yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
bombe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From French bombe. Doublet of bomb.
Inflected forms:
form: bombes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dessert made from ice cream frozen in a (generally spherical or hemispherical) mold.
pos: noun
gloss: A small, roughly hemispherical, chocolate-covered confection.
pos: noun
examples: Sous-chef Daniel O'Reagan prepares an array of tempting desserts, including a zabaglione and marzipan bombe, chocolate mousse torte and an amaretto-flavored cheesecake.
The best dessert by far is the chocolate-caramel bombe, a gorgeous chocolate-dusted dome with a heart of passion fruit crème brûlée.
Austria boasts the Mozart ball, a marzipan-filled chocolate ball wrapped in a portrait of the composer. Niemetz of Vienna also manufactures a famous marshmallow bombe called the Schwedenbombe.
gloss: An electromechanical device used in early cryptanalysis.
pos: noun
Translations:
codger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Possibly derived from cadger (“hawker”). Or abbreviation of coffin dodger, but this is likely to be a folk etymology.
Inflected forms:
form: codgers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: coger
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An amusingly eccentric or grumpy and usually elderly man.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: ‘I haven’t been drinking your health, my codger,’ replied Mr. Squeers; ‘so you have nothing to do with that.’
Now I was a forsaken codger snuffling disgracefully from a beautiful floozy's abuse.
Jed, darling. The old codgers need to talk. Andrew's going to buy you a drink in that beautiful bar up on the terrace.
Translations:
antispasmodic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English anti-
English spasmodic
English antispasmodic
From anti- + spasmodic.
Inflected forms:
form: antispasmodics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Referring to something that suppresses spasms, generally a drug.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A drug that suppresses spasms.
pos: noun
Translations:
seizure
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English seize
English -ure
English seizure
From seize + -ure.
Inflected forms:
form: seizures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: seisure
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: seizures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: seizuring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: seizured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: seizured
pos: verb
tags: past
form: seisure
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: senses related to possession
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc.
The search warrant permitted the seizure of evidence.
As yet there had been no alarm of fever. The three seizures had excited some comment, however, and had it not been for the counter-excitement of the burning ship, it is possible that Pine's precaution would have been thrown away
gloss: senses related to possession
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The continued seizure of the car is a violation of my rights.
gloss: senses related to possession
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The seizure includes various belongings taken from his house and his office.
gloss: senses related to possession
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Make o'er thy honour by a deed of trust, / And give me seizure of the mighty wealth.
gloss: senses related to sensation
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He felt the seizure of pain when the heart attack began.
gloss: senses related to sensation
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: epileptic seizure
I haven't had a seizure since I started that medication.
Seizures can be caused by exposure to certain poisons or toxins.
gloss: senses related to sensation
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To experience an epileptic seizure.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: My doctor prescribed Namility. It made my vision blurry, I told him. He said keep taking it, it'll stop. Next day at work I seizured in the middle of an order.
Derived words: absence seizure
antiseizure
interseizure
Jacksonian seizure
microseizure
nonseizure
postseizure
preseizure
pseudopseudoseizure
pseudoseizure
psychogenic nonepileptic seizure
reseizure
seizural
seizure dog
seizureless
seizurelike
subseizure
Translations:
menthol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Latin mentha (“mint”) + -ol.
Affixes: -ol
Inflected forms:
form: menthols
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cyclic monoterpene alcohol; the major component of the essential oil of peppermint; used in pharmaceutical preparations as an antitussive and antipruritic agent, as a nasal decongestant, and in menthol cigarettes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A menthol cigarette.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: dextromenthol
isomenthol
levomenthol
mentholate
mentholation
menthyl
neomenthol
nonmenthol
racementhol
Translations:
spearmint
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From spear (“sprout of a plant, spire”) + mint, so named due to its spiry blooms.
Base: spear
Inflected forms:
form: spearmints
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A herb of the mint family (Mentha spicata), commonly used in herb tea, candy and to treat mild stomach ache.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
gingersnap
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old Tamil 𑀇𑀜𑁆𑀘𑀺 (iñci)
Proto-Dravidian *wēr
Old Tamil 𑀯𑁂𑀭𑁆 (vēr)
Old Tamil 𑀇𑀜𑁆𑀘𑀺𑀯𑁂𑀭𑁆 (iñcivēr)bor.
Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀲𑀺𑀁𑀕𑀺𑀯𑁂𑀭 (siṃgivera)der.
Ancient Greek ζιγγίβερις (zingíberis)bor.
Late Latin zingiberi
Late Latin gingiberbor.
Proto-West Germanic *gingiberō
Old English gingifer
▲
Old French gingembreinflu.
Middle English gingivere
Middle English gingere
English ginger
Middle Dutch snappen
Dutch snappenbor.
Low German snappenbor.
English snap
English gingersnap
From ginger + snap.
Inflected forms:
form: gingersnaps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ginger snap
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ginger-snap
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A type of biscuit or cookie made from dough seasoned with ginger.
pos: noun
gloss: A hot-tempered person, particularly one who is red-haired.
pos: noun
tags: US
obsolete
slang
examples: Paul winked gravely at vacancy. “Where’s the kid now?” […] “A ginger snap!” thought Paul, derisively.
Translations:
untruth
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English untreuth, from Old English untrēowþ and unġetrēowþ, from Proto-West Germanic *untriuwiþu and *ungatriuwiþu, equivalent to un- + truth. Cognate with Old High German ungitriuwida.
Base: truth
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: untruths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A lie or falsehood.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Herald The prince was swept from the sight of the Achaean host—himself, and his ship likewise. ’Tis no untruth I tell.
He added: "We've always had spin, especially from Government. But this is not spin. This is dishonesty and so it's our rail media's urgent responsibility to call it out because non-specialist journalists across the country will report this and gradually these untruths will be accepted.
gloss: The condition of being false; truthlessness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: falsehood
Translations:
endomorph
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: (physical type): Derived from endoderm + -morph from William Herbert Sheldon. Equivalent to endo- + -morph.
Base: endoderm
Affixes: -morph
Inflected forms:
form: endomorphs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mineral, especially a crystal, enclosed within another
pos: noun
gloss: A person of the endomorphic physical type, characterised by big bones, round face, large trunk and thighs and a naturally high degree of body fat, especially around the midsection.
pos: noun
examples: Some research shows that people with endomorph body types should aim to eat less fat and more protein. Other research has also found that some endomorphs are more sensitive to carbohydrates and the hormone insulin.
gloss: A person having a theoretical body type with slow metabolism in which weight is gained easily, but fat levels are hard to reduce. Endomorphic bodybuilders tend to be the most massive.
pos: noun
Related words: ectomorph
mesomorph
Derived words: endomorphic
endomorphy
Translations:
ectomorph
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Derived from ectoderm + -morph from William Herbert Sheldon. Equivalent to ecto- + -morph.
Base: ectoderm
Affixes: -morph
Inflected forms:
form: ectomorphs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone with a lean, only slightly muscular body
pos: noun
examples: Also there was a woman I hadn't met, a chain-smoking French ectomorph whose job it was to make sense of records of public spending in the Ministry of Finance.
gloss: Theoretical body type in which a person has a high metabolism. Such a person can easily maintain a low fat physique, but does not add muscle or body weight easily.
pos: noun
examples: The ectomorph body type is characterized by narrow shoulders and hips and a lean build. Its naturally fast metabolism makes it easy for ectomorphs to lose or maintain body fat levels but more difficult to build muscle.
Synonyms: hard gainer
Related words: endomorph
mesomorph
Derived words: ectomorphic
ectomorphy
Translations:
dugout
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
military
nautical
politics
sports
transport
war
Etymology: From the verb phrase dug out.
Inflected forms:
form: dugouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dug-out
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A canoe made from a hollowed-out log.
pos: noun
examples: Kurtz had apparently intended to return himself, the station being by that time bare of goods and stores, but after coming three hundred miles, had suddenly decided to go back, which he started to do alone in a small dug-out with four paddlers, leaving the half-caste to continue down the river with the ivory.
gloss: Someone with old-fashioned or outdated ideas, an old fogey; especially, an elderly soldier brought in for temporary service.
pos: noun
tags: historical
slang
examples: Directly war comes, therefore, there is a shift all round, and a new untried man—usually a dug-out in an advanced state of decay—is stuck into the job.
gloss: A small portable case for equipment used to smoke marijuana.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A pit used to catch and store rainwater or runoff.
pos: noun
tags: Canadian-Prairies
gloss: A rough dwelling consisting of an excavation in the ground, typically roofed with turf or basic sheeting.
pos: noun
gloss: Hence, a shelter used in trench warfare, used for simple accommodation out of enemy fire.
pos: noun
examples: The key unit of life here is the dugout – what the soldiers call a ‘blindage’ – an underground burrow where half a dozen men share the narrow space between the bunks with weapons, ammunition, biscuits, tea bags, and a jumble of other essentials (there is also usually a cat, not to mention the mice).
gloss: A sunken shelter at the side of a sports field where non-playing team members and staff can sit during a game.
pos: noun
examples: Redknapp is expected to be back in the dugout when Spurs play Fulham at Craven Cottage on Sunday but it was left to his assistant Kevin Bond to take a young team to Russia looking for the win that would put them through to the last 32.
Derived words: dugout canoe
Translations:
pickpocket
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pick
Proto-Germanic *puhô
Frankish *pokōbor.
Anglo-Norman poche
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
Latin -ittus
Anglo-Norman -ete
Anglo-Norman poketbor.
Middle English pocket
English pocket
English pickpocket
From pick + pocket.
Inflected forms:
form: pickpockets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pick-pocket
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pickpockets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pickpocketing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pickpocketed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pickpocketed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pick-pocket
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who steals from the pocket of a passerby, usually by sleight of hand.
pos: noun
examples: Old men, young men, and boys, stalwart burglars and highway robbers, slept side by side with wizened pickpockets or cunning-featured area-sneaks.
For several days, Mr. Sammler returning on the customary bus late afternoons from the Forty-second Street Library had been watching a pickpocket at work […] Mr. Sammler if he had not been a tall straphanger would not with his one good eye have seen these things happening.
gloss: To pick pockets; to steal.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Vodafone has also dropped its claim against one of Rhys Edwards’s travelling companions – who had been at the same reunion and had his phone pickpocketed two hours later in almost identical circumstances to Rhys Edwards.
Translations:
irremediable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin irremediābilis. By surface analysis, ir- + remediable.
Inflected forms:
form: more irremediable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most irremediable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Unable to be remedied, cured, corrected or repaired; irreparable, incurable.
pos: adj
examples: irremediable conflict
irremediable pain
irremediable harm
Translations:
laters
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From later (“see you later”) + -s (hypocoristic suffix).
Compare toodles and bye-byes.
Base: later
Affixes: -s
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: See you later; an expression used at parting.
pos: intj
tags: slang
examples: But all she says is “Ring us if you want to go out this week. Laters!” and puts the phone down.
‘Shanks,’ says Trevor into his mobile, ‘we just gone down a snake. I’ll see ya tomorrow, laters.’
You know where the money is and how much. Tell him the usual. Yep. Laters.
Translations:
residuum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
law
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Latin residuum. Doublet of residue.
Inflected forms:
form: residuums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: residua
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The residue, remainder or rest of something.
pos: noun
gloss: The solid material remaining after the liquid in which it was dissolved has been evaporated; a residue.
pos: noun
gloss: A binary function from [0,1] × [0,1] to [0,1] which is defined in terms of the t-norm as follows: x→y= sup z|z*x⩽y, where * denotes the t-norm function and sup denotes the supremum.
pos: noun
examples: The residuum of the minimum t-norm is a function #92;rightarrow such that x#92;rightarrowy#61;#92;begin#123;cases#125;y,amp;#92;text#123;if#125;xgt;y#92;#92;1,amp;#92;text#123;if#125;x#92;leqslanty.#92;end#123;cases#125;
gloss: The residue of an estate.
pos: noun
Synonyms: remnant
Translations:
pasteurisation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French pasteurisation, from the surname of its inventor, Louis Pasteur.
Inflected forms:
form: pasteurisations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pasteurization
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Heat-treatment of a perishable food to destroy heat-sensitive vegetative cells followed by immediate cooling to limit growth of the surviving cells and germination of spores.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
examples: Lorries collect the milk from the various outlying farms, whence it is taken to the district distribution centre to undergo pasteurisation.
Translations:
lyophilization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First use appears c. 1894 in the US. lyo- + philos + -ization (alternatively analyzed as lyophilize + -ation), from Ancient Greek λύω (lúō, “to loosen, to dissolve”) + φίλος (phílos, “beloved”) + -ίζειν (-ízein) + Latin -ātiō, due to the dried product being able to rapidly reabsorb the solvent and restore the original substance, hence “lyophil” (solvent-loving). Popularized from 1960 by Louis R. Rey. Cognates exist in other European languages by means of the same construction.
Base: lyo
Inflected forms:
form: lyophilizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lyophilisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of freeze-drying.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: After dialysis, the enzyme can be obtained as a dry powder by lyophilization.
Lyophilization The process of vacuum-drying substances from the frozen state. The water is sublimated into a trap at low temperature or is absorbed by drying agents. Verb: lyophilize.
Translations:
bushed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From bush.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Very tired; exhausted.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: After hours on the airplane and a long drive, I'm bushed.
gloss: Mentally unwell due to isolation, especially due to working in a remote mine or camp; experiencing cabin fever.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
examples: After three weeks up there I was bushed and needed to get out.
gloss: Incorporating a bush, a mechanical part.
pos: adj
examples: Body weight is carried directly by the lower ends of rubber-bushed swing links of 19.6 in. effective length.
gloss: Lost in the bush.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
examples: ‘She changes her shape depending on which way you're coming at her. Once you know the contours of Bulgonunna you'll never get bushed in this country.’
Synonyms: beat
Derived words: unbushed
Translations:
sprinkling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sprinklings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of the verb to sprinkle.
pos: noun
gloss: A small thinly distributed amount, e.g. of some liquid, powder or other fine substance that is sprinkled on to something.
pos: noun
examples: Among the devotees […] were persons who suffered from loathsome skin diseases, such as smallpox, abscesses, and the itch; and among them there was a fair sprinkling of debauchees, who had drunk themselves nearly blind and hoped to recover the use of their precious eyes by parading for a month in this curious mantle.
It notes: "The Welsh Government's view is that genuine 'levelling up' cannot simply mean a sprinkling of new, ad hoc rail projects decided in Whitehall, it has to be part of a strategic approach to promoting growth in all parts of the UK."
gloss: A light shower of rain.
pos: noun
gloss: A scattering.
pos: noun
Derived words: sprinkling can
Translations:
lang: German
word: Einsprengsel
lang: German
word: Prise
lang: German
word: einige Wenige
lang: German
word: Anstrich
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: صاچمه
roman: saçma
checklist
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
Etymology: From check + list.
Compound parts: check
list
Inflected forms:
form: checklists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: checklists
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: checklisting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: checklisted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: checklisted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A list of tasks to be completed, names to be consulted, conditions to be verified and similar.
pos: noun
gloss: An inventory, especially of species.
pos: noun
examples: a checklist of the plants of the Guiana Shield
gloss: To add to a checklist.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It was like he was checklisting the steps of brushing your teeth. Everyone knows how to brush your teeth—you do it automatically—so what good would a checklist do?
Related words: punch list
to-do list
Derived words: checklister
Translations:
rookery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From rook + -ery, 1725.
Base: rook
Affixes: -ery
Inflected forms:
form: rookeries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A colony of breeding birds or other animals.
pos: noun
examples: It was a rookery which had never been raided by the hunters, and in consequence the seals were mild-tempered and at the same time unafraid.
In winter rooks roost together in large numbers, and the roost may or may not be a rookery, but almost daily the local residents pay visits to the nesting trees, and about this time often begin playing at nest-building.
There are six rookeries either side of Haddiscoe Island, which average 283 nests each.
gloss: A crowded tenement.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Lord John Roxton and I turned down Vigo Street together and through the dingy portals of the famous aristocratic rookery.
Spying flames vomiting from a Manhattan tenement one night last week, a scavenging junkman named Roderick Good turned in an alarm. In their beds in the five-story rookery lay more than 100 tenants.
The squares near Ladbroke Grove station ... never managed to attract the kind of people for which they were designed and sank rapidly into multiple occupation, becoming almost as bad as the nearby rookeries of north-west Kensington.
gloss: A place where criminals congregate, often an area of a town or city.
pos: noun
tags: UK
broadly
historical
examples: The Flower and Dean St rookery had been home to many of those who lived at least partly by street crime.
These rookeries sustained criminal social systems that provided schooling in crime for the young and newcomers.
In the Victorian imagination, crime and the criminal class were always associated with rookeries, the dense slum areas in which criminals were said to live.
gloss: That part of the barracks occupied by subalterns.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
slang
Derived words: rookeried
Translations:
tops
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Likely top + -s (diminutive).
Base: top
Affixes: -s
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: At the very most; as a maximum.
pos: adv
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: Your essay should be two pages, tops.
Translations:
hi-tech
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hi
English tech
English hi-tech
From hi (adjective) + tech.
Inflected forms:
form: high-tech
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, or using high technology.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: River hadn't laid eyes on Hobden before, but this had to be him: average height, thinning brownish hair, look of terror as he turned to face this new intrusion even while crushed in an arm-lock by the previous invader, the achiever—except this wasn't an achiever: he was blackclad, wore a balaclava, had a utility belt round his waist, but the ensemble lacked the hi-tech tailoring of the genuine article.
The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.
Antonyms: low-tech
Translations:
jet-black
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From jet + black.
Compound parts: jet
black
Inflected forms:
form: jet black
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more jet-black
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most jet-black
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Coal-black; the blackest black.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Pitch-black; of the blackest black.
pos: adj
examples: Year after year unto her feet, / She lying on her couch alone, / Across the purpled coverlet, / The maiden's jet-black hair has grown, […]
Translations:
Jeroboam
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew יָרָבְעָם (yāroḇʿām).
Inflected forms:
form: Jeroboams
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bottle of champagne or Burgundy wine containing 3 liters of fluid, four times the volume of a standard bottle.
pos: noun
gloss: A bottle of Bordeaux wine containing 4.5 liters of fluid, six times the volume of a standard bottle.
pos: noun
Translations:
lat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi लाट (lāṭ, “pillar; minaret; staff, club”), लाठ (lāṭh, “long staff; cudgel”), etc.
Inflected forms:
form: lats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lât
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lāt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lath
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A staff, particularly one of an Indian kind.
pos: noun
tags: rare
gloss: A monumental pillar, particularly the Buddhist columns erected in East India.
pos: noun
examples: A high pillar of stone called Bheem-lat, or the Tealee, or oilman's lat or staff.
Translations:
inkstand
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From ink + stand.
Compound parts: ink
stand
Inflected forms:
form: inkstands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small tray containing pens and an inkwell; (by extension) a pot for holding ink, inkpot, inkwell.
pos: noun
examples: 1765, Laurence Sterne, letter published in Original Letters of the Late Reverend Mr. Laurence Sterne, never before published, London: 1788, pp. 89-90,
[…] if I thought any thing I might hereafter write would be within their reach, I would throw the Manuscript that is now before me into the fire, and never dip my pen into my Ink-stand again […]
I beg your pardon for being here. I come to look for you, and after waiting a little while in hope of your coming in, was making use of your inkstand to explain my errand.
If you have no ink with you, the first time you go out, stop in at a stationer’s store, and buy a small sixpenny bottle that will stand steadily alone, and answer the purpose of an inkstand.
Translations:
inlaid
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Set into a surface in a decorative pattern.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having an inset decorative pattern.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: When the Minister of Defense was about to raise an elegantly worded, logical, and tactful objection, the French president slammed down his bottle of Perrier on the antique, polished, inlaid surface of the cabinet table and told him to shut up and have the men at the airfield in two hours.
In 2003, at Neal Auction Company in New Orleans, an 1810s mahogany armoire inlaid with ribbons and vines brought $140,000 (the presale estimate was $30,000 to $50,000).
Derived words: uninlaid
Translations:
caparisoned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English caparison
English -ed
English caparisoned
From caparison + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more caparisoned
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most caparisoned
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a richly ornamented harness.
pos: adj
gloss: Dressed in richly ornamented finery.
pos: adj
examples: Preceded by the richly caparisoned guards, care had been taken to give them the appearance of an escort necessary to dignity—but not to security.
Nevertheless, a good Turkish meal was enjoyed in the merry company of Customs men and divers gaily-caparisoned officials.
Derived words: uncaparisoned
Translations:
connoisseurship
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English connoisseur
Proto-Germanic *skapjaną
Proto-Germanic *-skapiz
Proto-West Germanic *-skapi
Old English -sċiepe
Middle English -schipe
English -ship
English connoisseurship
From connoisseur + -ship.
Inflected forms:
form: connoisseurships
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or act of being a connoisseur.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Reluctantly Bradly unrolled the canvas, which the trooper took from him to hold at arm's length, shutting one eye and crocking his neck sideways in a severe exercise of connoisseurship. Not satisfied with that system of inspecting a view, he had Cooley hold it against a biscuit tin, which required Cooley to cock an eye sideways to inspect it.
In an economy where niche markets multiply as rapidly as Internet spam, the capacity for new, competitive connoisseurship is endless. Is that bread artisanal and part of the slow-food movement?
Translations:
connectionist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English connection
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English connectionist
From connection + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: connectionists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An advocate of connectionism.
pos: noun
examples: At the helm of the connectionists was [Frank] Rosenblatt and his Perceptron, an early proof of concept for a machine learning system.
gloss: Of or relating to connectionism.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
connectionism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English connection
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English connectionism
From connection + -ism.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Any of several fields of psychology that model brain processes in terms of interconnected networks.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: What accounts for the cool reaction to the emergence of connectionism in the 1980s on the part of people who study language for a living? […] It is clear that many linguists view connectionism as a revival of the radical empiricist approach that dominated the dark ages in psychology—the behaviourist era.
[Jerry] Fodor was a bitter opponent of connectionism, arguing that there are key features of our mental lives that it cannot explain. In particular, it cannot explain the fact that many of our cognitive capacities are systematically related to one another.
Translations:
conjunct
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Latin conjunctus, the perfect past participle of conjungō. Doublet of conjoint. See conjoin.
Inflected forms:
form: conjuncts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Either term of a conjunction.
pos: noun
gloss: Either term of a conjunctive conjunction.
pos: noun
tags: rare
examples: In English, linking elements are the conjunction and, the disjunction or and the adversative linker but, collectively called COORDINATORS. The units that are coordinated will be called COORDINANDS in this article (CONJUNCTS, when linked by conjunction, DISJUNCTS, when linked by the disjunctive connector).
Asserting a conjunction would be irrational if the epistemic grounds for one conjunct defeat those for the other, for example when the two conjuncts are logically inconsistent.
gloss: An adjunct that supplements a sentence with information, connecting the sentence with previous parts of the discourse. Not considered to be an essential part of the propositional content.
pos: noun
gloss: Conjoined.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Set A is conjunct with set B.
gloss: Acting together; collaborative.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: disjunct
Derived words: conjunctly
Translations:
confines
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The borders or limits of an area.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: It has not been used for many years, and although it was impracticable to photograph the engine in the small confines of the shed it was possible to obtain a picture of the plate which it still carries showing the former ownership.
gloss: The elements that restrain someone.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: "I think that there comes a point where people begin to get bored within their own confines, so there is definitely an opportunity to encourage travel - even though it will be a different sort of arrangement than we've been used to in the past.
gloss: The scope or range of a subject.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
concomitantly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English concomitant
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English concomitantly
From concomitant + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more concomitantly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most concomitantly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: At the same time as something else.
pos: adv
examples: The focus of lexicographers of Indian English has to date been on nativised lexis and borrowings, that is, Indianisms. Concomitantly, their focus has been entirely off all other lexis.
gloss: Incidentally to something else.
pos: adv
Translations:
apologetics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Late Latin apologia, from Ancient Greek ἀπολογία (apología, “a speech in defense”), from ἀπολογοῦμαι (apologoûmai, “I speak in one's defense”), from ἀπόλογος (apólogos, “an account, story”), from ἀπό (apó, “from, off”) (see apo-) + λόγος (lógos, “speech”) + -ics.
Affixes: -ics
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A systematic defense of a position, or of religious or occult doctrine.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A branch of theology devoted to such a defense of Christianity specifically.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: apologetic
apologeticism
apologia
apologist
apologize
apology
Derived words: counter-apologetics
Translations:
parastatal
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French, equivalent to para- + statal.
Base: statal
Affixes: para-
Inflected forms:
form: parastatals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: para-statal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: para-statal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A company, agency, or intergovernmental organization that possesses political clout and is separate from the government, but whose activities serve the state, either directly or indirectly.
pos: noun
tags: Africa
gloss: Pertaining to such a company or group.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: ‘Parastatal’ organizations – local councils, representatives of business, the Red Cross – had been increasingly filling the gap left by the government’s maladministration [...].
Translations:
personage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French personnage, from Old French personage; by surface analysis, person + -age (compare French suffix -age).
Inflected forms:
form: personages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person, especially one who is famous or important.
pos: noun
examples: I can only say they have been in pretty close conversation several times of late, and, if I dared to think it of so very calm and dignified a personage, I should say that her color was a little heightened after one or more of these interviews.
The Matchmaking Festival provided social events for these lonely-hearted pilgrims, and allowed local personages to keep undesirables away from their daughters.
gloss: A character (in a film, book, play, etc).
pos: noun
gloss: The creation of corporate persons named after living people.
pos: noun
gloss: Character represented; external appearance; persona.
pos: noun
examples: But tell me, that haſt ſeene him, Menaphon,
What ſtature wields he, and what perſonage?
Translations:
flexural
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English flexure
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English flexural
From flexure + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: of, or relating to, flexure
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
cockade
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Partial calque of French cocarde.
Inflected forms:
form: cockades
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cocarde
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A rosette or knot of ribbon worn in a hat, especially as an office or party badge.
pos: noun
examples: […] and Nature had moreover wrote GENTLEMAN with so fair a hand in every line of his countenance, that even his tarnish’d gold-laced hat and huge cockade of flimsy taffeta became him; […]
The escort were two mounted patriots in red caps and tri-coloured cockades, armed with national muskets and sabres, who rode one on either side of him.
Through the park railings these glances beheld men and women riding in the Row, […] solitary horsemen looking unsociable, and solitary women followed at a long distance by a groom with a cockade to his hat and a leather belt over his tight-fitting coat.
gloss: An emblem of concentric circles of different colours, identifying the country to which an aircraft belongs.
pos: noun
examples: On the bank of the river in French territory lies a wrecked plane bearing the cockade of the French service.
Derived words: cockaded
Translations:
cook-off
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cook
English -off
English cook-off
From cook + -off.
Inflected forms:
form: cook-offs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cooking contest.
pos: noun
tags: US
Translations:
hinting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: media
publishing
typography
Inflected forms:
form: hintings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of giving a hint or suggestion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Risa herself was questioned, as she expected, but the ladies took their cue from Marie and appeared content with her somewhat short answers, even when she only turned her gaze downward and blushed at the hintings at her betrothal.
gloss: The process of adding hints to a computer-based font in order to align the glyphs to a rasterized grid at specific sizes in a visually appealing manner.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: antialiasing
Derived words: type hinting
Translations:
brotherhood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English brotherhod, equivalent to brother + -hood, from earlier brotherhede, alteration (influenced by suffixes in -hood, -head) of Early Middle English brotherrede (“brotherhood, fraternity”), from Old English brōþorrǣden (“brotherhood, fellowship”), equivalent to brother + -red (see brotherred). More at brother, -red. Piecewise doublet of friarhood.
Base: brother
Affixes: -hood
Inflected forms:
form: brotherhoods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being brothers or a brother (also figuratively).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: brotherdom
"Read lips: Without gas or without you? Without you. Without light or without you? Without you. Without water or without you? Without you. Without food or without you? Without you.
"Cold, hunger, darkness and thirst are not as terrible and deadly for us as your "friendship and brotherhood."
gloss: An association of people for any purpose, such as a society of monks; a fraternity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: James formed a kind of brotherhood for ex-pats who were working in Valencia.
gloss: All the people engaged in the same business, especially those of the same profession
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the legal brotherhood
the medical brotherhood
gloss: People, or (poetically) things, of the same kind.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a brotherhood of venerable trees
Synonyms: fraternity
association
fellowship
sodality
brethren
brolationship
brotherhood
brotherness
brothership
confraternity
Antonyms: irrelationship
non-fraternity
Related words: sisterhood
friendship
Derived words: blackhood
blood brotherhood
brotherhood-in-arms
Translations:
credible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English credible, borrowed from Middle French credible, from Latin crēdibilis (“worthy of belief”), from crēdō (“believe”); see credit.
Inflected forms:
form: more credible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most credible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Believable or plausible.
pos: adj
examples: credible alibi
think up a credible excuse
While WMRE makes clear that electrification is the only credible option to decarbonise, it says that bi-mode trains could be used in the interim.
What society classifies as “credible” is almost always a product of whichever social demographic happens to be economically dominant at the time of the classification.
gloss: Dependable, trustworthy, or reliable.
pos: adj
examples: credible sources
gloss: Authentic or convincing.
pos: adj
examples: credible acting
Antonyms: incredible
noncredible
uncredible
Related words: credibility
credit
credence
credential
street cred
Derived words: credibleness
credibly
discredible
Translations:
aerodynamic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér
Proto-Hellenic *auhḗr
Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr)
Ancient Greek ἀέρος (aéros)der.
English aero-
Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.
Proto-Hellenic *dunamai
Ancient Greek δῠ́νᾰμαι (dŭ́nămai)
Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek δυναμικός (dunamikós)lbor.
French dynamiqueder.
English dynamic
English aerodynamic
From aero- + dynamic, after aerodynamics. Compare French aérodynamique and German aerodynamisch.
Base: dynamic
Affixes: aero-
Inflected forms:
form: more aerodynamic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most aerodynamic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to the science of aerodynamics.
pos: adj
examples: The faster an F1 car goes, the more turbulent the aerodynamic wake it leaves behind it.
gloss: Having a shape that reduces drag when moving through the air.
pos: adj
examples: aerodynamic plane
aerodynamic vehicle
aerodynamic wings
Derived words: aerodynamical
aerodynamically
aerodynamicist
aerodynamicity
aerodynamicness
electroaerodynamic
nonaerodynamic
superaerodynamic
Translations:
lang: Asturian
word: aerodinámicu
lang: Belarusian
word: аэрадынамі́чны
roman: aeradynamíčny
lang: Catalan
word: aerodinàmic
lang: Danish
word: aerodynamisk
lang: Dutch
word: aerodynamisch
lang: Estonian
word: aerodünaamiline
lang: Faroese
word: luftstreymafrøðiligur
lang: Faroese
word: luftrørslufrøðiligur
lang: Finnish
word: aerodynaaminen
lang: Galician
word: aerodinámico
lang: German
word: aerodynamisch
lang: German
word: stromlinienförmig
lang: Greek
word: αεροδυναμικός
roman: aerodynamikós
lang: Icelandic
word: loftfræðilegur
lang: Indonesian
word: aerodinamis
lang: Irish
word: aeraidinimiciúil
lang: Italian
word: aerodinamico
lang: Malay
word: aerodinamik
lang: Polish
word: aerodynamiczny
lang: Portuguese
word: aerodinâmico
lang: Russian
word: аэродинами́ческий
roman: aerodinamíčeskij
lang: Spanish
word: aerodinámico
lang: Swedish
word: aerodynamisk
lang: Ukrainian
word: аеродинамі́чний
roman: aerodynamíčnyj
rotating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: undergoing physical rotation
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: rotating machinery
gloss: that proceeds in sequence or in turns
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a rotating presidency
Derived words: antirotating
contrarotating
nonrotating
non-rotating
rotating beacon
rotating chair
rotatingly
rotating magnetic field
rotating radio transient
superrotating
unrotating
Translations:
incentivize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
economics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English incentive
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English incentivize
From incentive + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: incentivizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: incentivizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: incentivized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: incentivized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: incentivise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To provide incentives for; to encourage.
pos: verb
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
transitive
examples: The US government seeks to incentivize home ownership through a favorable tax system.
City staff are recommending ways Toronto can incentivize the construction of 20,000 purpose-built rental homes.
gloss: To provide incentives to.
pos: verb
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
transitive
examples: They effectively incentivized people to overinvest in home ownership.
Antonyms: disincentivize
Related words: incent
Derived words: deincentivize
incentivization
incentivizer
nonincentivized
reincentivize
unincentivized
Translations:
lang: German
word: begünstigen
lang: Spanish
word: incentivar
psychotropic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ψῡχή (psūkhḗ)
Ancient Greek ψῡχο- (psūkho-)der.
English psycho-
Proto-Indo-European *trep-der.
Ancient Greek τρέπω (trépō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek τροπή (tropḗ)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
Ancient Greek τροπῐκός (tropĭkós)bor.
English -tropic
English psychotropic
From psycho- + -tropic.
Inflected forms:
form: more psychotropic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most psychotropic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: psychotropics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Affecting the mind or mental processes.
pos: adj
examples: “Medication can be part of a psychotropic arsenal,” he said, discussing one therapist who urged him to stop taking Xanax so he could address his anxiety directly and not mask the physical symptoms.
gloss: A psychotropic drug or agent.
pos: noun
Translations:
pie-in-the-sky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the noun pie in the sky.
Inflected forms:
form: more pie-in-the-sky
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pie-in-the-sky
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pie in the sky
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking reality and serviceability.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
examples: a pie-in-the-sky patent
gloss: Of a dream unlikely to ever come true; impractical, unrealizable.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
examples: “Halving poverty in 15 years seems like the most pie-in-the-sky goal imaginable,” said Mark Malloch Brown, head of the U.N. Development Program. “But it’s really quite doable. And the people who can do it are right here.
There are also several augmented reality tools, meant for advertising and teaching, and some futuristic surreal experiences that remind me of scenes from Star Trek’s holodeck. Some of the virtual reality demos are very pie-in-the-sky and probably won’t see the real world for some years to come; others are just a few years away.
Hence the trend in many C-suites to shift the conversation away from an imagined trade-off between profits and planet, and towards a discussion about mutual benefit. The key word reverberating around the boardrooms of the world's most progressive companies is 'value' – value for business in the shape of profits, and value for everyone else in the form of a more socially just, more equitable, more environmentally friendly world in which to live. If that sounds all very pie-in-the-sky, then think again. Take B Lab. A US-based certification provider, B Lab has accredited nearly 1,000 companies that publicly commit to "harness the power of business to create public benefit … for all stakeholders, not just shareholders". This isn't whimsical stuff.
If his [Donald Trump's] detailing was productive, it was somewhat undermined by a final, typical Trumpian flourish of pie-in-the-sky rhetoric.
In other words, the usual mix of sound thinking and pie-in-the-sky electioneering promises which convince no one.
“That said, we continue to remain cautious of pie-in-the-sky forecasts that see this hockey stick continuing indefinitely,” Nathanson added[…].
Translations: