yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
mammillary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
geography
geology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French mamillaire or directly from Late Latin mammillāris, from mamilla + -aris, diminutive of mamma (“breast”).
Base: mamilla
Affixes: -aris
Inflected forms:
form: more mammillary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mammillary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mammillar
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: mamillary
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: mammillaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mammillar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mamillary
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling a breast or nipple in shape or form.
pos: adj
gloss: Pertaining to the nipples.
pos: adj
examples: On the other hand, no woman who had ever borne a child (even in her own childhood) could be accepted, no matter how free she was of mammilary blemishes.
gloss: A carbonate coating formed through the precipitation of calcium carbonate onto existing rock below the water surface in cave pools.
pos: noun
gloss: A mammillary body, one of a pair of small round bodies, located on the undersurface of the brain, that form part of the limbic system.
pos: noun
Related words: mammary
mammillar
Mammillaria
Derived words: areolomammillary
intermammillary
mammillariform
mammillary body
perimammillary
postmammillary
premammillary
retromammillary
supramammillary
tuberomammillary
Translations:
misbehaving
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English misbehaving, equivalent to misbehave + -ing.
Base: misbehave
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: misbehavings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: bad conduct or actions
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: My misbehavings make him cry?
While he fears that the father may be angry for his misbehaving, a child would never fear that the father will kill him for misbehaving.
Translations:
ST
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: STs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: STing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: STed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: STed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To act as a game master (GM) in a tabletop role-playing game, especially any of the games produced by White Wolf.
pos: verb
Translations:
tota
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From a native word for it, perhaps Amharic ጦጣ (ṭoṭa, “monkey, ape”).
Inflected forms:
form: totas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of monkey, the grivet or waag.
pos: noun
Translations:
rockhopper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
Etymology: From rock + hopper.
Compound parts: rock
hopper
Inflected forms:
form: rockhoppers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes spp.).
pos: noun
gloss: Any of the order Archaeognatha of jumping bristletails.
pos: noun
gloss: A disk on the bottom of a trawler-net that lifts when it hits a rock or bump, raising the net, preventing damage to the net or the seafloor.
pos: noun
Translations:
noni
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Hawaiian nonibor.
English noni
Borrowed from Hawaiian noni.
Inflected forms:
form: nonis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The Polynesian fruit tree Morinda citrifolia.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The fruit of Morinda citrifolia, or a juice made from this fruit that is purported to have healthful qualities
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I'm wondering if the claims you hear about the so-called miracle antioxidants – including goji, açai and noni – are true.
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: morinda barvířská
lang: Indonesian
word: mengkudu
lang: Indonesian
word: bengkudu
lang: Indonesian
word: pace
lang: Indonesian
word: kemudu
lang: Polish
word: morinda cytrynolistna
lang: Tagalog
word: apatot
old-timey
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English old
Proto-Indo-European *deh₂-der.
Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y-
Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ
Proto-Indo-European *dh₂i-mon-
Proto-Germanic *tīmô
Proto-West Germanic *tīmō
Old English tīma
Middle English tyme
English time
English old-time
English -y
English old-timey
From old-time + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: more old-timey
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: old-timier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most old-timey
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: old-timiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: old timey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Reminiscent or representative of an older time.
pos: adj
tags: US
informal
examples: Near-synonyms: old-fashioned, antiquated, retro
For our Halloween party that year, he wove a whole aesthetic that was maximally retro. He rolled up in an old-timey car, wearing an old-timey outfit, spouting old-timey phrases. It was a magnificent performance.
In short, the old town—the lovablest, old-timiest, easy-goingest old town that ever was—sits there by the River, hugging its traditions, and hoarding its stories, of which it has enough to make a new Thousand and One Nights.
One of the main charms of the Southern scene was the number of "old-timey" practices that persisted.
The former ferry, now the standby tied up at the Steilacoom dock, is the 18-car, wooden-hull Islander, even old-timier and better.
Whereas some of the potters making unglazed gardenware have expanded their production, others now also make some "old-timey" utilitarian glazed stoneware.
That white man buys up all this old-timey stuff he can get his hands on, all through this country. The very tools I lived by, he sells em for antiques.
But what’s a “Hawkeye” or a “Hoosier”? Indian tribes? Kinds of bird, maybe? This handy guide will help you decipher the seven oddest, old-timiest state nicknames.
Translations:
almandine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: An alteration of the earlier alabandine, from Latin alabandina, from Alabanda, a town in Caria, a province of Asia Minor, where the mineral was found.
Inflected forms:
form: almandines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of garnet having a deep red color, inclining to purple, with the chemical formula Fe₃Al₂(SiO₄)₃.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Almandine, the variety found here, is stable at temperatures of 540 to 900°C at a pressure of 200 GPa.
Translations:
anodization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English anode
English -ization
English anodization
From anode + -ization.
Inflected forms:
form: anodizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of anodizing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
aquarist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: aquarists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who maintains an aquarium.
pos: noun
Translations:
anodic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From anode + -ic. Coined by William Whewell in 1837 in a letter to Michael Faraday.
Base: anode
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to, functioning as, or occurring at an anode.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
busser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bus (noun) + -er.
Base: bus
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: bussers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mid-sized horse used to pull a bus.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
anchoress
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English ankres, ankerisse, anchoryse; equivalent to anchor + -ess.
Base: anchor
Affixes: -ess
Inflected forms:
form: anchoresses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: anchress
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A female anchorite. A woman who chooses to withdraw from the world to live a solitary life of prayer and contemplation.
pos: noun
examples: … and advises the anchoresses to take on the basic religious vows …
Translations:
asphalted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Covered in asphalt
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
asphalting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: asphaltings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An application of asphalt.
pos: noun
Translations:
synchronism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, syn- + chron- + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: synchronisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being synchronous.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A temporal relationship between events.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It is the study of wanderwords that might be used as one of the elements to establish synchronisms among protolanguages, and thus better define their dates, not the opposite.
gloss: The tabular arrangement of contemporary events etc. in history.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: synchroneity
synchronicity
Derived words: synchresis
synchronistic
Translations:
swarming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: swarmings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The motion of a swarm.
pos: noun
gloss: A crime where an unsuspecting innocent bystander is attacked by several culprits at once, with no known motive.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
colloquial
Translations:
short-chain
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a chain of fewer than about six carbon atoms.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
medium-chain
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a chain of between about six and twelve carbon atoms
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
long-chain
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a chain of more than about twelve carbon atoms.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
roadstead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From road + stead.
Compound parts: road
stead
Inflected forms:
form: roadsteads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A partly sheltered anchorage; a stretch of water near the shore where vessels may ride at anchor, but with less protection than a harbour.
pos: noun
examples: The shores of Protection island form on its south side, which is about two miles long, a most excellent roadstead, and a channel into port Discovery, near 2 miles wide on either side […]
[…] I found we were lying in a roadstead among many low and rocky islets, hovered about by an innumerable cloud of sea-fowl.
[…] that was the time when at the mast-heads of the three-deckers and seventy-fours moored in her own roadstead […] the blue-jackets, to be numbered by thousands, ran up with huzzas the British colors with the union and cross wiped out […]
Clusters of strong flowers rose everywhere above the coarse tussocks of bent. It was like a roadstead crowded with tall fairy-shipping.
In 1620 junks began to arrive from China depositing hundreds of migrants, and with the resumption of China's official trade to Southeast Asia in 1683, the numbers of junks arriving annually in Batavia's roadstead grew from an average of three or four to about twenty.
Translations:
Guinness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: An Anglicization of an Irish patronymic surname based on Angus.
Inflected forms:
form: Guinnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A serving of the beverage.
pos: noun
examples: Three Guinnesses please, barman.
I shoulda deaded it from genesis instead of hittin' the Guinnesses
Translations:
Brownian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Brown
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Brownian
From Brown + -ian.
Inflected forms:
form: more Brownian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Brownian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: brownian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to botanist Robert Brown (1773-1858), who investigated the movement of pollen suspended in water.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to botanist Robert Brown (1773-1858), who investigated the movement of pollen suspended in water.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to Capability Brown (Lancelot Brown, 1716?–1783), English landscape architect.
pos: adj
Translations:
surfable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle English suffe?
English suff?
English surf
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English surfable
From surf + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more surfable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most surfable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Able to be surfed
pos: adj
Translations:
tensioning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tensionings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The setting of the tension of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
tensioned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more tensioned
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tensioned
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In tension; strained or pulled on.
pos: adj
examples: Most of the overhead system is of the weight-tensioned type, constant tension being automatically applied by balance weights.
It is in the nature of the assertion of distinctions of identity that they force others to realize they are in a place that is not so universal, that their straight being is at best a tensioned coil likely to snap back any time soon.
Translations:
tensional
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ten-
Proto-Indo-European *tend-der.
Proto-Italic *tendō
Latin tendō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin tēnsiōder.
Middle French tensionbor.
English tension
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English tensional
From tension + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to tension.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The tensional force was so great the cable snapped.
Translations:
oak-tag
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: oak-tags
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: oaktag
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: oak tag
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A flexible material akin to thick paper.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A rectangular sheet of this material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Poster board.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
grant-back
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Inflected forms:
form: grant-backs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In U.S. patent law, a license under which a party grants another the right to use a patent under the condition that the licensee agrees to grant the licensor a license with respect to any improvements to that patent made by the licensee.
pos: noun
Translations:
f-hole
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
form: f-holes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sound hole, shaped like a lowercase f, through the top surface of a string instrument.
pos: noun
Translations:
grant-forward
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Inflected forms:
form: grant-forwards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In U.S. patent law, a provision accompanying the license of a patent under which a party agrees not only to grant a licensee the right to use a patent, but also to grant the licensee a license to any improvements made on the existing patent.
pos: noun
Translations:
Peripatetic
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin peripatēticus, from Ancient Greek περίπατος (perípatos, “strolling, covered walk, conversation while walking”), from περιπατέω (peripatéō, “to walk around”), from περί (perí, “around”) + πατέω (patéō, “to walk”). Aristotle’s school was sometimes called the περιπατητικοί (peripatētikoí) "those who are prone to walking" or οἱ ἐκ τοῦ περιπάτου (hoi ek toû peripátou, “those from the walk”) in reference either to his supposed habit of teaching while traversing the περίπατοι (perípatoi, “walkways”) of the Lyceum or simply to the walkways themselves with which the school became associated.
Inflected forms:
form: Peripatetics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Peripatetick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: peripatetic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Peripatetick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: peripatetic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A disciple of Aristotle.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: And though it be True indeed, that some Aristotelians have occasionally written against the Chymical Doctrine he Oppugnes, yet since they have done it according to their Principles, And since our Carneades must as well oppose their Hypothesis as that of the Spagyrist, he was fain to fight his Adverfaries with their own Weapons, Those of the Peripatetick being Improper, if not hurtfull for a Person of his Tenents ; besides that those Aristotelians, (at Least, those he met with,) that have written against the Chymists, seem to have had so little Experimental Knowledge in Chymical Matters, that by their frequent Mistakes and unskilfull way of Oppugning, they have too often expos'd Themselves to the Derision of their Adversaries, for writing so Confidently against what they appear so little to understand.
gloss: Of or pertaining to the philosophy or methods of Aristotle, or to his followers.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
trucial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English truce
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English trucial
From truce + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a truce; specifically, to the truce obtaining between Britain and various Arab sheikdoms of the Oman peninsula.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Without staking an explicitly colonial claim to Iraq, Sir Henry asserted […] in essence, the integration of Mesopotamia into Britain's trucial system in the Persian Gulf.
Translations:
Norwalk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
sciences
virology
Etymology: (For noun) Named after Norwalk, Ohio, where an outbreak of gastroenteritis in 1968 led to the isolation of the virus.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Designating a calicivirus affecting humans, characterized by severe vomiting and diarrhea.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
shoegazing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From shoe + gazing, because of the tendency of such performers to look down rather than at the crowd and the heavy use of effect pedals.
Compound parts: shoe
gazing
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A subgenre of alternative rock music popularised in early 1990s, characterised by a dreamlike sound making much use of effect pedals, and by a detached or introverted performance style.
pos: noun
tags: UK
uncountable
examples: "[…]Anyway, correct me if I'm wrong here, Danny, but wasn't it you who told me that true shoegazing began and ended with Slowdive's 12-inch debut: the imaginatively titled, 'Slowdive'?”
“You're taking me out of context here, dude. What I meant was that it was the epoch of the genre. The other bands still made a valid contribution, they just didn't define the moment."
Johansson and Sitek started out in more faithful lo-fi style before filtering the songs through an indie-rock sensibility that's equal parts postpunk-gothic, 4AD dreampop, shoegazing drone, and TV on the Radio epicness.
Then in 2003, they released Still Electric only on their website; with this album, they'd taken on more of a shoegazing style of rock, similar to Chapterhouse or Catherine Wheel.
Translations:
disconfirmation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
English confirmation
English disconfirmation
From dis- + confirmation.
Inflected forms:
form: disconfirmations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Introduction of evidence which conclusively establishes that a belief or hypothesis is not true or which diminishes the acceptability of a belief or hypothesis.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Once we move our search to the region of the mind, we find that access to the facts becomes much more difficult; as a result, disconfirmation is largely out of reach and metaphor begins to flourish.
gloss: A particular fact, observation, or other item of evidence which shows or tends to show that a belief or hypothesis is not true.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: One can reduce the disconfirmations of economic generalizations by specifying a margin of error.
Synonyms: infirmation
Related words: disconfirm
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: diskonfirmaatio
lang: Portuguese
word: desconfirmação
hereinbefore
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From herein + before.
Compound parts: herein
before
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of hereinabove (“above, in this document”).
pos: adv
tags: formal
not-comparable
examples: And again your honor and gentlemen of the jury, be it known unto you that, for this hereinbefore-spoken-of slanderer and counselor for aforesaid plaintiff to place himself upon ground fenced in by lies, villany, deceit, treachery; […]
When the ship-jumpers were apprehended, as hereinbefore mentioned, much to the surprise of this Grand Jury, it was discovered that a few days after their arrest they were permitted to furnish nominal bonds […]
Translations:
toymaker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From toy + maker.
Compound parts: toy
maker
Inflected forms:
form: toymakers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A craftsman who makes toys.
pos: noun
Translations:
trafficked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English traffic
English -ed
English trafficked
From traffic + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Carrying traffic; subject to traffic.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Possessed of many thinly trafficked lines and dual-purpose assignments for engines, CPR commonsensically employed Pacifics as all-purpose engines, bought 4-6-2's until dieselization.
The questionnaire was mainly referred to the white marble and was carried out at two sites, the more soiled North façade (FN), very trafficked area and the cleaner South façade (FS) (pedestrian area).
We see a very trafficked big cross in Roma. Cars and people running everywhere. Camera holds on Emma standing on the pavement, like a statue, alone with her big suitcase.
2018, Jonathan Moeller, Sevenfold Sword: Serpent, Azure Flame Media
Likely this portion of the causeway was far more trafficked than the more remote regions.
In a somewhat relieved tone, he shows that the heaviest trafficked routes for freight also happen to be the busiest passenger routes, enabling a concentration of services to use a small number of lines.
Translations:
trepanning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: trepannings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who trepans.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "I believe in the good old British public. Slow and stupid, but sound at the core. They will not stand for injustice if you can get the truth into their heads." "They damned well need trepanning before you can get it there," said the solicitor.
Ms. Feilding, who was known as Lady Mindbender and the Crackpot Countess, once drilled a tiny hole in her skull to increase blood flow, a medieval practice called trepanning. […] Eager to stretch the boundaries of her mind further, Ms. Feilding became obsessed with trepanning, believing that puncturing the skull relieved pressure and increased blood flow, perhaps creating a permanent high.
Translations:
trephine
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French tréphine, from Latin trepanum, from Ancient Greek τρύπανον (trúpanon, “auger, borer”). Doublet of trepan.
Inflected forms:
form: trephines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trephining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trephined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trephined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To use a trephine during surgery.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: "We shall wait," said Van Helsing, "just long enough to fix the best spot for trephining, so that we may most quickly and perfectly remove the blood clot, for it is evident that the haemorrhage is increasing."
gloss: To perforate with a trephine.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The pony was cast, and trephined, a middle-sized trephine (or bone saw) being used, which removed a circular piece of bone about the size of a two shilling piece, from the face immediately over the air cavity.
Translations:
sublevel
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
video-games
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
English level
English sublevel
From sub- + level.
Inflected forms:
form: sublevels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An intermediate level between others in a mine
pos: noun
gloss: An underground level of a building.
pos: noun
examples: When they completed their sweep of the fourth sublevel, they had to exit the office and walk across the parking garage to catch a different elevator to the rest of the building. Sublevels three through one were all parking lots, giving the appearance to those above that there was nothing further below.
gloss: A subshell
pos: noun
gloss: A level making up part of a larger level.
pos: noun
gloss: Having a lesser constant value than a related level set
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
pouched
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a pouch or pouches.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
pouching
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pouchings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
pos: noun
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
artsy-craftsy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From arts and crafts + -y. Equivalent to artsy + craftsy.
Base: arts and crafts
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more artsy-craftsy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most artsy-craftsy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: arty-crafty
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Related to, or taking part in, arts and crafts.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: an artsy-craftsy student
a rap group for Blacks that met regularly at the Gay Community Center, then housed in a modest building just off the artsy-craftsy South Street.
gloss: Crafted in an excessively decorated manner; trivial or affected in design or execution (in comparison to other artistic products).
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
derogatory
often
Translations:
hindbrain
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
Etymology: From hind + brain.
Compound parts: hind
brain
Inflected forms:
form: hindbrains
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The posterior part of the brain, comprising the cerebellum, pons and medulla, the rhombencephalon
pos: noun
Translations:
MacGuffin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
Etymology: Used by Alfred Hitchcock, as an arbitrary Scottish surname. The actual name comes from Ulster: Mc- (“son of”) + Irish dubh (“black”) + Irish Fionn (literally “fairheaded”).
See also Wikipedia's MacGuffin § History and use.
Base: dubh
Affixes: Mc-
Inflected forms:
form: MacGuffins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: McGuffin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A plot element or other device used to catch the audience's attention and maintain suspense, but whose exact nature has fairly little influence over the storyline.
pos: noun
examples: " […] But we wound up realizing you really can't top yourself. You just tell a different story and hope the new MacGuffin is as compelling as the last MacGuffin."
A paleontologist lately returned from an expedition to Wyoming, where he unearthed the bones of the first brontosaurus (and supplied guns to the Indians on behalf of the Foreign Office, which had succeeded in its policy of balkanizing the North American continent) Mallory comes into possession of the MacGuffin during a Derby Day encounter with Byron's daughter (and Babbage's protégée) Ada. Thereafter he is hounded by a whole rogue's gallery of villains bent on reclaiming the MacGuffin.
Translations:
mincer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mince
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 mincer
From mince + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: mincers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kitchen utensil used for mincing meat, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who minces.
pos: noun
gloss: A homosexual male.
pos: noun
tags: UK
derogatory
slang
Derived words: word-mincer
Translations:
entomophagy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English entomo-
Ancient Greek ἔφαγον (éphagon)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ίᾱ (-íā)
Ancient Greek -φᾰγίᾱ (-phăgíā)lbor.
English -phagy
English entomophagy
From entomo- + -phagy.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The eating of insects.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Despite our cultural distaste for entomophagy, in recent years the idea that we should eat bugs has been gaining currency.
Translations:
oviposit
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ovi- (“egg”) + Latin pōsitus (“placed”), perfect passive participle of pōnere (“to place”).
Base: pōsitus
Affixes: ovi-
Inflected forms:
form: oviposits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ovipositing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: oviposited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: oviposited
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To lay eggs.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
trollied
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Originally a slang term among students. Trolleys in supermarkets are notorious for having at least one dodgy wheel so they wobble, hence the description. Not necessarily a student term but certainly a working class term.
Inflected forms:
form: more trollied
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most trollied
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Showing extreme intoxication from alcohol.
pos: adj
tags: New-Zealand
UK
slang
examples: This year we got smashed, tanked up, trollied, pie-eyed, caned, wankered, mullered, inebriated, wrecked, pissed, slated, hammered, paralytic and well and truly out of our trees. We have more words for getting drunk than we do for being in love.
When I was an 18-year-old concerned with getting as trollied as possible in the least amount of time and at little cost, I was drawn to sweetness, as many of us are when we’re younger, and most supermarket prosecco is rather sweet – even the confusingly named “extra dry” category allows for 12-17g sugar per litre.
Translations:
trussing
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
engineering
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
natural-sciences
nobility
physical-sciences
politics
Inflected forms:
form: trussings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The timbers, etc., that form a truss.
pos: noun
examples: 1849-1850, John Weale, Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms used in Architecture, Building, and Engineering
Beds (Trussing) were beds which packed into chests , for travelling ; and , considering the frequent removals , these must have been the most convenient kind .
gloss: The art of stiffening or bracing a set of timbers, etc., by putting in struts, ties, etc., until it has something of the character of a truss.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of a hawk or other bird of prey in seizing its quarry and soaring into the air with it.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: In the act of seizing (something).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Sable, a falcon or, his wings expanded, trussing a mallard argent, on a chief of the latter, a cross botoné[…]
A hawk trussing.
Examples of this will be found in the arms of Madden ["Sable, a hawk or, trussing a mallard proper, on a chief of the second a cross botonny gules"], and in the crests of Graham, Cawston, and Yerburgh.
Translations:
valent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
human-sciences
linguistics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Back-formation from valence.
Inflected forms:
form: more valent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most valent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having valence.
pos: adj
Translations:
uncrate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English crate
English uncrate
From un- + crate.
Inflected forms:
form: uncrates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: uncrating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: uncrated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: uncrated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To remove from a crate.
pos: verb
Translations:
uncrated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English crated
English uncrated
From un- + crated.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not contained in a crate.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
wallpapered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having had wallpaper applied.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
wrenchingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wrenching
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English wrenchingly
From wrenching + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more wrenchingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most wrenchingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a wrenching manner; with a sudden jerk or emotional shock.
pos: adv
Translations:
roomed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more roomed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most roomed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
subcarrier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
English carrier
English subcarrier
From sub- + carrier.
Inflected forms:
form: subcarriers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A separate signal carried on a main radio transmission, often carrying additional information such as voice or data.
pos: noun
Translations:
sapping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sappings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is sapped or depleted.
pos: noun
examples: December 22, 1821, Joseph Story, Address Delivered Before the Members of the New-England Society, in Charleston
[The government] may be destroyed by popular violence, or the madness of party, or the deeper sappings of corruption.
gloss: The act of excavating trenches.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of striking with a sap or club.
pos: noun
examples: And when he had me up there he would sap me again and I wouldn't remember anything that happened in between the two sappings.
Translations:
understandability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English understand
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Latin -tās
Latin -abilitas
Middle French -abletébor.
Middle English -ablete
English -ability
English understandability
From understand + -ability.
Inflected forms:
form: understandabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being understandable.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
unguessable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English guessable
English unguessable
From un- + guessable.
Inflected forms:
form: more unguessable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unguessable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not capable of being guessed.
pos: adj
examples: Never was even washerwoman more untidy. A cap all rags, from which the hair came straggling in elf-locks over a face which generally looked red-hot, surmounted by an old bonnet, originally black, now rusty, and so twisted into crooks and bends that its pristine shape was unguessable […]
1898, Henry James, The Turn of the Screw, in The Two Magics, London: Heinemann, Chapter 13, p. 101,
What it was most impossible to get rid of was the cruel idea that, whatever I had seen, Miles and Flora saw more—things terrible and unguessable and that sprang from dreadful passages of intercourse in the past.
A woman of unguessable age, wearing lots of black clothes, snatched the child away […]
Especially bad are "magic words" from computer games, such as xyzzy. These magic words look secret and unguessable, but in fact they are widely known.
Translations:
unwinding
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: unwindings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is unwound.
pos: noun
gloss: Not winding or meandering; straight, direct.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: the long and unwinding road to recovery
Translations:
bisected
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Divided into two equal pieces.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: One half of the bisected line is the same as the other.
Antonyms: twofold
unhalved
Translations:
satrapy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek σατραπεία (satrapeía)bor.
English satrapy
Borrowed from Ancient Greek σατραπεία (satrapeía).
Inflected forms:
form: satrapys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: satrapies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The territory governed by a satrap; a province of any of several ancient empires of West Asia (specifically, of the Median or Achaemenid empires or certain of their successors, including the Sasanian Empire and Hellenistic empires).
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Several, which occur as one Satrapy in the system given by Herodotus, are given in the lists as distinct provinces.
1951, W. W. Tarn, The Greeks in Bactria and India, Cambridge University Press, 2nd Edition, Digital printing 2010, page 1,
The Seleucid empire in its turn was still, in outward shape, very much the empire of Persia under different rulers; the great satrapies still remained, their military nature emphasised by the governor of a satrapy being no longer called satrap but strategos, 'general'.
A satrapy′s borders were generally the same as those of the previously independent kingdom, with the satrap stationed in the old capital.[…]The Great King expected two things from the satrapies: a regular supply of taxes (called "tribute" because it underlined the satrapy′s subordination to the king) and units for the Persian army when needed.
To put flesh on this concept, Joe McDonagh took himself off to the British Library to learn about Russia and its former Soviet satrapies.
Translations:
savaged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more savaged
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most savaged
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
aminobutyric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From amino + butyric.
Compound parts: amino
butyric
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to any of several isomeric univalent radicals in which a hydrogen atom of a butyric radical is replaced by an amino group.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
butyric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From -ic and French butyrique, -ique suffixed to Latin būtȳrum, or from the Latin or butyro- + -ic. Piecewise doublet of buttery, butter ultimately being from the Latin and -y being a doublet of -ic.
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more butyric
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most butyric
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of butter
pos: adj
tags: rare
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or derived from butyric acid or any of the isomeric univalent radicals of formula C₃H₇CO₂-
pos: adj
Derived words: aminobutyric
butyramide
butyrate
butyric acid
butyro-
butyrone
hydroxybutyric
isobutyric
ketobutyric
oxybutyric
Translations:
biomechanical
Part of speech: adj
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 *megʰ-der.?
Ancient Greek μηχανή (mēkhanḗ)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek μηχανικός (mēkhanikós)bor.
Latin mēchanicusder.
Old French mecaniquebor.
Middle English mechanic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English mechanical
English mechanical
English biomechanical
From bio- + mechanical.
Inflected forms:
form: biomechanic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: bio-mechanical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to biomechanics
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
bioresource
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os)
Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der.
English bio-
English resource
English bioresource
From bio- + resource.
Inflected forms:
form: bioresources
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any resource of biological origin
pos: noun
Translations:
hydropower
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wed-
Proto-Indo-European *-r̥
Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥
Proto-Hellenic *údōr
Ancient Greek ῡ̆̔́δωρ (hū̆́dōr)
Ancient Greek ῠ̔δρο- (hŭdro-)der.
English hydro-
Proto-Indo-European *pótis
Proto-Italic *potis
Proto-Indo-European *h₁es-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti
Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰúHt
Proto-Italic *som
Proto-Italic *possom
Latin posseder.
Vulgar Latin potēre
Old French pooir
Anglo-Norman poerbor.
Middle English power
English power
English hydropower
From hydro- + power.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: hydroelectric power
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The 16 small hydro-power stations run by Kuandian County provide 80 percent of the electricity for agricultural use in this county.
Translations:
swingeing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From swinge + -ing. Swinge is derived from Middle English swengen (“to strike”), from Old English swengan (“to dash, strike; to cause to swing”).
Base: swinge
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: more swingeing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most swingeing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Huge, immense.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: And when Occaſion did require, / In midſt of Houſe a mighty Fire, / Of black dry'd Earth and ſwingeing Blocks / Was made, enough to roaſt an Ox; […]
"Let him pursue his own course," said Diggs, taking up a pen, and making some hasty memoranda on a sheet of paper. "We shall have swingeing damages—swingeing damages."
God! what a mile he led them! From the slope they sought to scale,
Sullen and hot, the swingeing shot was hurling its awful hail:
A shock for passengers by the Dover-Dunkerque "Night Ferry" is the swingeing increases in berth rates for those who are not travelling in the sleeping cars.
Every day produces more evidence that this hard Tory Brexit is a disaster in the making. Carmakers and other export manufacturers, fearing swingeing tariffs, are demanding special protections and exemptions or else they leave.
After petrol rationing ended in 1952, the BTC was aware that more swingeing cuts had to be made, and a sinister message was conveyed by the loss of the meandering 38-mile route from Blisworth to Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1952, and the 25-mile Abergavenny-Merthyr Heads of the Valleys line in January 1958.
gloss: Heavy, powerful, scathing.
pos: adj
examples: a swingeing verbal attack
Steven's cold blood was now heated, and springing from the ground, he rushed forward utterly regardless of science, and with his head down, protected by his bended arm, he closed with a swingeing right-handed hit that unfortunately caught Ned upon the ear, and sent him reeling, and for the instant half stunned, upon one side.
With the publication of Drunk Man [A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1926)] [Hugh] MacDiarmid revealed that he had developed from an accomplished and sometimes brilliant miniaturist into a major poet. The poem represents the high-water mark of his work in Scots and probably of his writing as a whole. Maturity of utterance and sophistication of expression combine in a swingeing, energetic exploration of his situation which he never surpassed.
Perhaps not since the felling of America's vast forests in the 19th century, […] has the world seen such a spectacular environmental change. The consequences for Arctic ecosystems will be swingeing.
Switzerland, a bastion of neutrality through two world wars, has decided to adopt wholesale swingeing EU sanctions against the Russian central bank, freezing as much as billions of dollars in assets and massively increasing the pressure on the Russian economy.
Related words: swinge
swinger
Derived words: swingeingly
Translations:
plasticine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Genericized trademark from the brand name Plasticine.
Inflected forms:
form: plasticines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Modeling clay.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Models; how to make paper pulp models; salt and flour models; sand models; plasticine models; chalk and pencil models.
Hermione Roddice suggested we should ask Gudrun to teach her to draw and to model in clay. You know Winnie is astonishingly clever with that plasticine stuff. Hermione declares she is an artist.
Picture yourself on a train in a station / With plasticine porters with looking glass ties
Translations:
Plasticine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From plastic + -ine?
Base: plastic
Affixes: -ine
Inflected forms:
form: Plasticines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: plasticene
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: plasticine
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A brand of modelling clay, a putty-like modelling material made from calcium salts, petroleum jelly and fatty acids.
pos: noun
Translations: