yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
featherbed
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English feather
Proto-Germanic *badją
Proto-West Germanic *badi
Old English bedd
Middle English bed
English bed
English featherbed
From feather + bed.
Inflected forms:
form: featherbeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: feather bed
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: featherbeds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: featherbedding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: featherbedded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: featherbedded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: feather-bed
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A mattress stuffed with feathers.
pos: noun
gloss: An area of bog where a layer of moss covers a pool of water or mud, presenting a hazard to walkers who may fall through it. (Also in UK and Irish placenames.)
pos: noun
tags: UK
especially
examples: There are mires, bogs, and 'featherbeds' or quaking bogs. With the first two, look for the tussocks of heavy grass or rushes around the edges, which offer a relatively firm footing, but if you see a stretch of bright green sphagnum moss, for God's sake stay away from it. The moss is a mat covering a pit of wet ooze; […]
[…] bog. The writers and the old fellows you meet in pubs will tell you to look out for grass or 'bright green areas', and to fear the land that looks the easiest; but bogs - 'featherbeds', the locals call them - might be marked[…]
[...] a featherbed bog of moss and cotton grasses. Much of their effort has just burned away to nothing — the peat giving[…]
gloss: A soft, slow pitch of predictable bounce.
pos: noun
gloss: To treat someone with excessive indulgence; to pamper, cosset or mollycoddle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To engage in featherbedding; to employ more workers than necessary to fulfill a labor union requirement.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: feather one's nest
Translations:
lifehack
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From life + hack. Apparently based upon a comparison between real life and the digital sphere (and, perhaps, video games).
Compound parts: life
hack
Inflected forms:
form: lifehacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: life hack
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any process or technique that reduces the chaos in one's life and makes it easier to manage, or more convenient.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: The sharing or communication of such a technique: synonym of life pro tip (but see usage note).
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
Related words: cheat code
one weird trick
Derived words: lifehacker
lifehacking
Translations:
Markan
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Mark
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Markan
From Mark + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Marcan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to Mark the Evangelist.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Mamu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An aboriginal people of Australia.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
repartition
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French répartition.
Inflected forms:
form: repartitions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: repartitions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: repartitioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: repartitioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: repartitioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A distribution or apportioning of something again.
pos: noun
gloss: The formatting of a hard drive, a database, etc. into different partitions.
pos: noun
gloss: To format (a hard drive, a database, etc.) into different partitions.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: repartitionable
Translations:
poniard
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French poignard, from poing (“fist”), from Old French poing, from Latin pugnus (“fist”).
Inflected forms:
form: poniards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: poignard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: poinard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: poynard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: punierd
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: poniards
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: poniarding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: poniarded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: poniarded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: poignard
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: poinard
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: poynard
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: punierd
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A dagger typically having a slender square or triangular blade.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The sir King ha's wag'd with him six Barbary horses, / against the which he impon'd as I take it, sixe French / Rapiers and Poniards, with their assignes, as Girdle, / Hangers or so[…].
You yeoman phevvterer, conduct mee to / The Lady of the manſion, or my poniard / Shall diſemboge thy ſoule.
One of the tragic authors, finding himself assaulted in the dark, had, by way of poinard, employed upon his adversary's throat a knife which lay upon the table, for the convenience of cutting cheese […].
A Poynard is more sure to wound a man, which forsomuch as it requireth more motion and vigor of the arme, than a pistol, it's stroke is more subject to be hindred or avoyded.
On this occasion I said nothing, but concealing his poniard in my clothes, I hasted up the mountain, determined to execute my purpose […].
The gaunt men carried swords and daggers with a new familiarity, and even the women had poniards belted at their waists.
gloss: To stab with a poniard.
pos: verb
examples: Manfred […] would have poignarded the peasant in their arms.
Translations:
linac
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Contraction of linear accelerator.
Inflected forms:
form: linacs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A linear particle accelerator.
pos: noun
examples: Usually such ‘linacs’ are short, low-energy machines, but they can be high energy and lengthy, as at the Stanford Linear Accelerator in California.
Translations:
Jaysus
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Jasus
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Jesus
pos: intj
tags: Ireland
informal
Translations:
tom-tit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the common given name Tom and tit, as in titmouse.
Inflected forms:
form: tom-tits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various birds in the Paridae family, especially the great tit (Parus major) or blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus).
pos: noun
gloss: Petroica macrocephala, the miromiro or New Zealand tit, a bird of the Petroicidae (Australasian robin) family.
pos: noun
Related words: tom tit
Translations:
speculate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
computing
engineering
finance
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin speculātus, perfect active participle of speculor (“to watch, observe, examine, spy”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from specula (“a watchtower”), ultimately from speciō (“to look at”).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: speculates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: speculating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: speculated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: speculated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to consider, to deliberate or cogitate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: It is remarkable that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society.
gloss: To make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We can speculate that in many instances the sharks are not feeding on their victims, but only in a few cases can we guess what they are doing.
It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].
gloss: To make a risky trade in the hope of making a profit; to venture or gamble.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Some preliminary legal arrangements were made, but the scheme proceeded no further, as the various local authorities concerned were unwilling to speculate public funds on what was, even at that date, a will o' the wisp.
gloss: To anticipate which branch of code will be chosen and execute it in advance.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: species
spectacle
spectacular
speculation
speculative
speculator
Derived words: misspeculate
overspeculate
speculatist
unspeculated
unspeculating
Translations:
spazzy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: from spastic
Inflected forms:
form: spazzier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: spazziest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: clumsy, inept
pos: adj
tags: slang
Translations:
spartan
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: By analogy with the ancient Spartans, who famously possessed these qualities.
Inflected forms:
form: more spartan
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most spartan
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Austere, frugal, characterized by self-denial.
pos: adj
examples: I went on the retreat to the monastery, thinking I would be sleeping in a spartan cell, only to discover a simple but comfortable bedroom.
The engine was Class "3" 2-6-2 tank No. 82013, with Driver Sampson (Exmouth), and its roomy draught-free cab was a striking contrast to the spartan comfort offered on the Drummond tank.
Among its findings, the report says: "In recent years we have seen more stations transformed from run-down Victorian hulks, or spartan bus-sheltered platforms, into places that people can take pride in, feel comfortable in using, and which are fulfilling more of their wider potential.
gloss: Resolute in the face of danger or adversity.
pos: adj
examples: The spartan legionaries vowed to fight to the death.
gloss: Lacking in decoration and luxury.
pos: adj
examples: After ten years as a fashion designer in the rough-and-tumble Garment District, Eloise left New York for the spartan but serene life of a farmer's wife.
[I]t was furnished with the spartan simplicity which characterizes womanless quarters.
Derived words: spartanism
spartanly
spartanness
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: spartánský
lang: Danish
word: spartansk
lang: Dutch
word: spartaans
lang: Finnish
word: spartalainen
lang: Finnish
word: askeettinen
lang: French
word: spartiate
lang: German
word: spartanisch
lang: Italian
word: spartano
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: spartansk
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: spartansk
lang: Polish
word: spartański
lang: Swedish
word: spartansk
Spartan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English Spartan, Spertan, from Latin Spartānus, from Sparta + -ānus, equivalent to Sparta + -an.
Base: Sparta
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: Spartans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A citizen of Sparta; a native or inhabitant of Sparta.
pos: noun
gloss: A red apple cultivar from British Columbia, Canada.
pos: noun
Translations:
soulless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English soulelez; equivalent to soul + -less. Compare Old English sāwollēas; the Middle English word likely is a re-formation.
Base: soul
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
form: more soulless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most soulless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: As if without a soul; insensitive, unfeeling.
pos: adj
examples: Go backe I warrant thee: but Ile catch thine eyes / Though they had wings. Slaue, Soule-leſſe, Villain, Dog. / O rarely baſe!
Oh! who young Leila's glance could read / And keep that portion of his creed / Which saith, that woman is but dust, / A soulless toy for tyrant's lust?
“Done?” he said, with a soulless sneer in the word.
Number One had never before seen a woman, but the sight of this one awoke in the unplumbed depths of his soulless breast a great desire to lay his hands upon her.
But I do believe there’s another path—one that fuels growth and innovation, and offers the clearest route to individual opportunity and national success. It does not require succumbing to a soulless capitalism that benefits only the few, but rather recognizes that economies are more successful when we close the gap between rich and poor, and growth is broadly based.
St Pancras is no longer soulless. The NRA accolade says it all: its soul is back where it truly belongs!
Translations:
symptomatic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French symptomatique, from New Latin symptomaticus, from Ancient Greek συμπτωματικός (sumptōmatikós, “of or pertaining to a chance (or a symptom), casual”), from σύμπτωμα (súmptōma, “a symptom”). By surface analysis, symptom + -atic.
Inflected forms:
form: more symptomatic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most symptomatic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: symptomatick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: symptomatics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: symptomatick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Showing symptoms.
pos: adj
examples: It is important to observe symptomatic cats out of the carrier, on the floor in a safe, escape-proof room. Swelling, heat, and pain in one or more joints can explain many signs, including lameness, malaise, and fever.
gloss: Constituting a symptom or indication; characteristic, indicative.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: The city's problems are symptomatic of the crisis that is spreading throughout the country.
Symptomatic of a shallow understanding and an unamiable temper.
And it is symptomatic of the many paradoxes of Lederer's life that of all the people in the room, Brotherhood is the one whom he would most wish to serve, if ever he had the opportunity, even though — or perhaps because — his occasional efforts to ingratiate himself with his adopted hero have met with iron rebuff.
gloss: Of a treatment, that only affects the symptoms of a disease without targeting the underlying cause.
pos: adj
gloss: Relating to symptomatics.
pos: adj
gloss: A person exhibiting the symptoms of an illness.
pos: noun
Derived words: asymptomatic
monosymptomatic
multisymptomatic
neurosymptomatic
nonsymptomatic
oligosymptomatic
paucisymptomatic
polysymptomatic
presymptomatic
pre-symptomatic
symblematic
symptomatically
symptomaticity
unsymptomatic
Translations:
confessional
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
Etymology: Etymology tree
English confession
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 confessional
From confession + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more confessional
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most confessional
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: confessionals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In the manner or style of a confession.
pos: adj
examples: The studied reticence of the poems in quatrains is opposed to the more confessional aspects of the monologue.
gloss: Officially practicing a particular shared religion, as a state or organization; see confessionalism (sense 1).
pos: adj
examples: confessional community
gloss: A small room where confession—the Sacrament of Penance—is performed in private with a priest.
pos: noun
examples: The confessional's chief amusement has been seduction–in all the ages of the Church.
In one of the aisles there was an elaborately carved confessional box and I recognised the village priest in his heavy mountain boots and black cassock as he entered it and drew the dark velvet curtains behind him.
gloss: A confession.
pos: noun
examples: When a 35-year-old Bill Clinton, famously the nation’s youngest former governor, set out in 1982 to reclaim the job he had lost two years earlier, he began with a remarkable televised confessional.
“My daddy never had to whip me twice for the same thing,” Mr. Clinton told Arkansans in a campaign commercial, acknowledging voters’ anger over his having raised a hated vehicle fee and vowing to listen better if they gave him another chance as governor.
gloss: A filmed interview in which a cast member speaks directly into the camera commenting on the events of the episode.
pos: noun
examples: These characters behave as crassly as they do in large part because producers of shows such as The Bachelor deprive them of all contact with the outside world ([…]) and ply them with alcohol, then goad them to unleash their petty grievances in filmed "confessionals".
We see Brooks seethe in a corner, and, in a cut to a confessional, he exaggerates the scene, saying, “I’m feeling really uncomfortable. Her vagina’s in my face.”
Related words: interconfessional
Derived words: anticonfessional
confessional chair
confessional debugging
confessionalise
confessionalist
confessionality
confessionalize
confessionally
confessional state
ethnoconfessional
multiconfessional
nonconfessional
semiconfessional
Translations:
lang: Spanish
word: confesional
diminished
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
form: more diminished
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most diminished
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: lessened, reduced
pos: adj
examples: The diminished Roman Empire never recovered from the sack of Rome.
Another well-known express to disappear on the same date was the Blue Comet of the Central of New Jersey, an all-coach luxury express which operated between New York and Atlantic City; in this case the reason is diminished patronage.
gloss: made to seem less important, impressive, or valuable
pos: adj
examples: She felt diminished by the report card.
gloss: reduced by a semitone
pos: adj
Synonyms: diminished
lessened
reduced
Antonyms: antonym(s) of
augmented
Derived words: bidiminished
diminished capacity
diminished fifth
diminished fourth
diminished interval
diminished ninth
diminished octave
diminished radix complement
diminished responsibility
diminished second
diminished seventh
diminished seventh chord
diminished sixth
diminished third
diminished triad
diminished value
half-diminished seventh chord
tridiminished
undiminished
Translations:
arthroscopy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-der.
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́ρθρον (ắrthron)der.
New Latinder.
English arthro-
Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti
Proto-Hellenic *sképťomai
Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai)
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Hellenic *-ós
▲
Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ.
Ancient Greek -ός (-ós)
Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós)
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)
Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō)der.
English -scopy
English arthroscopy
From arthro- + -scopy.
Inflected forms:
form: arthroscopies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the examination of the interior of a joint (such as the knee) using an arthroscope
pos: noun
Translations:
arthroscope
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-der.
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́ρθρον (ắrthron)der.
New Latinder.
English arthro-
Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti
Proto-Hellenic *sképťomai
Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai)
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Hellenic *-ós
▲
Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ.
Ancient Greek -ός (-ós)
Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós)
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)
Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō)der.
English -scope
English arthroscope
From arthro- + -scope.
Inflected forms:
form: arthroscopes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A form of endoscope used in arthroscopy
pos: noun
Translations:
fluoroscopy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.
Proto-Indo-European *bʰlewH-der.
Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti?
Latin fluō
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *-ōs
Proto-Italic *-ōs
Latin -or
Latin fluor
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English fluoro-
Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti
Proto-Hellenic *sképťomai
Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai)
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Hellenic *-ós
▲
Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ.
Ancient Greek -ός (-ós)
Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós)
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)
Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō)der.
English -scopy
English fluoroscopy
From fluoro- + -scopy.
Inflected forms:
form: fluoroscopies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Examination using a fluoroscope.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
laparoscopy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From laparo- (“flank”) + -scopy, after German Laparoskopie.
Base: laparo
Inflected forms:
form: laparoscopies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Examination of the loins or abdomen, now specifically examination or surgery on the peritoneal cavity using a laparoscope.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: laparoscopic surgery
Translations:
laparoscopic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English laparoscope
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English laparoscopic
From laparoscope + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or using laparoscopy or a laparoscope.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
stereoscopy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ster-der.
Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós)
Ancient Greek στερεο- (stereo-)der.
English stereo-
Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti
Proto-Hellenic *sképťomai
Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai)
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Hellenic *-ós
▲
Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ.
Ancient Greek -ός (-ós)
Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós)
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)
Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō)der.
English -scopy
English stereoscopy
From stereo- + -scopy.
Inflected forms:
form: stereoscopies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The manufacture and viewing of stereoscopic images; the use of a stereoscope to view stereographs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Catachresis for stereovision.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: stereogram
stereography
Derived words: autostereoscopy
orthostereoscopy
Translations:
brindisi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Italian brindisibor.
English brindisi
Borrowed from Italian brindisi.
Inflected forms:
form: brindisis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A drinking song in which each person is toasted.
pos: noun
Translations:
meekness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English mekenesse, meknes, meocnesse; equivalent to meek + -ness.
Base: meek
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: meeknesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being meek.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: But thou, O man of God, flie these things; and follow after righteousnesse, godlinesse, faith, loue, patience, meekenesse.
Nor could Pym fail to notice that his old friend in rendering account of himself assumed the familiar meekness of the displaced person in the presence of his betters.
Translations:
oread
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Latin Orēas, Orēadis, from Ancient Greek Ὀρειάς (Oreiás), from ὄρος (óros, “mountain”).
Inflected forms:
form: oreads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: oreades
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mountain nymph; an anthropomorphic appearance of the spirit of a mountain.
pos: noun
tags: Greek
examples: The imprisoned ringlets are emancipated; 'fresh as the oread from the forest fountain,' you descend—you breathe the incense of the chocolate—not more I hope—and grow conversational and confidential over the green tea, which, with a fragrance beyond all the violets of April, rises to your lip, 'giving and taking odours.'
Translations:
bigtime
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From big + time.
Compound parts: big
time
Inflected forms:
form: more bigtime
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bigtime
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: big-time
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: big-time
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of major significance or importance.
pos: adj
examples: Wait till you see your name in two-foot electrics over the front of every big-time house in the country.
Krasnow is a big-time operator; I’ve always been, you might say, in the peanut end of the game.
'On the level, honey, I have an all-time, big-time need for coffee.'
Tired of shelling out bigtime bucks to see overpaid major leaguers with underwhelming stats and attitudes to match, baseball fans by the thousands are rediscovering a more relaxed—and cheaper—version of the national pastime: the minor leagues.
With a previous conviction in 1954 for receiving tins of corned beef, Betchley was hardly bigtime.
gloss: To a significant degree.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: This was the first test for that message -- and it failed bigtime.
Antonyms: small-time
Translations:
hammy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ham
English -y
English hammy
From ham + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: hammier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: hammiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hammies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hammie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of ham.
pos: adj
examples: Then again this is Mayfair. A big, rustling bowl of deep-fried squid with a salty chilli kick cost £7.50; a generous pile of jamon croquetas, the shells giving way to something creamy and intensely hammy within, was 50p less.
gloss: Amateurish; characterized by overacting.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Jack Crawford: I’m Special Agent Jack Crawford. I lead the Behavioral Science Unit.
Will Graham: We’ve met.
Jack Crawford: Yes, we had a disagreement about the museum when we opened it.
Will Graham: I disagreed with what you named it.
Jack Crawford: The Evil Minds Research Museum?
Will Graham: It’s a little hammy, Jack.
McDonald & Dodds is back, with episode one so deliberately hammy and meta that, technically, it should have been a complete horlicks. In one scene, when they were all hanging on to the balloon ropes, Mr Bean-like, to stop Jason Watkins flying away, it sort of was.
gloss: The hamstring.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
US
slang
examples: He put his palms flat on the ground, then grabbed the back of his knees, stretching his hammies for the millionth time that morning.
“A move like this would have been inpossible for me before yoga,” he said. “Flexibilty-wise, I was struggling. My hammies were tight, my groin was tight. My hips have really benefited.”
I've noticed that although cycling keeps me reasonably "cardio fit", I am losing general flexibility, e.g. when touching my toes. This is despite me stretching my quads, calves, and hammies during and after my training rides.
2004, J. L. Roberts, Braggin' Rights: Fantasy Football Rewind 2004 (2003 Season Recap), AuthorHouse USA, page 83,
A slow start and hammy injury were major contributors.
gloss: A hamstring injury.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
US
slang
examples: A: I′m only just getting fully fit now after that hammy [hamstring tear].
Why he went back on after 3/4 time is beyond me. If he was trying to prove a point he has all season to do that not do your hammy in the first game.
Derived words: hammily
hamminess
Translations:
otology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From oto- + -logy.
Base: ot
Inflected forms:
form: otologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The branch of medicine that deals with the ear, its structure, function and pathology.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
hospitable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French hospitable, formed from the root of Latin hospitare with the suffix -able. Displaced native Old English cumlīþe (literally “guest-gentle”).
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: more hospitable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hospitable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: cordial and generous towards guests
pos: adj
examples: hospitable family
"And you come, brother," said Mr. Wegg, in a hospitable glow, "you come like I don't know what—exactly like it—I shouldn't know you from it—shedding a halo all around you."
gloss: receptive and open-minded
pos: adj
gloss: favorable
pos: adj
gloss: favorable for life; livable; suitable for life.
pos: adj
Synonyms: habitable
inhabitable
livable
tenantable
Antonyms: uninhabitable
Derived words: hospitableness
hospitably
unhospitable
Translations:
cutback
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
business
construction
games
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
roofing
soccer
sports
surfing
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cut backdeverb.
English cutback
Deverbal from cut back.
Inflected forms:
form: cutbacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A reduction of some sort in an existing program or service.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Fifteen more proposals to reverse historical cutbacks in passenger services and the size of the rail network have secured development funding.
gloss: Maneuver where the surfer turns and surfs back towards where the wave is breaking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The cutback is one of the sport's three fundamental turns, along with the bottom turn and top turn. "It's the purest power move in the book," Australian surf journalist Nick Carroll wrote in 2000.
gloss: Solvent-thinned bitumen used in cold process roofing adhesives, cements and coatings.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An offensive pass played into a position further from the attacking goal line.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Lee Barnard swung at Chaplow's cutback and missed completely and then was just too far away to connect with Harding's flashing ball across the face of goal.
Before the interval an Alibade strike ricocheted off the back of Bright after Ifeoma Onumonu’s cutback. Then in added time Uchenna Kanu smacked a header off the top of the bar.
gloss: An inversion feature of a rollercoaster, similar to a corkscrew but with the second half reversed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: cutdown
cutoff
Translations:
twinnie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English twin
English -ie
English twinnie
From twin + -ie.
Inflected forms:
form: twinnies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A surfboard with two fins.
pos: noun
examples: The twin-fin or “twinnie” is probably the most popular new surfboard of the last few years. Twinnies have short, wide tails and two big fins. They combine the fast turning of a shortboard with the wave catching of a longboard.
Translations:
four-eyes
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: four-eyes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: four eyes
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who wears spectacles/eyeglasses.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
idiomatic
examples: As soon as he saw me he hailed me as “Four eyes,” in reference to my spectacles, and said, “Four eyes is going to treat.” I joined in the laugh and got behind the stove and sat down, thinking to escape notice.
Translations:
closeout
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
commerce
hobbies
lifestyle
retail
sports
surfing
Etymology: Etymology tree
English close outdeverb.
English closeout
Deverbal from close out.
Inflected forms:
form: closeouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wave which breaks all at once, as opposed to breaking progressively along its length.
pos: noun
examples: Dealing with closeouts is something every surfer should learn – especially if you live and surf in California.
gloss: A sale in which all merchandise is sold, at whatever reduced price is necessary; especially, such a sale for the purpose of either dispensing with a discontinued product line or preparing to close down the store.
pos: noun
examples: The Administration’s request of $12 million will allow TDA to conduct an orderly closeout of the agency beginning in 2018, which includes sufficient funding for personnel, rent, program, and other closeout costs.
Translations:
roseola
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From New Latin roseola, from diminutive of Latin rosa (“a rose”).
Inflected forms:
form: roseolas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: roseolae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rosy rash occurring in measles, typhoid fever, syphilis and some other diseases.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The common name for roseola infantum.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: German measles.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: epidemic roseola
roseolar
roseolous
Translations:
gunge
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested around 1935–40. Probably an alteration of gunk.
Inflected forms:
form: gunges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gunging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gunged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gunged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To clog with gunge.
pos: verb
tags: often
with-up
gloss: To cover with gunge.
pos: verb
tags: UK
examples: I've been gunged on children's TV, hung out with some actors off that soap Dad used to watch, done a photoshoot for a major highstreet fashion outlet and now here we are on the red carpet, outside the cinema in Leicester Square […]
Translations:
lending
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lendings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of, or an instance of the action of the verb to lend.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.
Translations:
i-dotter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See dot the i's and cross the t's.
Inflected forms:
form: i-dotters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A detail-oriented person.
pos: noun
Translations:
t-crosser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See dot the i's and cross the t's.
Inflected forms:
form: t-crossers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A detail-oriented person.
pos: noun
Translations:
camphor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Old French camphore or Medieval Latin camphora, from Arabic كَافُور (kāfūr), in turn from an Austronesian word such as Malay kapur.
Inflected forms:
form: camphors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A white transparent waxy crystalline isoprenoid ketone, 1,7,7-trimethylbicyclo[2.2.1]heptan-2-one, with a strong pungent odour, used in pharmacy, also known as laurel camphor or common/ordinary camphor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Yet, oddly enough, I found a far unlikelier substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that by chance, I suppose, had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first that it was paraffin wax, and smashed the glass accordingly. But the odour of camphor was unmistakable. In the universal decay this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousands of centuries.
A form of camphor known as monobromated camphor is said to have an anaphrodisiac effect.
gloss: a plant-extracted crystalline substance similar to common camphor, especially Borneo camphor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: camphire
Derived words: bastard camphor tree
Borneo camphor
camphene
camphine
camphogen
camphol
campholic acid
camphoraceous
camphorate
camphorated
camphoric
camphorimine
camphorize
camphor laurel
camphorsulfonic acid
camphorsulphonic
camphorsultam
camphor tree
camphorweed
camphorwood
camphory
camphoryl
camphretic acid
camphrous
Malay camphor
Ngai camphor
norcamphor
oxycamphor
rose camphor
salol-camphor
Sumatran camphor
turpentine camphor
Translations:
brazier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English brasiere, from brasen (“to cover with brass”), from Old English brasian, bræsian (“to cover with brass”). By surface analysis, bras(s) + -ier.
Inflected forms:
form: braziers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brasier
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A worker in brass; a brassworker.
pos: noun
Translations:
studying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: studyings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of the verb to study.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Yea, I have to charge thee further, before men and angels, with thy studyings and contrivances, the deepest and most intense thoughts of heart thou hast had […]
Translations:
is-a
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: From is + a.
Compound parts: is
a
Inflected forms:
form: is-as
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The relationship between two entities in which one entity inherits from the other.
pos: noun
examples: A special slot, the Is-a slot, short for is-a-member-of-the-class, ties instances to the classes they are members of.
gloss: Such a relationship expressed as an ontology component (regardless of whether the OOP paradigm per se is implemented).
pos: noun
Translations:
has-a
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: From has + a.
Compound parts: has
a
Inflected forms:
form: has-as
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The relationship between a class and any member of that class in object-oriented computer programming.
pos: noun
gloss: Such a relationship expressed as an ontology component (regardless of whether the OOP paradigm per se is implemented).
pos: noun
Translations:
bahar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Egyptian Arabic بهار (bahār) or other dialects, Arabic بُهَار (buhār).
Inflected forms:
form: bahars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A weight used in the 18th and 19th century in the Middle East and the East Indies, of no single standard but rather of varying sizes sometimes termed little bahars and great bahars.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: 30 bahars of ivory
bahars of nutmeg
Translations:
thrill
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Old English þȳrlian (“to pierce”), derived from þȳrel (“hole”) (archaic English thirl). Doublet of thirl (verb).
Inflected forms:
form: thrills
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: thrilling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: thrilled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: thrilled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: thrills
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
examples: The cruel word her tender heart so thrilled, / That sudden cold did run through every vein.
1854, Matthew Arnold, Preface to Poems
vivid and picturesque turns of expression […] which thrill the reader with a sudden delight
One love / That has possessed me; / One love / Thrilling me through
gloss: To (cause something to) tremble or quiver.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
gloss: To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: he perced through his chaufed chest / With thrilling point of deadly yron brand
gloss: To hurl; to throw; to cast.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: I'd thrill my jauelin at the Grecian moysture
gloss: A trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion; a frisson.
pos: noun
examples: She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.
gloss: A cause of sudden excitement; a kick.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The thrill is gone / Gone, gone for me / I still live on, lonely though I'll be
gloss: A slight quivering of the heart that accompanies a cardiac murmur.
pos: noun
gloss: A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.
pos: noun
Synonyms: animate
awaken
electrify
enflame
enkindle
enthrill
exagitate
excite
exhilarate
exsuscitate
fillip
fire
fire the blood
galvanize
gin up
ignite
inflame
intoxicate
kindle
quicken
rouse
send
set fire to
set on fire
sharpen
stir the blood
suscitate
thrill
vitalise
wake
warm the blood
whet
wind up
work up
yerk
Antonyms: allay
assuage
calm down
cool
curb
extinct
extinguish
quell
soothe
temperate
Related words: frisson
rush
exciting
Derived words: athrill
enthrill
thrillable
thrillant
thriller
cheap thrill
inthrill
thrillcraft
thrillfest
thrillful
thrill killer
thrill kill
thrill killing
thrill of the hunt
thrillogy
thrillorama
thrillproof
thrill ride
thrill-seeker
thrillseeking
thrillsome
thrillsville
thrilly
Translations:
shudder
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English schoderen, from Middle Dutch schudderen and/or Middle Low German schodderen, iterative forms of the verb at hand in Dutch schudden, Low German schüdden (both “to shake”), German schütten (“to pour”), from Proto-Germanic *skudjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *skewdʰ-. From Low German are also borrowed German schaudern (“to shudder”), Danish skudre.
Inflected forms:
form: shudders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shuddering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shuddered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shuddered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shudders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To shake nervously, often from fear or horror.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: On seeing the spider under his pillow, John shuddered.
VVreath'd vp in fatall folds iuſt in his way, / The feare where of doth make him ſhake, & ſhudder, […]
What makes me shudder so? / I shudder and I sigh to think / That even Cicero / And many-minded Homer were / Mad as the mist and snow.
gloss: To vibrate jerkily.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: A shivering tremor, often from fear or horror.
pos: noun
examples: Seeing the spider under his pillow gave John a shudder.
gloss: A moment of almost pleasurable fear; a frisson.
pos: noun
examples: They name thee before me, / ⁠A knell to mine ear; / A shudder comes o'er me— / ⁠Why wert thou so dear?
… and was not that slight tremble, a shudder which went through her young body, when his kiss, glowing and scorching with his wild passion, had dared to touch her tiny ice-cold hand?
Related words: judder
Derived words: shudderer
shudderful
shudderingly
shuddersome
shuddery
unshuddering
shudder quote
Translations:
soupy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English soupi, suppy, equivalent to soup + -y.
Base: soup
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: soupier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: soupiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling soup; creamy.
pos: adj
gloss: Extravagantly sentimental; slushy.
pos: adj
Related words: pea-soupy
Derived words: soupily
soupiness
Translations:
daman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Arabic دَمَان (damān) (إسرائيل (Isrā'īl)), literally "lamb (of Israel)."
Inflected forms:
form: damans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The rock hyrax.
pos: noun
Translations:
reflecting
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: reflectings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more reflecting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most reflecting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An instance of reflection (in any sense).
pos: noun
examples: The Hall of Spiders yawned and shrank, the threads deceiving the eye, the distances, shifting, surging forward or crumbling away, to the illusory reflectings of the moon.
gloss: That has been reflected (of light, sound etc.); undergoing reflection.
pos: adj
gloss: That reflects.
pos: adj
examples: a reflecting pool
gloss: Having a component that reflects light.
pos: adj
examples: a reflecting telescope
gloss: Given to introspection; thoughtful, reflective.
pos: adj
gloss: Insulting, disparaging.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: I know what you mean, little reflecting fool, by saying, it is much in my power […] to give you that peace which you can give yourself whenever you please.
Derived words: antireflecting
hyperreflecting
non-reflecting
nonreflecting
reflecting circle
reflecting galvanometer
reflecting goniometer
reflectingly
reflecting pool
reflecting telescope
unreflecting
Translations:
relentlessly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English relentless
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English relentlessly
From relentless + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more relentlessly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most relentlessly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a relentless manner.
pos: adv
examples: sprightliness and vivacity which time has relentlessly taken from his person
The leadership team must believe in it and pursue it relentlessly, along with the leader herself.
He said gardaí had responded professionally to “thuggish violence” in the area and those arrested would be “charged, named and dealt with relentlessly” by the criminal justice system.
Translations: