yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
teenage
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From -teen + age. First attested in 1921.
Compound parts: -teen
age
Inflected forms:
form: teen-age
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: teen age
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: teenaged
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to an age between thirteen and nineteen years old.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Fred's teenage years were the most difficult of times.
It was a teenage girl with Cleopatraesque black hair; tight jeans and a tie dyed T-shirt cut off to show her stud-pierced navel.
Coristine is one of a team of teenage and twentysomething software engineers, apparently conscripted by Musk in his largely unchecked war against bureaucracy.
Translations:
Aristotelian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin Aristotelī(us) or Aristotelē(us) + -an. By surface analysis, Aristotle + -ian.
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: Aristotelians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Aristotlean
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Aristotelean
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Aristotlean
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Aristotelean
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A proponent of the philosophical or logical theories of Aristotle.
pos: noun
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or advocating the philosophical or logical theories of Aristotle.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Having noted that, it should be kept in mind that such scholars (i.e. those who reject that Cusanus is trivialist) should not cite as evidence for denying he was a trivialist the fact that Cusanus was an advocate of Aristotelian logic and the Law of Non-Contradiction. This is because an advocacy of both Aristotelian logic and the law of Non-Contradiction are quite compatible with being a trivialist – the trivialist accepts the truth of all propositions, including the Law of Non-Contradiction and other laws of Aristotelian logic.
Translations:
buckskin
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English bukskyn; equivalent to buck + skin.
Compound parts: buck
skin
Inflected forms:
form: buckskins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The skin of a male deer, a buck.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Clothing made from buckskin.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As she spoke, we perceived two lines of figures, one male and the other female, to the number of about a hundred, each advancing round the human bonfire, arrayed only in the usual leopard and buck skins.
gloss: Breeches made of buckskin.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I have alluded to his buckskins.
gloss: A grayish yellow in colour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Cornwallis fought as lang's he dought, / An' did the buckskins claw, man.
gloss: A horse with a light yellowish-brown coat and black mane and tail.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Of a grayish yellow in colour.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: buckskinned
Translations:
client-server
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: client/server
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: describes computer software usually comprising a number of client modules, and a server module to which they are connected in some way. The clients make requests of the server; the server processes the requests and returns the results to the appropriate client.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
bauxite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Derived from the name of Les Baux in France, plus + -ite. The /ks/ in the English pronunciation is from a spelling pronunciation.
Affixes: -ite
Inflected forms:
form: bauxites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The principal ore of aluminium; a clay-like mineral, being a mixture of hydrated oxides and hydroxides.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A thin red stream poured down one of the rises, snaking its way around trees; a river turned red with bauxite?
Translations:
comper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English comp
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 comper
From comp + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: compers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who enters many competitions in order to win as many prizes as possible.
pos: noun
Translations:
shit-for-brains
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Canadian, from the 1950s.
Inflected forms:
form: shit-for-brains
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Extremely stupid.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
derogatory
not-comparable
vulgar
examples: That shit-for-brains neighbor of mine is shooting off amateur fireworks again.
Who are you crying about, the predatory prick or the shit-for-brains tramp? Because neither one deserves your tears.
gloss: An extremely stupid person.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
derogatory
vulgar
examples: That new assistant of yours is a real shit-for-brains.
He's another one of those shit-for-brains.
Call your press conferences. Organize boycotts. Sue the shit out of me. You're gonna do for free what I would have paid you for, shit-for-brains.
Translations:
cut-and-paste
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See cut and paste.
Inflected forms:
form: more cut-and-paste
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cut-and-paste
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pieced together from several sources.
pos: adj
Translations:
aloo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hindustani آلو (ālo) / आलू (ālū), ultimately from Sanskrit आलु (ālu), said to mean the edible root of a variety of Amorphophallus paeoniifolius.
Inflected forms:
form: aloos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: alu
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: potato
pos: noun
tags: South-Asia
Translations:
recommended
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more recommended
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most recommended
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That one recommends (often by a person, community, or authoritative body).
pos: adj
examples: recommended daily allowance
strongly recommended
widely recommended
He bought the book because it was highly recommended.
gloss: The list of auto-recommended content (most often videos) presented to a particular user by a website's (or app's) algorithm.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
uncountable
usually
examples: This vid is gold. How did you find it?
It was just in my recommended.
Translations:
backloading
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: transport
Etymology: From back + loading or backload + -ing.
Base: backload
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: backloadings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The transportation of cargo or shipment on a return trip, using the space already paid for and used for the outward leg.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: One State fauna authority believes that Australian fauna is smuggled out and backloadings of drugs are made.
A structural weakness in Cairns tourism is the lack of an outbound market. Asiana, owned by the South Korean tyre manufacturer Kumho, established its office in Cairns two years ago but failed to attract passenger backloadings.
Translations:
tutorial
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
education
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: The adjective is from tutor (noun) + -ial, ultimately from Latin tūtor (“watcher, protector, defender”). The noun is transferred from the adjective.
Base: tutor
Affixes: -ial
Inflected forms:
form: tutorials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a tutor; belonging to, or exercised by, a tutor.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The probability is that any verse of this nature, in which the lines are worn smooth, is one which has been causing tutorial ears to tingle for a generation at least; and very probably it is known in a variety of forms.
gloss: A self-paced learning exercise; a lesson prepared so that a student can learn at their own speed or convenience.
pos: noun
gloss: An interactive class taught by a tutor to students at university or college, individually or in small groups.
pos: noun
gloss: A video or text guide or instruction about a specific topic (generally a how-to).
pos: noun
Derived words: edutorial
nontutorial
semitutorial
slime tutorial
teletutorial
tutorialize
tutorially
Translations:
neutrality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Middle French neutralité, from Medieval Latin neutralitas. Morphologically neutral + -ity.
Base: neutral
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: neutralities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being neutral; the condition of being unengaged in contests between others; state of taking no part on either side.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: And what happineſs is there in a ſtorm of paſſions? On this account the Scepticks affected an indifferent æquipondious neutrality as the only means to their Ataraxia, and freedom from paßionate diſturbances.
Men who possess a state of neutrality in times of public danger, desert the interest of their fellow subjects.
The official pretence of a scrupulous solicitude to maintain neutrality is flagrantly insincere.
Lizzo, who is known for messages of self-love and wider acceptance, has recently said as much as she shared that she is encouraging a stance of body neutrality for herself and others.
gloss: Indifference in quality; a state neither very good nor bad.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
examples: There is no health; physicians say that we
At best enjoy but a neutrality.
gloss: The quality or state of being neutral.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The condition of a nation or government which refrains from taking part, directly or indirectly, in a war between other powers.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Those who are neutral; a combination of neutral powers or states.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: net neutrality
network neutrality
internet neutrality
NN
Derived words: antineutrality
armed neutrality
carbon neutrality
climate neutrality
electroneutrality
exegetical neutrality
gender neutrality
nonneutrality
nutrient neutrality
positive neutrality
proneutrality
quasineutrality
superneutrality
thermoneutrality
Translations:
Burkinabe
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French burkinabé, from Moore burkĩna (“honest”) + Fula -ɓe (plural ending for a people noun), coined by Burkinabe revolutionary Thomas Sankara.
Inflected forms:
form: Burkinabes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Burkinabé
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Burkinabé
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person from Burkina Faso or of Burkinabe descent.
pos: noun
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Burkina Faso, the Burkinabe people or the Burkinabe language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Casta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish and Portuguese casta (“lineage; breed; race”), either from Gothic *𐌺𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (*kasts) or a derivative of Latin castus (“pure”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The institutionalized system of racial and social stratification in 17th-century Mexico.
pos: noun
gloss: Variety, in reference to and in names of Portugal grapes or wine.
pos: noun
Translations:
encircle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Old French en-bor.
Middle English en-
English en-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der.
Ancient Greek κίρκος (kírkos)bor.
Latin circus
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -ulus
Latin circulus
Old French cerclebor.
Middle English circle
English circle
English encircle
From en- + circle.
Inflected forms:
form: encircles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: encircling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: encircled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: encircled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To surround, form a circle around.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "Friday!" she called out, bursting open the doors and quickly encircling her friend in the warmth of her arms.
[…]two Russian armies would advance into East Prussia, one westward from the Niemen, the other northward from the Narew, with the object of encircling and immobilizing all enemy forces there.
Down through the centuries, as the Holy Spirit graces person after person in land after land, they form together a grand company of "friends of God and prophets" (Wis. 7:27); a community of holy people endeavoring to live their lives praising God, loving each other and struggling for justice and peace. This is a company that not only encircles the globe in space but stretches backward and forward in time.
gloss: To move or go around completely.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It is also customary in the Orient and among Sephardim for the mourners to encircle the coffin of an erudite person seven times and recite Yoshayv besayter while making each circuit.
Synonyms: circulize
encompass
orb
Derived words: encirclement
encircler
encirclet
encirclingly
unencircled
Translations:
chasm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
geography
geology
natural-sciences
planetology
Etymology: From Latin chasma, from Ancient Greek χάσμα (khásma, “abyss, cleft”). Doublet of chasma. Compare schism. Displaced native Old English swelh and Old English elh.
Inflected forms:
form: chasms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chasma
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A deep, steep-sided rift, gap or fissure; a gorge or abyss.
pos: noun
examples: But always and ever there is a yawning chasm below[.]
gloss: A large difference of opinion.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Chelsea may not have regarded themselves as title rivals to City over the whole season but this was a harrowing illustration of the current chasm between the two sides and made for disturbing viewing for the Italian.
Derived words: chasmal
chasmatical
chasmed
chasmic
chasmlike
chasmophyte
chasmous
chasmy
Translations:
sufficiently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: manner
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sufficient
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English sufficiently
From sufficient + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more sufficiently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most sufficiently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a sufficient manner; enough.
pos: adv
examples: Once we had eaten and drunk sufficiently, we went to bed.
Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.
I prefer to think that birds have a sufficiently developed sense of humour to enjoy the spectacle of a human being hunched beneath a bush kissing the back of their hand.
gloss: To a sufficient extent.
pos: adv
examples: We wanted to build a tepee, but we couldn't find sufficiently long sticks.
There are those who value a seat sufficiently highly that they prefer to make their daily journeys by the Western Region Vine Street line.
Attempts by Waterloo signalmen to clear the points by power operation eventually exhausted point motor batteries, which are fed by trickle chargers, and a blown fuse accentuated the problem; thus, even when the points had been cleared of ice, no power was available to operate them until the batteries were sufficiently recharged.
Derived words: insufficiently
self-sufficiently
Translations:
sociolinguistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷéh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ṓy
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷh₂ṓy
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷyós
Proto-Italic *sokjos
Latin sokios
Latin sociusder.
English socio-
English linguistic
English sociolinguistic
From socio- + linguistic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to sociolinguistics.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: At an individual level then, sociolinguistic theory would predict that in Scotland, as elsewhere, individual speakers who have the skills may switch and shift between one variety and another in a predictable way.
Translations:
compatible
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: from Middle French compatible, from Medieval Latin compatibilis (“in compatibile beneficium, a benefice which could be held together with another one”), from Late Latin compator (“to suffer with”), from com- (“together”) + pati (“to suffer”); see passion.
Inflected forms:
form: more compatible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most compatible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: compatibles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Capable of working together without conflict.
pos: adj
examples: This printer isn't compatible with my computer.
gloss: Able to get along well.
pos: adj
examples: My neighbours and I are not very compatible: they're loud and I'm an introvert.
gloss: Consistent; congruous.
pos: adj
examples: His actions were compatible with his sermons.
She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.
gloss: Something that is compatible with something else.
pos: noun
examples: a computer company that sells IBM compatibles
Antonyms: incompatible
noncompatible
Related words: compassion
compatibility
Translations:
ner
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Formed by onomatopoeia. The extended form is neener.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An interjection generally used when gloating about a perceived cause of humiliation or inferiority for the person being addressed, often when disagreeing with a statement considered incorrect or irrelevant.
pos: intj
tags: childish
slang
examples: You're wrong, so ner!
I don't care what you think, so ner!
I've got more sweets than you. Ner ner ner ner ner!
Translations:
sociolinguistics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷéh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ṓy
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷh₂ṓy
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷyós
Proto-Italic *sokjos
Latin sokios
Latin sociusder.
English socio-
Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s
Proto-Italic *dn̥ɣwā
Latin dingua
Latin lingua
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 linguist
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
Old English -as
Middle English -es
English -s
English -ics
English linguistics
English sociolinguistics
From socio- + linguistics.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The study of social and cultural effects on language and vice-versa.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: This paper surveys the research methods and approaches used in the multidisciplinary field of applied language studies or language education over the last fourty^([sic]) years. Drawing on insights gained in psycho- and sociolinguistics, educational linguistics and linguistic anthropology with regard to language and culture, it is organized around five major questions that concern language educators.
Translations:
deviate
Part of speech: verb
noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
mathematics
sciences
social-science
sociology
statistics
Etymology: From Late Latin dēviātus, perfect passive participle of dēviō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more. Compare French dévier.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: deviates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deviating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: deviated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: deviated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: deviates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: These two circumstances, however, happening both unfortunately to intervene, our travellers deviated into a much less frequented track; and after riding full six miles, instead of arriving at the stately spires of Coventry, they found themselves still in a very dirty lane, where they saw no symptoms of approaching the suburbs of a large city.
Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, / May boldly deviate from the common track.
Now listen to what you've got to do, and this time if you deviate a single hair or try any of your monkey tricks it's the deep end you'll go off at.
gloss: To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: His exhibition of nude paintings deviated from the norm.
gloss: To cause to diverge.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert.
pos: noun
examples: […] Walton has suggested that it is desirable "to name the phenomena signs of deviation, and call their possessors deviates or a deviate as the case may be […]
Under these conditions the person who appears as a deviate is a deviate only because we have chosen, somewhat arbitrarily, to call him a member of the court […]
[…] The second confederate was also to be a deviate initially […]
gloss: A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic reference value.
pos: noun
examples: It will be noted that for a deviate x = 1.5, the ordinate z will have the value .130 […]
This difference is called a deviate. When a deviate is divided by its SD a, it is called a relative deviate or a standard deviate.
This is a deviate so the appropriate function is qt. We need to supply it with the probability (in this case p = 0.975) and the degrees of freedom...
gloss: deviant
pos: adj
examples: It's somewhat in vogue to give special attention and consideration to the alternative lifestyle, which five years ago we would have called the deviate lifestyle.
Related words: deviant
deviation
Derived words: deviative
deviator
deviatory
nondeviating
undeviating
Translations:
philatelic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English philately
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English philatelic
From philately + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more philatelic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most philatelic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to philately or of interest to philatelists.
pos: adj
examples: Jane was a member of the Philatelic Society.
Translations:
toothache
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English toth-ake, from Old English tōþeċe (“toothache”). By surface analysis, tooth + ache.
Inflected forms:
form: toothaches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pain or ache in a tooth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I often have toothache.
Translations:
slava
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From South Slavic slava / слава (slava), literally "fame, glory". The word is also used in some Slavic languages to wish blessings to another person.
Inflected forms:
form: slavas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The custom of honoring a family patron saint, celebrated chiefly by the Serbs, but also by some Macedonians, Montenegrins, Bulgarians and Gorani.
pos: noun
examples: 1942: I was also enchanted at the opportunity of seeing a Slava (the word means ‘Holy’), which is the distinctive social custom of the Serbs. — Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 753)
Translations:
fundus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: PIE word
 *bʰudʰmḗn
From Latin fundus (“bottom”). Doublet of fond and fund.
Inflected forms:
form: fundi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The large, hollow part of an organ farthest from an opening; especially:
pos: noun
gloss: The large, hollow part of an organ farthest from an opening; especially:
pos: noun
gloss: The large, hollow part of an organ farthest from an opening; especially:
pos: noun
gloss: The large, hollow part of an organ farthest from an opening; especially:
pos: noun
Derived words: fundectomy
fundic
fundoplasty
funduscope
fundusectomy
Translations:
catch-as-catch-can
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
Inflected forms:
form: catch as catch can
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: more catch-as-catch-can
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most catch-as-catch-can
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: catch as catch can
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Only when possible or when the opportunity presents itself; intermittent.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
examples: My efforts lately have been catch-as-catch-can, not carefully planned.
My wife did indeed provide the more dependable contributions to our income while mine came catch-as-catch-can.
gloss: Relating to catch wrestling, a folk style of wrestling with minimal restrictions.
pos: adj
examples: In Lancashire and the north of Ireland, the catch-hold or catch-as-catch-can system still finds favour.
gloss: Ad hoc; in any way possible.
pos: adv
Translations:
predator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin praedātor, from praedor (“loot, pillage”), from praeda (“booty, spoils, prey”).
Inflected forms:
form: predators
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: prædator
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Any animal or other organism that hunts and kills other nonplant organisms (their prey), primarily for food.
pos: noun
examples: Hives should be positioned, oriented and protected to avoid predators and ensure survival in the meliponary. A study (pers. obs.) of predators shows that the main culprits in a Malaysian meliponary are frogs and lizards.
So if you're the only thing worth eating in the middle of the ocean, the predator that grabs you will probably have gotten there by a Levy walk.
gloss: Someone who attacks and plunders for gain.
pos: noun
gloss: A sexual predator.
pos: noun
Related words: predation
predatory
prey
Derived words: ambush predator
anti-predator
apex predator
cyberpredator
hyperpredator
interpredator
kleptopredator
macropredator
micropredator
nonpredator
predator bug
predatorial
predatorious
predatorism
predatorlike
predator satiation
predator saturation
Predditor
predophile
sexual predator
sit-and-wait predator
superpredator
Translations:
educate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English educaten, from educat(e) (“educated”, also used as the past participle of educaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), from Latin ēducātus, the perfect passive participle of ēducō (“(of a child, physically or mentally) to bring up, train, nourish; (of a person in learning or art) to rear, educate, train; (plants or animals) to nourish, support, or produce”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), further from an intensive/frequentative formed on ēducō (“lead out, draw out; to raise up, erect”) + -ō.
Base: educat
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: educates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: educating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: educated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: educated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: educamate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: edumacate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To instruct or train.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Wang said such changes to the Baishui glacier provide the chance to educate visitors about global warming.
Translations:
butterscotch
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From butter + scotch, with the second element deriving (not from scotch whiskey or Scotland, but) from Middle English scocchen (“to score, nick, cut”), in reference to how the candy is boiled and hardened and then usually scored to make breaking it apart easier. The word is usually said to have originally been a trademark of Parkinson's, who is claimed to have invented it.
Base: butter
Inflected forms:
form: butterscotches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hard candy made from butter, brown sugar, syrup and vanilla.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A sauce or syrup made of similar ingredients.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A light brown colour, like that of butterscotch candy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Of a light brown colour, like that of butterscotch candy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having the flavour of butterscotch.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: butterscotched
butterscotchlike
butterscotchy
Translations:
carroty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From carrot + -y.
Base: carrot
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more carroty
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most carroty
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: carrotty
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling carrots in colour, taste, shape, etc.
pos: adj
examples: The pupil, thus affectionately invoked, at length came stumbling into the room; a queer, shambling, ill-made urchin, who, by his stunted growth, seemed about twelve or thirteen years years^([sic]) old, though he was probably, in reality, a year or two older, with a carroty pate in huge disorder, a freckled sun-burnt visage, with a snub nose, a long chin, and two peery grey eyes, […]
"All the north is seething," said Gerard. "We must contrive to agitate the metropolis," said Maclast, a shrewd carroty-haired paper-stainer.
gloss: Containing carrots; made of carrots.
pos: adj
examples: My soup has the positive constitutive property of being carroty, of having carrots in it; of carrotiness; it has the negative constitutive property of lacking meat, of meatlessness.
Derived words: carrotiness
Translations:
cinereous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
Etymology: Latin cinereus, from cinis, cineris (“ashes”).
Inflected forms:
form: more cinereous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cinereous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of an ash-gray colour.
pos: adj
examples: With a bill two inches and a half long , very ſlender , and a little recurvated : head , and upper part of neck , cinereous , with dusky lines : over each eye a white line
Coluber cinereus, the cinereous viper; a native cf South America and India; of a cinereous grey colour; the abdomen white, angulated ; the scales of the tail ferruginous at the edges.
Wings tailed, white, with a brown border; beneath varied with ferruginous and yellow, the lower ones with two cinereous streaks.
[…] breast and front of the neck cinereous brown; belly, vent, and under tail-coverts, pure white […]
gloss: Like ashes.
pos: adj
gloss: Containing ashes.
pos: adj
examples: We likewise see by the valuable Work of Andrew Burdon, professor of the Royal French Academy of Painting, that the Antients occasionally used the Amphora form in other parts of the world as both cinereous and lachrymal urns; […]
Derived words: cinereous bunting
cinereous tinamou
cinereous tit
cinereous vulture
Translations:
cinnabar
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in the mid-15th century. From Middle English cynabare, from Old French cinabre, from Latin cinnabaris, from Ancient Greek κιννάβαρι (kinnábari), of unknown origin.
Inflected forms:
form: cinnabars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more cinnabar
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cinnabar
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A deep red mineral, mercuric sulfide, HgS; the principal ore of mercury; such ore used as the pigment vermilion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A bright red colour tinted with orange.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A species of erebid moth, Tyria jacobaeae, having red patches on its predominantly black wings.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: There are a few day-flying exceptions such as hummingbird hawk-moths, silver Ys, cinnabars, scarlet tigers and burnets but, in general, knowledge of moths lags behind that of butterflies.
gloss: Synonym of dragon's blood (“type of resin”).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Of a bright red colour tinted with orange.
pos: adj
Derived words: cinnabar boobook
cinnabaric
cinnabar moth
green cinnabar
hepatic cinnabar
hypercinnabar
inflammable cinnabar
metacinnabar
Translations:
lang: Assamese
word: হেঙুলবুলীয়া
roman: heṅulobulia
lang: Bulgarian
word: цинобър
roman: cinobǎr
lang: Dutch
word: cinnaber
lang: Finnish
word: sinooperinpunainen
lang: German
word: Zinnober
lang: Irish
word: cionnabar
lang: Japanese
word: 丹
lang: Japanese
word: 丹色
roman: niiro
lang: Japanese
word: 朱
lang: Japanese
word: 朱色
lang: Macedonian
word: цинобер
roman: cinober
lang: Norwegian
word: sinober
lang: Persian
word: شنگرفی
roman: šangarfi
lang: Polish
word: cynober
lang: Romanian
word: cinabru
lang: Russian
word: ки́новарь
roman: kínovarʹ
lang: Russian
word: кита́йский кра́сный
roman: kitájskij krásnyj
citrine
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English citrine, partly from Middle French citrine and partly from Latin citrīnus.
Inflected forms:
form: citrines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: citrean
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: citrinous
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: citrean
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: citrinous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A goldish-yellow colour, like that of a lemon.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: dorrẹ̅, dōrī adj. & n. […] Golden or reddish-yellow […] (a. 1398) *Trev. Barth. 59b/a: ʒelouʒ colour [of urine] […] tokeneþ febleness of hete […] dorrey & citrine & liʒt red tokeneþ mene.
[…] the urine becometh citrine, or of a deep yellowe color […]
From above and behind his head, there came a bumblebee as big as his thumb. It circled his ear, then hovered by the rock, probing the nodes of citrine, which were the same bright yellow as the fieldstars that bloomed among the hills.
gloss: A brownish-yellow quartz.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Of a goldish-yellow colour.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The coin […] bore what I at first thought was a woman's face—a woman crowned, neither young nor old, but silent and perfect in the citrine metal.
Derived words: ametrine
citrination
Translations:
cosmologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cosmology
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 cosmologist
From cosmology + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: cosmologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who studies cosmology.
pos: noun
Translations:
foreleg
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fore-
English leg
English foreleg
From fore- + leg.
Inflected forms:
form: forelegs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fore
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: leg
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Either of the two legs towards the front of a four-legged animal such as a horse, or towards the front of a many-legged animal such as most insects, or of a piece of furniture, etc.
pos: noun
examples: For example, the foreleg of the mole is admirably suited for digging underground. A similar modification is found in an entirely different group of the animal kingdom, namely, in the mole cricket[…] In both of these cases the adaptation is the more obvious, because, while the leg of the mole is formed on the same general plan as that of other vertebrates, and the leg of the mole cricket has the same fundamental structure as that of other insects, yet in both cases the details of structure and the general proportions have been so altered, that the leg is fitted for entirely different purposes from that to which the legs of other vertebrates and of other insects are put.
Clover made a sort of wall round them with her great foreleg[…]
Translations:
cosmology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Medieval Latin cosmologia, from Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, “world”) + -λογία (-logía, “treating of”), combination form of -λόγος (-lógos, “one who speaks (in a certain manner)”). By surface analysis, cosmo- + -logy.
Inflected forms:
form: cosmologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The study of the physical universe, its structure, dynamics, origin and evolution, and fate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Meronym: cosmogony
We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.
gloss: A metaphysical study into the origin and nature of the universe.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Meronym: cosmogony
gloss: A particular view (cultural or religious) of the structure and origin of the universe.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Meronym: cosmogony
Near-synonyms: cosmovision, worldview
But the work of Marshack and Leroi-Gourhan enable us to see that these later religions of the civilized period are elaborations of the cosmologies from the universal religion of the Upper Paleolithic.
Related words: cosmic
cosmogony
cosmologic
cosmological
cosmologist
cosmos
eschatology
big bang theory
steady state theory
Translations:
gamete
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γαμετή (gametḗ, “wife”), γαμέτης (gamétēs, “husband”), ultimately from γάμος (gámos, “marriage”).
Inflected forms:
form: gametes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A reproductive cell (sperm in males or eggs in females), having only half of a complete set of chromosomes.
pos: noun
Translations:
cupreous
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Latin cupreus, from cuprum (“copper”).
Inflected forms:
form: more cupreous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cupreous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A reddish-brown color, like that of polished copper.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Of or of the nature of copper.
pos: adj
gloss: Containing copper.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a reddish-brown color, like that of polished copper.
pos: adj
Related words: cuprea
cuprea bark
cupreine
cupric
cuprous
Translations:
Akan
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A people who inhabit Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Akan people.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Akan language and other related languages.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
viceregal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English vice-
English regal
English viceregal
From vice- + regal.
Inflected forms:
form: vice-regal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: viceregals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vice-regal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, or pertaining to, a viceroy or viceroyalty.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: This engine was used for hauling Viceregal trains, and was painted royal blue.
gloss: Of, or pertaining to, a viceregent or viceregency.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: a viceroy
pos: noun
tags: gender-neutral
examples: Most viceregals choose themes to promote during their mandate, such as David Johnston's pursuit of innovation and education, Clarkson's focus on arts, culture and diversity, and Michaëlle Jean's work on youth, the environment and violence against women, particularly Indigenous women.
gloss: a viceroy or vicereine
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
examples: March is a month of farewells for the Governor of Victoria and his wife (Earl and Countess of Stradbroke). who are leaving early in April for England, via America.
Synonyms: viceroyal
Related words: regal
vicegeral
Translations:
conversant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French conversant, present participle of converser.
Inflected forms:
form: more conversant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most conversant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: conversaunt
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: conversants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: conversaunt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Closely familiar; current; having frequent interaction.
pos: adj
examples: VVe (of all earthlings) are Gods vtmoſt ſubiects, the laſt (in a manner) that he bought to his obedience: ſhal we then forgette that vvee are any ſubiects of hys, becauſe (as amongſt his Angels) he is not viſibly conuerſant amongſt vs?
gloss: Familiar or acquainted by use or study; well-informed; versed.
pos: adj
examples: She is equally conversant with Shakespeare and the laws of physics.
We ſee in all things how deſuetude do's contract and narrow our faculties, ſo that we may apprehend only thoſe things wherein we are converſant.
c. 1694, John Dryden, letter to Mr. John Dennis
deeply conversant in the Platonic philosophy
1720, Thomas Parnell, corrected by Alexander Pope, "Essay on Homer", published with Pope's translation of the Iliad
He uses the different dialects […] as one who had been conversant with them all.
gloss: Concerned; occupied.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: If any think education, because it is conversant about children, to be but a private and domestick duty, he has been ignorantly bred himself.
Their Ideas are perpetually converſant in Lines and Figures. If they would, for example, praiſe the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they deſcribe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipſes, and other Geometrical Terms, or by Words of Art drawn from Muſick, needleſs here to repeat.
gloss: One who converses with another.
pos: noun
Derived words: conversancy
conversantly
inconversant
nonconversant
unconversant
Translations:
biter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
curling
fiction
fishing
games
hobbies
lifestyle
literature
media
publishing
sports
Etymology: From Middle English biter, bitere, equivalent to bite + -er. Cognate with West Frisian biter (“biter”), Dutch bijter (“biter”), German Low German Bieter (“biter”), German Beißer (“biter”).
Base: bite
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: biters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fish that tends to take bait.
pos: noun
examples: She tried the same cast several times. I signaled her to switch flies. After two such changes we still couldn't move the fish. Some steelhead are biters; some are not.
gloss: A person who takes up an offer or request.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: I put up some fliers for the org but didn't get any biters
gloss: A stone that barely touches the outside of the house.
pos: noun
gloss: One who copies someone else's work, style or techniques, especially in hip-hop.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A cheat or fraudster.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A zombie.
pos: noun
Derived words: ankle biter
ankle-biter
backbiter
back biter
crib-biter
cross-biter
day-biter
leg biter
nail-biter
nail biter
neckbiter
night-biter
night biter
ox-biter
pillar-biter
pillow-biter
sheep-biter
the biter bit
toe-biter
toe biter
tyre biter
wart-biter
Translations:
stabile
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Coined by German-French artist Jean Arp in 1932 from Latin stabilis (“firmly fixed or established”) to describe the stationary works of Alexander Calder as opposed to his better known mobiles.
Inflected forms:
form: stabiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: abstract sculpture or structure of wire, sheet metal, etc.
pos: noun
Antonyms: mobile
Translations:
starship
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From star + ship.
Compound parts: star
ship
Inflected forms:
form: starships
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of spacecraft capable of traveling to the solar systems of other stars.
pos: noun
Translations:
ballyhoo
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A shortening of the Irish village Ballyhooly, known for its rowdiness.
Inflected forms:
form: ballyhoos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ballyhoos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ballyhooing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ballyhooed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ballyhooed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Sensational or clamorous advertising or publicity.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: Noisy shouting or uproar.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Talk, it's only talk / Babble, burble, banter / Bicker, bicker, bicker / Brouhaha, balderdash, ballyhoo / It's only talk / Back talk
gloss: To sensationalize or make grand claims.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: Industry has picked up, railroads are carrying more freight, farm prices are better, but I am not going to indulge in issuing proclamations of over-enthusiastic assurance. We cannot ballyhoo ourselves back to prosperity.
Synonyms: hoopla
Derived words: ballyhooer
Translations:
uploaded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having been uploaded; having been digitally sent from one's computer to someone else's.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
potentially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English potential
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English potentially
From potential + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more potentially
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most potentially
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a manner showing much potential; with the possibility of happening in a given way.
pos: adv
examples: Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent, with the consequences of climate change potentially accelerating the demand.
Its impending end has rung alarm bells across social media, with a baseline tariff as high as 145% depending on the carrier set to take effect on Chinese imports, potentially more than doubling the cost for all those cheap products deal-hungry Americans scooped up.
gloss: Powerfully, strongly.
pos: adv
tags: obsolete
examples: I freely assert, that the cosmopolite philosopher cannot, for his life, point out one single peaceful influence, which within the last sixty years has operated more potentially upon the whole broad world, taken in one aggregate, than the high and mighty business of whaling.
Derived words: equipotentially
potensh
potentially hazardous object
Translations:
establishing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: establishings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is established; establishment.
pos: noun
examples: This course consists of the overturnings and establishings of the various successive empires under which the Church of Christ, both in its Jewish and Christian state, should exist […]
Translations: