yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
objectify
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁óp(i)
Proto-Italic *op
Latin ob
Latin ob-
Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *(H)ih₁kyeti
Proto-Italic *jīkjō
Proto-Italic *jakjōder.
Latin iaciō
Latin obiciō
Latin obiectus
Medieval Latin obiectum
Old French objectbor.
English object
Latin -i-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-fakāō
Latin -ficō
Latin -ificāreder.
Old French -ifierbor.
Middle English -ifien
English -ify
English objectify
From object + -ify.
Inflected forms:
form: objectifies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: objectifying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: objectified
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: objectified
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make (something, such as an abstract idea) possible to be perceived by the senses.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: It was the unknown, objectified at last, in concrete flesh and blood, bending over him and reaching down to seize hold of him.
gloss: To treat (something) as objectively real.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The mystic objectifies a rich feeling in the pit of the stomach into a cosmology.
gloss: To treat (someone) as a mere (usually sexual) object; to sexually dehumanize (someone).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Near-synonyms: demean, fetishize
1994 "Book review: Fire With Fire", backlash.comhttp://www.backlash.com/content/gender/1996/3-mar96/page23.html
She talks about the fact that women objectify men just as much as men objectify women, and she even admits her culpability in doing so by talking about how sometimes she wishes she had a group of "nubile 17 year old soccer players" to keep her happy.
The entire notion of cheerleading is just a sexist attempt to try to objectify the female body.
Related words: objectification
objectified
sexualize
Derived words: objectifiable
objectifier
overobjectify
reobjectify
self-objectify
unobjectifying
Translations:
zoar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Zoar, mentioned in the Bible as the place where Lot fled with his wife and two daughters to escape death when Yahweh destroyed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, from Biblical Hebrew צֹעַר (tso`ar, “insignificance, smallness”).
Inflected forms:
form: zoars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A place of refuge; a sanctuary.
pos: noun
Translations:
inkblot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From ink + blot.
Compound parts: ink
blot
Inflected forms:
form: inkblots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A blot of ink.
pos: noun
examples: A note from Deller with five pencil sketches attached of the new trade figures for Brittlekin -- two bloated looking children with inkblot eyes looking greedily at an enormous bar of peanut candy.
gloss: A dark, shapeless object.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: In the morning he watched with unseeing eyes the headland come out a shapeless inkblot against the thin light of the false dawn, ...
gloss: Any of the pictures used as stimuli in the Rorschach test.
pos: noun
examples: Look, I know that I have to do this, and I'll cooperate, and I'll look at your inkblots and everything, but I don't wanna talk about my life or my childhood or... anything, for that matter, actually.
Related words: blotter
inkpot
klecksography
Derived words: inkblot test
Translations:
microcellular
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
English cellular
English microcellular
From micro- + cellular.
Inflected forms:
form: more microcellular
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most microcellular
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Being composed of very small cells.
pos: adj
Translations:
anticlinal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
chemistry
geography
geology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English anticline
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 anticlinal
From anticline + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more anticlinal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most anticlinal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: anticlinals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Inclining or dipping in opposite directions.
pos: adj
gloss: Used to describe a type of cell division in a layer of cells that occurs perpendicular to the adjacent layer of cells.
pos: adj
gloss: Describing a torsion angle between 90° and 150°.
pos: adj
tags: physical
gloss: Consisting of, related to, or part of an anticline.
pos: adj
gloss: An anticlinal fold.
pos: noun
examples: But being chiefly sections of younger rocks than ours, the Austrian diagrams exhibit a more disturbed surface, so far as regards faults and slips, snapped anticlinals, upshoved synclinals, lapped folds, […]
Derived words: anticlinally
anticlinal vertebra
geanticlinal
Translations:
neo-McCarthyism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *nu
Proto-Indo-European *néwos
Proto-Hellenic *néwos
Ancient Greek νέος (néos)
Ancient Greek νεο- (neo-)der.
English neo-
Irish Mac Carthaighbor.
English McCarthy
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English McCarthyism
English neo-McCarthyism
From neo- + McCarthyism.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: political policies or ideology seen as a resurgence or continuation of McCarthyism after its heyday in the 1950s
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
Translations:
Nica
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Spanish nicabor.
English Nica
Borrowed from Spanish nica.
Inflected forms:
form: Nicas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Nicaraguan.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
gloss: A Nicaraguan.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: I got drunk with three Sandinista soldiers in a small town less than 10 miles from the Honduran border. I found it relatively easy to connect with gay Nicas in Managua.
Translations:
Nixon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Nick + -son, an alteration of Nickson, originally a patronymic meaning "son of Nicholas".
Base: Nick
Affixes: -son
Inflected forms:
form: Nickson
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Nixson
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A drug of low quality and low potency passed off as a powerful, pure drug.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
nosh
Part of speech: noun
verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Yiddish נאַשן (nashn), from Middle High German naschen (“nibble”) (which is also the parent of German naschen), from Old High German naskōn (“to nibble; parasite”), from Proto-West Germanic *hnaskwōn (“to weaken; make soft; tenderise”). Doublet of nesh.
Inflected forms:
form: noshes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: noshes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: noshing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: noshed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: noshed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Food.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: A light meal or snack.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: Fellatio.
pos: noun
tags: Polari
countable
uncountable
gloss: To eat a snack or light meal.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
usually
with-on
examples: They were noshing on fruit.
gloss: To perform fellatio (on); to blow.
pos: verb
tags: Polari
gloss: An ironic response to a statement of the obvious.
pos: intj
tags: Australia
sarcastic
slang
Related words: nosh off
Derived words: noshery
nosh-up
posh nosh
Translations:
charlatanism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English charlatan
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English charlatanism
From charlatan + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: charlatanisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being a charlatan
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: It will cure by science and philosophy instead of empiricism, and will deal the deadliest blow to charlatanism.
gloss: An act of a charlatan
pos: noun
tags: countable
Synonyms: charlatanerie
charlatanry
quackery
Translations:
desulfurization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
Latin sulpur
Latin sulfur
Latin sulphur
Anglo-Norman sulfrebor.
Middle English sulphur
English sulfur
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 sulfurize
English desulfurize
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 desulfurization
From desulfurize + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: desulfurizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: desulphurisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: desulphurization
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The process of removing sulfur from a substance, such as flue gas or crude.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
technopolis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From techno- (“hi-tech, computerised”) + -polis (“city”).
Base: techno
Inflected forms:
form: technopolises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: technopoleis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A technologically advanced city, or one heavily involved in mechanised manufacture of goods, especially of microelectronics.
pos: noun
Translations:
polearm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From pole + arm. The term is of modern provenance, not appearing until the late 1800s.
Compound parts: pole
arm
Inflected forms:
form: polearms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pole arm
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A close-quarter combat weapon with the main fighting part of the weapon placed on the end of a long shaft, typically of wood.
pos: noun
Translations:
microelectronic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor.
Latin ēlectrum
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
New Latin ēlectricusbor.
English electric
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éyti
Proto-Hellenic *éimi
Ancient Greek εἶμι (eîmi)der.
English ion
English electron
▲
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English electronic
English microelectronic
From micro- + electronic.
Inflected forms:
form: microelectronics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relating to microelectronics.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A microelectronic circuit makes the pulse and measures the vibration rate.
gloss: A microelectronic device.
pos: noun
Translations:
computerised
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more computerised
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most computerised
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: computerized
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having undergone computerisation.
pos: adj
examples: The individual lexicographer has ceded power to the team, the computerised corpus has come to stand side by side with, if not actually to replace, the readers of earlier research, but what has been termed the 'Unidentified Authorizing Dictionary' is still the court of last resort.
gloss: Functioning upon or through the medium of computers; digital.
pos: adj
Translations:
audiometry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From audio- + -metry.
Base: audio
Inflected forms:
form: audiometries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quantitative assessment of a person's hearing ability, especially by means of an audiometer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The first visit includes pure-tone, speech and immittance audiometry, loudness judgments for pulsed tones, assessment of individuals' motivation toward amplification, counselling . . .
Translations:
soreness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English sornes, sornesse, sarnesse, from Old English sārnes (“bodily pain; mental pain, affliction, grief”), from Proto-West Germanic *sairanassī, equivalent to sore + -ness. Cognate with Scots sairness (“soreness”), Old Frisian sērnisse, sērnesse (“injury, lesion”), Middle Low German sêrnisse, sêrenisse (“wounding, injury, distress, need”).
Base: sore
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: sorenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property, state, or condition of being sore; painfulness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The salve made the soreness go away, but with the aches gone I suddenly noticed my other pains.
Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), often referred to by doctors today as juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), is a type of arthritis that causes joint inflammation and stiffness for more than six weeks in a child aged 16 or younger. It affects approximately 50,000 children in the United States. Inflammation causes redness, swelling, warmth, and soreness in the joints, although many children with JRA do not complain of joint pain.
gloss: A lingering emotional pain resulting in bitterness or resentment.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Derived words: delayed-onset muscle soreness
Translations:
autoradiography
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The process of making autoradiographs.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
soundproofing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: soundproofings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that prevents sound from traveling through it, such as is put on walls so adjacent areas are not disturbed by noise.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Until the soundproofing is installed, I don't think I'll be able to get to sleep here.
gloss: The act of installing material to dampen sound.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The soundproofing will take place today.
Translations:
autoxidation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English auto-
English oxidation
English autoxidation
From auto- + oxidation.
Inflected forms:
form: autoxidations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A spontaneous oxidation reaction that results in the slow, flameless combustion of a material.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
redevelopment
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 development
English redevelopment
From re- + development.
Inflected forms:
form: redevelopments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of developing something anew.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the redevelopment of the hero's character in a comic book
gloss: The demolition of old, redundant or unfashionable buildings or infrastructure and the construction of new ones on the same site.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The government of New Zealand is looking for a crew to lead the redevelopment of its research headquarters in Antarctica.
Built in the 1980s, the country’s Scott Base consists of 12 structures that officials want replaced by three large, interconnected buildings, plus a separate helicopter hangar.
HS2 Minister Andrew Stephenson added: "This station will not only benefit the local community by enabling the comprehensive redevelopment of the area, but will serve as a transport superhub acting as a gateway to the Midlands and the North."
Derived words: antiredevelopment
Translations:
sourdough
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English sour dogh, equivalent to sour + dough, compare German Sauerteig and Dutch zuurdeeg. The senses pertaining to California, Alaska and the Yukon derive from the distinctive pouches of bread starter (starter dough used to make sourdough) worn on a belt or around the neck by experienced prospectors during the Klondike Gold Rush and California Gold Rush.
Compound parts: sour
dough
Inflected forms:
form: sourdoughs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sour dough
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A type of bread dough leavened with yeast and lactobacilli that produce acids giving a sour taste.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An old-timer, especially in Alaska.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
examples: The troops went for those fresh tomatoes like sourdoughs going for gold in the Klondike.
gloss: A permanent resident of the territory. Someone who has lived in the Yukon during all four seasons.
pos: noun
tags: Yukon
countable
gloss: A 49er, a California Gold Rush miner.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
gloss: Leaven; an agent that makes dough rise.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Derived words: old sourdough
sourfaux
Translations:
leavened
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Prepared using leavening.
pos: adj
Translations:
charterer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English charter
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English charterer
From charter + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: charterers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who charters something
pos: noun
examples: When at home, it is usually signed by the owner and the charterer; abroad, by the master and the agent for the charterer.
FI—"Free In." A pricing term indicating that the charterer of a vessel is responsible for the cost of loading goods onto the vessel.
Translations:
chastely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English chasteliche, chastliche, chastely; equivalent to chaste + -ly.
Base: chaste
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more chastely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most chastely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a chaste manner. (either specifically virginal, or in a modest, unsexy and unrisqué manner)
pos: adv
examples: Let lasses of a silly mind / Refuse what maist they're wanting / Since we for yielding were designed / We chastely should be granting.
In holy orders no one is better loved than he who lives chastely, because chastity is the first principle for any cleric as well as the foundation of his life.
Of the group, Max (Room’s Jacob Tremblay) is the most nominally mature, at least biologically speaking; unlike his childhood companions, he’s entered the early throes of puberty, and spends a lot of his waking hours pining, rather chastely, for a classmate (Millie Davis).
Translations:
matchmaking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
video-games
Etymology: Etymology tree
English match
English making
English matchmaking
From match + making.
Inflected forms:
form: matchmakings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: match-making
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An attempt to make two people romantically interested in each other, especially an attempt to set up a date between people or to arrange a marriage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The marriage was highly approved of by Mrs. Shelby, who, with a little womanly complacency in match-making, felt pleased to unite her handsome favorite with one of her own class who seemed in every way suited to her;
Patty, your timing is excellent. There's Claude over there. Want me to do some matchmaking?
I planned the match from that hour; and when such success has blessed me in this instance, dear papa, you cannot think that I shall leave off match-making.
gloss: A service aiming to bring together sellers and buyers or potential partners.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ... there was evidence that they did provide information for day care matchmaking to the potential users and givers of care.
gloss: The act or process of locating suitable players to take part in a multiplayer game session.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It turns out, however, that there wasn't actually anything different going on behind the matchmaking scenes, because Bungie forgot to turn skill-based matchmaking on. I believe the kids call this "getting caught in 4K."
gloss: The manufacture of matches for kindling or burning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: matchmake
matchmaker
Translations:
chasteness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English chastnesse; equivalent to chaste + -ness.
Base: chaste
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: chastenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being chaste; chastity
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The chasteness of her dress made her appear the allusive semblance of Purity itself
Livia's public image and her statues portrayed her as one imbued with the qualities of moral chasteness and matronly respectability
Translations:
matchmake
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From match + make, as a back-formation from matchmaking.
Compound parts: match
make
Inflected forms:
form: matchmakes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: matchmaking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: matchmade
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: matchmade
pos: verb
tags: past
form: match-make
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To carry out matchmaking: to set up a date between two people or to arrange a marriage.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Why then Foible’s a Bawd, an Errant, Rank, Match-making Bawd.
And pray remember, I am the last person in the world to match-make.
We are a couple of old fools to be matchmaking so soon ...
Not to brag, but I'm kind of responsible for matchmaking you and Irina.
Translations:
chatterer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle English cheteren, chiteren (Imitative)der.
Middle English chateren
English chatter
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English chatterer
From chatter + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: chatterers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who chatters; a chatterbox.
pos: noun
examples: Yes, I am a chatterer, indeed, to interrupt you so often, Monsieur.
“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers,[…]the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts, the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosus,[…]!”
Indeed the difficulty was to get him to stop talking, for, like all squirrels, he was a chatterer.
gloss: Any of several passerine birds, mostly from South America; especially the cotingas.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: Why is the variegated chatterer of South America also called the bell-bird?
The flight of the Chatterer bears much resemblance to that of the starling.
In most parts of tropical America we may always find some species of woodpecker[,] tanager, bush-shrike, chatterer, trogon, toucan, cuckoo, and tyrant-flycatcher; and a few days' active search will produce more variety than can be here met with in as many months.
Derived words: Bohemian chatterer
Translations:
infirmary
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Medieval Latin infirmaria, from Latin infirmus.
Inflected forms:
form: infirmaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A place where sick or injured people are cared for, especially a small hospital; sickhouse.
pos: noun
examples: There shall be provided an infirmary or a place for the treatment of sick detained person in every place of detention.
gloss: A clinic or dispensary within another institution.
pos: noun
Related words: sick bay
Translations:
zin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of zinfandel.
Inflected forms:
form: zins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Zin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Zinfandel wine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
Translations:
post-haste
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the former instruction on letters "haste, post, haste," later reinterpreted as a compound of post + haste.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A great hurry.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: And this, I take it,
Is the main motive of our preparations
The source of this our watch, and the chief head
Of this post-haste and rummage in the land.
Translations:
disemboweling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: disembowelings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which somebody is disemboweled.
pos: noun
examples: He recalls that experience in a smooth, speedy story, “The Monster Mash,” but these days he’s not sure he liked it too much — the disembowelings, the coolers of brains, the stench of decomposing corpses (“the smell of job security,” as one pathologist puts it) terrify him.
Translations:
disembowelling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: disembowellings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which somebody is disembowelled.
pos: noun
Translations:
spaciousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From spacious + -ness.
Base: spacious
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: spaciousnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spatiousness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being spacious.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
sparkler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sparkle
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English sparkler
From sparkle + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: sparklers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Anything that sparkles.
pos: noun
examples: And yet a married woman, possessing your attractions, shuts her eyes (and sparklers too), and goes and runs her delicate-formed head against a wall.
gloss: A hand-held firework that emits sparks.
pos: noun
examples: The Playboy cover was of a girl in grey slacks and sandals, one hand on hip and the other waving a sparkler for Independence Day.
gloss: A gem or ornament that sparkles.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: When the bill came, I got a side-glance at it, and hoped Rose would have to hock her sparklers to pay it.
gloss: A vivacious and charismatic person.
pos: noun
examples: “As for Marilea, she was a sparkler. She was very effervescent. The family would often come out as a family unit when we were in the barnyard or the horse corral, and Marilea was just fine.”
gloss: A sparkling wine.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Irvine's white, a grape variety named for Hans Irvine, who developed the vineyards at Great Western (now owned by Seppelt), is frequently used in the Australian sparklers.
gloss: A tiger beetle.
pos: noun
gloss: One who scatters; especially, one who scatters money; an improvident person.
pos: noun
tags: dated
Derived words: Sparkler
Translations:
sparseness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sparse
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English sparseness
From sparse + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: sparsenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being sparse.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The sparseness of the hair on his head made him long for his full-haired youth.
gloss: The result or product of being sparse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
Translations:
spectacularly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English spectacular
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English spectacularly
From spectacular + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more spectacularly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most spectacularly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a spectacular manner, extraordinarily, amazingly.
pos: adv
examples: This argument turns out to be spectacularly mistaken. When fiction works, the individual and the universal are frictionlessly combined.
Obsessed only with cost, 'Sir Humphrey' saw that Transport for London 'got away' with ticket office closures on the Tube with only minor public pushback and miscalculated that it could do the same on the national network. This assumption backfired spectacularly.
Translations:
stairlift
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From stair + lift.
Compound parts: stair
lift
Inflected forms:
form: stairlifts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A motorized platform installed in a stairway, which traverses the stairs when activated and can be ridden by those for whom the stairs are a barrier.
pos: noun
Translations:
speciously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From specious + -ly.
Base: specious
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more speciously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most speciously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a specious manner; fallaciously and erroneously, but seeming superficially to be correct.
pos: adv
examples: Exasperated, as he might speciously allege, by the injuries of a similar nature, he hastened with a few followers to join the standard, and to betray the confidence, of his too credulous friend.
And thus his jealous soul speciously argued to excuse the separation of father and child.
Once viewed—however speciously—as an escape from the wider world, American sports and politics have been explicitly entwined since athletes began protesting civil rights injustices, prodding their organisations to take a stance amid the polarising rise to power of Donald Trump.
Translations:
fallaciously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fallacious
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English fallaciously
From fallacious + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more fallaciously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most fallaciously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a fallacious manner, erroneously, illogically.
pos: adv
Translations:
illogically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English illogical
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English illogically
From illogical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more illogically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most illogically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an illogical manner, without following methods of sane and correct reasoning, in a manner lacking thought or logic.
pos: adv
examples: Is the person acting in a strange manner, behaving illogically and seemingly out of touch with reality?
Antonyms: logically
Translations:
specked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English speckyd; equivalent to speck + -ed.
Base: speck
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more specked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most specked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having specks or spots, speckled.
pos: adj
Translations:
speculatively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English speculative
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English speculatively
From speculative + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more speculatively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most speculatively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a speculative manner.
pos: adv
examples: […] he will appear to many of the more speculatively minded intellectuals merely as a timid apologist of things as they are; at the same time he will be dismissed by the men of affairs as an impractical theorist.
The fleet had been ordered speculatively by Beacon Rail, and intended as heavy shunting and trip locomotives, as well as a viable low-emission replacement for the elderly Class 08/09 'BR Standard large shunter' which dates from the 1950s and 1960s.
Translations:
Prod
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of Protestant, as pronounced in an accent with flapping.
Inflected forms:
form: Prods
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: prod
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Protestant, (as termed by Roman Catholics), that is in the context of their religious beliefs, or those who have been born in the Protestant tradition, or sometimes those implied to be Protestant by their political ideology of Irish unionism or Ulster loyalism.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
derogatory
slang
slur
sometimes
examples: "I don't want my daughter marrying a dirty Prod," he said.
'Could be a lot of things,' McCormack said. 'Still, it narrows things down. Probably a Prod […]'.
It was sound advice for anyone visiting Northern Ireland in 1999 and remains so today: do not refer to Protestants as “Prods”, or to Catholics as “Fenians” or “Taigs”, and whatever you do don’t refer to your visit as “being out here”.
Translations:
monotype
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: art
arts
biology
computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
printing
publishing
sailing
sciences
transport
Etymology: From mono- + type or mono- + -type. The printing technique is so called because it allows only one impression to be taken.
Base: type
Affixes: mono-
Inflected forms:
form: monotypes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: monotypes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: monotyping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: monotyped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: monotyped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A print made by creating the design using oil paint or printer's ink on metal or glass, then transferring the image directly to paper.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The technique of making such prints.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A monotypic taxon.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A keyboard-operated typesetting and casting machine that makes and sets separate characters.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A sailboat designed to be crewed or raced by a single person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: In the Hindley–Milner type system, a single specific data type.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To produce a monotype of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to monotype an engraving
Translations:
rapporteur
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
law
politics
Etymology: Etymology tree
French rapporteurbor.
English rapporteur
Borrowed from French rapporteur.
Inflected forms:
form: rapporteurs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person appointed by a deliberative body to investigate an issue or a situation, and report back to that body.
pos: noun
Translations:
harden
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
phonology
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English hardenen, equivalent to hard + -en. Cognate with Danish hærdne (“to harden; cure”), Swedish hårdna (“to harden”), Norwegian herdne (“to harden”), Icelandic harðna (“to harden”).
Base: hard
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: hardens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hardening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hardened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hardened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To become hard.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The Chief Medical Officer of London Transport believes that public opinion against smoking will harden to the point of a total bar on the Underground, as in other countries.
gloss: To make something hard or harder.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
transitive
gloss: To strengthen.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: In view of the system's relatively low cost, the preferred alternative could be for the military user to avail himself of multiple base stations rather than seeking to harden the base station hardware for defense applications.
Ramos had locked Salah’s right arm and turned him, judo-style, as they lost balance going for the same ball. Television replays hardened the suspicion it was a calculated move on Ramos’s part and, when Salah landed with a hell of a thud, the damage was considerable.
gloss: To modify (a website or other system) to make it resistant to malicious attacks.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To become or make (a person or thing) resistant or less sensitive.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.
gloss: To get an erection.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: He hardened as he imagined himself running his hands over her small breasts
gloss: To become or make (a consonant) more fortis; to (cause to) undergo fortition.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
gloss: To unpalatalize or velarize.
pos: verb
examples: Of course one needs to keep in mind the fact that *tʹ and *dʹ are hardened before *e and *i in Ukrainian and Rusyn[…]
Belarussian preserved soft labials before vowels, hardened rʹ to r, and affricated tʹ and dʹ[…]
Synonyms: anneal
harden
indurate
obdurate
sclerotise
solidify
steel
stiffen
temper
Antonyms: soften
Related words: hardness
hard
strengthen
Derived words: caseharden
case harden
deharden
enharden
forharden
hammer-harden
hardenability
hardenable
hardened
hardener
hardening
hardenite
harden off
harden one's neck
harden someone's heart
harden up
overharden
photoharden
preharden
reharden
superharden
unharden
work-harden
Translations:
rex-pat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of repeat + expat. Attributed to Alan Levy, an expatriate who edited The Prague Post from 1990 until his death in 2004.
Compound parts: repeat
expat
Inflected forms:
form: rex-pats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rex-patriate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A repeat expatriate; one who becomes expatriated again.
pos: noun
tags: US
informal
examples: A rex-pat is a returning expatriate, an ex-pat has been here, goes home to America, takes a job, maybe goes to law school, maybe does well in America but can't get Prague out of his or her blood and returns to Prague to live again.
Translations:
schwing
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The term is an onomatopoeia of the sound a sword makes when drawn from a metal scabbard. Popularized by the Wayne's World sketch on the television show Saturday Night Live.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An exclamation of excitement or physical attraction.
pos: intj
tags: US
slang
examples: What a babe! Schwing!
Translations:
screwtape
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: In reference to the C. S. Lewis book The Screwtape Letters (1942), about an inexperienced demon sent to tempt a man to sin, from screw + tape.
Compound parts: screw
tape
Inflected forms:
form: screwtapes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: screwtaping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: screwtaped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: screwtaped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: screwtapes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To mess things up, to corrupt, to be devilish.
pos: verb
examples: His collection of songlines and timelines snarled at him like a screwtaped confession.
Perhaps, beyond the lands of shadow, it will be exposed as merely a Screwtaped illusion.
...but they never got the chance From the rulers near-almighty down to the lower ranks of the CF hierarchy screw-taping rejection editors at the BBC and controlling clerky types at this or that ministry
gloss: One of a set of slow-tempo, lo-fi psychedelic mixtapes created by DJ Screw around 1992
pos: noun
examples: In addition, slab riders were not only playing the screwtapes in their decks, they were also rapping on them.
It's something that they have taken from the Screwtapes. The influence is just that great.
Screwed Up Click member E.S.G. notes that "the reason why the niggas was talkin' about the SLABs and shit was because these was the niggas [SLAB riders] goin's to Screw's house makin' the screwtapes".
Translations:
mitogen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mitosis
French -gènebor.
English -gen
English mitogen
From mitosis (“cell division”) + -gen (“a producer of something”).
Inflected forms:
form: mitogens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any substance that stimulates mitosis
pos: noun
Translations:
senhor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Portuguese senhor, which see for more. Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senior, señor, senyor, signore, sir, and sire.
Inflected forms:
form: senhors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: senhores
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Portuguese gentleman.
pos: noun
Translations:
serogroup
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ser-
Proto-Indo-European *sér-o-der.
Proto-Italic *serom
Latin serumder.
English serum
English sero-
Italian gruppobor.
French groupebor.
Italian gruppobor.
English group
English serogroup
From sero- + group.
Inflected forms:
form: serogroups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: serogroups
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: serogrouping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: serogrouped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: serogrouped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A group of microorganisms only differing from others by their composition in terms of antigens
pos: noun
gloss: To identify and characterize such groups
pos: verb
Translations:
shout-out
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
Etymology: Etymology tree
English shout outdeverb.
English shout-out
Deverbal from shout out.
Inflected forms:
form: shouts-out
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shout-outs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shoutout
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An unscripted mention of the name of a viewer or audience member when on stage, television, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A section of a web page, profile or blog containing these greetings.
pos: noun
gloss: A word used to give credit to or express gratitude to someone or something.
pos: noun
examples: Shoutout to Ben for his work on the animation.
Shoutout cats. Aren't they just so cute?
Translations:
biohazard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os)
Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der.
English bio-
English hazard
English biohazard
From bio- + hazard.
Inflected forms:
form: biohazards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A biological hazard: a source of risk due to some biological factor such as bacteria or human waste.
pos: noun
examples: The OSHA procedures for this type of environment required all investigative and emergency response personnel to wear PPE when they accessed those areas of the accident site containing biological hazards and undergo decontamination procedures after departing the biohazard area.
South Western Railway's Basingstoke station has donated surplus biohazard waste bags to the nearby St Michael's Hospice.
People had to poo in bags, you see. Jan had to get on the public address system and explain to thousands of disbelieving passengers that “number ones” could be done in the shower but “number twos” must be done in the red biohazard bags being distributed, then placed in corridors for collection by unnamed staff, none of whom chose to appear in this documentary.
Translations:
koka
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
hobbies
judo
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 効果 (kōka).
Inflected forms:
form: kokas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The smallest technical score that can be awarded in a judo competition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The referee shall announce "koka" (almost yuko) when in his opinion the technique applied by the contestant merits the score of koka (almost yuko). Should either contestant score two or further kokas, then the referee shall announce them as they are scored but shall not stop the contest for that reason.
As with yukos, kokas are not accumulative, so no amount of kokas are deemed equal to or greater than a yuko.
Translations:
spelter
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Related to, and perhaps derived from, Middle Dutch speauter. Possibly related to pewter.
Inflected forms:
form: spelters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spelters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: speltering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: speltered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: speltered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: zinc, often in blocks or ingot form.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Zinc alloyed with another metal (especially copper), used as a solder.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
usually
gloss: An objet d'art made from zinc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
gloss: To combine copper and metallic zinc to form an alloy.
pos: verb
Derived words: spelterman
Translations:
snart
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of sneeze + fart.
Compound parts: sneeze
fart
Inflected forms:
form: snarts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: snarts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: snarting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: snarted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: snarted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The phenomenon where one sneezes and breaks wind at the same time.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: While an occasional fart makes us laugh, snarts never do.
I was holding in a snart, and then right when she took the photo... don't you want to know what a snart is?
The elf knocks three times, coughs and knocks once more, followed by a snart – a tricky and highly dangerous procedure where you sneeze and fart at the same time!
gloss: To fart while sneezing.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: Basil choked out a laugh of his own. “It snarted?”
“Snart?” She wiped at her eyes.
He grinned. “Sneeze-fart. It's a thing.”
Okay, first of all, I look weird there because I'm snarting.
“The one who farted when she sneezed.”
“I didn't break up with her because she snarted. She picked at her feet, which is gross and unhygienic.”
Translations:
ticking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tick
English -ing
English ticking
From tick (“sheet, cover”) + -ing (“material, collection”).
Inflected forms:
form: tickings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A strong cotton or linen fabric used to cover pillows and mattresses.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Harvey saw with disgust that there were no sheets on his bed-place. He was lying on a piece of dingy ticking full of lumps and nubbles.
Translations:
tray-table
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tray-tables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small, tray-shaped table used to place small objects upon, and most commonly used to place meals on while watching television.
pos: noun
gloss: A fold-away tray, such as those found in front of airline seats.
pos: noun
Translations:
tryptic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or produced by trypsin.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations: