yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
cockney
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See Cockney.
Inflected forms:
form: cockneys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Cockney
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A native or inhabitant of parts of the East End of London.
pos: noun
examples: A cockney in a rural village was stared at as much as if he had entered a kraal of Hottentots.
gloss: An effeminate person; a spoilt child.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: A young heir, or cockney, that is his mother's darling[…]
This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney.
Synonyms: pansy
sissy
Derived words: cockneycality
cockneyess
cockneyfication
cockneyfy
cockneyize
Irish cockney
Jockney
Translations:
co-fusion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin co-der.
English co-
English fusion
English co-fusion
From co- + fusion.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The fusion of two metals together, or a metal and nonmetal, especially in the production of crucible steel.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
conceivably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English conceivable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English conceivably
From conceivable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more conceivably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most conceivably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a conceivable manner; possibly.
pos: adv
examples: Considering that no lexicographer can conceivably know all the words of a language, students were asked to ponder what data lexicographers used to inform them about words[.]
Translations:
coelomic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English coelom
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English coelomic
From coelom + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: cœlomic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: celomic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: coelomatic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to a coelom.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Wiradjuri
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Wiradhuri
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Waradgeri
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Waradgery
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Wiradhari
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Wiradhurri
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Wiradthuri
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Wiradyuri
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Wiragere
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Wiraiari
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Wirradgerry
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Wirradhuri
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Wirradhurri
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Wirratherie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Wirrathuri
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Wooragurie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Woradgery
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An indigenous people of Australia who live in a large area of New South Wales west of the Blue Mountains.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: The tribes who attended the Būrbŭng described in this paper were some of those belonging to the Wiradthuri community, which in former times was both numerous and important, occupying a wide tract of country in the interior of New South Wales, extending from somewhere about the Murray River northerly nearly to the Barwan river, where they were joined by the great Kamilaroi tribes.
Translations:
overflowing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English overflow
English -ing
English overflowing
From overflow + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: overflowings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: overflow
pos: noun
examples: [T]hough he had, as it were, from the overflowings of his heart, given Sophia as a toast among the officers, where he thought it was impossible she should be known; yet, even there, the reader may remember how difficultly he was prevailed upon to mention her surname.
the great overflowings and recedings of the waters
Translations:
trilby
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the stage adaptation of George du Maurier's novel Trilby, in which such hats were worn.
Inflected forms:
form: trilbys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trilbies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: narrow-brimmed type of felt hat, described as having a "shorter brim which is angled down at the front and slightly turned up at the back" in comparison to the fedora
pos: noun
examples: “Nothing very special, sir. He had a mack or coat over his arm, and a trilby hat. He wore a tweed suit, sir, I think.”
Billy was seventeen years old. He was wearing a new navy-blue overcoat, a new brown trilby hat, and a new brown suit, and he was feeling fine.
Translations:
communicating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English communicate
English -ing
English communicating
From communicate + -ing.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Allowing people to pass directly between two rooms.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Our rooms are connected by a secret communicating passage.
I put my grips against the communicating door last night.
Step from this car into the last one of the triplet, the restaurant-bar, and the communicating doors will open before you touch them.
Translations:
merchantable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *merks
Latin merx
Latin mercor
Latin mercānsder.
Anglo-Norman marchauntbor.
Middle English marchaunt
English merchant
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 merchantable
From merchant + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more merchantable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most merchantable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Fit for the market, i.e. suitable for selling for an ordinary price. Sometimes, this is a technical designation for a particular kind or class.
pos: adj
examples: The defendants pleaded the general issue, with notice of the set-off, averring that but a part of the logs ever came to their possession, and of this part but a few were merchantable, the balance of them being worthless, and claiming damages for the inferior quality of the logs.
Antonyms: unmerchantable
Translations:
suicidal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English suicide
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 suicidal
From suicide + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more suicidal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most suicidal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: suicidals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to suicide.
pos: adj
examples: He is an authority on the precursors of suicidal behavior.
gloss: Of a person, likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide.
pos: adj
examples: After losing his job, his wife, and his leg in a single week, he became suicidal.
The campaign aimed to give commuters the confidence to trust their own instincts and intervene if they spot someone vulnerable who may be at risk of suicide, and to talk to them to interrupt their suicidal thoughts.
Seven people were killed and 66 injured after a High Speed Train slammed into a stationary vehicle that had been parked across the main line by a suicidal driver.
It makes me feel better that I’m not the only one who fantasizes about being struck down by a meteor on my way to work. Mind you, I’m not actively suicidal at all. I just kinda think being dead without actually killing myself would be easier and way less exhausting.”
gloss: Of a voluntarily-chosen course of action, highly likely to certain to result in the deaths of the participants; dangerous or reckless to such a degree as to be tantamount to suicide for those taking part.
pos: adj
examples: Now, that, admittedly, did do an awful lot more damage (the 5th and 6th were almost completely wiped out), but the High Seas Fleet was, in turn, almost completely wiped out (in fact, basically was wiped out, to a man) by the oncoming rest of the British Grand Fleet, and it was decided by everybody that this kind of, like, suicidal, completely suicidal, charge was probably a bit out of character for Hipper, and so we didn't take that particular one into account.
gloss: Extremely reckless.
pos: adj
tags: excessive
informal
examples: His driving habits are utterly suicidal.
“We’ve got civilizational suicidal empathy going on,” Musk said, borrowing the term from Gad Saad, a Canadian scholar who is also a frequent Rogan host.
gloss: Someone suicidal; someone likely to kill themselves.
pos: noun
Related words: suicidality
suicidally
suicide
Derived words: antisuicidal
depressive suicidal black metal
parasuicidal
postsuicidal
presuicidal
pseudosuicidal
sillycidal
subsuicidal
suicidal empathy
suicidal ideation
suicidalism
suicidalness
Translations:
Tarzan
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Coined by Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1912. A name created by Burroughs for his fiction.
In the fictional ape language of the books, "tarzan" means "white-skin"; possibly echoic in its phonetics of various "exotic" names (see Orientalism).
Inflected forms:
form: Tarzans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Tarzans
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Tarzaning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Tarzaned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Tarzaned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A strong wild man; any man showing attributes of Tarzan, as muscularity, agility, etc.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: "My job is to grab him before he slaughters more." "He sounds a bit of a Tarzan." "A wild man right enough is Toowanor, but from his size you'd never imagine he was a killer."
"[A]s if we all like climbing around in trees, like monkeys or Tarzans."
PAYNE STEWART, beating his heart like a Tarzan, drummed out a message to the rest of the Open Championship field with three days to go before the off. "I'm ready," he said, "definitely ready."
The top price of £4,500 belongs to Michael Heseltine, but there is little glory here. The caption, of a Tarzan cruelly ravaged by time, is 'But even the beautiful can age.'
There was nothing really statuesque about him; this wasn't a kind of Tarzan, with massive shoulders and great muscles and limbs as strong as a beast's, but a tall, lean, handsome man, who moved with superlative ease.
gloss: To behave in the manner of Tarzan, especially by swinging from ropes, climbing trees, and other feats of athleticism.
pos: verb
examples: Elmo Lincoln, that mighty man of valor who Tarzaned about, has issued a challenge to Jack Dempsey, and we wish him all the luck in the world.
Later in the evening a tree climbing contest was held. Paul Gipe was the only entry. However, judging from the manner in which he tarzaned up and down the big tree he would have had small competition.
Once, when he was about 12, he had attached a rope to the roof, thrown the other end to the top of a tree and the next morning "Tarzaned" across from the tree to his parents' window. He could still remember the look of startled anger on their faces, and how it changed to the one of pleasure they always had for him. After that he often "Tarzaned" in for a morning visit.
None of us had ever "Tarzaned" off a cliff[.]
"He Tarzaned it," Abshier says, describing Deputy King's wild, but ultimately successful, flying tackle. "He spent the rest of the day pulling dewberry stickers out of his pants."
Being a devotee of the Johnny Weismuller school of Tarzaning, no wasp-waisted cartoon character can get my blood aboil.
Translations:
intricacy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English intricate
English -cy
English intricacy
From intricate + -cy.
Inflected forms:
form: intricacies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being intricate or entangled.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the intricacy of a knot
the intricacy of accounts
the intricacy of a cause in controversy
gloss: Perplexity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The breadth of Creation makes it impossible for us to step back far enough to see the story that the tapestry tells; the intricacy of it, from the macro to the micro to the subatomic, makes it impossible for us to comprehend the megatrillions of connections between the threads in just one small fragment of the whole.
gloss: Something which is intricate or complex.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There are many intricacies in the plot of this novel.
With the most patient assiduity he peered into the intricacies of unrevealed structure. No object was too minute, none too large, for his attention.
Translations:
Presbyterian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See presbyterian § Etymology.
Inflected forms:
form: Presbyterians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relating to Presbyterianism.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A person belonging to a church in the tradition of Presbyterianism.
pos: noun
Translations:
geostrophic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-, “earth-”) + στροφή (strophḗ, “a turn, bend, twist”) + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more geostrophic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most geostrophic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the balance, in the atmosphere, between the horizontal Coriolis forces and the horizontal pressure forces.
pos: adj
gloss: Relating to or arising from the deflective force exerted on the atmosphere due to the rotation of the earth.
pos: adj
Related words: ageostrophic
geostrophic wind
geostrophic wind level
Derived words: geostrophically
quasigeostrophic
Translations:
silicic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin silex, silicis (“a flint”). Compare French silicique.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: of, related to, or derived from silica
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Rouen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French Rouen, from Latin Rotomagus. Replaced Middle English Rone, from Anglo-Norman Ron.
Inflected forms:
form: Rouens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A heavyweight breed of domesticated duck, of French origin.
pos: noun
Translations:
silicification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English silica
English -ification
English silicification
From silica + -ification.
Inflected forms:
form: silicifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Impregnation with silica; petrification.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Hostrock identified as quartzite may indicate silicification of pelitic country rock.
Translations:
silicosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Late Latin silica + -osis.
Base: silica
Affixes: -osis
Inflected forms:
form: silicoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A disease of the lungs caused by the inhalation of crystalline silica dust.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Well, minin’ is a hazard in Hazard, Kentucky, and if you ain’t minin’ there, well, my friends, you’re awful lucky, ‘Cause if you don’t get silicosis, or pay that’s just atrocious, you’ll be screamin’ for a union that will care
Translations:
phosphatase
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English phosphate
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.
Ancient Greek διά (diá)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ- (dĭă-)
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti
Proto-Hellenic *hístāmi
Ancient Greek ῐ̔́στημῐ (hĭ́stēmĭ)
Ancient Greek δῐῐ̈́στημῐ (dĭĭ̈́stēmĭ)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́στᾰσῐς (dĭắstăsĭs)
English diastase
English -ase
English phosphatase
From phosphate + -ase.
Inflected forms:
form: phosphatases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several enzymes that hydrolyze phosphate esters, and are important in the metabolism of carbohydrates, nucleotides and phospholipids, and in the formation of bone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: These results are in accordance with the observations of Pirani et al., who found that in normal pregnancy there was no correlation between serum heat-stable alkaline phosphatase activity and crude baby weight or placental weight.
Translations:
phosphatic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English phosphate
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English phosphatic
From phosphate + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or composed of phosphate.
pos: adj
Translations:
phospholipase
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos
Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos)
Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs)
Ancient Greek -φόρος (-phóros)
Ancient Greek φωσφόρος (phōsphóros)bor.
Latin phōsphorusbor.
English phosphorus
English phospho-
English lipase
English phospholipase
From phospho- + lipase.
Inflected forms:
form: phospholipases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several enzymes that hydrolyze the phosphate ester bonds of phospholipids.
pos: noun
Translations:
geopotential
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Pre-Greek der.
Proto-Hellenic *gayader.
Ancient Greek γαῖᾰ (gaîă)clip.
Ancient Greek γῆ (gê)
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)
Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-)der.
English geo-
English potential
English geopotential
From geo- + potential.
Inflected forms:
form: geopotentials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The work that must be done at a given altitude in raising a unit mass from sea level to that altitude against the earth's gravitational field.
pos: noun
examples: It might sound puzzling that the ageostrophic geopotential (or the ageostrophic pressure in z-coordinate) has no impact on the evolution of the vorticity of a quasi-geostrophic disturbance and yet it affects the perturbation kinetic energetics (not globally but locally).
Translations:
phosphorite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English phosphor
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der.
Latin -ītēsbor.
French -iteder.
English -ite
English phosphorite
From phosphor + -ite.
Inflected forms:
form: phosphorites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a sedimentary rock rich in phosphate minerals such as apatite
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
Schutzstaffel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Schutzstaffel.
Inflected forms:
form: Schutzstaffeln
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A squadron of the Luftstreitkräfte of the German Empire; the Schusta.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: The internal security force of Nazi Germany; the SS.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A division or corps of this force.
pos: noun
Related words: Waffen-SS
Translations:
coeternal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin co-der.
English co-
English eternal
English coeternal
From co- + eternal.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Jointly or equally eternal.
pos: adj
examples: Jesus Christ is coeternal with God.
Hail, holy Light, ofspring of Heav'n firſt-born, / Or of th' Eternal Coeternal beam
Translations:
collaring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: BDSM
business
lifestyle
mining
sexuality
Inflected forms:
form: collarings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Material for making shirt collars.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: If any Shirts should be found to want new wristbanding or collaring let it be done with rather purer cloth than that of the shirt itself — especially wristbanding. Collaring they certainly will want several of them.
gloss: A piece of wood or iron for securing the pumps in a mineshaft.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The binding of a submissive to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Collarings in my view are significant events and should be treated as such. They should include a fair amount of forethought and dedication on the part of both parties.
Derived words: radiocollaring
Translations:
colloquia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: a plural of colloquium
pos: noun
Translations:
commandery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French commanderie, from Late Latin commendaria, from Latin commendare.
In the Chinese administrative division sense, used as a translation of 府 (fǔ) and 郡 (jùn).
Inflected forms:
form: commanderies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: commandary
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: commandry
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: commandarie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: commanderie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: commaundrie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: commaundarie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: commaunderie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: commaundry
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: commaundary
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: commaundery
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A territory under the control of a commander
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A territory under the control of a commander
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A chapter of a secret order, especially the Knights Templar (order affiliated with Freemasonry).
pos: noun
Synonyms: jun
fu
chun
foo
prefecture
Translations:
commensal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English commensal, from Old French commensal, from Medieval Latin commensālis, from com- + mensa (“table”) + -ālis.
Inflected forms:
form: commensals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of a form of symbiosis in which one organism derives a benefit while the other is unaffected.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The fish (AMPHIPRION PERCULA) "intel-intel" of the blacks, is said to be commensal (literally, dining at the same table with its host), as distinguished from the parasite, which lives on its host.
With this there is also associated the grazing or herding over wider or more restricted areas, belonging either collectively or discretely to the community, of sheep, cattle, goats, or swine, and almost always the domestic fowl is commensal with man in this life.
gloss: Eating at the same table.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: An organism partaking in a commensal relationship.
pos: noun
examples: The tree did indeed grow right out of the algae, as I had seen from the lifeboat. There was not the least trace of soil. Either there was soil deeper down, or this species of tree was a remarkable instance of a commensal or a parasite.
gloss: One who eats at the same table.
pos: noun
examples: Colville ordered it, and was sorry when the last of his commensals, slightly bowing him a good-night, left him alone to it.
Around this tragic central figure are grouped the commensals of the Vauquer pension, Rastignac, the young law-student, with shallow purse and aristocratic connections; […].
More than once I sat down to lunch or dinner with brilliant commensals, one of whom was understood to have made away with a well-known personage in order to rid the state of a bad administrator, and another had, at a secret Vehmgericht in Turkey, condemned a friend of mine, now a friend of his, to be assassinated.
Related words: commensalism
commensality
endocommensal
endocommensalism
ectocommensal
Derived words: anticommensal
commensally
noncommensal
Translations:
commenter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English comment
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 commenter
From comment + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: commenters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who comments.
pos: noun
examples: There are faculty advisers on El’s theater crew who balk at using “they” for one person; classmates at El’s public school on the outskirts of Boston who insist El can’t be “multiple people”; and commenters on El’s social media feeds who dismiss nonbinary gender identities like androgyne (a combination of masculine and feminine), agender (the absence of gender) and gender-fluid (moving between genders) as lacking a basis in biology.
The country singer took on an Instagram commenter who had words to say regarding Owen’s latest song.
Translations:
commissure
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
Etymology: From Latin commissura (“a joining or connecting together”), from commissus (passive perfect participle of committo (“to join, to connect”)) + -ura.
Base: commissus
Affixes: -ura
Inflected forms:
form: commissures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The joint between two bones.
pos: noun
examples: ...that round about the commissure of all our joints...
gloss: A band of nerve tissue connecting the hemispheres of the brain, the two sides of the spinal cord, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: The line where the upper and lower lips or eyelids meet.
pos: noun
examples: There is a third inner eyelid, highly developed and of beautiful mechanism: this is the nictitating membrane, or "winker" (nictito, I wink), a delicate, elastic, translucent, pearly-white fold of the conjunctiva. While the other lids move vertically and have a horizontal commissure, the winker sweeps horizontally or obliquely across the ball, from the side next the beak to the opposite.
Derived words: anterior commissure
commissural
commissureless
commissuroplasty
commissurotomy
gray commissure
medicommissure
postcommissure
precommissure
Translations:
acrimoniously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English acrimonious
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English acrimoniously
From acrimonious + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more acrimoniously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most acrimoniously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an acrimonious manner; with acrimony.
pos: adv
examples: Mr. Civil was acrimoniously disputing the orthodoxy of this visiting brother's intention to sing this from the pulpit at the close of the evening sermon.
Translations:
acrobatically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English acrobatic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English acrobatically
From acrobatic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more acrobatically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most acrobatically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an acrobatic manner.
pos: adv
examples: Stephane Sessegnon levelled before half-time, acrobatically volleying in Zenden's corner from four yards.
They came close to an equaliser with a Rasmus Hojlund header, following Guglielmo Vicario's error, that was acrobatically cleared off the line by Micky van de Ven midway through the second half.
Translations:
avouch
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French avouchier, from Latin advocāre. Doublet of advocate, advoke, and avow.
Inflected forms:
form: avouches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: avouching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: avouched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: avouched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To declare freely and openly; to assert.
pos: verb
examples: Neither indeede would I have thought, that any such antiquities could have been avouched for the Irish, that maketh me the more to long to see some other of your observations, which you have gathered out of that country […]
If this which he avouches does appear,
There is nor flying hence nor tarrying here.
gloss: To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction.
pos: verb
examples: Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice: And the Lord hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;
[…] send me that hag hither; she shall avouch what it was that she hath given to the wretch Dryfesdale, or the pilniewinks and thumbikins shall wrench it out of her finger-joints.
gloss: To confirm or verify, to affirm the validity of.
pos: verb
examples: For ([…] as the sorowfull dooings of our present dayes do too certeinly avouch) greate men hurt not the common weale so much by beeing evil in respect of themselves, as by drawing others unto evil by their evil example.
As a great public document, addressed to the whole Christian world by him who aspired to be the first ecclesiastic, we might be disposed to question its authenticity, if it were not avouched by the full evidence in its favour and its agreement with all the events of the period.
gloss: To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority.
pos: verb
examples: And for proofe of their opinion they avouch many successions of authorities that no fee simple should passe before the condition performed.
Related words: avouchment
vouch
Derived words: avouchable
avoucher
disavouch
reavouch
unavouched
Translations:
avowedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English avowed
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English avowedly
From avowed + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more avowedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most avowedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: With open acknowledgment, declaration or verification.
pos: adv
examples: 'Tvvas eaſie for me to repreſent to You hovv unfiniſhed and unpoliſhed the Trifles you called for, vvere, eſpecially conſidering that the Immatureneſs of ſome of them vvould not probably be the Chief thing that vvould make many think they come forth Vnſeaſonably, ſince they avovvedly Aim at the Perſuading and Teaching men to Improve their Thoughts, […]
Given the 'saffronization' of Congress, the 'ethnoreligious purification' of the BJP, and the parturition of the avowedly secular parties (CPI, SJP and BSP) […]
Translations:
autobiographic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English auto-
English biographic
English autobiographic
From auto- + biographic.
Inflected forms:
form: more autobiographic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most autobiographic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of autobiographical.
pos: adj
examples: This piece […] happens to be autobiographic, which makes any personal estimate of it all the more dangerous.
Translations:
auxin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
botany
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek αὐξάνω (auxánō)
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ineclip.
English -in
English auxin
From Ancient Greek αὐξάνω (auxánō, “to grow”) + English -in.
Inflected forms:
form: auxins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A class of plant growth substance (often called phytohormones or plant hormones) which play an essential role in coordination of many growth and behavioral processes in the plant life cycle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In Arabidopsis roots, cold stress may reduce shootward auxin transport and alter the intracellular auxin gradient.
SE onset depends on a complex network of interactions among plant growth regulators, mainly auxins and cytokinins, during the proembryogenic early stages, and ethylene and gibberellic and abscisic acids later in the development of somatic embryos.
Translations:
aurally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English aural
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 aurally
From aural + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to sound or the ear; via or through the sense of hearing.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: While the flashy special effects were nice, the movie was aurally jarring, loud and displeasing in general to the ear.
While differentiation is often not challenging for certain languages (anyone can recognise the difference between Russian and French, or Mandarin and Spanish), as languages become closer the difficulty of aurally separating them increases.
Translations:
audiovisual
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewisder.
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *awizdjō
Latin audi(ō)
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English audio-
English visual
English audiovisual
From audio- + visual.
Inflected forms:
form: audio-visual
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Containing both aural and visual elements.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: They put together a stunning audiovisual presentation, with movies and music as well as plenty of information.
CNN and more than a dozen media outlets and groups asked US District Judge Tanya Chutkan for permission to “record and telecast” the March 2024 trial or for the court to “contemporaneously publish on YouTube its internally administered audiovisual livestreams and recordings of the proceedings.”
Translations:
restenosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English stenosis
English restenosis
From re- + stenosis.
Inflected forms:
form: restenoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The recurrence of stenosis, especially that of an artery.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Marathe's wife was dying slowly of ventricular restenosis.
Translations:
stenosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From New Latin stenōsis, from Ancient Greek στένωσις (sténōsis, “narrowing”), from στενόω (stenóō, “to confine, to contract”) + -σις (-sis, nominal suffix), equivalent to steno- + -osis.
Base: στενόω
Affixes: -σις
Inflected forms:
form: stenoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An abnormal narrowing or stricture in a blood vessel or other tubular organ.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A reduction in either mental or physical capacity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: angiostenosis
antirestenosis
arthrostenosis
bronchostenosis
craniostenosis
dacryostenosis
enterostenosis
fibrostenosis
homeostenosis
oesophagostenosis
orbitostenosis
poststenosis
pyloric stenosis
restenosis
rhinostenosis
stenotic
ureterostenosis
Translations:
adeptly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Latin apiō
Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti
Proto-Italic *-skō
Latin -scō
Latin apīscor
Latin adipīscor
Latin adeptusbor.
French adeptebor.
English adept
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 adeptly
From adept + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more adeptly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most adeptly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: With great skill or knowledge.
pos: adv
examples: He navigated the course adeptly, having trained on it for months ahead of time.
Translations:
compendious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French compendieux, from Latin compendiosus (“advantageous, abridged, brief”), from compendium.
Inflected forms:
form: more compendious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most compendious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: containing a subset of words, succinctly described; abridged and summarized
pos: adj
examples: AN HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE RAILWAYS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. By Ernest F. Carter. Cassell. 63s.
This compendious work, which, with its index, runs to 637 pages, aims to list chronologically the developments of the British railway system.
gloss: briefly describing a body of knowledge
pos: adj
Related words: compendium
compendia
Derived words: compendiously
compendiousness
incompendious
uncompendious
Translations:
complementizer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English complementize
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 complementizer
From complementize + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: complementizers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: complementiser
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A subordinating conjunction that can convert a clause into a complement clause, i.e. one that completes a grammatical construction in the predicate and that describes or is identified with the subject or object.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: subordinating conjunction
"That" is a complementizer in the sentence "Mary believes that it is raining".
However, what is of particular interest to us here is the fact that the presence of the Complementiser whether in (37) (b) above excludes the possibility of having an inverted Auxiliary in pre-subject position, as we see from the ungrammaticality of (38) below:
 (38) *John wondered whether would he get a degree
 Why should this be? The answer we propose here is that this is because both Complementisers and inverted Auxiliaries occupy the pre-subject C position: hence, when (as in (38) above) the C position is already filled by the Complementiser whether, inversion of the Auxiliary is not possible, on the assumption that once a given position is filled by one constituent, it cannot be filled by another (i.e. we can only have one constituent occupying any given position).
Translations:
adopter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English adopt
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 adopter
From adopt + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: adopters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: one who adopts
pos: noun
examples: Google says the smartglasses are still in "beta" – prototype – form, despite being openly on sale, and that it wants early adopters to buy and use them and report back problems and suggestions so it can shape the future of the product, which is expected to eventually cost about the same as the average smartphone.
Translations:
platonically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English platonic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English platonically
From platonic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more platonically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most platonically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a platonic manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
gumball
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From gum + ball.
Compound parts: gum
ball
Inflected forms:
form: gumballs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Chewing gum sold as a ball usually coated with colored hard sugar.
pos: noun
examples: Remember those clear globe dispensers with gumballs for a penny?
gloss: A silly, laughable person.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: When he drinks too much he's a gumball.
gloss: The flashing lights on top of a police car.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
gloss: The spiky seedpod of the sweet gum tree.
pos: noun
Derived words: gumball machine
Translations:
cowlick
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cow + lick; as the hair may appear to have been licked into place by a cow.
Compound parts: cow
lick
Inflected forms:
form: cowlicks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cow-lick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cow lick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An unruly lock or section of hair that sticks straight out from the skull or lies at an angle at odds with the rest of an individual's hair, like a whorl or vortex.
pos: noun
examples: We would touch strangers discreetly, feathering down their cowlicks.
Translations:
stinkweed
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From stink + weed.
Compound parts: stink
weed
Inflected forms:
form: stinkweeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Tree of heaven (Ailanthus altissima).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Jimsonweed (Datura stramonium).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any other noxious plant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
clarence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after Prince William, Duke of Clarence and St Andrews, later to become William IV of the United Kingdom.
Inflected forms:
form: clarences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of carriage popular in the 19th century; a four-wheeled horse-driven vehicle with a glass front and room for four passengers.
pos: noun
Translations:
activeness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old French actifbor.
Middle English actyf
English active
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 activeness
From active + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: activenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being active.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Erickson et al. proposed a visualization method of representing the activenesses of discussions by the positions of circles that correspond to participants.
Translations:
actuation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti
Proto-Italic *agō
Latin agō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin āctus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin āctuō
Medieval Latin āctuātusder.
English actuate
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English -ion
English actuation
From actuate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: actuations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of putting into motion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Although an operator presses the button, the actuation is done by an immense series of levers and cranks.
All the outside passenger doors are fitted with drop windows and outside actuation locks, and each end of the car has a Pullman type gangway.
Translations:
acyclovir
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: acyclovirs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: US and UK spelling of aciclovir.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
tac
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The drug cannabis.
pos: noun
tags: Geordie
slang
uncountable
Translations:
adamantly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English adamant
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English adamantly
From adamant + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more adamantly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most adamantly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an immovable or inflexible manner.
pos: adv
examples: She is adamantly denying the allegations.
Translations:
adenoidal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English adenoid
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 adenoidal
From adenoid + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more adenoidal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most adenoidal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the adenoids.
pos: adj
gloss: Sounding as if the speaker has swollen adenoids.
pos: adj
examples: There he ordered beer from the adenoidal Chinese manager and drank the afternoon away, greedily swilling bottle after bottle, feeling gradually his adulthood return.
Metzger, acting on instructions in the will, had retained this amiable, slightly adenoidal expert, for a percent of his valuation, to inventory and appraise Inverarity's stamp collection.
Neither man has an alternative career in audiobook narration awaiting him upon retirement. Ron DeSantis speaks in a sort of monotone nag. Rishi Sunak can sound adenoidal.
Derived words: adenoidally
Translations:
geon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Coined by J. A. Wheeler from gravitational electromagnetic entity.
Inflected forms:
form: geons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hypothetical electromagnetic or gravitational wave held together in a confined region by the gravitational attraction of its own field energy.
pos: noun
Translations:
substantially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English substantial
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English substantially
From substantial + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more substantially
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most substantially
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a strong or substantial manner; considerably.
pos: adv
examples: For the first time since the Great Depression, median family income has fallen substantially over an entire decade. Income grew slowly through most of the last decade, except at the top of the distribution, before falling sharply when the financial crisis began.
gloss: To a great extent; in essence; essentially.
pos: adv
gloss: Without material qualifications.
pos: adv
Synonyms: deep down
Translations:
sponging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: spongings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The application of a sponge.
pos: noun
examples: I have employed cold air, and very often spongings with cold water, in order to moderate the preternatural heat of the skin, and to check the increased velocity of the circulation.
Translations:
squalling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: squallings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who squalls; a crying or wailing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But my attention was suddenly called from my own situation, by the most appalling shouts and squallings proceeding from the back of the carriage.
“Cease thy squalling, thou shrew!”
Translations:
penning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pennings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Writing; literary composition.
pos: noun
examples: the idle pennings of a poetic daydreamer
Translations: