yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
paunchy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English paunch
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English paunchy
From paunch + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: paunchier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: paunchiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a paunch; having a prominent stomach; potbellied.
pos: adj
examples: He exercised every day to avoid becoming paunchy in his old age.
A trim-middled hog will have a higher dressing percentage than a wasty, gutty, paunchy, heavy-middled hog.
"They live in New York, and he had the effrontery to give me a dinner and ask all his collaborators to it, fat, paunchy men who smelled of money. Pfaugh!"
"I don't think personalities change," Bill said. "We get a little paunchier and we get a few wrinkles and a little gray hair. But you have the same personality."
The National Park Service has capitalized on the increasingly rotund population by live-streaming the hungry bears and creating an online bracket in which 12 of the park’s paunchiest are pitted against one another. Fans vote for their favorite bear in head-to-head matchups until the title of Fattest Bear is bestowed, this year on Tuesday.
Translations:
preclude
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-
Latin clūdō
Latin praeclūderelbor.
English preclude
Learned borrowing from Latin praeclūdere.
Inflected forms:
form: precludes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: precluding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: precluded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: precluded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: præclude
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To remove the possibility of; to rule out; to prevent or exclude; to render impossible.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It has been raining for days, but that doesn’t preclude the skies clearing by this afternoon!
"Now, own the truth,—are you not very sorry that my having been in the opposition precludes your going to the most brilliant fête of the season?"
A chime whistle, presented to the L.M.S.R. by American model railway enthusiasts in 1939, is installed now as a works hooter at Crewe Works, as its height precludes its use on a British locomotive.
This is of unusual importance at Perth, compared with other modern yards, because the restricted scope for layout development precluded provision of a separate track as a head shunt at the southern end of the yard site. When such a facility is required, the main line has to be employed.
Israel's decision to ban fluoridation follows a vote to preclude the practice in Portland, Ore., and Wichita, Kan. It was also recently overturned in Hamilton, the fourth most populous city in New Zealand.
All the overnight trains were composed of Mk 1 vehicles that had vacuum brakes. This precluded the use of new Class 87s, which only had train air braking equipment, [...].
Translations:
hydrangea
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from taxonomic name Hydrangea, from Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”) + ἀγγεῖον (angeîon, “vessel, capsule”). Named by Carl Linnaeus after the shape of its fruits.
Inflected forms:
form: hydrangeas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several shrubs, of the genus Hydrangea, having large clusters of white, pink or blue flowers.
pos: noun
examples: It also offers a portal to something deeper: a current collective wish to fill our kitchens with hydrangeas, drape ourselves in Eileen Fisher, pour some wine over ice with our closest friends and stop sweating the small stuff.
Translations:
biomolecule
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os)
Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der.
English bio-
Latin mōlēs
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Proto-Italic *-kelos
New Latin -cula
New Latin moleculalbor.
French moléculebor.
English molecule
English biomolecule
From bio- + molecule.
Inflected forms:
form: biomolecules
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Molecules, such as amino acids, sugars, nucleic acids, proteins, polysaccharides, DNA, and RNA, that occur naturally in living organisms; any such molecule, even if created outside a living thing (as for example in a test tube or bioreactor).
pos: noun
examples: Zinc oxide is biosafe and, therefore, there are no toxic effects for biomedical applications that immobilize and modify biomolecules (Kumar and Shen, 2008).
In the close vicinity of a chiral nanostructure, the circular dichroism of a biomolecule could be greatly enhanced, due to the interaction with the local superchiral fields.
Translations:
biopolymer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os)
Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der.
English bio-
English polymer
English biopolymer
From bio- + polymer.
Inflected forms:
form: biopolymers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any macromolecule of a living organism that is formed from the polymerization of smaller entities; a polymer that occurs in a living organism or results from life.
pos: noun
examples: There are three main classes of biopolymers: polynucleotides (such as RNA and DNA), polypeptides (such as collagen and actin), and polysaccharides (such as cellulose and starch).
Products based on durable biopolymers have begun appearing in the marketplace.
CJ Biomaterials was the first company in the world to produce amorphous PHA, it says, which is a softer, rubberier version of PHA that offers fundamentally different performance characteristics than crystalline or semi-crystalline forms of the biopolymer.
Translations:
glycogen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
French glyco-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Proto-Hellenic *génos
Ancient Greek γένος (génos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -γενής (-genḗs)lbor.
French -gène
French glycogènebor.
English glycogen
Borrowed from French glycogène.
Inflected forms:
form: glycogens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A polysaccharide that is the main form of carbohydrate storage in animals; converted to glucose as needed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Specifically the liver converts glucose into glycogen — a more compact chemical. It is a little bit like shrink-wrapping food so you can pack more of it into your freezer.
Translations:
trifecta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: gambling
games
government
politics
Etymology: From tri- + (per)fecta.
Affixes: tri-
Inflected forms:
form: trifectas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bet in which the bettor must select the first three placegetters of a race in the order in which they finish.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
US
examples: The conservative player will play the exacta box bet and the occasional trifecta box wager.
In a trifecta, you must wager on three horses: the one that finishes first (win), the one that finishes second (place), and the one that finishes third (show) in order.
gloss: The attainment of three important achievements, qualities, etc.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
US
figuratively
examples: The money picture for Santorum could change after his trifecta win in Colorado, Minnesota, and Missouri Tuesday night.
At the same time, he said, it could be that Mr. Netanyahu is “seeking a trifecta” with the strikes on Monday: pushing Hamas to give in, showing the Israeli public that he did hit Rafah as promised and getting credit from the Biden administration for not mounting the full-scale assault that Washington fears would result in a civilian catastrophe.
gloss: A set of three related things, often things that cause problems.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
US
broadly
examples: Along with runtime errors, two other errors we saw earlier round out the JavaScript bug trifecta: syntax errors, logic errors, and runtime errors.
I might never have learned my name or met my birth family if I hadn't ended up in the hospital in Rhode Island in 2007, after traveling to a trifecta of malaria hotspots: Mali, Egypt and Colombia.
And the Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes, and Regina Hall trifecta stumbled through inconsistent chemistry as they, too, attempted to insult their peers.
gloss: The complete legislative and executive control of state or federal government by one party: governorship, the upper house, and the lower house of state or federal legislatures.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
US
examples: In fact, there are about a dozen states, including California, Massachusetts, Washington, and Illinois, where Democrats have won the trifecta—they control the governor's seat as well as both houses of the state legislature.
It’s not just Florida, of course. Republican trifectas in states across the country have introduced and passed dozens of bills aimed at the public existence of trans and other gender-nonconforming people.
Related words: perfecta
superfecta
quadfecta
exacta
Translations:
coho
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The earlier spelling "cohose" was re-interpreted as a plural form (for a similar development, see pea). From Halkomelem.
Inflected forms:
form: cohos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An anadromus and semelparous salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, found in the coastal regions of the northern Pacific Ocean, used as a symbol by several Native American tribes.
pos: noun
examples: 1996, Committee on Protection and Management of Pacific Northwest Anadromous Salmonids, National Research Council, Upstream: Salmon and Society in the Pacific Northwest, page 105,
Overall, OCN coho constitute the largest aggregate of coho populations in the United States outside Alaska.
Since 1965, an index live-count method has been used to annually estimate the number of coho salmon in the escapement to the Skagit River.
2000, US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Sitka Ranger District, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Redoubt Lake Cabin, Baranof Island: Fish and Wildlife Opportunities, unnumbered page,
Redoubt Lake has good populations of both coho and sockeye salmon and minor runs of pink salmon and a few chum salmon. The sockeye run peaks during early July, and the coho run begins in August.
Translations:
rationale
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Latin ratiōnāle.
Inflected forms:
form: rationales
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rationalia
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An explanation of the basis or fundamental reasons for something.
pos: noun
gloss: A justification or rationalization for something.
pos: noun
examples: He confirmed that Bashir successfully manipulated Diana’s paranoia by showing her brother, Earl Spencer, forged documents that “proved” her closest advisers had betrayed her to the palace, inflaming her desire to speak out for herself. Bashir lied his way to the biggest TV scoop of the 20th century. Dyson’s censure at least gave her two sons some rationale for why Diana did something so destructive to their happiness.
Translations:
apotropaic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
philosophy
religion
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀποτρόπαιος (apotrópaios), from ἀπό (apó, “away”) and τρόπος (trópos, “turn”); thus meaning “causing things to turn away”, as in “turns away evil”.
Inflected forms:
form: more apotropaic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most apotropaic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: apotropaics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Intended to ward off evil.
pos: adj
examples: Wormwood [...] was associated with the rites of St. John's Eve, when a crown of the plant was made from its sprays for apotropaic purposes, to ward of malefic spirits.
A boring subtext, about the wisdom or otherwise of actually uttering Voldemort's name, meanwhile robs the apotropaic device of its force.
In earlier generations scholars reacted by removing many of these objects from public view, putting them in the ‘Secret Cabinet’ of the museum at Naples or otherwise under wraps. […] More recently the fashion has been to deflect attention from their sexuality by referring to them as ‘magical’, ‘apotropaic’ or ‘averters of the evil eye’.
Commonly known as ‘ritual protection marks’, or even ‘witch marks’, an apotropaic image or symbol is a marking that is thought to create a ‘protection’ for the individual that created it – or for the area or object into which it was inscribed.
gloss: An agent intended to ward off evil.
pos: noun
Translations:
ranter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rant
English -er
English ranter
From rant + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: ranters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who rants; a noisy, boisterous speaker or declaimer.
pos: noun
gloss: A jovial fellow.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Derived words: ranter-go-round
Translations:
pronate
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin prōnatus, past participle of prōnare (“to bend forward”). See prone.
Inflected forms:
form: pronates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pronating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pronated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pronated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more pronate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pronate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To turn or rotate one’s hand and forearm so that the palm faces down if the forearm is horizontal, back if the arm is pointing down, or forward if the forearm is pointing up; to twist the right forearm counterclockwise or the left forearm clockwise.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To twist the foot so that if walking the weight would be borne on the inner edge of the foot.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To become pronated.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: Somewhat prone; inclined.
pos: adj
examples: pronate trees
Hold the cello bow with the hand in a pronate position over the frog.
The appearance of such turf , where the tree growths of more favored regions have become pronate and vinelike , and crowding individuals of non-opposing families of flowering plants fill up the intervals with a carpet pattern of rich colors
Antonyms: supinate
Related words: prone
Derived words: hyperpronate
over-pronate
pronated
pronation
overpronate
Translations:
lang: Spanish
word: pronar
lengthen
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English length
English -en
English lengthen
From length + -en.
Inflected forms:
form: lengthens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lengthening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lengthened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lengthened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make longer, to extend the length of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You need to lengthen the story if you want to have it published.
The platforms of all stations from Shepherds Bush to Liverpool Street have been lengthened from 325 ft. to 427 ft. between tunnel headwalls, to take longer trains.
gloss: To become longer.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The shadows on the lawn lengthened as the sun began to set.
Synonyms: elongate
draw out
enlengthen
extend
lengthen
produce
prolong
protract
stretch
Antonyms: shorten
abbreviate
abridge
amputate
breviate
clip
Related words: extrude
Derived words: compensatorily lengthen
enlengthen
lengthenable
lengthen down
lengthened
lengthened grade
lengthener
lengthen out
lengthen up
overlengthen
relengthen
underlengthen
Translations:
marketability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English market
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Proto-Italic *-tāts
Latin -tās
Latin -abilitas
Middle French -abletébor.
Middle English -ablete
English -ability
English marketability
From market + -ability.
Inflected forms:
form: marketabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The likelihood that something will sell; market appeal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This is a beautiful house with high marketability.
From the job seeker's point of view, however, it may be best to stay in school for an internship—if you can afford the time and expense. That way, some career advisers say, you can maximize your marketability to get the hottest job at the highest possible salary.
Translations:
redoubtable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The adjective is derived from Late Middle English redoutable (“worthy of honour, venerable; frightening, terrible”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman redoutable and Middle French redoutable, redoubtable, from Old French redotable (modern French redoutable), from redoter (“to fear”) (whence Middle French redoubter, redouter, French redouter) + -able (suffix meaning ‘deserving of, worthy of’). Redoter is derived from re- (intensifying prefix) + doter (“to doubt; to fear”) (from Latin dubitō (“to doubt, be uncertain, waver in opinion”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dwi- (“apart, asunder; two”) + *bʰuH- (“to appear; to be; to become; to grow”), in the sense of being in two minds).
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Inflected forms:
form: more redoubtable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most redoubtable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: redoubtables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Especially of a person.
pos: adj
tags: humorous
sometimes
examples: The redoubtable New York Times has been called the “newspaper of record” of the United States.
VVhere ſuch an other Rodomont, ſo furious, ſo valorous, ſo redoutable?
This new batch was sent to Leicester shed, and the redoubtable enginemen who had made such a reputation for themselves with the ex-G.C.R. Atlantics took to the "B17s" immediately, although, of course, they required quite different driving methods; […].
Three local yobs have also joined, but they have not reckoned on a redoubtable Conductor and two local revenue protection officers who soon escort them off the train!
gloss: Especially of a person.
pos: adj
examples: [I]t pleaſed the grekes at that tyme to ſe yͤ body of Hector ſo trayned by Achilles⸝ bycauſe he was wont to be ſo redoubtab[l]e to them⸝ […]
Revers'd that ſpear, redoubtable in war, / Reclined that banner, erſt in fields unfurl'd, / That like a deathful meteor, gleam'd afar, / And brav'd the mighty monarchs of the world.— […]
Inwardly she quaked, because she dreaded and admired the calm, self-contained character of her daughter Winnie, whose displeasure was made redoubtable by a diversity of dreadful silences.
gloss: A person who elicits respect.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
in-plural
often
sometimes
gloss: A person who elicits dread or fear; a formidable person.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
often
examples: Had you sought the Lady's court yourself.— / Faced the redoubtables composing it, / Flattered this, threatened that man, bribed the other,— / Pleaded, by writ and word and deed, your cause,— / Conquered a footing inch by painful inch,— / And, after long years' struggle, pounced at last / On her for prize,—the right life had been lived.
Derived words: redoubtableness
redoubtably
unredoubtable
Translations:
antitheft
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́)
Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der.
English anti-
English theft
English antitheft
From anti- + theft.
Inflected forms:
form: anti-theft
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Against or preventing from being stolen.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The antitheft device meant the thief could not leave the store.
Translations:
alabaster
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English alabastre, from Old French alabastre, from Latin alabaster (“box for perfumes or unguents”), from Ancient Greek ἀλάβαστρος (alábastros), from earlier ἀλάβαστος (alábastos, “vase without handles for storing perfumes”). This may further derive from Egyptian ꜥj-r-bꜣstjt (“vessel of the Egyptian goddess Bast”). The Latin suffix -aster is unrelated, but may have influenced the spelling of the borrowing from Ancient Greek (whence a direct loan could have been rendered as *alabastrus).
Inflected forms:
form: alabasters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: alabastre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: alablaster
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: alabastre
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: alablaster
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Why ſhould a man whoſe bloud is warme within,
Sit like his Grandſire, cut in Alabaſter?
Nor was the flame dissevered from its ribbon
But like a radiant fillet ran along
So that fire seemed it behind alabaster.
One of the striking relics found at the tomb, was a Canopic portrait head of Queen Tii, made entirely of alabaster except the eyes and eyebrows, which were inlaid lapis lazuli and osidian.
gloss: A variety of calcite, translucent and sometimes banded.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
usually
gloss: A sculpture executed in alabaster.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Beautiful oviform vases and covers, jars and covers with flowers and foliage, Italian alabasters, copies of the antique, were ranged side by side with Chinese ginger jars and common preserve bottles of birds'eggs[…]
His alabasters are certainly very estimable; but those to whom we owe them were not skilled virtuosi, and if they acquitted themselves of their task honourably, they only produced ordinary work.
gloss: An off-white color, like that of alabaster.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Made of alabaster.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The crown is stored in an alabaster box with an onyx handle and a gold lock.
And being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
An enameled miniature of Christ is set in the center of a jeweled alabaster paten, the plate that holds the bread during Communion services.
gloss: Resembling alabaster; white, pale, smooth, translucent.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: An ominous alabaster fog settled in the valley.
With more than admiration he admir’d
Her azure veins, her alabaster skin,
Her coral lips, her snow-white dimpled chin.
Safe in their alabaster chambers
Untouched by morning, untouched by noon
Sleep the meek members of the resurrection,
Rafters of satin, and roof of stone.
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
Derived words: alabasterlike
Nottingham alabaster
Translations:
unsightly
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 sightly
English unsightly
From un- + sightly.
Inflected forms:
form: more unsightly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: unsightlier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
dated
form: most unsightly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unsightliest
pos: adj
tags: dated
superlative
Senses:
gloss: Displeasing to the eye.
pos: adj
examples: For example, by changing the use of existing rooms, removing or replacing unsightly features, clearing obstacles to easy circulation, rearranging direction signs and generally introducing as much order as possible, most outdated station buildings can be made reasonably efficient and attractive.
“She had grown used to the quick speech of these people, but she wished he would not lick his lips that way. It did not make him any harder to understand, but it was unsightly."
The removal of unsightly graffiti on the sides of railway bridges spanning major roads in the North West is to be handed over to National Highways, to speed up the job.
Antonyms: beautiful
sightly
Translations:
prohibited
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more prohibited
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most prohibited
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Forbidden; banned; unallowed.
pos: adj
examples: Theater works and religious essays were the most prohibited literary genres
Translations:
prepubescent
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
English pubescent
English prepubescent
From pre- + pubescent.
Inflected forms:
form: more prepubescent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most prepubescent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: prepubescents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Before the age at which a person begins puberty.
pos: adj
gloss: A person who has not begun puberty.
pos: noun
Antonyms: postpubescent
Translations:
manoeuvring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: manoeuvrings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A manoeuvre.
pos: noun
examples: The immediate consequence of the high-wire political manoeuvrings of the past two weeks is that today MPs are returning to a destabilized Parliament.
Translations:
midge
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
Etymology: From Middle English mydge, migge, from Old English mygg, myċġ (“midge, gnat”), from Proto-West Germanic *muggju, from Proto-Germanic *mugjō, from Proto-Indo-European *mū- (“fly, midge”), *mu-, *mew-.
The dialectal sense of "short person" was originally figurative, and gave rise to midget (“short person”) via the diminutive suffix -et, which has since become part of standard English with that meaning; this has caused midge to undergo rebracketing as a clipping of midget.
Cognates
* Scots mige (“midge”)
* Saterland Frisian Määge (“gnat, mosquito”)
* West Frisian mich (“fly, mosquito”)
* West Flemish meezje (“midge, mosquito”)
* Dutch mug (“midge, gnat, mosquito”)
* German Low German Mügge (“midge, gnat, mosquito”)
* German Mücke (“midge, gnat, mosquito”)
* Swedish mygg, mygga (“midge, gnat, mosquito”)
* Icelandic mý (“midge, gnat, fly”)
The Proto-Indo-European root was also the source of
* Latin musca
* Ancient Greek μυῖα (muîa)
* Russian му́ха (múxa)
* Latvian muša
* Czech muchnička
* Albanian mizë
* Armenian մուն (mun)
Inflected forms:
form: midges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: midgie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Northern-England
Scotland
form: midgy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Northern-England
Scotland
form: midgey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Northern-England
Scotland
form: minge
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
archaic
dialectal
Senses:
gloss: Any of various small two-winged flies, for example, from the family Chironomidae or non-biting midges, the family Chaoboridae or phantom midges, and the family Ceratopogonidae or biting midges, all belonging to the order Diptera.
pos: noun
examples: "I am being eaten alive!" cried Pippin. "Midgewater! There are more midges than water!"
Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.
gloss: A small, short or insignificant person.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
gloss: Any bait or lure designed to resemble a midge.
pos: noun
Related words: gnat
Derived words: antimidge
aphid midge
apple leaf midge
apple midge
barley midge
biting midge
dung midge
frog-biting midge
gall midge
mackerel midge
meniscus midge
midge cap
midge grass
Midge Hall
midgeling
midge net
midgeproof
midget
midgey
mountain midge
mugwort
net-winged midge
non-biting midge
pear midge
phantom midge
solitary midge
sorghum midge
swede midge
wheat-midge
wheat midge
Translations:
halo-halo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Tagalog halo-halo, a reduplication of halo (“mix”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A Philippine dessert consisting of a mixture of shaved ice and milk with various boiled sweet beans and fruits, served cold in a tall glass or bowl.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
misogynistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English misogynist
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English misogynistic
From misogynist + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more misogynistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most misogynistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or exhibiting misogyny.
pos: adj
examples: This is arguably linked to two things: declining tolerance for straight men’s behavior may have, on the one hand, caused this; the effect is misogynistic backlash in the form of rising incelhood.
Those who believe in the blackpill tend to adopt violently misogynistic beliefs about the nature of women, particularly with regard to their sexual behaviour.
Antonyms: nonmisogynistic
unmisogynistic
Translations:
misogynous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μισογύνης (misogúnēs) + -ous.
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more misogynous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most misogynous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or exhibiting misogyny; misogynistic.
pos: adj
Translations:
pluggable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English plug
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English pluggable
From plug + -able.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being plugged, or plugged in, especially in reference to optional components of software.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The system features a pluggable authentication module.
Translations:
himbo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of him + bimbo, first recorded in 1988 and likely influenced by sex scandals in the US politics around the time.
Compound parts: him
bimbo
Inflected forms:
form: himbos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A physically attractive man who lacks intelligence; the male equivalent of a bimbo.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
sometimes
examples: ‘Himbo’ Flexes His Pecs in U.K. Ads [title]
[…] a reboot in which a cryptocurrency billionaire, maybe the son of Luke Ward, whose series arc traces an evolution from villain to beloved himbo, moves to Newport Beach and takes control of the local real estate market.
Translations:
cinematic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: video-games
Etymology: From cinema + -tic. Compare French cinématique.
Base: cinema
Affixes: -tic
Inflected forms:
form: more cinematic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cinematic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: cinematics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the cinema.
pos: adj
gloss: Resembling a professional motion picture.
pos: adj
examples: Despite being shot on tiny budget, the student film looked incredibly cinematic.
gloss: A cut scene.
pos: noun
examples: Is there a way to skip this long cinematic?
When you talk about writing in games, some designers think you're speaking only about cinematics. Of all the ways to evoke emotion, however, cinematics are the least game-like portion of any game.
gloss: A short film promoting a video game or such type of franchise, often featuring its characters or universe
pos: noun
Derived words: absolutely cinematic
anticinematic
cinematically
cinematicity
ecocinematic
metacinematic
neurocinematic
noncinematic
postcinematic
precinematic
uncinematic
Translations:
kitschy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From kitsch + -y. Compare German kitschig (“kitschy”).
Base: kitsch
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: kitschier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: kitschiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having the nature of kitsch: excessively sentimental, overdone or vulgar.
pos: adj
examples: This is what his admirers go for: the gravelly grain of his film stock, the crowded monochrome of his compositions (the new film is mostly in black-and-white, with kitschy spasms of color), and the way in which light bounces and breathes from the faces of his players.
Hamilton said that his work looked for the “candour of a lost paradise”, and was most famous for his kitschy calendars of young girls and his soft-focus erotic films including “Bilitis” from 1977.
Translations:
silkworm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English silkwirm, from Old English seolcwyrm (“silkworm”), equivalent to silk + worm.
Compound parts: silk
worm
Inflected forms:
form: silkworms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various caterpillars of moths that produce silk cocoons, especially Bombyx mori, the source of most commercial silk.
pos: noun
examples: Each of the two breeding periods, one in spring and one in summer, requires 2 to 3 tons of fresh leaves to feed 80,000 silkworms that will produce, on average, 40 pounds (18 kilograms) of silk fiber.
Translations:
bluebottle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English blewbothel, from blew (“blue”) + bothel (“flower in the Asteraceae family”). In sense 2, a shortening of bluebottle fly. The fly was so named because it resembles the bluebottle flower in colour. The other transferred senses likewise have reference to the colour of the respective referents.
Inflected forms:
form: bluebottles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blue-bottle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cornflower, a plant that grows in grain fields, Centaurea cyanus.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various blowflies of the genus Calliphora that have an iridescent metallic-blue body and make a loud buzzing noise when flying.
pos: noun
examples: The incredibly long body as well as the extended wings were of a gleaming purplish-gray colour: I can only liken it to that of a meat fly or common "bluebottle".
gloss: A blue ant, Diamma bicolor, a parasitic wasp native to Australia.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various large papilionid butterflies of the genus Graphium, also called triangles, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A police officer.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Ireland
UK
derogatory
slang
examples: I will have you as soundly swing’d for this, you bluebottle rogue!
[…] comic writers […] have never failed to make capital out of the New Police, Peel's Raw-Lobsters, Peelers, Blue Bottles, &c., &c.
COOMBE: He got the clinch only last week — eighteen months. You see it's no good having anybody here as ain't got a^([sic]) unblemished character. We don't want to have the bluebottles come sniffing round here, do we?
gloss: A bluestocking.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
obsolete
examples: To-morrow there is a party of purple at the “blue” Miss Berry’s. Shall I go? um! — I don’t much affect your blue-bottles ; — but one ought to be civil.
There appears to be a growing disposition on the part of the literary and dramatic blue-bottles of this city to get up a national drama and to manufacture a new race of actors.
..and did not the rich dowager-countess Bluebottle marry her footman, who forthwith became a lord and was made a privy counsellor.
Derived words: blue-bottle fly
Translations:
rococo
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French rococobor.
English rococo
Borrowed from French rococo.
Inflected forms:
form: rococos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more rococo
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rococo
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A style of baroque architecture and decorative art, from 18th-century France, having elaborate ornamentation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: They built a rococo aedicule that stands around the Tomb today.
gloss: A piece of ornamentation in this style.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Above the two chief figures are rococos on either side of the clock face. These, like all the other work, are in bold relief and wrought with great delicacy and grace. On the top of the clock is a realistic scene from nature.
The marzipan and that kind of malleable ceramic, the rococo decorations, the flowers made of hard sugar, the frosted blue surfaces, kind of gray, the pearls, the legal coloring... all of it supposedly suitable for human consumption.
gloss: Of or relating to the rococo style.
pos: adj
gloss: Over-elaborate or complicated; opulent.
pos: adj
gloss: Old-fashioned.
pos: adj
Derived words: barococo
rococoed
rococoish
rococoness
unrococo
Translations:
germline
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From germ + line.
Compound parts: germ
line
Inflected forms:
form: germlines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Those cells of an individual that have genetic material that could be passed to offspring; the source of gametes.
pos: noun
examples: Germline gene therapy is a controversial, complex topic; only through many open discussions of this topic by a broad spectrum of our society will we gain the wisdom needed for proper evaluation of the factors that must be considered before we complete initiation of these protocols.
Translations:
air-to-surface
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: fired from an aircraft at a target on land or water
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
air-to-air
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: With the participants being two or more aircraft in flight.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The attack also afforded Helena to a front-seat view of literal air-to-air melee combat, as one Wildcat pilot of the Cactus Air Force, who was swooping in to help break up the attack, found himself out of machine-gun ammo; instead, he dropped his landing gear, positioned himself above the nearest bomber, and begun beating it to death, in midair, using his landing gear as clubs. After a bit of evasive action that the fighter easily kept up with, the repeated slamming broke something important, and the bomber spiralled down into the sea.
gloss: Fired from an aircraft in flight at another one.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: air-to-ground
air-to-surface
ground-to-air
surface-to-air
Translations:
air-to-ground
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: fired from an aircraft at a target on the ground
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
ground-to-air
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: fired from the ground at an aircraft in flight, or at an incoming missile
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
surface-to-air
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: fired from the ground, or from a ship, at an aircraft in flight, or at an incoming missile
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
great-aunt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English great-
English aunt
English great-aunt
From great- + aunt.
Inflected forms:
form: great-aunts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: great aunt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An aunt of one's parent (i.e. a sister or sister-in-law of one's grandparent).
pos: noun
Antonyms: great-uncle
great-nephew
great-niece
Translations:
journalistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From journal + -istic (“adjective”). Also parsed directly as journalist + -ic (“adjective”), also used in sense of related journalism (having to do with journalism).
Base: journal
Affixes: -istic
Inflected forms:
form: more journalistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most journalistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Related to journalism or journalists.
pos: adj
examples: Substituting "[expletive]" for swear words in an article's text is a journalistic practice of sensibility.
This gang-bang speaks more to journalistic groupthink than to any real moral or legal reasoning.
In September 1981, I was appointed Assistant Editor of Steam World (edited by David Wilcock), so was lucky to be trained in the same journalistic approach which both David and Peter had already deployed in transforming the sector.
Translations:
revolutionize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From revolution + -ize.
Base: revolution
Affixes: -ize
Inflected forms:
form: revolutionizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: revolutionizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: revolutionized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: revolutionized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: revolutionise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: To radically or significantly change, as in a revolution.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Teachers are not simply wage earners who teach students, but revolutionaries bringing up the future builders of socialism. For this reason, we are working hard to help teachers acquire advanced science and technology and to revolutionize and working-classize them.
For Joseph Schumpeter, the Austrian-born economist whose writings have acquired a special relevance in the past year or two, this most modern of economic systems “incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one.”
Researchers have developed a new gel they say is as durable as metal, has the flexibility of jello, and could revolutionize how our bodies heal and age.
Another kind of machine learning, called neural networks, is also “revolutionizing” AI, the report said.
ChatGPT and reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF) have revolutionized the AI landscape, providing an accessible and reliable platform for AI-enabled applications.
Translations:
push-button
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: push-buttons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Which can be initiated or activated at the push of a button.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: push-button warfare
a push-button automatic [transmission]
The push-button, entrance-exit signalling console incorporated in the operating floor of the yard control tower governs entry to and egress from the yard, [...]
gloss: An electrical switch activated by pressing a button.
pos: noun
examples: The communicating doors of adjoining vehicles are opened simultaneously by pressing a large push-button located a suitable height for a man loaded with mailbags to contact it with his shoulder; after a time-lag of seven seconds the doors close automatically.
The cab equipment of the automatic control system is illustrated. It consists of a rotary switch graduated from 0 to 120 km.p.h. at 5 km.p.h. intervals, and four push-buttons.
Translations:
gauzy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gauze
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English gauzy
From gauze + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: gauzier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: gauziest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling gauze; light, thin, translucent.
pos: adj
examples: But first I took up Ayesha's kirtle and the gauzy scarf with which she had been wont to hide her dazzling loveliness from the eyes of men, and, averting my head so that I might not look upon it, covered up that dreadful relic of the glorious dead, that shocking epitome of human beauty and human life.
The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marshes was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds.
Were she but the daring equestrienne jumping through the flaming hoops, little it would matter to her if her gauzy skirts did catch.
gloss: light; giving the effect of haze
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
gloss: vague or elusive
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Or perhaps something darker—a raw hunger, a blind ambition wrapped in the gauzy language of service?
gloss: tinged with tenderness and warmth; dewy-eyed, romantic
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: 2003: Although the books are scored in different keys—Clinton’s generally attempts to be gauzy and warm, Blumenthal’s is edgy and cold—their underlying refrain is the same. — The New Yorker, 14 July 2003
Derived words: gauzily
gauziness
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: прозрачен
roman: prozračen
lang: Bulgarian
word: прозирен
roman: proziren
lang: Dutch
word: wazig
lang: Dutch
word: nevelig
lang: Dutch
word: mistig
lang: German
word: gazeartig
lang: German
word: hauchdünn
lang: Polish
word: zwiewny
short-term
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From short + term.
Compound parts: short
term
Inflected forms:
form: more short-term
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: shorter-term
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most short-term
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: shortest-term
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: short term
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: short‐term
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: shortterm
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: more short-term
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: shorter-term
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most short-term
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: shortest-term
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: short term
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: short‐term
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: shortterm
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the near or immediate future.
pos: adj
examples: This short-term plan deals with the next few days.
Khan countered this by alleging that 'unfair' conditions, such as raising council tax, are being attached to any new funding deal that would "punish Londoners" for the effect the pandemic has had on passenger numbers. He added: "These short-term deals are trapping TfL on life support rather than putting it on the path to long-term sustainability."
gloss: Of or pertaining to a short duration of time.
pos: adj
examples: short-term exposure
gloss: Over a relatively short period of time.
pos: adv
Synonyms: short-run
Antonyms: long-term
Derived words: short-termism
short-termist
short-termness
Translations: