yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
mediocrity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French médiocrité, from Latin mediocritās, from mediocris; by surface analysis, mediocre + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: mediocrities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being mediocre; having only an average degree of quality, skills etc.; no better than standard.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Flexibility is good, but a tolerance for mediocrity carried far enough impairs operational capacity.
England captain Harry Kane lifted the mediocrity of an attritional first half on a slow surface when he scored his 33rd goal for his country, a superbly guided diving header from Luke Shaw's cross seven minutes before the interval.
gloss: A person with mediocre abilities or achievements.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: populated with mediocrities
surrounded by mediocrities
gloss: The quality of being intermediate between two extremes; a mean.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: A middle course of action; moderation, balance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Sundrie other Gent[lemen] reſt beholden to this hundred, for their dvvellings, vvho, in an enuiable mediocritie of fortune, do happilie poſſeſſe themſelues, and communicate their ſufficient means to the ſeruice of their prince, the good of their neighbours, and the bettering of their ovvn eſtate: […]
In adversity I wish for prosperity, and in prosperity I am afraid of adversity. What mediocrity may be found?
Related words: mean
median
mediate
mediation
mediator
mediocre
medium
Derived words: golden mediocrity
mediocritist
mediocritize
mediocrity principle
multimediocrity
submediocrity
Translations:
zooming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: zoomings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sound or motion that zooms.
pos: noun
examples: the zoomings of myriad insects
What care we took over the cleaning realistic zoomings, honkings, and […] preserving of that horror
a propensity for rhizomatic zoomings characterizes the cyborg of the electronic age
Translations:
zoogeography
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *gʷyéh₃-w-os
Proto-Hellenic *ďōwós
Ancient Greek ζωός (zōós)
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos)?
Ancient Greek -ῐον (-ĭon)
Ancient Greek ζώϊον (zṓïon)
Ancient Greek ζῷον (zōîon)der.
English zoo-
Pre-Greek der.
Proto-Hellenic *gayader.
Ancient Greek γαῖᾰ (gaîă)clip.
Ancient Greek γῆ (gê)
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)
Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-)
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-
Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō
Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō)
Ancient Greek -γρᾰ́φος (-grắphos)
Ancient Greek γεωγρᾰ́φος (geōgrắphos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
▲
Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-)
▲
Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ)
Ancient Greek -γρᾰφῐ́ᾱ (-grăphĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek γεωγρᾰφῐ́ᾱ (geōgrăphĭ́ā)bor.
Latin geōgraphia
Middle French géographie
English geography
English zoogeography
From zoo- + geography.
Inflected forms:
form: zoogeographies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zoögeography
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The scientific study of the geographical distribution of animal species.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
A-side
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: A-sides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The side of a cassette tape or record that holds the primary track.
pos: noun
gloss: The track on the A-side of a tape or record.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: The first track on a compact disc single.
pos: noun
Derived words: double A-side
Translations:
aberrantly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English aberrant
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English aberrantly
From aberrant + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more aberrantly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most aberrantly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an aberrant manner; abnormally.
pos: adv
Translations:
part-timer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English part-time
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 part-timer
From part-time + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: part-timers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who is employed, or does something, part-time.
pos: noun
examples: After all, the train crews can be employed on freight work for the rest of the year, while the extra bus-drivers would have to be part-timers, which is undesirable practice for a number of reasons, including safety.
gloss: A part-time bowler.
pos: noun
Synonyms: part-time employee
part-time worker
Translations:
part-time
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From part + time.
Compound parts: part
time
Inflected forms:
form: part time
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: For, during, or involving less than the normal time for some activity, especially the number of hours an employee works.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: TThere were five dot balls in the first over, bowled by seamer Matt Henry, and only five runs in the second, off Glenn Phillips' part-time spin.
Antonyms: full-time
Translations:
partnership
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From partner + -ship. Cognate with Danish partnerskab, Dutch partnerschap, German Partnerschaft, Norwegian Bokmål partnerskap, Norwegian Nynorsk partnerskap, Swedish partnerskap, and West Frisian partnerskip.
Base: partner
Affixes: -ship
Inflected forms:
form: partnerships
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being associated with a partner.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: scientists working in close partnership with colleagues overseas
gloss: An association of two or more people to conduct a business.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: forge a partnership
gloss: The period when two specific batsmen are batting, from the fall of one wicket until the fall of the next; the number of runs scored during this period.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: civil partnership
copartnership
domestic partnership
general partnership
limited partnership
multipartnership
prepartnership
public/private partnership
public private partnership
public-private partnership
social partnership
subpartnership
Translations:
abjured
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more abjured
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most abjured
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having been renounced, forsworn or rejected.
pos: adj
Antonyms: unabjured
Translations:
ablate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
Proto-Italic *ap
Latin abder.
Latin ab-
Proto-Indo-European *telh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *tl̥h₂tós
Latin latus
Latin ablātusder.
Middle English ablatder.
Late Latin ablātiōder.
Middle English albacioun
English ablationbf.
English ablate
From Middle English ablat (“taken away”), from Latin ablātus, past participle of auferō (“to remove”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). First attested in the 1500s, it became obsolete by the early 1600s. Returned into use as a back-formation from ablation.
Inflected forms:
form: ablates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ablating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ablated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ablated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To remove or decrease something by cutting, erosion, melting, evaporation, or vaporization.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To undergo ablation; to become melted or evaporated and removed at a high temperature.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: ablation
ablative
Derived words: ablatable
ablator
abliterate
abliteration
electroablate
Translations:
crossly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cross
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English crossly
From cross + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more crossly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most crossly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a cross manner; angrily.
pos: adv
examples: 'What do you want, Miss?' he asked, rather crossly.
You have the money, but if you want to be mean / Why keep your money (this crossly) and go along
Translations:
crosser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cross
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 crosser
From cross (verb) + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: crossers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who crosses; agent noun of cross
pos: noun
Translations:
kenosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κένωσις (kénōsis, “emptying”) (see keno- and κενό (kenó)), from κενόειν (kenóein, “to empty”) (with reference to Philippians 2.vii, "But he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, becoming as human beings are" – New Jerusalem Version).
Inflected forms:
form: kenoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Christ's voluntary abasement consisting of humanity and the simultaneous occultation of the Divinity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: So then, kenosis is the general way in which God interacts with the world. It is interesting to ponder that the term kenosis is most frequently linked to Christ's voluntary renunciation of certain divine attributes in order to identify himself with mankind, as recorded in the Pauline hymn found in Phil 2:5–11.
Translations:
kapellmeister
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
German Kapellmeisterbor.
English kapellmeister
Borrowed from German Kapellmeister.
Inflected forms:
form: kapellmeisters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A leader or conductor of a musical group such as an orchestra.
pos: noun
gloss: Person in charge of music at a noble court during the baroque and classical period.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The daily routine of the Hofkapelle was normally entrusted to the Kapellmeister. This was the most important musical position at court.
Translations:
worrisome
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From worry + -some.
Base: worry
Affixes: -some
Inflected forms:
form: more worrisome
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: worrisomer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
nonstandard
rare
form: most worrisome
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: worrisomest
pos: adj
tags: nonstandard
rare
superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causing worry; perturbing or vexing.
pos: adj
examples: He ’s got a cow, too; she ’s got the worrisomest horns ever was. I believe she ’s a steer anyway.
OUR “WORRISOMEST” WEEDS / Johnson grass and Bermuda grass will be growing fast by late May.
“[…] Just supposing Emily poisoned him, why would she have done it? What could she have against a four-year-old?” / Star sighed. “Mr. Hacey, you do ask me the worrisomest questions. How I know why somebody who maybe didn’t even poison somebody come to poison that somebody?”
“Doesn't everyone call his doctor every week or two for reassurance about some worrisome symptom?”
“How can you be sure you won’t change your mind?” / For god’s sake, can’t he take a hint? / Maybe you’re not convincing enough? Because … you don’t want to be? / “Because I’m actively working on not changing my mind,” I say in order to drown out my evil inner voices. / “What if I’m actively working on swaying it?” / “Ugh! Stop it,” I say, but I can’t help but laugh. God, I think I like arguing with him. That’s very worrisome. Very, very worrisome. / It gets worrisomer when he leans towards me and asks very quietly and calmly, “Why?”
There's more to The Morning Joe/Donald Trump spat than was apparent when the U.S. president launched his Twitter attack at the show's hosts on Thursday. New details add context to the story that make it both curiouser and curiouser and muckier and muckier — not to mention worrisomer.
gloss: Inclined to worry.
pos: adj
examples: I use to would perform that song when I was singin in Chance’s band. We had a real sweet, dreamy, Dinah Washington-kinda arrangement of it that’d make even the worrisomest drunk pipe down and listen.
Synonyms: alarming
concerning
troubling
Translations:
theorbo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Italian tiorba, from Ottoman Turkish طوربه (torba).
Inflected forms:
form: theorbos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: theorboes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A baroque, double-necked lute having an extra set of open bass strings.
pos: noun
examples: So when they said yea to this, he called to him his player on the theorbo and his player on the hautboy, and commanded them saying, “Play me a solemn music.”
Translations:
theoretic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: English theory + -etic, from Latin theōrēticus, from Ancient Greek θεωρητικός (theōrētikós).
Base: theory
Affixes: -etic
Inflected forms:
form: more theoretic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most theoretic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: theoretick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Concerned with theories or hypotheses rather than with practical matters.
pos: adj
examples: We shall, therefore, only very humbly submit whether the whole statement be not rather too theoretic and somewhat too darkly adumbrated in ambiguous phraseology for plain, uncollegian understandings.
gloss: Existing only in theory, not proven in reality.
pos: adj
Related words: theoretical
Derived words: conspiracy-theoretic
graph-theoretic
group-theoretic
group theoretic
information-theoretic death
metatheoretic
number-theoretic function
property-theoretic
ring theoretic
set-theoretic difference
string theoretic
theoretician
theoreticism
theoreticity
theoreticize
untheoretic
X-bar theoretic
Translations:
theoretically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English theoretical
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English theoretically
From theoretical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: in theory; on paper
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I haven't tested it, but theoretically it ought to fly.
Of course, it will never get -100 here like it does in Antarctica, but a 300-degree swing was still theoretically possible on a record-cold Minnesota morning–if we got the sauna hot enough.
gloss: in a theoretical manner
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I solved the problem theoretically rather than practically.
gloss: in theory though not necessarily in reality.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Rumors of an indictment had spread through this heavily gay and lesbian community since shortly after the theoretically secret investigation began in 1984.
No, but insurance does cover it. Theoretically.
Derived words: graph-theoretically
number-theoretically
set theoretically
set-theoretically
Translations:
theorist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Hellenic *tʰáwā
Ancient Greek θέᾱ (théā)
Proto-Indo-European *wer-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ-der.
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-der.
Ancient Greek ὁράω (horáō)
Ancient Greek *θεᾱ-(ϝ)ορός, *θεη-(ϝ)ορός (*theā-(w)orós, *theē-(w)orós)
Ancient Greek θεωρός (theōrós)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek θεωρία (theōría)bor.
Late Latin theōrialbor.
Middle French théoriebor.
English theory
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 theorist
From theory + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: theorists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who constructs theories, especially in the arts or sciences.
pos: noun
examples: Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains.
Translations:
theoretician
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English theoretic
English -ician
English theoretician
From theoretic + -ician.
Inflected forms:
form: theoreticians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who is expert in the theory of a particular science or art.
pos: noun
gloss: A theorist.
pos: noun
examples: “They have numerically confirmed, perhaps for the first time, something we were fairly sure had to be true, but was still a conjecture — namely that the thermodynamics of certain black holes can be reproduced from a lower-dimensional universe,” says Leonard Susskind, a theoretical physicist at Stanford University in California who was among the first theoreticians to explore the idea of holographic universes.
Derived words: group theoretician
number theoretician
Translations:
theorize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From theory + -ize. First use appears c. 1599 in the text A pil to purge melancholie.
Base: theory
Affixes: -ize
Inflected forms:
form: theorizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: theorizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: theorized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: theorized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: theorise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: To formulate a theory, especially about some specific subject.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Derridean "messianicity without messianism" that marks so much of post-modernist educational theorizing today, and that makes use of esotericism, sigetics, acroamatics, proleptics, and illocutionary and perlocutionary acts in the disguise of a new pedagogy of the unknowable, wasn't the answer ten years ago.
There are processes of collective individuation that produce the transindividual in the course of a process of transindividuation (which Simondon does not theorize as such).
Autistic rhetoric scholar Melanie Yergeau theorizes neuroqueer as a kind of “asocially perverse” motioning.
The homeowner theorized that the intruders saw that the house was up for sale and targeted it for their rager.
gloss: To speculate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: conspiracy theorize
mistheorize
overtheorize
retheorize
theorizable
theorizer
undertheorize
undertheorized
untheorized
Translations:
inconsequentially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English inconsequential
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English inconsequentially
From inconsequential + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more inconsequentially
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most inconsequentially
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an inconsequential manner.
pos: adv
examples: Fact is a poor story-teller. It starts a story at haphazard, generally long before the beginning, rambles on inconsequentially and tails off, leaving loose ends hanging about, without a conclusion.
He constantly (and inconsequentially) reports online abuse too, like the person who said he should be “put in a full nelson and thrown in a river” for his mythical sewage vote
Antonyms: consequentially
Translations:
theosophy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
Etymology: From Medieval Latin theosophia, from Ancient Greek θεοσοφῐ́ᾱ (theosophĭ́ā, “knowledge of things divine”, from θεός (theós, “god”) + σοφῐ́ᾱ (sophĭ́ā, “wisdom”)); By surface analysis, theo- + -sophy.
Inflected forms:
form: theosophies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: theosophie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: Theosophy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any doctrine of religious philosophy and mysticism claiming that knowledge of God can be attained through mystical insight and spiritual ecstasy, and that direct communication with the transcendent world is possible.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: They have their own traditions of art and science. They do not […] discuss God or metaphysics or men. […] All their wisdom and theosophy, and all their grasp of beauty, truth or love, is in the singing. […] They look unloving enough, and so they are. Pitiless fallen angels.
gloss: Any system which claims to attain communication with God and superior spirits by physical processes.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: In Paracelsian theosophy, empathetic imagination was […] a powerful astral force which provided the basis for theurgy and prognostication, as well as for prophecy and mystical inspiration.
[…] was founded by the theosophist and kabbalist Martines de Pasqually […] included a peculiar form of theurgy mixed with the philosophy and theosophy of its founder.
gloss: The system of beliefs and doctrines of the Theosophical Society.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: philosophy
theodicy
theology
theophany
Theophany
Derived words: theosophic
theosophical
theosophist
theosopher
theosophize
theosophise
Translations:
theosophic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English theosophy
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English theosophic
From theosophy + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to theosophy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Thus, while the mystic of the theopathetic species is content to contemplate, to feel, or to act, suffering under Deity in his sublime passivity, the mysticism I term theosophic aspires to know and believes itself in possession of a certain supernatural divine faculty for that purpose.
Translations:
pop-up
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
government
hobbies
lifestyle
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pop updeverb.
English pop-up
Deverbal from pop up.
Inflected forms:
form: popup
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: pop-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: popup
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Coming into view suddenly from a concealed position.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I packed a pop-up hamper in my suitcase.
gloss: Opening out to form a three-dimensional structure when the page of a book is opened.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: […] I had a pop-up book of sexual organs by the time I was four –[…]
gloss: Operating or existing for a brief period only; temporary.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: But then this is essentially a pop-up team, glued into place brilliantly, with certain parts already chafing and smoking. Chelsea’s two top goalscorers could be off in a month, Diego Costa to cause an international incident in China, [Eden] Hazard to the usual summer suspects.
gloss: Employing the cold launch technique.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A pop-up advertisement; an advertisement that is triggered to appear on a computer screen when the user accesses a particular web page.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
gloss: A pop-up ball: a ball that has been hit to a considerable height above the infield or the shallow outfield; a pop fly.
pos: noun
gloss: A folded paper element which pops up from a book, greeting card, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A business that opens for a brief temporary period only, such as a temporary restaurant.
pos: noun
examples: Pop-ups often charge restaurant prices, but without advance menus, quality control, health-inspected facilities or professional service. Bring cash and arrive early: most pop-ups don't accept credit cards, and popular dishes run out fast.
Ms. Setti recently had to close her bar after a change of management at the food hall that housed it. But she plans to launch several pop-ups and hopes to find a new permanent space by the middle of the year, she said.
I came across this recipe when Helen Graham cooked it for Bracia and Friends, a pop-up whose USP is that chefs must cook a single dish.
Derived words: pop-up book
pop-up shop
pop-up store
Translations:
theosophist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English theosophy
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 theosophist
From theosophy + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: theosophists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An advocate of, or believer in theosophy.
pos: noun
examples: What can it be but the heaving of the Hypochondria that lifts up the Mind to such high comparisons from a supposition so false and foolish? But I have observed generally of Chymists^([sic]) and Theosophists, as of feveral other men more palpably mad, that their thoughts are carried much to Astrology, it being a fancifull study built upon very slight grounds, and indeed I do not queftion, but a relique of the ancient superstition and Idolatry amongst the rude Heathens, which either their own Melancholy, or something worse, instructed them in.
Translations:
grounder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English grounder, grownder, equivalent to ground + -er.
Base: ground
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: grounders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A ground ball.
pos: noun
gloss: A fruit that has fallen to the ground rather than being picked; a windfall.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the large stones forming the base of a Cornish hedge.
pos: noun
Related words: middle-grounder
fly ball
line drive
pop-up
Translations:
therapeutics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The treatment of disease; the science of healing; any therapeutic material or treatment
pos: noun
Translations:
shortstop
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
baseball
gambling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English short
English stop
English shortstop
From short + stop.
Inflected forms:
form: shortstops
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The infield defensive player that stands between the second baseman and the third baseman.
pos: noun
examples: The shortstop ranged deep into the hole to make the stop.
“Your father was the best baseball player anyone had ever seen.” Excited but halting, her voice ran on past all obstacles. “We watched him play shortstop, and my father said he was the best, and my brothers too. The Cardinals sent a man down to talk to him about one of their teams.” Like an ancient marineress, she would not let go. She meant the St. Louis Cardinals’ farm teams.
Cam Smith bounced to shortstop on a 100 mph fastball, and Jacob Melton also grounded out on an 86.9 mph curveball.
gloss: A nimble defender.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: I'll play shortstop when we make our proposal.
gloss: A player who is short of money.
pos: noun
examples: The shortstops and desperados were not permitted to play in this marker crap game.
Related words: catcher
pitcher
first baseman
second baseman
third baseman
infielder
outfielder
Translations:
consequential
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From consequent + -ial.
Base: consequent
Affixes: -ial
Inflected forms:
form: more consequential
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most consequential
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Following as a result.
pos: adj
gloss: Having significant consequences; of importance.
pos: adj
examples: The more profound and consequential the issue, the more stubborn our denial.
gloss: Important or significant.
pos: adj
gloss: Self-important.
pos: adj
examples: He was a very short, fat little man, with immensely long grey side-whiskers, and a most consequential manner.
Antonyms: inconsequential
Derived words: consequentialism
consequentialist
consequentialistic
consequentiality
consequentialize
consequentially
consequential mark
consequentialness
inconsequential
nonconsequential
unconsequential
Translations:
consequentially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English consequential
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English consequentially
From consequential + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more consequentially
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most consequentially
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a consequential manner; with consequence or significance.
pos: adv
Antonyms: inconsequentially
Translations:
at-bat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: at-bats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An opportunity to hit.
pos: noun
examples: This is his third at-bat of the night.
gloss: Official at-bats; batting opportunities minus walks, hit by pitches, and sacrifices.
pos: noun
examples: He only had 220 at-bats this season because of injury.
Related words: home plate
line drive
on deck
pitcher
pop-up
Translations:
allegoric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English allegory
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English allegoric
From allegory + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more allegoric
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most allegoric
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: of, or relating to allegory
pos: adj
Translations:
allegorically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English allegorical
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English allegorically
From allegorical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more allegorically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most allegorically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an allegorical manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
shinny
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English shin
English -y
English shinny
From shin (noun) + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: shinnies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shinnying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shinnied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shinnied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shinny
pos: noun
tags: canonical
form: shinny hockey
pos: noun
tags: canonical
Senses:
gloss: To climb in an awkward manner.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: An informal game of pickup hockey played with minimal equipment: skates, sticks and a puck or ball.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
uncountable
examples: In shinny, everyone wins. Though rules are scaled back, the game is not loosened beyond all form, and the driving competitive element remains.
Hockey fiction shows that the focus on ludus in organized hockey threatens to strangle the primal play spirit, which is why shinny is more easily romanticized than versions of the game that seem to require fighting, that motivate parents to violence, and, at the highest level, give rise to lockouts and strikes. In shinny the playful core of hockey is retained, while the overly confining rules and restrictions are discarded.
gloss: Street hockey.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
uncountable
gloss: Hockey.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
informal
uncountable
gloss: A hockey-like game played by American Indians.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
Translations:
automatism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From automat(on) + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: automatisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Automatic or involuntary action.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The power of initiating vital processes from within the cell, organ, or organism, independent of external stimulus.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The doctrine that animals are automata, operating according to mechanical laws.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A surrealist painting technique whereby one attempts to move the brush, pen etc. without conscious control over it.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Overcoming the gravity of representation and the figurative, automatism and acquired reflexes, she mixes brute force and translucid emotions to paint an ontological, disquieting, enigmatic human figure free from artifice, universal in its expression.
gloss: An action performed subconsciously, without any apparent direction from the mind; a thought which appears spontaneously in one's consciousness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: [G]eneralising this phenomenon, Mr. Myers has given the name of automatism, sensory or motor, emotional or intellectual, to this whole sphere of effects, due to 'uprushes' into the ordinary consciousness of energies originating in the subliminal parts of the mind. The simplest instance of an automatism is the phenomenon of post-hypnotic suggestion, so-called.
Related words: automaticism
surautomatism
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: تِلْقَائِيَّة
roman: tilqāʔiyya
lang: Belarusian
word: аўтаматы́зм
roman: awtamatýzm
lang: Bulgarian
word: автомати́зъм
roman: avtomatízǎm
lang: Catalan
word: automatisme
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 自動性 /自动性
roman: zìdòngxìng
lang: Czech
word: automatismus
lang: French
word: automatisme
lang: German
word: Automatismus
lang: Italian
word: automatismo
lang: Khmer
word: ស្វ័យប្រវត្តិ
roman: svay prɑɑvŏət
lang: Polish
word: automatyzm
lang: Russian
word: автомати́зм
roman: avtomatízm
lang: Spanish
word: automatismo
lang: Ukrainian
word: автомати́зм
roman: avtomatýzm
arty-farty
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: artsy-fartsy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: artyfarty
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: arty-farties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: artsy-fartsy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: artyfarty
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Pretentiously artistic; self-important or self-indulgent, especially when describing an artistic project.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
informal
examples: I've had enough of this arty-farty modern sculpture!
The rather disappointing—although unsurprising—message of the Economist article was that tattoos are no longer the edgy insignia of the free spirited but the arty-farty must-have accessory of the middle classes.
gloss: Someone who is arty-farty.
pos: noun
examples: The Mersey Sound, an anthology featuring the works of poets Roger McGough, Brian Patten and Adrian Henri, became a best-seller in 1967 and encouraged thousands of working-class teenagers to read poetry; prior to its publication they probably thought poems were for middle-class arty-farties.
Gave parties for all the campus arty-farties to come and drink up my booze and patronize me. . . . I could have had you that first night I brought you here.
'Probably some rich arty-farty built it for his kids,' said Barney casually.
Translations:
prosecute
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin prōsecūtus, perfect participle of prōsequor. Doublet of pursue, from Old French. Compare also persecute.
Inflected forms:
form: prosecutes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: prosecuting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: prosecuted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: prosecuted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: prosequte
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: prosequute
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To start criminal proceedings against.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to prosecute a man for trespass, or for a riot
To acquit themſelves and proſecute their foes
gloss: To charge, try.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The Vigilante is prosecuted in Federal Court under a lynch bill and winds up in a Federal Nut House specially designed for the containment of ghosts […]
gloss: To seek to obtain by legal process.
pos: verb
examples: to prosecute a right or a claim in a court of law
gloss: To pursue something to the end.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to prosecute a scheme, hope, or an investigation
I am beloved of beauteous Hermia; / Why should not I, then, prosecute my right?
Nor do we believe that a country that prosecuted two wars in China in the 19th century to force the Chinese to accept opium imports has any moral right to lecture Asians on drugs.
Derived words: misprosecute
nonprosecuted
overprosecute
prosecutability
prosecutable
prosecutee
prosecution
prosecutive
reprosecute
unprosecuted
Translations:
winsome
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English wynsom, winsom, winsome, winsum, wunsum (“beautiful; agreeable, gracious, pleasant; generous; of situations: favourable, propitious”), from Old English wynsum (“joyful, merry, pleasant; winsome”), from Proto-West Germanic *wunnjusam (“joyful”). By surface analysis, winne (“delight, joy, pleasure”) + -some.
Inflected forms:
form: winsomer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: winsomest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Charming, engaging, winning; inspiring approval and trust, especially if in an innocent manner.
pos: adj
examples: […] lifting her winsome eyes to my face with that sort of look which turns off bad temper, even when one has all the right in the world to indulge it.
Will ye keep your troth to me, / Winsome Annie Ramsay? / Will ye keep your troth to me, / Winsome Annie Ramsay? / Will ye keep your troth to me? / My ain true luve will ye be? / Then meet me at the trysting tree, / Winsome Annie Ramsay.
Gerty MacDowell who was seated near her companions, lost in thought, gazing far away into the distance was in very truth as fair a specimen of winsome Irish girlhood as one could wish to see.
He [Ching Keng Lee] is a man of fine physique and above the height of the average Straits-born, with a shrewd business head, and affable and winsome manners, and continues to take a keen interest in public affairs.
The pink wallpaper of the nursery was decorated with a Noah's Ark of friendly lions and comical giraffes and winsome elephants.
“We have to begin to step up and communicate this message in ways that are winsome and compelling,” he added.
Translations:
flava
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Derhotacization of flavor.
Inflected forms:
form: flavas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: flavor
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
Translations:
nigra
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A collateral form of negro with colloquial reduction of unstressed /oʊ/, /əʊ/ to /ə/ as in fella.
Inflected forms:
form: nigras
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A black person.
pos: noun
tags: ethnic
offensive
slur
examples: She used the term nigger and its close South Carolina cognate nigra only when quoting others with disapproval.
Translations:
daybreak
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From day + break.
Compound parts: day
break
Inflected forms:
form: daybreaks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The beginning of the day; the first moment of daylight.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Osnabrück, reached at daybreak, is a remarkable two-level station on the lines of Willesden Junction.
Translations:
carob
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French carobe, from Arabic خَرُّوب (ḵarrūb), from Classical Syriac ܚܪܘܒܐ (ḥarrūḇā).
Inflected forms:
form: carobs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An evergreen shrub or tree, Ceratonia siliqua, native to the Mediterranean region.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The fruit of this tree.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A sweet chocolatelike confection made with the pulp of the fruit of this tree.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: black carob
carob bean
carob gum
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: خَرُّوب
roman: ḵarrūb
lang: Bulgarian
word: рожков
roman: rožkov
lang: Catalan
word: garrofer
lang: Czech
word: rohovník obecný
lang: Danish
word: johannesbrød
lang: Dutch
word: johannesbroodboom
lang: Esperanto
word: karobujo
lang: Esperanto
word: ceratonio
lang: Finnish
word: johanneksenleipäpuu
lang: French
word: caroubier
lang: Galician
word: alverxón
lang: Galician
word: alfarrobeira
lang: German
word: Johannisbrotbaum
lang: Greek
word: χαρουπιά
roman: charoupiá
lang: Greek
word: κερατονία η έλλοβος
roman: keratonía i éllovos
lang: Ancient Greek
word: κερατωνία
roman: keratōnía
lang: Cypriot Greek
word: τερατσιά
roman: teratsiá
lang: Hebrew
word: חָרוּב
roman: ḥaruv
lang: Hungarian
word: szentjánoskenyérfa
lang: Irish
word: carúb
lang: Italian
word: carrubo
lang: Japanese
word: 蝗豆
roman: inagomame
lang: Latin
word: cerōnia
lang: Macedonian
word: рогач
roman: rogač
lang: Norwegian
word: johannesbrødtre
lang: Occitan
word: carrobièr
lang: Persian
word: خرنوب
roman: xarnub
lang: Persian
word: کبر
roman: kabar
lang: Persian
word: خارسم
roman: xârsam
lang: Portuguese
word: alfarrobeira
lang: Romanian
word: roșcov
lang: Russian
word: рожко́вое де́рево
roman: rožkóvoje dérevo
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ро̀га̄ч
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: rògāč
lang: Sicilian
word: carruva
lang: Spanish
word: algarrobo
lang: Swedish
word: johannesbröd
lang: Turkish
word: keçiboynuzu
lang: Venetan
word: carober
chocoholic
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Classical Nahuatl chocolātlbor.
Spanish chocolatebor.
English chocolate
Akkadian 𒎎𒋆𒁉𒍣𒁕 (guḫlum)bor.
Aramaic כוחלא (kuḥlā)bor.
Arabic كُحْل (kuḥl)
Andalusian Arabic اَلْكُحُول (al-kuḥūl)bor.
Medieval Latin alcoholder.
Middle English alcofol
English alcohol
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English alcoholic
English -holic
English chocoholic
From choco(late) + -holic.
Base: chocolate
Affixes: -holic
Inflected forms:
form: chocoholics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more chocoholic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most chocoholic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Someone who has such a liking for chocolate that they appear to be addicted to it.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Chocoholics are confessing at the rate of the nuns of Loudon to demonic possession.
gloss: Addicted or seemingly addicted to chocolate; characteristic of a chocoholic.
pos: adj
examples: At tonight’s table, there are two couples, both here because the man had bought the session for his chocoholic partner as a present […]
2014, Suzanne Loudermilk Haughey, “What’s In a Name?” baltimoremagazine.net, 5 June, 2014,
A wedge of chocolate-ganache cake with Kahlua and whipped cream will satisfy any chocoholic cravings.
Translations:
puta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin putus
Latin *putader.?
Vulgar Latin *pūtta
Old Spanish puta
Spanish putabor.
English puta
Borrowed from Spanish puta.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A prostitute, whore, slut, bitch, etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
vulgar
examples: Mastrosimone's (antiheroine?) Marjorie lets in a man who quickly drops the small talk, slams her to the floor, and almost smothers her with a pillow as he commands her to say "thank you," "I love you," and "I am your puta."
And we told you, man, we have not seen your puta sister.
Translations:
musculus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin mūsculus (“a little mouse; a muscle”), diminutive of mūs (“a mouse”).
Inflected forms:
form: musculi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A muscle.
pos: noun
Translations:
estoppel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English *estoppel (found only as stoppel, stoppell, stopple, etc.), probably from Old French estoupail, estopail, estopaille, a bung made of oakum (étoupe), from Latin stuppa ("flax, tow"), from Ancient Greek στύππη (stuppē).
Inflected forms:
form: estoppels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A legal principle in the law of equity that prevents a party from asserting otherwise valid legal rights against another party because of conduct by the first party, or circumstances to which the first party has knowingly contributed, making it unjust for those rights to be asserted.
pos: noun
tags: common
countable
uncountable
Translations:
grantee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English grauntees pl, from Old French granté, participle of granter, equivalent to grant + -ee.
Base: grant
Affixes: -ee
Inflected forms:
form: grantees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The person to whom something is granted.
pos: noun
examples: HHS regulations stipulate that there are only limited circumstances in which a grant can be canceled: for cause, such as when the grant fails to comply with the terms and conditions of the award, or with the consent of the grantee.
The cancellations, which claimed that the more than 350 already-distributed grants “no longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities,” sent shockwaves through grantee organizations. […] When news of the cuts first surfaced Tuesday, dozens of grantees gathered on a videoconference to discuss their options, including whether to take legal action.
Translations:
tortfeasor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman tortfeasor, from Old French tortfesor, tort-faiseur, torfesor, torzfesor (“wrongdoer”), from tort (“a misdeed, a wrong”) + fesor, faiseur (“doer”).
Inflected forms:
form: tortfeasors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who commits a tort.
pos: noun
examples: […] there is an exception “in the cases of heir and executor, who may plead a release to the ancestor or testator whom they respectively represent; so also with respect to several tortfeasors, for in all these cases there is a privity between the parties which constitutes an identity of person”.
Damages paid by the settling tortfeasor which are greater than the pro rata amount can easily be attributed to his desire to avoid legal fees and bad press, or misspeculation about the merits and likely outcome of the case.
Translations:
housewarming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From house + warming.
Compound parts: house
warming
Inflected forms:
form: housewarmings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: house warming
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: house-warming
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A party to celebrate moving into a new home.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
examples: In the eyes of Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke the apotheosis of the Celebrity was complete. The people of Asquith were not only willing to attend the house-warming, but had been worked up to the pitch of eagerness.
gloss: The act of welcoming a person/family to their newly purchased or newly rented home.
pos: noun
examples: a housewarming gift
They had their first argument on the evening Gadney moved in, their housewarming spat, he later called it.
Fortunately, Dave had left them a packet of rollie tobacco and papers for a housewarming
Antonyms: house cooling party
Related words: infare
Derived words: housewarming party
Translations: