yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
drumline
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From drum + line.
Compound parts: drum
line
Inflected forms:
form: drumlines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: drum line
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A group of percussionists in a marching band, consisting of the battery and front ensemble.
pos: noun
Translations:
smattering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English smatter
English -ing
English smattering
From smatter + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: smatterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A shallow or superficial knowledge of a subject.
pos: noun
examples: She knows a smattering of Greek, but not enough to carry on a conversation.
1529, Thomas More, The Supplycacyon of Soulys [The Supplication of Souls], London: W. Rastell, Book 2,
[…] he had a lytell smatterynge in the lawe: […]
If any object against a Learned Education, that it will make Women vain and assuming, and instead of correcting, encrease their Pride: I grant, that a smattering in Learning may; for it has this effect on the Men, none so Dogmatical, and so forward to shew their Parts as your little Pretenders to Science.
There were several of his Priests and Lawyers present, (as I conjectured by their habits) who were commanded to address themselves to me, and I spoke to them in as many Languages as I had the least smattering of, which were High and Low Dutch, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, and Lingua Franca; but all to no purpose.
It's easy enough to be a beak when you're young and athletic, and can offer the latest University smattering. The difficulty is to keep your place when you get old and stiff, and younger smatterers are pushing up behind you.
Tarzan, who, by this time, with the assistance of Abdul, had picked up quite a smattering of Arab, questioned one of the younger men who had accompanied the sheik while the latter paid his respects to Captain Gerard.
He had only a mail-order smattering of music, painting; he had never read Dante or Goethe nor anything of Shakespeare except the plays on which he had been spoon-fed at Amherst […]
gloss: A small amount or number of something.
pos: noun
examples: There’s only a smattering of people who oppose the first amendment.
More sophisticated dishes, like trout, with a heavy smattering of finely minced rosemary between the filets, are simple and au naturel: the trout comes with a lemon wedge, a bed of mixed greens, and the head.
By the standards of the 70s, when the main climbing routes were littered with discarded tents and food packets, Everest is a lot cleaner, with just a smattering of plastic bottles and sweet wrappers on the rocky plateau that is base camp.
He was introduced to a smattering of boos from the crowd, a sign of the presence of fans from Notre Dame and other Big Ten schools.
Translations:
flowmeter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English flow
Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Proto-Hellenic *-tron
Ancient Greek -τρον (-tron)
Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron)der.
English -meter
English flowmeter
From flow + -meter.
Inflected forms:
form: flowmeters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various devices used to measure the flow of a fluid through a pipe, etc.
pos: noun
Translations:
fluorometer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.
Proto-Indo-European *bʰlewH-der.
Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti?
Latin fluō
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *-ōs
Proto-Italic *-ōs
Latin -or
Latin fluor
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English fluoro-
Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Proto-Hellenic *-tron
Ancient Greek -τρον (-tron)
Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron)der.
English -meter
English fluorometer
From fluoro- + -meter.
Inflected forms:
form: fluorometers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fluorimeter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fluormeter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An instrument used to detect and measure fluorescence.
pos: noun
Translations:
fluorescence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.
Proto-Indo-European *bʰlewH-der.
Proto-Indo-European *bʰluH-yé-ti?
Latin fluō
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *-ōs
Proto-Italic *-ōs
Latin -or
Latin fluorbor.
English fluor
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der.
Latin -ītēsbor.
French -iteder.
English -ite
English fluorite
Middle Low German sparder.
Old English spærstān
Middle English sparston
English sparstonebf.
English spar
blend
English fluorspar
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁sḱeti
Proto-Italic *-ēskō
Latin -ēscō
Latin -escensder.
English -escence
English fluorescence
Coined by British physicist George Stokes in 1852 from fluorspar + -escence. Morphologically fluoresce + -ence.
Base: fluorspar
Affixes: -escence
Inflected forms:
form: fluorescences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The emission of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) by a material when stimulated by the absorption of radiation or of a subatomic particle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A multi-institution US research team has combined some creative chemistry, fluorescence microscopy and laser-driven microballistics to gain a clearer view of just what happens in a high-strain-rate impact, and to tease out the relative contribution of different kinds of energy dissipation within the target (Nat. Commun., doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-52663-1).
gloss: The light so emitted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: autofluorescence
bifluorescence
biofluorescence
chemifluorescence
cryofluorescence
cytofluorescence
cytoimmunofluorescence
epifluorescence
fluoresce
fluorescein
fluorescence anisotropy
fluorescence microscope
fluorescence microscopy
fluorescence spectroscopy
fluorescent
histofluorescence
hyperfluorescence
hypofluorescence
immunocytofluorescence
immunofluorescence
macrofluorescence
magnetofluorescence
microfluorescence
multifluorescence
neurofluorescence
nonfluorescence
pseudofluorescence
spectrofluorescence
stereofluorescence
superfluorescence
thermofluorescence
transfluorescence
videofluorescence
X-ray fluorescence
Translations:
pathognomonic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek παθογνωμονικός (pathognōmonikós, “skilled in diagnosis”), from πάθος (páthos, “misfortune”) + γνωμονικός (gnōmonikós, “fit to judge of”).
Base: πάθος
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: specifically characteristic or indicative of a particular disease or condition.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A tetrad of rash, arthralgia, abdominal pain and kidney disease in a child is pathognomonic for Henoch-Schönlein purpura.
high involvement in internet-related behaviors is likely not pathognomonic for addiction and may stem from comorbid disorders (e.g., mood disorders, anxiety disorders, attention-deficit and hyperactivity disorder).
Antonyms: assident
nonspecific
Translations:
evangelical
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
Islam
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From evangelic + -al, from Old French evangelique, from Latin evangelium, from Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion, “good news”).
Base: evangelic
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more evangelical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most evangelical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: evangelicals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the doctrines or teachings of the Christian gospel or Christianity in general.
pos: adj
gloss: Pertaining to the gospel(s) of the Christian New Testament.
pos: adj
gloss: Protestant; specifically Lutheran and Calvinist churches in continental Europe as well as their offshoots in North America.
pos: adj
gloss: Pertaining to a movement in Protestant Christianity that stresses personal conversion and the authority of the Bible (evangelicalism).
pos: adj
examples: “They wave their Bibles at passersby, screaming their condemnations,” writes Kurt Eichenwald of evangelical Christians.
gloss: Pertaining to Islamic groups that are dedicated to dawah and preaching the Quran and sunnah.
pos: adj
examples: When the mosque came under the influence of an evangelical Muslim group (Jamaati Tableegh), the formerly congenial situation changed noticeably.
gloss: Zealously enthusiastic.
pos: adj
gloss: A member of an evangelical church.
pos: noun
examples: Furthermore, what would otherwise be good points about the sort of selective literalism that renders homosexuality an unpardonable sin but shrugs off Sarah Palin’s biblically forbidden pearl earrings are lost in Eichenwald’s assumption that evangelicals make these decisions “with less care than they exercise in selecting side orders for lunch.”
gloss: An advocate of evangelicalism.
pos: noun
Synonyms: evangelic
Antonyms: antievangelical
nonevangelical
Related words: evangel
evangelise
evangeliser
evangelism
evangelist
evangelistic
evangelistical
evangelistically
evangelize
evangelizer
Derived words: evangelical counsels
evangelicalization
evangelicalize
exvangelical
fundagelical
pseudoevangelical
superevangelical
Talibangelical
televangelical
ultraevangelical
unevangelical
vegangelical
evangelicalism
evangelically
evangelicalness
open evangelical
Translations:
suppleness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English supple
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 suppleness
From supple + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: supplenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being supple; litheness, flexibility, pliability, manageability.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
Translations:
gasometer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From French gazomètre, corresponding to gas + -o- + -meter.
Base: gas
Affixes: -o-
-meter
Inflected forms:
form: gasometers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gasometre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An apparatus used to store or measure gas or the flow of gas, particularly in a laboratory setting.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: I take a mercury bottle and then an old gun barrel, draw the breech end to a convenient size to cut a thread on it so as to make a tight joint; then take a lead tube and connect one end to the muzzle of the gun barrel and the other end to the gasometer.
The collected air was metered through a gasometer, and the composition of every gas sample was analyzed in duplicate […]
gloss: A large tank or reservoir for storing gas; a gasholder.
pos: noun
examples: The attack on the gasworks was probably the most risky, as none of the rebels had any idea of just what kind of blast an exploding gasometer might produce […]
Related words: gas meter
Translations:
gasholder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From gas + holder.
Compound parts: gas
holder
Inflected forms:
form: gasholders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large cylindrical tank used for storing gas, especially town gas (1870s-1940s) or natural gas (1950s-present). Types include one with telescopic sections with wet seals in between and one with a nontelescoping tank and a dry seal.
pos: noun
examples: Its first big task was in 1915, at a fire at the Southern Laundry, next to the Great Western Hotel; its last major action was in 1942, when, after an enemy air attack, it helped to save the big gasholder at Swindon Works.
Translations:
gravimeter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From gravi- + -meter.
Base: gravi
Inflected forms:
form: gravimeters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instrument used to measure local variations in the gravitational field.
pos: noun
gloss: A hydrometer.
pos: noun
Related words: gravimetric
gravimetry
Derived words: thermogravimeter
urogravimeter
Translations:
spreadsheet
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From spread + sheet.
Compound parts: spread
sheet
Inflected forms:
form: spreadsheets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spreadsheets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spreadsheeting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: spreadsheeted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: spreadsheeted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A computer application for organization, analysis, and storage of data in tabular form.
pos: noun
examples: The program's most quintessentially Macintoshian feature, one as yet unique among spreadsheets, is its icon bar, which resides at the top of the screen just below the standard menu bar.
gloss: A document created with such an application.
pos: noun
examples: A little later in this chapter, we'll run through some of the most common methods journalists use to analyze the material they gather and store in spreadsheets.
For example, my own entry into the world of theorycrafting happened when I took somebody’s prot paladin spreadsheet and translated it into MATLAB code.
gloss: A sheet of paper, marked with a grid, in which financial data is recorded and totals calculated manually.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: To model or compute by means of a spreadsheet.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If you'd spreadsheeted the cascade charts and sorted it by each name's sphere of influence, then the people Carrie Johnstone sent the police to get constituted a big chunk of the middle third—people who “commanded” maybe four of five others—and maybe 10 percent of the top influencers.
Derived words: spreadsheeter
spreadsheetlike
spreadsheety
Translations:
inclinometer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin inclīnāre
Old French enclinerbor.
Middle English enclinen
English incline
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Proto-Hellenic *-tron
Ancient Greek -τρον (-tron)
Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron)der.
English -meter
English inclinometer
From incline + -o- + -meter.
Inflected forms:
form: inclinometers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instrument that displays the angle of an aircraft relative to the horizon.
pos: noun
gloss: An instrument that measures magnetic dip; a dip circle.
pos: noun
gloss: A surveying instrument that measures angles of inclination or elevation; a clinometer.
pos: noun
examples: For the ground, that means using three primary types of equipment:
■ Extensometers to look for ground heave - the upwards movement of soil, which can occur at any stage. It is essentially the opposite of erosion and is often associated with clay-type soils which swell when wet.
■ Inclinometers, which measure slope movements.
■ Piezometers to measure water levels.
Synonyms: clinometer
Translations:
lairy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Variation of leery, originally Cockney slang.
Inflected forms:
form: lairier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: lairiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Touchy, aggressive or confrontational, usually while drunk.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: Don't get lairy with me!
There's always been a weird duality at the heart of New Order: the fact that three druggy, lairy Mancs and the drummer's girlfriend can craft music of such awesome emotive power as to make grown neds weep.
Unskinny was a self-published riot of large lasses getting lairy in northern towns, and did a reasonable trade via friends and comic shops.
The show is lairy, loud and laddish; it does exactly what it says on the tin.
Watching the people get lairy / It's not very pretty I tell thee
I started to get a bit lairy, agitated on drink.
Obviously, I'm not beginning to suggest women commit as much violent crime as men when plastered. But I do now concede that being aggressive, ignorant, lairy and foul-mouthed suits the ladies even less than it suits the fellas.
Translations:
derm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek δέρμα (dérma, “skin”). Doublet of derma.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: animal skin.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: Synonym of dermis.
pos: noun
Derived words: dermal
dermic
exoderm
trichodermial
Translations:
lurve
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From an expressively lengthened pronunciation of love ([lʌːv]~[lɜːv]~[lɐːv]). The spelling is based on non-rhotic English.
Inflected forms:
form: lurves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lurving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lurved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lurved
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Love, fondness.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
gloss: To love; to like a lot.
pos: verb
tags: informal
Translations:
gangbusters
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The adjective and adverb are a shortening of the phrase like gangbusters.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Very successful or profitable.
pos: adj
tags: UK
colloquial
examples: What went wrong for Ophelia Lovibond? It was all looking gangbusters after a string of entry-level Hollywood roles.
gloss: With great energy or speed; very well.
pos: adv
tags: colloquial
not-comparable
examples: to go gangbusters
This follows Llewelyn-Bowen on a promotional parade through China, his hopes resting largely on the basis that his British quirkiness will go gangbusters with Shanghai shoppers.
Clearly this is a moment tailor-made for the front crawl, but I can't do front crawl so instead I opt to skull, the swan-like grace of my upper body belying the fact that under the water my legs are going absolutely gangbusters.
I doubt very much that the US will deploy much that would have been prohibited by the treaty. Russia, though, will go gangbusters.
The latter, a niche series of British gangster movies, isn’t exactly a critical darling, but has a rabid fanbase, with each title doing gangbusters for Signature in home entertainment and streaming.
The position that we should go gangbusters and use it to make anything we want — up to and including doomsday weapons — that’s obviously just as crazy. We’re trying to seek the middle ground, to do things responsibly.
Translations:
gangbuster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From gang + buster.
Compound parts: gang
buster
Inflected forms:
form: gangbusters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A law enforcement officer who specializes in disrupting organized crime.
pos: noun
Translations:
Evangelical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to any of several Christian Churches that believe in the sole authority of the gospels.
pos: adj
gloss: Of, or relating to Protestant (especially Lutheran) Churches in Germany.
pos: adj
Translations:
prejudicial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English prejudiceele, prejudicial, prejudiciall, prejudiciel, prejudiciell, prejudycyall, from Old French prejudicial, prejudiciel and Medieval Latin prēiūdiciālis.
Inflected forms:
form: more prejudicial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most prejudicial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: prejudical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: prejudicall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Exhibiting prejudice or bias.
pos: adj
examples: I must believe that the absence of specific language in our Policy Book with respect to sexual preferences cannot be construed as encouragement to prejudicial behavior or treatment.
gloss: Causing harm or injury; detrimental, harmful or injurious.
pos: adj
examples: Were I to give you money, for whatever reason, it would be extremely prejudicial to your chances in court if you were unfortunate enough to appear there.
gloss: Tending to convince based on past history rather than on evidence about the case at hand.
pos: adj
examples: The judge had granted the DA a one-week extension with the caustic admonition that the case would be summarily dismissed if at that time probative, as opposed to prejudicial, evidence was not produced.
Derived words: antiprejudicial
non-prejudicial
prejudicially
prejudicialness
unprejudicial
Translations:
wildfowl
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wild + fowl.
Compound parts: wild
fowl
Inflected forms:
form: wildfowls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wildfowl
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wildfowls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wildfowling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wildfowled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wildfowled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any wild bird such as ducks, geese or swans.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: gamefowl, game bird
[…] Whoso seeks an audit here
Propitious, pays his tribute, game or fish,
Wildfowl or ven’son, and his errand speeds.
In these early days of the journey we eat well. We have brought salted meat, flour, beans, dried fruit, and there are wildfowl to shoot.
gloss: To hunt wildfowl.
pos: verb
examples: The hunting of the kind of winged creatures, taken as a whole, is called wildfowling.
Translations:
entourage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
mathematics
sciences
topology
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French entourage, from entourer (“to surround”).
Inflected forms:
form: entourages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A retinue of attendants, associates or followers.
pos: noun
examples: large entourage
royal entourage
celebrity entourage
The actor arrived with an entourage of assistants and bodyguards.
gloss: A binary relation in a uniform space which generalises the notion of two points being no farther apart than a given fixed distance; a uniform neighbourhood.
pos: noun
gloss: Decorations, such as people, vehicles, or trees, appearing on an architectural sketch or rendering to make the site look more lively.
pos: noun
Derived words: entourage effect
Translations:
claves
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin American Spanish claves (plural), from Latin clāvis (“a key; a lever, bar”).
Inflected forms:
form: clave
pos: noun
tags: singular
Senses:
gloss: A percussion instrument, consisting of two sticks or blocks, in which one is struck against the other in order to produce a sound.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-normally
Translations:
overrate
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
English rate
English overrate
From over- + rate.
Inflected forms:
form: overrates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: overrating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: overrated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: overrated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: over-rate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: overrates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: over-rate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To esteem too highly; to give greater praise than due.
pos: verb
gloss: To overstate or overestimate in amount, extent, degree, etc.
pos: verb
examples: The vicissitudes of the weather may be responsible for more suffering among the lower animals than in the case of man, but we who live in England are perhaps inclined to overrate the amount of inconvenience occasioned to the world at large by this cause.
Vance and Martin note another problem with retrospective analysis of sexual patterns in a case in which a person has been diagnosed with AIDS or ARC. There may be a tendency for diagnosed people to overrate their sexual encounters in the belief that promiscuity is the cause of AIDS, thereby explaining or rationalizing their illness.
gloss: An excessive estimate or rate.
pos: noun
Derived words: overrater
Translations:
recycling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: recyclings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The practice of sorting and collecting waste materials for new use.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Those materials culled for recycling.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: He plans to haul the recycling in on Saturday.
gloss: Something made by recycling something else.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
usually
examples: Eddie Holman is still best remembered for his soulful, falsettoed/sex-changed recycling of Ruby & The Romantics' big-time smoothie from 1963, "Hey There Lonely Boy."
Derived words: antirecycling
aspirational recycling
biorecycling
e-recycling
grasscycling
nonrecycling
peecycling
recycling bin
recycling station
recycling symbol
recycling time
wishcycling
wishful recycling
Translations:
plainspoken
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From plain + spoken.
Compound parts: plain
spoken
Inflected forms:
form: more plainspoken
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most plainspoken
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: plain-spoken
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Speaking in a forthright manner.
pos: adj
examples: He was a plainspoken fellow with plenty of amazing stories to tell.
Translations:
convalesce
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin convalēscere, from con- (intensive prefix) + valēscere (“to become strong”), inchoative of valēre (“to be strong”).
Inflected forms:
form: convalesces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: convalescing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: convalesced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: convalesced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To recover health and strength gradually after sickness or weakness.
pos: verb
examples: The patient convalesced for six months after his stroke.
Translations:
promptness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English prompt
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 promptness
From prompt + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: promptnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The habit or characteristic of doing things without delay.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Adherence to a designated time.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Miss Frensham evidently did foresee some satisfaction in talking about it, for she came at once. In view of her circumstances, Carrados could not but deem her rather extravagant, for nothing but a taxi from door to door could explain the promptness of her arrival.
Synonyms: timeliness
Translations:
reface
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
Late Latin faciēs
Late Latin facia
Old French facebor.
Middle English face
English face
English reface
From re- + face.
Inflected forms:
form: refaces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: refacing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: refaced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: refaced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To replace the face or surface of something; to create a new outer layer.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They decided to reface their cabinets, putting new doors and fresh paint just on the fronts.
gloss: To face or confront again.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He winked before refacing his audience.
Translations:
refinish
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English finish
English refinish
From re- + finish.
Inflected forms:
form: refinishes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: refinishing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: refinished
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: refinished
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To finish again; especially, to apply a fresh finish, as a new coat of varnish or paint.
pos: verb
examples: She refinished the old table.
The interior bodyside and ceiling panels in vestibules, toilets and Standard Class saloons have also been refinished, either in paint or vinyls.
Translations:
flameout
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English flame outdeverb.
English flameout
Deverbal from flame out.
Inflected forms:
form: flameouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flame-out
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of flaming out or burning out; extinguishing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of quitting or failing, especially due to overwork or in a dramatic manner.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: The company was one of Silicon Valley's more famous dot-com flameouts.
She was part of a weave of girls at Miss Rutgers's School, a mesh so fine and scarily intimate that even her mother's flameout and jail sentence […] couldn't dissolve it.
gloss: The sudden extinguishing of the flame of a burner (due to obstruction of fuel or airflow).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The left engine suffered a flameout from ingesting heavy rain.
Bombardier’s core lock screening procedure requires a cool-down period before engine shutdown to stabilize internal temperatures and clearances. However, this procedure does not produce the more severe thermal distress associated with the high power, high altitude flameouts that were experienced during the accident flight. As stated in the Safety Board’s November 20, 2006, safety recommendation letter to the FAA, the successful demonstration of Bombardier’s flight test procedure might not ensure that an engine will not experience core lock if the core is allowed to stop rotating after a high power, high altitude flameout. In its letter, the Board noted that the No. 1 accident engine had successfully passed the screening procedure during initial production acceptance testing.
Translations:
staithe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Etymology: From Old English stæþ and/or Old Norse stöð (“harbor”).
Inflected forms:
form: staithes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stathe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: staith
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A riverbank
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
gloss: A fixed structure where ships land, especially to load and unload; wharf; landing stage.
pos: noun
tags: UK
archaic
dialectal
examples: Trevithick's first use of steam traction on rail took place at Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, on a tramroad 9¾ miles long between the Penydarren ironworks of Samuel Homfray, and the staithes at Abercynon, where the worked iron was loaded into barges on the Glamorganshire Canal.
gloss: An installation built at the railside or nearby for the storage of coal unloaded from wagons.
pos: noun
tags: UK
Synonyms: wharf
Translations:
waistband
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From waist + band.
Compound parts: waist
band
Inflected forms:
form: waistbands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A band of fabric encircling the waist, especially a part of a pair of pants or a skirt.
pos: noun
Translations:
encircling
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: encirclings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: enclosing, skirting
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: She felt safe in her mother's encircling arms.
gloss: encirclement
pos: noun
examples: If, however, a series of motifs conjoin in their encirclings of a theme - within and beyond the "subtext" - they enliven the interplay among themselves and with the theme to which they are attracted over the turbulent abyss of time and space.
Translations:
shagger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old English sċeacga
Middle English *schagge
English shag
English -er
English shagger
From shag + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: shaggers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who shags.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: 1997, The Bulletin, Issues 6061-6069, page 74,
[…] deracinated German, ace journalist and communist spy, compulsive cocktail drinker and serial shagger: the agent of penetration par excellence is engaging in sexual congress with a secretary from the German embassy in the Japanese capital.
‘What do you want to be remembered for, being the best shaggers and drinkers or the best rugby players?’
There would be card schools, too, and when we overnighted the shaggers among the lads would be sniffing after everything in a skirt.
gloss: One who shags.
pos: noun
examples: The shagger is placed in this position to avoid the danger of his being hit by a batted ball.
As we arrived at the grainfield a covey of little Mexican boys swarmed in from all directions, waving and yelling and climbing on the bumpers, vying for jobs as bird shaggers. Birds were darting low over the vehicles and somebody got excited and started shooting right there, bringing the kids racing for the fallen birds, because whoever got one had a job for sure.
As soon as the outfielder releases the throw to the shagger, a second ball is fungoed and the fielder must react quickly,[…].
He always had a shagger, a caddy who put the shag bag right in front of his feet.
gloss: One who dances the shag; a jazz dancer.
pos: noun
examples: 2012, Renee Wright, Myrtle Beach & South Carolina′s Grand Strand, Explorer′s Guides, unnumbered page,
The first gathering proved so successful that SOS has expanded to a year-round schedule of events, including annual ten-day Spring Safaris and Fall Migrations, attracting up to 10,000 shaggers at a time, plus weekend gatherings in winter and summer.
Derived words: flag shagger
ball shagger
shagger's back
sheepshagger
Translations:
poddy
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pod + -y.
Base: pod
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: poddier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: poddiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: poddies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: poddies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: poddying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: poddied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: poddied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a pod or pods.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 1944, New Mexico State University Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin of the Agricultural Experiment Station, New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Issues 318-329, page 88,
[…] the second cutting each season was allowed to become poddy, i.e., to set seed pods.
gloss: Fat, corpulent.
pos: adj
gloss: Fed by hand.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
not-comparable
examples: One of my half-starved poddy calves was very ill, and I went out to doctor it previous to bathing and tidying myself for my finishing household duties.
1964, New South Wales Department of Agriculture, The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, Volume 74, page 646,
Constant handling will cause mis-mothering, leading to deaths and a number of poddy lambs. Poddy lambs are slow to grow and often fail to reach marketable weight under eight months of age.
The first really positive change came about when Mum arrived home with a poddy lamb.
gloss: An unbranded calf.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
gloss: A hand-fed calf or lamb (a young animal needing milk or milk-substitute).
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: I did not turn to ascertain who it might be, but trusted it was no one of importance, as the poddy and I presented rather a grotesque appearance.
When the milkin′ music′s ended, and the big cans stacked away, / An′ the poddies have done drinkin′, an′ the neddies chew their hay
She said I had to show Liz how to feed the poddies, the pigs and Buzz.
gloss: An immature mullet.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
gloss: To hand-feed (a young animal).
pos: verb
tags: Australia
examples: 1907, Barbara Baynton, Human Toll, 2007, Echo Library, page 110,
‘Ell ov a trouble t′ poddy, miss, them lambs, but Queeby used t′ poddy any Gord′s quantity’ remarked Nungi.
Related words: dogie
placer
Derived words: poddy-dodger
Translations:
headstand
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From head + stand.
Compound parts: head
stand
Inflected forms:
form: headstands
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: headstands
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: headstanding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: headstood
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: headstood
pos: verb
tags: past
form: headstanded
pos: verb
tags: informal
participle
past
form: headstanded
pos: verb
tags: informal
past
Senses:
gloss: The act of standing on one's head.
pos: noun
gloss: The position of standing on one's head.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of handstand.
pos: noun
gloss: To stand on one's head.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: [D]ogs growled at the white arse end of a swan headstanding to graze underwater; […]
I did a headstand and twerked during his wedding, because that’s what he wanted. It was his wedding day, and he asked for it. So I gave the people that they want — twerking as well. I twerked while headstanding.
Photographs from the time show Ms. Brown triumphantly astride her headstanding elephant, arms raised high, her elaborate headdress perfectly in place.
Translations:
holdover
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hold overdeverb.
English holdover
Deverbal from hold over.
Inflected forms:
form: holdovers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something left behind, saved or remaining from an earlier time.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: That policy is a holdover from days of punch card data entry.
Castle Rock Middle School was a frowning pile of red brick standing between the Post Office and the Library, a holdover from the time when the town elders didn't feel entirely comfortable with a school unless it looked like a reformatory.
gloss: The distance (at target) by which a rifle scope is aimed higher than the intended point of impact in order to compensate for bullet drop over the distance to the target.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This rangefinder not only measures the distance to the target, but also provides a digital readout of the inches of holdover at that distance.
Related words: holdout
leftover
Derived words: holdover fire
Translations:
fidgeting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fidgetings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fidgetting
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A fidgety motion.
pos: noun
Translations:
fussed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more fussed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fussed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Bothered; concerned.
pos: adj
tags: UK
informal
examples: He's just not that fussed about going to the party.
It's all right, I tell you. Can't you see I'm not fussed, not at all fussed?
An added bonus is that this system protects you against impulse purchases of stuff you're not really fussed about as you have to focus your mind on what you'll chuck out when you get home.
You know when the person comes to me all fussed up about their husbands or vice versa, I say, "I'm not fussed about them. I'm fussed about you."
This may be a useful lesson beyond the realms of longevity in a world more fussed about efficiency than effectiveness.
Translations:
goings-on
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: goingson
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: going-ons
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Occurrences; things that go on, occur, or happen; events; activities.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: She sent a long letter detailing all the recent goings-on in her life.
Enkidu is appalled at such goings-on and rises immediately to go to Uruk.
Phoenix's finest watch the goings-on with jaws agape. Machines on thick metal legs with big jangling teeth.
The_Donald wasn’t a place to debate the presidential election, or discuss the latest goings-on with their preferred candidate. “What I’m interested in is letting Donald Trump supporters speak among themselves,” a moderator of the subreddit told me in early 2016.
Translations:
preferential
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Medieval Latin preferentia + -al.
Base: preferentia
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more preferential
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most preferential
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: preferrential
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the showing or giving of preference.
pos: adj
examples: Club members received preferential seating.
preferential treatment
gloss: Of or relating to a voting system in which the voters are allowed to indicate on their ballots their preference (usually their first and second choices) between two or more candidates, so that if no candidate receives a majority of first choices the one receiving the greatest number of first and second choices together is the winner.
pos: adj
examples: preferential voting; the preferential system
Derived words: antipreferential
nonpreferential
nonpreferentially
preferential attachment
preferentiality
preferentially
preferential treatment
preferential voting
unpreferential
unpreferentially
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: preferent
lang: Finnish
word: suosiva
lang: Finnish
word: etuus-
lang: French
word: préférentiel
lang: German
word: vorrangig
lang: Greek
word: προτιμησιακός
roman: protimisiakós
lang: Italian
word: preferenziale
lang: Italian
word: di favore
lang: Portuguese
word: preferencial
lang: Russian
word: льго́тный
roman: lʹgótnyj
lang: Spanish
word: preferente
lang: Spanish
word: preferencial
eigenstate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₂óyḱe
Proto-Germanic *aiganą
Proto-Germanic *aiganaz
Proto-West Germanic *aigan
Old High German eigan
Middle High German eigen
German eigenbor.
English eigen-
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
Proto-Italic *status
Latin statuslbor.
Old French estatbor.
Middle English stat
English state
English eigenstate
From eigen- + state.
Inflected forms:
form: eigenstates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dynamic quantum mechanical state whose wave function is an eigenvector that corresponds to a physical quantity.
pos: noun
examples: Otherwise, in the case of pure physisorption, adatoms and very small adclusters would not be observed with the STM because the probability for the sharp eigenstates of the adparticles to lie within the 10 meV energy window ( given by the bias voltage ) would be considerably small.
In all quantum theories, basis vectors (which are typically eigenstates) are abstractions of the unit basis vectors along the 3D axes. A general state is a vector sum of certain amounts of each basis vector state.
Translations:
fishtail
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English fisch tayle, equivalent to fish + tail.
Compound parts: fish
tail
Inflected forms:
form: fishtails
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fishtailing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fishtailed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fishtailed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To swing the back of a vehicle (originally an aircraft) from side to side.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: As we approached the runway, the pilot fishtailed slightly to reduce landing speed.
gloss: To cause the back of (a vehicle) to swing from side to side.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: But Bruce wasn't done baiting the jocks. He fishtailed the car; it swerved and reversed direction, heading straight for the three jocks who were chasing them on foot. It looked like he was going to run the car over the three men.
gloss: To move with the tail swinging from side to side in this way.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: A large black and gold butterfly fish-tailed in and landed on a hydrangea bush almost at my elbow, moved its wings slowly up and down a few times, then took off heavily […]
She'd sprinted away like Betty Cuthbert and the blue F.J. Holden was fishtailing up the street as fast as it could go.
Having reversed at Eastbourne, I am in the trailing car, which leaps and fishtails around so much on our way to Bexhill that I have trouble writing coherent notes.
Translations:
figurine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French figurine, equivalent to figure + -ine.
Base: figure
Affixes: -ine
Inflected forms:
form: figurines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small carved or molded figure; a statuette.
pos: noun
examples: Galvanised by this knowledge, the figurine family take to exercise and healthy eating in the park, forming themselves into the key words "Eat" (better), "Move" (more) and "Live" (longer) of the government's urgings and soon the municipal landscape is filled with other happy, healthier families who, incidentally, look even more delicious en masse.
While figurines were an integral part of Late Neolithic and Early Copper Age life, they disappear from society until the later Nuragic period.[…]The lack of figurines is a conscious choice, as is the decision to produce over 500 bronze figurines (bronzetti) in phases III and IV of the Nuragic period.
For the abbreviation of the name of the pieces, each player is free to use the name which is commonly used in his/her country. Examples: F = fou (French for bishop), L = loper (Dutch for bishop). In printed periodicals, the use of figurines is recommended.
Translations:
coin-operated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: coin-op
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Operated, or activated, by placing coins in a slot.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Just as a matter of information, the Pennsylvania Railroad has unattended coin-operated public telephones on its "Congressional Limiteds" between New York and Washington and on the "Broadway Limited" between New York and Chicago.
Translations:
penetrometer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: penetrometers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: penetrameter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A mechanical device that measures the ease of penetration of an object into a semisolid
pos: noun
gloss: A device that measures the penetrating power of electromagnetic radiation (especially X-rays)
pos: noun
Related words: penetrometric
penetrometry
Translations:
run-down
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English run downdeverb.
English run-down
Deverbal from run down.
Inflected forms:
form: more run-down
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most run-down
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Tired and exhausted.
pos: adj
gloss: Decrepit.
pos: adj
examples: The task was made trebly difficult, however, by the badly run-down condition in which the railways of Britain had been unavoidably left at the end of the war in 1945, […].
In the Seventies the system was run-down and demoralised. Road transport was the future, the Underground was being 'managed for decline', and the system was filthier than the streets above.
Among its findings, the report says: "In recent years we have seen more stations transformed from run-down Victorian hulks, or spartan bus-sheltered platforms, into places that people can take pride in, feel comfortable in using, and which are fulfilling more of their wider potential.
gloss: Having the spring unwound.
pos: adj
Translations: