yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
cappa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
palynology
physical-sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin cappa. Doublet of capa and cape.
Inflected forms:
form: cappae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The thick wall on the proximal side of the corpus of a pollen grain.
pos: noun
Translations:
bachelorhood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bachelor
Proto-Indo-European *keyt-der.
Proto-Germanic *haiduzder.
Proto-West Germanic *-haiduder.
Old English -hād
Middle English -hede
English -hood
English bachelorhood
From bachelor + -hood.
Inflected forms:
form: bachelorhoods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being a bachelor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He had been alone, girlfriendless, for nearly a year, and had sort of adjusted to bachelorhood […]
Translations:
connector
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
card-games
computing
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
poker
road
sciences
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin nectō
Latin cōnectō
Latin connectō
English connect
English -or
English connector
From connect + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: connectors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who connects; a networker.
pos: noun
examples: There are only a few genuine social connectors. True connectors collect people like other collectors collect stamps.
gloss: A device (or, more precisely, a mating pair of devices, often a plug and a socket) for connecting together two wires, cables, or hoses, allowing electricity or fluid to flow but also allowing easy disconnection and reconnection when necessary.
pos: noun
examples: Because SCSI is actually a family of standards, each with its own cable and connector, matching cables and connectors to the appropriate SCSI “family member” is important.
gloss: A highway or freeway road which connects to another highway or freeway. It can be part of an interchange or a longer roadway such as the 1.5 mile (2.5 kilometer) U.S. Route 24 Connector.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A line connecting two shapes in presentation software.
pos: noun
gloss: A software component that provides access from an application program to an external database or data source, such as a JDBC connector.
pos: noun
examples: The X.400 connector can be used to connect two Exchange sites or to connect an Exchange site to a foreign X.400 messaging system.
gloss: A map which can be defined for a linear connection.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of a group of cards of consecutive face value, useful in forming straights etc.
pos: noun
Derived words: banana connector
barrel nut connector
blade connector
BNC connector
cone connector
connectorize
connectorless
DIN connector
dock connector
dot connector
Euroconnector
microconnector
miniconnector
Molex connector
park connector
thimble connector
TRS connector
wire connector
Translations:
cacher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cache
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 cacher
From cache + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: cachers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who caches.
pos: noun
examples: Of “World War II — Austin,” which turns out to lead cachers to a war memorial, a poster named Sumbirdy wrote, “We enjoy virtual caches,” and then, “Thank goodness for the oldies!”)
Translations:
fur-flying
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Since a particularly vicious fight between cats or other animals sends fur flying.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Vicious.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
informal
examples: 2006: 'Anticlimactic as it may have been, the news last week that Meredith Vieira would replace Katie Couric on the “Today” show marked the dénouement of a fur-flying, nail-biting, years-long game of musical chairs among television’s leading ladies.' — The New Yorker, 17 April 2006, page 27.
Translations:
chaperone
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
business
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: See chaperon.
Inflected forms:
form: chaperones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chaperones
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chaperoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chaperoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chaperoned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.
pos: noun
gloss: A protein that assists the non-covalent folding/unfolding and the assembly/disassembly of other macromolecular structures, but does not occur in these structures when the latter are performing their normal biological functions.
pos: noun
gloss: An employee sent by a British company to the European Union to work with a client there, to circumvent restrictions imposed after Brexit.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: To act as a chaperone.
pos: verb
examples: They played you off very cunning, Eliza. If it had been only one of them, you could have nailed him. But you see, there was two; and one of them chaperoned the other, as you might say.
'Purcell had volunteered to chaperone a delegation of female students'
TfL has more than enough to be getting on with each day without having to chaperone TV crews.
gloss: To work as a chaperone.
pos: verb
tags: UK
Derived words: autochaperone
bichaperone
chaperokine
chaperome
chaperoneless
chaperoneship
chaperonic
chaperonin
chaperonopathy
cochaperone
heterochaperone
metallochaperone
molybdochaperone
multichaperone
pharmacochaperone
superchaperone
Translations:
pilocarpine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Translingual Pilocarpus
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ine
English pilocarpine
From Translingual Pilocarpus (“genus name”) + English -ine.
Inflected forms:
form: pilocarpines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A miotic alkaloid C₁₁H₁₆N₂O₂ obtained from jaborandi that is used chiefly in the form of its hydrochloride or nitrate especially in the treatment of glaucoma.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
muscarine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From the fungus Amanita muscaria, from Latin musca (“fly”).
Inflected forms:
form: muscarines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An extremely poisonous alkaloid, obtained from fly agaric, that disrupts the action of acetylcholine neurotransmitter.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
muscarinic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English muscarine
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English muscarinic
From muscarine + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more muscarinic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most muscarinic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: muscarinics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to muscarinic acetylcholine receptors, usually with regard to agonism or antagonism (blocking) of receptor activity.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or pertaining to muscarine.
pos: adj
gloss: A muscarinic drug: one that modulates (enhances or blocks) the activity of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors.
pos: noun
Derived words: antimuscarinic
Translations:
pharmacologically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek φάρμᾰκον (phármăkon)der.
English pharmaco-
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
Latin -logialbor.
French -logiebor.
English -logy
English pharmacology
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
English pharmacological
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English pharmacologically
From pharmacological + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a pharmacological manner; with regard to pharmacology.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
pharmacologic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: pharmacologics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relating to pharmacology
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Such a drug
pos: noun
Translations:
cashew
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Reanalysis of French acajou as a + cajou, from Old Tupi akaîu. Doublet of acajou.
Inflected forms:
form: cashews
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tree, Anacardium occidentale, native to northeastern Brazil, now widely grown in tropical climates for its cashew nuts and cashew apples.
pos: noun
examples: Soft-wood grafting and veneer grafting are successful in cashew.
Also known as the Native Cashew, it is a member of the Anacardiaceae, the same plant family to which the Cashew and Mango trees belong.
Cashew (Anacardium occidental L.) is an export-oriented crop grown for its nuts, a true drupe.
gloss: A cashew nut.
pos: noun
examples: In some countries, cashews continue to be cracked manually although cracking machinery and other shelling mechanisms have been introduced.
The bland cashew is a fitting substitute for higher priced almonds to extend the nut texture. In baking, however, almonds are more suitable for cake decoration than cashews.
This is a spicy variation of Kung Pao Chicken using cashews rather than the more common peanuts.
Derived words: cashew apple
cashew bird
cashewlike
cashew milk
cashew nut
cashew nutshell liquid
cashew tree
Otaheite cashew
wild cashew
Translations:
urushiol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Japanese 漆 (うるし, urushi, “lacquer tree”) + -ol (“oil”).
Affixes: -ol
Inflected forms:
form: urushiols
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An oil found in plants of the family Anacardiaceae, causing an allergic skin rash on contact; consists of a variable mixture of several related organic compounds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: All three produce an oil, called urushiol, that is a potent allergen. Urushiol is most abundant in the leaves and stems of these plants...
Poison ivy vines also contain the irritating oil urushiol, so it is important to be able to recognize them in winter.
Upon exposure to air, urushiol can turn dark brown, which makes it easier to spot.
Translations:
funicular
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
geometry
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin fūniculus (“thinner cord”), diminutive from fūnis (“rope, cord”) + -culus. By surface analysis, funicul(us) + -ar.
Inflected forms:
form: funiculars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, resembling, or powered by a rope or cable.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or pertaining to the umbilical cord.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having a fleshy covering of the seed formed from the funiculus, the attachment point of the seed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Synonym of catenary.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A particular type of rail transit system which ascends a steep urban or mountain incline, having usually two cars sharing a single pair of tracks, with the cars linked by a moving cable and an arrangement of pulleys such that the descending car assists in the hoisting of the ascending car, i.e. the two cars serve as counterweights for each other.
pos: noun
examples: England's funiculars mostly hug the coast, and this is no coincidence. The development of the Victorian and Edwardian seaside resort played a central role in the uptake of funicular railways across England.
Derived words: intrafunicular
perifunicular
Translations:
counterweight
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Italic *-teros
Proto-Italic *komterosder.
Proto-Italic *komterād
Latin contrāder.
Old French contre-
Anglo-Norman countre-bor.
Middle English counter-
English counter-
English weight
English counterweight
From counter- + weight.
Inflected forms:
form: counterweights
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: counterweights
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: counterweighting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: counterweighted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: counterweighted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A heavy mass of often iron or concrete, mechanically linked in opposition to a load which is to be raised and lowered, with the intent of reducing the amount of work which must be done to effect the raising and lowering. Counterweights are used, for example, in cable-hauled elevators and some kinds of movable bridges (e.g. a bascule bridge).
pos: noun
examples: Four 110-ton counterweights, one in each tower, make this feat possible by reducing the effective weight to be lifted to some 25 tons; but an additional 20 tons (a very heavy snow load) can be lifted if necessary.
Like other supertall towers, 432 Park relies on the counterweight system to address the forces of wind and reduce the feeling of swaying for residents.
gloss: A counterbalance.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: A counterweight to the anti-immigrant fear mongering of the former leader of the right-wing U.K. Independence Party, Nigel Farage, Lexiteers^([sic]) argued a left-wing, democratic and internationalist case for Brexit.
gloss: To fit with a counterweight.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The lifting span, which rises vertically between the towers, weighs 465 tons and is counterweighted by four 110-ton weights.
Everything on the grid – all the backdrops and curtains, anything that has to move up and down from the fly-tower – has to be counterweighted.
Translations:
slunk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From an allusive sense of slink (“to bring forth young prematurely”).
Inflected forms:
form: slunks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An animal, especially a calf, born prematurely or abortively.
pos: noun
examples: Then I met a great guy, Placenta Juan the Afterbirth Tycoon. Made his in slunks during the war. (Slunks are underage calves trailing afterbirths and bacteria, generally in an unsanitary and unfit condition.)
Calf heads were tanned from yearling calves less than a year in age. Slunk skins were tanned from unborn calfskins which, gruesome as it sounds, were often by products of the cow slaughtering process.
Translations:
jel
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of jealous.
Inflected forms:
form: more jel
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most jel
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: jeal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: jealous
pos: adj
tags: UK
slang
examples: 2012 May 12, Kate Middleton looked amaze at London Olympic Gala concert, totally jel of the dress!, OK! Magazine
What more could a girl want? Everyone that I knew was either so happy for me, or completely well jel of me.
We can't figure out if we're more jel of her insane bod or luxurious lifestyle.
Translations:
zem
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: zems
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A zemidjan.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: The name of the hotel will draw a blank with most zems so try asking for 'Les Paillotes'.
The omnipresence of zems (zemijohns; motorbike taxis) has translated into the near disappearance of car taxis […]
Translations:
oga
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Yoruba ọ̀gábor.
English oga
Borrowed from Yoruba ọ̀gá (“chief, master”).
Inflected forms:
form: ogas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A chief, employer, or superior.
pos: noun
tags: Africa
West
examples: Nigeria is not a nation of sandwich-eating people and his last oga did not eat bread in the afternoon.
Translations:
sega
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A genre of popular music mainly associated with Mauritius.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
malu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Samoan malu.
Inflected forms:
form: malus
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A culturally significant tattoo on a Samoan woman's upper leg.
pos: noun
Translations:
manca
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: mancae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mancus (old coin)
pos: noun
Translations:
limba
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: limbas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large African tree, Terminalia superba, whose hard wood is used for furniture, table tennis paddles and musical instruments.
pos: noun
examples: This was the wood of the limba tree — a native of the Mayumbe forest — from which is produced a beautifully grained, blond, high-quality veneer for plywood and other uses.
Limba occurred in blocks a, c and d and varied from 0.1 to 0.6 exploitable trees per hectare on average.
Because of the decline of harvestable Limba trees in natural forests, a reforestation program was then undertaken by the government using local seed sources [5].
Translations:
morto
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Clipping of mortified + -o.
Affixes: -o
Inflected forms:
form: more morto
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most morto
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very embarrassed or embarrassing.
pos: adj
tags: Ireland
slang
examples: I was, to use the vernacular, bleedin' morto. My shame notwithstanding, the whole day was a blast.
Robbie’s had some pretty embarrassing moments over the years. What better time than now to take a stroll down memory lane? Here are his most morto moments.
Yes, Dan left the game early because he "wanted to miss the traffic and get a kebab on the way home" - after which Coventry scored twice. Morto.
Translations:
niu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: nius
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tall pole with yardarms from which hung ropes, circled by worshippers in the Pai Mārire religious movement.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
historical
Translations:
scratching
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: scratchings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or sound of something being scratched.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We heard further scratchings at the door as the dog whined to be let in.
It was early on the fifteenth day that I heard a curious familiar sequence of sounds in the kitchen, and, listening, identified it as the snuffing and scratching of a dog.
gloss: A pork scratching.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 'Ugggghhhhh!' she made a face at the packet. 'Oink, oink!' Cosmo laughed, waving a scratching near her face.
gloss: Record scratching, a technique of starting and stopping a vinyl record from playing to produce music in hip hop.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
in-plural
uncountable
examples: We all had a portion of chips and one fish was shared between all of us. Sometimes the lady serving would give us a free bag of scratchings (the bits of batter).
The crispy bits of batter and small crispy chips that were left at the end of the night were given away to whoever needed them. If he could, Cesidio would throw in a free 'haddie' or a haggis with the scratchings, offering a helping hand discreetly, with no thanks asked for.
The best thing is, you pay for the chips and you get the pea wet and scratchings for free. It's lovely. You should try it.
Derived words: scratching post
Translations:
topi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Swahili topi. From Mende ndope (“antelope”).
Inflected forms:
form: topis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: topi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An antelope of the species Damaliscus korrigum syn. Damaliscus lunatus.
pos: noun
Translations:
mundanely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mundane
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English mundanely
From mundane + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more mundanely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most mundanely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: in a mundane manner
pos: adv
gloss: in a worldly manner
pos: adv
Translations:
hank
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
nautical
politics
sports
transport
war
wrestling
Etymology: From Middle English hank, of Scandinavian/North Germanic origin; akin to Old Norse hǫnk (compare haki (“something bent”)), related to Proto-Germanic *hakô (“hook”). Akin to Old English hangian (“to hang”). First known use: 14th century.
Inflected forms:
form: hanks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hanks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hanking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hanked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hanked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A coil or loop of something, especially twine, yarn, or rope.
pos: noun
examples: 1681, E.R., The Experienced Farrier, London, p. 307,
[…] the best thing of all to stop bleeding at the Nose, is to take a Hank of Coventry-blew thread, and hang it cross a stick, and set one end of it on fire […] and let him receive the smoak up his Nostrils […]
Cotton twist is spun here of 130 hanks to the pound. Each hank is 840 yards long […]
[…] her hair was as straight as a hank of cotton.
The past year or two had brought knitting-needles into countenance for men, and he saw no reason why he should not put a few hanks of yarn into shape useful for himself.
He found a hank of clothesline on a counter.
gloss: A ring or shackle that secures a staysail to its stay and allows the sail to glide smoothly up and down.
pos: noun
gloss: Doubt, difficulty.
pos: noun
tags: Ulster
gloss: Mess, tangle.
pos: noun
tags: Ulster
gloss: A rope or withe for fastening a gate.
pos: noun
gloss: Hold; influence.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Seldom doth a man fall into a Preſumptuous Sin, but vvhere the Devil hath got ſuch a hanke over him, […]
gloss: A throw in which a wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, twines his left leg about his opponent's right leg from the inside, and throws him backward.
pos: noun
gloss: To form into hanks.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To fasten with a rope, as a gate.
pos: verb
tags: UK
dialectal
transitive
examples: where stood a fyne howse newly built and vaulted, over wheron her armes was sett and hanked with tapestrye
Translations:
nicotinamide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Blend of nicotine + amide, equivalent to nicotine + -amide.
Base: nicotine
Affixes: -amide
Inflected forms:
form: nicotinamides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The amide of nicotinic acid (or niacin).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Sinclair also takes 1 gram of NMN, or nicotinamide mononucleotide, which in the body turns into NAD+, or nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide.
Translations:
haughtiness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English hauteynesse, hautenesse, from Middle English hautein (“proud, haughty”), from Old French hautain + Middle English -nesse. Reanalysed in Modern English as haughty + -ness.
Base: haughty
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: haughtinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or property of being haughty; arrogance, snobbery.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
frighteningly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English frightening
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English frighteningly
From frightening + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more frighteningly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most frighteningly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a frightening or terrifying manner.
pos: adv
gloss: Very; beyond usual expectation so as to cause surprise or concern.
pos: adv
examples: The pitcher that was set before me was frighteningly large.
Risk is everywhere.[…]For each [kind] there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you. “The Norm Chronicles”[…]aims to help data-phobes find their way through this blizzard of risks.
Translations:
lowlander
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lowland
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 lowlander
From lowland + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: lowlanders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who inhabits the Scottish Lowlands.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: Anyone who lives in a lowland region.
pos: noun
gloss: anyone who is not living on the Cordillera Mountain Range.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
derogatory
Translations:
low-fat
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lower-fat
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: lowest-fat
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not having a high number of calories from fat or great amount of fats, especially an alternate variety of food designed to have lower calories, dietetic.
pos: adj
examples: a low-fat diet
Translations:
lowbrow
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: art
arts
Etymology: A bahuvrihi compound of low + brow. An Americanism whose first use appears c. 1902. Refers to the (by that time discredited) pseudoscience of phrenology, which suggested that a person of low intelligence and sophistication would possess a lower brow-line than someone of greater intelligence and sophistication.
Compound parts: low
brow
Inflected forms:
form: more lowbrow
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lowbrow
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: low-brow
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: lowbrows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: low-brow
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Unsophisticated, not intended for an audience of intelligence, education or culture.
pos: adj
examples: The Three Stooges are known for their lowbrow slapstick humor consisting of foolish action for the masses.
gloss: Someone or something of low education or culture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: An underground populist visual art movement that arose in the Los Angeles area in the late 1960s, inspired by comics, punk music, graffiti, etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Synonyms: idiot
Antonyms: highbrow
Related words: highbrow
middlebrow
no-brow
Translations:
polyol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From poly- + -ol.
Base: poly
Inflected forms:
form: polyols
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any organic compound having multiple hydroxyl functional groups, such as polyhydric alcohols.
pos: noun
examples: a team at the Ames Research Center in California announced that the Murchison rock also contained complex strings of sugars called polyols, which had not been found off the Earth before.
Translations:
hemiacetal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sēmi
Ancient Greek ἡμῐ- (hēmĭ-)lbor.
English hemi-
English acetal
English hemiacetal
From hemi- + acetal.
Inflected forms:
form: hemiacetals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a class of compounds of general formula R₁R₂C(OH)OR' (where R' is not H and R₁ or R₂ is often hydrogen).
pos: noun
Translations:
boof
Part of speech: intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
Etymology: Imitative. Kayaking sense from the onomatopoeic sound a kayak makes when it lands on the water after “ski jumping” the waterfall forming the backwash; generally attributed to whitewater kayaking aficionados in the eastern United States in the mid- to late 1970s.
Inflected forms:
form: boofs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: boofs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: boofing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: boofed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: boofed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The sound of a blow or collision; wham.
pos: intj
tags: colloquial
examples: The barman vaulted over the bar and hauled him off and went boof! – right in the Boer's chest, and down he went. As he settled on the floor we ran upstairs.
gloss: A dog's low, deep bark.
pos: intj
examples: "You scared me."
"Boof, boof," the dog answered.
gloss: A “jump” over hydraulic backwash in a high-gradient mountain river, an action analogous to a skier jumping a cliff.
pos: noun
gloss: To make this sound.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To make a boof jump when whitewater kayaking, rafting, etc.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To surface quickly and catch prey by gulping, a behaviour which produces an audible sound.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: hardcore
Translations:
churchgoer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From church + goer.
Compound parts: church
goer
Inflected forms:
form: churchgoers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who regularly goes to church; a practicing Christian.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: chapelgoer
Well, one Christmas Eve, just like to-night, she thought she would go to the morning service on the Christmas Day, for she was a great church-goer, and so she left out some coffee with the girl before she went to bed, that she might get a cup next morning she was sure a cup of warm coffee would do her a great deal of good at that early hour!
A forced churchgoer has no religion, a terrified churchgoer has no Christianity, a bribed churchgoer has no morals.
Translations:
poult
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English pult, a variant of pulet, polet, from Old French poulet (“young fowl”), diminutive of poule (“hen”), from Latin pulla. For the development of the stressed vowel, see poultry. Doublet of pullet.
Inflected forms:
form: poults
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: powt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A young bird, a chick; now especially, a young game bird (turkey, partridge, grouse etc.).
pos: noun
examples: ‘I even questioned,’ said he, ‘whether there will not be, in about a week's time, some nice turkey powts.’
And, besides, she [the old grouse's wife] was the mother of a family, and had seven little poults to wash and feed every day; […]
After an hour of fishing I saw a flock of turkeys on the opposite bank and shot one of the poults.
Translations:
gatecrash
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gate
English crash
English gatecrash
From gate + crash.
Inflected forms:
form: gatecrashes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gatecrashing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gatecrashed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gatecrashed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: gatecrashes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To attend a social event without having been invited, or without having paid.
pos: verb
examples: “[…] I mean, she doesn’t belong to the Society—“
”What Society?”
”The Society that was meeting. I think she pushed in for a joke.”
”Gate-crashed you? […]”
After Walsh was seen being escorted out as he attempted to gatecrash the interview, liberal viewers shared their outrage at Walsh's mocking of their convention.
gloss: An instance of gatecrashing a party, event, etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Part of a traditional Chinese wedding ceremony in which the groom and his groomsmen complete several difficult or embarrassing tasks prepared by the bridesmaids to prove his love for the bride.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: We’ve heard of stories of grooms getting nervous before their big day – not because they’re afraid of botching their vows, or welling up in unmanly but happy tears – but because of the tasks that await them during the gatecrashing ceremony.
For their wedding day, Mr Koh, who's 33 and works in marketing, arrived at his bride's house for the gatecrashing ceremony wearing a Darth Vader mask, while his groomsmen were decked out in Jedi robes.
During the 30-minute gatecrash, Mr Lee and his groomsmen did challenges such as forming a human pyramid and dancing to pop tunes such as Britney Spears' Toxic.
Madam Quek says: "Because my husband and most of the groomsmen are not Chinese, it was their first time experiencing a Chinese wedding gatecrash."
Translations:
unquestionable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + question + -able, compare questionable.
Base: question
Affixes: un-
-able
Inflected forms:
form: more unquestionable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unquestionable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unquæstionable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Undeniable, obvious.
pos: adj
examples: See the frowardneſſe of this Man, he would perſwade us that the Succeſſion and divine Right of Biſhopdom hath bin unqueſtionable through all Ages;
Too bad Locke's idea didn't catch on; the thought of measuring things in philosophical feet has an unquestionable poignance.
While their worth is unquestionable, these arias do not equate in form or intention with the classically defined art song.
Things that had been permanent and unquestionable were suddenly thrown into doubt.
Translations:
unsafe
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English safe
English unsafe
From un- (not) + safe.
Inflected forms:
form: more unsafe
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: unsafer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unsafe
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unsafest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unsafes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unsafing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unsafed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unsafed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Not safe (various senses); dangerous.
pos: adj
examples: For much the same reasons that safe languages are preferred over unsafe languages, these powerful---but unsafe---capabilities in Java should be restricted.
"RMT has made it clear that our members have a right to refuse to work in unsafe conditions, and the union will be closely monitoring the situation. [...]"
Even as FDA works to develop that plan, consumers continue to be exposed to unsafe food chemicals including not just dyes but also the artificial sweetener aspartame, the white pigment titanium dioxide, the preservative propylparaben, and the phthalate food packaging chemicals, according to CSPI.
gloss: To remove the safety from (a weapon).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
shonky
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From 1970s; possibly from dialectal English shonk (“smart”).
Inflected forms:
form: shonkier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: shonkiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: shonkies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shonk
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of poor or dubious quality, shoddy, unreliable; deviously dishonest, fraudulent.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
informal
examples: 1986, Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand, ANZJS: The Australian & New Zealand Journal of Sociology, Volume 22, page 475,
The argument gets even shonkier when they claim that the boundary between clerical and administrative work is difficult to define anyway, and that routinisation and fragmentation have affected lower and middle management too (pp. 95–6).
The committee heard much evidence that this is a farce, yet this government have continued to try to pretend that their forecast, based on the shonkiest of assumptions—their model, with the shonkiest of assumptions—is really what is going to happen.
He might be a dole-bludger, a gambler and have the shonkiest tattoo in the world on his arm, but he'll agree to almost anything.
From no-brow beginnings, when BSG [Battlestar Galactica] still had to prove it had outwitted the shonky source material, the show gained cult respect and a few more viewers by the second year.
That′s why it is infuriating that there are still so many sharks out there who are determined to rip men off with shonky treatments that simply don′t work.
Marred by shonky direction and factual errors, the film did nothing to enhance Kathner′s already poor reputation.
gloss: A dishonest person.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
informal
examples: It is clear from Mr Boyd's evidence that the Union is hoping as a result of its application to obtain an award provision which would control the practices of the "crooks and shonkies in the industry".
Mr BILLSON—and they are being called shonkies and all sorts of things by the Labor Party[…].
I could hear the tenants talking above me and they were laughing about how they had ripped of the public transport system. I made up my mind that as they were obvious shonkies, I wouldn't give any leeway and, if they didn't pay on the spot, I would disconnect supply.
Translations:
magpie-goose
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: magpie-geese
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: magpie goose
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A bird of species Anseranas semipalmata, the only non-extinct bird of the family Anseranatidae, resident breeder in northern Australia and southern New Guinea, having black and white plumage and yellowish legs.
pos: noun
Translations:
enforcement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Old French enforcement, see enforce + -ment.
Base: enforce
Affixes: -ment
Inflected forms:
form: enforcements
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: inforcement
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of enforcing; compulsion.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: [M]en lyued ſimplye and innocentlye without inforcement of lawes, without quarellinge Judges and libelles, contente onely to ſatiſfie nature, without further vexation for knowledge of thinges to come.
And as congressional Republicans were passing a very unpopular Trump agenda bill last month, Vice President JD Vance argued that its historic expansion of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and new immigration enforcement provisions were so important that “everything else” was “immaterial.”
gloss: A giving force to; a putting in execution.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: That which enforces, constraints, gives force, authority, or effect to; constraint; force applied.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Derived words: civil enforcement officer
code enforcement
debt enforcement
enforcement agent
enforcement authority
law enforcement
nonenforcement
overenforcement
underenforcement
Translations:
apples
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: * (stairs): From Cockney rhyming slang apples and pears.
* (nice): From Australian rhyming slang apples and spice or apples and rice.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Nice, fine.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
Australian
not-comparable
slang
examples: Day like today, perfect. Wind's right, sea's easy, everything's apples. Anybody can sail today.
Translations:
ack-ack
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From ack (“A”) + ack (“A”), RAF WWI signalese for AA (“anti-aircraft”). (In modern signalese it would be called alpha-alpha.)
Inflected forms:
form: ack-acks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Antiaircraft artillery.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: The army fired upon us with ack-ack.
Ack-acks were set up in the square.
He had thought how down there on the ground, on enemy soil, there were probably hundreds of Ivys, nice Fräuleins with buck teeth and fiancés on U-boats, manning the German ack-ack, all united in an effort to kill him.
gloss: Antiaircraft fire.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: The bomber flew through heavy ack-ack.
Synonyms: AAA
AA
Translations:
countersign
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle French contresigne. Equivalent to counter- + sign.
Base: sign
Affixes: counter-
Inflected forms:
form: countersigns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: countersigns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: countersigning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: countersigned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: countersigned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A second signature added to a document to affirm the validity of the signature of the first person.
pos: noun
gloss: The response to a sign or signal.
pos: noun
examples: Only those who give the countersign may enter the Masonic Lodge.
gloss: To sign on the opposite side of (a document).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To add a second signature to a document, affirming the validity of the signature of another person.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
transitive
Derived words: countersigner
Translations:
chakram
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Sanskrit चक्रम् (cakram), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos. Doublet of chakra, charkha, chukker, cycle, cyclus, kike, and wheel.
Inflected forms:
form: chakrams
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A disc-like throwing weapon from India.
pos: noun
Translations:
tur
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian тур (tur). Doublet of steer and Taurus.
Inflected forms:
form: turs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of species Capra caucasica (West Caucasian tur) or Capra cylindricornis (East Caucasian tur of wild goats native to Caucasus.
pos: noun
examples: Then to Hanukkah's mild surprise a voice rose up and, with laconic precision, likened this rumored brother Alp to the secretion on the nether parts of a she-tur.
Translations:
lur
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Danish lur, Norwegian lur, and Swedish lur, all from Old Norse lúðr (“trumpet”).
Inflected forms:
form: lurs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lure
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lurr
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A long natural blowing horn without finger holes, played by embouchure.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
baby-snatcher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: baby-snatchers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who kidnaps a baby.
pos: noun
Translations:
snatcher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English snatch
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 snatcher
From snatch + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: snatchers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who snatches, or steals by snatching.
pos: noun
examples: He'd thought it through and decided that he needed a swift reaction team to outsnatch the snatchers.
Translations:
munter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Late 1990s, presumably from munt (“to vomit”) and munted (“inebriated; disgusting”) + -er, perhaps with influence from Turkish mantar (“mushroom”).
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: munters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ugly person.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
derogatory
slang
examples: I'm never going to date her; she's a right munter.
gloss: A person often impaired by alcohol or recreational drugs.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
slang
examples: He's a real munter; he was really munted at the party.
Related words: muntered
munted
Derived words: munting
Translations:
plier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ply
English -er
English plier
From ply + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: pliers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who plies.
pos: noun
Related words: pliers
Derived words: plier wrenches
Translations:
presumption
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From pre- + Latin sūmptus + -ion, from Middle English presumpcioun, presumption, from Old French presumption and its etymon Latin praesūmptiō.
Affixes: pre-
Inflected forms:
form: presumptions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of presuming, or something presumed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Yet, in contradiction to all these very plausible presumptions, even this remote period teems with its own peculiar and separate instruction.
gloss: The belief of something based upon reasonable evidence, or upon something known to be true.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The presumption is that an event has taken place.
I have here imputed the Continuance of the War to the mutual Indulgence between our General and Allies, wherein they both so well found their Accounts; to the Fears of the Mony-changers, left their Tables should be overthrown; to the Designs of the Whigs, who apprehended the Loss of their Credit and Employments in a Peace; and to those at home, who held their immoderate Engrossments of Power and Favour, by no other Tenure than their own Presumption upon the Necessity of Affairs.
gloss: The condition upon which something is presumed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Arrogant behaviour; the act of venturing beyond due bounds of reverence or respect.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: Note the preſumption of this Scythian ſlaue:
I tel thee villaine, thoſe that lead my horſe
Haue to their names tytles of dignitie,
And dar’ſt thou bluntly cal me Baiazeth?
Thy son I killed for his presumption.
[…]yet even then, I had the preſumption to Dedicate to your Lordſhip: A very unfiniſh'd Piece […]
“Let me be rightly understood. This match, to which you have the presumption to aspire, can never take place. No, never. Mr. Darcy is engaged to my daughter. Now what have you to say?”
“If I had not persuaded Harriet into liking the man, I could have borne any thing. He might have doubled his presumption to me—but poor Harriet!”
gloss: An inference that a trier of fact is either permitted or required to draw under certain factual circumstances (as prescribed by statute or case law) unless the party against whom the inference is drawn is able to rebut it with admissible, competent evidence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The state, in the exercise of its general power to prescribe rules of evidence, may provide that proof of a particular fact, or of several facts taken collectively, shall be prima facie evidence of another fact when there is some rational connection between the fact proved and the ultimate fact presumed. The legislative presumption is invalid when it is entirely arbitrary, or creates an invidious discrimination, or operates to deprive a party of a reasonable opportunity to present the pertinent facts in his defense.
Synonyms: overhope
Related words: presumptive
presumptuous
Derived words: conclusive presumption
overpresumption
presumption of innocence
violent presumption
Translations: