yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
footbath
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From foot + bath.
Compound parts: foot
bath
Inflected forms:
form: footbaths
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: foot bath
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: foot-bath
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of soaking or washing the feet.
pos: noun
examples: Besides the above auxiliaries, our author occasionally recommends topical bleeding, exercise, friction, footbaths, &c.
[…] I [William Cowper] have been constant in the use of a hot foot[-]bath every night, the last thing before going to rest.
Apply eight leeches to the top of the sternum and use a foot bath at bed time and repeat the castor oil on the following morning.
The foot-baths are very useful in all cases where vigorous and cold remedies cannot well be used on account of weakness, fragility, want of vital warmth, etc.; as little or no reaction takes place, i. e. the cold water cannot produce sufficient warmth for want of blood.
Foot baths aren't just for tired, achy feet. Alternating hot and cold soaks is great for relieving swelling in the feet and legs. By diverting blood away from the affected areas, hot foot baths are used to relieve head and chest congestion and even menstrual cramps.
After a quicker-than-usual shower or a short footbath in sage or oak bark tea, dry (or blow-dry) the affected areas and surrounding skin very thoroughly.
gloss: A small basin or bath designed for soaking or washing the feet.
pos: noun
examples: [T]he portion [of the nail] which projects beyond the fingers or toes should be excised, so that it may not prevent the motions of the hands or feet. If the nail has no very considerable thickness, this may be done wit a pair of strong scissors, after it has been softened by the employment of the footbath.
A footbath is a handy tool to help you practice backyard biosecurity. […] Ask visitors to walk through the footbath, wiping their feet on the mat. The mat scrubs their shoes a bit as they wipe them and applies the disinfectant.
gloss: A liquid mixture, often medicinal, for soaking or washing the feet with.
pos: noun
examples: Rosemary essential oil can be used alone or in combination with thyme oil and sage tea in a deodorizing footbath that also helps relieve aching feet.
A 5 per cent formalin foot-bath is often recommended for the control or prevention of foul-in-the-foot, but it is important not to exceed that strength or to put the cows through it too often.
Translations:
foxie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From fox + -ie.
Base: fox
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: foxies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fox terrier.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
examples: He was a spare fellow, eager as a foxie, with the remains of a good profile and some remnants of grey curl.
Translations:
fraidy-cat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fraidy-cats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A coward; a person who is easily frightened.
pos: noun
tags: childish
informal
Translations:
fresh-faced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more fresh-faced
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fresh-faced
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Looking young and healthy.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
Translations:
freshie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
Etymology: From fresh + -ie. In the sense of an immigrant, shortened from fresh off the boat.
Base: fresh
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: freshies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: freshy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A freshman.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
US
colloquial
countable
examples: You've got a swell chance to make this [baseball] team, you have, not! Third base is my job, Freshie. Why, you tow-head, you couldn't play marbles.
gloss: A new immigrant (usually to the UK).
pos: noun
tags: UK
colloquial
countable
gloss: A freshwater crocodile (Crocodylus johnstoni)
pos: noun
tags: Australia
colloquial
countable
gloss: Freshly fallen snow.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
uncountable
Synonyms: FOB
greener
newling
Related words: freshies
Translations:
fucus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cosmetics
lifestyle
Etymology: From New Latin Fūcus, from Ancient Greek φῦκος (phûkos).
Inflected forms:
form: fuci
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fucuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fukes
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any alga of the genus Fucus.
pos: noun
examples: Sea-weeds, consisting of different species of fuci, algæ, and confervæ, are much used as a manure on the sea-coasts of Britain and Ireland.
One of the feeblest of these inlets, after winding for some time among buried fragments of masonry, and knots of sunburnt weeds whitened with webs of fucus, stays itself in an utterly stagnant pool beside a plot of greener grass covered with ground ivy and violets.
gloss: A skin cosmetic, a wash or colouring for the skin.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: And to morrowe morning, ¶ I’le ſend you a perfume, firſt to reſolue ¶ And procure ſweat, and then prepare a Bath ¶ To clenſe, and cleare the Cutis; againſt when, ¶ I’le haue an excellent new Fucus made, ¶ Reſiſtiue 'gainſt the ſunne, the raine, or wind, ¶ Which you ſhall lay on with a breath, or oyle, ¶ As you beſt like, and laſt ſome fourteen howres,[…]
gloss: A veil, pretense, mask; an artifice, deception.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
obsolete
gloss: Any dye or colouring.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Derived words: fucusol
Translations:
full-page
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: journalism
media
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: covering an entire page.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Taking a full-page advertisement in the New York Times, the New Haven counter-attacked with vigour.
This past weekend, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach set off a firestorm with his full-page ad in the New York Times accusing National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice of turning a blind eye to the Rwandan genocide when she was on President Bill Clinton’s national security team in the 1990s.
Translations:
fuzzy-wuzzy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Adjective: Reduplication of fuzzy. Noun: From the adjective, in reference to their fuzzy hair texture.
Inflected forms:
form: more fuzzy-wuzzy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fuzzy-wuzzy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fuzzy wuzzy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: fuzzy-wuzzies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Fuzzy.
pos: adj
tags: childish
informal
examples: a fuzzy-wuzzy cat
gloss: A Hadendoa warrior of the Mahdi army in the 19th century.
pos: noun
tags: UK
historical
gloss: A Papuan, especially one who assisted the Australian military against the Japanese; a Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Translations:
no-take
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Under a level of protection where nobody is permitted to remove any fish or other organisms.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Here we provide 17 reasons why there is a strong scientific, management, and public interest in using no-take marine reserves to build sustainable fisheries and protect marine ecosystems.
There are also other flow-on benefits for many species in areas outside a no-take area - for example, spill-over of adults and juvenile fishes, as well as larval recruitment...
Translations:
zoop
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative; compare zap, zip.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Sound effect suggesting rapid motion.
pos: intj
tags: colloquial
examples: "Let me show you how this damn stuff explodes in pure oxygen," Johnson said, and turned on the projector. Markley was "totally aghast" himself. "It just went ZOOP! It was unbelievable. The stuff burned like you couldn't imagine."
On the day they play the Wild Things for the City Cup, he dons his gear (pulling on his underwear with a "zap" and his socks with a "zoop") and heads for the field.
And a bit more manly (or womanly) turn of a long tripod screw in a shallow tripod socket and, zoop, through the socket end goes the tripod screw, right into the camera works. And this can also happen with inadequate metal tripod sockets […]
She'd tell me about one guy she'd kind of strung along without really meaning to, and zoop! Some of the glamour I'd been seeing in her would just vanish. Then she started in on the next one and again—zoop! Smaller still!
Translations:
holarctic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From holo- + Arctic.
Base: Arctic
Affixes: holo-
Inflected forms:
form: Holarctic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Distributed in a geographic range around the North Pole; restricted to Arctic regions.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.
Translations:
willy-nilly
Part of speech: adv
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From will I, nill I (“if I want, if I don't want”); also as will he, nill he and will ye, nill ye. See will (“to desire, to wish, to be willing”), nill (“to not desire, to not wish, to be unwilling”). Compare Latin velim nōlim (“if I desire it or not”, “willy nilly”).
Compare English harum-scarum of the same meaning.
Inflected forms:
form: more willy-nilly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most willy-nilly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: willy nilly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: more willy-nilly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most willy-nilly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: willy nilly
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Whether desired or not; without regard for consequences or wishes of those affected; whether willingly or unwillingly.
pos: adv
examples: Whenever I see a long handsome neck, willy nilly, the thought will come uppermost—What a capital neck for carving! Those cursed executions! One can't rid one's mind of them.
[I]f you love him not, then you can love me, and, therefore, can come to please yourself, willy-nilly. What! am I to be thwarted in such a trifle? Willy-nilly, I say, I will marry thee. Come—we waste the time.
The outer world is what we wake up to every morning of our lives, is the place where, willy-nilly, we must try to make our living.
gloss: Seemingly at random; haphazardly.
pos: adv
tags: idiomatic
examples: The novel Alice in Wonderland describes a place where things happen willy-nilly.
Some writers chasing money churn out novels willy-nilly.
gloss: That happens whether willingly or unwillingly.
pos: adj
examples: [S]omeone saw thy willy-nilly nun / Vying a tress against our golden fern.
O my God, if man be only / A willy-nilly current of sensations— / Reaction needs must follow revel—yet— / Why feel remorse, he, knowing that he must have / Moved in the iron grooves of Destiny?
gloss: Seemingly random; haphazard; arbitrary.
pos: adj
Translations:
Paschal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin paschālis; ultimately from Hebrew פסח (pésakh). Doublet of Pascal and pascal.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Easter.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Passover.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: Paschal basket
paschal candle
paschal flower
Paschal Lamb
Paschal Moon
Paschal term
Paschaltide
Paschaltime
Paschal Triduum
Paschal troparion
Translations:
Eastery
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Easter + -y.
Base: Easter
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more Eastery
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Eastery
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: of or pertaining to Easter
pos: adj
tags: informal
gloss: reminiscent of Easter
pos: adj
tags: informal
Translations:
cubitus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
entomology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin cubitus. Doublet of cubit.
Inflected forms:
form: cubiti
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The ulna.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: One of the major veins of the insect wing, between the media and the postcubitus; the vein running along the dorsal edge of the discal cell.
pos: noun
gloss: The elbow, or the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped.
pos: noun
gloss: The forearm; the arm from the elbow to fingertip, or the corresponding portion of a jointed limb of an animal that uses the limb for locomotion or grasping.
pos: noun
Derived words: articulatio cubiti
cubital
Translations:
delice
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From de- + lice.
Base: lice
Affixes: de-
Inflected forms:
form: delices
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: delicing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: deliced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: deliced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To rid of lice.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Every year, as a fixed ritual just before the spring break, the school held a delicing day.
Translations:
forky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From fork + -y.
Base: fork
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: forkier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more forky
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: forkiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most forky
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of forked.
pos: adj
examples: […] for hungry birds have devoured ſeeds, and having moiſtened and warmed them in their bellies, a little after have dunged in the forky twiſtes of Trees, and together with their dung excluded the ſeed whole which erſt they had ſwallowed: and ſometimes it brings forth there where they dung it, […]
The Leaves are compoſed each of ſeven parts; the Flowers grow by two's on forky Footſtalks.
The forky lightning flashed, and the deep toned thunder reverberated peal on peal, while the shrieking winds rocked the tree tops, and poured their wild melody upon the ear.
The column of fire now ascended above the main-top—licking with its forky tongue the top-mast rigging—and embracing the mainmast in its folds: […]
At the sight of the young man it lashed its tail so violently that the earth trembled as if with an earthquake, while its forky tongue darted in and out with a deafening hissing noise.
Translations:
fragmental
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From fragment + -al.
Base: fragment
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: fragmentals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: consisting of fragments
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: These are similar in composition to the leaner iron ores of Brazil, called itabirite, but differ in that the silica is in the form of chemically deposited chert, rather than fragmental quartz grains.
However, the most common killer in fatal eruptions is tephra, which includes all fragmental material thrown from volcanoes, killing mainly by collapse of ash-covered roofs (the most deaths) or by projectile impact (by far the largest number of fatal tephra accidents).
gloss: A fragmentary rock.
pos: noun
Translations:
daith
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hebrew דעת (da'at, “knowledge”), possibly because of the belief that a ring daith piercing only allows intelligent speech to be heard.
Inflected forms:
form: daiths
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: daith piercing
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An ear piercing in the inner cartilage just above the earhole.
pos: noun
Translations:
frypan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From fry + pan.
Compound parts: fry
pan
Inflected forms:
form: frypans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fry-pan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fry pan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A frying pan.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
US
examples: On the afternoon in question the Jensens were using an electric frypan on the table in the annexe to cook a roast dinner. The source of electric power for the frypan was a power point situated near the stove inside the caravan.
Place beef in frypan and cook for 1 minute on each side. Remove beef from pan and cover. Place reserved marinade in frypan, add mushrooms and simmer until marinade has reduced and mushrooms are soft.
It has 20 pieces (including a 6-piece tool set and a non-stick frypan) and costs $150.
A pile of assorted kitchen gear—a heavy frypan dark with soot, several spoons and forks stuck tidily in a clean pot, a kettle as blackened as the frypan, and a large pot that tilted benignly to one side—rested against the side of the firepit.
Translations:
furnisher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From furnish + -er.
Base: furnish
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: furnishers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: one who furnishes
pos: noun
examples: His brain, after working at top speed during the day with the architect, the painter and decorator, the furnisher, the garden expert, the plumbing expert, the electric-light expert, the lawyer, the estate agent, and numberless other persons, during the night meditated and evolved advertisements.
Translations:
hagiographical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hagiography + -ical.
Base: hagiography
Affixes: -ical
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: hagiographic
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Saladin's prophetic namesake, by any account as obviously an antiwarrior as one can imagine, seems at first too antithetical a character for comparison with the anti-Crusader par excellence, and therein lies the hagiographical dynamic at work.
Translations:
headshake
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From head + shake.
Compound parts: head
shake
Inflected forms:
form: headshakes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A shake of the head.
pos: noun
examples: That's tough," repeated Jack Harpe, and added a headshake for good measure. "
Translations:
hemorrhoidal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hemorrhoid + -al.
Base: hemorrhoid
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: haemorrhoidal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
form: hæmorrhoidal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
form: hemorrhoidals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: haemorrhoidal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: hæmorrhoidal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to hemorrhoids.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Synonym of hemorrhoid.
pos: noun
Translations:
Paulist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Paul + -ist.
Base: Paul
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: Paulists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of various religious orders associated with either of the saints Paul of Thebes and Paul of Tarsus.
pos: noun
Translations:
collusively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From collusive + -ly.
Base: collusive
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more collusively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most collusively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: in a collusive manner; fraudulently through collusion
pos: adv
Translations:
DDoS
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: DDoSes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: DDOS
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: DDoSes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: DDoSing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: DDoSed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: DDoSed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: DDoS'd
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: DDoS'd
pos: verb
tags: past
form: DDOS
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A distributed denial-of-service attack, one that originates from many different (geographically and network topographically) sources, on a network of networks such as the Internet.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: Some bots help refresh your Facebook feed or figure out how to rank Google search results; other bots impersonate humans and carry out devastating DDoS attacks.
gloss: To attack by DDoS.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
transitive
examples: Stuart Staniford, president of Silicon Defense in Eureka, Calif., notes, however, that if the zombie computers “had a long target list and a control mechanism to allow dynamic retargeting, [they] could have DDoSed servers used to map addresses to contact information, the ones used to distribute patches, the ones belonging to companies that analyze worms or distribute incident response information.[…]”
On February 9, 2000, web sites such as Yahoo! and CNN were DDoSed off the Internet, mostly by spoofed smurf attacks.
The system got DDoSed (knocked out of commission by many distributed denial of service attacks), many lawsuits were threatened, and at one point power was even mysteriously lost to the facility, bringing the list down for days (and causing many network interruptions in the process).
In posts on his account, Hunt gave further details on the timeline, including contacting the Internet Archive about the breach on October 6th and moving forward with the disclosure process to today, when the site was defaced and DDoS’d at the same time they were loading the data into HIBP to begin notifying affected users.
Translations:
tocher
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Scots tocher, from Middle Irish tochar.
Inflected forms:
form: tochers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tochers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tochering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tochered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tochered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A dowry.
pos: noun
examples: And folk were to say […] old Guthrie had been fair spiteful to his sons, maybe Will would dispute his sister's tocher.
gloss: To supply with a dowry.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
calyptra
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
entomology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek καλύπτρα (kalúptra, “covering or veiling”).
Inflected forms:
form: calyptras
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: calyptrae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In bryophytes, a thin hood of tissue that forms from the archegonium and covers the developing sporophyte and is shed as it ripens.
pos: noun
examples: (b) sporophyte with foot reduced, the entire sporophyte enveloped by the calyptra, which is ± stipitate at the base.
gloss: any cap-like covering of a flower or fruit, such as the operculum over the unopened buds of Eucalyptus flowers
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various coverings at the tips of structures, in the terminology of various authors; for example rootcaps and the apical cells of trichomes.
pos: noun
gloss: In flies such as the housefly, Musca, in the taxonomic order Diptera, zoological section Schizophora, subsection Calyptrata, the calyptra is a membranous rearward extension of the forewing; it covers the haltere.
pos: noun
Derived words: calyptrate
calyptriform
Translations:
stipitate
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From New Latin stīpitātus, from Classical Latin stīpes + -ātus. Compare stipe.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Possessing a stalk.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: (b) sporophyte with foot reduced, the entire sporophyte enveloped by the calyptra, which is ± stipitate at the base.
Translations:
keke
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: In imitation of the sound of laughter.
Inflected forms:
form: kekes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: kekeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: keke'd
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: keke'd
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To laugh, especially in a cackling or staccato-like manner.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: Two of the models I hadn't met yet were kekeing behind us, which delighted me when I saw the irritation plastered on Cruella de Vil's face.
Translations:
cop-killer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cop + killer.
Compound parts: cop
killer
Inflected forms:
form: cop-killers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who deliberately kills an on-duty police officer.
pos: noun
examples: Serpico spat the words out. "For killing a cop! He's a fucking cop-killer! Tell that to all his fucking friends up there."
Translations:
night-raven
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: night-ravens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bird active at night, sometimes identified with a specific species such as a night owl or nightjar, and sometimes seen as a separate animal in its own right.
pos: noun
examples: sad Horrour with grim hew, / Did alwayes sore, beating his yron wings; / And after him Owles and Night-rauens flew, / The hatefull messengers of heauy things [...].
Cursed creatures, messengers of death, possess the world. / Night-ravens, screech-owls, and voice-killing mandrakes […].
Omens thicken upon us, O Gro. First, the night raven that went widdershins round about the palace of Carcë, that night when the King accepted this challenge, and we were all drunken with wine after our great feasting and surfeiting in his halls.
Translations:
electrodermal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From electro- + dermal.
Base: dermal
Affixes: electro-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the electrical properties of skin
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
messin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: messins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mongrel dog; a cur.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
Translations:
learnability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From learn + -ability.
Base: learn
Affixes: -ability
Inflected forms:
form: learnabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being learnable.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The ease with which something can be learned.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: unlearnability
Translations:
psychophysiological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From psycho- + physiological.
Base: physiological
Affixes: psycho-
Inflected forms:
form: more psychophysiological
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most psychophysiological
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to psychophysiology
pos: adj
Translations:
psychophysiology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From psycho- + physiology.
Base: physiology
Affixes: psycho-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The branch of physiology that deals with the interaction of the mind and physiological processes.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
thrombo-endarterectomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: thrombo-endarterectomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Etymologically incorrect spelling of thrombendarteriectomy
pos: noun
Translations:
thecal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From theca + -al.
Base: theca
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a theca.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Possessing a theca.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The latter has the sporophyte seta 4 cells in diam. and has thecal Lejeunea-type androecial branches[…]
Related words: theca
Derived words: dithecal
extrathecal
holothecal
interthecal
intrathecal
monothecal
perithecal
schizothecal
subthecal
tetrathecal
Translations:
vaseline
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wed-
Proto-Indo-European *-r̥
Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥
Proto-Germanic *watōr
Proto-West Germanic *watar
Old High German waȥȥar
Middle High German wazzer
German Wasser
Proto-Hellenic *élaiwon
Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion)
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ine
English vaseline
From German Wasser (“water”) + Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “oil”) + -ine. Genericized trademark of the Vaseline brand of petroleum jelly introduced by American chemist Robert Augustus Chesebrough in 1872.
Affixes: -ine
Inflected forms:
form: vaselines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vaselining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vaselined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vaselined
pos: verb
tags: past
form: Vaseline
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To lubricate with vaseline.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Even at this late date, vaselining will preserve the best of these leathers.
Translations:
twiddly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From twiddle + -y.
Base: twiddle
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: twiddlier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: twiddliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being finely or idly adjusted with the fingers.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Radio – with its buttons and twiddly knobs and white noise in between – is on the tip of a huge wave of change, courtesy of the Internet.
Through the open doorway Nedda could see […] the back of Mr. Cuthcott in a twiddly chair, surrounded by sheets of paper reposing on the floor, shining like autumn leaves on a pool of water.
gloss: Having an elaborately twisted form.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: The design of an indicator is often — indeed usually — thought to be the business of the engineer, perhaps aided by someone — an artist or a "stylist" — who adds an aesthetic touch, a twiddly bit, a strip of chromium, a dash of paint, or better still several dashes in clashing colours, of which a bilious yellow will be one.
Everyone has a computer, everyone has the same software, and everyone thinks they can stick a couple of butterflies onto a twiddly background and they have an illustration. They don't have an illustration; they have decoration.
It was her nose was the worst. It seemed to have been twisted into a hook with a twiddly bit at the top.
gloss: In music, having a rapid series of musical notes.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: There are moments when the band sounds oddly like its acoustic predecessor, and there are some feints at free jazz, but the most curious episode, unlike any other live Miles I know, is a long spacey improvisation using wood flute, related less to the twiddly studio jams than to the ritual atmospherics of Chicago's creative-music vanguard.
The bugle called, a twiddly bit and then one long note.
Translations:
temporomandibular
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From temporo- + mandibular.
Base: mandibular
Affixes: temporo-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: of or relating to both the temporal bone and mandible
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It shows that several key mammalian evolutionary innovations in the ear region, the temporomandibular joint, and the brain vault evolved incrementally through mammaliaform evolution and long before the differentiation of the living mammal groups.
Translations:
thoracolumbar
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From thoraco- + lumbar.
Base: lumbar
Affixes: thoraco-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: of or relating to the thoracic and lumbar areas
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Following laminectomy at the thoracolumbar transition, 100,000 cells in a volume of 1 µl CMF-HBSS were injected into the dorsal column of 7-day-old md rats at one or several levels.
Translations:
strigoi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Romanian strigoi, from strigă, from Latin striga (“hag, evil spirit”), from strix (“screech owl”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In Balkan folklore, the troubled souls of the dead rising from the grave.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
coreless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From core + -less.
Base: core
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Lacking a core
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
steam-crack
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: steam-cracks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: steam-cracking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: steam-cracked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: steam-cracked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To crack using steam cracking.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Translations:
steam-cracked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: cracked using steam cracking
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
variadic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: From variable + -adic.
Base: variable
Affixes: -adic
Inflected forms:
form: variadics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Taking a variable number of arguments; especially, taking arbitrarily many arguments.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: C's printf is one of the most widely used variadic functions.
There are some functions and predicates which we tend to think of as being able to take any number of parameters – of being of variable arity or variadic.
The variadic functions that increase the valence of the input relation through the addition of a circumstance to the set of its argument-roles can be represented by means of an operator (or rather, a family of operators) ‘Circ’.
However, the real max procedure of Scheme is a variadic procedure, which means that it accepts any positive number of arguments: ¶ (max 5 1 3 8 9 7 2 6 4) => 9
gloss: Belonging to a variadic function.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: each variadic argument
gloss: A function that takes a variable number of arguments.
pos: noun
examples: PHP 5.6 introduced variadics that explicitly accept a variable number of parameters.
Related words: monadic
diadic
triadic
polyadic
Translations:
shotta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From shooter.
Inflected forms:
form: shottas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An armed gangster.
pos: noun
tags: Jamaica
slang
examples: For example, a shotta from one street in the community had "cut up" another youth from their own avenue.
They go on an ID parade [a police lineup], and nobody identified them as being a shotta, so everything's clear. But we still baffi be careful.
Shottas may act as independent gunmen or may be under the rule of particular dons.
Translations:
biofluid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bio- + fluid.
Base: fluid
Affixes: bio-
Inflected forms:
form: biofluids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any biological fluid.
pos: noun
examples: It depends on the operation of a microdiaphragm that moves up and down to push biofluids through a channel.
Translations:
alarm-bell
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: alarm-bells
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bell rung to signal danger or emergency.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A bell which is rung to indicate a pre-arranged time, especially to mark a desired moment for waking up, performing a specific action etc.
pos: noun
Translations:
trindle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English trindel (“wheel, roller”), from Old English tryndel (“circle, ring”), from Proto-West Germanic *trundil (“ring, hoop”), equivalent to trend + -le. Akin to Low German tründeln (“to roll”). More at trend.
Base: trend
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: trindles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wheel, especially of a wheelbarrow.
pos: noun
tags: dialectal
gloss: A piece of wood, etc., laid between the cords and boards of a book to flatten before cutting.
pos: noun
Translations:
emerg
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Clipping of emergency.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The emergency department of a hospital.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
slang
examples: These EMS people, who should just walk into the emerg, drop their patient off, and then leave, are frozen in the emerg for a long period of time, because there aren't enough resources there.
“Rather than going to emerg and getting admitted and having the condition over a period of time, we understand that the event happened fairly quickly.
“What we've seen in the last few days is a number of cases that have come to emerg departments.
Translations:
puck-handling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
Etymology: 1921, puck + handling.
Compound parts: puck
handling
Inflected forms:
form: puck handling
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: puckhandling
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The ability to control the puck; stickhandling.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Dazzling puck handling by the visitors, but college men break up swift attacks. [headline]
[…] Flyers dominated the game with superior skating, checking, passing and puck-handling.
Translations:
Kia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Korean 기아 (Kia), from 起 (ki, “to arise”) + 亞 (a), from 亞細亞 (asea, “Asia”), in turn from Latin Asia.
Compound parts: 起
亞
Inflected forms:
form: Kias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A vehicle of the Kia brand.
pos: noun
Translations:
bokke
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese ボッケ (bokke).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of sea raven (“fish”).
pos: noun
Translations:
asparagus-like
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From asparagus + -like.
Base: asparagus
Affixes: -like
Inflected forms:
form: more asparagus-like
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most asparagus-like
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: asparaguslike
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of asparagus.
pos: adj
Translations:
knob-gobbler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From knob + gobbler.
Compound parts: knob
gobbler
Inflected forms:
form: knob-gobblers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of cock gobbler.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
vulgar
Translations:
Aja
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A people living in parts of Benin and Togo.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
cloner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
literature
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
science-fiction
sciences
Etymology: From clone + -er.
Base: clone
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: cloners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who clones something.
pos: noun
examples: We set up a meeting with the factor VIII gene cloners at the Genetics Institute, a biotech company in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
gloss: A software program that duplicates media.
pos: noun
examples: Higher-end hard disk cloners have the ability to create multiple copies simultaneously.
gloss: A device capable of duplicating physical objects.
pos: noun
Translations:
cryptologic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to cryptology.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
nake
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English naken (“to nake”), from Old English nacian (“to bare, strip, make naked”), from Proto-Germanic *nakwōną (“to make naked”), from Proto-Indo-European *nogʷ- (“to make naked”). Cognate with Old Norse nǫkkva (“to bare, expose”). More at naked.
Inflected forms:
form: nakes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: naking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: naked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: naked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make naked; to bare.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
examples: Come, be ready, nake your swords.
Translations:
tuite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: ? + -ite
Affixes: -ite
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A trigonal-ditrigonal pyramidal mineral containing calcium, iron, magnesium, oxygen, phosphorus, and sodium.
pos: noun
Translations:
gip
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: gips
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A servant; a gyp.
pos: noun
examples: The girls seldom passed her without her saying, “Move faster, you black gip!” at the same time giving them a blow with the cowskin over the head or shoulders, often drawing the blood.
Translations:
sitz
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From sitz bath, from German sitz, from sitzen (“to sit”).
Inflected forms:
form: sitzes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sitzing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sitzed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sitzed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To take, or place in, a sitz bath.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Translations:
pilger
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pilgers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pilgering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pilgered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pilgered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To reduce the diameter of a metal tube in a pilger mill
pos: verb
Translations:
beman
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English bemannen, bimannen, bemonnen, equivalent to be- + man. Cognate with Middle High German bemannen.
Base: man
Affixes: be-
Inflected forms:
form: bemans
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bemanning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bemanned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bemanned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To furnish or fill with men; man.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Now do so well as to fare to meet me at thine earliest, and as much bemanned as may be; and let us be both together whatever may happen.
Translations:
buist
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: buists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: buists
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: buisting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: buisted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: buisted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A box or chest.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: A mark put on sheep or cattle to indicate ownership.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: To mark with a buist.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
transitive
Translations:
culverhouse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From culver + house.
Compound parts: culver
house
Inflected forms:
form: culverhouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a dovecote, particularly a large one on an estate
pos: noun
Translations:
gunt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of g(ut) + (c)unt.
Compound parts: gut
cunt
Inflected forms:
form: gunts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The bulging between the waist and the genital areas in an obese person.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: I'm a man with a gunt. How do I get rid of it? My legs and arms are in good shape, however.
Then there was the period immediately afterward when she grew a bit of a gunt and started looking more like a traditional female-in-sports person.
Translations:
panicker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From panic + -er.
Base: panic
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: panickers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who panics.
pos: noun
Translations:
overthinker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From overthink + -er.
Base: overthink
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: overthinkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who overthinks.
pos: noun
Translations:
sugarcraft
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂
Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH
Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH
Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā)
Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara)bor.
Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar)bor.
Arabic سُكَّر (sukkar)bor.
Old Italian zuccherobor.
Old French çucrebor.
Middle English sugre
English sugar
Proto-Germanic *krafjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *kraftuz
Proto-West Germanic *kraftu
Old English cræft
Old English -cræft
Middle English -craft
English -craft
English sugarcraft
From sugar + -craft.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The culinary art of making things from sugar.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
lammer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
gambling
games
poker
Etymology: From lamination + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: lammers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small plastic disk used by a croupier or dealer to track the state of a game of chance or a debt owed; also button or marker.
pos: noun
gloss: A voucher, issued to a tournament winner, that waives the entry fee or buy-in for a larger tournament.
pos: noun
gloss: A laminator.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
margo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin margō. Doublet of marge and margin.
Inflected forms:
form: margines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: margos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: border, margin
pos: noun
examples: The colpi are bordered by prominent margos or lips. Тhe margo is separated from the remainder of the heavily sculptured surface by a narrow channel.
Translations:
well-built
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From well + built.
Compound parts: well
built
Inflected forms:
form: better-built
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more well-built
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: best-built
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most well-built
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: well built
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Constructed in a pleasing or sound manner.
pos: adj
examples: The basics of a well-built garden
It ran derailed for about 500 yards before encountering a set of points, which caused it to veer into the path of an Immingham-Ferrybridge coal train, powered by Freightliner 66521 (one of a class of locomotive well-known for being well-built enough to destroy anything that got in its way).
gloss: Muscular and lean, having a body resembling that of an athlete.
pos: adj
examples: James Lassiter was forty years old, a well-built, ruggedly handsome man in the prime of his life, in the best of health.
A well-built teenage boy in a soiled black leather studded vest and black jeans was crouched in the far corner of the cellar, waiting for us.
Translations:
lang: Assamese
word: ওখ-পাখ
roman: ükho-pakho
lang: Bulgarian
word: добре сложен
roman: dobre složen
lang: Greek
word: γεροδεμένος
roman: gerodeménos
lang: Greek
word: εύρωστος
roman: évrostos
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: velbygd
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: velbygget
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: velbygd
lang: Spanish
word: maceteado
lang: Spanish
word: fornido
lang: Ukrainian
word: міцни́й
roman: micnýj
lang: Ukrainian
word: ставни́й
roman: stavnýj
lang: Ukrainian
word: га́рної стату́ри
roman: hárnoji statúry
cradle-to-grave
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Spanning an entire lifetime, from birth to death.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
not-comparable
examples: Unsustainable human activities are creating an open loop “cradle-to-grave” system that cannot continue and has one day to reach a conclusion. Closing the loop for renewable resources is the role of changing the “cradle-to-grave” concept to a “cradle-to-cradle” concept as discussed in chapter 1.
Politics should be a cradle-to-grave calling: anything else is mere distraction.
The 'cradle-to-grave' approach that the company takes to rolling stock, which typically has an asset lifecycle of up to 35 years, has made the sector attractive to investors - […].
Translations:
never-would-be
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: never-would-bes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who will never achieve a great amount of success.
pos: noun
tags: nonce-word
examples: State politicians were still generally despised as second-raters, has-beens and never-would-bes more interested in lining their own pockets than in delivering services to those whom they were supposed to represent.
Translations: