yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
whoopsies
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English whoops
English -ies
English whoopsies
From whoops + -ies.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Whoops.
pos: intj
tags: colloquial
examples: “You betcha-wetcha, Fluttershy!” Pinkie yelled into her megaphone. It was so loud that it caused Fluttershy’s pink hair to blow backward in a gust of wind. Fluttershy winced. “Whoopsies!” Pinkie giggled, moving the megaphone away from her face. “Sorry, got a little carried away!”
A wet, sloppy, hairy thing hit me smack in the face. She flipped on the light and shut the door behind us. “Oh, whoopsies! Sorry, let me get that for you.” She pulled a mop off of my face.
This time, as he lowered his head, it suddenly ran into something soft. […] The woman he bumped into, though, went “Whoopsies,” and didn’t seem to mind it very much.
Staff leave boxes of pills on your bed, / The stupid people never check the bags, / They leave you alone instead! / You fight, / You battle, / A war inside your head. / The staff return, / “Oh whoopsies I left these on your bed!”
Translations:
wiseass
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wise
English -ass
English wiseass
From wise + -ass.
Inflected forms:
form: wiseasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wise-ass
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who makes wisecracks, particularly in a sassy or cocky fashion.
pos: noun
Translations:
hard-won
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From hard (“with difficulty; with much effort”, adverb) + won (“obtained”, verb).
Inflected forms:
form: harder-won
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more hard-won
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: hardest-won
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most hard-won
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hardwon
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having been obtained with effort, despite difficulty and hardship.
pos: adj
examples: The Earle of London yéeldes his Charge and Cittie to the Foe, / Through which diſloyall preſedent did other Citties ſoe: / And then with hard-won Tribute hence the Conquerour did goe.
[S]hould any hostile force approach our shores, or land upon them, they will find a people—not secure, and quiet, and at ease—but resolved and ready to defend our Queen and our country, our hard-won wealth, and our harder-won freedom, our wives and our daughters, our old men and our little children, our hearths and o[u]r altars—to our last ship, our last town, and our last man.
Eulogists of the Bill of Rights often overlook the fact that some of the hardest-won rights of the individual against the state were inserted in the Constitution itself.
Of course, with those decades of life come many hard-won lessons, and at this stage of the game, [Paul] McCartney's not above preaching a bit.
The League of Nations, meanwhile, suffered a credibility gap as the United States never joined the organisation that its President argued was essential for preserving the hard-won peace.
Translations:
hippity-hop
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Compound of hippity + hop, in turn from hip (a regional variant of hop) + -ety. Attested since the middle nineteenth century, with hippity-hoppity appearing somewhat earlier.
Base: hip
Affixes: -ety
Inflected forms:
form: more hippity-hop
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hippity-hop
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hippety-hop
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: hippity-hoppity
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: hippety-hop
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: hippity-hoppity
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: hippity-hops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hippety-hop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hippity-hoppity
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hippity-hops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hippity-hopping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hippity-hopped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hippity-hopped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hippety-hop
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: hippity-hoppity
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Moving by hopping, having an uneven gait.
pos: adj
tags: childish
examples: There must be hundreds of them killed every summer day - and, it's no wonder when one observes the erratic, hippity-hop way they try to cross the road.
gloss: Proceeding through uneven stages.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: In 1927, when United Air Lines began service over a hippity-hop route between San Francisco and Chicago, Cheyenne again rather than Denver was picked as a stop.
gloss: Unevenly, with a hopping gait.
pos: adv
tags: childish
not-comparable
examples: So he mounted the horse, which went hippity-hop, hippity-hop.
Which show how the tortoise moved? hopped / waddled / scampered / scurried / plodded / ran hippity-hop / took one slow step after another
gloss: A hop
pos: noun
tags: childish
gloss: to hop.
pos: verb
tags: childish
Translations:
shuttling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: shuttlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is shuttled.
pos: noun
examples: Incessant shuttlings between one domain and the other serve to stabilize the analogies, and to give them a realistic or down-to-earth basis.
Translations:
tip-top
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Excellent.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: As part of the recovery, Patrick advises bodywork to help keep everything in tip-top shape — and, having been in the biz for a quarter of a century, he knows the people to know.
Translations:
reanalysis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English analysis
English reanalysis
From re- + analysis.
Inflected forms:
form: reanalyses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A second or subsequent analysis.
pos: noun
gloss: Analyzing a lexeme with a different structure from its original, often by misunderstanding.
pos: noun
examples: The initial g- in several of the forms is due to reanalysis from syntactic constructions in which the initial k- preceded by a vowel regularly lenites.
Related words: reanalyze
reanalyse
folk etymology
rebracketing
Translations:
azadirachtin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: azadirachtins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An insecticide of complex structure extracted from the seeds of the neem tree.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
neem
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi नीम (nīm) / Urdu نِیم (nīm), from Sanskrit निम्ब (nimba).
Inflected forms:
form: neems
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nim
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Azadirachta indica, a large, mostly evergreen tree from India, whose seeds yield neem oil, the insecticide azadirachtin.
pos: noun
examples: He was standing at the gate, rubbing his teeth with a twig broken from a neem tree – which is what many poor people in my country do, Mr Premier, when they want to clean their teeth.
Translations:
computationally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English computation
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 computational
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English computationally
From computational + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more computationally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most computationally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a computational manner
pos: adv
gloss: Using computation
pos: adv
Derived words: biocomputationally
computationally expensive
computationally indistinguishable
computationally secure
Translations:
biotransformation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os)
Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der.
English bio-
English transformation
English biotransformation
From bio- + transformation.
Inflected forms:
form: biotransformations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The changes (both chemical and physical) that occur to a substance (especially a drug) by the actions of enzymes within an organism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
oxidized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more oxidized
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most oxidized
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That has reacted with oxygen, or been modified by oxidation
pos: adj
Translations:
acetylated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That has been reacted with acetic acid (or one of its derivatives), or has been modified by the attachment of acetyl groups.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
acetylation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱéh₁yeti
Proto-Italic *akēō
Latin aceō
Latin acētumder.
English aceto-
English acet-
Proto-Indo-European *swel-der.?
Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der.
Frenchder.
English -yl
English acetyl
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātuslbor.
English -ate
English acetylate
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English -ion
English acetylation
From acetylate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: acetylations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The reaction of a substance with acetic acid or one of its derivatives; the introduction of one or more acetyl groups into a substance.
pos: noun
Translations:
epos
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin epos, from Ancient Greek ἔπος (épos, “word, song, epic”).
Inflected forms:
form: eposes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An epic.
pos: noun
examples: Homer’s Epos has not ceased to be true; yet it is no longer our Epos, but shines in the distance, if clearer and clearer, yet also smaller and smaller, like a receding Star.
The bond of friendship between Achilles and Patroclus was referred to by the great tragic writer Æschylus as based on sensuality, and this author was still near enough to the age of the Homeric epos to understand its underlying spirit perfectly.
We should remember that in antiquity, during the period of the greatest flourishing of classical art, elementary education in the public schools of Ellada consisted largely of the Homerian epos and its recitation to the musical accompaniment provided by the pupils themselves.
Translations:
geochemist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from geochemistry.
Inflected forms:
form: geochemists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A chemist or geologist who specializes in geochemistry
pos: noun
Translations:
lych-gate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From lich (“corpse”) + gate.
Compound parts: lich
gate
Inflected forms:
form: lych-gates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lychgate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lych gate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lichgate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lich-gate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lich gate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: litchgate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: litch-gate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: litch gate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lytchgate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lytch-gate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lytch gate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lykegate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lyke-gate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lyke gate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A churchyard gateway with a roof, under which a corpse was laid during a funeral to await the arrival of the clergyman.
pos: noun
examples: If you take the turn to the left, after you pass the lyke-gate at Combehurst Church, …
Church Hill climbs steeply to All Saints, with its lych-gate at the entrance to the churchyard.
Translations:
negativism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English negative
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English negativism
From negative + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: negativisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A persistent pessimistic or skeptical attitude.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It's easier to sow inner dissension than to unite for betterment. Negativism can even be fun for some who have such limited vision that they can't "see" how mch has already been achieved by those who struggle rather than just bitch.
gloss: A stubborn tendency to do the opposite of what one is asked.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
neuritic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more neuritic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most neuritic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: neuritics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to neuritis.
pos: adj
gloss: A person who has neuritis.
pos: noun
Translations:
neutralism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English neutral
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English neutralism
From neutral + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: neutralisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being neutral; neutrality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A political policy of nonalignment in a situation of conflict.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The neutral theory of molecular evolution, holding that, at the molecular level, most evolutionary changes and variation within and between species are caused not by natural selection but by genetic drift of mutant alleles that are neutral.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: positive neutralism
Translations:
neutralist
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English neutral
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English neutralist
From neutral + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: more neutralist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most neutralist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: neutralists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to neutralism.
pos: adj
gloss: A person who advocates such policies.
pos: noun
Translations:
new-fashioned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more new-fashioned
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: newer-fashioned
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most new-fashioned
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: newest-fashioned
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Newly made.
pos: adj
gloss: Up-to-date, fashionable or avant-garde.
pos: adj
examples: He seemed very sentimental, very full of some Feelings or other, & very much addicted to all the newest-fashioned hard words—had not a very clear Brain she presumed, & talked a good deal by rote.
I don’t think the Dorrance place is as handsome as ours, after all, if it is newer-fashioned.
[Anthony] Trollope cannot be too much read to-day. He is not old-fashioned. On the contrary, he is far newer-fashioned than the bulk of novelists to-day. Trollope writes of life, of live people, real things. He convinces—the word is a perfectly good expressive word despite protests against it of late—people who know about life and the world and men and women of it; on the contrary, the six-shilling novelist of to-day usually half convinces people who do not know much about these things.
Duck with cherry sauce, named after a type of cherry grown near Paris. Not much newer-fashioned than duck with orange sauce, although both are quite tasty.
Antonyms: old-fashioned
Translations:
newswoman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English news
Proto-Germanic *wībą
Proto-West Germanic *wīb
Old English wīf
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Old English wīfmann
Middle English woman
Middle English -woman
English -woman
English newswoman
From news + -woman.
Inflected forms:
form: newswomen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A female reporter or newsreader.
pos: noun
Translations:
hesitance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin haereō
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Latin -tus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin -tō
▲
Latin -tō
Latin -itō
Latin -titō
Latin haesitō
Latin haesitāns
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Latin haesitantiabor.
English hesitance
Borrowed from Latin haesitantia.
Inflected forms:
form: hesitances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hæsitancy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hesitancy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act or state of hesitating.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His hesitance was caused by bad past experiences.
[…] Then California, resting the rifle / On the top rail, without doubting, without hesitance, / Aimed for the leaping body of the dog, and when it stood, fired.
No matter how much one denies it, there is always some hesitance when shooting an intimate scene. But an actor needs to shed inhibitions to look convincing.
Translations:
homeliness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English homlynesse, homelynesse, hamelynes, equivalent to homely + -ness.
Base: homely
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: homelinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being homely.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The quality associated with home; domesticity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: How many familiar faces, rejoicing in our joy, sorrowing with our sorrow—how many cares, pleasant from habit—sickness, whose suffering gave a tenderer character to love—mirth, the mirth of the cheerful hearth or the daily meal—mirth, like home-made bread, sweeter from its very homeliness—...
Translations:
Deaf
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From deaf.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the culture surrounding deaf users of sign languages.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Today, sign languages are the means of communication and interaction in Deaf communities around the world and have been shown to contain all the linguistic complexities and potentials of spoken languages (Stokoe, 1960/2005).
There are Deaf clubs in many cities, but the clubs are just a part of the larger community of Deaf people.
Translations:
CODA
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Acronym of child of deaf adults.
Inflected forms:
form: CODAs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: coda
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person born hearing to deaf parents.
pos: noun
Translations:
ad-libbed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more ad-libbed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ad-libbed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Improvised, or performed without preparation.
pos: adj
Translations:
Mazda
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Supposedly from Mazda as well as surname of the founder of corporation, Jujiro Matsuda.
Inflected forms:
form: Mazdas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A vehicle, especially a car, manufactured by the Mazda Motor Corporation.
pos: noun
examples: Nicole and I met outside the church after my bell choir rehersal. I will never forget watching her climb out of her Mazda RX7 and just keep going up, up, up. She was tall, she was blond and she was gorgeous.
one of Skip’s friends from the fire department agreed to drive the U-haul with his girlfriend, pulling our Mazda behind, as we drove in the Bronco. I will never forget seeing our cats’ faces in the Mazda while we were following behind.
...seated atop a genuine (detached) commode of the white porcelain variety, which he had lugged at great hernia-inducing peril from the back of his Mazda to the Outdoor Cinema site, several blocks away.
Translations:
monadelphous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos)
Ancient Greek μονο- (mono-)der.
English mono-
English adelphous
English monadelphous
From mono- + adelphous.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having all its stamens within a flower fused together at least partly by the filaments.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The stamens are monadelphous and are united for more than half their length into an open tube adnate to the petals
Translations:
Porsche
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
Etymology: Borrowed from German Porsche
* (automotive): The surname of the founder, Ferdinand Porsche.
Inflected forms:
form: Porsches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A car of this brand, reputably high-performance and expensive.
pos: noun
examples: Mom drives an Accord, which is quite a surprise if you think about it. I guess that says something about her response to fame. Anyone can drive a Porsche once they have the cash.
a male undergoing a garden-variety mid-life crisis is disturbed not by his sexual appetites but by the lack of variety in his sexual partners. He is disturbed not by the crass materialism of his life but by the fact that he is still driving a Ford when he could and should be driving a Porsche.
I'm unstoppable / I'm a Porsche with no brakes / I'm invincible / Yeah, I win every single game
I don't really want a white horse and carriage / I'm thinkin' more of white Porsches and karats
Translations:
shrooms
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Magic mushrooms, which produce drug-like hallucinations.
pos: noun
Translations:
decussation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin decussationem, from decussare.
Inflected forms:
form: decussations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A crossing or intersection of lines etc. so as to form an X-shape.
pos: noun
examples: […] which being doubled at the angle, makes up the Letter χ, that is the Emphaticall decussation, or fundamentall figure.
Translations:
hawing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hawings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of saying "haw", in intermission or hesitation of speech.
pos: noun
examples: Blushing and stammering, awkward pauses, hemmings and hawings, tremblings of voice, and confusion in all its shapes there were between them […]
Translations:
knapweed
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Alteration of knopweed.
Inflected forms:
form: knapweeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: napweed
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of various common weeds of, or formerly of, the genus Centaurea.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: hardhead
gloss: Any of various common weeds of, or formerly of, the genus Centaurea.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of various common weeds of, or formerly of, the genus Centaurea.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of various common weeds of, or formerly of, the genus Centaurea.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: bighead knapweed
black knapweed
brown knapweed
common knapweed
diffuse knapweed
giant knapweed
greater knapweed
great knapweed
Jersey knapweed
lesser knapweed
Russian knapweed
singleflower knapweed
slender knapweed
spotted knapweed
squarrose knapweed
tumble knapweed
white knapweed
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: տերեփուկ
roman: terepʻuk
lang: Bulgarian
word: метличина
roman: metličina
lang: Icelandic
word: kornblóm
lang: Irish
word: bata cogaidh
lang: Irish
word: mínscoth
lang: Norman
word: bourdonniéthe
lang: Polish
word: chaber
lang: Russian
word: чёрный василёк
roman: čórnyj vasiljók
lang: Swedish
word: klint
lang: Volapük
word: zentor
lang: Welsh
word: pengaled
taw
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English tawen, from Old English tawian (“to do, make”), from Proto-West Germanic *tawōn, a variant of Proto-West Germanic *tauwjan, from Proto-Germanic *tawjaną (“to make, prepare”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- (“to tie to, secure”).
Cognate with Dutch touwen (“to rope, tether, curry”), Dutch tuien (“to fasten with ropes”), German Tau (“rope, hawser, cable”), Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌾𐌰𐌽 (taujan, “to make, prepare”). Related to tool and possibly to tether.
Inflected forms:
form: taws
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tawing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tawed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tawed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To beat; to scourge.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
transitive
gloss: To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, etc., by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, etc., by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: tool
Derived words: tawer
tawery
tawyer
Translations:
vomeronasal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English vomer
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English nasal
English vomeronasal
From vomer + -o- + nasal.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or situated near the vomer bone between the nose and the mouth
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
clonogenic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From clono- + -genic.
Base: clono
Inflected forms:
form: more clonogenic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most clonogenic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having the ability to form clones
pos: adj
Translations:
subaerial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér
Proto-Hellenic *auhḗr
Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr)
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Ancient Greek -ιος (-ios)
Ancient Greek ᾱ̓έρῐος (āérĭos)der.
Latin āerius
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 aerial
English subaerial
From sub- + aerial.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Formed, located or occurring on the Earth's land surface; contrasted with subaqueous
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
butthurt
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From butt + hurt. First use appears c. 1996 in the Usenet group alt.graffiti. See cite below.
Compound parts: butt
hurt
Inflected forms:
form: more butthurt
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most butthurt
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: butt-hurt
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: butt-hurt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Overly annoyed or bothered by a perceived insult or injustice; needlessly offended.
pos: adj
tags: Internet
examples: "... oh my. dont get so butthurt, ... i cant even remember what i wrote. anyhow, no i've never been to newyork. and yes i know that graffiti started there.."
"Move over!" Mason motions to Glyn, as he takes a seat at the round table next to the guys. "Oh, don't be so butthurt, I was just messing with you, Bromigo," Glyn says, still laughing a bit while taking a big swig of his beer.
gloss: A feeling of offense caused by a perceived insult or injustice.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
uncountable
examples: He's just full of butthurt because he wasn't allowed to join the society.
The amount of butthurt in this scenario was phenomenal […]
Translations:
shearing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English scherynge; equivalent to shear + -ing.
Base: shear
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Tending to cut or tear.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
hypercorrection
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Hellenic *hupér
Ancient Greek ῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér)
Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)der.
English hyper-
English correction
English hypercorrection
From hyper- + correction.
Inflected forms:
form: hypercorrections
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hyper-correction
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Nonstandard language use that results from the overapplication of a perceived prescriptive rule.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A nonstandard form so used.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: hypercorrect
hyper-correct
hypercorrective
hyper-corrective
hypercorrectness
hyper-correctness
hypercorrectism
hyper-correctism
incorrection
Translations:
ticky-tacky
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably reduplication of tacky. Apparently coined by Malvina Reynolds in the early 1960s (see quotation, below).
Inflected forms:
form: ticky tacky
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ticky tacky
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Cheap, low-quality building material, especially as that used to make conventional suburban housing of a uniform design.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
examples: And the boys go into business, and marry and raise a family / In boxes made of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same.
gloss: Made of this material; cheaply built, of low quality.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
examples: My first impression was that Phoenix was another American Dream (a la L.A.) come true—ticky-tacky tract housing complexes and mini-malls stretching boundlessly into the flat desert horizon.
gloss: Inferior, minor, trivial.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
not-comparable
examples: It almost seems that major discipline problems take care of themselves; it is the day-to-day little ticky-tacky issues that bind and scratch and itch until you find that you are boxed in with a class that you can no longer control.
Related words: ticky-tack
Translations:
hypovolemic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Ancient Greek ῠ̔πό (hŭpó)
Ancient Greek ὑπο- (hupo-)der.
English hypo-
English volemic
English hypovolemic
From hypo- + volemic.
Inflected forms:
form: hypovolaemic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: hypovolæmic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to hypovolemia, or characterized by low volume of blood in the circulatory system; as hypovolemic shock.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
rehydration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English hydration
English rehydration
From re- + hydration.
Inflected forms:
form: rehydrations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The replenishment of water and electrolytes lost through dehydration.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
hit-and-run
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or being a hit and run.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: If observed, approach with extreme caution and inform nearest control of contact. Both subjects now under multiple federal warrants charging bank robbery, murder, and hit-and-run murder.
During the Reaper attack on Thessia, the asari armada used Janiri as a staging base for their hit-and-run attacks on the invading Reapers, striking, jumping to FTL to lose pursuers, and discharging the static into Janiri's magnetic field as they prepared for another attack.
Translations:
hobnailed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hobnail
English -ed
English hobnailed
From hobnail + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having hobnails.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The farmer's hobnailed boots were used in mud and snow.
The clumping of hobnailed boots on the gravel outside proclaimed the approach of Manning. John looked questioningly at Poirot.
“I don't know if it's my imagination, Kipper,” I said, “but something gives me the impression that at moment of going to press you aren't too sold on Bobbie.” He shrugged a shoulder. “Oh, I wouldn't say that. Apart from wishing I could throttle the young twister with my bare hands and jump on the remains with hobnailed boots, I don't feel much about her one way or the other.”
Translations:
hipped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hip
English -ed
English hipped
From hip (“anatomy sense”) + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more hipped
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hipped
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having hips or a feature resembling hips.
pos: adj
examples: hipped roof
gloss: Having hips of a specific kind.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
examples: a wide-hipped woman
Derived words: bird-hipped
hipped roof
lizard-hipped
swivel-hipped
wide-hipped
Translations:
ragdoll
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
skiing
snowboarding
sports
video-games
Etymology: From rag doll.
Inflected forms:
form: ragdolls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ragdolling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ragdolled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ragdolled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rag-doll
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To be flung about so that the limbs move loosely.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To move, roll, fall, etc., so that the limbs move loosely.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I was so tired that potholes, fumes and noise aside, I slept regardless, my head rag-dolling from side to side.
gloss: To fling about so that the limbs move loosely.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: “Manhandle” isn’t the term for what he’s doing. It’s something more desperate, the way he’s clutching and yanking and pawing at him—our guy is ragdoll'''ing his antagonist.
They worked from the clinch against the ringposts and Daniel handfought to get the Thai Plum, one hand clasped over the other behind the other man’s neck, and there he pinched his elbows together and ragdolled Jung Woo, stepped wide and flung him across the canvas, pulled him back to where knees could be landed if they’d been thrown.
The next time we played Milestone, this time at home, Rob got kicked out of the game in the first period for fighting. It wasn’t much of a fight. The guy wasn’t exactly hellfire on skates. Rob and him dropped their gloves, and Rob proceeded to ragdoll the guy. I don’t think the guy even got a punch in.
The storm was brutal. It ragdolled my skinny body and tossed me all over the vessel until it hurled me right at Captain Vex’s cabin door.
Translations:
shorthair
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From short + hair.
Compound parts: short
hair
Inflected forms:
form: shorthairs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several breeds of domestic cat with relatively short hair, a slender body and a large head.
pos: noun
Translations:
biosynthetic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os)
Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der.
English bio-
English synthetic
English biosynthetic
From bio- + synthetic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: of or pertaining to biosynthesis
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
newsy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English news
English -y
English newsy
From news + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: newsier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: newsiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: newsies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Containing lots of news; informative.
pos: adj
gloss: Chatty, gossipy.
pos: adj
gloss: Someone selling newspapers; a newsboy.
pos: noun
tags: US
informal
gloss: A journalist, especially a reporter.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
informal
examples: Taken together, these websites resembled something of a first-person news network, a collective form of collaborative news-gathering. Ordinary people were transforming into 'amateur newsies', […]
“Love life among the grown-ups, better ask a newsie, you really want to know. Those guys get around.”
Derived words: newsily
newsiness
Translations:
next-door
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: nextdoor
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: next door
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: that occupies an adjacent place, especially the building immediately to the left or right
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
nice-looking
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more nice-looking
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: nicer-looking
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nice-looking
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: nicest-looking
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pleasing to the eye; attractive.
pos: adj
Translations:
nightspot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From night + spot.
Compound parts: night
spot
Inflected forms:
form: nightspots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: night spot
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An establishment that is open late at night, especially one that provides entertainment, such as a nightclub.
pos: noun
examples: We went to a nightspot where the lights were low
Dined and danced, and I was ready to go
I simply cannot believe the prevalence of loud music in Boston's gay bars. It's not that I dislike disco, but I tire of leaving the nightspots with ringing ears (and double vision, I might add, due to the silly light shows!)
Translations:
northeaster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *nér
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *nŕ̥t(e)ros
Proto-Germanic *nurþraz
Proto-West Germanic *norþr
Old English norþ
Middle English north
English north
English easter
English northeaster
From north + easter.
Inflected forms:
form: northeasters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nor'easter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: noreaster
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An extratropical storm, usually found in coastal New England and Atlantic Canada, whose winds usually originate from the northeast.
pos: noun
examples: A northeaster in one place may be an easter, a norther, or a souther in some other locality.
A wave simulator in the tank can re-enact tsunamis and northeasters, and imitate wave conditions from midocean.
Translations:
norther
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From north + -er.
Base: north
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: northers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: northers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: northering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: northered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: northered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A strong north wind, a wind blowing from the north.
pos: noun
examples: Brisk winds from the south for several days in Texas are generally followed by a "norther."
Keep her going South-South East as fast as she'll take it, Shelby. It'll be a wet ride till we get outside the stream with this Norther.
gloss: To move or go toward the north.
pos: verb
examples: The hills […] run inland with a slight northering tendency.
But from one impulse, like a northering sun, / The innumerable outburst is begun, / And in that common sunlight all men know / A common ecstasy.
One could also speak of a northering of imagination, an attenuation, chilling, emptying out. But that sense of diminishment in going north may be mistaken, ...
The map maintained that the mountains were those along whose far flank I'd northered on foot, and one molar-tooth peak certainly looked like Squaretop.
"In that direction, we have a southbound breeze all the way to the ground." […] The northering sun was peeking under the curve of the balloon. “We're coming at them from out of the sun.”
We follow Waverley in the reverse progress of his own private eastering, and (the eastering here technically a northering) we make our way through […]
gloss: To blow from (closer to) the north, pushing ships (etc) towards the south; to have its apparent source shift northward.
pos: verb
examples: The 23 February 1667 Sunday. All the morning flat calm until after six. At the coming away of the ebb sprang up a small gale at W.N.W. and N.W. by W., that we stretched along the shore toward the Ness, S.W. course. The wind northered and came easterly, a small gale. We stayed for our boat until one, which we had sent to search 4 French shallops that assured lay there to lade wool.
Att noone it came S. afterwardes westerly, and after sunnesett it northered, and blew a verie stiffe gale; some raine.
Translations:
on-the-spot
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: At the scene; in the right place at the exact moment.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
not-comparable
examples: The hikers were issued with an on-the-spot fine for littering.
Now, over to our man in Tokyo for an on-the-spot report.
The L.M.R. is building up this new district organisation to ensure on-the-spot attention to the Marylebone suburban services, of which dieselisation with multiple-units has made a tentative beginning.
Translations:
asker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English asker, axer, equivalent to ask + -er.
Base: ask
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: askers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who asks a question.
pos: noun
Translations:
chronicity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English chronic
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English chronicity
From chronic + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: chronicities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being chronic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
high-class
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more high-class
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most high-class
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Upper-class.
pos: adj
gloss: Recognized for its quality.
pos: adj
examples: We bought it at a high-class shop downtown, expensive but worth it.
She's nothing but a high-class prostitute, even if she is earning $2,000 a night.
Kelleher made it 11 penalties from 11 for Liverpool but Kepa blazed wildly over the top as a high-class showpiece was decided by the finest of margins after 21 successful attempts.
Synonyms: upscale
Related words: classy
Translations:
high-heeled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having tall heels.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: For instance, impressions in the earth, of a certain size, shape, and pattern, would normally be sufficient evidence for a confident belief that a woman had walked over the ground wearing high-heeled shoes.
I preferred to think about school and a government job and how I would one day put on high-heeled shoes and wear a long skirt like other girls.
They wore designer clothes, white, tight, hip-huggers, and low neck blouses, high-heeled shoes, especially in the winters when they wore those sexy high-heeled boots, and tight jeans.
High-heeled shoes are not typically constructed to accommodate the average male's heft, foot size, or gait. All high-heeled shoes, particularly extremely thin “stiletto” heels, require technical acumen in their design because the structure of the shoe focuses immense pressure on a small area; a petite woman in stilettos can exert 20 times the pressure of a 6,000 pound elephant under her heel.
gloss: Wearing high heels.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Within moments the high-heeled workers of Data Air are ensconced in the air conditioned hum of their "open office."
By all logic, high-heeled women should not constitute a threat: but they do.
The foot abduction is smaller (out-toeing is smaller) in the high-heeled gait (Adrian and Karpovich, 1966; Snow and Williams, 1994; Stefanyshyn et al., 2000), or no significant difference exists between the flat-heeled and the high-heeled gait (Merrifield, 1971).
Translations:
high-pressure
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: high-pressures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: high-pressuring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: high-pressured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: high-pressured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Operating at relatively high pressure, such as several times atmospheric pressure.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Tense; stressful.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: High-pressure situations can lead to nervous breakdowns.
gloss: Involving much persuasion.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: High-pressure salesmanship on the part of the Electro-Motive subsidiary of the General Motors Corporation, which has built by far the largest proportion of the American diesels to date, there certainly has been - to such an extent, indeed, as to compel the old-established builders of steam locomotives, such as Baldwins, the American Locomotive Company and the Lima Locomotive Company, either to follow suit or go out of the locomotive building business altogether - [...].
gloss: To coerce someone to perform or carry out an action by applying a high degree of psychological pressure.
pos: verb
tags: idiomatic
informal
transitive
Translations:
high-priced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: higher-priced
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: highest-priced
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: highpriced
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: expensive
pos: adj
examples: The misguided youngsters are yachting, attending the races, playing the "stage Johnny," automobiling, playing poker for high stakes, overliving at home, on expensive shopping tours, attending box parties to the theatre, visiting high-priced restaurants, etc., etc.
Translations: