yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
self-governing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + governing.
Base: governing
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: autonomous
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Most Zionists hoped for a state of their own, but early in the 20th century, writers like Hillel Solotaroff and Chaim Zhitlowsky, both Yiddish-speaking immigrant intellectuals in New York, imagined another alternative: a federation of self-governing anarchist communes in Palestine that would defend Jewish life without relying on state power.
Translations:
stony-iron
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: stony iron
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of a meteorite, having approximately equal parts iron and silicates.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Honeycrisp
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From honey + crisp, originally a trademark.
Compound parts: honey
crisp
Inflected forms:
form: Honeycrisps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sweet, firm, tart cultivar of apple.
pos: noun
Translations:
unreinforced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + reinforced.
Base: reinforced
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not reinforced.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Two [viaducts] in particular sit on the West Highland Line extension from Fort William to Mallaig, which opened in 1901. They are Loch Nam Uamh and Glenfinnan. Both use concrete, but unreinforced, which gives them strength in compression rather than tension.
Antonyms: reinforced
Translations:
demi-hunter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From demi- + hunter.
Base: hunter
Affixes: demi-
Inflected forms:
form: demi-hunters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of half-hunter.
pos: noun
Translations:
half-hunter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From half- + hunter.
Base: hunter
Affixes: half-
Inflected forms:
form: half-hunters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pocket watch of the hunter style, but with a glass panel or hole in the centre of the lid, giving a view of the hands even when the watch is closed.
pos: noun
examples: Securing me with one hand, he […] coaxed from a washleather fob hanging in company with a crucifix I imagine from his neck a gunmetal half-hunter, sprang open its case, held it to his eyes […]
Translations:
nostos
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νόστος (nóstos).
Inflected forms:
form: nostoi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A homecoming, as after a long journey.
pos: noun
Translations:
Zippo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Trade name for lighters, established in the 1930s.
Inflected forms:
form: Zippos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A reusable lighter.
pos: noun
examples: He was about to make the farewell flick of the wheel on his faithful Zippo, which had seen him through the Normany hedgerows, the Ardennes, Germany, and postwar America, when he heard a key in the front door, and voices.
gloss: A boat, tank, etc. equipped with flamethrowers.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
pringle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pringles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pringling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pringled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pringled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: prinkle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To prickle or tingle.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: My word, my skin pringled all over as I listened to him, and I would gladly have changed my position for that of the first man in the steepest and narrowest breach that ever swallowed up a storming party.
Translations:
plesiosaurus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: plesiosauruses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: plesiosauri
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the genus †Plesiosaurus of extinct long-necked marine reptiles from the Early Jurassic.
pos: noun
examples: "Plesiosaurus! A fresh-water plesiosaurus!" cried Summerlee.
Translations:
ill-judged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From ill + judged.
Compound parts: ill
judged
Inflected forms:
form: more ill-judged
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ill-judged
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Badly judged, unwise, rash.
pos: adj
examples: The most disgraceful and distasteful example was the Scottish Sun's crass front page with its 'Death Express' headline, alongside a picture of the late Driver McCullough. It was ill-judged, callous and insensitive.
Translations:
ill-affected
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more ill-affected
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ill-affected
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: disaffected
pos: adj
Translations:
ill-assorted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more ill-assorted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ill-assorted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Badly matched, or unmatched.
pos: adj
examples: He and Mrs Jonathan were a remarkable pair; one of those ill-assorted couples that you wonder at.
Last Christmas Eve the "Pines Express" arrived at Bath behind an ill-assorted combination of locomotives.
Translations:
ill-sorted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more ill-sorted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ill-sorted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Badly matched or unmatched; ill-suited.
pos: adj
examples: He was a morose man, with the extremely ill-sorted name of Lovegood, and when Rita discovered herself as an emissary of Mrs Dibble's, he worked himself into a temper at once. "I don't want no more dealings with that old trout."
Translations:
ill-wisher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From ill + wisher.
Compound parts: ill
wisher
Inflected forms:
form: ill-wishers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who wishes harm on someone else.
pos: noun
Antonyms: well-wisher
Translations:
Rade
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Bahnar Rađe or Eastern Mnong Rađê.
Inflected forms:
form: Rhade
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Raday
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A minor ethnic group in the Central Highlands of Vietnam.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
nice-but-dim
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From nice + but + dim, popularised by the character Tim Nice-But-Dim on Harry Enfield's Television Programme.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Good-natured, while also being rather unintelligent.
pos: adj
tags: UK
colloquial
not-comparable
examples: […] he was worried that Michael Parkinson might ask him questions with long words that he wouldn't understand, no doubt fearing a resurgence of the “nice-but-dim” taunts that had all too often come his way.
While there was always a touch of the caricature about the Sandhurst cadet as the nice-but-dim public schoolboy, there was also a significant measure of truth.
The main difference in Hong Kong was that 1997 witnessed a transition from colonial rule to government by tycoon, as the nice-but-dim shipping heir Tung Chee-hwa became the territory's first chief executive.
Translations:
loveday
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English loveday; equivalent to love + day.
Compound parts: love
day
Inflected forms:
form: lovedays
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A day appointed for a meeting intended to amicably resolve a dispute; also the meeting held on such a day.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: legal records cannot provide consistent evidence about lovedays because they were, strictly speaking, outside their terms of reference[…].
In our period, all the people of England made lovedays, from the richest to the poorest.
gloss: A day devoted to love.
pos: noun
tags: poetic
Translations:
buttonwillow
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From button + willow.
Compound parts: button
willow
Inflected forms:
form: buttonwillows
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A shrub with round flower heads found near water in California, the Eastern US, and Central America, Cephalanthus occidentalis.
pos: noun
tags: US
Translations:
night-riding
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That rides out at night, especially to carry out acts of violence.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
examples: A night-riding White Man's Union used intimidation and murder to split the coalition […].
Translations:
dry-aged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Refrigerated and allowed to dry for an extended period, resulting in a more concentrated flavour and a tender texture.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Liebfraumilch
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From German Liebfrauenmilch, literally "beloved Lady's milk", referring to the Liebfrauenkirche (the Church of Our Lady) in Worms, Germany, near which the wine was originally produced.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A semi-sweet German white wine.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 'Soft-shell crabs with tartare sauce, flat beef Hamburgers, medium-rare, from the charcoal grill, french-fried potatoes, broccoli, mixed salad with thousand-island dressing, ice-cream with melted butterscotch and as good a Liebfraumilch as you can get in America. Okay?'
He took a seat and poured himself a big glass of Liebfraumilch instead.
Translations:
dot-coma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of dot-com + coma.
Compound parts: dot-com
coma
Inflected forms:
form: dot-comas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The collapse of a dot-com or of the dot-com bubble.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: The lackluster debuts were part of an overall dot-coma that hit the Internet sector in trading yesterday. Amazon.com, RealNetworks, Go2Net, InfoSpace.com and many other of the area's Internet stocks each dropped a few dollars by the close of trading.
Clearly, eSpeed's connection to Cantor is a unique insurance policy, assuring it won't end up in a dot-coma.
And if Sweden is coming out of its dot-coma, then so should the rest of the high-tech world.
Translations:
dot-commiserate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of dot-com + commiserate.
Compound parts: dot-com
commiserate
Inflected forms:
form: dot-commiserates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dot-commiserating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dot-commiserated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dot-commiserated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To seek solace with other people left jobless by the dot-com bubble collapse.
pos: verb
tags: historical
slang
examples: An Internet marketing firm called Thehiredguns.com sponsors pink-slip parties where casualties can get together and "dot-commiserate."
Failure became a buzz word when the dotcom bubble burst in the late Nineties. Many paper millionaires instantly became part of the "90 per cent club" (people who had lost 90 per cent of their wealth, or more). The casualties got together and "dot-commiserated".
(The original, ancestral pink slip parties date to 1910, but became known to modern-day workers in the late 1990s, when downsized tech sector employees got together to dot-commiserate.)
Translations:
dot-carnage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of dot-com + carnage.
Compound parts: dot-com
carnage
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The results of the dot-com bubble collapse, which included the closure of many Internet-based businesses, and significant financial losses for others.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: The dot-carnage extends even to Internet companies still in business.
Given the dot-carnage of the past few years, it's only natural that runs like those, when connected to companies associated with the Net, would leave investors pondering the dreaded B word: bubble.
Mika Salmi's atomfilms.com survived the dot-carnage and is thriving on broadband
Translations:
hiss-and-tell
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of hiss + kiss and tell.
Compound parts: hiss
kiss and tell
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Disclosing private information in a hostile manner.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
informal
not-comparable
examples: But Miller's tale is as notable for what it isn't as for what it is. It is not a hiss-and-tell attempt to settle scores and mold history like Donald Regan's For the Record, a spin-doctored account of his time as President Reagan's chief of staff.
What is clear from this hiss-and-tell diary is that Hoddle feels immune to any downward glances, any disapproving charge from his bosses at the FA.
Maybe that's what this hiss-and-tell book is all about, therapy for McEnroe's battered psyche, a nightmare marriage, a splendid career best remembered for screeching on-court tantrums.
Translations:
well-upholstered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more well-upholstered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most well-upholstered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Fat.
pos: adj
tags: euphemistic
Translations:
manzanillo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: manzanillos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A variety of Spanish olive.
pos: noun
examples: The Manzanillo, or "little apple," olive had larger fruit and ripened earlier than the Mission, and produced both excellent oil and good table fruits.
Translations:
Kinsey
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old English personal name Cynesige, from cyne- (“royal”) + siġe (“victory”).
Inflected forms:
form: Kincey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Kynsey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A measure in the Kinsey scale.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
operably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From operable + -ly.
Base: operable
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more operably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most operably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Such that it allows an operation to take place.
pos: adv
Translations:
winchman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From winch + -man.
Base: winch
Affixes: -man
Inflected forms:
form: winchmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A man who operates a winch.
pos: noun
Translations:
jaun
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Bengali and Hindi.
Inflected forms:
form: jauns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of litter, particularly those of the upper middle class in 18th-, 19th-, and early 20th-century Kolkata.
pos: noun
tags: India
historical
examples: Who did not know that office Jaun of pale Pomona green,
 With its drab and yellow lining, and picked out black between,
 Which down the Esplanade did go at the ninth hour of the day […]
A large number of accidents are also caused by office jauns which as a class are driven too fast and by inexperienced men. It has been suggested that these jauns should be registered and numbered and their drivers licensed.
Translations:
rank-and-filer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From rank and file + -er.
Base: rank and file
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: rank-and-filers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the rank and file.
pos: noun
examples: My mother was an active rank-and-filer in the International Ladies Garment Workers Union in New York. She would go to the Union meetings, and she'd come back with this little song book called "The Little Red Song Book."
Translations:
djent
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Onomatopoeia for a high-gain, distorted palm-muted, low pitch guitar sound; coined by guitarist Fredrik Thordendal (b. 1970) of the Swedish extreme metal band Meshuggah.
Inflected forms:
form: djents
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: djenting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: djented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: djented
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A style of progressive heavy metal music characterized by rhythmic and technical complexity, and typically featuring heavily distorted, palm-muted guitar chords, syncopated, downtuned riffs, and polyrhythms alongside virtuoso soloing.
pos: noun
tags: neologism
uncountable
examples: […] they later evolved into a progressive technical metal band with elements of mathcore and djent.
gloss: To play a djent riff.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: It may have thirteen strings, but can it Djent?
Be creative in your arrangement for maximum djenting effectiveness.
A particular meme sees individuals preoccupied with the question "does it djent?", a way of ascertaining the suitability of equipment (Rabea Massaad 2015).
Translations:
Hainanese
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Hainan + -ese. Doublet of Hainamese and Hailamese.
Base: Hainan
Affixes: -ese
Inflected forms:
form: more Hainanese
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Hainanese
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the island of Hainan, its people and their diaspora.
pos: adj
examples: Because of the comparatively shorter distance, Hainanese merchants could use smaller vessels, usually constructed of fir and other inferior woods, which they customarily furnished with masts, rudders, and wooden anchors, availing themselves of the abundance of material in Champa and Cambodia which lay on their route to Bangkok.
gloss: The inhabitants of the island of Hainan and its diaspora
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: I needed an interpreter in only one interview, that with an elderly Hainanese from Kompong-Trach.
Translations:
mmph
Part of speech: intj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative.
Inflected forms:
form: mmphs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mmphing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mmphed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mmphed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A muffled cry, as of a person whose mouth is covered by a gag.
pos: intj
gloss: To make a muffled cry.
pos: verb
Translations:
Afropunk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
literature
media
music
publishing
science-fiction
Etymology: From Afro- + punk or Afro- + -punk.
Base: punk
Affixes: Afro-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Punk music or subculture with black African influences.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: […] women whom he feels his Afropunk musical tastes and skateboard transportation would otherwise drive away.
gloss: Afrocentric science fiction.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: There’s a lot going on in this novel, but Thompson expertly juggles all his disparate elements – alien encounter, cyberpunk-biopunk-Afropunk thriller, zombie-shocker, an off-kilter love story and an atmospheric portrait of a futuristic Nigeria.
Translations:
shotacon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
media
pornography
sexuality
Etymology: From Japanese ショタコン (shotakon). By surface analysis, shota + -con (“abnormal sexual attraction”).
Inflected forms:
form: shotacons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shotakon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A sexual complex where an adult is attracted to young, typically prepubescent boys, or the fictional depictions thereof.
pos: noun
tags: Japanese
uncountable
usually
examples: The term shota-con is a variant of the term loli-con for "Lolita complex" comics, a genre of porn comics for men featuring young girls. Shota is a common Japanese boy's name, thus shota-con indicates porn comics featuring young boys.
Lolicon or Lolicom is a contraction of "Lolita Complex," an unhealthy interest in underage girls exemplified by the Lolita Anime. Its rarer male variant is Shotacon.
Shotacon is a contraction of “Shotaro Complex,” or an unhealthy obsession with little boys. It is said to derive from the boyish good looks of Shotaro Kaneda, the protagonist of GIGANTOR
gloss: An individual with such a fixation.
pos: noun
tags: Japanese
countable
usually
gloss: Erotic or suggestive art, manga, anime, or other media featuring underage boys.
pos: noun
tags: Japanese
uncountable
usually
Related words: brocon
lolicon
toddlercon
paedophilia
pedophilia
paedophile
pedophile
yaoi
Derived words: sholicon
Translations:
e-cig
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + cig.
Base: cig
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
form: e-cigs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Syllabic abbreviation of electronic cigarette.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: The tobacco industry is pushing a new kind of smoking device — the e-cig or vape pen — that it says is far healthier than traditional cigarettes: no tobacco, no tar, just nicotine and flavored vapor. […] E-cig makers say, and some health experts believe, that e-cigs could help lower these terrible numbers, because they contain far fewer toxins than traditional tobacco cigarettes.
Laranya Caslin [...] told the health and social care committee e-cigs are “a much bigger issue” than smoking - estimating one in four kids uses them.
Translations:
anti-algebra
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From anti- + algebra.
Base: algebra
Affixes: anti-
Inflected forms:
form: more anti-algebra
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most anti-algebra
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Opposed to the teaching or learning of algebra, especially to or by non-mathematical students
pos: adj
Translations:
e-ballot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + ballot.
Base: ballot
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
form: e-ballots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A computerized ballot in e-voting.
pos: noun
Translations:
cloud-headed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the phrase head in the clouds.
Inflected forms:
form: more cloud-headed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cloud-headed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having one's head in the clouds: prone to daydreaming, or thinking impractically.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
examples: In addition, you can stand in awe of yet another book, that despite being written by men, depicts women as cerebral creatures with slim builds and Barsoomian breasts instead of the typical cloud-headed, cassava-chested cranks of carnage.
And in the cloud-headed days that followed, he struggled to make sense of this. Perhaps he was dreaming.
[…] but when they tell ya to get "your tough skin on" before you enter, they may be thinking of a wet suit, 'cause it's a "down 'n' dirty" "dive"; are the "cloud-headed waiters" suffering from oxygen deprivation?
If I had the time and money I would counter-sue those cloud-head advocates for violating my rights of safety, harassment, and passage. Railroad stations are not homeless shelters. / The cloud-headed advocates don't even ride the trains, and their organizations are funded by rich people who don't ride either.
A cloud-headed child, he likes rainbows and reading.
Translations:
Dinaric
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Dinara + -ic, after the mountain on the border of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Base: Dinara
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: Dinarics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the Dinaric Alps, a mountain chain in southern Europe.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to a subtype of the Caucasoid race, associated with southeastern Europe.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A member of a subtype of the Caucasoid race, associated with southern Europe.
pos: noun
Translations:
self-hateful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + hateful.
Base: hateful
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: more self-hateful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-hateful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Self-hating.
pos: adj
Translations:
if-by-whiskey
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: Refers to a 1952 speech by Noah S. "Soggy" Sweat Jr. during a debate on whether or not Mississippi should legalize alcoholic beverages. He prefaced his qualified agreement with each side in turn with the formula "if by whiskey you mean..." and a definition of "whiskey" crafted to support that side.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That equivocates on an issue while appearing to affirm both sides, by asserting that each is correct depending on which of two stated alternatives is used as the definition of a key term.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
usually
examples: 2010, Carol Phillip-Tudor, The Boy, The Professor and Ella's Regret, Dorrance Publishing Company (RoseDog Books), page 103,
"You a foolin' nary a soul, mister Emil" says Bilky. "I's thinkin' maybe yourin a usin' the If-by-Whiskey defense. […] "
Translations:
back-translate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
translation-studies
Etymology: From back- + translate.
Base: translate
Affixes: back-
Inflected forms:
form: back-translates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: back-translating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: back-translated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: back-translated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To translate a translated text back to the original language.
pos: verb
Translations:
back-translation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
human-sciences
linguistics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
translation-studies
Etymology: From back- + translation.
Base: translation
Affixes: back-
Inflected forms:
form: back-translations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: backtranslation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The process of translating a previously translated document back into the original language.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A text which has been translated in such a fashion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The translation of an amino acid sequence into genetic code.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: back-translate
back-transliteration
Translations:
full-stack
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: full stack
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Skilled at, or relating to, multiple software layers such as operating system and user interface.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He said that Eclipse is a full-stack IDE for Java developers.
I'd like to hire a full-stack developer to complete both the front end and the back end of our new website.
Li co-founded Baidu in 2000 as a search engine but has since transformed the firm into one of China’s top full-stack AI companies, offering everything from chips and cloud infrastructure to models, agents, applications, and consumer products.
Translations:
one-handedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From one-handed + -ly.
Base: one-handed
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: onehandedly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: one-handed
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: onehanded
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Using only one hand.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
BARS
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Transliteration of the Russian БАРС (BARS), abbreviation for Беспрессовая Аппаратура высокого давления (press-free high-pressure setup).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A high-pressure high-temperature apparatus usually used for growing or processing minerals, especially diamond.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
naras
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Khoekhoe !naras (“naras fruit”), !narab (“naras plant”).
Inflected forms:
form: nara
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: 'naras
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: narra
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A spiny shrub, Acanthosicyos horridus, growing in Namibia and the Kalahari Desert, or the melon-like fruit that it produces.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
examples: The Bay people catch and eat fish after the ‘naras is out of season, and the carcases of whales killed by the crews of whaling ships, afford them savoury repasts […].
in this river course also grows a remarkable plant, the Naras, which sends its roots deep […].
Translations:
gup
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi गप (gap, “gossip; idle talk”).
Inflected forms:
form: gups
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Gossip or rumor; nonsensical or silly talk; blather.
pos: noun
tags: India
colloquial
countable
uncountable
examples: Should this lull continue much longer, the consequence will be, that the security of some mercantile houses, for some time on the wave, will fail; and, if we credit the gups in the bazar, the crisis is rapidly approaching.
Bazaar “gup,” too, speaking with the tongue of a lying jade on the eve of the expedition, had so added to the deadliness of the Abor reputation that one party of able-bodied men became panic-stricken when they realised the nature of the work before them, and disappeared in a night!
The young man faithfully delivered what Jinnah called “the gup”—the day's gossip — and tried vainly to extract a newsworthy quote from the League leader.
Translations:
gup-shup
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hindi गप-शप (gap-śap, “gossip”).
Inflected forms:
form: gup-shups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gup shup
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Gossip or rumor; idle talk.
pos: noun
tags: India
colloquial
uncountable
usually
examples: It's not like the old days when Bharat and Sanjay and Madhu and Ding-Dong Surdi and Honky Shah would come every morning and we would all go through the day's gup shup.
It takes an afternoon or two for the locals to know you are back so that they can drop in for some gup-shup.
When not in classes the Bookers Park was my den. As the name, it was a park within the campus for those who preferred to read peacefully without being monitored as in the library. Note sharing, discussions and even occasional gup-shups took place here.
Translations:
EF-Tu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: EF-Tus
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A protein, elongation factor thermo unstable, one of the prokaryotic elongation factors.
pos: noun
Translations:
q-analog
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: q-analogs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A generalization of a theorem, identity or expression that involves a new parameter q that returns the original theorem, identity or expression in the limit as q → 1. They have applications in the study of fractals and the entropy of chaotic dynamical systems.
pos: noun
Translations:
landownership
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From landowner + -ship.
Base: landowner
Affixes: -ship
Inflected forms:
form: landownerships
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or position of landowner.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The land belonging to a landowner; a smallholding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
face-melter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
form: face-melters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Particularly in heavy metal music, a musical passage or sung note that is particularly intense.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: And then they launch into a face-melter by way of acoustics, playing so hard that one expects Thile's fingers either to spontaneously combust or at least start spurting blood.
Can You Rock, an Indy-based live karaoke band, gives those face-melters some actual context.
Whenever it is uttered by a character on the show, the first person in the room to dash off a searing face-melter of a musical run wins the round.
“Wee-weewee [Psycho music].” “Marvin Glasscock! Dude comes in with the total facemelter!!!”
Translations:
light-sensitive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: arts
biology
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
photography
Etymology: From light (noun) + sensitive.
Compound parts: light
sensitive
Inflected forms:
form: more light-sensitive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most light-sensitive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Affected by, or sensitive to light.
pos: adj
examples: All lights are automatically extinguished at daylight by light-sensitive relay.
gloss: Of a substance or surface, changing chemically or physically when exposed to light.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a cell, tissue or organ, able to detect the presence (or intensity) of light.
pos: adj
Synonyms: photosensitive
Translations:
intercounty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From inter- + county.
Base: county
Affixes: inter-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Between counties.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
kiter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: banking
business
Etymology: From kite + -er.
Base: kite
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: kiters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who writes a check while there are insufficient funds in the account, hoping it will be able to clear by the time it is cashed.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of kiteboarder.
pos: noun
Translations:
yummies
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From yummy + -s.
Base: yummy
Affixes: -s
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: delicious foods
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
plural
plural-only
Translations:
intergang
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From inter- + gang.
Base: gang
Affixes: inter-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Between gangs.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
interfraternity
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From inter- + fraternity.
Base: fraternity
Affixes: inter-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Between fraternities.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
open-hand
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: open-hands
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: open-handing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: open-handed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: open-handed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To perform an action using an open hand.
pos: verb
examples: If you face a little larger, or positive, edge, open-hand the hold, as it lets more of the skeletal system of the hand bear the brunt.
Israel landed in county lockup in 1981 after open-handing a white guy in Waikiki.
Often you will find yourself doing unlikely things such as crimping a sloper or open-handing a severely incut small edge.
Translations:
open-handedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From open-handed + -ness.
Base: open-handed
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: openhandedness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being open-handed.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
open-handedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From open-handed + -ly.
Base: open-handed
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more open-handedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most open-handedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: openhandedly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: open-handed
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: openhanded
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In an open-handed manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
dimethoxy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Hellenic *dwi-
Ancient Greek δῐ- (dĭ-)bor.
Latin di-bor.
English di-
English methoxy
English dimethoxy
From di- + methoxy.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Two methoxy groups in a molecule
pos: noun
tags: especially
in-compounds
uncountable
Translations:
Netflix
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From the company name Netflix, founded in 1997, probably from Net (“the Internet”) + flix, an alteration of flicks (“films, movies”).
Compound parts: Net
flix
Inflected forms:
form: Netflixes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Netflixing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Netflixed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Netflixed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To watch (a film or TV series) using the Internet streaming media provider Netflix.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
informal
transitive
examples: He used to Netflix for 5 hours a day.
We started with Buffy, which had us completely sucked in by the time Xander's buddies ate Principle Flutie. Then, after Netflixing Buffy all the way to the end, we started on Angel.
I'm Netflixing the series now (for their fish-faced, airplane-launched Lunar Module shuttle, alas a bit beyond reality, even if you discount the airplane doing Harrier Jump Jet takeoffs as mere technological bravura).
I was surprised to see Jeffrey Tambor in this movie, as I've only recently discovered him when I Netflixed Arrested Development and the Larry Sanders show.
Translations:
blow-in
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: blow-ins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who has only recently arrived in an area or community; a newcomer.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Ireland
examples: This had been her local when she worked in Central. All the waitresses knew her by name. Now she was a blow-in.
Maybe it's none of my business as a blow-in, but I loved helping someone local, in return for what I have been given by the people of Achill over the last 25 years.
Translations:
pink-handed
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more pink-handed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pink-handed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more pink-handed
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most pink-handed
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: White-collar; working at a desk job as opposed to manual labor.
pos: adj
examples: I know the pink-handed types who get jobs like this interviewer's got, and I know what he's trying to do to me.
The Western conceit is important because it allows Hernhuter to contrast the flat and tame backyard to the precipitous canyon and the colorful dialect of Nest with the bland generalizations of the pink-handed psychiatrist.
Lode mine investors were often distant financiers: soft, pink-handed men who earned their livings with pens, not hammers.
gloss: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pink, handed.: having hands that are pink.
pos: adj
examples: Squat and gnome-like it looked, silhouetted against the dying fire in the western sky; an odd, elfin-eared, pink-handed, hunchbacked manikin with a tail.
He was pink-cheeked, pink-handed and pink-nosed, all of which combined with his delft-blue eyes to make him look like a mature kewpie.
Pink-faced and pink-handed, Peter leaned over his wife's legs. He reached both hands to her waist and pulled away the lilac-colored garment.
gloss: With clear evidence of guilt, red-handed.
pos: adv
examples: Several major ISPs have been caught red-handed (or perhaps pink-handed) making agreements with known spammers.
'Hence you closed it as soon as I entered and are exhibiting facial capillary dilation and blush response, consistent with what I suspect matches the human phrase “caught red- or rather pink-handed”.'
My friend insists her purple house is where she caught a poacher in her yard, pink-handed, in floodlights she installed after she learned new birds of Featherstone would flock no more.
I remember that image so clearly, how my first thought was that it looked like a tiny above ground pool and a small squadron of pink men lying on their backs, tanning. “I was caught red-handed. Well . . . pink-handed.
Translations:
fusobacterium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name.
Inflected forms:
form: fusobacteria
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any bacterium of the genus Fusobacterium
pos: noun
Translations:
fifi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fifis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An improvised vagina substitute used for masturbation.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
vulgar
examples: If you have done it correctly you will have a fairly heavy gell ^([sic]) filled "fifi". A female condom can be easily inserted.
Translations:
quick-handed
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more quick-handed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most quick-handed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: quickhanded
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: more quick-handed
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most quick-handed
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: quickhanded
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Quick and dextrous.
pos: adj
examples: Ironically, the successful conviction on the part of Columbia's graduate students to preserve for posterity what I believe is perhaps the most thorough-going and most painlessly digested summary of economic-thought developments has never had Professor Mitchell's backing, and before his death Mitchell disclaimed any responsibility for errors that might have slipped into the quick-handed note taker's record since Mitchell had not even read what must have become the treasured possession of many a mature intellect among the large number of his students from both this country and abroad.
Particularly bright people did not turn out to be especially quick-handed, and particularly quick-handed people did not turn out to be especially bright.
This is an interesting trick, but I include it with some reluctance because it requires one very quick-handed juggler, and since quick-handedness and klutziness are not often associated, this might create a problem.
gloss: Done quickly and efficiently.
pos: adj
examples: I should like first to thank Cristina Gutierrez, of my office staff, for her tireless and quick-handed work transcribing the hundreds of tape-cassettes on which the various drafts of the present work have been dictated.
Of the quick-handed sketches, the young furniture designer enthuses, "I find it's so important to keep jotting down ideas, even if they're the worst ideas in the world.
When Hector completed his quick-handed twists, he gave the cube to Jon.
gloss: Quickly and efficiently.
pos: adv
examples: They drain the stalk out with their arms, quick-handed, and cleanse it with a stream of mead and filters.
As the two men, quick-handed, laid Bernard on a stretcher, Tess asked: 'Is he dead?'
Derived words: quick-handedness
Translations:
quick-handedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From quick-handed + -ness.
Base: quick-handed
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being quick-handed.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: This is an interesting trick, but I include it with some reluctance because it requires one very quick-handed juggler, and since quick-handedness and klutziness are not often associated, this might create a problem.
He is known to steal from the Treasury, but so far he has not been caught because of his quick-handedness.
It was a scene where Fagin was counting money on a table, very quickly sorting these coins into piles and slapping them down on the surface so that, as well as being a mesmerising piece of quick-handedness, the whole routine had this brilliant noise and rhythm to it — chik-chik-chik-chik, slap! chik-chik-chik-chik, slap! Superb.
Translations:
ready-handedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ready-handed + -ness.
Base: ready-handed
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being ready-handed; capability and preparedness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Touching alike in contrast and in resemblance is the life-story of Jame Hannington, the incorrigible, fun-loving Oxford student; the curate winning men's hearts by his genial sympathy and ready-handedness in time of need, yet dimly conscious of his unfitness for the cure of souls, while the inward voice whispered ever more loudly: 'Mine own vineyard have I not kept.'
He had all the Bushman's ready-handedness, and there was just sufficient aloofness in his frank cordiality to make her feel that he would never presume upon any familiarity which circumstances might enforce.
There are a dozen kinds of skilled labour greatly more difficult, demanding, indeed, somewhat less physical exertion but far more of the superior qualities of head and ready-handedness.
Translations:
red-handedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From red-handed + -ness.
Base: red-handed
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: redhandedness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being caught with clear evidence of guilt.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: If we look at it in this way, the requirement of red-handedness sinks somewhat into the background, and the expression acquires a rather different nuance: furtum manifestum means a clearly-proven theft.
Don't ask me why, because there was no diminishment of my red-handedness when I threw the evidence to the floor.
After the farcical scenario of the cad being caught red-handed in the illusory lap of love, both lap and red-handedness being expertly assured, then his being wrenched away and whipped by the injured, hysterical spouse, who to the astound of all proved herself a latent harpy or she-devil in satin and lace, Tammy would cash in her chips and settle her account here, then off she goes, harking, obedient to the irresistible call of the wild, back to her chic haunts, opulent spas, casinos, playgrounds the world over.
gloss: Bloodiness; murderousness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The thing which seems least like what we now call England is the red-handedness of religious persecution, and the odd manner in which spiritual and secular personages jumble their functions and thwart each other on exactly the same principles, though on exactly opposite sides of the battle.
War has been made splendid in all its red-handedness chiefly because it trains to teamwork and develops devotion to the group.
But what constitutes the sinfulness of sin is not its enormity, its red-handedness and violence; what makes a sin something more than a crime is the fact that it affects our relation to God.
gloss: The condition of having red hands.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I must fable my own birth: Though you both were Very much in love under Boston's stars, Among the maples' red-handedness, Caught at the bottom of an October sky
Translations:
red-handedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From red-handed + -ly.
Base: red-handed
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more red-handedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most red-handedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: redhandedly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: red-handed
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: redhanded
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Red-handed; with clear evidence of guilt.
pos: adv
examples: And even though a moment earlier he had felt guilty not to have taken Dave's anguish more to heart, Claytor found himself annoyed at being caught red-handedly dogless .
But even though she red-handedly catches them, Jason doubts that she would punish Kayla.
This convinced the ARVNs that they had caught VC looters red-handedly stealing from the PX.
gloss: In a bloody and violent manner.
pos: adv
examples: A SATU fellow, trawled redhandedly following an exchange of gunfire, was ordered executed before us upon his confession of how the SATU had planned to destroy human being in the Grey stone Compound.
Translations:
arabic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See gum arabic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Only used in arabic acid
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: There is very little in recent literature concerning the chemistry of gum arabic other than […]. The "arabic acid" is of variable composition.
When solutions of arabic acid are warmed in water, a unique polysaccharide gum called degraded gum arabic is produced. The arabic acid undergoes autohydrolysis and spilts off L-arabinose, L-rhamnose,[…]
gloss: Only used in arabic numeral
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: arabin
Translations: