yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
enterpriser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English enterprise
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 enterpriser
From enterprise + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: enterprisers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An entrepreneur; a person who undertakes an enterprise.
pos: noun
Translations:
strikethrough
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: media
publishing
typography
Etymology: Deverbal from strike through; the verb, in at least some cases, is a back-formation from the noun, despite being redundant to strike through.
Inflected forms:
form: strikethroughs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An horizontal line overlaid on other characters.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In HTML, wrapping text with the code <del> and </del> produces a strikethrough.
gloss: A horizontal or oblique line overlaid on individual characters.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: (oblique)
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 刪除綫 /删除线
roman: shānchúxiàn
lang: Esperanto
word: trastreko
lang: Finnish
word: yliviivaus
lang: French
word: biffure
lang: German
word: Durchstreichen
lang: Greek
word: επιγράμμιση
roman: epigrámmisi
lang: Hungarian
word: áthúzás
lang: Japanese
word: 取り消し線
roman: torikeshi-sen
lang: Māori
word: tāroto
lang: Polish
word: przekreślenie
lang: Portuguese
word: riscar
lang: Spanish
word: tachadura
lang: Spanish
word: tachón
lang: Spanish
word: tache
lang: Spanish
word: plumazo
lang: Swedish
word: genomstrykning
geometer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: From Middle English gemeter, geometer, ultimately from Late Latin geōmetrēs, from Ancient Greek γεωμέτρης (geōmétrēs), from γῆ (gê, “earth”) + μετρέω (metréō, “to measure”).
Inflected forms:
form: geometers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mathematician who specializes in geometry.
pos: noun
examples: But this idea, which is a general postulate in all demonstrations, has been taken for granted by every algebrician and geometer.
gloss: Any species of geometrid moth (family Geometridae).
pos: noun
Related words: geographer
geologist
geometric topologist
geometry
cartographer
topographer
topologist
Derived words: algebraic geometer
geometer moth
metageometer
Translations:
autologous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English autology
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos
Latin -ōsus
Old French -usbor.
Middle English -ous
English -ous
English autologous
From autology + -ous.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Derived from part of the same individual (i.e. from the recipient rather than a different donor).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: When she relapsed with metastatic breast cancer after exhausting all conventional therapies, her doctors suggested an autologous bone marrow transplant as a last resort.
Antonyms: allogeneic
allologous
Translations:
renovation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-
Latin novō
Latin renovō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin renovatio, renovationembor.
English renovation
Borrowed from Latin renovatio, renovationem.
Inflected forms:
form: renovations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act, or the process, of renovating.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Meronyms: (building renovation) demo, demolition, rebuilding
Near-synonym: (building renovation) remodeling
His room was currently under renovation.
During the course, the Cijin District Office, the frontline local government unit in charge of executing the tomb's renovation, also worked hard to communicate with the deceased's families about how to redesign the space.
gloss: A regeneration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: renovate
Derived words: prerenovation
reno
renovationism
renovationist
renoviction
wreckovation
Translations:
bounder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bound + -er.
Sense 2 poss. from bandar, borrowed from Hindi बन्दर (bandar, “monkey”), via Indian English.
Base: bound
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: bounders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: boundure
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Something that bounds or jumps.
pos: noun
gloss: A dishonourable man; a cad.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dated
examples: He marvelled anew that Ruth could have cared, as she certainly had, for this fellow. A bounder, and worse than a bounder.
gloss: A social climber.
pos: noun
gloss: That which limits; a boundary.
pos: noun
examples: Let the mountaine Pyrenaeus diuide the French, and Spaniards: and the wildernesse of Sand the Aethiopians, from Aegyptians. And in like manner also be all other Kingdomes: they are bound within their bounders, as it were in bands; and shut-vp within their limits, as it were in prison.
gloss: A four-wheeled type of dogcart or cabriolet.
pos: noun
tags: UK
colloquial
obsolete
Related words: homeward bounder
homeward-bounder
Derived words: bounderish
bounderism
boundling
Translations:
untied
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English tied
English untied
From un- + tied.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not tied; undone
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The sack had been left untied, and so by wriggling a bit he was able to get his head through the opening and look out.
Translations:
dishonourable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more dishonourable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dishonourable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: British standard spelling of dishonorable.
pos: adj
examples: He adhered to the forms of his religion rather because he felt it would be dishonourable to change that of his fathers, than from any rational or sincere belief of its mysterious doctrines.
Translations:
duopoly
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
economics
media
sciences
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From duo- (prefix meaning ‘two’) + -poly (suffix meaning ‘pertaining to the number of sellers in a market’), by analogy with monopoly.
Base: duo
Inflected forms:
form: duopolies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dyopoly
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An economic condition in which two sellers exert most control over the market of a commodity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Modern examples of duopoly include the American markets for credit cards (Visa and MasterCard), smartphones (Apple and Google), soft drinks (Coca-Cola and Pepsi), and airplanes (Airbus and Boeing).
gloss: The domination of a field of endeavour by two entities or people.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: In 2011, his spirit and body were shattered by Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the semi-finals. Last night, the stakes were just as high – even though the tournament is not out of the first week – because there is a creeping perception that the [Roger] Federer–[Rafael] Nadal duopoly is slowly giving way under pressure from below.
In Spain, Socialist and PP governments have alternated since the 1980s. This cosy duopoly was weakened by the long recession that followed the bursting of Spain’s housing bubble in 2007.
And these industrial farms have concentrated into a series of duopolies. Google and Apple’s browsers have nearly 85% of the world market share. Microsoft and Apple’s two desktop operating systems have almost 90%. Google runs about 90% of global search. More than half of all phones come from Apple and Samsung, while 99% of mobile operating systems are from Google or Apple. Apple and Google’s email clients manage nearly 90% of global email. GoDaddy and Cloudflare serve about 50% of global domain name system requests. And so on.
First past the post voting has long maintained American politics as an effective duopoly where power simply alternates between two main parties.
gloss: A situation in which two or more radio or television stations in the same city or community share common ownership.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
Related words: duarchy
Derived words: duopolism
duopolist
duopolistic
duopolistically
Translations:
atorvastatin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: From ator- + -vastatin (“HMG CoA reductase inhibitor”). The prefix probably from Spanish atorar (“to clog”), wherein the verb suffix -ar was taken off. Thus, the role is "to inhibit the clogging (of cholesterol)".
Affixes: ator-
-vastatin
Inflected forms:
form: atorvastatins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A statin used to lower the level of cholesterol in the blood. Trade names include Lipitor among others.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Among statins, only simvastatin (up to 7.5 ng/L) and pravastatin (up to 40.4 ng/L) were identified in the raw water being these concentrations substantially higher than those found in the literature, 1 ng/L for pravastatin (Miao and Metcalfe, 2003) and 1.4 ng/L for atorvastatin and 1.0 ng/L for its metabolites o- and p-hydroxy atorvastatin in surface waters (Benotti et al., 2009). […] The last compound, gemfibrozil is the sole antilipidemic compound found (up to 3 ng/L) in a USA survey of 18 DWTPs whereas atorvastatin, simvastatin and their metabolites, the other studied compounds, were absent (Benotti et al., 2009). In our study, the two statins identified at the intake of the DWTP were eliminated by dioxychlorination (>99%) whereas bezafibrate, clofibric acid and gemfibrozil were only moderately removed with percentages of 37%, 68% and 11%, respectively although it has been reported that gemfibrozil and clofibric acid are readily oxidized with chlorine dioxide in spiked drinking water whereas bezafibrate remains unchanged (Huber et al., 2005a).
The researchers found that statins were likely to provide benefits at a substantially higher health risk than expected and that those risk levels were lower for atorvastatin and rosuvastatin than for simvastatin and pravastatin.
Translations:
pesty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pest
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English pesty
From pest + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: more pesty
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: pestier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pesty
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pestiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: annoying or troublesome; pesky
pos: adj
Translations:
simplistically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English simplistic
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 simplistically
From simplistic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more simplistically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most simplistically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a simplistic way.
pos: adv
examples: He explained relativity, but very simplistically.
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gloss: Used to announce or excuse an oversimplified explanation or description. (Compare with in a nutshell.)
pos: adv
examples: Simplistically, he was fired with pay.
Translations:
sissified
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more sissified
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sissified
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Made like a sissy; effete.
pos: adj
Translations:
zip-wire
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: zip-wires
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zipwire
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: zip wire
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of zipline.
pos: noun
Translations:
unzip
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English un-
English zip
English unzip
From un- + zip.
Inflected forms:
form: unzips
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unzipping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unzipped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unzipped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To open something using a zipper.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He turned back and started unzipping a bag.
gloss: To come open by means of a zipper.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To restore (compressed data) to its original form, from a zip file.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Antonyms: zip up
Translations:
freeing
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: freeings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more freeing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most freeing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The act of making something free; liberation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: However again, in these freeings of voices it should be observed that the African American Southern voice and character is framed within the freed European American Southern voice.
The freeing of funding from a never-ending pipeline of expensive road schemes is going to happen over time, and will allow mult-modal schemes to be funded first.
gloss: Making one free; causing someone to experience freedom.
pos: adj
examples: Reimagining a ’90s-style “cool” Marvel bad guy as a Universal Monster-style antihero is a great, potentially freeing idea for a superhero picture, providing the opportunity to connect otherwise disparate eras of comics and genre movies.
Translations:
porgy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Portuguese or Spanish pargo, from Latin phagrum, accusative of phager, from Ancient Greek φάγρος (phágros, “sea bream”).
The similarity of porgy to paugie, especially in non-rhotic accents, may have reinforced both terms.
Inflected forms:
form: porgies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several fish of the family Sparidae of seabreams.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several fish of the family Sparidae of seabreams.
pos: noun
examples: Cooper’s was also a fishmonger, with rows of porgies, snapper, and flounder on ice that slowly melted and dribbled pink water into white buckets.
Derived words: black porgy
Borrigueta porgy
Campeche porgy
flathead porgy
grass porgy
Galapagos porgy
goat's head porgy
Japanese black porgy
jolthead porgy
knobbed porgy
littlehead porgy
littlemouth porgy
northern porgy
Pacific porgy
pluma porgy
red porgy
salema porgy
saucereye porgy
shad porgy
sheepshead porgy
southern porgy
spotfin porgy
three-tailed porgy
whitebone porgy
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: спари
roman: spari
lang: Czech
word: mořan
lang: Finnish
word: hammasahven
lang: Galician
word: prabo
lang: Galician
word: esparo
lang: Greek
word: φαγγρί
roman: fangrí
lang: Hungarian
word: durbincs
lang: Italian
word: dentice
lang: Spanish
word: pargo
Kven
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Kven kvääni
Inflected forms:
form: Kvens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person of Finnish descent living in North Norway.
pos: noun
Translations:
paramedicine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Hellenic *pərai
Ancient Greek πᾰρᾰ́ (părắ)
Ancient Greek πᾰρᾰ- (pără-)der.
English para-
English medicine
English paramedicine
From para- + medicine.
Inflected forms:
form: paramedicines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That field of medicine practiced by paramedics.
pos: noun
Translations:
misfeasance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle French mesfaisance.
Inflected forms:
form: misfeasances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An actual or alleged wrong that arises from an action; often, the wrongful use of legal authority.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
sextile
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astrology
astronomy
human-sciences
mathematics
mysticism
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
statistics
Etymology: From Latin sextīlis (“one sixth”), from sextus (“sixth”) + īlis (“-ile”).
Affixes: -ile
Inflected forms:
form: sextiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or denoting the aspect or position of any two celestial bodies separated by 60°.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A quantile of six equal proportions; any of the subsets thus obtained.
pos: noun
gloss: A segment that is a sixth of the whole.
pos: noun
gloss: A sextile aspect or position.
pos: noun
Related words: ⚹
Translations:
quantile
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
Etymology: Back-formation from quantity, modeled on percentile. By surface analysis, quant(ity) + -ile.
Inflected forms:
form: quantiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of the class of values of a variate which divides the members of a batch or sample into equal-sized subgroups of adjacent values or a probability distribution into distributions of equal probability.
pos: noun
examples: It should be noted that quantile regression controls for the quantiles of the y variable, and not of the original covariate i.e. the x variable.
Translations:
literatim
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Medieval Latin litterātim, from littera (“letter”). First known use: 1643.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Letter by letter.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: In order to give its Scots flavor to the eye, as I cannot to the ear, I shall transcribe its beginning literatim.
Translations:
methodically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English methodical
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 methodically
From methodical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more methodically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most methodically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a methodical manner; with order.
pos: adv
examples: He felt his teeth methodically, one after the other, with a vibrato movement of finger and thumb.
Antonyms: haphazardly
Translations:
swilling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: swillings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Greedy drinking.
pos: noun
examples: Amid raucous shouts and swillings of beer they informed Tommy that he had just been awarded an immediate bar to his D.F.C. […]
Translations:
longe
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From French allonger (“to lengthen”), or Latin longa (“long”), i.e. the long rope.
Inflected forms:
form: longes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: longeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: longed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: longed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: lunge
pos: verb
tags: alternative
UK
form: longes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lunge
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: To work (a horse) in a circle at the end of a long line or rope.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
gloss: A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a longe line, approximately 20-30 feet long, attached to the bridle, longeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while longeing.
pos: noun
gloss: A lunge; a thrust.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: […] he parried my thrusts with great calmness, until I had almost exhausted my spirits; and when he perceived me beginning to flag, attacked me fiercely in his turn.—Finding himself however better opposed than he expected, he resolved to follow his longe, and close with me; accordingly, his sword entered my waistcoat […]
gloss: The training ground for a horse.
pos: noun
examples: LONGE.—The training ground for the instruction of a young horse, to render him quiet, tractable, and supple; to give him free and proper use of his limbs, to form his paces, and to prepare him in all respects for the cavalry service.
Translations:
plene
Part of speech: adv
adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin plēnus (“full”) (adjective) or plēnē (“fully”) (adverb).
Inflected forms:
form: plenes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: With matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels) written out.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: In the Mishnah (according to the Kaufmann Codex), this vowel is nearly consistently written plene (about 10,000 occurrences); most exceptions are in the tractate Avot.
gloss: Full, complete, whole.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: Yet, Sir, think you, that your Omission, must so farre charme us to oblivion, as to make us forget, that as King Charles the first, did in plene Parliament, An. 1641. under his hand-writing, ratifie the Nationall Covenant, with the explication, and Bond thereto annexed, and prior Acts made anent it, with such solemnities and concurrent considerations, as it is impossible to question it;
gloss: Written with matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Samaritan Pentateuch reflects the trend of the plene spellings in the post-Pentateuchal books rather than the defective spellings in the Torah in the Masoretic Text.
gloss: A word written with matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels).
pos: noun
examples: Thus, in the Pentateuch and in the earlier prophets the plenes are counted, whilst in the later prophets the defectives are enumerated.
Translations:
delimitation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French délimitation.
Inflected forms:
form: delimitations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of delimiting something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A limit or boundary.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: predelimitation
Translations:
exasperating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more exasperating
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most exasperating
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That exasperates, infuriates, annoys or irritates
pos: adj
examples: As a result, while the train was being shunted at Bombay, the buffers became locked, producing a situation most intriguing for the onlookers, but exasperating for the exalted passengers and the unhappy railway authorities.
Translations:
raper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rape
English -er
English raper
From rape + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: rapers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who commits rape; a rapist.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Rosa refused to return to the lair of the raper, but was induced to give Tudy what his mother described as ‘his last bit of happiness’ in a bower hastily got ready at Montrose, the La Plante mansion on Greenock Heights.
"Jesus Christ!" Grimm says, profanely pushing Hightower aside as he goes on to shoot Christmas and to emasculate him, according to the custom of lynchers punishing the dark rapers of white women.
Turning round, Cleitophon finds he is standing by a painter's studio which is exhibiting a painting of the whole story of the rape of Philomela, including the tapestry she weaves telling her own story after her raper, Tereus, has cut out her tongue.
Translations:
constructional
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English construction
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 constructional
From construction + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more constructional
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most constructional
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or obtained by construction.
pos: adj
examples: What mortal conception of constructional power and grace can equal the gothic cathedral of the middle age, in which we see a proportion and a delicacy . . .
1869 The Universal Decorator
No other constructional features projecting from the walls occur in any of these buildings, with the single exception of buttresses
To keep constructional costs to a minimum track formations were narrower than is now customary, many tunnels were unlined, timber was largely used for bridging, and 85 lb. per yd. rails were regarded as adequate.
The bodywork employs, where possible, the same constructional methods as for the standard B.R. coaching stock, in order to utilise existing jigs and press tools.
After some quite speedy constructional work the line was opened to traffic on January 2, 1865.
Between 1820 and 1849, wooden toys were made in Pennsylvania by Asa Crandall, the father of Charles M. Crandall who made games, picture blocks and puzzles such as 'Pigs in Clover'. It was Charles M. Crandall who made the constructional game of acrobats, ,the limbs fitting together with grooves and the parts painted.
Translations:
channelization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English channel
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
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 -ization
English channelization
From channel + -ization.
Inflected forms:
form: channelizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: channelisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The straightening and widening of a stream or river.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Section 404 of the Clean Water Act does not regulate activities such as drainage, ditching, and channelization for agricultural production.
gloss: The division of a wide-band communications channel into multiple narrow-band channels.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1979, Radiofrequency use and management: impacts from the World Administrative Radio Conference of 1979.
The specific frequency bands are not consistent with the current design and channelization plans for the DSCS [Defense Satellite Communications System] III.
Translations:
channel-surf
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: channel-surfs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: channel-surfing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: channel-surfed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: channel-surfed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To skim through a series of television stations, each for a brief moment, by repeated use of a remote control.
pos: verb
examples: I channel-surfed for half an hour before deciding there was nothing worth watching.
To change the channel is one thing, but he was channel-surfing so much that I didn't even enjoy watching TV with him.
Translations:
chapbook
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Formerly sold by chapmen; see the etymology there, and book.
Inflected forms:
form: chapbooks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small book, usually made from a single sheet, folded several times, containing poems, ballads or religious tracts.
pos: noun
examples: 1849 Notices of Fugitive Tracts: And Chap-books Printed at Aldermary Churchyard, Bow Churchyard, Etc
This was, till within the last few years, a favourite chapbook in the north of England.
For Haines’s chapbook. No-one here to hear.
2005 Kathryn A. Lowry - The Tapestry of Popular Songs in 16th- and 17th Century China
Two such examples of slim, chapbook-style collections were both part of larger compendia […]
Translations:
reincarnate
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-
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English carnate
English incarnate
English reincarnate
From re- + incarnate.
Inflected forms:
form: reincarnates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reincarnating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reincarnated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reincarnated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To be, or cause to be, reborn, especially in a different body or as a different species.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Translations:
chaplaincy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English chaplain
English -cy
English chaplaincy
From chaplain + -cy.
Inflected forms:
form: chaplaincies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The role or position of a chaplain.
pos: noun
examples: He was appointed to the chaplaincy of Colesberg, and undertook its duties without remuneration, till such time as a salary could be procured
Background: Established in 1957, the US Army Chaplain Historical Holding chronicles the story of the Army chaplaincy from its inception during the American Revolution to the present.
gloss: A building, for example on a university campus, catering to people's religious needs.
pos: noun
Translations:
chapped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more chapped
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most chapped
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Dry and flaky due to excessive evaporation of water from its surface.
pos: adj
examples: For chapped lips, or chapped nipples, the tincture of catechu, or benjamin, […] / For severely chapped hands or face, the oxide of zinc ointment or camphor […]
[…] his nose and his chubby cheeks were chapped and red with cold.
His lips were chapped and lined with a ghostly purple fringe.
gloss: Having chaps, or jaws, of a specified kind.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
examples: This wide-chopt-raſcall, would thou mightſt lye drowning the waſhing of ten Tides.
Derived words: unchapped
windchapped
Translations:
characterless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek χαράσσω (kharássō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Ancient Greek -τήρ (-tḗr)
Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr)der.
Latin charactērder.
Old French caracterebor.
Middle English caracter
English character
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 characterless
From character + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more characterless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most characterless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having no distinguishing character or quality.
pos: adj
examples: The great mass of American citizens estimate us, as being a characterless and purposeless people ; and hence we hold up our heads, if at all, against the withering influence of a nation's scorn and contempt.
The House of All Sorts was new and characterless. It had not yet found itself—and an apartment house takes longer to find itself than do individual private houses.
In recent times, the track has been straightened out and a new, somewhat characterless, station has been built just to the east.
gloss: Lacking in or devoid of personality.
pos: adj
examples: The letter within was written in the same straggling, characterless caligraphy, — I should have said, had I been asked offhand, that the whole thing was the composition of a servant girl.
It was her virtue to be tall, pale, characterless and effaced by partial speechlessness.
Derived words: characterlessly
characterlessness
Translations:
chargeable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱers-
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós
Proto-Celtic *karros
Gaulish *karrosbor.
Late Latin carrus
Late Latin -ico
Late Latin carricō
Late Latin carricāre
Old French chargierder.
Middle English chargen
English charge
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 chargeable
From charge + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more chargeable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most chargeable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Able to be charged.
pos: adj
examples: The battery is chargeable by means of this device.
gloss: That may be charged to an account.
pos: adj
examples: In summary, the variation of a lease for consideration is generally chargeable to SDLT.
gloss: Liable to be accused (either formally or informally).
pos: adj
tags: rare
examples: Thus, if one confines another, even a prisoner, who has not had the small-pox, with an infected person, whereby the one confined takes the distemper and dies, he is chargeable with murder.
gloss: That one may be legally charged with.
pos: adj
examples: Seferian states in the order that he agrees with Carter and the other charging parties that "the actions taken by Sister Levy have had and will continue to have the adverse effects on the union complained of by the charging parties." But Seferian found that Levy committed no chargeable offense since freedom of speech is guaranteed in AFSCME's International Constitution.
gloss: Imputable
pos: adj
examples: 1853 The Speeches of the Right Honourable Charles James Fox in the House of Common
These cruelties are not, indeed, chargeable on Mr. Hastings personally; but when I state, that he levied an unjust war, the consequences that follow he is guilty of.
gloss: Expensive.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: A gentleman threatening to go to law, was dissuaded from it by his friends, who desired him to consider, for the law was chargeable.
Derived words: chargeableness
chargeably
nonchargeable
unchargeable
Translations:
feed-through
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Inflected forms:
form: feed-throughs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hermetically sealed connection between two volumes.
pos: noun
Translations:
pfft
Part of speech: intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pft
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: pffts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pft
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Used to signify a sudden ending or disappearance.
pos: intj
examples: 1965 Peter De Vries — Let Me Count the Ways
You'd never forgive yourself — and then you'd never forgive me, and then pfft, the end of a fine friendship.
gloss: Used to signify sarcasm or disagreement.
pos: intj
examples: “[…] You remember that lump I got? I felt something poking out of it. So I pulled, like, I just pulled one out, put it on some folded-up toilet paper, then went back in and got another one. Then one more after that. I’m pretty sure they’re spider legs,” Orvil says. ¶ “Pfffffft,” Loother says and laughs. At which point Orvil shows him a neat pile of folds of toilet paper.
gloss: Used to signify a puffing sound.
pos: intj
tags: onomatopoeic
gloss: The sound of a short fart.
pos: intj
tags: onomatopoeic
gloss: A short puffing sound.
pos: noun
examples: "Are we talking a delicate little Scandinavian pfft, or the whole raspberry tart?"
Translations:
omkar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Sanskrit ओंकार (oṃkāra, “om, aum”).
Inflected forms:
form: omkars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The symbol ॐ that represents the syllable “om” or “aum”.
pos: noun
Translations:
foreshadowing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From foreshadow (verb) + -ing (suffix forming nouns denoting the act of doing something, an action, or the embodiment of an action; or forming present participles of verbs).
Base: foreshadow
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: foreshadowings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of foreshadow (“a suggestion of something in advance”); specifically (usually uncountable, literature, narratology), a literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The roses blooming before Rose herself bloomed was excellent foreshadowing.
As an experienced editor I disapprove of backflashes, foreshadowings and tricksy devices […]
Translations:
journalese
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English journal
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor.
Late Latin -iscus
▲
Vulgar Latin -iscus
Latin -ēnsis
Old French -eisbor.
Middle English -eys
English -ese
English journalese
From journal + -ese.
Inflected forms:
form: journaleses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A style of writing used in some newspapers and magazines, characterized by cliché, hyperbolic language, use of some vocabulary items that are mostly confined to this genre, and clipped syntax.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We write journalese out of habit, sometimes from misguided training, and to sound urgent, authoritative and, well, journalistic. But it doesn't do any of that.
The veteran newspaper columnist, Keith Waterhouse, identifies two versions of this journalese. The first is officialese. It can be found everywhere […] The second version, which he calls tabloidese, is characterised by bolted-together monosyllables and sensationalism. Both types of journalese have this in common: people don't speak like that.
Translations:
lethality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lethal
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English lethality
From lethal + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: lethalities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The fact of something being lethal; the ability of something to kill.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Title 10 section 129a of the US code governing civilian personnel management in the armed forces says that the secretary of defense “may not reduce the civilian workforce programmed full-time equivalent levels unless the Secretary conducts an appropriate analysis” of how those firings could impact the US military’s lethality and readiness.
In announcing the review, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new health secretary, said in a statement that “antisemitism — like racism — is a spiritual and moral malady that sickens societies and kills people with lethalities comparable to history’s most deadly plagues.”
gloss: The degree of lethal (mortal) danger that something (usually a disease or a weapon) presents; the magnitude of its power to kill organisms exposed to it; this property is indirectly measured by any of various proxy rates, including mortality rate, case fatality rate, or infection fatality rate (for diseases) or kill rate (for weapons, pesticides, or parasites).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: According to the US Environmental Protection Agency [ 6 ], long-chain substituted propanediamines, the chemical group these compounds belongs to, are considered to be toxic to aquatic organisms, with observed lethality for plankton and fish at concentrations ranging from 0.75 to 170 µg L −1 .
Synonyms: deadliness
lethalness
Derived words: colethality
cytolethality
hyperlethality
nonlethality
semilethality
synthetic lethality
Translations:
limp-wristed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more limp-wristed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most limp-wristed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Limp, weak by nature; lacking strength.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
slang
gloss: Of a man: having effeminate qualities or characteristics perceived to be homosexual in nature.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: Given the doubts about manhood in the postwar years, a rough sport like football helped to establish a hierarchy of competing masculinities that favored the sturdy athlete over his limp-wristed counterpart, the heterosexual linebacker over the homosexual fop.
Antonyms: macho
Translations:
longtail
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From long + tail.
Compound parts: long
tail
Inflected forms:
form: longtails
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any animal that has an unusually long tail relative to similar species.
pos: noun
gloss: Phaethon lepturus, the white-tailed tropicbird.
pos: noun
gloss: A young, unattached female tourist.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A longtail boat.
pos: noun
gloss: A rat.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: A pheasant.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A greyhound.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Derived words: cricket longtail
cut and longtail
green longtail
longtail boat
longtail butterfly ray
longtail carpet shark
longtail cast-on
longtail catfish
longtail salamander
longtail skate
longtail stingray
Translations:
dissuasive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French dissuasif.
Inflected forms:
form: more dissuasive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dissuasive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dissuasives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Tending to dissuade, or divert from a measure or purpose; dehortatory.
pos: adj
examples: When Nkem stepped forward to ask him a question, he made a dissuasive gesture with his gun, making Nkem jump back immediately.
gloss: That which dissuades; a disincentive.
pos: noun
examples: Among other particulars which constituted the unfitness of things in Mr Square's opinion, danger and difficulty were two. The difficulty therefore which he apprehended there might be in corrupting this young wench, and the danger which would accrue to his character on the discovery, were such strong dissuasives, that it is probable he at first intended to have contented himself with the pleasing ideas which the sight of beauty furnishes us with.
Translations:
regretting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: regrettings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is regretted.
pos: noun
examples: And for all I then declined / O the regrettings infinite / When the night-processions flit / Through the mind!
Translations:
showboat
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English show
English boat
English showboat
From show + boat.
Inflected forms:
form: showboats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: showboats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: showboating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: showboated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: showboated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A river steamboat having a resident theatre.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: And Agnes Moorehead henpecks with stern persistence as Parthy, the captain's loving wife. The sets, which include a full-sized showboat with belching double stacks and sternwheel, are in the best Metro tradition, which means as sumptuous as sumptuous can be.
Mr. Sterling was born in Baltimore on June 24, 1915, to Jack Sexton and Edna Cable, veteran performers in vaudeville, showboats and stock companies.
Lowriding emerged in the 1950's in California, as Mexican-American youths -- in what may have been a reaction to the hot-rod culture dominated by whites -- transformed their cars into fantastical, ground-hugging showboats.
gloss: A showoff.
pos: noun
tags: US
broadly
informal
examples: Well, I was a little upset at first. I mean, obviously people are going to think I'm a showboat, and a little bit of a prick.
After the President fired his FBI director in early May, he dismissed Comey as “a showboat,” “a grandstander” and a “nut job.”
gloss: To show off.
pos: verb
tags: US
ambitransitive
informal
examples: Out: Trash talk, dirty play, crybabying, showboating and players who can't be bothered to show up for games or keep their shoes on.
Their duel had something often lacking in this memorable era of men’s tennis: an edge, as Kyrgios showboated and intentionally smacked balls at Nadal’s body, ignoring the glares that Nadal sometimes fired back.
Translations:
disinclined
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
English inclined
English disinclined
From dis- + inclined.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not inclined; having a disinclination; being unwilling, reluctant.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It is not surprising that the real scholar or expert and the practical man of affairs often feel contemptuous about the intellectual, are disinclined to recognize his power, and are resentful when they discover it.
Antonyms: inclined
Translations:
earlyish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey-
Proto-Indo-European *-eri
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éyeri
Proto-Germanic *airi
Proto-Germanic *airiz
Old English ǣr
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Old English ǣrlīċe
Middle English erly
English early
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English earlyish
From early + -ish.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Somewhat early
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Old Jermyn sat down in his favourite chair by one of the windows overlooking Pall Mall. It was earlyish, and the big room—empty and noiseless—and lined with books between its high windows, seemed to envelop old Jermyn with velvet arms.
From outside the music was thumping, it had been Big Band jazz and now it was earlyish rock ’n’ roll, such as Rachel and Gerald might conceivably have danced to twenty-five years ago.
Translations: