yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
chromo
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Shortened from chromolithograph.
Inflected forms:
form: chromos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A color print produced by chromolithography.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: All Nature is smiling, in fact, with one large, comprehensive smile, exactly like a first-class PRANG chromo with a fresh coat of varnish upon it.
It was manifest that we all felt that we ought to send the poor shoemaker SOMETHING. There was long and thoughtful discussion of this point; and we finally decided to send him a chromo.
The neglected warehouse turned out to be a treasury of calendar art from the 1930s through the 1970s, years when chromo art calendars were a major advertising medium, a vehicle for national pride, and a fixture in nearly every home, business, and school.
gloss: Of or relating to the chromodomain, a protein structural domain associated with chromatin production
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: HP1 shares an ~50-amino acid NH 2 -terminal sequence motif, the chromo domain, with polycomb, an important regulatory gene that functions in the stable repression of homeotic genes during Drosophila development (28 ).
To determine whether the conserved domains, the chromo, SET, and cysteine-rich regions, were also critical for Clr4 HMTase activity, we tested mutant Clr4 proteins for HMTase activity.
Translations:
carle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Variant of carl.
Inflected forms:
form: carles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: carl
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: peasant; fellow
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
examples: Eh, Mr Henry! but the carle gae him a screed o' doctrine! Ye might hae heard him a mile down the wind—He routed like a cow in a fremd loaning.
Had he instead of on the Doge's throne Stamped the same brand upon a peasant's stool, His blood had gilt the threshold; for the carle Had stabbed him on the instant.
Ye may fancy I'm talking like a sour, disappointed auld carle.
Spake the sad and sorry carle: "We seek the Land where the days are many: so many that he who hath forgotten how to laugh, may learn the craft again, and forget the days of Sorrow."
I am no sheephearde with a Curre, attending on the flockes:
Translations:
deadeye
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From dead + eye.
See glossary of nautical terms of "deadrise" for usage of "dead" to describe a stationary object or spatial stability of an object relative to motion.
See nautical definition of "eye" for usage referring to the foremost part of a ship's bow that aims its orientation.
For biological eye stabilization during head and neck movement, see vestibulo-ocular reflex
Compound parts: dead
eye
Inflected forms:
form: dead-eye
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: deadeyes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dead-eye
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Very accurate in shooting or throwing.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Gross, only a 20-year-old junior, is a deadeye passer, a poised runner and a quick-thinking field general.
Help in that department should come from highly touted freshman Jason Kapono, a 6'7" deadeye shooter who made 211 threes in high school.
The old man was a natural sniper, a deadeye shooter even as a boy, and he served with my great uncle in the First World War.
gloss: Cold; unfriendly.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The deadeye stare of the bassist was enough to make any normal person run.
Outlandish in its violence and its conceit, "The Brave One" would be an interesting addendum to Foster's career even without its biographical frisson, without the image of Erica holding a gun with a deadeye stare […]
gloss: A wooden disk having holes through which the lanyard is passed, used for tightening shrouds.
pos: noun
gloss: A very accurate marksman.
pos: noun
examples: He taught both my mother and me to shoot, taught my mother so well that she became a better shot than he was--a real deadeye.
gloss: A penchant for noticing a particular thing, or a person who has such a penchant.
pos: noun
tags: uncommon
examples: He examined the cash balance daily, boasted he could pay off all debts in two hours, had a deadeye for fake figures in scanning a ledger, and personally audited the books each New Year's Day.
Thirty-four years later, she was a tough CEO who went after Jimmy's detractors with a deadeye for the jugular.
Manny's memory had always been an arch-phenomenon of mimcry ^([sic]); he was a deadeye for all the destructive details.
Related words: death stare
death glare
Derived words: Deadeye Dick
Translations:
salix
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Salix, the genus name. Doublet of sallow.
Inflected forms:
form: salixes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: salices
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any member of the genus Salix; a willow.
pos: noun
Translations:
SMF
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: single-mode fibre; a type of an optical fibre which is designed to carry only a single ray of light.
pos: noun
Translations:
eragrostis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name Eragrostis.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Any of several species of grass from the genus Eragrostis; lovegrass.
pos: noun
examples: Springing up between the carrot-seed during the first season were the long frail, feathery stalks of the wind-blown eragrostis, a lush sweet grass.
Translations:
dollface
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From doll + face.
Compound parts: doll
face
Inflected forms:
form: dollfaces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An attractive woman.
pos: noun
tags: endearing
often
slang
uncountable
usually
Translations:
brute-fact
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: brute fact (when used attributively)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The fact that we can agree about veridical perceptions with others possessing similar conceptual schemas is strong evidence that the brute-fact features of our perceptual experience have an important correlation with a certain given […]
I’ll call the third proposal for what grounds the Positive Epistemic Fact the brute-fact proposal, because it gives the Positive Epistemic Fact the status of brute fact.
Translations:
dearborn
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named for the inventor.
Inflected forms:
form: dearborns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Dearborn
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A light four-wheeled wagon.
pos: noun
examples: It was somewhat hazardous to venture out with them at that time of day, but he loaded some in a dearborn so as to give them the appearance of going to a colored Quarterly Meeting, then in session near by.
Translations:
wanter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From want + -er.
Base: want
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: wanters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who wants, or who wants something
pos: noun
examples: Witless hizzie, e'en 's you like, The ne'er a doit I 'm carin'; But men maun be the first to speak, An' wanters maun be speerin'.
But if Donald McFarlane wants money, he's got kin that can accommodate him, James; wanters arena always that fortunate.
You see, the trouble with Americans is that they are the greatest wanters of cake after they've eaten it the world has ever seen.
She’s continually the wanter in a relationship but dreams of being the one wanted, which is to say she’s continually powerless, dreaming of power.
Translations:
turnable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From turn + -able.
Base: turn
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being turned.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
no-host
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: At which guests are required to pay for their own drinks.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
relitigate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From re- + litigate.
Base: litigate
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: relitigates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: relitigating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: relitigated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: relitigated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: re-litigate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To litigate again; to sue or pursue legal remedy a second or further time.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: To dispute, debate, contest again.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Like Mr bin Laden, Mr Gingrich is apparently still relitigating the victories and defeats of religious wars fought in Europe and the Middle East centuries ago.
Translations:
pitmaster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From pit + master.
Compound parts: pit
master
Inflected forms:
form: pitmasters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who operates a barbecue pit. Sometimes a term of respect for someone who is skilled at barbecuing.
pos: noun
Translations:
ecolabel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From eco- + label.
Base: label
Affixes: eco-
Inflected forms:
form: ecolabels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A label on a product that states that it has been produced in an environmentally friendly manner.
pos: noun
Translations:
primidone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Blend of p(y)rimid(ine) + d(i)one.
Compound parts: pyrimidine
dione
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An anticonvulsant drug chemically related (and partially metabolized) to phenobarbital, used in the treatment of epilepsy and essential (idiopathic) tremor.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
gauntleted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Etymology: From gauntlet + -ed.
Base: gauntlet
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: gantleted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: gauntletted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Adorned with one or more gauntlets
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It was brought to General Lee as he sat on his horse near the Chancellorsville House, and, unable to open it with his gauntleted hands, he passed it to me with directions to read it to him.
One of the Duke's gauntleted hunting-gloves lay on the floor; she stooped and lifted it and put it to her lips.
Jess, who loved a romance, clasped her gauntleted hands.
gloss: Having a gauntlet (overlapping parallel rail tracks).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The opportunity was also taken to remove one of the few examples of gauntleted tracks in this country, interlacing the down fast and slow lines over the bridge.
The narrow gauge is gauntleted with the up main line through a tunnel beneath the town and then turns away to its separate station.
Translations:
hackman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hack + -man.
Base: hack
Affixes: -man
Inflected forms:
form: hackmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The driver of a hack (a carriage, cab, or taxi).
pos: noun
examples: But he makes all his calculations with the nicest precision, and goes darting in and out among a Broadway confusion of busy craft with the easy confidence of the educated hackman.
He did not engage the services of any hackman or professional guide.
The hackman had taken him to the house where Jones was lying.
Translations:
heirship
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From heir + -ship.
Base: heir
Affixes: -ship
Inflected forms:
form: heirships
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The status of being heir to something or someone
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He began to fear lest he should be obliged to fulfil the duty of heirship to the property deposited with him.
When that outworn empire perished with the fall of Constantinople, Ivan succeeded nominally at least to its heirship.
"After this the family interest merely rested on heirship of the estate.
Translations:
micarta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Genericization of the trademark Micarta.
Inflected forms:
form: micartas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A composite of fabrics (typically linen or paper fabric) using phenolic resins cured under pressure and high temperature to produce laminates.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “Aluminum,” Chia said. “They melt old cans they dig up on the beach, cast it in sand molds. These panels are micarta. That's linen with this resin in it.”
Translations:
heathy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From heath + -y.
Base: heath
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: heathier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: heathiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling heath.
pos: adj
examples: The country consists of elevated sandy downs covered with heathy bushes and a few small banksia trees, it being only on the alluvial flats of the river that there is any grass or good soil.
Here make ground for a meadow; there, for a garden and grove, making it smooth and fine for small daisies and violets and beds of heathy bryanthus, spicing it well with crystals, garnet feldspar, and zircon."
gloss: Abounding in heath.
pos: adj
examples: The hills here, and indeed all the heathy grounds in general, abound with the sweet-smelling plant which the Highlanders call gaul, and (I think) with dwarf juniper in many places.
The country about Nuncombe Putney is perhaps as pretty as any in England. It is beyond the river Teign, between that and Dartmoor, and is so lovely in all its variations of rivers, rivulets, broken ground, hills and dales, old broken, battered, time-worn timber, green knolls, rich pastures, and heathy common, that the wonder is that English lovers of scenery know so little of it.
On a day in early spring two girls walked slowly about a heathy tangle in a quiet area of Sydney[.]
Translations:
shox
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
Etymology: Variant of shocks, with -x replacing the /ks/ sound. First attested in the 1970s.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of shock absorber.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
graveled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Covered with gravel.
pos: adj
examples: The soldiers admitted that while they had the money to lay gravel on a particular road, they lacked the funds to pave it, even though all agreed that graveled roads offered easy concealment for IEDs.
gloss: Perplexed, puzzled, baffled; troubled, annoyed.
pos: adj
examples: "The fracture is your making; the pin--" Here Miss Dolly interrupted; to tell the truth I was not sorry, for I was fairly graveled for the meaning of the pin.
'Oh, yes,' says Jan. Pond was graveled; didn't know just what to do.
Derived words: ungraveled
Translations:
poisonwood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From poison + wood.
Compound parts: poison
wood
Inflected forms:
form: poisonwoods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Metopium toxiferum, a species of tree found in the American neotropics known for producing the irritant urushiol.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
Pac-Man
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the popular arcade game Pac-Man (1980) and its player character, a circle with a snapping mouth gobbling dots in a maze. The original Japanese title of Puck Man (パックマン) was derived from パクパク (pakupaku, “gobble gobble”) (onomatopoeic) and マン (man), from English man; the title was changed for the North American release to mitigate vandalism (Puck → fuck).
Inflected forms:
form: Pac-Men
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Pac Man
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Anything that consumes indiscriminately.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
slang
examples: "Medicaid is becoming the Pac-Man of state government, eating up every dollar," remarked one official.
Chlorine acts like a Pac-Man of the high atmosphere, gobbling one ozone molecule after another and then being regenerated to gobble again.
The ironic deconstruction of all meaningful discourse, including normative discourse, says Gergen, "is like a Pac-Man of social pattern, gobbling all that stands in its path."
Like the Pac-Man of garbage, Browning-Ferris Industries (BFI) is gobbling up smaller waste disposal firms — 113 in 1994 alone — as that industry becomes increasingly consolidated.
Translations:
superliner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From super- + liner.
Base: liner
Affixes: super-
Inflected forms:
form: superliners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ocean liner or cruise liner of over 10,000 gross tons.
pos: noun
Translations:
supergene
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
geography
geology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From super- + gene.
Base: gene
Affixes: super-
Inflected forms:
form: supergenes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A group of neighbouring genes on a chromosome that are inherited together because of close genetic linkage and are functionally related in an evolutionary sense.
pos: noun
gloss: leached and then deposited by descending waters
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: hypogene
Translations:
ingathering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ingatherings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The gathering in of a literal or metaphorical harvest
pos: noun
examples: From that day and hour it was clear that there was not to be so successful an ingathering after all.
The peasant obtained also the seed, but this he was obliged to return to the state after the ingathering of the harvest.
Not until the ingathering are we talking about Eden.
... infuses a rich ingathering of information and analysis with the narrative power of a McMurtry, ...
Translations:
yana
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit यान (yāna, “vehicle”).
Inflected forms:
form: yanas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the vehicles of Buddhist or Tantric practice.
pos: noun
examples: The Tibetan word for yana is thekpa, which means "that which lifts you up." Anything that lifts you up and takes you to your destination is a yana.
Translations:
afrobeat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Afro- + beat.
Base: beat
Affixes: Afro-
Inflected forms:
form: Afrobeat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Music that combines West African musical styles (such as traditional Yoruba music and highlife) with American funk, jazz, and soul influences, with a focus on chanted vocals, complex intersecting rhythms, and percussion.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
supertax
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From super- + tax.
Base: tax
Affixes: super-
Inflected forms:
form: supertaxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An additional tax on something that has already been taxed.
pos: noun
gloss: A higher rate of an existing tax.
pos: noun
Translations:
freebooting
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From freebooter (“a type of pirate”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: To pilage or plunder; piracy
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The Haghar are well known, even in Europe, for their freebooting propensities.
Why do you now refuse to protect your own highway into the Interior, […] and thus put an end to the freebooting of the Boers, and of our own people who joined them?
In a short time freebooting assumed all of the routine of a regular business.
gloss: Software piracy, or stealing or unauthorized rehosting of digital content.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Your recent issue about the problems of electronic software piracy or "freebooting" — if you will — was excellent and timely. However, I wonder if both sides have failed to understand the social significance of the struggle.
Freebooting of broadcast satellite signals may exist privately, but we have no evidence of illegal signal capture being commercialized any longer.
Many felt that the software companies are really the ones who ought to be called pirates. […] No wonder, the reader said, that customers are tempted to a little freebooting of their own.
Oh those freebooters taking our videos! I'm sick of it. Freebooting, you know, it's a serious issue!
gloss: Engaged in piracy or plunder
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In one respect, as I hinted above, it is only too good, so sure of success, I mean, that you are no longer secure of any respect to your property in our freebooting America.
Translations:
loopholed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a loophole.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: the loopholed walls of the castle
Translations:
bundt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From German Bundkuchen, from Bund (“tied together”) + Kuchen (“cake”).
Inflected forms:
form: bundts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A baking pan with a hollow, circular, raised area in the middle.
pos: noun
Translations:
flitch
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English flicche, from Old English fliċċe (“side of an animal, flitch”), from Proto-Germanic *flikkiją (“side, flitch”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁ḱ- (“to tear, peel off”). Cognate with Low German flikke, French flèche, Icelandic flikki (“flitch”), Middle Low German vlicke.
Inflected forms:
form: flitches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flitches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flitching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: flitched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: flitched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The flank or side of an animal, now almost exclusively a pig when cured and salted; a side of bacon.
pos: noun
examples: The following morning before Nicholas awoke, Mulvey walked all the way to the village of Letterfrack, returning with a basket of cabbages and a flitch of bacon, two loaves of fresh bread and a plump broiling chicken.
The programme was loosely derived from a folk tradition, the Great Dunmow Flitch, in which the most happily married couple in the village were rewarded with a gift of a flitch of beef.
gloss: A piece or strip cut off of something else, generally a piece of wood (timber).
pos: noun
examples: The Measure of a shell or Flitch of Timber.
If a piece be taken out of the middle of a round piece of Timber from end to end; there will be left two pieces, which they call Shells or Flitches.
An edge chipper chips waney edges of a flitch of timber having parallel top and bottom sides, the flitch passing through feed roll pairs extends outward as a cantilever as it moves towards revolving chipper ...
gloss: To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to flitch logs
to flitch bacon
Derived words: Dunmow flitch
Translations:
hyle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Medieval Latin hyle, from Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, “wood, matter”), particularly in Aristotle as πρώτη ὕλη (prṓtē húlē, “protomatter, fundamental undifferentiated matter”).
Inflected forms:
form: hile
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: hyla
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: ylem
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of matter, physical substance.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Synonym of protomatter, the first matter of the cosmos from which the four elements arose according to Empedocles and Aristotle.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: hylic
hylicism
Derived words: hyletics
hylical
hylism
hylist
Translations:
removability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *moweō
Proto-Italic *wremoweō
Latin removeō
Old French removoir
Anglo-Norman removerbor.
Middle English removen
English remove
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Latin -tās
Latin -abilitas
Middle French -abletébor.
Middle English -ablete
English -ability
English removability
From remove + -ability.
Inflected forms:
form: removabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being removable.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
stilly
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From still + -ly.
Base: still
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: stillier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: stilliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more stilly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most stilly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: silent; calm
pos: adj
examples: The stilly murmur of the distant Sea
Tells us of silence.
The dead--in holy, stilly peace, the sacred dead repose, Afar from earth's turmoil and grief, and all of sick'ning woes; From racking pain, and withering pride, and avarice's care, Secure they rest in solitude, unaw'd by sin or snare.
Long was the darkness, Lonely and stilly.
Crickets sang of nights in the stilly cabins, and in the sunshine mosquitoes crept from out hollow logs […].
[…] Marjorie used Central to call as many of her neighbors that were also on the exchange as she could, telling them of the disaster which had fallen like a lightning-stroke out of a clear sky, knowing that each call would produce overlapping ripples, like pebbles tossed rapidly into a stilly pond.
gloss: While still and calm.
pos: adv
examples: She passed away very stilly and painlessly.
The river, too, was colored, and every tree was like a torch burning stilly in the quiet of the evening.
When she arrived at the white boat which floated so stilly on the morning glitter of the water, only just stirred by a breeze from the south, she stepped at once on board.
Translations:
dipyridamole
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dipyridamoles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A drug that inhibits thrombus formation when given chronically and causes vasodilation when given at high doses over a short time.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
nonparticipation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From non- + participation.
Base: participation
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
form: nonparticipations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: non-participation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The fact of not participating in some activity or event.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Voluntary nonparticipation in the work force is a growing problem in some developed countries.
The possibility of large-scale nonparticipation by the country’s Pashtuns is casting a cloud over the Afghan presidential election, which, American and other Western officials here believe, needs to be seen as legitimate by ordinary Afghans for the next government to exercise real authority over the next five years.
Translations:
hydrologically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hydrological + -ly.
Base: hydrological
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: With regard to hydrology.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
linocut
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: art
arts
media
printing
publishing
Etymology: From lino (“linoleum”) + cut.
Base: lino
Inflected forms:
form: linocuts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of woodcut in which a block of linoleum is used for the relief surface; the design cut into the block.
pos: noun
examples: Still, this book's offbeat settings and strong, simple illustrations, in acrylic paint with pencil and rough-hewn linocut outlines, should help preschoolers — and parents — realize that when you bring some creativity to pet ownership, even a fish can be fun.
Translations:
postsurgical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pós
Proto-Indo-European *-ti
Proto-Indo-European *pósti
Proto-Italic *posti
Old Latin poste
Latin post
English post-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes-
Proto-Indo-European *-ōr
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰésōr
Proto-Hellenic *kʰéhər
Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír)
Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom
Proto-Hellenic *wérgon
Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon)
Ancient Greek -ουργός (-ourgós)
Ancient Greek χειρουργός (kheirourgós)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek χειρουργῐκός (kheirourgĭkós)bor.
Late Latin chīrurgicus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Medieval Latin cirurgicālisder.
Middle French cirurgicalbor.
Middle English cirurgicalder.
English surgical
English postsurgical
From post- + surgical.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the period following surgery.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: During postsurgical care it is important to keep the wound clean.
Translations:
exclusivist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From exclusive + -ist.
Base: exclusive
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: exclusivists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An advocate of exclusivism.
pos: noun
Translations:
hybridizer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hybridize + -er.
Base: hybridize
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: hybridizers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who hybridizes.
pos: noun
Translations:
cyclocross
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cycle + -o- + cross (country).
Base: cycle
Affixes: -o-
Inflected forms:
form: cyclo-cross
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: CX
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cyclo-X
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: 'cross
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A form of bicycle racing consisting of many laps of a short course featuring pavement, wooded trails, grass, steep hills and obstacles and requiring the rider to quickly dismount, carry the bike whilst navigating the obstruction and remount in one motion.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Roby was an old cyclocross champion from the ’40s, a rugged man built for traversing the bumps and ruts of off-road competition, but he had also ridden in the Tour for several years.
Translations:
cmdlet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From cmd + -let.
Base: cmd
Affixes: -let
Inflected forms:
form: cmdlets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A specialized .NET class implementing a particular operation in Windows PowerShell.
pos: noun
examples: For example, the following command will display the cmdlets that can be executed by people who are in the Move Mailboxes role[…]
Generally, a cmdlet will run much faster than a script of the same functionality.
Translations:
obovoid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From ob- (“inverse”) + ovoid (“egg-shaped”).
Inflected forms:
form: more obovoid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most obovoid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: obovoids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Approximately obovate in shape.
pos: adj
gloss: Something that is approximately obovate in shape.
pos: noun
Translations:
Mussolini
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian Mussolini, from mussola, mussolina (“muslin”), from Mussolo (“Mosul”), that is Mosul in northern Iraq.
Inflected forms:
form: Mussolinier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: Mussoliniest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Benito Mussolini.
pos: adj
tags: humorous
examples: He is the very model of a very stable genius / Of all the U.S. Presidents he is the Mussoliniest.
Translations:
buba
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Yoruba buba.
Inflected forms:
form: bubas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A woman's blouse worn in West African countries.
pos: noun
Translations:
loose-lipped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more loose-lipped
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most loose-lipped
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Indiscreet.
pos: adj
Translations:
Salian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin Salianus, from Salii + -ānus (“-an: forming adjectives”), from salīre (“to jump, to leap”) + -īus (“-y: forming adjectives”).
Inflected forms:
form: Salians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Salian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Salian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Salii, the chief priests of Mars in ancient Rome.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: Of or related to the Salii, the priests of Mars in ancient Rome.
pos: adj
tags: historical
Translations:
Salic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin Salicus, from Salii (“Salians”) + -icus (“-ic: forming adjectives”), from Sala (“IJssel River”) + -īus (“-y: forming adjs”). Equivalent to Salii + -ic.
Base: Salii
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Salian, particularly in reference to the Salic law.
pos: adj
tags: historical
not-comparable
Translations:
diller
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Only used in killer diller
pos: noun
Translations:
Kgalagadi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Tswana kgala
Tswana -gadi
Tswana Kgalagadiubor.
English Kgalagadi
Unadapted borrowing from Tswana Kgalagadi (literally “a large, dry area”), from kgala (“become dry”) + -gadi (“large”). Doublet of Kalahari.
Inflected forms:
form: Kgalagadi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a Tswana people chiefly living in the Kalahari Desert.
pos: noun
Translations:
Gallo-Italian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Gallo- + Italian.
Base: Italian
Affixes: Gallo-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Belonging to a group of Romance languages or dialects from northern Italy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: From Northern Italy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a Gallo-Italian citizen
Translations:
unfixable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + fixable.
Base: fixable
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unfixable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unfixable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not capable of being fixed (mended or repaired).
pos: adj
examples: There's nothing wrong with having a junk drawer. Where else can you store those odds and ends you need from time to time. But some of what ends up in the junk drawer really is junk, such as unfixable items, pens that don't work, expired coupons, and a piece to a game you sold at a garage sale five years ago.
gloss: Not capable of being fixed (attached).
pos: adj
Synonyms: unmendable
Derived words: unfixably
Translations:
trophyless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From trophy + -less.
Base: trophy
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Without a trophy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The team returned trophyless from the tournament.
Translations:
reinterment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From reinter + -ment.
Base: reinter
Affixes: -ment
Inflected forms:
form: reinterments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of interring again after exhumation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
baric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bar + -ic. Derived from the Ancient Greek word "pressure": barikos (βαρικός), from βάρος (báros, “weight, pressure”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”).
Base: bar
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to weight, especially to the weight or pressure of the atmosphere as measured by a barometer.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
harmine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From harmal + -ine.
Base: harmal
Affixes: -ine
Inflected forms:
form: harmines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fluorescent harmala alkaloid belonging to the carboline family of compounds, found in harmal and certain other plants.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Harmine is a drug that stimulates the brain and produces strange visual hallucinations[.]
Translations:
unshielded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + shielded.
Base: shielded
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not shielded.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
toolbelt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From tool + belt.
Compound parts: tool
belt
Inflected forms:
form: toolbelts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A belt for carrying tools; a utility belt.
pos: noun
gloss: A skill set; one's accumulated capabilities.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
Translations:
Imagineer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of imagine + engineer.
Compound parts: imagine
engineer
Inflected forms:
form: Imagineers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: imagineer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An engineer at The Walt Disney Company responsible for designing and implementing innovative concepts or technologies, often found in theme parks, installation art, or fireworks.
pos: noun
examples: In all, the Fronierland that Disney Imagineers designed for France was new and strangely sophisticated. Combining elements of New and Old Worlds, it resonated with themes that were at once past and present, ultra-American and worldly.
Disney Imagineers are offering us fantasy as real life. We can buy it and move in permanently.
As I'm sure Disney would put it, its "imagineers" want to make visiting their stores a magical experience. They don't want kids to just visit when they want a new Mickey shirt or the latest Disney movie on DVD. They want them to visit these stores for their own sake.
Taco Bell isn’t alone in putting a positive spin on their job titles. Disney refers to its employees as “cast members,” and some are even “imagineers.” Apple has its “geniuses.” (In a similar vein, Subway has taken to calling its customers "fans.")
As far as Ursula can make out, these are not the actual Imagineers—the writers and theme park conceptualizers employed by Disney—but rather some kind of cabal of evil businessmen from the future.
Translations:
non-heterosexual
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From non- + heterosexual.
Base: heterosexual
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
form: nonheterosexual
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: non-heterosexuals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nonheterosexual
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not heterosexual.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: One who is not a heterosexual.
pos: noun
Translations:
castmember
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cast + member.
Compound parts: cast
member
Inflected forms:
form: castmembers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cast member
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of a theatrical cast.
pos: noun
gloss: A public-facing Disney employee.
pos: noun
examples: Taco Bell isn’t alone in putting a positive spin on their job titles. Disney refers to its employees as “cast members,” and some are even “imagineers.” Apple has its “geniuses.” (In a similar vein, Subway has taken to calling its customers "fans.")
Translations:
beatmatching
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From beat + matching.
Compound parts: beat
matching
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The synchronization of beats in two pieces of music, as performed by a disc jockey in order to mix tracks seamlessly.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Shaniqua
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Popularized in the 1970s among African Americans, possibly influenced by Swahili shani (“novelty”) or Welsh Siân (Joanna, "God is gracious"); compare other names starting with Shan- like Shanice, Shanika, Shanita.
Inflected forms:
form: Shaniquas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Chanequa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Chaniqua
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Chenequa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Cheniqua
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Chinequa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Chiniqua
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Shanecqua
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Shaneequa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Shaneiqua
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Shanekqua
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Shanekwa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Shanequa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Shanicqua
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Shaniequa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Shanikqua
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Shanikwa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Shaniquah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Shaniqwa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Shannequa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Shauniqua
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Shenequa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Sheniqua
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Shenikwa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Shiniqua
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Shoniqua
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A stereotypical African-American woman.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
ethnic
slang
slur
examples: Maybe he should have started a while ago and upstaged actors for their menacing portrayal of the Shaniquas and the Sha-nay-nays on television.
So vexed was Cosby at this kind of black significance that he went out and spoke against it in town-hall meetings across the country, meetings in which the Shaniquas and Shaliguas actually showed up to hear what he had to say.
Which brings me to Laura Loomer, the far-right provocateur who recently referred to prominent Black women like Vice President Kamala Harris, New York Attorney General Letitia James and Fulton County (Georgia) District Attorney Fani Willis as "little DEI Shaniqua voices" and "meritless DEI Shaniquas."
Translations:
bhindi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi भिंडी (bhiṇḍī, “okra”), a feminine form of Sanskrit भिण्डा (bhiṇḍā).
Inflected forms:
form: bhindis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bindi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pindi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of okra: the plant or its edible capsules.
pos: noun
tags: India
countable
uncountable
Translations:
replan
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From re- + plan.
Base: plan
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: replans
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: replanning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: replanned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: replanned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To plan again; to make a different plan.
pos: verb
examples: In replanning the timetable, the operating authorities have tried as far as possible to keep departure and arrival times at Liverpool Street close to those prevailing formerly, to avoid disrupting the travelling habits of regular passengers, but at the same time they have kept in mind the aim of turn-rounds in the terminus.
Translations:
ungated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + gated.
Base: gated
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not gated.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: This section is perfectly straight until the top of the rise is reached, where a 10 m.p.h. limit board gives warning of a sharp curve, and an ungated public road crossing, protected by cattle guards of the usual light railway pattern.
Tender engines cannot be used on this line because ungated level crossings inhibit crews from tender-first running and there is no turntable.
The number of ungated crossings protected by automatic flashing lights is about 300 and some 400 hand-operated crossings are equipped with red or yellow flashing warning lights.
Translations:
Yarg
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Gray spelled backwards, after Allan and Jenny Gray who provided the recipe.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A semi-hard cheese made in Cornwall with a distinctive rind made by wrapping the cheese in nettle leaves.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
bladesmith
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From blade + smith.
Compound parts: blade
smith
Inflected forms:
form: bladesmiths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A maker of knives and swords.
pos: noun
Translations:
end-on-end
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Woven with alternating parallel threads of two colours.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
monocrystalline
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From mono- + crystalline.
Base: crystalline
Affixes: mono-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a single crystalline form
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
six-footer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From six + footer.
Inflected forms:
form: six-footers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who is six feet tall.
pos: noun
gloss: An object that is six feet in length or height.
pos: noun
Translations:
Limbu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Limbus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Limbu
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a tribal people of Nepal (and to a lesser extent India and Bhutan).
pos: noun
Translations:
Englander
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From England + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Änglounder (“an Englishman”), German Engländer (“an Englishman”), Danish englænder (“an Englishman”).
Base: England
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: Englanders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person from England or of English descent.
pos: noun
Translations:
petcare
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From pet + care.
Compound parts: pet
care
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The care and medical treatment of pets (domestic animals).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
escitalopram
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: From a phonetic spelling of the letter S, with citalopram, since this drug is the (S)-stereoisomer of the earlier drug citalopram.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A drug that functions as an SSRI and is administered orally in the form of its oxalate C₂₀H₂₁FN₂O·C₂H₂O₄ to treat depression and anxiety.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
doxepin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: From [Term?] + -oxepin (“tricyclic compound”).
Affixes: -oxepin
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A psychotropic agent with tricyclic antidepressant and anxiolytic properties.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
moclobemide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English morpholine
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃-
Proto-Hellenic *kʰlōrós
Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós)
English chloro-
Arabic لُبَان (lubān)
Proto-Indo-European *yew-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *yéwos
Proto-Indo-Iranian *yáwas
Sanskrit यव (yava)bor.?
Proto-Austronesian *zawa
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zawabor.?
Old Javanese jawa
Old Javanese -i
Old Javanese Jawi
Javanese ꦗꦮꦶ (jawi)der.
Arabic جَاوَة (jāwa)
Arabic ـِيّ (-iyy)
Arabic جَاوِيّ (jāwiyy)
Arabic لُبَان جَاوِيّ (lubān jāwiyy)bor.
Catalan benjuíder.
Middle French benjoinder.
English benzoin
English benzo-
English benz-
Egyptian jmnbor.
Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓́μμων (Ắmmōn)bor.
Latin Ammōn
Latin ammoniacusder.
English ammonia
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idusder.
English -ide
English amide
English benzamide
English moclobemide
From mo(rpholine) + chlo(ro)- + be(nza)mide.
Base: morpholine
Affixes: chloro-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A drug used to treat depression and social anxiety.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations: