yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
homologous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
chemistry
genetics
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *somHós
Proto-Hellenic *homós
Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós)
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Ancient Greek -λογος (-logos)
Ancient Greek ὁμόλογος (homólogos)der.
Late Latin homologusder.
English homologous
From Late Latin homologus, from Ancient Greek ὁμόλογος (homólogos, “agreeing, of one mind”), from ὁμός (homós, “same”) + λόγος (lógos, “reason, reckoning”). Compare homo- (“same”) and -ous (adjectival suffix). From 1655, in the mathematical sense. See also homolog, homologue.
Inflected forms:
form: more homologous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most homologous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Showing a degree of correspondence or similarity.
pos: adj
examples: Of equiangle triangles, the ſides that are about equall angles are proportionall, and the ſides that ſubtend the equall angles are homologous.
gloss: Showing a degree of correspondence or similarity.
pos: adj
examples: Flippers and hands are homologous structures.
Lobules, homologous in structure, recur again only in the Gondwanalandic families Lepidolaenaceae and Jubulopsidaceae thus in the Lepidolaenineae.
gloss: Showing a degree of correspondence or similarity.
pos: adj
gloss: Showing a degree of correspondence or similarity.
pos: adj
gloss: Showing a degree of correspondence or similarity.
pos: adj
Antonyms: heterologous
Related words: autologous
homologation
homolog
homologue
homologize
homology
Derived words: cohomologous
homologisation
homologous blood donation
homologously
homologous pair
homologous recombination
homologous series
interhomologous
intrahomologous
microhomologous
nonhomologous
semihomologous
unhomologous
vinylogous
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: съответен
roman: sǎotveten
lang: Finnish
word: samankaltainen
lang: French
word: homologue
lang: German
word: homolog
lang: Greek
word: ομόλογος
roman: omólogos
lang: Portuguese
word: homólogo
lang: Romanian
word: omolog
lang: Spanish
word: homólogo
cubic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: algebraic-geometry
chemistry
crystallography
geometry
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French cubique, equivalent to cube + -ic.
Base: cube
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: cubick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: cubics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cubick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Used in the names of units of volume formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself twice.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: cubic foot
On one recent day, officials said the fine dust concentration levels in Seoul rose above 130 micrograms per cubic meter.
It is not permissible to use abbreviations for unit symbols or unit names, such as sec (for either s or second), sq. mm (for either mm² or square millimetre), cc (for either cm³ or cubic centimetre), or mps (for either m/s or metre per second).
gloss: Relating to polynomials of the form ax³+bx²+cx+d.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having three equal axes and all angles 90°.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: cubic cleavage
gloss: A cubic curve.
pos: noun
Derived words: bicubic
cubic capacity
cubic decimeter
cubic function
cubic graph
cubicity
cubic millimetre
cubic nitre
cubo-cubic
cumec
cusec
hypercubic
noncubic
pseudocubic
quasicubic
subcubic
tricubic
Translations:
line
Part of speech: intj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: acting
ball-games
baseball
broadcasting
entertainment
film
games
hobbies
lifestyle
media
rail-transport
railways
sports
television
theater
transport
Etymology: From Middle English line, lyne, from Old English līne (“line, cable, rope, hawser, series, row, rule, direction”), from Proto-West Germanic *līnā, from Proto-Germanic *līnǭ (“line, rope, flaxen cord, thread”), from Proto-Germanic *līną (“flax, linen”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”).
Influenced in Middle English by Middle French ligne (“line”), from Latin linea. More at linen.
The oldest sense of the word is “rope, cord, thread”; from this the senses “path”, “continuous mark” were derived.
Inflected forms:
form: lines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Expresses that the speaker has forgotten their dialogue and needs to be prompted with it.
pos: intj
gloss: To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to line troops
They lined up the books against the wall.
gloss: To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to line works with soldiers
Line and new repair our towns of war With men of courage and with means defendant.
gloss: To form a line along.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to line a copy book
gloss: To align (one or more switches) to direct a train onto a particular track.
pos: verb
examples: The dispatcher lined the switches at Pickle interlocking for the freight turnout to clear the train into the passing track before the express arrived.
gloss: To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: All the pictures fairest lined Are but black to Rosalind.
gloss: To read or repeat line by line.
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
examples: to line out a hymn
Slowly, painfully, the ten dollars was collected. The door was opened, and the gust of warm air revived us. Zeebo lined On Jordan’s Stormy Banks, and church was over.
gloss: To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare fly and ground.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Jones lined to left in his last at-bat.
gloss: To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To measure.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: line out
underline
line in
line off
line someone's pockets
line up
Translations:
polyhedron
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
engineering
geometry
mathematics
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: From New Latin polyedron, from Ancient Greek πολύεδρος (polúedros, “having many seats”), from πολυ- (polu-, “many”) + ἕδρα (hédra, “seat”); compare French polyèdre. By surface analysis, poly- + -hedron.
Inflected forms:
form: polyhedra
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: polyhedrons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: polyedron
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A solid figure with many flat faces and straight edges.
pos: noun
examples: Of the convex polyhedra with regular faces, the only ones that have tetrahedral, octahedral, or icosahedral symmetry are the Platonic and Archimedean solids.
gloss: A polyscope, or multiplying glass.
pos: noun
gloss: A stage in the growth of Hydrodictyon, when the resting spore breaks up into several megazoospores that put out horn-like appendages; these polyhedra break up into zoospores.
pos: noun
Synonyms: polyhedron
Related words: apeirohedron
Schläfli symbol
spherical polyhedron
subpolyhedron
tessellation
number
List of uniform polyhedra on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Derived words: Euler's polyhedron formula
ideal polyhedron
Johnson polyhedron
micropolyhedron
nanopolyhedron
polyhedrin
polyhedroid
Schönhardt polyhedron
spheropolyhedron
Translations:
rook
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: * Inherited from Middle English rok, roke, from Old English hrōc, from Proto-West Germanic *hrōk, from Proto-Germanic *hrōkaz (compare Old Norse hrókr, Saterland Frisian Rouk, Dutch roek, obsolete German Ruch), from Proto-Indo-European *kerk- (“crow, raven”) (compare Old Irish cerc (“hen”), Old Prussian kerko (“loon, diver”), dialectal Bulgarian кро́кон (krókon, “raven”), Ancient Greek κόραξ (kórax, “crow”), Old Armenian ագռաւ (agṙaw), Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬵𐬭𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀𐬝 (kahrkatat̰, “rooster”), Sanskrit कृकर (kṛkara, “rooster”)), Ukrainian крук (kruk, “raven”).
* (parson): Probably from the resemblance in plumage to a parson's garments.
Inflected forms:
form: rooks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rooks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rooking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rooked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rooked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But what distinguishes the rook from the crow is the bill; the nostrils, chin, and sides of that and the mouth being in old birds white and bared of feathers, by often thrusting the bill into the ground in search of the erucæ of the Dor-beetle*; the rook then, instead of being proscribed, should be treated as the farmer's friend; as it clears his ground from caterpillars, that do incredible damage by eating the roots of the corn.
To-night the winds begin to rise
⁠And roar from yonder dropping day:
⁠The last red leaf is whirl’d away,
The rooks are blown about the skies; […]
gloss: A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: So I am (like an old rook, who is ruined by gaming) forced to live on the good fortune of the pushing young men, whose fancies are so vigorous that they ensure their success in their adventures with Muses, by their strength and imagination.
gloss: A bad deal; a rip-off.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Adventists still do not really know how to play cards, apart from the sanitized version of bridge, Rook.
gloss: A parson.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: To cheat or swindle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They rook one shockingly at these places.
Some had spent a week in Jersey before coming to Guernsey; and, from what Paddy had heard, they really do know how to rook the visitors over there.
Related words: squab
Derived words: Johnny rook
rook and rabbit rifle
rookery
rookish
rooklet
rooklike
rook rifle
Rugby
rookless
rooky
Translations:
beverage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English beverage, from Old French beverage, variant of bevrage, from beivre (“to drink”), variant of boivre (“to drink”), from Latin bibō. Related to imbibe.
Inflected forms:
form: beverages
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: beveridge
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A liquid to consume; a drink, such as tea, coffee, liquor, beer, milk, juice, or a soft drink, often excluding water.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: carbonated beverage
alcoholic beverage
He knew no Beverage but the flowing Stream; / His taſteful well-earn'd Food the ſilvan Game, […]
[W]here coffee is used as a constant beverage, the gravel and the gout are scarcely known.
gloss: (A gift of) drink money.
pos: noun
tags: UK
archaic
countable
slang
uncountable
Synonyms: beverage
beveridge
drink
libation
liquor
potable
potation
Related words: bever
drinkware
hydrate
quench
taste
thirst
:Category:en:Beverages
Derived words: adult beverage
beverageware
functional beverage
junk beverage
nonbeverage
Translations:
bike
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwís
Proto-Italic *dwis
Old Latin duis
Latin bisder.
French bi-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos
Ancient Greek κῠ́κλος (kŭ́klos)der.
Late Latin cyclusder.
Middle French
French cycle
French bicyclebor.
English bicycleclip.
English bike
Clipping of bicycle. First attested in 1882.
One explanation for the form with /k/ is that bicycle was parsed to bi(cy)c(le). An alternative explanation is that it was parsed to bic(ycle) but since speakers are aware of a general /k/~/s/ alternation (as in electric ~ electricity etc.), the softened /s/ was restored to a default /k/ when the “ending” -ycle was dropped. Similar cases are merc /mɜɹk/, spec /spɛk/ for mercenary, specify. It seems unlikely, however, that this process is purely phonological and not at least partially based on the spelling ⟨c⟩.
Inflected forms:
form: bikes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: biking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: biked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: biked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To ride a bike.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: I biked so much yesterday that I'm very sore today.
In the 1890’s “women were behind the stove,” he relates. But they cycled, too. “And they had difficulty pedalling bicycles with ankle-length skirts. “At the time,” Taylor said, “the most sinful thing a woman could do was to show light between her legs. “The original culotte was designed by a LAW member’s wife. The churches (in the East) termed this bepantsed female activity of biking “sinful bicycling,” he noted.
gloss: To travel by bike.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: It was such a nice day I decided to bike to the store, though it's far enough I usually take my car.
He saw me catch a trap and leave the house of a drug dealer. That's why he targeted me. He could have easily blown my ass off right then and there for lying, but for some reason he didn't. He just left. I biked back to my plug's spot and told him […]
gloss: To transport by bicycle.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: I biked them the letters.
Frank, a teenager, arrived at his grandfather’s shop to begin work as a butcher’s boy. The job would be to bike parcels of meat around Dronfield and the surrounding countryside between the cities of Sheffield and Chesterfield, right on the county border of Derbyshire and Yorkshire.
Translations:
Tibetan
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Tibet
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Tibetan
From Tibet + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Tibetans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to Tibet, the Tibetan people, culture, or language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A fantastic legend was told about the first Gyalwai Odzer. This legend, believed to be authentic, had no fixed origin in time because the nomads of the region, the Tibetan province Tsinghai, could not, not even vaguely, indicate a date. The legend, however, was clear enough, so well known that it was no longer discussed, for everybody had been told the tale during childhood. It had become a dogma, to be believed passively without even trying to ascertain its probability or validity.
After many years, Buddhism touched every aspect of Tibetan life, including how to treat the earth and plants and animals.
gloss: A native of Tibet
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A language of Tibet
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: bo
bod
Wiktionary’s coverage of Tibetan terms
Derived words: Amdo Tibetan
Classical Tibetan
Khams Tibetan
Lhasa Tibetan
Old Tibetan
Tibetanization
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: տիբեթցի
roman: tibetʻcʻi
lang: Asturian
word: tibetanu
lang: Asturian
word: tibetana
lang: Catalan
word: tibetà
lang: Catalan
word: tibetana
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 藏人
roman: Zàngrén
lang: Czech
word: Tibeťan
lang: Danish
word: tibetaner
lang: Dutch
word: Tibetaan
lang: Dutch
word: Tibetaanse
lang: Esperanto
word: tibetano
lang: Esperanto
word: tibetanino
lang: Finnish
word: tiibetiläinen
lang: French
word: Tibétain
lang: French
word: Tibétaine
lang: German
word: Tibeter
lang: German
word: Tibeterin
lang: Greek
word: Θιβετιανός
roman: Thivetianós
lang: Greek
word: Θιβετιανή
roman: Thivetianí
lang: Hindi
word: तिब्बती
roman: tibbatī
lang: Irish
word: Tibéadach
lang: Japanese
word: チベット人
roman: Chibetto-jin
lang: Kazakh
word: тибеттік
roman: tibettık
lang: Korean
word: 티베트인
roman: Tibeteu-in
lang: Korean
word: 티벳인
roman: Tibet-in
lang: Manchu
word: ᡨᠠᠩᡤᡡᡨ
roman: tanggūt
lang: Mongolian
word: төвд хүн
roman: tövd xün
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: tibetaner
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: tibetanar
lang: Polish
word: Tybetańczyk
lang: Portuguese
word: tibetano
lang: Portuguese
word: tibetana
lang: Romanian
word: tibetan
lang: Romanian
word: tibetană
lang: Russian
word: тибе́тец
roman: tibétec
lang: Russian
word: тибе́тка
roman: tibétka
lang: Spanish
word: tibetano
lang: Spanish
word: tibetana
lang: Swedish
word: tibetan
lang: Tibetan
word: བོད་པ
roman: bod pa
lang: Tibetan
word: བོད་རིགས
lang: Turkish
word: Tibetli
lang: Ukrainian
word: тибе́тець
roman: tybétecʹ
lang: Ukrainian
word: тибе́тка
roman: tybétka
lang: Volapük
word: Tibätänan
lang: Volapük
word: hi-Tibätänan
lang: Volapük
word: ji-Tibätänan
lang: Welsh
word: Tibetiad
lang: Wutunhua
word: suan
melody
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English melodie, melodye, from Old French melodie, from Latin melodia, from Ancient Greek μελῳδίᾱ (melōidíā, “singing, chanting”), from μέλος (mélos, “musical phrase”) + ἀοιδή (aoidḗ, “song”), contracted form ᾠδή (ōidḗ).
Inflected forms:
form: melodies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase.
pos: noun
examples: Alyssa likes to sing melodies while playing the drums.
There is a melody upon the Earth as though ten thousand streams all sang together for their homes that they had forsaken in the hills.
Slowly she turned round and faced towards a neat white bungalow, set some way back from the path behind a low hedge of golden privet. No light showed, but someone there was playing the piano. The strange elusiveness of the soft, insistent melody seemed to draw her forward.
Translations:
laryngitis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Attested since 1822 C.E. Learned borrowing from New Latin laryngitis, from larynx + -itis. By surface analysis, laryng- + -itis.
Base: larynx
Affixes: -itis
Inflected forms:
form: laryngites
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: laryngitides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An inflammation of the larynx, typically resulting in hoarseness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The moment had come for the honeyed word. I lowered my voice to a confidential murmur, but on her inquiring if I had laryngitis raised it again.
Translations:
motorcycle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From motor + cycle, from the Motorcyclette produced in 1897 by the French Werner Frères et Cie.
Base: motor
Inflected forms:
form: motorcycles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: motor cycle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: motor-cycle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: motorcycles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: motorcycling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: motorcycled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: motorcycled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: motor cycle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: motor-cycle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel, and having two (or sometimes three) wheels.
pos: noun
examples: Her big mission is to recover the precious Blue Star (a glowing rock in a box), which leads to a Western shoot-out, a space-age motorcycle gang, and an unamusing Darth Vader-esque villain.
That last problem did intrude on Hazzard’s roamings, and when she refers to the living city it is with periodic references to thefts of cars and wallets, with a warning not to carry anything “snatchable” by the thieves on motorcycles who whiz through the streets. Her husband, Francis Steegmuller, the critic, translator and biographer who died in 1994, had a bag snatched, and while he lost only a guidebook, he was badly injured as he held on to it and was dragged behind the attacking motorcycle.
Vern rubbed her hands along the motorcycles, admiring their size and power, their silver and black sleekness.
Her breakout was the 2017 production “Nate” (available as a Netflix special) in which she played a toxic, handsy bro who drove a motorcycle onstage, guzzling beers, groping audience members and creating chaos.
gloss: To ride a motorcycle.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
polygyny
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πολύ (polú, “many”) + γυνή (gunḗ, “woman, wife”). By surface analysis, poly- + -gyny.
Inflected forms:
form: polygynies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or practice of a man having more than one wife at a time; plurality of wives; marriage between one man and multiple wives.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We may infer that in most cases where polygyny exists, monogamy co-exists to a greater extent, and in all other cases to a considerable extent.
gloss: The condition of an ant colony that has multiple egg-laying queens.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Synonym of polygamy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: polygynist
polygynous
Translations:
tentacle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
government
military
natural-sciences
politics
war
zoology
Etymology: From New Latin tentāculum, from tentō. Doublet of tentaculum.
Inflected forms:
form: tentacles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tentacles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tentacling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tentacled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tentacled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid.
pos: noun
examples: With one blow of the axe, Captain Nemo cut this formidable tentacle, that slid wriggling down the ladder.
1897, H. G. Wells, The Crystal Egg
The body was small, but fitted with two bunches of prehensile organs, like long tentacles, immediately under the mouth.
1936, H. P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Out of Time
Surmounting this head were four slender grey stalks bearing flower-like appendages, whilst from its nether side dangled eight greenish antennae or tentacles.
gloss: One of the glandular hairs on the leaves of certain insectivorous plants.
pos: noun
gloss: An insidious reach or influence.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: the tentacles of the criminal underworld
New extensions into the outer London dormitory areas also have been constructed, and at the present moment the tentacles of London's Underground are slowly but surely extending eastwards into Essex to relieve congestion on the suburban lines of the former Great Eastern Railway.
gloss: Something like a zoological limb.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: An officer employed to drive out to troops and transmit back requests for support via a special radio link.
pos: noun
tags: UK
historical
examples: A joint RAF/Army staffed Air Support Control (ASC) headquarters was established at each army corps and each armoured division, linked to the forward brigades by a 'tentacle' equipped with two-way wireless telegraphy.
gloss: To move like a tentacle
pos: verb
Synonyms: tentaculum
Derived words: microtentacle
tentabulge
tentacled
tentaclelike
tentacular
tentaculiferous
tentaculiform
tentaculoid
tentadick
Translations:
mollusc
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French mollusque, from New Latin Mollusca (phylum name), from Latin molluscus (“thin-shelled”), from mollis (“soft”).
Inflected forms:
form: molluscs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mollusk
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
form: mollusque
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A soft-bodied invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically with a hard shell of one or more pieces.
pos: noun
examples: bivalve molluscs
For example, the antitumour depsipeptide kahalalide F was isolated from the opisthobranch mollusc Elysia rufescens, and is used by both the mollusc and its dietary alga Bryopsis spp.
Searching for hard-shelled prey – molluscs, crabs and the like – there are two species of bear otter in Kanapoi.
gloss: A weak-willed person.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
Synonyms: mollusc
Related words: :Category:Mollusks
Derived words: micromollusc
molluscicide
molluscivore
molluscous
Translations:
Peruvian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Peru + -v- + -ian, or from Latin Peruvia.
Base: Peru
Affixes: -v-
-ian
Inflected forms:
form: Peruvians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person from Peru or of Peruvian descent.
pos: noun
examples: After a raucous two weeks of power plays at the highest levels of government that saw three different men pass through Peru’s presidency, thousands of young Peruvians have reinvigorated protest and politics.
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Peru or the Peruvian people.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: My favorite was the simplest: alfajor, a double-deck Peruvian cookie, spread with a layer of caramel.
Translations:
arity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computer
computing
engineering
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
science
sciences
Etymology: From -ary (taken from unary/binary/ternary [function/operator]) + -ity. Compare adicity and adinity.
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: arities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The number of arguments or operands a function or operation takes. For a relation, the number of domains in the corresponding Cartesian product.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The maximum number of child nodes that any node in a given tree (data structure) may have.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: the number of arguments (in Lojban grammar called sumti) specified in the definition of a selbri. (the selbri combined with the sumti make up a bridi).
pos: noun
tags: Lojban
countable
uncountable
Synonyms: adinity
adicity
type
rank
Translations:
mer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Clipping of polymer.
Inflected forms:
form: mers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A repeat unit: a structural unit which through repetition forms a polymer.
pos: noun
examples: A polymer is a compound formed of repeating structural units called mers, whose atoms share electrons to form very large molecules.
Translations:
dino
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: video-games
Etymology: Clipping of dinosaur.
Inflected forms:
form: dinos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dinosaur (type of animal).
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: So whereas attempts to single out a dino killer may have failed, for now, they do point to a conspiracy of culprits.
So far, Druckenmiller and his team have dug up species from seven different dino families: from big duck-billed dinos, ceretopsians, and tyrannosaurs to smaller thescelosaurs, leptoceratops, dromaeosaurs, and troodontids.
gloss: A long-time participant in a multi-user dungeon.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Derived words: dino juice
dinolike
dinomania
dinomaniac
dino oil
dinophile
Translations:
tort
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English tort (“(uncountable) wrong; (countable) an injury, a wrong”), from Old French tort (“misdeed, wrong”) (modern French tort (“an error, wrong; a fault”)), from Medieval Latin tortum (“injustice, wrong”), a noun use of a neuter singular participle form of Latin tortus (“crooked; twisted”), the perfect passive participle of torqueō (“to bend or twist awry, distort”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to spin; to turn”).
Cognates
* Galician torto (“(adjective) bent; crooked; twisted; (noun, archaic) harm, offence; injustice, wrong, tort”)
* Italian torto (“(adjective) bent; crooked; twisted; (noun, archaic) injustice, wrong”)
* Norwegian Bokmål tort (dated, now only in fixed expressions)
* Norwegian Nynorsk tort (dated, now only in fixed expressions)
* Occitan tort
* Old French tort (modern French tort)
* Portuguese torto (“(adjective) bent; crooked; twisted; (noun, archaic) harm, offence; injustice, wrong”)
* Spanish tuerto (“injury, offence”)
Inflected forms:
form: torts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, regarded as non-criminal and unrelated to a contract, which causes an injury and can be remedied in civil court, usually through the awarding of damages.
pos: noun
examples: […] Wrong or Iniury, is in French aptly called Tort, becauſe Iniury & wrong is wreſted or crooked, being contrary to that which is right and ſtreight. […] And Britton ſaith that Tort a la ley eſt contrarye [a wrong to the law is contrary], and as aptly for the cauſe aforeſaid is iniury in English called wrong.
Personal actions are ſuch vvhereby a man claims a debt, or perſonal duty, or damages in lieu thereof; and likevviſe vvhereby a man claims a ſatisfaction in damages for ſome injury done to his perſon or property. The former are ſaid to be founded on contracts, the latter upon torts or vvrongs: […] of the latter all actions for treſpaſſes, nuſances, aſſaults, defamatory vvords, and the like.
A tort is a legal wrong committed upon the person or property independent of contract. It may be either (1) a direct invasion of some legal right of the individual; (2) the infraction of some public duty by which special damage accrues to the individual; (3) the violation of some private obligation by which like damage accrues to the individual.
gloss: An injury or wrong.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Then gan triumphant Trompets ſovvnd on hye, / That ſent to heuen the ecchoed report / Of their nevv ioy, and happie victory / Gainſt him, that had them long oppreſt with tort, / And faſt impriſoned in ſieged fort.
For no vvild beaſts ſhould do them any torte / There or abroad, ne vvould his maieſtye / Vſe them but vvell, vvith gracious clemencye, / As vvhome he knevv to him both faſt and true; […]
Related words: cotortfeasor
delict
de son tort
tortfeasance
tortfeasor
tortionary
tortious
tortiously
Derived words: Eurotort
nontort
quasi-tort
tort law
tortness
torts
Translations:
plaintiff
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English plaintif, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French plaintif (“complaining”; as a noun, “one who complains, a plaintiff”) from the verb plaindre. Doublet of plaintive.
Inflected forms:
form: plaintiffs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A party bringing a suit in civil law against a defendant; accuser.
pos: noun
tags: UK
historical
Translations:
okapi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Mvuba okapi.
Inflected forms:
form: okapi
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: okapis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A ruminant (Okapia johnstoni) found in the rainforests of the Congo, related to the giraffe but with a much shorter neck, a reddish-brown coat, and zebra-like stripes on the hindquarters.
pos: noun
examples: [page 498, column 1] [I]n leading them [African Pygmies] back to the forests where they dwelt, I obtained much information from them on the subject of the horse-like animal which they called the "Okapi." […] [page 499, column 1] The coloration of the Okapi is quite extraordinary. […] The hind quarters, hind and fore legs are either snowy white or pale cream color, touched here and there with orange. They are boldly marked, however, with purple-black stripes and splodges, which give that zebra-like appearance to the limbs of the Okapi that caused the first imperfect account of it to indicate the discovery of a new striped horse.
Personally I esteem it a more fascinating and a more important task to investigate the relations of the Okapi with the Giraffe on the one hand, and its fossil relatives on the other.
[O]ne day I quite modestly gave the dimensions of an okapi I had shot in the Lincolnshire fens. The Major turned a beautiful Tyrian scarlet (I remember thinking at the time that I should like my bathroom hung in that colour), and I think that at that moment he almost found it in his heart to dislike me.
Dr. [Cuthbert] Christy adds his testimony to that of his predecessors in the same quest as to the "invisibility" of the okapi, whose markings and coloration—pace Colonel Theodore Roosevelt—so break up the surface of its large body and long legs as to cause it to fuse with the dark-brown, russet, while and yellow-white of the twigs and stems and leaf-stalks amongst which it moves. He also points out that the hoofs of the okapi are so closely pressed together that the footprint is almost like that of the single-toed donkey.
I also took out a licence to shoot small game, costing fifty francs, which can be obtained on the spot, and under which I was able to shoot all kinds of game, excepting elephants, chimpanzis, gorillas and okapis.
Translations:
phylum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
human-sciences
linguistics
natural-sciences
sciences
taxonomy
Etymology: From Latin phylum, from Ancient Greek φῦλον (phûlon, “tribe, race”).
Inflected forms:
form: phyla
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: phylums
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
plural
Senses:
gloss: A rank in the classification of organisms, below kingdom and above class; also called a divisio or a division, especially in describing plants; a taxon at that rank
pos: noun
examples: Mammals belong to the phylum Chordata.
While biologists are perpetually finding new species, they can almost always fit the organism into one of the existing taxonomic pigeonholes by which scientists classify life forms. The discovery of an organism so unusual that it needs its own phylum is an extremely rare event.
gloss: A large division of possibly related languages, or a major language family which is not subordinate to another.
pos: noun
Related words: phylo-
phylon
Derived words: infraphylum
interphylum
intraphylum
macrophylum
monophylum
paraphylum
phylal
subphylum
superphylum
Translations:
taxonomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French taxonomie. By surface analysis, taxo- + -nomy.
Inflected forms:
form: taxonomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The science, technique, or process used to make a classification.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Holonym: ontology (relational rather than solely hierarchical)
gloss: A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: At the petabyte scale, information is not a matter of simple three- and four-dimensional taxonomy and order but of dimensionally agnostic statistics.
Very little exists in the annals of the interwebs about Tostitos Hint of Lime. Many nights I’ve sucked down crusty mossed fingertips and typed away in a green-out (like a blackout, but from eating too much Tostitos Hint of Lime), searching for a like-minded fanclub, historical taxonomy, or even a press release.
gloss: The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Synonyms: taxonomics
Derived words: alpha taxonomy
beta taxonomy
biotaxonomy
chemotaxonomy
cross-taxonomy
cybertaxonomy
cytotaxonomy
ethnotaxonomy
Flynn's taxonomy
folksonomy
folk taxonomy
gamma taxonomy
ichnotaxonomy
macrotaxonomy
megataxonomy
metataxonomy
microtaxonomy
morphotaxonomy
numerical taxonomy
ootaxonomy
palynotaxonomy
parataxonomy
phylotaxonomy
pseudotaxonomy
scientific taxonomy
subtaxonomy
supertaxonomy
syntaxonomy
tagsonomy
taxon
taxonomic
taxonomist
taxonomize
zootaxonomy
Translations:
negligence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English necligence, negligence, from Old French negligence, from Latin neglegentia.
Inflected forms:
form: negligences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being negligent.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: negligence while driving
The Woodwalton signalman, Rose, who was severely censured in Captain Tyler's report, behaved with great negligence.
gloss: The tort whereby a duty of reasonable care was breached, causing damage: any conduct short of intentional or reckless action that falls below the legal standard for preventing unreasonable injury.
pos: noun
tags: singular
singular-only
uncountable
usually
gloss: The breach of a duty of care: the failure to exercise a standard of care that a reasonable person would have in a similar situation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: negligent
neglect
endangerment
Derived words: contributory negligence
criminal negligence
culpable negligence
gross negligence
negligence per se
overnegligence
Translations:
helium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From New Latin helium, from Ancient Greek ἥλιος (hḗlios, “sun”) (because its presence was first theorised in the Sun's atmosphere) with the suffix + -ium. Probably coined by Norman Lockyer. This suffix is unusual, because it is usually used only for metallic elements. It is likely that Lockyer, being an astronomer, was unaware of the usual chemical conventions.
Affixes: -ium
Inflected forms:
form: heliums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The second-lightest chemical element (symbol He), with an atomic number of 2 and atomic weight of 4.002602, a colorless, odorless and inert noble gas.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: It was an enormous balloon filled with helium, that elemental gas forged from hydrogen in the nuclear furnace of the stars.
gloss: A form or sample of the element.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Synonyms: E939 when used as a packaging gas
Related words: helio-
Helios
Derived words: antihelium
antiprotonic helium
dihelium
heliair
helide
helikite
helion
helionium
heliox
helium-3
helium-4
helium balloon
helium burning
helium dating
helium descrambler
helium flash
helium fusion
helium hydride
helium I
heliumide
helium II
heliumless
heliumlike
helium speech
helium star
helium unscrambler
helium variable
helonium
hydridohelium
hyperhelium
liquid helium
nonhelium
orthohelium
parahelium
radiohelium
Translations:
orthodontist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English orthodontic
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 orthodontist
From orthodontic + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: orthodontists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An orthodontic dentist.
pos: noun
Translations:
seconde
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: From French.
Inflected forms:
form: secondes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The second defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, with the hand held in a prone position and the tip of the sword below the level of the guard.
pos: noun
Translations:
chaos
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fantasy
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂-der.
Ancient Greek χαῦνος (khaûnos)
Ancient Greek χάος (kháos)lbor.
English chaos
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “vast chasm, void”). Doublet of gas, which was borrowed through Dutch. Displaced native Old English dwolma.
In Early Modern English, used in the sense of the original Greek word. In the meaning “primordial matter” from the 16th century. Figurative usage in the sense “confusion, disorder” from the 17th century. The technical sense in mathematics and science dates from the 1960s.
Inflected forms:
form: chaoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Any state of disorder; a confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: to descend into chaos
After the earthquake, the local hospital was in chaos
or out of these chaoses order may be made, out of this ferment a clear wine of life. There are chaoses that have gone too far for retrieval
gloss: A behaviour of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to law.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A vast chasm or abyss.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
gloss: A given medium; a space in which something exists or lives; an environment.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
rare
uncountable
usually
examples: What is in the centre of the earth, or is it pure element only, as Ariſtotle decrees inhabited as Paracelſus thinks with creatures, whoſe Chaos is the earth with Fairies, as the woods and waters according to him, are with Nymphes or as the ayre with ſpirits.
Synonyms: disorder
Antonyms: cosmos
order
Related words: chao-
entropy
discord
Derived words: antichaos
antichaotic
antichaotropic
chaogenous
chaoite
chaolite
chaological
chaologist
chaology
chaomancy
chaophilia
chaophilic
chaoplex
chaoplexic
chaoplexity
chaoplexologist
chaoplexology
chaoptin
chaos cooking
chaoslike
chaos magic
chaosphere
chaos theorist
chaos theory
chaotic
chaotically
chaotician
chaoticist
chaoticity
chaoticness
chaotization
chaotize
chaotolerance
chaotolerant
chaotrope
chaotropic
chaotropism
chaotropy
controlled chaos
homeochaos
homeochaotic
hyperchaotic
nonchaotic
nonchaotically
nonchaotropic
primordial chaos
semichaotic
unchaotic
Translations:
ampersand
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A mondegreen of and per se and, ⟨&⟩ being read as “and”. Letters used by themselves were formerly mentioned according to this pattern, as in “O per se O” for the particle O or “I per se I” for the pronoun I. “And per se and” thus meant ⟨&⟩ by itself, as opposed to forms such as &c.
The specific form ampersand is first attested in 1795, originally as a mocking pronunciation spelling, but this name for the symbol is attested since 1777 (as ampuse and), when it is already called common (see quotations).
Inflected forms:
form: ampersands
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: amperzand
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: The symbol "&".
pos: noun
examples: The ampersand character in many logics acts as an operator connecting two propositions.
The Letter commonly called Ipse and and ampuse and viz &. is a corruption of a per se and: spoken very quick; they used formerly it seems to put a single Greek α, for a contraction of and, & so this was a per se and.
At length, having tried all the hiſtorians from great A, to amperſand, he perceives there is no eſcaping from the puzzle, but by ſelecting his own facts, forming his own concluſions, and putting a little truſt in his own reaſon and judgment.
So you're brilliant, gorgeous, and / Ampersand after ampersand / You think I just don't understand
Translations:
asterisk
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr
Proto-Hellenic *astḗr
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓στήρ (ăstḗr)
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Ancient Greek -ῐ́σκος (-ĭ́skos)
Ancient Greek ἀστερῐ́σκος (asterĭ́skos)bor.
Late Latin asteriscusder.
Middle English asterisk
English asterisk
The noun is derived from Middle English asterisk [and other forms], from Late Latin asteriscus (“asterisk; small star”), from Ancient Greek ἀστερῐ́σκος (asterĭ́skos, “asterisk; small star”), from ᾰ̓στήρ (ăstḗr, “celestial body (star, planet, and other lights in the sky such as meteors)”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs- (“to burn; to glow”)) + -ῐ́σκος (-ĭ́skos, diminutive suffix). Doublet of asteriscus and piecewise doublet of starrish.
Noun sense 1.1.2 (“something which is of little importance or which is marginal”) refers to the use of an asterisk to denote a footnote or marginal note in a text; in other words, information that is not important enough to be incorporated into the main text. Noun sense 1.1.3 (“blemish in an otherwise outstanding achievement”) refers to the use of an asterisk in a sporting record to indicate that the record is qualified in some manner (for example, that the sportsperson was found to have taken performance-enhancing drugs at the time).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: asterisks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: asterisking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: asterisked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: asterisked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To mark or replace (text, etc.) with an asterisk symbol (*; noun sense 1.1); to star.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Bank of New Zealand Estates Company Share Account now stands, as we have already seen, at £1,089,722 17s. 7d., a reduction of £760,177 2s. 5d. having been effected by the writing off of share capital. But from the point of view of its intrinsic value, the item has still to be dealt with, being asterisked in the balance sheet as follows: […]
She was determined to make the most of the trip, extracting some cultural capital from the emotional waste, and so read carefully through the Venice guidebooks she had brought, underlining the must-dos and asterisking the should-dos.
[Alain] Jaubert's preface is the longest and most detailed in our corpus; […] It covers both [Edgar Allan] Poe's work in general and the specific content of the volume (Jaubert, ingeniously, adopts an ad hoc typographical device, asterisking the references to the tales of his volume).
Translations:
semicolon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sēmi
Latin sēmi-bor.
English semi-
English colon
English semicolon
From semi- + colon.
Inflected forms:
form: semicolons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: semicola
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: semi-colon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The punctuation mark ;.
pos: noun
examples: The use of the semicolon has remained contentious and subject to fashion.
Translations: