yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
sugarcoated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sugar + coated.
Compound parts: sugar
coated
Inflected forms:
form: more sugarcoated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sugarcoated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sugar coated
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: sugar-coated
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Coated with sugar.
pos: adj
tags: literally
gloss: Made superficially more attractive, possibly to conceal flaws or faults.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
idiomatic
Derived words: sugar-coated liver
sugar-coated spleen
Translations:
parroting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: parrotings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: mindless repetition of words or ideas
pos: noun
examples: The discriminatory sense of moral position denotes a subclass of anthropological morality by contrasting a sincere moral conviction about proper conduct with prejudices, rationalizations, parrotings of others, etc.
Translations:
sugar-free
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar)bor.
Old Italian zuccherobor.
Old French çucrebor.
Middle English sugre
English sugar
Proto-Indo-European *preyH-
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *priHós
Proto-Germanic *frijaz
Proto-West Germanic *frī
Proto-West Germanic *-frī
Old English -frēo
Middle English -fre
English -free
English sugar-free
From sugar + -free.
Inflected forms:
form: sugarfree
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of food, drink, medication, chewing gum, etc: not containing sugar (and usually sweetened with a sugar substitute instead).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
sugarhouse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂
Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH
Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH
Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā)
Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara)bor.
Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar)bor.
Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar)bor.
Old Italian zuccherobor.
Old French çucrebor.
Middle English sugre
English sugar
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-der.?
Proto-Germanic *hūsą
Proto-West Germanic *hūs
Old English hūs
Middle English hous
English house
English sugarhouse
From sugar + house.
Inflected forms:
form: sugarhouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sugar house
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sugar-house
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A factory for the refining of raw sugar from Barbados.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A small cabin or shack where sap collected from sugar maples is boiled into maple syrup.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
New-England
examples: Holonym: sugarbush
Derived words: sugar-house molasses
Translations:
L-bomb
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: L-bombs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The word love, or an expression of love, usually one that provokes a significant change in a relationship.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
examples: “Then take her on a tour of places that are special to the two of you — the bar where you had your first date, the park where you dropped the L-bomb, [...]”
Translations:
rosella
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps a variant of Rosehill.
Inflected forms:
form: rosellas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A parrot belonging to any of the five to eight species in the genus Platycercus (originally specifically Platycercus eximius) which is native to Australia and nearby islands.
pos: noun
examples: Molly […] had glimpsed a future, like a rosella, hardly seen, swooping through the high umbrellas of the bush.
Translations:
parrotfish
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From parrot + fish.
Compound parts: parrot
fish
Inflected forms:
form: parrotfishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: parrotfish
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: parrot fish
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: parrot-fish
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of several tropical marine fish of the family Scaridae known for their beak-like mass of teeth used to scrape algae from rocks or coral.
pos: noun
Translations:
shimmy-shammy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Secretive, illicit activity or favor trading.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The four-month suspension is, in effect, the result of a little political shimmy-shammy. In return for some high profile Gorecki supporters endorsing Bob Spence, a judicial candidate favored by Thomas, he agreed to the four-month suspension.
Translations:
coltsfoot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English coltisfote, coltys fot, equivalent to colt + -s- + foot.
Base: colt
Affixes: -s-
Inflected forms:
form: coltsfoots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: coltsfeet
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An herbaceous plant, species Tussilago farfara, that grows in Europe and the Middle East; yellow coltsfoot.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The russet cliffs are wetted by a beck, and where the water runs, yellow coltsfoot grows.
gloss: Various flowering plants in the genus Petasites native to Europe or Asia.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Homogyne alpina (alpine coltsfoot or purple colt's-foot).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: sweet coltsfoot
yellow coltsfoot
Translations:
neurobiology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-wr̥
Proto-Indo-European *snéh₁wr̥der.
Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron)
Ancient Greek νευρο- (neuro-)der.
English neuro-
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βίος (bíos)
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
New Latin -logia
New Latin biologialbor.
English biology
English neurobiology
From neuro- + biology.
Inflected forms:
form: neurobiologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The scientific study of nerve and brain function in people and animals: the biological extent of neuroscience.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
puckered-up
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more puckered-up
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most puckered-up
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Contracted so as to form wrinkles.
pos: adj
tags: attributive
examples: puckered-up lips
Translations:
phare
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French phare. Doublet of Pharos and Hvar.
Inflected forms:
form: phares
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: beacon
pos: noun
gloss: lighthouse
pos: noun
Derived words: aerophare
Translations:
extenuating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin ex (“to delete, to cross out”) and tenuatus, past participle of tenuare (“to make thin”) + Middle English -ing. By surface analysis, ex- + tenuate + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more extenuating
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most extenuating
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That attenuates or lessens the seriousness of something, , e.g. by providing a mitigating excuse for it.
pos: adj
examples: In the instant case, testimony has been offered that there were extenuating circumstances which might have made it impossible for the Hospital to comply with the time limit (Union office closed on April 4, 1974, for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day March).
Translations:
tolerating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more tolerating
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tolerating
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: tolerant
pos: adj
Translations:
benda
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bendas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An old Guinean unit of mass, equivalent to 0.0642 kilograms.
pos: noun
Translations:
nebby
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English neb
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English nebby
From neb (“face, nose, beak”) + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: nebbier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: nebbiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: nebbie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Overly inquiring; nosey.
pos: adj
tags: Geordie
Pennsylvania
Scotland
Western
Translations:
wu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Wade-Giles romanization of Mandarin Chinese 巫 (wū, “shaman”).
Inflected forms:
form: wus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wu
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Chinese shaman.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
homebuilder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From home + builder.
Compound parts: home
builder
Inflected forms:
form: homebuilders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person or company which builds houses
pos: noun
Translations:
homeownership
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From homeowner + -ship or home + ownership.
Base: homeowner
Affixes: -ship
Inflected forms:
form: homeownerships
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: home ownership
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The state of being a homeowner.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
overprotective
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
Medieval Latin prōtēctīvusbor.
English protective
English overprotective
From over- + protective.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Excessively protective, wanting to give too much protection (especially to children).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
hogget
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English hogget, from Anglo-Norman hoget and an Anglo-Latin hogettus.
Inflected forms:
form: hoggets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A young colt or sheep of either gender from about 9 to 18 months of age (until it cuts 2 teeth).
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
UK
countable
examples: They were kept in separate flocks; first there were the hoggets, then the oldest of the younger lambs and lastly the very young ones all kept apart from one another […]
gloss: The meat of a young sheep.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
UK
uncountable
examples: The butcher told him he didn’t have any lamb. Bummer, Max thought. Then the butcher told him, “We have hogget.” […] With some prodding, the butcher explained that hogget is meat from a sheep that is older than a lamb and younger than the animals that make mutton. It was delicious, this hogget.
gloss: A young boar of the second year.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
Related words: hogg
Translations:
steelyard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From steel + yard (“enclosed area, rod”).
The sense of “place” is a calque of Dutch staalhof or Middle Low German Stalhof (Modern Dutch staal (“steel”) + hof (“court, yard”)).
The sense of “balance” is presumably from the sense of “place”, originally “steelyard beam”, mixed with additional sense of “rod” (hence “rod for weighing steel”), replacing earlier Latin statera.
Compound parts: steel
yard
Inflected forms:
form: steelyards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stilliard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: stilyard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A transportable balance with unequal arm lengths.
pos: noun
gloss: A place where steel (and possibly other metals as well) is stored and sold.
pos: noun
Translations:
starry-eyed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more starry-eyed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most starry-eyed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having naively optimistic hopes or outlooks.
pos: adj
examples: He was so starry-eyed when he started, but reality ground him down, and he became both more realistic and more practical.
Translations:
creepers
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An expression of surprise, fear, or excitement
pos: intj
examples: "Oh, creepers, Mom, that's part of getting to know the gang," Bain said. "Why they used to call Bill 'Cheese,' and he didn't let it bother him."
Translations:
star-studded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more star-studded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most star-studded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a large number of celebrities (colloquially stars).
pos: adj
examples: It was a star-studded cast, until the money ran out and they all went back to Hollywood.
gloss: Having a large number of visible celestial stars.
pos: adj
examples: The star-studded sky at that latitude was breathtakingly clear and bright.
Translations:
straggly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From straggle + -y.
Base: straggle
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: stragglier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: straggliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Spread around in a chaotic and disorganized manner.
pos: adj
gloss: Not arranged in a line.
pos: adj
Related words: straggle
Derived words: straggliness
Translations:
countercurrent
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Italic *-teros
Proto-Italic *komterosder.
Proto-Italic *komterād
Latin contrāder.
Old French contre-
Anglo-Norman countre-bor.
Middle English counter-
English counter-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱers-
Proto-Indo-European *-éti
Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥séti
Proto-Italic *korzō
Latin currere
Old French corre
Old French curantbor.
Middle English curraunt
English current
English countercurrent
From counter- + current.
Inflected forms:
form: countercurrents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A current that flows against the prevailing one.
pos: noun
gloss: Running in an opposite direction.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
cerrado
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biogeography
biology
geography
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Portuguese cerrado (literally “shut, thick”), from cerrar (“to shut”).
Inflected forms:
form: cerrados
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Cerrado
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A type of tropical savanna biome found in much of central Brazil and parts of Paraguay.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A region with this biome.
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
countable
often
examples: The biggest breakthrough on the horizon is coming on Latin America's vast cerrado, the seemingly endless grassy plains centered in Brazil. The cerrado covers more than 200 million hectares (500 million acres)—more than all the cultivated land that feeds India's more than 800 million people.
Translations:
giver-upper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: giver-uppers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who or something that gives up: synonym of quitter.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
informal
Translations:
micropyle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: From French, from Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós, “small”) + πύλη (púlē, “gate”).
Inflected forms:
form: micropyles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In seed-bearing plants, a small opening in the integuments of the ovule through which sperm are able to access the ovum.
pos: noun
gloss: The hilum of an ovum at the point of attachment to the ovary; any opening in the coverings of an ovum by which spermatozoa may find entrance.
pos: noun
Derived words: micropylar
Translations:
Chalon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Chalons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a series of postage stamps whose illustration was inspired by a portrait of Queen Victoria by Alfred Edward Chalon (1780–1860); more formally known as the Chalon heads.
pos: noun
Translations:
Soledad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Spanish Soledadbor.
English Soledad
Borrowed from Spanish Soledad.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The native people of this California region.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
depuration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French dépuration or Latin deporationem, from depurare (“depurate”).
Inflected forms:
form: depurations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The removal of impurities, especially from bodily fluids; purification, cleansing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
submersion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin summersio, summersionembor.
English submersion
Borrowed from Latin summersio, summersionem.
Inflected forms:
form: submersions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of submerging, or the state of being submerged; immersion
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A differentiable map whose differential is everywhere surjective.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: submerse
submersible
submerge
submersive
Translations:
equerry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From an alteration of earlier esquiry (through the influence of the unrelated Latin equus), from Middle French escuirie, escuerie, derivative of escuyer (“squire”), or alternatively from Medieval Latin scuria (“stable”), from Old High German scura (“barn”). Compare esquire.
Inflected forms:
form: equerries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An officer responsible for the care and supervision of the horses of a person of rank.
pos: noun
gloss: A personal attendant to a head of state, a member of a royal family, or a national representative.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: A bedroom is provided for the equerry and one for the King's physician. […] The compartments for the doctor and equerry are panelled in West African betula and cherry mahogany.
Derived words: equerryship
Translations:
equestrianism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English equestrian
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English equestrianism
From equestrian + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: equestrianisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The art or sport of horseriding; the skill required for it.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
eradicator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English eradicate
English -or
English eradicator
From eradicate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: eradicators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who, or thing that eradicates.
pos: noun
Translations:
erasable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English erase
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English erasable
From erase + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: erasables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being erased
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Virginiola was recovered; the abstracted sheet was cunningly replaced, probably certain erasable marks that had been put in for fuller disguise were removed, and Mr Powis received back his property with formal regrets.
Avoid the frustration of time-consuming do-overs on school projects. Try Crayola Erasable Markers, Crayons & colored pencils.
gloss: Any recording medium whose contents can be erased.
pos: noun
examples: With the addition of the erasables, the company now offers what it describes as "a complete family" of optical recording products, including Videodisk, CD-ROM, CD-audio, and write-once units.
Antonyms: unerasable
recordable
Translations:
erector
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aerospace
anatomy
astronautics
business
engineering
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin ērigō (“to raise up, elevate, lift”), equivalent to erect + -or.
Base: erect
Affixes: -or
Inflected forms:
form: erectors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: erectour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who, or a device which erects.
pos: noun
examples: At this stage of the construction process the only people on the site would normally be groundworkers and the steel erectors, followed by the roof cladders.
gloss: Any of several muscles that make parts of the body erect.
pos: noun
gloss: An attachment to a microscope, telescope, etc. for making the image erect instead of inverted.
pos: noun
gloss: A vehicle used to support a rocket for transportation and for placing the rocket in an upright position within a gantry scaffold.
pos: noun
Derived words: erector spinae
piloerector
Translations:
erodible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English erode
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 erodible
From erode + -ible.
Inflected forms:
form: more erodible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most erodible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of eroding.
pos: adj
gloss: Capable of being eroded.
pos: adj
examples: But more importantly [...] the flow of the current might find an erodible bank and so cause more harm than good.
Related words: erodibility
Derived words: bioerodible
Translations:
eruptive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From French éruptif. By surface analysis, erupt + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: more eruptive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most eruptive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: eruptives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That erupts or bursts forth.
pos: adj
examples: ’Tis liſtening fear, and dumb amazement all: / When to the ſtartled eye the ſudden glance / Appears far ſouth, eruptive thro’ the cloud; […]
gloss: Accompanied by eruptions.
pos: adj
examples: an eruptive fever
gloss: Produced by eruption.
pos: adj
examples: eruptive rocks, such as the igneous or volcanic
The region is further diversified by short ranges of eruptive mountains.
gloss: An eruptive rock, one produced by eruption.
pos: noun
Derived words: aneruptive
eruptively
eruptiveness
eruptive prominence
eruptive star
eruptive variable
eruptive xanthoma
eruptivity
intereruptive
noneruptive
posteruptive
preeruptive
syneruptive
uneruptive
Translations:
enamelware
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English enamel
Proto-Germanic *warō
Proto-West Germanic *waru
Old English waru
Middle English ware
English -ware
English enamelware
From enamel + -ware.
Inflected forms:
form: enamelwares
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Articles coated with decorative enamel
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Cooking utensils that have a corrosion resistant layer of enamel fused to the surface
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Synonyms: enameledware
Translations:
encasement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English encase
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English encasement
From encase + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: encasements
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: incasement
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of encasing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something that encases.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The early genetic theory of emboîtement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
Karel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Karels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Karelian, Kareli; a native of Karelia.
pos: noun
examples: On St. Olaf's Day (29th July) the Karels of Finland kill a lamb, without using a knife, and roast it whole.
Translations:
shellfire
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From shell + fire.
Compound parts: shell
fire
Inflected forms:
form: shellfires
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Artillery bombardment.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: We were pinned down by shellfire. If the artillery hadn't run out of shells to shoot at us we would have been wiped out.
Translations:
breechloading
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Describing a breechloader gun: one that has ammunition loaded from the rear of the barrel rather than where it will exit.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
muzzleloading
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From muzzle + loading.
Compound parts: muzzle
loading
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a gun, having ammunition loaded from the front of the barrel where it will exit.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: breechloading
Translations:
sensationalism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sensation
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English sensational
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English sensationalism
From sensational + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: sensationalisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The use of sensational subject matter, style or methods, or the sensational subject matter itself; behavior, published materials, or broadcasts that are intentionally controversial, exaggerated, lurid, loud, or attention-grabbing. Especially applied to news media in a pejorative sense that they are reporting in a manner to gain audience or notoriety but at the expense of accuracy and professionalism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Newspaper articles also were generally positive in tone, although a tendency towards sensationalism means that the spread of hybrid forms is occasionally touted as the universal language of the future.
gloss: A theory of philosophy that all knowledge is ultimately derived from the senses.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: antisensationalism
Translations:
strophic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
music
phonology
prosody
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English strophe
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English strophic
From strophe + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more strophic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most strophic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Using or containing strophes.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a song, composed so that every stanza is set to the same music.
pos: adj
Antonyms: through-composed
Derived words: astrophic
magnetostrophic
strophically
Translations:
bioplastic
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os)
Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der.
English bio-
Proto-Hellenic *plátʰyō
Proto-Hellenic *pláťťō?
Ancient Greek πλάσσω (plássō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Hellenic *-tós
Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)
▲
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Ancient Greek -τικός (-tikós)
Ancient Greek πλᾰστῐκός (plăstĭkós)der.
Latin plasticusder.
English plastic
English bioplastic
From bio- + plastic.
Inflected forms:
form: bioplastics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any form of synthetic polymer, similar to normal plastic, made from renewable biomass sources such as plant sugars, starches, or oils, rather than from petroleum.
pos: noun
examples: A bioplastic can be defined as a polymer that is manufactured into a commercial product from a natural source or renewable resource. A bioplastic can be biodegradable, but a biodegradable plastic does not mean the material was derived fully or in part from a biological source.
Translations:
bibliometric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English biblio-
Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Proto-Hellenic *-tron
Ancient Greek -τρον (-tron)
Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek μετρῐκός (metrĭkós)bor.
▲
Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron)der.
Latin metrum
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
Latin metricusder.
French -métriquebor.
English -metric
English bibliometric
From biblio- + -metric.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to bibliometrics.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: […] in order to extend the time depth for this particular part of the analysis, entries relating to publications mainly or principally concerned with paleopathology in a previously assembled bibliometric database (Mays, 1997a) were also studied. […] In that original bibliometric work (Mays, 1997a), data on whether macroscopy was augmented with imaging and/or microscopic study of skeletal lesions was not collected, so these data were added to that database specifically for this part of the study (all other bibliometric analyses presented here relate solely to the much larger 2011–2019 data set).
Translations:
bibliometrics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English biblio-
English metrics
English bibliometrics
From biblio- + metrics.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The statistical analysis of texts, especially of published literature and especially of reference citations as semantically important connections between articles.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
lymphoblastic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
cytology
immunology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lymphoblast
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English lymphoblastic
From lymphoblast + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a lymphoblast.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
Translations:
cyclooxygenase
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: cyclooxygenases
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cyclo-oxygenase
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cycloxygenase
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of several enzymes that catalyze a cyclooxygenation reaction, but especially the conversion of arachidonic acid into prostaglandins (prostanoids); their inhibition is the mode of action of the NSAIDs aspirin and ibuprofen.
pos: noun
Translations:
coronagraph
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English corona
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-
Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō
Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō)
Ancient Greek -γρᾰ́φος (-grắphos)der.
English -graph
English coronagraph
From corona + -graph.
Inflected forms:
form: coronagraphs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A telescope that has an attachment which blocks out the direct light from the sun or other star, allowing examination of the corona and the detection of exoplanets.
pos: noun
examples: The crosscalibration between LASCO C2 and the STEREO coronagraphs allows, for the first time, the potential use of multi-spacecraft coronagraph data for tomography and for CME analysis..
Translations:
high-risk
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From high + risk.
Compound parts: high
risk
Inflected forms:
form: higher-risk
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: highest-risk
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a great risk.
pos: adj
examples: 2007 March 30, Jene from Boston (caller), “Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines”, Talk of the Nation Science Friday, Ira Flatow (host), National Public Radio https://web.archive.org/web/20071006125335/http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2007/Mar/hour1_033007.html
I don't consider myself high-risk anymore except that I did have cancer, so, one of the things we don't hear talked about a lot is how do you judge your high-riskness. If you have had cancer, where do you fit in? How do you make those decisions...?
Antonyms: low-risk
Translations:
tow-haired
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having almost white blond hair
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
neuroepithelial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-wr̥
Proto-Indo-European *snéh₁wr̥der.
Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron)
Ancient Greek νευρο- (neuro-)der.
English neuro-
English epithelial
English neuroepithelial
From neuro- + epithelial.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the neuroepithelium
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
homeobox
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *somHós
Proto-Hellenic *homós
Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós)
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Ancient Greek -ιος (-ios)
Ancient Greek ὅμοιος (hómoios)bor.
English homeo-
English box
English homeobox
From homeo- + box.
Inflected forms:
form: homeoboxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A short sequence of DNA that is shared by several genes involved in the morphogenesis of many organisms.
pos: noun
examples: When he looked in mice, there it was again: almost exactly the same 180-letter string – the homeobox.
Translations:
bulbul
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Classical Persian بلبل (bulbul) or from Arabic بُلْبُل (bulbul).
Inflected forms:
form: bulbuls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several passerine songbirds, of the family Pycnonotidae (currently, 27 genera recognized), native to Africa and Eurasia.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of the bulbul species of the Middle East, popular in poetry; sometimes known as the ‘nightingale of the East’.
pos: noun
examples: The infant buds, impatient to look around them, rend their green garments and unfold their eyes; while every tree, on which the bulbul ſings, flutters with joy on the wings of their thouſand leaves.
‘Of course, if you want something really Persian and passionate, with red wine and bulbuls in it,’ I went on to suggest; but she grabbed the book from me.
Translations:
chimeric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English chimera
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English chimeric
From chimera + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more chimeric
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most chimeric
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: chimaeric
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: chimæric
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Like a chimera.
pos: adj
examples: They crossed before the sun and vanished one by one and reappeared again and they were black in the sun and they rode out of that vanished sea like burn phantoms with the legs of the animals kicking up the spume that was not real and they were lost in the sun and lost in the lake and they shimmered and slurred together and separated again and they augmented by planes in lurid avatars and began to coalesce and there began to appear above them in the dawnbroached sky a hellish likeness of their ranks riding huge and inverted and the horses' legs incredibly elongate trampling down the high thin cirrus and the howling antiwarriors pendant from their mounts immense and chimeric and the high wild cries carrying that flat and barren pan like the cries of souls broke through some misweave in the weft of things into the world below.
gloss: Imaginary, fanciful.
pos: adj
gloss: Pertaining to a genetic chimera.
pos: adj
examples: Application of the technology for producing chimeric mice has given considerable insight into the way intestinal crypts are organized.
Chimeric embryos are made by injecting cells or genetic material from one species into the embryo of another.
Derived words: allochimeric
antichimeric
chimeric antigen receptor
nonchimeric
xenochimeric
-ximab
Translations:
desto
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Abbreviation of destination.
Inflected forms:
form: destos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a headsign; a destination sign: a moveable or electronic display mounted on a bus or other public transport vehicle to indicate its intended route and destination.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
Singapore
informal
examples: When you arrive at the terminus, remember to change your desto.
Translations:
right-handedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English right-handed
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English right-handedness
From right-handed + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: righthandedness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: right handedness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The state of being right-handed.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Antonyms: left-handedness
sinistrality
Translations:
mulish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
substratebor.?
Proto-Italic *musklos?
Latin mūlus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂
Proto-Italic *-ā
Latin -a
Latin mūla
Anglo-Norman mulebor.
▲
Latin mūlusbor.
Proto-West Germanic *mūl
Old English mūl
Middle English mule
English mule
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English mulish
From mule + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more mulish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mulish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characteristic of a mule; stubborn, obstinate, or intractable.
pos: adj
examples: […] a rickety verdigrised geyser which would spit two inches of tepid water into the bath and then mulishly stop working."
Translations:
chemometrics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor.
Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor.
Medieval Latin alchēmia
▲
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)influ.
New Latin chēmīader.
English chemo-
English metrics
English chemometrics
From chemo- + metrics.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The use of mathematical statistics in the design of experiments, and the evaluation of the resulting data.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
regift
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English gift
English regift
From re- + gift.
Inflected forms:
form: regifts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: regifting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: regifted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: regifted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: re-gift
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: regifts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: re-gift
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To give something as a gift which the giver previously received as a gift; to give to a person something previously received as a gift.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
informal
examples: Be upfront when giving the re-gifted item.
Don't tell the person who is receiving the gift that he/she is being regifted.
It's not usually acceptable to regift an item that's used rather than new. On the other hand, regifting something that's important to you and thus sharing its value with the recipient is actually quite generous and thoughtful.
But before you do any real regifting, you need to learn the rules.
In 2016, Soon-Yi Previn, the wife of Mr. [Woody] Allen, thanked Mr. [Jeff] Epstein for “the sweatshirts,” but asked that next time they not be monogrammed: “so when I regift it no one will suspect.” Mr. Epstein advised that she could always regift them to someone with the same initials.
gloss: A gift which has been given to a second or subsequent recipient.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Fortunately, I'd brought a selection of consolation prizes, Christmas regifts all, and so Ritchie the stranded F-250 driver became the recipient of a very nice scented candle.
Some regifts, particularly distinctive ones, may make the rounds (see “How to Repurpose a Fruitcake,” facing page) and end up being regifted to the original giver, a situation you may find hard to explain.
Food and drink are the most likely type of unwanted items to be passed along, accounting for 35 percent of all regifts, versus 23 percent for beauty and bath products and 18 percent for trinkets and collectibles.
Translations:
encirclement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Old French en-bor.
Middle English en-
English en-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der.
Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos)bor.
Latin circus
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -ulus
Latin circulus
Old French cerclebor.
Middle English circle
English circle
English encircle
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English encirclement
From encircle + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: encirclements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of encircling or the state of being encircled
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The isolation of a target by the formation of a blockade around it
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Not only did it give the Russians an abiding fear of encirclement, whether by nomadic hordes or by nuclear-missile sites, but it also launched them on their relentless drive eastwards and southwards into Asia, and eventually collision with the British in India.
Derived words: operational encirclement
Translations:
encyst
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Old French en-bor.
Middle English en-
English en-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁-der.?
Ancient Greek κύω (kúō)?
Ancient Greek κύστις (kústis)der.
Late Latin cystisder.
English cyst
English encyst
From en- + cyst.
Inflected forms:
form: encysts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: encysting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: encysted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: encysted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: incyst
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To enclose within a cyst.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To be enclosed within a cyst.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: ‘Six months for the projectile to encyst before the knee can be opened safely.’
Translations:
endangerment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
English endanger
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English endangerment
From endanger + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: endangerments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of putting someone into danger, or the condition of being in danger.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The exposure of someone, especially a child, to danger or harm.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: child endangerment
reckless endangerment
Translations:
endlessness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English endelesnesse, from Old English endelēasnes; equivalent to endless + -ness.
Base: endless
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: endlessnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or characteristic of being endless.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Antonyms: finitude
finiteness
finity
limitedness
Translations:
endorser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English endorse
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 endorser
From endorse + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: endorsers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: endorsor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: indorser
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: indorsor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A person who endorses
pos: noun
Translations:
pinwheel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *pinnaz
Proto-West Germanic *pinn
Old English pinn
Middle English pinne
English pin
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷléh₂
Proto-Germanic *hweulō
Old English hwēol
Middle English whel
English wheel
English pinwheel
From pin + wheel.
Inflected forms:
form: pinwheels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pinwheels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pinwheeling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pinwheeled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pinwheeled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An artificial flower with a stem, usually plastic, for children: the flower spins round in the wind, like a small paper windmill.
pos: noun
gloss: A firework which forms a kind of spinning wheel.
pos: noun
examples: The sun blazing late in the afternoon, this long hilarious day like a pinwheel inexhaustibly throwing off sparks.
gloss: A cogged (toothed) gear.
pos: noun
gloss: A pastry which resembles the artificial flowers above, with some filling or topping in the center.
pos: noun
gloss: Any food product consisting of layers (for example of pastry and sweet filling, or of bread and meat) rolled into a spiral, visually similar to a cinnamon roll.
pos: noun
gloss: To spin.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The damaged fighter jet pinwheeled out of control, the g-forces pushing the pilot so hard he couldn't reach the ejection switch.
Uncertainly, he stepped back, bumping into the short skirt of the seawall. He stumbled and pinwheeled his arms for balance.
The laws of physics and chemistry transform a meadow of fine powder into a wreckage of icy chunks. Saugstad’s pinwheeling body would freeze into whatever position it was in the moment the snow stopped.
Derived words: pinwheel flower
pinwheel mushroom
pinwheel sandwich
Wartenberg pinwheel
Translations:
taloned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English talon
English -ed
English taloned
From talon + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having talons.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Weakness was her enemy, the taloned beast that lived in her chest and couldn't wait to sharpen its fangs on her heart.
Translations: