yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
journo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English journalist
English -o
English journo
From journalist + -o (“diminutive suffix”).
Inflected forms:
form: journos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A journalist.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
UK
informal
examples: He′d been packed in with all the other journos, standing out only in that he was taller than most and didn′t make as much noise.
Journos and scribes are officially welcomed by the Taliban and then never given visas to enter. The Red Cross needs Talib approval for all journos before you can book a flight.
2004, Pam Austin, Bob Austin, Getting Free Publicity: The Secrets of Successful Press Relations, How To Books, Oxford, page 8,
And we hope that all women journos will forgive us if, in these pages, we use the word ‘he’ as shorthand for ‘he/she’ when referring to members of the Fourth Estate.
2007, Sara Voorhees, The Lumière Affair: A Novel of Cannes, Simon & Schuster, New York, page 22,
TV journos consider print journos to be snobs who write for other print journos (and are therefore read by a Lilliputian portion of the population). Print journos believe TV journos to be cretins who are worshipped blindly by the lowest common denominator.
2008 August 11, Namrata Joshi, Movie Review: Mission Istaanbul, Outlook, page 80,
His nubile wife (Shriya Saran), also a TV journo, calls him names like “mouthpiece of terrorists”.
Translations:
all-purpose
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: For all purposes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Near-synonym: multipurpose
Translations:
all-encompassing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂elnós
Proto-Germanic *allaz
Proto-Germanic *ala-
Proto-West Germanic *ala-
Old English æl-
Middle English all-
English all-
English encompassing
English all-encompassing
From all- + encompassing.
Inflected forms:
form: more all-encompassing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most all-encompassing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Including everything; universal.
pos: adj
examples: The desire to get back into the womb can become, in a creative way, a making of a womb out of the whole world, including everything in the womb (the city, the enlarged universe of Black Spring, of The Black Book), the all-englobing, all-encompassing womb, holding everything.
This essay, "Identity: Skin Blood Heart," is an account of her struggle to wrench herself free from the all-encompassing racist indoctrination that white people in North America are taught.
[…] since the goddess Antu did not hold a prominent status at Uruk before the fifth century. The primary purpose of MLC 1890 was evidently to present Antu as universal goddess and all-encompassing cosmic location.
Translations:
emacs
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: emacses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: emacsen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any implementation or reimplementation of Emacs.
pos: noun
Translations:
meritocracy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From merit + -o- + -cracy, coined by British sociologist Alan Fox in 1956 in an article in Socialist Commentary from May 1956, used as a derisive term, and popularized by British sociologist Michael Young, Baron Young of Dartington in his 1958 book The Rise of the Meritocracy.
Base: merit
Affixes: -o-
-cracy
Inflected forms:
form: meritocracies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Rule by merit and talent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As a small nation without natural resources, Singapore relies on education and meritocracy to develop its economy.
In Markovits’s telling, the rise of the meritocracy is a story of unintended consequences.
Its faculty has also been a factory of books taking differing positions on the merits and demerits of meritocracy and elite education.
In April, six months after Amazon began a wave of layoffs that ultimately wiped out 30,000 jobs, a former employee went on the social media site Blind to rant about the end of meritocracy: “What’s the point of getting a good performance review if you can still be laid off anyway?”
gloss: A type of society where wealth, income, and social status are assigned through competition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: antimeritocracy
meritocrat
meritocratic
mirrortocracy
Translations:
gild
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: From Middle English gilden, gulden, from Old English gyldan (“to gild, to cover with a thin layer of gold”), from Proto-West Germanic *gulþijan, from Proto-Germanic *gulþijaną, from Proto-Germanic *gulþą (“gold”).
Inflected forms:
form: gilds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gilding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gilded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gilded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: gilt
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gilt
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphires, and a large red ruby glowed on his sword-hilt.
gloss: To adorn.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I will make fast the doors, and gild myself
 With some more ducats, and be with you straight.
gloss: To decorate with a golden surface appearance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Gild the entire outside with beaten egg yolk, and sprinkle it with grated parmesan.
gloss: To give a bright or pleasing aspect to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: When sparkling stars twire not, thou gild'st the even.
gloss: To give a brilliant colour or flush to one's face; (also) to make appear drunk.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [Alonso] And Trinculo is reeling-ripe: vvhere sſhould they
Finde this grand Liquor that hath gilded'em?
Hovv cam'ſt thou in this pickle?
Derived words: begild
electrogild
engild
gildable
Gilded Age
gilded cage
gilder
gild the lily
gild the pill
overgild
regild
ungild
Translations:
downside
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Compound of down + side.
Compound parts: down
side
Inflected forms:
form: downsides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A disadvantageous aspect of something that is normally advantageous.
pos: noun
examples: The downside of obtaining a higher rank is that far more work is expected.
Hazardous and nuclear waste came to represent the downside of industrial prosperity.
The downside of being snaggle-toothed is that you whistle through them and people can't understand what you're talking about.
The downside of using acid gas for enhanced oil recovery is that the incremental produced oil contains H₂S and has to be desulphurized.
gloss: A downward tendency, especially in the price of shares etc.
pos: noun
examples: The strategy is used both to increase the return on the underlying stock and to provide a limited amount of downside protection.
I could go all the way back to 1982 and I'm sure the effects of the expiration will be even more exacerbated on the downside of the spread.
In Table 3, the options are shown for the same client who will accept a one in ten chance of breaching the downside of -3% in any one year.
Alienation: A stage on the downside of the passage wherein the holdfast and the antihero take actions which bring about a disintegration of personality.
gloss: The side of something that is at the bottom, or that is intended to face downward.
pos: noun
examples: An apparatus for heat-treating a flowing fluid, comprising a fluid source; a heat exchange unit provided with a regenerative section, the latter having an upside through which such fluid is caused to flow and a downside through which such fluid is caused to flow subsequent to being heated, said upside and downside being separated from one another by a heat-conductive wall, […]
The buildings on the downside of the station were demolished and new premises of modern design constructed on the new platform.
Notice in Figure 19.2 that polarities naturally and predictably "flow" (arrows represent a plot of changes in results) from the downside of pole L toward the upside of pole R; the into the downside of pole R; then toward the upside of the first, pole L; and finally back to the downside of L, where it all began.
Moreover, the flow chugging was observed at the downside of the plate.
Antonyms: upside
Derived words: downside up
Translations:
trips
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
poker
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Three of a kind, especially if one of the three cards is in one's hand and the other two are on the board. Compare set (“three of a kind, especially with one card on the board and the other two in one's hand”).
pos: noun
tags: slang
Related words: trips formation
Translations:
upper-class
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a high social position.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Aristocratic.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: middle-class
upper class
working-class
Derived words: upper-classness
Translations:
breadbasket
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
Etymology: From bread + basket.
Base: bread
Inflected forms:
form: breadbaskets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bread basket
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bread-basket
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A basket used for storing or carrying bread.
pos: noun
examples: In theſe eaſtern countries they eat upon the plain ground, and when it is dinner-time they ſpread a round piece of leather, and lay about it tapeſtry, and ſometimes cuſhions, whereupon they ſit croſs-leg'd before they begin to eat, […] At laſt they take up the leathern table with bread and all, which ſerveth them alſo inſtead of a table-cloth and bread-basket, they draw it together with a ſtring lik a purſe, and hang it up in the next corner.
One of the servants went to a bread-basket there, and finding the damask napkin eaten away, she was led to see if any mouse-holes were to be seen: for this purpose she removed the bread-basket, and behind it she saw a bundle of something that looked very like white cotton; she touched it, and out jumped the little dormouse.
Everything was impeccably organized for the dinner. Platters and salad bowls, bread baskets, pumpkin pies. The oven gave off a mouthwatering smell as we sat on a couple of high stools beneath the hanging pans.
gloss: A region which has favourable conditions to produce a large quantity of grain or, by extension, other food products; a food bowl.
pos: noun
examples: [I]t is worth noting that if global warming produces a migration of the earth's breadbaskets, then it might damage one country's agriculture, while benefiting another's.
Canada at the turn of the century had become the breadbasket of the British Empire and industrialised Europe and wheat grown on the prairies was consolidated in elevator at Fort William, Ontario to await shipment overseas.
gloss: The abdomen or stomach, especially as a vulnerable part of the body in an attack.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
examples: Tom Oliver thought he'd a very heavy stake in this here affair, as he was to fight Shelton, on the 23d, for a hundred. […] (Give it them, Tom! hit them in the bread-basket!)
[S]ince you've been ill I've been eating your pork and drinking your grog, which latter can't be too plentiful in the Bay of Biscay. And now that I've cured you, you'll be tucking all that into your own little breadbasket, so that I'm no gainer, […]
Derived words: breadbasket of Europe
Molotov breadbasket
Translations:
pannier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fashion
government
lifestyle
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle English panere, panȝere, panyere, from Old French panier, paniere, from Latin pānārium (“a bread basket”), from pānis (“bread”). Doublet of panary.
Inflected forms:
form: panniers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large basket or bag fastened, usually in pairs, to the back of a bicycle or pack animal, or carried in pairs over the shoulders.
pos: noun
examples: Until 1785 the slates were conveyed from the quarries to the port in panniers on the backs of horses, but in that year Lord Penrhyn built a good road from the quarry to the village of Llandegai (on the Chester and Holyhead road) and also continued it in the opposite direction a further nine miles to Capel Curig; […].
Pannier literally means carrying bags slung over the back of a beast of burden — in other words, saddle bags. Front and rear bicycle touring panniers, after being attached to their carrying racks on the bicycle, become the bicycle tourist's packbags.
A donkey whose talent for burdens was wondrous, So much that you'd swear he rejoiced in a load, One day had to jog under panniers so ponderous, That — down the poor Donkey fell smack on the road! His owners and drivers stood round in[…]
gloss: A decorative basket for the display of flowers or fruits.
pos: noun
gloss: One of a pair of hoops used to expand the volume of a woman's skirt to either side.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A breadbasket.
pos: noun
gloss: A piece of basketwork for protecting archers, or, filled with gravel or sand, for forming and protecting embankments, etc.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Related words: cacolet
Derived words: panniered
pannierless
pannierlike
pannierman
pannier tank
pannierway
pannierwise
Translations:
putz
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish פּאָץ (pots, “penis, fool”); compare similar semantic developments in futz.
Inflected forms:
form: putzes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: putzes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: putzing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: putzed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: putzed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A fool, an idiot.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: “The excitement of our friendship made me overlook my vampire powers.” “Hi.” “My foreskin grew back very fast. Now he thinks I'm meshuggener, which means he thinks I'm a little bit of a putz.”
gloss: A jerk.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: And, (4), we’re not really even seeing “characters” at all: it’s not Major Frank Burns, pathetic self-important putz from Fort Wayne, Indiana; it’s Larry Linville of Ojai, California, actor stoic enough to endure thousands of letters (still coming in, even in syndication) from pseudo-voyeurs berating him for being a putz from Indiana.
gloss: The penis.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: To waste time.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: Stop putzing around.
Derived words: putzhead
putz-head
putz head
putzy
Translations:
anti-establishment
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́)
Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der.
English anti-
Old French establissementbor.
Middle English stablishment
English establishment
English anti-establishment
From anti- + establishment.
Inflected forms:
form: more anti-establishment
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most anti-establishment
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: antiestablishment
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Opposed to the existing sociopolitical system (the establishment).
pos: adj
examples: The hippies were noted for their anti-establishment ways, firmly opposed to the order their parents so revered.
Almost one-third of Europeans now vote for populist, far-right or far-left parties, research shows, with wide support for anti-establishment politics surging across the continent in an increasingly problematic challenge to the mainstream.
Translations:
anti-fade
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English anti-
English fade
English anti-fade
From anti- + fade.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Resistant to the dimming (fading) of color.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The chemical additives in the anti-fade paint meant the color stayed vibrant year after year.
Translations:
anti-g
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Counteracting the g-force of acceleration.
pos: adj
examples: Only the constriction of his anti-g suit forcing blood to his brain kept the pilot from blacking out during the spin.
Translations:
marbles
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Any of several children's games played with small balls (made of marble or more commonly glass).
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: Egyptian boys played marbles before the days of Moses.
gloss: Sanity.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
plural
plural-only
examples: Grandpa's lost his marbles, but at least he still recognizes us.
Granny's still got all her marbles.
His lack of marbles is becoming ever more apparent.
“A nice imbroglio you've landed me in. Thanks to you ...”
“Yes, sir.”
“Don't say ‘Yes, sir.’ Thanks to you I have been widely publicized as off my rocker.”
“Not widely, sir. Merely to your immediate circle now resident at Brinkley Court.”
“You have held me up at the bar of world opinion as a man who has not got all his marbles.”
“It was not easy to think of an alternative scheme, sir.”
There are times when you are certain that the person speaking to you has completely misplaced his marbles. As I leaned away in reaction I felt confident […] Ed had lost his.
—Her daddy's crazy. […] Think she's looking for something?
—Treasure, I expect. That or maybe her daddy's marbles.
gloss: Bits of rolled-up rubber shed by the tires of race cars that accumulate at the edges of the track, especially at the corners.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: Some corners are littered with marbles, off the racing line.
Related words: money and marbles
Derived words: lose one's marbles
mouthful of marbles
Translations:
gaudiness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gaudy
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 gaudiness
From gaudy + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: gaudinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pretension in appearance; looking overly and distastefully adorned.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Nearby residents don't want any gaudiness in the building's renovation: they want it to be tasteful and understated.
Translations:
Chautauqua
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Erie [Term?].
Inflected forms:
form: Chautauquas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chautauqua
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A kind of travelling tent-show which used to move across America featuring popular talks.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua—that's the only name I can think of for it—like the traveling tent-show Chautauquas that used to move across America, this America, the one that we are now in, an old-time series of popular talks intended to edify and entertain, improve the mind and bring culture and enlightenment to the ears and thoughts of the hearer.
Translations:
insectivore
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: From French insectivore. In the zoological sense, coined by English philosopher and historian of science William Whewell in 1840 as an adaptation of Cuvier's coinage, French insectivore. The French terms reflect scientific New Latin origins. By surface analysis, insect + -i- + -vore.
Inflected forms:
form: insectivores
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Insect-eating animal or plant.
pos: noun
examples: An anteater is an insectivore with a long sticky tongue to catch its prey.
gloss: mammal of the now abandoned order Insectivora.
pos: noun
tags: dated
Related words: Insectivora
insectivorous
Translations:
continuously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English continuous
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English continuously
From continuous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Without pause.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The river continuously flows to the sea, it will never pause to let us cross on dry land.
In the year 1633, the Bridget Nuns, near Xanthus, behaved like sheep, jumping about and bleating continuously.
George C. Edler (1889-1987) of Bethesda, MD kept a handwritten diary continuously from 20 Sep 1909, a total of 78 years.
"We continuously strive to improve our processes and indeed have updated our systems accordingly. Ultimately, however, it is for the student to make a proper declaration to SLC [Student Loans Company]^([sic]) to draw down funding," LSST said in a statement.
Antonyms: discontinuously
Translations:
mammalian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mammal
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English mammalian
From mammal + -ian.
Inflected forms:
form: more mammalian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mammalian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mammalians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, or pertaining to, mammals.
pos: adj
examples: The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
gloss: Like a mammal.
pos: adj
gloss: Any mammal.
pos: noun
Derived words: antimammalian
macromammalian
mammalian meat allergy
mammaliferous
micromammalian
neomammalian
nonmammalian
paleomammalian
premammalian
submammalian
Translations:
decongestant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: decongestants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A drug that relieves congestion, e.g. pseudoephedrine.
pos: noun
Translations:
conformer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Blend of conformational + isomer.
Compound parts: conformational
isomer
Inflected forms:
form: conformers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a set of stereoisomers characterized by a conformation that corresponds to a distinct potential energy minimum.
pos: noun
tags: physical
gloss: A particular folded state or conformation of a protein, especially an abnormal conformation of a prion
pos: noun
tags: physical
Derived words: conformeric
interconformer
multiconformer
nonconformer
osmoconformer
oxyconformer
thermoconformer
Translations:
demodulation
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-
English modulation
English demodulation
From de- + modulation.
Inflected forms:
form: demodulations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The inverse of the effect of modulation, or applying a signal to a carrier.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A radio transmitter applies modulation to a carrier wave and the receiver applies demodulation to it to recover the message.
Translations:
demodulate
Part of speech: verb
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-
English modulate
English demodulate
From de- + modulate.
Inflected forms:
form: demodulates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: demodulating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: demodulated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: demodulated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To reverse modulate, undo the effects of modulation.
pos: verb
examples: In a radio transmitter you modulate the carrier wave; in the receiver you demodulate it.
Antonyms: modulate
Translations:
egghead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From egg + head.
Compound parts: egg
head
Inflected forms:
form: eggheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bald person, especially a man.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: Then no one will know whether you are a genuine egghead or not. Besides, completely bald men are more sensual.
His own image as a bald man - egghead - with glasses aids this perception.
Contemporaries remembered him, for instance, as an egghead, bald as a billiard ball, and an “obese Napoleon."
gloss: A bald head.
pos: noun
examples: But at the top of the "egghead", the blood vessels become pinched and the flow is blocked.
At one point he even lifts his cap to reveal an egghead bald-cap atop white hair and spectacles.
Many shave their entire head at the first sign of hair loss, believing that chicks prefer an egghead to a comb-over.
His shoulders were so misshapen they almost met over his sunken chest and they were topped by a pointy egghead, bald but for a few short sproutings of hair.
gloss: An intellectual, especially one who is insensitive, pedantic, or out of touch.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: Just because some of you eggheads spend half your life in college don't mean you've got any monopoly on good common sense.
Synonyms: boffin
brain
Related words: wonk
Derived words: eggheadery
Translations:
astigmatic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From astigmatism.
Inflected forms:
form: more astigmatic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most astigmatic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: astigmatics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Suffering from astigmatism.
pos: adj
gloss: One who has astigmatism.
pos: noun
Translations:
sapiential
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English sapyencyall, from Old French or Late Latin/Ecclesiastical Latin sapientiālis, from Latin sapientia (“wisdom”) + -ālis (“-al”).
Inflected forms:
form: more sapiential
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sapiential
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Possessing or conferring wisdom, especially religious wisdom.
pos: adj
Translations:
ogive
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
ballistics
engineering
geography
geology
government
mathematics
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
politics
sciences
statistics
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: From late Middle English ogif, egeve, egeove, from Old French ogive, œgive, augive. Doublet of ogee.
Inflected forms:
form: ogives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The curve of a cumulative distribution function.
pos: noun
gloss: A Gothic pointed arch, or a rib of a Gothic vault.
pos: noun
gloss: The pointed, curved nose of a bullet, missile, or rocket.
pos: noun
examples: However, Ordnance tests revealed that the existing metal ogive (nose cone) tended to telescope on impact, cushioning the impact shock, and resulting in the failure of the impact fuze. In addition, the ogive tended to shear off from the rest of the body at impact angles of 20 degrees or more, […]
Nose: The forward end of a warhead. May have a fuze-well, be solid, or be defined by the shape of the ogive.
Ogive: Is aft of the nose, and forward of the bourrelet. May house a fuze adapter with a shape consistent with the contour of the ogive.
gloss: A three-dimensional wave-bulge, characteristic of glaciers that have experienced extreme underlying topographic change.
pos: noun
Related words: ogee
ogival
Derived words: ogived
Translations:
goodo
Part of speech: adj
intj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *gadanąvṛd.
Proto-Germanic *gōdaz
Proto-West Germanic *gōd
Old English gōd
Middle English good
English good
English -o
English goodo
From good + -o.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Good (used after the noun)
pos: adj
tags: Australia
not-comparable
slang
examples: To Knowles he said: “Quick! Give her tucker!. She hungry. She eat. She sleep. Bimeby she goodo.”
gloss: Good; used to show approval or satisfaction.
pos: intj
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
slang
examples: “Now we′re cooking! It works!” crowed Bob. “And now before it grows dark let′s pour it off into our storage tanks.”
“Goodo, Bob. We rich now!” Ebony gloated.
“Goodo,” Picnic said, blinking. “Man, look at the quail.”
Some bantering responses joked about whether David May was connected to Brian May, and the rock group Queen, but most expressed a sense of relief that anyone was willing to come to the small-town, economically struggling club. Jo Tomlinson: ‘Goodo, a signing! Even though we did boo him last year...’
John held both my hands tightly, looking straight into my eyes for several moments. His eyes moistened, “I don′t know how to thank you – it′s been quite a spell since my Janeie has been happy.” Bob gleefully joined in, “Goodo Sport!...Goodo!”
‘I have a sore elbow...’ I fib in a small whine, as I know she worries sometimes when I have too many nightmares.
‘Goodo. Well, let me “tiss” it better,’ she whispers back, so as not to wake Dad from his heavy, snoring slumber, and with her eyes still closed—as the surrounding bush continues to coo its soft night noises through her open bedroom window—she reaches out, finds my proffered elbow, and applies a kiss.
Translations:
cheerless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cheer
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English cheerless
From cheer + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more cheerless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cheerless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Devoid of cheer; gloomy.
pos: adj
examples: I then went on, beginning with the rise and progress of the primitive religions, and coming down to the various religions of the present time, during which time I labored to show Queequeg that all these Lents, Ramadans, and prolonged ham-squattings in cold, cheerless rooms were stark nonsense; […]
Men, women and children work together seven days in the week in these cheerless tenements to make a living for the family, from the break of day till far into the night.
The railway then follows the widening estuary of the river, which at high tide has the appearance of a lake, but at low water presents a rather cheerless expanse of dark mud.
This is itself a cheerless spot, particularly on a rainy day, when, overshadowed by the great massif of rock that towers in the background, and surrounded by the grey and cheerless quarries, it has a depressing character much in contrast with the green verdure encountered on the northern end of this interesting branch line.
Antonyms: blissful
cheerful
happy
humorful
joyful
mirthful
Translations:
say-so
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From say + so. Compare says who.
Compound parts: say
so
Inflected forms:
form: say-sos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sayso
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Authority, as backing some statement, injunction, or command.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: I wouldn't buy anything that expensive just on the say-so of a saleman.
You are not to go into that room without my say-so.
On whose say-so?
At the moment, and in "an emergency", you or I could be sent to the bin, willy-nilly, on the say-so of a single doctor (who may never have seen us before, and need have no particular experience of mental illness), so long as the application is supported by one of our relatives, or by a "social worker".
the answer is that we just 'think' ourselves to Be Goodness Itself, we confer that Goodness upon ourselves by say-so, […]
We could only know the authors are eye witnesses by taking it on their say-so, that is, by believing them, or by believing a string of say-sos.
"I guess I have gotten fed up with the government. You're only helped if you're on the good side. If you're on the bad side, then you can't have help, you've got no say-so, and you've got no rights, […]"
Urban Dictionary records at least 66 of the terms found by the present research, but as this dictionary liberally accepts words, definitions, and sample sentences based solely on the say-so of contributors, in the absence of corroboration from other sources the authenticity of some entries must remain dubious.
Translations:
roadmap
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From road + map.
Compound parts: road
map
Inflected forms:
form: roadmaps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: roadmapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: roadmapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: roadmapped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To construct a plan of action regarding (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: More specifically, we believe that such an approach should be: […] Opportunistic in using available software but also planned when developing new software, with the latter carefully roadmapped.
Translations:
hangnail
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: A corruption of agnail (literally “painful (anguished) nail”), by folk-etymological reanalysis as hang + nail; from Middle English agnail, from Old English angnæġl, from ang- (“tight/painful”) + næġl (“nail”). The first part is from Proto-Germanic *anguz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énǵʰus (“narrow, tight”), while the second is from Proto-Germanic *naglaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃negʰ-. The first component, ang- is also the origin of anguish, anger, and angst, while næġl is the origin of nail. Compare more "pure" Scots angernail, and similarly folk-influenced dialectal variants wrangnail and ragnail, all meaning "hangnail" and from Middle English. Cognate with Old High German ungnagel and Old Frisian angneil, o(n)gneil.
Original sense of “loose strip of tissue”; the sense of “pointed corner of nail” is modern, and is connected with the reanalysis, due to stockings catching or “hanging” on the nail.
Base: næġl
Affixes: ang-
Inflected forms:
form: hangnails
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A loose, narrow strip of nail tissue protruding from the side edge and anchored near the base of a fingernail or toenail.
pos: noun
gloss: A pointed upper corner of the toenail (often created by improperly trimming by rounding the corner) that, as the nail grows, presses into the flesh or protrudes so that it may catch (“hang”) on stockings or shoes.
pos: noun
Derived words: hangnailed
Translations:
pervasive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin pervāsus, from pervādō (“spread through, pervade”), from per (“through”) + vādō (“go, walk”).
Inflected forms:
form: more pervasive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pervasive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Manifested throughout; pervading, permeating, penetrating or affecting everything.
pos: adj
examples: The medication had a pervasive effect on the patient's health.
Mr Xi is also struggling with issues within his carefully-constructed power structure. The unexplained disappearances of key members of his leadership team and military top brass could be seen as either signs of pervasive corruption or political purges.
Translations:
paedo
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of paedophile and paedophilia.
Inflected forms:
form: paedos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pedo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pedo
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A paedophile.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
examples: "When I went round he was like ... trying to tell me about the paedo and how he was a great man, like it wasn't national news that the fucker was a paedo."
gloss: Paedophilia.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
uncountable
gloss: Paedophile, paedophiliac.
pos: adj
tags: UK
not-comparable
slang
Translations:
robustness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin rōbus
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Latin -tus
Latin rōbustuslbor.
English robust
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
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 robustness
From robust + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: robustnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being robust.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Robustness was considered to be an essential feature because of the comparatively high starting effort and the generally rough work for which the locomotives are to be used.
The Inspecting Officer draws attention to the remarkable way in which the train held together after the final derailment; this was due in no small measure to the robustness of the buckeye couplings fitted to the coaches.
Translations:
sinew
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English synwe, synewe (“tendon; ligament or other connective tissue; muscle; nerve; leaf vein”), from Old English sinu (“tendon, sinew; nerve”), from Proto-West Germanic *sinu, from Proto-Germanic *sinwō, *senawō (“sinew”), from Proto-Indo-European *snéh₁wr̥ (“sinew, tendon”), from *(s)neh₁- (“to twist (threads), spin, weave”).
The word is cognate with sinnow (“sinew”), Scots senon, sinnon, Saterland Frisian Siene (“sinew”), West Frisian senuw, sine (“sinew; nerve”), Dutch zenuw (“nerve, sinew”), German Sehne (“tendon, sinew; cord”), Icelandic sin (“tendon”), Danish sene (“tendon, sinew”), Swedish sena (“sinew”), Avestan 𐬯𐬥𐬁𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬭 (snāuuar, “tendon, sinew”), Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron, “tendon; nerve; cord”), Latin nervus (“tendon, sinew; nerve”), Sanskrit स्नावन् (snāván, “sinew, tendon; muscle”), Tocharian B ṣñor (“sinew”). Doublet of nerve and neuron.
Inflected forms:
form: sinews
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sinnew
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sinews
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sinewing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sinewed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sinewed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A cord or tendon of the body.
pos: noun
gloss: A cord or string, particularly (music) as of a musical instrument.
pos: noun
gloss: Muscular power, muscle; nerve, nervous energy; vigor, vigorous strength.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: That which gives strength or in which strength consists; a supporting factor or member; mainstay.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
in-plural
often
examples: [S]he loſt a noble and renowned brother, in his loue toward her, euer moſt kinde and naturall: with him the portion and ſinew of her fortune, her marriage dowry: with both, her combynate-husband, this well-ſeeming Angelo.
The Bodies of Men, Munition, and Mony may justly be called the ſinews of War, yet of them the two firſt are more neceſſary, for Men and Arms have means to find Mony and Meate: but Mony and Meate cannot ſo eaſily find Soldiers and ſwords.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
gloss: A nerve.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: To knit together or make strong with, or as if with, sinews.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And now to London with Triumphant march, / There to be crowned Englands Royall King: / From whence, ſhall Warwicke cut the Sea to France, / And aske the Ladie Bona for thy Queene: / So ſhalt thou ſinow both theſe Lands together, / And hauing France thy Friend, thou ſhalt not dread / The ſcattred Foe, that hopes to riſe againe: […]
[I]t were to be wiſhed that we tried the restrictive arts of government, and made law the protector, but not the tyrant of the people. […] [W]e ſhould then find that wretches, now ſtuck up for long tortures, left luxury ſhould feel a momentary pang, might, if properly treated, ſerve to ſinew the ſtate in times of danger; […]
Derived words: desinew
insinew
insinewed
sinewed
sinewish
sinewless
sinewous
sinew-shrunk
sinews of war
sinewy
Translations:
mainstay
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English main stai, equivalent to main + stay (“rope”).
Base: main
Inflected forms:
form: mainstays
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A chief support.
pos: noun
examples: Agriculture is the mainstay of this country’s economy.
At the other extreme, we have that true maid-of-all-work type, the 0-6-0, the mainstay of goods, shunting, and often of passenger work right from the earliest days to the present time.
As with most other railways, freight revenue is the mainstay of the balance sheet. In Canada, passenger revenue is only about one-tenth that of freight.
Oil is the mainstay of Nigeria's economy.
Conventional radiography has a major role in, and remains the mainstay of, initial evaluation and follow-up of rheumatologic disease.
gloss: Someone or something that can be depended on to make a regular contribution.
pos: noun
examples: On the Bishops Stortford line, the crisis now seems to be over; the units designed for this service are the mainstay of the workings once again and although some of the inner suburban sets are still seen, very few L.T.S. Line units are noticeable.
Afternoon TV mainstays like Leila Benitez and Bobby Ledesma of Darigold Jamboree gradually gave way to teenage loveteams Vi and Bot and Guy and Pip who had legions of fans watching their shows and movies and listening to their records.
Like show dogs, dog actors became a mainstay in European and American contexts from the early nineteenth century with the convergence of public sentiment for dogs and popular interest in training them.
The marina was a mainstay of the neighborhood, and Mr. O’Rourke was known for staging salsa and merengue concerts.
Crickets are a mainstay of panfishing with live bait—and a mainstay of bait shops—but they come off the hook easily and you'll be plagued by minnows and tiny fish constantly stealing your bait.
X-Men: Apocalypse, directed by series mainstay Bryan Singer, gives Magneto, the Holocaust survivor who can control magnetic fields, and Xavier, the paraplegic telepath who tends to come off as really smug, next-to-zero shared screen time.
Lauren Hemp, making her 50th appearance for the Lionesses, was preferred in central attack over mainstay Russo, while Chelsea centre-back Jess Carter was the chosen replacement for injured club team-mate Millie Bright.
I expected the open-air markets, but defrosted bouillabaisse and canned ratatouille weren’t what I imagined to be staples of Parisian culinary life. Yet they’ve become mainstays.
gloss: A stabilising rope from high on the mainmast to the base of the foremast.
pos: noun
Translations:
sinewy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English synwy, synewy, synowy (“tendonous”); equivalent to sinew + -y.
Base: sinew
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more sinewy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sinewy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Tough; having strong sinews.
pos: adj
examples: I haue beene wooed, as I intreat thee now,
Euen by the ſterne, and direfull God of warre,
VVhoſe ſinowie necke in battel nere did bow,
VVho conquers where he comes in euery iarre; […]
His right hand (which seemed to me somewhat hairy and sinewy, a sign of great strength in its owner) lay on the side of his heart; […]
gloss: Having or showing nervous strength.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
gloss: Possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful.
pos: adj
examples: Worthy fellows, and like to prove most sinewy swordmen
Hawat put a sinewy finger beside his eye.
Derived words: sinewiness
unsinewy
Translations:
aglow
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)der.
English a-
English glow
English aglow
From a- + glow.
Inflected forms:
form: more aglow
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most aglow
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: glowing; radiant
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
sometimes
examples: My prayer is a rapture in blue
With a world far away
And your lips close to mine
Tonight while our hearts are aglow
Oh, tell me the words I am longing to know
The fall wind stirs and the earth is aglow. Everything is golden.
Kabul skies were aglow with fireworks as Afghans celebrated stunning Cricket World Cup victory over Pakistan.
Translations:
arched
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Curved.
pos: adj
examples: His arched back ached from the constant strain.
The lobule margins, furthermore, are arched away from the lobe, with the consequence that (when fully inflated) the abaxial leaf surface forms the interior lining of the lobule.
Translations:
hooked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hook
English -ed
English hooked
From hook + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more hooked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hooked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a sharp curve at the end; resembling a hook.
pos: adj
examples: a hooked nose
gloss: Addicted; unable to resist or cease doing.
pos: adj
examples: He will never leave her because he is hooked on her chocolate chip cookies.
You only have to try heroin once to become hooked.
Derived words: hooked bracket
hookedness
subhooked
Translations:
grouchy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: US 1895. From grouch + -y. Originally US college student slang.
Base: grouch
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: grouchier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: grouchiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Irritable; easily upset; angry; tending to complain.
pos: adj
examples: His boss gets grouchy when deadlines draw near.
Not that young Pat had a nasty temper, or was grouchy as his father had feared.
He went in to mumble that he was "sorry, didn't mean to be grouchy," and to inquire as to her interest in movies.
In Berlin I once heard Susie Clemens—ill-fated, talented girl, who died so young—say to her father: "Grouchy again! They do say that you can be funny when company is around—too bad that you don't consider Henry Fisher company."
Translations:
simulant
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English simulate
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Latin -ns
Latin -āns
Old French -antbor.
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Proto-Germanic *-ndz
Proto-West Germanic *-andī
Old English -ende
Middle English -ant
English -ant
English simulant
From simulate + -ant.
Inflected forms:
form: simulants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that simulates something else such as a gemstone.
pos: noun
examples: Due to its low cost and close visual likeness to diamond, cubic zirconia has remained the most gemologically and economically important diamond simulant since 1976.
He could invent a fictional restaurant for you to bite your burger at but any fictional restaurant would be, like Nomenex, a worthless simulant or inconcinne imitation, a placebic generic.
The soil sample, called LZS-1, is the latest in a list of lunar regolith simulants of varying quality that have been developed to help Nasa and other space agencies around the world prepare for missions to the Moon.
gloss: Simulating, replacing, or having the form or appearance of something else.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations: