yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
Roman-candle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A verbal form of Roman candle.
Inflected forms:
form: Roman-candles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Roman-candling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Roman-candled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Roman-candled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: Roman candle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: roman-candle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: roman candle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: Roman Candle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To move from or spin away in the manner of a Roman candle.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: His canopy had snagged on the tailplane of the aircraft, causing him to Roman-candle into the rocky desert ground.
Luckily, the seat parted company enough for his parachute to Roman-candle, and almost immediately he crashed through a tree.
Ronald Reagan went on TV hours after the space shuttle Challenger tragically Roman-candled over Florida and said, "The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave."
gloss: To achieve or attain fame or success quickly and rapidly.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: […] Roman candled to fame in Gertrude Lawrence's legit musical, "Lady In The Dark," which put Freud in grease-paint.
Murry (the K) Kaufman, whose seven-year "Swingin' Soiree" Roman-candled Saturday (27), has taped a pilot for the station.
gloss: To light up with excitement that lacks of focus or direction.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: Despite the severe shortage of goose-bump manufacturers of late in our jaded, weary world, music never fails to roman-candle the spine.
I was Roman candling with less frequency; the more accustomed to the chase I became, the less manic I acted.
And then absurd notions roman-candled in his mind.
Translations:
three-thousandth
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The ordinal form of the number three thousand.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
four-thousandth
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The ordinal form of the number four thousand.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
ten-thousandfold
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ten thousand + -fold.
Base: ten thousand
Affixes: -fold
Inflected forms:
form: tenthousandfold
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: tenthousandfold
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Multiplied by ten thousand.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The outburst of novæ cannot be explained in this manner, as some have suggested, for it could not possibly produce a ten-thousandfold increase in light; […]
Comparing the C_(Ag⁺) in this case with that of Example 1, where no excess of the NH₃ was present, we find that the value has decreased from 5.5 × 10⁻⁴ to 6.8 × 10⁻⁸, a ten-thousandfold decrease.
It is to be noted that the results agree with the simple relation given by Eq. (1) for as much as a ten-thousandfold change in δ_F.
For both reasons taken together—his outstanding merit and his ten-thousandfold poverty—he deserves to have his meals in the prytaneion.
gloss: Having ten thousand parts or members.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: How is it, then, that with the first class of receiver, the eye, we are enabled, unless indeed we be colour-blind, to see all the beautiful and glorious varieties of nature in its ten-thousandfold hues; while the other receiver, the photographic plate, gives us but black and white?
The ten-thousandfold law of punishment is rigorously enforced against every creature, man included.
In the case of the ten-thousandfold contract of the Mazdayasnian Religion the contracting parties can safely be held to be the Religion on the one hand, and each of the faithful on the other.
According to the Atthasālinī, the commentary to the Dhammasaṅgaṇī, the Buddha preached the Abhidhamma in the Tāvatiṁsa heaven—the heaven of the Thirty-three—to the devas who had gathered from the ten-thousandfold world-system; […]
The night was full of roaring, like the ten-thousandfold throat of the stadium.
gloss: By a factor of ten thousand.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: They found that the viscosity increases gradually from the melting point of sulfur, 115 to 119° C (933), up to about 159° C, at which point the viscosity sharply increases ten-thousandfold (55, 1098).
An electron, for instance, weighs 10⁻²⁷ grams. Even if its mass increases ten-thousandfold, it will still weigh only 10⁻²³ grams; […]
Nova eruptions can see the star system’s overall light output multiply ten-thousandfold, and may be one-off events triggered during a very brief phase of the system’s evolution, or a longer-lived recurrent phenomenon, with eruptions every few decades or more.
Translations:
Pojoaque
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish Pojoaque, from Tewa Pʼohsųwæ̨geh (“water drinking place”).
Inflected forms:
form: Pojoaques
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Pojoaque
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Pojoaque people.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A member of a federally recognized tribe of Tewa-speaking Pueblo people in Santa Fe County, New Mexico.
pos: noun
Translations:
bed-breaking
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Compound of bed + breaking, from the image of sex that is so wild that the bed on which it occurs falls apart from the strain.
Base: bed
Inflected forms:
form: more bed-breaking
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bed-breaking
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bedbreaking
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: bed breaking
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Sexually wild, uninhibited, and energetic.
pos: adj
examples: The upside of the stormy affair is the nightly session of wall-shaking, ground-quaking, bed-breaking, neighbor-waking make-up sex.
Their passionate gazes would be locked in silent promise of more bed-breaking sex romps in the coming hours.
Edward is the epitome of thoughtfulnes who devotes himself to his wife's well-being, even if that means controlling his vampire urges to taste her sweet-smelling blood, and his teenage hormones that want more bed-breaking sex.
Because I thought you were just bragging before, when we first came into the bungalow and you told me that as newlyweds, we were supposed to be 'having wild, bed-breaking sex.'”
gloss: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bed, breaking.
pos: adj
Translations:
AirDrop
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: By the analogy of an airdrop, in which items are delivered by dropping them from an aircraft in flight.
Inflected forms:
form: AirDrops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: AirDropping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: AirDropped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: AirDropped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To transfer a file using AirDrop.
pos: verb
tags: ditransitive
intransitive
examples: “Another day another group of french^([sic]) teens trying to AirDrop me memes on the subway,” one woman tweeted. “In a crowd of teens and they keep trying to AirDrop me memes!!!” said another. One young Twitter user joked that she was going to a music festival last weekend “just to AirDrop.”
Cyber-flashing is not experienced as a less harmful or less damaging behaviour just because it happens digitally rather than on the street. […] For those who have been AirDropped in a public place, there is not even the comfort of knowing for certain who is guilty.
Translations:
Zyn
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Zyns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An individual Zyn nicotine pouch.
pos: noun
examples: Zyns are filled with nicotine and are meant to be placed under your lip like tobacco dip. No spitting is required, so nicotine pouches are even less visible than vaping. Zyns come in two strengths in the United States, three and six milligrams. A single six-milligram pouch is a dose so high that first-time users on TikTok have said it caused them to vomit or pass out. And while Zyns are presented as a healthier, smoke-free alternative to cigarettes, they are still addictive, according to Robert Jackler, a professor emeritus at the Stanford University School of Medicine who has studied nicotine industry marketing.
Translations:
sour-sweet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sour-sweets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: sweet-and-sour (in both senses)
pos: noun
examples: "Did My Mama Like To Dance?" which tells the sour-sweet moment in which the narrator learns about her dead mother's life.
Translations:
Holo-kitsch
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Portmanteau of Holocaust and kitsch, coined by Art Spiegelman.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Mass-market, overly sentimental depictions of the Holocaust from the end of the Cold War onwards.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
uncountable
Translations:
s--t
Part of speech: intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: s--ts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: s--ts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: s--tting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: s--t
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: s--t
pos: verb
tags: past
form: s--tted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: s--tted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Censored spelling of shit.
pos: intj
gloss: Censored spelling of shit.
pos: noun
gloss: Censored spelling of shit.
pos: verb
Translations:
racially-profile
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
law-enforcement
Etymology: From racial profiling.
Inflected forms:
form: racially-profiles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: racially-profiling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: racially-profiled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: racially-profiled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To engage in racial profiling; to act as a racial profiler.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
Zelig-like
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Zelig + -like, after the character Leonard Zelig from the film Zelig (1983).
Base: Zelig
Affixes: -like
Inflected forms:
form: more Zelig-like
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Zelig-like
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having an extremely flexible, inconsistent or polymorphic character.
pos: adj
examples: Allen's one-liner reveals that he thinks there is something Zelig-like in himself, increasing the intrigue that this human chameleon offers.
Ideal agency would exhibit determination in any environment whatsoever; sometimes it would have to do so through Zelig-like polymorphism, so we should not be using ideal agency as our reference point when we are trying to understand the bounded agency we encounter in real life.
Echoing these Zelig-like anxieties in the preface to his autobiographical play The Floating Light Bulb (1982) , Allen flatly states that the author's "one regret in life is that he is not someone else."
gloss: Synonym of Zeligesque.
pos: adj
examples: My grandfather turns up, Zelig-like, somewhere in the background of so many historic photographs and documentary film clips that sometimes I would ask myself whether the obscure but unavoidable ubiquity of his curriculum vitae in the history of the last century did not suggest a notewothy, albeit questionable, capacity to empathize and adapt—a pathological malleability.
Zelig-like, Nabokov shows up in Paris during the twenties, In New York and Philadelphia in the thirties, in wartime Washington and postwar Germany, in Paris again in the fifties, and in Berlin once more at the height of the Cold War.
When discussing the film at a screening at the University of Southern California in April 2018, interviewer Michael Renov pointed out how Elsaesser is almost Zelig-like figure due to his and his family's capacity to be at the centre of history (the family past on the Sun Island, with the filmmaker also being in Paris during 1968, the west coast of the USA during the counter-culture of the 1970s and more).
Translations:
ball-shaped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of global (“spherical, ball-shaped”).
pos: adj
Translations:
witch-ridden
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Originally used to describe horses that remained thin and did not thrive despite feeding, from the notion in folklore that witches rode (and tired out) such horses at night.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Thin and weak; (figuratively) thinly populated.
pos: adj
examples: Even the chickens on their roosts were witch-ridden,[…]
Mrs. Piper would be a much more convincing apparition if she could have come to us out of the blue, instead of trailing behind her a nebulous ancestry of magnetic somnambules, witch-ridden children, and ecstatic nuns.
Parliament in the seventeenth century an unsatisfactory barometer of public opinion because the franchise was irregularly distributed and the witch-ridden south-east over-represented.
Translations:
self-stimulatory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + stimulatory.
Base: stimulatory
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to self-stimulation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Appropriate play with toys was studied in two autistic children with high occurrences of self-stimulatory behavior
Medical culture constrains stimming through strict clinical designations and pathologizing definitions, referring to it as stereotypies or "self-stimulatory behaviours." Autistic people, however, often define stimming more broadly as repetitive sensory practices used to regulate emotional states, to cope with external sensory stimuli, or for purposes of self-expression.
Translations:
buzzard-eagle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: buzzard-eagles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a number of birds with the look of eagles but the smaller size of buzzards (hawks), principally of genus Butastur.
pos: noun
Translations:
cost-prohibitive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Overly expensive; unaffordable.
pos: adj
tags: euphemistic
not-comparable
Translations:
book-reader
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: book-readers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who reads books, especially for pleasure.
pos: noun
gloss: An electronic, hand-held device from which books or other printed matter can be read; an e-reader.
pos: noun
gloss: A reader of the Bible, implying an avoidance of religious involvement.
pos: noun
tags: dated
derogatory
obsolete
Translations:
tsan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: By analogy with san (from Ancient Greek σάν (sán)), which stood for /s/, due to it likely being a variant of that letter.
Inflected forms:
form: tsans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An Ancient Greek letter ⟨Ͷ ͷ⟩, found in a single inscription in the Arcadian dialect of Mantineia, which likely represented /t͡s/.
pos: noun
Translations:
siong
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hokkien 傷 /伤 (siong).
Inflected forms:
form: more siong
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most siong
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: xiong
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Very tough, challenging.
pos: adj
tags: Singapore
Singlish
examples: Oh well, it was xiong, but overall OK, lah.
Translations:
Subutex
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: A marketing coinage, perhaps based on sublingual (“administered through placement under the tongue”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A now discontinued brand name for buprenorphine, used to treat opiate addictions, in particular heroin.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: He was a Subutex addict. Subutex is supposedly used to wean people off heroin but, from what I have seen, there are more Subutex addicts in jail than there are heroin addicts (and there are a lot of heroin addicts).
She'd seen a doctor who’d prescribed Subutex, a drug-replacement treatment designed to wean the user off heroin. It had made her throw up. I was so relieved and told her how proud I was of her for taking control.
Translations:
one-act
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: one-acts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A one-acter
pos: noun
examples: Out of Bounds, a one-act by Mariah Burton Nelson […], takes place in a locker room after the big game.
Translations:
Gabber
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Gab + -er.
Base: Gab
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: Gabbers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A user of the social media site Gab.
pos: noun
examples: In a post on Medium on May 8, Gab leaders shared the latest statistics: "In under nine months, 170,000 Gabbers have 7.6 million posts and raised $145,000 to help us expand our team and cover operational expenses."
These folks were the ideal Gabbers: salt of the earth types who fully understand that Big Tech is evil and free speech is important.
Translations:
sub-bassline
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Blend of sub-bass + bassline. By surface analysis, sub- + bassline, or sub-bass + line.
Inflected forms:
form: sub-basslines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: subbassline
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The lowest-pitched, instrumental part of a piece of popular music.
pos: noun
Translations:
shield-maid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: shield-maids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of shieldmaiden.
pos: noun
Translations:
shield-may
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: shield-mays
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of shieldmaiden.
pos: noun
Translations:
high-fat
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: higher-fat
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: highest-fat
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a high number of calories from fat or a great amount of fats.
pos: adj
Translations:
pre-position
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pre- + position.
Base: position#Verb
Affixes: pre-
Inflected forms:
form: pre-positions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pre-positioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pre-positioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pre-positioned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: preposition
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To position (something) ahead of time. (The objects thus positioned are usually supplies, tools, instruments, weapons, or troops.)
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She pre-positioned the surgical instruments in trays on a numbered rack.
The officers deemed it necessary to pre-position at least three battalions in case of a breakout.
Translations:
pre-positioned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, pre- + position + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having been pre-positioned.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The pre-positioned surgical instruments stood ready in trays on a numbered rack.
It was deemed necessary to keep at least three battalions pre-positioned in case of a breakout.
Translations:
foliage-gleaner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From foliage + gleaner.
Base: foliage
Inflected forms:
form: foliage-gleaners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An individual of various species of the genera Automolus and Clibanornis, perching birds of the New World.
pos: noun
Translations:
areata
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A localized area or patch.
pos: noun
examples: At least 40% of women experience hair loss or alopecia over their lifetimes. This could be alopecia areata (patchy hair loss), traction alopecia (strained hair loss) or another form. The different ways that women’s hair loss has been depicted across art history demonstrates the many different ways it has been interpreted over the years.
Translations:
high-finished
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Finished with great care; polished.
pos: adj
gloss: Highly accomplished, elaborated or refined.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
Translations:
VHT
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: economics
government
hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sciences
sports
taxation
Etymology: * (motorsport): Genericization of a trademark, deriving from an initialism of very high traction.
* (taxation): Initialism of vacation home tax.
Inflected forms:
form: VHTs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A substance laid down atop the surface of a drag strip to increase the surface grip available to a dragster's tires, to enable quicker acceleration, faster speed, and lower strip times.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Synonym of vacation home tax.
pos: noun
tags: abbreviation
countable
uncountable
Translations:
sweeper-keeper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
Inflected forms:
form: sweeper-keepers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sweeper keeper
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A hybrid of goalkeeper and sweeper roles – a goalkeeper who leaves the penalty area to start attacks.
pos: noun
examples: With teams playing in a more compact fashion and defenders pushing up without the safety of a sweeper behind them, the keeper's role has evolved to that of a sweeper-keeper. Gone are the days when a keeper could remain in his sixyard box and just play his line.
Sweeper keepers have high “soccer IQs” and know how to “read” the game brilliantly. They are able to play with their feet and head with equal skill to any defender.
It was a rule that made all keepers potential sweeper-keepers, and van der Sar was one of the very best around.
Translations:
single-edged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having one edge only.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
try-off
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: athletics
ball-games
engineering
games
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
rugby
sports
Inflected forms:
form: try-offs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A team event.
pos: noun
examples: It had nothing to do with their defensive pattern or any strategy it was about backing your instincts, and for Ma'a to finish the try off like that was pretty special.
gloss: An elimination round between competitors who are tied; especially one that takes a different form than previous steps of the competition.
pos: noun
examples: On the try-off Watkins made 168 ft., the longest flight for the day.
In the try-off for the grand championship, the Kansas Hereford yearlings were granted the royal purple.
As an example of the best kind of spirit which can exist among competing teams and the pleasantest kind of atmosphere which can be created in one of these try-offs, we take off our hat to the W.O.D.L. Festival and to its winning team.
It's logical that 2,000 models every year fight, scratch and claw their way up to the try-off elimination when it comes time to choose the new Miss Rheingold.
In this case—and again as an advanced development feasibility program—at the present time TI and the Martin Co. are under contract for a competitive tryoff along with Dahlgre as an in-house laboratory.
gloss: A test for clearance, bearings, and metal thickness of a mold.
pos: noun
examples: Using corn flour for a tryoff, set the cores in the drag straight and level.
Translations:
controlled-release
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a drug or medicine, involving the gradual release of an active component.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
rod-on
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: rod-ons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An erection of the penis.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
Translations:
whoopsie-doodle
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Used to acknowledge a mistake.
pos: intj
tags: informal
examples: Television Commercial: Whoopsie-doodle, there was a mix-up at the cookie factory! We made the cookies way too big and the chocolate chips b-b-b-blue!
Translations:
dyke-back
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dyke-backs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The back of a stonewall or a hedgebank.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
Translations:
dyke-rock
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: dyke-rocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of igneous rock that fills a dyke (a rock filling a fissure that is now often rising above the older stratum that has eroded away).
pos: noun
examples: Appears to be a fine-grained dioritic dyke rock, but is too dirty and stained to be satisfactorily examined.
If the dyke is of great thickness the centre may be coarsely crystalline as a deep-seated plutonic rock and this makes it difficult to distinguish a dyke rock in hand specimen.
As a dyke is made of igneous rock, it is usually possible to date it by radiometric dating methods, which give an absolute age for the dyke rock.
Translations:
sound-symbolic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: From sound symbolism + -ic.
Base: sound symbolism
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: sound symbolic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: characterized by sound symbolism
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Wagner proposes a sound-symbolic origin, after the sounds these insects [grasshoppers] make. Although this cannot be fully excluded, this word exhibits suspiciously little formal variation for a sound-symbolic formation.
gloss: characterized by sound symbolism
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: "Bouba" and "Kiki" are sound-symbolic labels, not directly imitating any actual sound but nonetheless carrying strong intrinsic associations with roundness and pointiness, respectively.
Translations:
re-excavation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From re- + excavation.
Base: excavation
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: re-excavations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: reexcavation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A repeated excavation
pos: noun
examples: The loess also, in the suburbs and neighbourhood of Liége, occurring at various heights in patches lying at between 20 and 200 feet above the river, cannot be explained without supposing the filling up and re-excavation of the valleys at a period posterior to the washing in of the animal remains into most of the old caverns.
Olsen (1968) describes some of the methods used in the re-excavation of the Viking fortress at Trelleborg, first excavated between 1934 and 1943 (Norland 1948).
Re-excavation of mass graves is an important area of investigation.
Translations:
re-excavate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From re- + excavate.
Base: excavate
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: re-excavates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: re-excavating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: re-excavated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: re-excavated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To excavate again.
pos: verb
examples: In order, then, to improve the supply of drinking water, it is necessary to dig new tanks and clear and re-excavate old ones.
Several reports in the literature indicate that these birds are well adapted to this condition and re-excavate burrows quickly.
The plan to re-excavate was beset with problems: practical access was difficult (impossible by car), the whole area was desisgnate a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and Special Area of Conservation.
Translations:
she-ape
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From she- + ape.
Base: ape
Affixes: she-
Inflected forms:
form: she-apes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A female ape.
pos: noun
examples: “I have never told you my story, Olga. It would have been better had you known it—this might not have happened. I never saw my father. The only mother I knew was a ferocious she-ape.”
gloss: A black woman.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
ethnic
offensive
slang
slur
examples: Why would anybody, black or white, want to date a big stinky, sweaty, she-ape?
Yes, she-ape Serena and she-ape Venus are over the hill, both defeated today by WHITE players - http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tennis/index - Where's loud-mouth Big Daddy 'White girlz are afraid to play my girlz' Williams NOW, eh?
A 30-year sentence for murder handed down last week to a 14-year-old Marion girl is reigniting debate over how Indiana deals with violent children.
and that gorilla-faced fecal-colored negress is anything but "beautiful." That she-ape was shot through the ugly forest and hit every tree on the way.
She-Ape of the Cornbelt. When she stalks you, she's got a shucking in mind.
Couldn't make a decision on his own to save his life. He has to have Czar's to shirk personal responsibility for poor decisions. Married to a racist black she-ape.
I was a expecting a Buck.I would not want to think how a she-ape leaked in a sink. Never hire a nigger for anything. Stealing from you is expected but shit like this is sick!!
Educating nigger baboons is a COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME, MONEY, AND RESOURCES. The she-ape in this video should NEVER have been allowed in a classroom occupied by humans.
Obama has not publicly denied that he is a homosexual dick sucker either. Being married to a racist black she-ape who bore the children of a spic gangster speaks volumes...
Translations:
calorie-restricted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more calorie-restricted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most calorie-restricted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of low-calorie.
pos: adj
Translations:
quartz-trachyte
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: quartz-trachytes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of rhyolite.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
snow-in-harvest
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Cerastium tomentosum.
pos: noun
Translations:
piecewise-defined
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more piecewise-defined
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most piecewise-defined
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Defined by subfunctions and subdomains
pos: adj
Translations:
washington
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: games
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of agawan base (a team game)
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
onaga
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 尾長 (onaga) or 尾長鯛 (onagadai).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Longtail snapper (Etelis coruscans), a species of ray-finned fish.
pos: noun
tags: Hawaii
uncountable
Translations:
language-oriented
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a software development technique that involves creating a new programming language to solve problems, in which the programmer treats a language as a software building block.
pos: adj
Translations:
data-oriented
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a software engineering approach that focuses on data as the central point of an application.
pos: adj
Translations:
component-oriented
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
software
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a software development approach that focuses on building components that are loosely-coupled and reusable.
pos: adj
Translations:
attribute-oriented
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
software
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a technique that adds metadata, or attributes, to program code, which affect the system's semantics.
pos: adj
Translations:
agent-oriented
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
software
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a programming paradigm where the construction of the software is centered on the concept of externally specified software agents.
pos: adj
Translations:
process-oriented
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
software
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a programming paradigm that separates the concerns of data structures and the concurrent processes that act upon them.
pos: adj
gloss: Focusing on the methods, procedures and steps involved in completing a task or achieving a goal, rather than the final outcome.
pos: adj
Translations:
project-oriented
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
management
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Focusing on delivering a product within a set time frame, budget, and scope.
pos: adj
Translations:
prototype-oriented
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
software
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a style of object-oriented programming that uses existing objects as prototypes to reuse behavior.
pos: adj
Translations:
role-oriented
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
software
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a form of computer programming which aims at expressing objects in terms that are analogous to a human conceptual understanding of the world.
pos: adj
Translations:
low-paying
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lower-paying
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: lowest-paying
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That pays at a low or insufficient rate.
pos: adj
Translations:
high-paying
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: higher-paying
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: highest-paying
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That pays at a high or sufficient rate; well-paid.
pos: adj
Translations:
self-unaware
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + unaware.
Base: unaware
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: more self-unaware
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-unaware
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not self-aware.
pos: adj
examples: The list could be compounded enormously, but from such and others like these, definitive interpretations of the plays in which they appear have been promulgated—postulating, say, a schizophrenic Iago, a self-dramatizing Othello, a paranoid Henry IV, a Benedick completely self-unaware, a pattern concerning true and false gold in Romeo and Juliet, and every sort of Gertrude.
What are some of the self-unaware things leaders do that drive others nuts? (Let me get you started: talking over people, needing to have the last word, taking credit for other people’s ideas, “punishing” those who point out their mistakes . . . what else?)
It is my conviction that we, pastors that is, are far more sexually broken than we are even conscious of or willing to admit. I don’t mean that this is a willful suppression of some dark truth about ourselves—though it could be. As counterintuitive as this may sound, my experience tells me that we may be among some of the most self-unaware people on earth.
Translations:
self-unawareness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + unawareness.
Base: unawareness
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The lack of self-awareness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Is not the collocation of “love, timidity, and indolence” a telling one, and is it clear that it lies beyond Mr Verloc’s consciousness, to be enjoyed as the superior narrator’s disdain at this display of self-unawareness put on for the gratified illumination of the reader?
God revealed to this hurting woman the beauty and power of love; she broke free from the bondage of self-unawareness and was delivered from the strongholds that had blocked her ability to see God in her life.
“[…] My main concern right now is my family, and to make enough money to retire comfortably.” Smith’s attempt at humility morphs into an epic display of self-unawareness. “I’m just an average guy,” he goes on. “Maybe I’m more adventuresome than most. I’m of a fearless nature.[…]”
Translations:
back-of-the-fag-packet
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of back-of-the-envelope.
pos: adj
Translations:
back-of-the-napkin
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of back-of-the-envelope.
pos: adj
Translations:
best-paid
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That earns the highest wage than all others.
pos: adj
gloss: That provides the highest pay than any other form of employment.
pos: adj
Related words: better-paid
well-paid
Translations:
bulka
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Polish bułka, Russian and Ukrainian бу́лка (búlka), and Yiddish בולקע (bulke).
Inflected forms:
form: bulkas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bread roll; a bun.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: WOODWARD’S OWN Bulka Rings / Superb yeast-raised pastry; Chocolate-Cinnamon filled, each 49ᶜ
And the best of breads by Moshe of East Houston St. / Challah Loaf / Corn Bread, Russian or Light Rye / Mandel Bread (sweet or chocolate) / Bulka Rolls
Quick, Zinka, my sweet donut, my lovely piece of bulka. […] Didn’t know the difference between a bulka and a Bialy.
Ah yes, Polish appetites with their kielbasas, bulka rolls, babka (cakes), and tortes.
Waiting in anticipation to bite into Granny Bertha’s delicious, freshly baked bulkas made the fast all-the-more torturous.
Make a bread and butter pudding with the bulka. Preheat the oven to 180°C/165°C Fan/Gas Mark 4. Layer the bulkas in a shallow baking dish. Spread a thin layer of apricot jam over the bulkas and dot with butter.
I ordered a dozen bialys, two bulkas, two pletzels and butter and cream cheese. […] Stevie and Norby, the bialys, and I had the bulka.
gloss: A type of Slavic bread.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Here and there one bit into a bulka or a piece of black bread, just doughy bread with no butter or jam smeared on it.
Baehr’s Giant Market Brings You RUBEL’S FAMOUS BREAD / Known For Quality / Highest Priced Bread in Town / Enjoy a new taste thrill / Egg Bread—Square Loaf—Bulka—Twist—Long Bulka
Syrup prepared by boiling watermelons was delicious when eaten with white bulka and was frequently used for supper.
Sitting down with a slice of bulka and a hot cup of tea seemed like the perfect late afternoon snack.
The ladies experienced all the steps of bulka baking and went home proudly with a loaf to share with their loved ones.
Related words: bulkie
bulochka
Translations:
air-launch
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: air-launches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: air-launching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: air-launched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: air-launched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To release a missile, rocket, parasite aircraft or other aircraft payload from a mother ship or launch aircraft.
pos: verb
Translations:
air-launched
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a rocket or missile, launched from an aircraft while in flight.
pos: adj
Translations:
euph
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of euphonium.
Inflected forms:
form: euphs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Euphonium.
pos: noun
Translations:
soft-close
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a drawer, door, etc., that has a mechanism which slows down movement when closing in order to avoid slamming.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
bottom-shelf
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Cheap or low-quality.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: a bottle of bottom-shelf wine
Ryder had a soft spot for off-brand soda, since that was what they'd had often when he was in charge, and they were living off a shoestring. Nothing wrong with bottom-shelf cereal and grape soda; not in his opinion.
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Instead of trusting that God's plan for us is what we desire, we try to find fulfillment in the "bottom-shelf candy" of compromise or isolation that seems right to us.
Translations:
Euro-English
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Euro- + English.
Base: English
Affixes: Euro-
Inflected forms:
form: Euro-Englishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sociolect of the English language, often NNSE, depending on the institutions of the European Union, and imitating the idioms and mannerisms of her member states and their vernaculars.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
Brussels-English
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Euro-English.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
EU-speak
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Euro-English.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
hawk-fly
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A fly of the family Asilidae.
pos: noun
Translations:
sorry-ass
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sorry + -ass.
Base: sorry
Affixes: -ass
Inflected forms:
form: more sorry-ass
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sorry-ass
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pitiful, worthless; utterly terrible or dire.
pos: adj
tags: slang
Translations:
starline
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: astronomy
literature
media
natural-sciences
publishing
science-fiction
Etymology: From star + line.
Compound parts: star
line
Inflected forms:
form: starlines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hypothetical or theoretical line connecting a series of stars within a cluster or constellation.
pos: noun
gloss: A company that flies commercial starships.
pos: noun
examples: At the gate terminals that serviced the various commercial passenger starlines, thousands of beings—humanoid and non—went about their business laboring in numerous capacities to keep the port operating smmothly, cleanly, and safely.
Passengers transshipping to other starlines should go to the nearest routing desk at once.
These starlines are integral to the megacorporate business model, used for both transportation of raw materials and finished goods for all of the businesses within the corporate group.
Translations:
golden-haired
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of blond.
pos: adj
Translations:
tiring-house
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tiring-houses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of green room.
pos: noun
Translations:
perahera
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: peraheras
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A religious procession.
pos: noun
tags: Sri-Lanka
Translations:
pass-by-future
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pass by future
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of call-by-future.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
pass-by-name
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pass by name
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of call-by-name.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
pass-by-need
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pass by need
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of call-by-need.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
self-reinforcing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That reinforces or strengthens itself.
pos: adj
Translations:
self-reinforcement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self- + reinforcement.
Base: reinforcement
Affixes: self-
Inflected forms:
form: self-reinforcements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The reinforcement or strengthening of oneself.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
ill-grounded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more ill-grounded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ill-grounded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a person, lacking knowledge of a subject.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
gloss: Of an argument, position, etc.: based on poor judgment and weak reasoning or evidence.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
Translations:
self-reinforcer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From self-reinforce + -er or self- + reinforcer.
Affixes: self-reinforce
-er
Inflected forms:
form: self-reinforcers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who self-reinforces.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
well-prepared
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Prepared sufficiently.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
altitude-sick
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more altitude-sick
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most altitude-sick
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Suffering from altitude sickness
pos: adj
Translations:
clickety-click
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: bingo
games
Etymology: Chosen for the rhyme.
Inflected forms:
form: clickety-clicks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: clickety-clack
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: clickety click
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A rapid, rhythmic sound of alternating clicks, often such as typewriter keys or train wheels on tracks.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
informal
gloss: Sixty-six.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
carboxy-terminus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: carboxy-termini
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: carboxy-terminuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of C-terminus.
pos: noun
Translations:
carboxy-terminal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a carboxy-terminus.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
coochie-coochie-coo
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cootchie-cootchie-coo
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: gootchie-gootchie-goo
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: goochie-goochie-goo
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Said when tickling someone to get them to laugh.
pos: intj
Translations:
half-eaten
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not fully eaten; partially consumed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations: