yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
pathobiology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek πάσχω (páskhō)der.
Ancient Greek πᾰ́θος (pắthos)der.
English patho-
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βίος (bíos)
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
New Latin -logia
New Latin biologialbor.
English biology
English pathobiology
From patho- + biology.
Inflected forms:
form: pathobiologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The branch of biology that deals with pathology with greater emphasis on the biological than on the medical aspects.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: pathology (in any of its senses: study of disease, instance of disease, mechanism of disease).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The biologic explanations of pathogenesis, to include both pathoanatomy and pathophysiology.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: etiology
Derived words: neuropathobiology
Translations:
pathophysiology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek πάσχω (páskhō)der.
Ancient Greek πᾰ́θος (pắthos)der.
English patho-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *bʰuHyéti
Ancient Greek φῠ́ω (phŭ́ō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Ancient Greek φύσις (phúsis)
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογίᾱ (-logíā)
Ancient Greek φῠσῐολογίᾱ (phŭsĭologíā)bor.
Latin physiologiabor.
French physiologie
English physiology
English pathophysiology
From patho- + physiology.
Inflected forms:
form: pathophysiologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The physiological processes associated with disease or injury.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
periodate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: periodates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Either of two oxyanions of iodine; any salt containing these anions.
pos: noun
Translations:
periodicity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From French périodicité. By surface analysis, periodic + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: periodicities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Recurrence of a woman's periods; menstruation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The quality of being periodic; tendency to recur at regular intervals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The implications of this association of women and the moon would suggest that women were the first observers of the basic periodicity of nature, the periodicity upon which all later scientific observations were made.
A recent wavelet analysis of the turbidity data showed clear periodicities of turbidity in the three Pilbara datasets during both the baseline and dredge phases of the studies (Stark, unublished data) peaking semidiurnally associated with tides, diurnally associated with daily sea breezes and sometimes fortnightly associated with spring-neap cycles.
gloss: The quality of a function with a repeated set of values at regular intervals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: period
periodic
periodicize
Derived words: antiperiodicity
bioperiodicity
multiperiodicity
photoperiodicity
quasiperiodicity
subperiodicity
Translations:
disordered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more disordered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most disordered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Chaotic; without clear order; in a state of disorder.
pos: adj
gloss: in an incorrect or unexpected order.
pos: adj
gloss: Deranged.
pos: adj
examples: The frenzy which had unsettled the mind of the hermit was by him communicated to his hearers who, sinking into a trance, fell easy victims to the fearful visions of a disordered mind.
gloss: Having a medical disorder.
pos: adj
examples: a disordered gambler
Related words: disorderly
eating-disordered
mental-disordered
mentally disordered
ordered
Derived words: disorderedly
disordered money behavior
disorderedness
nondisordered
predisordered
quasidisordered
undisordered
Translations:
lang: Spanish
word: trastornado
pathophysiologic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek πάσχω (páskhō)der.
Ancient Greek πᾰ́θος (pắthos)der.
English patho-
English physiologic
English pathophysiologic
From patho- + physiologic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to pathophysiology.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
pathophysiological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek πάσχω (páskhō)der.
Ancient Greek πᾰ́θος (pắthos)der.
English patho-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *bʰuHyéti
Ancient Greek φῠ́ω (phŭ́ō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Ancient Greek φῠ́σῐς (phŭ́sĭs)
English physio-
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
Latin -logialbor.
French -logiebor.
English -logy
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
English -logical
Latin physiologicus
▲
Middle English -al
English -al
English physiological
English pathophysiological
From patho- + physiological.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to pathophysiology.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: What, beyond abnormal, dysregulated cell division, was the common pathophysiological mechanism underlying cancer?
Selye […] revealed that measurable biomolecular changes took place in the body provoked by environmental conditions such as cold temperatures or excessive and prolonged exercise. These changes reduced an individual’s tolerance to other injuries and pathogens and, when prolonged, eventually led to death. He labeled this pathophysiological response the General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS).
Translations:
Mackem
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
Etymology: From regional form of make + 'em, generally linked to the history of shipbuilding in Sunderland. In relation to the nearby port of Newcastle, Sunderlanders would supposedly say "we mack 'em and they tack 'em", with tack being either a regional form of "take" or referring to any of the nautical senses of tack.
Inflected forms:
form: Mackems
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Makem
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Mak'em
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Sunderland, England.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
sometimes
examples: Your article on England's regional accents confirmed that Geordie has already completely replaced the mackem-speak of Sunderland and other variants in the north-east.
gloss: A Sunderland A.F.C. supporter.
pos: noun
Translations:
recurrence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From recurrent + -ence, cognate with Latin recurrentia, from recurrēns (“returning back, recurring”), form of recurrō (“to return, to recur”) (English recur).
Base: recurrent
Affixes: -ence
Inflected forms:
form: recurrences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Return or reversion to a certain state.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The instance of recurring; frequent occurrence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I shall insensibly go on from a rare to a frequent recurrence to the dangerous preparations.
gloss: A return of symptoms as part of the natural progress of a disease.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: relapse
gloss: Recourse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: recur
recurrent
recursive
recursivity
recursion
Derived words: eternal recurrence
nonrecurrence
null recurrence
oligorecurrence
Poincaré recurrence time
positive recurrence
postrecurrence
prerecurrence
recurrence relation
recurrence time
Translations:
chaotically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English chaotic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
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
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English chaotically
From chaotic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more chaotically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most chaotically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a chaotic manner.
pos: adv
examples: […]some tachycardia, particularly ventricular tachycardia, can trigger ventricular fibrillation wherein the heart beats chaotically resulting in little or no net flow of blood from the heart to the brain and organs.
Treatment then may be needed to disinflame the scar, or to get rid of the chaotically formed scar, by deep cross-fiber massage or manipulative rupture ( Ombregt et al ibid) .
Whether Bannon was sacked, resigned or left by mutual agreement – as usual with the Trump administration there are contradictory accounts – is immaterial. His exit, stage right, follows that of a clutch of other senior White House aides and reinforces the impression that his presidency is unravelling chaotically only seven months after he entered the Oval Office.
Translations:
maar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
volcanology
Etymology: Borrowed from German Maar; English usage from 1825, from Vulgar Latin *mara (“standing water”), from Latin mare (“sea”). Doublet of mare (“a large, dark plain; a lake on Titan”) and mere (“a body of standing water”).
Inflected forms:
form: maars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: maare
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A broad volcanic crater, usually filled with water to form a lake.
pos: noun
Translations:
performing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English perform
English -ing
English performing
From perform + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: performings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A performance.
pos: noun
examples: Yet the misfortune of his life, his vast attempts but most inadequate performings, failing to accomplish any one masterpiece, seems to mark the closing of an era.
Translations:
preparing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: preparings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: preparation
pos: noun
examples: It must be remembered that different methods are adopted in these preparings to produce the different kinds of yarn required for the different kinds of worsted fabrics which are manufactured[…]
For, as I draw closer and closer to the end, I travel in the circle, nearer and nearer to the beginning. It seems to be one of the kind smoothings and preparings of the way.
Translations:
checkered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English check
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English checker
English -ed
English checkered
From checker + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more checkered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most checkered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: chequered
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: Divided into a grid of squares of alternating colours or shades, or into light and dark patches.
pos: adj
examples: That is a checkered tablecloth.
gloss: Changeable; inconsistent; having variations or uncertainty; marked by many problems or failures.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: “What a checkered career!” said Newman.
Related words: checked
chequered
Derived words: checkered flag
green-white-checkered
uncheckered
Translations:
gett
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Scots gaet.
Inflected forms:
form: getts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A nasty person.
pos: noun
tags: Geordie
Northern-England
derogatory
gloss: A child, especially a mischievous one.
pos: noun
tags: Northumbria
Translations:
code-switching
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: codeswitching
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: code switching
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The phenomenon or practice of alternating between two or more languages or language varieties.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: As with many bilingual families, it was normal to observe frequent code-switching at our dinner table.
Within the English language, a good example of code-switching in daily life is weaving back and forth between African American Vernacular English and General American English.
In addition, our combined syntax-function approach sheds new light on a syntactic analysis of code-switching.
Translations:
walloper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wallop
English -er
English walloper
From wallop + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: wallopers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who wallops.
pos: noun
gloss: A cudgel, a shillelagh.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
gloss: penis; (by extension) an idiot, a stupid person.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
derogatory
slang
vulgar
gloss: A police officer.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: Police! Everyone out! The bloody wallopers are on their way!
Two days later we were picked up by the wallopers on Clucas' information.
Understandably the wallopers were called, and they cleared everybody out.
gloss: Something big; a whopper.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: I'd had some wonderful fishing, but I hadn't landed a real walloper.
Derived words: dock walloper
pot-walloper
Translations:
ratification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French ratification, from Medieval Latin ratificatio.
Inflected forms:
form: ratifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of ratifying, or the state of being ratified.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A formal declaration of agreement to a treaty etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: nonratification
postratification
preratification
ratificational
ratificationism
ratificationist
Translations:
Minorca
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Latin Minorca, Minorica, from Latin Balearis Minor. Compare Majorca.
Inflected forms:
form: Minorcas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Menorca
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A domestic chicken of a certain breed originating on the island of Menorca.
pos: noun
examples: ”Yet another breed which has fallen from grace, more through unwise breeding than any fault of its own is the Minorca. See ref. p.43.
Translations:
triathlon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tri- + -athlon.
Base: tri
Inflected forms:
form: triathlons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An athletics event in which contestants compete in swimming, cycling and running in turn.
pos: noun
gloss: A former Olympic athletics event in which contestants compete in long jump, shot put, and 100-yard dash.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: Generally, a sports event in which contestant compete in a combination of three sports.
pos: noun
Related words: cross training
biathlon
pentathlon
hexathlon
heptathlon
octathlon
decathlon
Derived words: cross triathlon
equestrian triathlon
paratriathlon
triathlete
winter triathlon
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: եռամարտ
roman: eṙamart
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 三項全能 /三项全能
roman: sānxiàng quánnéng
lang: Finnish
word: kolmiottelu
lang: German
word: Dreikampf
janitor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin ianitor (“doorkeeper”).
Inflected forms:
form: janitors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: janitress
pos: noun
tags: feminine
form: janitrix
pos: noun
tags: feminine
rare
Senses:
gloss: Someone who looks after the maintenance and cleaning of a public building.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
US
gloss: Someone who looks after the maintenance and cleaning of a public building.
pos: noun
tags: Hong-Kong
Philippines
Scotland
US
gloss: A doorman.
pos: noun
gloss: A moderator for a discussion forum.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
derogatory
sometimes
Synonyms: caretaker
cleaner
custodian
maintenance person
porter
groundskeeper
Derived words: janitor fish
janitorial
janitoriat
janitoring
janitorship
jannie
underjanitor
Translations:
quartic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: quartics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the fourth degree.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: An algebraic equation or function of the fourth degree.
pos: noun
gloss: A curve describing such an equation or function.
pos: noun
Derived words: Klein quartic
quartic equation
quartic function
Translations:
quatrain
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French quatre
French -ain
French quatrainbor.
English quatrain
Borrowed from French quatrain.
Inflected forms:
form: quatrains
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A poem in four lines.
pos: noun
gloss: A stanza of four lines.
pos: noun
examples: Example:
Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night,
Has flung the Stone that puts the stars to flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of light.
The menu card was designed by Mr. Arthur Hacker, and further enriched by some charming verses in Omarian quatrains from Mr. Le Gallienne, who read them to a sympathetic audience.
Related words: couplet
tercet
terzain
cinquain
sestet
septet
octave
Translations:
somnambulant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin somnus (“sleep”) + ambulō (“to walk”) + -ant.
Affixes: -ant
Inflected forms:
form: somnambulent
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: somnambulants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: somnambulent
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Walking as if, or while, asleep; sleepwalking.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Hopeless lost souls of hell, trudging through a decaying shitstream of traffic, wandering, somnambulant herds of the damned, […]
gloss: A sleepwalker.
pos: noun
Translations:
rescind
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Latin rescindō (“to cut back”), from re- (“back”) + scindō (“to cut”).
Inflected forms:
form: rescinds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rescinding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rescinded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rescinded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To repeal, annul, or declare void; to take (something such as a rule or contract) out of effect.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The agency will rescind the policy because many people are dissatisfied with it.
Coinbase also rescinded hundreds of job offers. Some of those new hires had already quit their previous jobs, or were relying on Coinbase to maintain their work visas.
gloss: To cut away or off.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: rescindable
rescinder
rescindment
rescinsion
rescission
Derived words: rescindible
unrescinded
Translations:
subheading
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
English heading
English subheading
From sub- + heading.
Inflected forms:
form: subheadings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the headings under which each of the main divisions of a subject may be subdivided.
pos: noun
examples: And puritans give much the same warning in a manner suggesting that though the eating of rich foods is not among the seven deadly sins, it is at least a bona fide subheading under the general category of gluttony.
Most subheadings don’t do much to enhance a document. The whistle-blower’s subheadings do what the best subheadings do: They structure the complaint and provide a clear outline of what the document contains: […]
gloss: A heading or caption subordinate to a main headline, heading, or title especially when inserted as a divider between sections (as of a newspaper or periodical article or story or text of a book).
pos: noun
Synonyms: subhead
dek
Translations:
iatrogenic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From iatro- + -genic.
Base: iatro
Inflected forms:
form: more iatrogenic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most iatrogenic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Induced by the words or actions of the physician or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedure.
pos: adj
examples: Another group argues that the diagnosis is being overused and that many of the diagnosed cases are iatrogenic, or unintentionally shaped or caused by the practitioner
These medicines addicted, sickened, or killed outright; they also could trigger chemical pneumonitis, or progressive lung injury, if inhaled during a bout of iatrogenic, or physician–triggered, vomiting.
[Stewart] Brand never mentions any of this, even when—borrowing a term from medicine—he warns, elsewhere in the book, of “iatrogenic” disruptions, in which “a sloppy attempt to fix a problem makes the problem worse or adds a new one.”
Translations:
offender
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English offendour, offender, offendir, equivalent to offend + -er.
Base: offend
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: offenders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: offendor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: offendour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: One who gives or causes offense, or does something wrong.
pos: noun
examples: Almost all down trains are late, however; the empty wagon trains are probably the worst offenders and one or two hours' late running by them is not unusual.
gloss: A person who commits an offense against the law, a lawbreaker.
pos: noun
Derived words: habitual offender
juvenile offender
main offender
multioffender
non-offender
offendress
repeat offender
sex offender
sexual offender
status offender
young offender
youthful offender
Translations:
labret
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin labrum (“lip”) + -et; modelled on anklet, bracelet, etc. Sometimes incorrectly assumed to be of French origin.
Base: labrum
Affixes: -et
Inflected forms:
form: labrets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A body piercing consisting of an adornment attached to the lip.
pos: noun
examples: Purchas, speaking of the use of a labret by certain Mexicans, makes Peter Martyr say “that he doth not remember that he ever saw so filthy and ugly a sight,[…]
The labret was an ornament worn in a perforation through the lower lip, In the north, labrets were oval in shape, generally made of wood or stone, times inlaid with small flat pieces of shell or bone. The wearing of a labret signified high rank.
Raven wore a labret at that time set with abalone shell which was formerly very valuable, and it is from him that high-caste people afterward used those.
2007, Margo DeMello, “Labrets”, entry in Encyclopedia of Body Adornment, page 175,
A labret is a piercing that is attached below the lower lip, above the chin.
Also known as the “Mao” (because it looks like the mole above Mao Zedong's chin), the jewelry used in the labret is usually a labret stud, which of a metal shaft with a simple round stud protruding from the face; it is attached inside of the lip with a flat piece of backing metal.
Translations:
mousse
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French mousse (“foam, froth”), from Old French mosse (“moss”), from Frankish or Old Dutch *mosa (“moss”), from Proto-Germanic *musą (“moss, bog, marsh”). More at moss.
Inflected forms:
form: mousses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mousses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: moussing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: moussed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: moussed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An airy pudding served chilled, particularly chocolate mousse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A savory dish, of meat or seafood, containing gelatin.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ham mousse
gloss: A styling cream used for hair.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He slicked his hair back with mousse, but the cowlick still stuck up.
gloss: A stable emulsion of water and oil that is created by wave action churning the water where an oil spill occurs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Pretreatment of oil or sea water with dispersants or demulsifiers generally inhibits laboratory mousse formation with most of the oils and petroleum products tested (Berridge et al. , 1968b; Bridie et al. , 1980a,b).
A number of investigators have shown that the starting composition of a parent oil can have a major influence on its predisposittion to form stable water-in-oil emulsions (mousse). For example, the presence of natural surfactants in the wax, resin, and asphaltene fractions of oils has been positively correlated with the tendency to form mousse.
When it washed ashore in Prince William Sound, the crude came in sticky gobs, in tar balls, in what they called mousse, crude whipped to a froth in the action of the sea.
However, the sticky mousse clogged all of the skimmers, even the Vaydaghubsky. If all these skimmers had been on-site during the first three days of calm weather, before the oil was churned into mousse, they could have made a real difference
gloss: To apply mousse (styling cream).
pos: verb
examples: He moussed his hair in the morning and then washed it out at night.
Derived words: mousselike
moussy
Translations:
decathlon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dec- + -athlon, coined for the 1912 Summer Olympics in analogy to the word pentathlon.
Affixes: dec-
-athlon
Inflected forms:
form: decathlons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: decathla
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An athletic contest consisting of ten events which includes sprinting, hurdling, jumping, and throwing over a span of two days.
pos: noun
examples: He entered U.C.L.A. in 1954 and played for the renowned coach John Wooden’s basketball team there while training for decathlons.
For now, Gray and her peers are able to compete for Olympic berths only in the seven-event heptathlon, while the decathlon is restricted to men.
gloss: A contest in science and math proving skill.
pos: noun
Related words: decathlete
Translations:
birder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old English bridd
Middle English brid
English bird
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English birder
From bird + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: birders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A birdwatcher.
pos: noun
examples: Many of the crofters on Fair Isle and Shetland know as much about the birds as the birders.
It's good to be the king. Even if the kingdom is rather small. It is amazing how often really good birders are borderline megalomaniacs.
gloss: A person who hunts birds.
pos: noun
Related words: twitcher
birdo
Derived words: nonbirder
Translations:
twitcher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From twitch + -er. The birdwatching sense first recorded in 1970 and recalled as being in use in 1968; claimed by R.E. Emmett to have arisen in 1950s Britain in reference to birder Howard Medhurst who often arrived at rare‑bird sites shivering after riding pillion on Emmett's motorcycle.
Base: twitch
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: twitchers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone or something that twitches.
pos: noun
gloss: An avid birdwatcher who travels long distances to see rare species, or to add a new species to their personal list; a birder who goes on twitches.
pos: noun
examples: It is difficult to classify them precisely, but, in roughly ascending order of productivity, we now recognise the purely chance observer, the locality regulars (now recognising that ‘time in’ eventually equals ‘rarity out’), the ringers (particularly when working in groups), the occasional tally-hunter (most of us, if we are honest), the full-time observatory workers (exhibiting the highest standards of discipline) and the growing group of full-blooded rarity collectors (self-styled ‘twitchers’, covering individually up to 30,000 miles in their annual pursuit of ‘lifers’).
Twitchers are very mobile and may travel great distances to see rare birds, of which they hear through their efficient 'grapevine'.
I do not consider myself either a twitcher or an expert.
Derived words: curtain twitcher
Translations:
birding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old English bridd
Middle English brid
English bird
English -ing
English birding
From bird + -ing.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: birdwatching
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The time has come, however, for BirdLife Australia to foster debate about how to ensure that Australian bird names, birding and bird conservation are culturally and socially inclusive, and do not cause offence.
gloss: The catching of birds; fowling
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: landbirding
nonbirding
Translations:
twitching
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
Inflected forms:
form: twitchings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more twitching
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most twitching
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The motion of something that twitches.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Your twitchings and jouncings disturb me excessively.
gloss: Birdwatching by people (twitchers) who travel long distances to see rare species or add a new species to a personal list.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Between the scientific austerities of the Rarities Committee and the worst excesses of those suffering from the twitching syndrome (vide the man whose wife managed to deflect him via the telephone and the AA at Newmarket from a Bluethroat in Norfolk to a Wall-creeper in Dorset) lies a considerable body of bird people who are deeply interested in the migration patterns of Ross’s Gull and its appearance at Teesmouth[.]
gloss: Using a horse team to pull logs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A great deal of horse-work was therefore required, and in twitching the logs[..]
gloss: That twitches.
pos: adj
Translations:
birdwatching
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bird + watching.
Compound parts: bird
watching
Inflected forms:
form: bird watching
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Observing or identifying wild birds in their natural environment.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The hobby of watching rocket launches.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: In fact, on this night, the birdwatching is over for everyone, for the firing is cancelled. Nobody notifies birdwatchers officially, of course, so the exodus is scattered and gradual.
gloss: Girlwatching
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: By the spring of 1968, they were the secular-singing O'Kaysion, and they had recorded a leering lyric about ogling babes for the peewee Northstate label. Local DJs, appreciating that bird-watching was a popular pastime for their listeners, rode the number as if it had a satin saddle.
Related words: birdwatch
birdwatcher
ornithology
Translations:
birdwatcher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
Etymology: From bird + watcher.
Compound parts: bird
watcher
Inflected forms:
form: birdwatchers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bird watcher
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who observes or identifies wild birds in their natural environment.
pos: noun
examples: Alec Warner was gazing like a bird-watcher at Charmian, who plucked at the rug round her knees, waiting to tell her own story.
It seems these days that as much as bird-watchers need birds, the birds may need the bird-watchers.
gloss: A person who enjoys watching rocket launches.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: In fact, on this night, the birdwatching is over for everyone, for the firing is cancelled. Nobody notifies birdwatchers officially, of course, so the exodus is scattered and gradual.
[…] particularly those carrying astronauts, are the area's major drawing power, and each "advertised" shoot brings thousands of space age "birdwatchers".
gloss: A person, especially a male, who delights in watching women.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
slang
Synonyms: birder
Related words: twitcher
Translations:
Igor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
Etymology: From the hunchbacked lab assistant to Dr. Victor Frankenstein in the 1931 U.S. film Frankenstein of Universal Studios, which was named "Fritz", and the successor to Dr. Frankenstein found in the third and fourth films, named "Ygor"; which have been conflated in popular culture to become "Igor".
Inflected forms:
form: Igors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A stock character, the lab assistant to a mad scientist, vampire, or miser frequently depicted as being deformed in some manner, physically and/or psychologically.
pos: noun
Translations:
finely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English finely, fynely, fynly, fineliche, finliche, fynliche, equivalent to fine + -ly.
Base: fine
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: finelier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more finely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: fineliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most finely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: So as to produce a fine texture; into small, thin, or delicate pieces.
pos: adv
examples: Fledglings can only be fed finely chopped meat.
gloss: In a fine, handsome or attractive way; very well.
pos: adv
examples: This girl could not be above eighteen: her face regular and sweet-featur'd, her shape exquisite; nor could I help envying her two ripe enchanting breasts, finely plump'd out in flesh
Conversation with simple, respectful George Larch and that quite charming fellow Vallett had convinced him that everything was going to turn out finely.
Looking back, Yewdale Crag stands finely over the waterhead; Brantwood is opposite.
Derived words: lean finely textured beef
overfinely
ultrafinely
Translations:
digerati
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of digital + literati, modeled after glitterati.
Compound parts: digital
literati
Inflected forms:
form: digirati
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: digiterati
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: People who are considered the elite in using computers and the Internet.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
plural
plural-only
examples: The digerati Wired reader is a demographic dream: a 34-year-old man in upper management with a household income of more than $80,000 and a job that includes recommending or actually buying expensive digital equipment.
Translations:
laptop
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From lap (“upper legs of a seated person”) + top, modeled after desktop.
Compound parts: lap
top
Inflected forms:
form: laptops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lap-top
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lap-top
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A laptop computer.
pos: noun
examples: He was playing a video game on his laptop.
Over time, the difference in size between laptops and notebooks became a matter of no more than an inch or two in length and width, and a fraction of an inch in thickness.
Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
gloss: Designed for use on a lap.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: At NCC, however, laptop portables such as the Gavilan were stealing the show, and when Miyashita returned to japan, his list of possible projects included a proposal for a portable computer.
Otherwise, the keyboard feel and layout are good for a laptop machine but, as with most portables, I wouldn’t want to use the T1000 to write the entire great American novel—just a chapter or two at a time.
Nestled snugly into a cattle-class seat aboard a 737, you drop your tray table and open your laptop PC.
Translations:
deferent
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From defer and deference; see -ent.
Affixes: -ent
Inflected forms:
form: more deferent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most deferent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: deferents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Showing deference; deferential.
pos: adj
gloss: A duct in the body serving to carry away from, as opposed to an afferent one.
pos: noun
gloss: An imaginary circle surrounding the Earth, in whose periphery either the heavenly body or the centre of the heavenly body's epicycle was supposed to be carried round.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: That which carries or conveys.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: though air be the most favorable deferent of sounds
Translations:
radiology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From radio- + -logy.
Base: radio
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The specialty of medical imaging and its interpretation, originally and especially radiography but now including all imaging modalities, including ones that use no radiation (such as ultrasonography and magnetic resonance imaging).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The use of radioactive substances in diagnosis and treatment (which today is the province of nuclear medicine).
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
Related words: radiologist
radioscopy
Derived words: cardioradiology
electroradiology
neuroradiology
palaeoradiology
paleoradiology
psychoradiology
radiologic
radiological
teleradiology
uroradiology
Translations:
knocking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
Inflected forms:
form: knockings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act in which something is knocked on, or the sound thus produced
pos: noun
examples: These strange openings and closings and knockings were warnings and reminders from the spirits who attend the dying.
There was no response to continued knockings.
Recorded live to CD with new instrumentation--artillery shells, tuned suspension cables, boxes filled with springs--and deemphasized guitar parts, it's a beautiful collection of echoes and whispers, drones and knockings, with a gently swelling sense of the sinister.
gloss: A repetitive ping, knock, or similar sound coming from an engine in which there are repeated uncontrolled explosions in the combustion chamber.
pos: noun
examples: Sir―I was greatly interested in a short article in The Motor Cycle on the subject of engine knocking.
Knocking can also occur at high speed, but that may go undetected by the driver.
Related words: cherry knocking
knocking on heaven's door
knocking shop
knocking-shop
nigger knocking
port knocking
roof knocking
sock-knocking
Translations:
improving
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more improving
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most improving
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That tends to improve someone or something (especially (dated) to educate or morally better a person).
pos: adj
examples: 1663, Robert Boyle, Some Considerations Touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, Oxford: Ric[hard] Davis, Essay 1, p. 2,
[…] that Diviner part of Man, the Soule, which alone is capable of wearing the Glorious Image of its Author, being endowed with two chief Faculties, the Understanding and the Will; the former is blest and perfectionated by Knowledg, and the latter’s Loveliest and most improving property is Goodnesse.
[…] nothing is so improving to the Temper as the Study of the Beauties, either of Poetry, Eloquence, Musick, or Painting.
She was so overcome by the splendor of his achievement that she took him into the closet and selected a choice apple and delivered it to him, along with an improving lecture upon the added value and flavor a treat took to itself when it came without sin through virtuous effort.
To boast mendaciously about one’s own gang and to slander and defame other gangs are acts everywhere officially regarded as creditable and even pious. It is as though our rulers, instead of merely tolerating prostitution, were to proclaim the brothel to be a place as sacred as the cathedral and as improving as the public library.
“Nothing to do but keep the chin up and the upper lip as stiff as can be managed. I think I’ll go to bed with an improving book. […]”
Translations:
easterly
Part of speech: noun
adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English easter
English -ly
English easterly
From easter + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: easterlies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more easterly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most easterly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more easterly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most easterly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Any persistent wind from the east (usually a broad current or belt of easterly winds).
pos: noun
gloss: Facing the east; directed towards the east.
pos: adj
examples: an easterly course or voyage
gloss: Located towards or in the east.
pos: adj
examples: the easterly side of a lake
gloss: Coming from the east.
pos: adj
examples: an easterly wind
The village itself is built on a ridge above the harbour, rows of sturdy cottages over which spume is hurled by easterly gales.
gloss: In an eastward direction or position; towards the east.
pos: adv
gloss: From the east.
pos: adv
Synonyms: eastly
Antonyms: westerly
westly
Related words: Beast from the East
easter
east wind
eastwind
northeaster
noreaster
southeaster
Derived words: beasterly
easterliness
northeasterly
southeasterly
Translations:
subhead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sub- + head. Piecewise doublet of subchef and subchief.
Base: head
Affixes: sub-
Inflected forms:
form: subheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A subheading or subtitle
pos: noun
examples: Allow me now to reprint the headline and subhead from a story in the Sunday Star […]
Translations:
luscious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From earlier lushious, lussyouse (“luscious, richly sweet, delicious”), a corruption of lustious, from lusty (“pleasant, delicious”) + -ous. Shakespeare uses both lush (short for lushious) and lusty in the same sense: "How lush and lusty the grass looks" (The Tempest ii. I.52).
An alternative etymology connects luscious to a Middle English term: lucius, an alteration of licious, believed to be a shortening of delicious.
Base: lusty
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more luscious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most luscious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: lushious
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Sweet and pleasant; delicious; juicy, succulent.
pos: adj
examples: Her lips were like two luscious beefsteaks.
There were lovely patches of greensward all about, with stately trees bearing rich and luscious fruits.
gloss: Sexually appealing; seductive.
pos: adj
examples: With one hand he gently disclosed the lips of that luscious mouth of nature.
gloss: Obscene.
pos: adj
examples: Hitherto I had been indebted only to the girls of the house for the corruption of my innocence: their luscious talk, in which modesty was far from respected.
Derived words: lusciously
lusciousness
overluscious
Translations:
cavernous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
biology
dentistry
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
Etymology: Late Middle English cavernous, cavernose, borrowing from Old French caverneux or Latin cavernōsus (“full of hollows or cavities”), from caverna (“a hollow, cavity, cave”) + -ōsus (“-ous, -ose”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to cavern + -ous.
Base: caverna
Affixes: -ōsus
Inflected forms:
form: more cavernous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cavernous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling a cavern in size, shape, or atmosphere.
pos: adj
examples: The last stop on the West Coast Main Line before you cross the border into Scotland, the strategically placed Carlisle Citadel is a station steeped in history. Opened on September 1 1847, the cavernous station was once home to seven railway companies in the pre-Grouping years.
At 8:34 p.m. Saturday night, in the cavernous ballroom at the Washington Hilton, I heard a loud crashing noise, like a big tray of dinner plates hitting the floor.
gloss: Resembling a cavern in size, shape, or atmosphere.
pos: adj
examples: cavernous eyes
While the filmmakers behind Dear Evan Hansen have maintained that their biggest motivation for adapting the popular Broadway musical was to immortalize Platt’s Tony-winning titular performance, what they’ve actually done by having the 27-year-old play a high school senior is highlight the stage show’s cavernous weaknesses while failing to transport just about any of its strengths to the new medium.
gloss: Having many caverns.
pos: adj
gloss: Having many caverns.
pos: adj
Derived words: bronchocavernous
cavernoma
cavernous body
cavernously
cavernous nerve
cavernous sinus
extracavernous
intercavernous
intracavernous
noncavernous
paracavernous
pericavernous
Translations:
lang: Māori
word: areare
lang: Polish
word: jamisty
lang: Portuguese
word: cavernoso
lang: Spanish
word: cavernoso
lang: French
word: caverneux
lang: Greek
word: σπηλαιώδης
roman: spilaiódis
lang: Middle English
word: cavernous
lang: Polish
word: jamisty
lang: Portuguese
word: cavernoso
cavern
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English caverne, borrowing from Old French caverne, from Latin caverna (“hollow, cavity, cave”), from cavus (“hollow, excavated, concave”).
Inflected forms:
form: caverns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: caverns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: caverning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: caverned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: caverned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A large cave.
pos: noun
gloss: An underground chamber.
pos: noun
examples: In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea.
gloss: A large, dark place or space.
pos: noun
examples: a dark cavern of a shop
gloss: To form a cavern or deep depression in.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: catacombs caverning the hillsides
gloss: To put into a cavern.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: cavernful
cavernicolous
cavernitis
cavernlike
cavernoma
cavernous
incaverned
mesocavern
Translations: