yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
dreamlike
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ-
Proto-West Germanic *draum
Old English drēam
Middle English drem
English dream
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-West Germanic *-līk
Old English -līċ
Middle English -like
English -like
English dreamlike
From dream + -like.
Inflected forms:
form: more dreamlike
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dreamlike
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Like something from a dream; having a sense of vagueness, insubstantiality, or incongruousness.
pos: adj
examples: Her kiss sent me into a dreamlike state of bliss.
The scene, suffused with the golden glow of imagination in which the divine mind of Turner steeped and transfigured even the fairest natural landscape, is a dream-like vision of the little woodland lake of Nemi, “Diana's Mirror,” as it was called by the ancients.
Even when the legend is of an actual historical personage, the deeds of victory are rendered, not in lifelike, but in dreamlike figurations; for the point is not that such-and-such was done on earth; the point is that, before such-and-such could be done on earth, this other, more important, primary thing had to be brought to pass within the labyrinth that we all know and visit in our dreams.
Translations:
chrysoprase
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χρυσός (khrusós, “gold”) and πράσινον (prásinon, “green”).
Inflected forms:
form: chrysoprases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A variety of light-green translucent quartz.
pos: noun
examples: […]or such pale green and uncertain as we see in sunset sky, and in the clefts of the glacier and the chrysoprase,[…]
On the back of one cover BRADSHAW, in beryls, was encrusted; on the back of the other, A.B.C. GUIDE, in amethysts, beryls, chrysoprases, and garnets.
With shaken soul of light and shuddering blaze
 Of leaping emerald and cold chrysoprase
Translations:
brownstone
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From brown + stone.
Compound parts: brown
stone
Inflected forms:
form: brownstones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brownstones
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: brownstoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: brownstoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: brownstoned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A variety of brown to red-brown sandstone once popular as a building material.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A row house built of brownstone, especially in New York City.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Lived in a brownstone, lived in the ghetto, I’ve lived all over this town.
Did I mention he lives in a fantastic, expensive-looking brownstone? Did I mention that he’s a published novelist? Did I mention that he’s an involved, attentive father?
They emerge from the car to face a pair of brownstones, stately narrow things, which seem to have been similarly renovated and decorated.
gloss: To scour (steps) with a donkey stone.
pos: verb
tags: historical
transitive
Derived words: brownstoned
brownstoner
Hummelstown brownstone
Translations:
townhouse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From town + house. Compare Dutch tuinhuis (“summer house, cabana”), tuinhuisje (“bower”).
Compound parts: town
house
Inflected forms:
form: townhouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: town house
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A row house or terraced house.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
Philippines
US
gloss: A house in an urban setting.
pos: noun
gloss: A town hall.
pos: noun
tags: dated
Derived words: Creole townhouse
Translations:
objectivism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English objectiv(e)
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English objectivism
From objectiv(e) + -ism. First attested in 1854.
Inflected forms:
form: objectivisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being objective; objectivity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Moral objectivism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of several doctrines that holds that all of reality is objective and exists outside of the mind.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Objectivism and subjectivism need each other to exist. Each defines itself in opposition to the other and sees the other as the enemy. Objectivism takes as its allies scientific truth, rationality, precision, fairness, and impartiality.
gloss: The specific objectivist philosophy created by novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand, endorsing logical reasoning and self-interest.
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
countable
often
uncountable
examples: First of all, I do not call it Randism; and I don’t like that name. I call it Objectivism, meaning a philosophy based on objective reality. Now let me explain it as briefly as I can.
Ayn Rand, the guiding spirit of the philosophy of Objectivism and an advocate of “laissez faire capitalism,” endorsed Senator Goldwater as [“]the best of what is available.”
Into philosophy but not computer games? Then you probably missed Ayn Rand’s objectivism in BioShock (where the villain builds an undersea city out of the reach of government).
But for some, objectivism stuck. Perhaps her most significant early follower was Alan Greenspan, later to serve as chairman of the US Federal Reserve for 19 years.
Antonyms: subjectivism
Derived words: logical objectivism
neo-objectivism
nonobjectivism
Translations:
payphone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From pay + phone.
Compound parts: pay
phone
Inflected forms:
form: payphones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pay phone
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A public telephone that requires prepayment to operate, generally via the insertion of coins or a credit card.
pos: noun
examples: I only had ten cents in my pocket, so I couldn't use the payphone to call a cab.
You called me from a payphone / They still got payphones / It costs a dollar a minute / To tell me you're getting sober
Translations:
interdenominational
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *n̥ter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
English denomination
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English denominational
English interdenominational
From inter- + denominational.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or between different denominations or churches.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Near-synonyms: ecumenic, ecumenical
Translations:
taberna
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin taberna. Doublet of tavern and taverna.
Inflected forms:
form: tabernas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of shop or stall in Ancient Rome.
pos: noun
tags: Ancient-Rome
Translations:
plucking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: media
printing
publishing
Inflected forms:
form: pluckings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act in which something is plucked.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gerund
uncountable
examples: Dirty Projectors builds elaborate “glitch operas” with stark pluckings of strings […].
gloss: A fragment of something obtained by plucking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Yield per acre and moisture content of grass pluckings taken at 14- or 28-day intervals during the seasons of 1933 and 1934
gloss: The undesirable situation in which printed ink becomes detached from the paper.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Letterpress and offset gloss varnishes normally have viscosities varying from 50 to 250 poises; they must stain the paper as little as possible, have insufficient tack to cause plucking, […]
Derived words: ear plucking
ripe for the plucking
Translations:
nub
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
computing
engineering
entertainment
games
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
sports
theater
Etymology: Either directly from Middle Low German, or from knub, from a Middle Low German word (compare Low German Knubbel, Knobbel (“knot; lump”)). Compare knob.
Inflected forms:
form: nubs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nubs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: nubbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: nubbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: nubbed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The innermost section of a chrysalis in a silk cocoon.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A small knob or lump.
pos: noun
gloss: The essence or core of an issue, argument etc.
pos: noun
examples: What do you think is the nub of the problem?
Very often, of course, the rambling and disjointed humorous story finishes with a nub, point, snapper, or whatever you like to call it.
But surely the males are no problem? Aha...no we're approaching the nub.
Though some CCS scholars have attempted to ground their practice on the “information hiding” view, such attempts are in my view doomed to fail, because the “information hiding” view denies the ultimate reality of code. As an alternative, I suggest that source code abstractions are virtualisations of metaphors. The nub of truth in the “information hiding” view is that programming abstractions are metaphorical. Abstractions provide a concrete framework for thinking about or conceptualising the behaviour of the machine. Some of these abstractions are so familiar that we have forgotten they are metaphors.
gloss: The clitoris.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
slang
vulgar
examples: “ — and then rub her nub with the bridge of your nose, right where the nerve will drive her straight to the ceiling!”
When he used his fingers to rub her nub, he didn't have to wait anymore. She exploded for the second time that morning,...
He stroked her, using her movements to increase the pressure on her nub, catching her between his fingers.
gloss: A pointing stick.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: A passage of Shakespearean blank verse.
pos: noun
examples: A nub is a passage of blank verse that Shakespearean actors have sometimes relied upon when they forget their lines. It doesn't have to make any sense, but it must sound plausible. To alert the other actors on stage that the speaker is in difficulty, the word nub is used in the first line.
To an audience a clever nub can pass for Shakespeare himself.
gloss: The genital tubercle.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: nub theory
gloss: To hit the ball weakly.
pos: verb
gloss: To push; to nudge.
pos: verb
gloss: To beckon.
pos: verb
gloss: To extemporize a passage of Shakespearean blank verse
pos: verb
examples: In Shall we Shog?, Globe artistic director Mark Rylance hilariously found himself having to nub the Quarto version of Hamlet's speech to the players.
Derived words: nubber
nubby
nubcake
nublike
nublet
Translations:
dovish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: economics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-der.?
Proto-Germanic *dūbaną?
Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ
Proto-West Germanic *dūbā
Old English *dūfe
Middle English douve
English dove
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English dovish
From dove + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more dovish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dovish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: doveish
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to a dove; dove-like.
pos: adj
gloss: Peaceful, conciliatory.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: According to Kathleen A. Francovic, director of surveys for CBS News, it was the “war and peace” issue that seemed to separate the sexes in 1980, with women predictably perched on the dovish side.
Doubtless an expression of frustration at the UN secretary general, who has long been too dovish for Bush administration tastes.
Caillaux bypassed his Foreign Office in order to impose his own dovish agenda on the negotiations with Berlin […].
It is entirely possible, for example, that Cameron’s dovish views on China, criticised by many, will not survive now that he is back in office.
gloss: Disfavoring increasing interest rates; inclined against increasing interest rates.
pos: adj
examples: The Federal Reserve's statement on recent inflation was interpreted as dovish by the market.
A dovish policy keeps unemployment close to 6 percent and lets the price level swing more widely to absorb economic shocks.
By appearing more dovish than the central bank actually is, the trade-off it faces between stabilization of inflation and stabilization fo the output gap is likely to worsen.
Derived words: dovishly
dovishness
Translations:
tarnation
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From darnation, influenced by tarnal (from eternal); see darn.
Inflected forms:
form: more tarnation
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tarnation
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more tarnation
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most tarnation
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Bothersome; devilish.
pos: adj
examples: Now you go 'long back to the house, Marm Winthrop, and if riding 'longside of a popish priest don't speerit me into the bottomless pit, I'll be blamed if I don't go some day into his church and find out what all that tarnation lingo means.
It started over nothing, and would have come to nothing but for that tarnation liquor.
Hello stranger, this is a fine fix you got into, getting a tarnation fever out in the Rockies, but my wife is the best hand at sick folks you ever see.
gloss: Generic intensifier.
pos: adj
examples: Some time in the month o' August, I think it wur, I found myself in London wi'out a tarnation cent.
My love the strongest, a tarnation sight.
I allow now, if I had asked you to loan me a handful of dollars, you might have looked as glum as a beaver in a trap ; but there's a tarnation difference between that and a civil question on the road.
gloss: Very; extremely.
pos: adv
examples: He was so tarnation black you couldn't see him except in the middle of the day.
Since Britannia ruled the waves, I guess it's a tarnation queer thing that she didn't rule 'em straighter.
Well, that's tarnation strange !
I know it is lonesome for you, but I will be with you again in time and then we can and will have a "tarnation good time."
Translations:
vetted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having undergone an investigation and been approved.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Only vetted nominees make it to committee hearings.
Translations:
varsity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: First attested in the mid 17th century. Clipping of univarsity, reflecting an archaic pronunciation of university.
Inflected forms:
form: varsities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: university
pos: noun
tags: attributive
countable
often
uncountable
examples: […] and then to lyrically proclaim that, not only was it a way they had in the Varsity to drive dull care away, but that the same practice was also pursued in the army and navy for the attainment of a similar end.
gloss: The principal sports team representing an institution (usually a high school, college, or university.)
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: There were sixteen of them in all, for the most part upper classmen who had failed to make the varsity the year before, with a sprinkling of sophomores and two freshmen.
A small Pennsylvania university has only one varsity program: e-sports. Is this the future of college athletics?
Derived words: intervarsity
junior varsity
varsity letter
varsity jacket
Translations:
unseasonal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English un-
French a-
Proto-Indo-European *ser-der.
Proto-Italic *serō
Latin serō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin satiōnem
Old French saison
French saison
Proto-Italic *-āzi
▲
Latin -ereinflu.
Latin -āre
Old French -ier
Middle French -er
French -er
French assaisonnerbor.
English season
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English seasonal
English unseasonal
From un- + seasonal.
Inflected forms:
form: more unseasonal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unseasonal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not normal, appropriate, or expected for the season or time of year.
pos: adj
examples: An unseasonal rainstorm took everyone by surprise.
Translations:
shan
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Origin obscure. Perhaps from shand (“worthless”). Alternatively, perhaps of Romani origin.
Inflected forms:
form: more shan
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most shan
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: shand
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: unfair, harsh
pos: adj
tags: Geordie
examples: Here man! that's pure shan that like
gloss: poor, low-quality
pos: adj
tags: Scotland
Related words: shanny
Translations:
allometry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From allo- + -metry.
Base: allo
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Disproportionate growth of a part of a living organism in relation to the whole.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Some organs may grow faster than the rest of the body so that their size increases not only in absolute terms, but also relatively to the rest of the body, which is positive allometry; or they may grow more slowly than the rest of the body, and so decrease in relative size, which is negative allometry.
gloss: The science studying the differential growth rates of the parts of a living organism.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: allometric
Derived words: hyperallometry
hypoallometry
Translations:
timesheet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
Etymology: From time + sheet.
Compound parts: time
sheet
Inflected forms:
form: timesheets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: time sheet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: time-sheet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A document that allows for the recording of hours worked on various tasks that is used as input for payroll, project accounting or client billing processes.
pos: noun
Translations:
Shan
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Burmese ရှမ်း (hram:), from Thai สยาม (sà-yǎam). Doublet of Siam.
Inflected forms:
form: Shans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Shan
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a people living primarily in the Shan State of Myanmar (also known as Burma), and in adjacent areas of China, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, with about 6 million people.
pos: noun
examples: The Thai proper are related to the Shans of Burma, the Siamese of Thailand and the Lao of Indochina. The Chinese segment of the Thai ethnic group is settled in Yünnan Province, where it numbers 580,000. It constitutes the Hsi-shuang-pan-na Autonomous Chou in the southern part of the province and shares the Tehung Autonomous Chou in the west with the Chingpo (Kachin). The Thai of the Hsi-shuang-pan-na Chou speak the Lü dialect, those of the Tehung Chou are more closely related to the Shans of northern Burma.
Although holding mainly high upland territory in Burma, the Shan themselves live only in the valleys and in stretches of plain. The surrounding hill country is occupied by relatively primitive hill peoples living in economic symbiosis with the Shan, but there is no clear genetic distinction between the Shan and their neighbours. With minor exceptions modern Shan communities are Buddhist. Most Shan are cultivators of rice; they have a characteristic species of feudal political structure. Shan culture probably diffused southward and westward from west-central China from Han times (c. 200 B.C.) onward.
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Shan people or the Shan language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
obliquity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle French obliquité, from Latin oblīquitās, from oblīquus (“oblique”). Corresponding to oblique + -ity.
Base: oblique
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: obliquities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being oblique in direction, deviating from the horizontal or vertical; or the angle created by such a deviation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Planet Earth, so stedfast though she seem, / Insensibly three different Motions move? / Which else to several Sphears thou must ascribe, / Mov'd contrarie with thwart obliquities
Screwed at its axis against the side, a swinging lamp slightly oscillates in Jonah’s room; and the ship, heeling over towards the wharf with the weight of the last bales received, the lamp, flame and all, though in slight motion, still maintains a permanent obliquity with reference to the room; though, in truth, infallibly straight itself, it but made obvious the false, lying levels among which it hung.
She wore glasses which, in humble reference to a divergent obliquity of vision, she called her straighteners, and a little ugly snuff-coloured dress trimmed with satin bands in the form of scallops and glazed with antiquity.
gloss: Axial tilt.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: Calculating by spherical trigonometry, and assuming the same obliquity, I obtain 3 dundas and 40 pulas for the ascensional arc, giving a difference in time of 3 pulas, or about one of our minutes; an error so small, that even were the Indian astronomer aware of its existence he would disregard it, satisfied that the practical purposes which his labours subserve, are, notwithstanding, carried out with sufficient accuracy.
gloss: Mental or moral deviation or perversity; immorality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Habitually living with the elements and knowing little more of the land than as a beach, or, rather, that portion of the terraqueous globe providentially set apart for dance-houses, doxies and tapsters, in short what sailors call a "fiddlers'-green," his simple nature remained unsophisticated by those moral obliquities which are not in every case incompatible with that manufacturable thing known as respectability.
Whereas Reef's "friends," business and personal, were mostly no strangers to trouble, nor that complicated to understand, Stray's, apt to keep more to the shadows, tended to be practitioners of obliquity—as it quite often came down to, varieties of pimp.
gloss: The quality of being obscure, oftentimes willfully, sometimes as an exercise in euphemism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: That spiked my gun. I could not say anything. I was entirely out of verbal obliquities; to go further would be to lie, and that I would not do; so I simply sat still and suffered,—sat mutely and resignedly there, and sizzled,—for I was being slowly fried to death in my own blushes.
Translations:
sourness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English sowrenesse, sournesse, from Old English sūrnes (“sourness”), equivalent to sour + -ness.
Base: sour
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: sournesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition or quality of being sour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [O]ur Tympanouſe ſtatiſts / (In their affected grauitie of voice, / Sovverneſſe of countenance, maners crueltie, / Authoritie, vvealth, and all the ſpavvne of Fortune) / Thinke they beare all the kingdomes vvorth before them; […]
Mrs. Ferrars was a little, thin woman, upright, even to formality, in her figure, and serious, even to sourness, in her aspect.
Antonyms: sweetness
Translations:
boricua
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Puerto Rican Spanish boricua, from Taíno *borīkē.
Inflected forms:
form: more boricua
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most boricua
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Boricua
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: boricuas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Boricua
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Puerto Rican.
pos: adj
tags: US
colloquial
examples: She hated Lincoln Center, for which an entire neighborhood was destroyed and 7,000 boricua families uprooted, just because Anglos who didn't really give a shit about High Culture were afraid of these people's children.
gloss: A Puerto Rican.
pos: noun
tags: US
colloquial
Translations:
poutine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Canadian French poutine (“French fries with cheese curds and gravy; any of various kinds of pudding”); further etymology uncertain, possibly either:
* a variant of French pouding (“pudding”), borrowed from English pudding (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew- (“to swell”)); or
* from a dialectal French word influenced by French pouding or English pudding, though this word has not been identified.
The Canadian French word is generally thought to have been coined by the Canadian restaurateur Fernand Lachance (1918–2004) as a name for the dish which is said to have been first served at his restaurant Lutin Qui Rit in Warwick, Quebec, in 1957.
Inflected forms:
form: poutines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dish consisting of French fries topped with cheese curds and gravy, eaten primarily in Canada.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
countable
uncountable
examples: Jean made an eight-hour trip across the border into Quebec just to satisfy his craving for poutine.
gloss: Chiefly with a qualifying word: any of a number of variations on the basic poutine dish.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
countable
uncountable
examples: In Italian poutine, gravy is replaced with spaghetti sauce.
Related words: poutinerie
disco fries
Derived words: breakfast poutine
Italian poutine
pizza poutine
poutine pizza
poutinery
Translations:
greenscreen
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
Etymology: From green + screen.
Compound parts: green
screen
Inflected forms:
form: greenscreens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: green screen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: greenscreens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: greenscreening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: greenscreened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: greenscreened
pos: verb
tags: past
form: green screen
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The alternate version of bluescreen, having the background green instead of blue.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The display of an IBM 3270 or similar monochrome monitor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To film a subject in front of a greenscreen.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Chroma-keying, often called "bluescreening" or "greenscreening", is the process of filming actors, set pieces, and other foreground elements in front of a large solid green or blue-colored screen.
gloss: To remove the background from a video and replace it with a different image or scene; to composite.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In this tutorial I will be showing you how to do greenscreening in Blender’s Compositor.
Fünke shows off an action-packed highlight clip addressed to Howard that emphasizes his imagined versatility, greenscreening him into scenes where he’s being fired out of a cannon, brandishing dual assault rifles, ineptly playing pick-up football, going Western as a cowboy sheriff and riding a tiger – all set to an aggressive dubstep soundtrack.
Baum makes short and long-form videos showcasing striking and intricate visual effects—like greenscreening himself walking the plank off a skyscraper, editing his friend to look like he’s flying through the clouds, or making an illusion of the “world’s largest tape measure.”
Synonyms: bluescreen
blue screen
chromakey
chroma-key
chroma key
Translations:
choking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, choke + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: chokings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process in which a person's airway becomes blocked, resulting in asphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In the last 6 years, there has been a great effort to educate the public concerning the prevention of choking due to accidental aspiration of foods or small objects by children.
The study found that 29 percent of nonfood-related chokings were caused by latex balloons.
Choking occurs when the respiratory passage in the throat or windpipe is blocked.
gloss: The act of coughing when a person finds it difficult to breathe.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Putting the latter on her head and the former on the table, the old woman, after telling Oliver that she had come to sit up with him, drew her chair close to the fire and went off into a series of short naps, chequered at frequent intervals with sundry tumblings forward, and divers moans and chokings.
The chokings, which now always succeed every epileptic sleep, are violent beyond description, and last a long time.
"I applied,” says he in his first memoir, “a large plate of copper upon the pit of the stomach and a ring of the same metal around each limb: and in three or four minutes the chokings, palpitations, and vomitings ceased.
gloss: The act of trying to kill a person by strangulation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She tells of many chokings and blows inflicted by the defendant, and says her health was thereby affected and, presumably, her life endangered.
This particular man was a small, wiry , athletic Negro who had confessed to many chokings and rapings of young women.
Judges should not decide which police chokings are acceptable, and which are not, based on Orwellian newspeak.
gloss: The result of something being choked.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This feature has been found effective in reducing injector trouble, resulting either from the clogging of sieves or the choking of the annular orifices of the injectors by fine particles of coal.
Derived words: choking game
Translations:
roughshod
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: farriery
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
Etymology: From rough + shod.
Compound parts: rough
shod
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a horse: having hooves shod with horseshoes that have calks or projecting parts to prevent slipping.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The horses fell down three times, the roads being slippery, and we walked three miles to Linlithgow. There we waited two hours, to have the fresh horses roughshod.
Those who have followed a French army well know that their horses are always rough-shod. [...] Horses can bear cold when properly fed, and if they had not been rough-shod there were farriers attached to the army.
A horse is roughshod when the nails are left protruding out of its shoes so that the animal does not slip and fall. Consequently, being ridden over by a roughshod horse would be quite agonizing.
gloss: Brutal or domineering.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
not-comparable
examples: She proved to be completely defenseless against her husband, both because of her own culture that demanded abject submission to the male, and because of her fearful reaction to his roughshod behavior toward her.
In the roughshod horny world of boys, I had studied my companions closely to make sure that I wasn't being too "queer" for them.
A story about the way he handled a threatened strike at his Hawthorne track was indicative of the roughshod way he did business. He invited four strike negotiators to his office, where he dealt a knockout blow to each, laying them out unconscious on the floor. Then he went outside and announced that the pending strike was off.
Related words: reshod
slipshod
unshod
cleat
crampon
Derived words: ride roughshod over
run roughshod over
Translations:
domineer
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Dutch domineren, from Middle French dominer.
Inflected forms:
form: domineers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: domineering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: domineered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: domineered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To rule over or control arbitrarily or arrogantly; to tyrannize.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
Judahite
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Judah
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der.
Latin -ītēsbor.
French -iteder.
English -ite
English Judahite
From Judah + -ite.
Inflected forms:
form: Judahites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A descendant of Judah (the patriarch).
pos: noun
gloss: A descendant or member of the tribe of Judah.
pos: noun
gloss: An inhabitant of the ancient kingdom of Judah.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or pertaining to Judah (the patriarch), to the tribe of Judah, or to the ancient kingdom of Judah, or its inhabitants.
pos: adj
Translations:
hokey
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the verb hoke (“to give an artificial feel to”), from hokum.
Inflected forms:
form: hokier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: hokiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hokie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: hoaky
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: hoky
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Phony, as if a hoax; noticeably contrived; of obviously flimsy credibility or quality.
pos: adj
tags: US
colloquial
examples: When asked for his book report, Chad came up with a series of hokier and hokier excuses.
I thought the windshield wiper blades were a little hokey when I saw their cheap packaging.
gloss: Corny; overly or unbelievably sentimental.
pos: adj
tags: US
colloquial
examples: Terry hated going to the cinema with Pat; she always chose hokey romantic comedies that made him want to gag.
After the chant, we bowed our heads and closed our eyes, as Bob administered the recitation, part prayer and part affirmation—an ever-changing hokey thing that he improvised on the spot.
Related words: hokiness
hoke
hokum
Hokey Cokey
hokeypokey
hokey-tokey
Derived words: hokeyness
Translations:
medina
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Aramaic מְדִינְתָּא (məḏīntā)bor.
Arabic مَدِينَة (madīna)bor.
English medina
Borrowed from Arabic مَدِينَة (madīna, “town, city”).
Inflected forms:
form: medinas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The traditional, older or non-European area of a North African town.
pos: noun
examples: Although Hicham usually worked in the new town, he still lived in the medina.
Translations:
prostration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin prōstrātiō, from prōstrātus, past participle of prōsternō.
Inflected forms:
form: prostrations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or condition of prostrating oneself (lying face-down), as a sign of humility.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A part of the ordination of Catholic and Orthodox priests, in which the ordinand lies prostrate in a gesture of submission to the will of God.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The ordination ceremony includes a variety of rituals, rich in meaning and history, e.g., the prostration, laying on of hands, anointing of hands, giving of the chalice and paten, and sign of peace. — Diocese of Rochester, NY
gloss: The state of lying face down (prone).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The condition of being prostrated, as from heat; complete loss of strength.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I slept after the prostration of the day, with a stringent and profound slumber which not even the nightmares that wrung me could avail to break.
gloss: A reverential bow performed in Middle Eastern cultures.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Their faith can be seen in their mannerisms on the pitch – cupping hands in silent pre-kick-off prayer or prostration after hitting the back of the net.
Derived words: heat prostration
nervous prostration
Translations:
silverback
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: biology
mammalogy
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: From silver + back.
Compound parts: silver
back
Inflected forms:
form: silverbacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mature male gorilla leading a troop, so named from the silver streaking on its back.
pos: noun
examples: To be clear, there’s no reason to hate the actual Harambe. After the silverback gorilla was shot and killed at the Cincinnati Zoo in 2016, people used “RIP Harambe” to… comment on the irony of why we mourn animals but are quick to blame humans?
gloss: A dominant or powerful older human male.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
informal
examples: Courageously (given Ranger's status in Mugabe's Zimbabwe, and his status as a silverback in North Atlantic Academe), Kriger dissents from their arguments.
"Have you met Professor Dolan, Bishop Blackie?" an Asian child with a beatifically innocent face asked me. "Is he that skinny silverback ape down on the first floor?"
"That's peanuts. I'm talking about real money," replied [Senator] Ted [Kennedy], who in fact had no idea how much the developer would pay, as that detail had yet to be worked out. / "What are your other main reasons?" Liedell asked, persisting with the old silverback.
There's a story I've been told several times of a dinner at London's Balthazar several years ago, at which assembled guests fell silent as Larry Gagosian—by pretty much any estimation the presiding silverback of the art market—visibly choked on his food.
gloss: Any of various ferns of the genus Pityrogramma.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of species Rhodamnia cinerea of plants of southeastern Asia.
pos: noun
Related words: silver fox
Translations:
disloyal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman desleal, desloial, equivalent to dis- + loyal.
Base: loyal
Affixes: dis-
Inflected forms:
form: more disloyal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most disloyal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not loyal, without loyalty.
pos: adj
examples: 1536, Anne Boleyn, letter addressed to Henry VIII from the Tower of London, cited in Edward Herbert, The Life and Raigne of King Henry VIII, London: Thomas Whitaker, 1649, p. 383,
Good your Grace, let not any light fancy, or bad Counsel of mine enemies withdraw your Princely favour from me; neither let that stain, that unworthy stain of a disloyall heart towards your good Grace, ever cast so foul a blot on your most dutifull Wife, and the Infant Princesse your daughter […]
[…] Norway himself,
With terrible numbers,
Assisted by that most disloyal traitor
The thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict;
He told his mother he was glad to be back again. He sometimes felt as if it were disloyal to her for him to be so happy with Mrs. Erlich.
Embarrassed about leaving him, I asked him to accompany me. It would have been disloyal to let him broil in the heat of Cairo, while I went off to a summer resort.
“In my opinion, they want us to lose,” Mr. Trump said, accusing the state’s governor, Brian Kemp, and its secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, who is also a Republican, of being disloyal and trying to make life difficult for him.
Translations:
battlefield
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From battle + field.
Compound parts: battle
field
Inflected forms:
form: battlefields
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: battle-field
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The area where a land battle is fought, which may not necessarily be a field.
pos: noun
examples: The night of the 16th of May found McPherson's command bivouacked from two to six miles west of the battlefield, along the line of the road to Vicksburg
Though in the past it saw much of the unhappiness and strife of Border warfare—the great battlefields of Pilleth and Mortimer's Cross are nearby—it is now a quiet and happy place.
Translations:
combust
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English combust (“burnt”), from Old French combust, from Latin combustus, the perfect passive participle of Latin combūrere (“to burn up”).
Inflected forms:
form: combusts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: combusting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: combusted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: combusted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more combust
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most combust
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To burn; to catch fire.
pos: verb
examples: Brom swore after that he spoke only the truth, the truth that as he sat by my side praying for my soul, my body had combusted into flame, the fire rapidly engulfing my entire being.
gloss: To erupt with enthusiasm or boisterousness.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: The audience combusts.
gloss: Burnt.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: In close conjunction with the sun (so that its astrological influence is "burnt up"), sometimes specified to be within 8 degrees 30'.
pos: adj
examples: Guianerius had a patient could make Latin verses when the moon was combust, otherwise illiterate.
Who can discern those planets that are oft Combust, and those stars of brightest magnitude that rise and set with the Sun, untill the opposite motion of their orbs bring them to such a place in the firmament, where they may be seen evning or morning.
Synonyms: catch on fire
catch fire
combust
conflagrate
fire
go up in flames
go up in smoke
ignite
light
spunk
take fire
Antonyms: burn out
flame out
go out
gutter
splutter
Related words: burn
kindle
Derived words: combustible
combustion
combustive
combustor
incombustible
spontaneously combust
Translations:
fiddly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From fiddle + -y, from the verb.
Base: fiddle
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: fiddlier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: fiddliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Requiring dexterity to operate.
pos: adj
examples: The buttons on the tiny mobile phone were too fiddly.
Today around 90 percent of people use Zawgyi instead of Unicode.
Incompatible without fiddly plug-ins, it only allows people to communicate in Burmese with other Zawgyi users, excluding the nation’s minority languages. Its clunkiness also means search functions do not work, crippling data storage systems.
gloss: Having many small bits or embellishments.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: See, Barbados, like certain other fiddly little islands— Antigua, Saint Lucia, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Japan, Great Britain, Australia— is filled with a genus of hotspurs fiercely dedicated to motoring on the wrong side of the road.
But the draping roses, and the double bell of dress and overskirt — fiddly, too bloody fiddly!
Plate after plate of fiddly Lebanese mezes that tasted of lemon and breadcrumbs and chopped coriander rather than the tidbits of lamb and beef and prawns that they covered, the whole tedious meal made only bearable by a very creditable Château Musar.
The cover, which was also the title page, promised an exhaustive collection of lists, tables, “extraordinary matches” and “other interesting information”, but the most cursory flick-through revealed only a sequence of cricket scorecards and a summary of the game's already fiddly laws.
gloss: Of or relating to fiddling or fidgeting.
pos: adj
examples: I can divide my movements into two types: gross motor and fine motor (in other words, large movements and small, fiddly movements) and, as I have already described, I have far more problems with the latter than the former.
gloss: Pertaining to occasional under-the-table work by people who receive unemployment benefits
pos: adj
examples: Because benefit dependence was understood to confine people to poverty ('bend the rules - you've got to in this world cause of the pittance you get off the government') and because doing fiddly work indicated a commitment to self-reliance ('at least they're working') it was widely condoned.
The other mjinority group has, by being members of the appropriate social networks, access to fiddly jobs.
None of the normal conditions of employment (for example health and safety regulations, training, sickness benefits, etc.) were afforded to fiddly workers and when some suffered industrial injuries (at the steel works) no compensation was forthcoming.
Derived words: fiddliness
Translations:
gramma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of grandma.
Inflected forms:
form: grammas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A grandmother.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: Go on, there, driver, gramma is going.
My gramma—all her hair is white Like snow is, but it isn't cold.
Polly trotted here and there with motions of taking gramma's hand, and so forth.
Translations:
internee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English intern
English -ee
English internee
From intern + -ee.
Inflected forms:
form: internees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who is imprisoned or otherwise confined.
pos: noun
Translations:
frigidaire
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Frigidaire, proprietary name of a brand of refrigerators, from Latin frīgidārium. Doublet of frigidarium.
Inflected forms:
form: frigidaires
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Trademark for a refrigerator.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: He [...] had everything necessary to the Modern Man, / A phonograph, a radio, a car and a frigidaire.
“Have you seen Kipper?” I wouldn't say she snorted, but she certainly sniffed. “Bertie,” she said in a voice straight from the frigidaire, “will you do me a favour?” “Of course. What?” “Don't mention that rat's name in my presence,” she said, and pushed off, the eyelids still weary.
Carpets were spread, divans appeared, as also the latest creation from Italy, a portable frigidaire which held countless bowls of sorbet and iced lemon tea.
Translations:
starched
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more starched
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most starched
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a garment: having had starch applied.
pos: adj
examples: I recall the height of comfort attained by the green-cushioned "first" with starched white antimacassars and a pretentious grey floor mat on which it seemed a sacrilege to stand, as it was embellished with the North Western conception of Britannia, complete with trident.
And while his signature starched collar and fingerless gloves are yet to make an appearance, his looks are already topped off with another of his soon-to-be trademarks: a pair of dark aviator sunglasses.
gloss: Stiff, formal, rigid; prim and proper.
pos: adj
examples: Does the Gospel any where prescribe a starched squeezed Countenance, a stiff formal Gait, a Singularity of Manners and Habit, or any affected Modes of Speech, different from the reasonable Part of Mankind?
A cultivated understanding, and an affectionate heart, will never want starched rules of decorum—something more substantial than seemliness will be the result; and, without understanding the behaviour here recommended, would be rank affectation.
I was not a little startled at recognising in his companions that very Morris on whose account I had been summoned before Justice Inglewood, and Mr MacVittie the merchant, at whose starched and severe aspect I had recoiled on the preceding day.
‘[…] CD is a fair-enough scholar but starched like my grand-daddy’s collar.’
Related words: cornstarched
Derived words: nonstarched
starchedly
starchedness
unstarched
Translations: