yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
wedging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
construction
manufacturing
Inflected forms:
form: wedgings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of supporting or securing something with a wedge.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A method of joining timbers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: frost wedging
Translations:
wedged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: cuneiform or wedge-shaped
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Stuck; incapable of proceeding without help, though not having crashed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
examples: The server seems to be wedged: it's not even responding to pings.
Translations:
binaural
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bin-
English aural
English binaural
From bin- + aural.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, affecting, or designed for use with two ears.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In 1839, German experimenter Heinrich Wilhelm Dove discovered that illusory "beats" are perceived when pure tones of slightly different frequency are separately and simultaneously presented to each ear. Dove's insight was to realize that since there is no acoustic mixing of the tones, the perceived beats must exist solely within the auditory system, specifically that part which processes binaural (e.g., "stereo") sound.
Translations:
gastroschisis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek γᾰστήρ (găstḗr)der.
English gastro-
English schisis
English gastroschisis
From gastro- + schisis.
Inflected forms:
form: gastroschises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A defect of the abdominal wall through which the viscera protrude.
pos: noun
Translations:
bouse
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Of unknown origin.
Inflected forms:
form: bouses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bousing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: boused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: boused
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bowse
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To haul or hoist (something) with a tackle.
pos: verb
Translations:
ked
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Of unknown origin. Possibly from or related to Old Danish keed (“sheep ked, louse-fly”).
Inflected forms:
form: keds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kade
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of the family Hippoboscidae of obligate parasites, especially the sheep ked, Melophagus ovinus.
pos: noun
examples: Pouring with tobacco liquor is fatal to these insects, and also to the ked, Hippobosca ovina, and to the tick, Acarus reduvius, if it fairly reach them.
The common differential diagnoses include cutaneous myiasis, sheep scab and lice; however, keds are readily visible to the naked eye.[…]Adult keds are 4-6 mm long, dark red and readily visible on the neck and forelimbs.
They watch the sheep for signs of insects or pests, such as sheep keds and sheep lice, that can irritate the sheep causing them to scratch their fleece against fences or troughs and damage or tear the wool.
Translations:
polymethyl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús
Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor.
English poly-
Proto-Indo-European *médʰu
Proto-Hellenic *métʰu
Ancient Greek μέθυ (méthu)
Proto-Indo-European *swel-der.?
Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der.
German -yl
German Methylbor.
English methyl
English polymethyl
From poly- + methyl.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Any of various polymers whose respective monomer is a methyl derivative; Any of various compounds having many methyl groups
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
uncountable
Translations:
acrylate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From acrylic + -ate.
Base: acrylic
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: acrylates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any salt or ester of acrylic acid.
pos: noun
Translations:
defeasible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
law
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Back-formation from defeasance + -ible, from Anglo-Norman defesaunce, Old French desfaisance, a deverbal noun from desfaire (“to undo”) (Modern French défaire), from des- (“un-, apart”) + fere, faire (“to do”) + -able, reflecting Latin dis- + facere + -ābilis. Near-doublet of defeatable.
Affixes: -ible
Inflected forms:
form: more defeasible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most defeasible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being defeated, terminated, annulled, voided or invalidated.
pos: adj
examples: The accounting charge for the non-callable debt is defeasible by an escrow.
Languages are acquired mainly through the exercise of defeasible inductive methods, based on experience of linguistic communication.
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Translations:
polyolefin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús
Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor.
English poly-
English olefin
English polyolefin
From poly- + olefin.
Inflected forms:
form: polyolefins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A polymer (such as polyethylene) made by the polymerization of an olefin.
pos: noun
Translations:
polyphase
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús
Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor.
English poly-
English phase
English polyphase
From poly- + phase.
Inflected forms:
form: more polyphase
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most polyphase
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or involving multiple alternating currents that have the same frequency but differ in phase.
pos: adj
examples: In the past there had been several attempts to embody in locomotives some form of rotating machine to convert single-phase a.c. at supply frequency to polyphase a.c. at variable frequency, in order to achieve the necessary variable speed characteristic.
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or consisting of multiple phases of matter
pos: adj
Derived words: polyphase circuit
polyphase coil
polyphase matrix
polyphase meter
polyphase quadrature filter
polyphase rectifier
polyphase synchronous generator
polyphase system
polyphase transformer
polyphase wattmeter
Translations:
polyphasic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús
Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor.
English poly-
English phasic
English polyphasic
From poly- + phasic.
Inflected forms:
form: more polyphasic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most polyphasic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having multiple coexisting phases
pos: adj
gloss: Having multiple successive peaks of activity
pos: adj
Derived words: polyphasic sleep
Translations:
skald
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old Norse skald. Doublet of scold.
Inflected forms:
form: skalds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scald
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Nordic poet of the Viking Age.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The fire was spreading rapidly through all parts of the castle, when Ulrica, who had first kindled it, appeared on a turret, in the guise of one of the ancient furies, yelling forth a war-song, such as was of yore chaunted on the field of battle by the scalds of the yet heathen Saxons.
Command Egil the Skald to stand forth and stir our viking blood with his songs of thee.
Translations:
grandfathering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See grandfather.
Inflected forms:
form: grandfatherings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Exemption from new legislation or regulations.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The grandfathering of boundaries has been, on average, a pacifying development […]
And on Monday, an appeals court in Massachusetts said that it would no longer use the term “grandfathering” because “it has racist origins.”
Translations:
grandfathered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a policy, document, or other legality, that has retained discontinued laws or rules or that has been exempted from new regulation.
pos: adj
Translations:
factoring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: factorings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A financial transaction whereby a business sells its accounts receivable to a third party (called a factor) at a discount.
pos: noun
gloss: The process of rewriting an expression as the product of its factor.
pos: noun
Related words: factorization
Derived words: crowdfactoring
Translations:
curtained
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Covered or partitioned with a curtain or curtains.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Golden head by golden head, / Like to pigeons in one nest / Folded in each other's wings, / They lay down in their curtained bed:
[…] as he lay and tossed in the gross darkness of the night and the curtained room, Mr. Enfield's tale went by before his mind in a scroll of lighted pictures.
There was just room between the sofa and the curtained wall […]
The wall and door of the compartment on the corridor side are of plexiglass, fully curtained on the inside.
gloss: Hidden or separated as if by a curtain.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: Now o'er the one halfworld / Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse / The curtain'd sleep;
gloss: Hung with a curtain or curtains of the specified type.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
examples: And in his sedgy bed the lark, for joy that Day is nigh, / Scatters the pearléd dew from off the grass, / In tremulous ecstasy to greet the sun, / Who soon in gilded panoply will pass / Forth from yon orange-curtained pavilion / Hung in the burning east, […]
[…] the ladies had retired to their chintz-curtained bedroom […]
Little grocery shops and bakeries stood between jewelers and florists and bead-curtained doors opening into private houses […]
Derived words: uncurtained
Translations:
seeping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: seepings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something seeps.
pos: noun
gloss: Liquid that has seeped.
pos: noun
examples: A puddle of bright orange - the seepings from the pickling liquid - crept across the factory floor towards the drain.
Derived words: seepingly
Translations:
coned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cone
English -ed
English coned
From cone + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: segregated or delineated by traffic cones (of an area)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Give each participant a soccer ball and instruct them to dribble their ball around the coned area.
gloss: Shaped like a cone.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Liner train wagon is a simple underframe on bogies, with coned location points that engage recesses in the container bases.
Translations:
moonshiner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English moonshine
English -er
English moonshiner
From moonshine + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: moonshiners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who makes or distributes moonshine (illicit alcohol).
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: bootlegger; rum-runner
Ness was assigned to track down moonshiners, then accepted the position of public safety director in Cleveland — not the stuff of a two-fisted series about G-men taking on the Mafia and various crazed outlaws of the period.
Translations:
spawning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: spawnings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which something spawns.
pos: noun
Translations:
auditing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: auditings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or result of performing an audit.
pos: noun
examples: He didn't mind Karla auditing courses — in fact, he encouraged it — but he did mind having to audit her auditings, particularly when he had a hangover.
Translations:
overdoing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: overdoings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Excessive activity.
pos: noun
examples: And I believe the overdoings of a young convert, proceeding from an honest simplicity of heart, and a desire of pleasing the Lord, are more acceptable in his sight, than a certain coolness of conduct which frequently takes place […]
Translations:
cautioning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cautionings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of giving a warning.
pos: noun
examples: Whilst the daylight lasted, he treated her cautionings with apparent indifference. The darkness of night is the time for fear. As the gloom of evening set in, he grew nervous.
Translations:
gimped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
clothing
computing
engineering
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
textiles
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gimp
English -ed
English gimped
From gimp + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more gimped
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gimped
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Wrapped or wound tightly with a second length of yarn or wire in a tight spiral, often by means of a gimping machine, leaving the core yarn straight and protected (gimped yarn). Also, generally, wrapped or twisted with string or wire (gimped buttons).
pos: adj
tags: usually
gloss: Adorned with gimp (decorative trim); edged or embroidered.
pos: adj
gloss: Jagged, as a jagged or uneven edge or outline; notched, edged with serrations or grooves; nicked, dented.
pos: adj
examples: The leaves... are slightly “gimped,” and this gives them an apparently wavy outline.
gloss: Crippled, injured; damaged as to awkwardly impede function.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Then he wheeled him around and began pushing him lickety-split down the hall, the chair's rickety wheels squealing like a gimped grocery cart.
gloss: Modified by means of the GIMP image editor.
pos: adj
tags: informal
Synonyms: notched
toothed
serrated
imbrued
injured
deteriorated
Related words: photoshopped
Derived words: gimped up
gimped out
Translations:
sprained
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more sprained
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sprained
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
overhauls
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An overall.
pos: noun
tags: US
colloquial
Translations:
overhauling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: overhaulings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is overhauled.
pos: noun
Translations:
cluttering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: clutterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of making, or condition of being, cluttered.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The clutterings of French-inspired modernism gave way to the single-purpose intensity of a new indigenous outlook on life.
gloss: A speech disorder characterized by fast, jerky, or irregular speech, which often sounds like stuttering.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An instance of cluttered speech.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
cluttered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more cluttered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cluttered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Scattered with a disorderly mixture of objects that occupies space; littered.
pos: adj
Translations:
jettisoning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: jettisonings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action by which something is jettisoned.
pos: noun
examples: Both weapons are presumed to have submerged almost instantly. The ocean varies in depth in the area of the jettisonings.
Translations:
hitching
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hitchings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is hitched.
pos: noun
examples: There are lots of pauses and little detours, hitchings-up of their smocks, inspection of the soles of their feet, some rather overdone limping.
Translations:
surmounting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: surmountings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is surmounted, or overcome.
pos: noun
examples: How can we appraise and preserve the glories won in our yesterdays without a knowledge of the tragedies and travails, the strivings and their surmountings, the compelling aspirations and their slow, patient accomplishment […]
gloss: A decorative feature that sits on top of something.
pos: noun
examples: The sides of the casket were covered with heavy black broadcloth, with velvet caps, presenting a deep contrast to the rich surmountings.
This and the round gable ends, with their subsequent Gothic surmountings, the five lofty domes, the rich ornament of gold and colour which covers every part, give an effect to the whole building […]
A manifest improvement upon the above form of this kind of ventilator was brought out by Mr. Boyle in 1878. It is intended to be used as a surmounting to the tops of outlet tubes or upcast shafts.
Translations:
cocooning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The sense of staying in one's home was coined by American futurologist Faith Popcorn in 1981.
Inflected forms:
form: cocoonings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The formation of a cocoon.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of staying inside one's home, insulated from perceived danger, instead of going out.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: The rise of social cocooning, beginning in the 1980s, greatly impacted the social life of families. Where once families lived in more modest-sized homes and spent time engaged in community endeavors such as church, PTA and school functions[…], many families now have more spacious homes with enough amenities that they do not need to go to the public park, the local swimming pool, or even the local movie theater; […]
Translations:
cocooned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Enclosed in a cocoon.
pos: adj
examples: As previously stated, the true hibernating form of the midge is the "cocooned larva."
A low humidity of 35%, on the whole was highly injurious to the development and viability of cocooned larvae.
values derived as mean of measurements taken on 47 cocooned female larvae reared on new foliage and 26 cocooned female larvae reared on mature foliage.
gloss: Isolated, especially in an environment that limits interaction with whatever is outside it.
pos: adj
examples: A young black hole formed in the center of galaxy can develop into the cocooned black hole or, as extreme possibility, into a magnetoid with a black hole inside.
That was a very big eye-opener for me, after being very cocooned, living most of my life in the city where I was born and raised.
So we all expected a fairly open and informative visit. But it was very cocooned.
And yet, as the coverage became more relentless, she chose to become more cocooned.
It was a very cocooned environment, in a way, and I could write and get a lot of feedback.
gloss: Stored in an inactive state; mothballed.
pos: adj
examples: The cocooned machinery in its case being hoisted aboard Grace Line's Santa Ana.
Towed from the paint spray hangar, the plane joins other cocooned aircraft at McClellan's storage area preparatory to a convoy along State highways from McClellan to Government loading docks on the Sacramento River, 15 miles away.
The three airframes were to remain cocooned and awaiting their uncertain future until the mid 1960s, when all three of them were finally broken up.
Derived words: uncocooned
Translations:
dithers
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The creeps; a feeling of fear or anxiety.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
slang
examples: “It gives me the dithers, thinking of the damage that maniac could do if he ever took the headship. He could reinstate the cycle of chosen births, or enact any of a hundred other terrible laws.”
Translations:
dithering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ditherings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who dithers.
pos: noun
examples: Even though it became clear as early as 1766 that a separate policy for Quebec was required, eight long years of delays and ditherings lay between that recognition and actual legislation in the Quebec Act.
Translations:
dithered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more dithered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dithered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Produced by dithering; consisting of bits in different colors placed side by side to simulate an intermediate color that is not in the palette, or the somewhat banded or mottled look that this can produce.
pos: adj
examples: Keeping in mind the minimum target configuration of 256 colours the pictures mode was changed from thousands to 256 colours. This sort of a conversion gives a very dithered look to the picture.
Being able to apply lossy compression to parts of an image affords a whole new realm of control: only areas in an image that have a very dithered texture, such as beaches and streets, can benefit from lossy compression, as can dark areas where the human eye is less capable of distinguishing hues.
If users have their monitors set to 16-bit and they're looking at a 24-bit color, they get a dithered color also, but the higher resolution of 16-bit versus 8-bit means that the computer can choose closer colors, so the dither doesn't look as obvious.
Translations:
debs
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Clipping of debutante or debut + -s (hypocoristic suffix).
Affixes: -s
Inflected forms:
form: debses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A debutante ball or debut.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: 'I had my debs there,' she said, 'four years ago last summer.'
'Ah, the debs!' I go. 'God, I could tell you some stories about my debs days. Like, for instance, the one where I went to two different debses on the same night. That's a famous one about me.'
David Maxwell, a member of the board of management of the school, said cars bringing teenagers to the debs were travelling in convoy and that friends and neighbours were first on the scene of the crash.
Translations:
disenchanting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more disenchanting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most disenchanting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causing one to become disenchanted; disillusioning; making something unattractive.
pos: adj
examples: The more the player knows that as they plug in and log on they are being played on by a vast technomarketing apparatus, the more disenchanting the virtual experience risks becoming.
What could be more disenchanting than stores built to look like warehouses—comparatively cold, spare, and inelegant?
There is nothing more disenchanting than coming away from a class with the residue from the underside of someone's chair all over your favourite sweatshirt.
Translations:
loons
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of loon pants.
pos: noun
Translations:
rescinding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: rescindings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instance of something being rescinded.
pos: noun
Translations:
parasailing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A recreational activity where a person is towed behind a vehicle (usually a boat) while attached to a specially designed parachute, known as a parasail.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
stovepipes
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of stovepipe trousers.
pos: noun
Translations:
polyphenylene
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús
Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor.
English poly-
English phenylene
English polyphenylene
From poly- + phenylene.
Inflected forms:
form: polyphenylenes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several polymers in which the repeat unit is a phenylene radical; but especially a polyphenylene oxide
pos: noun
Translations:
phenylene
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: phenylenes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of three isomeric divalent aromatic radicals derived from benzene by removing two hydrogen atoms from the ortho-, meta- or para- positions.
pos: noun
Translations:
countervailing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more countervailing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most countervailing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Compensating with equal force.
pos: adj
tags: formal
examples: countervailing duty
For every attribute that encourages diversity and decentralization on the Web, there is a countervailing push toward homogeneity and concentration.
We need countervailing action soon. Every day brings evidence that the mere prospect of Brexit is damaging a British economy that is in enough trouble already.
Trump, Kayleigh McEnany said, “makes hiring decisions based on the fact that he likes to have countervailing viewpoints … he likes the model of having a ‘team of rivals’ like what we saw in President Lincoln’s administration”.
Translations:
dunna
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: do not.
pos: verb
tags: Northern-England
examples: Ma lass!' he murmured. 'Ma little lass! Dunna let's fight! Dunna let's niver fight! I love thee an' th' touch on thee. Dunna argue wi' me! Dunna! Dunna! Dunna! Let's be together.'
Translations:
geis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Irish geisbor.
English geis
Borrowed from Irish geis.
Inflected forms:
form: geises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: geasa
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of geas (“a mystical injunction: a prohibition, or obligation/compulsion”).
pos: noun
examples: [In] 36a we read that there was (19) a geis upon ships to leave the 'port' of Athens till someone had defeated Atalanta in a running race. The nature and function of the geis that lay upon objects appears to better advantage, however, in one of the stories about Ailill Dock-Ear.
'In some cases a geis is imposed by one man upon another, often by means of a successful exploit, as when Cu Chulainn lays a geis upon the Connachtmen, binding them not to pass the ford until someone has removed the branch which he has ...
The púca scrunched up his face in puzzlement and rubbed his bald head. Glad he should be, his geis fulfilled and the Good God satisfied.
“I place a geis upon you, my son,” I rasped, my eyes burning with impending wrath. I pressed my palm to his chest and conjured my symbol, the mark which tied a Faelorehn life to my service.
Before she died, she placed a geis upon me, that all the glamour I would ever be capable of possessing would gather in my hair. She did it so they wouldn't kill me, too, but because of that, I have never been free.
Translations:
orthophosphoric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ortho-
English phosphoric
English orthophosphoric
From ortho- + phosphoric.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Describing the ordinary form of phosphoric acid and its derivatives
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Pyrophosphoric sulphobromide is a liquid of a clear yellow colour, and aromatic, pungent odour, resembling that of orthophosphoric sulphobromide, but still more disagreeable.
Beraneck's tuberculin consists of equal parts of the filtrate of a culture of tubercle bacilli and a 1 per cent. orthophosphoric extract of the residue.
Alkaline phosphatase catalyses the cleavage of orthophosphoric monoester according to the following scheme […]
Translations:
orthophosphate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₃erdʰ-der.
Proto-Hellenic *ortʰwós
Ancient Greek ὀρθός (orthós)lbor.
English ortho-
English phosphate
English orthophosphate
From ortho- + phosphate.
Inflected forms:
form: orthophosphates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any salt or ester of orthophosphoric acid; an ordinary phosphate
pos: noun
Translations:
carbazole
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: carbazoles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: carbazol
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A tricyclic aromatic organic compound containing two benzene rings fused to a pyrrole ring.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of its derivatives.
pos: noun
Derived words: carbazolequinone
carbazolyl
carvedilol
dihydrocarbazole
polycarbazole
pyranocarbazole
pyrrolocarbazole
Translations:
stippling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: stipplings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A stippled pattern.
pos: noun
examples: There is a rich celebration of city-tough plants deliberately carried over from the days when the abandoned High Line bloomed untended with wild stipplings of red sumac, smoke bush, milkweed, echinacea and other self-seeding invaders.
Translations:
comtesse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French comtessebor.
English comtesse
Borrowed from French comtesse.
Inflected forms:
form: comtesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A French countess.
pos: noun
examples: The king is impatient to see the comtesse, and I have promised that she will sup with him to-morrow evening in my apartment at Versailles.
‘Louise Victoria is a comtesse?’ murmured the major. […] You’ll agree, I think, Madame Dupont, that some young ladies are to be cherished, whether they’re comtesses or not?
“That is not fitting speech for a comtesse, not to mention highly unfashionable language for a young lady to use in mixed company.” […] “You have known many comtesses?” she asked, lowering her sword, sensing the threat from Gareth had passed . . . at least for now.
Translations:
menorrhagia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From meno- + -rrhagia.
Base: meno
Inflected forms:
form: menorrhagias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Excessive menstrual flow but regularly timed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The normal flow of the menses.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
Antonyms: oligomenorrhea
Derived words: epimenorrhagia
menorrhagic
oligomenorrhagia
polymenorrhagia
Translations:
parenting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: parentings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of raising and educating a child from birth until adulthood.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: authoritarian parenting style
neglectful parenting style
Translations:
patting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pattings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is patted.
pos: noun
examples: It is safe to say that Betty was fully dressed, to the last little pattings and fluffings of her blue morning dress, before ten minutes was up, and, with Mrs. Irving, was walking with rapidly beating heart down the hall toward Allen's room.
Translations:
fancying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fancyings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something fancied or imagined.
pos: noun
examples: These sad fancyings – chimeras, doubtless, of a sick and silly brain – led on the other and more special thoughts, concerning the eccentricities of Bartleby.
Translations:
high-frequency
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Very frequent.
pos: adj
gloss: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see high, frequency.
pos: adj
examples: a high-frequency sound
high-frequency radiation
Translations:
motorhead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *moweō
Latin moveō
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Latin mōtorder.
Middle English motour
English motor
English -head
English motorhead
From motor + -head.
Inflected forms:
form: motorheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A car, truck, or motorcycle enthusiast.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
slang
examples: The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude.
Amelia may soon return to her roots in TV production as she completes an exciting pilot about car culture, a nice integration of vocation and avocation for this particular motorhead.
gloss: A heavy user of amphetamines.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
Related words: motordom
motormania
Translations:
accommodative
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin com-
Proto-Indo-European *med-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Italic *medos
Latin modus
Latin commodusnom.
Latin commodum
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin commodō
Latin accommodō
Latin accommodātusbor.
English accommodate
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English accommodative
From accommodate + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: more accommodative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most accommodative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Supplying with or obliging; accommodating.
pos: adj
examples: This fact points in a similar direction as the high MPC fact: macro stimulus can raise output substantially in circumstances when monetary policy is accommodative (e.g., at the ZLB).
Translations:
muddling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: muddlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who muddles; confusion; disorderly progress.
pos: noun
examples: Janzen's critiques of most of my present chapters, with his soaring imagination, unencumbered passion for theologizing, and relentless wrestling, often revealed and challenged my flat-footed muddlings[…]
Translations:
muddled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more muddled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most muddled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Confused, disorganised, in disarray.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: muddle-headed
Richardson took over, and Mitchell proceeded to the refreshment room in his turn, but when he came back some ten minutes later, it was evident that he had been indulging in something more potent than coffee, and he was in a very muddled state.
The selection of James Milner ahead of Young was the product of muddled thinking and the absence of Peter Crouch - with 22 goals in 42 England appearances - from even the substitutes' bench was also a surprise.
Translations:
affronting
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: affrontings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more affronting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most affronting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The offering of an affront.
pos: noun
examples: the affrontings of his majesty
gloss: Offensive, causing an affront.
pos: adj
examples: How much more affronting must it be to the Majefty of Heaven, the Great KING, to be thus treated?
There was afterwards one despatch from the Russian Minister to Earl Russell which in former times must have led to instant war, because it was of a very affronting character to the great nation which the noble Earl represented.
The ladies tell me that there is no Adonis, which is very affronting —only old men (alias old women) , and boys like Thomas Thumb, with the legs of a starved spider.
Translations:
affronted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Inflected forms:
form: more affronted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most affronted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Offended; having taken umbrage.
pos: adj
examples: I feel very, very affronted by this process which did not include us, at least in the interview stage so we could have the benefit of an exchange with these individuals.
[…] a majority (59 per cent) would be affronted by the Church taking a stand on parliamentary legislation; and Poles would be even more affronted (81 per cent) by priests telling people how to vote.
Simon was affronted at being recalled and even more affronted at being asked to account for his actions – this did not bode well.
gloss: Synonym of affronté.
pos: adj
examples: PROVENANCE The arms on f.25 are argent a lion rampant affronted azure, with claws and tongue gules; these are perhaps the arms of Acciajaoli, of Florence (cf. the sale in these rooms, 7 December 1992, lot 74), or Nini, of Siena[…]
Derived words: affrontedly
affrontedness
unaffronted
Translations:
chitter
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English chiteren, chitren, cheteren. Ultimately onomatopoeic; compare didder and teeter as well as German zittern.
Inflected forms:
form: chitters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chittering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chittered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chittered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make a series of high-pitched sounds; to twitter, chirp or chatter.
pos: verb
examples: It was a beautifully sunny day and beetles could be heard chittering loudly in the rose garden by the side of the path made out of antique bricks.
gloss: To shiver or chatter with cold.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
obsolete
examples: Whare wilt thou cower thy chittering wing, / An' close thy e'e?
Derived words: chitter-chatter
Translations:
pseudepigrapha
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ψευδής (pseudḗs, “false”) + ἐπιγραφή (epigraphḗ, “inscription”), literally “false title”.
Base: ψευδής
Inflected forms:
form: pseudepigraphon
pos: noun
tags: singular
form: pseudepigraph
pos: noun
tags: singular
Senses:
gloss: Writings falsely ascribed to famous persons (historical or mythical) to lend them greater legitimacy, typically composed many centuries after the ostensible author's death.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-normally
examples: The Jewish pseudepigrapha bear the names of Old Testament patriarchs, kings, or prophets.
Now, the myth theory, as it happens, is neither made nor marred by any decision as to the spuriousness of the Pauline letters. The crucial point is that, whether early or late—and the dating of them as pseudepigrapha is a difficult matter—the cardinal epistles have been interpolated.
The difference between a pseudepigraph and a peroration is that the peroration is composed by the author of the main message. A pseudepigraph is composed by a different author, trying to leave the impression that it was the same. Heb 13 is clearly a pseudepigraph.
The title of her^([Clare K. Rothschild]) monograph Hebrews as Pseudepigraphon¹³ reflects one of her main claims: "Hebrews should be classified as a Pauline [my italics] pseudepigraphon," because "although Paul's name does not occur in the text, the postscript makes a claim to Paul's authorship, particularly through appropriation of autobiographical details of Paul's life as the author's own."
Translations:
botryoidal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: By surface analysis, botry- + -o- + -id + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more botryoidal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most botryoidal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having the form of a bunch of grapes.
pos: adj
examples: The oxyde of cobalt, […] is found either ſuperficial, interſperſed, or in lumps; ſometimes botryoidal or reniform or bearing particular impreſſions.
Translations:
undersecretary
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí
Proto-Indo-European *-ér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér
Proto-Germanic *under
Proto-West Germanic *undar
Old English under-
Middle English under-
English under-
English secretary
English undersecretary
From under- + secretary.
Inflected forms:
form: undersecretaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An administrator immediately subordinate to a head of a government department or to a member of a cabinet
pos: noun
gloss: An assistant or deputy secretary of a government department
pos: noun
Translations:
antiemetic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English anti-
English emetic
English antiemetic
From anti- + emetic.
Inflected forms:
form: more antiemetic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most antiemetic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: antemetic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: anti-emetic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: antiemetics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: antemetic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: anti-emetic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: That combats nausea and vomiting
pos: adj
gloss: A drug that combats nausea and vomiting
pos: noun
Antonyms: emetic
Translations:
hypertrophic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hypertroph(y)
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English hypertrophic
From hypertroph(y) + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more hypertrophic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hypertrophic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting hypertrophy.
pos: adj
examples: Yet these increasingly hypertrophic forms of masculinity existed in tension with ideals of obedience, courtesy, cultural refinement and charity that were still viewed as markers of the ‘gentleman’.
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting hypertrophy.
pos: adj
examples: Coordinate term: atrophic
Derived words: antihypertrophic
hypertrophical
hypertrophically
hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
hypertrophic gastritis
hypertrophic obesity
hypertrophic osteoarthropathy
hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy
nonhypertrophic
prehypertrophic
prohypertrophic
pseudohypertrophic
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: hipertròfic
lang: Finnish
word: hypertrofinen
lang: French
word: hypertrophique
lang: German
word: hypertroph
lang: Greek
word: υπερτροφικός
roman: ypertrofikós
lang: Irish
word: hipeartrófach
lang: Italian
word: ipertrofico
lang: Spanish
word: hipertrófico
subvariety
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
English variety
English subvariety
From sub- + variety.
Inflected forms:
form: subvarieties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A secondary or subsidiary variety.
pos: noun
gloss: A secondary or subsidiary variety.
pos: noun
gloss: A rank below that of variety.
pos: noun
Synonyms: subvar.
Derived words: algebraic subvariety
Translations:
disseminated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more disseminated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most disseminated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: spread around; widespread
pos: adj
gloss: spread over a wide area of the body or of an organ
pos: adj
Derived words: disseminated intravascular coagulation
disseminated sclerosis
nondisseminated
undisseminated
Translations:
portobello
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: In use by 1985. Uncertain origin. Possibly a marketing name; possibly from dialectal Italian pratarolo (“meadow mushroom”), ultimately from Latin pratum (“meadow”). It has also said to be named after Portobello Road in London, which originally led to the Porto Bello House.
Inflected forms:
form: portobellos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: portabella
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: portabello
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The large, mature form of the crimini mushroom (Agaricus bisporus)
pos: noun
Translations:
crimini
Part of speech: intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Marketing name.
Inflected forms:
form: criminis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cremini
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: criminy
pos: intj
gloss: A dark brown edible mushroom, Agaricus bisporus, that has a rounded cap; called a portobello when mature
pos: noun
Translations:
powerboating
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English powerboat
English -ing
English powerboating
From powerboat + -ing.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The act of travelling in a powerboat.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
motorboating
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The act of travelling in a motorboat.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The act of placing one's head between a woman's breasts and making the sound of a motorboat with one's lips whilst moving the head from side to side.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
Translations:
boater
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
nautical
textiles
transport
Etymology: From Middle English botere; equivalent to boat + -er. The use of the term for a straw hat stems from the fact that straw hats were the preferred head covering during sunny boat trips on canals and rivers.
Base: boat
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: boaters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who travels by boat.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of boatman, particularly its captain.
pos: noun
examples: In the summer of 1992, eight beaches were closed and swimmers were warned away because of colliform bacteria, caused by boaters emptying toilets directly into the lake or onto nearby shores. Park officials may soon supply the lake with floating waste disposal systems.
gloss: A straw hat, very stiff, with a flat brim and crown.
pos: noun
examples: Technically, Melania Trump was in attendance, but she chose to make herself almost invisible. Her dark boater hat was worn so low that it threw her entire face into shadow, and made eye contact with cameras or guests impossible.
Derived words: jetboater
Translations: