yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
cheesemaker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English chese-maker, chese-makere, equivalent to cheese + maker. Displaced Old English ċīeswyrhta.
Compound parts: cheese
maker
Inflected forms:
form: cheesemakers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person skilled in the art of making cheese
pos: noun
Translations:
deeded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Transfered by deed.
pos: adj
examples: The purchaser of a deeded ownership interest will continue to own an interest in the underlying property as a cotenant along with all other owners of deeded timeshare interests in that underlying property.
Translations:
stockpiling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: stockpilings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of building up a stockpile.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
unblended
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English blended
English unblended
From un- + blended.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a pure state; not mixed with other substances.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: My favourite drink is unblended broken orange pekoe tea.
Translations:
unbreathable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English breathable
English unbreathable
From un- + breathable.
Inflected forms:
form: more unbreathable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unbreathable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not suitable for breathing.
pos: adj
examples: The atmosphere on Venus is an unbreathable mixture of carbon dioxide and sulphuric acid, amongst other things.
The air was not just thick, it was unbreathable.
gloss: Not letting air seep through.
pos: adj
examples: an unbreathable fabric
Translations:
rollerblading
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The pastime or sport of skating on rollerblades.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
quizzing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: quizzings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which somebody is quizzed, or teased; banter, raillery.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: He knew that he had spoken the truth, though it had cost him a severe pang; and whilst he felt much grief at the thought of the jeers and quizzings he should meet with[…]
gloss: The asking of questions; interrogation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: quizzing glass
quizzingly
Translations:
pummeling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pummelings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A beating.
pos: noun
Translations:
aughts
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the sense of aught to refer to the number zero.
Inflected forms:
form: the aughts
pos: noun
tags: canonical
plural
form: oughts
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: oughts
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The first decade of a century, such as 1900 to 1909 or 2000 to 2009, whose digit in the tens place is zero; the noughties.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: The 20th Century’s Aughts and Teens: OPERETTA [chapter title]
When the staccato, Neptunes-ian single “Boyfriend” was released in March, musical prognosticators were quick to peg the album it portended, Believe, as Justin Bieber’s Justified, a grown-and-sexy, R&B-centric departure that evolved millennial teenybopper Justin Timberlake into one of the unifying pop-music figures of the aughts.
Holy nostalgic flashback, Batman! Aly and AJ Michalka, the actor-musician sister duo known for dominating Radio Disney in the late aughts (they’ve also released some very good music since then), just sent us straight back to our tweens by wearing none other than iconic mall brand Limited Too.
In the late 1990s and early aughts, at the beginning of the anti-human trafficking movement, people did use the term child prostitution.
gloss: From or evoking the first decade of a century (chiefly the 2000s).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Dialup internet is so aughts.
Meyer and his team collected the participants in a very aughts way — through Craigslist.
He's testing out new experiments with knotting and macramé too, tying up dresses and trousers for a look that feels very aughts—and very now.
Translations:
faxing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: faxings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sending of a fax message.
pos: noun
examples: […] the faxings, the phone calls, and the strategy sessions that resulted, for instance, in there being enough shade for trout in Taneum Creek […]
Translations:
doodling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: doodlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something doodled; a careless sketch.
pos: noun
examples: So the persistent researcher may still track down at least a few of Wilde’s own annotations and doodlings and wine stains and broken spines, parsing them for whatever they may reveal.
Translations:
docker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dock
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 docker
From dock (verb) + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: dockers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who performs docking, as of tails.
pos: noun
gloss: One who engages in the sexual practice of docking (where the tip of one participant's penis is inserted into the foreskin of the other participant).
pos: noun
Derived words: docker hole
dockerin
roller docker
Translations:
solvate
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: solvates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: solvates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: solvating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: solvated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: solvated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A complex formed by the attachment of solvent molecules to that of a solute
pos: noun
gloss: To form such a complex upon solution
pos: verb
Translations:
solvated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Combined with molecules of a solvent.
pos: adj
Translations:
hypervitaminosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hyper- + vitamin + -osis.
Base: hyper
Inflected forms:
form: hypervitaminoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any medical condition resulting from excessive intake of vitamins.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The woman's bones were deformed and covered in coarse growths, the result of an agonizing condition called hypervitaminosis A, which can only come from eating the liver of a carnivore.
Antonyms: hypovitaminosis
Translations:
intermarrying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: intermarryings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An intermarriage.
pos: noun
examples: After that there were marryings and intermarryings, the way there are, and Kredindale gets related to half the earls of the North.
Translations:
unraveled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From unravel + -ed. Cognate with Dutch ontrafeld (“unravelled”).
Base: unravel
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more unraveled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unraveled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unravelled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: Disentangled or cleared up.
pos: adj
Translations:
uninvolved
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English involved
English uninvolved
From un- + involved.
Inflected forms:
form: more uninvolved
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most uninvolved
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not involved.
pos: adj
gloss: Emotionally distant.
pos: adj
gloss: Of potential mates, available because not in a committed relationship.
pos: adj
Translations:
subbing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: subbings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A copy editing process.
pos: noun
examples: With the best will in the world, excluding any assumption that the Berlin paper would wish to make Einstein look ridiculous, or that the Times man overemphasized any anti Americanism, these choppings, subbings, and translations inevitably did more than alter the balance of the original.
Do not expect to sub (or copy edit, as the Americans call it) your article to perfection in one go - I will do three or four subbings before I'm convinced an article is as perfect as I can get it. But when you've done all you can - yes, send it out!
Translations:
stubbed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more stubbed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stubbed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Short and thick, like something truncated; blunt; obtuse.
pos: adj
gloss: Abounding in stubs; stubby.
pos: adj
examples: Then came a bit of stubbed ground, once a wood, / Next a marsh, it would seem, and now mere earth / Desperate and done with; [...]
gloss: Not delicate; hardy, rugged.
pos: adj
examples: Stubbed, vulgar constitutions.
Derived words: stubbedness
unstubbed
Translations:
rathole
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: card-games
media
poker
printing
publishing
Etymology: From rat + hole.
Compound parts: rat
hole
Inflected forms:
form: ratholes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ratholes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ratholing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ratholed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ratholed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An entrance to a living area or passageway used by mice or rats.
pos: noun
gloss: A living area used by mice or rats, or a similar living area used by other animals.
pos: noun
examples: Bhantus catch the sanda, or broad-tailed lizard, which dwells in rat-holes in the ground and lives always in fear of the cobra.
gloss: A particularly squalid human residence or other place.
pos: noun
gloss: An area of a silo that has undergone ratholing, so that material moves mostly through the centre and accumulates around the edges.
pos: noun
gloss: A pigeonhole.
pos: noun
gloss: To hoard.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To take a conversation off topic, especially in technical meetings.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To surreptitiously or prematurely remove chips during a poker game.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To exit a cash game and re-enter with a smaller stack.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: (of material) To empty only in the center of a hopper or silo, persisting circumferentially.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Synonyms: amound
intreasure
Derived words: pound sand into a rathole
enough sense to pound sand into a rathole
Translations:
prosecutorial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English prosecutor
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisder.
Old French -ialder.
Middle English -ial
English -ial
English prosecutorial
From prosecutor + -ial.
Inflected forms:
form: more prosecutorial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most prosecutorial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to prosecuting of criminal cases.
pos: adj
examples: Prosecutorial misconduct can lead to the lawyer's disbarment.
Chief Justice Lynch owes his current job to the exercise of prosecutorial abuse which followed in the wake of exposés about the "Sex Ring" indictments. Lynch's predecessor, Robert Bonin, was driven from the bench after he showed some interest in the gay civil rights aspects of these cases.
Meanwhile, Eric Trump condemned the indictment as "third world prosecutorial misconduct […]
Translations:
gutting
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: guttings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more gutting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gutting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The remains after gutting a fish.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: mackerel guttings
gloss: The act by which somebody is gutted.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: evisceration, disembowelment
gloss: Disheartening, crushing.
pos: adj
Translations:
freckling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: frecklings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pattern of freckles
pos: noun
Translations:
criminalistics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The scientific processing and study of evidence of crimes.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
bloodied
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bloody
English -ed
English bloodied
From bloody + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more bloodied
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bloodied
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Covered or stained with blood
pos: adj
Antonyms: bloodless
nonbloody
unbloody
Translations:
uppers
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The parts of a pair of shoes that do not normally contact the ground.
pos: noun
examples: His shoes were so worn that he was walking on his uppers.
Derived words: on one's uppers
Translations:
timeslot
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From time + slot.
Compound parts: time
slot
Inflected forms:
form: timeslots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: time-slot
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: time slot
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: timeslots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: timeslotting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: timeslotted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: timeslotted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: time-slot
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: time slot
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A conventionally defined time interval in a schedule.
pos: noun
examples: Prime-time television has two- to four-hour-long timeslots.
At the peak of its success, the show drew 3.9 million viewers per week to its Sunday night timeslot.
gloss: To allocate to one or more timeslots.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
scamming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: scammings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
pos: noun
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
overhearing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: overhearings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is overheard.
pos: noun
examples: Where overhearings were intended, as in conversations that girls wanted boys to overhear, the speaker often directed her gaze at the boy who was supposed to overhear while turning her mouth toward the ear of the listener.
Translations:
ditching
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: ditchings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A deliberate crash landing on the sea or other body of water.
pos: noun
examples: Model test and actual ditchings of various aircraft indicate that ditchings into the wall of water created by the major swell is roughly analogous to flying into a mountain.
Translations:
prepped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more prepped
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most prepped
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Prepared.
pos: adj
tags: informal
Translations:
geminated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more geminated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most geminated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a consonant, pronounced longer and considered as being doubled; geminate.
pos: adj
Translations:
transgenics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The study and practice of genetic modification by inserting genes from one species into the genetic material of another species.
pos: noun
Translations:
stringing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: stringings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is strung.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: One of the family's diversions was singing "quodlibets." These "what-you-wills" were simply stringings together of various melodies […]
gloss: A defect in 3D printing where strings or whiskers of material are left on the finished product.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: When a printer is extruding and has open spaces in a layer, printers pull the filament back so that stringing does not occur.
Derived words: spaghetti stringing
Translations:
thermochemical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer-der.
Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós)der.
English thermo-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor.
Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor.
Medieval Latin alchēmia
▲
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)influ.
New Latin chēmia
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
New Latin chēmicus
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 chemical
English thermochemical
From thermo- + chemical.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to thermochemistry.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
aliased
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more aliased
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most aliased
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Using more than one name, or being referred to in more than one way.
pos: adj
Translations:
pump-fake
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: pump-fakes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pump-faking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pump-faked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pump-faked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To pretend to throw or shoot the ball in order to make a defender react.
pos: verb
examples: The way he pump-fakes it in the Oval Office is really distracting.
Translations:
greenwashing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Blend of green + whitewashing (or green + -wash + -ing).
Base: green
Affixes: -wash
Inflected forms:
form: greenwashings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The practice by people, organizations and states of presenting themselves as environmentally-friendly and progressive in order to disguise or divert attention away from their actual environmentally damaging behavior.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Fossil fuel lobbyists are trying to water down planned EU rules to stop “investment greenwashing’ by setting science-based criteria for any investment which lays claim to being environmentally sustainable.
It's not greenwashing - it makes sense for a whole load of reasons. It demonstrates that we are not just accepting that we have to use diesel for years to come.
In fact, no legal definition for “nontoxic” or “ceramic” exists, and the marketing has drawn greenwashing accusations exacerbated by the companies concealing their pans’ ingredients.
Translations:
warner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English warn
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 warner
From warn + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: warners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who warns.
pos: noun
examples: And We had certainly sent Noah to his people, [saying], "Indeed, I am to you a clear warner"
Translations:
chokey
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English choke
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English chokey
From choke + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: more chokey
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most chokey
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: chokeys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Reminiscent of choking.
pos: adj
examples: The allusion to his mother made Tom feel rather chokey.
gloss: Prison.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
dated
uncountable
gloss: A station, as for police, customs agents, palanquin-bearers, etc.
pos: noun
tags: South-Asia
countable
historical
uncountable
Related words: chaukidar
Translations:
granger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English graunger, from Anglo-Norman granger, variant of Old French grangier, from grange, perhaps corresponding to Medieval Latin granicārium, from Vulgar Latin *granica, from Latin granum.
Inflected forms:
form: grangers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Grange, National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, an association representing farmers.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A farm steward.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Related words: grain
granary
grange
Derived words: Granger
granger railroad
granger road
Translations:
Granger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Grange + -er, related to etymology 1.
Base: Grange
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: Grangers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: From the North, South, East, and West the Grangers came, on horseback and in every conceivable style of vehicle.
Translations:
bookman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English bocman, from Old English bōcmann (“bookman, a holder of bookland”), equivalent to book + man.
Compound parts: book
man
Inflected forms:
form: bookmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who held bookland.
pos: noun
tags: Old-English
historical
gloss: A studious or learned man; a scholar; a student of books.
pos: noun
gloss: One who sells or publishes books; a bookseller.
pos: noun
Derived words: bookmanship
Translations:
stomping
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more stomping
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stomping
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: stompings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In a way that stomps or suggests stomping; stompy; thumping.
pos: adj
examples: a stomping techno track
gloss: The act of one who stomps.
pos: noun
examples: Once in custody it got worse — systematic beatings, breaking people's glasses in their faces, mace at close range, stompings, and gauntlets to run.
Translations:
fantasizing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fantasizings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fantasising
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who fantasizes.
pos: noun
examples: The notion of schools gave free rein to lubricious fantasizings. The orthodox newspaper Samacharchandrika warned that male teachers — however old or pious — would surely be a danger.
Translations:
prepping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The action or process of preparing something, or preparing for something.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The prepping of this salad will seem easy in comparison with the cooking and baking we've been doing.
gloss: The action or process of preparing something, or preparing for something.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
uncountable
examples: Prepping doesn't have to be hard; there are lots of easy things you can do to make sure that you have water, food, medicine, and warmth in the event of a power outage.
Related words: prepper
Translations:
golfing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: golfings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A session of playing golf.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
groveling
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more groveling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most groveling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: grovelling
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
form: grovelings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: grovelling
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: Showing excessive, servile respect or submission, often to gain favor or forgiveness.
pos: adj
gloss: Of an animal, having the belly or face towards or on the ground.
pos: adj
gloss: The act or practice of one who grovels.
pos: noun
Translations:
divalent
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From di- + valent. Compare ambivalent.
Base: valent
Affixes: di-
Inflected forms:
form: divalents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having an atomic valence of 2.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having a vaccine valence of 2.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Any divalent substance.
pos: noun
Derived words: divalently
Translations:
slumming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: slummings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A period of associating with people or engaging in activities with a status below one's own.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Few understand the works of Cummings,
And few James Joyce's mental slummings,
And few young Auden's coded chatter;
But then it is the few that matter.
Sir Arthur Sullivan, genius of the comic-opera is — by a curious paradox of fate — remembered on the centenary of his birth by those very scores which he considered his musical slummings […]
Translations:
materiality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From material (adjective and noun) + -ity, perhaps modelled on Latin māteriālitās.
Base: material
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: materialities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being material; having a physical existence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This deed accomplished, life no longer suffers hopelessly under the terrible mutilations of ubiquitous disaster, battered by time, hideous throughout space; but with its horror visible still, its cries of anguish still tumultuous, it becomes penetrated by an all-suffusing, all-sustaining love, and a knowledge of its own unconquered power. Something of the light that blazes invisible within the abysses of its normally opaque materiality breaks forth, with an increasing uproar.
According to Judd, in his polemical statement of aesthetic purpose "Specific Objects," written the year he created Untitled, the intransigent materiality of his nonallusive objects would provide a "credible" experience for viewers, free from any external connotations.
gloss: The quality of being of consequence to a legal decision.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: immateriality
ethereality
Derived words: nonmateriality
sociomateriality
Translations:
absurdum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin absurdum, neuter singular of absurdus (“discordant, harsh”).
Inflected forms:
form: absurda
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An illogical conclusion or state.
pos: noun
Translations:
booker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English bokere, from Old English bōcere (“scribe”), equivalent to book + -er. Modern sense influenced by the verb to book.
Base: book
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: bookers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who makes a reservation.
pos: noun
examples: With independent movie theaters closing and larger conglomerates taking over smaller conglomerates, many people were worried that Boston may have seen the end of the small, alternative film festival. But this year USA Cinemas, and the premiere booker George Mansour, have done it again with the fourth annual Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.
gloss: One who records transactions, such as reservations.
pos: noun
gloss: A scholar; a scribe.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: What Booker doth prognosticate Concerning Kings or Kingdoms State […]
Related words: book
bookie
booking
Translations:
arr
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Possibly from aye.
The pirate-imitation form was derived from the West Country dialect after its use by West Country-born actor Robert Newton (1905–1956) in the films Treasure Island (1950) and Blackbeard the Pirate (1952)—and the former’s spin-off media—in which he played, respectively, the fictional pirate Long John Silver and the historical pirate Edward “Blackbeard” Teach (c. 1680 – 1718; also a West Country native).
Inflected forms:
form: ar
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Yes.
pos: intj
tags: UK
West-Country
West-Midlands
Yorkshire
gloss: Used stereotypically in imitation of pirates.
pos: intj
examples: Arr, matey! Tis a dangerous life, the sea – full of giant beasts, raging storms and wayward ships bobbing around like steel icebergs.
He did an imitation of a pirate: "Arr, Arr, Arr, me buckos."
Suddenly a pirate voice said, "Arr, Arr, Arr. Are you looking for me gold?" Josh looked startled and Will began to laugh.
Derived words: oo arr
Translations:
ragging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: raggings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who rags or teases.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But she was openly nice to me after that day under the trailer, and her acceptance of me (probably combined with her father's position in the military hierarchy) led to a gradual end to the raggings I received […]
gloss: An initiation in educational institutions (e.g. universities) usually involving harassment by seniors.
pos: noun
tags: South-Asia
countable
uncountable
examples: “ragging” means any disorderly conduct, whether by words spoken or written or by an act which has the effect of teasing, treating or handling with rudeness any other student indulging in rowdy or indisciplined activities which causes or is likely to cause annoyance, hardship or psychological harm or to raise fear or apprehension thereof in a fresher or a Junior student or asking the student to do any act or perform something which such student will not do in the ordinary course and which has the effect of causing or generating a sense of shame or embarrassment or adversely affect the physique or psyche of a fresher or a Junior student;
Translations:
dissing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dissings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of diss (“an insult or put-down”).
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: One side wants to demonstrate a higher level of street knowledge and openly denounces the distorting lens of Instagram dissings; the other embraces the medium's branding affordances by sending “clout” to a third-party ally, while at the same time avoiding tagging the opponent.
Translations:
jailhouse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From jail + house.
Compound parts: jail
house
Inflected forms:
form: jailhouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A building containing a prison.
pos: noun
examples: “SBF may serve as little as 12.5 years, if he gets all of the jailhouse credit available to him,” Mitchell Epner, a former federal prosecutor, told CNN.
Translations:
nicked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English nick
English -ed
English nicked
From nick + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more nicked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nicked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having one or more nicks; notched.
pos: adj
gloss: Stolen.
pos: adj
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
slang
gloss: Captured (by police); arrested.
pos: adj
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
slang
examples: Get yer trousers on, you're nicked.
"Mr Punch," I said. "You're nicked."
Synonyms: notchy
Derived words: unnicked
nicked up
Translations:
funhouse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From fun + house.
Compound parts: fun
house
Inflected forms:
form: funhouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fun house
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A structure, usually at a circus or amusement park, enclosing several interactive attractions such as distorting mirrors, ramps, slides, stairs, rotating barrel slides, etc., that usually do not involve performers.
pos: noun
examples: “It’s not good stewardship. If the guests wanted to walk through a funhouse with guys jumping out of the shadows saying ‘booga-booga,’ they’d go to one of the Halloween Houses in their hometowns. The Mansion’s better than that. I can’t be a part of this plan.”
Translations:
peddling
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: peddlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who peddles.
pos: noun
examples: Boats shuttled to and fro, and the hawkings and peddlings of all sorts of wares helped to create an amazing scene of activity and prosperity.
gloss: insignificant; unimportant; piddling
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
suckered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Equipped with a sucker or suckers.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The joystick had a suckered base to keep it on the table.
On September 19, six mature stalks, each from a separate hill, were taken from a suckered row and eleven from an unsuckered row alongside.
Translations:
poolhouse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From pool + house.
Compound parts: pool
house
Inflected forms:
form: poolhouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A structure containing equipment used for a swimming pool.
pos: noun
Translations:
uncalled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English called
English uncalled
From un- + called.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not called.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an uncalled foul
Translations:
screwup
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English screw updeverb.
English screwup
Deverbal from screw up.
Inflected forms:
form: screwups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: screw-up
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A substantial mistake, usually causing problems for more people than just the person or group who made it.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: The Ford administration emerged in better shape than it deserved from the fantastic screw-up that preceded the release of the Rockefeller...
gloss: A person who often makes substantial mistakes; a bungler.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: A person who is mentally or emotionally damaged.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
Translations:
mailroom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From mail + room.
Compound parts: mail
room
Inflected forms:
form: mailrooms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A room used for receiving and (usually) sending mail.
pos: noun
examples: Oh, Pete. This is not the gym. — That’s right, Anna. This is the mailroom.
Translations:
filmmaking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From film + making.
Compound parts: film
making
Inflected forms:
form: filmmakings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: film making
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The activity of preparing edited video works, formerly principally films, whether for entertainment or other purposes.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Network Rail and some of the train operating companies also make films about the railway for internal or external showing. While many are brief, some continue to uphold the standards of professional filmmaking with which the railway has become synonymous, over a period of over a century.
gloss: The manufacture of physical film.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Synonyms: cinematography
film-craft
moviemaking
the seventh art
Related words: filmmaker
Translations:
teaming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: teamings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instance of teamwork.
pos: noun
examples: The father-son byplay is occasionally overdone and tedious, but there is a genuine warmth in both the Oland-Luke and the Toler-Sen Yung teamings.
Translations:
tucking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
Inflected forms:
form: tuckings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tuck.
pos: noun
examples: White embroidery, lace, delicate tuckings, and elaborate ribbings rioted across the white of his short doubtlet, breech, and tight stockings.
Translations:
swapping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: swappings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is swapped; an exchange.
pos: noun
Translations:
amphiphilic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi
Ancient Greek ἀμφίς (amphís)lbor.
English amphi-
English -philic
English amphiphilic
From amphi- + -philic.
Inflected forms:
form: more amphiphilic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most amphiphilic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Being a detergent: having both hydrophilic and hydrophobic (or lipophilic) groups.
pos: adj
examples: Sequential living polymerizations of hydrophilic and hydrophobic vinyl ethers from these trifunctional initiators give amphiphilic triarmed block copolymers where the hydrophilic segments may be placed either inner or outer layer of the three arms.
gloss: Having one surface consisting of hydrophilic amino acids and the opposite surface consisting of hydrophobic (or lipophilic) ones.
pos: adj
Related words: amphipathic
amphiphobic
amphiprotic
amphoteric
surfactant
Derived words: amphiphilically
amphiphilicity
nonamphiphilic
Translations:
boatwright
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English botwright, botwrythe, equivalent to boat + wright.
Compound parts: boat
wright
Inflected forms:
form: boatwrights
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A maker of boats, especially of traditional wooden construction.
pos: noun
examples: From the early fourteenth century onwards, the hospital employed a cook and his assistant, along with an assortment of hired hands, including a laundress, a palfreyman, a boatwright, a smith and a swineherd.
Translations:
technophobia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *teḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *tetḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *téḱ-sneh₂der.
Ancient Greek τέχνη (tékhnē)
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)
Ancient Greek τεχνο- (tekhno-)der.
English techno-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰegʷ-
Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -φοβία (-phobía)der.
Latin
New Latinbor.
English -phobia
English technophobia
From techno- + -phobia.
Inflected forms:
form: technophobias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fear of new technologies.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: cyberphobia
But on one major point, neo-Luddites agree: They would loathe computerization even if hordes of unwitting neo-Luddites hadn't suddenly made technophobia so trendy.
I learned that, as Jane approached discharge, I would attend pump class, to learn how to program pumps in our apartment and infuse Jane with water, food, and drugs. My technophobia covered its eyes.
Translations:
cellblock
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cell + block.
Compound parts: cell
block
Inflected forms:
form: cellblocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cell block
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A wing of a prison containing cells for the inmates.
pos: noun
examples: The cellblock where the men were held was close enough to the holding tank, where the women were all kept together, for us to hear much of what happened there.
Translations:
bellied
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a large or prominent belly.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: There was, also, among the company a mannered, bellied person called Alured Castorley […]
gloss: Having a belly of a specified type.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
examples: full-bellied knife
round-bellied vase
But one guy was still yelping: a big-bellied biker, with a long, black beard that hung halfway down his bloated gut.
He was bag-bellied and thin-legged and his wooly eyebrows tilted up to a point in the middle of his forehead that was philosophical and almost comically sad.
gloss: Swollen, bulging, or billowing; bellying.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, “The American Flag” in The Culprit Fay, and Other Poems, New York: Van Norden & King, 1847, p. 91,
Flag of the seas! on ocean wave
Thy stars shall glitter o’er the brave;
When death, careering on the gale,
Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail,
We heard the swarming streets, the noisy mills;
Saw sooty foundries full of glare and gloom,
Great bellied chimneys tipped with tongues of flame,
Quiver in smoky heat.
Hand-like rushed the vintage; we strung the bellied skins
Plump, and at the sealing the Youth’s voice rose:
gloss: Overblown, exaggerated.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: […] the choicest of his friends,
Such as would blush to talk such serious follies,
Or back such bellied commendations […]
Derived words: bare-bellied Joe
barrel-bellied
beer-bellied
black-bellied plover
black-bellied sandgrouse
black-bellied wren
fire-bellied
fire-bellied newt
fire-bellied toad
fish-bellied
narrow-bellied seahorse
ochre-bellied boobook
potbellied
pot-bellied
red-bellied woodpecker
rufous-bellied kookaburra
shad-bellied
slop-bellied
unbellied
violet-bellied hummingbird
white-bellied nothura
white-bellied pitohui
white-bellied rat
white-bellied sea eagle
yellow-bellied
yellow-bellied fairy-fantail
yellow-bellied fantail
yellow-bellied sapsucker
yellow-bellied sea snake
Translations:
slacking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: slackings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
pos: noun
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
victimized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more victimized
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most victimized
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having been made into a victim or treated like one.
pos: adj
Translations:
Lyme
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: All three towns are named after Lyme Regis in Dorset, England.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Lyme disease.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
examples: Statewide there was a 16 percent increase in Lyme cases from 7,543 in 2016 to 8,720 last year.
Translations:
half-ball
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
pool
snooker
sports
Etymology: From half- + ball, so called because the view from the cue ball is half eclipsing the object ball.
Base: ball
Affixes: half-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Describes a shot where the cue ball and the object ball make contact at a natural 45º angle.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The shot needs to be slightly thicker than half-ball to get to the center pocket.
Translations:
in-off
Part of speech: adv
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
pool
snooker
sports
Etymology: From a reconstitution of (go) in + off (preposition), as used in phrases such as, "The white has gone in off the black."
Inflected forms:
form: in-offs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of the cue ball: (going) into a pocket, after cannoning another ball.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Hendry replied with 34, but went in-off attempting a double and next season's world No.1 returned to the table to put the frame beyond doubt and level at 4-4.
gloss: The situation where the cue ball goes into a pocket after striking the object ball.
pos: noun
examples: He looked set to win the frame, until the in-off from the yellow.
Translations:
doling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dolings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who doles.
pos: noun
examples: Alas! we talk of their vanity; we forget that, in doling forth the careless commendation, or as careless sneer, we are bestowing but the passing thought of a moment to that which has been the work of an existence.
Their charities never have been limited to the necessities of mere subsistence, like the secular dolings out of so-called modern charity.
Translations:
bucko
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From buck (“male antelope, deer, etc.; adventurous or high-spirited young man”) + -o (colloquializing suffix).
Base: buck
Affixes: -o
Inflected forms:
form: buckos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: buckoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A boastful or bullying man.
pos: noun
tags: also
attributive
informal
examples: A far cry from the miserable existance^([sic – meaning existence]) of the common sailor brought about by bucko mates and bible preaching captains on the large ocean-going vessels, life aboard a doghole wasn't for everyone and losing your ship on the rocks or being rolled like a cork on a big wave chased many back to the open sea with an indelible meaning of the expression 'doghole' forever stamped in their minds.
And the poor spailpin fanach running like the devil, his clothes tearing on briars and brambles, and his feet soaking and dirty water running out of his boots, and the three big buckos giving him every dirty look if he fustered or faltered, looks that'd sour milk or peel paint from walls.
gloss: Used as a term of address: young lad, friend, pal.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: He did an imitation of a pirate: "Arr, Arr, Arr, me buckos."
Translations:
preproduction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *pér
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *pró
Proto-Indo-European *pro-
Proto-Italic *pro-
Latin prō-
Proto-Indo-European *dewk-
Proto-Indo-European *déwkti
Proto-Italic *doukō
Latin dūcō
Latin prōdūcō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin prōductiōder.
Old French productionbor.
Middle English produccioun
English production
English preproduction
From pre- + production.
Inflected forms:
form: preproductions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: All the preliminary arrangements that are made before the start of a project, especially before the filming of a movie.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The production of a material or substance before it is needed, in anticipation of future requirements.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
bossing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Inflected forms:
form: bossings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A boss; a projecting element.
pos: noun
Translations: