yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
allergic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos
Proto-Hellenic *áľľos
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́λλος (ắllos)
Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom
Proto-Hellenic *wérgon
Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon)
German Allergiebor.
English allergy
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English allergic
From allergy + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more allergic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most allergic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: allergics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to allergy.
pos: adj
gloss: Having an allergy.
pos: adj
examples: I am allergic to cats.
gloss: Highly averse.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
humorous
examples: I'm allergic to homework.
gloss: A person who has an allergy.
pos: noun
Related words: allergen
allergically
allergy
Derived words: aeroallergic
allergic response
allergic rhinitis
allergic salute
antiallergic
are you allergic to any medications
autoallergic
gastroallergic
hyperallergic
hypoallergic
I'm allergic to aspirin
I'm allergic to nuts
I'm allergic to penicillin
I'm allergic to pollen
immunoallergic
nonallergic
photoallergic
polyallergic
proallergic
pseudoallergic
Translations:
amniocentesis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: By surface analysis, amnio- + -centesis.
Inflected forms:
form: amniocenteses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A procedure for obtaining amniotic fluid from a pregnant animal, by inserting a hollow needle through the abdominal wall and into the amniotic sac. Used in diagnosing possible genetic defects and/or obstetric complications, or simply to drain excess amniotic fluid.
pos: noun
examples: In most countries amniocentesis is now offered to – perhaps even imposed on – all older mothers, to check whether the foetus carries an extra chromosome.
Translations:
amnion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin amnion (“membrane around a fetus”), from Ancient Greek ἀμνίον (amníon).
Inflected forms:
form: amnions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: amnia
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The innermost membrane of the fetal membranes of reptiles, birds, and mammals; the sac in which the embryo is suspended.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: amniotic sac
He never seemed to mind, and after a while, she no longer felt self-conscious about languishing in the amnion of his office.
Translations:
antisocial
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́)
Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der.
English anti-
Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷéh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ṓy
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷh₂ṓy
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷyós
Proto-Italic *sokjos
Latin sokios
Latin socius
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin sociālisbor.
Middle French socialbor.
English social
English antisocial
From anti- + social.
Inflected forms:
form: more antisocial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most antisocial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: anti-social
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: antisocials
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: anti-social
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Unwilling or unable to cooperate and associate normally with other people.
pos: adj
examples: antisocial person
gloss: Antagonistic, hostile, or unfriendly toward others; menacing.
pos: adj
gloss: Opposed to social order or the principles of society; hostile toward society.
pos: adj
examples: antisocial ideals
gloss: An antisocial individual.
pos: noun
Antonyms: prosocial
Derived words: antisocial behaviour order
antisocialism
antisociality
antisocialize
antisocially
antisocialness
antisocial personality disorder
ASBO
nonantisocial
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: antisocial
lang: Georgian
word: ანტისაზოგადოებრივი
roman: anṭisazogadoebrivi
lang: German
word: gesellschaftsfeindlich
lang: Hungarian
word: antiszociális
lang: Japanese
word: 反社会的な
roman: hanshakaitekina
lang: Māori
word: nihoniho
lang: Polish
word: antyspołeczny
lang: Sicilian
word: sarbaggiu
lang: Welsh
word: gwrthgymdeithasol
incredible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English incredible, from Latin incrēdibilis (“that cannot be believed”), from in- (“not”) + crēdibilis (“worthy of belief”), from crēdō (“believe”), equivalent to in- + credible.
Base: credible
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: more incredible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most incredible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Too implausible to be credible; beyond belief.
pos: adj
examples: The extinction of a species once so numerous seemed incredible.
I get lost in what is credible and not credible. This whole thing gets so incredible when you consider wiping out whole nations, it is difficult to establish credibility.
The other may be that they sincerely believed it to be true, demonstrating an almost incredible lack of communication between themselves and their working engineers.
He therefore found revealed religion incredible in a literal sense, and, as Bayle had done before him, he radically separated morality from the practice of organized religion.
gloss: Amazing; astonishing; awe-inspiring.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: He was so wrapped up in watching the incredible special effects that he couldn't keep track of the story.
gloss: Marvellous; profoundly affecting; wonderful; excellent.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: I had such an incredible slice of pizza last night that I simply can't think about anything else.
Related words: credibility
creed
incredibility
incredibly
Derived words: incredibility
incredibleness
Translations:
tantric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tantra + -ic; pronunciation influenced by Sanskrit तान्त्रिक (tāntrika).
Base: tantra
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Related to Vajrayana Buddhism.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Related to any of several branches of yoga or esoteric traditions rooted in India.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: tantrically
Tantric Buddhism
tantric sex
Translations:
quinta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Spanish quintabor.
English quinta
Borrowed from Spanish quinta.
Inflected forms:
form: quintas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A country house in Madeira.
pos: noun
Translations:
quintal
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Late Middle English, from Anglo-Norman quintal, from Middle French quintal, from Old French and Medieval Latin quintale and quintallus (“various medieval hundredweights”), from Arabic قِنْطَار (qinṭār, “100 rottols”), from Classical Syriac ܩܰܢܛܺܝܪܳܐ (qanṭīrā) and ܩܰܢܛܺܝܢܳܪܳܐ (qanṭīnārā), from Byzantine Greek κεντηνάριον (kentēnárion), from Latin centēnārium (“100 Roman pounds”), from the neuter of centēnārius (“having 100 things”). Use for various non-English units, borrowed from French quintal, Spanish quintal, Portuguese quintal, etc. The apparent relation to quint- (“five, fivefold”) and -al (forming adjectives) is accidental, although it possibly influenced the eventual spelling of the term. Doublet of centenary, centner, and kantar.
Inflected forms:
form: quintals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of hundredweight, 100 or 112 English or American pounds.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: In one import license alone, the merchant in question was instructed to bring in 13,000 quintals of alum, which, snapped up by industries in England and the Low Countries, would yield the king a cool £8,666 13s 4d.
gloss: Various other similar units of weight in other systems.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: An unofficial metric unit equal to 100 kg.
pos: noun
gloss: Referring to five (or more) things; of, in or relating to the quintal grammatical number.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: What Table 4 does not show is the possibility of even "quadral" and "quintal" forms, like yufopela 'you four', 'the four of you', yufaipela 'you five', 'the five of you'.
In sign languages, on the other hand, trial, quadral and quintal forms such as found in UgSL are not uncommon.
Moreover, trial, quadral and quintal forms are given an identical status as number values in the pronominal domain.
Derived words: metric quintal
Translations:
conscientious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French conscientieux, from Medieval Latin cōnscientiōsus. Its English equivalent could possibly be analyzed as conscient + -ous. See more at conscience.
Base: conscient
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more conscientious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most conscientious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Thorough, careful, or vigilant in one’s task performance; painstaking.
pos: adj
examples: He was a thoughtful and conscientious worker.
gloss: Influenced by conscience; principled; governed by a strict regard to the dictates of conscience, or by the known or supposed rules of right and wrong (said of a person).
pos: adj
examples: The advice of wise and conscientious people.
Antonyms: capricious
impulsive
thoughtless
Related words: conscience
Derived words: conscientiously
conscientiousness
conscientious objection
conscientious objector
hyperconscientious
nonconscientious
overconscientious
ultraconscientious
unconscientious
Translations:
escargot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French escargotbor.
English escargot
Borrowed from French escargot.
Inflected forms:
form: escargots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dish, commonly associated with French cuisine, consisting of edible snails.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: J. is dating P. at NYU and modeling on the side. They're planning to meet us in Paris for spring break so J. can go to some look-sees (and eat some escargot, obv.).
gloss: A snail (often Helix pomatia) used in preparation of that dish.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
appetizer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English appetize
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 appetizer
From appetize + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: appetizers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: appetiser
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
Senses:
gloss: A small, light, and usually savory first course in a meal.
pos: noun
gloss: Something that creates or increases excitement for what is to follow.
pos: noun
Related words: antipasto
Derived words: appeteaser
preappetizer
Translations:
texture
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
biology
computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French texture, borrowed from Latin textūra (“a weaving, web, texture, structure”), from textus, past participle of texere (“to weave”). See text. Doublet of tessitura.
Inflected forms:
form: textures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: textures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: texturing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: textured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: textured
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more texture
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most texture
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The feel or shape of a surface or substance; the smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The beans had a grainy, gritty texture in her mouth.
gloss: The quality given to a work of art by the composition and interaction of its parts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The piece of music had a mainly homophonic texture.
gloss: An image applied to a polygon to create the appearance of a surface.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The videocard is responsible for drawing every polygon, texture, and particle effect in every game you play.
gloss: The act or art of weaving.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Skins, although a natural habit unto all before the invention of texture, was something more unto Adam.
gloss: Something woven; a woven fabric; a web.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Others, apart far in the grassy dale, / Or roughening waste, their humble texture weave.
Of richest texture spread
gloss: A tissue.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: To create or apply a texture.
pos: verb
examples: Drag the trowel through the plaster to texture the wall.
The floor here is invisible because the game's devs forgot to texture it.
gloss: Having an intense texture; with a texture that causes a strong (often positive) reaction.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: I may suck at it, but when I get the nail polish *juuuust right* ¶ gosh, its just so texture~ ¶ whaaaat? noo, Im totally not autistic and stimming with every comfortable texture I can
I was hesitant about biting a piece of paper. "W-What if I get a papercut on my tongue?" ¶ "Flower, do you honestly think that the Compact uses paper that sophonts can injure themselves with? […
i like doing my makeup but i hate how it makes my skin feels after omg its so...texture whats it called ¶ it just isnt smooth anymore omg FUCK U
Augh... Your art style is so texture it makes me stim
Related words: context
pretext
subtext
texel
text
texton
textual
textural
Derived words: architexture
echotexture
hypertexture
intertexture
macrotexture
microtexture
multitexture
nanotexture
open texture
overspray surface texture
retexture
subtexture
texturable
textureless
texture map
texturewise
texturisation
texturise
texturism
texturist
texturization
texturize
texturous
Translations:
chewy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
wine
Etymology: Etymology tree
English chew
English -y
English chewy
From chew + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: chewier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: chewiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a pliable or springy texture when chewed.
pos: adj
examples: I must have spent an hour gnawing on the chewy taffy.
gloss: Prone to chewing.
pos: adj
examples: 'And you chewed the chimneys off my dolls' house,' said Angela. 'You are a very chewy dog.'
You can expect to be working late into the night to make up for the work you missed that day, constantly distracted by a teething, tired, energised, rampant, playful, chewy puppy who needs attention, contact and training.
gloss: Full-bodied and tannic.
pos: adj
examples: a chewy wine
gloss: Satisfying to solve; novel and free of crosswordese.
pos: adj
examples: I think it's possible to construct a puzzle with chewy fill and nice clues -- and still have it play very, very easy.
JUST STOP AND ADMIRE THAT GRID FOR A SECOND! Nice chewy clueing too. Bravo.
Derived words: chewiness
crunchewy
Translations:
antialiasing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English anti-
English aliasing
English antialiasing
From anti- + aliasing.
Inflected forms:
form: anti-aliasing
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: any technique that reduces the appearance of jagged edges in digital images caused by high-contrast borders between pixels.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Antonyms: aliasing
Translations:
authoring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: authorings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of creating the content of a document or other content item, i.e., writing or composition.
pos: noun
gloss: The result of this process; a writing or composition.
pos: noun
Derived words: authoring program
authoring tool
authorware
collaborative authoring
Translations:
multimedia
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mel-der.
Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós?
Proto-Italic *moltos
Latin multus
Latin multīder.
Middle English multi-
English multi-
English media
English multimedia
From multi- + media.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The combined use of sound, video, and text to present an idea.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: of, or relating to this combined use of media
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: of, or relating to an application that can combine such media into an integrated package
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: hypermedia
Translations:
palo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: palos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the traditional musical forms in flamenco.
pos: noun
Translations:
CGI
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: CGIs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: CGIing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: CGIed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: CGIed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: CGI'd
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: CGI'd
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To create visuals using computer-generated imagery; to apply visual effects.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: When a Transformer turns into a car, do you think it's a real car or was it also CGIed?
Translations:
bumpkin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Dutch boomken (“shrub, little tree”), equivalent to boom + -kin. Note that the English word boom is etymologically related to the aforementioned in the sense of "large stem", or "big tree". Compare German Baumke, Bäumchen.
Base: boom
Affixes: -kin
Inflected forms:
form: bumpkins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A clumsy, unsophisticated person; a yokel.
pos: noun
examples: Since the onset of modernity in the nineteenth century, West Bengalis or ghotis from the Calcutta area, who are generally Hindu, have enjoyed a certain cultural ascendancy within Bengal: they consider themselves more modern, more culturally refined, and more progressive than the bangals, who are dismissed as comparatively backward country bumpkins.
gloss: A short boom or spar used to extend a sail or secure a stay.
pos: noun
gloss: Dance, a series of reels, Scottish.
pos: noun
examples: They mix with Dancers, who now advance to the front, where a bumpkin, or dance of many interwoven reels, is performed; after which the Bride is led to a seat, and some of her Maidens sit by her.
Synonyms: bogan
boor
bumpkin
chawbacon
chuff
churl
clenchpoop
clown
cornball
jay
kern
lamb
lubber
lout
rube
Tony Lumpkin
tyke
peasant
unsophisticate
yahoo
yokel
Related words: idiot
idler
ignoramus
Derived words: bumpkinish
bumpkinism
bumpkinly
country bumpkin
joskin
Translations:
burgee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: burgees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A flag, usually a broad tapering pennant, often with a swallowtail, flown by yachts to identify the owner's yacht club.
pos: noun
gloss: Sometimes a flag in the form of a triangular swallowtail pennant regardless of use, as in the State Flag of Ohio as officially the 'Ohio Burgee'
pos: noun
Translations:
swallowtail
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From swallow + tail.
Compound parts: swallow
tail
Inflected forms:
form: swallowtails
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The forked tail of a swallow.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything, such as a burgee, of a similar forked shape.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of tailcoat with two long tapering tails.
pos: noun
examples: They have a peculiar style of dress which they wear among themselves, a close-fitting white shirt with black trousers, and a black frock or upper shirt. The women seem to prefer a dress entirely black. On festivals and state occasions they adopt the swallow-tail coat, chimney-pot hat, and their accompaniments, displaying all the absurdity of our European fashionable dress.
It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
gloss: Any of various butterflies of the family Papilionidae, many of which have a long extension to each hindwing.
pos: noun
examples: Here I obtained the rare and beautiful swallow-tail butterflies, Papilio aenomaus and P. liris; the males of which are quite unlike each other, and belong in fact to distinct sections of the genus, while the females are so much alike that they are undistinguishable on the wing, and to an uneducated eye equally so in the cabinet.
Claudette visit me […] and the biggest, most beautiful black-and-yellow Jamaican swallowtail butterfly follow behind she, like it give us it little blessing.
Derived words: black swallowtail
giant swallowtail
pale swallowtail
parsnip swallowtail
pipevine swallowtail
tiger swallowtail
zebra swallowtail
Translations:
burgoo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Of unclear origin. Apparently from the dialectal term burgood (“yeast”).
* Perhaps ultimately from Welsh burym (“yeast”) + cawl (“cabbage, gruel”),
* Or perhaps from Arabic بُرْغُل (burḡul).
* Or, from an alteration of ragout.
Inflected forms:
form: burgoos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: burgout
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A dish which originated among seafarers during the days of sail: a sort of porridge seasoned with sugar, salt and butter.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A spicy stew, typically made with a combination of meats and vegetables, and often served with cornbread or corn muffins.
pos: noun
tags: Midwestern-US
countable
uncountable
Translations:
Shirley
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A pun on surely and the name Shirley; probably inspired by the 1980 comedy film Airplane!, which has the exchange: "Surely you can’t be serious." "I am serious — and don’t call me Shirley."
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: surely
pos: adv
tags: humorous
informal
not-comparable
examples: Shirley the pepper mills are whipped away by the peppier after use, so no danger there. But what about the candles?
Translations:
firming
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of beauty products, intended to make the skin firmer.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: firming gel
Translations:
welly
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Clipping of Wellington boot + -y.
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: wellies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wellie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Wellington boot.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
examples: Dad has great big welly boots. For squishing in the mud; Two great big black welly boots: Thud, thud, thud.
gloss: Force on a pedal or increase to any fuel or power for an engine or motor.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
gloss: Force or effort.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
examples: Come on! Put some welly into it!
Derived words: welly whanging
give it some welly
green welly brigade
green-welly
welly it
Translations:
clitoral
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English clitoris
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 clitoral
From clitoris + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the clitoris.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a clitoral orgasm
A clitoral orgasm is a localised phenomenon restricted to the clitoris itself.
Translations:
explicit
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French explicite, from Latin explicitus (“disentangled, easy”), variant of explicātus.
Inflected forms:
form: more explicit
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most explicit
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: explicits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Very specific, clear, or detailed.
pos: adj
examples: I gave explicit instructions for him to stay here, but he followed me, anyway.
If the task is indeed a difficult one, it may be worthwhile to attempt an explicit statement as to those aspects of the endeavor that appear to have the greatest importance for success or failure.
gloss: Containing material (e.g. language or film footage) that might be deemed offensive or graphic through clear and direct expressions.
pos: adj
tags: euphemistic
examples: The film had several scenes including explicit language and sex.
Cerberus Scientist: I'm sorry, sir. None of Normandy's surveillance feeds have been responding since Shepard went rogue.
Illusive Man: I want it back. Retry the remote lockdown protocols.
Cerberus Scientist: After our last attempt, EDI flooded our server with seven zettabytes of explicit images. I think she was making a joke.
gloss: The final few words of a text.
pos: noun
Synonyms: clear
direct
explicit
express
monosemic
monosemous
patent
plain
specific
unambiguous
unequivocal
univocal
Antonyms: ambiguous
equivocal
implicit
implied
polysemous
polysemic
unexplicit
vague
Related words: explicate
explication
explicator
blunt
explicitly
specify
Derived words: explicitally
explicitate
explicitation
explicit function
explicitization
explicitize
explicitly
explicit modeling
explicitness
hyperexplicit
inexplicit
nonexplicit
overexplicit
semiexplicit
sexplicit
Translations:
returnee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English return
English -ee
English returnee
From return + -ee.
Inflected forms:
form: returnees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who comes back or returns, especially to their own country or region.
pos: noun
examples: They recognise too, from the gait, from her posture, that whatever this returnee’s specific reasons for crossing whatever borders she did, they were painful, heavier still than all of her luggage.
gloss: A person who sends something back.
pos: noun
Translations:
BANANA
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Contrived acronym of build absolutely nothing anywhere near anyone (or anything), as a play on "bananas" meaning "crazy, mad"
Inflected forms:
form: BANANAs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who objects to the building of any structure in their neighbourhood or a certain type of structure anywhere, especially in public policy debate.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
derogatory
humorous
informal
often
examples: David Taylor (Letters, January 23) does not appear to be aware that the NIMBY syndrome, with all its parochial overtones, has been superseded by the all embracing BANANA syndrome – Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone.
Communities have gone far beyond the NIMBY, or not-in-my-backyard, syndrome. Jeff Langholtz, of EPA's Hazardous Site Control Division said, "Right now they don't want us to build them anywhere." Langholtz called the latest in public thinking "BANANA" – build-absolutely-nothing-anywhere-near-anything. Those opposed to incinerators are more organized than ever, he added.
Unfortunately, in some areas you can expect the NIMBY fervor to grow into BANANAs—Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anybody. The ultimate result? Unless national security and economic issues intervene, we'll continue to rely more and more on imported fuel and the price of energy is most apt to climb higher. The high price of BANANAs, in the end, will not only be our dependence on foreign oil, but our economic vulnerability.
Opposition to these projects is increasingly the norm as opposed to the exception and is not simply limited to a few environmentaly sensitive and wealthy areas such as Southern California. Cynics have observed that the NIMBY movement is evolving into a BANANA (build absolutely nothing anywhere near anyone) or even a NOPE (nowhere on planet Earth) movement with regard to controversial infrastructure siting.
They don’t support bike lanes, sidewalks, traffic calming measures, or traffic widening measures. They complain about the lack of communication from city hall but also shout down the mayor and city staff whenever they attempt to explain their policy. You can summarize their views on zoning and new buildings as BANANAs: Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything.
Translations:
NIMBY
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Was used in a 1980 article by British writer Emilie Travel Livezey; popularized by British politician Nicholas Ridley, who was Conservative Secretary of State for the Environment.
Prior to that, Joseph A. Lieberman, a member of the US Atomic Energy Commission, gave a keynote address in early 1979 at the Fort Magruder Conference Center in which he reportedly asserted that "the 'nimby' (not in my backyard) syndrome must be eliminated." As reported in the Newport News (Virginia) Daily Press, Tuesday, February 13th, 1979, "Radioactive Waste: National Regulations Needed." Source: WorldHistories.net.
Inflected forms:
form: NIMBYs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nimby
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Nimby
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more NIMBY
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most NIMBY
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: nimby
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Nimby
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Opposition to something deemed harmful or unpleasant being located in one's own neighborhood.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The very thought of having even a secure landfill anywhere near them is anathema to most Americans today. It's an attitude referred to in the trade as NIMBY -- "not in my backyard."
Newman believes much of the resistance to the project stems from NIMBY (Not-In-My-Back-Yard) sentiment
From NIMBY (Not In MY Backyard) syndrome stalling several projects, Goa has moved ahead rationally to write a new chapter at Loliem, Canacona by welcoming location of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) to the village.
gloss: Synonym of nimby.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Here again, the NIMBYs will try to derail any new dam project.
To distinguish themselves from NIMBYs, the current generation of housing activists has adopted new “back yard” variants (YIMBY, “Yes in my backyard”; PHIMBY, “Public housing in my backyard”; YIGBY, “Yes in God’s backyard”) to declare how they are for things (everything, subsidized housing, building on church parking lots) that a NIMBY presumably is not.
"Our CEQA process is clearly broken when a few wealthy Berkeley homeowners can block desperately needed student housing for years and even decades," Newsom's office said in a statement. "California cannot afford to be held hostage by NIMBYs who weaponize CEQA to block student and affordable housing. This selfish mindset is driving up housing prices, and making our state less affordable."
gloss: Synonym of nimby.
pos: adj
examples: The problem is that these demands tend to be more parochial than millenial,^([sic]) much more NIMBY (not in my back yard) than global, and more concerned with financial well-being than ecological health.
“There's a very 'NIMBY' feel about it,” Allen said.
How much more NIMBY can we get in this region?
Some are NIMBY neighbors who don't want the traffic or changes in their neighborhood.
Why is California more NIMBY than Texas, for instance, or Austin more NIMBY than Houston?
Translations:
ergonomics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: economics
sciences
Etymology: From ergo- (prefix indicating work) + -nomics (suffix indicating the rules of a discipline), probably modelled after Polish ergonomia (“ergonomics”) (used by Polish scientist Wojciech Jastrzębowski (1799–1882) in an 1857 article), from Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon, “work”) + νόμος (nómos, “custom; law, ordinance”). The English word is widely regarded as having been introduced by British psychologist K. F. Hywel Murrell at a meeting at the Admiralty in London in July 1949, which led to the establishment of the Ergonomics Research Society (now The Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors) on 17 September 1949.
Base: ergo
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The science of the design of equipment, especially so as to reduce operator fatigue, discomfort and injury.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Ergonomics is increasingly important in office-product design.
Ergonomics, deriving from the Greek word "ergon" work is now mainly considered to mean "the science of designing machines and environments that are most suited to the efficiency, comfort, safety and peace of mind of those working with them" (see Armbruster, 1983). […] Ergonomics goes beyond the prevention of health hazards, it aims to optimize the coexistence between people and technology within the working environment. […] In the broad sense of the word, ergonomics includes all the physical, social, and psychological aspects of work and workplace design.
Experts now contend that problems at work – low productivity, health hazards, accidents, high turn over – may well have their genesis in the work environment – the result of ignorance of ergonomics. The essence of ergonomics is to design or redesign the work and the work environment to fit people. It aims to ensure that work procedures, tools, equipment and environment are safe, efficient and comfortable by applying engineering, physiological, psychological and anatomical knowledge.
After the fuel economy crisis of the 1970s, the U.S. automotive industry began placing more emphasis on both the aerodynamics and ergonomics fields to satisfy customers' energy-saving and comfort/convenience needs. […] Ergonomics involves "fitting the equipment to the people (or users)." This means the equipment should be designed such that people (population of users) can fit comfortably (naturally) within the equipment and they can use the equipment without any awkward body postures, movements, or errors.
gloss: Political economy.
pos: noun
tags: rare
uncountable
examples: As the titlepage of this latter portion of his work indicates, M. Courcelle Seneuil confines himself to political economy considered as a practical science, or, as he chooses to call it, to ergonomics.
Synonyms: human factors
Derived words: ergonomically
ergonomic
ergonomical
ergonomist
furgonomics
neuroergonomics
Translations:
Lachesis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: homeopathy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Λάχεσις (Lákhesis).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The venom of Lachesis muta (South Anerican bushmaster snake), used to treat various conditions.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
pithy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English pithy, pythy, equivalent to pith + -y.
Base: pith
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: pithier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: pithiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Concise and meaningful.
pos: adj
examples: Mr. Lamb, on the contrary, being "native to the manner here," though he too has borrowed from previous sources, instead of availing himself of the most popular and admired, has groped out his way, and made his most successful researches among the more obscure and intricate, though certainly not the least pithy or pleasant of our writers.
The following passage, which is exquisitely pithy and exquisitely modest, winds up the description:- "In this apparatus there is nothing new but its simplicity and thorough trustworthiness."
IT was a pithy saying that of Lorenzo de' Medici, and true as pithy, that we are enjoined to forgive our enemies, but nowhere are we told that we should forgive our friends.
[…], a guy w/o sunglasses or hauteur who throws open the pressurized doors to the Dreamward’s Bridge and galley and Vacuum Sewage System and personally takes me through, offering pithy and quotable answers to questions before I’ve even asked them.
gloss: Of, like, or abounding in pith; spongy or having small holes or pits.
pos: adj
examples: 1863, Theodore Winthrop, “The Heart of the Andes”, Part 2 – Introduction, published posthumously in Life in the Open Air and other papers,
Must we know the torrid zone only through travelled bananas, plucked too soon and pithy? or by bottled anacondas? or by the tarry-flavored slang of forecastle-bred paroquets?
1910, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Manual of Gardening, Suggestions and Reminders I: For the North, April,
Parsnip.—Dig the roots before they grow and become soft and pithy.
To summarize the characters of a true mushroom - it grows only in pastures; it is of small size, dry, and with unchangeable flesh; the cap has a frill; the gills are free from the stem, the spores brown-black or deep purple-black in colour, and the stem solid or slightly pithy.
gloss: Vigorous, powerful, strong; substantial.
pos: adj
tags: Scotland
archaic
examples: His bairns a’ before the flood / Had langer tack o’ fleſh and blood, / And on mair pithy ſhanks they ſtood / Than Noah’s line, / Wha ſtill hae been a feckleſs brood / Wi’ drinking wine.
Next, from the well-air’d ancient town of Crail, / Go out her craftsmen with tumultuous din, / Her wind-bleach’d fishers, garrulous and thin; / And some are flush’d with horns of pithy ale, […]
Great freshwater lakes sweep away inland from the very verge of the sea, parted from them only by pebble-banks and ridge of shingle—a sea without rocks or cliff, but the worst in England for shipwrecks—all shoals as far as you can see—water thick and pithy with sand.
Derived words: pithily
pithiness
unpithy
Translations:
downgrade
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: climatology
computing
engineering
mathematics
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English down-
English grade
English downgrade
From down- + grade.
Inflected forms:
form: downgrades
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: downgrades
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: downgrading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: downgraded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: downgraded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A reduction of a rating, as a financial or credit rating.
pos: noun
gloss: A downhill gradient on a road or railway.
pos: noun
examples: [...] dynamic braking is fitted to the 99-ton, 55 ft.-long locomotives to help control these otherwise vacuum-braked trains on the long, continuous downgrades encountered on the coastal route.
gloss: A reduction in quality; a descent towards an inferior state.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: degradation, worsening, deterioration
gloss: To place lower in position.
pos: verb
examples: The stock was downgraded from ‘buy’ to ‘sell’.
Basingstoke-Exeter will test this. From Salisbury westwards, it's largely single-track since British Rail downgraded it in 1967. There's a ten-mile loop between Templecombe and Yeovil, as well as shorter loops at Chard, Axminster and Honiton.
gloss: To reduce in complexity, or remove unnecessary parts; to dumb down.
pos: verb
examples: More significantly, rigid deference to [Justin] Bieber’s still-young core fan base keeps things resolutely PG, with any acknowledgement of sex either couched in vague “touch your body” workarounds or downgraded to desirous hand-holding and eye-gazing.
gloss: To disparage.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We cannot afford to downgrade the lifestyles of other lesbians; we cannot afford to portray lesbians thinly as drunken and bothersome separatists who push their views on "work-within-the-movement" dykes".
Without downgrading my friends in the Building Trades, driving a nail or sawing a board is relatively simple.
gloss: to reduce the official estimate of a storm's intensity.
pos: verb
gloss: To revert software back to an older version.
pos: verb
Derived words: downgrade dance
downgradable
downgrader
Translations:
Ganymede
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French Ganymède, from Latin Ganymēdēs, from Ancient Greek Γανυμήδης (Ganumḗdēs, “meant to please”), from γάνυμαι (gánumai, “to rejoice, to be glad”) + μήδεα (mḗdea, “thought, intention”). Doublet of catamite.
Inflected forms:
form: Ganymedes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A servant boy or young waiter, particularly one who serves liquor.
pos: noun
gloss: A boy kept for pederastic purposes; a catamite.
pos: noun
Translations:
memetics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: human-sciences
literature
media
philosophy
publishing
science-fiction
sciences
Etymology: Blend of meme + genetics.
Compound parts: meme
genetics
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The study of memes and their social and cultural effects.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The study of information or other entity that self-propagates through a medium, often via a form of sensory input, in a manner comparable to a virus.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: memeticist
phylomemetics
Translations:
architrave
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: First attested 1563, borrowed from Italian architrave, from archi- (“main”) + trave (“beam”).
Inflected forms:
form: architraves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The lowest part of an entablature; rests on the capitals of the columns.
pos: noun
examples: Flutings also adorn the short architraves each side of the fanlight, and the abacus of the pilaster columns which is carried across a supplementary lintel in front of the lintel proper, the latter being several inches to the rear because of the deeply recessed arrangement of the door.
gloss: The moldings (or other elements) framing a door, window or other rectangular opening.
pos: noun
examples: I know that one hinge of this door has parted with the woodwork. Dry rot has turned the architrave to compacted dust.
Related words: beam
lintel
Derived words: architraval
architraved
Translations:
trave
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: From Middle English trave, from Middle French trave, from Latin trabem, accusative of trabs (“beam, thing made using beams”).
Inflected forms:
form: traves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A crossbeam.
pos: noun
gloss: A section formed by crossbeams.
pos: noun
gloss: A wooden frame to confine unruly horses while they are shod.
pos: noun
Related words: architrave
Translations:
quoin
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
business
engineering
firearms
government
horticulture
lifestyle
media
military
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
politics
printing
publishing
tools
transport
war
weaponry
Etymology: Variant of coin; compare coign.
Inflected forms:
form: quoins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: quoins
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: quoining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: quoined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quoined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any of the corner building blocks of a building, usually larger or more ornate than the surrounding blocks.
pos: noun
examples: In Casterbridge there stood a noble pile, […]
But evil days beset that domicile;
The stately beauties of its roof and wall
Passed into sordid hands. Condemned to fall
Were cornice, quoin, and cove,
And all that art had wove in antique style.
gloss: The keystone of an arch.
pos: noun
gloss: A metal wedge which fits into the space between the type and the edge of a chase, and is tightened to fix the metal type in place.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Next fit the quoins, using the “persuader” to squeeze in the pages, and tap up all around.
gloss: A form of wedge used to prevent casks from moving.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A wedge of wood or iron put under the breech of heavy guns or the muzzle of siege-mortars to raise them to the proper level.
pos: noun
gloss: A number of apple varieties with a distinctive ribbed appearance, like corners of a coin.
pos: noun
gloss: To wedge or steady with quoins.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: quinie
quoinless
quoin post
Translations:
forgetful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English *forgetful, *forȝetful (suggested by derivative forgetfulnesse, forȝetfulnesse (“forgetfulness”)), equivalent to forget + -ful.
Base: forget
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more forgetful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most forgetful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: forgetfull
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Unable to remember things well; liable to forget.
pos: adj
examples: Nor has Dalua part or mention in the antique legend. Like other ancient things, this divinity hath come secretly upon us in a forgetful time, new and strange and terrible, though his unremembered shadow crossed our way when first we set out on our long travel, in the youth of the world.
gloss: Dropping some of the input's structure or properties before producing an output.
pos: adj
examples: a forgetful mapping; a forgetful functor
Derived words: forgetful functor
forgetfully
forgetfulness
unforgetful
Translations:
contemplate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in the 1590s; borrowed from Latin contemplātus, the perfect active participle of contemplor (“to observe, survey, gaze (at), contemplate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). See also template.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: contemplates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: contemplating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: contemplated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: contemplated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To look at on all sides or in all its aspects; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study, ponder, or consider.
pos: verb
examples: To love, at least contemplate and admire, / What I see excellent.
We thus dilate / Our spirits to the size of that they contemplate.
gloss: To consider as a possibility.
pos: verb
examples: I contemplated doing the project myself, but it would have taken too long.
There remain some particulars to complete the information contemplated by those resolutions.
If a treaty contains any stipulations which contemplate a state of future war.
In Calcutta, season tickets are issued only for the calendar month, with a different colour for each month, so that this problem does not arise. The merest whisper of an idea to change Bombay to the Calcutta system brought such a howl of protest in the Press, that it was never seriously contemplated.
Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
Related words: contemplation
contemplative
contemplator
contemplatory
contemplatrix
Derived words: contemplatable
contemplate one's navel
contemplatingly
contemplatist
recontemplate
uncontemplated
Translations: