yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
torturer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English torture
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English torturer
From torture + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: torturers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who tortures.
pos: noun
examples: I play the torturer by ſmall and ſmall / To lengthen out the worſt that muſt be ſpoken: […]
My destruction might indeed arrive a few months sooner; but if my torturer should suspect that I postponed it, influenced by his menaces, he would surely find other, and perhaps more dreadful means of revenge.
The torturers of any form of life torture the life. In this they are not only abominators of form, but haters of nature; and the violationist school is misozoic, life-hating; in continuation of that which it also is, misanthropic, or an enemy of mankind.
Translations:
viva
Part of speech: intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish viva and Italian viva.
Inflected forms:
form: viva!
pos: intj
tags: canonical
form: vivas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Long live ... ! (used to express acclaim or support).
pos: intj
examples: The message has been mostly perverted from the moment of his death, but it hasn't been invalidated. So, viva Jesus of Nazareth and joy to the world!
gloss: A shout of applause.
pos: noun
examples: When the cibolero returned to the plain, he was received with a fresh burst of vivas, and kerchiefs were waved to greet him.
Translations:
codec
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Blend of coder + decoder, probably in imitation of how modem was formed.
Compound parts: coder
decoder
Inflected forms:
form: codecs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal.
pos: noun
examples: Audio and video codecs are important in making multimedia files small enough to distribute and simple to play back.
gloss: A media coding format.
pos: noun
examples: H.264 and AV1 are examples of video codecs.
Translations:
introduce
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English introducen, from Old French introduire, from Latin intrōdūcō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁énteros (“inner, what is inside”) and *dewk-.
Inflected forms:
form: introduces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: introducing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: introduced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: introduced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: introduce
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: introduce
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: introduced
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: introduce
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: introducest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: introduced
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: introducedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: introduces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: introduceth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: introduced
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: introduce
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: introduced
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: introduce
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: introduced
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: introduce
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: introducing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: introduced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: interduce
pos: verb
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
Senses:
gloss: To cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Let me introduce you to my friends.
His unruly hair was slicked down with water, and as Jessamy introduced him to Miss Brindle his face assumed a cherubic innocence which would immediately have aroused the suspicions of anyone who knew him.
gloss: To make (something or someone) known by formal announcement or recommendation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The senator plans to introduce the bill in the next session.
Let me introduce our guest speaker.
gloss: To add (something) to a system, a mixture, or a container.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Various pollutants were introduced into the atmosphere.
gloss: To bring (something) into practice.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Wheeled transport was introduced long ago.
In conformity with the decision of the Ministry of Interior, the Kansu-Szechwan Standard Time (same as Chungking Time) has been introduced as the standard time for all the railways.
First introduced in Letchworth Garden City in 1909, the roundabout[…]proved so popular in Britain that in the 1960s the Transport Research Laboratory developed a miniature version.
Derived words: cointroduce
e-troduce
introducee
introducement
introducible
misintroduce
reintroduce
re-introduce
Translations:
clucky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cluck + -y, because broody hens usually cluck loudly and continuously if disturbed.
Base: cluck
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: cluckier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: cluckiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Broody.
pos: adj
gloss: Prone to cluck.
pos: adj
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of a cluck.
pos: adj
examples: a clucky sound
Translations:
bilby
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Gamilaraay bilbibor.
English bilby
Borrowed from Gamilaraay bilbi.
Inflected forms:
form: bilbies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An Australian desert marsupial of the only extant species Macrotis lagotis with distinctive large ears and approximately the size of a rabbit.
pos: noun
Translations:
pork-barrelling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pork barrel
English -ing
English pork-barrelling
From pork barrel + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: pork barrelling
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: porkbarreling
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pork-barreling
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The practice of giving favours or money to voters in connection with a candidate for a current or future election, in order to sway enough voters so that the candidate will win.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The practice of an elected politician giving favours or money to some or all voters in the politician's electorate, or to certain organizations, as compensation or payback for support from those voters or organizations in the past.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 政治分肥
roman: zhèngzhì fēnféi
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 政治分贓 /政治分赃
roman: zhèngzhì fēnzāng
lang: Dutch
word: stemmenlokkerij
lang: Dutch
word: favoritisme
lang: Dutch
word: cliëntelisme
lang: Finnish
word: siltarumpupolitiikka
lang: Finnish
word: tukipolitiikka
lang: German
word: Kirchturmpolitik
lang: Polish
word: kiełbasa wyborcza
flinching
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: flinchings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A flinching motion; a flinch.
pos: noun
Translations:
twenty-twenty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From a method of testing vision by reading charts at a distance of 20 feet.
Inflected forms:
form: 20/20
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having normal visual acuity.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: All I want is 20/20 vision / A total portrait with no omissions
Translations:
dowsing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dowse
English -ing
English dowsing
From dowse + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: dowsings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The practice of seeking water or other substances (usually liquid) with the aid of a forked stick or similar pointing device, as believed by some practitioners to derive from supernatural power.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
titi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: titis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any New World monkey of the subfamily Callicebinae, native to South America, distinguished by their long soft fur.
pos: noun
Translations:
filicide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin fīlius (“son”), fīlia (“daughter”) + -cide.
Affixes: -cide
Inflected forms:
form: filicides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The killing of one's own child.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: it began by violating nature, and ends in filicide. (I, v)
Terms related to familicide include filicide (the killing of one's child or children), uxoricide (the killing of one's wife), fratricide or sororicide (the killing of one's brother or sister), avunculicide (the killing of one's uncle), and nepoticide (the killing of one's nephew).
gloss: A person who kills his or her own child.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Ned is running, panicked, […] running for the cold hard road and the sanctuary of the Brunch farm like a filicide caught in the act.
Related words: familicide
fratricide
homicide
infanticide
neonaticide
parricide
prolicide
sororicide
suicide
uxoricide
Derived words: altruistic filicide
filicidal
Translations:
gopuram
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Tamil கோபுரம் (kōpuram), Malayalam ഗോപുരം (gōpuraṁ), from Sanskrit गोपुर (gó-pura).
Inflected forms:
form: gopurams
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gopura
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A monumental tower, usually ornate, at the entrance of a temple, especially in Southern India.
pos: noun
Translations:
tiki
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Māori tiki (“figurine”).
Inflected forms:
form: tikis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A carved talisman in humanoid form, common to the cultures of the Pacific Ocean.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The characteristic style of tiki bars.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
often
uncountable
examples: tiki culture
The Jungle Bird is a tiki cocktail.
Related words: tiki-taka
tiki tour
Derived words: tiki bar
tiki culture
tiki resort
tiki restaurant
tiki torch
Translations:
periodo
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Italic *per
Latin perbor.
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.
Proto-Italic *peri-
Latin per-bor.
English per-
Pre-Greekbor.
Proto-Hellenic *wion
Ancient Greek ἴον (íon)
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *wéydos
Proto-Hellenic *wéidos
Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs)
Ancient Greek ἰοειδής (ioeidḗs)der.
English iodo-
English periodo
From per- + iodo-.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Describing a derivative in which all hydrogen atoms have been replaced by iodine
pos: adj
tags: especially
in-compounds
not-comparable
Translations:
landlubber
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Extension (with land) of earlier lubber. Compare also landloper.
Inflected forms:
form: landlubbers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone unfamiliar with the sea or seamanship, especially a novice seaman.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: […] the making of sheathing and ship's pumps. This last rather unmarine field included more than a third of the patents before 1800, which may be one explanation for the predominance of landlubbers in early marine patenting.
Translations:
seafarer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English *se-farere (suggested by se-farende, sa farinde (“sea-faring”)) equivalent to sea + farer (“traveler”) and to seafare + -er. Cognate with Middle Dutch seevarer, whence Modern Dutch zeevaarder (“seafarer”), West Frisian seefarder (“seafarer”), German Seefahrer (“seafarer”), Swedish sjöfarare (“seafarer”).
Base: seafare
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: seafarers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone whose occupation is operating a ship or boat at sea, for either civilian or military purposes.
pos: noun
examples: An intergovernmental panel will draw up plans to relieve seafarers who have been stuck at sea during a crisis.
gloss: Anyone who travels by sea.
pos: noun
examples: Clearly the earliest Australians were seafarers who landed there tens of thousands of years ago; our quest to know more about them — did they come from Melanesia? what kind of boats did they have? were they blown out to sea by a storm? — is ongoing.
Related words: seafare
seafaring
Translations:
matricide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French matricide, from Latin mātricīda (“person who kills his own mother”) and mātricīdium (“the murder of one's mother”). By surface analysis, matri- + -cide.
Inflected forms:
form: matricides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The killing of one's mother.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Gerald was imprisoned for matricide: he strangled his mother.
Here the interest was the more compelling because the case of Orestes was unique—not only because matricide was an almost unknown crime, but also because the gods themselves participate in an action in which the slain mother had herself slain the father of her son.
gloss: A person who kills his or her mother.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Nancy was a matricide; it happened four years ago.
Related words: filicide
genocide
homicide
infanticide
patricide
regicide
suicide
uxoricide
Derived words: matricidal
Translations:
cedi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Ultimately from Fante Akan sedi (“cowrie shell”).
Inflected forms:
form: cedis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The currency of Ghana, divided into 100 pesewas and represented by ₵.
pos: noun
examples: A 25-year-old motorbike rider, Eric Sulley has been sentenced to a fine of 300 Ghana cedis for riding a motorbike without a helmet by the Akim Swedru Circuit Court presided by Mr Yaw Atta Sampong.
Translations:
hindsight
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From hind + sight, 19th c. Compare Latinate retrospect.
Compound parts: hind
sight
Inflected forms:
form: hindsights
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Realization or understanding of the significance and nature of events after they have occurred.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: You know what they say, hindsight is twenty-twenty.
In hindsight, I realize that I should have studied harder for the exam.
Hindsight is more easily acquired than foresight.
gloss: The rear sight of a firearm.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
examples: Holonym: iron sights
Related words: afterknowledge
hindlook
retrospect
Derived words: hindsight is 20/20
hindsightism
hindsightly
in hindsight
twenty-twenty hindsight
Translations:
trigger-happy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From trigger + happy.
Compound parts: trigger
happy
Inflected forms:
form: more trigger-happy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most trigger-happy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: trigger happy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: triggerhappy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having a tendency or desire to shoot a firearm irresponsibly before adequately identifying the target.
pos: adj
examples: The bystanders were indiscriminately gunned down by trigger-happy gang members.
Crime is increasing / Trigger happy policing / Panic is spreading / God knows where we're heading
Claudine / Don't get trigger happy with me / Don't wave a gun at me
gloss: Inclined to behave recklessly or violently at the slightest provocation.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: Be careful when you work near him; he's trigger-happy with that chain-saw.
He was so trigger-happy that he wheeled and punched me when I brushed by him in the hall.
In a country like Burma, where the trigger-happy ruling elite resorted to arms even against unarmed students on university campuses, we have drawn lessons from history. It has taught us to resort to arms when fighting against fully armed demons.
Related words: slaphappy
Derived words: trigger-happiness
Translations:
lurgy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The noun is derived from fever-lurgy, possibly influenced by or related to lurk (“to hang out or wait”). Fever-lurgy is possibly a variant of fever lurden (“idleness regarded as a medical condition”), from fever + lurden, lurdane (“used as a general term of abuse for a person, especially one regarded as dull or idle: loafer, sluggard”). Lurden, lurdane is derived from Middle English lurdan (“coward; good-for-nothing person, fool, rascal; lazy person; low-born or ill-mannered person; unfortunate person; wicked person”), from Old French lordin, lourdin, from lourd, lourt, lorz (“clumsy, oafish; heavy”) (modern French lourd) + -in (suffix forming derogatory or diminutive nouns); and lourd from Late Latin lordus, lurdus (“clumsy; heavy slow; stupid”), probably from Latin lūridus (“sallow, wan; ghastly, horrifying”), possibly from lūror (“lividness; paleness, pallor”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₃y- (“bluish”)) + -idus (suffix meaning ‘tending to’ forming adjectives).
Noun sense 1.2 (“non-specific disease”) was popularized by the British radio comedy show The Goon Show (first broadcast 1951–1960), especially the episode “Lurgi Strikes Britain” (series 5, episode 7; 9 November 1954) written by the Anglo-Irish comedian Spike Milligan (1918–2002) and the English comedian Eric Sykes (1923–2012), about the outbreak of a highly dangerous and infectious and—as it turns out—fictitious disease known as “the Dreaded Lurgi” created as a scam.
Another suggestion is that the word is a corruption and contraction of allergy, but this is a folk etymology as allergy has a soft g (/dʒ/) while lurgy has a hard /ɡ/ (rhyming with Fergie).
The adjective is probably from an attributive use of the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: lurgies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lurgee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lurgey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lurgi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Chiefly preceded by the.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
archaic
countable
humorous
slang
uncountable
examples: Both in the lurgy and the gripes, / These cakes are useful things, / And fit to stop the small windpipes / Of little nasty kings.
gloss: Chiefly preceded by the.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Ireland
New-Zealand
UK
broadly
countable
humorous
possibly
slang
uncountable
examples: the dreaded lurgy
Harry. Now, you claim that if we set you up in a well-equipped laboratory, you will find the cure for almost everything. / Mike. (dramatically) Yes—including the dreaded Lurgi.
He [David Cameron] was helped, of course, by his presentational skills, still present here despite a sore throat and what seemed to be a spot of the perennial conference lurgy.
Blocked nose, watering eyes, a sore throat – the signs of a cold are all too familiar. Here are seven ways to dodge the lurgy, or shrug it off sooner [subtitle]
Related words: cootie
ligma
Translations:
fascinate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fascinātus, perfect passive participle of fascinō (“to enchant, bewitch, fascinate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from fascinum (“a phallus-shaped amulet worn around the neck in Ancient Rome; witchcraft”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix), itself of obscure origin.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: fascinates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fascinating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fascinated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fascinated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To evoke an intense interest or attraction in someone.
pos: verb
examples: The flickering TV fascinated the cat.
gloss: To make someone hold motionless; to spellbind.
pos: verb
examples: We were fascinated by the potter's skill.
Leo, too, was strangely touched. Hitherto he had been fascinated against his better judgment, something as a bird is fascinated by a snake, but now I think that all this passed away, and he realised that he really loved this strange and glorious creature, as, alas! I loved her also.
gloss: To be irresistibly charming or attractive to.
pos: verb
examples: Her gait fascinates all men.
Related words: fascination
Derived words: fascinated
fascinating
fascinator
fascinoma
unfascinating
Translations:
invite
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French inviter, from Latin invītō. Displaced native Old English laþian.
Inflected forms:
form: invites
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: inviting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: invited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: invited
pos: verb
tags: past
form: invites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We invited our friends round for dinner.
gloss: To request formally.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I invite you all to be seated.
I always invite criticism of my essays.
gloss: To encourage.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Wearing that skimpy dress, you are bound to invite attention.
The refusal to maintain such a navy would invite trouble, and if trouble came would insure disaster.
"Blindness invites confidence," replied Carrados. "We are out of the running—human rivalry ceases to exist. […]"
gloss: To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to inveigle and invite th' unwary sense
shady groves, that easy sleep invite
There no delusive hope invites despair.
gloss: An invitation.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: An open invite has been given to all UK workers to join in common cause with the union, as more than 40,000 RMT members at Network Rail and 13 train operating companies walked out on June 21 in the first of three 24-hour strikes over pay, conditions and job security.
Synonyms: lathe
Related words: invitee
inviter
Derived words: disinvite
e-invite
e-vite
invitable
invited to the cookout
invitement
invitro
reinvite
uninvite
Translations:
barnburner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From barn + burner. In exaggerated use, from the hyperbolic idea of someone burning down a barn to end a rat infestation.
Compound parts: barn
burner
Inflected forms:
form: barnburners
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: barn burner
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: barn-burner
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who burns down a barn.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of phosphorus match, a friction match that can be struck anywhere.
pos: noun
tags: New-Jersey
Pennsylvania
slang
gloss: A sensationally exciting or successful event or person.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
examples: Those deathless twin barnburners return to the Metropolitan Opera tonight.
It is hard to know what could convince the barnburners to change their ways. The Maga base rewards them with money and the media lavishes them with airtime.
Related words: barnstormer
Translations:
migraine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: First appears c. 1425. A respelling (following French) of the late 14th century Middle English megrim, from the 13th century Old French migraigne, from Vulgar Latin pronunciation of Latin hemicrania (“a pain in one half of the head”), from Ancient Greek ἡμικρανία (hēmikranía), from ἡμι- (hēmi-, “hemi-, half”) + κρανίον (kraníon, “the skull”) (whence also cranium), a calque of Egyptian gs-tp (“a headache”), from gs (“half”) + tp (“the head”), although the link between the Egyptian magical papyri and the Greek ἡμικρανία (hēmikranía) could be purely incidental. Cognate to megrim, hemicrania.
Inflected forms:
form: migraines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A severe, disabling headache, usually affecting only one side of the head, and often accompanied by nausea, vomiting, photophobia and visual disturbances.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He had a headache so bad that he wished he was dead, but it was the sort of migraine that promised him he would continue to suffer but not die.
After consuming too much coffee every day for six weeks, she got severe migraines that would last up until 47 minutes after her first cup of coffee.
It was in 1976, during our first family holiday to Disneyland, California, that my family learned the difference between a headache and a migraine.
A team of international researchers has recently identified the first—ever genetic link to common migraine (common migraine refers to migraine without aura, and it is the most common type of migraine that occurs).
2013, Health Press Publishing, Natural Therapies and Prevention for Headaches and Migraines, unnumbered page,
Migraine headaches are fortunately suffered by a relatively small percentage of people, but for those who do suffer, migraines can literally take over their life.
gloss: A neurological condition characterised by such headaches.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Syncope is estimated to occur in bouts of headache in approximately 5% of adult patients with migraine.
Migraine is characterized by recurrent unilateral, often pulsating, headaches, worsened by physical activity and associated with nausea, photophobia and phonophobia.
2006, Joshua W. Devine, Daily Migraine Prevention and Its Influence on Resource Utilization in the Military Health System, PhD Thesis, page 1,
Migraine is a common and disabling neurological disorder with substantial variation in the frequency, severity, and duration of headaches (Goadsby, Lipton, & Ferrari, 2002).
Derived words: abdominal migraine
anti-migraine
antimigraine
Château Migraine
Chateau Migraine
migraine headache
migraineur
migrainoid
migrainous
migralepsy
nonmigraine
visual migraine
Translations:
homicide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law-enforcement
police
Etymology: From Old French homicide, from Latin homicīda (“man-slayer”) and homicīdium (“manslaughter”).
Inflected forms:
form: homicides
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hominicide
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A person who kills another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Homicides in general and victorious warriors in particular are often obliged to perform a variety of ceremonies for the purpose of ridding them of the dangerous ghosts of their victims.
gloss: A victim of homicide; a person who has been unlawfully killed by someone else.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
jargon
examples: “She was a hippie kid. How hard would you work a case like that?”
“As hard as anyone else,” said Goddard. There was an irritated note in his voice. “She was a homicide. She got what every homicide investigation gets.”
We don't even know the woman was a homicide. Didn't they say it was possible they both jumped?
The medical examiner was behind on autopsies and cranky, so we didn't even know if the old guy in the pool was a homicide.
gloss: The department within a police force that investigates cases of homicide.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
Synonyms: assassination
killing
first-degree murder
manslaughter
murder
second-degree murder
Related words: deicide
familicide
feticide
filicide
fratricide
genocide
infanticide
mariticide
matricide
omnicide
parricide
patricide
populicide
prolicide
regicide
sororicide
suicide
tyrannicide
unlawful death
uxoricide
Derived words: antihomicide
homicidal
homicidogenic
monstricide
nonhomicide
Translations:
palatial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French palatial, formed from the root of Latin palātium (“a palace”), from Palātium (“Palatine Hill”).
Inflected forms:
form: more palatial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most palatial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a palace.
pos: adj
gloss: On a grand scale; with very rich furnishings.
pos: adj
examples: The home where he lived was palatial.
But during those two years for some reason or other the house had fallen into premature and rapid decay. With a very few months an air of mustiness began to hang over the once palatial residence of the rich foreign financier.
Related words: palace
palatine
Derived words: palatially
palatialness
unpalatial
Translations:
paleface
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From pale + face, a supposed calque from a Native American language. First appears in print c. 1797.
Compound parts: pale
face
Inflected forms:
form: palefaces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Paleface
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pale face
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pale-face
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A white person, a person of European descent, particularly in Native American contexts.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
ethnic
offensive
slur
examples: Dere is Great Wicked Spirit, too... Heart grow hard. Great pleasure was to kill pale-face. Dat feeling last, Blossom, till I see you. Feel like fader to you, and don't want your scalp... Still want all udder pale-face scalp. Want Bourdon scalp much as any.
The hearts of the palefaces would not thrill to these superstitions of the red men, though we spoke of them in the centre of the haunted region.
The dusky hunters "guyed" the palefaces who could not do as well as they with their primitive weapons, even though the fire spouted from the iron tubes and the balls that could not be seen by the eye carried death farther than did the missiles launched by the natives.
"Yes me big paleface—me come long way toward setting sun—go cross Big Water—go Buckskin—Siwash—chase cougar." The cougar, or mountain lion, is a Navajo god and the Navajos hold him in as much fear and reverence as do the Great Slave Indians the musk-ox.
High Jack had been drinking too much rum ever since we landed in Boca. You know how an Indian is—the palefaces fixed his clock when they introduced him to firewater.
Some Blackfeet Indians, with a taste and a respect for Nature that shames the paleface, have protested to the Secretary of the Interior[…]
Speed is whitey's drug, from the palefaces who cook it to the Caspers who deal it to the ofay vanilla wafers who snort or spike it.
Translations:
paintbrush
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From paint + brush.
Compound parts: paint
brush
Inflected forms:
form: paintbrushes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A thin brush for applying paint.
pos: noun
Translations:
commotion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *moweō
Proto-Italic *kommoweō?
Latin commoveō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin commōtiōnemder.
Middle French commocion
English commotion
From Middle French commocion, from Latin commōtiōnem, accusative singular of commōtiō, from commoveō + -tiō.
Base: commoveō
Affixes: -tiō
Inflected forms:
form: commotions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A state of turbulent motion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An agitated disturbance or a hubbub.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It would seem as if calm were necessary to convulsion; for the tranquillity of the last few months was again to be disturbed by political commotion.
When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.
gloss: Sexual excitement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
euphemistic
uncountable
examples: and now, glancing my eyes towards that part of his dress which cover'd the essential object of enjoyment, I plainly discover'd the swell and commotion there
Synonyms: ado
argy-bargy
bangarang
bobbery
brouhaha
bunfight
bustle
bust-up
chaos
ferment
clamour
clatter
commotion
disruption
disturbance
flap
foofaraw
fracas
furor
fuss
hobbleshaw
hoo-ha
hoo-hah
hubbub
hullabaloo
hurly-burly
kerfuffle
mayhem
merry hell
outcry
palaver
pandemonium
pother
quarrel
riot
rowdydow
ruckus
rumpus
shemozzle
shindy
splatterdash
stir
stooshie
three-ring circus
to-do
tomfoolery
trouble
tumult
turmoil
unrest
uproar
upstir
Related words: bedlam
disorder - a disturbance of civic peace or of public order
fight
Derived words: commotion lotion
commotional
Translations:
painter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English paynter, peyntere, equivalent to paint + -er.
Base: paint
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: painters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An artist who paints pictures.
pos: noun
gloss: A laborer or workman who paints surfaces using a paintbrush or other means.
pos: noun
Derived words: action painter
dialpainter
field painter
fingerpainter
housepainter
house painter
lazy painter
nonpainter
painterish
painterless
painterlike
painterly
painter's colic
paintership
painter-stainer
paintery
paintress
paintrix
signpainter
Sunday painter
word painter
shank-painter
Translations:
laborer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English labor
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English laborer
From labor + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: laborers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: labourer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who labors.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Near-synonyms: worker, toiler
gloss: One who labors.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Near-synonym: toiler
Related words: laborist
Derived words: colaborer
forced laborer
nonlaborer
the laborer is worthy of his hire
Translations:
lactose
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French lactose, from Latin lac (“milk”) + -ose (derivation of glucose). Coined by French chemist Marcelin Berthelot.
Base: lac
Affixes: -ose
Inflected forms:
form: lactoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products, C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁, a product of glucose and galactose used as a food and in medicinal compounds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
rapist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rape
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 rapist
From rape + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: rapists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who has committed rape; someone who raped another person.
pos: noun
Translations:
lucid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *lewk-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Indo-European *lowkéyeti
Proto-Italic *loukeō
Proto-Indo-European *lewk-der.
Proto-Italic *loukēō
Latin lūceō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin lūcidus
English lucid
Latin lucidus, from lūceō (“shine”) + -idus.
Inflected forms:
form: lucider
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more lucid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: lucidest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most lucid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: lucids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Clear; easily understood.
pos: adj
examples: [T]he book, constructed in short, lucid episodes, can be satisfyingly read as a sequence of provocative talks, at once well informed and vatic.
gloss: Mentally rational; sane.
pos: adj
gloss: Bright, luminous, translucent, or transparent.
pos: adj
examples: The atmosphere was unusually clear, as if loath to part with the daylight; but the moon, like a round of lucid snow, had risen on the sky; and a pale, soft gleam, came from the lamps amid the foliage.
Pictures of growing spring and farms and homes, / With the Fourth-month eve at sundown, and the gray smoke lucid and bright, […]
gloss: A lucid dream.
pos: noun
examples: The day before nightmare-initiated lucids, subjects reported more depressed feelings[…]
Synonyms: perspicuous
straightforward
radiant
pellucid
see-through
transparent
translucent
Related words: dilucidate
dilucular
elucidate
Derived words: circumlucid
hyperlucid
lucid dream
lucid dreaming
lucid interval
lucidity
lucidly
lucidness
lucidophyll
nonlucid
semilucid
sublucid
terminal lucidity
ultralucid
unlucid
Translations:
lovelorn
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From love + lorn.
Compound parts: love
lorn
Inflected forms:
form: more lovelorn
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lovelorn
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: lovelorns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Abandoned or forsaken by one's lover; having constant bad luck in romance; desperate for love.
pos: adj
examples: Ye lovesick bards! repay her scorn for scorn; / Ye artists lovelorn! madmen that ye are, / Make your best bow to her and bid adieu / Then, if she likes it, she will follow you.
A soft-breasted bird from the sea / Fell in love with the light-house flame; / And it wheeled round the tower on its airiest wing, / And floated and cried like a lovelorn thing;
gloss: Unloved, bereft of love.
pos: adj
gloss: A person who is lovelorn.
pos: noun
examples: And when there's a price involved, she can help others but - not herself. She gives advice to the lovelorn every day but she's never been in love herself. Or so I've heard.
Derived words: lovelornness
Translations:
lovable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English lovable, loveable, luffeabill, lufabul, equivalent to love + -able.
Base: love
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: more lovable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: lovabler
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lovable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: lovablest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: loveable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Inspiring or deserving love or affection; adorable or cute.
pos: adj
examples: In short, the old town—the lovablest, old-timiest, easy-goingest old town that ever was—sits there by the River, hugging its traditions, and hoarding its stories, of which it has enough to make a new Thousand and One Nights.
Hon. Collier Weekly which furnish Japanese Schoolboy to public not often enough, when is his book coming out? […] That Boy is the dearest & sweetest & frankest & wisest & funniest & delightfulest & lovablest creation that has been added to our literature for a long time.
“[…] You’ll let Jims come here often, won’t you? I love him dearly.” / “No doubt you do, miss, for a lovabler child I never did see.[…]”
The wonder of the women of the world together, moya! And the lovablest Lima since Ineen MacCormick MacCoort MacConn O’Puckins MacKundred.
In A League of Their Own (1992), as the shouty baseball coach to an all-girls team, he's once again a curmudgeonly but lovable mentor figure.
At 20 pounds, Jimmy Kibble is a lovable, beautiful pomsky — a cross between a Pomeranian and a husky. But he has a lot of energy.
Translations:
lube
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of lubricant.
Inflected forms:
form: lubes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Lubricant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: Jasmine put lube on her bike chain in preparation for the big race.
Squeezing a healthy dollop of lube onto her rosebud, he stretched the tight ring and forced more lubrication into her ass.
gloss: Lubricating.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
not-comparable
examples: The main engine lube oil sump had a maximum capacity of 2,870 gallons, with a high-level operating capacity of 2,020 gallons, a normal operating level of 1,426 gallons, and a low level of 724 gallons. The alteration section of the construction diagram for the lubricating system of the Ponce-class vessels shows that in 1972, before El Faros keel was laid, the original design specifications for the operating levels of the lube' oil sump were changed. The operating capacity was increased from 900 gallons to 1,426 gallons, the low-level capacity was decreased from 750 gallons to 724 gallons, and the sump design capacity was decreased from 4,250 gallons to 2,870 gallons.
Translations:
lubricate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lūbricātus, perfect passive participle of lūbricō (“make slippery”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more), from lūbricus (“slippery”).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: lubricates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lubricating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lubricated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lubricated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make slippery or smooth (normally to minimize friction) by applying a lubricant.
pos: verb
examples: If your bicycle chain is squeaking you should lubricate it.
gloss: To cause someone to become drunk, especially to make them more sociable or talkative.
pos: verb
tags: humorous
examples: They listened with wonder and pride at their album as it played several times throughout the afternoon, with Cosmo lubricating them with beer and whiskey.
At Göbekli Tepe, a site in what is now modern-day Turkey we'll talk about more below, hunter-gatherers convened regularly throughout the tenth to eighth millennia BCE to feast on gazelles, build circular structures, and erect enormous T-shaped limestone pillars carved with mysterious pictograms and animal forms–probably all while well-lubricated with beer.
Related words: lubricity
Derived words: lube
lubricant
lubrication
lubricative
lubricator
lubricin
mislubricate
overlubricate
relubricate
underlubricate
Translations:
disaccharide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Hellenic *dwi-
Ancient Greek δῐ- (dĭ-)bor.
Latin di-bor.
English di-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂
Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH
Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH
Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā)
Pali sakkharābor.
Ancient Greek σάκχᾰρον (sákkhăron)bor.
Latin saccharon
Latin saccharum
English saccharo-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idusder.
English -ide
English saccharide
English disaccharide
From di- + saccharide.
Inflected forms:
form: disaccharides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any sugar, such as sucrose, maltose and lactose, consisting of two monosaccharides combined together.
pos: noun
Translations:
monosaccharide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mender.
Proto-Hellenic *mónwos
Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos)
Ancient Greek μονο- (mono-)der.
English mono-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂
Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH
Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH
Sanskrit शर्क॑रा (śárkarā)
Pali sakkharābor.
Ancient Greek σάκχᾰρον (sákkhăron)bor.
Latin saccharon
Latin saccharum
English saccharo-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idusder.
English -ide
English saccharide
English monosaccharide
From mono- + saccharide.
Inflected forms:
form: monosaccharides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A simple sugar that has a single ring, such as glucose, fructose or deoxyribose.
pos: noun
Translations:
unfunny
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 funny
English unfunny
From un- + funny.
Inflected forms:
form: unfunnier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more unfunny
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: unfunniest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most unfunny
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not funny
pos: adj
examples: Edward told an unfunny knock-knock joke that made his brother groan.
The decline of mobility, reason fading in and out like short-wave radio, the trickle of minor ailments that fed a deeper river—the subject was vast and not all of it was unfunny.
Translations:
multilateral
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mel-der.
Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós?
Proto-Italic *moltos
Latin multus
Latin multīder.
Middle English multi-
English multi-
English lateral
English multilateral
From multi- + lateral.
Inflected forms:
form: multilaterals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having many physical sides.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having many sides or points of view.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Involving three or more parties or nations.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a multilateral negotiation
Canada has continued to work within this agency to promote a multilateral solution to the problems of narcotrafficking and narcoterrorism.
That is a sore point for the U.S. President Trump. He has in the past spoken against multilateral trade agreements. He argued that the deals give too much advantage to America's trading partners and lead to job losses in the U.S.
gloss: A group with representatives from three or more parties or nations.
pos: noun
Derived words: multilateralism
multilateralist
multilateralize
multilaterally
multilateral marriage
multilateration
nonmultilateral
Translations:
tetrahydrocannabinol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres
Proto-Hellenic *kʷétwores
Ancient Greek τέσσᾰρες (téssăres)
Ancient Greek τετρᾰ- (tetră-)bor.
English tetra-
English hydro
English tetrahydro
Ancient Greek κάνναβις (kánnabis)bor.
Latin cannabislbor.
English cannab(is)
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ineclip.
English -in
English -ol
English cannabinol
English tetrahydrocannabinol
From tetrahydro + cannabinol.
Inflected forms:
form: tetrahydrocannabinols
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The psychoactive substance present in cannabis, a hydrogenated derivative of cannabinol.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: While the agency hasn’t proposed changing its 2023 6.7 million-gram quota for marijuana for 2024, it is now calling for the manufacturing of 900,610 grams of delta-9 THC and 790,010 grams of all other tetrahydrocannabinol. That represents another increase after DEA already moved this week to nearly double the 2023 quota for delta-9 THC to 628,460 grams and called for 350,000 grams of other tetrahydrocannabinols.
Translations:
psychoactive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: From psycho- + active.
Base: active
Affixes: psycho-
Inflected forms:
form: more psychoactive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most psychoactive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: psychoactives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Affecting the mind or mental processes.
pos: adj
examples: LSD and DMT are psychoactive drugs.
Ng blows out more smoke, thinking. "As we learned in Vietnam, high-powered weapons are so sensorily overwhelming that they are similar to psychoactive drugs.
gloss: Any drug that affects the mind or mental processes.
pos: noun
examples: LSD and DMT are psychoactives.
Translations: