yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
redundantly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English redundant
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 redundantly
From redundant + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more redundantly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most redundantly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a redundant manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
remorselessly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English remorseless
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English remorselessly
From remorseless + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more remorselessly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most remorselessly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without remorse; in a remorseless manner.
pos: adv
examples: Occasionally you might have beheld us chasing up scores of Dorkings,—which had been our admiration for the twelvemonth, and massacreing them remorselessly for the public good: our turkeys and geese, too, were in continual jeopardy of their lives. But,—these Thuggish propensities notwithstanding, we took a paternal interest in our feathered family.
The quack abortionist, with “a little knowledge,” impudently, remorselessly, and secretly employs his craft for filthy lucre’s sake, perpetrating one crime to conceal another, at which science and charity blush.
1903, W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, Chicago: A. C. McClurg, Chapter 7, “Of the Black Belt,” p. 117,
[…] now only the black tenant remains; but the shadow-hand of the master’s grand-nephew or cousin or creditor stretches out of the gray distance to collect the rack-rent remorselessly, and so the land is uncared-for and poor.
Wild tomatoes, which had gone to seed or been remorselessly hoed out from the beginning of Berande, were foraged for salads, soups, and sauces.
It cannot be suggested in my view that the Metropolitan Police, even for a moment, attempted to close ranks to protect one of their own. Instead, remorselessly, efficiently and impartially the investigating officers followed all the available leads, resulting in an overwhelming case against the accused.
Translations:
remorsefully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English remorseful
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English remorsefully
From remorseful + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more remorsefully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most remorsefully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: With remorse; in a remorseful manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
ritualistically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ritualistic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English ritualistically
From ritualistic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more ritualistically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most ritualistically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Done as though following a ritual; in a ritualistic manner.'
pos: adv
examples: For fifty years, ritualistically, he had been repeating the same jokes, laughing at them because they were so infantile and stupid
Translations:
ritualistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ritual
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
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English -istic
English ritualistic
From ritual + -istic.
Inflected forms:
form: more ritualistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ritualistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In the manner of a ritual.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to habitual behavior.
pos: adj
Derived words: antiritualistic
nonritualistic
pseudoritualistic
ritualistically
semiritualistic
ultraritualistic
unritualistic
Translations:
ritualism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ritual
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 ritualism
From ritual + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: ritualisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The belief that it is necessary for rites or repeated sets of actions to be carried out.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The practice of engaging in rituals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A carousing zone is a place where the ritualism of generating antinomian excitement prevails and may even be institutionalized.
Derived words: antiritualism
Translations:
riotously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English riotous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English riotously
From riotous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more riotously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most riotously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a riotous manner.
pos: adv
examples: The overpowering sense of somebody beyond reach who lived in a world riotously happening only in his own mind.
But inside the aquarium, riotously colored saltwater fish, schools of silvery piranhas, and even one seemingly communicative manta ray allow visitors to dream of worlds beyond a war that has made the land where the oceanic sanctuary sits a battle zone.
gloss: In a degenerate or dissolute manner.
pos: adv
examples: Greatly mystified, the curate turned to examine another picture, the cryptic title of which was, "The superintendent and the soubrette - our reporter puts a pornographic parson's pot on." In this the superintendent, distinguished by a clerical coat and a Methodistical brand of whisker, was delineated in the act of riotously drinking from a bottle labelled "champagne," having evidently accommodated the soubrette - a lady in extremely abbreviated skirts - with his only glass.
gloss: In a manner that causes or involves uncontrollable laughter.
pos: adv
Translations:
republish
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English publish
English republish
From re- + publish.
Inflected forms:
form: republishes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: republishing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: republished
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: republished
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To publish once again; to print and distribute copies of a work that has previously been printed and distributed.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: To remove a custom thumbnail and use the Aquafadas DPS automatically generated thumbnail of the article, click the Delete button and republish or repreview the article or project.
There may be no taboo greater in Germany than to republish Adolf Hitler's manifesto, "Mein Kampf." But historians in Munich are breaking it.
While American Herald Tribune pays some contributors like King for original content, it also republishes articles from elsewhere and then lists the people who wrote those articles as contributors to its site.
The New York Post also temporarily took down and then revised and republished an article about the Fox reporter’s exchange with White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Monday.
And in both cases, a man named Rob Monster – an outspoken born-again Christian and the CEO of a tech company called Epik – made pointed restorations, republishing much of the New Zealand content and putting Gab back online. All in the name, he said, of free speech.
Translations:
bloodsucker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From blood + sucker. The “changeable lizard” sense is perhaps because of the reddish color of its neck.
Compound parts: blood
sucker
Inflected forms:
form: bloodsuckers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blood-sucker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bloudsucker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bloud-sucker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An animal that drinks the blood of others, especially by sucking blood through a puncture wound; a leech, mosquito etc.
pos: noun
examples: I once saw a boy who waded beyond the gravel walk out of the water with bloodsuckers fringing his ankles like leaves.
gloss: Someone who sheds blood; a bloodthirsty person; a violent criminal.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who preys on others, or who attempts to take as much from others as possible; an extortioner; a leech.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
figuratively
gloss: A supernatural being who feeds on (especially human) blood; a vampire.
pos: noun
examples: Meyer, in turn, offered a chaste variation on the promiscuous bloodsuckers of Anne Rice. And back in Rice’s heyday of the 1980s and ’90s, mass market copies of her “Interview With the Vampire” occupied the same spinning racks as other critically slammed authors of the ’70s and ’80s: Danielle Steel, Sidney Sheldon, Judith Krantz, Jackie Collins.
gloss: Any of various lizards of the family Agamidae, especially the changeable lizard (Calotes versicolor) of Asia, and the jacky dragon of Australia, Amphibolurus muricatus).
pos: noun
Related words: bloodsucking
Derived words: bloodsuckery
Translations:
yue
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The atonal pinyin romanization of the standard Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 龠 (yuè).
Inflected forms:
form: yue
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: yues
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: yo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An ancient Chinese unit of volume, notionally equivalent to the space occupied by 1200 millet seeds.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
Minnesotan
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Minnesota
English -an
English Minnesotan
From Minnesota + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Minnesotans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Minnesota.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A native or resident of the state of Minnesota in the United States of America.
pos: noun
examples: When he was finished, as such, he was wringing wet, and now he had to edge and shimmy his way back, and with a most woebegone look, and everybody laughing, except the sad blond boy, and the Minnesotans roaring in the cab.
[…] while a Minnesotan in her early thirties summed up the general influence of apocalyptic popular culture: “I think it has made me more of a doomer. […]
"If you are a true Minnesotan it is gray duck," wrote Darold Schaefer. "If not it would be goose. The only time that gray goose is acceptable is if it is vodka."
Translations:
polyadenylated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Reacted to form a salt or ester of polyadenylic acid
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
polyadenylation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: polyadenylations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The formation of a polyadenylate, especially that of a nucleic acid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
polyaromatic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús
Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor.
English poly-
Ancient Greek *ἄρ- (*ár-)
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-oyétider.?
Ancient Greek -όω (-óō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek -ωμα (-ōma)
Ancient Greek ἄρωμα (árōma)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Hellenic *-tós
Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)
▲
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Ancient Greek -τικός (-tikós)
Ancient Greek ἀρωματικός (arōmatikós)der.
Late Latin arōmaticusder.
Old French aromatique
Middle Frenchbor.
Middle English
English aromatic
English polyaromatic
From poly- + aromatic.
Inflected forms:
form: more polyaromatic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most polyaromatic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: polyaromatics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Containing more than one aromatic ring system, especially several such rings fused together.
pos: adj
examples: Researchers analysed samples of nurdles and burnt lumps of plastic from four Sri Lankan beaches for heavy metals and various chemicals, including benzotriazole UV-stabilisers, which are used to prevent discoloration in plastics, bisphenols and polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).
gloss: A polyaromatic compound.
pos: noun
Translations:
polybrominated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús
Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor.
English poly-
English brominated
English polybrominated
From poly- + brominated.
Inflected forms:
form: more polybrominated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most polybrominated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having had multiple hydrogen atoms replaced by bromine
pos: adj
Translations:
utters
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From utter + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum, and third-person singular simple present indicative forms of verbs). The noun is imitative of the sound of a tool repeatedly striking the surface of an object.
Base: utter
Affixes: -s
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Unwanted depressions or other marks on the surface of an object caused when a tool is pressed too hard or vibrates against the surface.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
bromination
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek βρῶμος (brômos)
French bromebor.
English brome
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ine
English bromine
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English bromination
From bromine + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: brominations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any reaction which introduces a bromine atom into a compound.
pos: noun
Translations:
clogging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cloggings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The situation of something being clogged.
pos: noun
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.
The biofilm is allowed to develop uninhibited which leads to local cloggings.
gloss: The material that clogs or obstructs.
pos: noun
examples: No cloggings, lumps of dirt, or underlocks should be suffered to be rolled up with the fleece, as such a practice is unfair to the purchaser, and by act of parliament there is a heavy penalty attached to those who are convicted of doing it.
Derived words: anticlogging
nonclogging
Translations:
braying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: brayings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act or sound of braying.
pos: noun
examples: We heard the unpleasant braying of the snipe, now near to us, now far off, now high up in the air, now right over our heads, and suddenly it seemed close to our ears, now on all sides, still without our being able to catch sight of the bird.
Translations:
queuing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: queuings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: queueing
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of queuing up (lining up) or waiting in line/on line.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of placing something in a queue.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
enthused
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more enthused
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most enthused
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Enthusiastic.
pos: adj
examples: She doesn't seem very enthused about her aunt's birthday gift.
One audience member in particular seemed especially enthused.
There are facts in this book that make me feel enthused about voting, to the extent that I have any remaining capacity to be more enthused about voting. For example: "In 1950, CEOs made about 20 times more than the regular employee, by 2013, they made more than 204 times more."
Translations:
pageboy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From page + boy.
Compound parts: page
boy
Inflected forms:
form: pageboys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: page boy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: page-boy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A boy who serves as a page.
pos: noun
gloss: A young male attendant at a wedding, generally between five and ten years of age.
pos: noun
gloss: A shoulder-length hairstyle with the ends of the hair curled under.
pos: noun
examples: Their hair was sleek, of a slightly other period, immaculate page boys and French twists.
She had a white-flecked black pageboy and rosy cheeks and big blue eyes with which she was staring at Enid unabashedly, in the way of someone very smart or very stupid.
Related words: ringbearer
flower girl
Translations:
interoffice
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *n̥ter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
English office
English interoffice
From inter- + office.
Inflected forms:
form: interoffices
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: interofficing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: interofficed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: interofficed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Taking place between different offices of a single organization or company.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: To send something between different offices in an organization.
pos: verb
examples: I was interofficed the memo.
Translations:
reinforcer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English inforce
English reinforce
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 reinforcer
From reinforce + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: reinforcers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that reinforces; something that strengthens a behavior.
pos: noun
Translations:
Ontarian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Ontario
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Ontarian
From Ontario + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Ontarians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, from or relating to the province of Ontario, Canada.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A native or inhabitant of the province of Ontario, Canada.
pos: noun
Translations:
Manitoban
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Manitoba
English -an
English Manitoban
From Manitoba + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: more Manitoban
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Manitoban
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Manitobans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, from or relating to the province of Manitoba, Canada.
pos: adj
gloss: A native or inhabitant of the province of Manitoba, Canada.
pos: noun
Translations:
biddable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: bridge
games
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bid
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English biddable
From bid + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more biddable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most biddable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Docile, amenable or compliant.
pos: adj
examples: She was a quite biddable creature and good-hearted, but she had a flow of talk that was as steady as a mill, and made your head sore like the drays and wagons in a city.
The conscripts took their fate unquestioning: resignedly, after the custom of Turkish peasantry. […] There was about them a hopeless, fever-wasted lack of initiative, which made them the most biddable, most enduring, and least spirited soldiers in the world.
In the first years of his rule he had attempted to bring the meek Goanese to some knowledge of cultivation as the West understood it, but though they might be biddable, the soil and the sun were not.
What Western diplomats thought they saw in Bucharest's anti-Russian autocrats were the germs of a new Tito: stable, biddable and more interested in local power than international disruption.
gloss: Suitable for bidding.
pos: adj
Derived words: biddability
biddableness
biddably
unbiddable
Translations:
bighearted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more bighearted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bighearted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: big-hearted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Noble, kind and generous.
pos: adj
Translations:
bighorn
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From big + horn.
Compound parts: big
horn
Inflected forms:
form: bighorns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Certain North American species of sheep
pos: noun
gloss: Certain North American species of sheep
pos: noun
Derived words: Nelson's bighorn
Translations:
big-name
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Famous or celebrated; well-known.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
Translations:
bipolarity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bipolarities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being bipolar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The 1990s confirmed the United States as the world's sole superpower. Bipolarity had disappeared with the Soviet Union; contrary to predictions, Germany and Japan had not yet turned economic muscle into military might to create a new era of “multipolarity.”
Translations:
biracial
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Italic *dwi-
Latin bi-bor.
English bi-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁s-der.
Proto-Germanic *rēsōder.
Proto-West Germanic *rās
Old English rǣs
▲
Proto-Germanic *rēsō
Old Norse rásbor.
Middle English race
English race
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisder.
Old French -ialder.
Middle English -ial
English -ial
English racial
English biracial
From bi- + racial.
Inflected forms:
form: bi-racial
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: biracials
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bi-racial
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to two races.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Some Americans would certainly see Ms. Harris — the first nominee of a major party who would be both a woman and biracial, with Jamaican and Indian heritage — as a transformational, inspiring figure.
gloss: A person belonging to two races.
pos: noun
examples: Black-white biracials who are Baptist may be more inclined than nonreligious black-white biracials to identify as singularly black because they perceive a stronger emotional racial attachment to African Americans.
Translations:
bisection
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: bisections
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of division into two parts, especially two equal parts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: If the Arches BI and IK be cut in the middle in a, and b, likewiſe the Arches DM, ML being cut in the middle in c and d; and the Chords of the Bifegments in the Arch BK being drawn; likewiſe the Chords of the Biſegments in the Arch DL; alſo theſe will be as AB to AD, and they will always be ſo, if the Biſegments of the Bifegments proceed infinitely. Alſo the fame is true in the Biſections of the Arches KC and LE. But the Chords of the Biſegments infinite in number are equal to the Arch itſelf. For if all the Chords were leſs than all their Arches, there might yet a Biſection proceed; which is contrary to the ſuppoſition.
After all, Usamah had served the sadist Zangi and, if read in full, his account presents a picture of Islamic violence no less shocking to modern sensibilities: the collecting of Christian heads, the crucifying and bisections of their own soldiers and heretics, the severe punishments of Islamic sharia – and the story of how his father, in a rage, lopped off the arm of his page.
gloss: Either of the two portions thus produced.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of bisecting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: bisection
dichotomy
halving
Antonyms: duplication
Related words: bisect
transect
Derived words: bisection algorithm
bisection bandwidth
bisection method
misbisection
Translations:
bite-size
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: bite-sized
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
bite-sized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bite-size
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Small enough to be eaten in one bite.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Broken down into small pieces that are individually easy to understand or manage.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
not-comparable
examples: The transition hasn't been easy. It's been a story of planning in bite-sized chunks, making the most of soft-start strategies, managing constrained depot capacity, and battling legacy technology.
Related words: digestible
Translations:
felucca
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian feluca, from Arabic فَلُوكَة (falūka).
Inflected forms:
form: feluccas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A traditional wooden shallow-draught sailing boat used in the Mediterranean and along the Nile in Egypt, its rig consisting of one or two lateen sails.
pos: noun
examples: "We are very fortunate, Senhora," said Alvarez, as soon as they were in the street; "there is a felucca on the point of sailing to Naples—I have secured a passage, but we must not lose a minute."
Shipping of every sort, from passenger liners to ferry steamers, tramps to tugs and trailing barges, feluccas to speedboats and yachts, from warships to caiques, chugs, hoots, glides or churns its way in all directions.
"The ghostly feluccas passing along the canal are crewed by ghouls with wrapped heads." Lawrence Durrell, Justine
Translations:
sipa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A traditional Filipino team sport in which players kick a soft ball over a net in the middle of the court.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
jitteriness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English jittery
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English jitteriness
From jittery + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The state of being jittery
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
insufflated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Disseminated by blowing.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
faceless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
Proto-Italic *θakjō
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Late Latin faciō
Proto-Italic *-jēs
Late Latin -iēs
Late Latin faciēs
Late Latin facia
Old French facebor.
Middle English face
English face
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English faceless
From face + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more faceless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most faceless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having no face.
pos: adj
tags: literally
examples: These vague, faceless spectres from my ramblesome past have as much right as anyone else to be ranked among the salvors of the Navy's songs.
gloss: Having or revealing no individual identity or character; anonymous.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
examples: A faceless mob attacked the Capitol building.
With assembly line consistency, Martin receives countless rejections from faceless editors—a triggering reminder for any literary hopeful navigating the modern culture industry.
gloss: Having or revealing no individuality, personality or distinctive characteristics.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
examples: I started working for a faceless corporation.
The highest official in Oran remains anonymous, referred to merely as "the Prefect." Use of the majusculed generic title instead of a proper name is less suggestive of a faceless tyrant, a Maghreb Big Brother, than of the detached, ineffectual bureaucrat he appears to be at every meeting.
Derived words: faceless bureaucrat
facelessly
faceless man
facelessness
Translations:
polycondensation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús
Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor.
English poly-
English condensation
English polycondensation
From poly- + condensation.
Inflected forms:
form: polycondensations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any condensation reaction, of a monomer having two functional groups, which leads to the formation of a polymer (a polycondensate).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
polycrystalline
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús
Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor.
English poly-
English crystalline
English polycrystalline
From poly- + crystalline.
Inflected forms:
form: more polycrystalline
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most polycrystalline
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Composed of an aggregate of very small crystals in random orientations
pos: adj
examples: This was revealed only in the experiments of ion bombardment of single crystals, because a polycrystalline material, even though its microcrystallites have a regular structure, in fact behaves like a nonarranged, random system.
Translations:
deoxy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
English oxy
English deoxy
From de- + oxy.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Describing any compound formally derived from another by replacement of a hydroxy group by a hydrogen atom.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
polydispersity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English polydisperse
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English polydispersity
From polydisperse + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: polydispersities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being polydisperse
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A measure of the degree to which a colloid is polydisperse
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
polyfunctional
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more polyfunctional
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most polyfunctional
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having multiple different or same functional groups in the same compound.
pos: adj
Translations:
polygalacturonase
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús
Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor.
English poly-
English galacturonase
English polygalacturonase
From poly- + galacturonase.
Inflected forms:
form: polygalacturonases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of polymeric galacturonic acids and similar carbohydrates.
pos: noun
Translations:
planchet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French planchette. By surface analysis, French planche + -et.
Inflected forms:
form: planchets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A flat disk of metal used as a blank for stamping a coin.
pos: noun
Translations:
angulation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Renaissance Latin angulātiō. By surface analysis, angulate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: angulations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The formation of angles.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An angular part, position, or formation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The formation of an abnormal angle or bend in an organ
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: biangulation
equiangulation
Translations:
tola
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hindi तोला (tolā)/Urdu تولا (tolā), from Sanskrit तोलक (tolaka), from तोलः (tol, “weighing”) (root: तुल् (tul, “to weigh”)).
Inflected forms:
form: tolas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tolah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tole
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A unit of mass used in India, equal to the mass of a silver rupee coin, fixed at 180 troy grains (11.663 8038 grams) in 1833, and of a similar but slightly variable value before that date.
pos: noun
examples: Mr. Muhammad Sufyan, however, gained no weight: not a tola, not an ounce.
Translations:
pregnenolone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: pregnenolones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A steroid prohormone involved in the steroidogenesis of progesterone, mineralocorticoids, glucocorticoids, androgens, and estrogens.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
prohormone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pro-
Ancient Greek ὁρμή (hormḗ)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Ancient Greek -άω (-áō)
Ancient Greek ὁρμῶν (hormôn)lbor.
English hormone
English prohormone
From pro- + hormone.
Inflected forms:
form: prohormones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A substance that is a precursor to a hormone, usually having minimal hormonal effect by itself
pos: noun
Translations:
steroidogenesis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃-
Proto-Hellenic *kʰolā́
Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ)
Proto-Indo-European *ster-der.
Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós)
French cholestérine
French cholestérolbor.
English cholesterol
English sterol
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *wéydos
Proto-Hellenic *wéidos
Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs)
Latin -oīdēslbor.
English -oid
English steroid
▲
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis
Proto-Hellenic *génetis
Ancient Greek γένεσῐς (génesĭs)der.
Latinbor.
English -genesis
English steroidogenesis
From steroid + -o- + -genesis.
Inflected forms:
form: steroidogeneses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of steroid (hormone) production in living organisms.
pos: noun
Translations:
steroidogenic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃-
Proto-Hellenic *kʰolā́
Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ)
Proto-Indo-European *ster-der.
Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós)
French cholestérine
French cholestérolbor.
English cholesterol
English sterol
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *wéydos
Proto-Hellenic *wéidos
Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs)
Latin -oīdēslbor.
English -oid
English steroid
▲
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Proto-Hellenic *génos
Ancient Greek γένος (génos)
▲
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -γενής (-genḗs)lbor.
French -gènebor.
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English -genic
English steroidogenic
From steroid + -o- + -genic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the process of steroidogenesis.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
polyisoprene
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús
Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor.
English poly-
English isoprene
English polyisoprene
From poly- + isoprene.
Inflected forms:
form: polyisoprenes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any polymer whose constituent monomer is isoprene; especially natural, and some synthetic, rubbers
pos: noun
Translations:
polymerizable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English polymer
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English polymerize
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English polymerizable
From polymerize + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more polymerizable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most polymerizable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Able to be polymerized
pos: adj
Translations:
boldenone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An anabolic steroid, 1-dehydrotestosterone, developed for veterinary use.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
toxicogenomics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English toxico-
English genomics
English toxicogenomics
From toxico- + genomics.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The study of the toxic effects of substances on genetic material, aiming to predict the toxic effect on organisms.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 2008, C. Afshari, appearing in G. Dutton, "Achieving Success in Tox Studies", Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, Mary Ann Liebert, vol. 28, no. 20, 15 November 2008, pg. 1.
Toxicogenomics reflects an integration of genomics technologies and information into toxicology studies[…].
Translations:
genta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Gentamicin.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
Translations:
carboxylate
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English carboxylic acid
English -ate
English carboxylate
From carboxylic acid + -ate.
Inflected forms:
form: carboxylates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: carboxylates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: carboxylating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: carboxylated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: carboxylated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any salt or ester of a carboxylic acid.
pos: noun
examples: […] substitution of a carboxylate would be expected to destabilize the dritterionic mesomer that contributes to the singlet valence bond description as the benzyne geometry becomes more bicyclic.
gloss: To form a carboxyl group by introduction of carbon dioxide
pos: verb
gloss: To react with a carboxylic acid
pos: verb
Derived words: decarboxylate
Translations:
progestogen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pro-
Latin gestō
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Proto-Hellenic *génos
Ancient Greek γένος (génos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -γενής (-genḗs)lbor.
French -gènebor.
English -gen
English progestogen
From pro- + Latin gestō (“to bear, to carry”) + English -o- + -gen. First attested in 1941.
Inflected forms:
form: progestogens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: progestagen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The steroid hormone progesterone.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of a class of synthetic hormones which produce effects similar to progesterone (the only natural progestogen) and have antiestrogenic and antigonadotropic properties.
pos: noun
Related words: progesterone
progestin
in
2011–present
in
Springfield
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1996–present
in .
“progestogen
n.”
in
Oxford: Oxford University Press
launched 2000
Derived words: antiprogestogen
-gestr-
progestogenic
progestogen-only
Translations:
prase
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Latin prasius, from Ancient Greek πράσιος (prásios, “of a green colour”), from πράσον (práson, “leek”).
Inflected forms:
form: prases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A variety of cryptocrystalline of a green colour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A variety of chalcedony, with a green color due to inclusions of actinolite or other iron-bearing minerals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: prasoid
Translations:
ney
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian نی (ney).
Inflected forms:
form: neys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nai
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: nay
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: nāy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A type of endblown flute.
pos: noun
examples: A few weeks later Adille phoned me to say that he had just met a person who had begun to make neys from special reeds that he found on an island in the Yarra River in Melbourne, of all places.
Translations:
exacerbating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That exacerbates
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
bondman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English bondman; equivalent to bond + -man.
Base: bond
Affixes: -man
Inflected forms:
form: bondmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bondsman
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A man who is bound in servitude.
pos: noun
examples: Shall I bend low, and in a bond-mans key
 With bated breath, and whiſpring humbleneſſe,
 Say this:
Translations:
bondwoman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English bondewomman; equivalent to bond + -woman.
Base: bond
Affixes: -woman
Inflected forms:
form: bondwomen
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bondswoman
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A woman who is bound in servitude; a female slave.
pos: noun
Antonyms: freewoman
Translations:
foudroyant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
French foudroyantbor.
English foudroyant
Borrowed from French foudroyant.
Inflected forms:
form: more foudroyant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most foudroyant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having an awesome and overwhelming effect.
pos: adj
examples: […] As makers go, / compared with Pindar or any / of the great foudroyant masters who don't ever / amend, we are, for all our polish, of little / stature […]
gloss: fulminant
pos: adj
Translations:
boastfully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English boastful
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English boastfully
From boastful + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more boastfully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most boastfully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a boastful manner.
pos: adv
examples: Nixon boastfully called the seven days he spent on the Chinese mainland "the week that changed the world"–without, however, specifying whether the change was for the better or for the worse. The way he humbled himself before Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai reminded me of the tribute-bearing foreign emissaries of the previous centuries who went to Peking to pay homage at the Chinese Imperial Court. Nixon's hosts must have laughed in their sleeves at his behavior during their meetings.
Figures from both groups – rightwing activist Charlie Kirk and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – boastfully shared these images on X, with the latter sarcastically thanking South Park for helping them in their recruiting efforts. (The show responded on X by asking DHS “Wait, so we ARE relevant? #eatabagofdicks”.)
Translations:
boaster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English boast
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 boaster
From boast + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: boasters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who boasts; a braggart.
pos: noun
gloss: A stonemason's broad-faced chisel.
pos: noun
Translations:
Cantopop
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Blend of Cantonese + pop.
Compound parts: Cantonese
pop
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Cantonese pop music, originating from Guangdong and Hong Kong.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Earlier, a venerable British guitarist in wonderful tweeds had opined as how they hadn't really expected the next Hendrix to emerge from Taiwanese Canto-pop, but then again they hadn't actually been expecting the first one, had they?
Mandopop and its Cantonese equivalent, Cantopop, are subsets of Chinese pop, or C-pop, whose roots stretch back almost 100 years.
Translations:
blunderer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English blonderer, equivalent to blunder + -er.
Base: blunder
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: blunderers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who blunders.
pos: noun
Translations: