yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
exciton
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English excite
Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃-der.?
Latin carbōlbor.
French carbonebor.
English carbonbf.
English -on
English exciton
From excite + -on.
Inflected forms:
form: excitons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bound state of an electron and an electron hole in an insulator or semiconductor
pos: noun
Translations:
heterotic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros
Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros
Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros)lbor.
English hetero-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-oyétider.?
Ancient Greek -όω (-óō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Hellenic *-tós
Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)
▲
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós)
Ancient Greek -ωτικός (-ōtikós)der.
Latin -ōticusder.
French -otiquebor.
English -otic
English heterotic
From hetero- + -otic.
Inflected forms:
form: more heterotic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most heterotic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: heterotics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to heterosis.
pos: adj
examples: An instructive example of a heterotic individual is ʽThe Toast of Botswana’. The Toast is a cross between a female goat and a male sheep.
gloss: Describing a hybrid form of string theory (See Heterotic string theory on Wikipedia)
pos: adj
gloss: A hybrid organism of this kind.
pos: noun
Derived words: heterotically
nonheterotic
Translations:
fermionic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fermion
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English fermionic
From fermion + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of fermions.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
pansexuality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pansexual
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English pansexuality
From pansexual + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: pansexualities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sexual orientation characterized by the potential for aesthetic attraction, romantic love and/or sexual desire for people regardless of their gender or sex.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: They know nothing of flower power or meditation, pansexuality, or mind expansion.
gloss: Sexuality that encompasses all kinds of sexuality.
pos: noun
tags: rare
uncountable
usually
examples: Pansexuality encompasses all kinds of sexuality. It differs, however, from pansexualism, a perspective that declares “all desire and interest are derived from the sex instinct.” Pansexuality includes heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, and sexual behavior that does not necessarily involve a coupling. It includes, for example, masturbation, celibacy, fetishism, and fantasy. Moreover, pansexuality includes heteroerotic and homoerotic play and sexual aggression, sometimes mislabeled as “horseplay.”
Synonyms: omnisexuality
Related words: pansexual
Translations:
kier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Old Norse ker (whence also Icelandic ker (“tub”)).
Inflected forms:
form: kiers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: keir
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A bleaching vat.
pos: noun
examples: The oil is added to the saturated liquor, which is afterwards introduced into the kier. There is no change required in the bleaching operation.
The traditional sequence of pre-treatment is shortened by single stage bleaching, where kiers are still in use.
Inside the typically long, narrow bleaching crofts were cisterns for bleaching cotton yarn, now represented by sunken stone tanks, and sealed vats called ‘kiers’ for bleaching cloth. The kiers would have been two storeys high and made of metal, but now all that remains are the footings and brackets that show where they once stood (2004: 99).
Translations:
progestin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: progestins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A synthetic progestagen intended to mimic the effects of progesterone, often for contraceptive purposes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
Dianetics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Coined by author and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard from Ancient Greek διά (diá, “through”) + νοῦς (noûs, “mind”); an alteration of dianoetic. Literally, “through the soul”.
Inflected forms:
form: dianetics
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A self-help system designed by L. Ron Hubbard, today chiefly employed in Scientology.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: In psychology, Dianetics drops into line without disturbing anything concerned with staffs or research or teaching posts, for psychology is simply the study of the psyche and now that there exists a science of the psyche it can go ahead with a will. Thus, Dianetics is the enemy of none, and Dianetics falls utterly outside all existing legislation, none of which anticipated or made any provision for a science of mind.
Translations:
vouchsafing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: vouchsafings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who vouchsafes something.
pos: noun
Translations:
fook
Part of speech: intj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: An eye dialect of fuck.
Inflected forms:
form: fooks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fooking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fooked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fooked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Fuck.
pos: intj
tags: Northern-England
vulgar
examples: I thought, Who the fook is Faulkner? And how's he related to us Windsors?
gloss: To fuck.
pos: verb
tags: Northern-England
transitive
vulgar
Translations:
fooking
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more fooking
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fooking
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: fucking; a strong intensifier.
pos: adj
tags: Northern-England
vulgar
Translations:
aqualung
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
Etymology: Aqualung was the original name for the first open-circuit SCUBA diving equipment by Emile Gagnan and Jacques Cousteau in 1943. From aqua- + lung.
Base: lung
Affixes: aqua-
Inflected forms:
form: aqualungs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: aqualungs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: aqualunging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: aqualunged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: aqualunged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A piece of equipment consisting of an oxygen tank and breathing apparatus used by divers to allow them to breathe underwater.
pos: noun
gloss: To scuba dive.
pos: verb
Translations:
colliding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: collidings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A collision.
pos: noun
Translations:
fresnel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: For Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist.
Inflected forms:
form: fresnels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A unit of frequency equal to 10¹² hertz, or one terahertz.
pos: noun
gloss: A Fresnel lens or a light feature using such a lens
pos: noun
Translations:
moer
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Afrikaans moerbor.
English moer
Borrowed from Afrikaans moer.
Inflected forms:
form: moers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: moering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: moered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: moered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: moers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To beat; to thrash.
pos: verb
tags: South-Africa
transitive
gloss: Something big or powerful; a whopper; a hell of a thing.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
examples: Lying dead on the surface of the Monument dam was a moer of a big carp.
“Some of the teams are coming in,” he said. “They had a moer of a contact. Get your cameras and let's go.”
Translations:
spindrift
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots spindrift; further etymology uncertain. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests it is a variant of spoondrift (archaic), apparently due to the pronunciation of this word in southwestern Scotland, which is derived from spoon + drift (“mass of matter driven or forced onward together in a body, etc., especially by wind or water”); spoon is a variant of spoom (“to sail briskly with the wind astern, with or without sails hoisted”). However, this is doubted by the Scottish National Dictionary because spoondrift is attested later than spindrift and it seems unlikely that the Scots spelling would have superseded the English one, and because the early use of the Scots word in the form spenedrift by James Melville (1556–1614) is unlikely to have derived from spoondrift.
The word was popularized in English from the late 19th century by its use in the novels of the Scottish-born author William Black (1841–1898): see, for example, the 1878 quotation.
Compound parts: spoon
drift
Inflected forms:
form: spindrifts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: speendrift
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: spoondrift
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Sea spray (clouds of water droplets) blown from the tops of waves by the wind and whipped along the surface of the sea.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There was no snow as yet up here at Dare; but wild tempests shaking the house to its foundations; and brief gleams of stormy sunlight lighting up the grey spindrift as it was whirled shorewards from the breaking seas; […]
The ocean waves are broken up by wind, ultimately producing the storm-wrack and spin-drift of the tempest-tossed sea.
[T]ogether they watched the bobbing black specks as they crawled out of the estuary into the grey spindrift which marked the harbour mouth.
The tide rocks were spouting spray and the wind drove the spindrift in their faces, and they scrambled awkwardly over and round the rock masses tumbled from the cliff face on the flat ledge at sea-level.
gloss: Clouds of sand, snow, etc., whipped along the ground by the wind.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
Translations:
blobby
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Late Middle English blobby, equivalent to blob + -y.
Base: blob
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: blobbier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: blobbiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Similar in shape to blobs; amorphous and rounded in appearance; partially irregular in appearance like bubbles.
pos: adj
examples: They were of all sizes, from little gnomes barely a foot high to stately figures taller than men. […] There were long, pointed noses, and long, soft noses like small trunks, and great blobby noses.
The magnitude of the attraction force of blobby elements is usually defined by their volume […] In an animation, blobby surfaces are dynamic and constantly regenerate as they move in and out […]
The orchestra is gone. All seventy of them. The things which have replaced them are not human but alien, ill-proportioned pillars of pinkish-brownish flesh. Each has, at its top, a heavy protuberance studded with goopy biological sensors and rubbery openings, and, sprouting from the very cap, lengths of various kinds of vile, off-coloured moss. They are draped in black and white fabrics, weirdly cut to either conceal or highlight their blobby, inconsistent body structures.
Translations:
bathwater
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bath + water. Compare Dutch badwater (“bathwater”), German Badewasser (“bathwater”), Swedish badvatten (“bathwater”).
Base: bath
Inflected forms:
form: bathwaters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bath water
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The water used in a bath (bathtub).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
isospin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Blend of isotopic + spin.
Compound parts: isotopic
spin
Inflected forms:
form: isospins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A quantum number or symmetry related to the strong interaction and hence to differences between atoms with the same number of nucleons.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
darkish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English derkish, derkissh, derkyss; equivalent to dark + -ish.
Base: dark
Affixes: -ish
Inflected forms:
form: more darkish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most darkish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Somewhat dark.
pos: adj
examples: If a man also or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, even white bright spots; then the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be darkish white; it is a freckled spot that groweth in the skin; he is clean.
[…] if […] the lead be blown off from the silver by bellowes, that which would else have gone away in the form of unheeded steams will in great part be collected not far from the silver, in the form of a darkish powder or calx; which, because it is blown off from silver, they call litharge of silver.
We staid till, it being darkish, we saw the fire as only one entire arch of fire from this to the other side the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a mile long: it made me weep to see it.
The village was darkish under the shade of broad leaves.
Translations:
unfelt
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 felt
English unfelt
From un- + felt.
Inflected forms:
form: more unfelt
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unfelt
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not felt or experienced; without feeling or sensing.
pos: adj
examples: Thine eye ſhall be inſtructed, and thine heart / Made pure, ſhall reliſh vvith divine delight / 'Till then unfelt, vvhat hands divine have vvrought.
1899, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (transl.), The New Life (La Vita Nuova) of Dante Alighieri, Siddall edition, page 104.
I felt a spirit of love begin to stir
Within my heart, long time unfelt till then;
gloss: Insincere.
pos: adj
Related words: feel
unfeeling
Translations:
unreason
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English unreson; equivalent to un- + reason.
Base: reason
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unreasons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Lack of reason or rationality; unreasonableness; irrationality.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: c. 1566, John Knox, The Historie of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland, Book I, London: 1644,
Another day the same Frier made another Sermon of the Abbot of Unreason, unto whom, and whose Laws, he compareth Prelats of that age; for they were subject to no Laws, no more than was the Abbot of Unreason.
[…] it was long ere these scandalous and immoral sports could be abrogated;—the rude multitude continued attached to their favourite pastimes, and, both in England and Scotland, the mitre of the Catholic—the rochet of the reformed bishop—and the cloak and band of the Calvinistic divine—were, in turn, compelled to give place to those jocular personages, the Pope of Fools, the Boy-Bishop, and the Abbot of Unreason.
What is called the great popular heart was awakened, that indefinable something which may be, according to circumstances, the highest reason or the most brutish unreason.
1937, Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana, “Shiraz, 18 February,”
Of all the foreigners I have met in this country, diplomats, business men, and archaeologists of many nationalities and varying terms of residence, Christopher is the only one who likes its inhabitants, sympathizes with their nationalist growing-pains, and consistently upholds their virtues, sometimes to the point of unreason.
Traditionally, black American dance students have been consistently steered away from classical ballet and toward the supposedly more “suitable” fields of modern, ethnic or Broadway-chorus dancing. The Harlem Dance Theater performances showed beyond doubt that the practice was based not on rhyme but on prejudiced unreason.
The best preservative for unreason is to make a religion of it.
Kelly, who specialised in implacable unreason about climate change before his conversion to stubborn contrarianism about various Covid remedies [...] speaks to a constituency the Coalition wants to court: a group of voters tempted to vote for rightwing protest parties rather than the Liberals and the Nationals.
gloss: Nonsense; folly; absurdity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
autocephaly
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: Etymology tree
English autocephalous
English -y
English autocephaly
From autocephalous + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: autocephalies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition where a church's leaders have severed ties to a larger body and thus no longer report to a higher authority.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
reframing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: reframings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Framing anew or again.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
stemmer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stem
English -er
English stemmer
From stem + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: stemmers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Software used to produce the stem from the inflected form of words.
pos: noun
Translations:
mandolinist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mandolin
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English mandolinist
From mandolin + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: mandolinists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: someone who plays a mandolin
pos: noun
Translations:
monofilament
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mender.
Proto-Hellenic *mónwos
Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos)
Ancient Greek μονο- (mono-)der.
English mono-
Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰiH-(s-)lo-der.
Proto-Italic *fī(s)lom
Latin fīlum
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Late Latin fīlō
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Medieval Latin fīlāmentumbor.
English filament
English monofilament
From mono- + filament.
Inflected forms:
form: monofilaments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A single strand of man-made fiber
pos: noun
examples: In the twentieth century, the gill net became almost invisible when hemp twine was replaced first by nylon and then by monofilament. Since monofilament is fairly indestructible, it is estimated that a modern "ghost net" may continue to fish on its own for as long as five years.
Translations:
gaji
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: gaji
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gajis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In the game of sakura, the name of the 0-point card of the willow/November suit, which acts as a wild card.
pos: noun
examples: Gaji is the nonpoint-card of November or Willow suit cards. It has no value in points, but can be used like a joker in English cards and may take any of the card^([sic]) in the deck. When a player uses Gaji and takes any cards of a suit the remaining odd card, too, will be his.
If the gaji card is part of a player’s hand he can use it like a wild card to capture any card in the field regardless of its suit.
If a player draws the Gaji card, it is a wild card and they must play it right away on the Field.
Translations:
aliasing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
Inflected forms:
form: aliasings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Distortion caused by a low sampling rate, such as a moiré effect or jaggies.
pos: noun
Translations:
guinea-worm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: guinea-worms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Guinea worm
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Guinea-worm
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: guinea worm
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A long, white parasitic worm, of species Dracunculus medinensis, which can live in human skin.
pos: noun
examples: the rishta-doctors patiently removing guinea-worms, making an incision, trapping the three-foot-long creature's head in a cleft at the end of a stick, and then slowly winding it out of the incision
Translations:
grego
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin Graeco (“Greek”).
Inflected forms:
form: gregos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of rough jacket with a hood.
pos: noun
examples: Going to his heavy grego, or wrapall, or dreadnaught, which he had previously hung on a chair, he fumbled in the pockets, and produced at length a curious little deformed image with a hunch on its back, and exactly the colour of a three days' old Congo baby.
Translations:
cornetist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cornet
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English cornetist
From cornet + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: cornetists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who plays the cornet.
pos: noun
examples: The cornetist’s sombre repertoire had made her spirits drop.
Translations:
microfiction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰi-né-ǵʰ-ti
Proto-Italic *θingō
Proto-Italic *fingōder.
Latin fingō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin fictiōder.
Old French ficcionbor.
Middle English ficcioun
English fiction
English microfiction
From micro- + fiction.
Inflected forms:
form: microfictions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: micro-fiction
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Fiction that has a significantly shorter than average length.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: An individual work of this type.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Related words: drabble
flashfic
flash fiction
short short story
sudden fiction
Translations:
effortful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From effort + -ful.
Base: effort
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more effortful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most effortful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Requiring or showing effort.
pos: adj
examples: It is obvious, therefore, that syntopical reading is the most active and effortful kind of reading.
Translations:
gatekeep
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
Etymology: From gate + keep, as back-formation from gatekeeper.
Compound parts: gate
keep
Inflected forms:
form: gatekeeps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gatekeeping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gatekept
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gatekept
pos: verb
tags: past
form: gate-keep
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: gatekeeps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gate-keep
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To control or limit access to something.
pos: verb
gloss: To limit (sometimes manipulatively, rather than directly) how much of a role another party, often a spouse, has in some task.
pos: verb
gloss: To limit another party's participation in a collective identity or an activity, usually due to undue pettiness, resentment, or overprotectiveness.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
gloss: A gatekeeper.
pos: noun
examples: Similar remarks had passed the cherry-stained lips a hundred times, and this one was brought on just after the gatekeep at the north postern of Bull Joy had slyly given the wink behind "her husband's" broad back.
A gentleman stopped his horse at a toll-gate and not seeing the gatekeep went into the house.
Though there was a moment of anxiety, a generous bribe persuaded the gatekeep to overlook their expired passports and they rode into Calais.
“At least those doxies don't fancy themselves the gatekeeps of God, like the priest.” Margit said.
Related words: no true Scotsman fallacy
Derived words: gatekeeper
gate-keepy
Translations:
lang: Indonesian
word: jaga pintu
lang: Indonesian
word: jaga tolak
lang: Portuguese
word: porteirar
tongued
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English tonged, tunged, equivalent to tongue + -ed. Compare Old English ġetynġe (“skilled with speech, talkative, eloquent”).
Base: tongue
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Resembling a tongue.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having a particular manner of speaking.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
examples: He's a sharp-toungued boy.
gloss: Having a tongue for towing.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: acid-tongued
blue-tongued lizard
blue-tongued skink
Cadena's long-tongued bat
close-tongued
disc-tongued frog
double-tongued
false-tongued
fiery-tongued
fork-tongued
foul-tongued
free-tongued
full-tongued
golden-tongued
honey-tongued
long-tongued
long-tongued bat
loose-tongued
lying-tongued
many-tongued
one-tongued
Pallas's long-tongued bat
Patton's long-tongued bat
quick-tongued
sharp-tongued
silver-tongued
single-tongued
slick-tongued
sly-tongued
smooth-tongued
soft-tongued
sweet-tongued
three-tongued
tonguedness
treble-tongued
twi-tongued
two-tongued
venomous-tongued
Translations:
weaner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wean
English -er
English weaner
From wean + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: weaners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An animal that has been recently weaned.
pos: noun
examples: "I mean she's too young to get married," said Oscar. "Doesn't know she's alive yet—like calfing a weaner."
gloss: A device used to help wean a young animal by keeping it from suckling.
pos: noun
Translations:
archmage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: fantasy
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ἄρχω (árkhō)
Ancient Greek ἀρχι- (arkhi-)der.
Latin archi-bor.
Old English arċe-
Middle English arch-
English arch-
English mage
English archmage
From arch- + mage.
Inflected forms:
form: archmagi
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: archmages
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: archimage
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A very powerful mage.
pos: noun
Translations:
spellcaster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From spell + caster.
Compound parts: spell
caster
Inflected forms:
form: spellcasters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spell-caster
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who casts spells; a magician; a sorcerer.
pos: noun
Translations:
galant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
French galantbor.
English galant
Borrowed from French galant (“gallant”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to an 18th-century movement in visual arts and literature, opposing the strictures of the baroque style and emphasizing light, casual elegance.
pos: adj
tags: historical
gloss: Of or relating to a musical movement, principally during the transition from the Baroque to the Classical period, a few decades either side of 1750, involving the use of more classically simplistic traits in comparison to the highly embellished and texturally complex precedent in the Baroque period.
pos: adj
Related words: rococo
Derived words: Galante
Translations:
konak
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish قوناق (konak, “mansion, station, inn”).
Inflected forms:
form: konaks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A palace or other large official residence in Turkey or the Ottoman Empire.
pos: noun
examples: It was a small pretty town with four minarets and one campanile and the Pasha's konak sprawling across the foothills.
Translations:
go-devil
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From go + devil.
Compound parts: go
devil
Inflected forms:
form: go-devils
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A gadget or unspecified device, in various industries.
pos: noun
tags: US
colloquial
examples: He had three wagonloads of go-devil squibs he wanted to sell, you know, these little oil-well torpedoes, hold about a quart of nitro each? Beautiful.
gloss: A gadget or unspecified device, in various industries.
pos: noun
tags: US
colloquial
gloss: A gadget or unspecified device, in various industries.
pos: noun
tags: US
colloquial
gloss: A gadget or unspecified device, in various industries.
pos: noun
tags: US
colloquial
Translations:
osculating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more osculating
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most osculating
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having three or more points coincident with another
pos: adj
Translations:
beltless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English belt
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English beltless
From belt + -less.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not wearing or not possessing a belt.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Not wearing or not possessing a belt.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Not requiring a belt.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: beltlessness
Translations:
hail-fellow-well-met
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Sociable, friendly.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: And at first he sings small, and is hail-fellow-well-met with Sheamus—that's James of the Glens, my chieftain's agent.
N.d., Sir George Young, translator, Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, 1991 Dover Publicatiosn edition, →ISBN, page 22,
Now am I hail-fellow-well-met with all;
Now every man gives me good-morrow;....
N.d., Janice Holt Giles, "The Minor Miracle", in, 1975, Wellspring, 2002 University Press of Kentucky edition, →ISBN, page 60,
"You may be hail-fellow-well-met all you please, but you are the servant of God in our midst, and I, for one, intend to remember it."
Translations:
perturbative
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English perturb
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātuslbor.
English -ate
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English -ative
English perturbative
From perturb + -ative.
Inflected forms:
form: more perturbative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most perturbative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or causing perturbation
pos: adj
Translations:
drugmaker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From drug + maker.
Compound parts: drug
maker
Inflected forms:
form: drugmakers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pharmaceutical manufacturer.
pos: noun
gloss: A producer of illegal drugs.
pos: noun
examples: And in the areas controlled by the militias, the drugmakers are cooking up a storm.
Translations:
inspectorate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English inspector
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus, -tūs
Latin -ātusder.
English -ate
English inspectorate
From inspector + -ate (forms nouns denoting a rank or office, a body of people performing it, the concrete charge of it).
Inflected forms:
form: inspectorates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An organized group of inspectors.
pos: noun
examples: What makes a great primary? Let's deal with this one straight away – it isn't what Ofsted says. All the inspectorate has cared about in the past few years is data progression in maths and literacy.
Once the next stage of funding is agreed, EWR Co will submit the DCO [Development Consent Order] application to the Planning Inspectorate, which will examine the proposals (during which time the public can comment on the application).
gloss: The office of an inspector.
pos: noun
gloss: The jurisdiction of an inspector.
pos: noun
Translations:
astrophotography
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: arts
astronomy
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
photography
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr
Proto-Hellenic *astḗr
Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr)
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́στρον (ắstron)der.
English astro-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos
Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos)
Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs)
Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-
Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō
Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
French photographiebor.
English photography
English astrophotography
From astro- + photography.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The photography or imaging of astronomical objects, celestial events or areas of the night sky.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: As in most nature photography, the 35mm single lens reflex camera is probably the best choice for astrophotography.
Their^([CMOS sensors']) pixel size, linearity and noise performance are not necessarily ideal for astrophotography.
Astrophotography is a craft requiring development of skill, not just good equipment.
Translations:
neurogenetics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-wr̥
Proto-Indo-European *snéh₁wr̥der.
Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron)
Ancient Greek νευρο- (neuro-)der.
English neuro-
English genetics
English neurogenetics
From neuro- + genetics.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The study of the role of genetics in the development of neurological disorders
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
jacaranda
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Portuguese jacarandá, from Old Tupi îacaranda.
Inflected forms:
form: jacarandas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several trees, of the genus Jacaranda, native to tropical South America, that have pale purple, funnel-shaped flowers. In horticultural use refers specifically to Jacaranda mimosifolia.
pos: noun
examples: They passed slowly under the jacaranda trees beginning to bloom lavender over their heads.
gloss: The hard, dark wood of these trees.
pos: noun
gloss: A trade name for similar hardwood timber from certain species of Dalbergia, notably Dalbergia frutescens, Dalbergia nigra and Dalbergia refusa.
pos: noun
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: xicranda
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 藍花楹屬 /蓝花楹属
roman: lánhuāyíng shǔ
lang: Finnish
word: jakaranda
lang: French
word: jacaranda
lang: Greek
word: τζακαράντα
roman: tzakaránta
lang: Greek
word: γιακαράντα
roman: giakaránta
lang: Hebrew
word: סיגלון
roman: siglón
lang: Hebrew
word: יקרנדה
roman: yakaránda
lang: Old Tupi
word: îakarandá
lang: Polish
word: jakaranda
lang: Portuguese
word: jacarandá
lang: Romanian
word: palisandru
lang: Russian
word: якара́нда
roman: jakaránda
lang: Spanish
word: jacaranda
lang: Spanish
word: jacarandá
lang: Swedish
word: jakaranda
lang: Turkish
word: jakaranda
kleptocrat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English klepto-
Proto-Indo-European *kret-
Ancient Greek κρᾰ́τος (krắtos)bor.
English -crat
English kleptocrat
From klepto- + -crat.
Inflected forms:
form: kleptocrats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A ruling figure in a kleptocracy.
pos: noun
examples: The difference between a kleptocrat and a wise statesman, between a robber baron and a public benefactor, is merely one of degree: a matter of just how large a percentage of the tribute extracted from producers is retained by the elite, and how much the commoners appreciate the public uses to which the redistributed tribute is put.
Adams repeatedly sidestepped questions about whether the Justice Department is taking specific steps to seize assets belonging to Putin but suggested that prosecutors have mapped out how the Russian President and wealthy kleptocrats are attempting to hide their money.
“We’re forking over more taxpayer money so some Ukrainian kleptocrat can buy a bigger house,” Ramaswamy said in a furious exchange on Fox News on Thursday, when he was asked why he would be comfortable “giving up” Eastern Europe to Russia.
Kleptocrats pose a serious threat to global security as this money can be used for espionage, terrorism, political manipulation, disinformation, and many other nefarious purposes.
Translations:
dtn
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: duplex, tray, network: In relation to the selling of laser printers, a designation that a printer has duplex (double sided printing) capability and paper trays and is networkable.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
guilloche
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French guilloche.
Inflected forms:
form: guilloches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: guilloches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: guilloching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: guilloched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: guilloched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A fine engraved pattern of spirals, intertwining bands, etc.
pos: noun
examples: A railroad right-of-way, straight across the Balkan Peninsula, conceded in Cyrillic and Arabic script all woven in and out of the loveliest green guilloche by the no-longer-quite-unabsorbed entity of East Roumelia.
gloss: The tool used to create such work.
pos: noun
gloss: To decorate with intersecting curved lines.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: guilloched
Translations:
dodgem
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From dodge 'em (“them”).
Inflected forms:
form: dodgems
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bumper car in an amusement park.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
examples: What better way to let off a little steam, than by zipping around on the dodgems, or flying high on the Cosmic Typhoon roller coaster?
Translations:
reh
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: rehs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The Arabic letter ر.
pos: noun
Translations:
cloyingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cloying
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English cloyingly
From cloying + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more cloyingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most cloyingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a cloying manner; with distasteful excess.
pos: adv
gloss: In an excessively sweet manner.
pos: adv
Related words: cloy
Translations:
four-vector
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: four-vectors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A vector in four-dimensional vector space, especially one having three spatial dimensions and one temporal dimension.
pos: noun
Translations:
waterproofed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more waterproofed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most waterproofed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having been made waterproof.
pos: adj
Translations:
prosodic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *pér
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *pró
Proto-Indo-European *-ti
?
Proto-Indo-European *próti, *préti
Ancient Greek πρός (prós)
Proto-Hellenic *awéidō
Proto-Hellenic *-ā́
Proto-Hellenic *awoidā́
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓οιδή (ăoidḗ)
Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek προσῳδῐ́ᾱ (prosōidĭ́ā)bor.
Latin prosōdiabor.
Middle French prosodieder.
English prosody
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
▲
Classical Latin prosōdia
▲
English -ic
▲
Latin prosōdiabor.
French prosodie
▲
Old French -ique
Middle French -ique
French -ique
French prosodiqueder.?
New Latin prosōdicusder.?
English prosodic
From prosody or its etymon Classical Latin prosōdia + -ic, probably after French prosodique, New Latin prosōdicus.
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more prosodic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most prosodic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to, prosody.
pos: adj
Translations:
Jacobin
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: From Middle English Jacobin, from Old French jacobin, from Latin Jācōbīnus, from Latin Jācōbus (“James, Jacob, etc.”) + -īnus (“-ine: forming adjectives”), from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (Ya'akóv), q.v. In reference to the Dominican Order, from the proximity of their 1218 chapel and chapter house in Paris to the city's Porte Saint-Jacques, whose road formed an extension of the Way of St. James running to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. In reference to the Jacobin Club, from its 1789 founding at the former Dominican convent. In reference to the Syrian church, from Jacob bar Addai, bishop of Edessa during the mid-6th century.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or related to the Jacobin Club in France.
pos: adj
tags: historical
not-comparable
gloss: Of or related to the radical left in other contexts.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
not-comparable
examples: […] Mosse argued the most fascist and totalitarian in particular but also radical Jacobin regimes, continued to have an investment in not merely disciplining human bodies but harnessing their sense of glory toward worshiping themselves […]
gloss: Synonym of Dominican, of or related to the Dominican Order, particularly its French chapter.
pos: adj
tags: dated
not-comparable
gloss: Synonym of Jacobite, of or related to the Syriac Orthodox Church.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
not-comparable
Translations:
kaen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: kaens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of khene.
pos: noun
Translations:
deformable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French déformable; equivalent to deform + -able.
Base: deform
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: more deformable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most deformable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being reshaped.
pos: adj
examples: The adaptive optical systems in modern astronomical telescopes compensate for atmospheric distortion by using deformable mirrors.
Translations:
transshipping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: transshippings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: transhipping
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: trans-shipping
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The transfer of goods from one vessel or conveyance to another for onward shipment.
pos: noun
Translations:
optionality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: Etymology tree
English optional
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English optionality
From optional + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: optionalities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The value of additional optional investment opportunities available only after having made an initial investment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The short-term payoff for this is modest, but the optionality value is enormous.
gloss: Quality or state in which choice or discretion is allowed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Some offices do not follow the corporate procedure, due to a culture of optionality.
Related words: option
optional
call
put
Translations:
pimenta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pimentas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: pimento
pos: noun
examples: The pimenta trees grow spontaneously, and in great abundance, in many parts of Jamaica, but more particularly on hilly situations near the sea, on the northern side of that island[…]
Translations:
misbranded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Inflected forms:
form: more misbranded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most misbranded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a product, containing incorrect information on the label that would tend to deceive consumers as to any aspect of the product.
pos: adj
tags: US
Translations:
evaluative
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English evaluate
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English evaluative
From evaluate + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: more evaluative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most evaluative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the assignment of value to a person, thing, or event.
pos: adj
examples: The college's position has always been that the opinion of students and colleagues was an important part of the evaluative process leading to tenure decisions.
gloss: Judgmental; tending to reduce a thing to a simple evaluation.
pos: adj
Derived words: evaluative diversity
evaluatively
evaluativeness
evaluativism
evaluativist
nonevaluative
postevaluative
socioevaluative
Translations:
baling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: balings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A collection of material packaged into a bale.
pos: noun
examples: fibre balings
Translations:
barracking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: barrackings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of jeering or heckling.
pos: noun
examples: It's the sort of mindset in which you don't take in the words of praise, only the boss's criticism and the barrackings of the crowd.
gloss: The act of cheering for or supporting a team.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
examples: The only really unique aspect of Australian barracking is its idiom, the distinctive language and humour involved.
I had by then explained to him my custom of occasionally listening to Australian Rules Football on our shortwave radio of a Saturday afternoon; how, despite my barracking for Essendon, I thought a player from Geelong, Gary Ablett, the best I had ever seen.
‘So to me barracking for the footy I identified with my father, although nobody barracked for Essendon.’
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