yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
vandyke
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after 17th-century Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck.
Inflected forms:
form: vandykes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Van Dyke
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Van Dyck
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Vandyck
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Vandyke
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: vandykes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vandyking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vandyked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vandyked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: Van Dyke
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: Van Dyck
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: Vandyck
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: Vandyke
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An edge with ornamental triangular points.
pos: noun
gloss: A style of facial hair which has both a mustache and a goatee but with all cheek hair shaven, popular in Europe in the 17th century.
pos: noun
examples: He was still an old galliard, with white Buffalo Bill vandyke, and he swanked around, still healthy of flesh, in white suits, looking things over with big sex-amused eyes.
Raj, you will be painting sideburns and a Van Dyke on a six-inch figurine of Legolas the elf.
gloss: A style of dress or collar similar to those in Anthony van Dyck's portrait paintings; a small round cape, the border ornamented with points and indentations.
pos: noun
gloss: To fit or furnish with a vandyke; to form with points or scallops like a vandyke.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Again I searched, and found a most diabolical pair of cock-nosed shears, capable of vandyking the interiors of elephants.
The travellers had not advanced many paces towards them before the peaks of three gables rose above them, vandyking the sky and docking the last sparse branches of the elms. Mr. Thomasson's exclamation of relief, as he surveyed the building, was cut short by the harsh rattle of a chain, followed by the roar of a watch-dog, as it bounded from the kennel; in a second a horrid raving and baying, as of a score of hounds, awoke the night.
Translations:
unintelligence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + intelligence.
Base: intelligence
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unintelligences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Lack of intelligence.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The Intelligence Office proved to be as much misnamed as those institutions usually are, and varying degrees of unintelligence were shown in the candidates offered for the position of cook at Boxley Hall; though, if the applicants seemed unsatisfactory to Patty, in many cases she was no less so to them.
There is a way in which Britain is certain to have war and its horrors and calamities; it is this--by persisting in her present course of unpreparedness, her apathy, unintelligence, and blindness, and in her disregard of the warnings of the most ordinary political insight, as well as of the example of history.
Translations:
unloyal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + loyal. Piecewise doublet of unleal and unlegal.
Base: loyal
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unloyal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unloyal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not loyal.
pos: adj
examples: I happened to hear of the Pomeroy letter in behalf of Mr. Chase, and I learned with amazement that Chase was conspiring with his friends to secure the nomination for the Presidency, and was untrue and unloyal to his chief.
Particularly did the Kaiser call attention to the equivocal and unloyal position of England which had destroyed the hope of a peaceful issue.
Translations:
uncircumcision
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + circumcision.
Base: circumcision
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: uncircumcisions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The absence of a circumcision; not being circumcised.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love."
As the apostle of the Gentiles declares, that circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God: so as baptism occupies the place of circumcision, baptism is nothing and the want of it nothing, unless accompanied with a sincere, universal and irrevocable purpose to keep the commandments of God.
Translations:
unfoldment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From unfold + -ment.
Base: unfold
Affixes: -ment
Inflected forms:
form: unfoldments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: unfolding
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Even the diverse elements, the minute side-studies and the profuse comments, are all woven into the organic structure, and are essential to the unfoldment of the plot.
Under the watchful care of Martha she flourished and was happy, her mother in little, a laughing whirlwind of tender flesh, tireless feet, dancing eyes, hair of sunlight that was darkening as she grew older, and a mind that seemed to him she called father a miracle of unfoldment.
Every man has to become a perfect man, to unfold to the fullest degree the divine possibilities which lie latent within him, for that unfoldment is the object of the entire scheme so far as he is concerned.
It is that the phenomenon proceeds from, and is a necessary accompaniment of, the growth of human Consciousness itself - its growth, namely, through the three great stages of its unfoldment.
In Vedic cosmology, as well as in the cosmology of the Dogon of West Africa, the universe is an egg that shatters as it expands to begin its career of unfoldment in time.
Translations:
unpigmented
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + pigmented.
Base: pigmented
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not pigmented.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Near-synonyms: pigmentless; undyed, nondyed, dyeless; uncolored, noncolored, colorless
When the changes produced by congestion are visible, as in the eye, the nostril, the mouth, the genital organs, and on the surface of the body in white or unpigmented animals, the part appears red from the increase of blood[…]
Translations:
unrepented
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + repented.
Base: repented
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unrepented
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unrepented
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not repented of.
pos: adj
examples: [34] He was going to heaven, he said, by the help of St. Francis, who came on purpose to fetch him, when a black angel met them, and demanded his absolved, indeed, but unrepented victim.
To describe a wanderer on the face of the earth, driven hither and thither by pursuing vengeance as the first recorded murderer, the poet was obliged by all the rules of art to put such sentiments into his mouth as accorded with his unrepented crime and his dreadful agonies of mind and soul.
Translations:
unsprung
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + sprung.
Base: sprung
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not sprung.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an unsprung trap
gloss: Not supported by the suspension of a vehicle.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The locomotive is carried on two six-wheel bogies, the outer axles of each bogie being driven by series type d.c. motors, completely suspended to reduce the unsprung weight to a minimum.
Amongst the factors peculiar to electric m.u. traction are the heavy unsprung weight of the motors (generally, the greater the weight, the worse is the riding); […].
gloss: Not fitted with springs; lacking springs.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Winchburgh Shale Line is of 2 ft. 6 in. gauge. The surface trucks or tubs are cuboidal metal boxes mounted on unsprung four-wheeled chassis.
He had an unsprung trailer for the job[.]
Translations:
t-girl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: t-girls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tgirl
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A trans woman.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
informal
often
examples: Some of them are unaware that t-girls are often heterosexual, and the idea that a genetic woman would enjoy being with a t-girl usually tickles them pink.
Sex play with a t-girl is fun. It's like sex play with a sexy girl, except for that extra penis and a tendency to be more uninhibited than it usually is with your average non-t-girl.
Translations:
interministerial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From inter- + ministerial.
Base: ministerial
Affixes: inter-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Between ministers.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The increase followed a rise in science's political prominence: Last year, the prime minister himself took charge of an interministerial commission that oversees science policy and funding, and the government has also created a new Office of Science and Technology to bolster policy. "
Gaining access to such maps means navigating through an interministerial bureaucratic procedure with at least 15 stages of negotiations.
gloss: Between ministries.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: "Inter-Ministerial" Conference on the 30th of September 2013 Palais d’Egmont-Brussels.
Translations:
intermontane
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From inter- + montane.
Base: montane
Affixes: inter-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Between mountains.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The distinct types of relief include regions of high mountains, low hills, dissected plateaus, intermontane valleys, and coastal swamps.
Later, the discoveries of rich "pocket" deposits in the Red Butte district lifted the intermontane hill country temporarily to the high plane of a bonanza field.
Sediment infilling, bathtub-like, of dammed intermontane basins formed flat high plains at each step.
Translations:
baseplate
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Etymology: From base + plate.
Compound parts: base
plate
Inflected forms:
form: baseplates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: baseplates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: baseplating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: baseplated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: baseplated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A solid piece of material that has enough strength and sturdiness to serve as the surface to which other things are attached to be supported.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of tie plate.
pos: noun
examples: Baseplates are inserted between rail and sleeper to measure the dynamic loads which are being imposed; […].
gloss: To fit with a baseplate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To provide (the vehicles within a fleet) with license plates registered as a batch in a particular state.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
Translations:
bloodborne
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From blood + borne.
Compound parts: blood
borne
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Usually of a pathogen: carried in the bloodstream and other body fluids.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
book-smart
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: book-smarter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: book-smartest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having knowledge obtained by reading and studying, rather than by practical experience.
pos: adj
examples: I am book-smarter than he.
Translations:
whorey
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From whore + -y.
Base: whore
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: whorier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: whoriest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Slutty, promiscuous.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
vulgar
examples: That is a very whorey, showy dress, Sara.
We got off the bus at Main Street, which was no different from where you get off a bus in Kansas City or Chicago or Boston—red brick, dirty, characters drifting by, trolleys grating in the hopeless dawn, the whorey smell of a big city.
The pity is that she didn't get more of the entertaining roles that were in her range; she hardly had the stability to play a mother or even a secretary and she was a shade too whorey for Daisy Miller or her descendants[…]
After I told her, I stayed, as the chorus girls and the all-girl band applied their heavy whorey make-up, and watched the boy who played the MC get his face created.
Translations:
post-it
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the 3M trademark Post-it.
Inflected forms:
form: post-its
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A post-it note.
pos: noun
examples: In your group, collect all the yellow and grey post-its together. Then pass them on to another group.
They all agree the number and write it on a post-it. They arrange the same cards to make the smallest possible number. When everyone has agreed, they write this number on the same post-it.
Write the brand on post-its and add them onto the flip chart.
Translations:
scabiosa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: scabiosas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: scabious (plant)
pos: noun
Translations:
theosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Eastern-Christianity
human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
philosophy
religion
sciences
theology
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin theōsis, from Koine Greek θέωσις (théōsis).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The likeness to or union with God; deification.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: For him, theosis or deification was the destination for human salvation, whose attainment Adam’s sin in Eden had imperilled but not rendered impossible;[…]
gloss: The process of attaining this state of union with God.
pos: noun
tags: Eastern
uncountable
Related words: apotheosis
catharsis
deification
divinization
metanoia
theopoesis
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: jumalallisuus
lang: Finnish
word: teoosi
lang: French
word: théosis
lang: German
word: Theosis
lang: Greek
word: θέωση
roman: théosi
lang: Ancient Greek
word: θέωσις
roman: théōsis
lang: Hungarian
word: átistenülés
lang: Hungarian
word: megistenülés
lang: Indonesian
word: teosis
lang: Latin
word: deificātiō
lang: Latin
word: theōsis
lang: Macedonian
word: обожување
roman: obožuvanje
lang: Swedish
word: gudomliggörelse
coble
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English coble, from the Cumbric equivalent of Welsh ceubal (“skiff”); ultimately from Latin caupulus.
Inflected forms:
form: cobles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cobble
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small flat-bottomed fishing boat suitable for launching from a beach, found on the north-east coast of England and in Scotland.
pos: noun
examples: Its streets fan out towards the clifftops, and its sheltered North Landing harbours open-decked fishing boats, called 'cobles'.
Translations:
desmin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Possibly from Ancient Greek δέσμη (désmē, “bundle”) + -in
Affixes: -in
Inflected forms:
form: desmins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A protein that is a type III intermediate filament found near the Z line in sarcomeres.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
damiana
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Turnera diffusa, an American passifloraceous shrub used in making a traditional Mexican liqueur, and as an aphrodisiac.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A preparation made from this plant.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: But most likely my judgement was distorted by my contempt for his acting the young buck [...] for ever waxing his moustaches and loading himself with medicaments supposed to replace the failing sap of youth, glycerophosphates, formates, nux vomica, yohimba, damiana.
In 1878, the firm's fluid extract of guaraná sold for $10 per pound, while[…]damiana (for the treatment of male sexual dysfunction) fetched $4.00; […].
Translations:
monkey-house
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: monkey-houses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: monkey house
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An enclosure in which monkeys are kept.
pos: noun
examples: "The fellow is as full of tricks as the monkey-house at the Zoo."
gloss: A frenetically chaotic place, often said of a place where politicians gather.
pos: noun
gloss: A brothel.
pos: noun
tags: US
dated
Translations:
kenotic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to kenosis
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Linked to the kenotic concept of innocence and denial of self-esteem was the new popularity which from very early on an old genre of Eastern saint enjoyed in the Christianity of Kievan Rus’, and which has endured into modern Russian Orthodoxy: the Holy Fool.
Translations:
leucyl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: leucyls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The univalent radical derived from leucine.
pos: noun
Translations:
prospection
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: prospections
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of looking forward into the future. Formed by analogy with retrospection.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncommon
uncountable
gloss: The act of prospecting for minerals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncommon
uncountable
gloss: A search for archaeological remains, usually using modern technology, for example ground penetrating radar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: bioprospection
Translations:
flannel-mouthed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more flannel-mouthed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most flannel-mouthed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: flannelmouthed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Possessing, characterized by, or in the manner of speaking of a flannelmouth.
pos: adj
examples: I went to her, sat close beside her and tried snuggling up a little. It worked. . . . "I can get them," I said just as flannel-mouthed as ever I could, like all of us talked to her now.
gloss: Possessing, characterized by, or in the manner of speaking of a flannelmouth.
pos: adj
examples: [N]ot only does Kerry have a flannel-mouthed inability to utter a simple sentence, but his orotundities also serve to reinforce the notion that the Senator from Massachusetts is a patrician stiff, too smug to speak in a manner decipherable by ordinary Americans.
Translations:
hellman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
Etymology: From hell + man.
Compound parts: hell
man
Inflected forms:
form: hellmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A daredevil.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Let the hellmen down the beach tilt against 100 yards of whitewater trying to paddle out.
Surfer magazine introduced the break to the surf world at large in early 1992, describing the dark-haired, strong-jawed Clark as a "hellman," and the " unofficial guardian of a true secret spot." As Maverick's popularity skyrocketed over the next two years, Clark remained the break's unofficial spokesman, [...]
I only got to my feet from instinct, but there I suddenly was, upright and alive, skittering in front of all that jawing mess with my little board chattering underfoot. Within three seconds I went from saving myself from certain disaster to believing I was a thirteen-year-old hellman.
gloss: Evil man; devil.
pos: noun
examples: Everybody was listening to King, and no one wanted to be distracted. Sam was angry. He couldn't remain passive when the hellmen of the ovens were cursing those he loved. They had to be confronted. He hoisted his camera upon his shoulder just as King's voice said, "Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, [...]
There's this great pause as the hellmen realise they are locked in with me, the dog and the girl upstairs. There's always a few seconds while these ugly bastards stare at the bars.
Translations:
mama-bear
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Characteristic of protective maternal behavior.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
garryowen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: After the Irish Garryowen Football Club, named from Garryowen, Limerick.
Inflected forms:
form: garryowens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A high short punt onto or behind the defending team.
pos: noun
examples: England had an early opportunity with a line-out deep in French territory after a clever grubber from Foden only for Lionel Nallet to burgle back possession, and they then tore into France again as Alexis Palisson was smashed backwards after taking a garryowen and Manu Tuilagi thundered into Morgan Parra.
Translations:
non-offender
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From non- + offender.
Base: offender
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
form: non-offenders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nonoffender
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who is not an offender; one who has not broken the law.
pos: noun
examples: juvenile nonoffenders
Translations:
agenting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From agent + -ing.
Base: agent
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Working as an agent (one who acts for another).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: His agenting career brought him into contact with numerous Hollywood stars.
Translations:
low-studded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more low-studded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most low-studded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Furnished or built with short studs.
pos: adj
examples: a low-studded house
a low-studded room
The walls of the room, which was rather low-studded, were ornamented by sundry notices and posters of different colors, with here and there an engraving of no great artistic excellence--one representing a horse race, another a steamer of the Cunard Line, and still another, the Presidents of the United States grouped together, with Washington as the central figure.
Reba had often wandered there after dark at night and she well knew that in scores of smoky little low-studded kitchens behind those stars in the windows supper was now being prepared.
gloss: Having a textured (studded) sole, but one that has multiple small projections rather than fewer taller projections.
pos: adj
examples: low-studded boots
low-studded shoes
Translations:
curtain-raise
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From curtain-raiser.
Inflected forms:
form: curtain-raises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: curtain-raising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: curtain-raised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: curtain-raised
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To introduce; to prefigure, to set the stage for.
pos: verb
tags: idiomatic
transitive
examples: The fall and humiliation of Algerian President Ahmed ben Bella were carefully timed to curtain-raise what Bella intended as his biggest show, the "Second Bandung Conference."
Curtain-raised here, also, is Cromwell's eventual readiness to smash the monasteries and confiscate their revenue and property to finance the building of a modern state […]
Translations:
Sayan
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the Sayan Mountains.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Sayan Samoyedic
Translations:
will-maker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: will-makers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who draws up a will.
pos: noun
examples: In the north, will-makers put big investment into such components of the Purgatory industry as Masses for the dead.
Translations:
underdrain
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From under- + drain.
Base: drain
Affixes: under-
Inflected forms:
form: underdrains
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: underdrains
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: underdraining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: underdrained
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: underdrained
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An underground drain or trench with openings through which the water may percolate from the soil or ground above.
pos: noun
gloss: To drain by forming an underdrain or underdrains in.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
underfill
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From under- + fill.
Base: fill
Affixes: under-
Inflected forms:
form: underfills
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: underfilling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: underfilled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: underfilled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To fill with an insufficient amount.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Antonyms: overfill
Translations:
sweatpant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sweat + pant.
Compound parts: sweat
pant
Inflected forms:
form: sweatpants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: sweatpants
pos: noun
tags: attributive
often
examples: Try something made of grippier material — regular cotton sweatpant material isn't bad[…]
One of the sweatpant pockets gave up Mexican ID, a tin of organic rolling papers, and a Baggie of clean-looking marijuana.
Translations:
cross-shot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
ball-games
games
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
photography
soccer
sports
Inflected forms:
form: cross-shots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A shot from one side of the field towards the opposite corner of the goal.
pos: noun
examples: But the visitors halved the deficit within two minutes when Scott Sinclair burst into the area and, despite going down under Bennett's challenge, stabbed the ball across for Graham to score with a cross-shot.
This time there was an English element as Ainsley Maitland-Niles let fly with cross-shot that fizzed to Nicolas Tagliafico at the far post.
gloss: A technique for filming interactions between two people in which the camera looks alternately at one or the other person, with the focus on the person farthest from the camera.
pos: noun
gloss: A shot fired at an animal that is moving across one's field of vision.
pos: noun
Translations:
pahi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pahis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large war canoe of Tahiti.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
aonach
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Irish aonach, from Old Irish óenach, from óen (“one”).
Inflected forms:
form: aonachs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: oenach
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An ancient Irish public national assembly called upon the death of a king, queen, notable sage or warrior as part of ancestor-worship practices.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
Tobit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
Etymology: Coined by A. S. Goldberg in 1964 as these type of models were first proposed by James Tobin and are similar to probit models.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: a model where the dependent variable is censored.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Ostrogothic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ostrogoth + -ic.
Base: Ostrogoth
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Ostrogoths.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
sum-up
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sum + up, from the phrasal verb.
Compound parts: sum
up
Inflected forms:
form: sum-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A summary.
pos: noun
Translations:
subtidal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sub- + tidal.
Base: tidal
Affixes: sub-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: below the level of the tide
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
hundy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Diminutive form of hundred with -y.
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: hundies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: hundred, especially 100 dollars
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: That's nine-hundy for just one class. Even state schools can't beat the rate your community college offers.
It's a shame she'll end up losing both her lunch and five hundy.
[…]learning to never have less than a hundy in my wallet[…]
Grady was sloshed and kept wanting to hire the affable men away (he kept slipping them hundies) to be personal bodyguards.
Translations:
dickface
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From dick + face.
Compound parts: dick
face
Inflected forms:
form: dickfaces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Term of abuse
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
offensive
slang
vulgar
examples: Just do what you were sent in there to do, dickface!
Translations:
unclassy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + classy.
Base: classy
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unclassy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unclassy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not classy.
pos: adj
Translations:
lid-lifter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: lid-lifters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The first game played.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
acter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From act + -er (“person or thing to which a certain number or measurement applies”).
Base: act
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: acters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A play or film with a particular number of acts.
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
examples: a one-acter
a two-acter
Translations:
profilin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From profilamentous + -in.
Base: profilamentous
Affixes: -in
Inflected forms:
form: profilins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An actin-binding protein involved in the dynamic turnover and restructuring of the actin cytoskeleton, found in all eukaryotic organisms in most cells.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
proslavery
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pro- + slavery.
Base: slavery
Affixes: pro-
Inflected forms:
form: more proslavery
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most proslavery
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Supporting slavery.
pos: adj
examples: By 1835 the excitement was at its height, and especially along the line of the moral and religious argumentation, where the proslavery men met talk with talk.
When it seemed later that the cause of freedom would eventually triumph the proslavery element undertook to perpetuate slavery through a system of indentured servant labor.
His proslavery views were shaped not only by money and status but also by his deeply racist views, which he tried to justify through pseudoscience.
gloss: Support for the institution of slavery.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The old wisdom that southerners rose up in unison in 1831 after a decade of preparation in the tenets of proslavery is patently an erroneous interpretation.
Translations:
tholeiitic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tholeiite + -ic.
Base: tholeiite
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to tholeiite.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: They are built from a different kind of lava, much gummier than that of the free-flowing tholeiitic basalt.
Translations:
hypermasculinity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hyper- + masculinity.
Base: masculinity
Affixes: hyper-
Inflected forms:
form: hypermasculinities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: exaggerated masculine behavior or traits, especially strength and those of a violent, dominant, or sexual nature
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: These images glamourized and normalized violent standards of hypermasculinity
Antonyms: hypomasculinity
Translations:
sentai
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 戦隊.
Inflected forms:
form: sentai
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Japanese military unit; a squadron, task force, group or wing.
pos: noun
Translations:
knife-edge
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: knife-edges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: knife edge
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: knife's edge
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: knife's-edge
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small piece of metal, usually steel, sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the fulcrum of a pendulum, scalebeam, or other piece required to oscillate with minimal friction.
pos: noun
examples: Again, as the pendulum was provided with sharp knife-edges on opposite sides near its upper end, shaped like a V, on which it swung, the greater the weight of the pendulum the more wear there would be on these knife-edges.
gloss: A precarious balance that could be upset by a very small force in either direction.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The game was on a knife-edge.
[…]meanwhile, Biloxi and Vincennes are both in the process of going down and being abandoned, whilst Miami is right on the knife-edge of being recoverable, with three destroyers clustering around offering pumping and additional damage-control crews to try and keep the light cruiser afloat.
Boris Johnson's future on a knife edge after No 10 party apology [title]
Polling stations have opened in a knife-edge election in Finland, with polls suggesting the three leading parties are running neck-and-neck and prime minister Sanna Marin may face an uphill battle to stay in power.
gloss: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: the edge of a knife.
pos: noun
Derived words: knife-edge file
knife-edge effect
Translations:
Kol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Kols
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Munda, Ho, or Oraon tribes of eastern India.
pos: noun
Translations:
might-have-been
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: might-have-beens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone or something whose potential greatness was not achieved.
pos: noun
examples: But no more imposing might-have-been was there in Great Britain than the Glasgow & North Western Railway, which was intended to run from Glasgow to Inverness via Glencoe and the Great Glen.
One of the might-have-beens of railway history, however, would have altered the appearance of Monsal Dale considerably. The western portion of the Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast Railway (projected in 1891), from Chesterfield to Warrington, was planned to cross the dale and the Midland Line by a viaduct 543 yds. long and 272 ft. above the bed of the River Wye.
Translations:
tyrolean
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tyroleans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A zipline
pos: noun
Translations:
minimum-security
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a prison, having limited security and offering prisoners certain freedoms.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Because the accomplice wasn't considered a danger, she was sent to a minimum-security prison.
Antonyms: maximum security
maximum-security
Translations:
nanner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Phonetically respelled aphetic form of banana.
Inflected forms:
form: nanners
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nana
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: narna
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: narner
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: banana
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
bucht
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Scots bucht, of uncertain origin.
Inflected forms:
form: buchts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sheepfold, especially one in which to keep ewes at milking-time.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
examples: Far over the braes by Upperhill where Ewan would be getting set in his clothes […] the sheep were baaing in their winter buchts.
Translations:
titler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From title + -er.
Base: title
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: titlers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who gives a title to something.
pos: noun
gloss: A mechanical device for adding titles to film.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A software program that adds graphical titles to video material.
pos: noun
Translations:
balter
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English balteren, of North Germanic origin, related to Danish baltre, boltre (“to roll, tumble, gambol, romp”).
Inflected forms:
form: balters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: baltering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: baltered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: baltered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: baulter
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: bolter
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: bauter
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To tumble; dance clumsily.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To become tangled or matted.
pos: verb
tags: UK
dialectal
intransitive
gloss: To tread down in a clumsy manner.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To tangle; clot; mat (as in the hair).
pos: verb
tags: UK
dialectal
transitive
Translations:
Corriedale
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Corriedales
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sheep of a dual-purpose breed that is a cross between Merino and Lincoln sheep.
pos: noun
Translations:
Armorican
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Armorica + -an.
Base: Armorica
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: Armoricans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, from or pertaining to Armorica.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: One who is from Armorica.
pos: noun
Translations:
beanpot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bean + pot.
Compound parts: bean
pot
Inflected forms:
form: beanpots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bean pot
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A pot for cooking or serving beans.
pos: noun
examples: Everywhere in the colonies potbakers' workshops supplied local people with plain red-clay mugs and beanpots, jugs and milkpans for kitchen and dairy.
There were three miniature beanpots of brown pottery filled with steaming baked beans topped with slices of crisp salt pork.
Translations:
council-housed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Living in a council house.
pos: adj
tags: Ireland
UK
not-comparable
Translations:
Tangerine
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French Tanger (Tangier, Morocco) + -ine.
Affixes: -ine
Inflected forms:
form: Tangerines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: From, or pertaining to Tangier.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or related to Blackpool Football Club.
pos: adj
examples: They may have finished 11 points behind West Ham and lost both league games, conceding eight goals, but the Tangerine dream remains alive. Holloway said: “We won’t get a bigger test than West Ham but we’ve got one chance. If you’d asked me last summer when I lost all those players I’d have said this was a dead duck, but we don’t lie down at this club.”
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Tangier.
pos: noun
Translations:
givenness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From given + -ness.
Base: given
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: givennesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The fact of being given or posited in an argument, hypothesis etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Kant argued like Descartes from the existence of individual consciousness rather than from the givenness of a God found in revelation.
gloss: The quality of being given; existence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The process of questioning back displaces the emphasis in phenomenology from an inquiry into modes of givenness, which assumes that there can be a simple starting point, to an inquiry into modes of pregivenness.
Translations:
wurzel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From German Wurzel (“root”), via mangelwurzel, a root crop cultivated for livestock feed beginning in the 18th century.
Inflected forms:
form: wurzels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rural, unsophisticated person; a bumpkin.
pos: noun
gloss: A mangelwurzel.
pos: noun
Translations:
tap-tackle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
Inflected forms:
form: tap-tackles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tap tackle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tap-tackles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tap-tackling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tap-tackled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tap-tackled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: tap tackle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A tackle made from behind the running ball-carrier, where the tackler dives to touch the player's ankle and trips him up.
pos: noun
examples: France's own stand-in stand-off Trinh-Duc missed with a drop-goal when well set but then set off on a curving run through a scattered defensive line which carried him deep into enemy territory until Weepu's desperate tap-tackle finally brought him down.
gloss: to tackle with a tap-tackle
pos: verb
examples: Farrell drilled home a 46-metre penalty and should have had another when Pollard, attempting to jink his way out of defence, was tap-tackled by Anthony Watson and penalised for not releasing.
Translations:
denominationally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From denominational + -ly.
Base: denominational
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a denominational manner; by denomination or sect.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
heavenly-minded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From heavenly + minded.
Compound parts: heavenly
minded
Inflected forms:
form: more heavenly-minded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most heavenly-minded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: heavenlyminded
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Devout; heavenly; pious; of pure mind.
pos: adj
examples: Make them devout in their daily life, zealous, grave, heavenly-minded; not secular, not frivolous, but true pastors, in feeding, in watching, in praying.
Translations:
kissing-crust
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From kissing + crust.
Compound parts: kissing
crust
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The portion of the upper crust of a loaf which has touched another loaf in baking.
pos: noun
examples: how he would recommend this slice of white bread, or that piece of kissing crust, to a tender juvenile, advising them all to have a care of cracking their teeth
he cuts a massy fragment from the rich curly kissing-crust, that hangs like a fretted cornice from the upper half of the loaf[…]
Translations:
lightroom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From light (noun) + room (noun).
Base: light
Inflected forms:
form: lightrooms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: light-room
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small room from which the magazine of a naval vessel is lighted, being separated from the magazine by heavy glass windows.
pos: noun
gloss: The room at the top of a lighthouse containing the lighting apparatus.
pos: noun
Translations:
monopodial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a monopodium or a single and continuous axis of growth; of or pertaining to a monopodium.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A birch twig or a cornstalk is monopodial.
Translations:
Ovidian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin Ovidianus, equivalent to Ovid + -ian.
Base: Ovid
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Latin poet Ovid; resembling the style of Ovid.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
prefigurative
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more prefigurative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most prefigurative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Related to prefiguration; that prefigures.
pos: adj
examples: The whole of this process seems to be typical or prefigurative of the grand atonement to be made for the sins of the whole world by Jesus Christ
Translations:
rough-grained
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more rough-grained
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rough-grained
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a rough grain or fiber.
pos: adj
gloss: coarse of character; not polished or refined.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
figuratively
Translations:
V-moth
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Inflected forms:
form: V-moths
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: V moth
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A common grey European moth, Macaria wauaria, with a V-shaped spot of dark brown on each forewing.
pos: noun
Translations:
politico-economic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From politico- + economic.
Base: economic
Affixes: politico-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Political and economic.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The incorporation of Southern Appalachia entailed nearly one hundred fifty years of ecological, politico-economic, and cultural change.
Translations:
ex-slave
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ex- + slave.
Base: slave
Affixes: ex-
Inflected forms:
form: ex-slaves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A former or emancipated slave.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: freedman
[…] nearly half the Appalachian ex-slaves had endured fifteen years or more of enslavement, and they were old enough to form and to retain oral histories.
Translations:
samite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English samite, from Old French samit, from Medieval Latin samitum, examitum, from Byzantine Greek ἑξάμιτον (hexámiton), from ἕξ (héx, “six”) + μίτος (mítos, “thread”).
Inflected forms:
form: samites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A material of rich silk, sometimes with gold threads, especially prized during the Middle Ages.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [A] robe / Of samite without price, that more exprest / Than hid her, clung about her lissome limbs, / In colour like the satin-shining palm / On sallows in the windy gleams of March: [...]
And in the center of that lake there hath for some time been seen the appearance as of a women's arm--exceedingly beautiful and clad in white samite, and the hand of this arm holdeth a sword of such exceeding excellence and beauty that no eye hath ever beheld like.
Translations:
Peacemaker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Proprialisation of peacemaker.
Inflected forms:
form: Peacemakers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An early type of American revolver, especially the Colt 1873 Single Action Army model.
pos: noun
examples: Peacemaker on his hip
gloss: The B-36 bomber.
pos: noun
Translations: