yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
nondirective
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From non- + directive.
Base: directive
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
form: nondirectives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not directive
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The "paternalistic tradition" of the postcommunist Baltic states makes it difficult to ensure that informed consent and nondirective counseling of individuals are carried out properly, Gefenas says.
gloss: A statement or utterance that is not a directive.
pos: noun
Translations:
nonpoint
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From non- + point.
Base: point
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not from one single determined point source
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Other nonpoint sources of pollution are important.
But they don't deny the movement's achievements, and they want to do more about what they consider real problems, such as federally subsidized timber sales and nonpoint pollution of air and water.
Translations:
ough
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The sound of a grunt or groan or cough.
pos: intj
examples: "Ough! ough! ough!" groaned the old woman; "he wants to go, away from the nest where he was warmed, and nursed, and brought up.
We strove to extort from him the cause of this ebullition of passion, but he only shook his head in reply to our questions, and uttered a guttural "ough."
Ough! A door opened, a white-haired secretarial head, but wearing a compassionate expression, appeared, and a skinny forefinger beckoned me into the sanctuary.
Translations:
overbudget
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From over- + budget.
Base: budget
Affixes: over-
Inflected forms:
form: more overbudget
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most overbudget
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: overbudgets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: overbudgeting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: overbudgeted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: overbudgeted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Costing more than budgeted
pos: adj
examples: The mayor's control of the big stuff has been responsible, in recent years, for the hideous rehab of Soldier Field, the construction of the vastly overbudget Millennium Park, the destruction of a municipal airport under cover of darkness, the continued rise in property taxes, the overpriced and much delayed Brown Line reconstruction (which is causing long delays on the Red Line), and the Pink Line addition coming at the expense of other services on the west side, as well as sweeping education and public housing policy changes that allowed Daley appointees to hold thousands of kids back or kick thousands of families out of their homes.
There’s the overbudget, out-of-control drama about the Vietnam War, starring the washed-up action hero Tugg Speedman, the drug-addled comedian Jeff Portnoy and the Oscar-winner Kirk Lazarus, a white Australian actor who has undergone repigmentation surgery to play a black American soldier.
TransCanada and Exxon are involved in another major Arctic pipeline, the long-stalled and overbudget Mackenzie Gas Project in northern Canada.
One of London's key business groups is calling on the new government not to use the much-delayed and overbudget Crossrail project as a reason to withhold support for Crossrail 2.
gloss: To budget a greater amount that is needed.
pos: verb
Translations:
righthander
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From right hand + -er.
Base: right hand
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: righthanders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A right-handed person
pos: noun
examples: The big righthander got out of that jam, coaxing Vernon Wells into a soft lineout to third and Adam Lind into a flyball out.
Translations:
lookee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From look + -ee.
Base: look
Affixes: -ee
Inflected forms:
form: lookees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who is looked at.
pos: noun
examples: The reversal of the direction of the traditional peephole gaze (we see the looker, not the lookee) is only part of this painting's correspondences to Eh Joe; consider, too, the distantiation created by the two focuses: […]
Translations:
throating
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: architecture
Etymology: From throat + -ing.
Base: throat
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: throatings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A drip or dripstone.
pos: noun
Translations:
sumbal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Classical Persian سنبل (sunbul).
Inflected forms:
form: sumbals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sumbul
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The plant muskroot.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
kaiju
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Japanese 怪獣 (かいじゅう, kaijū), from Middle Chinese 怪 (kweajᴴ, “strange, fantastic”) + 獸 (syuwᴴ, “beast”) (compare Mandarin 怪獸 /怪兽 (guàishòu)).
Compound parts: 怪
獸
Inflected forms:
form: kaijus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kaiju
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fictional giant monster, particularly of the kind found in Japanese science fiction films and other media, like Godzilla, King Kong or Gamera.
pos: noun
examples: The resurrections of Mothra, the giant butterfly in Japanese kaiju movies, are treated as colourful religious events, glitter falling upon fat children as the fluffy-faced behemoth dries its wings.
Translations:
cakery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cake + -ery.
Base: cake
Affixes: -ery
Inflected forms:
form: cakeries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cake shop.
pos: noun
Translations:
azolla
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus taxonomic name Azolla.
Inflected forms:
form: azollas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of mosquito fern (“any of several species of small floating aquatic ferns in the genus Azolla”).
pos: noun
Translations:
out-of-towner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From out of town + -er.
Base: out of town
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: out-of-towners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who is visiting a town (or city).
pos: noun
examples: One night in a disco on the outskirts of Frisco / I was cruising with my favorite gang / The place was so boring filled with out-of-towners touring / I knew that it wasn't my thing
He and Kravitz may have to engage in a few too many convenient exchanges complaining about Giuliani-era gentrification, but their chemistry is palpable, and so are their differing levels of New Yorkiness, as she playfully ribs his mama’s-boy out-of-towner vibe.
Translations:
in-hospital
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Occurring in a hospital.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The in-hospital mortality rate for the group was shockingly high.
Translations:
Marwari
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Marwaris
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Marwari
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Marwadi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Marvadi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of an Indian ethnic group originating from the Rajasthan region of India.
pos: noun
Translations:
sundance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sun + dance.
Compound parts: sun
dance
Inflected forms:
form: sundances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sun dance
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of various Native American religious rituals with songs, dances, praying, etc.
pos: noun
examples: Of course before this there will be lesser fights with Indian foes and whites, and much village life, moving, sundances and other ceremonials to record and a great hunt on the Yellowstone […]
Mary and her husband, Jack Hyatt (Cherokee/African-American), have participated in sundances for a number of years.
gloss: Gaillardia pulchella, a flowering plant of the Southern United States, from Arizona to Florida, and northern Mexico.
pos: noun
Translations:
willow-weed
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: willow-weeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A European species of loosestrife (Lysimachia vulgaris).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any kind of Persicaria with willow-like foliage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
re-fuse
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From re- + fuse. The hyphen is to avoid confusion with refuse.
Base: fuse
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: re-fuses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: re-fusing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: re-fused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: re-fused
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To fit with another fuse.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The plugs are made of porcelain in one piece, and can readily be re-fused, as with these boards it is not necessary to open a circuit switch to re-fuse a circuit[…]
It incorporates the same simple re-fusing device as is used in the standard Ediswan Clix BS 1363 Fused Plug, and the adaptor outlet is shuttered.
Translations:
goal-line
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: goal line
pos: adj
tags: attributive
not-comparable
examples: The incident immediately revived the debate about goal-line technology, with a final decision on whether it is introduced expected to be taken in Zurich on 5 July.
Translations:
resonation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: resonations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or state of resonating
pos: noun
Translations:
pre-anthropic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pre- + anthropic.
Base: anthropic
Affixes: pre-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: From a time before the influence of man on the environment
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
dragonette
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: fantasy
Etymology: Originally a variant of dragonet. By surface analysis, dragon + -ette.
Inflected forms:
form: dragonettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small or female dragon.
pos: noun
examples: And I really don't know how to say this, except to say that this dragoness is seriously luscious. Maybe that's a terrible thing to say because I'm dying and all, but there it is. This is one seriously juicy-looking dragonette.
Translations:
ABs
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: All Blacks, the New Zealand national rugby team.
pos: noun
Translations:
thorotrast
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Blend of thorium + contrast. Originally a trade name.
Compound parts: thorium
contrast
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A radiographic contrast medium composed of a suspension of thorium dioxide.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
sure-footedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sure-footed + -ness.
Base: sure-footed
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being sure-footed
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
celling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cell + -ing.
Base: cell
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: confinement in a cell
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
uncountable
examples: The prison was so crowded that they had to resort to double celling and then triple celling.
Translations:
Mercian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Late Latin Mercius + -an, Latinized from Old English Mierċe.
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: Mercians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Mertian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Mertian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A native or inhabitant of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: And comming forth shall spred his banner brave / Over the troubled South, that it shall make / The warlike Mertians for feare to quake […]
gloss: Of, from or relating to Mercia.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
wife-giver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: wife-givers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A lineage or a family that gives a woman in marriage.
pos: noun
Antonyms: wife-taker
Translations:
wife-taker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: wife-takers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A lineage or a family that accepts a woman in marriage from another lineage or family.
pos: noun
Antonyms: wife-giver
Translations:
bitzer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Unknown. Originally used of dogs. Perhaps from bits + -er, in reference to the dog's composition from multiple different "bits". The spelling with tz may be influenced from other names of breeds (e.g. spitz, shih tzu, etc.) or in imitation of German names. Compare also German Betze (“bitch, female dog”).
Base: bits
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: bitzers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bitsa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bitser
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bitza
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A mongrel dog.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
informal
gloss: A person of mixed race or ethnicity.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
informal
examples: And a bit Welsh on your father's side. And a bit Irish. There's even some Chinese in there. You're a bitzer, Stevie.
gloss: A bicycle assembled from bits and pieces.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
juncus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From the genus name. Doublet of junco and junk.
Inflected forms:
form: juncuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any plant of the genus Juncus (rushes).
pos: noun
Translations:
bazinga
Part of speech: intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably from zing. Appears to originate from the X-Files season 7 episode "Hollywood A.D." Popularized as the catchphrase of the character Sheldon Cooper on the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory.
Inflected forms:
form: bazingas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Exclamation indicating a successful trick or prank.
pos: intj
examples: Once again, you’ve fallen for one of my classic pranks. Bazinga!
gloss: Exclamation indicating a successful outcome or sudden realization.
pos: intj
examples: Go back to the iPod app on your iOS device and click on the “More” tab. There you will see a new heading titled “Shared” which lets you choose between your iOS library or any Shared Libraries you have enabled on your WiFi network. Bazinga!
I have never gotten anything less than an A- when poster board is involved. So — bazinga! I'd make a poster of the life and times of Markie's family. Guaranteed to melt his parents' hearts.
gloss: Exclamation acknowledging a witty remark.
pos: intj
examples: So, Marc, as you can see, we don't use the word "pot" very often in stories. But you also see that it is used frequently in headlines. The reason is simple and has nothing to do with a lack of respect for medical marijuana users. When it comes to headlines, size matters, and the word "pot" fits in a lot more places than "marijuana." It's really that simple.
 It would be easy to figure that headline writers just aren't what they used to be, that they've gone to pot, so to speak (bazinga!).
gloss: A thingamabob, a placeholder word for any unknown or nonspecific object.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Anyone have a good guess as to what the bazinga is that I've crudely circled in this photo?
Related words: Euglossa bazinga
Bazinga rieki
Derived words: double bazinga
Translations:
self-pleasing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + pleasing.
Base: pleasing
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: more self-pleasing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-pleasing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That pleases oneself; given over only to one's own pleasure.
pos: adj
examples: With such self-pleasing thoughts her wound she fed, / And thought so to beguile her grievous smart […]
This, once again, is the art of introspection and stubborn, self-pleasing originality.
gloss: masturbation
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
uncountable
examples: Even today, the thought is "good girls don't, but good boys do." The reality is, girls, like boys, are curious about their bodies and may experiment with self-pleasing.
Imagining the neighbors could be doing the same will automatically add new potency to your self-pleasing.
Translations:
homiletical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὁμιλητικός (homilētikós, “conversable”). Sense 2 from homiletic + -al.
Base: homiletic
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more homiletical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most homiletical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: social or companionable.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Of or relating to homiletics; homiletic; hortatory.
pos: adj
examples: The Talmud offers a homiletical etymology that the word AMeN is composed of the initial letters of Ayl Melekh Ne'eman.
Translations:
abbasi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
Etymology: From Persian عباسی ('abbâsi); see for more. Doublet of abazi.
Inflected forms:
form: abbasis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: abassis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: abas
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: abassi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A silver coin of Persia, introduced by Safavid Shah Abbas in 16th century, worth about twenty cents.
pos: noun
gloss: A Persian unit of weight, equivalent to approximately 12.8 oz.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: An Afghan bronze coin from the early 20th century, equivalent to four shahi.
pos: noun
gloss: A unit of measurement for Afghan postage stamps.
pos: noun
Related words: abazi
Translations:
protozoal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: protozoan
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Ferrarese
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian ferrarese.
Inflected forms:
form: more Ferrarese
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Ferrarese
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Ferrareses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Ferrarese
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relating to Ferrara in Italy.
pos: adj
gloss: A citizen of Ferrara in Italy.
pos: noun
Translations:
apple-berry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From apple + berry.
Compound parts: apple
berry
Inflected forms:
form: apple-berries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A vine or low shrub native to Australia, Billardiera scandens in the taxonomic family Pittosporaceae, which bears edible fruits said to taste like stewed apples.
pos: noun
Translations:
ledum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: ledums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any plant of the genus Ledum.
pos: noun
Translations:
high-top
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: high-tops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hightop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: high top
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hi-top
pos: noun
tags: alternative
informal
Senses:
gloss: A kind of sports shoe that extends significantly over the wearer's ankle.
pos: noun
examples: When not clad in standard issue dress shoes, Turner wears a mean pair of hightops.
Got your tongue pierced anyway / You in your high-tops any day / You in your skinny jeans anyway
His canvas high-tops were still perfectly folded over, and the white rubber toe was still white.
Translations:
unaccepting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + accepting.
Base: accepting
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unaccepting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unaccepting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not accepting.
pos: adj
Translations:
lovebug
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From love + bug. From their mating behavior, remaining paired up for several days during copulation.
Compound parts: love
bug
Inflected forms:
form: lovebugs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An insect, the honeymoon fly (Plecia nearctica, family Biblionidae), native to Central America and the southeastern United States.
pos: noun
gloss: An insect native to subtropical regions of south-eastern China, Taiwan, and Japan (Plecia longiforceps).
pos: noun
examples: The bugs, officially called Plecia longiforceps, earned their nickname from their distinctive mating behaviour, flying attached as couples during copulation. […] Originally from subtropical regions of south-eastern China, Taiwan and Japan’s Ryukyu islands, the lovebugs were first scientifically identified in South Korea during a major 2022 outbreak.
gloss: A person who is in love; a sweetheart.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: His parents flipped their lids when the two lovebugs got hitched. Jonnie couldn't stand the fact that her beautiful young son, gone so long over seas, had now tangled up with an older woman, and even worse, an older divorced woman […]
Translations:
commlink
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
Etymology: From comm + link.
Compound parts: comm
link
Inflected forms:
form: commlinks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: comm link
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: comlink
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A communications device.
pos: noun
examples: A great aurora spread across the heavens, and the Thukker infantrymen lost all hope as their commlinks went dead and the TACNET dropped offline. In that moment, each man understood that they were doomed.
Sheppard removed his commlink unit and attempted to access the engineering duty officer to report the occurrence.
Translations:
nazim
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Urdu ناظم, ultimately from Arabic ناظم.
Inflected forms:
form: nazims
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The chief elected official of a local government in Pakistan.
pos: noun
Translations:
readaptation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From re- + adaptation.
Base: adaptation
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: readaptations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A second or subsequent adaptation.
pos: noun
Translations:
A-lifer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From A-life + -er.
Base: A-life
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: A-lifers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One with an interest in artificial life.
pos: noun
examples: A number of these concern Strong A-Life, the view that it is possible to create living things through the programs that A-Lifers write.
Translations:
murgh
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Indian-cookery
cooking
cuisine
food
lifestyle
Etymology: From Classical Persian مرغ (murġ).
Inflected forms:
form: murg
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: chicken
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Our other entrée was murgh massalam ($3.50), half a chicken of fall-off-the-bone tenderness in a rich brown cream sauce garnished with a whole hard-boiled egg.
But of those bold curries, butter chicken, or murgh makhani, is the richest of all.
As a starter, the murgh tikka are pieces of chicken breast marinated cooked in tandoor that can be prepared in various ways with various spices with crushed cashew nuts and cream, or spinach, spices and coriander.
Translations:
cook-chill
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A method of food preparation in which food is first cooked and then rapidly chilled.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
uncountable
examples: Most school districts using a cook-chill system have one large production facility in which food is prepared and then shipped to numerous schools.
Translations:
neo-Nazism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From neo-Nazi + -ism or neo- + Nazism.
Affixes: neo-Nazi
-ism
Inflected forms:
form: neo-Nazisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: neo-nazism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: neonazism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The ideology held by neo-Nazis; post-WWII Nazism.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The key ingredient to this online soup is extremism: from nativism to racial science to casual neo-Nazism and textbook misogyny. Presented to followers via livestreams, memes and X posts, this deluge of far-right content has been called "slopulism" — a vibes-based politics designed for social media and born from social media.
Translations:
communization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From communize + -ation.
Base: communize
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: communizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: communisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of communizing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: decommunization
Translations:
lomas
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish lomas (“hills”).
Inflected forms:
form: loma
pos: noun
tags: singular
Senses:
gloss: Fog oases, areas of fog-watered vegetation in the coastal desert of Peru and northern Chile
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-normally
Translations:
turn-up
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
games
Etymology: Deverbal from turn up.
Inflected forms:
form: turn-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: turnup
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Fabric turned up at the bottom of trousers to make them shorter.
pos: noun
examples: Why does all this fluff accumulate in the turn-ups?
gloss: A fight or disturbance.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: I was passable enough when I went with the tinker, though nothing to boast of then; but what with blowing the fire with my mouth when I was young, and spileing my complexion, and singeing my hair off, and swallering the smoke, and what with being nat’rally unfort’nate in the way of running against hot metal and marking myself by sich means, and what with having turn-ups with the tinker as I got older, almost whenever he was too far gone in drink—which was almost always—my beauty was queer, wery queer, even at that time.
gloss: The next card taken from the top of a pack of cards and displayed.
pos: noun
examples: I'll bet $10 that the next turn-up is an ace.
gloss: A stroke of good luck; something that appears unexpectedly; especially in turn up for the book.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Despondent settled down favourite, but ran badly, and the fielders had a fine turn up by the success of Carlton Spring, on whom Allsopp jumped off in front and stayed there.
I thought ‘now here's a turn up’, for I was not to know I would be invited to drinks every day for the next three years.
gloss: A book, intended for children, with flaps that can be lifted to reveal underlying text or images.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Books with flaps which lifted up and down and known as "turn-ups" came about in 1795 and were listed in Laurie and Whittle's catalogue.
Translations:
freeride
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Compound of free + ride.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A form of mountain biking closely related to downhill biking and dirt jumping, focused on tricks, style, and technical trail features.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
pather
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computer-games
games
Etymology: From path + -er.
Base: path
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: pathers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A non-player character that walks a repeating path.
pos: noun
Translations:
gooden
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From good + -en. Compare Middle English goden, godien (“to make good, become good, endow with goods”), from Old English gōdian (“to improve, get better; make better; endow, enrich”). More at good.
Base: good
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: goodens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: goodening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: goodened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: goodened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make good; improve; better; perfect.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: For many years we have endeavored to comprehend how a/b could transform highly intelligent and in many respects 'model' girls and women (and sometimes boys and men) into unwitting bystanders and accomplices to their own torture and impending death while remaining convinced that they are being perfected and goodened?
The passive voice is all-pervasive. This is a world in which virtue is achieved by not doing things, only thus, like Jesus (Wright tells us) may we “be Goodened with Good.
gloss: To become good.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To grow; improve; prosper.
pos: verb
tags: UK
dialectal
intransitive
Derived words: goodening
Translations:
tenure-track
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: education
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Possessing contractually guaranteed terms of employment specifying that, after a period of time, the employed person will be considered for tenure status, which typically confers enhanced job security and sometimes other benefits.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: [T]he hierarchical structure of Japanese academic-research teams often denies women precious tenure-track positions.
It would be better to forget RAE exercises and instead have a large number of independent universities with proper tenure-track positions and with high standards enforced.
Translations:
Abecedarian
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin abecedārius + -an; see abecedarian.
Base: abecedārius
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: Abecedarians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a 16th-century Anabaptist sect, follower of the Zwickau prophets (and specially of Thomas Storch), who believed that any kind of knowledge (even basic reading and writing) would keep one from obtaining salvation.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Behind the stable doors, where competitors frenziedly shine tack and polish hooves, Donna McNulty busies herself with her horse, Abecedarian.
Heckman has been analyzing data from two famous early-childhood intervention programs, the Abecedarian Project of the ’70s and the Perry Preschool project of the ’60s. Both have furnished ample evidence that, if you enroll very young children from poor families in programs that give both them and their parents an extra boost, then they grow up to be wealthier and healthier than their counterparts—less fat, less sick, better educated, and, for men, more likely to hold down a job.
Translations:
ActionScript
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From action + script.
Compound parts: action
script
Inflected forms:
form: ActionScripts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A script written in this language.
pos: noun
Translations:
AppleScript
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Apple + script.
Compound parts: Apple
script
Inflected forms:
form: AppleScripts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A script written in this language.
pos: noun
Translations:
brainfuck
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From brain + fuck (“to play with; to tinker”).
Compound parts: brain
fuck
Inflected forms:
form: brainfucks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brainfucks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: brainfucking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: brainfucked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: brainfucked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Something that destabilizes, confuses, or manipulates a person's mind.
pos: noun
tags: vulgar
examples: What a brainfuck. Little Roger, my brother, wanted to have a talk about sex.
gloss: To destabilize, confuse, or manipulate a person's mind.
pos: verb
tags: vulgar
examples: "I don't want to hear that. Don't try and brainfuck me by turning this around and making it some sort of redemption thing. […]
Translations:
abhinaya
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit अभिनय (abhinaya, “acting, dramatic action”).
Inflected forms:
form: abhinayas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Use of the face and hands, in an expressive manner, similar to the kathakali dance of India.
pos: noun
Translations:
ugg
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: uggs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: ugg boot
pos: noun
Translations:
bassman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bass + man.
Compound parts: bass
man
Inflected forms:
form: bassmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A man who plays the bass guitar.
pos: noun
examples: "We have 10 eyes on it -- all four of us you can see and the one you can't," says Martin, referring to band members Buckland, drummer Will Champion, bassman Guy Berryman and the so-called fifth member, former manager Phil Harvey.
Translations:
double-quote
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: double-quotes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: double quote
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: double-quotes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: double-quoting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: double-quoted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: double-quoted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: double quote
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The symbol ".
pos: noun
gloss: To surround (something) with a double-quote on each side.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
mandal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Ultimately from Sanskrit मण्डल (maṇḍala, literally “circle”). Doublet of mandala.
Inflected forms:
form: mandals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An administrative division in some countries in South Asia.
pos: noun
Translations:
apsara
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi अप्सरा (apsarā), descended from Sanskrit अप्सरस् (apsaras).
Inflected forms:
form: apsaras
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: upsara
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A female spirit of the clouds and waters.
pos: noun
tags: Hinduism
examples: But the boy's relatives don't sit on their behinds and wait for a pari or an apsara to drop out of the heavens.
But here was an apsara rising out of the waters of a holy Ganga, raising her arms in salutation to the sun rising above the range of hills and offering her behind to him to marvel at and worship.
Don't burn us with your fierce austerities, O master. I'll have to send apsaras to distract you.
Translations:
psychologic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From psychology + -ic.
Base: psychology
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to psychology.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Although it is usually difficult to find the person responsible for printers' errors, the psychologic mechanisms underlying them are the same as in other mistakes.
"[…] Ay, there is a mystery; but, to use a Scriptural phrase, it is 'a mystery of iniquity,' a matter for psychologic theologians to discuss. But what has a military court to do with it? […]"
Translations:
brony
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: lifestyle
Etymology: Blend of bro + pony, the earliest documented use dates to October 25th, 2010 on the 4chan image boards.
Compound parts: bro
pony
Inflected forms:
form: bronies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A (usually major, often male) fan of the animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, typically an adult male.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: But Sethisto thinks that for him and his fellow bronies, the show has "evolved way past being just another 22-minute commercial. They gave the team enough freedom to really make it awesome."
Antonyms: anti-brony
Translations:
double-break
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
Inflected forms:
form: double-breaks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: double break
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In a set, an advantage equivalent to two breaks of serve.
pos: noun
examples: In the seventh game of the deciding set, one backhand came in at a thundering 99mph – this was followed by a lightening forehand return from Nadal's next serve to make it 30-love. A double-break would have left Nadal with no out-clause, but he clung on to pull the score back to 4-3.
Translations:
ice-calm
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From ice + calm.
Compound parts: ice
calm
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Extremely calm
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
not-comparable
gloss: Extreme calm, utter calmness
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
uncountable
examples: There was no distracting Rosol's ice-calm as he killed the fifth set and match. Ace, cross-court forehand winner, ace, forehand winner – a blistering eighth game took him to 5-3 and informed Nadal precisely how nerveless the Czech was.
Translations:
postnominal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From post- + nominal.
Base: nominal
Affixes: post-
Inflected forms:
form: postnominals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something, such as a title or abbreviation denoting an attained academic degree or a membership in an organization, which is placed after a name.
pos: noun
gloss: Something which is placed after a noun.
pos: noun
Translations:
gravy-eyed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From gravy + eyed.
Compound parts: gravy
eyed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: bleary-eyed
pos: adj
tags: UK
Translations:
gotch-gutted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: potbellied
pos: adj
tags: Geordie
UK
Translations:
Kaqchikel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Cachiquel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Cakchikel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Cakchiquel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Caqchikel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Kakchiquel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Kaqchickel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Mayan people of Guatemala.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
potoo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: potoos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any species of the family Nyctibiidae within the order Nyctibiiformes related to the nightjars (order Caprimulgiformes), and found from southern Mexico to southern Brazil.
pos: noun
Translations:
Liman
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Lima + -an.
Base: Lima
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: more Liman
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Liman
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Limean
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Limans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Limean
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: From or pertaining to Lima in Peru.
pos: adj
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Lima in Peru.
pos: noun
Translations:
Wendish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Wend + -ish.
Base: Wend
Affixes: -ish
Inflected forms:
form: more Wendish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Wendish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the Wends.
pos: adj
Translations:
nonaccrual
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: From non- + accrual.
Base: accrual
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not of or relating to accrual.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: nonaccrual loans
Translations:
opposit
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English opposit, from Latin oppositus, perfect passive participle of oppōnō (“to oppose”).
Inflected forms:
form: opposits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: oppositing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: opposited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: opposited
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: to posit or assume as a contradictory; negative or deny
pos: verb
Translations:
Alawite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
Inflected forms:
form: Alawites
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Alaouite
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of a mystical Shiite Islamic group that reveres Ali.
pos: noun
gloss: A person raised in the Alawite culture.
pos: noun
Translations:
grem
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of gremmy or gremlin.
Inflected forms:
form: grems
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A young or inexperienced surfer or skateboarder.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Some of the grems recognized us […]
From Narragansett to Boca Raton, legions of Atlantic-baptized grems looked west for their surfing equipment, instruction, and entertainment.
Translations:
cousin-uncle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cousin-uncles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Male first cousin of one's parent; one's male first cousin once removed in a higher generation.
pos: noun
examples: Walter is my dad's first cousin. That makes Walter my cousin-uncle. Jack is my mother's first cousin, so for me he is another cousin-uncle.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:cousin-uncle.
Translations:
A-bomber
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From A-bomb + -er. (atomic bomber / atom bomber).
Base: A-bomb
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: A-bombers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An aircraft capable of delivering an atomic bomb as a weapon.
pos: noun
Translations:
Abor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anthropology
ethnography
human-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: Abors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Abor
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a people of northern Assam.
pos: noun
examples: No thatching grass is available, and so all the houses are thatched with a kind of plant called tara by the Abors, which is very like the tokopat used in many parts of Assam, but the lower stem of the tara is excessively thorny.
Translations:
Judeo-Christian-Islamic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Judeo- + Christian + Islamic.
Base: Christian
Affixes: Judeo-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam collectively.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Hell appears in the Judeo-Christian-Islamic context originally as a place of smoke and fire.
Translations:
e-communication
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From e- + communication.
Base: communication
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
form: e-communications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: communication by electronic means, especially over computer networks
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
cousin-aunt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cousin-aunts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Female first cousin of one's parent; one's female first cousin once removed in a higher generation.
pos: noun
examples: Mary is my mother's first cousin. That makes Mary my cousin-aunt. Judy is my dad's first cousin, so for me she is another cousin-aunt.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:cousin-aunt.
Translations:
Ambrosian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English ambrosien, from Latin ambrosiānus; equivalent to Ambrose + -ian.
Base: Ambrose
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: more Ambrosian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Ambrosian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Ambrosians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Saint Ambrose.
pos: adj
examples: the Ambrosian office, or ritual
gloss: A religious follower of St Ambrose.
pos: noun
Translations:
newchurch
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From new + church.
Compound parts: new
church
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Describing Christians or forms of Christianity seen as being marked by liberalism, influence from modern concepts and trends, novelty etc. and disregard for established or traditional beliefs and practices.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
not-comparable
examples: The capture of middle and senior management positions in Catholic education by newchurch trendies has a parallel in government education circles.
[…] fanned by applause and encouragement from the secular media and fueled by the newchurch rhetoric
[…] irrespective of the training college being Newchurch modernist, moderate, conservative or traditional.
Let us keep them from being bullied by "newchurch" priests or intimidated by disapproving co-religionists.
Translations:
chaetodon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From the genus name. By surface analysis, chaet- + -odon.
Inflected forms:
form: chaetodons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: butterflyfish (of the genus Chaetodon)
pos: noun
Translations:
tough-minded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more tough-minded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tough-minded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not distracted from actual facts by enticements, intimidation, or sentimentality; steadfast in one's actions, beliefs, commitments, etc.; realistic.
pos: adj
examples: [T]his was the Society of Jesus, founded in Spain five hundred years before by a tough-minded soldier who trained men to hold a breach or a salon, preach a sermon or write a treaty, and do it and not argue …
Britain's Peregrine Worsthorne, 36, is a tough-minded Tory journalist with scant regard for preconceived opinions—his own or anybody else's.
They considered themselves tough-minded realists, and regarded doubters as fuzzy-minded whiners.
Translations:
neral
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: citral
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Higgs-like
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From Higgs (“a surname”) + -like, from Peter Higgs, credited with the Higgs mechanism and Higgs boson.
Base: Higgs
Affixes: -like
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Imbuing elementary particles with mass through the breaking of electroweak symmetry and the interaction with some field.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In the MA gauge, the Higgs-like mechanism takes place at the infrared scale of QCD.
In this model gravity emerges from the small wiggling of the string, which results in the gravity field on a large scale. This emergent Higgs-like field results from small wiggly vibrations of the string.
But in the gauge-Higgs theory we have discussed, it seems impossible to distinguish between the confinement-like and Higgs-like regions of the theory in terms of the spontaneous symmetry breaking of gauge symmetry.
gloss: (of a particle) Similar in mass and other properties to the proposed Standard Model Higgs boson.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: So there will be three massless (or nearly massless, if there is some breaking of the new O(4) symmetry) "dark" Nambu-Goldstone bosons I call k, as well as a new massive Higgs-like boson called S.
Indeed, there is an important region of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) where there is just one Higgs-like particle accessible to the LHC with properties almost identical to the Standard Model Higgs.
In a culmination of 50 years of theoretical speculation and three weeks of intense media frenzy, two teams of researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research said they had independently discovered evidence for a "Higgs-like" boson, the long-sought elementary particle that gives mass to the universe.
Related words: Higgs boson
Higgs field
Higgs mechanism
Higgsino
Translations: