yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
homocysteine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *somHós
Proto-Hellenic *homós
Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós)der.
English homo-
English cysteine
English homocysteine
From homo- + cysteine.
Inflected forms:
form: homocysteines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An amino acid which is monitored in the blood to estimate risk of cardiovascular disease.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1989, L. A. Smolin, N. A. Benevenga, Chapter 8: Methionine, Homocyst(e)ine, Cysteine—Metabolic Interrelationships, Mendel Friedman, Absorption and Utilization of Amino Acids, Volume 1, CRC Press, page 170,
One possible explanation for the low plasma cystine in homocystinuric patients who are given sufficient dietary cystine is the high plasma concentration of the cysteine-homocysteine mixed disulfide.
2000, Donald W. Jacobsen, 3. Biochemistry and Metabolism, Killian Robinson (editor), Homocysteine and Vascular Disease, Kluwer Academic, page 15,
Homocysteine, a metabolite of the methionine cycle, is a strong independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease.
2017, Himadri Panda, Handbook on Small & Medium Scale Industries (Biotechnology Products), Asia Pacific Business Press, page 224,
The amino acids produced from L-methionine and substituted thiols were identified as the corresponding S-substituted homocysteines, e.g., 2-mercaptoethanol and cysteamine produced S-(β-hydroxyethyl) homocysteine and S-(β-aminoethyl) homocysteine, respectively.
Translations:
pterin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Greek: πτερόν (pteron) = wing (because it was first found in butterfly wings).
Inflected forms:
form: pterins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A ketonic amide derivative of pteridine responsible for some of the colouring in nature. It is also a component of folic acid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
Ammonite
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Ammon
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der.
Latin -ītēsbor.
French -iteder.
English -ite
English Ammonite
From Ammon + -ite.
Inflected forms:
form: Ammonites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Ammon.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Ammonites.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
crackhead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From crack + -head. First sense appears c. 1978. Second sense appears c. 1977 in Best Canadian Stories.
Base: crack
Affixes: -head
Inflected forms:
form: crackheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crack head
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who is addicted to or regularly uses crack cocaine.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: My shooter a crackhead, he look like Woody Harrelson
gloss: Someone whose thinking makes no sense; a fool or an idiot; broadly, any contemptible person.
pos: noun
tags: US
derogatory
slang
examples: You know who strangled the old man? You know who did it? A fuckin' stupid crackhead! He is pointing at himself and in tears. It's Ava's landlord who is dead.
Related words: crackbrained
crackpipe
crack rock
Translations:
insurrectionary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English insurrection
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusder.
Middle English -arie
English -ary
English insurrectionary
From insurrection + -ary.
Inflected forms:
form: more insurrectionary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most insurrectionary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: insurrectionaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to, or characterized by, insurrection.
pos: adj
examples: The brutal crackdown on protests has only served to galvanize the insurrectionary mood in the country.
Politics, as the adage goes, is first experienced at home, and the autocratic Dr Gallo had ruled his household in a manner that was so oppressive and so patently unjust that Tony had grown used to thinking of himself in insurrectionary terms.
gloss: One who takes part in insurrection.
pos: noun
Translations:
technic
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Partly from Latin technicus and partly from Ancient Greek τεχνικός (tekhnikós); probably modelled on German Technik. Doublet of technique.
Inflected forms:
form: technics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: technick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: more technic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most technic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: technick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Technique.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: "Mother Gooseries from the Convention", by Emilie C. Holladay, is a long stanzaic and Pindaric ode, whose taste and technic are alike impeccable.
gloss: Technical terms or objects; things pertaining to the practice of an art or science.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: The doctrine of arts in general; those branches of learning that relate to the arts.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: Technical.
pos: adj
Translations:
jointure
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English joynture, from Old French jointure, from Latin iūnctūra. Doublet of juncture.
Inflected forms:
form: jointures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jointures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jointuring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jointured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jointured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A joining; a joint.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: An estate settled on a wife, which she is to enjoy after her husband's death, for her own life at least, in satisfaction of dower.
pos: noun
examples: Then, Warwick, thus: our sister shall be Edward’s; / And now forthwith shall articles be drawn / Touching the jointure that your king must make, / Which with her dowry shall be counterpoised.
Beasts do no jointures lose / Though they new lovers choose; / But we are made worse than those.
You tell me you are secure of having either the Aunt or the Niece, and that you might have married the Aunt before this, whose Jointure you say is immense, but that you prefer the Niece on account of her ready Money.
The Baronet owed his son a sum of money out of the jointure of his mother, which he did not find it convenient to pay; indeed he had an almost invincible repugnance to paying anybody, and could only be brought by force to discharge his debts.
Freddy had no money and no occupation. His mother's jointure, a last relic of the opulence of Largelady Park, had enabled her to struggle along in Earlscourt with an air of gentility, but not to procure any serious secondary education for her children, much less give the boy a profession.
gloss: To settle a jointure upon.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He never ſo much as ask’d me about my Fortune, or Eſtate; but aſſur'd me that vvhen vve came to Dublin he vvould Joynture me in 600l. a Year good Land; and that he vvould enter into a Deed of Settlement, or Contract here, for the Performance of it.
Derived words: jointureless
jointuress
Translations:
ideality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Medieval Latin ideālitās (“ideality”), from Late Latin ideālis (“ideal”). By surface analysis, ideal + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: idealities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being ideal.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: It is commonly said that love never lasts. Now, that is not so much from change, or that it exhausts itself, as that it is mixed up with the paltry cares and daily interests of life; thus losing its ideality, which constitutes its great charm.
gloss: The capacity to form ideals of beauty or perfection.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The conceptive faculty.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: idea
ideal
Derived words: nonideality
Translations:
deary
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dear
English -y
English deary
From dear + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: dearies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dearie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A dear; a darling.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A term of address for a female.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Listen, deary: I'd appreciate your not talking about my son like that.
Related words: deary me
Translations:
bichromate
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Italic *dwi-
Latin bi-bor.
English bi-
English chromate
English bichromate
From bi- + chromate.
Inflected forms:
form: bichromates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bichromates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bichromating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bichromated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bichromated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of dichromate.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of dichromate.
pos: verb
Translations:
disembarkation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dis- + embarkation or disembark + -ation.
Base: embarkation
Affixes: dis-
Inflected forms:
form: disembarkations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of disembarking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Disembarkation seemed a slow business. From the deck one watched a "Merchant Navy" Pacific drift lazily along the track beside the wall of the Marine Station, and little South Eastern tanks go snorting fussily about.
Translations:
patentee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English patent
English -ee
English patentee
From patent + -ee.
Inflected forms:
form: patentees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One to whom a grant is made, or a privilege secured, by patent; a person, group, company etc. that has been granted a patent.
pos: noun
examples: The patentee in his specifications speaks of triphenylguanidine and compares its operation as an accelerator with that guanidine, the utility of which as an accelerator he claims to have discovered, called diphenylguanidine.
Probably the patentee, whilst fully realising the need for drivers receiving clear signals, did not fully appreciate the primary object of the signalling system.
Translations:
decoying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: decoyings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who decoys.
pos: noun
Translations:
kneeboard
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sports
surfing
Etymology: From knee + board.
Compound parts: knee
board
Inflected forms:
form: kneeboards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kneeboards
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: kneeboarding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: kneeboarded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: kneeboarded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A short (often less than 6'), broad (sometimes extremely broad) surfboard designed to be ridden in the surf in a kneeling position, and often having traction pads in the central area as an alternative to wax, to help the knees grip the deck.
pos: noun
gloss: A clipboard carried in the lap of an airplane pilot, on which basic flight data is recorded.
pos: noun
gloss: A short wakeboard designed to be ridden in the kneeling position.
pos: noun
gloss: to surf or water-ski using a kneeboard
pos: verb
Related words: footboard
handboard
headboard
wakeboard
Derived words: kneeboarder
kneeboarding
Translations:
weaponisation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English weaponise
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 weaponisation
From weaponise + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: weaponization
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of making something into a weapon or making more effective as a weapon.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: At the dawn of the space age the Eisenhower administration came to the conclusion that the weaponisation of space was not in the interests of the United States.
The weaponization of international credit was nothing new, but its deployment in this instance locked Bulgaria into the policy of the Triple Alliance […].
Translations:
weaponization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English weapon
English -ization
English weaponization
From weapon + -ization.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: American and Oxford British English standard spelling of weaponisation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: A new House panel investigating the "weaponization of the federal government" held its first hearing on Thursday [...]
[I]f you’re against the weaponization of the Justice Department because you think it was weaponized against you, then you don’t make the situation worse by weaponizing it against your opponents.
Translations:
weaponize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From weapon + -ize. First use appears c. 1938. See cite below.
Base: weapon
Affixes: -ize
Inflected forms:
form: weaponizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: weaponizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: weaponized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: weaponized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: weaponise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To make into a weapon.
pos: verb
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
transitive
examples: Anything can be weaponized. A big enough rock, dropped from a sufficient height, is a very good weapon.
The writer has to an unusually high degree the gift of being able to coin a telling phrase, though I do not like the verb in the sentence "However unassailable their arguments may be they could not weaponize their strength."
Though most Russian efforts unveiled thus far seem to have been aimed at weaponizing the far right, the existence of BlackMattersUS indicates Russian agents were equally motivated to infiltrate the far left in order to amplify partisan divides that would simultaneously energize Trump’s base and disillusion Hillary’s.
They have weaponized social media. They have weaponized the First Amendment. They have weaponized civic discourse. And they have weaponized, most of all, politics.
"Our CEQA process is clearly broken when a few wealthy Berkeley homeowners can block desperately needed student housing for years and even decades," Newsom's office said in a statement. "California cannot afford to be held hostage by NIMBYs who weaponize CEQA to block student and affordable housing. This selfish mindset is driving up housing prices, and making our state less affordable."
[I]f you’re against the weaponization of the Justice Department because you think it was weaponized against you, then you don’t make the situation worse by weaponizing it against your opponents.
gloss: To make more effective as a weapon.
pos: verb
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
transitive
examples: To weaponize anthrax it is made more distributable, not more virulent.
Related words: beweapon
weaponization
Derived words: weaponizable
Translations:
weaponized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more weaponized
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most weaponized
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: weaponised
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: Made into, or to serve as, a weapon.
pos: adj
examples: Weaponized anthrax is a biological terror weapon, whereas anthrax found in the wild is unlikely to cause a plague.
Trace that logic out a bit, and you arrive at a kind of weaponized incompetence: Your husband isn’t good at certain tasks, so he shouldn’t have to do them.
Translations:
bald-faced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more bald-faced
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bald-faced
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: baldfaced
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having white markings on the face.
pos: adj
examples: bald-faced hornet
gloss: Shameless and undisguised.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: a bald-faced lie
What kind of deformed party will such a dynamic produce? A party so willing to be marinated in such a baldfaced lie will lie about anything, including who wins the next election and every one after that.
Translations:
cardholder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: banking
business
finance
Etymology: From card + holder.
Compound parts: card
holder
Inflected forms:
form: cardholders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A case for holding cards, as credit cards, bankcards, or business cards.
pos: noun
gloss: An authorized user of a card used for financial transactions, etc.
pos: noun
Related words: accountholder
Translations:
wood-elf
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: arts
fantasy
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
Etymology: From wood + elf; compare Old English wuduielfen, from wudu (“wood”) + ielfen (“female elf”).
Compound parts: wood
elf
Inflected forms:
form: wood-elves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wood elf
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: woodelf
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An elf which inhabits woodland, usually depicted as a subrace of elf.
pos: noun
examples: This was the chorus of the wood-elves, with which the Moonlight Ball begins.
It was quite clear now, even if proof had not been needed before, that poor George was not clever, or he would never have picked out such a wife. It was no answer to this argument that Magdalen had the free beauty of a wood-elf, or that the general, her father, had brought a heavy store of Indian rupees back with him to his native town. George Fossebraye was too dull to be supposed to be susceptible to beauty or to be influenced by prudent motives.
The word alf (alfr/elf) is used for many sorts of wight: not only the Light Alfs, Dark Alfs (mound-elves), and Swart Alfs that Grimm separates out of German folklore and the Norse sources, but also different sorts of land wights (wood-elves, field elves, water-elves, and sea-elves).
To wood-elf and field-elf I pour out this greeting, And bid you bless this holy rite.
Late in the night when the midnight sun cast a long shadow from the caves peak over his camp, Hother crept into the wood-elf's cave, overpowered him and bound him securely.
Translations:
DRF
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: DRFs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Development Request Form.
pos: noun
tags: initialism
gloss: Datum Reference Frame
pos: noun
Translations:
snuffy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English snuff
English -y
English snuffy
From snuff + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: snuffier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: snuffiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Soiled with snuff.
pos: adj
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of snuff.
pos: adj
gloss: Sulky; angry; vexed.
pos: adj
tags: Scotland
obsolete
examples: I must now let you know what sort of a personage this same First President is; you imagine that he is a disagreeable snuffy old fellow
The postchaise contained a snuffy old dowager of seventy, with a maid, her contemporary.
gloss: Drunk.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: She could fight, too, when I got snuffy. […] Once I come home from elk camp so drunk I couldn't hardly sit my horse, and Sylvie near to kilt me, she fought me so hard.
gloss: That causes sniffing and nasal irritation due to dust.
pos: adj
examples: Giving that up, she took a broom and a duster and went upstairs to housemaid Mrs Dibble's bedroom, with her head tied up in a coloured scarf. It was a dusty, snuffy job, for penuriousness in Mrs Dibble refused to throw anything away, including dirt, and if anything fell on the floor it remained there.
Derived words: snuffily
snuffiness
Translations:
nonrecourse
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: Etymology tree
English non-
English recourse
English nonrecourse
From non- + recourse.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a form of financing, typically debt financing, in which the lender's recourse to recovery in the event of default is limited to the collateral asset only.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: nonrecourse loan
Translations:
extinguishment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
English extinguish
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English extinguishment
From extinguish + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: extinguishments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] surely there have been atrocities which demanded of the white man the punishment of the evil-doer; but far more have been the starvings and the flights and the extinguishments which have visited the Indian, for the offence of living […]
gloss: The annihilation or extinction of a right or obligation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
sacrificer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k-
Proto-Indo-European *-rós
Proto-Indo-European *sh₂krós
Proto-Italic *sakros
Old Latin sacros
Latin sacerder.
Latin sacrum
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
Proto-Italic *θakjō
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Latin faciō
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ium
Latin sacrificiumlbor.
Old French sacrifisebor.
Middle English sacrifice
English sacrifice
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 sacrificer
From sacrifice + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: sacrificers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who sacrifices, one who makes a sacrifice.
pos: noun
examples: Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius,
To cut the head off and then hack the limbs,
Like wrath in death and envy afterwards;
For Antony is but a limb of Caesar:
Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius.
In this you’have made the Court the Antipodes,
And will’d your Delegate, the vulgar Sunne,
To doe profane autumnall offices,
Whilst here to you, wee sacrificers runne;
So, when some brawny Sacrificer knocks,
Before an Altar led, an offer’d Ox,
His Eye-balls rooted out, are thrown to Ground;
[…] no sacrifice is valid unless the sacrificer lay his hand upon the head of the victim.
Translations:
ejectment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
English eject
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English ejectment
From eject + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: ejectments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The legal process of ejecting someone from their property or holdings.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She had only, therefore, to save herself an actual ejectment, by quitting a house in which she was exposed to such a disgrace.
gloss: A casting out, an ejection.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
dandyism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dandy
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English dandyism
From dandy + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: dandyisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The manners and dress of a dandy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
brachial
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin bracchialis, from bracchium (“arm”). Doublet of brachialis.
Inflected forms:
form: brachials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining or belonging to the arm.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of the nature of an arm.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Denoting the upper valve of a brachiopod's shell
pos: noun
examples: The first brachials are somewhat broader than long and are not entirely in contact interiorly. The second brachials are squarish. The first and most of the second brachials bear spines […]
Cup conical, weakly developed basal flange, six arms per ray, one exotomous branching, all brachials biserial within two to five brachials of branching, cup ornamentation probably striae radiating from base of arms onto basals.
Derived words: antebrachial
brachial artery
brachialgia
brachially
brachial plexus
cervicobrachial
coracobrachial
faciobrachial
interbrachial
intercostobrachial
intrabrachial
monobrachial
parabrachial
postbrachial
prebrachial
scapulobrachial
spinobrachial
transbrachial
Translations:
arsenical
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰl̥h₃enyomder.
Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ʰr̥Hanyam
Proto-Iranian *jr̥Hanyam
Old Median *zaranyam
Old Median *kā
Old Median *zaraniyakāder.
Middle Persian *zarnīkbor.
Classical Syriac ܙܪܢܝܟܐ (zarnīḵā)der.
Arabic الزَرْنِيخ (az-zarnīḵ)bor.
Byzantine Greek ἀρσενικόν (arsenikón)der.
Latin arsenicum
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 arsenical
From Latin arsenicum + -al.
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more arsenical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most arsenical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: arsenicals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to, or containing, arsenic.
pos: adj
examples: Radio-active baths are said to act favourably in a sexual direction. So too with arsenical springs, cold water treatment, and hydrotherapy.
gloss: Any drug or other substance containing arsenic.
pos: noun
examples: Thus Mercury cures the holes which it has provoked and other Arsenicals do likewise.
Translations:
Corvette
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From corvette (“a small, manoeuvrable warship”).
Inflected forms:
form: Corvettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of sports car, manufactured by Chevrolet from 1953 to present.
pos: noun
Translations:
assimilative
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From the French assimilatif, assimilative, from the Late Latin assimilātīvus; equivalent to assimilate + -ive.
Base: assimilate
Affixes: -ive
Inflected forms:
form: more assimilative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most assimilative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Tending to, or characterized by, assimilation.
pos: adj
Translations:
ranchman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ranch
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
Middle English -man
English -man
English ranchman
From ranch + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: ranchmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An owner or occupant of a ranch
pos: noun
gloss: A laborer on a ranch.
pos: noun
Related words: ranchboy
ranchgirl
ranchwoman
Translations:
irreligion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French irréligion, from Latin irreligiō. By surface analysis, ir- + religion.
Inflected forms:
form: irreligions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being irreligious; irreligious sentiment or thought.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Near-synonyms: atheism, agnosticism
Lucretius' irreligion is too strong, / For early stomachs, to prove wholesome food […]
These often slangly letters censure modern irreligion and urge devotion to religion.
When we put this idea together with that of the other prescription, we see that what the two together demand is that, with respect to their religions and irreligions, all men shall stand before the government as equals.
Translations:
footway
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English fotwei, equivalent to foot + way. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foutwai, German Fußweg.
Compound parts: foot
way
Inflected forms:
form: footways
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A passage reserved only for pedestrians.
pos: noun
examples: On the right, as you enter from Whitechapel Road, is the public footway to Durward Street that will provide a new route across the railway during the day.
Translations:
superincumbent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: sciences
Etymology: From Latin superincumbentem, present participle of superincumbere. By surface analysis, super- + incumbent.
Inflected forms:
form: more superincumbent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most superincumbent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Lying or resting on something else; overlying.
pos: adj
examples: As the vapour cooled the water would be precipitated, and an ocean would surround the spherical nucleus with a superincumbent atmosphere.
[…] alas, on the contrary, what troops and populations of Phantasms, not God-Veracities but Devil-Falsities, down to the very lowest stratum, — which now, by such superincumbent weight of Unveracities, lies enchanted in St. Ives’ Workhouses, broad enough, helpless enough!
Then a superincumbent bundle rolled down, with a whisking noise, flames elongated, and bent themselves about with a quiet roar, but no crackle.
The older Verrucano must have travelled to its present position as it slid and ground its way on the back of the oppressed Lochseiten limestone, which buckled and churned under the superincumbent load.
Translations:
juryman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English jury
English -man
English juryman
From jury + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: jurymen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who is impaneled on a jury, or who serves as a juror.
pos: noun
examples: When we speak of our eyes deceiving us, or of the testimony of our noses being suspect, we are talking as if we and our eyes are two parties in dispute, or as if our noses are in the witness-box while we ourselves are sitting down in the midst of our fellow jurymen.
Translations:
twopenny
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: * From two + penny.
* (head): George Orwell explains this in Down and Out in Paris and London as rhyming slang: head > loaf of bread > twopenny loaf > twopenny.
Compound parts: two
penny
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a value or cost of twopence.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Cheap; worthless; petty.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A pretty degree of knighthood, sir, is that which can be bought with sugar-hogs-heads! and then your twopenny marquisates
As the door slammed Pete turned to Hally, fuming. "Can you tie that? A little twopenny cold frightening him off."
Translations:
appetitive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English appetite
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English appetitive
From appetite + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: more appetitive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most appetitive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having the quality of desiring gratification.
pos: adj
examples: appetitive behavior
appetitive signals
This is a novel that puts gay liberation to the test. It places before us the complex reality of a life of appetitive, atomistic sexuality. It calls into question all the optimism we ever felt about the liberating potential of free sexual expression, in particular, its redemptive potential for rich, white men.
Translations:
rescript
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Latin rescriptum (“written reply”).
Inflected forms:
form: rescripts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rescripts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rescripting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rescripted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rescripted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A clarification of a point of law by a monarch issued upon formal consultation by a lower magistrate.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: "'In order that the people may know of my decision, I request you to prepare at once an imperial rescript that I may broadcast to the nation.'"
gloss: An ad hoc reply of a pope to some specific question of canon law or morality, without precedential force, sometimes (improper) inclusive of decretals which serve as precedents in canon law.
pos: noun
examples: Decretals... ought, properly speaking, to be distinguished, on the one hand from constitutions... enacted by the Pope sua sponte without reference to any particular case, and on the other hand from rescripts... which apply only to special circumstances or individuals, and constitute no general precedent. But this nomenclature is not strictly observed.
gloss: A duplicate copy of a legal document.
pos: noun
gloss: A rewriting, a document copied or written again.
pos: noun
gloss: To script again or anew.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We're rescripting some popular British TV shows for an American audience.
Derived words: rescriptive
Translations:
lang: French
word: rescrit
lang: German
word: Reskript
lang: Polish
word: reskrypt
lang: Russian
word: рескри́пт
roman: reskrípt
dismission
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dismiss
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 -ion
English dismission
From dismiss + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: dismissions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of dismissing or sending away (someone).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Though Mrs Honour was principally attached to her own interest, she was not without some little attachment to Sophia. […] She no sooner therefore heard a piece of news, which she imagined to be of great importance to her mistress, than, quite forgetting the anger which she had conceived two days before, at her unpleasant dismission from Sophia’s presence, she ran hastily to inform her of the news.
gloss: Removal from office; termination of employment or services, or position in ones affections.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I told her […] that her dismission was intended for an indignity to me; that I was very sorry to be obliged to part with her, and hoped she would meet with as good a service.
Fairservice looked very blank at this demand, justly considering it as a presage to approaching dismission.
[…]and if, upon finding his hopes with regard to Rosilia frustrated, she should be so fortunate as once again to bring him to renew his addresses to herself, how great would be her triumph in then giving him his final dismission.
gloss: The setting aside (of something) from consideration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
homelife
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From home + life.
Compound parts: home
life
Inflected forms:
form: homelives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The manner in which a person conducts themselves at home, as opposed to how they act in a professional setting.
pos: noun
examples: They marry, have children and a very "liberated" homelife — she teaches at a college and he stays home with the kids and writes. Everything goes well until Helen dallies with one of her graduate students.
Translations:
downloader
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English down-
English load
English download
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 downloader
From download + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: downloaders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who downloads files from the Internet.
pos: noun
gloss: A computer program that assists with the downloading of files.
pos: noun
examples: The system includes an 8080 and a Z80 assembler, a Tektronix format downloader and other utilities.
Related words: download manager
uploader
Translations:
uploader
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English up-
English load
English upload
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 uploader
From upload + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: uploaders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who uploads files.
pos: noun
gloss: A computer program that assists with the uploading of files.
pos: noun
Related words: downloader
Derived words: reuploader
Translations:
autophagosome
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English auto-
English phago-
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *somHós
Proto-Germanic *samaz
Proto-Germanic *-samaz
Proto-West Germanic *-sam
Old English -sum
Middle English -som
English -some
English phagosome
English autophagosome
From auto- + phagosome.
Inflected forms:
form: autophagosomes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A phagosome in which part of a cell's own cytoplasm is digested
pos: noun
Translations:
subaquatic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
Latin aquāticusder.
Middle French aquatiquebor.
English aquatic
English subaquatic
From sub- + aquatic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Located or living under water; submarine.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
lipofuscin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *leyp-
Proto-Hellenic *lípos
Ancient Greek λῐ́πος (lĭ́pos)der.
English lipo-
English fuscin
English lipofuscin
From lipo- + fuscin.
Inflected forms:
form: lipofuscins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a family of pigmented lipid granules that accumulate in several body tissues.
pos: noun
Translations:
Honda
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 本田 (Honda) or Japanese ホンダ (Honda).
Inflected forms:
form: Hondas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A car of the Honda brand.
pos: noun
examples: Jammed onto a narrow, steep sidewalk, police barricades all around, we march with placards, drums, and angry spirit: "The Moral Majority, cops and Klan. Work together hand in hand." — helmeted tac squad on horses, Hondas, facing us on Powell Street, itching to wield their billy clubs, waiting for any excuse to let fly.
Hondas sound like cars designed by pacifists and humanitarian diplomats. The Accord, Civic, Insight.
It’s a little disconcerting to ponder how much of my happy online childhood was spent hanging out virtually with people who were old enough to own Hondas and go on PornHub^([sic]) on purpose (and definitely people old enough to be active on Reddit), but I loved being a Jammer.
gloss: A motorbike manufactured by Honda.
pos: noun
Translations:
teleoperation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der.
Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor.
English tele-
Latin operātiōder.
Old French operacionbor.
Middle English operacioun
English operation
English teleoperation
From tele- + operation.
Inflected forms:
form: teleoperations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The remote operation of a device
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
fakie
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
snowboarding
sports
Etymology: From fake + -ie?
Base: fake
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: fakies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fakies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fakieing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fakied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fakied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The riding backwards of the board, in the opposite stance.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of riding a BMX bicycle backwards and pedalling with the sprocket movement while moving backwards, then turning the bars away from the desired direction and sliding out so as to ride forwards again.
pos: noun
gloss: A breast implant (almost always used in plural, as "fakies", because a woman has two of them).
pos: noun
gloss: Performed using the fakie stance.
pos: adj
gloss: To ride using a fakie stance.
pos: verb
examples: He used the tilted side as a ramp, grabbed some air, fakied down, and ollied back onto level ground.
Translations:
disengaging
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more disengaging
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most disengaging
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That causes one to lose commitment and interest; alienating.
pos: adj
examples: In a minute or two whe sould bo up to Amy; but already she was rather shrinking from her high purpose, and she hoped that Amy would not be in her most disengaging mood; hoped that she would not, as usual, draw down the shutters of her body over her soul.
As predicted, overall, across the two weeks, Americans reportedly experienced more disengaging emotions (e.g., pride in self, feelings of self-confidence, anger, and frustration) than engaging emotions (e.g., friendly feelings, respect, shame, and guilt).
Although New Zealnd's small and intimate society might have been expected to insulate it from the most disengaging effects of international trends, this has not been the case; indeed, campaigns are in danger of becoming as cynical, vacuous and remote as they are in much larger democracies.
Managing a remote workforce is not easy and working from home all or even part o the time (hybrid working) can be either one of the most engaging or one of the most disengaging experiences possible for an employee, depending on how their manager handles it.
gloss: That causes something to disengage or disconnect.
pos: adj
examples: The combination, with a key-lever provided with a frictionally-pivoted and movable stop, of a check-pin shaft and a disengaging bar or lever for moving said stop to its inoperative position when it has performed its function, substantially as described.
Thus, a Scotch boiler having as a disengaging surface the entire surface of the water in the boiler should have under normal circumstances a low disengaging velocity, and the same should be the case for vertical water-tube boilers.
The results demonstrate that a large TDM error will lead to the disengagement of both sides of the gear teeth, and the larger the TDM error, the more disengaging areas on both sides of the tooth width occur.
Derived words: disengagingly
Translations:
equimolar
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *aikʷos
Latin aiquos
Latin aequus
Latin aequi-der.
English equi-
English molar
English equimolar
From equi- + molar.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Containing the same number of moles (of two or more compounds)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
panzer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in 1940. Borrowed from German Panzer, from Middle High German Panzer (“armour”), from Old French panciere (“coat of mail”), from Latin pantex (“paunch”).
Inflected forms:
form: panzers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tank, especially a German one of World War II.
pos: noun
gloss: The armoured units employed by the German forces in World War II.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
capitalized
sometimes
examples: A Panzer division is composed of 12,000 to 14,000 men, with 3,150 motorized vehicles of all descriptions, ranging from tanks to antitank guns, antiaircraft batteries, motorized supply units transporting food, […]
Derived words: panzer ace
wankpanzer
Translations:
tessellated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Covered with tiles (pieces that are similarly shaped)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The bat and the owl made it their home, the spider wove its dreary tapestry, the grass made its way through the tessellated floors, the moss grew over the untrodden pavement, and the ivy—the fragile and creeping ivy—was now the chief support of the battlements which it had overrun.
The floor of the chamber was tesselated, of marble and green tourmaline, and on every square of tourmaline was carven the image of a fish: […]
Translations:
electrocatalysis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
French électro-bor.
Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor.
Latin ēlectrum
Latin electro-bor.
English electro-
English catalysis
English electrocatalysis
From electro- + catalysis.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: catalysis of a half cell reaction at the surface of an electrode.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
electrocatalyst
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
French électro-bor.
Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor.
Latin ēlectrum
Latin electro-bor.
English electro-
English catalysis
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English catalyst
English electrocatalyst
From electro- + catalyst.
Inflected forms:
form: electrocatalysts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any material, normally employed on the surface or an electrode, that catalyzes a half cell reaction.
pos: noun
Translations:
electrocatalytic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
French électro-bor.
Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor.
Latin ēlectrum
Latin electro-bor.
English electro-
English catalytic
English electrocatalytic
From electro- + catalytic.
Inflected forms:
form: more electrocatalytic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most electrocatalytic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: of or pertaining to electrocatalysis or an electrocatalyst.
pos: adj
Translations:
electrochemically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English electrochemical
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English electrochemically
From electrochemical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: electro-chemically
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: in an electrochemical manner
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: by employing electrochemistry
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
multichannel
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *moltos
Latin multus
Latin multīder.
Middle English multi-
English multi-
English channel
English multichannel
From multi- + channel.
Inflected forms:
form: more multichannel
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most multichannel
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That uses multiple channels to process, receive, or transmit signals
pos: adj
Translations: