yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
crawler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From crawl (“to move slowly, by dragging the body along the ground”) + -er.
Base: crawl
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: crawlers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A child who is able to creep using its hands and knees but is not able to walk.
pos: noun
gloss: A crawl swimmer.
pos: noun
gloss: A tractor crawler, a motorized vehicle that uses caterpillar tracks instead of wheels.
pos: noun
gloss: A software bot that autonomously follows connected paths such as links between web pages.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: Crawler-based search engines have three major elements. The first is the spider, also called the crawler, which visits a web page, reads it, and then follows links to other pages within the site.
These serve as an algorithmic way to judge the “mobileness” of a site, and similar algorithms are likely to be used by the search crawlers.
gloss: A mobile stage in the development of stationary hemipteran insects such as scale insects—generally the first instar.
pos: noun
gloss: A cab that is driven slowly along while its driver looks out for a fare.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
slang
gloss: Synonym of crawler crane.
pos: noun
Derived words: church crawler
crawler crane
crawlerize
crawler lane
crawler track
crawlerway
creepy crawler
curb crawler
dungeon crawler
ice crawler
kerb crawler
metacrawler
nightcrawler
pub crawler
rock crawler
wall-crawler
wall crawler
wallcrawler
Web crawler
Translations:
lactam
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin lacder.
English lacto-
German Ketonbor.
English ketone
English -one
English lac(tone)
Egyptian jmnbor.
Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓́μμων (Ắmmōn)bor.
Latin Ammōn
Latin ammoniacusder.
English ammonia
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idusder.
English -ide
English am(ide)
English lactam
From lac(tone) + am(ide).
Inflected forms:
form: lactams
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a class of cyclic amides that are the nitrogen analogs of lactones, formed by heating amino acids; the tautomeric enol forms are known as lactims.
pos: noun
Translations:
tautomeric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From tautomer + -ic.
Base: tautomer
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more tautomeric
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tautomeric
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, formed or characterized by tautomerism.
pos: adj
Translations:
imide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Egyptian jmnbor.
Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓́μμων (Ắmmōn)bor.
Latin Ammōn
Latin ammoniacusder.
English ammonia
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idusder.
English -ide
English amide
English imide
Alteration of amide.
Inflected forms:
form: imides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a form of amide in which the nitrogen atom is attached to two carbonyl groups - R₁CONHCOR₂
pos: noun
gloss: the anion NH²⁻
pos: noun
Derived words: amine imide
aminimide
azoimide
bisimide
bromoimide
carbimide
chlorimide
diimide
haloimide
hydrazide imide
imesatin
imidazole
imidic
imipramine
isoimide
lactimide
maleimide
nitrile imide
phosphine imide
phthalimide
polyamide-imide
polyetherimide
polyimide
Translations:
lactone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin lacder.
English lacto-
German Ketonbor.
English ketone
English -one
English lactone
From lacto- + -one.
Inflected forms:
form: lactones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cyclic intramolecular ester derived from a hydroxy acid.
pos: noun
Translations:
lactide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: lactides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a class of heterocyclic compounds, formally acid anhydrides, formed by heating α-lactones
pos: noun
gloss: The anhydride of lactic acid
pos: noun
Translations:
Lagrangian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astrophysics
engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Lagrange
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Lagrangian
From Lagrange + -ian.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Joseph Louis Lagrange.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: After studying a recursive formulation and the associated Bellman equation, in section 5.5 we analyze a Lagrangian formulation that provides useful insights about how Lagrange multipliers on transition laws relate to gradients of value functions.
gloss: Relating to Lagrangian mechanics.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to a Lagrange point.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
navigable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French navigable, from Latin navigabilis.
Inflected forms:
form: more navigable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most navigable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being navigated; deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to vessels.
pos: adj
examples: Shanghai is situated on this river, about twelve miles above Woosung; and the river is navigable for steam-boats forty-seven miles higher up—to the point where it issues from the small lake on the south of the canal. Chapoo, the town taken by the British immediately before the attack upon Woosung, is on the north side of the gulf of Che-kiang, about midway between its north cape and its innermost recess. Shanghai is the great emporium of the trade of this district with the tea-provinces on the South, with the province of Shantung and the coast of the Mantchoo Tartars on the North.
[...] on July 16, 1790, a public meeting [...] unanimously approved of a scheme for making the River Soar navigable from Leicester to Loughborough, and "a cut or rail-way from Swannington and the neighbourhood to the bason at Loughborough."
gloss: Seaworthy; in a navigable state; steerable.
pos: adj
gloss: Steerable, dirigible.
pos: adj
gloss: Easy to navigate.
pos: adj
examples: This Web site isn't very navigable. I can't tell which image links to which page.
Synonyms: navigatable
Antonyms: unnavigable
Related words: navigatable
navigate
navigation
navigator
Derived words: circumnavigable
keyboard-navigable
navigability
navigableness
navigable waters
navigably
nonnavigable
Translations:
lang: Belarusian
word: судаходны
roman: sudaxódny
lang: Bulgarian
word: плавателен
roman: plavatelen
lang: Catalan
word: navegable
lang: Czech
word: splavný
lang: Dutch
word: bevaarbaar
lang: Esperanto
word: navigebla
lang: Finnish
word: purjehduskelpoinen
lang: French
word: navigable
lang: German
word: schiffbar
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ναυσίπορος
roman: nausíporos
lang: Hebrew
word: עָבִיר לְשַׁיִט
roman: avir leshayit
lang: Irish
word: inseolta
lang: Macedonian
word: пловен
roman: ploven
lang: Manx
word: yn-shiaulley
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: farbar
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: seilbar
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: farbar
lang: Polish
word: żeglowny
lang: Polish
word: spławny
lang: Portuguese
word: navegável
lang: Russian
word: судохо́дный
roman: sudoxódnyj
lang: Spanish
word: navegable
lang: Bulgarian
word: годен за плаване
roman: goden za plavane
lang: Catalan
word: navegable
lang: Finnish
word: merikelpoinen
lang: Irish
word: instiúrtha
lang: Macedonian
word: пловен
roman: ploven
lang: Manx
word: yn-stiurey
lang: Polish
word: żeglowny
lang: Polish
word: spławny
dielectric
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From dia- (“through”) + electric.
Learned 19th-century formation, coined by William Whewell (died 1866).
Base: electric
Affixes: dia-
Inflected forms:
form: dielectrics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more dielectric
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dielectric
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An electrically insulating or nonconducting material considered for its electric susceptibility, i.e. its property of polarization when exposed to an external electric field.
pos: noun
gloss: insulating
pos: adj
Translations:
windrow
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wind + row.
Compound parts: wind
row
Inflected forms:
form: windrows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: windrows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: windrowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: windrowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: windrowed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A row of cut grain or hay allowed to dry in a field.
pos: noun
gloss: A line of leaves etc heaped up by the wind.
pos: noun
gloss: A similar streak of seaweed etc on the surface of the sea formed by Langmuir circulation.
pos: noun
gloss: A line of gravel left behind by the edge of a grader’s blade.
pos: noun
gloss: A line of gravel left behind by the edge of a grader’s blade.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A line of snow left behind by the edge of a snowplow’s blade.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
gloss: A line of snow left behind by the edge of a snowplow’s blade.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
broadly
gloss: The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth onto other land to improve it.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: To arrange (e.g. new-made hay) in lines or windrows.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This cool spell favored the cane shipped to some extent, for if the weather had remained as warm for three or four days as it was Friday, all the cane that was windrowed after the freeze would have been lost and much of it that was windrowed before the freeze would have met a like fate.
Threshing a previously windrowed swath (windrowing) or cutting and threshing the crop in one operation (direct heading) are the common methods of harvesting oilseed rape.
Using a motor grader to windrow the pulverized reclaimed material.
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: karhe
lang: Finnish
word: valli
polymorph
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
chemistry
fiction
geography
geology
literature
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
Etymology: From poly- + -morph.
Base: poly
Inflected forms:
form: polymorphs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: polymorphs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: polymorphing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: polymorphed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: polymorphed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any organism that shows polymorphism.
pos: noun
gloss: Any substance or mineral that forms different types of crystal.
pos: noun
gloss: The transformation of an item or creature into something different by magic.
pos: noun
gloss: To transform; to change into another form.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To transform into something different by magic.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: I got hemmed in by the werewolf again and, in desperation, tried an experimental new wand on it; and polymorphed it into a black pudding.
Derived words: polymorphic
polymorphistic
polymorphitis
polymorph-perverse
polyself
unpolymorph
Translations:
interactive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *n̥ter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti
Proto-Italic *agō
Latin agō
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
▲
Ancient Greek ἐνεργητῐκός (energētĭkós)sl.
Latin āctīvusbor.
Old French actifbor.
Middle English actyf
English active
English interactive
From inter- + active.
Inflected forms:
form: more interactive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most interactive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: interactives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Interacting with or communicating with and reacting to each other; influencing or having an effect on each other; acting or capable of acting on each other or with the other.
pos: adj
examples: interactive teaching methods
two interactive systems
gloss: Offering or involving interaction with the user.
pos: adj
examples: an interactive digital map with zoom and pan features
gloss: A feature (as in a museum) that can be interacted with.
pos: noun
examples: The show includes computer interactives, animation, models and live parakeets (for an exercise in species identification).
Related words: interaction
interactivity
Derived words: interactive fiction
interactive geofiction
interactively
interactiveness
interactive teller machine
interactive whiteboard
interpassive
noninteractive
non-interactive
preinteractive
Translations:
importer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English import
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English importer
From import + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: importers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, imports: especially a person or company importing goods into a country.
pos: noun
examples: India is the world's biggest importer of gold.
The data importer has crashed. Did we receive a corrupted file?
Tobacco, for instance, shrinks materially by frequent reshippings, and as all goods are warehoused as a convenience to importers, duties should be paid on what the importer receives.
Translations:
hyperventilate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Hellenic *hupér
Ancient Greek ῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér)
Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)der.
English hyper-
English ventilate
English hyperventilate
From hyper- + ventilate.
Inflected forms:
form: hyperventilates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hyperventilating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hyperventilated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hyperventilated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To breathe quickly and deeply, especially at an abnormally rapid rate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: When I tried it, I hyperventilated.
Sometimes her prose hyperventilates ("Once, years ago, his and N.'s love for each other had glowed like phosphorescent fire on the surfaces of their bodies"), and she has a weakness for epiphanies ("There was a man, no longer young, though not yet old, who, traveling alone in northern Europe, began to feel that his soul was being drained slowly, almost secretly from him, drop by drop").
Sometimes on the highway I had to pull over to hyperventilate and sob.
Even some middle-of-the-road economic commentators have been hyperventilating, saying that she’s essentially calling for price controls, which is odd, because she didn’t say anything like that.
Translations:
fattening
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more fattening
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fattening
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fattenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That causes weight gain; often of high calorie food with relatively little nutritive value.
pos: adj
examples: I'd really love to lose weight, the trouble is, tasty desserts with stuff like whipped cream are so fattening.
gloss: The act of making something fatter, particularly in reference or allusion to livestock.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of becoming fatter.
pos: noun
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: lihominen
lang: Polish
word: tycie
lang: Russian
word: жире́ние
roman: žirénije
enamored
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English enamoured, a partial calque of Old French enamore, past participle of enamorer, enamourer; compare amour and enamor, enamour.
Inflected forms:
form: more enamored
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most enamored
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: enamoured
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: enamor’d
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: enamour’d
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: inamor’d
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: inamored
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: inamour’d
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: inamoured
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In love, amorous.
pos: adj
examples: She's enamored of [or with] her new boyfriend.
During the 1980s, its vivid streetlife became a symbol of the “consumer socialism” that distinguished Hungary from other Eastern Bloc states, but Budapesters today are rather less enamoured of Váci: dressed-to-kill babes and their sugar daddies would rather pose in malls, and teenagers can find McDonald's anywhere, leaving Váci utterly dependent on tourists for its livelihood and bustle.
Translations:
eeny
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Possibly from teeny weeny.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: minuscule
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: Can you put an eeny bit of mustard on my hot dog?
Then they would go back to the gang house—Woody named it the Eeny House because it was so small [...].
... and weep and moan and scream every little eeny orgasm.
The interior is, perhaps, an eeny bit tricksy, but has worn surprisingly well over nearly four years and did not really need the light refreshment it has received in the Cabrio
Translations:
dropout
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English drop outdeverb.
English dropout
Deverbal from drop out.
Inflected forms:
form: dropouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: drop-out
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Someone who has left an educational institution without completing the course
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The politicians of the world are mere political university dropouts.
gloss: Someone who has opted out of conventional society.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: One who suddenly leaves anything, or the act of doing so.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The pastures are filled with gay political drop-outs, persons of reasonable intent who found the scene personally destructive.
To avoid excessive dropouts from the study, we wouldn't employ a single tutored group and a single control group that received no instruction at all.
gloss: The slot in the frame that accepts the axles of the wheels.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A damaged portion of a tape or disk, causing a brief omission of audio, video, or data.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Momentary loss of an electronic signal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A technique for regularizing a neural network by discarding a random subset of its units.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: dropout factory
maxout
nondropout
stopout
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: koulupudokas
lang: Finnish
word: keskeyttäjä
lang: Finnish
word: pudokas
lang: German
word: Abbrecher
lang: German
word: Abbrecherin
lang: German
word: Uni-Abbrecher
lang: German
word: Uni-Abbrecherin
lang: German
word: Schulabbrecher
lang: German
word: Schulabbrecherin
lang: German
word: Studienabbrecher
lang: German
word: Studienabbrecherin
lang: Hungarian
word: kimaradó
lang: Hungarian
word: lemorzsolódó
lang: Hungarian
word: kibukó
lang: Italian
word: emarginato
lang: Italian
word: escluso
lang: Italian
word: rinunciatario
lang: Italian
word: abbandono
lang: Italian
word: ripetente
lang: Japanese
word: 中退者
roman: chūtaisha
lang: Māori
word: kaiwhakamakere
lang: Spanish
word: estudiante de carrera trunca
lang: Swedish
word: avhoppare
dialysis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin dialysis, from Ancient Greek διάλυσις (diálusis). By surface analysis, dia- + -lysis. First use appears c. 1550.
Inflected forms:
form: dialyses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A method of separating molecules or particles of different sizes by differential diffusion through a semipermeable membrane.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The use of this method for the removal of waste products from the blood in the case of kidney failure: hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
gloss: The spelling out of alternatives, or presenting of either-or arguments that lead to a conclusion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rhetoric
uncountable
gloss: asyndeton.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rhetoric
uncountable
Derived words: cyclodialysis
dialyse
dialytic
dialytically
dialytrauma
dialyze
electrodialysis
haemodialysis
hematodialysis
hemodialysis
histodialysis
iridodialysis
lithodialysis
microdialysis
nephrodialysis
nondialysis
peridialysis
peritoneal dialysis
postdialysis
predialysis
retrodialysis
underdialysis
Translations:
cruddy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English cruddi, equivalent to crud + -y.
Base: crud
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: cruddier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: cruddiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Full of crud.
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: Crummy, lousy, worthless.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Because I didn't study for my test, I feel like I'm gonna make a pretty cruddy grade.
gloss: Annoying, irritating.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Some children's cartoons sure have cruddy theme songs.
gloss: Coagulated.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: His cruell wounds with cruddy blood congeal'd.
Related words: crufty
crusty
Derived words: cruddily
cruddiness
Translations:
boozing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: boozings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of drinking alcohol heavily.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
uncountable
examples: "So kindly keep the vainglorious enumeration of your pots for the benefit of those village idiots who compose your particular set of boozing companions."
Men, bearded, hirsute, sat dolefully at the bar, eyes translucent from diurnal boozings.
Translations:
blockage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English block
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
Latin -āticus
Latin -āticum
Old French -agebor.
Middle English -age
English -age
English blockage
From block + -age.
Inflected forms:
form: blockages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or condition of being blocked.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Only when one has seen a Control Office at first-hand does one realise the vast amount of unsparing but largely unsung work that is behind the eventual publication, perhaps, of a paragraph in this journal's "Motive Power Miscellany" recording the appearance, within hours of the complete blockage of a main line, of many of its trains, passenger and freight, on routes quite foreign to them; and of effective emergency services either side of the disaster area.
gloss: The thing that is the cause of such a state, blocking a passage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: There was a blockage in the sewer, so we called out the plumber.
gloss: Occlusion of a lumen (especially that of a blood vessel or intestine), or the thing that is causing it; as:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Blockage of circulation quickly leads to ischemia.
In selected cases, endovascular thrombectomy can quickly remove a blockage that pharmaceutical thrombolysis can't budge.
gloss: Occlusion of a lumen (especially that of a blood vessel or intestine), or the thing that is causing it; as:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: obstruction
occlusion
lodgment
Related words: blockade
Derived words: antiblockage
deblockage
preblockage
reblockage
unblockage
Translations:
geronimo
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Various theories; see Wikipedia. In any case, likely ultimately from the name of Geronimo the Apache. Originally used by American paratroopers.
Inflected forms:
form: Geronimo
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cry before jumping out of or into something.
pos: intj
examples: Geronimo, motherfucker!
Translations:
sludge
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English slugge, sluche (“mud, mire”), probably an alteration of Middle English sliche, slicche ("mud, slush, tar"; whence Modern English slitch), from Old English *sliċ, from Proto-West Germanic *sliki, *slīk, from Proto-Germanic *slikiz, *slīką (“mud, slush”). Cognate with Dutch slijk, German Schlick. Compare also slush.
Inflected forms:
form: sludges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sludging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sludged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sludged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: slutch
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Northern-England
Scotland
Senses:
gloss: To slump or slouch.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
gloss: To slop or drip slowly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
meritocratic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From merit + -o- + -cratic or meritocrat + -ic.
Base: merit
Affixes: -o-
-cratic
Inflected forms:
form: more meritocratic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most meritocratic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to a meritocracy.
pos: adj
examples: Sixty years on from Young’s book, a pure product of meritocratic training has emerged to write what he hopes will be the epitaph for his class.
And now Mr. Markovits is taking his message to the masses, with a big new book arguing that the meritocratic ideal has not only fed rampant inequality and hollowed out the middle class, but also threatens democracy itself.
But while the meritocratic system was intended to democratize American society, argues Yale Law School’s Daniel Markovits in his book The Meritocracy Trap, it has instead contributed to increasing inequality and the decline of the middle class.
Translations:
hemodialysis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αἱμο- (haimo-, “blood”) + διάλυσις (diálusis, “separation, dissolution”), from διαλύω (dialúō, “I separate”), from διά (diá, “through”) + λύω (lúō, “I loose”). By surface analysis, hemo- + dialysis.
Inflected forms:
form: hemodialyses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: haemodialysis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Dialysis that uses an extracorporeal apparatus to remove waste products from the blood in the case of kidney failure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
megaphone
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From mega- + -phone.
Base: mega
Inflected forms:
form: megaphones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: megaphones
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: megaphoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: megaphoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: megaphoned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A portable, usually hand-held, funnel-shaped device that is used to amplify a person’s natural voice toward a targeted direction.
pos: noun
gloss: Mouthpiece or promoter; one who speaks for or publicizes on behalf of another.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: If Pack does become head of the BBG, critics fear that he will turn Voice of America and the other BBG networks into a megaphone for Trump.
gloss: To use a megaphone; to speak through a megaphone.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
Derived words: megaphonic
megaphonist
pissaphone
Translations:
incinerate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin incinerātus, perfect participle of incinerō (“to burn into ashes”), from cinis (“ashes”).
Inflected forms:
form: incinerates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: incinerating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: incinerated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: incinerated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To destroy by burning.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes.
A cloud of smoke from two pounds of methamphetamine seized by the FBI and incinerated inside a Montana animal shelter sent its workers to the hospital, city officials in Billings said.
gloss: To annihilate (not necessarily by burning).
pos: verb
tags: informal
Synonyms: burn
burn away
burn down
burn up
burn to a crisp
char up
cinder
cremate
forburn
forsweal
incinerate
scathe
torch
Antonyms: extinguish
salvage
save
Related words: end in smoke
go up in flames
go up in smoke
combust
kindle
Derived words: incinerable
incineration
incinerator
microincinerate
Translations:
monumental
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin monumentālis, from Latin monumentum; equivalent to monument + -al.
Base: monument
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more monumental
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most monumental
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In the manner of a monument.
pos: adj
gloss: Large, grand and imposing.
pos: adj
gloss: Taking a great amount of time and effort to complete.
pos: adj
examples: Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.
a monumental task
gloss: Relating to monuments.
pos: adj
examples: Monumental construction.
Derived words: monumentalise
monumentalism
monumentality
monumentalization
monumentalize
monumentally
monumental mason
monumental masonry
premonumental
unmonumental
Translations:
honoured
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more honoured
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most honoured
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: honored
pos: adj
tags: alternative
US
form: honor'd
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: honour'd
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Respected, having received honour.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: One of them is the time-honoured method of our forefathers
Translations:
autocatalytic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English auto-
English catalytic
English autocatalytic
From auto- + catalytic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: catalyzed by one of its own products
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
recompense
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English recompense, borrowed from Old French recompense or Medieval Latin recompensa.
Inflected forms:
form: recompenses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: recompence
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: recompenses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: recompensing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: recompensed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: recompensed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: recompence
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An equivalent returned for anything given, done, or suffered; compensation; reward; amends; requital.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: That which compensates for an injury, or other type of harm or damage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He offered money as recompense for the damage, but what the injured party wanted was an apology.
O let my books be then the eloquence
And dumb presagers of my speaking breast,
Who plead for love and look for recompense
More than that tongue that more hath more express'd.
gloss: To reward or repay (someone) for something done, given etc.
pos: verb
examples: She in regard thereof him recompenst / With golden words, and goodly countenance, / And such fond fauours sparingly dispenst […]
He cannot recompense me better.
gloss: To give compensation for an injury, or other type of harm or damage.
pos: verb
examples: The judge ordered the defendant to recompense the plaintiff by paying $100.
gloss: To give (something) in return; to pay back; to pay, as something earned or deserved.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Recompense to no man evil for evil.
Synonyms: recompensate
Related words: compensate
recompensate
Derived words: overrecompensed
recompensable
recompensation
recompensive
underrecompensed
unrecompensed
Translations:
stickum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From stick + variant of 'em, him.
Inflected forms:
form: stickums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any adhesive, adhesive residue; any sticky or gummy substance.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
countable
informal
uncountable
examples: A strip of muslin swaddles his privates, fixed by means of pine stickum to his belly and buttocks.
He had sat next to Cindy returning from the Y and smelled the chlorine on her. A sodden Band-Aid had clung by a few lingering bits of stickum to her knee.
Translations:
airfare
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From air + fare.
Compound parts: air
fare
Inflected forms:
form: airfares
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The cost or expense of an airplane ticket or trip.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I'd love to visit Paris, but I can't afford the airfare.
Airline ticket prices declined as low-cost carriers started expanding their routes in 2016, the essay said. A chart from online database FRED shows the downward trend in airfares before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Translations:
petted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more petted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most petted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
dimeric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dimer
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English dimeric
From dimer + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: of, relating to, or being a dimer
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
layered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more layered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most layered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Formed of layers.
pos: adj
Translations:
dexterously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *déḱs
Proto-Indo-European *deḱs-terósder.
Proto-Italic *deksteros
Latin dexter
Latin -ōsus
Old French -usbor.
Middle English -ous
English -ous
English dexterous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English dexterously
From dexterous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more dexterously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most dexterously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a dexterous manner; skillfully; with precision.
pos: adv
examples: He ducked dexterously, and the stool crashed to its own detriment against the wall.
Very interested, Dr Grimsby watched the saw follow the fine pencil line on the white pearwood as Peter dexterously twirled the veneers on the fretwork table, timing the movement of both hands precisely to put no strain on either the saw or the wood.
Translations:
flax-stick
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: flax-sticks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flax stick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The flowering stem of the New Zealand flax (Phormium tenax or Phormium cookianum).
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
examples: Rafts, or canoes, or “catamarans,” are still occasionally improvised by travellers or explorers in primitive parts of New Zealand, e.g. by Haast, who reports constructing “catamarans” of dead trees when flax-sticks were not obtainable.
gloss: A New Zealander.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
obsolete
slang
examples: "I always thought Australia was all good country," mused the driver—a flax-stick.
Translations:
cilium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
cytology
entomology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin ciliumbor.
English cilium
Borrowed from Latin cilium (“eyelid”).
Inflected forms:
form: cilia
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A short microscopic hairlike organelle projecting from a eukaryotic cell (such as a unicellular organism or one cell of a multicelled organism) which serve either for propulsion by causing currents in the surrounding fluid or as sensors.
pos: noun
examples: It is the deeper parts of such cells which give rise to delicate muscular fibres or networks of fibres, while the superficially placed body of the cell myoblast), the part which produces the above, performs other functions, and usually bears a cilium.
The clockwise beating of cilia results in a net flow of extraembryonic fluid leftwards […]
gloss: One of the fine hairs along an insect's wing.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the hairs or similar protrusions along the margin of an organ.
pos: noun
gloss: An eyelash.
pos: noun
Related words: supercilium
flagellum
Derived words: ciliary
ciliate
Ciliate
cilio-
kinocilium
macrocilium
monociliate
monocilium
stereocilium
uniciliate
Translations:
delirium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-
Proto-Indo-European *leys-
Proto-Indo-European *lóyseh₂
Proto-Italic *loizā
Latin līra
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin dēlīrō
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ium
Latin dēlīriumbor.
English delirium
Borrowed from Latin dēlīrium (“derangement, madness”).
Inflected forms:
form: deliriums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: deliria
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A temporary mental state with a sudden onset, usually reversible, including symptoms of confusion, inability to concentrate, disorientation, anxiety, and sometimes hallucinations. Causes can include dehydration, drug intoxication, and severe infection.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The popular delirium [of the French Revolution] at first caught his enthusiastic mind.
Better to decay in absolute delirium, than to be the victim of the methodical unreason of ill-bestowed love.
The evening wore away, and the long grass was silvery with dew; the consequence was what might have been expected,—next day, he was laid up with a violent cold; and the fever soon ran so high, that delirium came on; and before three days were past, his life hung upon a thread.
the delirium of the preceding session (of Parliament)
gloss: Wild, frenzied excitement or ecstasy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: deliracy
delirament
delirancy
delirant
delirate
delirating
deliration
delire
delirement
deliriant
deliriate
delirifacient
deliring
delirious
deliriously
deliriousness
delirium tremens
delirous
delirousness
deliry
Derived words: agitated delirium
deliriogen
excited delirium
nocturnal delirium
Translations:
crutch
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English crucche, from Old English cryċċ (“crutch, staff”), from Proto-West Germanic *krukkju, from Proto-Germanic *krukjō (“crutch, staff”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewg- (“wrinkle, bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, bend”).
Cognate with Scots curche, crutch (“crutch, stilts”), Dutch kruk (“crutch”), Low German krukke, Krück (“crutch”), German Krücke (“crutch”), Swedish krycka (“crutch”). Latin crucia, crucca, croccia, crocia (“crutch”), and its descendants are ultimately from the Germanic.
Inflected forms:
form: crutches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crutches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: crutching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: crutched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: crutched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A device to assist in motion as a cane, especially one that provides support under the arm to reduce weight on a leg.
pos: noun
examples: He walked on crutches for a month until the cast was removed from his leg.
I'll lean upon one crutch, and fight with the other.
Sullen now, with stultified spleen, Mrs Dibble grappled her crutches and levered herself upright after an ungainly struggle.
gloss: Something or someone that supports, often used negatively to indicate that it is not needed and causes an unhealthful dependency; a prop
pos: noun
examples: Alcohol became a crutch to help him through the long nights; eventually it killed him.
Rhyme[…]is […] at best a crutch that lifts the weak alone.
gloss: A crotch; the area of body where the legs fork from the trunk.
pos: noun
gloss: A form of pommel for a woman's saddle, consisting of a forked rest to hold the leg of the rider.
pos: noun
gloss: A knee, or piece of knee timber.
pos: noun
gloss: A forked stanchion or post; a crotch.
pos: noun
gloss: An improvised device, usually made from a piece of cardboard, to hold the last end of a joint.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: To support on crutches; to prop up.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [I'll] haſten Og and Doeg to rehearſe, / Tvvo Fools that Crutch their Feeble Senſe on Verſe; / VVho by my Muſe to all ſucceeding times, / Shall live in ſpight of their ovvn Dogrell Rhimes.
gloss: To move on crutches.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To shear the hindquarters of a sheep; to dag.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: After learning how to crutch at 13, he could dag 400 sheep in a day by the spring of 1965 and earned himself more than just a bit of pocket money.
gloss: to stir with a crutch.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: Christ on a crutch
could eat the crutch from a low flying duck
crutch cross
crutchless
crutchlike
crutch word
forearm crutch
underarm crutch
crutcher
Translations:
charmed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Inflected forms:
form: more charmed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most charmed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Under a magic spell (cast by a charm); bewitched.
pos: adj
gloss: Having great good fortune, as though magically wrought.
pos: adj
examples: Draw forth thy ſword, thou mightie man at armes,
Intending but to raiſe my charmed ſkin:
And Ioue himſelfe will ſtretch his hand from heauen,
To ward the blow, and ſhield me ſafe from harme, […]
‘That animal has a charmed life,’ he said; ‘but you can say this only of brutes in this country. No man - you apprehend me? - no man here bears a charmed life.’
gloss: Impressed by the pleasantness of something.
pos: adj
examples: You are very gracious; I am charmed by your personality.
gloss: Of a particle: having nonzero charm.
pos: adj
Derived words: charmed life
charmedly
charmed quark
semi-charmed
uncharmed
Translations:
nursing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more nursing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nursing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: nursings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In the state of suckling young, lactating.
pos: adj
examples: The nursing bear wouldn't move far until her cubs were older.
gloss: Referring to nurses.
pos: adj
examples: The nursing staff worked overtime at the hospital.
gloss: Suckling, such as breastfeeding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process or profession of caring for patients as a nurse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She went into nursing as a career.
Nursing is an art; and, if it is to be made an art, requires as exclusive a devotion, as hard a preparation, as any painter's or sculptor's work; […]
Derived words: nonnursing
nursingly
nursing cover
nursingwear
paranursing
prenursing
Translations:
suckling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English sukling, sukeling, sokeling, equivalent to suck + -ling. Cognate with Middle Dutch sogelinc (“suckling”), Dutch zuigeling (“suckling”), German Säugling (“suckling”).
Base: suck
Affixes: -ling
Inflected forms:
form: sucklings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An infant that is still being breastfed (being suckled) by its mother.
pos: noun
gloss: A young mammal not yet weaned and still being fed milk by its mother.
pos: noun
Related words: -ling
suck
sucker
sucking reflex
suckle
suckler
suckling calf
suckling clover
suckling pig
Derived words: allosuckling
Translations:
moisty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English moisti, moysty, equivalent to moist + -y.
Base: moist
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: moistier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: moistiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: moist
pos: adj
Translations:
gristle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English gristel, grystyl, from Old English gristel (“gristle, cartilage”), Proto-West Germanic *gristl, of obscure origin; possibly from a pre-Germanic substrate language. Seemingly equivalent to a diminutive of Old English grist (“a grinding”), equivalent to modern English grist + -le; possibly related to Proto-Germanic *gredaną (“to crunch”). Cognate with Old Frisian gristel, gerstel (“gristle, cartilage”), Middle Low German gristel (“gristle”).
Base: grist
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: gristles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Cartilage; now especially: cartilage present, as a tough substance, in meat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best[…]
But she was tired of cell culture, tired of meticulously cutting away dead tissue like gristle from a steak […]
gloss: Bone not yet hardened by age and hard work.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: And it is a hard and cruel thing thus in early youth to taste beforehand the pangs which should be reserved for the stout time of manhood, when the gristle has become bone, and we stand up and fight out our lives, as a thing tried before and foreseen; for then we are veterans used to sieges and battles, and not green recruits, recoiling at the first shock of the encounter.
Look at Adam through the rest of the day, as he stands on the scaffolding with the two-feet ruler in his hand, whistling low while he considers how a difficulty about a floor-joist or a window-frame is to be overcome; or as he pushes one of the younger workmen aside and takes his place in upheaving a weight of timber, saying, "Let alone, lad! Thee'st got too much gristle i' thy bones yet"; or as he fixes his keen black eyes on the motions of a workman on the other side of the room and warns him that his distances are not right.
1885, Ada Sarah Ballin, The Science of Dress in Theory and Practice,
It. must be borne in mind that the bones of a young infant are little more than gristle, and are liable to bend, and so become deformed.
"The young 'un will make his way," said Belcher, who had come across to us. "He's more a sparrer than a fighter just at present, but when his gristle sets he'll take on anything on the list.
Related words: grizzle
Derived words: gristled
gristlehead
gristleless
gristliness
gristly
in the gristle
Translations: