yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
sci-fi
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of science fiction.
Inflected forms:
form: sci fi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: scifi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sci fi
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: scifi
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A genre of movies featuring mostly fictional scientific scenes.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I'm the kind of sci-fi addict who can stand any amount of improbability, bad acting, uninterested direction and poverty-row budgets, but can't take The Mind of Mr. Soames.
Several sci-fi films and novels have very accurately predicted and paved the way for many of the pieces of technology we enjoy today.
gloss: Syllabic abbreviation of science fiction.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
uncountable
gloss: Of or pertaining to such a genre.
pos: adj
Translations:
stacked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
video-games
Inflected forms:
form: more stacked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stacked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Arranged in a stack.
pos: adj
examples: The plates were stacked waiting to be cleaned.
gloss: Having large breasts.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: That girl at the party was really stacked.
You know what I like, I like a girl that's really smart / Provided that she's really stacked
gloss: Having large muscles; buff.
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: Wealthy.
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: Wealthy.
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: Unfairly constructed; rigged.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: a stacked deck of cards
That game is stacked. Don't even try it.
And I tread a troubled track / My odds are stacked / I'll go back to black
gloss: Measured stacked or organized (such as of firewood when in neat stacks), but with gaps between individual pieces.
pos: adj
gloss: Having many skilled players.
pos: adj
examples: The addition of Holiday is especially auspicious because while the team is stacked with great offensive players, it is a little lacking on defense, and he fills that gap.
Derived words: deep stacked
interstacked
nonstacked
prestacked
short stacked
stacked modal
unstacked
well-stacked
Translations:
frosh
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of freshman + sophomore.
Compound parts: freshman
sophomore
Inflected forms:
form: froshes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: froshing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: froshed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: froshed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To initiate academic freshmen, notably in a testing way.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: This campus does not tolerate froshing in any form.
gloss: To damage through incompetence.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: Trying to open my car door with a coat hanger, I froshed the mechanism.
Derived words: froshing
Translations:
freshman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From fresh + man.
Compound parts: fresh
man
Inflected forms:
form: freshmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a person (of either sex) entering the first year of an institution, especially a high school (ninth grade for US, grade 9 for Canada, grade 7 for Philippines), a university, or legislative body
pos: noun
tags: Canada
Philippines
US
examples: At the time I was a wide-eyed freshman, but I was soon to grow jaded and cynical.
When he was but yet a freshman in Cambridge.
Sir Alexander: Then he's a graduate.
Sir Davy: Say they trust him not?
Sir Alexander: Then is he held a freshman and a sot,¶ And never shall commence, but being still barr'd¶ Be expuls'd from the master's side to th' twopenny ward,¶ Or else i' th' hole be plac'd.
As a country, we now enter what the seven freshmen called “unchartered waters”, with an unprecedented political and constitutional crisis looming on the horizon.
Trump may have played a role in swaying some holdouts — calling into a meeting of Republican freshmen the night before, and calling other members ahead of voting.
gloss: a novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: I am but a Freshman yet in France, therefore I can send you no News but that all is here quiet, and 'tis no ordinary News that the French should be quiet.
Synonyms: fresher
frosh
freshie
grade nine student
grade 9 student
Grade 9 student
grade-niner
grade niner
grade seven student
grade 7 student
Grade 7 student
Related words: junior
senior
sophomore
upperclassman
Derived words: freshman fifteen
freshmanhood
freshmanic
freshmanly
freshmanship
prefreshman
subfreshman
Translations:
esh
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: eshes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The IPA symbol ʃ.
pos: noun
gloss: The letter Ʃ/ʃ, used by some African languages.
pos: noun
Derived words: shibilant
tesh
Translations:
honour
Part of speech: noun
verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: honours
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: honours
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: honouring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: honoured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: honoured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: British, Canadian, Commonwealth, and Ireland standard spelling of honor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Honours are normally awarded twice a year: on The Queen's Birthday in June and at the New Year.
The lorde of the honour or manour
A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country.
And when the long-illumined cities flame, / Their ever-loyal iron leader's fame, / With honour, honour, honour, honour to him, / Eternal honour to his name.
Prosopochrysa lemannae is a tiny soldier fly from Judbarra National Park in the Northern Territory. It was named in honour of his colleague Cate Lemann, by Bry the Fly Guy (aka Dr Bryan Lessard), an entomologist at our insect collection.
gloss: British, Canadian, Commonwealth, and Ireland standard spelling of honor.
pos: verb
gloss: British, Canadian, Commonwealth, and Ireland standard spelling of honor.
pos: intj
Translations:
labradorite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Labrador
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der.
Latin -ītēsbor.
French -iteder.
English -ite
English labradorite
From Labrador + -ite.
Inflected forms:
form: labradorites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A plagioclase feldspar mineral, calcium sodium aluminum silicate, often very coarsely crystalline, used as a decorative stone for carvings and building façades.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
bewitching
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bewitch
English -ing
English bewitching
From bewitch + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: bewitchings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more bewitching
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bewitching
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The act by which somebody is bewitched; a curse or enchantment.
pos: noun
gloss: Enchanting.
pos: adj
examples: […] and she was so dove-like, so pure, and so gracious, so sweet and bewitching.
Harry pursed his lips. He thought about Morgan Robertson and his magical books. He thought about Lyle Lillihammer, thoroughly ensorcelled, who was even now starting the second of what would probably be an entire series of PhDs at the SCP Foundation. He thought about Eileen Veiksaar, who had promised with another bewitching closed-mouth smile to meet him for coffee on his first day at Site-43 a month from now. He didn't like coffee, but he did like the possibilities unfolding in front of him. He thought about those possibilities.
Translations:
amygdala
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ἀμυγδάλη (amugdálē)bor.
▲
Arabic لَوْز (lawz)sl.
Medieval Latin amygdalalbor.
English amygdala
Learned borrowing from Latin amygdala (“almond, amygdala”), from Ancient Greek ἀμυγδάλη (amugdálē, “almond”), named as such due to its shape. Doublet of almond, amygdale, and mandorla.
Inflected forms:
form: amygdalas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: amygdalae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Each one of the two regions of the brain, located as a pair in the medial temporal lobe, believed to play a key role in processing emotions, such as fear and pleasure, in both animals and humans.
pos: noun
examples: There is experimental evidence showing that cortisol restrains the intensity and duration of the emergency reaction to stress, and catecholamines have been shown to enhance emotional memory in the amygdala (see subsection on "Noradrenaline"). Thus, individuals lacking cortisol would overstore traumatic memories .
Cognitive scientists distinguish between normal risk-assessment decisions, which activate the reward-prediction regions of the brain, and decisions made amid extreme uncertainty, which generate activity in the amygdala.
In the study, led by Ryota Kanai of the University College London, people who identified themselves as liberals generally had a larger anterior cingulate cortex — a comma-shaped region near the front of the brain that is involved in decision-making. By contrast, those who identified as conservatives had larger amygdalas — almond-shaped structures that are linked with emotional learning and the processing of fear.
A decreased amygdala response, in other words, may help explain the “slippery slope” of lying, said Sharot, one of the authors of “The Human Brain Adapts to Dishonesty,” just published in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
Translations:
anorthite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αν- (an-, “not”) + ὀρθός (orthós, “straight”) "not perpendicular; less than straight", in reference to its odd.
Inflected forms:
form: anorthites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A variety of plagioclase feldspar, the calcium endmember of that series.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
striated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more striated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most striated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having parallel lines or grooves on the surface.
pos: adj
Translations:
mineral
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English mineral, borrowed from Old French mineral, (French minéral), from Medieval Latin minerale, from minera (“ore”), probably ultimately derived from Latin mina (“ore, mine”).
Inflected forms:
form: minerals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: minerall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: minerall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Any naturally occurring material that has a (more or less) definite chemical composition and characteristic physical properties; especially, an inorganic and crystalline one.
pos: noun
examples: The physiology of matter in the abstract is dynamical, that of mineral species is both dynamical and chemical, while that of organized forms is at once dynamical, chemical, and biotical.
Formation of alteration minerals in the host rock during deformation within the shear zone is indicated by the parallel foliation within the secondary micaceous minerals and the unmineralized host schist.
Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.
But now Saudi Arabia is growing its mineral sector, to reduce its economic dependence on oil and, according to analysts, increase its geopolitical influence.
Neodymium is a rare earth, one of the minerals near the bottom of the periodic table that are crucial for everyday life.
gloss: Any inorganic material (as distinguished from animal or vegetable).
pos: noun
gloss: Any inorganic element that is essential to nutrition.
pos: noun
gloss: Mineral water.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A soft drink, particularly a single serve bottle or can.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
Nigeria
South-Africa
informal
gloss: A mine or mineral deposit.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: O'er whom his very madness, like some ore / Among a mineral of metals base, / Shows itself pure;
gloss: A poisonous or dangerous substance.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: ...Thou hast... / Abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals[…]
gloss: of, related to, or containing minerals
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: mineral
Related words: mine
mineralogy
Derived words: agromineral
biomineral
humineral
hydromineral
macromineral
micromineral
minerality
mineralization
mineralize
minerally
mineralocorticoid
mineraloid
minerals
mineratrophic
monomineral
multimineral
nanomineral
nonmineral
oligomineral
organomineral
polymineral
pseudomineral
Translations:
unsurpassed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English surpassed
English unsurpassed
From un- + surpassed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not exceeded by others.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: All grades of coal, deepmined and opencast, are produced, and Durham coking coal is unsurpassed for iron and steel making and is world-famous.
Translations:
unexcelled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Excelling all others in some way.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: unexcelled at learning languages
unexcelled by any competitor
Translations:
pantheism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From pan- + theism, in which pan derives from Ancient Greek πᾶν (pân), meaning “all”, and theism from Ancient Greek θεός (theós), meaning “god”. The first known use is from 1702, in an English translation of Joseph Raphson’s 1697 book De Spatio Reali seu Ente Infinito, written in Latin, which coined the Latin term pantheismus.
Base: theism
Affixes: pan-
Inflected forms:
form: pantheisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The belief that the Universe is in some sense divine and should be revered. Pantheism identifies the universe with God but denies any personality or transcendence of such a God.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The belief in all gods; omnitheism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
Related words: pandeism
panentheism
theism
Derived words: pantheist
pantheistic
pantheistical
pantheistically
polypantheism
Translations:
metamorphic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Etymology tree
English metamorphosis
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English metamorphic
From metamorphosis + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: metamorphics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Characterised by or exhibiting a change in form or character.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: That heaven in our mind that seeks to reveal itself to us in all its brilliance during the multitudinous writhings of whatever metamorphic pilgrimage we must make during this era of darkness and human folly.
gloss: Pertaining to metamorphism; having been structurally altered as a result of, or resulting from, exposure to intense heat and/or pressure (at the contact zone between colliding plates, for example).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Yu Shan or Jade Mountain, 3997 meters, is the highest mountain in Taiwan and all of east Asia. It is built of metamorphic rock, as are all the mountains in Taiwan.
gloss: Pertaining to metamorphosis.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to the Metamorphic Technique, a form of massage influenced by reflexology.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A rock that has been changed from its original form by subjection to heat and/or pressure.
pos: noun
Related words: metamorphism
Derived words: antimetamorphic
biometamorphic
epimetamorphic
holometamorphic
hypermetamorphic
metamorphically
metamorphic code
metamorphiclastic
metamorphic rock
nonmetamorphic
polymetamorphic
postmetamorphic
premetamorphic
prometamorphic
pyrometamorphic
synmetamorphic
ultrametamorphic
Translations:
pantheist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-énts
Proto-Indo-European *ph₂énts?
Proto-Hellenic *pánts
Ancient Greek πᾶς (pâs)der.
Ancient Greek πᾰν- (păn-)bor.
English pan-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s
Proto-Hellenic *tʰehós
Ancient Greek θεός (theós)
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English theist
English pantheist
From pan- + theist.
Inflected forms:
form: pantheists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pan-theist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Pan-Theist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more pantheist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pantheist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pan-theist
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Pan-Theist
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who believes in pantheism.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or relating to pantheism.
pos: adj
examples: [S]ome pragmatists (such as William James) took a more pantheist or pandeist approach by rejecting views of God as separate from the world.
Translations:
leucite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white”) + -ite.
Affixes: -ite
Inflected forms:
form: leucites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mineral of silica-poor igneous, plutonic and volcanic rocks. Chemically, leucite is a potassium feldspar with insufficient silica to satisfy the chemical bonds. Because of the unfilled bonds, leucite weathers rapidly and can only be seen as inclusions in freshly broken rock.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A leucoplast.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: ammonioleucite
chloroleucite
chromoleucite
leucitic
leucitite
leucitoid
pseudoleucite
Translations:
nepheline
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νεφέλη (nephélē, “cloud”), because crystals become cloudy when exposed to acid, + -ine.
Affixes: -ine
Inflected forms:
form: nephelines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A feldspathoid mineral of silica-poor igneous, plutonic and volcanic rocks. Chemically, nepheline is a plagioclase feldspar with insufficient silica to satisfy the chemical bonds. Because of the unfilled bonds, nepheline weathers rapidly and can only be seen as inclusions in freshly broken rock.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
scientific
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sek-?
Proto-Indo-European *-éyti
Proto-Indo-European *skey-der.
Latin sciō
Latin sciēns
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Latin scientia
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *θakos
Proto-Italic *-fakos
Latin -ficus
Medieval Latin scientificusder.
Middle French scientifiquebor.
English scientific
Borrowed from Middle French scientifique, from Medieval Latin scientificus (“pertaining to science”).
Inflected forms:
form: more scientific
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most scientific
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: scientifick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Related or connected to science
pos: adj
examples: There is also in these matters of Science (though many scientific men would doubtless deny this) a great deal of "Fashion".
In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.
gloss: Related or connected to science:
pos: adj
gloss: Related or connected to science:
pos: adj
examples: “The circumstances in Iran were so mysterious and so bizarre that the Iranian government realized that this cannot happen with mechanical means or cyberattacks. They cannot happen with anything known to the human mind from a scientific point of view,” he explained.
Synonyms: systematic
scientific
sciential
ultrascientific
Related words: science
scientificity
scientist
academic
analytic
forensic
managerial
medical
scientician
statistical
technical
Derived words: antiscientific
anti-scientific
ascientific
bioscientific
counterscientific
culturo-scientific
cyberscientific
e-scientific
ethnoscientific
extrascientific
geoscientific
international scientific vocabulary
interscientific
metascientific
nanoscientific
neuroscientific
nonscientific
non-scientific
parascientific
postscientific
prescientific
protoscientific
pseudoscientific
psychoscientific
quasi-scientific
quasiscientific
religioscientific
scientifical
scientifically
scientific article
scientific calculator
scientific classification
scientific communism
scientific computing
scientific creationism
scientific frontier
scientific materialism
scientific medicine
scientific method
scientific methodology
scientific model
scientific modeling
scientific name
scientificness
scientific notation
scientific paper
scientific problem
scientific racism
scientific racist
scientific research
scientific romance
scientific socialism
scientific socialist
scientific taxonomy
scientifiction
scientify
scientize
semiscientific
socioscientific
subscientific
superscientific
technoscientific
telescientific
ultrascientific
unscientific
Translations:
worldwide
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-?
Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós
Proto-Germanic *weraz
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂életi
Proto-Germanic *alaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Germanic *-þiz
Proto-Germanic *aldiz
Proto-Germanic *weraldiz
Proto-West Germanic *weraldi
Old English weorold
Middle English world
English world
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁-der.
Proto-Germanic *wīdaz
Old English wīd
English wide
English -wide
English worldwide
From world + -wide.
Inflected forms:
form: more worldwide
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most worldwide
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: world-wide
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: world-wide
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Spanning the world; global.
pos: adj
examples: A large meteorite impact would cause worldwide extinction of life.
The issuance of the worldwide caution alert is a significant message amid protests that have erupted throughout the Middle East in response to the Israel-Hamas war, with many demonstrators targeting US diplomatic compounds.
gloss: Throughout the world.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The character of James Bond is known worldwide.
English is spoken worldwide.
The US State Department on Thursday advised all US citizens worldwide “to exercise increased caution” due to “increased tensions in various locations around the world, the potential for terrorist attacks, (and) demonstrations or violent actions against U.S. citizens and interests.”
Translations:
candida
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Candida, from Latin candida.
Inflected forms:
form: candidas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A yeast of the genus Candida, usually specifically Candida albicans
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: "What we're finding," says Marshall, "is that if we lean only on candida and don't treat other molds affecting the system, we fail.
Translations:
pathogenic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
medicine
music
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From patho- + -genic.
Base: patho
Inflected forms:
form: more pathogenic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pathogenic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Able to cause (harmful) disease.
pos: adj
examples: While the environment is teeming with bacteria and fungi, most are not pathogenic.
gloss: Consisting of harsh, percussive, nonverbal sounds.
pos: adj
examples: Melogenic music represents the wide middle area between the extremes of logogenic and pathogenic music.
Related words: pathology
Derived words: acaropathogenic
aetiopathogenic
antipathogenic
apathogenic
autopathogenic
cardiopathogenic
clinicopathogenic
copathogenic
cytopathogenic
encephalopathogenic
endopathogenic
entomopathogenic
hepatopathogenic
hyperpathogenic
ichthyopathogenic
immunopathogenic
multipathogenic
mycopathogenic
nematopathogenic
nephropathogenic
neuropathogenic
nonpathogenic
odontopathogenic
otopathogenic
pathogenical
pathogenically
pathogenicity
periodontopathogenic
periopathogenic
pharmacopathogenic
physiopathogenic
phytopathogenic
psychopathogenic
subpathogenic
vaginopathogenic
zoopathogenic
Translations:
adulthood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂oléyeti
Proto-Italic *oleō
Latin *oleō
Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti
Proto-Italic *-skō
Latin -sco
Latin olēscō
Latin adolēscō
Latin adultuslbor.
French adultebor.
English adult
Proto-Indo-European *keyt-der.
Proto-Germanic *haiduzder.
Proto-West Germanic *-haiduder.
Old English -hād
Middle English -hede
English -hood
English adulthood
From adult + -hood.
Inflected forms:
form: adulthoods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or condition, for humans and other animals, of physical and psychological maturity: being an adult.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Meronyms: young adulthood; emerging adulthood (sometimes construed as coordinate)
Adulthood enables us to survive in the wilderness.
gloss: The time period of a person's majority, following puberty and lasting until death.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Meronyms: young adulthood; emerging adulthood (sometimes construed as coordinate)
The boy entered adulthood by undergoing a rite of passage.
The things learned in childhood affect us throughout our adulthood.
Derived words: subadulthood
waithood
young adulthood
Translations:
quartz
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From German Quarz, from Middle High German (Central East German) quarz, twarc, from a West Slavic language [compare Polish twardy (“hard”), Czech tvrdý (“hard”)], from Proto-Slavic *tvьrdъ ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *twerH- (“to enclose, grab”).
Inflected forms:
form: quartzes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The most abundant mineral on the earth's surface, of chemical composition silicon dioxide, SiO₂. It occurs in a variety of forms, both crystalline and amorphous. Found in every environment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The telescope and collimator have each an object-glass consisting of a single lens of quartz 1½ inch diameter and a focal length of 18½ inches for the sodium yellow light, but not more than 16 inches for the highest rays measured.
Subsequently, the old Malay brought him the present specimen in a state of torpidity, telling him he had found it in a cavity of the quartz reef.
My meat eats me. Who waits at the gate? / Mother of quartz, your words writhe into my ear. / Renew the light, lewd whisper.
gloss: Crystal meth: methamphetamine hydrochloride.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
Synonyms: quartz
Related words: Colorado topaz
Derived words: alpha quartz
beta quartz
clear quartz
drusy quartz
fused quartz
gold quartz
honeycomb quartz
megaquartz
microquartz
milky quartz
pure quartz
purple quartz
quartz arenite
quartz-arenitic
quartz arenitic
quartz-beta
quartz clock
quartz crusher
quartz crystal
quartz-crystal clock
quartz-diorite
quartz glass
quartz halogen lamp
quartz heater
quartziferous
quartzine
quartzing
quartz-iodine lamp
quartzite
quartz lamp
quartzless
quartzlike
quartz mining
quartz monzonite
quartzofeldspathic
quartzoid
quartzolite
quartzose
quartzous
quartz reefer
quartz schist
quartz-trachyte
quartz-wacke
quartz watch
quartzy
rainbow quartz
rose quartz
shocked quartz
smokey quartz
smoky quartz
snow quartz
star quartz
vein quartz
Translations:
schlock
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Yiddish שלאַק (shlak), related to German Schlag (“blow, strike, hit”).
Inflected forms:
form: schlocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any commodity that is shoddy or inferior; now, usually, writing or audiovisual content that is shoddy or inferior.
pos: noun
tags: US
colloquial
countable
uncountable
examples: Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there’s kitsch, schlock, camp and porn.
“The Kingdom of the Wicked” is not Mr. Burgess at the top of his bent. It is not schlock. It is too individual, too original for that; […].
And just because leftoids make tripe from their position of strength is no reason for trads to make schlock from their position of weakness.
Translations:
twain
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁der.
Proto-Germanic *twai
Proto-West Germanic *twai-der.
Old English twēġen
Middle English tweyne
English twain
 PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English tweyne, tweien, twaine, from Old English twēġen m (“two”), from Proto-West Germanic *twai-, from Proto-Germanic *twai, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Cognate with Saterland Frisian twäin, Low German twene, German zween. More at two.
The word outlasted the breakdown of gender in Middle English and survived as a secondary form of two, then especially in the cases where the numeral follows a noun. Its continuation into modern times was aided by its use in KJV, the Marriage Service, in poetry (where it is commonly used as a rhyme word), and in oral use where it is necessary to be clear that two and not to or too is meant.
Inflected forms:
form: twains
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: twaine
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: twains
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: twaining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: twained
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: twained
pos: verb
tags: past
form: twaine
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Pair, couple.
pos: noun
examples: The susceptible twain, on the search for adventure, dropped in.
The twain immediately proffered their companionship.
‘I will come with you,’ said Mr Lessingham.
‘And I,’ echoed Sydney.
gloss: To part in twain; divide; sunder.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
arcsine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
trigonometry
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos
Proto-Italic *arkuos
Latin arcusder.
English arc-
Proto-Indo-European *sinos
Proto-Italic *sinus
Latin sinusbor.
English sine
English arcsine
From arc- + sine.
Inflected forms:
form: arcsines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several single-valued or multivalued functions that are inverses of the sine function. Symbol: arcsin, sin⁻¹
pos: noun
Translations:
hypotenuse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin hypotenusa, from Ancient Greek ὑποτείνουσα πλευρά (hupoteínousa pleurá, “side subtending [the right angle]”), from ὑποτείνουσα (hupoteínousa, “stretching, extending, subtending”), active participle of ὑποτείνω (hupoteínō, “subtend, stretch under”).
Inflected forms:
form: hypotenuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hypotheni
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
pos: noun
Translations:
licensee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
English license
English -ee
English licensee
From license + -ee.
Inflected forms:
form: licensees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person to whom a license is granted.
pos: noun
gloss: A person to whom a license is granted.
pos: noun
tags: UK
Derived words: sublicensee
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: լիցենզառու
roman: licʻenzaṙu
lang: German
word: Lizenznehmer
lang: German
word: Lizenzinhaber
lang: Polish
word: licencjobiorca
lang: Russian
word: лицензиа́т
roman: licenziát
lang: Russian
word: лицензедержа́тель
roman: licenzederžátelʹ
limestone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lime
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *steyh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *stoyh₂nos
Proto-Germanic *stainaz
Proto-West Germanic *stain
Old English stān
Middle English ston
English stone
English limestone
From lime + stone.
Inflected forms:
form: limestones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An abundant rock of marine and freshwater sediments; primarily composed of calcite (CaCO₃); and occurring in a variety of forms, both crystalline and amorphous.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a limestone viaduct
The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
As each blast furnace uses 200 tons of limestone daily, and each limestone kiln 150 tons, a total of 730 tons of limestone has to be carried daily, in addition to limestone chippings, which are sold.
Rutland (and some of the bordering ‘Notswolds’ counties of Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Northamptonshire) have the same mellow, creamy limestone as the Cotswolds and boast beguiling market towns and villages that are every bit as attractive, but without the tourists or hefty prices.
Translations:
enclosure
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Middle English enclosure, from Old French enclosure, from enclore, from Latin inclūdere, inclūdō, from in- (“in”) + claudō (“to shut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂u- (“key, hook, nail”). Alike to inclusion.
Inflected forms:
form: enclosures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: inclosure
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Something that is enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: There was an enclosure with the letter — a photo.
Mr Carlyle cut open the envelope, glanced at the enclosure, and in spite of his disappointment could not restrain a chuckle.
gloss: The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The enclosure of a photo with your letter is appreciated.
gloss: An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: He faced punishment for creating the fenced enclosure in a public park.
The glass enclosure holds the mercury vapor.
The winning horse was first into the unsaddling enclosure.
And the village was deserted, the huts gaped black, rotting, all askew within the fallen enclosures.
Away from the village, there was an enclosure containing several large animals of a kind I had not seen before—shaggy, long-necked, small-headed creatures who stood or lay at ease around their pen. Alpacas?
gloss: The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The enclosure of public land is against the law.
The experiment requires the enclosure of mercury vapor in a glass tube.
At first, untrained horses resist enclosure.
gloss: The act of restricting access to ideas, works of art or technologies using patents or intellectual property laws.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
uncountable
examples: Copyright, from day one, was designed to be both an impediment and an incentive, a mechanism of enclosure (one that prevented the unlicensed printing of texts, thereby limiting access) and a catalyst of sorts, a structure to stimulate the production of literary goods by rewarding writers and publishers for their labor.
The commons evokes resistance to “enclosure” in all its forms, whether in its early proto-capitalist form of fencing in commonly shared land, or in its contemporary forms of marshalling judicial restraints such as “patent” and “intellectual property” to police the ownership of ideas.
gloss: The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Strip-farming disappeared after enclosure.
gloss: The area of a convent, monastery, etc where access is restricted to community members.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: antienclosure
banjo enclosure
loudspeaker enclosure
nonenclosure
speaker enclosure
Translations:
parochial
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman parochial and its source Late Latin parochialis, an alteration of paroecialis (“of a church province”), from paroecia, from Hellenistic Greek παροικία (paroikía, “stay in a foreign land”), later “community, diocese”, from Ancient Greek πάροικος (pároikos, “neighbouring, neighbour”), from παρα- (para-) + οἶκος (oîkos, “house”).
Inflected forms:
form: more parochial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most parochial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: parochials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to a parish.
pos: adj
examples: The parish council handles parochial affairs. [civil context]
The rector and vestry handle parochial affairs. [church context]
gloss: Characterized by an unsophisticated focus on local concerns to the exclusion of wider contexts; elementary in scope or outlook.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
examples: The use of simple, primary colors in the painting gave it a parochial feel.
Some people in the United States have been accused of taking a parochial view, of not being interested in international matters.
But for men of principle and honour and straightforward thought there could be no middle course and no paltering with petty issues of party or parochial advantage.
Its atmosphere might have been provincial, but it was never merely parochial.
Gay USA would be of interest to both straight and gay audiences, but because it deals with gay people some bookers or distributors might feel that it is too parochial.
The society had apparently been formed the previous year, but as the Cheltenham Spa Railway Society, which sounded rather parochial and unambitious - particularly as (by all accounts) its founders had gathered in a garden shed in the town.
gloss: A parochial individual.
pos: noun
examples: If the vast majority of the citizens of our Southeast Asian countries are subjects rather than parochials, the question is: are they also participants?
Australia is divided between cosmopolitans and parochials.
Related words: parish
parish council
Derived words: extraparochial
interparochial
nonparochial
parochial board
parochial church council
parochialism
parochialist
parochialistic
parochiality
parochialize
parochially
parochialness
parochial school
parochial vicar
unparochial
Translations:
frugal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French, from Latin frugalis (“virtuous, thrifty”). Displaced native Old English spærhende (literally “spare-handed”).
Inflected forms:
form: more frugal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most frugal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Careful or wise in expenditure; avoiding waste.
pos: adj
examples: frugal advice
By what a frugal man annually saves, he not only affords maintenance to an additional number of productive hands, for that or the ensuing year, but [also] establishes as it were a perpetual fund for the maintenance of an equal number in all times to come.
gloss: Obtained by or characterized by frugality.
pos: adj
examples: frugal fortune; frugal fare
frugal breakfast
[…] a frugal meal, which consisted of roots and tea,[…]
Pinching and paring he might furnish forth / A frugal board, bare sustenance, no more,[…]
Synonyms: cheap
economical
thrifty
abstemious
canny
chary
moderate
close with a buck
economic
frugal
husbandly
huswifely
parsimonious
penny-pinching
prudent
spareful
sparing
spary
tight
tightwad
Antonyms: extravagant
lavish
prodigal
spendthrift
simple
Related words: a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
stingy
Derived words: frugalism
frugalist
frugalista
frugality
frugalize
frugally
frugalness
infrugal
superfrugal
unfrugal
Translations:
mythical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin mȳthicos + -al; by surface analysis, myth + -ical.
Base: mȳthicos
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more mythical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mythical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Existing in myth.
pos: adj
examples: mythical creature
mythical figure
mythical hero
He told a story about a mythical dragon.
The city was compared to a mythical paradise.
gloss: Not real; false or fabricated.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
gloss: Very rare.
pos: adj
Synonyms: mythic
legendary
Related words: mythological
Derived words: antimythical
geomythical
monomythical
mythicality
mythically
mythicalness
nonmythical
postmythical
premythical
pseudomythical
psychomythical
semimythical
unmythical
Translations:
augury
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From augur + -y, or from Middle English augurie, from Old French augurie, from Latin augurium.
Base: augur
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: auguries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A divination based on the appearance and behaviour of animals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An omen or prediction; a foreboding; a prophecy.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: In Wordsworth's first preludings there is but a dim foreboding of the creator of an era. From Southey's early poems, a safer augury might have been drawn.
No augury could be hopefuller. The Fates must indeed be hard, the Ordeal severe, the Destiny dark, that could destroy so bright a Spring!
Fortunately many of the younger men are keen enough to make a success of their work, and this gives a better augury for the future.
gloss: An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Evidently he did not mean to be a mere figurehead, but to carry on the old tradition of Wilsthorpe's; and that was considered to be a good thing in itself and an augury for future prosperity.
Synonyms: zoomancy
Related words: augur
Translations:
onerous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₃enh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃énh₂os
Proto-Italic *onos
Latin onus
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos
Latin -ōsus
Latin onerosuslbor.
Old French onereus
Middle French onereuxbor.
Middle English onerous
English onerous
Inherited from Middle English onerous, borrowed from Middle French onereux, from Old French onereus, a learned borrowing from Latin onerosus, from onus (“burden”) + -ōsus. Compare exonerate.
Inflected forms:
form: more onerous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most onerous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Imposing or constituting a physical, mental, or figurative load which can be borne only with effort; burdensome.
pos: adj
examples: That all this might not be too onerous on the purses of his rustic patrons, who are apt to consider the costs of schooling a grievous burden, and schoolmasters as mere drones, he had various ways of rendering himself both useful and agreeable.
Again, and more intensely than ever, she desired a fixed occupation,—no matter how onerous, how irksome.
[I]t has become an onerous duty, a wearisome and distasteful task.
The striker's job was onerous, too, because there was so little "give" in the metal, and the perpetual jarring was indeed trying to the muscles.
However, given current sensibilities about individual privacy and data protection, the recording of oral data is becoming increasingly onerous for researchers[.]
People with diabetes mellitus rely predominantly on finger pricking to measure blood levels of glucose, which can be onerous.
Translations:
morganite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Morgan + -ite, after financier J. P. Morgan.
Base: Morgan
Affixes: -ite
Inflected forms:
form: morganites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A gemstone of pegmatite deposits. Morganite is a transparent pink variety of beryl.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
cryptogram
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: games
Etymology: From crypto- + -gram.
Base: crypto
Inflected forms:
form: cryptograms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cryptogramme
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Encrypted text.
pos: noun
examples: It's a big help in solving cryptograms if you know how a cryptogram is constructed. The constructor normally uses two alphabets, one for plaintext, one for the substitute cipher letters.
To anyone who does not know the key, the five characters of the cryptogram are different but the genuine receiver is in no danger of confusion.
Indeed, Willaert was unable to read Charles's musical notation because it was actually a musical cryptogram passing for a madrigal, making absolutely no sense to a mere musician's naked eye, despite his towering talent.
gloss: A type of word puzzle in which text encoded by a simple cipher is to be decoded.
pos: noun
examples: You already know this if you are an amateur codebreaker. On the comics pages of many newspapers, you will find a little puzzle known as a cryptogram. It's usually a famous quotation that has been encrypted in a very straightforward way […]
Derived words: cryptogrammic
cryptogrammist
Translations:
occasional
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English occasyonal, from Medieval Latin occāsiōnālis and Old French ocasionel. By surface analysis, occasion + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more occasional
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most occasional
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: occasionals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Occurring or appearing irregularly from time to time, but not often; incidental.
pos: adj
examples: He was mostly solitary, but enjoyed the occasional visitor.
He took an occasional glass of wine.
The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.
But the truth is that plenty of artists from other countries make work that's bold, naughty or nasty, without getting more than a very occasional headline.
gloss: Created for a specific occasion.
pos: adj
examples: Elgar's music was not created to be occasional music for high-school graduations.
gloss: Intended for use as the occasion requires.
pos: adj
examples: What your living room needs are some occasional chairs.
gloss: Acting in the indicated role from time to time.
pos: adj
examples: He is an occasional writer of letters to the editor.
gloss: A person who does something only occasionally.
pos: noun
Derived words: occasional bookcase
occasional furniture
occasionalism
occasionalist
occasionality
occasionally
occasionalness
occasional table
semioccasional
unoccasional
Translations: