yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
uninhabited
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English inhabited
English uninhabited
From un- + inhabited.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not inhabited; having no inhabitants.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Not having a term.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: This is not a contradiction since an uninhabited type has no complete terms and a probability distribution over an empty type is ill defined anyway.
Unlike Null, Nothing has no instances. We say the type is uninhabited.
Synonyms: beingless
desert
deserted
desolate
disinhabited
inhabitantless
inhabited
lifeless
peopleless
solitary
tenantless
unhabited
uninhabited
unoccupied
unpeopled
unpopulated
untenanted
vacant
wasteful
Antonyms: peopled
populated
tenanted
Translations:
hanker
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: With a secondary frequentative suffix -er, ultimately pointing to Proto-Germanic *hankōną, an iterative to *hanhaną (“to hang”). Related to Dutch hunkeren (“to crave”), which continues the zero-grade iterative.
Inflected forms:
form: hankers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hankering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hankered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hankered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To crave, want or desire.
pos: verb
examples: If you hanker for chocolate, you'll like this fudge recipe.
“O ’tis true enough, faith. I cannot understand Farmer Boldwood being such a fool at his time of life as to ho and hanker after thik^([sic]) woman in the way ’a do, and she not care a bit about en.”
“Baked, they were tough; and even boiled, they warn’t things for a hungry man to hanker after.”
I objected. I don’t know whether it is that I am built wrong, but I never did seem to hanker after tombstones myself.
[…] it made us heroes, and that was what Tom Sawyer had always been hankering to be.
She bade him good-night and hurried down the road. Next day he took her in a little watch with a brooch to pin on her dress. She had been hankering for it.
Very greatly, as a boy, used I to hanker to ride within those friendly-looking cabs and to look out through those shining spectacles along those straight clean boilers towards those familiar flared-out chimneys. Now it was to be.
[…] the newly rich hanker after old aristocratic glitz.
Translations:
chola
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Spanish cholabor.
English chola
Borrowed from Spanish chola.
Inflected forms:
form: cholas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A female cholo (Mexican or Hispanic gang member, or somebody with similar characteristics).
pos: noun
Translations:
leery
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1718, “untrustful, suspicious”, either from leer (“sideward look”) + -y, lear (“learning, knowledge”) + -y. More at leer, lear.
Base: leer
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: leerier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: leeriest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: leary
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Cautious, suspicious, wary, hesitant, or nervous about something; having reservations or concerns.
pos: adj
examples: Since he was bitten by a dog when he was young, he has always been leery of animals.
“[…]He was one of their top gun-fighters—always up to his ears in the thick of any fightin' that was goin' on. He never was leery of anything on two feet, I'll say that much for'm.”
“He's so darn afraid you'll be offended if he smokes. You scare him. Every time he speaks of the weather you jump him because he ain't talking about poetry or Gertie—Goethe?—or some other highbrow junk. You've got him so leery he scarcely dares to come here.”
gloss: Sly; artful; knowing.
pos: adj
tags: UK
obsolete
slang
gloss: Leering; lecherous or unpleasant.
pos: adj
examples: And there was a particularly brutal villain with leery eyes, ugly mouth, with one tooth gone, and an iron jaw like a hull-dog's.
Derived words: leerily
leeriness
unleery
Translations:
hesitant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin haereō
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tos
Latin -tus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin -tō
▲
Latin -tō
Latin -itō
Latin -titō
Latin haesitō
Latin haesitānsbor.
English hesitant
Borrowed from Latin haesitans, present participle of haesitare (“to stick fast, to hesitate”).
Inflected forms:
form: more hesitant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hesitant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Tending to hesitate, wait, or proceed with caution or reservation.
pos: adj
examples: I am hesitant to recommend him as a manager because he has a short temper.
Translations:
zeitgeist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Zeitgeist (literally “spirit of the age”).
Inflected forms:
form: zeitgeists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zeitgeister
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zeitgeisten
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
form: Zeitgeist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The spirit of the age; the taste, outlook, and spirit characteristic of a period.
pos: noun
examples: She was anchored to that seat by the accumulated indignities of days gone by and the boundless aspirations of generations yet unborn. She was a victim of both the forces of history and the forces of destiny. She had been tracked down by the Zeitgeist—the spirit of the time.
After quickly summarizing the zeitgeisten of the Greek, Elizabethan, and early modern periods and their effects on the theatre, Rice turns to the contemporary world.
[Robert] Heinlein’s gift was to catch the zeitgeist. “That’s what made him so successful, but it makes his work seem dated.”
The vote also stoked fears that Swiss citizens were reflecting the zeitgeist across Europe, where right-wing populists increasingly are seizing the spotlight with an anti-immigration political agenda.
Translations:
piscatorial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin piscātor (“fisherman”), from piscis (“fish”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to fishermen or fishing.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: There should be no plea put in by him in his absences, that he had only gone to catch a few fish, when his intentions had been other than piscatorial.
That a lucy or luce is the mature pike, every piscatorial schoolboy knows.
Jane lined up the girls and called out, "Dive!" The girls dived - mermaids for a piscatorial pageant.
The theme is unashamedly piscatorial – there are models of trout, pictures of trout, books about trout, a cabinet full of fly-tying gear. The veranda, cluttered with waders, boots, rods and tackle, is where the fishing day begins.
gloss: Of or pertaining to fish; piscine.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The tropical boxfish may not look the sleekest or sexiest of piscatorial creatures, but the Mercedes team knew better.
There are dozens of photographs, but it is not the piscatorial pornography that makes this book so exciting so much as the stories Mr Buller has unearthed.
Synonyms: piscatorian
piscatory
Derived words: piscatorialist
piscatorially
Translations:
bronchial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin bronchiālis. By surface analysis, bronchium + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the bronchia, bronchi or bronchioles.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
toughie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tough
English -ie
English toughie
From tough + -ie.
Inflected forms:
form: toughies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: toughy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Something that is tough, or difficult.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: His question is a toughie. I might have to do some more research.
gloss: Someone or something that is strong and resilient.
pos: noun
examples: Sansevieria and aspidistra are two old houseplant toughies that make good indoor choices.
With typical courage she had taken hold of her life and changed it for the better. She always was a brave little toughie, and now her courage had paid off.
His eyes were red, but his lashes were not beaded with fresh tears. He was something, this little toughie.
gloss: A tough; Someone or something that acts as a thug or bully.
pos: noun
examples: The liberal states, in the present situation, are the "softies"; the Fascist states are the "toughies". And the toughies are always able to get away with "murder" until the softies become tough.
But we knew she would follow how and why my student and I would immediately detect the similarity in our situation from the studied calmness we had both displayed toward the havoc roused by the toughies to intimidate the new female temporary teacher.
There was Butch behind the bar, and there sat four of the toughies at their table with their heads all close together and not drunk no more.
Often I don't even have a partner when I make my rounds as a patrol cop, because of city budget constraints. But when the toughie is armed or there are too many toughies, l have to call for a backup before I make a move.
Translations:
herrenvolk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From German Herrenvolk, from Herr (“lord, master, gentleman”) + -en- + Volk (“folk, people”).
Base: Herr
Affixes: -en-
Inflected forms:
form: herrenvolks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: herrenvolker
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Herrenvolk
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A master race, especially with reference to Nazi ideology.
pos: noun
examples: In their position halfway between the blacks and the white Herrenvolk, they are bound to be unstable, they are petty bourgeois to the core, all of them.
The political system that was emerging has been aptly described as a 'Herrenvolk democracy', a formally democratic political system in which voting and office holding is limited to members of a dominant ethno-racial group.
Translations:
head-on
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
Inflected forms:
form: head on
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: head on
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: head-ons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: head on
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Direct, abrupt, blunt or unequivocal; not prevaricating; uncompromising
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
not-comparable
examples: a head-on approach to a problem
In what way do we benefit from speaking of things indirectly? How does such a distancing allow us to better discover - and describe - people and objects? How does distancing produce an effect? Westerners find it natural and normal to meet the world head-on. But what can we gain from approaching the world obliquely?
gloss: Of a collision, from the front or in the direction of motion.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Getting into a head-on collision is dangerous.
This secondary collision, head-on with a closing speed of 142mph, caused the DVT to veer off to the left. Many of the coaches behind it overturned and careered into an adjacent field.
gloss: With the front of a vehicle.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Wave direction and frequency (period) are two factors that influence the effect of waves on a moored ship. Whether the ship responds by surging, swaying or yawing will depend on whether the waves are striking the moored vessel head-on, beam-on or quartering, the frequency of the waves and the manner in which the tanker is moored.
gloss: With direct confrontation.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: During the day conditions worsened quickly—for example, a 2-6-0 on the Uckfield line suddenly encountered flood water high enough to enter its ashpan and extinguish its fire—until lock gates up-river at Barcombe gave way and a tidal wave rolled down the valley meeting head-on a spring tide rolling up from the coast.
And there is little research to address the issue head on. A previous study, published in 2000, surveyed doctors and found that three quarters of them said some patients addressed them by their first name.
gloss: A collision from the front.
pos: noun
examples: He was injured in a head-on with a larger vehicle.
Derived words: head-on collision
Translations:
brevity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in English in 1509; either:
* Borrowed directly from Latin brevitās; or
* from Anglo-Norman brevité, from Old French brieveté, from Latin brevitātem, accusative of brevitās, from brevis (“short”).
By surface analysis, brief + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: brevities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being brief in duration.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Thanks to Global Positioning Systems we can see that Europe and North America are parting at about the speed a fingernail grows—roughly two yards in a human lifetime. If you were prepared to wait long enough, you could ride from Los Angeles all the way up to San Francisco. It is only the brevity of lifetimes that keeps us from appreciating the changes.
gloss: Succinctness; conciseness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: [B]revity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes[.]
Whenever a public question comes to such a crisis that the opportunities for individual intervention are reduced to the smallest possible compass, Mr. Roebuck is sure to step in with a formula, summing up the case with indignant brevity, censuring somebody, or panegyrizing somebody.
A good technical writing style will now be defined as a style possessing clarity, brevity, and variety.
gloss: A short piece of writing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
Synonyms: fleetingness
transiency
laconicism
terseness
Related words: breve
brief
Derived words: brevitic
brevity code
brevity is the soul of wit
Translations:
joe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the proper name Joe.
Inflected forms:
form: joes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Joe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A male; a guy; a fellow.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: I'm just an ordinary joe.
gloss: A spy, especially a double agent.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
examples: Name me a joe in a bad country ... who doesn't fall for a pretty face if she's on his side against the world.
Soviet troops were permitted to enter the American sector, where they could easily capture and torture an agent to confirm the existence of a Joe house, then cripple American espionage efforts by kidnapping a nest of spies in one fell swoop.
Then Hapgood turned him into a joe — that is, he works for the British.
Lamb didn't look any different, was still a soft fat rude bastard, still dressed like he'd been thrown through a charity shop window, but Jesus, River thought—Lamb was a joe.
gloss: Synonym of johannes (“An old Portuguese gold coin bearing a figure of John V of Portugal.”).
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: I have seen doubloons before now in my voyagings; your doubloons of old Spain, your doubloons of Peru, your doubloons of Chili, your doubloons of Bolivia, your doubloons of Popayan; with plenty of gold moidores and pistoles, and joes, and half joes, and quarter joes.
Guineas, joes, half joes, doubloons, and pistoles of various origin constituted the gold currency, while the silver was mostly the Spanish American dollar and its fractions: the half, quarter, eighth, and sixteenth, with the pistareen and half pistareen.
In the olden time the currency, you know, was a l^([sic]) in gold and silver, joes, half-joes (Johannes), pistoles, moidores, doubloons, pistareens, ninepences (12+¹⁄₂ cents), and fourpence-half-pennies (6+¹⁄₄ cents) or “fippenny-bits.”
Derived words: average joe
cup o' joe
cuppa joe
dwarf joe-pye weed
green joe-pye weed
half joe
joe blake
joe job
joe-pye weed
mumbly joe
sloppy joe
Translations:
joseph
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably in allusion to Joseph's coat of many colours in Genesis 37:3.
Inflected forms:
form: josephs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A woman's riding habit worn in the 18th century with a long cape and buttons running down the front.
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
sometimes
examples: Some women, I grant, would not appear to advantage seated on a pillion, and attired in a drab joseph and a drab beaver-bonnet . . . travelling on pillions in snowy weather was unpleasant, though a joseph was a great protection . . . these ladies were so taken by surprise at finding such a lovely face and figure in an out-of-the-way country place, that they began to feel some curiosity about the dress she would put on when she took off her joseph
Translations:
Dalton
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Old English dæl (“valley”) + tun (“settlement”). Equivalent to dale + town.
Compound parts: dale
town
Inflected forms:
form: Daltons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Doulton
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: a former unit of atomic mass equivalent to 1/16 the mass of an oxygen atom; now replaced by the atomic mass unit (or dalton)
pos: noun
Translations:
dalton
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Named after the chemist John Dalton.
Inflected forms:
form: daltons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the atomic mass unit
pos: noun
Translations:
choler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English coler (“yellow bile”), from Old French colere (“bile, anger”), from Latin cholera (“bilious disease”), from Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ, “bile”). Doublet of cholera.
Inflected forms:
form: cholers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Anger or irritability.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Threatned with frowning wrath and iealouſie,
Surpriz’d with feare and hideous reuenge,
I ſtand agaſt: but moſt aſtonied
To ſee his choller ſhut in ſecrete thoughtes,
And wrapt in ſilence of his angry ſoule.
This roused the tinker's choler, already provoked at Tugwell's amorous freedom with his doxy, and he gave him a click in the mazard. Tugwell had not been used tamely to receive a kick or a cuff; he, therefore, gave the tinker a rejoinder, […]
Hutchins reflected a moment. All the choler and restlessness had melted out of the man's face. He was again the excellent artisan, slow but capable and self-reliant.
gloss: Synonym of yellow bile.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
usually
Synonyms: anger
bile
displeasure
fury
gall
grudge
indignation
ire
passion
rage
spleen
vexation
wrath
yellow bile
Related words: cholera
choleric
Translations:
residency
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: espionage
government
healthcare
military
politics
war
Etymology: From reside + -ency or resident + -cy.
Base: reside
Affixes: -ency
Inflected forms:
form: residencies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being a resident of a particular place.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The home or residence of a person, especially in the colonies.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The position or term of a medical resident.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
gloss: The position of a musical artist who commonly performs at a particular venue.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The trance DJ was keen to secure a residency in Ibiza.
After a successful Thursday-night residency at the Marquee Club—where the Yardbirds, the Animals, and the Rolling Stones first earned their reputations—England's CBS label signed the group to a recording contract.
gloss: Synonym of rezidentura.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: e-residency
low-residency
nonresidency
permanent residency
postresidency
Translations:
exigent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin exigēns, present active participle of exigō (“demand, require”). Doublet of exigeant.
Inflected forms:
form: more exigent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most exigent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: exigeant
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Urgent; pressing; needing immediate action.
pos: adj
examples: 2003, Working Group Report on Detainee Interrogations, U.S. Department of Defence
Article 2 also provides that acts of torture cannot be justified on the grounds of exigent circumstances, such as state of war or public emergency, or on orders from a superior officer or public authority.
gloss: Demanding; requiring great effort.
pos: adj
Related words: exigence
exigency
exigenter
Derived words: allocatur exigent
exigent circumstance
exigenter
exigently
inexigent
unexigent
Translations:
refractory
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin refractārius (“obstinate”), from refrāctus, past participle of refringere (“to break up”). Originally refractary, refractarie, but reanalysed after other adjectives in -ory.
Inflected forms:
form: more refractory
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most refractory
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: refractories
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Obstinate and unruly; strongly opposed to something.
pos: adj
examples: […] in most instances attempts to coerce the refractory and disobedient have been the signals of bloody wars, […]
Mr. Weller knocked at the door, and after a pretty long interval—occupied by the party without, in whistling a tune, and by the party within, in persuading a refractory flat candle to allow itself to be lighted […]
For five minutes Pollyanna worked swiftly, deftly, combing a refractory curl into fluffiness, perking up a drooping ruffle at the neck, or shaking a pillow into plumpness so that the head might have a better pose. Meanwhile the sick woman, frowning prodigiously, and openly scoffing at the whole procedure, was, in spite of herself, beginning to tingle with a feeling perilously near to excitement.
And the camels galled, sore-footed, refractory,
 Lying down in the melting snow.
gloss: Not affected by great heat.
pos: adj
examples: Pure lime is extremely refractory, but readily fusible if any silex is brought in contact with it; […]
There are also over 1,200 pallet brick wagons used for the conveyance of refractory bricks.
gloss: Resistant to treatment; not responding adequately to therapy.
pos: adj
examples: Many of the vague and refractory cases of neck and shoulder pain and of migraine may be due to cervical disc disease.
In 33 adult patients with long standing refractory epilepsy on treatment with one or two standard anti-convulsant drugs,
gloss: Incapable of registering a reaction or stimulus.
pos: adj
examples: The production of a generator potential leaves a refractory state in the receptor membrane […]
The […] delivery of external stimuli […] delineates the pacemaker refractory period after the emission of a pacing stimulus and after the sensing of a spontaneous beat.
gloss: A material or piece of material, such as a brick, that has a very high melting point.
pos: noun
gloss: A plant or factory that produces such material.
pos: noun
Related words: refractive
refraction
Derived words: biorefractory
chemorefractory
electrorefractory
nonrefractory
photorefractory
psychological refractory period
refractorily
refractoriness
refractory anaemia with excess blasts
refractory metal
refractory period
refractory rhyme
unrefractory
Translations:
cassette
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
biology
ceramics
chemistry
cycling
engineering
genetics
hobbies
lifestyle
medicine
natural-sciences
photography
physical-sciences
sciences
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti
Proto-Italic *kapjō
Proto-Italic *kapsos
Latin capsa
Old Northern French casse
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
Latin -ittus
Old French -ete
Middle French -ette
French cassettebor.
English cassette
Borrowed from French cassette.
Inflected forms:
form: cassettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: casette
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: cassettes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cassetting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cassetted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cassetted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: casette
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A small flat case containing magnetic tape on two reels, used to record and play back audio and video material.
pos: noun
examples: If you need to reload film, the cassette can be rewound slightly by turning the hub located on one end of its spool.
gloss: Any similar small cartridge, such as for a computer disk or cassette air conditioner.
pos: noun
gloss: A lightproof container for photographic film.
pos: noun
gloss: A modular DNA sequence encoding one or more genes for a single biochemical function.
pos: noun
gloss: A set of sprockets mounted onto a splined shaft on the freehub.
pos: noun
gloss: A saggar (ceramic container used in a kiln).
pos: noun
gloss: To record onto a cassette
pos: verb
Related words: DAT
VCR
cartridge
eight track
8 track
reel-to-reel
Derived words: audiocassette
audio cassette
cassette air conditioner
cassette culture
cassette deck
cassette drive
cassetteless
cassettelike
cassette player
cassette recorder
cassette tape
cassingle
compact cassette
data cassette
diskette
gene cassette
histocassette
microcassette
minicassette
musicassette
music cassette
neocassette
noncassette
radio cassette
videocassette
video cassette
Translations:
telegraphic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der.
Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor.
French télé-
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-
Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō
Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō)
Ancient Greek -γράφος (-gráphos)bor.
Latin -graphuslbor.
French -graphe
French télégraphebor.
English telegraph
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English telegraphic
From telegraph + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more telegraphic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most telegraphic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to the telegraph.
pos: adj
examples: It turned out to be no more than the weekly Reuter’s telegram sent as an ordinary letter from the nearest telegraphic office fifty miles away.
gloss: Brief or concise, especially resembling a telegram with clipped syntax.
pos: adj
examples: Her conversation, I soon found, was couched in the telegraphic style. “Weeds grow like house afire. Can’t keep even with ’em. Shall press you in. Better be careful.”
This section is based on […] I am presenting the facts in a telegraphic fashion; for the sources, discussion and disagreements see the five scholars I listed.
Derived words: electrotelegraphic
nontelegraphic
pantelegraphic
phototelegraphic
pretelegraphic
radiotelegraphic
stenotelegraphic
telegraphically
Translations:
guyed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-us
Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)wéydʰ(h₁)us
Proto-Germanic *widuz
Proto-West Germanic *widu
Proto-Indo-European *-ō
Proto-Germanic *-ô
Proto-West Germanic *-ō
Frankish *Widōbor.
Medieval Latin *Widō
Old French Guibor.
English Guy (Fawkes)
English guy
English -ed
English guyed
From guy (“a wire or stay”) + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Fitted with or attached to a guy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Fitted to serve as a guy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: unguyed
Translations:
cutaneous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
Etymology: From New Latin cutaneus, from Latin cutis (“skin”).
Inflected forms:
form: cutaneious
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, existing on, or affecting the exterior skin, especially the cutis.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Near-synonyms: epidermal, epidermo-
But during the hot fit the cutaneous absorbents act also with increased energy, and the exhalation is likewise increased by the greater heat of the skin; and hence it does not appear in drops on the surface, but is in part reabsorbed, and in part dissipated in the atmosphere. But as the mouths of the cutaneous absorbents are exposed to the cool air or bedclothes; whilst those of the capillary glands, which secrete the perspirable matter, are exposed to the warmth of the circulating blood; the former, as soon as the fever-fit begins to decline, lose their increased action first; and hence the absorption of the sweat is diminished, whilst the increased secretion of it continues for some hours afterwards, which occasions it to stand in drops upon the skin.
Translations:
cutis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
mycology
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin cutis (“living skin”).
Inflected forms:
form: cutes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The true skin or dermis, underlying the epidermis.
pos: noun
examples: I was once, I remember, called to a patient who had received a violent contusion in his tibia, by which the exterior cutis was lacerated, so that there was a profuse sanguinary discharge […]
The cutis measures in thickness from a quarter of a line to a line and a half (a line is one-twelfth of an inch).
gloss: The peridium of some fungi.
pos: noun
Related words: cutaneous
subcutaneous
subcutis
epidermis
integument
skin
Derived words: Beare-Stevenson cutis gyrata syndrome
calcinosis cutis
corrugator cutis ani
crista cutis
cutaneous
cutin
cutis hyperelastica
cutis laxa
cutis verticis gyrata
cutitis
leukaemia cutis
leukemia cutis
subcutis
sulcus cutis
Translations:
corium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin corium (“leather”).
Inflected forms:
form: coriums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: coria
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The layer of skin between the epidermis and the subcutaneous tissues; the dermis.
pos: noun
gloss: The deep layer of mucous membranes beneath the epithelium.
pos: noun
gloss: Armour made of leather, particularly that used by the Romans.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Passing by the Corium Bubulum of the Classical Ancients, we see in an old charter, dated 1036, "Stallus Sutoris Vaccæ," i. e. the stall of a shoe-maker who used cow-skin.
Translations:
hypodermis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Ancient Greek ῠ̔πό (hŭpó)
Ancient Greek ὑπο- (hupo-)der.
English hypo-
English dermis
English hypodermis
From hypo- + dermis.
Inflected forms:
form: hypodermes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hypodermises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hypoderm
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An epidermal layer of cells that secretes an overlying chitinous cuticle, as in arthropods.
pos: noun
gloss: A layer of cells lying immediately below the epidermis.
pos: noun
gloss: A subcutaneous layer of loose connective tissue containing fat cells, lying beneath the dermis.
pos: noun
Synonyms: hypoderma
subcutis
superficial fascia
tela subcutanea
Derived words: hypodermic
Translations:
epithelium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From New Latin epithēlium. By surface analysis, epi- + thel- + -ium.
Inflected forms:
form: epitheliums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: epithelia
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A membranous tissue composed of one or more layers of cells which forms the covering of most internal and external surfaces of the body and its organs: internally including the lining of vessels and other small cavities, and externally being the skin.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the passenger's roving eyes paused for a moment as he listened inwardly to a nether itch, which he supposed to be (correctly, thank Log) only a minor irritation of the epithelium.
The sap of this species was able to cause loss of corneal epithelium 16 h after direct exposure to the sap in a 60-year-old male.
Translations:
endothelium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From endo- + -thelium, as in epithelium.
Affixes: endo-
-thelium
Inflected forms:
form: endothelia
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A thin layer of flat epithelial cells that lines the heart, serous cavities, lymph vessels, and blood vessels.
pos: noun
Translations:
lackluster
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From lack + luster.
Compound parts: lack
luster
Inflected forms:
form: more lackluster
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lackluster
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: lack-lustre
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
form: lacklustre
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
form: lacklusters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lack-lustre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: lacklustre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: Lacking brilliance or intelligence.
pos: adj
tags: US
gloss: Having no shine or luster; dull.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: A faded, and an ancient dragon he was; and many a wintry storm of rain, snow, sleet, and hail, had changed his colour from a gaudy blue to a faint lack-lustre shade of gray.
He sat looking at her with lack-lustre eyes. The light suddenly came back into them.
gloss: Not exceptional; not worthy of special merit, attention, or interest; having no vitality.
pos: adj
tags: US
figuratively
examples: The actor gave a lackluster performance in his latest film.
An allegedly true story emerges as a lackluster riff on American Hustle and The Wolf of Wall Street with a scrappy turn from an overly disguised lead star[.]
It’s fascinating to see a show wrap up in a manner wherein many of the flaws so clearly occur offscreen rather than on; the plague of season eight hasn’t been lackluster episodes, for the most part (though “The Last Of The Starks” was a definite low point).
Pressure on the UK government to commit to concrete measures and not just “lacklustre” verbal condemnation if Israel goes ahead with annexation of parts of the West Bank has been stepped up by a coalition of 14 British charities and human rights groups.
Tory MPs said Raab had been “lacklustre”, with one saying his position was “untenable”.
gloss: Lack of brightness or points of interest.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
gloss: A person or thing of no particular brilliance or intelligence.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
Synonyms: pallid
Derived words: lacklusterly
lacklusterness
Translations:
lustre
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French lustre. See luster (etymology 1).
Inflected forms:
form: lustres
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: UK standard spelling of luster (shine, etc.).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Various kinds of minerals differ in their lustre; iron pyrites are described as having a metallic lustre, glassy materials a vitreous lustre; others, such as opal, look resinous, and the lustres of yet others are described as being either pearly, or silky, or dull, like earth.
In the centre is painted an eagle, from whose beak an elegant glass lustre chandelier is suspended. There are also ten smaller chandeliers in different parts of the room.
On the ground floor, the library (a room in carved oak) is lighted by a lustre composed of twelve regenerative burners enclosed in tinted glasses.
...he went out through the unfamiliar hall, setting the chandelier clashing its dusty lustres with his hand, leaving a prismatic jangle behind him in the empty house.
As TransPennine Express 185130 departs with the 1654 to Manchester Piccadilly, while Northern 150273 waits with the 1712 to Sheffield, it is clear from this vantage point that the Grade 1 listed station has lost some of its lustre. But this is May 23 2023... before work to restore that lustre started.
Antonyms: dullness
lacklustre
Translations:
pharmacological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek φάρμᾰκον (phármăkon)der.
English pharmaco-
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
Latin -logialbor.
French -logiebor.
English -logy
English pharmacology
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 pharmacological
From pharmacology + -ical.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or having to do with pharmacology.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: This study aimed to comprehensively review and analyze existing in vivo animal studies and human clinical trials investigating the effects of meteoropathy on health and its pharmacological treatment.
Translations:
chemotherapeutic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
oncology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek χῠ́μᾰ (khŭ́mă)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)bor.
Arabic الْكِيمِيَاء (al-kīmiyāʔ)bor.
Medieval Latin alchēmia
▲
Ancient Greek χυμείᾱ (khumeíā)influ.
New Latin chēmīader.
English chemo-
English therapeutic
English chemotherapeutic
From chemo- + therapeutic.
Inflected forms:
form: chemotherapeutics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or having to do with chemotherapy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: But for a vast majority of cancers, more intensive regimens of standard chemotherapeutic drugs did not necessarily mean more survival.
gloss: A chemical agent used in chemotherapy
pos: noun
examples: Several novel chemotherapeutics that target specific signaling pathways are now available as anti-cancer agents including EGFR inhibitors and rapamycin.
Translations:
cruft
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: broadcasting
computing
engineering
film
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
television
Etymology: Circa 1959, MIT Tech Model Railroad Club. Unknown origin; possibly from Cruft Hall, built in 1915 as a gift from a donor named Harriet Otis Cruft. Cruft Hall was the radar laboratory of Harvard's physics department during the Second World War, which contained much old and unused technical equipment. Possibly blend of crust + fluff, both of which may form on old abandoned things, or influenced by crud.
Compound parts: crust
fluff
Inflected forms:
form: crufts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: crufting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: crufted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: crufted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Anything that is old or of inferior quality.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: Students “still think of privacy as ‘the one secret I don’t want revealed,’ and that’s not the problem. Their problem is all the stuff that’s the cruft, the data dandruff, of life, that they don’t think of as secret in any way, but which aggregates to stuff that they don't want anybody to know,” Moglen said.
The document just goes on at length in the same way, picking out the sort of cruft that’s been littering Trump’s Twitter feed since Nov. 3 and tying it all into one stinky package. It’s sincerely not worth running through the entire litany again; simply consider The Post’s Fact Checker articles as an effective rejoinder.
gloss: Redundant, old or improperly written code, especially that which accumulates over time.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: The PEB includes the list of loaded modules (i.e., the EXE and DLLs), the memory containing environment strings, the current working directory, and data for managing the process’ heaps—as well as lots of special-case Win32 cruft that has been added over time.
Best developer practices run the gamut from keeping the cruft out of your code to ensuring your code is accessible to all your application or site’s users.
Sawyer cites responses to a message saying "there is cruft in [Perl]" as the excuse some Perl community members used to "push him into a corner" until he deactivated his Twitter account.
gloss: Meaningless or gratuitous content displayed on computer consoles in visual entertainment productions.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
gloss: To generate cruft.
pos: verb
tags: slang
Derived words: crufting
crufty
cruftware
fancruft
Translations:
lamasery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From French lamaserie, irregular formation from lama.
Inflected forms:
form: lamaseries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lamasary
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lamaserai
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lamastery
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lamestery
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A monastery for lamas.
pos: noun
examples: purposeful melody, reminding veterans of duty on the Himalayan station, of transmundane melody performed upon ancient horns fashioned from the thigh-bones of long-departed priests, in wind-beaten lamaseries miles above the level of a sea at this distance belonging more to legend than geography.
Translations:
attractiveness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English attractive
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English attractiveness
From attractive + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: attractivenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being attractive or engaging.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Given the vivacious young redhead's attractiveness, some might have assumed he had more than simply professional reasons for sheepdogging her career, but they would have been wrong. He'd seen something in her ...
The plants are equally attractive when different-colored zebrinas are trained on a fan-shaped or rectangular trellis. The rose-colored flowers, of which new ones blossom each morning, add to the attractiveness of this viny, succulent herb.
gloss: The result of being attractive.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Synonyms: attraction
attractivity
Derived words: market attractiveness
physical attractiveness
Translations:
whistle-blower
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From whistle + blower, referring to a police officer blowing their whistle on observing a violation of the law.
Base: whistle
Inflected forms:
form: whistle-blowers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: whistleblower
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: whistle blower
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who reports a problem or violation to the authorities; especially, an employee or former employee who reports a violation by an employer.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: We owe it to a small group of brave whistle-blowers that we know about the infractions at all.
As my study proceeded, I began to see that an investigation of organizational morality should also explore managerial dissenters, so-called whistleblowers, many of whom take stands against their organizations on grounds that they define as moral.
Usually the whistleblower is not fired outright. The organization's goal is to disconnect the act of whistleblowing from the act of retaliation, which is why so much legislation to protect whistleblowers is practically irrelevant. The usual practice is to demoralize and humiliate the whistleblower, putting him or her under so much psychological stress that it becomes difficult to do a good job.
The huge breach of the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program in June 2013 was one of the proudest moments in modern journalism, and one of the purest: A brave and disgusted whistle-blower, Edward Snowden, revealed the government’s extensive surveillance of American and foreign citizens.
Translations:
airman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér
Proto-Hellenic *auhḗr
Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr)bor.
Latin āēr
Old French airbor.
Middle English aire
English air
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
Middle English -man
English -man
English airman
From air + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: airmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pilot of an aircraft.
pos: noun
gloss: A person employed in one of several aviation-adjacent professions other than flight crew, such as a mechanic or air traffic controller.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of an air force.
pos: noun
gloss: A person of a rank in the U.S. Air Force above airman basic and below airman first class.
pos: noun
gloss: A naval seaman, especially one in the U.S. Navy, who works on and/or handles aircraft.
pos: noun
Related words: airwoman
Derived words: airman first class
airmanship
Tuskegee airman
Translations:
airlock
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From air + lock.
Compound parts: air
lock
Inflected forms:
form: airlocks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: airlocking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: airlocked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: airlocked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: air lock
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: air-lock
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To secure with an airlock.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To dispose of through an airlock.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Delighted by the unexpected two-pelt bonus, he airlocked the meat. Wookiee tasted oily and foul.
I'm glad I hid it when I arrived on board because I'm pretty sure Skylar would've airlocked it along with my trusty cardigan and my dirty sneakers if she found them.
I think he'd airlock me if he knew my real feelings.
gloss: To firewall, to maintain an ethical wall.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: […]cosmetics manufacturing enterprises do not want to have wholesalers standing in the middle to mark up prices of their products, and this has in fact affected the competitiveness of the manufacturers and airlocked the manufacturers from consumer dynamics.
Translations:
airwaves
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Radio-frequency electromagnetic waves, usually used in the context of wireless communication; radio waves.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
gloss: Radio or television broadcasts.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: Our goal has always been to work as allies with women who do not have access to the mainstream airwaves. We have tried to provide a forum where women could speak for themselves about the issues that concern them.
‘Ham’ amateur radio operators in Tiantongyuan, a community in northern Beijing, are using the airwaves to search for an elderly mum who has been missing for over a week.
On Tuesday, Nigel took to the airwaves to say that if the eventual choice was between May’s deal or remain, he wouldn’t campaign or vote – a threat arguably without bite for at least 48% of the country.
Related words: aired
airtime
reair
Translations: