yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
cabbie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cab
English -ie
English cabbie
From cab + -ie.
Inflected forms:
form: cabbies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cabby
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cabdriver; someone who drives a taxi.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
Translations:
artisan
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French artisan, from Vulgar Latin *artītiānus, from Latin artītus (“skilled”), past participle of artiō (“to instruct in arts”), from ars (“art, skill”).
Inflected forms:
form: artisans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: artizan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: artizan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A skilled manual worker who uses tools and machinery in a particular craft.
pos: noun
examples: One or two works, particularly those of Babcock & Wilcox, are on the Renfrew line, and the passenger services are run to suit the artisan rather than the businessman travelling daily to the city.
gloss: A person who displays great dexterity.
pos: noun
gloss: Artisanal.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Bread is either cheap (soft, squishy supermarket loaves) or expensive (artisan bakery loaves).
Cartier and Tiffany have some unlikely new neighbours near Sloane Square — a butcher, a greengrocer and a cheesemonger. […] The row of artisan food and drink shops also includes a wine merchant. A bakery is due to open in time for Christmas and a tenant is being sought for a sixth unit.
Related words: art
artist
artistic
craftsman
craftsperson
craftswoman
Derived words: artisanal
artisanality
artisanally
artisanate
artisanry
artisanship
artisan's palsy
Translations:
geographic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin geōgraphicus; see French géographique. By surface analysis, geography + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more geographic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most geographic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: geographick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to geography (or to geographics).
pos: adj
examples: In his book, Polystate: A Thought Experiment in Distributed Government, Zach Weinersmith speculates about what governments would look like if they didn’t rule over geographic locations, but instead ruled over minds.
The player is free to create their own narrative within a much larger set of possible designed narrative options, or, given the geographic and dialogical openness of Morrowind, to refuse the creation of any narrative but their own and wander aimlessly through the game.
gloss: Determined by geography, as opposed to magnetic (i.e. North)
pos: adj
Related words: geographer
geographical
geographically
geography
Derived words: anthropogeographic
biogeographic
chronogeographic
cytogeographic
ecogeographic
ethnogeographic
genographic
geographic atrophy
geographic bachelor
geographic information science
geographic information system
geographic latitude
geographic mile
geographic north
geographic North Pole
geographic tongue
hydrogeographic
ichthyogeographic
macrogeographic
microgeographic
morphogeographic
multigeographic
mythogeographic
neurogeographic
nongeographic
ornithogeographic
palaeogeographic
paleogeographic
pathogeographic
phylogeographic
physiogeographic
phytogeographic
postgeographic
psychogeographic
pyrogeographic
temporogeographic
ungeographic
zoogeographic
Translations:
soot
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English soot, soote, sote, sot, from Old English sōt, from Proto-Germanic *sōtą (“soot”), from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”). Cognate with dated Dutch zoet (“soot”), German Low German Soot (“soot”), Danish sod (“soot”), Swedish sot (“soot”), Icelandic sót (“soot”). Compare similar ō-grade formation the same Proto-Indo-European root in Old Irish suide (“soot”) and Balto-Slavic: Lithuanian súodžiai (“soot”), and Proto-Slavic *saďa (“soot”) (Russian са́жа (sáža), Polish and Slovak sadza, Bulgarian са́жда (sážda)).
Inflected forms:
form: soots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: soots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sooting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sooted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sooted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: To cover or dress with soot.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: soot land
Translations:
crumple
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English crumplen, cromplen, frequentative of Middle English crumpen (“to curl up, crump”), from Old English crump (“bent, crooked”). Equivalent to crump + -le.
Base: crump
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: crumples
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crumples
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: crumpling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: crumpled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: crumpled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A crease, wrinkle, or irregular fold.
pos: noun
gloss: To rumple; to press into wrinkles by crushing together.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He crumpled the note and threw it away.
gloss: To cause to collapse.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He crumpled the car's body panels when he backed into a post.
gloss: To become wrinkled.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The car's body panels crumpled when they hit the post.
gloss: To collapse; to surrender.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: The team's defensive strategy crumpled.
The defenders crumpled owing to exhaustion and dehydration.
Yes, Juve were unfortunate, in the extreme, with the deflected goal from Casemiro that gave Madrid a 2-1 lead just after the hour. From that point onwards, however, it was staggering to see a team renowned for defensive structure crumple this way.
Related words: crumpet
Derived words: crumpler
crumple up
crumply
recrumple
uncrumple
crumple zone
Translations:
fierce
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fashion
lifestyle
Etymology: From Middle English fers, fiers, borrowed from Old French fers (“wild", "ferocious”), nominative of fer, from Latin ferus (“wild", "untamed”).
Inflected forms:
form: fiercer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more fierce
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: fiercest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most fierce
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Exceedingly violent, severe, ferocious, cruel or savage.
pos: adj
examples: A fierce storm battered the coast.
Their fights with other members of their own kind were always preceded by loud and fierce waulings or savage snarling and snapping of teeth […]
One constituent spent an hour educating me on the history of pit bulls: the Molossians, the Mastiffs; the Greeks, Romans, Brits, Tibetans, and Germans; the crossbreeds. A common theme ran throughout their history: they were the fiercest of fighters, and eventually bred to fight—in wars during antiquity, in dog fights for centuries. Regardless, they were again and again attacking other dogs and people.
gloss: Resolute or strenuously active.
pos: adj
examples: We made a fierce attempt to escape.
I feel a fierce loyalty to my kin.
Yet his passion for her had grown fiercer than ever, and he swore to himself that he would win her back from her phantasies. She, one may believe, was ready enough to listen.
Trump’s fiercest advocates have launched their Samson option: If he can’t keep power, they’ll bring down the party with him by calling for a boycott of the election.
gloss: Threatening in appearance or demeanor.
pos: adj
examples: The lion gave a fierce roar.
gloss: Excellent, very good.
pos: adj
tags: Ireland
slang
examples: Q: "How was the party last night?" A: "Fierce!"
gloss: Of exceptional quality, exhibiting boldness or chutzpah.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: Tyra said to strike a pose and make it fierce.
gloss: Extremely; very.
pos: adv
tags: Ireland
not-comparable
slang
examples: It was fierce cold last night.
Related words: feral
ferity
ferocious
Derived words: fiercely
fiercen
fierceness
fierce snake
fiercesome
fiercity
overfierce
something fierce
unfierce
Translations:
demeanor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English demenure, from the verb Middle English demenen, demeinen (“to handle, manage”), from Old French demener (“to guide, conduct”), from de- + mener (“to conduct, lead”), from Latin *mināre (“to drive”) and minor (“to project or jut forth”).
Inflected forms:
form: demeanors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: demeanour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: The social, non-verbal behaviors (such as body language and facial expressions) that are characteristic of a person.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: The man's demeanor made others suspicious of his intentions.
A confident demeanor is crucial for persuading others.
At this present (saith he) certeine princes of Britaine, procuring by ambassadors and dutifull demeanors the amitie of the emperour Augustus, haue offered in the capitoll vnto the gods presents or gifts, and haue ordeined the whole Ile in a manner to be appertinent, proper, and familiar to the Romans.
Demeanors that are apologetic and overly polite are inherently contradictory to demeanors that exhibit fear and anger.
He kept up his cheerful demeanor. It wouldn't do for any of the holocams to see him looking irritable, for any recordings of such a response would appear on the news broadcasts.
Translations:
portable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English portable, from Middle French portable and Latin portābilis. By surface analysis, port (“to carry”) + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more portable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most portable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Able to be carried or easily moved.
pos: adj
gloss: Able to be transferred from one organization to another.
pos: adj
examples: a portable pension plan
Even though Houston’s moment was already fading by the late 2000s, the city’s hip-hop culture proved to be endlessly portable and disseminatable.
gloss: Of software: able to be run on multiple hardware or operating systems.
pos: adj
examples: How do Java and C# create cross-platform, portable programs, and why can't C++ do the same?
gloss: Of a program: able to be copied directly from one machine to another without the use of an installer.
pos: adj
examples: Starting with release 1.7, a portable version allows all Host Attachment Kit commands to be run without installing the Host Attachment Kit.
gloss: Bearable, endurable.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: How light and portable my paine ſeemes now, / When that which makes me bend, makes the King bow.
Christianity consists in a blessed exchange of yokes between Christ and a pious soul. He takes our uneasy yoke, and gives his easy yoke: the soul puts upon him that unsupportable yoke of transgressions, and takes from him the portable yoke of his commandments.
It was also objected against John Chrystie in Spittell that he not being ane residenter within this burgh could not vote. To quhich it was answered that he is ane burges of the burgh and hes borne portable burding with the remanent burgesses these xxiiij yeares bygone.
[N]one be choſen to be upon the Council but Magiſtrats and Craftſmen, actual and real Burgeſſes dwelling within the Town, and bearing all portable charges within the ſame; […]
Synonyms: bearable
carriable
fieldable
grab-and-go
handcarried
portable
portatile
portative
shiftable
totable
transportable
Antonyms: anchored
fixed
immobile
immotile
immovable
lugsome
nonportable
permanent
stationary
unportable
Related words: hand-held
transportable
collapsible
foldable
foldout
fold-up
loose
pocket
pocket-size
pocket-sized
move
Derived words: airportable
hand-portable
heliportable
man-portable
nonportable
portability
portabilization
portable art
portable engine
portable executable
portableness
portable phone
portable stove
portable telephone
portably
portafilter
portaledge
porta-potty
semiportable
superportable
ultraportable
unportable
Translations:
bosh
Part of speech: noun
intj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بوش (boş, “empty, unoccupied”). Entered popular usage in English from the novels of James Justinian Morier.
Inflected forms:
form: boshes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: boshing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: boshed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: boshed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Nonsense.
pos: noun
tags: UK
uncountable
examples: Tho' hundreds cheer his blatant bosh,
He's but a goose for a' that.
But you know very well you're talking bosh," exclaimed Abraham, somewhat discomfited. "There must be government, and there must be order, say what you like.
Oliver saw Kit Carson wink at the lieutenant and Lucien Maxwell, as the speech reached them, and it was evident that these three leaders did not believe the Indian tales. Consequently he himself decided that the reports of "evil spirits" awaiting were all bosh.
"Why, it's absolute bosh from beginning to end."
gloss: An expression of disbelief or annoyance.
pos: intj
tags: UK
examples: "Bosh!" said the Vicar, rejecting the hint altogether.
“The people who wrote the mediaeval ballads,” answered the priest, “knew more about fairies than you do. It isn’t only nice things that happen in fairyland.”
“Oh, bosh!” said Flambeau. “Only nice things could happen under such an innocent moon. I am for pushing on now and seeing what does really come. We may die and rot before we ever see again such a moon or such a mood.”
gloss: To consume (illicit drugs).
pos: verb
tags: UK
slang
transitive
examples: We boshed two grams each of the beast 10, and then we went downstairs.
People want to make sure they are loaded up well before midnight. It's not like any other party where they might not turn up until eleven. They commence boshing pills straight away […]
I wasn’t on three (e) pills, I was on 1. So, I remember it. It’s only when you bosh that third pill you start losing it, that’s not really how you take ecstasy. Kids do that, but it’s a bit foolish. Not that I’m saying I haven’t done that!
Translations:
discontent
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
▲
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
English content
English discontent
From dis- + content.
Inflected forms:
form: discontents
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: discontents
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: discontenting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: discontented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: discontented
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more discontent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most discontent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Dissatisfaction.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Another source of discontent with the Phase I stock has been obviated by relocation of the interior heating elements and the introduction of thermostatic control; this has eradicated the searing blasts of hot air passengers used to feel about their calves [...].
Analysts and opinion polls had forecast losses for the ANC but a pivotal factor in the party’s staggering decline was former President Jacob Zuma and his newly formed uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party, which capitalized on widespread discontent within the ANC’s traditional voter base.
gloss: A longing for better times or circumstances.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Now is the winter of our diſcontent, / Made glorious ſummer by this ſonne of Yorke: / And all the cloudes that lowrd vpon our houſe, / In the deepe boſome of the Ocean buried.
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.
gloss: A discontented person; a malcontent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: To deprive of contentment; to make uneasy; to dissatisfy.
pos: verb
gloss: Not content; discontented; dissatisfied.
pos: adj
examples: [...] Paſſion seemed to be much diſcontent, but Patience was very quiet. Then Chriſtian aſked, What is the reaſon of the diſcontent of Paſſion.
Related words: discontented
Derived words: discontentful
discontentive
Winter of Discontent
Translations:
excision
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
genetics
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
surgery
topology
Etymology: From Middle French excision, from Latin excīsiō(n).
Inflected forms:
form: excisions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The removal of some text during editing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The removal of something (a tumor or body part) by cutting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The removal of a gene from a section of genetic material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The fact that, under certain hypotheses, the homology of a space relative to a subspace is unchanged by the identification of a subspace of the latter to a point.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: autoexcision
electroexcision
excisional
excisionase
nonexcision
postexcision
reexcision
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: اِسْتِئْصَال
roman: istiʔṣāl
lang: Bulgarian
word: изрязване
roman: izrjazvane
lang: Catalan
word: excisió
lang: Danish
word: bortskæring
lang: Dutch
word: excisie
lang: Finnish
word: pois leikkaus
lang: Finnish
word: poisto
lang: Finnish
word: poisleikkaus
lang: Indonesian
word: eksisi
lang: Portuguese
word: excisão
lang: Russian
word: выреза́ние
roman: vyrezánije
lang: Spanish
word: escisión
ornamentation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ornament
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English ornamentation
From ornament + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: ornamentations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Decoration, adornment or embellishment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act or process of decorating etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Short notes added to a composition to emphasize certain notes and to add style.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: microornamentation
ornament
ornamental
Derived words: ornamentational
Translations:
clearing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
banking
business
communications
education
electrical-engineering
engineering
finance
games
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
soccer
sports
telecommunications
Etymology: Etymology tree
English clear
English -ing
English clearing
From clear + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: clearings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of making or becoming clear.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An area of land within a wood or forest devoid of trees.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges[…]: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.
gloss: An open space in the fog etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A process of exchanging transaction information and authorisation through a central institution or system to complete and settle those transactions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A sequence of events used to disconnect a call, and return to the ready state.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The period in which remaining university places are allocated to remaining students.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of removing the ball from one's own goal area by kicking it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: burn-clearing
clearing bank
clearing house
immunoclearing
inclearing
market clearing
mine-clearing
nonclearing
outclearing
Translations:
borough
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English borwe, borgh, burgh, buruh, from Old English burh, burg, from Proto-West Germanic *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“stronghold, city”).
Cognate with Dutch burcht, German Burg, Danish borg, Swedish borg, French bourg, Turkish burç. Doublet of Brough, burgh, and Bury.
Inflected forms:
form: boroughs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: boro
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
form: bourg
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: burough
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: burrow
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A fortified town.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A town or city.
pos: noun
tags: rare
gloss: A town having a municipal corporation and certain traditional rights.
pos: noun
gloss: An administrative district in some cities, e.g., London.
pos: noun
examples: The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.
gloss: An administrative unit of a city which, under most circumstances according to state or national law, would be considered a larger or more powerful entity; most commonly used in American English to define the five counties that make up New York City.
pos: noun
gloss: Other similar administrative units in cities and states in various parts of the world.
pos: noun
gloss: A district in Alaska having powers similar to a county.
pos: noun
gloss: An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behaviour of each other.
pos: noun
tags: UK
historical
Related words: Brough
burg
burgh
-bury
Derived words: -boro
-borough
Boroughbridge
borough council
borough English
Borough Green
borough hall
boroughholder
boroughhood
boroughitis
boroughmaster
boroughmonger
borough seat
boroughwide
Brookeborough
close borough
Conwy County Borough
county borough
Denali Borough
Foxborough
Guysborough
interborough
Ketchikan Gateway Borough
Marlborough
Martinborough
metropolitan borough
multiborough
municipal borough
nomination borough
Northwest Arctic Borough
outer borough
parliamentary borough
Peterborough
Petersburg Borough
pocket borough
rotten borough
royal borough
The Borough
triborough
Tyngsborough
Woodborough
Translations:
nemesis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Greek goddess of retribution Nemesis (Ancient Greek Νέμεσις (Némesis)).
Inflected forms:
form: nemeses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An enemy, especially an archenemy.
pos: noun
examples: Batman is in constant conflict with his nemesis, The Joker.
The roofer stayed in touch, committed to the downfall of his nemesis, Mikey. One week after his initial phone call, we were on our way to raid Mikey's trite home armed with a federal search warrant. There were six of us.
They were different in many ways but what was it about opposites attracting... […] She was his opposite, but not his nemesis, and they worked well together. She hoped he liked working with her.
Jack took many hits to his body from his nemesis, but to his surprise he barely felt it. Jack's nemesis looked at him with anger in his eyes, clinching his fist to throw the next blow and without hesitation he threw another punch[…]
Along the way, they meet Master Wong, who teaches them kung fu and imparts nuggets of Chinese philosophy, knowledge and training that they eventually use to defeat their nemesis and save their village.
gloss: A person or character who specifically brings about the downfall of another person or character, as an agent of that character's fate or destiny, especially within a narrative.
pos: noun
gloss: The personification of the "fatal flaw" of a dramatic hero in the style of Greek tragedy.
pos: noun
gloss: Polar opposite, especially of a literary character.
pos: noun
examples: “And then, while he's devouring you with his stare, thinking about how much he wants to lick you up, along comes his antithesis, his polar opposite, his nemesis for want of a better word—” “Nemesis?” I interrupted, eyebrows journeying up my forehead. “—who swoops you off your feet and away from him,” Heather continued, ignoring my incredulous expression.
gloss: The principle of retributive justice.
pos: noun
gloss: A punishment or defeat that is deserved and cannot be avoided; (an instance of) retribution.
pos: noun
tags: formal
singular
usually
examples: Even Nathan's close associates, who are not yet ready to declare themselves his enemies, accept that his engineered downfall will be his nemesis for harbouring ambitions beyond his status, and do nothing to alert him to the situation[…]
Derived words: archnemesis
chocolate nemesis
fremesis
nemetic
kismesis
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: отмъщение
roman: otmǎštenie
lang: Bulgarian
word: отплата
roman: otplata
lang: Bulgarian
word: възмездие
roman: vǎzmezdie
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 報應 /报应
roman: bàoyìng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 剋星 /克星
roman: kèxīng
lang: Czech
word: odplata
lang: Finnish
word: hyvitys
lang: Japanese
word: 報復
roman: hōfuku
lang: Macedonian
word: одмазда
roman: odmazda
lang: Russian
word: возме́здие
roman: vozmézdije
lang: Russian
word: воздая́ние
roman: vozdajánije
lang: Russian
word: распла́та
roman: raspláta
lang: Spanish
word: némesis
mamma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
climatology
medicine
meteorology
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin mammalbor.
English mamma
Learned borrowing from Latin mamma.
Inflected forms:
form: mammae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mammas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder.
pos: noun
examples: Either sex under special stimulations is capable of manifesting powers ordinarily shown only by the other […] Thus, to take an extreme case, the mammæ of men will, under special excitation, yield milk: there are various cases of gynecomasty on record, and in famines infants whose mothers have died have been thus saved.
gloss: An accessory cloud like a mammary in appearance, which can form on the underside of most cloud genera.
pos: noun
Derived words: mammal
mammalgia
mammaplasty
mammary
mammate
mammatroph
mammectomy
mammiferous
mammiform
mammilla
mammiplasia
mammitis
mammogen
mammogenesis
mammogram
mammography
mammoplasia
mammose
mammosomatotrope
mammosomatotroph
mammotomy
mammotroph
mammotrophic
mammotropic
mammotropin
pseudomamma
Translations:
sitcom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortening of situation comedy.
Inflected forms:
form: sitcoms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sit-com
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sit com
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Situation comedy.
pos: noun
Translations:
gul
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Classical Persian گُل (gul, “flower”).
Inflected forms:
form: guls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gol
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: göl
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gül
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any medallionlike design on a Central or West Asian rug.
pos: noun
Translations:
gula
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin gula (“throat, gullet”).
Inflected forms:
form: gulas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gulae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The upper front of the neck, next to the chin; the upper throat.
pos: noun
gloss: A plate which in most insects supports the submentum.
pos: noun
gloss: A capping moulding; a cymatium.
pos: noun
Derived words: gular
Translations:
collaborative
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: management
Etymology: Etymology tree
English collaborate
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English collaborative
From collaborate + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: more collaborative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most collaborative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: collaboratives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or done by collaboration.
pos: adj
examples: No need to thank me - it was a collaborative effort.
gloss: An organized group of people or entities who collaborate towards a particular goal
pos: noun
examples: 1895, (no by-line), "In The Halls of Learning: Columbian University", The Evening Times (Washington, DC) (19 October 1895, page 2) -- this appears to be a unique usage; very difficult to find non-adjectival uses prior to the 1970s
In the literature class, which is conducted by Prof. George J. Smith, lately of Central High School, and which is a collaborative of Dr. Farquhar's course, the students are pursuing their new course.
Concern over possible conflict between their collaborative and one set up a year ago ....
These collaboratives would consist of a team of managers, researchers, and consultants from a variety of organizations whose aim would be to better understand problems in effective health care management […]
This collaborative aims at discussing ways in which patients can participate in the FDA's regulatory discussions about medical products.
Translations:
soviet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian сове́т (sovét, “council”), from Old Russian borrowed from Old Church Slavonic съвѣтъ (sŭvětŭ, “advice”). Compounded from съ- (sŭ-) + вѣтъ (větŭ, “agreement”), from Proto-Slavic *větъ (“council, talk”). Related words include наве́т (navét), изве́т (izvét), отве́т (otvét), приве́т (privét), обе́т (obét), ве́че (véče), отвеча́ть (otvečátʹ), отве́тить (otvétitʹ), завеща́ть (zaveščátʹ), and совещаться (soveščatʹsja). Probably cognate with Polish witać (“to welcome”).
Inflected forms:
form: soviets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A workers' council, an institution first formed during the 1905 Russian Revolution and then instituted as the main form of communist government at all levels in the Soviet Union; by extension, a similar organization in early Chinese communism and elsewhere.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: They then established the West Hunan-Hupeh (Hsiang-O-Hsi) Special Committee and a little later transformed it into a soviet government. Party membership figures as of 1932 for a dozen counties in the area were estimated at 18,034, with the largest number, 4,468, working in Chienli County, then headquarters of the soviet.
Kratochvil, Jedlicka, Safar, Kubes and Vasata, who always took an interest in politics, set up a soviet in the last wagon and uncoupled it from the rest of the train in the night.
Workers' committees were forming embryo soviets, soldiers' and sailors' collectives had whole ships and regiments under their temporary command, landless workers in the countryside were taking over abandoned farms and properties.
Translations:
randy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First use appears c. 1665 in a letter by the Earl of Argyll. From Scottish randy (“boisterous, aggressive”), of uncertain origin. Probably from rand (“to storm, rave”, verb), a variant of rant, see rant; or from rand (“edge”, noun), in the sense of "edgy, on edge", from Middle English rand (“edge, brink, margin, border”), from Old English rand (“edge, border, margin, rim”). Related to randan.
Inflected forms:
form: randier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: randiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: randie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: ranty
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Sexually aroused; full of sexual lust.
pos: adj
tags: UK
informal
examples: If you're feeling randy, give me a call and I'll come round and give you some hot lovin'.
Of course, the Greeks were quite the randy bunch themselves. “Anything goes!” was their motto and they lived up to it. It’s amazing that Plato, Aristotle and Socrates got any philosophizing done at all, what with all the lewd and lascivious behavior going on.
gloss: Rude or coarse in manner.
pos: adj
tags: Scotland
Synonyms: toey
coarse
rude
Derived words: randily
randiness
randy-dandy
randy mandies
unrandy
Translations:
jun
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Korean 전(錢) (jeon)bor.
English jun
Borrowed from Korean 전(錢) (jeon).
Inflected forms:
form: jun
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jeon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: chon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A monetary unit of North Korea and formerly of South Korea, equal to one hundredth of a won.
pos: noun
Translations:
relief
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian rilievo, from rilevare (“to raise”), from Latin relevō (“to raise”).
Inflected forms:
form: more relief
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most relief
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by surface inequalities.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or used in letterpress.
pos: adj
Translations:
fond
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
cooking
engineering
food
human-sciences
information-science
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English fond, fonned, past participle of fonnen (“to be foolish, be simple, dote”), equivalent to fon + -ed. More at fon.
Base: fon
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: fonder
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: fondest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fonds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having a liking or affection (for).
pos: adj
examples: I am fond of this song!
more fond on her than she upon her love
a great traveller, and fond of telling his adventures
gloss: Affectionate.
pos: adj
examples: a fond farewell
a fond mother or wife
gloss: Indulgent, doting.
pos: adj
examples: I have fond grandparents who spoil me.
“The story of this adoption is, of course, the pivot round which all the circumstances of the mysterious tragedy revolved. Mrs. Yule had an only son, namely, William, to whom she was passionately attached ; but, like many a fond mother, she had the desire of mapping out that son's future entirely according to her own ideas.[…]”
gloss: Outlandish; foolish; silly.
pos: adj
examples: Your fond dreams of flying to Jupiter have been quashed by the facts of reality.
gloss: Foolish; simple; weak.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: If you are so fond over her iniquity, give her patent
to offend, for if it touch not you, it comes near
nobody.
Grant I may never prove so fond
To trust man on his oath or bond.
[T]hou seest
How suttly to detaine thee I devise,
Inviting thee to hear while I relate,
Fond, were it not in hope of thy reply …
But reason with your fond religion fights,
For many gods are many infinites …
The foolish, fond Old Year,
gloss: Doted on; regarded with affection.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Nor fix on fond abodes to circumscribe thy prayer.
gloss: The background design in lace-making.
pos: noun
gloss: Brown residue in pans from cooking meats and vegetables.
pos: noun
examples: He used the fond to make a classic French pan sauce.
gloss: A group of records having shared provenance.
pos: noun
examples: To denote archival material collected from Ukrainian archives I have used the Ukrainian system of classification (i.e. fond, opys, sprava and arkush). I have used the Russian system for material from Russian archives (i.e. fond, opis, delo, stranitsa). I have also provided a glossary of terms used for Ukrainian, Russian or Polish terms at the back of the thesis for easy reference.
gloss: Foundation; bottom; groundwork.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: Fund, stock, or store.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Derived words: fondish
fondling
fondly
fondness
fondsome
overfond
unfond
Translations:
exiguous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin exiguus (“strict, exact”), from exigere (“to measure against a standard”).
Inflected forms:
form: more exiguous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most exiguous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Scanty; meager.
pos: adj
examples: The herdboy in the broom, already musical in the days of Father Chaucer, startles (and perhaps pains) the lark with this exiguous pipe.
The path on which I then planted my feet was quite unprecedentedly narrow. I had never had to walk along a thoroughfare so exiguous.
They are entering the market, setting up stalls on snowy streets, moonlighting to supplement exiguous incomes.
Among the pressures provoking these distresses were a father's financial inadequacy and a growing awareness that, by finding employment himself, he could ameliorate the family's exiguous circumstances.
2012 — Rodger Cohen, Scottexalonia Rising, New York Times, Nov. 26., Op. Ed.
National politics, as President François Hollande of France is only the latest to discover, is often no more than tweaking at the margins in the exiguous political space left by markets and other global forces.
Translations:
carabiner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortened from German Karabinerhaken (“carbine hook”), reflecting that such a link was used for gear slinging even before it was used for rock climbing.
Inflected forms:
form: carabiners
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: karabiner
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A metal link with a gate that can open and close, generally used for clipping ropes to anchors or other objects or for slinging gear (equipment) on one's person.
pos: noun
examples: A carrabeener (metal clasp used in rock climbing) inside the pipes was devised as a release out, a tactic lent to them by Greenpeace.
Translations:
filbert
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Earlier filbert-nut, Philibert-nut, from Middle English filbert-note, from Anglo-Norman noix de filbert, so named because they are ripe near Saint Philibert’s Day.
Inflected forms:
form: filberts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: filberd
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The hazelnut.
pos: noun
examples: I'll bring thee / To clust'ring filberts, and sometimes I'll get thee / Young scamels from the rock.
I've seen one monkey force open the jaws of his brother, resolutely introduce his fingers, pluck from the sanctuary of his cheek the filbert he had just stowed there for his private nutrition and delight, and crunch and eat it with a stern ecstasy of selfishness, himself […]
gloss: The hazel tree.
pos: noun
gloss: A paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a curving, tongue-shaped head.
pos: noun
Derived words: filbert gall
Translations:
pixel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: pix (“pictures”), + el(ement); often taken to be a blend of “picture” and “element”. The ⟨x⟩ stems from the abbreviation pics being sometimes also written as pix, which has been in use since the 1880s. First attested in 1965.
Inflected forms:
form: pixels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pixels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pixeling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: pixelling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: pixeled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: pixeled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: pixelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: pixelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: One of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory.
pos: noun
examples: We have chosen to sample at a 500 KC rate and we define each one of these samples as a picture element or pixel. We have sampled each pixel with 6-bit accuracy which is commensurate with the signal/noise ratio and the data accuracy.
In the tomographic images of the 30-day-old cheeses, the gantry had to be removed with image processing techniques: first, the binarised image (grey level larger than 10⁴) was eroded with a disk of three pixels.
gloss: One of the squares that make up a work of pixel art or a zoomed-in image in a computer.
pos: noun
gloss: A unit of measure used in screen displays, resolutions, and similar visual media that represents either linear measure or area.
pos: noun
gloss: To create computer graphics by editing individual pixels.
pos: verb
examples: Whether he's pixeling for cellphones or PCs, here is one artist who has a unique and imaginative vision.
Synonyms: pel
pictel
px
Derived words: biopixel
dead pixel
dixel
edgel
flixel
interpixel
mixel
multipixel
nonpixel
peep pixels
pixel art
pixelate
pixelated
pixelation
pixelfuck
pixel hunt
pixel hunting
pixelisation
pixelization
pixelize
pixellated
pixelly
pixelmap
pixel peep
pixel peeper
pixel-perfect
pixel pusher
pixelscape
pixel shader
pixel shifting
pixel sorting
pixel tracking
pixelwise
pixely
pixmap
sixel
spaxel
stuck pixel
subpixel
superpixel
texel
trixel
voxel
Translations:
megapixel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s
Proto-Hellenic *mégas
Ancient Greek μέγᾰς (mégăs)der.
English mega-
English pixel
English megapixel
From mega- + pixel.
Inflected forms:
form: megapixels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One million pixels, used as a unit of resolution of digital cameras.
pos: noun
examples: This camera has a resolution of three megapixels.
Translations:
phatic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φατός (phatós, “spoken”) - from φημί (phēmí, “I say”) - + -ic.
Probably formally influenced by emphatic, which predates this term.
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more phatic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most phatic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: phatics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to words used to convey any kind of social relationship and whose meaning is otherwise either deemphasized or absent.
pos: adj
examples: You needn't be angry about the insincerity of shopkeepers' how-are-you greetings. Well-adjusted people understand that the question is phatic in the context and that that's usually no problem.
Some dialects of a language may use a certain term or phrase in a phatic way, even if other dialects don't.
Generally speaking, statements in WE are expected to be of a tautologous nature, thus fulfilling the essential phatic nature of speech.
Dispensing with phatic chitchat, he began straightaway to tell the story of his “people.”
gloss: A phatic utterance.
pos: noun
Translations:
related
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
mathematics
music
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more related
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most related
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Standing in relation or connection.
pos: adj
examples: Electric and magnetic forces are closely related.
on a related note
The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.
gloss: Being a relative of.
pos: adj
examples: Everyone is related to their parents.
gloss: Narrated; told.
pos: adj
gloss: Synonym of relative.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Fulfilling a relation.
pos: adj
gloss: Having a relationship with the thing named.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
examples: gun-related crime
WIPO reported that China had 17 of the top 20 academic organizations filing for AI-related patents.
Synonyms: kin
related
Antonyms: non-related
unrelated
fremd
Related words: relative
Derived words: aforerelated
AIDS-related complex
CDK13-related disorder
disrelated
event-related potential
gay-related immune deficiency
gay-related immunodeficiency
immunorelated
irrelated
nonrelated
picrel
relatedly
relatedness
related right
semirelated
small ubiquitin-related modifier
Translations:
pugilistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pugilist + -ic, alternatively pugil + -istic.
Base: pugilist
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more pugilistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pugilistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In the manner of a pugilist.
pos: adj
examples: It was no time for pugilistic chivalry, and my brother laid him quiet with a kick, and gripped the collar of the man who pulled at the slender lady's arm.
Mr. Christie, who as a presidential candidate has frequently suppressed his most pugilistic instincts, cast off any restraint and did what he does best: slice and slash.
gloss: Fighting with the fists.
pos: adj
Derived words: pugilistically
pugilistics
unpugilistic
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: pugilístic
lang: French
word: pugilistique
lang: Italian
word: pugilistico
lang: Portuguese
word: pugilístico
lang: Spanish
word: pugilístico
distort
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin distortum, past participle of distorqueō (“to twist, torture, distort”).
Inflected forms:
form: distorts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: distorting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: distorted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: distorted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To bring something out of shape, to misshape.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This she did with the utmost politeness, though cold by race, and through her politeness ran a sense of what the Teutons call Duty, which would once have repelled me; but I have wandered over a great part of the world and I know it now to be a distorted kind of virtue.
gloss: To become misshapen.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
intransitive
gloss: To give a false or misleading account of; pervert.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In their articles, journalists sometimes distort the truth.
Related words: distorted
distortion
Derived words: distortable
distorter
distortive
undistort
Translations:
disfigure
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English disfiguren, from Anglo-Norman desfigurer.
Inflected forms:
form: disfigures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disfiguring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disfigured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disfigured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: to irreversibly damage the shape or structure of something, negatively affecting its appearance or functionality without completely destroying it.
pos: verb
examples: His face was disfigured by a terrible fire many years ago, leaving deep scars across his crooked nose.
The North British Railway was always anxious to connect its line to Helensburgh Pier but the local residents would not permit their foreshore or promenade to be disfigured, so the company had to resort further east and on May 18, 1882, opened the railway pier and station at Craigendoran.
Translations:
cowed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: * Probable origins are Scandinavian, cf. Danish kue, to subdue.
Inflected forms:
form: more cowed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cowed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Frightened into submission.
pos: adj
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:cowed.
Translations:
inexperienced
Part of speech: adj
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-
English experience
English -ed
English experienced
English inexperienced
From in- + experienced.
Inflected forms:
form: more inexperienced
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inexperienced
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not experienced; lacking knowledge because lacking experience.
pos: adj
examples: Veteran Wiktionary editors frustrated with inexperienced newcomers should remember that they were once in that position.
A group of young, inexperienced volunteers was tasked with securing much-needed medical supplies for hospitals fighting coronavirus, hampering the government’s response to a growing pandemic, according to reports by The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Antonyms: experienced
Translations: