yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
conversable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From converse + -able.
Base: converse
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: more conversable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most conversable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: conversible
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Able and inclined to engage in conversation.
pos: adj
examples: It is proper for a Gentleman […] to be Civil, and Conversible in Discourse, to know Men and Manners.
The elegant Part of mankind […] may be divided into the learned and conversible. […] The conversible World join to a sociable Disposition, and a Taste for Pleasure, an Inclination for the easier and more gentle Exercises of the Understanding,
1792, anonymous, “To Warren Hastings, Esq.,” cited in a letter written by William Cowper to Harriett Hesketh dated 5 May, 1792, in The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper, Esqr., Chichester, 2nd ed., 1803, p. 40,
I knew thee young, and of a mind
While young, humane, conversable, and kind,
When I had eaten well and heartily, Brother Ambrose, a hearty conversible Frenchman (for all those who wait on strangers have the liberty to speak), led me to a little room […]
He had a bottle of whisky in one hand, to make himself conversible.
I had […] days when I ached for a conversable girl. The island women were […] dour and sallow-faced, and about as seducible as a Free Church congregation.
gloss: Able to be conversed with.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: […] it is not the invisible Devil that I am enquiring after, but an appearing conversible Daemon or Evil Spirit […] assuming human Shape, or at least Voice,
[…] a full-grown horse, or dog, is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as a more conversible animal, than an infant of a day, or a week, or even a month, old.
gloss: Pertaining to, suited for or exhibiting conversation.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: 1619, John Donne, Sermon 71 in LXXX Sermons, London: Richard Royston, 1640, p. 720,
[…] it were not hard to assigne many examples of men that have stolne a great measure of learning, and yet lived open and conversable lives, and never beene observed […] to have spent many houres in study
1691, John Hartcliffe, A Treatise of Moral and Intellectual Virtues, London: C. Harper, p. 156,
Of the Three Conversable VIRTUES […] The Virtues which adorn and recommend a Man in Conversation […]
1780, Thomas Paine, The American Crisis No. 9, in The American Crisis, and a Letter to Sir Guy Carleton, London: Daniel Isaac Eaton, circa 1796, pp. 211-212,
[…] while you, remote from the scene of suffering, had nothing to lose, and as little to dread, the information reached you like a tale of antiquity, in which the distance of time defaces the conception, and changes the severest sorrows into conversable amusement.
The evening was quiet and conversible, as Mr. Woodhouse declined cards entirely for the sake of comfortable talk with his dear Isabella,
Derived words: conversableness
conversably
inconversable
unconversable
Translations:
heiau
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hawaiian heiau.
Inflected forms:
form: heiaus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: heiau
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A temple in traditional Hawaiian society.
pos: noun
tags: Hawaii
examples: The basalt was also piled to outline large squares in the ceremonial centres known as heiau'''s.
They'd order lawbreakers put to death in fearsome ritualized killings that took place in a heiau, accompanied by beating drums and chants.
Translations:
photoreal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos
Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos)
Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs)
Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der.
English photo-
Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁-der.
Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁ís
Proto-Italic *reis
Latin rēs
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Late Latin -ālis
Late Latin reālisder.
Old French reelbor.
Middle English real
English real
English photoreal
From photo- + real.
Inflected forms:
form: more photoreal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most photoreal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Exhibiting photorealism.
pos: adj
examples: Frequently, you can use the texture from one object to surface a completely different object. Figure 8.26 illustrates how a crab shell texture makes a wonderful photoreal fruit skin.
Translations:
Solomonic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: architecture
Etymology: From Solomon + -ic.
Base: Solomon
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more Solomonic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Solomonic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to or resembling Solomon, a king of Israel noted for his wisdom; wise.
pos: adj
examples: I did not want her to think that it was a foolish question, so I pretended to think and in a moment of Solomonic wisdom I said, "You know many rabbis have been asked this question and although some said Macintosh while others said Delicious, most of them encouraged a combination of both."
gloss: Resembling the Judgement of Solomon; involving the division of something between several groups with competing claims.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: solonic
It is woth having regard in this context to its Solomonic solution to the language problem. During the Apartheid era, there were two official languages, both those of the white minority—English and Afrikaans. There was no majority language in the population of some 43 million people. To follow other former British colonies in Africa and adopt English as the sole official language would have been unacceptable to the six million Afrikaans-speaking South Africans (three million white and three million 'coloreds'). English was the home language of only three million South Africans […]. To retain both white languages as the official languages of post-Apartheid would have been demeaning of the nine main indigenous languages. The solution was the recognition of eleven official languages: the two 'white languages' and nine indigenous languages.
... proposed the Solomonic solution of dividing Upper Silesia, which even as a least bad solution would “remix" the very peoples the plebiscite had sought to “unmix." Given the divided vote between urban and rural areas, and even within urban areas, no border could be drawn without leaving large numbers of Germans in Poland, or large numbers of Poles in Germany.
a Solomonic judgement
gloss: Relating to the Solomon Islands.
pos: adj
examples: a Solomonic language
gloss: Twisted helically.
pos: adj
examples: a Solomonic column
Related words: split the baby
Translations:
jelqing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From jelq + -ing.
Base: jelq
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The use of the jelq technique for penis enlargement.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
starman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
Etymology: From star + -man.
Base: star
Affixes: -man
Inflected forms:
form: starmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A spaceman.
pos: noun
gloss: An alien; a person who comes from another star system.
pos: noun
gloss: An inhabitant of a star.
pos: noun
Translations:
burry
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English burry, bury, equivalent to bur + -y.
Base: bur
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: burrier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: burriest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Abounding in burs.
pos: adj
examples: burry wool
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of a bur.
pos: adj
gloss: Characterized by a burr.
pos: adj
Translations:
diker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dike + -er.
Base: dike
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: dikers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dyker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who digs or works on dykes; a ditcher.
pos: noun
examples: Their armour and weapons were found at times, by delvers and dykers, for centuries after; are found at times unto this day, beneath the rich drained cornfields which now fill up that black half-mile[.]
gloss: One who builds stone walls, usually dry-stone without lime.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
Translations:
pauperization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pauperize + -ation.
Base: pauperize
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: pauperizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of reducing to poverty.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the modern schemes for the amelioration which ignore the laws of competition, must end either in pauperization, […] or in the destruction of property
Translations:
champurrado
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish champurrado.
Inflected forms:
form: champurrados
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A traditional chocolate-based atole found in Mexico, containing panela, vanilla, anise and cinnamon.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A Cuban water-based drink, containing several spices, mixed with rum or brandy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
controllership
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From controller + -ship.
Base: controller
Affixes: -ship
Inflected forms:
form: controllerships
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The position or office of a controller.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
mesembryanthemum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From taxonomic name Mesembryanthemum.
Inflected forms:
form: mesembryanthemums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the genus Mesembryanthemum of herbaceous or suffruticose plants.
pos: noun
examples: The celebrated garden in which suicidal gamblers used to put an end to their troubles was overgrown with mesembryanthemum.
They had come out on to the coast road now, and Cornwall was out-postering itself, as usual, with rocky headlands and sandy coves and fishing villages that spilled themselves down the cliff face like cascades of mesembryanthemum.
Translations:
bell-mouthed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Expanding at the mouth or opening; flared.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a bell-mouthed gun
His bell-mouth'd goblet makes me feel quite Danish
Or Dutch with thirst
He perceived it to be a drawing, by some first-rate artist, of the bell-mouthed flower Calycanthus, extremely rich and elaborate, and truly worthy of its imperial destination.
I could hear again the rifle's thin report, could note the whisper of the secret-loving paddle, the slipping of the snow-shoe on the snow, the clatter of the hoofs of horses, the baying of the bell-mouthed hounds.
Brake linings on a bell-mouthed brake drum will make contact only on the inner surface of the drum.
On a table stood a full carafe — one of those bell-mouthed Italian carafes, flanked by a black bottle.
Translations:
Hann
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
Etymology: From a Middle English given name derived from Johan, variant of John, or less often from Henry or Randolph.
Inflected forms:
form: Hanns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Hanning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Hanned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Hanned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To apply the Hann function to (a signal).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
Tripolitan
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more Tripolitan
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Tripolitan
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Tripolitans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Tripoli or its inhabitants.
pos: adj
gloss: Someone from Tripoli.
pos: noun
Translations:
reforger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From reforge + -er.
Base: reforge
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: reforgers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who reforges.
pos: noun
Translations:
hully
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hull + -y.
Base: hull
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more hully
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hully
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having or containing hulls (peel, shell etc.).
pos: adj
examples: hully cotton
hully fibre
hully material
Translations:
in-and-in
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Produced by inbreeding.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an in-and-in bred bull
Translations:
elfen
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From elf + -en. Compare elfin, elven.
Base: elf
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: more elfen
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most elfen
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Belonging to, or relating to, elves.
pos: adj
examples: ALFHILD. Were I an elfen maid, then truly, say I, it would fare with you ill! / OLAF. Forsooth, then are you the elfen maid!
Translations:
postpositional
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From postposition + -al.
Base: postposition
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: postpositionals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a postposition.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A postposition.
pos: noun
Translations:
sharn
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English scharn, from Old English sċearn (“sharn, dung, muck, filth”), from Proto-West Germanic *skarn, from Proto-Germanic *skarną (“manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *sker- (“dung, manure”). Cognate with North Frisian skern (“dung, manure”), Danish, Swedish, and Icelandic skarn (“dung”), German Harn (“urine”). Doublet of skarn.
Inflected forms:
form: shairn
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shearn
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shern
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The dung or manure of cattle or sheep.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
uncountable
examples: right between the byre and the stable and the barn on one side and the house on the other was the cattle-court and right in the middle of that the midden, high and yellow with dung and straw and sharn, and Mistress Strachan could never forgive Peesie's Knapp because of that awful smell it had.
Translations:
glary
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From glare + -y.
Base: glare
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: glarier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: glariest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a dazzling lustre; glaring; bright; shining.
pos: adj
examples: November 29, 1659, S. Hartlir, letter to Robert Boyle
Bright, crystal glass is glary.
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of a glare, or angry look.
pos: adj
examples: He gave me that glary look again, but he'd been overruled.
Derived words: glariness
Translations:
slatt
Part of speech: noun
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See slat (“a strip of board”).
Inflected forms:
form: slatts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A stone slab used as a veneer for coarse masonry.
pos: noun
gloss: Used to express affection between friends, especially within the hip-hop community.
pos: intj
tags: slang
Translations:
yoke-footed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: zygodactylous, zygodactylic
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
biomagnetic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bio- + magnetic.
Base: magnetic
Affixes: bio-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to biomagnetism.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: biomagnetic field
biomagnetic measurements
biomagnetic phenomena
biomagnetic separation
biomagnetic theory
Translations:
cricothyroid
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek κρίκος (kríkos)
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *wéydos
Proto-Hellenic *wéidos
Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs)
Ancient Greek κρῐκοειδής (krĭkoeidḗs)bor.
New Latin cricoīdēsbor.
English cricoid
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English crico-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer-der.
Proto-Hellenic *tʰurā
Ancient Greek θῠ́ρᾱ (thŭ́rā)
Ancient Greek -εος (-eos)
Ancient Greek θῠρεός (thŭreós)
▲
Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs)
Ancient Greek θῠρεοειδής (thŭreoeidḗs)bor.
New Latin thyreoīdēsbor.
English thyroid
English cricothyroid
From crico- + thyroid.
Inflected forms:
form: cricothyroideus
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining both to the cricoid and the thyroid cartilages.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
drayage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dray (“a low horse-drawn cart”) + -age.
Base: dray
Affixes: -age
Inflected forms:
form: drayages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Transportation by dray.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The transport of goods over a short distance, particularly from a terminal such as an ocean port to another destination, usually as part of a longer transportation of the goods.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
gloss: A fee paid for the provision of such transportation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: dray
drayman
Translations:
tillet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tillets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bag made of thin glazed muslin, formerly used as a wrapper for dress goods.
pos: noun
examples: The want of silk tillets for your fine cloth hath been a very great hindrance to its sale
Translations:
Nixonian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Nixon + -ian.
Base: Nixon
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: more Nixonian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Nixonian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Nixonians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Richard Nixon, president of the United States from 1969 to 1974.
pos: adj
examples: Amid a cacophony of demands for Cuomo to resign, the governor and his aides are frantically trying to cover up the basic facts of what happened, and that includes launching a Nixonian campaign of intimidation and retribution against Democratic lawmakers who have for months been sounding the alarm.
"Nixonian" is a phrase in government that is almost never intended as a compliment.
gloss: A supporter of Richard Nixon, president of the United States from 1969 to 1974.
pos: noun
Translations:
allness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From all + -ness.
Base: all
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: allnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Totality; completeness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The REASON […] is the science of the universal, having the ideas of ONENESS and ALLNESS as its two elements or primary factors.
The “allness” of God, including his absolute spirituality, supremacy, and eternity.
1912, Rabindranath Tagore (translator), Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore, London: The India Society, poem 87, p. 51,
Oh, dip my emptied life into that ocean, plunge it into the deepest fulness. Let me for once feel that lost sweet touch in the allness of the universe.
The moment he entered the pullman he was transported instantly from the vast allness of general humanity in the station into the familiar geography of his home town.
Translations:
grandiflora
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From translingual Grandiflora, from New Latin grandiflōra, the feminine form, following the feminine gender of rosa (“rose”), of grandiflōrus (“having large flowers”), from grandis (“large”) + flōs (“flower”, stem flōr-) + -us (suffix forming adjectives; feminine -a).
Affixes: -us
Inflected forms:
form: grandifloras
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rose of the Grandiflora class of roses created in the middle of the 20th century as backcrosses of hybrid teas and floribundas that fit neither category.
pos: noun
examples: “[…] The creation of the Grandiflora rose marks another significant milestone in horticultural progress, and opens new avenues for the use and enjoyment of roses both in the garden and in the home”.
Many countries still refuse to recognize “grandiflora” as a legitimate name, largely on the ground that it seems to imply that the individual blooms are unusually large, whereas most grandifloras have somewhat smaller blooms than the larger hybrid teas.
✓ Climbing sports: These climbers — generally named after their original variety, such as ‘Climbing Queen Elizabeth’ from the famous, pink grandiflora — result from unusually vigorous canes that grow from popular hybrid teas, grandifloras, shrubs, and floribundas.
Our grandiflora stands 7 ft. tall on thornless stems, adorned with massive clusters of fragrant, 4-in., clear pink blossoms whose ruffled edges are tinged with a darker pink. Without a doubt, ‘Queen Elizabeth’ deserves to be the reigning monarch of grandifloras. Grandifloras blend well with other perennials and shrubs.
Translations:
Dobie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Diminutive + -ie.
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: Dobies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Dobermann dog.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
four-eyed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: foureyed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having four eyes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In Hindu scriptures, the four-eyed dogs Śārvara and Śyāma guard the underworld's entrance.
gloss: Wearing spectacles/eyeglasses.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
not-comparable
slang
examples: Sofie expressed contempt towards her interlocutor with a withering four-eyed stare.
Whin ah left ma trade n went tae college fir A Levels, then oantae Aberdeen University, ah half expected tae see Beggars at the freshers ball, beating tae a pulp some four–eyed, middle–class wanker he imagined wis starin at um.
Related words: four-eyes
Translations:
boothman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From booth + -man. Cognate with Scots buthman (“a shop-keeper”). In some cases, such as translations of Norse sagas, use of the word (to mean "one who mans a booth") was probably reinforced by the cognate Old Norse búðarmaðr (Icelandic búðarmaður).
Base: booth
Affixes: -man
Inflected forms:
form: boothmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who mans a booth, such as at a fair or (historically) a Thing.
pos: noun
tags: rare
examples: A little later a man came running and he called urgently for Leif Ossursson, bade him go in haste to Gilli lawspeaker's booth: — Sigurd Thorlaksson ran in through the doorflap there and he wounded one of his boothmen to the death.
He had seen the boothmen and horse dealers at fairs playing brightly colored cards, and gentlemen at Shea's with their cards, cigars, and brandies.
[…] an illusionist, a wrestler offering to take on all comers. Children ran among the booths, and couples strolled arm in arm. Fiddlers and drummers played, boothmen bawled out their wares, animals for sale bleated or lowed or clucked.
gloss: A corn merchant, especially one in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
dialectal
examples: He was not a native of Newcastle, but bad apparently come from the country in youth to serve his apprenticeship as a boothman, or corn merchant; had gone, when out of his time, to gain experience of commercial life in Germany; and […]
He served his time to a boothman or corn-merchant of Newcastle, and married Elizabeth, daughter of John Stephenson of Newcastle and Knaresdale. Through the death of both of his brothers, he inherited the patrimonial estates […]
John Fenwick was apprenticed on 31 May 1612 to Robert Bewick of Newcastle upon Tyne, boothman.
gloss: A projectionist at a movie theater.
pos: noun
examples: Two veteran eastern Connecticut boothmen died recently: Irwin Dawley, 55, projectionist at the Stanley Warner Garde, […]
Translations:
Zelig
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the surname of the character Leonard Zelig from the 1983 film Zelig who meets many famous people in the 1920s and 1930s and, apparently out of his desire to fit in and be liked, unwittingly takes on the characteristics of the strong personalities around him.
Inflected forms:
form: Zeligs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ordinary person who can change their appearance or behavior to suit their surroundings, especially one who is unexpectedly associated with important events or people.
pos: noun
gloss: An unimportant person who appears at multiple important events.
pos: noun
Derived words: Zeligesque
Zelig-like
Zelig-like syndrome
Zelig syndrome
Translations:
hystrix
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: ichthyosis hystrix
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
terminalia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The hindmost segments of the abdomen of an insect, modified for reproduction.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: The terminalia consist of the terminal complex of modified genital and anal segments, plus any adjacent segments that show modifications for copulation and oviposition.
Part of the documentation includes the first detailed illustrations and descriptions of structures of the male terminalia.
Translations:
Flysch
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A set of tertiary strata in the Alps.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The lower part of the rock section over which you have just climbed is the Flysch: dark grey slaty rocks that come out in small shards if you pick at them with your fingers.
Translations:
subcentral
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sub- + central.
Base: central
Affixes: sub-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Under the centre.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: subcentral point
gloss: Nearly central; not quite central.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: subcentral coverage
subcentral power
subcentral government
Derived words: subcentrally
Translations:
Toryism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Tory + -ism.
Base: Tory
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: Toryisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The political principles of the Tories.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
weedeater
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From weed + eater, from "Weed Eater", the name of a company founded by the inventor of the string trimmer.
Compound parts: weed
eater
Inflected forms:
form: weedeaters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: weed eater
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A string trimmer.
pos: noun
Translations:
grampy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From grampa + -y.
Base: grampa
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: grampies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: grampie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: grandpie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: grandpy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: granpie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gran'py
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: granpy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: grandfather
pos: noun
tags: childish
informal
Translations:
Vedda
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Sinhalese වැද්දා (wæddā, “hunter”), from Sanskrit वेति (veti, “hunt”), q.v.
Inflected forms:
form: Veddas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Beda
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Veddah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Wedda
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Weddah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One of an indigenous people of Sri Lanka.
pos: noun
Translations:
rinser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From rinse + -er.
Base: rinse
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: rinsers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, rinses.
pos: noun
gloss: A small additional kitchen sink beside the main sink, used for rinsing items.
pos: noun
Translations:
green-stall
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: green-stalls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A stall selling fresh vegetables.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: [H]e even wiſhed her […] to turn a penny by keeping a green-ſtall.
Translations:
razor-backed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Inflected forms:
form: more razor-backed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most razor-backed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a sharp, lean, or thin back.
pos: adj
examples: a razor-backed hog
a razor-backed perch
Translations:
clothes-press
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From clothes + press.
Compound parts: clothes
press
Inflected forms:
form: clothes-presses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A receptacle for clothes.
pos: noun
examples: All of our hotel rooms offer coffee-making facilities and a clothes-press.
Translations:
ayu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 鮎 (ayu, “sweetfish”).
Inflected forms:
form: ayus
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sweetfish, an amphidromous game fish of East Asia of species Plecoglossus altivelis, prized for its sweet-tasting flesh and subject to extensive aquaculture.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
lifemate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From life + -mate.
Base: life
Affixes: -mate
Inflected forms:
form: lifemates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A companion for life.
pos: noun
examples: The truth seems to be, however, that when he casts his leaves forth upon the wind, the author addresses, not the many who will fling aside his volume, or never take it up, but the few who will understand him better than most of his schoolmates or lifemates.
GWF 45 desires friends with goal for lifemate to share and care for keeps.
He’s a warlock—albeit a mediocre one. His next-door neighbor and platonic lifemate, poised, purple-clad witch Mrs. Zimmerman (Cate Blanchett), is much more powerful.
Translations:
suboccipital
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From sub- + occipital.
Base: occipital
Affixes: sub-
Inflected forms:
form: suboccipitals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Situated under, or posterior to, the occiput.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Any of the group of suboccipital muscles.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
Translations:
beechy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From beech + -y.
Base: beech
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more beechy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most beechy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or containing beech trees.
pos: adj
examples: The peculiar idyllic character of the German hills is principally found in such places as the beechy glens about Eisenach and the Inselberg in Thüringen, in the vale of the Bode, in the Hartz, in the lovely valley of Lorsbach, luxuriant with beech and birch, with hills folding in one another like fingers, and the chestnut glades about Cronberg in the Taunus.
Translations:
Achaemenid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Achaemenidēs, from Ancient Greek Ἀχαιμενίδης (Akhaimenídēs), from Ancient Greek Ἀχαιμένης (Akhaiménēs) + Ancient Greek -ίδης (-ídēs, patronymic suffix). By surface analysis, Achaemenes + -id.
Base: Ἀχαιμένης
Affixes: -ίδης
Inflected forms:
form: Achaemenide
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: Achæmenid
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: Achæmenide
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: Achaemenids
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Achaemenidae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Achaemenide
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: Achæmenid
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: Achæmenide
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the dynasty which ruled the Persian empire c. 550–330 BCE (the Achaemenid Empire), founded by Achaemenes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A member of the dynasty which ruled the Persian empire c. 550–330 BCE (the Achaemenid Empire).
pos: noun
Translations:
fibrillose
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more fibrillose
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fibrillose
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Covered with fibrils, such as fungi or the undersurface of some lichens.
pos: adj
examples: lower surface typically with loose dark pink to grayish vinaceous fibrillose patches or sometimes merely white-fibrillose
Translations:
C-ration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Inflected forms:
form: C-rations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An individual canned, precooked, or prepared wet ration formerly issued to land forces in the US military.
pos: noun
tags: US
Translations:
Zou
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Zo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An indigenous people living along the frontier of India and Burma.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
lythe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lythes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: laith
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: leet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A fish, the European pollock (Pollachius pollachius).
pos: noun
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
examples: We caught between us about twenty pounds of cod and lythe
Translations:
rickettsial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From rickettsia + -al.
Base: rickettsia
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to rickettsia.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
rubish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From rube + -ish.
Base: rube
Affixes: -ish
Inflected forms:
form: more rubish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rubish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Like a rube.
pos: adj
examples: I suppose I am a rubish hayseed in some sense, full of down-home notions that contradict the more sophisticated notions of my colleagues.
Translations:
metronomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See metronome.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The measurement of time by an instrument, such as a metronome.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
pig-jawed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From pig + jawed.
Compound parts: pig
jawed
Inflected forms:
form: more pig-jawed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pig-jawed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having the upper jaw projecting beyond the lower, with the upper incisors in advance of the lower.
pos: adj
Translations:
hornblower
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From horn + blower, or from Old English hornblāwere.
Compound parts: horn
blower
Inflected forms:
form: hornblowers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone or something that blows a horn.
pos: noun
Translations:
fasciculate
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: fasciculates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fasciculates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fasciculating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fasciculated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fasciculated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Having fascicles.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Branching, with many lines extending from one point, as in a few Choicensisphinctes ammonites.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Synonym of fasciculation.
pos: noun
gloss: To cause to become fasciculate.
pos: verb
Synonyms: fascicular
fasciculated
Related words: fasciculation
Derived words: fasciculately
subfasciculate
Translations:
micrantha
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The tree Citrus micrantha or its fruit.
pos: noun
Translations:
Khazarian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Khazar + -ian.
Base: Khazar
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: Khazarians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Khazaria.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Khazar; of or pertaining to Khazars.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: An inhabitant of Khazaria.
pos: noun
Translations:
petiolate
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: petiolates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: petiolated (connected to a stem by means of a petiole)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Such a leaf
pos: noun
Translations:
bromantic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr
Proto-Germanic *brōþēr
Proto-West Germanic *brōþer
Old English brōþor
Middle English brother
English brotherclip.
English bro
Latin Rōma
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin Rōmānus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
Latin rōmānicus
Latin -ē
Vulgar Latin rōmānicē
Old French romanz
Old French romauntder.
English romant
▲
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English romantic
blend
English bromantic
Blend of bro + romantic.
Inflected forms:
form: more bromantic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bromantic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to bromance.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: […] for understanding how the bromantic plot […] maintain the primacy of relations between men.
Translations:
overhydration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From over- + hydration.
Base: hydration
Affixes: over-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Excessive hydration.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
half-boot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: half-boots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A short boot, rising to anywhere from the ankle to halfway up the calf, but no higher.
pos: noun
Translations:
conchal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From concha + -al.
Base: concha
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the concha, or external ear.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: the conchal cartilage
conchal plate
conchal bone
conchal cavity
Translations:
treebeard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From tree + beard.
Compound parts: tree
beard
Inflected forms:
form: tree-beard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A pendulous branching lichen, Usnea barbata, resembling hair.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Spanish moss, Tillandsia usneoides.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
crowder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From crowd + -er.
Base: crowd
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: crowders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who crowds or pushes.
pos: noun
Translations:
pixy-led
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Bewildered or led astray, as if by pixies.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
teamworking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From team + working.
Compound parts: team
working
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Work carried out as a team.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
turritella
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: From the New Latin genus name Turritella.
Inflected forms:
form: turritellas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any sea snail of the genus Turritella (or allied genera) of spiral marine gastropods with an elongated, turreted shell.
pos: noun
Translations:
corr
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Romani koor (“to fight”).
Inflected forms:
form: corrs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fight.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
Translations:
fellow-commoner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fellow-commoners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A student at Cambridge University who commons, or dines, at the Fellows' table.
pos: noun
examples: There are to this day fellow-commoners at Queens, and surely such a distinguished commoner as Fuller would have been allowed to remain on that foundation, in which he had spent seven years, in this new capacity. The expense would have been about the same, and the only way in which I can account for his migration is either pique at being passed over, or the friendship of so famed a theologian as Dr. Ward.
Translations:
cockaded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cockade + -ed.
Base: cockade
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Wearing a cockade.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Well-fashion'd figure, and cockaded brow
Translations:
gemeinschaft
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
Etymology: From German Gemeinschaft (“community”), equivalent to gemein (“common”) + -schaft (“-ship”). More at mean, -ship. Compare to English gesellschaft.
Base: gemein
Affixes: -schaft
Inflected forms:
form: gemeinschafts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gemeinschaften
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Gemeinschaft
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An association or group of individuals sharing common beliefs, attitudes, and tastes; a fellowship.
pos: noun
gloss: A society or group characterized by a strong sense of common identity, personal relationships, and attachments to various concerns.
pos: noun
Translations:
carminic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From carmine + -ic.
Base: carmine
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to, or derived from, carmine.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: carminic acids
carminic dye
Translations:
supraoccipital
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From supra- + occipital.
Base: occipital
Affixes: supra-
Inflected forms:
form: supraoccipitals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Situated over, or in the upper part of, the occiput.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: supraoccipital crest
gloss: Relating to the supraoccipital bone.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A bone on the dorsal side of the great foramen of the skull, usually forming a part of the occipital in the adult, but distinct in the young.
pos: noun
examples: Although the sutures are difficult to trace, the supraoccipital contacts the parietal anteriorly at a tight interdigitated suture, and contacts the ophistotic posterolaterally at a straight suture.
Translations:
high-low
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
gambling
games
poker
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Describing a game in which the high hand and the low hand win.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Designating a blackjack card counting technique in which the lowest cards are worth +1 point and the highest cards −1 point, and the counter places higher bets against higher point totals.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
changemaker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From change + maker.
Compound parts: change
maker
Inflected forms:
form: changemakers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who makes a change.
pos: noun
Translations:
emperorship
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From emperor + -ship.
Base: emperor
Affixes: -ship
Inflected forms:
form: emperorships
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The rank or office of an emperor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
Turcoman
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin Turcomannus, from Classical Persian ترکمان (turkamān). Doublet of Turkman and Turkmen.
Inflected forms:
form: Turcomans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Turcomen
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Turkeman
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Turkoman
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Turkeman
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Turkoman
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of a mainly nomadic Turkic people inhabiting a region east of the Caspian Sea; a Turkmen.
pos: noun
examples: Apart from hostile Turcoman tribesmen who roamed this desolate region, the principal obstacle facing Bekovich was a dangerous stretch of desert […]
gloss: A kind of carpet or rug supposed to be made by the Turcomans.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or relating to these people.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
tramroad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From tram + road.
Compound parts: tram
road
Inflected forms:
form: tramroads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A road designed for use by trams or wagons.
pos: noun
examples: About two hundred and fifty years ago, some genius, as unknown as the inventor of the lathe, laid the first wooden tramroad, to enable a horse to draw forty-two cwt. instead of seventeen.
It is not improbable that, in some locality where tram-roads were a novelty, their name may have been associated in folk-etymology or by pre-scientific etymologers with that of the engineer.
Immediately to the west of Coleorton, an important system of tramroads was built in connection with the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Canal.
The company arranged for access to a Blackpool terminus […] over a street tramway to be constructed by, and leased for 21 years from, the Corporation. The distance between termini was about eight miles, of which 6 miles 22 ch. was to be tramroad on private right-of-way.
Translations:
sloat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See slot (“a bar”).
Inflected forms:
form: sloats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A narrow piece of timber that holds together large pieces; a slat.
pos: noun
examples: the sloats of a cart
sloats in a theatre
Translations:
bibble-babble
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Reduplication of babble.
Inflected forms:
form: bibble-babbles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Idle talk; babble.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Malvolio, Malvolio, thy wits the / heavens restore! Endeavour thyself to sleep and leave / thy vain bibble-babble.
Translations:
Slavonian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Slavonia + -an.
Base: Slavonia
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: Slavonians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Slavonian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Slavonian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Slavonia.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or relating to Slavonia or its inhabitants.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to the Slavs or their language.
pos: adj
Translations:
convincer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From convince + -er.
Base: convince
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: convincers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, convinces; one who wins over by proof.
pos: noun
Translations:
pinnock
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps from a base pin, of unknown origin + -ock (diminutive suffix).
Affixes: -ock
Inflected forms:
form: pinnocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The hedge sparrow.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dialectal
gloss: The bearded tit.
pos: noun
Translations:
getter-up
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: getters-up
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who organises, sets up or arranges for anything.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: After considering him attentively, I recongised in him a diligent getter up of miscellaneous works, that bustled off well with the trade.
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