yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
stricture
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin strictūra, from Latin strictus.
Inflected forms:
form: strictures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rule restricting behaviour or action.
pos: noun
tags: countable
plural-normally
uncountable
examples: To his eyes it had no attraction; it savoured of simony, and was likely to bring down upon him harder and more deserved strictures than any he had yet received: he positively declined to become vicar of Puddingdale under any circumstances.
1931 Edgar Wallace: Again Sanders
"That is a matter for you to discuss with the Government," said Sanders, in his iciest tone. "I am only authorized to collect twenty-eight thousand.
I will note your strictures and report them to Whitehall."
"I'm passing no strictures said the Major, hastily.
He had been warned against Sanders...
Even venerable print publications seem to accept that old strictures no longer apply when they move online.
gloss: A general state of restrictiveness on behavior, action, or ideology.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I just couldn't take the stricture of that place a single day more.
For many young people throughout Britain in the 1970s, Northern Soul became a truly alternative lifestyle with the rites and values of the scene replacing many of the traditional strictures of society.
gloss: A sternly critical remark or review.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: When he read the poem to his parents, upon its conclusion, both were much impressed by it, though his father made severe strictures upon its lack of polish, its terminal inconcision, and its vagueness of thought.
gloss: Abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Even in the brief moment of his entrance into the magnificence of Anthony Harding's home he had felt a strange little stricture of the throat—a choking, half-suffocating sensation.
gloss: Strictness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: a man of stricture and firm abstinence
gloss: A stroke; a glance; a touch.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: But whatever may be said of other matters , certainly the first draughts and strictures of Natural Religion and Morality are naturally in the Mind
gloss: The degree of contact, in consonants.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: discipline
Derived words: strictured
strictureplasty
Translations:
lanai
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Hawaiian lānaibor.
English lanai
Borrowed from Hawaiian lānai.
Inflected forms:
form: lanais
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Hawaiian-style roofed patio.
pos: noun
tags: Florida
Hawaii
examples: ‘If they vomit in the lanai, that's for the butler to handle.’
In Honolulu, Nancy Peacock, an architect, said her clients increasingly requested “punees,” as daybeds are known in Hawaii — sometimes on the lanai, the covered porch of the house.
Afterward, Lili‘u and Stevenson found time to talk quietly with each other on the bungalow's lānai.
Translations:
striped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stripe
English -ed
English striped
From stripe + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having stripes, decorated or marked with bands differing in color.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Jim is the boy in the striped polo.
Translations:
rudeness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English rudenesse, equivalent to rude + -ness.
Base: rude
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: rudenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being rude.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His rudeness was inexcusable.
The rudeness of the cabin gave it a rustic charm but little comfort.
The house was apparently very old; it had an almost prehistoric look about it, so rude and weatherbeaten was it, but the rudeness of the masonry and the lichening of the stones were no real indications of antiquity […]
The woman who deliberately yelled out in the second set, when Henin was about to serve at 5-3 for the championship, was the epitome of the absolute self-centered rudeness that was exhibited at the Open, as well as in our society today.
gloss: A rude remark or behaviour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I'm sick of his rudenesses.
Translations:
slanted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more slanted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most slanted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Placed at an angle, on a slant.
pos: adj
gloss: Biased.
pos: adj
Derived words: misslanted
slantedly
unslanted
Translations:
steering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: steerings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Equipment used to control direction; something used to steer.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: I hit a rock with my car and broke the steering.
Translations:
lynx-eyed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more lynx-eyed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lynx-eyed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Possessing particularly good vision.
pos: adj
examples: Hetty and Mrs. Piper watched them with a lynx-eyed understanding[.]
It was hardly to be expected that the maximum speed of 100 m.p.h. claimed for the Great Western locomotive Builth Castle, in my February article would escape the lynx-eyed scrutiny of readers.
Translations:
lushly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lush
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English lushly
From lush + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more lushly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most lushly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a lush way.
pos: adv
examples: The lushly verdant jungle harbored many plants unknown to outsiders.
Translations:
lysogenic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From lyso- + -genic.
Base: lyso
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or causing lysis.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of, or relating to lysogeny.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: lysogenically
lysogenic bacterium
lysogenic conversion
lysogenic cycle
lysogenicity
nonlysogenic
polylysogenic
pseudolysogenic
Translations:
lysosome
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From lyso- + -some.
Base: lyso
Inflected forms:
form: lysosomes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An organelle found in all types of animal cells which contains a large range of digestive enzymes capable of splitting most biological macromolecules.
pos: noun
Translations:
lysozyme
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-der.
Ancient Greek λύω (lúō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σις (-sis)
Ancient Greek λῠ́σῐς (lŭ́sĭs)bor.
English lyso-
English enzyme
English lysozyme
From lyso- + enzyme.
Inflected forms:
form: lysozymes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bacteriolytic (or antibiotic) enzyme found in many animal secretions, and in egg white.
pos: noun
examples: [Alexander Fleming] had in 1923 discovered lysozyme, an antimicrobial enzyme found in saliva, mucus and tears as part of the body’s first line of defence against invading pathogens.
Translations:
lytic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From lysis + -tic or lysin + -tic.
Base: lysis
Affixes: -tic
Inflected forms:
form: more lytic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lytic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or causing lysis.
pos: adj
examples: […] a preliminary step in any paleopathological analysis is to distinguish in vivo lesions from post-depositional damage. […] generally the problem is distinguishing holes or breaks in bone that represent disease or injury from taphonomic damage. In practice, making this distinction in skeletal remains almost always relies on macroscopy. ¶ In distinguishing lytic lesions from taphonomic damage, it is the macroscopic morphology of the margins that is key.
gloss: Of or relating to lysin.
pos: adj
Derived words: antilytic
lytically
lyticase
lytic cocktail
lytic cycle
lytic infection
nonlytic
pyrolytic
sublytic
Translations:
macrocyclic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
chemistry
mycology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From macro- + cyclic.
Base: cyclic
Affixes: macro-
Inflected forms:
form: more macrocyclic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most macrocyclic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of an organic compound: having a closed ring of more than about twelve atoms.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to a macrocycle.
pos: adj
gloss: Pertaining to a rust fungus whose life cycle includes all five spore stages: pycniospore (spermatium), aeciospore, urediniospore, teliospore, and basidiospore.
pos: adj
examples: Almost all the rusts occurring on the ferns are both heteroecious and macrocyclic; so also are most of those occurring on the conifers.
Derived words: azamacrocyclic
macrocyclic compound
nonmacrocyclic
polymacrocyclic
Translations:
acyclic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
chemistry
graph-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English a-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos
Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek κυκλῐκός (kuklĭkós)bor.
Classical Latin cyclicuslbor.
Middle French cyclique
French cycliquebor.
▲
Classical Latin cyclicusbor.
English cyclic
English acyclic
From a- + cyclic.
Inflected forms:
form: more acyclic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most acyclic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not cyclic; having an open chain structure.
pos: adj
tags: physical
gloss: Containing no cycles.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a flower, having its parts inserted spirally on the receptacle.
pos: adj
Related words: aliphatic
Derived words: acyclically
acyclic digraph
acyclicity
directed acyclic graph
directed acyclic word graph
nonacyclic
semiacyclic
Translations:
swearing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English sweryng; equivalent to swear + -ing.
Base: swear
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: swearings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of swearing, or making an oath.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: No man is believed a jot the more for all the asseverations, damnings, and swearings he makes.
Translations:
fascinated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more fascinated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fascinated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: extremely interested
pos: adj
examples: utterly fascinated
deeply fascinated
fascinated by nature
The children were fascinated by the magician’s tricks.
She was fascinated with ancient history.
Translations:
shawm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English shalmuse, from Old French chalemel (modern French chalumeau), from Late Latin calamellus, from Latin calamus (“reed”), from Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos). Doublet of caramel, chalumeau, and qalam, as well as related to calame, calamus, culm, and haulm.
Inflected forms:
form: shawms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mediaeval double-reed wind instrument with a conical wooden body.
pos: noun
examples: And all the field is thick with companies
Of fair-clothed men that play on shawms and lutes
And gather honey of the yellow fruits
Between the branches waxen soft and wide
There are four flutes, a harp of twenty strings, a mournful shawm, and a number of drums of oxhide, some to be struck, others spanked.
Translations:
sheeny
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Seems to have originated in 1820s London. Could be a mockery of Yiddish שיין (sheyn, “beautiful, nice”), much used in praising wares.
Inflected forms:
form: sheenies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sheeney
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sheenie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sheenier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: sheeniest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A Jew.
pos: noun
tags: ethnic
offensive
slang
slur
examples: May I never get groggy, if I shall ever forget the joke between you and the old Sheenie, when you threatened to throw him overboard for selling you a dumb time-keeper. ‘Blesh ma heart,’ said the Jew, while his under works shook like a cutter’s foresail going about, ‘how could you expect de vatch to go well, ven de ship vas all in confusion?’ an excuse that saved him from sailing ashore in a skuttle-bucket.
O, solomon Levi! Levi! tra la la la!
Poor sheeny Levi, Tra la la la la la la la la la
My name is Solomon Levi
At my store on Salem street
That’s where you’ll buy your coats and vests
And everything else that’s neat (tra la la)
Second-handed Ulsterettes
And everything else that’s fine
For all the boys they trade with me
At a hundred and forty nine
Shylock chimes with the jewbaiting that followed the hanging and quartering of the queen’s leech Lopez, his jew’s heart being plucked forth while the sheeny was yet alive.
"I've told you before now not to push that long, sheeny beak of yours into my affairs."
One time in Humboldt Park Leo "Bow" Gisensohn, our leader, didn't like the way a cop down by the lake called him "sheeny."
Max Baer ain't no Jew.
Sure he is. Everybody knows that. Sheeny to the core.
gloss: A cheat or fraudster.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: Having a sheen; glossy.
pos: adj
gloss: Bright; radiant; shining.
pos: adj
examples: And many a sheeny summer-morn, / Adown the Tigris I was borne, / By Bagdat's shrines of fretted gold, / High-walled gardens green and old; […]
Translations:
Lusatian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Lusatia
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Lusatian
From Lusatia + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Lusatians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Lusatia or its people.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A member of the Lusatian people.
pos: noun
Translations:
egotist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: ego + -t- inserted to avoid hiatus, or after the analogy of dramatist, epigrammatist, etc. + -ist
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: egotists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who talks excessively about themself.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who believes in their own importance or superiority.
pos: noun
gloss: An egoist (advocate of egoism).
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
Related words: egotism
egotistical
Derived words: egotistic
Translations:
northeastern
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English norþesterne, from Old English norþēasterne, equivalent to north + eastern.
Compound parts: north
eastern
Inflected forms:
form: more northeastern
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most northeastern
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: north-eastern
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: Of, related to, located in, or from the northeast.
pos: adj
Translations:
northeasterly
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more northeasterly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most northeasterly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: north-easterly
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: northeasterlies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: north-easterly
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Situated in, or pointing towards, the northeast.
pos: adj
gloss: Coming from the northeast.
pos: adj
gloss: A persistent wind from the northeast
pos: noun
Translations:
gravestone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English graveston, gravestone, gravestan, equivalent to grave + stone.
Base: grave
Inflected forms:
form: gravestones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A stone slab set at the head of a grave.
pos: noun
examples: The value of gravestone inscriptions for ancestral research has long been recognised. The discovery of a single gravestone may provide more information on the history of a family than could be gleaned from […]
How the gravestone got inside the home in Okemos, Michigan, outside Lansing? Now that’s a mystery, according to Friends of Lansing’s Historic Cemeteries (FOLHC) President Loretta S. Stanaway.
On a cold, wet March day, about 20 river cruise passengers, many from the United States, follow their Dutch tour guide through rows of rain-soaked gravestones at the Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial.
Translations:
micrographia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
English -graphia
English micrographia
From micro- + -graphia.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The condition of having small handwriting, sometimes a symptom of Parkinson's disease and related conditions.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
melatonin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From mela- + tone + -in, ultimately from Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas, “black, dark”).
Base: tone
Affixes: mela-
-in
Inflected forms:
form: melatonins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hormone, related to serotonin, that is secreted by the pineal gland, and stimulates colour change in the skin of reptiles, and is involved in the sleep and wake and reproductive cycles in mammals.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: How exactly melatonin relates to sleep is still not understood.
Melatonin production can be delayed or arrested by even brief flashes of bright light entering the eye, research has shown.
gloss: Any material similar in its chemistry and effect to the natural hormone.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Derived words: melatonergic
Translations:
languorously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English languorous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English languorously
From languorous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more languorously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most languorously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a languorous manner; without exertion; lazily.
pos: adv
examples: I stretched languorously, and then remained in bed.
"I did!" She had reached the barricades, and leaned over them languorously. "I can't take all the credit, though, just, you know, most of it." She folded her arms over the edge, and kicked back both of her feet again and again. "Somebody once told me I have a mind like a steel trap."
Translations:
layover
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From lay + over.
Compound parts: lay
over
Inflected forms:
form: layovers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A break between stages of a journey.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
US
examples: Near-synonyms: stopover, stayover (both sometimes synonymous)
We had a layover while waiting to change planes, so we stretched our legs.
We could restore a second platform at Battersby to eliminate the long layover in the branch stub that is currently required for trains to pass one another.
Waddicor will be here for a while. The double shunts take an hour. But it's a scheduled four-hour reload and layover, ahead of his return train back to Didcot.
Translations:
lead-in
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: journalism
media
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lead indeverb.
English lead-in
Deverbal from lead in.
Inflected forms:
form: lead-ins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An introduction; something that leads into the beginning of something.
pos: noun
examples: After the long lead-in, the climax of the story was a disappointment.
gloss: A region of data at the beginning of a compact disc, holding the table of contents.
pos: noun
gloss: A short phrase that begins the caption of a photograph.
pos: noun
Synonyms: prologue
Translations:
anticlimactic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́)
Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der.
English anti-
English climax
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English climactic
English anticlimactic
From anti- + climactic.
Inflected forms:
form: more anticlimactic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most anticlimactic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking climax, disappointing or ironically insignificant following of impressive foreshadowing.
pos: adj
examples: After all the build up, the ending of the story was an anticlimactic letdown.
Translations:
ironically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: manner
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ironic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English ironically
From ironic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more ironically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most ironically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an ironic manner; in a way displaying irony.
pos: adv
examples: My colleague ironically avoids doctors like the plague!
gloss: Used to draw attention to an ironic aspect of a situation being described.
pos: adv
examples: Ironically, the automated checkout system ended up costing more in repairs than the workers it was meant to replace.
Derived words: unironically
Translations:
leadoff
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Beginning something by leading the way.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The leadoff batter began the inning with a double, setting a good example for the following players.
Translations:
suspiciousness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English suspicious
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English suspiciousness
From suspicious + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being suspicious in the sense of arousing suspicion.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The state or quality of being suspicious in the sense of being distrustful or tending to suspect.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: epäilyttävyys
lang: Russian
word: подозри́тельность
roman: podozrítelʹnostʹ
lang: Ukrainian
word: підозрі́лість
roman: pidozrílistʹ
lang: Catalan
word: suspicàcia
lang: Greek
word: καχυποψία
roman: kachypopsía
lang: Hungarian
word: gyanakvás
lang: Polish
word: podejrzliwość
lang: Russian
word: подозри́тельность
roman: podozrítelʹnostʹ
lang: Ukrainian
word: підозрі́ливість
roman: pidozrílyvistʹ
lang: Ukrainian
word: підозрі́лість
roman: pidozrílistʹ
leftist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English left
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 leftist
From left + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: leftists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more leftist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most leftist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A person who holds views associated with the political left.
pos: noun
examples: The first major clash between the two groups occurred in Shih-ho-tzu on January 26, 1967, with the leftists admitting they had suffered a bloody defeat.
gloss: Someone who holds socialist or communist-leaning economic views, usually alongside progressive social views; an anticapitalist.
pos: noun
tags: specifically
gloss: Of or pertaining to the political left.
pos: adj
examples: In law school, when we students thought the outcome of a case was determined by a rule we had studied, leftist professors admonished us, “Tools not rules!” In other words, rules control nothing; they’re merely tools you manipulate for the results you want. The fancy word for this kind of amorality is “instrumentalism,” and it subverts the rule of law.
Derived words: far leftist
regressive leftist
nonleftist
ultraleftist
Translations:
letup
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English let updeverb.
English letup
Deverbal from let up.
Inflected forms:
form: letups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: let-up
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A pause or period of slackening.
pos: noun
examples: without letup
It rained without letup for many hours.
We waited for a letup in the rain, then we ran home before it started again.
Translations:
kilted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English kilt
English -ed
English kilted
From kilt + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having on a kilt.
pos: adj
gloss: Plaited after the manner of kilting.
pos: adj
gloss: Tucked or fastened up; said of petticoats, etc.
pos: adj
Derived words: high-kilted
kilted sausage
unkilted
Translations:
dastard
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English dastard (“a dullard”), most likely formed from *dast, a base derived from Old Norse dæstr (“exhausted, breathless”) + -ard. Compare Icelandic dasaður (“exhausted”), dialectal Swedish däst (“weary”), Middle Dutch dasaert, daasaardt (“a fool”), English dazed (“stupefied”).
Affixes: -ard
Inflected forms:
form: dastards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more dastard
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dastard
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dastards
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dastarding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dastarded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dastarded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A malicious coward; a dishonorable sneak.
pos: noun
examples: I thought ye would never have given out these arms till you had recovered your ancient freedom: but you are all recreants and dastards, and delight to live in slavery to the nobility.
The dastard, that did heare him selfe defyde, / Seem'd not to weigh his threatfull words at all, / But laught them out, as if his greater pryde, / Did scorne the challenge of so base a thrall: Or had not courage, or else had no gall.
My client, an innately bashful man, would be the last man in the world to do anything ungentlemanly which injured modesty could object to or cast a stone at a girl who took the wrong turning when some dastard, responsible for her condition, had worked his own sweet will on her.
gloss: Meanly shrinking from danger, cowardly, dastardly.
pos: adj
examples: 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book III, Canto One, Stanza 22, in The Faerie Queene, Books Three and Four, edited by Dorothy Stephens, Hackett, 2006, p. 13,
Like dastard Curres, that having at a bay
The salvage beast embost in wearie chace,
Dare not adventure on the stubborne pray,
Ne byte before, but rome from place to place,
To get a snatch, when turned is his face.
Now dragg'd once more beyond the western main,
To groan beneath some dastard planter’s chain;
Where my poor countrymen in bondage wait
The long enfranchisement of ling’ring fate:
Observe, too, that this is all a modern affair; belongs not to the old heroic times, but to these dastard new times. ‘Happiness our being’s end and aim’ is at bottom, if we will count well, not yet two centuries old in the world.
gloss: To dastardize.
pos: verb
examples: 1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, or the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, being the Sequel of The Indian Queen, Act II, Scene 1, http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12166/pg12166-images.html
Would my short life had yet a shorter date! / I'm weary of this flesh which holds us here, / And dastards manly souls with hope and fear; / These heats and colds still in our breast make war, / Agues and fevers all our passions are.
Translations:
damar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Malay damar.
Compare Middle English dambre (“a kind of resin”).
Inflected forms:
form: damars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dammar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dammara
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dammer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A large tree of the order Coniferae, indigenous to the East Indies and Australasia, now genus Agathis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A clear to yellow resin, obtained in Malaya from trees of the genera Shorea (family Dipterocarpaceae) and Symplocos (family Symplocaceae), used in varnishes and inks
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of various hard resins, obtained especially from evergreen trees, notably of the genera Agathis (family Araucariaceae) and Hopea (family Dipterocarpaceae), native to southeast Asia, also used in varnishes and lacquers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
shive
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A parallel form of sheave, from Middle English schyve, from Proto-West Germanic *skībā, from Proto-Germanic *skībǭ, presumably through an Old English *sċīfe (though it is not attested before the Middle English period). Cognate with German Scheibe, late Old Norse skífa (“slice”), brauðskífa (“slice of bread”) (whence Danish skive (“disc, slice”)), Dutch schijf (“disc, slice”).
Inflected forms:
form: shives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A slice, especially of bread.
pos: noun
examples: Of a cut loafe to steale a shiue
In my cool room with the shutters shut and the thin shives of air and light coming through the slats, I cried myself to sleep in an overloud selfpitying transport.
gloss: A sheave.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A beam or plank of split wood.
pos: noun
gloss: A flat, wide cork for plugging a large hole or closing a wide-mouthed bottle.
pos: noun
examples: If the conditioning continues to be fairly brisk, a wooden tut might appear to distort a little under the stress of the internal pressure, with the beer seeping out around the tut and shive.
Translations:
hab
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of the various words indicated in the definitions.
Inflected forms:
form: habs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A habitation or habitation facility.
pos: noun
gloss: A house.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A habanero.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: You mix habs into the cheese before stuffing your poppers […]
Related words: hab or nab
Translations:
moly
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Latin mōly, from Ancient Greek μῶλυ (môlu) (probably a loanword).
Inflected forms:
form: molies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A magic herb or plant used by Odysseus to overcome Circe.
pos: noun
tags: Greek
countable
uncountable
examples: It excels Homers moly, cures this, falling sickness, and almost all other infirmities.
Or, propt on beds of amaranth and moly, / How sweet (while warm airs lull us, blowing lowly,)
So spoke the Radiant One; then gave me the magic herb, pulling it from the ground and showing me in what form it grew; its root was black, its flower milk-white. Its name among the gods is moly.
I would need all the secret herbs of Dicte […] . I would need as well the rest of my moly stores.
gloss: Any plant associated with the mythological moly, especially the European allium, Allium moly.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
thiabendazole
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂-der.?
Ancient Greek θέειον (théeion)
Ancient Greek θεῖον (theîon)der.
English thio-
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-)
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós
Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti
Proto-Hellenic *gʷyṓw-ō
Proto-Hellenic *ďṓwō
Ancient Greek ζώω (zṓō)
Ancient Greek ζῶ (zô)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek ζωή (zōḗ)
French azotebor.
English azote
English azo-
English -ole
English azole
English thiazole
German Benzoe
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
German -in
German Benzinbor.
English benzine
English benzene
Egyptian jmnbor.
Ancient Greek Ᾰ̓́μμων (Ắmmōn)bor.
Latin Ammōn
Latin ammoniacusder.
English ammonia
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idusder.
English -ide
English amide
English imide
▲
English azole
English imidazole
English thiabendazole
From thiazole + benzene + imidazole.
Inflected forms:
form: thiabendazoles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: TBZ
pos: noun
tags: abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: A synthetic compound with anthelmintic properties, derived from thiazole and used chiefly to treat infestation with intestinal nematodes.
pos: noun
Translations:
basted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having been cooked by basting.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
nisin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Blend of group N + streptococci + inhibitory substance.
Compound parts: N
streptococci
inhibitory
Inflected forms:
form: nisins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A polycyclic peptide produced by fermentation with the bacterium Lactococcus lactis; used as a preservative in processed cheese etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
chasten
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English chastien, from Old French chastier (“punish”), from Latin castīgō. Doublet of chastise and castigate and related to chaste.
Inflected forms:
form: chastens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chastening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chastened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chastened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make chaste.
pos: verb
gloss: To chastize; to punish or reprimand for the sake of improvement.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: I will be his father, and he shall be my sonne: if hee commit iniquitie, I will chasten him with the rodde of men, and with the stripes of the children of men.
gloss: To render humble or restrained.
pos: verb
Derived words: chastener
chastenment
rechasten
Translations:
natamycin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Translingual nata(lensis)
English -mycin
English natamycin
From Translingual nata(lensis) + English -mycin (“antibiotic”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An antifungal drug from Streptomyces natalensis, used to treat ophthalmic infections, and as a food preservative.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
chastened
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more chastened
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most chastened
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: chasten'd
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Made chaste; purified; modest.
pos: adj
examples: As I look back over life, I see periods, which possibly have been more crowded with ecstatic enjoyment but none in which there was more pure, equable chastened happiness, than those few weeks I spent with my children.
gloss: Made moderate; restrained.
pos: adj
examples: The Trump era is not quite over, however. There are still 10 days of this presidency left, and reports from the Oval Office suggest he no longer feels chastened, regretting having agreed to an orderly transition.
There are, of course, better scenarios. A chastened regime could pursue some form of accommodation with America and evolution at home.
gloss: Chastised.
pos: adj
Derived words: chastenedly
chastenedness
unchastened
Translations:
sociologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sociology
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 sociologist
From sociology + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: sociologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A scientist studying the field of sociology; a social scientist.
pos: noun
examples: The great sociologist Zygmunt Bauman argued that philo-Semitism and anti-Semitism both fall under “allosemitism”: literally Othering the Jew. He defined it not as resentment of what is different, which is xenophobia, but rather of what defies order and clear categories. In 1997, he wrote, “The Jew is ambivalence incarnate. And ambivalence is ambivalence mostly because it cannot be contemplated without ambivalent feeling: it is simultaneously attractive and repelling.”
Translations:
A-level
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
prostitution
sexuality
Etymology: Short for advanced level.
Inflected forms:
form: A-levels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: A level
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A non-compulsory examination taken in the final two years of secondary education in England and Wales as a requisite for university or other tertiary education; the qualification obtained by passing such an exam.
pos: noun
examples: I took my A-levels last year.
Applicants must have at least one A level.
gloss: Anal sex.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
euphemistic
Related words: AS-level
O level
S level
T Level
Translations:
shofar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Hebrew שׁוֹפָר (shofár, “shofar”).
Inflected forms:
form: shofars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shofroth
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shofarot
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shofaroth
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shophar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A ram’s-horn trumpet, used for Jewish ritual purposes.
pos: noun
tags: Judaism
countable
examples: Thaddeus the fluteplayer had, it seems, found a ram’s horn or shofar, and he was blowing this not in the normal manner of an angry summons but so as to produce a melody of four notes, like a camp call to dinner or parade.
“This is one of those times in the history of our country and the world, where we are being presented with a wake up call — the blast of the shofar — to challenge ourselves, to ask, ‘What are we doing? What can we do?’ And know that we can do so much,” said Harris.
Translations:
democratize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French démocratiser, equivalent to democrat + -ize.
Base: democrat
Affixes: -ize
Inflected forms:
form: democratizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: democratizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: democratized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: democratized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: democratise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To make democratic.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Three distinct patterns within this wave are clear: Democratic backsliding in some traditionally stable democracies; significant reversals and often breakdown of democracy in countries that successfully democratized during the late 20th and early 21st centuries; and deepening of autocracy in already autocratic states. […] The number of autocratizing countries (red line) increases from the mid-1990s-early 2000s, to surpass the number of democratizing countries in 2012. […] Montenegro started to democratize with the 2020 elections ending nearly three decades of rule by the Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro (DPS).
gloss: To broaden access to (something), especially for the sake of egalitarianism.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
transitive
Derived words: democratizable
democratization
democratizer
redemocratize
undemocratize
undemocratized
Translations:
depository
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Medieval Latin dēpositōrium, from Latin dēpositum, past participle of dēpōnō.
Inflected forms:
form: depositories
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A place where something is deposited, as for storage, safekeeping, or preservation.
pos: noun
examples: He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
Henrietta rang for the attendants to draw in the ponderous curtains; and in the meanwhile, curious to behold the stores of the emblazoned depository, lighted the tapers for herself. The case was speedily unclasped, and the countess stood dazzled with the brilliancy of the precious contents.
gloss: A trustee; a depositary.
pos: noun
examples: depository library
Antonyms: nondepository
Derived words: subdepository
Translations:
epitaxy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: epi- + -taxy
Base: epi
Inflected forms:
form: epitaxies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An overgrowth in which the overlying crystal is either induced into the same orientation, or otherwise grows under the influence of the underlying crystal into the same orientation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A type of crystal growth or material deposition in which new crystalline layers are formed with one or more well-defined orientations with respect to the crystalline seed layer.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: syntaxy
distaxy
topotaxy
Derived words: chemical beam epitaxy
chemoepitaxy
epitaxial
epitaxic
graphoepitaxy
heteroepitaxy
homoepitaxial
homoepitaxy
molecular beam epitaxy
Translations:
lengthily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lengthy
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English lengthily
From lengthy + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more lengthily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most lengthily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a lengthy way, in a manner that is long and drawn out, especially in time.
pos: adv
Translations:
gateway
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: communications
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
telecommunications
Etymology: From gate + way.
Compound parts: gate
way
Inflected forms:
form: gateways
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gateways
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gatewaying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gatewayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gatewayed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A passage that can be closed by use of a gate.
pos: noun
examples: The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].
gloss: A place regarded as giving access to somewhere.
pos: noun
examples: The staff offer a touch of Norfolk courtesy as they guide passengers onto connecting services. The bustling concourse has a wide selection of information and retail, including a very active city tourism presence. This station now feels like a real gateway to Norwich.
gloss: Any point that represents the beginning of a transition from one place or phase to another.
pos: noun
gloss: Any point that represents the beginning of a transition from one place or phase to another.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
examples: a gateway drug
Just as they say that marijuana leads to harder drugs, Gallegly is claiming that crush is a “gateway fetish”—a term I've never heard before. He claims that if someone starts with bugs they'll end up escalating to human babies in no time.
According to Mellody, love addiction is a gateway addiction leading to additional addictions: to sex, food, drugs, alcohol, and so on.
gloss: A point at which freight moving from one territory to another is interchanged between transportation lines.
pos: noun
gloss: In wireless internet, an access point with additional software capabilities such as providing NAT and DHCP, which may also provide VPN support, roaming, firewalls, various levels of security, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: To make available using a gateway, or access point.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: gateway community
gateway drug
gatewayman
Gateway to the West
Ketchikan Gateway Borough
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: portti
lang: Galician
word: estoa
lang: Galician
word: ástrago
lang: Galician
word: portal
lang: Georgian
word: გასასვლელი
roman: gasasvleli
lang: Georgian
word: გადასასვლელი
roman: gadasasvleli
lang: Italian
word: portale
lang: Polish
word: wejście
lang: Swedish
word: port
lang: Swedish
word: inkörsport
faintness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English faintnesse, feintnesse, equivalent to faint + -ness.
Base: faint
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: faintnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being or feeling faint.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And he first took exceptions at this badge, / Pronouncing that the paleness of this flower / Bewray'd the faintness of my master's heart.
The confusion, in which impressions are sometimes involved, proceeds only from their faintness and unsteadiness, not from any capacity in the mind to receive any impression, which in its real existence has no particular degree nor proportion.
The faintness of the voice was pitiable and dreadful. It was not the faintness of physical weakness, though confinement and hard fare no doubt had their part in it. Its deplorable peculiarity was, that it was the faintness of solitude and disuse. It was like the last feeble echo of a sound made long and long ago.
The humming sound and the unvarying white light induced a sort of faintness, an empty feeling inside his head.
Translations:
alkalosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From alkali + -osis, on the model of earlier acidosis.
Base: alkali
Affixes: -osis
Inflected forms:
form: alkaloses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An abnormally increased alkalinity in the blood.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: acidosis
Translations:
skep
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Late Old English sceppe, from Old Norse skeppa (“basket”). Cognate with Danish skæppe (“an old Danish unit of measure equalling 17.4 l”).
Inflected forms:
form: skeps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: skeps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: skepping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: skepped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: skepped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A basket.
pos: noun
examples: Old women crouched over bags of Siamese rice, skeps of red and green peppers, purple egg-plants, bristly rambutans, pineapples, durians.
gloss: A beehive made of straw or wicker.
pos: noun
examples: Three of the hives had been overturned and the others had been rocked to and fro. The modern hive is a fearful thing to upset; the combs are not static as in a skep, but hang loosely: when the hive is overturned they smash and pile up like a telescoped train.
He prised a skep from its stool and held it out, inverted, showing the dirty wreck of combs, with the vile grubs spinning their cocoons.
She installs seven skeps at the furthest edge of the garden; on warm July days it is possible to hear the restless rumble of the bees from the house.
gloss: To transfer (bees) into a skep.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: creel
skip
Derived words: beeskep
bread-skep
skepful
skeppist
Translations: