yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
phasic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English phase
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English phasic
From phase + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more phasic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most phasic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to phases.
pos: adj
gloss: Describing the discontinuous activity of excitable cells or tissues.
pos: adj
Derived words: antiphasic
biphasic
diphasic
diplophasic
equiphasic
haplophasic
monophasic
multiphasic
nonphasic
phasically
phasicity
polyphasic
quadriphasic
respirophasic
triphasic
uniphasic
Translations:
phonographic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more phonographic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most phonographic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: of or relating to phonography or to a phonograph
pos: adj
Translations:
phonography
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French phonographie.
Inflected forms:
form: phonographies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The transcription of speech using symbols.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A form of shorthand using such symbols.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The art of constructing, or using, the phonograph.
pos: noun
tags: dated
uncountable
usually
gloss: Pornography; explicit depiction of sexual subject matter.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
euphemistic
uncountable
usually
Related words: phoneography
Derived words: cardiophonography
electrocardiophonography
phonographer
Translations:
untenanted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English tenanted
English untenanted
From un- + tenanted.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not leased to or occupied by a tenant; unoccupied.
pos: adj
tags: also
figuratively
not-comparable
examples: As we have seen some quadrupedes formed to crop the surface of the fields, and others to live upon the tops of trees, so the Mole is formed to live wholly under the earth, as if Nature meant that no place should be left wholly untenanted.
[…] a throng of the revellers at once threw themselves into the black apartment, and, seizing the mummer, whose tall figure stood erect and motionless within the shadow of the ebony clock, gasped in unutterable horror at finding the grave cerements and corpse-like mask which they handled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form.
The house looked as though it had been long untenanted. The windows were encrusted with dust, and the shutters were up.
At five o'clock there will be few people in the broad pillared saloon, and usually the little round tables that obstruct the sidewalk before its doors are untenanted.
Many years elapsed before the success of Kemp Town as a residential district was assured; the foundations of the estate were laid in 1823, but some houses remained untenanted until the 1850s.
Peter Holmes left the club and drove down to the hardware store in Elizabeth Street where he had bought the motor mower. It was untenanted and empty of people, but somebody had broken in a door and it had been partially looted in that anyone who wanted anything had just walked in to take it.
Translations:
pillory
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English pilory, pillorie, from Old French pilori, pellori, which is either from Old Occitan espilori or Latin pīla (“pillar”).
Inflected forms:
form: pillories
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pillories
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pillorying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pilloried
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pilloried
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A framework on a post, with holes for the hands and head, used as a means of punishment and humiliation.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Maires and Maceris that meanes be betwene / The Kynge and the comon to kepe the lawes / To pũnyſhen on pyleries and pynning ſtoles / Bruſterrs and bakeſters, bochers and cokes / For theſe ar mẽ on this mold þᵉ moſt harme worketh / To the pore people that percel mele byghe[...]
Cros·! þou dost no trouþe ; / On a pillori· my fruit to pinne, / He haþ no spot· of Adam sinne ; / Flesch· and veines· nou fleo a-twinne, / Wherfore I· rede of routhe·:
[…]I haue stood on the Pillorie for Geese he hath kil'd, […]
The other replied, That for ought they could ſee, the men were quiet, and ſober, and intended no body any harm ; and that there were many that Traded in their fair, that were more worthy to be put into the Cage, yea, and the Pillory too, then were the men that they had abuſed.
To ensure good behavior, the slaveholder relies on the whip; […] to imbrute and destroy his manhood, he relies on the whip, the chain, the gag, the thumb-screw, the pillory, the bowie-knife, the pistol, and the blood-hound.
It was famous, too, for the pillory, a wise old institution, that inflicted a punishment of which no one could foresee the extent; also, for the whipping-post, another dear old institution, very humanising and softening to behold in action; […].
gloss: To put in a pillory.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To subject to humiliation, scorn, ridicule or abuse.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: There was no malice in my rubbish; but it laughed at the captain. It laughed at a man to whom such a thing was new and strange and dreadful. I did not know then, though I do now, that there is no suffering comparable with that which a private person feels when he is for the first time pilloried in print.
Mike Sarne would end up making a celluloid disasterpiece that is to this day pilloried as one of the worst films ever made.
gloss: To criticize harshly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The breakthrough came through Torres who, pilloried for his miss against Manchester United a week earlier, scored his second goal of the season.
[T]o suggest that their mere acquaintance in any way undermines Pinker’s work would be to make the kind of ad hominem fallacy that he rightfully pillories in this book.
Translations:
polygenic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From poly- + -genic.
Base: poly
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: controlled by the interaction of more than one gene
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A risk score based on multiple genetic differences, or polygenic risk score, predicted significantly more cases of early-onset heart disease than standard tests for single genetic defects, according to new research in the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine.
gloss: having an infinite number of derivatives at a point (otherwise it is monogenic)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: polygenically
Translations:
polyphonic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Originally from Ancient Greek πολύφωνος (polúphōnos) + -ic. In later use from poly- + -phonic.
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more polyphonic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most polyphonic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to polyphony.
pos: adj
examples: a polyphonic ringtone
gloss: Having two or more independent but harmonic melodies.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: contrapuntal
gloss: Able to play more than one musical note at the same time.
pos: adj
gloss: Capable of being read in more than one way.
pos: adj
Related words: orchestral
orchestrated
Derived words: micropolyphonic
nonpolyphonic
polyphonically
unpolyphonic
Translations:
postpaid
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compound of post + paid.
Inflected forms:
form: post-paid
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: post-paid
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having the cost of postage already paid or included in the price.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
gloss: With the cost of postage already paid or included in the price.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The complete words and score … can be supplied by Dick & Fitzgerald, post-paid, on receipt of $2.00.
Translations:
preadolescent
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
English adolescent
English preadolescent
From pre- + adolescent.
Inflected forms:
form: more preadolescent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most preadolescent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: preadolescents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to preadolescence.
pos: adj
gloss: A child who has not yet reached puberty.
pos: noun
Translations:
preceptory
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Medieval Latin praeceptoria, noun use of the feminine of praeceptorius (“commanding”), ultimately from praeceptor + -ius. Equivalent to preceptor + -y.
Base: praeceptor
Affixes: -ius
Inflected forms:
form: preceptories
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A community of the Knights Templar, or the physical buildings or estate of such a community.
pos: noun
examples: “The most petty baron may arrest, try, and condemn a witch found within his own domain. And shall that power be denied to the Grand Master of the Temple within a preceptory of his Order?”
gloss: preceptive
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a law preceptory
Translations:
predispose
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Either a back-formation from predisposition or borrowed from Middle French predisposer.
Inflected forms:
form: predisposes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: predisposing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: predisposed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: predisposed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make someone susceptible to something (such as a disease).
pos: verb
gloss: To make someone inclined to something in advance; to influence.
pos: verb
Related words: predisposition
Derived words: predisposal
predisposedly
predisposedness
Translations:
preeminence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin praeēminēntia.
Inflected forms:
form: preeminences
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pre-eminence
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: preëminence
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: preheminence
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The status of being preeminent, dominant or ascendant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: High importance; superiority.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.
Translations:
prefigure
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English prefiguren, from Latin praefigurare, from figurare (“to shape, picture”).
Inflected forms:
form: prefigures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: prefiguring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: prefigured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: prefigured
pos: verb
tags: past
form: prefigures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To show or suggest ahead of time; to represent beforehand.
pos: verb
examples: Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai, all prefigure NRx urban futures.
gloss: To predict or foresee.
pos: verb
gloss: That which prefigures or appears to predict; a harbinger.
pos: noun
examples: Quite different is the way in which the tomboy girled the rebel narrative. In recent years, queer theorists have taken a deep interest in the tomboy as a prefigure for the butch dyke.
In his influential commentary (the Moralia) Gregory the Great interpreted the protagonist typologically as a prefigure of Christ and of the Church persecuted.
Synonyms: presage
portend
forereckon
foreshadow
announce
Derived words: prefigurable
prefigurement
unprefigured
Translations:
pre-op
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
English op
English pre-op
From pre- + op.
Inflected forms:
form: preop
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: pre-ops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: preop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Happening before an operation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a pre-op consultation
For example, Goal 7 “Reduce the risk of health care associated infections” stipulates, among other things, that hospitals have specific strategies in place to prevent surgical site infection (SSI), that they provide regular feedback about SSI rates to caregivers, with follow-up for 30 days, that they discontinue the use of shaving as a method of preop hair removal, etc.
A vasectomy, as the pre-op letter explained, “is designed to make you sterile”. (You’d hope so.)
gloss: Not yet operated on.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The three pre-op transsexuals are attired in cheap, synthetic clothes and, to emphasize this point, one of them even wears a polyester imitation of Samantha's luxury silk nightgown […]
gloss: A preoperative patient or procedure.
pos: noun
gloss: A preoperative trans person.
pos: noun
Synonyms: preoperational
preoperative
Antonyms: postop
post-op
Translations:
preoperative
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
English operative
English preoperative
From pre- + operative.
Inflected forms:
form: preoperatives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Prior to surgery.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A transgender person who has not yet undergone gender reassignment surgery.
pos: noun
Translations:
pressman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From press + man.
Compound parts: press
man
Inflected forms:
form: pressmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who operates a printing press.
pos: noun
examples: The suspicious pressmen had threatened destruction to anyone whose inventions might suspend their employment—'destruction to him and his traps.'
As the pressman returns the inkballs to the inkstone, the journeyman closes the frisket and tympan.
Moxon […] gives the area required by a press and pressmen as 7 feet square, and for a frame with a pair of cases, an area 4 ft 6 in square.
gloss: A journalist or newspaper reporter.
pos: noun
examples: "He hates pressmen, but I am in his confidence, for he knows that I will publish no more than he authorizes."
Quite a crowd of townspeople turned out to see the train start, and several pressmen were busily engaged in taking notes and photographs.
gloss: One who pressgangs people into naval service.
pos: noun
gloss: One who presses clothes.
pos: noun
examples: a tailor's pressman
Derived words: pressman's hat
pressmanship
Translations:
murra
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: murras
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: murrha
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An ornamental stone for vases, etc. described by Pliny, most probably fluorspar; it was first brought to Rome by Pompey, 61 B.C.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
Translations:
ratty
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From rat + -y (suffix meaning ‘having the quality of’ forming adjective).
Base: rat
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: rattier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: rattiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of a rat; ratlike.
pos: adj
gloss: Infested with rats.
pos: adj
gloss: In poor condition or repair.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
informal
examples: We got an old tin lantern, and a butcher knife without any handle, and a bran-new Barlow knife worth two bits in any store, and a lot of tallow candles, and a tin candlestick, and a gourd, and a tin cup, and a ratty old bed-quilt off the bed, […] and just as we were leaving I found a tolerable good curry-comb, and Jim he found a ratty old fiddle-bow, and a wooden leg.
The Marcher lord was still clad in his ratty black cloak and dented breastplate with its chipped enamel lightning.
I was having exactly that thought on a ratty mock-leather couch in Islington.
gloss: Crazy, mad; ridiculous; slightly strange, eccentric; also (followed by about, on, or over), attracted to, infatuated with.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
figuratively
informal
gloss: Annoyed, bad-tempered, irritable.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
informal
examples: He got bad, he got ratty, he would take it out on people around him. He was mean when it turned against him.
gloss: Synonym of knock down ginger (“prank of knocking on a front door and running away”).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: rattily
rattiness
Translations:
prodigally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English prodigal
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English prodigally
From prodigal + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more prodigally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most prodigally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a prodigal manner; extravagantly or wastefully.
pos: adv
Translations:
professorial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin professōrius (“professiorial; authoritative”) + -al. By surface analysis, professor + -ial.
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more professorial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most professorial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or characteristic of a professor or professors, or of a professorship or professorships.
pos: adj
examples: David and I were not "intimate" friends. There was always a certain old-worldly formality about our interchanges. There was something professorial and distant about David, something that commanded respect, partially, I think, because he was so respectful himself.
Adamant that women could not enter the professorial fraternity, [[w:Cornell University|Cornell [University]]] did not appoint any women professors until 1911 and then only in home economics. Comstock regained her professorial title only in 1913, after working for many years as a lecturer (Conable 127, 130).
Professorial, downright dorktastic African-American NBA [National Basketball Association] stars are defying the expectation that they wear an intimidating hood facade, which is changing how we view black athletes—and how they view themselves.
Translations:
proteolytic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English proteo-
English -lytic
English proteolytic
From proteo- + -lytic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or promoting proteolysis.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A recent study focused on the enzymatic and cytotoxic functions of jellyfish metalloproteases and identified diverse proteolytic effects including gelatinolytic, caseinolytic, and fibrinolytic activities.
Translations:
proteolysis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English proteo-
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-der.
Ancient Greek λύω (lúō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σις (-sis)
Ancient Greek λῠ́σῐς (lŭ́sĭs)der.
English -lysis
English proteolysis
From proteo- + -lysis.
Inflected forms:
form: proteolyses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The hydrolysis of proteins into peptides and amino acids, especially as part of the digestion of food.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
protrusive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more protrusive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most protrusive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: that protrudes; protruding
pos: adj
gloss: rather conspicuous; obtrusive
pos: adj
Related words: protusible
Derived words: nonprotrusive
protrusively
protrusiveness
protrusive occlusion
unprotrusive
Translations:
provisioner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English provision
English -er
English provisioner
From provision + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: provisioners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who supplies provisions.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: victualler, victualer; supplier; outfitter; equipper; dealer; vendor
gloss: One who or that which provisions (sets up an account, resources, etc.).
pos: noun
examples: A provisioner accepts a recipe, a list of steps required to prepare an environment for an application.
Translations:
pseudoscientific
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pseudoscience + -ific, by analogy with scientific, equivalent to pseudo- + scientific.
Base: pseudoscience
Affixes: -ific
Inflected forms:
form: more pseudoscientific
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pseudoscientific
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or employing pseudoscience; not scientific, though purporting to be scientific.
pos: adj
examples: […] another example of the desire to control deviant lifestyles: the preparation by the FBI of pseudoscientific "profiles" that purport to describe the murderers.
Many postsecondary educators are concerned about the rising tide of pseudoscientific, fundamentally anti-intellectual belief among otherwise well educated Americans.
Some pseudoscientific theories explain what nonbelievers cannot even observe, for example, orgone energy.
Don’t let manipulative state legislators misrepresent science and fearmonger you into giving them money. At the very least, don’t let them continue with their false pseudoscientific assertions. Pressure them to do their jobs and introduce real evidence-based legislation – like the Equality Act – that will improve lives.
The trolls did not match the old professional racists’ stuffy style, but they found use in their pseudoscientific graphics.
Translations:
psychosocial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ψῡχή (psūkhḗ)
Ancient Greek ψῡχο- (psūkho-)der.
English psycho-
Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷéh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ṓy
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷh₂ṓy
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Indo-European *sokʷyós
Proto-Italic *sokjos
Latin sokios
Latin socius
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin sociālisbor.
Middle French socialbor.
English social
English psychosocial
From psycho- + social.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having both psychological and social aspects.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It seems to me that most of those who adhere to an organicist position in psychiatry espouse a system of values of which they are unaware. They imply that they recognize as scientific only physics (and its branches), but instead of asserting this, they say that they object to psychosocial theories only because they are false.
Erikson's stages of psychosocial development, as articulated in the second half of the 20th century by Erik Erikson in collaboration with Joan Erikson,^([1]) is a comprehensive psychoanalytic theory that identifies a series of eight stages that a healthy developing individual should pass through from infancy to late adulthood.
Translations:
punky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English punk
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English punky
From punk + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: punkier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: punkiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to punk (touchwood); rotted or soft.
pos: adj
examples: He said nothing, rousing himself once in a while to go through his hunting gear or repair a packstrap, and he even hollowed out a punky log with a hatchet for some use I couldn't divine.
gloss: Of or pertaining to the punk subculture.
pos: adj
examples: a punky hairstyle
It was mainly men who attended the event and of the women there, most came with gay men and appeared to be faghags. In fact, when the dancing started, the scene looked more like a punky hetero event, except for the presence of a few queens and fairies.
Derived words: punkily
punkiness
Translations:
puppyhood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English puppy
Proto-Indo-European *keyt-der.
Proto-Germanic *haiduzder.
Proto-West Germanic *-haiduder.
Old English -hād
Middle English -hede
English -hood
English puppyhood
From puppy + -hood.
Inflected forms:
form: puppyhoods
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: puppihood
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The state of being a puppy (young dog).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "The snake," I whispered, feeling very frightened at what had become of our dog, for we were devoted to him, having brought him up from his puppyhood.
gloss: Youth and adolescence, especially that of a conceited and impertinent young man.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: During the four years since his puppyhood he had lived the life of a sated aristocrat; he had a fine pride in himself, was even a trifle egotistical, as country gentlemen sometimes become because of their insular situation.
Translations:
quilling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: quillings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A band of fluted muslin resembling a row of quills.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: A form of art that involves the creation of decorative designs from thin strips of curled paper.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Quillwork.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In this way, quilling arts were integral to band organization and cooperation, and functioned both within and between households as items of ceremonial exchange (i.e., "crosscutting" private and public domains).
gloss: The practice of blowing pepper or snuff through a quill into the nose of a woman who is giving birth, to induce sneezing and diaphragmatic contractions which will induce or hasten labor.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
countable
uncountable
examples: Childbirth seldom was difficult, but when it was the simple process of "quilling" (which consisted in blowing at just the right time tobacco powder through the quill into the nostril) always brought on a huge sneeze, which immediately delivered the child.
[...] the midwife kept suggesting quilling.
2003, Anita Price Davis, North Carolina During the Great Depression: A Documentary Portrait of a Decade, page 194,
To muster the strength for the final push in childbirth, midwives like Granny Lewis of Burlington, North Carolina, quilled the mother-to-be. With quilling the midwife placed the snuff on one end of the straw and blew it into the nostril of the woman at the right time; the great sneeze that resulted from the woman was accompanied by the birth of the child. Granny Lewis and others used quilling well into the 1930s (Kirby, p192).
Translations:
reconciliatory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin reconciliāt (third-person singular present active indicative of reconciliō) or reconciliātus (“reunited”) + -ory.
Affixes: -ory
Inflected forms:
form: more reconciliatory
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most reconciliatory
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That reconciles.
pos: adj
Translations:
radicalization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English radical
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English -ization
English radicalization
From radical + -ization.
Inflected forms:
form: radicalizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: radicalisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The process of radicalizing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: From there, it was only a short step to “Kekism,” at once a joke religion and a precursor of the reactionary radicalization to follow.
One way to see the radicalization of the likes of Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Megyn Kelly is that they are adopting Fuentes-Lite positions on issues like immigration and vaccines.
Translations:
radicalize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English radical
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English radicalize
From radical + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: radicalizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: radicalizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: radicalized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: radicalized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: radicalise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To make radical.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The goal of the Cultural Revolution was to radicalize the whole society, to create mass participation at all levels of decision-making, and to restore the revolutionary élan of the 1940s.
Described by witnesses as a keen cricketer and pubgoer until contacts with Islamic militants radicalized him on a trip to Pakistan, he was ordered to serve at least 14 years for the plot, and for supplying militants in Afghanistan with money and equipment.
It’s been called “one of the most powerful radicalizing instruments of the 21st century,” “a petri dish of divisive, conspiratorial and sometimes hateful content,” and a tool that “drives people to the internet’s darkest corners.”
gloss: To become radical; to adopt a radical political stance.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He’s a delight and provides a little break in one’s timeline between heart-stopping political developments, at least until he himself radicalizes, which is bound to happen soon, because he is a French bulldog.
Derived words: radicalizable
radicalization
deradicalize
radicalizer
reradicalize
self-radicalize
Translations:
ragga
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Clipping of raggamuffin, variant of ragamuffin (“troublemaker”), influenced by reggae.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A subgenre of reggae and dancehall influenced by hip hop and digital production techniques such as sampling.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Tosh's brand of roots reggae, with its emphasis on uplifting anthems and melodic riffs, now sounds as dated as The Wailers' earliest incarnation as a straight-up ska band, especially when listened to alongside the shuddering bass of most contemporary ragga tracks.
The song samples Ricky Martin's hit Shake Your Bom-Bom but adds ragga's roughness. When Bam Bam comes on, the crowd goes wild.
A sub-genre of reggae, ragga is a modern Jamaican sound with ties to the oldest traditional music of that island-nation. The name is taken from the word “raggamuffin”, a term used for disenfranchised youth. One popular ragga singer called Half Pint said, “A lot of people interpret raggamuffin as if it [is]^([sic]) a criminal morality.”
Fling a ragga riddim like it's '03
Translations:
ramie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Malay rami.
Inflected forms:
form: ramies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tall, tropical Asian perennial herb, of species Boehmeria nivea, cultivated for its fibrous stems.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
gloss: The fibre extracted from this plant known especially for its ability to hold shape, reduce wrinkling, and introduce a silky lustre used to make textiles, fishing nets, upholstery, etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Synonyms: China grass
Chinese silk
ramee
grasscloth
Derived words: true ramie
white ramie
green ramie
Indian ramie
Translations:
Braunschweiger
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: braunschweiger
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Braunschweigers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: braunschweiger
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the city of Braunschweig in Germany.
pos: adj
gloss: A native or inhabitant of the city of Braunschweig in Germany.
pos: noun
gloss: A kind of sausage, or a sausage of this kind; a liverwurst.
pos: noun
Translations:
bravissimo
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Italian bravìssimo. First attested in 1755–1765.
Inflected forms:
form: bravissimo!
pos: intj
tags: canonical
Senses:
gloss: The intensive form of bravo.
pos: intj
examples: 'He has spoken, Sir,' replied Lowe, whose angry passions were roused by the insults of Dangerfield, and who had, for the moment, lost his customary caution.
'Ha!' cried Dangerfield, with a sort of gasp, and a violent smirk, the joyousness of which was, however, counteracted by a lurid scowl and a wonderful livid glare in his wild eyes; 'ha! he has? Bravo, Sir, bravissimo!' and he smirked wider and wider, and beat his uninjured hand upon the table, like a man applauding the denouement of a play.
Translations:
bread-and-butter
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Reflecting that bread and butter are archetypally basic foodstuffs (daily necessities) in the places where the English language developed; compare daily bread, put bread on the table, earn one's bread, bread and water (as prisoners' diet or poverty diet), and know which side one's bread is buttered on.
Inflected forms:
form: more bread-and-butter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bread-and-butter
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to basic sustenance or the requirements for everyday living.
pos: adj
examples: These road warrior plays were fronted by former semistars like Forrest Tucker or Hugh O'Brian, who had had their bread-and-butter TV shows cancelled. The job could pay $3,000 to $5,000 a week […]
gloss: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bread, and, butter.
pos: adj
examples: bread-and-butter pudding
Translations:
breadboard
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From bread + board.
Regarding definition 3: the etymology is either that electric circuits used to be prototyped on actual bread boards (definition 1) populated with nails, or that solder breadboards have lots of holes and are usually brown (they visually resemble a slice of bread), or a merging of the two. The etymology is less obvious today given the popularity of solderless breadboards.
Base: bread
Inflected forms:
form: breadboards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bread board
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: breadboards
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: breadboarding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: breadboarded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: breadboarded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bread board
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cutting board, especially for cutting bread.
pos: noun
gloss: A pull-out cutting board underneath a counter, found in many kitchens.
pos: noun
examples: One way or the other, it was always back to Mother's breadboard on Monday.
gloss: A device used to build a (usually temporary) prototype of an electronic circuit and for experimenting with circuit designs. Both solder and solderless versions are available; the solderless type are easily reusable.
pos: noun
examples: If you are following a book like Starting Electronics, however, a breadboard is even more useful. […] Differences lie between breadboards in the spacings and the positionings of the holes, and the number of holes in each group.
gloss: To set up (an electronic device) on a breadboard.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If the breadboarded circuit operates incorrectly or erratically, try relocating some of the components.
There are many commercial breadboarding systems, but almost all of them are designed to facilitate the breadboarding of digital systems, where noise immunities are hundreds of millivolts or more.
Derived words: breadboardable
breadboarding
Translations:
grayscale
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
Etymology: From gray + scale.
Compound parts: gray
scale
Inflected forms:
form: grayscales
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: greyscale
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gray-scale
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: grey-scale
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gray scale
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: grey scale
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: greyscale
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: gray-scale
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: grey-scale
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: gray scale
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: grey scale
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: grayscales
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: grayscaling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: grayscaled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: grayscaled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: greyscale
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: gray-scale
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: grey-scale
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: gray scale
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: grey scale
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A printed strip of graduated tones used to check exposure and development times.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The use of black and white, representing color with shades of gray.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: You can view your presentation in grayscale or black-and-white and then customize how the various colors are translated to grayscale or black-and-white.
gloss: Black and white, representing color with shades of gray.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Tetris’s graphics were simple enough to work on the Game Boy’s small gray-scale screen; its motion was slow enough not to blur; its action was a repetitive, storyless puzzle that could be picked up, with no loss of potency, at any moment, in any situation.
gloss: To convert to grayscale.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Antonyms: black and white
Translations:
wind-break
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: wind-breaks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wind-breaking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wind-broke
pos: verb
tags: past
form: wind-broken
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To break the wind of; to cause to lose breath; to exhaust.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 'Tvvould vvind-breake a moyle, or a ring'd mare, to vie burthens vvith her.
It’s not men by some mistake? / No, / There’s not a soul / For a wind-break / Between me and the North Pole— / Except always John-Joe, / My French Indian Esquimaux, […]
Translations:
buckboard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From buck + board.
Compound parts: buck
board
Inflected forms:
form: buckboards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A simple, distinctively American four-wheeled horse-drawn wagon designed for personal transport as well as for transporting animal fodder and domestic goods, often with a spring-mounted seat for the driver.
pos: noun
examples: In a few hours he would actually be at Highwater. Perhaps there would be a real buckboard at the station; perhaps the first man he saw would be some old-timer who would remember that it was McCumber who had first blazed a way through Highwater County.
[…] he turned to Differ and said in an employer's tone, "Got everything ready?"
"On the buckboard," said Differ in the tone of a Capricornian employee.
When he turned his head, aiming for a last look at Brother, turned it as much as the rope that connected his neck to the axle of a buckboard allowed, and, later on, when they fastened the iron around his ankles and clamped the wrists as well, there was no outward sign of trembling at all.
Translations:
windbreak
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
Etymology: From wind + break.
Compound parts: wind
break
Inflected forms:
form: windbreaks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wind-break
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: wind break
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A hedge, fence or row of trees positioned to reduce wind damage to crops.
pos: noun
gloss: A sheet or stack of material used to protect people or fire from wind.
pos: noun
examples: I built my windbreak on a second-story wooden deck, as you can see above, but it would work just as well at ground level.
Although Birdibil was warm in his family wungkurr or windbreak that night, lying next to a crackling fire and covered with some paperbark blankets (kawan), he had little sleep.
A wide range of materials was used for windbreaks, including rigid bark sheets inserted in sand, piles of grass or foliage, and stone walls.
gloss: The act of breaking wind; flatulence.
pos: noun
examples: (see title)
Another of Roy's room-clearing wind breaks snapped my head back.
(chapter title for chapter on flatulence)
(see chapter title)
Translations:
ratcheting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ratchetings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is ratcheted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A conjurers' trick of bending an object back and forth to induce metal fatigue, so that it can be broken later by rubbing it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
readjustment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
French ajustementbor.
English adjustment
English readjustment
From re- + adjustment.
Inflected forms:
form: readjustments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A second or subsequent adjustment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
issuing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: issuings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is issued.
pos: noun
examples: the issuings and transactions of stocks
gloss: That which issues from a source.
pos: noun
examples: the issuings of nature's springs
Related words: forth-issuing
nonissuing
Translations:
purples
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Swine fever or hog cholera.
pos: noun
gloss: Earcockle.
pos: noun
gloss: Purpura.
pos: noun
gloss: An early purple-flowered orchid.
pos: noun
Related words: long purples
Translations:
readmission
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English admission
English readmission
From re- + admission.
Inflected forms:
form: readmissions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A second or subsequent admission.
pos: noun
examples: On the Freshwater line, the most outstanding improvement was the readmission of all trains to the main station at Newport, and the introduction of a through service in each direction between Ventnor and Freshwater, via Sandown and Newport, calling only at the principal stations.
No, no. They (Germany) went in to cleanse themselves of genocide and apply for readmission to the human race.
Multiple escapes and readmissions to this facility.
Translations:
recantation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English recant
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English recantation
From recant + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: recantations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of recanting or something recanted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Macron’s full recantation came in his speech on 31 May this year in Bratislava, arguably the most important delivered by a European leader since the war broke out.
Translations:
recombine
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English combine
English recombine
From re- + combine.
Inflected forms:
form: recombines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: recombining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: recombined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: recombined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To combine again, especially to reassemble the parts of something previously taken apart in a different manner.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
gloss: To undergo recombination.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: recombinase
recombinator
recombiner
recombinogenic
Translations:
reconsideration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English reconsider
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English reconsideration
From reconsider + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: reconsiderations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of reconsidering or something reconsidered.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
reconstructed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: management
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Constructed again or anew.
pos: adj
examples: There is a broad-gauge transfer shed, lengths of running track with reconstructed stations, and a bit of Brunel's ill-fated atmospheric railway.
gloss: Constructed again or anew.
pos: adj
gloss: Constructed again or anew.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: reconciled, repentant
Derived words: nonreconstructed
reconstructed language
Translations:
redback
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From red + back.
Compound parts: red
back
Inflected forms:
form: redbacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: red-back
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: red back
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A venomous spider, Latrodectus hasselti, endemic to Australia.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: 1988 June 16, Stephanie Pain, Things that go plop in the night, New Scientist, page 78,
“If you find a redback, squash it firmly,” advised one guide.
Many a red-back, funnel-web, or other spider has found its resting days at the bottom of a vegemite jar shoved into some dark recess of the laundry.
2005 October, Martha Harrison, Brilliant 10: Marydianne Andrade, Popular Science, page 58,
Andrade first encountered the redback— whose lethal bite gives it as infamous a reputation in Australia as the black widow enjoys here in North America—when her grad-school adviser asked to travel to go to Perth to study them.
Easily identified by a red, orange or brownish stripe on the abdomen, Redbacks are responsible for by far the most spider bites in Australia.
The only truly dangerous Australian spiders are funnelwebs and redbacks but, these days, deaths of people from these spiders seem to be a thing of the past since antivenom is now available.
gloss: A brown and white sandpiper (Calidris alpina), native to the Northern Hemisphere; the dunlin.
pos: noun
tags: US
Related words: black widow
katipo
Translations: