yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
unquiet
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English quiet
English unquiet
From un- + quiet.
Inflected forms:
form: unquieter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: unquietest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Uneasy and restless; unable to settle.
pos: adj
examples: an unquiet mind
But, for the unquiet heart and brain,
⁠A use in measured language lies;
⁠The sad mechanic exercise,
Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.
gloss: Causing or associated with unease or restlessness.
pos: adj
examples: an unquiet night
Madam Zenocrate, may I preſume
To know the cauſe of theſe vnquiet fits:
That worke such trouble to your woonted reſt:
Wearied out, Francesca at once fell asleep—a slumber which would have been broken by anxiety, could she have known the feverish restlessness which kept Guido wakeful on his unquiet pillow, listening—and dreary it was to listen through the night—to the distant dash of the waves, as they rose beneath the loud and sweeping wind.
Involuntarily I glanced seaward—and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.
Translations:
digestibility
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English digestible
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English digestibility
From digestible + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: digestibilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The degree to which something is digestible.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
indigestible
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English digestible
English indigestible
From in- + digestible.
Inflected forms:
form: more indigestible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most indigestible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: indigestibles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Difficult or impossible to digest.
pos: adj
gloss: Difficult to accept; unpalatable.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
gloss: Anything that is difficult to digest.
pos: noun
examples: "Take a cruller, any way," said she, handing him a cake-basket containing a dozen or so of those unspeakable, Dutch indigestibles.
Derived words: indigestibleness
indigestibly
Translations:
millenarian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sm̥-
Proto-Indo-European *-is
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂
Proto-Indo-European *smih₂
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes-
Proto-Indo-European *-lom
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéslom
▲
Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéslih₂
Proto-Indo-European *smih₂ǵʰéslih₂
Proto-Italic *smīɣeslī
Late Latin mīlle
Late Latin -ēnus
Late Latin mīllēnus
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Late Latin -ārius
Late Latin millenarius
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English millenarian
From Late Latin millenarius + English -an.
Inflected forms:
form: more millenarian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most millenarian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: millenarians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the belief in an impending period of one thousand years of peace and righteousness associated with the Second Coming of Christ and his reign on earth.
pos: adj
examples: Franciscans coming from Iberia were particularly prone to the millenarian enthusiasm which gripped southern Europe around 1500, and which the Franciscan Order had so long fostered. They believed that they were living in the End Times […]
Mirandola cultivated a Dominican friar, Savonarola, whose millenarian visions had provoked revolution: in the wake of France's invasion, he had inspired a popular uprising in Florence, its ruling Medici family replaced by a people's republic.
gloss: Pertaining to any of various religious or social movements which believe in a coming or ongoing radical change to existing world order.
pos: adj
examples: Restoration of the old empires was not the aim of the totalitarian revolutions in Russia and Germany, since both wanted to bring back the millenarian empire.
gloss: Lasting or expected to last a thousand years.
pos: adj
examples: […] contrasts with the rapid decline and demise of the millenarian empire of Byzantium.
But the ashes of Auschwitz fell on Hitler's folly, on the announcement of the millenarian Reich.
In a few years, by fueling a sense of regained confidence within its own people, which suffered from the fall of a millenarian empire, Ataturk managed to readapt Turkish traditions in the framework of a new model of state.
gloss: A person who believes in an apocalyptic millennium.
pos: noun
examples: Like Marxists, wokies are millenarians, working for a magical tomorrow that owes nothing either to past practice or to human frailties.
Translations:
coattail
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From coat + tail.
Compound parts: coat
tail
Inflected forms:
form: coattails
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: coat-tail
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: coattails
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: coattailing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: coattailed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: coattailed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: coat-tail
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The flap at the back of a coat that hangs down, sometimes below the waist.
pos: noun
examples: At twilight in the summer[…]the mice come out. They[…]eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly[…]on the floor.
gloss: Success of a figure, organization or movement that transfers to those who associate with it.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
plural-normally
examples: to ride the coattails
Mr Obama’s coat-tails may help lift Wall-Street-basher Elizabeth Warren past pickup-driving Everyman and one-time nude pin-up Scott Brown in Massachusetts[…].
And Harford grabs the coattails of the trend, giving us 10 rules for thinking differently about numbers in the news, ranging from “check your feelings”, to “ponder your personal experience”, to “keep an open mind”.
gloss: To ride the coattails of.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: It wasn't like I just coattailed the auditor's work. Based on the names on the time cards, I was able to conduct interviews with the employees whose labor was mischarged, and they told me which contracts they had actually worked on.
The first of these is what Holt calls coat-tailing on cultural epicenters. Through coat-tailing, the brand becomes part of a social movement or emergent meaning-making sub-culture such that it stands as a vested community member […]
Related words: coattail effect
on the coattails of
ride the coattails
Translations:
technoscience
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek τεχνο- (tekhno-)der.
English techno-
Proto-Indo-European *sek-?
Proto-Indo-European *-éyti
Proto-Indo-European *skey-der.
Latin sciō
Latin sciēns
Latin -ia
Latin scientialbor.
Old French sciencebor.
Middle English science
English science
English technoscience
From techno- + science.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The long-standing global human activity of technology combined with the scientific method that occurred primarily in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The study of the technological and social context of science.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Briefly put, strategies of globalization undertaken by the state, capital and technoscience all attempt to negotiate the production of locality in a non place- based way that induces increasingly delocalizing effects.
Technoscience, when well directed, can produce important means of improving the quality of human life, from useful domestic appliances to great transportation systems, bridges, buildings and public spaces.
Translations:
alienage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English alien
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
Latin -āticus
Latin -āticum
Old French -agebor.
Middle English -age
English -age
English alienage
From alien + -age.
Inflected forms:
form: alienages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The status of being an alien; origin from elsewhere.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
loach
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English loche, from Old French loche, further origin uncertain, possibly from Vulgar Latin *laukka (“loach”), which could be from Gaulish *leuca (“loach, slug”), also attested as the feminine name Leuca, from leux (“bright, light”), a reference to slugs' bright appearance, the fish later being associated due to similarities to the slug.
Inflected forms:
form: loaches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bottom-feeding freshwater fish in the superfamily or suborder Cobitoidea.
pos: noun
gloss: A bottom-feeding freshwater fish in the superfamily or suborder Cobitoidea.
pos: noun
Derived words: clown loach
dojo loach
dwarf loach
hillstream loach
muddy loach
oriental loach
panda loach
pond loach
river loach
sea loach
sergeant major loach
spined loach
stone loach
sucking loach
weather loach
Translations:
synthpop
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From synth (“synthesizer”) + pop.
Compound parts: synth
pop
Inflected forms:
form: synth-pop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A style of pop music in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: As well as being forefathers of the synthpop that would dominate the 1980s and beyond, the title track of Trans-Europe Express was sampled in 1982 by Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force for one of the earliest hip-hop hits, Planet Rock, while Computer World was hugely influential on the house and techno music that emerged from Chicago and Detroit that decade.
Steve Bronski, a founding member of the trailblazing British synth-pop trio Bronski Beat, has died, a source close to the group has confirmed.
Translations:
Eurodance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Euro-
Vulgar Latin *dantiāreder.
Anglo-Norman dauncerbor.
Middle English dauncen
English dance
English Eurodance
From Euro- + dance.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A type of European synthesizer-driven dance music which became popular worldwide in the early- to mid-1990s and continuing up until today.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: A left field U.S. pick, this combination of big beat Eurodisco (or is that Eurodance now?) and westernized Japanese musical motifs is the unlikely work of a Scottish doctor’s wife and singer of traditional Gaelic folk songs.
Though the genre's formation took place in several countries across Europe, 20 years later Eurodance became the internationally most widespread popular music from Germany.
Translations:
mechanotransduction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *megʰ-der.?
Ancient Greek μηχανή (mēkhanḗ)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek μηχανικός (mēkhanikós)bor.
Latin mēchanicusder.
Old French mecaniquebor.
Middle English mekanyk
English mechan(ic)
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English mechano-
English transduction
English mechanotransduction
From mechano- + transduction.
Inflected forms:
form: mechanotransductions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The conversion of a mechanical stimulus into chemical activity
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
cytoskeletal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek κύτος (kútos)lbor.
English cyto-
English skeleton
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English skeletal
English cytoskeletal
From cyto- + skeletal.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a cytoskeleton.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
coracoid
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin corax + -oid.
Affixes: -oid
Inflected forms:
form: coracoids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Part of the scapula that projects towards the sternum in mammals; the coracoid process
pos: noun
gloss: A small bone linking the scapula and sternum in birds, reptiles and some other vertebrates
pos: noun
gloss: hooked like the beak of a crow
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Relating to the coracoid process
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: coraco-
Derived words: acrocoracohumeral
acrocoracoid
acromiocoracoid
coracoidal
coracoid ligament
coracoid process
costocoracoid
ectocoracoid
endocoracoid
epicoracoid
hypercoracoid
hypocoracoid
intercoracoid
mesocoracoid
metacoracoid
postcoracoid
precoracoid
procoracoid
scapulocoracoid
sternocoracoid
subcoracoid
supracoracoid
Translations:
minimalism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: art
arts
entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
English minimum
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English minimal
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English minimalism
From minimal + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: minimalisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A style of art that emphasises extreme simplicity of form.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A style of music that emphasises extreme simplicity of rhythms and melodic forms to achieve a trancelike effect.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Of simple living, the intentional reduction of material possessions and distractions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: minimalist
minimism
Derived words: nonminimalism
postminimalism
skinimalism
Translations:
salutations
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The interjection is an application of the noun.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A greeting; hello.
pos: intj
tags: formal
humorous
examples: Greetings and salutations. You a Heather?
Translations:
cathouse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Compound of cat + house.
Compound parts: cat
house
Inflected forms:
form: cathouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cat-house
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cat house
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A brothel.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: Do you know how he spent years watching the droopy chicks in cathouses, listening to his cellmates moaning low behind the bars […]?
gloss: Any small house, structure or fold used to house a cat.
pos: noun
tags: literally
rare
examples: Alot^([sic]) of great work is being done all throughout blog land in terms of raising the money to build a cathouse for homeless kitties here at the daily dose.
Related words: red light district
prostitute
Translations:
autoregulation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English auto-
English regulation
English autoregulation
From auto- + regulation.
Inflected forms:
form: autoregulations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several physiological processes in which an inhibitory feedback system counteracts change.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process that maintains a constant flow of blood to an organ despite changes in arterial pressure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: autoregulate
autoregulative
autoregulator
autoregulatory
autovasoregulation
homeostasis
Derived words: dysautoregulation
Translations:
glenoid
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γληνοειδής (glēnoeidḗs, “socket like”), equivalent to
From glene + -oid.
Base: glene
Affixes: -oid
Inflected forms:
form: glenoids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A shallow depression in a bone, especially in the scapula.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or pertaining to this depression.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: ectoglenoid
Translations:
interleukin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From inter- + leuko- + -in;
*inter-: from Latin inter- (“between, amid”), a form of prepositional inter (“between”).
*leuko: from Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white”)
*-in: from French -ine, from Latin -īna, feminine of -īnus "of" or "belonging to"
Affixes: inter-
leuko-
-in
Inflected forms:
form: interleukins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a group of cytokine proteins important in the regulation of lymphocyte function.
pos: noun
examples: Indeed, it’s possible to create the full storm of cold symptoms with no cold virus at all, but only a potent cocktail of the so-called inflammatory mediators that the body makes itself[,] among them, cytokines, kinins, prostaglandins and interleukins, powerful little chemical messengers that cause the blood vessels in the nose to dilate and leak, stimulate the secretion of mucus, activate sneeze and cough reflexes and set off pain in our nerve fibers.
As another interleukin 12/23 antagonist, briakinumab, was withdrawn from further development in part due to concerns about cardiovascular safety, discussion has also emerged on cardiovascular safety of ustekinumab.
Translations:
grousing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: grousings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Peevish complaining.
pos: noun
examples: I'm sick of your grousings!
Cue the grousing: This was computer science, not physics or chemistry! Indeed, of the five laureates on Tuesday and Wednesday, arguably only one, the University of Washington biochemist David Baker, works in the field he was awarded in.
gloss: The hunting of grouse
pos: noun
Translations:
griping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: gripings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; gripe.
pos: noun
examples: The gripings are always severe, and a sort of painful descent of the bowels accompanies every evacuation.
Translations:
sponsorship
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin sponsorder.
English sponsor
Proto-Germanic *skapjaną
Proto-Germanic *-skapiz
Proto-West Germanic *-skapi
Old English -sċiepe
Middle English -schipe
English -ship
English sponsorship
From sponsor + -ship.
Inflected forms:
form: sponsorships
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or practice of being a sponsor.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I find that for me, my sponsorship of a child via a charitable NGO provides a sense of great satisfaction.
gloss: The aid or support provided by a sponsor; backing or patronage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The company provided sponsorship to the research team.
The university awarded five sponsorships to the five most qualified applicants.
Synonyms: gossipred
Derived words: cosponsorship
Translations:
dayroom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From day + room.
Compound parts: day
room
Inflected forms:
form: dayrooms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A common room in a residential total institution such as barracks, psychiatric hospital, prison, or dormitory where the inhabitants can mingle and socialize.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who switches up or acts fake
pos: noun
tags: US
informal
slang
Translations:
spending
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English spendyng, spendynge, from Old English spendung (“spending”), equivalent to spend + -ing. Cognate with German Spendung (“contribution, donation”).
Base: spend
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: spendings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An amount that has been, or is planned to be spent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: excessive spendings
Synonyms: outlay
Derived words: antispending
deficit spending
discretionary spending
doom spending
government spending
public spending
revenge spending
social spending
spending money
spending-money
spending power
spending spree
Translations:
spectre
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: spectres
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: UK and Australia standard spelling of specter.
pos: noun
examples: To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year; but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner, […]
Translations:
skimmed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more skimmed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most skimmed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of milk: with all of the cream removed.
pos: adj
Derived words: semi-skimmed
Translations:
captivating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English captivate
Proto-Indo-European *-onts
Proto-Germanic *-ndz
Proto-West Germanic *-andī
Old English -ende
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English captivating
From captivate + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more captivating
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most captivating
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That captivates; fascinating.
pos: adj
gloss: Very beautiful or attractive.
pos: adj
examples: [T]he eye is delighted by a continual succession of small landscapes of captivating loveliness.
Derived words: captivatingly
uncaptivating
Translations:
thobe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Arabic ثَوْب (ṯawb).
Inflected forms:
form: thobes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: thawb
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: thoub
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An ankle-length robe with long sleeves, worn by some Arab men and traditionally by Palestinian women.
pos: noun
Translations:
monocular
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mender.
Proto-Hellenic *mónwos
Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos)
Ancient Greek μονο- (mono-)der.
English mono-
English ocular
English monocular
From mono- + ocular.
Inflected forms:
form: monoculars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having one eye.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: ...one of his sparks alighted upon my eye and destroyed it making me a monocular ape;
gloss: Related to a monocle.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: You are not such a foolish woman as to like to be seen with Fred Mostyn, that little monocular snob, after the aristocratic, handsome Basil Stanhope.
gloss: Of any optical system suitable for use by one eye at a time.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A monocle.
pos: noun
tags: rare
examples: The moony monocular set in his eye / Appeared to be scanning the Sweet Bye-and-Bye.
gloss: A monocular telescope, as opposed to binoculars.
pos: noun
tags: retronym
examples: Monoculars are designed to fit discreetly in the hand, improving their cosmetic appearance. Most monoculars sold today have one primary optical difference from binoculars: the ability to focus at close range. These are known as short-focus telescopes.
Derived words: monocularly
monocular O
Translations:
monorail
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French monorail, equivalent to mono- + rail.
Base: rail
Affixes: mono-
Inflected forms:
form: monorails
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a railroad system where the trains run on one rail
pos: noun
gloss: a train running on a single rail
pos: noun
Translations:
paralog
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: paralogs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: paralogue
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: either of a pair of genes that derive from the same ancestral gene
pos: noun
Translations:
pluralize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English plural
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English pluralize
From plural + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: pluralizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pluralizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pluralized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pluralized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pluralise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To make plural.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The word "orange" can be pluralized into "oranges".
gloss: To take a plural; to assume a plural form.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Nouns pluralize in English, but verbs do not.
gloss: To multiply; to make manifold.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To hold more than one ecclesiastical benefice at the same time.
pos: verb
tags: UK
intransitive
Derived words: pluralizability
pluralizable
pluralizer
unpluralized
Translations:
muffuletta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Sicilian, diminutive of muffe (“mold, mushroom”), perhaps due to the appearance of the round sandwich bread being reminiscent of a mushroom cap.
Inflected forms:
form: muffulettas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: muffeletta
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: muffaletta
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A type of Sicilian sesame bread.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A type of sandwich, typically made in New Orleans and containing layers of olive salad, mozzarella and meats, made using that bread.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Grinder: Salami, pepperoni and capicola. Other Italian options include Muffuletta (salami, ham and olive salad), Meatball (marinara and Parmesan), Pepperoni Pizzawich (marinara, mozzarella and Parmesan) and Chicken Italiano (marinara and Parmesan).
... a stop in the Central Grocery, where Tenn had a beer and one of the city's cherished muffuletta sandwiches, which he cut into four wedges and ate as carefully as he chose his words, which came forth at a slow, painful pace.
gloss: A kind of olive salad made with giardiniera.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
exploratory
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ex-
Latin plōrō
Latin explōrōder.
Middle French explorerder.
English explore
English -ate
English -ory
English -atory
English exploratory
From explore + -atory.
Inflected forms:
form: exploratories
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Serving to explore or investigate.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Meanwhile, for those who doubted the sheer breadth of music Glastonbury offers, a short walk took you from Thundercat’s exploratory, spaced-out take on jazz-funk – where the smooth sound of yacht rock crashed into extended passages of improvisation to thrilling effect – to the aforementioned Craig David, clad entirely in white and padding out his set by the simple expedient of playing other people’s records and singing along to them, and thence to Liam Gallagher on the comeback trail.
gloss: An exploration or investigation.
pos: noun
Translations:
vinification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English vinify
English -ication
English vinification
From vinify (“to make wine”) + -ication (suffix forming nouns).
Inflected forms:
form: vinifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of winemaking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
viniculture
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin vīnī cultūra (“cultivation of wine, winegrowing”). Compare viticulture.
Inflected forms:
form: vinicultures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of viticulture, the cultivation of grape vines for producing wine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
Canaanite
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Canaan
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der.
Latin -ītēsbor.
French -iteder.
English -ite
English Canaanite
From Canaan + -ite.
Inflected forms:
form: Canaanites
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Cananite
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more Canaanite
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Canaanite
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Cananite
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of the ancient Semitic people who occupied Canaan before its conquest by Israelites.
pos: noun
examples: Among the ancient Canaanites it was considered a divine honor to perform the sexual act.
It’s a simple sentence that captures the hopes and fears of modern-day parents as much as the bronze age Canaanite who owned the doubled-edged ivory comb on which the words appear.
gloss: A zealot or fanatic.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A member of the Canaanism movement.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or pertaining to the people or language of Canaan.
pos: adj
examples: Unearthed in Lachish, a Canaanite city state in the second millennium BCE and the second most important city in the kingdom of Judah, the comb suggests that humans have endured lice for thousands of years and that even the wealthiest were not spared the grim infestations.
gloss: Of or pertaining to this sect or its followers; Canaanitic.
pos: adj
gloss: zealous or fanatical.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
Synonyms: Chananean
Translations:
clansman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From clan + -s- + -man (clan's man). Coined by Scottish novelist, poet and playwright Walter Scott. Piecewise doublet of plantsman.
Base: clan
Affixes: -s-
-man
Inflected forms:
form: clansmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A male member of a clan.
pos: noun
Translations:
fenestration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
architecture
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
nautical
sciences
surgery
transport
Etymology: Latin fenestratio
Inflected forms:
form: fenestrations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The arrangement of windows and similar openings in a building.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An opening in the surface of an organ etc; the surgical creation of such an opening, especially one in the bony part of the inner ear made to improve hearing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An opening that occurs naturally or is created surgically, as through a biological membrane.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Either a translucent area in a structure such as a leaf or flower petal, or an opening in a structure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The terms ‘nectar window’ and ‘fenestration’ are used interchangeably for enlarged gaps on the adaxial side of the stamen sheath or tube. The fenestrations facilitate access to the nectaries by a pollinator.
Foliar traits unique to Darlingtonia include the presence of transparent light-transmitting fenestrations, ...
gloss: The practice of placing holes in the rudder of a ship to reduce the work required to move the rudder while preserving its ability to steer the ship.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: fenestra
fenestrated
Derived words: defenestration
interfenestration
microfenestration
transfenestration
Translations:
Midrashic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Midrash
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English Midrashic
From Midrash + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more Midrashic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Midrashic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a Midrash or to Midrashim.
pos: adj
tags: Judaism
examples: Like the rabbis, the Christians used midrashic techniques to enable Jews to move forward.
Translations:
Midrash
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hebrew מִדְרָשׁ (midrásh, “Midrash”), in turn from Aramaic דרש.
Inflected forms:
form: Midrashim
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Midrashot
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Midrashoth
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: midrash
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Rabbinic commentary on a text from the Hebrew Scripture.
pos: noun
examples: In other stories of the midrashim, Adam, in penance for his fall, abstains from sexuality for 130 years, but he is not able to control his nocturnal emissions; in his dream state female spirits, the succubae, come and have intercourse with him, and with Adam's seed they give birth to demons.
gloss: The Rabbinic technique or tradition of such exegesis.
pos: noun
examples: Midrash was not a purely intellectual pursuit and study was never an end in itself: it had to inspire practical action in the world.
Translations:
trackpad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: from track + pad, coined by Apple Inc.
Compound parts: track
pad
Inflected forms:
form: trackpads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: touchpad
pos: noun
examples: He clicked the trackpad, and his computer made a whooshing noise.
Translations:
aneroid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French anéroïde, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) + νηρός (nērós, “wet, damp”).
Inflected forms:
form: aneroids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not using or containing fluid
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: An evacuated bellows and mechanical linkage operates an aneroid barometer.
gloss: An aneroid barometer.
pos: noun
examples: I may mention that our aneroid shows us that in the continual incline which we have ascended since we abandoned our canoes we have risen to no less than three thousand feet above sea-level.
gloss: An aneroid calorimeter.
pos: noun
Translations:
fluorosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From fluor- + -osis.
Base: fluor
Inflected forms:
form: fluoroses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any adverse condition due to an excess of fluoride.
pos: noun
examples: There's no doubt about it: Fluoride should not be ingested. Even scientists from the EPA's National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory have classified fluoride as a "chemical having substantial evidence of developmental neurotoxicity.” Furthermore, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 41 percent of American adolescents now have dental fluorosis—unattractive discoloration and mottling of the teeth that indicate overexposure to fluoride.
Translations:
pean
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: Derived from Middle French penne (“feather”), from penna (“feather”); doublet of pen and penna.
Inflected forms:
form: peans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A heraldic fur of gold spots on a black field.
pos: noun
gloss: In blazon, a heraldic fur of a black field with gold spots.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
dite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Variant of doit.
Inflected forms:
form: dites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A trifling quantity or amount.
pos: noun
tags: Maine
US
examples: A “dite” is a Maine measurement, somewhere between a smidge and a bit.
Two carpenters were moving a small building onto a new foundation, and one of them says, “Shove it my way a dite!” The other shoved, but shoved a little too hard. “Nope — too much! I said a dite!”
“Set your calipers a dite bigger’n the hole so’s they’ll fit good and snug.”
Translations:
panjandrum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Coined as a nonce word in the 18th century by British dramatist Samuel Foote.
Inflected forms:
form: panjandrums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: panjandra
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Panjandrum
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An important, powerful or influential person; muckamuck.
pos: noun
examples: 1755, Samuel Foote, The Grand Panjandrum (a nonsense poem written to test actor Charles Macklin's claim that he could accurately recite any paragraph of text after a single reading),
So he died, / and she very imprudently married the Barber: / and there were present / the Picninnies, / and the Joblillies, / and the Garyulies, / and the grand Panjandrum himself, / with the little round button at top;
1910, Eliakim Littell, Making of America Project, Robert S. Littell, Living age ... (Littell's Living Age), Volume 265, page 809,
I think it's an excellent thing that the Great Panjandrum is coming for the week-end. Have you ever met him in private?"
I ought to explain that the Great Panjandrum was the nickname for Lord Elkindale, the then Foreign Secretary.
But my family has served the Panjandrums of Beotia faithfully for seven centuries. The Panjandrums have kept our place for us at their courts, honored us, promoted us, shed their glory on us, made us what we are.
The territory I had sold him was largely occupied by the Duke of Oklahoma, and, no doubt, by other potentates and panjandrums unknown to me.
His Jerusalem visit helped him refine his unique hybrid mystique as a Tory aristocrat and exotic Jewish panjandrum, convinced him that Britain had a role in the Middle East—and let him dream of a return to Zion.
To show that the panjandrums are worthy of their glory, the annual report has to show how well the business has done, regardless of the actual results.
The blame is shifted from 'the people who practise other religions' to the 'officious Left-wing panjandrums,' a term which conflates two criticisms into one from the point of view of this newspapaer: one that such deciisons are in themselves 'Left-wing' and the second that they are 'officious'.
Silicon Valley panjandrums spent the 2010s lecturing American workers in dying industries that they needed to “learn to code.”
gloss: A self-important or pretentious person.
pos: noun
examples: You can never imagine how delighted I was to find that instead of being the correct sort of big panjandrum you were supposed to be, you were really an old rip like papa.
gloss: A massive, rocket-propelled, explosive-laden cart designed by the British military during World War II.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The Panjandrum lurched and overturned, the crash dislodging several of the rockets, which flew low over the beach in all directions […].
The idea was that the Panjandrum, a kind of explosion-driven Ferris wheel, would be set rotating and then released into shallow water to roll up onto enemy beaches.
Translations:
superbus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-lbor.
English super-
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep-der.
Proto-Italic *opnis
Latin omnis
Latin omnibuslbor.
French omnibusbor.
English omnibusclip.
English bus
English superbus
From super- + bus.
Inflected forms:
form: superbuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bus which is larger than or considered superior to ordinary buses.
pos: noun
Translations:
cultus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin cultus (“cultivation, culture”). See cult.
Inflected forms:
form: cultuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Established or accepted religious rites or customs of worship; state of religious development.
pos: noun
examples: Among the rituals which members of their family had inaugurated in other states of Greece, was a peculiar cultus of Hermes (Mercury) at Stymphalus in Arcadia.
Translations:
mannerly
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English manerely, equivalent to manner + -ly.
Base: manner
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more mannerly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mannerly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more mannerly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most mannerly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having good manners; polite.
pos: adj
examples: Lucetta, as thou lov'st me, let me have / What thou think'st meet, and is most mannerly.
Tut, tut, here is a mannerly forbearance: / The truth appeares ſo naked on my ſide, / That any purblind eye may find it out.
1861, Charlotte Yonge, The Young Step-Mother
...but Genevieve's laugh roused her again, partly because she thought it less mannerly than accorded with the girl's usual politeness.
gloss: With good manners; politely.
pos: adv
Translations:
man-hour
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
English man
English hour
English man-hour
From man + hour.
Inflected forms:
form: man-hours
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: manhour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of person-hour.
pos: noun
examples: Ten workers for two days—that's 160 man-hours.
[...] every man has tools and amenities always within one minute's walk; thus non-productive man-hours are kept to a minimum.
Since 1950 our agricultural output per man-hour has actually doubled!
Translations:
mercer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman marcer, mercer (“merchant, textile merchant”), from merz (“commodity”) (from Latin merx).
Inflected forms:
form: mercers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A merchant dealing in fabrics and textiles, especially silks and other fine cloths.
pos: noun
examples: ... Acolastus-Polypragmon-Asotus, is here present (by the help of his mercer, tailor, milliner, sempster, and so forth) at his designed hour...
He passed, dallying, the windows of Brown Thomas, silk mercers.
Translations:
hunt-and-peck
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Describing a method of typing used by a person unfamiliar with the layout of a keyboard or keypad in which the person has to search for the keys to be pressed or struck one by one and uses one or both index fingers to operate the keys; also used to describe a typist who uses this technique.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: When individuals type information into an automatic teller machine or enter a password to open a lock, they simply push a sequence of keys. They first find the key on the keypad and then push it with the index finger on their dominant hand until all the keys are pressed. Children and adults tend to use this hunt-and-peck method when they encounter an unfamiliar keypad.
Translations:
touch-typing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A technique of using the keyboard of a computer or typewriter in which the typist operates the keys without needing to look at the keyboard, knowing by heart the keys being allocated to each finger and the space bar to the thumb.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Antonyms: hunt and peck
hunt-and-peck method
system
technique
two-fingered typing
Translations:
mewl
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From 1599 or earlier (1530 in a Scottish document), apparently from Shakespeare with this spelling. Perhaps from Middle English mewen (“to whimper”) + -le (frequentative suffix).
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: mewls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mewling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mewled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mewled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: mewls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To cry weakly with a soft, high-pitched sound; to whimper; to whine.
pos: verb
examples: And one man in his time plays many parts, / His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, / Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms; / Then the whining school-boy, […]
You're a pretty clog to be tied to a man for life, you mewling, white-faced cat!
My father started rubbing and rubbing on Mittens, scruffying her fur the wrong way, and she mewled her protests.
The neighbours’ cats stroll into my garden, mewling and hoping for a little bit of in flagrante. Honey bees brazenly assault the cherry blossom.
gloss: A soft cry or whimper; an act of mewling.
pos: noun
examples: There would have been total silence if it hadn't been for the sea nearby, mewling. Indeed, that same mewl added to the sleepy image that filled the dormant house.
I let out another moaning mewl, biting my lip as I awaited whatever he planned.
The scratching stopped, and there was another piteous mewl from behind the door.
Translations:
miler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mile
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English miler
From mile + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: milers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An athlete or a horse who specializes in running races of one mile, or a specified number of miles.
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
often
examples: But the master himself was an old Oxford miler, who could still bear it better than I; nay, as I flagged and stumbled, I heard him pounding steadily behind.
The champion sprinter is seldom a five-miler as well.
Indeed, with a world record‐holder or Olympic champion in almost every race, with six milers who have broken 4 minutes, eight high jumpers who can top 7 feet and seven pole vaulters who have cleared 17 feet, there is no way guessing how many Olympic champions‐elect will be on display in the hatbox over Penn Station.
gloss: A race whose length is the specified number of miles.
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
examples: I ran an eight-miler on Sunday and I'm still feeling sore.
There were some impressive victories, but Fleming believes her most important race was the second of two close second-place finishes to Pippig, one in the Peachtree 10-K in Atlanta in July and the second in a seven-miler in Davenport, Iowa, a week later.
They started with a mile; by January, they were hitting the trails at Bear Mountain at 7 a.m. on Saturdays for a brisk eight-miler.
Mr. Sell continued, “If it’s really icy out or if it’s negative 10 degrees and you are doing an easy six-miler, it probably makes a lot more sense to do it on a treadmill than to risk hurting anything.”
Derived words: extra-miler
half-miler
quarter-miler
Translations: