian Tamburlaine: / Threatning the world with high aſtounding tearms / And ſcourging kingdomes with his conquering ſword.
Wasted in darkness down the pitchy wave, / We saw the Stygian pool her borders lave, / Fed by th’ astounding cataract on high.
Signor Jupe […] was also to exhibit "his astounding feat of throwing seventy-five hundred-weight in rapid succession backhanded over his head, thus forming a fountain of solid iron in mid-air, a feat never before attempted in this or any other country[…]."
This is going to be the most astounding thing you’ve ever heard of, sir, and I say that knowing that a man of your caliber in your profession must have known some astounding things in his time.
Translations:
mounting
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mount
English -ing
English mounting
From mount + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: mountings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That continues to mount; steadily rising or accumulating.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: mounting debts
steadily mounting losses
The pupils display great eagerness for knowledge and facility of acquisition. […] No severity of discipline is used or required; the threat of expulsion from the privileges of instruction being sufficient to tame the most mounting spirit.
About three or four minutes later still an express freight on the up main line ran into the wreckage at about 35 m.p.h. Its engine also overturned and 15 more wagons were added to the mounting pile of wreckage.
gloss: Something mounted to support something; an attachment.
pos: noun
examples: The underframe also carries four bonded-rubber mountings, focused upwards and inwards towards the centre of gravity to suspend the body shell.
That particular plane must have hit an obstruction that ripped its undercarriage right off its mountings, to leave it suspended beneath.
gloss: The act of one who mounts.
pos: noun
examples: The stage we had now commenced was eighteen miles in length; but the frequent mountings and dismountings, to climb or to descend the rocky sides of the mountains, made it appear much longer.
Derived words: flush mounting
guard mounting
mounting block
Translations:
Holocene
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From French Holocène, based on holo- (“whole”) + Ancient Greek καινός (kainós, “fresh, new”). Coined to replace the earlier (1833) label Recent, formally submitted in 1867 and officially endorsed in 1969. The concept is that this epoch is entirely (wholly) new. By surface analysis, holo- + -cene.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a geologic epoch within the Quaternary period from about the year 10 000 BC to the present; the age of man.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Meronym: Anthropocene
Translations:
Pleistocene
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πλεῖστος (pleîstos, “most”) and καινός (kainós, “new”), meaning “newest”, coined by Charles Lyell in 1839. By surface analysis, containing the suffix -cene.
Inflected forms:
form: Ps
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of a geologic epoch within the Quaternary period from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago (earlier definition 1.7 million to 11,000 years ago); marked by the evolution of man, and the extinction of the large mammals.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Pliocene
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πλείων (pleíōn, “more”) + καινός (kainós, “new”). Coined by English philosopher and historian of science William Whewell in 1831 for Charles Lyell, who introduced it in 1833 in his book Principles of Geology. By surface analysis, pleio- + -cene.
Inflected forms:
form: Pleiocene
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of a geologic epoch within the Neogene period from about 5.3 to 1.7 million years ago; marked by the appearance of humanity's first ancestors.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: [I]n a final sentence he expressed his conviction that his opponents "did not in truth represent the thought of the twentieth century, but might rather be regarded as mental fossils dug from some early Pliocene horizon ".
Translations:
Miocene
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μείων (meíōn, “less”) + καινός (kainós, “new”). Coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1831 for Charles Lyell, who introduced it in 1833 in his book Principles of Geology. By surface analysis, meio- + -cene.
Inflected forms:
form: Meiocene
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of a geologic epoch within the Neogene period from about 23 to 5.3 million years ago; marked by the drift of continents to their present position.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Oligocene
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From German Oligozän (originally spelt Oligocän, coined in 1854). By surface analysis, oligo- + -cene.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a geologic epoch within the Paleogene period from about 34 to 23 million years ago; marked by the rapid evolution in a warm climate.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Eocene
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἠώς (ēṓs, “dawn”) + καινός (kainós, “new”) and refers to the "dawn" of modern ('new') fauna that appeared during the epoch. Coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1831 for Charles Lyell, who introduced it in 1833 in his book Principles of Geology. By surface analysis, eo- + -cene.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a geologic epoch within the Paleogene period from about 56 to 34 million years ago.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Paleocene
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From French Paléocène. Coined by French botanist Wilhelm Philippe Schimper in 1874. By surface analysis, paleo- + -cene.
Inflected forms:
form: Palaeocene
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Palæocene
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Paleocene epoch.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations: