yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
technological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English technology
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
English technological
From technology + -ical.
Inflected forms:
form: more technological
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most technological
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or involving technology, especially modern scientific technology.
pos: adj
examples: US-Gulf relations have improved significantly since Trump returned to office. Frustrated at the perceived lack of US interest in their needs under the Biden administration, Saudi Arabia and the UAE had sought to diversify their military, technological and economic ties.
Translations:
teeny
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Alteration of tiny, possibly with a childish or fanciful intention. First attested in 1825.
Inflected forms:
form: teenier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: teeniest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very small; tiny.
pos: adj
tags: informal
Translations:
teething
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English teethe
English -ing
English teething
From teethe + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: teethings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The eruption, through the gums, of the milk teeth; dentition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But with night feedings and night teethings, often the greatest challenge of all for a young mother is simply fatigue.
Translations:
telegraphy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From telegraph + -y (suffix forming abstract nouns), q.v., equivalent to tele- (“far, distant, telegraph”) + -graphy (“writings on a subject, area of study, etc.”).
Base: telegraph
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: telegraphies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any process for transmitting arbitrarily long messages over a long distance using a code, especially by means of electrified wires or radio waves using Morse code.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The science and techniques used to enact this process.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The devices and networks used to enact this process.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Derived words: electrotelegraphy
pantelegraphy
phototelegraphy
pretelegraphy
radio telegraphy
radiotelegraphy
stenotelegraphy
wireless telegraphy
Translations:
telemeter
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French télémètre (“device used for measuring distance”) coined by Selligue from télé- + -mètre, possibly from a blend of télescope and micromètre.
Affixes: télé-
-mètre
Inflected forms:
form: telemeters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: telemetre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: telemeters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: telemetering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: telemetered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: telemetered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: telemetre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any measuring device used in telemetry.
pos: noun
gloss: A device used for rangefinding, especially of military targets.
pos: noun
gloss: To transmit by telemetry.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: radiotelemeter
Translations:
endocrine
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French endocrine, from endo- + Ancient Greek κρίνω (krínō, “to separate, also to secrete”).
Affixes: endo-
Inflected forms:
form: endocrin
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: endocrines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: endocrin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Producing internal secretions that are transported around the body by the bloodstream.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Pertaining to the endocrine glands or their secretions.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The secretion of an endocrine gland.
pos: noun
gloss: An endocrine gland.
pos: noun
Derived words: endocrinal
endocrine gland
endocrine system
endocrinology
endocrinopathy
endocrinosis
enteroendocrine
immunoendocrine
myoendocrine
neoendocrine
neuroendocrine
nonendocrine
polyendocrine
polyendocrinopathy
proendocrine
psychoendocrine
psychoneuroendocrine
radiendocrinator
synaptocrine
Translations:
teleost
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τέλεος (téleos, “complete”) + ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”).
Inflected forms:
form: teleosts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to the Teleostei - fish with bony skeletons.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A fish of the taxonomic infraclass Teleostei.
pos: noun
examples: 1969, W. S. Hoar, D. J. Randall (editors), Fish Physiology, Volume 2: The Endocrine System, page 156,
There are no direct studies of the effects of arginine vasotocin or 4 Ser, 8 Ile oxytocin in the holostean bony fish. It can only be suggested that the histological evidence suggests a possible role in the control of the adenohypophysis and that systemic effects might well parallel those found in the closely related teleosts.
After antigenic stimulation, increased amounts of lymphoid tissue does appear, in the spleen of teleosts. The lymphoid tissue of teleost spleen consists of lymphoid cells, mainly small, medium, and large lymphocytes arranged in a supporting reticular cell meshwork.
Nevertheless, an element of real danger adds a piscine frisson to most encounters with this mysterious teleost.
Translations:
telepathic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
Etymology: Etymology tree
English telepathy
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English telepathic
From telepathy + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more telepathic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most telepathic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or using telepathy.
pos: adj
Translations:
cobweb
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English copweb, coppeweb. Compare Middle Dutch kopwebbe, German Low German Kobbenwebbe (Westphalian). By surface analysis, cob (“spider”, obsolete) + web.
Inflected forms:
form: cobwebs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: copweb
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A spiderweb, or the remains of one, especially an asymmetrical one that is woven with an irregular pattern of threads.
pos: noun
examples: […] there was stretched across his gateway a circular cobweb of the largest kind and quite entire. This looked so ominous that I actually turned aside and went in the back way.
A cobweb, night-spun, hung in an insidious circle from branch to branch, facing her. Early as it was, its first victim struggled in its gummy meshes.
gloss: One of its filaments; gossamer.
pos: noun
gloss: Something thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; valueless remainder.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: blow the cobwebs away
The dust and cobwebs of that uncivil age.
Once the cobwebs of a lack-lustre first half were blown away, Spurs were irresistible and Arsenal were simply unable to cope with the power of Mousa Dembele in midfield and the creation and running of Christian Eriksen and Dele Alli - combined with the inevitable goalscoring prowess of Kane.
gloss: An intricate plot to catch the unwary.
pos: noun
examples: Entangled in the cobwebs of the schools.
gloss: A web page that either has not been updated for a long time, or that is rarely visited.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
rare
gloss: The European spotted flycatcher, Muscicapa striata.
pos: noun
gloss: fuzzy inexact memories.
pos: noun
tags: informal
plural-normally
examples: I washed my face, trying to get the cobwebs of hard sex and an alcohol-induced sleep out of my head
"Hey," she said. "You know what? After you call the hospital, why don't you go for a run? It'll help clear out the cobwebs, get rid of some of that tension. Then go back, take a nice hot shower, and―"
"There's no shower here. Remember?"
"Oh, right. A nice hot bath, then. Even better. And eat breakfast, Caelum. You need to remember to eat."
Veyz mir, meaning something like “Oh . . . my!,” was a Yiddish expression that I had not employed for a long, long time. Yet in the cobwebs of my memory, that expression was still lurking inside. How interesting!
Derived words: cobwebbed
cobwebbery
cobwebbing
cobweb brush
cobwebby
cobweb chart
cobweblike
cobweb model
cobweb site
cobweb spider
cobweb theory
dwarf cobweb weaver spider
Translations:
telephonist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
French télé-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der.
Proto-Hellenic *pʰōnā́
Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ)der.
French -phone
French téléphonebor.
English telephone
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English telephonist
From telephone + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: telephonists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A telephone operator.
pos: noun
Translations:
gina
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Abbreviation of vagina, either by children's mispronunciation or as a euphemism.
Inflected forms:
form: ginas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The vagina.
pos: noun
tags: familiar
slang
Translations:
DMCA
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: DMCAs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: DMCAing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: DMCAed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: DMCAed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: DMCA'd
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: DMCA'd
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To serve a Digital Millennium Copyright Act notification against, so as to have infringing material taken down.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
informal
transitive
examples: The record label DMCAed several Web sites that were hosting copyrighted song lyrics.
Translations:
Eph
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortened from Ephraim Williams, the name of the college's benefactor.
Inflected forms:
form: Ephs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A student at Williams College, Massachusetts, USA.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
Translations:
Helen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French Hélène, from Latin Helena, from Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē). Doublet of Elaine.
Inflected forms:
form: Helens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Papilio.
pos: noun
examples: The Yellow Helen […] belongs to a clade of related swallowtail butterflies, the helenus group, or Helens, which are typically large, predominantly black butterflies with long tails and a large, white area on the hindwings.
Translations:
royalty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: authorship
broadcasting
card-games
communications
film
journalism
literature
media
poker
publishing
television
writing
Etymology: From Middle English royaltee, roialtee, royalte, from Old French roialté, roiauté, realté (compare earlier Old French realted (“realm, kingdom”)), from Vulgar Latin *rēgālitās, from Latin rēgālis, equivalent to royal + -ty. Doublet of regality.
Base: royal
Affixes: -ty
Inflected forms:
form: royalties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The rank, status, power or authority of a monarch.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: People of royal rank, plus their families, treated as a group.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Wolferton was an important station on the Kings Lynn-Hunstanton line, which closed in 1969. As the station was convenient for the Sandringham estate, it was regularly patronised by royalty, and royal retiring rooms were provided.
gloss: A royal right or prerogative, such as the exploitation of a natural resource; the granting of such a right; payment received for such a right.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The payment received by an owner of real property for exploitation of mineral rights in the property.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Payment made to a writer, composer, inventor etc for the sale or use of intellectual property, invention etc.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
gloss: To make more money from a book than it cost to run an advertising campaign for it; to make enough in royalties to cover the advance a book received.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Until the total of advances in that contract has been earned out by royalties from any or all books in that contract, the author will not receive additional royalties.
gloss: Someone in a privileged position.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: England will have another manager for the next World Cup, Hodgson’s reign will be defined by a result comparable to losing to the United States in the 1950 World Cup and the now-familiar inquest will begin again in a country that likes to see itself as football royalty.
The Biden large-donor scene, where Mr. Katzenberg is treated as royalty himself, has been devastated since Mr. Biden’s debate performance two weeks ago.
gloss: A king and a queen as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: The bounds of a royal burgh.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
countable
historical
uncountable
Derived words: antiroyalty
nonroyalty
royalty-free
viceroyalty
Translations:
disclaimer
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Partly from Middle English discleymer, from Anglo-Norman desclamer; and partly from disclaim + -er.
Base: disclaim
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: disclaimers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: disclaimers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disclaimering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disclaimered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disclaimered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One who disclaims, disowns, or renounces.
pos: noun
gloss: A public disavowal, as of responsibility, pretensions, claims, opinions, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A denial, disavowal, or renunciation, as of a title, claim, interest, estate, or trust; relinquishment or waiver of an interest or estate.
pos: noun
examples: Subject to the provisions of this section, any person who, after the commencement of this Act, succeeds to a peerage in the peerage of England, Scotland, Great Britain or the United Kingdom may, by an instrument of disclaimer delivered to the Lord Chancellor within the period prescribed by this Act, disclaim that peerage for his life.
gloss: A disclosure of an interest, relationship, or the like.
pos: noun
tags: proscribed
examples: It interviewed, among others, the director of Vasant Valley School, owned by the same family that part-owns Mail Today. No disclaimer was carried stating as much.
Though the fact that the two men do business together was disclosed on air, a recent op-ed penned by Lako and published on the Hannity show’s website had no such disclaimer.
gloss: To disclaim or disavow, as by appending a legal disclaimer.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: When you can hear your lover say that painful thing straight up, without a lot of disclaimering or softening to make sure that your feelings will be hurt as little as possible, […]
Now that I have disclaimered myself, I can tell you the story of how one of the guards smoked Salvia divinorum and tripped balls for fifteen minutes […]
Translations:
heliacal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἡλιακός (hēliakós, “of the sun”) + -al. Appears in English first in the 16th century.
Base: ἡλιακός
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the Sun, especially rising and setting with the sun.
pos: adj
tags: rare
gloss: Of or relating to the rising of a star when it first becomes visible just before sunrise in the eastern sky, having previously been made invisible by sunlight, or the analogous situation of its setting just after sunset.
pos: adj
Derived words: heliacally
Translations:
perron
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: From Middle French pierre (“stone”), from Anglo-Norman perron.
Inflected forms:
form: perrons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: perowne
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A stone block used as the base of a monument, marker, etc.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: hit wille be no worship for you to haue adoo with me / for ye are fressh and I am wounded sore / And therfor and ye wille nedes haue ado with me / Assigne me a day and thenne I shal mete with you withoute fayle / ye saye wel said sir Tristram / Now I assigne you to mete me in the medowe by the ryuer of Camelot / where Merlyon sette the peron
gloss: A platform outside the raised entrance to a church or large building, or the steps leading to such a platform. US: stoop.
pos: noun
Translations:
fibrous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fibre
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos
Latin -ōsus
Old French -usbor.
Middle English -ous
English -ous
English fibrous
From fibre + -ous.
Inflected forms:
form: more fibrous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fibrous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to fibre.
pos: adj
examples: The black kurrajong has a fibrous bark that Aboriginal artefact-makers used as a raw material to make string for their lines and carry-bags.
gloss: Containing many fibres - referring mainly to food.
pos: adj
examples: The prisoners sat in the sand among old rusted tins and bits of charcoal with their hands still manacled before them and the guards set out an old blue graniteware coffeepot and a stewpot of the sme material and they drank coffee and ate a dish containing some kind of pale and fibrous tuber, some kind of meat, some kind of fowl.
gloss: Having the shape of fibres.
pos: adj
Derived words: fibrous dysplasia
fibrously
fibrousness
interfibrous
macrofibrous
microfibrous
mucofibrous
myofibrous
myxofibrous
nonfibrous
osteofibrous
subfibrous
unfibrous
Translations:
loony
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Shortened from lunatic, and likely also from loon ("rascal", and also the bird) + -y.
Base: loon
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: loonier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: looniest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: loonie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: luny
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: looney
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: loonies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: loonie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: luny
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: looney
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Insane.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
informal
offensive
examples: loony scheme
completely loony
They dismissed his loony ideas.
The movie is full of loony characters.
gloss: Very silly, absurd.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
informal
offensive
gloss: An insane or very foolish person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
informal
offensive
examples: Why, there’s hundreds of lunies of the sort to be met in London.
Related words: lunacy
Derived words: loonily
looniness
loony bin
loony dooker
loony left
loony lefty
loonytarian
loonytarianism
loony toon
loony tune
loony tunes
loony van
Maniloony
Translations:
birdcage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bird + cage.
Compound parts: bird
cage
Inflected forms:
form: birdcages
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bird cage
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bird-cage
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cage to keep pet or zoological specimen birds in.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A game of chance played with dice; chuck-a-luck.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: cage bird
birdhouse
coop
crown and anchor
dovecot
dovecote
pen
pigeonhouse
pigeon loft
Derived words: birdcage mask
like the bottom of a birdcage
Translations:
fibreglass
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compound of fibre + glass.
Inflected forms:
form: fibreglasses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fibreglassing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fibreglassed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fibreglassed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: fiberglass
pos: verb
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: To apply fibreglass to.
pos: verb
tags: UK
examples: to fibreglass the hull of a fishing boat
Translations:
teeter
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Alteration of titter.
Inflected forms:
form: teeters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: teetering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: teetered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: teetered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: teeters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To tilt back and forth on an edge.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He teetered on the brink of the precipice.
The concrete floors of B2B sheds were already being built to an exacting degree of flatness, calibrated using lasers, so that forklifts would not teeter while lifting pallets to the highest shelves.
This is not a land of blowouts. It’s a middle ground, and that’s reflected in voter registration rolls. Nearly 2.6 million North Carolinians declare themselves unaffiliated, while just over 2.4 million identify as Democrats and just under 2.2 million as Republicans. We don’t tilt. We teeter.
gloss: To totter (move unsteadily).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: How many other organizations have sprung up amidst apparently unlimited energy, been the focus of a great deal of activism and education, and then begun to diminish? Some teeter along for a long time even though their base of support seems to have eroded; some metamorphose into something else entirely. Others die, and their death may be more or less peaceful, more or less guilt-riddled.
gloss: To be indecisive; to hesitate.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: We teetered on the fence about buying getaway tickets and missed the opportunity.
gloss: To be close to becoming a typically negative situation.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: Despite appearances, the firm was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.
gloss: A teeter-totter or seesaw.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
Derived words: teeterboard
teeterer
teeteringly
teeter-tail
teeter-totter
teetery
Translations:
unibrow
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ís?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos
Proto-Italic *oinos
Old Latin oinos
Latin ūnus
Latin ūni-der.
English uni-
English brow
English unibrow
From uni- + brow.
Inflected forms:
form: unibrows
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pair of eyebrows which meet in the middle.
pos: noun
examples: Actually - the unibrow look was never in.
Translations:
tenfold
Part of speech: adj
adv
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English tenfold, tenfolde, from Old English tīenfeald. Equivalent to ten + -fold.
Base: ten
Affixes: -fold
Inflected forms:
form: ten-fold
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: ten-fold
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: tenfolds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tenfolding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tenfolded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tenfolded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: ten-fold
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Ten times as much or as many.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: [F]ull of death, and fierce vvith tenfold froſt, / The long long night, incumbent o'er their heads, / Falls horrible.
gloss: Containing ten parts.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: By ten times as much.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: 1896, William Allen Sylvester, Modern Carpentry and Building, page 142, "But, since we have increased the original value of 26 tenfold its original value, we must increase the original result tenfold : ten times 2 equal 20, the required answer."
I am here [in prison] for committing a crime, yet I see the state officials commit crimes that are ten fold worse and they do it without ramifications.
gloss: To increase to ten times as much; to multiply by ten.
pos: verb
Derived words: tenfoldness
Translations:
tinker
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle English tynkere, perhaps from Old English *tincere, from tin (“tin”) + *cere, as in bēocere (“beekeeper”).
Base: tin
Inflected forms:
form: tinkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tinkers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tinkering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tinkered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tinkered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An itinerant tinsmith and mender of household utensils made of metal.
pos: noun
examples: The blacksmith chased us all to ground
They searched all night we were never found
The tinker boys and the sheriff's men
Shaking the tallest tree.
gloss: A member of the Irish Traveller community or of other itinerant groups; a gypsy.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
dated
offensive
gloss: A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster.
pos: noun
tags: usually
gloss: Someone who repairs, or attempts repair, on anything mechanical, or who invents such devices; one who tinkers; a tinkerer.
pos: noun
gloss: An act of repair or invention.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: I'll have a tinker and see what I can do.
gloss: A hand mortar.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: Any of various fish: chub mackerel, silverside, skate, or young mackerel about two years old.
pos: noun
gloss: A razor-billed auk, a bird of species (Alca torda).
pos: noun
gloss: To work as a tinker.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To fiddle with something in an attempt to fix, mend or improve it, especially in an experimental or unskilled manner.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: the broken bureau-lock and tinkered window-pane
As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.
And because he wants to show that he is a dominant male, he tinkered the engine of his motorbike to make it even noisier.
We're not just talking about changes that tinker around the edges - we're looking to take advantage of some of the world's latest digital and tech developments to improve our service.
Related words: tinker's damn
tinker, tailor
Derived words: if ifs and ands were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands
tinkerbird
tinkerer
tinkerlike
tinkerly
tinker tailor grass
retinker
tinkersome
tinker up
untinkered
Translations:
takeout
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
bridge
broadcasting
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
media
sports
television
Etymology: Etymology tree
English take outdeverb.
English takeout
Deverbal from take out.
Inflected forms:
form: take-out
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: takeouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: take-out
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: (Of food) intended to be eaten off the premises from which it was bought.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
not-comparable
gloss: Food purchased from a takeaway.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
Philippines
US
countable
uncountable
gloss: A stone that hits another stone, removing it from play, a takeout shot.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A double of an opponent's bid, intended to invite one's partner to compete in the auction, rather than to penalise one's opponents.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A detailed news segment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Takeouts on important running topics in the news are one way to add a valuable dimension to the evening news. One consequence, however, has been that there are fewer minutes available on the broadcast for hard news out of Washington.
Synonyms: carryout
takeaway
Related words: outtake
take out
Derived words: fakeout
takeout double
Translations:
tarot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French tarot, from Italian tarocco. Compare tarok, German Tarock.
Inflected forms:
form: tarots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A card game played in various different variations.
pos: noun
tags: countable
plural
singular
uncountable
examples: 1987, Hans Hahn, “Logic, Mathematics, and Knowledge,” in Unified Science, Brian McGuiness ed.
[…] it is not that I cannot convince him, but that I must refuse to go on talking with him, just as I shall refuse to go on playing tarot with a partner who insists on taking my fool with the moon.
1996, Jan Potocki, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0140445803&id=lRbXDsA9u4AC&pg=PA333&lpg=PA333&sig=s0cNY_83AgaK_TWOEA1qpv95tuQ
They took me to her and then we all came back to the portal, where we started playing tarot.
As we were engrossed in this game, which requires quite a lot of attention, a well-dressed man appeared and seemed to examine us all closely, first one then another.
2001, Donald Davidson, Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0199246297&id=hGm9Dj5OmF8C&pg=PA265&lpg=PA265&sig=rjtFvOxVBgk1cro3fLQ5bLn9Eqw
In explaining what it is to play tarot we could not leave out of account the rules that define the game; […]
gloss: Any of the set of 78 playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used for mystical divination.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: cartomancy
Derived words: tarosophy
tarot card
tarotic
tarotist
tarotologist
tarotology
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 塔羅牌 /塔罗牌
roman: tǎluó pái
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 塔羅卡 /塔罗卡
roman: tǎluó kǎ
lang: Esperanto
word: taroko
lang: Finnish
word: tarot-kortti
lang: French
word: carte de tarot
lang: French
word: tarot
lang: German
word: Tarotkarte
lang: Greek
word: ταρό
roman: taró
lang: Hungarian
word: tarotkártya
lang: Japanese
word: タロット
roman: tarotto
lang: Japanese
word: タロットカード
roman: tarottokādo
lang: Russian
word: ка́рта таро́
roman: kárta taró
lang: Russian
word: таро́
roman: taró
thumbtack
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From thumb + tack.
Compound parts: thumb
tack
Inflected forms:
form: thumbtacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: thumbtacks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: thumbtacking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: thumbtacked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: thumbtacked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small nail-like tack with a slightly rounded head that can be pressed into place with light pressure from the thumb; used for hanging light articles on a wall or noticeboard.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: You say that I'm broke my nigga, how is that?
Bitch I'm stickin to this paper like a thumbtack
gloss: To fix or attach something with a thumbtack.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: On the particle-board partition that separated his cubicle from the next, Paul had thumbtacked things that might inspire him […]
Translations:
backache
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From back + ache.
Compound parts: back
ache
Inflected forms:
form: backaches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: backake
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any pain or ache in the back.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
Calvinist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Calvin + -ist. Piecewise doublet of chauvinist, as both terms come from different forms of the same name.
Base: Calvin
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: Calvinists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Calvinist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Calvinist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A follower of Calvinism.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or pertaining to Calvinism or the Calvinists.
pos: adj
Translations:
copilot
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin co-der.
English co-
English pilot
English copilot
From co- + pilot.
Inflected forms:
form: copilots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: co-pilot
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: copilots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: copiloting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: copiloted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: copiloted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: co-pilot
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A backup or assistant pilot of an aircraft.
pos: noun
gloss: An assistant, especially one that uses artificial intelligence.
pos: noun
gloss: To serve as relief or assistant pilot.
pos: verb
Synonyms: first officer
second pilot
number two
Translations:
checkout
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: darts
games
Etymology: Etymology tree
English check outdeverb.
English checkout
Deverbal from check out.
Inflected forms:
form: checkouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: check-out
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The process of checking out of a hotel, or the latest time to vacate a room in one.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of checking out items at a supermarket or library.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The place in a supermarket where this is done.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of confirming and paying for an online purchase.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
broadly
countable
uncountable
gloss: A test to see if some device is functioning properly.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An inspection or investigation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The number of points that a player scores on their final, winning visit to the oche.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: check out
self checkout
self-scanning checkout
Derived words: checkout chick
checkout counter
checkout desk
checkout divider
checkout girl
check-out time
self-checkout
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 收款處 /收款处
roman: shōukuǎnchǔ
lang: Dutch
word: kassa
lang: Estonian
word: kassa
lang: Faroese
word: kassi
lang: Finnish
word: kassa
lang: French
word: caisse
lang: Georgian
word: სალარო
roman: salaro
lang: German
word: Kasse
lang: German
word: Supermarktkasse
lang: Greek
word: ταμείο
roman: tameío
lang: Hungarian
word: pénztár
lang: Hungarian
word: kassza
lang: Italian
word: cassa
lang: Japanese
word: レジ
roman: reji
lang: Lithuanian
word: kasa
lang: Macedonian
word: ка́са
roman: kása
lang: Māori
word: pae-utu
lang: Norman
word: câsse
lang: Polish
word: kasa
lang: Portuguese
word: caixa
lang: Romanian
word: casă
lang: Russian
word: ка́сса
roman: kássa
lang: Spanish
word: caja
lang: Swedish
word: kassa
lang: Turkish
word: kasa
lang: Vietnamese
word: quầy tính tiền
lang: Vietnamese
word: quầy thu tiền
lang: Welsh
word: desg talu
cheerleader
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cheer + leader.
Compound parts: cheer
leader
Inflected forms:
form: cheerleaders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person, usually a young, attractive female, who encourages applause and cheers at a sports event, and wearing a specially-designed uniform in the official colors of the team he/she cheers for.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A person who rallies support for any cause.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Given these sentiments, it is unsurprising that ultranationalists have been the main cheerleaders of closer Russia-North Korea relations.
Related words: cheerleading
Derived words: cheerlead
cheerleader effect
cheerleaderish
cheerleaderlike
cheerleadership
jeerleader
noncheerleader
Translations:
congener
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From French congénère, from Latin com- (“same”) + genus (“kind”).
Compound parts: com-
genus
Inflected forms:
form: congeners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A plant or animal of the same taxonomic genus as another.
pos: noun
gloss: A person or thing similar in behavior or nature to another.
pos: noun
examples: Not that we may thereby swamp the thing in the wholesale condemnation which we pass on its inferior congeners, but rather that we may by contrast ascertain the more precisely in what its merits consist, by learning at the same time to what particular dangers of corruption it may also be exposed.
gloss: Any of a group of structurally related compounds.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several alcohols, other than ethanol, that are found in fermented and distilled alcoholic drinks, and are partially responsible for their flavour and character.
pos: noun
Synonyms: cogener
Related words: congeneric
congenerous
Translations:
cadaveric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French cadavérique.
Inflected forms:
form: more cadaveric
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cadaveric
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to a corpse.
pos: adj
examples: Hodgkin had just returned from his second visit to Paris, where he had learned to prepare and dissect cadaveric specimens.
gloss: Caused by coming into contact with a dead body, a cadaver.
pos: adj
examples: He invoked cadaveric poisoning as the reason for the high death rate among priests and monks […]
Derived words: cadaveric alkaloid
cadaverically
cadaveric spasm
noncadaveric
Translations:
fluoridation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fluor(ine)
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idusder.
English -ide
English fluoride
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English fluoridation
From fluoride + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: fluoridations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of adding fluoride to something, especially water.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Israel's decision to ban fluoridation follows a vote to preclude the practice in Portland, Ore., and Wichita, Kan. It was also recently overturned in Hamilton, the fourth most populous city in New Zealand.
Proposed restrictions on fluoridation in New Hampshire, Tennessee and North Dakota were rejected. A measure in Kentucky to make fluoridation optional stalled in the state Senate.
Translations:
tending
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
pos: noun
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
gastropod
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French gastéropode, from gastro- + -poda, New Latin, from Ancient Greek γαστήρ (gastḗr, “stomach”) and πούς (poús, “foot”).
Affixes: gastro-
-poda
Inflected forms:
form: gastropods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any member of a class of molluscs (Gastropoda) that includes snails, slugs, and limpets; univalve mollusc.
pos: noun
Translations:
co-pilot
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: co-pilots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: co-pilots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: co-piloting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: co-piloted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: co-piloted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: UK standard spelling of copilot.
pos: noun
gloss: UK standard spelling of copilot.
pos: verb
Translations:
equivocate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Middle English equivocaten, from Medieval Latin aequivocātus, perfect passive participle of aequivocō (“to be called by the same name”), from Late Latin aequivocus (“ambiguous, equivocal”). Compare French équivoque.
Inflected forms:
form: equivocates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: equivocating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: equivocated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: equivocated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: æquivocate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To speak using double meaning; to speak ambiguously, unclearly or doubtfully, with intent to deceive; to vacillate in one's answers, responding with equivoques.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Knock. Knock, knock. Who's there in th'other Deuils Name? Faith here's an Equiuocator, that could ſweare in both the Scales againſt eyther Scale, who committed Treaſon enough for Gods ſake, yet could not equiuocate to Heauen: oh come in, Equiuocator.
All that Garnet had to say for him was that he supposed he meant to equivocate.
gloss: To render equivocal or ambiguous.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He equivocated his vow by a mental reservation
Related words: prevaricate
Derived words: equivocal
equivocatingly
equivocator
nonequivocating
Translations:
exocrine
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: exocrin
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: exocrines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: exocrin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Producing external secretions that are released through a duct.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Pertaining to the exocrine glands or their secretions.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The secretion of an exocrine gland.
pos: noun
gloss: An exocrine gland.
pos: noun
Related words: ducto-
Derived words: exocrine gland
exocrinology
exocrinopathy
nonexocrine
Translations:
bituminous
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French bitumineux.
Inflected forms:
form: more bituminous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bituminous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bituminious
pos: adj
tags: alternative
uncommon
form: bituminouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bituminious
pos: noun
tags: alternative
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to bitumen.
pos: adj
gloss: Bituminous coal.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A type or grade of bituminous coal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
bitumen
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English bithumen, bitumen, from Latin bitūmen. Doublet of bitume.
Inflected forms:
form: bitumina
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bitumens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bitumens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bitumening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bitumened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bitumened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A sticky, black, highly viscous liquid or semi-solid form of petroleum, burning with a bright flame. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, etc.; Mineral pitch.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore. Follow this with a layer of compacted "hoggin" – compacted clay, gravel and sand. This is then sprayed with hot bitumen, and has a layer of pea shingle rolled into it.
gloss: Any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petrolea, and even the light, volatile naphthas.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
gloss: Roads sealed with bitumen, as opposed to dirt roads.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
colloquial
countable
uncountable
gloss: Canadian deposits of extremely heavy crude oil.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
countable
uncountable
gloss: To cover or fill with bitumen.
pos: verb
examples: another star reflected itself in the glassy black of the bitumened road
The Litlata community have now built a mandi set in a pleasant garden, and to ensure the cleanliness of their yardna have bricked and bitumened the pool into which the water flows
Work is already under way to complete the bitumening of Western Australia's last unsurfaced stretch of Highway One, between Fitzroy Crossing and Hall's Creek.
The development of water reticulation occurred in parallel with street work — forming, kerbing, channelling and bitumening.
Derived words: bitumenised
bitumen of Judea
bituminiferous
bituminoid
bituminous
bitumoid
crude bitumen
dilbit
modified bitumen
pyrobitumen
refined bitumen
Translations:
fluorination
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fluorine
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English fluorination
From fluorine + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: fluorinations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The introduction of fluorine into a compound by means of a chemical reaction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
parathyroid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Hellenic *pərai
Ancient Greek πᾰρᾰ́ (părắ)
Ancient Greek πᾰρᾰ- (pără-)der.
English para-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer-der.
Proto-Hellenic *tʰurā
Ancient Greek θῠ́ρᾱ (thŭ́rā)
Ancient Greek -εος (-eos)
Ancient Greek θῠρεός (thŭreós)
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 θῠρεοειδής (thŭreoeidḗs)bor.
New Latin thyreoīdēsbor.
English thyroid
English parathyroid
From para- + thyroid.
Inflected forms:
form: parathyroids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Situated near the thyroid gland.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Pertaining to the parathyroid glands or their extracts.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A parathyroid gland.
pos: noun
gloss: A parathyroid hormone.
pos: noun
Derived words: abaloparatide
antiparathyroid
aparathyroid
euparathyroid
hyperparathyroidism
hypoparathyroid
parathormone
parathyroidectomy
parathyroid gland
parathyroid hormone
parathyroiditis
teriparatide
thyroparathyroid
thyroparathyroidectomy
Translations:
pineal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French pinéal, from Middle French, from Latin pīnea (“pine cone, pine nut”), from pīneus (“of the pine”).
Inflected forms:
form: more pineal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pineal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pineals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In the shape of a pine cone.
pos: adj
gloss: Pertaining to the pineal gland.
pos: adj
gloss: The pineal gland.
pos: noun
examples: Because of its central location and its solitary nature — most structures in the brain come in pairs, but the pineal stands alone — the philosopher René Descartes concluded that the pineal is where the soul resides.
Derived words: extrapineal
parapineal
pineal body
pinealectomy
pineal eye
pineal gland
pineal hormone
pineally
pinealocyte
pinealocytoma
pinealoma
pineal recess
pineocytoma
pineocytomatous
pinopsin
postpineal
Translations: