yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
loser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English loser, losere, equivalent to lose + -er. In the sense of contemptible or worthless individual, perhaps an alteration of losel, which see.
Base: lose
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: losers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive.
pos: noun
examples: In a two-horse race there is always one winner and one loser.
He was always a good loser.
gloss: Something of poor quality.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who is frequently unsuccessful in life.
pos: noun
examples: That guy is a born loser!
I'm a constant loser in love.
gloss: A contemptible or unfashionable person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: Mike didn't work but insisted that Jewell have a job. He would stay home and do whatever — smoke pot, screw around. He was a total loser, and she picked up the slack. That's around the time that Mom met her soon-to-be-next husband. He immediately moved in. He was a loser, too, with the same work ethic Mike had.
gloss: One who or that which loses something, such as extra weight, car keys, etc.
pos: noun
examples: Another way to speed search (in general) is to order or bias the hypothesis space based on some heuristic. Suppose you are a habitual car key loser and that you keep track of where your keys turn up after each search.
But a West German reporting a lost passport in East Berlin during the years of the Wall was treated to a criminal investigation, with the passport loser as the potential criminal.
You're counting on this insurance company to pay you a check many years in the future. But for some companies, disability coverage has been a money loser.
You have to think of yourself as an already amazing person who's hiding behind extra weight—a superhero in a disguise. If you follow the program, […] change the message from “I'm a big loser” to “I'm a big weight loser.”
gloss: A losing proposition, one that is likely to lose or already has lost (such as a losing bet or, analogously, a predictably fruitless task or errand).
pos: noun
examples: A new Guard came to town and decided to flex his muscles with George. We could have told him that he was on a loser but bright young men, then as now, know it all.
Hardway bets are losers if they are rolled in any other combination—called "soft" or "easy" numbers. For instance, a Hardway bet on a 4 is a loser if the dice show as 3 and 1. Betting on a Hard 8 is a loser if the dice are rolled as a 5 and 3, or a 6 and 2. Naturally, if the 7 is rolled before the Hardway number shows, the bet is also a loser.
In terms of betting on outcomes, Mars is a clear loser.
gloss: A person convicted of a crime, especially more than once.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: He's a three-time loser doing twenty years.
Related words: losel
Derived words: bad loser
born loser
cyberloser
first loser
good loser
hard loser
loser back home
loserboard
loser cruiser
loserdom
loserhood
loserish
loserless
loserly
loserness
losership
loser sign
lucky loser
luser
money-loser
nonloser
poor loser
sore loser
three-time loser
two-time loser
Translations:
underspending
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: underspendings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The spending of too little money.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Towards the very end of the year it has always been found to be impracticable to avoid overspendings, if only temporary, in some programmes and underspendings in others.
Translations:
errantry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From errant + -ry, from Middle English erraunt. See further etymology at errant.
Base: errant
Affixes: -ry
Inflected forms:
form: errantries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wandering or roving around, especially in search of chivalrous adventure.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
tactile
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French tactile, from Latin tactilis (“that may be touched, tangible”), from tangere (“to touch”).
Inflected forms:
form: more tactile
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tactile
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Tangible; perceptible to the sense of touch.
pos: adj
examples: tactile method of reading
gloss: Used for feeling.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to the sense of touch.
pos: adj
examples: The delicacy of the tactile sense varies on different parts of the skin; it is greatest on the forehead, temples and back of the forearm.
tactile illusion
gloss: Prone to touching people or things.
pos: adj
Synonyms: palpable
tactile
tangible
touchable
Antonyms: intangible
intouchable
untouchable
Related words: haptic
palpable
touchable
Derived words: audiotactile
chemotactile
electrotactile
entactogen
mechanotactile
nontactile
orotactile
pedotactile
pneumotactile
Protactile
tactile ground surface indicator
tactilely
tactile necrophiliac
tactile paving
tactile paving slab
tactile walking surface indicator
tactility
tactilize
tactilometric
tactilometry
teletactile
teletactility
thermotactile
untactile
vibrotactile
visuotactile
Translations:
eponymous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: PIE word
 *h₁epi
From Ancient Greek ἐπώνῠμος (epṓnŭmos, “concerning giving one’s name to something; named in a significant manner; surnamed”) + English -ous (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, denoting pertinence or relation).
Inflected forms:
form: more eponymous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most eponymous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or being the person or entity after which someone or something is named; serving as an eponym.
pos: adj
examples: Prince Hamlet is the eponymous protagonist of the Shakespearian tragedy Hamlet.
Robinson Crusoe is the eponymous hero of the book.
The language Limburgish is named after the eponymous provinces in Belgium and the Netherlands.
Hadadas roost in numbers among the trees in the leafier parts of Nairobi and their eponymous call is one of the more insistent elements of the dawn chorus in that part of the world, though they may be heard at any time of the day.
gloss: Of a thing: named after a person or entity.
pos: adj
examples: The American singer-songwriter Madonna released her eponymous album in 1983.
Related words: eponym
eponymic
eponymically
eponymism
eponymist
eponymize
eponymy
namesake
self-titled
titular
Derived words: eponymously
Translations:
autograph
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: art
arts
Etymology: From Latin autographum, in turn from Ancient Greek αὐτόγραφον (autógraphon, “a writing in one’s own hand”). Equivalent to auto- + -graph.
Affixes: auto-
-graph
Inflected forms:
form: autographs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: autographs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: autographing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: autographed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: autographed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A person’s own handwriting, especially the signature of a famous or admired person.
pos: noun
examples: Some autograph-hunters were pestering the players after the game.
gloss: A person's signature used as a mark of formal approval.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
colloquial
examples: If you could just put your autograph on the ol’ contract, please…
For me, identifying an autograph is one of the most exciting aspects of collecting. I enjoy the detective work that comes with discerning a fake from the real deal, and subsequently valuing the item against other examples.
“Based on the scarcity of signed images from this period, in general, coupled with the miniscule population of original Jackson autographs we cannot overstate the rarity of this offering,” it said.
gloss: A manuscript in the author’s handwriting; a handwritten copy.
pos: noun
examples: An autograph of this text, made by E. Weidner, will be reproduced as plate XVII.
gloss: Written in the author’s own handwriting.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Made by the artist himself or herself; authentic.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Schiff […] believes most of the drawings are autograph.
Not surprisingly, he attributed to Kauffman two important works that are no longer accepted as autograph.
gloss: To sign, or write one’s name or signature on a book, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Diego Maradona is helping in the fight against coronavirus in his home city by autographing a replica of the Argentina jersey he wore in the country’s 1986 World Cup final triumph to raise money for an underprivileged community.
gloss: To write something in one's own handwriting.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: allograph
homograph
isograph
Derived words: autographal
autograph book
autographer
autographic
autographizer
autograph tree
cut autograph
telautograph
Translations:
cross-pollination
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cross-
English pollination
English cross-pollination
From cross- + pollination.
Inflected forms:
form: cross-pollinations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crosspollination
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Fertilization by the transfer of pollen from an anther of one plant to a stigma of another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Inspiration, stimulation, or influence between diverse elements.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
Related words: cross-pollinate
Translations:
pollination
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From pollinate + -ion.
Base: pollinate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: pollinations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pollenation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The transfer of pollen from an anther to a stigma; effected by insects, birds, bats and the wind etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
anther
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From French anthère, from Ancient Greek ἀνθηρός (anthērós, “flowery, blooming”), from ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”).
Inflected forms:
form: anthers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The pollen-bearing part of the stamen of a flower.
pos: noun
Translations:
stigmatize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg-der.
Proto-Hellenic *stiďďō
Ancient Greek στῐ́ζω (stĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek στίγμα (stígma)
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ίζω (-ízō)
Ancient Greek στιγματίζω (stigmatízō)bor.
Medieval Latin stigmatizōbor.
English stigmatize
Borrowed from Medieval Latin stigmatizō (“to brand”), borrowed from Ancient Greek στιγματίζω (stigmatízō), from στίγμα (stígma) + -ίζω (-ízō).
Inflected forms:
form: stigmatizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stigmatizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stigmatized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stigmatized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: stigmatise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: To characterize as disgraceful or ignominious; to mark with a stigma or stigmata.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We stigmatize the Indians, also, as cowardly and treacherous, because they use stratagem in warfare in preference to open force; but in this they are fully justified by their rude code of honor.
Helen Hardacre, in her study of discourses stigmatizing women who have had abortions, argues that there has been a marked rise in media interest in women's sexuality since the 1970s.
This chapter examines the social determinants of depression in black men because no other race-by-gender population group has been stigmatized as much as black men.
Translations:
scatological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From scatology + -ical. Compare eschatological.
Base: scatology
Affixes: -ical
Inflected forms:
form: more scatological
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most scatological
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: scatalogical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the research area of scatology, the particulate study of biological excrement, feces, or dung.
pos: adj
tags: formal
examples: The scientist could read the dinosaur dung to see what it had eaten. He was an expert in scatological studies.
gloss: Relating to scatology, the use of obscenities.
pos: adj
examples: His interest in scatological reading gained him very few friends.
Related words: scat
scatology
scatologist
Derived words: scatologically
Translations:
viscosity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French viscosité, from Old French viscosité, from Medieval Latin viscositas; analysable as viscous + -ity.
Base: viscous
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: viscosities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being viscous.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: thickness
gloss: A quantity expressing the magnitude of internal friction in a fluid, as measured by the force per unit area resisting uniform flow.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The microcannon was seen moving at about a micron per second, it was about 15 microns long, and the high speed photograph was done in water (density of 1 kg/L, viscosity of about 0.001 pascal seconds).
Aquafaba was recovered from 10 commercial canned chickpea products and correlations among aquafaba composition, density, viscosity and foaming properties were investigated. Proton NMR was used to characterize aquafaba composition before and after ultrafiltration through membranes with different molecular weight cut offs (MWCOs of 3, 10, or 50 kDa).
gloss: A tendency to prolong interpersonal encounters.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: bulk viscosity
elastoviscosity
gyroviscosity
hyperviscosity
microviscosity
shear viscosity
viscosity printing
Translations:
viscous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: First attested in 1605. Borrowed from Middle French visqueux and Late Latin viscōsus, from Latin viscum (“birdlime”). Doublet of viscose.
Inflected forms:
form: more viscous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most viscous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a thick, sticky consistency between solid and liquid (that is, a high viscosity).
pos: adj
examples: […] The flesh [of the mistletoe berry] is sticky, and forms strings and ribbons between my thumb and forefinger. For the mistletoe, this viscous goop – and by the way, viscous comes to English from viscum – is crucial. The stickiness means that, after eating the berries, birds often regurgitate the seeds and then wipe their bills on twigs – leading to the seeds' getting glued to the tree, where they can germinate and begin the cycle anew.
gloss: Of or pertaining to viscosity.
pos: adj
examples: viscous coefficient
Synonyms: lentous
glutinous
gooey
slabby
stiff
syrupy
thick
thickflowing
treacly
viscid
viscose
viscous
Antonyms: runny
fluid
Related words: viscid
viscidity
viscoid
viscoidal
viscometer
viscose
viscosimeter
viscosity
viscousness
unctuous
gelatinous
Derived words: elastoviscous
electroviscous
gyroviscous
isoviscous
nonviscous
semiviscous
ultraviscous
viscous damper
viscousless
viscously
viscousness
Translations:
viscose
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin viscōsus, from viscum (“birdlime”); by surface analysis, visco- + -ose. Doublet of viscous.
Inflected forms:
form: viscoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A viscous orange-brown liquid obtained by chemical treatment of cellulose and used as the basis of manufacturing rayon and cellulose film.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: rayon (synecdochally synonymous)
gloss: A fabric made from this material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Her mission statement is that clothes made from sustainable viscose and cruelty-free alternatives to leather should not be targeted at a niche market, but shown to hold their own on the Paris fashion week catwalk.
Here you are […] in your favourite viscose shirt and palazzo pants.
Related words: visco-
viscoid
viscoidal
viscosity
viscous
collodion
Translations:
joyful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From joy + -ful.
Base: joy
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: joyfuller
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more joyful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: joyfullest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most joyful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: joyfull
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Feeling or causing joy.
pos: adj
examples: The children were joyful on the first day of summer break.
Her joyful smile lit up the room.
Translations:
vivacious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin vīvāx, vīvāci- (“lively, vigorous”) + -ous, from vīvere (“to live”).
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more vivacious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most vivacious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Lively and animated; full of life and energy.
pos: adj
examples: Thus then society is not arranged in clans, but in tribes, united by the general sense of a common name, a common abode, a common history, a common religion, and a remote sense of a common tribal stock, without any sense of personal affinity in each individual case. Again, it is curious to observe that the xenial relation was not less vivacious than that of blood.
She made reasonable progress, entertained for me a vivacious, though perhaps not very profound, affection; and by her simplicity, gay prattle, and efforts to please, inspired me, in return, with a degree of attachment sufficient to make us both content in each other's society.
Given the vivacious young redhead's attractiveness, some might have assumed he had more than simply professional reasons for sheepdogging her career, but they would have been wrong. He'd seen something in her ...
gloss: Long-lived.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Hitherto the English bishops had been vivacious almost to wonder. For, necessarily presumed of good years before entering on their office, in the first of queen Elizabeth it was much that but five died for the first twenty years of her reign.
gloss: Difficult to kill.
pos: adj
tags: rare
Derived words: vivaciousness
Translations:
hopeful
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *tōhopōnder.
Old English tōhopa
Old English hopa
Middle English hope
English hope
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós
Proto-Germanic *fullaz
Proto-Germanic *-fullaz
Old English -ful
Middle English -ful
English -ful
English hopeful
From hope + -ful.
Base: hope
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more hopeful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hopeful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hopefull
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: hopefuls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hopefull
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: feeling hope
pos: adj
examples: I have been very hopeful.
I am hopeful that I will recover from the disease.
Speaking with reporters during a stop in New York, Mr. Biden offered the most hopeful assessment of the hostage talks by any major figure in many days, suggesting that the war might be close to a major turning point.
gloss: inspiring hope
pos: adj
examples: It looks hopeful that my father will be able to walk again.
The night was further proof that the Democratic Party’s cruel summer had given way to a more hopeful election season.
gloss: Someone who is hoping for success or victory, especially as a candidate in a political election.
pos: noun
examples: Several presidential hopefuls are campaigning in New Hampshire this week.
Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida and several other Republican presidential hopefuls spent Tuesday in New Hampshire, while Mike Pence, the former vice president, was in Iowa.
Antonyms: hopeless
desperate
dejected
Derived words: hopefully
hopeful monster
hopefulness
nonhopeful
unhopeful
Translations:
interstice
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From late Middle English interstice, from Old French interstice or directly from Latin interstitium (“a space between, gap, interval”), ultimately from intersistere (“to stand in between, to stop in the middle”), from inter- + sistere (“to stand, to stop”).
Base: sistō
Affixes: inter-
Inflected forms:
form: interstices
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small opening or space between objects, especially adjacent objects or objects set closely together, such as between cords in a rope, components of a multiconductor electrical cable or atoms in a crystal.
pos: noun
examples: 1887, Osborne Reynolds, Experiments showing Dilatancy, in Notices of the Proceedings, Volume 11, Royal Institution of Great Britain, page 360,
The tide leaves the sand, though apparently dry on the surface, with all its interstices perfectly full of water which is kept up to the surface of the sand by capillary attraction; at the same time the water is percolating through the sand from the sands above where the capillary action is not sufficient to hold the water. When the foot falls on this water-saturated sand it tends to change its shape, but it cannot do this without enlarging the interstices—without drawing in more water. This is a work of time, so that the foot is gone again before the sand has yielded.
gloss: A fragment of space.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Relics of the British empire now mostly survive in the interstices of the global economy. They are the major winners from the fiscal haemorrhage that has resulted from financial globalisation.
gloss: An interval of time required by the Roman Catholic Church between the attainment of different degrees of an order.
pos: noun
gloss: A small interval of time free to be spent on activities other than one's primary goal.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
Synonyms: crack
cranny
crevice
fissure
gap
interstitial space
slit
hole
Related words: interstitial
interstition
interstitium
Derived words: intersticed
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: väli
lang: Finnish
word: rako
lang: Finnish
word: tauko
lang: Russian
word: промежу́ток
roman: promežútok
xiphoid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ξιφοειδής (xiphoeidḗs, “sword-shaped”).
Inflected forms:
form: xiphoids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Shaped like a sword, ensiform.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to the xiphoid process (also called xiphisternum).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The xiphoid process.
pos: noun
examples: In Asian pangolins the xiphoids are shorter[…]
Derived words: chondroxiphoid
costoxiphoid
subxiphoid
transxiphoid
xiphoidal
xiphoidalgia
xiphoidian
xiphoiditis
xiphoid process
Translations:
tyranny
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English tirannye, from Old French tyrannie, from Medieval Latin tyrannia, tyrania, from Ancient Greek τυραννία (turannía, “tyranny”), from τύραννος (túrannos, “lord, master, sovereign, tyrant”).
Inflected forms:
form: tyrannies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A government in which a single ruler (a tyrant) has absolute power, or this system of government; especially, one that acts cruelly and unjustly.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The office or jurisdiction of an absolute ruler.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Absolute power, or its use.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A system of government in which power is exercised on behalf of the ruler or ruling class, without regard to the wishes of the governed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He that with ſhepheards and a litle ſpoyle,
Durſt in diſdaine of wrong and tyrannie,
Defend his freedome gainſt a Monarchie:
What will he doe ſupported by a king?
Control, dispossession, violence, and tyranny are not “defensive”: they are part of an organized, ongoing aggression.
gloss: Extreme severity or rigour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: autocracy
despotism
dictatorship
absolute monarchy
tyranthood
Related words: tyrant
autocracy
monarchy
Derived words: anarcho-tyranny
turnkey tyranny
tyrannical
tyranny of the majority
tyranny of the masses
Translations:
trauma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τραῦμα (traûma, “wound, damage”).
Inflected forms:
form: traumas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: traumata
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any injury to the body of a living thing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: insult (contextually synonymous); see also Thesaurus:injury
mild trauma
major trauma
gloss: Any injury to the body of a living thing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
specifically
uncountable
usually
examples: We're not talking about paper cuts or sprains here — we're talking about trauma.
Repeated trauma or shaking to the brain can be even worse, leading to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.
gloss: An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: What these patients eventually realized was that they all had trauma that had fed into their addictions.
Jailing her on Wednesday, magistrate Liz Clyne told Robins: "You have shown little remorse either for the death of the kitten or the trauma to your former friend Sarah Knutton." She was also banned from keeping animals for 10 years.
And although it doesn’t mean acting like an infant again, it does require recognizing that many of the thoughts and behaviors you’d like to change come from lingering feelings of childhood traumas or your inner child, said Dr. Avigail Lev, a licensed clinical psychologist at the Bay Area CBT Center in San Francisco.
gloss: An event that causes great distress.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The earthquake here 14 years ago was a national trauma that still affects the economy today.
Derived words: atelectrauma
barotrauma
biotrauma
dialytrauma
geotrauma
macrotrauma
microtrauma
monotrauma
multitrauma
myotrauma
neurotrauma
nontrauma
oxytrauma
phonotrauma
polytrauma
posttrauma
psychotrauma
rape trauma syndrome
rheotrauma
suspension trauma
trauma centre
traumacore
trauma dump
trauma dumping
trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy
trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy
trauma focused cognitive behavioural therapy
traumagenic
trauma incidence reduction
trauma-informed
trauma-informed stabilization treatment
traumaless
trauma naked
trauma plate
traumascape
trauma scissors
traumascum
trauma shears
traumatic
traumatise
traumatize
traumatism
traumatology
trauma triad of death
Translations:
tragedy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Middle English tragedie, from the Old French tragedie, from the Latin tragoedia, from the Ancient Greek τραγῳδία (tragōidía, “epic play, tragedy”), from τράγος (trágos, “male goat”) + ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”), possibly a reference to the goat-satyrs of the theatrical plays of the Dorians, or according to Beekes possibly to a goat given as prize, though the etymology remains uncertain.
Inflected forms:
form: tragedies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tragœdy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: tragoedy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: tragœdie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: tragoedie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: tragedie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A drama or similar work, in which the main character is brought to ruin or otherwise suffers the extreme consequences of some tragic flaw or weakness of character.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The genre of such works, and the art of producing them.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A disastrous event, especially one involving great loss of life or injury.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “The story of this adoption is, of course, the pivot round which all the circumstances of the mysterious tragedy revolved. Mrs. Yule had an only son, namely, William, to whom she was passionately attached; but, like many a fond mother, she had the desire of mapping out that son's future entirely according to her own ideas.[…]”
We saw a farmhouse burning down in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. And we rolled right past that tragedy 'till we turned into some road house lights.
[…] last month's flooding in the Buffalo Creek Valley […]. The tragedy took more than one hundred lives[…]
After the terrible tragedy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire in 1911, which killed 146 New York garment workers, proper fire drilling was considered a necessity.
Related words: tragedeigh
tragedian
tragic
tragicomedy
tragifarce
Derived words: comedy and tragedy
comedy equals tragedy plus time
megatragedy
revenge tragedy
tragedic
tragedious
tragedist
tragedize
tragedy mask
tragedy of the commons
tragesty
Translations:
telekinesis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tele- + -kinesis.
Base: tele
Inflected forms:
form: telekineses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The ability to move objects with the power of one's mind.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Telekinetic energy, which has been variously designated as psychic force (Sir William Crookes), ectenic force (Professor Thury), and telekinesis (Professor Cowes), is demonstrably a power or faculty of the subjective mind.
And this brings me to a consideration of how the phenomena of telekinesis may conceivably be produced — granting that the phenomena are ever genuine at all.
He leant tensely against the corridor wall and frowned like a man trying to unbend a corkscrew by telekinesis.
'Venison' he declared, mentally lifting the animal through the air toward him without a second thought to the act, though telekinesis was a spell that hadn't been in the considerable repertoire of Morkai the Red.
She regards telekinesis as impossible and claims for it as generally fraudulent. For two years she worked in a university laboratory testing telekinesis,
Perhaps the most famous demonstrations of telekinesis came in the 1970s when a young psychic from Russia named Uri Geller came to prominence for his ability to bend spoons and other metal objects without any physical contact.
And if voice-activated control isn't enough, we could someday use telekinesis to control lights with our thoughts.
gloss: An instance of use of such power.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: psychokinesis
microkinesis
Derived words: telekinesist
telekinetic
Translations:
taxidermy
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French taxidermie, from Ancient Greek τάξις (táxis, “arrangement”, “order”) + δέρμα (dérma, “skin”). Analysable as taxi- + derm- + -y.
Base: τάξις
Inflected forms:
form: taxidermies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: taxidermies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: taxidermying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: taxidermied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: taxidermied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The art of stuffing and mounting the skins of dead animals for exhibition in a lifelike state.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To stuff and mount the skin of a dead animal.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Today's taxidermying is a combination of field work, calipers and Rodin. The hunters who get the animals for the leading museums of natural science bring 'em back dead, but measured within an inch of their lives […]
It is indeed true that in recent years the business of taxidermying cats and dogs for mourning owners has blossomed into some form of art, especially in the United States.
Even when mounted in the context of animal-centric conferences or events, exhibits of “animal art” routinely display works consisting of animal parts or taxidermied animals—most of which can be viewed while people are eating their politically correct vegan lunch.
Translations:
ukulele
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian ʻukulele, from ʻuku (“flea”) + lele (“jump, jumping”).
Inflected forms:
form: ukuleles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: eukuleli
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
form: eukeleli
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
form: eukaleli
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: ukelele
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: ukalele
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
form: ʻukulele
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small four-stringed guitar.
pos: noun
Translations:
ohana
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian ʻohana (“family, kin”).
Inflected forms:
form: ohanas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ʻohana
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: 'ohana
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An extended Hawaiian family unit.
pos: noun
tags: Hawaii
examples: [U]nder the leadership of Ka Lahui Hawai'i headed by attorney Mililani Trask, various Native Hawaiian organizations, ohanas, and individuals formed a loose coalition that some refer to as the Hawaiian Nation within a Nation.
The ancient Hawaiian society that began around the sixth century and lasted until around 1000 A.D. was based on the extended family group, the ʻohana, living and working cooperatively on the ahupuaʻa under the leadership of the most respected person in the group, the haku. Most members of the ohana were engaged in agriculture, some in fishing, and some were artisans who probably devoted most of their time to their crafts; undoubtedly others were all three.
Perhaps that is why Mr. Family celebrates the Hawaiian concept of ohana—not just family, but extended family. Through the characters of Mr. Family—Kal, Erika (who first appeared in The Third Christmas), Hiialo and their ohana—are purely imaginary, perhaps you can feel in these pages the love I've been fortunate to know.
In 1981, the Honolulu City Council passed a zoning regulation that borrowed from traditional Hawaiian living arrangements to allow for what is termed ʻohana housing: incorporating relatives into an existing structure or building an "'accessory to the principal permitted single-family dwelling' for extra residents […] In Nānā I Ke Kumu (Look to the Source), a book of Hawaiian customs and beliefs, the ʻohana is described as composed of people connected by ties of love and loyalty, duty and obligation. Members of an ʻohana may or may not be blood kin; they are related by virtue of sharing sustenance and support.
So, in Hawaiʻi, banks and retailers now regularly emphasize bowdlerized Hawaiian concepts in their advertising, calling their companies "ohanas" (families), for example, or using images of nineteenth-century aliʻi (chiefs) and sacred symbols […]
The House and Senate are committing more than $30 million to establish “ohana zones” where the homeless can live, but are leaving it to Gov. David Ige’s administration to figure out the details.
Translations:
luau
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian lūʻau. Replaced earlier paina (from pāʻina) and ahaaina (from ʻahaʻaina).
Inflected forms:
form: luaus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: luau
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lūʻau
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An elaborate Hawaiian feast featuring traditional foods and entertainment.
pos: noun
examples: Other Americans and Europeans also made their way into court, drawn by its brilliant pageants and lavish lū‘au, or feasts.
MM: No secrets for him because he's the king of Hawaii. And so he said, "Do you want to come to a luau with Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger and Whoopi Goldberg?"
Translations:
kahuna
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
Etymology: Etymology tree
Hawaiian kahunabor.
English kahuna
Borrowed from Hawaiian kahuna (“shaman, wizard”).
Inflected forms:
form: kahunas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kahuna
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A priest or priestess of the traditional Hawaiian religion.
pos: noun
tags: Hawaii
examples: They were kāhuna, practitioners of the old Hawaiian religion, apparently offering themselves as sacrifices to appease the gods so that the queen would be restored.
gloss: A great surfer.
pos: noun
Derived words: big kahuna
Translations:
hula
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Hawaiian hulabor.
English hula
Borrowed from Hawaiian hula.
Inflected forms:
form: hulas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hula-hula
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hula hula
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hura
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hulas
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hulaing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hulaed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hulaed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hula-hula
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: hula hula
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: hura
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A form of chant and dance, which was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled there.
pos: noun
examples: Under the rule of Kalākaua, they had revived the hula, which had been condemned by the missionaries.
gloss: To dance the hula.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
pahoehoe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Hawaiian pāhoehoebor.
English pahoehoe
Borrowed from Hawaiian pāhoehoe.
Inflected forms:
form: pahoehoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A form of lava flow of basaltic rock, usually dark-colored with a smooth or ropey surface. It is one of two chief forms of lava flow emitted from volcanoes of the Hawaiian type, the other form being aa.
pos: noun
examples: We [...] saw ‘pahoihoi’ or solid lava forming, and also ‘aa’ or clinkers.
The twisty, ropy kind that personifies flow – all congealed motion – is called pahoehoe.
Translations:
adiabatic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
Etymology: 19th-century coinage (introduced by W. J. M. Rankine in the 1860s) based on Ancient Greek ἀδιάβατος (adiábatos, “impassable”), used of terrain (rivers, forests) by Xenophon, from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + διά (diá, “through”) + βατός (batós, “passable”), from βαίνω (baínō, “to go”).
Inflected forms:
form: adiabatics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Without gain or loss of heat (and thus with no change in entropy, in the quasistatic approximation).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The line drawn on the indicator diagram in the latter case has been named by Professor Rankine an Adiabatic line, because it is defined by the condition that heat is not allowed to pass through (διαβαίνειν) the vessel which confines the substance.
Talk of dynamic compression and adiabatic gradients didn't carry as much weight as the certainty of its conscious intent.
New 2.4 GWh adiabatic compressed air energy storage (CAES) plant now operational in in ^([sic]) Jiangsu province.
gloss: Involving the slow change of the Hamiltonian of a system from its initial value to a final value.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In this section we examine the limiting cases when T is very small (sudden change) and very large (adiabatic change).
gloss: An adiabatic curve or graph
pos: noun
Related words: diabatic
Derived words: adiabat
adiabatically
adiabatic cooling
adiabaticity
adiabatic lapse rate
adiabatic wall
antiadiabatic
moist-adiabatic
subadiabatic
superadiabatic
Translations:
aerobatics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Blend of aeronautic + acrobatics.
Compound parts: aeronautic
acrobatics
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The practice of flying maneuvers involving aircraft attitudes that are not used in conventional passenger-carrying flights.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
aerobic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French aérobie, coined in 1863 by Louis Pasteur, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”) + βίος (bíos, “life”) + -ic.
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: aërobic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Living or occurring only in the presence of oxygen e.g. aerobic bacteria.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The bacteria require an aerobic environment to grow.
gloss: Of exercise, performed while maintaining a sufficient supply of oxygen to meet bodily energy needs.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to aerobics.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: She does aerobic exercise three times a week.
He joined an aerobic fitness class at the gym.
Related words: aerobe
aerobics
anaerobic
Derived words: aerobically
aerobicise
aerobicize
aerobicized
aerobicwear
aquaerobic
dysaerobic
exaerobic
microaerobic
nanoaerobic
nonaerobic
preaerobic
semiaerobic
subaerobic
Translations:
aerodynamics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér
Proto-Hellenic *auhḗr
Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr)
Ancient Greek ἀέρος (aéros)der.
English aero-
Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.
Proto-Hellenic *dunamai
Ancient Greek δῠ́νᾰμαι (dŭ́nămai)
Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek δυναμικός (dunamikós)lbor.
French dynamiqueder.
English dynamic
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
Old English -as
Middle English -es
English -s
English -ics
English dynamics
English aerodynamics
From aero- + dynamics. Compare French aérodynamique, German Aerodynamik, and Italian aerodinamica.
Base: dynamics
Affixes: aero-
Inflected forms:
form: aërodynamics
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The science of the dynamics of bodies moving relative to gases, especially the interaction of moving objects with the atmosphere.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: He specializes in aerodynamics.
gloss: The aerodynamic properties of a particular object (typically a car or aircraft).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: This type of airfoil doesn't have the right aerodynamics to achieve what they're trying to achieve.
However, it can also make the aerodynamics more difficult to control, and it becomes much harder to stop the nose of the car scraping against the surface of the track.
Related words: aerostatics
airflow
air resistance
drag
Derived words: electroaerodynamics
magneto-aerodynamics
superaerodynamics
Translations:
aeronautics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French aéronautique or New Latin aeronauticus. Equivalent to aero- + -naut + -ics.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The design, construction, mathematics, and mechanics of aircraft and other flying objects; the study of and control of how aviation works.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: aerodynamics, aviation
gloss: The theory and practice of aircraft navigation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: aeronavigation
Related words: aeronaut
aeronautic
aeronautical
aerospace
astronautics
avionics
ballistics
Translations:
aesthete
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αἰσθητής (aisthētḗs, “one who perceives”).
Inflected forms:
form: aesthetes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: esthete
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: æsthete
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Someone who cultivates an unusually high sensitivity to beauty, as in art or nature, often in a manner perceived to prioritize beauty over other qualities such as virtue and utility.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
often
examples: I prefer to think of [literature] as providing a discipline of the sensibility—a special way of apprehending reality. But though I prefer such a conception, it gives rise to all sorts of misunderstandings […] To define literature in this fashion is to risk being called a mere aesthete and even an ecapist who refuses to face the harsh facts of life.
Because what the aesthete does is to say, “oh, I can transform any unpleasant experience into a moment of beauty.”
Although Stanley was the political operator while Pick was the aesthete, it was Stanley who made the early running in Underground design.
Since the days of Søren Kierkegaard, aesthetics – by him termed the aesthetic that is worshipped by the aesthete – has been accused of subjectivism and relativism. An aesthete is allegedly characterized by finding sensuous pleasure in particular phenomena, and by being different from the ethicist or the religious person in being unable to recognize or commit himself to anything universal.
Translations:
aetiology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin aetiologia, from Ancient Greek αἰτιολογία (aitiología), from αἰτία (aitía, “cause”). By surface analysis, aetio- + -logy; Doublet of aetiologia.
Inflected forms:
form: aetiologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ætiology
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: aitiology
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: etiology
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Canada
US
Senses:
gloss: The establishment of a cause, origin, or reason for something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I do not know where the idea first arose of enlisting internal (subjective) excitations of the sensory organs as well as external sensory stimuli; but it is in fact done in all the more recent accounts of the aetiology of dreams [translating Traumätiologie].
gloss: The study of causes or causation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The study or investigation of the causes of disease; a scientific explanation for the origin of a disease.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A cause of disease or of any particular case of a disease (but see pathology § Usage notes).
pos: noun
tags: countable
Related words: entomology
ethnology
ethology
etymology
Derived words: aetiologic
aetiologics
aetiologist
aetiologize
etiologic
etiological
etiologically
etiologist
palaetiology
Translations:
lang: Asturian
word: etioloxía
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 病原學 /病原学
roman: bìngyuánxué
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 病因學 /病因学
roman: bìngyīnxué
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 病因
roman: bìngyīn
lang: Finnish
word: etiologia
lang: Finnish
word: taudinsyy
lang: French
word: étiologie
lang: Galician
word: etioloxía
lang: German
word: Ätiologie
lang: Greek
word: αιτιολογία
roman: aitiología
lang: Hindi
word: हेतुविज्ञान
roman: hetuvijñān
lang: Hungarian
word: kóroktan
lang: Hungarian
word: kórokkutatás
lang: Hungarian
word: etiológia
lang: Indonesian
word: etiologi
lang: Irish
word: cúiseolaíocht
lang: Korean
word: 병인학
lang: Macedonian
word: етиологија
roman: etiologija
lang: Portuguese
word: etiologia
lang: Tagalog
word: palasanhiang-sakit
lang: Thai
word: สมุฏฐานวิทยา
lang: Thai
word: สมุฏฐานโรค
lang: Ukrainian
word: етіоло́гія
roman: etiolóhija