yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
emotive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more emotive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most emotive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: emotives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to emotion.
pos: adj
gloss: Appealing to the emotions.
pos: adj
examples: He was the kind of man to whom some human object for pouring out his heart upon—were it emotive or were it choleric—was almost a necessity.
gloss: Expressing an emotion.
pos: adj
gloss: A word or construct that expresses an emotion.
pos: noun
Derived words: emotive hardcore
emotively
emotiveness
emotivism
emotivist
emotivity
hyperemotive
nonemotive
overemotive
unemotive
Translations:
coverall
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cover + all.
Compound parts: cover
all
Inflected forms:
form: coveralls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A loose-fitting jumpsuit-style protective garment worn over other clothing.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
US
Translations:
clastic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κλαστός (klastós, “broken in pieces”), from κλάω (kláō, “to break”) + -ic.
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: clastics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Made up of parts that are easily removable.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Made from fragments of pre-existing rocks.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A rock made from fragments of pre-existing rocks.
pos: noun
Related words: -clast
-clasis
Derived words: bioclastic
clast
epiclastic
nonclastic
pyroclastic
vitroclastic
volcaniclastic
Translations:
turtleback
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
Etymology: From turtle + back.
Compound parts: turtle
back
Inflected forms:
form: turtlebacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: turtle-back
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Anything having the shape of a turtle's back (that is, its shell).
pos: noun
examples: Up he went on concrete stairs that were eroded to turtlebacks and slippery with evening's frost […]
gloss: A convex deck at the bow or stern of a vessel, designed to shed seawater quickly.
pos: noun
gloss: An armor layout with an armored deck which slopes downwards towards the sides of the ship and connects to the lower edge of the main belt armor, designed to deflect shells striking the ship on trajectories close to horizontal.
pos: noun
gloss: A primitive stone celt of a form suggesting the back of a turtle.
pos: noun
gloss: A library binding of a mass market paperback with a generic hardcover.
pos: noun
examples: When you order Turtleback Books from Baker & Taylor, you can be assured you get Turtlebacks!
gloss: Any plant of the genus Psathyrotes of annual and perennial forbs and low subshrubs native to dry areas of southwestern North America.
pos: noun
Synonyms: turtle-deck
Related words: turtle-backed
turtle-back scale
Translations:
intolerance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French intolérance, itself from in- (“not”) + tolérance or borrowed from Latin intolerantia (“insolence, insufferableness; (very rare) intolerance”). By surface analysis, in- + tolerance.
Base: tolérance
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: intolerances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being intolerant.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Religious intolerance is a serious problem in Brazil.
By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.
gloss: Extreme sensitivity to a food or drug; of a food that is generally considered edible, an individual inability to digest it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: lactose intolerance
Related words: allergy
Derived words: heat intolerance
lactose intolerance
systemic exertion intolerance disease
Translations:
repulsion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French répulsion, from Late Latin repulsio, repulsionem, from Latin repulsus.
Inflected forms:
form: repulsions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of repelling or the condition of being repelled.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An extreme dislike of something, or hostility to something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion[…] such talk had been distressingly out of place.
gloss: The repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: attraction
Related words: repel
repulse
repulsive
repellent
Derived words: chemorepulsion
Coulomb repulsion
electrorepulsion
interrepulsion
repulsion motor
Translations:
stateless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computer
computing
engineering
government
human-sciences
law
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
politics
science
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
Proto-Italic *status
Latin statuslbor.
Old French estatbor.
Middle English stat
English state
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English stateless
From state + -less.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a system or protocol, such that it does not keep a persistent state between transactions.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A stateless server treats each request independently.
gloss: Without state or pomp.
pos: adj
tags: dated
not-comparable
gloss: Without a state or nationality; not subject to any state.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: UN Convention relating to the Status of Stateless Persons
The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
gloss: Neither believing in nor supporting the idea of nations.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: citizenshipless
countryless
nationless
Antonyms: stateful
Derived words: stateless capitalism
statelessly
statelessness
stateless person
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: apàtrida
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 無狀態 /无状态
roman: wúzhuàngtài
lang: Czech
word: bezstavový
lang: Finnish
word: tilaton
lang: German
word: zustandlos
lang: Greek
word: ακαταστασικός
roman: akatastasikós
lang: Turkish
word: durumsuz
folkie
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *fulką
Proto-West Germanic *folk
Old English folc
Middle English folk
English folk
English -ie
English folkie
From folk + -ie.
Inflected forms:
form: folkies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: folkier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: folkiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A folk singer, or an enthusiast of folk music.
pos: noun
examples: When I say "political" I don't just mean lesbian or gay. I'm a folkie deep at heart and regularly attend concerts of Si Kahn, Fred Small, Bright Morning Star, Marcia Taylor, Debra Silverstein, Solid Ground, and many other groups and individuals from the political folk tradition.
He had come to Carnegie Hall not to imitate him but to channel him with the self he happened to be at that moment, not at all the green folkie who had set the world ablaze just a few years earlier.
gloss: of, or relating to folk music
pos: adj
Translations:
infusion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English infusioun, from Old French infusion, from Latin infusio, infusionem (“a pouring into, a wetting, a dyeing, a flow”), from infundo.
Inflected forms:
form: infusions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A product consisting of a liquid which has had other ingredients steeped in it to extract useful qualities.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: An extract of rooibos and chamomile makes a refreshing infusion.
gloss: The act of steeping or soaking a substance in liquid so as to extract medicinal or herbal qualities.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of installing a quality into a person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A giving of money or other resources, typically a large amount, to an organization.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He made a number of other changes at the Transit Police, including revamping audio equipment, moving the force to nine-millimeter semiautomatic weapons, and designing new uniforms. These changes were all part of a $40 million infusion into the Transit Police in 1990 from Governor Mario Cuomo.
[...] but in the verity of extolment / I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion / of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of / him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would / trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.
gloss: The act of dipping into a fluid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: The administration of liquid substances directly into a vein for medical purposes; perfusion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: infuse
Derived words: amnioinfusion
autoinfusion
chemoinfusion
chronoinfusion
coinfusion
infusional
infusionism
infusionist
microinfusion
overinfusion
postinfusion
preinfusion
propofol infusion syndrome
radioinfusion
reinfusion
superinfusion
Translations:
codified
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more codified
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most codified
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: organized; Put in a systematic arrangement.
pos: adj
examples: highly codified
gloss: Officially enacted by a governing body.
pos: adj
examples: A codified law is also necessary in this regard.
Translations:
unpasteurized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From the French scientist Louis Pasteur; un- + pasteurized.
Base: pasteurized
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unpasteurised
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not pasteurized.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
splendour
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: splendours
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: British, Canadian, Ireland, South Africa, Australian, and New Zealand standard spelling of splendor.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: If the kind of network we envisage is to be established, it would be unwise to begin any of its services hurriedly with older stock, which, however admirable in its day, now has an air of faded Edwardian splendour that is out of joint with the times.
Translations:
monopole
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Middle French monopole or its etymon the Late Latin monopōlium (“a monopoly”).
Inflected forms:
form: monopoles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An appellation owned by a single winery.
pos: noun
Translations:
realtor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From real (in real estate) and -or. Coined by Charles N. Chadbourn in 1916, on the model of Latin agent nouns ending in -tor (such as actor, creator), to refer to real-estate professionals who are members of the National Association of Realtors, a trade association in the United States. Equivalent to realt(y) + -or.
Base: realty
Affixes: -or
Inflected forms:
form: realtors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person or business that sells or leases out real estate, acting as an agent for the property owner.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: It was composed of an engineer, if I remember correctly, a town planner, a realtor, and occasionally an architect […]
First place, we ought to insist that folks call us ‘realtors’ and not ‘real-estate men.’ Sounds more like a reg’lar profession.
Intrigued by the prospect of an additional commission, the realtor hurriedly assured me he foresaw no problem in obtaining the lease.
The terms agent, broker, and realtor are often used interchangeably.
The realtor was like a carnivore, ready to spring. He was originally from New York and he seemed like the kind of guy who could smell a deal.
Translations:
limerence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From limer- (“a coined, arbitrary first element”) + -ence. Coined by American psychologist Dorothy Tennov in 1977 as an arbitrary euphonious replacement or alteration of the word amorance.
Base: limer-
Affixes: -ence
Inflected forms:
form: limerences
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: limerance
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An involuntary romantic infatuation with another person, especially combined with an overwhelming, obsessive need to have one's feelings reciprocated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I first used the term ‘amorance’ then changed it back to ‘limerence’ […]. It has no roots whatsoever. It looks nice. It works well in French. Take it from me it has no etymology whatsoever.
When someone is under the spell of limerence, not even being rejected dampens down the madness.
But limerence, lovely as it feels, is a time-limited event—it lasts about five years for most couples.
Limerence is a state of overwhelming and unexpected longing for emotional reciprocation from another human, known as a limerent object (LO), who is often perceived as perfect but unavailable.
I hadn't had much interest in limerence until I developed limerence when I didn't want to, when I was happily married.
“[Dorothy] Tennov rejected the view that limerence is inherently unhealthy,” he says. “It’s a distinctive form of human longing, transformative and sometimes destabilising, yes, but not necessarily bad …
Translations:
Indic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin indicus from Ancient Greek ἰνδικός (indikós), from Ἰνδία (Indía). Doublet of indigo.
Inflected forms:
form: more Indic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Indic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to or denoting the group of Indo-European languages comprising Sanskrit and the modern Indian languages which are its descendants.
pos: adj
gloss: Relating to the Brahmic scripts.
pos: adj
gloss: Pertaining to India or its people, culture and languages; Indian.
pos: adj
examples: Clearly, men like ʿAin al-Mulk and Aravit Rama Raja could not have migrated successfully between the predominantly Islamicate world of Bijapur and Golconda and the more Indic world of Vijayanagara had they not been proficient in Telugu or Kannada as well as in Dakhni or Persian.
Quite different in style from the red stone torso, it also shows links to later Indic art (Fig. 2.5). Found at Mohenjo-Daro in one of the later strata, this small image is probably of a date late in the history of the site.
Indic philosophy, on the other hand, divides people into three groups, as it has two separate definitions for Dharma and religion.
Derived words: Indic script
Translations:
seaside
Part of speech: noun
adj
adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English see-syde, sey-syde, see syde, se side, equivalent to sea + side. Compare waterside.
Compound parts: sea
side
Inflected forms:
form: seasides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The area by and around the sea; including the beach, promenade or cliffs.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: Near-synonym: oceanside (usually synonymous)
This summer, I'm going to the seaside at Weymouth. I'm very excited about it!
I do like to be beside the seaside!
Oh, I do like to be beside the sea!
I do like to stroll along the prom, prom, prom,
While the brass bands play Tiddely-om-pom-pom!
James never cared much for the sea-side, but developed a passionate love for the Westmoreland mountains, getting to know most of them as an energetic fell walker, preferring this to rock climbing.
The arrival of the railway turned this isolated fishing village into a popular seaside destination for Victorians who came to breathe fresh sea air, clear their lungs or take the waters.
gloss: At or related to a seaside.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Near-synonym: oceanside (usually synonymous)
We stayed in a seaside hotel and ate fresh seafood every night, all week long.
gloss: At the seaside.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Near-synonym: oceanside (usually synonymous)
We dined seaside and watched the gulls' antics.
When you think of dining seaside somewhere on a secluded island, this is the kind of place that comes to mind. […] Granted, it takes some planning to get here. You have to make a reservation, and you have to board a boat. But if what you seek is a quiet evening escape from the craziness of Key West, dinner at [the restaurant being reviewed here] is well worth the effort.
[…] for guests who like dining seaside under a thatched roof. Try the coconut shrimp with fruit chutney.
Translations:
alexithymia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From a- + lexi + -thymia.
Created by psychiatrists John Case Nemiah and Peter Sifneos from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + λέξις (léxis, “speaking”) + θυμός (thumós, “heart”), meaning “without words for emotions”.
Base: a
Affixes: -thymia
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing emotions.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Finally, schizophrenic disorders involve impairments of perceptions, including hallucinations and delusions, symptoms that often impair patients’ social and occupational functioning and can create alexithymia (Maggini and Raballo 2004; van ‛t Wout et al. 2007), an inability to recognize one’s own feelings.
Translations:
telecommute
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der.
Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor.
English tele-
English commute
English telecommute
From tele- + commute.
Inflected forms:
form: telecommutes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: telecommuting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: telecommuted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: telecommuted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To work from home, sometimes for part of a working day or week, using a computer connected to one's employer's network or via the Internet.
pos: verb
gloss: Telecommuting.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
examples: a telecommute position; a telecommute program
Translations:
armoury
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English armerie, armurie, armorye, from Anglo-Norman armurrie, from armure (“arms, armor”) + -ie (“-y”). By surface analysis, armour + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: armouries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: armory
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A place where arms are kept, an arsenal.
pos: noun
tags: UK
also
countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: Finally, there's also operational damage through impact energy from wheels hitting the rail. For that, Network Rail has another weapon in its armoury in the form of the Plain Line Pattern Recognition (PLPR) trains. These use geometry measurement and imaging to detect abnormalities such as missing or defective fastenings.
gloss: A collection of weapons and materiel.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: A place where arms are made.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: The manufacture of armour and arms; arming, armouring.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
examples: (1.) *Armorist. n. s. [from armour.] A person skilled in heraldry. Dict. (2.) Armorist, signifies also a person skilled in armory.
He replied that he intended to pass through there to his own land, since he could not go by sea {because of the Turks}, and the ambassador was going in order, if he could find a way, to bring back some craftsmen skilled in armoury and[…]
gloss: Heraldry.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
Related words: armourer
Translations:
armory
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: armories
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: American standard spelling of armoury.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
sufficiency
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sufficiencies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sufficiencie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The quality or condition of being sufficient.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: An adequate amount.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: But the Eastern front of the Allies was far more vulnerable. Russia could not begin to supply herself with a sufficiency of large guns and of heavy munitionment for them.
Synonyms: enoughness
sufficience
Antonyms: insufficiency
unsufficiency
Derived words: haplosufficiency
insufficiency
nonsufficiency
omnisufficiency
self-sufficiency
unsufficiency
Translations:
elephantiasis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Latin elephantiasis or directly from Ancient Greek ἐλεφᾰντῐ́ᾱσῐς (elephăntĭ́āsĭs).
Inflected forms:
form: elephantiases
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: elephantitis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: elephantitus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A complication of chronic filariasis, in which nematode worms block the lymphatic vessels, usually in the legs or scrotum, causing extreme enlargement of the infected area.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Synonym of leprosy.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
Related words: elephantic
Derived words: angioelephantiasis
Arabian elephantiasis
congenital elephantiasis
elephantiasic
elephantiasis Arabum
elephantiasis chirurgica
elephantiasis gingivae
elephantiasis neuromatosa
elephantiasis nostras
elephantiasis oculi
elephantiasis scroti
elephantiasis telangiectodes
elephantiasis vulvae
filarial elephantiasis
gingival elephantiasis
Greek elephantiasis
lymphangiectatic elephantiasis
nevoid elephantiasis
oschelephantiasis
Translations:
caerphilly
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after the town of Caerphilly, Wales.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A light-colored, crumbly cheese made from cow's milk.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
filariasis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English filaria
English -iasis
English filariasis
From filaria + -iasis.
Inflected forms:
form: filariases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any disease common in tropical and subtropical countries resulting from infestation of the lymphatic system with nematode worms of the superfamily Filarioidea, transmitted by mosquitoes, characterised by inflammation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
filaria
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 19th century, from translingual Filaria (name of type genus), from Latin filum (“thread”).
Inflected forms:
form: filariae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: filarias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the parasitic nematode worms of superfamily Filarioidea that lives in the blood of vertebrates and is transmitted by insects: the cause of filariasis.
pos: noun
Translations:
Canopus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin Canōpusbor.
English Canopus
Borrowed from Latin Canōpus.
Inflected forms:
form: Canopuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A canopic jar.
pos: noun
Translations:
hookworm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From hook + worm.
Compound parts: hook
worm
Inflected forms:
form: hookworms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various parasitic bloodsucking roundworms which cause disease, especially the species Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus, having hooked mouthparts and entering their hosts by boring through the skin.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: A heavy infestation of more than 100 hookworms can suck up as much as 16 fluid ounces of blood a day. Since hookworm larvae can be transmitted through a mother's milk, infestations can kill infants.
gloss: Infection with one of these parasites.
pos: noun
tags: metonymically
uncountable
examples: a case of hookworm
Related words: ringworm
Derived words: American hookworm
hookwormy
Translations:
carina
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
ornithology
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin carīna (“keel”). Doublet of careen and carene.
Inflected forms:
form: carinas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: carinae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A longitudinal ridge or projection like the keel of a boat.
pos: noun
gloss: Part of a papilionaceous flower consisting of two petals, commonly united, which encloses the organs of fructification.
pos: noun
gloss: The keel of the glume of grasses.
pos: noun
gloss: The principal nerve of a sepal.
pos: noun
gloss: The keel of the breastbone of birds.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several features that have a projecting central ridge.
pos: noun
Derived words: carina apex
carinal
carination
carina tracheae
cariniform
carinula
Translations:
strathspey
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: After Strathspey, valley of the river Spey.
Inflected forms:
form: strathspeys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Scottish dance with gliding steps, slower than a reel.
pos: noun
gloss: A piece of music composed for or in the rhythm of this dance.
pos: noun
examples: He muttered an exclamation in Gaelic, strode across the floor, and then, with an air of dogged resolution, as if prepared to see the scene to an end, sate himself down on the oak table and whistled a strathspey.
Arms are raised, the cheers are deafening, the pipes turn to a strathspey and a whole section of the crowd launches into a mad jig.
Translations:
stratocumulus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English strato-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱuh₁mósder.?
Latin cumulusbor.
English cumulus
English stratocumulus
From strato- + cumulus.
Inflected forms:
form: stratocumuli
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A principal low-level cloud type, predominantly stratiform, in the form of a gray and/or whitish layer or patch, which nearly always has dark parts and is nonfibrous.
pos: noun
Translations:
deregistration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
English registration
English deregistration
From de- + registration.
Inflected forms:
form: deregistrations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Removal of registration, especially
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Removal of registration, especially:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
registrant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: registrants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who registers something or is registered.
pos: noun
Translations:
regulo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 20th century, from Regulo, trademark for a type of thermostatic control on gas ovens.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: any of a number of temperatures to which a gas oven may be set. e.g. regulo 4
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
pyxis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin pyxis (“small box”). Doublet of box, piseog, and pyx.
Inflected forms:
form: pyxides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small box.
pos: noun
gloss: A capsule in which the lid separates from the top of the fruit to release the seeds.
pos: noun
gloss: A nautical compass.
pos: noun
gloss: The box in which ashes are stored for Ash Wednesday.
pos: noun
gloss: acetabulum.
pos: noun
Translations:
re-entry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aerospace
bridge
business
card-games
engineering
entertainment
games
hobbies
law
lifestyle
medicine
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physiology
sciences
sports
surfing
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English entry
English re-entry
From re- + entry.
Inflected forms:
form: re-entries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: reentry
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: reëntry
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of entering again.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a re-entry into public life
Shortly after its re-entry into traffic, it was named County Durham on October 1 that year, although it was denamed later.
gloss: The return of a spacecraft into the Earth's atmosphere.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The reestablishment of possession under a right or rights reserved in a previous conveyance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of retaking possession of land, etc.; the entry by a lessor upon the premises leased, on failure of the tenant to pay rent or perform the covenants in the lease.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Of a ukulele, a break in the pitch order of strings.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The reactivation of (a region of) myocardial tissue by a single, returning impulse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of retaking the lead by winning a trick.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A re-entry card.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A trick involving climbing a wave and then returning back down its face.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: reentrant
Derived words: re-entry card
reo
Translations:
seamanship
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From seaman + -ship.
Base: seaman
Affixes: -ship
Inflected forms:
form: seamanships
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Skill in, and knowledge of, the work of navigating, maintaining, and operating a vessel at sea.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
postpositive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pós
Proto-Indo-European *-ti
Proto-Indo-European *pósti
Proto-Italic *posti
Old Latin poste
Latin post
English post-
English positive
English postpositive
From post- + positive.
Inflected forms:
form: postpositives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Placed after the word modified, either immediately after, as in two men abreast, or as part of a complement, as in those two men are bad.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A postpositive modifier.
pos: noun
Translations:
cleansing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more cleansing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cleansing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: cleansings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That cleanses.
pos: adj
examples: Apply the cleansing cream to your skin.
gloss: The process of removing dirt, toxins etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Regular skin cleansing may help to prevent acne.
Translations:
Falstaffian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Falstaff
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Falstaffian
From Falstaff + -ian.
Inflected forms:
form: more Falstaffian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Falstaffian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having the traits of the comic character Falstaff: especially, corpulent and jolly.
pos: adj
examples: In battle, he self-deprecatingly recorded his own Falstaffian flight – 'fleeing is also an act of courage' – and probably the most 'strange and comic' scatological scene in military history.
Translations:
Falstaff
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the name of a character invented by William Shakespeare for his Henry IV plays, and who also appeared in The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Inflected forms:
form: Falstaffs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fat and jolly knight.
pos: noun
Translations:
Edwardian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *audaz
Proto-Indo-European *wer-
Proto-Indo-European *wor-tús
Proto-Germanic *warduz
Proto-Germanic *Audawarduz
Proto-West Germanic *Audawardu
Old English Ēadweard
Middle English Edward
English Edward
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Edwardian
From Edward + -ian.
Inflected forms:
form: more Edwardian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Edwardian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Edwardians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of the period in British history from circa 1901 to 1910, when Edward VII ruled the British Empire.
pos: adj
examples: If the kind of network we envisage is to be established, it would be unwise to begin any of its services hurriedly with older stock, which, however admirable in its day, now has an air of faded Edwardian splendour that is out of joint with the times.
In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
This delightful four-platform station [Bognor Regis] is still controlled by semaphore signals and boasts a lovely red-brick Edwardian building with steel canopies, crowned with a clocktower which dates from 1902.
gloss: A person from the Edwardian era.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: So he began, being an Edwardian, by describing accurately and minutely the sort of house Hilda lived in, and the sort of house she saw from the window. House property was the common ground from which the Edwardians found it easy to proceed to intimacy.
Translations:
annulling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: annullings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An annulment.
pos: noun
Translations:
Carolingian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵerh₂-der.
Proto-Germanic *karaz
Proto-Germanic *karilaz
Proto-West Germanic *karil
Proto-Indo-European *-n̥kʷo-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Germanic *-īnaz
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
?
Proto-Germanic *-ingaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ing
Medieval Latin Carolingī
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Carolingian
From Medieval Latin Carolingī (“Carolings (descendants of Charles Martel)”) [plural of Carolingus, from a Frankish patronymic ultimately composed of Proto-West Germanic *karil + *-ing] + -ian. Reshaping of earlier Carlovingian, from Middle French Carlovingien, itself a misconstruction of Carlingien.
By surface analysis, Caroling + -ian.
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: Carlovingian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
misconstruction
form: Carlingian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
rare
form: Karlingian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
rare
form: Karolingian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
rare
form: Carolingians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Carlovingian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
misconstruction
form: Carlingian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
form: Karlingian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
form: Karolingian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Carolings, the members of a Frankish dynasty, descended from Charles Martel, which arose from the Pippinid and Arnulfingian clans in the 7th century and ruled parts of western Europe until the 9th century, reaching its peak under Martel's grandson Charlemagne.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: And thus the Empire was transferred from the Carolingian Family to the Saxons.
gloss: Being or relating to a style of minuscule script.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A member of the Carolingian dynasty.
pos: noun
examples: A certaine Chronicler writ a pretty while agoe, that this King ſhould come of the houſe of France, and the race of Charlemaigne, according to that which was prophecied of him; Some ſay (ſaith he) that there is another common prophecy, that ſome of the Carolingians, that is of the race of King Charles, and bloud royall, ſhall have an Emperour of France, by name Charles, who ſhall bee Prince and Monarch over Europe, and ſhall reforme the Church and State.
Derived words: Carolingian cross
Carolingian minuscule
Translations:
assumably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English assumable
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English assumably
From assumable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: presumably; as one may assume
pos: adv
Translations:
assumable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English assume
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English assumable
From assume + -able.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being assumed, or taken to be true.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an assumable premise
gloss: Capable of being assumed, or taken on.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a disguise assumable by anybody
gloss: Of a mortgage: such that a subsequent homebuyer can take on the existing balance, interest rate, and other terms.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: assumably
unassumable
Translations:
capitalised
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: capitalized
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In capital letters.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Being supplied with capital (such as money and equipment).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
Related words: ALL CAPS
AlTeRnaTinG cApS
downstyle
Headline Style
Initial Caps
Sentence case
Title Case
Upstyle
Translations:
xeroderma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From xero- + -derma.
Base: xero
Inflected forms:
form: xerodermas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: xerodermata
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various skin diseases characterised by dry, hard, scaly skin, especially ichthyosis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
xanthine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, from French xanthine, reflecting New Latin combining forms: xanth- + -ine; ultimately from Ancient Greek ξανθός (xanthós, “yellow”), because xanthine is yellowish-white. By surface analysis, xanth- + -ine.
Affixes: xantho-
-ine
Inflected forms:
form: xanthines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: xanthin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: Any of a group of alkaloids that include caffeine, theophylline, and theobromine as well as the parent compound, a precursor of uric acid found in many organs of the body.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
slugger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
baseball
boxing
games
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
English slug
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 slugger
From slug + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: sluggers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A boxer who tends to deliver hard punches.
pos: noun
gloss: A batter who has a high percentage of extra base hits.
pos: noun
examples: That will bring up the slugger, Jones.
gloss: Buddy, dude, champ.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Good to see you, slugger!
Derived words: circuit slugger
Translations:
gimlet-eyed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more gimlet-eyed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gimlet-eyed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a squint.
pos: adj
gloss: Having eyes which are in constant motion; shifty-eyed.
pos: adj
gloss: Having piercing eyes, sharp-sighted.
pos: adj
examples: 1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley
'D—n her gooseberry wig,' said the corporal, when she was out of hearing, 'that gimlet-eyed jade—mother adjutant, as we call her—is a greater plague to the regiment than provost-marshal, ...
gloss: Having keen vision.
pos: adj
Translations:
gimlet
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English gimlet etc., from Old French guinbelet, guimbelet, guibelet, probably a diminutive of the Anglo-Norman wimble, a variation of guimble (“drill”), from the Middle Low German wiemel; continued in Modern French as gibelet.
Cocktail either named after the tool, in reference to its penetrating effects, or British Navy surgeon Thomas Gimlette (1857–1943).
Inflected forms:
form: gimlets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gimlets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gimleting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gimletting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gimleted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gimleted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: gimletted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gimletted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small screw-tipped tool for boring holes.
pos: noun
examples: The box was close on every side, with a little door for me to go in and out, and a few gimlet holes to let in air.
I would find by the edge of that water / The collar-bone of a hare / Worn thin by the lapping of water, / And pierce it through with a gimlet and stare [...]
gloss: A cocktail, usually made with gin and lime juice.
pos: noun
examples: We sat in a corner of the bar at Victor's and drank gimlets. “They don't know how to make them here,” he said. “What they call a gimlet is just some lime or lemon juice and gin with a dash of sugar and bitters. A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's Lime Juice and nothing else. It beats martinis hollow.”
Yeah, a piece of advice — once you’re back in circulation, don’t keep topping off a lady’s vodka gimlet when she’s not looking.
By seven, dinner was under way, and a bottle of vodka gimlets and one of martinis were in the freezer, chilling.
gloss: To pierce or bore holes (as if using a gimlet).
pos: verb
examples: Then there was an awful silence. The lady gimleted us again one by one with her blue eyes.
gloss: To turn round (an anchor) as if turning a gimlet.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: gimlet-eyed
gimlety
Translations:
Herculean
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Hercules
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Herculean
From Hercules + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: more Herculean
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Herculean
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Herculæan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Herculian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: herculean
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: herculian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of extraordinary might, power, size, etc.; suggesting Hercules in size or strength.
pos: adj
examples: But this is not the best:—look, pr'ythee, Charmian, / How this Herculean Roman does become / The carriage of his chafe.
gloss: Requiring a huge amount of work; of extraordinary difficulty.
pos: adj
examples: a Herculean labour
He replied in a dry manner, that I would find it a Herculean task to chastise everybody who should laugh at my expense;
2006, Jeremy Clarkson, Top Gear (TV show), commenting on the Bugatti Veyron automobile
The guys at Volkswagen have a Herculean task.
There are thousands of known isotopes, and to have a functional and easily maintainable exhibit for all of these would require a Herculean effort.
Translations:
parenchyma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
Etymology: From Ancient Greek παρέγχῠμα (parénkhŭma, “anything poured in beside”), from πᾰρᾰ- (pără-, “beside”) + ἔγχῠμα (énkhŭma, “instillation, content of a vessel”), given by the Greek anatomist Erasistratus to the peculiar substance of the lungs, liver, kidneys, and spleen, as if formed separately by the veins that run into them. By surface analysis, para- + -enchyma.
Base: ἔγχῠμα
Affixes: πᾰρᾰ-
Inflected forms:
form: parenchymas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: parenchymata
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The functional tissue of an organ as distinguished from the connective and supporting tissue.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Previously blood and air had been thought to mingle freely in the fleshy parenchyma of the lungs, but the microscope now revealed the membranous alveoli at the ends of the tracheo-bronchial ramifications.
gloss: The cellular tissue, typically soft and succulent, found chiefly in the softer parts of leaves, pulp of fruits, bark and pith of stems, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Cellular tissue lying between the body wall and the organs of invertebrate animals lacking a coelom, such as flatworms.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [I]n a Sponge, the Parenchyma, it seems, is but a kind of mucous gelly, which is very easily and cleerly wash'd away.
Antonyms: stroma
Related words: enchyma
chyme
alchemy
Derived words: -enchyma
interparenchymatous
neuroparenchyma
palisade parenchyma
parenchymal
parenchymatitis
parenchymatous
parenchymous
pseudoparenchyma
wood parenchyma
Translations:
homeostatic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
physiology
sciences
Etymology: From homeo- + -static.
Base: homeo
Inflected forms:
form: homoeostatic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to homeostasis.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Multicellular organisms require a homeostatic internal environment in order to live.
Sleep, rest, food and sex provide restorative homeostatic experiences that return consciousness to order after the needs of the body intrude and cause psychic entropy to occur.
Translations:
kha-nyou
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Lao ຂະຍຸ (kha nyu).
Inflected forms:
form: kha-nyous
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rodent species of the Khammouan region of Laos, Laonastes aenigmamus, first described in 2005
pos: noun
Translations:
dreamer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English dremer, dremere, dremare, equivalent to dream + -er. Cognate with West Frisian dreamer (“dreamer”), Saterland Frisian Dröömer (“dreamer”), Dutch dromer (“dreamer”), German Träumer (“dreamer”), Danish drømmer (“dreamer”), Swedish drömmare (“dreamer”).
Base: dream
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: dreamers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who dreams.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone whose beliefs are far from realistic.
pos: noun
examples: You may say I'm a dreamer/ But I'm not the only one/ I hope someday you'll join us/ And the world will live as one.
Eighties witches were not the patchouli-dipped, lovebead-wearing, back-to-the-earth dreamers of the seventies.
gloss: Any anglerfish of the family Oneirodidae.
pos: noun
gloss: A swallow-winged puffbird (Chelidoptera tenebrosa)
pos: noun
Related words: daydreamer
Derived words: age dreamer
lucid dreamer
nondreamer
Translations: