yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
osmose
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from osmosis.
Inflected forms:
form: osmoses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: osmosing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: osmosed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: osmosed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To diffuse by osmosis.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To cause to diffuse by osmosis.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: diosmose
Translations:
tamburello
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Italian tamburo
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -lus
Latin -ellus
Italian -ello
Italian tamburellobor.
English tamburello
Borrowed from Italian tamburello (“tambourine”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Any of several Italian ball games resembling squash or tennis, the players striking the ball with a tambourine-like implement.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Exhibition tamburello matches were then arranged with British and local American athletes as charity fund-raisers […]
Translations:
unuseful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English useful
English unuseful
From un- + useful.
Inflected forms:
form: more unuseful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unuseful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not useful.
pos: adj
examples: in regard of the situation of this strong Fortresse, they did neither feare them nor hurt them, being upon the point of a faire promontory, environed on the one side within halfe a mile with an un-usefull mountaine, and on the other side with a faire Plaine […]
If it is deemed to be unuseful, attempt to terminate the action or reverse the impact as much as possible. If it is a useful action compliment yourself and smile inwardly.
Translations:
hotlink
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From hot + link.
Compound parts: hot
link
Inflected forms:
form: hotlinks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A direct embedding of, or a hyperlink to, a resource on another server, particularly images or video.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
Translations:
Salopian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Salop (an abbreviation of Anglo-Norman Salopesberia, from Old English Scrobbesbyrig (“Shropshire”)) + -ian.
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: Salopians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Salopian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Salopian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A person from Shropshire.
pos: noun
examples: I […] find her Recorded a SALOPIAN, and that the good Town of SHREWSBURY boasts the Honour of her Birth.
gloss: A pupil of Shrewsbury School
pos: noun
gloss: of or from Shropshire
pos: adj
tags: UK
gloss: of or from Shrewsbury
pos: adj
tags: Shropshire
UK
examples: the Romano-Salopian pottery found at Wroxeter
Translations:
enfeebling
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more enfeebling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most enfeebling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causing enfeeblement.
pos: adj
examples: This persistence was having a very enfeebling effect on Cora. It gave her the illusion that Ted Farrell was a masterful dominant and that she was being exposed to him as an incompetent noodle.
Translations:
sidetone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From side + tone.
Compound parts: side
tone
Inflected forms:
form: sidetones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The effect of sound that is picked up by the telephone's mouthpiece and introduced (at low level) into the earpiece of the same handset, acting as feedback; or a similar effect in radiotelegraphy, public-address systems, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
microelectromechanical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
French électro-bor.
Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor.
Latin ēlectrum
Latin electro-bor.
English electro-
Proto-Indo-European *megʰ-der.?
Ancient Greek μηχανή (mēkhanḗ)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek μηχανικός (mēkhanikós)bor.
Latin mēchanicusder.
Old French mecaniquebor.
Middle English mechanic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English mechanical
English mechanical
English electromechanical
English microelectromechanical
From micro- + electromechanical.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Describing any very small electromechanical system or device that is larger than a nanoelectromechanical one.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
ultrastructure
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ultra-
English structure
English ultrastructure
From ultra- + structure.
Inflected forms:
form: ultrastructures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ultra-structure
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The fine, detailed structure of a biological specimen that can only be observed by electron microscopy
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The mucus film has a mesh-like ultrastructure that can trap particles as small as 0.1 μm.
Translations:
heathery
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English heather
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English heathery
From heather + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: more heathery
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most heathery
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: heatheries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or abundant in heather.
pos: adj
examples: From right to left, our path was barred by a frowning rampart of grassy or heathery hills, whose rounded contours broke away here and there into ridge and scarp and cliff.
gloss: Like or resembling heather.
pos: adj
gloss: A place where varieties of heath are grown in a controlled environment.
pos: noun
Derived words: heatheriness
Translations:
non-sequential
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English non-
English sequential
English non-sequential
From non- + sequential.
Inflected forms:
form: nonsequential
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not sequential.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: sequential
Translations:
asteroidal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English asteroid
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English asteroidal
From asteroid + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more asteroidal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most asteroidal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to an asteroid.
pos: adj
Translations:
inarguably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
Latin arguōder.
Old French arguerbor.
Middle English arguen
English argue
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English arguable
English inarguable
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English inarguably
From inarguable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Certainly; without the possibility of argument or debate.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
hydrograph
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hydro- + -graph.
Base: hydro
Inflected forms:
form: hydrographs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A graph of flow past a point in a river versus time.
pos: noun
gloss: A graph of water table versus time.
pos: noun
examples: A comparison of Silurian dolomite aquifer water-level hydrographs and pumpage graphs indicates that in general water-level decline is directly proportional to pumpage and suggests that recharge balances discharge.
Translations:
fleeter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fleeters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a fleet.
pos: noun
examples: The response of a dispersed ownership, however, could not parallel that of a unified one as in the case of the Yarmouth fleeters.
The ships that initially arrived in Australia with convict cargo were called the First Fleet. Those aboard were consequently the First Fleeters.
Translations:
lousing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lousings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of removing lice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Louse powders may be used with success, but being a wasteful method of applying an insecticide are not recommended. Impregnation of the underwear is the most promising method of louse control between lousings.
Translations:
never-ending
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From never + ending.
Compound parts: never
ending
Inflected forms:
form: never ending
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: neverending
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having no end or being endless.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The story of upkeep has been never-ending. Between 1997-2000, a major programme of maintenance entailed replacing superstructure timbers - 50 main rail beams were replaced with greenheart, along with a similar number of edge beams.
But fans’ emotions are no longer filtered through ticket or album sales; they’re heard directly, constantly, at all hours, on all the platforms people visit to generate and extinguish bad feelings in a never-ending cycle.
Translations:
bocs
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: bocses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A BOCS representation of an algebraic structure
pos: noun
Translations:
chromospheric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English chromosphere
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English chromospheric
From chromosphere + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the chromosphere
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
heliospheric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English heliosphere
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English heliospheric
From heliosphere + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more heliospheric
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most heliospheric
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the heliosphere
pos: adj
Translations:
royalism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English royal
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English royalism
From royal + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: royalisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Impassioned allegiance to or advocacy of the establishment, maintenance, and/or interests of a particular king, royal house, or kingly dynasty; sometimes extended to the same of a non-royal (i.e., grand ducal, imperial, or other) family or sovereign; often contrasted with monarchism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
non-royal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English non-
English royal
English non-royal
From non- + royal.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not royal; not related to or of the nature of a king or queen.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
griefer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: games
gaming
Etymology: Etymology tree
English grief
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English griefer
From grief + -er. First attested in the early 2000s.
Inflected forms:
form: griefers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who griefs: a player who plays a game primarily to reduce other players’ enjoyment of it.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: First, be a tree; in other words, ignore the griefer. This approach can be very effective because most griefers want you to get pissed off, and if you don't, they may move on to more fertile targets.
Julian Dibbell's description of griefer culture demonstrates a high degree of congruence with Huizinga's description of the spoilsport. The griefers have indeed “made a new community,” loosely organized on somethingawful.com and the /b/ forum of 4chan.org
“[…]Maybe we can set up a trap for the griefer.” “That's an amazing idea!” said Kyra. “ What type of trap?” asked Steve. “We can create something very valuable that the griefer might want to steal or destroy and we can wait by it until the griefer arrives.
Translations:
unburnable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English burnable
English unburnable
From un- + burnable.
Inflected forms:
form: more unburnable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unburnable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That is difficult or impossible to burn
pos: adj
Translations:
minimax
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
game-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
Etymology: Blend of mini(mum) + max(imum).
Compound parts: minimum
maximum
Inflected forms:
form: minimaxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: minmax
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: minimaxes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: minimaxing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: minimaxed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: minimaxed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: min-max
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: minmax
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A decision rule used for minimizing the maximum possible loss, or maximizing the minimum gain.
pos: noun
gloss: To invest heavily into one skill or ability, to the end of maximizing some beneficial effect.
pos: verb
gloss: To find the optimum play, or decision, to achieve minimizing the maximum loss.
pos: verb
Related words: maximin
Translations:
maximin
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
game-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Blend of maximum + minimum.
Compound parts: maximum
minimum
Inflected forms:
form: maximins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: maximins
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: maximining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: maximinning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: maximined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: maximined
pos: verb
tags: past
form: maximinned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: maximinned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A rule to identify the worst outcome of each possible option to find one's best (maximum payoff) play.
pos: noun
gloss: To employ a maximin algorithm.
pos: verb
Translations:
opacification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: opacifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of making something opaque or cloudy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of becoming opaque or cloudy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: radiopacification
Translations:
gowned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gown
English -ed
English gowned
From gown + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: gownd
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Wearing a gown.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Deliberately, almost ‘augustly,’ the gowned and mortar-boarded figures followed one another through the great red turnstile and filed into the chamber beyond.
The economic and political dependence of this African neo-colonial bourgeoisie is reflected in its culture of apemanship and parrotry conforced on a restive population through police boots, barbed wire, a gowned clergy and judiciary […].
Pirates, buccaneers, the gowned ladies of the ancient pastoral – all the traditional subjects of imperial history – are among the images that take shape.
Translations:
gashing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: gashings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of making a gash, or cut.
pos: noun
examples: Nature prompts to the use of them; for the savage of the woods has the song and the ceremonies of his ancestors, and by the gashings and daubings with which he disfigures his form, denotes his tribe.
gloss: The roughing operation for worm gears.
pos: noun
Translations:
pitter
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *puti
Old English pytt
Middle English pit
English pit
English -er
English pitter
From pit + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: pitters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pitters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pittering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pittered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pittered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A device that removes pits from fruit such as olives or cherries.
pos: noun
gloss: To make a pattering sound.
pos: verb
Translations:
indo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of indometacin.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: indometacin when used as a recreational drug
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
Translations:
self-distance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English distance
English self-distance
From self- + distance.
Inflected forms:
form: self-distances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The ability to critically reflect on oneself and one's relations from an external perspective.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Ironic humor is an instance of the more general phenomenon of self-distance (Contemporary Philosophy of Social Science, By Brian Faypage, Page 33)
Translations:
farro
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian farro. Doublet of far.
Inflected forms:
form: farros
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Emmer wheat (Triticum turgidum).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: At the Fountain restaurant in the Four Seasons Hotel, near the institute, squab stuffed with fava beans and farro, an Egyptian grain, comes gilded with gold leaf[…].
All three farros are sold as a whole grain.
Translations:
reconnection
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin nectō
Latin cōnectō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin cōnexiōder.
Latin connexionemder.
Middle English connexiounder.
English connection
English reconnection
From re- + connection.
Inflected forms:
form: reconnections
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: reconnexion
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A connection of things that have been previously severed.
pos: noun
examples: I see freight returning in a big way. The 2016 reconnection of the Helwith Bridge quarries can produce up to three heavy trains a day. The nearby and much bigger Horton quarry is also on the cusp of rail reconnection.
Translations:
flanging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: architecture
entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
English flange
English -ing
English flanging
From flange + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: flangings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A flange.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A time-based audio effect produced when two identical signals are mixed together, but with one signal time-delayed by a small and gradually changing amount, usually smaller than 20 milliseconds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
cioppino
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ligurian cioppin, from a Genoese dialect, ciuppin, for a fish stew.
Inflected forms:
form: cioppinos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An Italian-American shellfish and tomato stew.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We observed a neighboring diner receive her entree, an impressive-looking shellfish stew served in a very large clear glass bowl. We nearly regretted our entree selections as we vicariously enjoyed her San Francisco-style Cioppino, a West Coast version of the Cajun Bouillabaise. Her bowl was loaded with clams, mussels and scallops in an herbed tomato and wine broth, a lovely dish for $12.75.
Translations:
terawatt-hour
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, terawatt + hour, or, by surface analysis, tera- + watt-hour.
Inflected forms:
form: terawatt-hours
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A unit of energy equal to that provided by one terawatt acting for one hour.
pos: noun
examples: Holonym: terawatt-year
Meronyms: milliwatt-hour < watt-hour < kilowatt-hour < megawatt-hour < gigawatt-hour
New facilities consume more electricity than ever. A rack of servers stuffed with AI chips requires about ten times more power than a non-AI version a few years ago. A study by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that in 2023 America's data centres used 176 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity. That is forecast to increase to between 325TWh and 580TWh by 2028 (see chart 2), or 7-12% of America's total consumption, with hyperscalers accounting for about half.
Translations:
ultrastructural
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ultrastructure
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English ultrastructural
From ultrastructure + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to ultrastructure.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
hant
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See haunt.
Inflected forms:
form: hants
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hanting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hanted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hanted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To haunt.
pos: verb
tags: US
colloquial
Translations:
flavourless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more flavourless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most flavourless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: UK standard spelling of flavorless.
pos: adj
Translations:
electrolyze
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Coined by British scientist Michael Faraday in 1834. From electrolysis + -ize.
Base: electrolysis
Affixes: -ize
Inflected forms:
form: electrolyzes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: electrolyzing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: electrolyzed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: electrolyzed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To decompose by means of, or as a result of electrolysis.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Translations:
kaji
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Georgian ქაჯი (kaǯi)bor.
English kaji
Borrowed from Georgian ქაჯი (kaǯi).
Inflected forms:
form: kajis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: qaji
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: an ugly anthropomorphic spirit
pos: noun
Translations:
kalian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From New Latin kalium + -ian.
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: kalians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Containing potassium.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A hookah.
pos: noun
Translations:
tanjung
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tanjungs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tanjong
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cape; a headland.
pos: noun
tags: Indonesia
Malaysia
Translations:
lanier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From late Middle English lainer, lainere, lanyer, from Old French laniere, lasniere (“thong, lash”) (see modern French lanière (“lanyard, strap”)).
Inflected forms:
form: laniers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A leather thong.
pos: noun
gloss: A strap used to secure armor.
pos: noun
Translations:
malmsey
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Via Middle English malmesye from Middle Dutch malemeseye, from Italian via Old French, ultimately from Ancient Greek Μονεμβασία (Monembasía, “Monemvasia”, a city on the Peloponnese), from μόνος (mónos, “only one”) + ἔμβασις (émbasis, “entering into”, ἐν- + βάσις). Doublet of malvoisie.
Inflected forms:
form: malmseys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: malmesey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A sweet fortified wine made in Madeira, originally from the malvasia grape.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Take that, and that, if all this will not do, Stabs him. Ile drowne you in the Malmesey-But within.
All black wines, over-hot, compound, strong, thick drinks, as muscadine, malmsey, alicant, rumney, brown bastard, metheglin, and the like […]
Hers was an idiotic sort of attachment, full of admiration for him, of voluptuousness for her, a beatitude that benumbed her; her soul sank into this drunkenness, shrivelled up, drowned in it, like Clarence in his butt of Malmsey.
Translations:
nematocyst
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Formed as nemato- + cyst after the French nématocyste.
Base: cyst
Affixes: nemat-
Inflected forms:
form: nematocysts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A capsule, in certain cnidarians, containing a barbed, threadlike tube that delivers a paralyzing sting
pos: noun
examples: Often one sees, on surface view, a distinctly rounded vacuole, occupying a position in the cell occupied in others by a large nematocyst.
The young nematocyst decreases in size and becomes coarsely granular, the granules arranging themselves in a spiral line close under the external membrane.
Nematocyst discharge is another example of the Rubicon principle – it either fires or it does not.
Translations:
charango
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish charango, onomatopoeic, or perhaps a corruption of charanga.
Inflected forms:
form: charangos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small guitar-like stringed instrument with five courses of eighteen to fifteen strings, originating in traditional Andean folk music.
pos: noun
examples: One song the group performed on Thursday, “La Partida,” featured lovely bell harmonics from the guitars, a shifting pattern of cross‐rhythms on the guitar‐like charango, and a quena lead.
Translations:
Barlow
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From Old English bere (“barley”) + hlǣw (“hill”) or lēah (“wood, clearing”).
Inflected forms:
form: Barlows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Barlowe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Barlow lens.
pos: noun
Translations:
rotative
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compare French rotatif.
Inflected forms:
form: more rotative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rotative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Turning; rotary; rotational.
pos: adj
examples: 1882, March 9, "On the Conservation of Solar Energy", Carl Wilhelm Siemens, Nature
This high rotative velocity of the sun must cause an equatorial rise of the solar atmosphere.
Translations:
fluked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having flukes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Dugong is easily distinguished from the manatees by its fluked, dolphin-like tail.
Translations:
funnelling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: funnellings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: funneling
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The process of passing something through a funnel.
pos: noun
Translations:
funneling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: funnelings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: funnelling
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The process of passing something through a funnel.
pos: noun
Translations:
legat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Syllabic abbreviation of legal attaché.
Inflected forms:
form: legats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A legal attaché.
pos: noun
Translations:
laxer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lax
English -er
English laxer
From lax + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: laxers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: lacrosse player
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
blastopore
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: embryology
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English blasto-
English pore
English blastopore
From blasto- + pore.
Inflected forms:
form: blastopores
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The opening into the archenteron
pos: noun
Translations:
genotyping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: genotypings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of determining a genotype
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
methylcytosine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From methyl + cytosine.
Compound parts: methyl
cytosine
Inflected forms:
form: methylcytosines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any methyl derivative of cytosine, but especially 5-methylcytosine formed by methylation of DNA
pos: noun
Translations:
retroviral
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Proto-Italic *wretrō
Latin retrōder.
English retro-
English virus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English viral
English retroviral
From retro- + viral.
Inflected forms:
form: retrovirals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a retrovirus
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A retrovirus
pos: noun
Translations:
sheepy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sheep
English -y
English sheepy
From sheep + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: sheepier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: sheepiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sheepies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of a sheep.
pos: adj
tags: informal
gloss: sheep
pos: noun
tags: childish
endearing
Translations:
secor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
form: secors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An interval of 116.7 cents.
pos: noun
Translations:
cross-light
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cross-lights
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A word clued by a stanza in a double acrostic or triple acrostic; its initial and final letters are used to form the uprights.
pos: noun
Translations:
pushout
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: * Deverbal from push out.
* (one who leaves school): Intended to avoid the negative implications of dropout.
Inflected forms:
form: pushouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The colimit of a pair of morphisms which share the same domain.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who is expelled from school or who drops out because of a lack of support.
pos: noun
examples: For most of these school leavers or 'pushouts', school has been an experience of progressive alienation from their traditional way of life. We prefer the term 'pushout' to 'dropout' because the former term appropriately allocates the agency for the phenomenon.
Related words: pullback
Translations:
meem
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: meems
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The letter م (m) in the Arabic script.
pos: noun
Translations:
gazillionaire
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gazillion
English -aire
English gazillionaire
From gazillion + -aire.
Inflected forms:
form: gazillionaires
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An incredibly rich person.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
slang
examples: The extent to which Lakeview is a for-profit undertaking becomes clearer when Nathan meets David Choak (the inspiration for whom is also easily guessable), a gazillionaire magnate who “influenced American politics for a generation” and who now spends his fortune in the afterlife on black-rhino burgers and endangered-parrot sandwiches.
Translations:
zillionaire
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English zillion
English -aire
English zillionaire
From zillion + -aire.
Inflected forms:
form: zillionaires
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An incredibly rich person.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
slang
examples: “Just dropping some friends off at the pool,” the 50-year-old zillionaire informed his 66 million Twitter followers on the evening of Nov. 29, having previously advised that at least half his tweets were “made on a porcelain throne.”
Translations:
grapey
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English grapy, equivalent to grape + -y.
Base: grape
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: grapier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: grapiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: grapy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling grapes.
pos: adj
examples: It was round and purple and had sort of a grapey appearance.
The God we now behold with open'd eyes;
A herd of spotted panthers round him lies
In glaring forms; the grapy clusters spread
On his fair brows, and dangle on his head.
gloss: Of, or pertaining to, grapes.
pos: adj
examples: full of grapey goodness
Translations:
pitbull
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
Inflected forms:
form: pitbulls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pit-bull
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pit bull
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Shortened form of pit bull terrier.
pos: noun
gloss: An aggressive person.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
informal
examples: My mother was a pitbull.
gloss: A NATO brevity code indicating a semi-active radar homing missile has begun active homing, and no longer requires its operator to maintain a radar track.
pos: noun
Derived words: pitty
Translations:
locusta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: locustae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The spikelet or flower cluster of grasses
pos: noun
Translations:
frizzed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more frizzed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most frizzed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: frizzy
pos: adj
Translations:
patas
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: patases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A ground-dwelling long-tailed monkey of species Erythrocebus patas, found in West and East Africa.
pos: noun
examples: When a male patas observes a predator approaching its group, he performs a noisy display, shaking the branches and overtly calling attention to himself.
Translations:
Astroturf
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: See AstroTurf and astroturfing.
Inflected forms:
form: Astroturfs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Astroturfing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Astroturfed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Astroturfed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: astroturf
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: more Astroturf
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Astroturf
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: astroturf
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To cover with an artificial grasslike material.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: But what was there left to Astroturf? The sitting-room? Hugh's bald patch?
Is it just me, or is it hard to find anyone nowadays to Astroturf your car?
gloss: To fabricate an impression of political support for an agenda.
pos: verb
tags: lowercase
transitive
usually
examples: We have been Astroturfed by some of the biggest players in the business. As you will read in the coming pages, a reasonable-sounding group called Americans for Balanced Energy Choices spent us$40 million during the last presidential[…]
Even Maher reacted; his Achilles' heel is that even though he's a leftie, he exhibits clear contempt for the astroturfed audience he relies upon for his laughs. The awkwardness continued for a full, commercial-free half hour,[…]
The opposition party in Washington and its Astroturfed Tea Partiers around the country could focus strictly on assigning blame for the disaster . At the direction of the field marshals of the rich right in Washington , the Tea Party was[…]
gloss: Of a group created by a larger organisation (especially a corporation or political party), but presenting itself as a grassroots organisation.
pos: adj
examples: Can we assure readers that astroturf letters will not appear as letters in The Star? Unfortunately, no. At least a dozen Web sites from which astroturf can be generated have been identified. Many more exist.
The defining feature of astroturf groups is that they are generated by an industry, think tank, or front group, but disguised to appear as a spontaneous, popular 'grassroots' effort. They are created to lobby or campaign on behalf of[…]
These astroturf organizations allow corporations to engage in public debates and government hearings under the guise of concerned citizens. A key purpose of astroturf activities is to defuse the efforts of social movement organizations[…]
Translations:
haptics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From haptic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The study of the sense of touch.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The study of user interfaces that use the sense of touch.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Future work of this research field will include two issues: the safety and psychology of haptics.
2008, Manuel Ferre (editor), Haptics: Perception, Devices and Scenarios: 6th International Conference: EuroHaptics, Madrid, Spain, June 2008: Proceedings, LNCS 5024.
However haptics is more than that. Haptic perceptions range from minor interactions in everyday life, eg, drinking from a glass or writing this text, to a means of social communication, eg shaking hands
Related words: haptic
Translations:
prac
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: education
Etymology: Shortening.
Inflected forms:
form: pracs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A practical.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
nonfeasance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
English non-
English feasance
English nonfeasance
From non- + feasance.
Inflected forms:
form: nonfeasances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The intentional failure to perform an official duty or legal requirement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The lack of liability associated with the failure to act.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: misfeasance
Translations:
unproblematic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English problematic
English unproblematic
From un- + problematic.
Inflected forms:
form: more unproblematic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unproblematic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unproblematical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not problematic (presenting problems) or not controversial.
pos: adj
examples: Love for a balanced, harmonious, self-sufficient and unproblematic existence is the root of Greek art.
Peace, security, the untroubled enjoyment of unproblematic Nature: such is the main motif of Constable's work.
Translations:
Swazi
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Zulu iSwazi, after the name of an early chief, Mswati. The alternative forms come from Swazi liSwati.
Inflected forms:
form: Swazis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Swazi
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Sarawat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Swati
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Sarawat
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Swati
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person from Swaziland/Eswatini or of Swazi/Swati descent originally migrating from Central Africa.
pos: noun
examples: Going global would also help them live off their passion. Mzimandze expresses her optimism, explaining that “as Swazis we’re working on developing this Swazi pop sound.”
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Swaziland/Eswatini, the Swazi people or the Swazi language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
kitteh
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Lolcat corruption of kitty, equivalent to kit + -eh.
Base: kit
Affixes: -eh
Inflected forms:
form: kittehs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cat, chiefly in a lolcat-type picture.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
neologism
examples: You shud wership Ceiling Cat, teh God Kitteh ov Daniel.
Kittehs. ¶ Doggos. ¶ Domesticated danger noodles. ¶ The Internet belongs to your pets. Let's just admit that.
Now our social media feeds are full of heckin’ good doggos and puppers, cute kittehs and cattos.
Translations:
itemizing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: itemizings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which something is itemized.
pos: noun
examples: Now alive as he was to all these searching argumentative itemizings of the minutest known facts any way bearing upon the subject; and yet, at the same time, persuaded, strong as death, that in spite of them, Isabel was indeed his sister; how could Pierre […] fail to acknowledge the existence of that all-controlling and all-permeating wonderfulness […] denominated The Finger of God?
Translations:
Herero
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Hereros
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Herero
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: OvaHerero
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a people belonging to the Bantu group, with about 240,000 members today mostly in Namibia, Angola, and Botswana.
pos: noun
Translations:
brokedown
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: broke-down
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Broken; not working properly.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
informal
examples: But it's got a brokedown drive. It can only hobble along. They can't try to get but so far! What's the nearest sol-type star?
Translations:
fuckity
Part of speech: intj
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pewǵ-
Proto-Germanic *fukkōną
Old English *fuccian
Middle English *fukken
English fuck
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English fuckity
From fuck + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: fuckety
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: fuckety fuck
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: fuckity fuck
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: fuckity-fuck
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: fuckety
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: fuckety fuck
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: fuckity fuck
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: fuckity-fuck
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Nonce variation of the word fuck.
pos: intj
tags: colloquial
vulgar
examples: Look for fuck's sake. Jesus Christ all fuckity, is that no a sight?
How could this be happening? How could I have been so wrong? Fuckity-fuck, I think to myself. Fuckity- fuckity-fuck.
gloss: Synonym of fucking..
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
not-comparable
vulgar
Translations:
cyme
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: ]
Etymology tree
French cimebor.
English cyme
Borrowed from French cime, cyme (“top, summit”), from Vulgar Latin *cima, from Latin cȳma (“young sprout of a cabbage”, “spring shoots of cabbage”), from Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma, “anything swollen, such as a wave or billow”; “fetus”, “embryo”, “sprout of a plant”), from κύω (kúō, “to conceive”, “to become pregnant”; in the aorist “to impregnate”). For considerably more information, see cyma, which is an etymological doublet. Compare also Frankish *kīmō (“sprout”), from Proto-Germanic *kīmô, whence German Keim (“sprout”).
Inflected forms:
form: cymes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cime
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A “head” (of unexpanded leaves, etc.); an opening bud.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
rare
gloss: A flattish or convex flower cluster, of the centrifugal or determinate type, on which each axis terminates with a flower which blooms before the flowers below it.
pos: noun
examples: The inflorescence is some form of cyme, and the flowers are usually regular.
The plant bears small groups of two or three yellowish coloured flowers on an axillary cyme.
The flower cluster is a cyme (terminal flower is the most advanced), is terminal within the bud and may contain up to six individual flowers.
gloss: A cyma.
pos: noun
Related words: cyma
cyma inversa
cymaise
cyma recta
cyma reversa
cymatic
cymatics
cymatium
cymatograph
cymograph
cymoid
cymatoid
cymophane
cymophanous
cymoscope
cymatoscope
cymose
cymosely
cymotrichous
cymatotrichous
cymotrichy
cymous
cymule
Derived words: cymelet
cymiferous
cymoid
Translations:
radula
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin rādulabor.
English radula
Borrowed from Latin rādula (“scraper”).
Inflected forms:
form: radulae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The rasping tongue of snails and all other mollusks except bivalves.
pos: noun
examples: The radula end containing the first 5–10 rows of teeth showed evidence of wear from rasping over rock surfaces during feeding and was removed using dissection.
What Kruta found in the ammonoid fossils was an unfoldable radula covered with delicate, comblike teeth.
Translations: