yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
aggregator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English aggregate
English -or
English aggregator
From aggregate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: aggregators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone or something which aggregates.
pos: noun
examples: An event aggregator facilitates a fire-and-forget model of communication. The object triggering the event doesn't care if there are any subscribers.
What we have seen in recent years is the emergence of the aggregator as the immediate customer of our traditional rail freight operating businesses, meaning that the future model is likely to feature rail freight companies with strong expertise in rail movement of freight, and aggregators with strong expertise in intermodal operation. Thus the final customer relationship (Tesco, Amazon, and so on) is increasingly likely to be owned by the aggregator rather than the rail freight company.
gloss: An online feed reader used to keep track of updates to blogs, etc.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
Derived words: disaggregator
nonaggregator
website aggregator
Translations:
non-goal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: non-goals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A potential goal or requirement which is explicitly excluded from the scope of a project.
pos: noun
examples: That's a hard problem, but it's a non-goal for us here.
Translations:
rambunctious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A variant of rumbustious (“boisterous and unruly”).
Inflected forms:
form: more rambunctious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rambunctious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: rambunxious
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: rumbunctious
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Boisterous, energetic, noisy, and difficult to control.
pos: adj
tags: US
informal
examples: The kids are being especially rambunctious today.
"Bad cess may attend you, where are you scampering to, you rambunctious"—but she could go no farther; the tears burst from her, and she gave way, without farther resistance, to an explosion of grief.
"Not as you knows on, you rambunctious wool grower," said the indignant Yankee.
There was close by me a window, and, noiselessly as possible, I slid back a small piece, thereby rousing the light-sleeping mistress of the canary, who sharply requested it be closed again; [...] the other lady smiled despairingly, and signed me to obey, which I reluctantly did by closing the glass; but the shutter proved rumbunctious, and for no effort of mine would again move out of his groove; [...]
"I guess the governor'd be rambunxious, as usual, if I was to ask his permission," the dutiful son remarked; "but he's going away for a few days next week, and mother won't hinder me, I know."
It may sometimes appear that Canada is composed of nine complacent, cohesive English-speaking provinces and rambunctious Quebec. In fact, it is composed of ten provinces, each different and all occasionally rambunctious.
Eventually the two rambunctious wolves decided to race back towards the carcass, no doubt forgetting I was still there.
Mrs. Tinkle, your son’s rambunctious behavior is quite common in children with unusually high intelligence levels.
She was placid, stately and Juno-esque, soft-toned in her trance utterances, but she could become powerful in her office, an imposing presence. Sometimes a rumbunctious, chaffing persona emerged and was a little over the top for genteel spinsters to tolerate.
She does the same thing as any parent worth their salt, and gets rambunctious youngsters engaged in daily drudgeries by refashioning the quotidian as adventure.
The Turkish-American film-maker Ceyda Torun documented the rambunctious street cats of Istanbul in her award-winning 2017 documentary Kedi (“cat” in Turkish).
Translations:
boomlet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: Etymology tree
English boom
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -lus
Latin -ellus
Old French -el
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
Late Latin -ittus
Old French -et
Old French -eletbor.
Middle English -let
English -let
English boomlet
From boom + -let.
Inflected forms:
form: boomlets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small period of rapid growth.
pos: noun
examples: This is the twentysomething generation, those 48 million young Americans ages 18 through 29 who fall between the famous baby boomers and the boomlet of children the baby boomers are producing.
There was a boomlet in fitness centers as corporations sweetened their programs to pay for part of their employees' gym memberships […].
Translations:
stagflation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: economics
sciences
Etymology: Blend of stagnation + inflation, generally thought to have been coined by the British politician Iain Macleod (1913–1970) in a 17 November 1965 parliamentary speech: see the quotation.
Compound parts: stagnation
inflation
Inflected forms:
form: stagflations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Prolonged high inflation accompanied by stagnant growth, often with recession and high unemployment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We now have the worst of both worlds—not just inflation on the one side or stagnation on the other, but both of them together. We have a sort of "stagflation" situation and history in modern terms is indeed being made. There is another point behind the figures. As I say, production has fallen by 1 per cent. or ½ per cent.
As soon as we understand how involuntary unemployment can result from rational and well-informed individual behavior, it also becomes obvious how inflation and unemployment—which we once thought could not occur simultaneously—can be combined, as they have been in the recent stagflation.
Since no one had the solutions to stagflation, [Jimmy] Carter, a fiscal conservative from the beginning, was thrown back to his personal bias and chose to elevate inflation to the nation's most pressing problem. […] More radical solutions to stagflation, such as direct wage and price controls or voluntary wage freezes to halt the wage/price spiral, were not thought to be socially acceptable. So, in the end the administration acquiesced to monetary stringency and watched its tenure recede.
Moving into the mid-1970s, America's economic performance suffered. Stagflation—inflation combined with minimal economic growth—eroded wages and profits, weakening business and consumer confidence.
The UK economy is suffering a nasty bout of stagflation and the prospects appear poor. That is the conclusion financial markets drew this week from yet more disappointing data, highlighting the weakness of the post-Covid economy and the persistence of high inflation.
Stagflation is a period of stagnant economic growth accompanied by persistently high inflation and a sharp rise in unemployment. While stagflation is quite rare—the U.S. has only experienced one sustained period of stagflation in recent history, in the 1970s—it’s become a more frequent topic of speculation. While it's unlikely that the U.S. economy is headed for another bout of stagflation, it's important to contextualize what's happening with the prominent episode of stagflation in the 1970s. […] Stagflation refers to an economy characterized by high inflation, low economic growth and high unemployment.
"[Donald Trump's tariff proposal] is a prescription for the mother of all stagflations,” Larry Summers, Treasury secretary during the [Bill] Clinton administration, told Bloomberg TV back in June.
Translations:
Candlemas
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English Candelmasse, from Old English Candelmæsse, equivalent to candle + -mas, following the tradition that the candles to be used in church during the following year are blessed on this day. Compare Old Norse kyndilsmessa (“Candlemas”).
Base: candle
Affixes: -mas
Inflected forms:
form: Candlemases
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Candlemass
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The festival in the Christian year celebrated on February 2nd. It commemorates the purification of the Virgin Mary and the presentation of the infant Jesus in the Temple.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: To make Capons […] [S]ome for this Purpoſe make it their Buſineſs after Harveſt-time to go to Markets for buying up Chickens, and between Michaelmas and All-hollantide caponize the Cocks, when they have got large enough to have Stones [i.e., testes] of ſuch a Bigneſs that they may be pulled out; for if they are too little, it can't be done; […] [M]aking a Cut here big enough to put her Finger in, which ſhe thruſts under the Guts, and with it rakes or tears out the Stone that lies neareſt to it. This done, ſhe performs the very ſame Operation on the other Side of the Cock's Body, and there takes out the other Stone; then ſhe ſtitches up the Wounds, and lets the Fowl go about as at other Times, till the Capon is fatted in a Coup, which is commonly done from Chriſtmas to Candlemas, and after.
They held high holiday from Christmas-day until Candlemas (February 2nd ), […]
gloss: A quarter day in Scotland.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: Groundhog Day
Derived words: Burnt Candlemas
Candlemas term
Translations:
verbiage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French verbiage. Compare verb meaning "word" in verbal and verbose.
Inflected forms:
form: verbiages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Overabundance of words.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: bureaucratic verbiage
We're done drafting our paper except for the final check to see whether any verbiage can be reduced.
A very garrulous person, he approached the counter in a fog of verbiage.
gloss: The manner in which something is expressed in words; word choice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: phrasing; terminology; phraseology
In each article of this series, there is a paragraph on nutrition; the verbiage for it was developed by consensus among the section editors, and therefore no elective rewording should be done (by others) in any such paragraph.
We're done drafting our paper except for the final verbiage on fire safety, which will be supplied by the safety engineers.
The comparison of coincidences in the verbiage of different languages, and affinity of etymological formation, are interesting subjects of philological investigation.
Use concise military verbiage.
Synonyms: verbalism
Related words: verbage
verbal
verbose
Translations:
hypoglycemia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From hypo- + glycemia or hypo- + glyc- + -emia.
Base: glycemia
Affixes: hypo-
Inflected forms:
form: hypoglycemias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hypoglycaemia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hypoglycæmia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A too low level of blood glucose.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: hyperglycemia
hyperglycosemia
Translations:
hoopoe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Alteration of obsolete hoopoop, from earlier hoop, from Middle French and Old French huppe, from Latin upupa, ultimately onomatopoeic; Compare Ancient Greek ἔποψ (épops), Persian پوپو (popo).
Inflected forms:
form: hoopoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any Old World bird of genus Upupa, especially Upupa epops (Eurasian hoopoe), known for its distinctive plumage, fanlike crest, and slender bill.
pos: noun
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:hoopoe.
Translations:
assassinate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From assassin + -ate, after Middle French assassiner.
Base: assassin
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: assassinates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: assassinating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: assassinated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: assassinated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To murder someone, especially an important person, by a sudden or obscure attack, especially for ideological or political reasons.
pos: verb
examples: The Assassines, a nation depending of Phœnicia, are esteemed among the Mahometists[…]. And thus was our Earle Raymond of Tripoli murthered or assassinated (this word is borrowed from their name) in the middest of his Citie, during the time of our warres in the holy land[…].
A Korean Communist selected as a vice chairman of the government for north Korea in the Russian occupied zone was assassinated as he was leaving a conference with Col. Gen. Chistjakoff, commander of the soviet 25th army, a Korean refugee said today.
gloss: To harm, ruin, or defame severely or destroy by treachery, slander, libel, or obscure attack.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: He assassinated his rival's character.
Such uſage as your honourable Lords / Afford me aſſaſſinated and betray'd, […]
But vvhen your Rhimes aſſaſſinate our Fame, / You hug your nauſeous, blund'ring Ballad-vvits, / And pay 'em as if Nonſence vvere a merit, / If it can mean but Treaſon.
Related words: assassin
assassination
Derived words: assassinatee
assassinative
assassinator
assassinatrix
character-assassinate
unassassinated
Translations:
calligrapher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English calligraphy
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 calligrapher
From calligraphy + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: calligraphers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: one who practices calligraphy
pos: noun
Translations:
fatuous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin fatuus (“foolish, silly, simple”).
Inflected forms:
form: more fatuous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fatuous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Obnoxiously stupid; vacantly silly; content in one's foolishness.
pos: adj
examples: A fatuous love affair can easily result in a fatuous marriage. A couple who hardly know each other and, indeed, may not even really like each other, make a commitment that has little chance of being honoured.
While much publicity is given to fatuous 'reversing Beeching' ideas, the reality is that the real investment is focused on expanding the road network - [...].
Translations:
genie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Islam
human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
religion
sciences
Etymology: From French génie (“genius, genie”), a phono-semantic matching of Arabic جِنِّيّ (jinniyy).
Inflected forms:
form: genii
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: genies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jinn
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: djinn
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: djinni
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: djinny
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jinni
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jinnie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jinnee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A jinn, a being descended from the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form.
pos: noun
gloss: A fictional magical being that is typically bound to obey the commands of a mortal possessing its container.
pos: noun
examples: genie in a bottle
Related words: 🧞♂️
🧞♀️
jann
nasnas
ghoul
shaitan
angel
jinx
Derived words: genielike
put the genie back in the bottle
the genie is out of the bottle
Translations:
semivowel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sēmi
Latin sēmi-bor.
English semi-
English vowel
English semivowel
From semi- + vowel.
Inflected forms:
form: semivowels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: semi-vowel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A sound in speech which has some qualities of a consonant and some qualities of a vowel.
pos: noun
gloss: A letter which represents a semivowel sound, such as w or y in English.
pos: noun
Related words: consonant
vocoid
Translations:
docile
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *deḱ-der.
Proto-Italic *dokeō
Latin doceō
Proto-Indo-European *-elis
Proto-Italic *-elis
Latin -ilis
Latin docilisder.
Middle French docilebor.
Middle English docyle
English docile
From Middle English docyle, from Middle French docile, from Latin docilis, from docēre (“teach”).
Compare Spanish dócil ("docile").
Inflected forms:
form: more docile
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most docile
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.
pos: adj
examples: With that he dropped his head again, lamenting over and caressing her, and there was not a sound in all the house for a long, long time; they remaining clasped in one another’s arms, in the glorious sunshine that had crept in with Florence.
He dressed himself for going out, with a docile submission to her entreaty; and walking with a feeble gait, and looking back, with a tremble, at the room in which he had been so long shut up, and where he had seen the picture in the glass, passed out with her into the hall.
Harriet certainly was not clever, but she had a sweet, docile, grateful disposition; was totally free from conceit; and only desiring to be guided by any one she looked up to.
gloss: Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.
pos: adj
examples: Such literature may well be anathema to those, who are too docile and petty for their own good.
Synonyms: amenable
biddable
complaisant
compliant
controllable
docile
governable
indulgent
manageable
maniable
meek
passive
pliant
rulable
tractable
yielding
Antonyms: authoritarian
bossy
dictatorial
dominant
domineering
imperious
overbearing
defiant
obstinate
perverse
rebellious
recalcitrant
wilful
incompliant
incontrollable
indocile
intractable
nonamenable
noncompliant
noncontrollable
nondocile
nonindulgent
nonpassive
nonpliant
nonyielding
unamenable
unbiddable
uncomplaisant
uncompliant
uncontrollable
undocile
ungovernable
unindulgent
unmanageable
unmeek
unpassive
unpliant
unrulable
untractable
unyielding
Related words: docent
doctor
doctorate
doctrinaire
doctrinal
doctrine
document
indoctrinate
humble
Derived words: docilely
docileness
docility
docilization
docilize
nondocile
undocile
Translations:
clipboard
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From clip + board.
Compound parts: clip
board
Inflected forms:
form: clipboards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: clip board
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: clipboards
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: clipboarding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: clipboarded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: clipboarded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A flat piece of rigid material, such as card or plastic, with a clip at one end under which papers can be held.
pos: noun
gloss: A buffer in memory where the user can store data temporarily while transferring it from one place within an application to another or between applications.
pos: noun
gloss: To attach to a clipboard.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
Lakota
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Lakota Lakȟótabor.
English Lakota
Borrowed from Lakota Lakȟóta (“alliance of friends”).
Inflected forms:
form: Lakotas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Lakota
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Lakhota
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Lak'ota
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of a Native American tribe, also known as the Sioux, now living primarily on the Rosebud, Pine Ridge, Lower Brule, Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Reservations.
pos: noun
Translations:
Siouan
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Siouans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the Sioux people, culture or languages.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A member of the Sioux people.
pos: noun
Translations:
tummy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitating a child's attempt to say stomach, via archaic colloquialism stummy. Compare twee and pasghetti for similar phonetic reductions.
Inflected forms:
form: tummies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tummie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: The stomach or belly.
pos: noun
tags: childish
colloquial
often
examples: "So I broke away early this mornin', gave my guard a kick in the tummy that laid him out, and sprinted for the camp."
I got love in my tummy and a tiny little pain / And a ten ton catastrophe on a 60 pound chain
Oh man —pal! You didn't swallow that gum, did you?? It stays in your tummy for seven years and all the other bad stuff sticks to it and then a doctor has to cut it out with an axe!
gloss: The stomach or belly.
pos: noun
tags: US
childish
colloquial
often
slang
gloss: The stomach or belly.
pos: noun
tags: childish
colloquial
euphemistic
often
Related words: stommy
belly
Derived words: gyppy tummy
jiffy tummy
tum
tummied
tummyache
tummy button
tummy time
tummy tuck
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: тумбаче
roman: tumbače
lang: Czech
word: bříško
lang: Finnish
word: masu
lang: Finnish
word: massu
lang: French
word: bidon
lang: German
word: Bäuchlein
lang: Hungarian
word: pocak
lang: Hungarian
word: poci
lang: Hungarian
word: hasikó
lang: Icelandic
word: malli
lang: Icelandic
word: mallakútur
lang: Italian
word: pancia
lang: Italian
word: pancino
lang: Japanese
word: ぽんぽん
roman: ponpon
lang: Polish
word: brzuszek
lang: Russian
word: живо́тик
roman: živótik
lang: Russian
word: пу́зико
roman: púziko
lang: Russian
word: брю́шко
roman: brjúško
lang: Spanish
word: bidón
lang: Turkish
word: göbüş
lang: Bulgarian
word: шкембе
roman: škembe
lang: Esperanto
word: ventro
lang: Esperanto
word: ventreto
lang: Finnish
word: maha
lang: Finnish
word: vatsa
lang: German
word: Bauch
lang: German
word: Bäuchlein
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Buck (nds)
lang: Portuguese
word: barriga
lang: Russian
word: живо́т
roman: živót
lang: Russian
word: пу́зо
roman: púzo
lang: Russian
word: брю́хо
roman: brjúxo
lang: Russian
word: брю́шко
roman: brjúško
lang: Spanish
word: barriga
lang: Spanish
word: barriguita
lang: Spanish
word: bola
lang: Tok Pisin
word: bel
lang: Ukrainian
word: живі́т
roman: žyvít
lang: Volapük
word: bälid
lang: Volapük
word: bälidil
lang: Welsh
word: bola
lang: Welsh
word: bol
tonic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
natural-sciences
neuroscience
pathology
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ten-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *tónos
Proto-Hellenic *tónos
Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek τονῐκός (tonĭkós)
English tonic
From Ancient Greek τονικός (tonikós), from τόνος (tónos). 17th century writers believed health to be derived from firmly stretched muscles, thus tonic; the extension of tonic medicine appeared in the late 18th century. By surface analysis, ton(e) + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more tonic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tonic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: tonick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: tonics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tonick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to tension, especially of the muscles.
pos: adj
examples: Out in front and across the street, Doc noted half a dozen or so young men, not loitering or doing substances but poised and tonic, as if waiting for some standing order to take effect.
gloss: Restorative; curative; or invigorating.
pos: adj
examples: The arrival of the new members had a tonic effect on the team.
gloss: In a state of continuous unremitting action.
pos: adj
examples: Peter Redgrave (2007) Basal ganglia. Scholarpedia, 2(6):1825.
GABAergic neurones in the basal ganglia output nuclei have high tonic firing rates (40-80 Hz).
gloss: A substance with medicinal properties intended to restore or invigorate.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: We used to brew a tonic from a particular kind of root.
gloss: Tonic water.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Any of various carbonated, non-alcoholic beverages; soda pop.
pos: noun
tags: US
dated
uncountable
usually
gloss: Someone or something that revitalises or reinvigorates.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
usually
examples: Charlie ain't no Nazi / She likes to wear her leather boots / 'Cause it's exciting for the veterans / And it's a tonic for the troops.
'You're a tonic, Dee,' she said. 'And a real friend. Thanks.'
The result is the perfect tonic for Newcastle, coming at the end of a week that saw the departure of Andy Carroll to Liverpool on Monday and an injury to Shola Ameobi during Wednesday's defeat at Fulham.
Derived words: Adie's tonic pupil
antitonic
auxotonic
bitonic
epitonic
eutonic
hypertonic
hypotonic
isotonic
normotonic
phlebotonic
tonic-clonic
tonicify
tonic immobility
tonicity
tonic tensor tympani syndrome
vasotonic
venotonic
atonic
homotonic
paratonic
tonically
tonicize
calcitonin
cardiotonic
cerebrotonic
uterotonic
viscerotonic
gin and tonic
hair tonic
love tonic
tonic and gin
vodka tonic
Translations:
subdominant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
Middle French dominantbor.
English dominant
English subdominant
From sub- + dominant.
Inflected forms:
form: subdominants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
gloss: The fourth tone of a scale.
pos: noun
gloss: The triad built on the subdominant tone.
pos: noun
Related words: subdominance
Translations:
bioaccumulate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os)
Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der.
English bio-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱuh₁mósder.?
Latin cumulus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin cumulō
Latin accumulō
Latin accumulātusbor.
Middle English accumylaten
English accumulate
English bioaccumulate
From bio- + accumulate.
Inflected forms:
form: bioaccumulates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bioaccumulating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bioaccumulated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bioaccumulated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To accumulate in a biological system over time.
pos: verb
tags: often
Translations:
biographer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βίος (bíos)
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-
Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō
Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ)
Ancient Greek -γραφία (-graphía)
Ancient Greek βιογραφίᾱ (biographíā)der.
New Latin biographiabor.
English biography
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 biographer
From biography + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: biographers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The writer of a biography; a professional writer of biographies.
pos: noun
examples: Albert Bigelow Paine, his biographer to be and literary executor, who has been constantly with him, said that for the last year at least Mr. Clemens had been weary of life. When Richard Watson Gilder died, he said: "How fortunate he is. No good fortune of that kind ever comes to me."
In May 1898, for example, the funeral train of our Mr Gladstone would be brought from his country estate at Hawarden to Westminster station on the District Line via Willesden Junction. One of his biographers notes, 'Victorians saw no indignity in a coffin for a state funeral arriving by Underground.'
Translations:
customize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From custom + -ize. First attested in 1934 in American English.
Base: custom
Affixes: -ize
Inflected forms:
form: customizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: customizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: customized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: customized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: customise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: To build or alter according to personal preferences or specifications.
pos: verb
examples: High-priced lattes and customized drinks helped lift the coffee chain’s US sales in the quarter ending on October 1, the company said Thursday.
Translations:
demotic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: First attested in 1822, from Ancient Greek δημοτικός (dēmotikós, “common”), from δημότης (dēmótēs, “commoner”), from δῆμος (dêmos, “the common people”).
Inflected forms:
form: demotics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or for the common people.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: demotic writing style
Anything grandiose or historically based tends to sound flat and banal when it reaches English, partly because translators get stuck between contradictory imperatives: juggling fidelity to the original sense with what is vocally viable, they tend to resort to a genteel fustian which lacks either poetic resonance or demotic realism, adding to a sense of artificiality rather than enhancing credibility.
An enthusiastic literary critical response ranged from Graham Greene, who admired Byron’s demotic, conversational brilliance, to the rivalrous Evelyn Waugh, who had to concede the book’s high spirits, via the Sunday Times, which linked Byron to his namesake (no relation) and declared him “the last and finest fruit of the insolent humanism of the 18th century”.
gloss: Of, relating to, or written in the ancient Egyptian script that developed from Lower Egyptian hieratic writing starting from around 650 BCE and was chiefly used to write the Demotic phase of the Egyptian language, with simplified and cursive characters that no longer corresponded directly to their hieroglyphic precursors.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of, relating to, or written in the form of modern vernacular Greek.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: demotic Greek
gloss: Language as spoken or written by the common people.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: vernacular
2010, John C. Wells, accents map
Note the intrusion into British demotic (“me and Cheryl were having”) of the valley-girl quotative be, like.
Related words: Demotic Greek
demotist
Derived words: demotically
demoticist
Translations:
metrology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Proto-Hellenic *-tron
Ancient Greek -τρον (-tron)
Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron)
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
Latin -logialbor.
French -logiebor.
English -logy
English metrology
From Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure”) + English -logy.
Inflected forms:
form: metrologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The science of weights and measures or of measurement.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A system of weights and measures.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Related words: metric
metrological
metrologically
metrologist
Derived words: biometrology
nanometrology
Translations:
wallaby
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Dharug wollabi (“swamp wallaby”).
Inflected forms:
form: wallabies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several species of macropod marsupials; usually smaller and stockier than kangaroos.
pos: noun
examples: Australia’s states and territories oversee management of kangaroos and wallabies but the federal government is involved in exports.
Translations:
lawsuit
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: law
Etymology: From law + suit.
Compound parts: law
suit
Inflected forms:
form: lawsuits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lawsuits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lawsuiting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lawsuited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lawsuited
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: In civil law, a case where two or more people disagree and one or more of the parties take the case to a court for resolution.
pos: noun
examples: The lawyer advised his client against filing a lawsuit as it would take a lot of time and money to resolve.
My ex-fiancé filed a lawsuit against me for a false restraining order and defamation.
It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
gloss: To bring a lawsuit.
pos: verb
examples: The master, said Thady, lawsuited against the tenants […]
Translations:
jeans
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
Etymology: From Gene(s) (also spelled Jean(s)), an obsolete English name for the Italian city of Genoa. Compare French Gênes. In the context of clothing, the term originally denoted a kind of coarse cotton (known more fully as Gene(s) fustian) that was associated with Genoa. It began to be used for trousers made of such cloth in the 19th century. At this point, the final -s was reanalysed as a plural ending.
Inflected forms:
form: jean
pos: noun
tags: attributive
Senses:
gloss: A pair of trousers made from denim cotton.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: Traditionally most jeans are dyed dark blue.
As a general thing, they were dressed in homespun “jeans,” blue or yellow—there were no other varieties of it; all wore one suspender and sometimes two—yarn ones knitted at home,—some wore vests, but few wore coats.
Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
She added: “I did a jean ad. I mean, the reaction definitely was a surprise, but I love jeans. All I wear are jeans. I’m literally in jeans and a T-shirt every day of my life.”
Translations:
breeks
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English breke, Northern variant of brechis (“trousers”), from Old English brēċ (“breeches”), plural of brōc (“covering for the leg; trouser”). More at breeches.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pants, breeches.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
plural
plural-only
examples: — Ah, poor dogsbody, he said in a kind voice. I must give you a shirt and a few noserags. How are the secondhand breeks?
He was a loutish fellow, much bent in the shoulders, with leggings, which lacked most of the buttons, over his disreputable breeks.
Tane unfolded and rose to his full height. Naked, his tanned flesh glistening with sweat, he held out his arms and stretched out the kinks in his body. […] "Loan me some breeks."
Translations:
deathmatch
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: video-games
Etymology: Etymology tree
English death
English match
English deathmatch
From death + match.
Inflected forms:
form: deathmatches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: deathmatches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deathmatching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: deathmatched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: deathmatched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A competitive mode found in first-person shooter games in which competitors attempt to assassinate one another.
pos: noun
examples: There are only eight levels but the varied game modes (including time attacks, survivals, team deathmatches, hunts, and sieges) in both single and multi-player keeps things interesting.
The player continued to describe their own experience with deathmatch, explaining sometimes it takes several minutes for the deathmatch to load — meaning by the time they spawn, the game is almost over.
gloss: To compete against in a deathmatch.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Doom video game (id Software, 1993): message shown when quitting
If I were your boss, I'd deathmatch ya in a minute!
gloss: To take part in deathmatch gaming.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
bedroom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bed + room.
Compound parts: bed
room
Inflected forms:
form: bedrooms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bed room
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: bed-room
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A room in a house, apartment, hotel, or other dwelling where a bed is kept for sleeping.
pos: noun
examples: Please don't enter my bedroom without knocking.
The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].
I am in the bedroom.
gloss: The location of sexual activity.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
examples: "How are things in the bedroom?" asked the marriage therapist.
If you’re single, you might be going through a dry spell, or if you’re taken, life in the bedroom has become more routine and less of a spontaneous, fun activity.
Synonyms: bedchamber
sleeping quarters
Related words: bedroom community
bedroom eyes
bedroom state
bedroom tax
in the bedroom
Derived words: bedrobe
bedroomed
bedroomful
bedroomish
bedroomless
bedroomlike
bedroom nation
bedroomy
bedsit
multibedroom
Translations:
rifugio
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian rifugio. Doublet of refuge and refugium.
Inflected forms:
form: rifugios
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rifugi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hut in the Italian mountains.
pos: noun
examples: And though the standard fare at the mountain osterias known as rifugios largely remains slabs of speck and strong local cheese, there are exceptions — most notably Col Alt, a rifugio above Corvara accessible only by ski lift, where meat dishes take the form of succulent venison or rabbit, and bottles of aged Barolo offer a noble complement to the soaring mountain vistas.
Translations:
variant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
computing
engineering
genetics
human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: From Old French variant, from Latin variāns, the present active participle of variō (“to change”). First attested in c. 1380.
Inflected forms:
form: more variant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most variant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: variaunt
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: variants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: variaunt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Showing variety, diverse.
pos: adj
gloss: Showing deviation or disagreement.
pos: adj
gloss: Variable.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Covariant and/or contravariant.
pos: adj
gloss: Something that is slightly different from a type or norm.
pos: noun
examples: All breeds of dog are variants of the species “Canis lupus familiaris”.
gloss: A different sequence of a gene (locus).
pos: noun
examples: Most train operators have reduced services with emergency timetables, as they struggle to cope with a rapid increase in staff absences due to the Omicron variant of COVID.
gloss: A variable that can hold any of various unrelated data types.
pos: noun
gloss: One of a set of words or other linguistic forms that conveys the same meaning or serves the same function.
pos: noun
examples: The word "kerosine" is a variant of “kerosene”.
The "Terms" number is the total number of words and lexical phrases, including sub-headwords and other nested lexical items, but exclusive of variants.
Each member of this group of two or more forms is called a variant. [...] In this case ‘-in’ and ‘-ing’ are variants of the sociolinguistic variable -ing.
Related words: variance
variation
vary
alternate
alternative
Derived words: time-variant
Alpha variant
Beta variant
biovariant
bivariant
copy-number variant
delta variant
Delta variant
epivariant
Epsilon variant
equivariant
Eta variant
Gamma variant
genovariant
glycovariant
heterovariant
immunovariant
invariant
Iota variant
isovariant
Kappa variant
Kraken variant
Lambda variant
metavariant
microvariant
monovariant
multivariant
Mu variant
neurovariant
nonvariant
Omega variant
Omicron variant
pathovariant
pharmacovariant
polyvariant
scariant
serovariant
splice variant
subvariant
Theta variant
univariant
unvariant
variant reading
Zeta variant
z-variant
Translations:
putsch
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from German Putsch, from Alemannic German Putsch (“knock, thrust, blow”), of imitative origin.
Inflected forms:
form: putsches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A coup d'état; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government.
pos: noun
examples: Afterward, the ringleaders of the failed putsch were publicly executed.
2010, Thompson, M. 2010. Modernisation theory’s last redoubt: democratisation in east and south east Asia. In Yin-wah Chu and Siu-lun Wong (ed), 'East Asia's new democracies: deepening, reversal, non-liberal alternatives'. London, Routledge.p98.
"They have broken the democratic rules of the game by supporting popular mobilisation that has resulted in what can be dubbed a "people power putsch"."
Translations:
speculator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
business
finance
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
Etymology: From Latin speculātor (“spy, explorer, investigator”), from speculor (“to watch, to observe”) + -tor (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from specula (“watchtower”), from speciō (“to watch, to observe”), q.v. In some senses, an agent noun formed within English from speculate. Doublet of spectator.
Base: speculor
Affixes: -tor
Inflected forms:
form: speculators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who speculates; an observer; a contemplator.
pos: noun
examples: a bold and paradoxical speculator
gloss: One who forms theories; a theorist.
pos: noun
examples: […] in things of Fact, the People are as much to be believed, as the most subtle Philosophers and Speculators, since here sense is the Judge.
For, in the earlier part of the seventeenth century, a speculator who had dared to affirm that the human soul is by its nature mortal, and does, in the great majority of cases, actually die with the body, would have been burned alive in Smithfield.
gloss: One who speculates; as in investing, one who is willing to take volatile risks upon invested principal for the potential of substantial returns.
pos: noun
examples: He had inherited his not inconsiderable fortune from an American cousin, who had in his time been a successful speculator—a speculator not exactly in crops, which are notoriously kittle-cattle, but in official crop reports.
But it would be very unjust to think of all the Railway Members as speculators and simply out to feather their own nests, not that it is fair to think of George Hudson in this light alone.
gloss: Synonym of field goal.
pos: noun
Related words: speculate
speculation
speculative
speculatrix
entrepreneur
gambler
punter
Derived words: specullector
Translations:
dolus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dolus (“deceit, trickery”); akin to Ancient Greek δόλος (dólos, “bait, ruse”). Compare dolose, dolosity.
Inflected forms:
form: doli
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Evil intent: malice or fraud.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Every actual delict presupposes a dolus or culpa, with the concomitant consciousness and prepense
Translations:
midday
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English midday, from Old English middæġ (“midday, noon”), equivalent to mid- + day. Cognate with Scots midday (“midday”), West Frisian middei (“midday, noon, afternoon”), Dutch middag (“midday, noon, afternoon”), German Mittag (“noon, midday, late morning, early afternoon”), Danish middag (“midday, noon, afternoon”), Norwegian Bokmål middag (“midday, noon, afternoon”), Swedish middag (“midday, noon, afternoon”).
Base: day
Affixes: mid-
Inflected forms:
form: middays
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mid-day
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Noon; twelve o'clock during the day.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: One indicates the time as one hour after twelve midday or midnight.
The list of potential victories you could achieve with your reset is long, and it includes a fafillion wins that have nothing to do with the scale: Fewer blemishes. Thicker hair. Less join pain. Reduced cravings. No midday energy slump.
But on Friday, a U.S. Air Force plane carrying more than 70 deportees arrived around midday in the city of San Pedro Sula, about 100 miles northwest of Tegucigalpa, the capital.
Antonyms: midnight
Translations:
flask
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: dentistry
engineering
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English flask, flaske (“case, cask, keg”), from Old English flasce, flaxe (“bottle, flask”) and Medieval Latin flascō (“bottle”); from Frankish *flaskā; both from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ (“braid-covered bottle, wicker-enclosed jug”), from Proto-Indo-European *ploḱ-skō (“flat”), or from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (“to weave”). Doublet of fiasco, flacon, and flagon.
Related to Dutch fles; also German Low German Flaske, Fless, German Flasche, Danish flaske; also Lithuanian plókščias, Czech ploský, Albanian flashkët.
The sense “laboratory glassware” is from Italian fiasco, and the sense “container for holding a casting mold” is from Middle French flasque (“powder flask”), itself from Old Spanish flasco, frasco, both from Late Latin above.
Inflected forms:
form: flasks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flasks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flasking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: flasked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: flasked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A container used to discreetly carry a small amount of a hard alcoholic beverage; a pocket flask.
pos: noun
gloss: Laboratory glassware used to hold larger volumes than test tubes, normally having a narrow mouth of a standard size which widens to a flat or spherical base.
pos: noun
gloss: A container for holding a casting mold, especially for sand casting molds.
pos: noun
gloss: A bed in a gun carriage.
pos: noun
gloss: A nuclear flask, a large, secure lead-lined container for the transport of nuclear material.
pos: noun
examples: Over the years, the railway has been the safest way to move hazardous chemicals, radioactive waste, fuel for Royal Navy nuclear submarines and imported fuel for reprocessing, as well as flasks containing fuel rods to and from British power stations.
gloss: A small bottle of liquor.
pos: noun
tags: Newfoundland
gloss: To invest a denture in a flask so as to produce a sectional mold.
pos: verb
Derived words: Bologna flask
Büchner flask
Claisen flask
conical flask
Dewar flask
Erlenmeyer flask
flasker
flaskette
flaskful
flaskless
flasklet
flasklike
flask wagon
fleaker
Florence flask
hipflask
hip-flask
hip flask
hip-pocket flask
hydroflask
Kitasato flask
Kitassato flask
Kitazato flask
Kjeldahl flask
Kohlrausch flask
moon flask
moon-flask
moonflask
New Year's flask
pocket-flask
powder flask
powderflask
round-bottomed flask
Schlenk flask
slideflask
snap flask
vacuum flask
volumetric flask
Translations:
fower
Part of speech: num
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English four, fower, from Old English fēower.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: four
pos: num
tags: Geordie
Translations: