yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
nanite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
Etymology: From nano- + -ite.
Base: nano
Inflected forms:
form: nanites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of nanorobot.
pos: noun
examples: I had the nanites install the brackets, then climbed up there with the panels, placed them on the brackets, and had the nanites secure them.
Disperse into a cloud of nanites.
"Anyway," their guide continued, "he didn't know the first thing about tech. Pushed the team hard. We couldn't get a chemical solution that worked right, but nanites showed real promise."
"You're joking." Quinn didn't even try to keep the horror from her voice.
"Memory-altering nanite clouds?" Tonya growled. "What did they call this, Project Grey Goo? That's wildly irresponsible."
“A nanite cluster has infested the resort, consuming metal to self-replicate. Starfleet has ordered us to humanely capture and study the microscopic robots.”
Translations:
nanoscale
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos)bor.
Latin nānusbor.
English nano-
Proto-Indo-European *skend-der.
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kn̥d-sleh₂
Proto-Italic *skand-slā
Latin scālabor.
Middle English scale
English scale
English nanoscale
From nano- + scale.
Inflected forms:
form: nanoscales
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: On a scale measured in nanometers.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The first such review would also include a study of whether it is feasible to create nanoscale devices that can assemble themselves or copies of themselves molecule by molecule -- a subject of fierce debate among nanotechnology experts.
gloss: A measuring tool with gradations in nanometers.
pos: noun
examples: The nanoscales under development will have 10 000 to 40 000 graduations per 1 mm distance.
gloss: The scale of nanotechnology.
pos: noun
examples: As opposed to the microscale, the nanoscale is not just another step toward miniaturization: it results in a qualitatively new material.
Translations:
Baldwin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Proto-West Germanic *Balþawini, from Proto-Germanic *Balþawiniz (“bold friend”).
Inflected forms:
form: Baldwins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A reddish, moderately acid, winter apple.
pos: noun
tags: US
Translations:
Campari
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Camparis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An Italian mildly bitter apéritif, coloured with cochineal, often drunk with soda water or orange juice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
Martini
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after Hungarian-born Swiss inventor Frédéric de Martini (1832–1897).
Inflected forms:
form: Martinis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: martini
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A breech mechanism for a rifle.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A type of rifle using similar features.
pos: noun
examples: Now the butt of a Martini in the small of your back hurts a great deal
Translations:
Cinzano
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Cinzanos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a brand of Italian vermouth available in several versions
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
cannellini
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian cannellini, diminutive of cannella (“cinnamon”), so named because of its resemblance to an Italian cinnamon candy
Inflected forms:
form: cannellinis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of white kidney bean used in Italian cooking.
pos: noun
examples: They are cannellini beans, not cannelloni beans.
Translations:
scalable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
computing
engineering
manufacturing
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *skend-der.
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kn̥d-sleh₂
Proto-Italic *skand-slā
Latin scālabor.
Middle English scale
English scale
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English scalable
From scale + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more scalable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most scalable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being climbed.
pos: adj
gloss: Able to be changed in scale; resizeable.
pos: adj
examples: To use one of the ugliest words in the contemporary lexicon, Glasman and his colleagues believe that micro-democracy is scalable: get it right at the local level, and the rest will follow.
gloss: Able to greatly increase in capacity, with relative ease.
pos: adj
examples: Most systems have a small host table, but it cannot be used for all applications because it is not scalable and does not have a standard method for automatic distribution.
gloss: Suitable to provide accurate dimensions to manufacturing staff by being measured and having the measurements multiplied by the scale factor.
pos: adj
Related words: scalability
scale down
scale up
expandable
shrinkable
Derived words: nonscalable
rescalable
Scala
scalably
Translations:
relo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English relative
English -o
English relo
From relative + -o (“diminutive suffix”).
Inflected forms:
form: relos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rello
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A relative.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
colloquial
informal
examples: ‘Anyway, sorry I′m late,’ said Ian. ‘Wanted to hang with the relos for a bit.’
2006, Tony Davis, Step On It!: A Wild Ride Through the Motor Age, Random House Australia, page 17,
It was a journey not completed until after dark (there were no headlights) and Bertha was too tired to visit her relos in Pforzheim by the time she arrived.
2010, Stefan Korn, Scott Lancaster, Eric Mooij, Being a Great Dad For Dummies, Australian & New Zealand Edition, unnumbered page,
Just ask the relos how often they may want to do it, because you don′t want babysitting to become too much of a chore for them.
gloss: A relationship.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
colloquial
informal
examples: Like, baby I don't really fuck with your man. 9 mil bullets leave him tanned. I'm a playboy fucking up your relo with your heart in my hand.
I wanna go back to when I was single. Happy in life and loved a mingle. Being in a relo ruined me. But I know that's just how it be.
Hello, I was in a relo. Suffering just a lil bit man you know.
Translations:
interrelated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *n̥ter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
English related
English interrelated
From inter- + related.
Inflected forms:
form: more interrelated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most interrelated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a mutual or reciprocal relation or parallelism; correlative.
pos: adj
examples: The Anishinaabe people are American Indians who have historically been associated with the Great Lakes region of what is now called Canada and the United States. The Anishinaabe people of the Great Lakes include the Odawas (also known as the Ottawas), the Chippewas (also known as the Ojibwes), and the Potawatomis (also known as the Bodéwadmis)—three interrelated groups that are sometimes collectively referred to as the Three Fires Confederacy.
Translations:
lau
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: laus
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lauing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: laued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: laued
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To place upon; to put down onto.
pos: verb
tags: Polari
Translations:
arrabbiata
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian, feminine of arrabbiato (“angry”) referring to its spiciness; see rabbia (“anger”) for more.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Cooked in a hot, fiery style with garlic, tomatoes, and chili.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
postpositional
usually
examples: Chicken arrabbiata was served on steaming fettuccine.
gloss: A dish cooked in this style.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: We were just trying to keep our heads above water, maybe catch some of the tomatoes they were throwing so we could make some arrabbiata.
Translations:
parallelism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
computing
engineering
grammar
human-sciences
law
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From parallel + -ism and from Late Latin parallelismus.
Base: parallel
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: parallelisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or condition of being parallel; agreement in direction, tendency, or character.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The state of being in agreement or similarity; resemblance, correspondence, analogy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Plutarch (c. AD 46-120), in his Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, traced a parallelism between the most eminent men of the two countries.
gloss: A parallel position; the relation of parallels.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The juxtaposition of two or more identical or equivalent syntactic constructions, especially those expressing the same sentiment with slight modifications, introduced for rhetorical effect.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rhetoric
uncountable
gloss: The doctrine that matter and mind do not causally interact but that physiological events in the brain or body nonetheless occur simultaneously with matching events in the mind.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: In antitrust law, the practice of competitors of raising prices by roughly the same amount at roughly the same time, without engaging in a formal agreement to do so.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Similarity of features between two species resulting from their having taken similar evolutionary paths following their initial divergence from a common ancestor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The use of parallel methods in hardware or software, so that several tasks can be performed at the same time.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: parallelist
parallelistic
Derived words: conscious parallelism
massive parallelism
nonparallelism
pseudoparallelism
psychophysical parallelism
teleparallelism
Translations:
guanciale
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian guanciale, from guancia (“cheek”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An Italian dish of fatty bacon prepared from pig cheeks.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
subsection
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
law
natural-sciences
taxonomy
zoology
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
English section
English subsection
From sub- + section.
Inflected forms:
form: subsections
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: subsections
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: subsectioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: subsectioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: subsectioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A defined part of a section.
pos: noun
examples: To them, just being a webhead or computer geek is not enough. The culture has its own subsections […]
There is experimental evidence showing that cortisol restrains the intensity and duration of the emergency reaction to stress, and catecholamines have been shown to enhance emotional memory in the amygdala (see subsection on "Noradrenaline"). Thus, individuals lacking cortisol would overstore traumatic memories .
gloss: A subpart of a legal document such as law.
pos: noun
examples: A provision of law may not be construed as requiring a new grant to be awarded to a specified non-Federal Government entity unless that provision of law (1) specifically refers to this subsection; specifically identifies the particular non-Federal Government entity involved; and (3) specifically states that the award to that entity is required by such provision of law in contravention of the policy set forth in subsection (a).
In the end, the deadlock was resolved by a minor -- but for the National Party symbolically important -- addition to one of the other subsections of the language clause.
gloss: An informal taxonomic category below section and above family.
pos: noun
gloss: A taxonomic rank below section and above species.
pos: noun
gloss: To insert subsections (into some text, etc.)
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: subsectional
subsubsection
Translations:
dryad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Old French driade (“wood nymph”), from Latin Dryas, Dryadis, from Ancient Greek Δρυάς (Druás, “dryad”), from δρῦς (drûs, “oak”), from Proto-Indo-European *derew(o)- (“tree, wood”); cf. Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”).
Inflected forms:
form: dryads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A female tree spirit.
pos: noun
tags: Greek
examples: There it had stood for years, close beside a mighty oak, under which sat often the kindly old priest, who told stories to the listening children. The young chestnut tree listened with them: the Dryad inside it, who was still a child, could remember the time when the tree was so small that it only reached a little higher than the ferns and long blades of grass.
gloss: mountain avens, dryas
pos: noun
Derived words: dryadic
yellow dryad
Translations:
northbound
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *nér
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *nŕ̥t(e)ros
Proto-Germanic *nurþraz
Proto-West Germanic *norþr
Old English norþ
Middle English north
English north
English -bound
English northbound
From north + -bound.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Heading or moving in a northerly direction; or of infrastructure, intended for travelling northwards.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: She will leave on the northbound bus.
There are roadworks on the northbound carriageway.
Located on the northbound platform, the detached, timber-clad waiting room (a period Furness Railway structure) has been adapted into a pet-friendly, self-catering, two-bedroom holiday home complete with sun lounge and garden for those sunny Cumbrian days.
gloss: Towards the north.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: He was travelling northbound on the Golden Gate Bridge.
Translations:
eastbound
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English east
English -bound
English eastbound
From east + -bound.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Moving or heading towards the east.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The eastbound train is late again!
[...] at each station the train times are not shown in one all-embracing chronological list, but in two separate sheets, one with a conspicuous band of yellow detailing westbound departures and the other with a similar band of blue the eastbound trains.
gloss: Toward the east.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: He drove eastbound on the George Washington Bridge.
Translations:
adjuster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English adjust
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 adjuster
From adjust + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: adjusters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: adjustor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who adjusts something, especially the amount of compensation due in an insurance claim.
pos: noun
gloss: A component used to adjust something.
pos: noun
examples: a bar adjuster in kiteboarding
Derived words: adjustress
attitude-adjuster
barrel adjuster
claim adjuster
claims adjuster
loss adjuster
Translations:
adjudicative
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English adjudicate
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English adjudicative
From adjudicate + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: more adjudicative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most adjudicative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to an adjudication or to an adjudicator.
pos: adj
examples: "By giving the city control over ensuring adequate adjudicative resourcing to meet demand and providing defendants the ability to receive dispute outcomes in less than half the time than is offered under current state POA," staff said.
Translations:
adjudicator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English adjudicate
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Latin -ātor
Old French -eorbor.
Middle English -our
▲
Latin -torlbor.
English -or
English adjudicator
From adjudicate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: adjudicators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who adjudicates.
pos: noun
examples: Rimmer ducked his body low into his chair, so just his head remained above the table top, and peered past the backs of the examinees in front of him, waiting for the adjudicator to make his move.
The State Department has hired hundreds of new passport adjudicators, put employees to work around the clock and opened a new processing facility in Arkansas but has still been unable to meet the demand [for the issuance of new passports].
But in the neighboring DeKalb County, groups of four adjudicators work together – one Republican, one Democrat, two independents – to vote on whether a ballot is OK, and that its intent can be ascertained.
Translations:
adjudicatory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to an adjudication.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
adjure
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English adjuren, from Latin adiūrō (“beg earnestly”), from ad- (“near, at; towards, to”)' + iūrō (“swear by oath”).
Inflected forms:
form: adjures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: adjuring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: adjured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: adjured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To issue a formal command.
pos: verb
tags: often
transitive
gloss: To earnestly appeal to or advise; to charge solemnly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Party members are adjured to promote awareness of this problem.
`Then tell to me, and this great company, the tale whereof I have heard.' Thus adjured, I, in as few words as I could, related the history of the cannibal feast, and of the attempted torture of our poor servant.
The Rabbis adjured her to endow the young man with his former virility, but she vehemently refused to do so.
Translations:
admonitory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin admonitōrium (“admonition, reminder”).
Inflected forms:
form: more admonitory
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most admonitory
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to an admonition; serving to reprove, warn or advise.
pos: adj
examples: He wagged an admonitory finger at the culprit.
Wherefore the naturall measure wherby to iudge our doings, is the sentence of reason, determining and setting downe what is good to be done. Which sentence is either mandatory, shewing what must be done; or else permissiue, declaring onely what may be done; or thirdly admonitorie, opening what is the most conuenient for vs to doe.
Mere descriptions of virtue or vice do not strike us, so strongly, as the visible representations of them. Richard the Third’s dream, Lady Macbeth’s soliloquy in her sleep, the Dagger Scene in the same Play, Cardinal Beaufort’s last moments, with many other passages in our Author, of the same admonitory kind, avail us more than whole volumes of Tully’s Offices, or Seneca’s Morals.
[…] Mr. Dick […] was so low-spirited at the prospect of our separation, and played so ill in consequence, that my aunt, after giving him several admonitory raps on the knuckles with her dice-box, shut up the board, and declined to play with him any more.
From it [the pew], Mrs. Venables was able […] to keep an admonitory eye on the school children who occupied the north aisle, and to frown at those who turned round to stare or make faces.
Translations:
afforestation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Medieval Latin afforestātiō, from afforestāt-, past participial stem of afforestō (“to convert into a forest”) (from Latin ad- + Late Latin forestis (“forest”) + -ō (suffix forming verbs)), + Latin -iō (suffix forming action nouns). By surface analysis, afforest + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: afforestations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of creating a new forest where none had existed before, or reforestation of areas long deforested.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Much might be said of the condition of the timber in the reserves, as typified in this locality, of possible means for its conservation and regulated use, and of the problems of afforestation, and of sylviculture generally, which are involved in the proper management of the reserves.
While, however, the military critic from Britain might concur in this, he might tell us that the afforestation of such a wilderness as is Natal, for instance, is too large an undertaking for practical consideration.
At first the Japanese, too, were careless in this respect, for the supply of camphor trees seemed practically limitless, but the great increase in the demand for the product in late years has made scientific afforestation necessary.
There are very few native trees in Iceland, primarily downy birch and rowan, but afforestation efforts are underway.
Antonyms: deforestation
Translations:
afforested
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Created by afforestation.
pos: adj
Translations:
reforest
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English forest
English reforest
From re- + forest.
Inflected forms:
form: reforests
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reforesting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reforested
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reforested
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To replant a forest, especially after clearcutting.
pos: verb
gloss: To afforest.
pos: verb
Derived words: reforestation
Translations:
reforestation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English reforest
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English reforestation
From reforest + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: reforestations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of replanting a forest, especially after clear-cutting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
ctenophore
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Ctenophora; equivalent to cteno- + -phore.
Base: cteno
Inflected forms:
form: ctenophores
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various marine animals of the phylum Ctenophora, having lucent, mucilaginous bodies bearing eight rows of comblike cilia used for swimming.
pos: noun
examples: Ctenophores are abundant in the oceans, but long-neglected by scientists.
Translations:
deforest
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
English forest
English deforest
From de- + forest.
Inflected forms:
form: deforests
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deforesting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: deforested
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: deforested
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To clear (an area) of forest.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To disafforest (remove legal status as forest).
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
Related words: deafforest
Derived words: deforestation
deforester
Translations:
deforested
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more deforested
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most deforested
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to deforestation.
pos: adj
Translations:
rhomboid
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: rhomboids
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rhomboides
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rhomboides
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A parallelogram which is neither a rhombus nor a rectangle
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several muscles that control the shoulders
pos: noun
gloss: A solid shape which has rhombic faces
pos: noun
gloss: resembling, or shaped like a rhombus or rhomboid
pos: adj
Translations:
afterbirth
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From after- + birth (in the sense of delivery). Cognate with Danish efterbyrd (“afterbirth”), Swedish efterbörd (“afterbirth”). Compare also afterburden, afterburthen.
Base: birth
Affixes: after-
Inflected forms:
form: afterbirths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The placenta and other material expelled via the birth canal following childbirth or parturition in mammals.
pos: noun
Translations:
agoraphobic
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From agora- + -phobic, see agoraphobia.
Affixes: agora-
-phobic
Inflected forms:
form: agoraphobics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more agoraphobic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most agoraphobic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: One who suffers from agoraphobia.
pos: noun
gloss: Of, pertaining to or suffering from agoraphobia.
pos: adj
examples: […] spaces horizontal and sparsely inhabited had always induced in him a depression accompanied by agoraphobic sensations.
[My mother] and I had been distant for decades not because she was agoraphobic but because I'd been remote and unsparing.
Translations:
agriculturist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle French agriculturebor.
Latin agricultūrabor.
Middle English agriculture
English agriculture
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English agriculturist
From agriculture + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: agriculturists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who practices agriculture, a farmer, a gardener.
pos: noun
gloss: An expert in agriculture who advises farmers.
pos: noun
Synonyms: agriculturalist
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: agrícola
lang: Georgian
word: სამიწათმოქმედო
roman: samic̣atmokmedo
lang: Portuguese
word: agrícola
lang: Spanish
word: agrícola
agronomic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English agronomy
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English agronomic
From agronomy + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to agronomy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
agriculturally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English agricultural
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English agriculturally
From agricultural + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more agriculturally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most agriculturally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a manner pertaining to agriculture.
pos: adv
examples: Farm-state politicians are agriculturally minded.
Translations:
air-condition
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: air-conditions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: air-conditioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: air-conditioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: air-conditioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To mechanically cool a space or an entire structure.
pos: verb
examples: In hot, muggy climates, some people air-condition their garage.
Translations:
flagellum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Latin flagellum (“whip”), diminutive of flagrum.
Inflected forms:
form: flagella
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flagellums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flagellae
pos: noun
tags: plural
proscribed
Senses:
gloss: In protists, a long, whiplike membrane-enclosed organelle used for locomotion or feeding.
pos: noun
gloss: In bacteria, a long, whiplike proteinaceous appendage, used for locomotion.
pos: noun
gloss: A whip.
pos: noun
tags: formal
Derived words: basiflagellum
distiflagellum
endoflagellum
flagellar
flagelliferous
flagellin
Translations:
alderwoman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: alderwomen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A female alderman.
pos: noun
Translations:
sundress
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sun + dress.
Compound parts: sun
dress
Inflected forms:
form: sundresses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A typically sleeveless dress, usually a minidress, made of light, loose-fitting material for spring and summer wear.
pos: noun
examples: I'm in his favorite sundress, watching me get undressed
The brand, in its collaboration with Target, provoked ire—proving that, in the right circumstances, even sundresses can be part of the culture wars.
Translations:
anatomic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-
Proto-Hellenic *aná
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰ́ (ănắ)
Ancient Greek ἀνα- (ana-)
Proto-Indo-European *temh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-né-
Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō)
Ancient Greek ἀνατέμνω (anatémnō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek ἀνατομή (anatomḗ)
Ancient Greek *ἀνατομία (*anatomía)bor.
Latin anatomiader.
French anatomie
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -ique
Middle French -ique
French -ique
French anatomiquebor.
Latin anatomicusbor.
English anatomic
From French anatomique or its etymon Latin anatomicus, from Ancient Greek ἀνατομικός (anatomikós, “skilled in anatomy”). By surface analysis, anatomy + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to anatomy and dissection, or to individual structures of the anatomy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Therefore, the effects of notchplasty on the clinical outcome after anatomic double-bundle ACL reconstruction were evaluated in a cohort study.
Translations:
anatomist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂en-
Proto-Hellenic *aná
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓νᾰ́ (ănắ)
Ancient Greek ἀνα- (ana-)
Proto-Indo-European *temh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-né-
Ancient Greek τέμνω (témnō)
Ancient Greek ἀνατέμνω (anatémnō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek ἀνατομή (anatomḗ)
Ancient Greek *ἀνατομία (*anatomía)bor.
Latin anatomiader.
Old French anatomiebor.
Middle English anatomie
English anatomy
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English anatomist
From anatomy + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: anatomists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who studies, teaches, writes on, or does research on anatomy and anatomical structures.
pos: noun
examples: But we can no longer regard the mere fact of these diffuse condensations of the lung becoming yellow and caseous as an evidence of their tuberculous nature, especially since the pathological anatomists, and among them Virchow, have shown that formations of the most different kind, having not the slightest connection with tubercule— as, for example, old cancerous masses, lymphatic glands swollen by a hyperplasia of cells, hæmorrhagical infarctions, abscesses, &c.— undergo exactly the same caseous transformation.
A plant anatomist receiving such samples can remove pickled wood and bark for anatomical study, then dry the remaining portions for inclusion in a xylarium.
Gall's science of “bump reading” would ultimately be abandoned as much for its fixation on social categories as for an inability within the scientific community to replicate its findings. These scientific failings would be exposed by anatomists like Paul Broca (1861) and Carl Wernicke (1874) who pioneered the alternative neuroscientific method of lesion–symptom mapping.
Translations:
anthracite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Via Latin from Ancient Greek ἀνθρακῖτις (anthrakîtis, “a kind of coal”), from ἄνθραξ (ánthrax, “charcoal”). By surface analysis, anthrac- + -ite.
Inflected forms:
form: anthracites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A form of carbonized ancient plants; the hardest and cleanest-burning of all the coals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A dark grey color.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In the past, when the author was studying, architects only employed a very restricted palette of colours: the white of modernism, black, a “friendly” shade of anthracite and light grey!
Derived words: anthraciferous
anthracitic
anthracitism
meta-anthracite
Translations:
armorial
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English armory
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 armorial
From armory + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: armoriall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: armourial
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: armorials
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: armoriall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: armourial
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to heraldry, or to heraldic arms.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Mute Memento of that union
In a Saxon Church survives,
Where a cross-legged Knight lies sculptured
As between two wedded Wives—
Figures with armorial signs of race and birth,
And the vain rank the Pilgrims bore while yet on earth.
The Metropolitan District Railway did not at any time employ an armorial device on its rolling stock, though one was frequently displayed on its maps and timetables.
Nick found a set of Trollope which had a relatively modest and approachable look among the rest, and took down The Way We Live Now, with an armorial bookplate, the pages uncut.
gloss: A book etc concerning heraldry, especially a collection of coats of arms.
pos: noun
Translations:
antisepsis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́)
Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der.
English anti-
English sepsis
English antisepsis
From anti- + sepsis.
Inflected forms:
form: antisepses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The science and practice of countering microbial infection, as with the use of antiseptics, and the use of aseptic technique.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Any antiseptic agent.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
uncountable
usually
examples: Pastes made with ordinary wheat flour are very liable to mould and while this tendency may be counteracted by addition of chemical preservatives, there is danger that such antisepses may not be healthful for the print itself.
Translations:
antiserum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English anti-
Proto-Indo-European *ser-
Proto-Indo-European *sér-o-der.
Proto-Italic *serom
Latin serumder.
English serum
English antiserum
From anti- + serum.
Inflected forms:
form: antiserums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: antisera
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A serum prepared from human or animal sources containing antibodies able to counter certain diseases or toxins.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The polyclonal antibodies that Protherics had developed were based on the long established process for making antiserum by raising and extracting antibodies from animals exposed to antigens, rather than through monoclonal antibody technology; […]
Translations:
antivenin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From French antivenin (“antivenom”), from anti- + venin (“venom”), popularized by Albert Calmette & al.'s 1894 work creating serums to treat snakebites. Equivalent to anti- + venin (“venom; biochemical toxin found in certain snakes”). Doublet of antivenom and antivenene.
Base: venin
Affixes: anti-
Inflected forms:
form: antivenins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: anti-venin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of antivenom, (now) particularly for snakebites containing venin.
pos: noun
Translations:
antlered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English antler
English -ed
English antlered
From antler + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having antlers.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Some are strangely detailed, like the hugely antlered white deer-creature-cum-forest-god seemingly stolen whole cloth from Princess Mononoke.
Translations:
apically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English apical
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English apically
From apical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more apically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most apically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an apical manner or direction; towards an apex.
pos: adv
Translations:
archetypal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English archetype
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English archetypal
From archetype + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more archetypal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most archetypal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to an archetype.
pos: adj
examples: In 1928 [Martin] Heidegger succeeded [Edmund] Husserl to take a chair at Freiburg and in his inaugural lecture made a pronouncement that earned him a reputation as an archetypal metaphysician with his claim that our awareness of people as a whole depends on our experience of dread in the face of nothingness.
Translations:
edging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: edgings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Anything that forms, defines, or marks the edge of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The decorative edging around the door makes it easier to find in the dark.
A means was found, for example, of fitting rubber edging to the doors and still retaining the handle and door lock.
gloss: A technique involving the placement of the edge of the climbing shoe on a sharp hold.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything, as of a piece of metal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The sexual technique of maintaining a high level of sexual arousal for an extended period of time without reaching orgasm.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: smearing
Derived words: Hamburg edging
Translations:
archfiend
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From arch- + fiend. Compare German Erzfeind, Dutch aartsvijand.
Base: fiend
Affixes: arch-
Inflected forms:
form: archfiends
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A chief fiend (devil, demon or monster).
pos: noun
examples: Of those [spirits] who rebelled some became devils, fiends or archfiends, according to the manifold proportions of their transgression.
[…] he thought for a minute with a freezing detached almost amused calm of the dreadful night inevitably awaiting him whether he drank much more or not, his room shaking with daemonic orchestras […] the vicious shouting, the strumming, the slamming, the pounding, the battling with insolent archfiends, the avalanche breaking down the door, the proddings from under the bed, and always, outside, the cries, the wailing, the terrible music, the dark’s spinets:
Seven chief demons, seven archfiends, aid Ahriman in his struggle against the forces of light.
gloss: Satan.
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
often
examples: So stretcht out huge in length the Arch-fiend lay
Chain’d on the burning Lake,
In disobedience to his God,
Did man himself call down the rod?
Or did th’ arch-fiend, from Heav’n that fell,
Inspire the mischief to rebel?
All, save I, were at rest or in enjoyment; I, like the arch fiend, bore a hell within me, and finding myself unsympathised with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin.
And then the subject became Religion, which was the Arch-fiend’s deadliest weapon. Government oppressed the body of the wage-slave, but Religion oppressed his mind […]
These, it was believed, would prevent the Arch-fiend from entering the charmed ring and wreaking vengeance upon the sorcerers.
gloss: A diabolically evil person.
pos: noun
examples: 1690, anonymous translator, The Royal Wanton (attributed to Gregorio Leti), London: F.B., Part 5, p. 48,
[…] her Arch-fiend and Devil of a Lord, had impudently sent the same Villain to abuse her once again.
So this is a plot to shield this arch-fiend, and I have detected it. A word from me, and three heads besides his would roll from their shoulders!
Possibly Beauty Smith, arch-fiend and tormentor, was capable of breaking White Fang’s spirit, but as yet there were not signs of his succeeding.
[…] in every hamlet of the United States where motion pictures were shown, bug-eyed filmgoers stared in horror at the celluloid villanies of the Huns, led by that archfiend Kaiser Wilhelm II, the Beast of Berlin.
Translations:
archival
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: The adjective is derived from archive (“place for storing earlier, and often historical, material; material so kept, considered as a whole”, noun) + -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives).
The noun is derived from archive (“to put (something) in an archive”, verb) + -al (suffix forming nouns, especially of verbal action).
Base: archive
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: archivals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to an archive or archiving.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In archival photographs, these lost structures appear almost futuristic (even today) in the way they carried trains across deep ravines on slender, balanced combinations of wrought and cast iron.
gloss: Of a material: having a quality suited to the conservational needs of archiving.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: archival boxes    archival paper
gloss: The practice of storing items in an archive; archiving; (countable) an instance of this.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Our nightly computer backups include the archival of old e-mail messages.
Related words: archive
archivist
archivize
e-archive
national archive
Derived words: archivalism
archivally
archival science
nonarchival
prearchival
Translations:
archway
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From arch + way.
Compound parts: arch
way
Inflected forms:
form: archways
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A passageway covered by an arch, particularly one made of masonry.
pos: noun
gloss: A doorway with a semilunar-shaped top.
pos: noun
examples: Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
Derived words: archwayed
Translations:
arithmetical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin arithmēticus + -al; equivalent to arithmetic + -al.
Base: arithmēticus
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to arithmetic, particularly the functions of arithmetic (noun; stress on the second syllable).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
atrial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English atrium
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 atrial
From atrium + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to an atrium, especially the atrium of the heart.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The most common type of irregular heartbeat is atrial fibrillation or AFib. It is estimated that between three and six million people in the United States have AFib.
Translations:
audiologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English audiology
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English audiologist
From audiology + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: audiologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A healthcare professional who diagnoses, treats and/or manages hearing and balance disorders.
pos: noun
Translations:
autobiographically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English autobiographical
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English autobiographically
From autobiographical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more autobiographically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most autobiographically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an autobiographical manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
abdominoplasty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: From abdomino- (“abdomen”) + -plasty (“plastic surgery”).
Base: abdomino
Inflected forms:
form: abdominoplasties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The surgical removal of excess flesh from the abdomen, usually for cosmetic reasons.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: An instance of such surgery; one operation (procedure).
pos: noun
tags: countable
Derived words: abdominoplastic
Translations:
autoworker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From auto + worker.
Compound parts: auto
worker
Inflected forms:
form: autoworkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who works as an assembly line worker in an automobile assembly plant.
pos: noun
examples: In the United States, the main autoworkers' union is the UAW, the United Auto Workers.
Though Davis hasn’t experienced the violence other campuses faced, Weintraut said UCD grad students stand in solidarity with UCLA, UCI and UCSD and chose to follow the stand-up strike strategy the UAW used to organize autoworkers.
Translations:
autocratically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English autocratic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English autocratically
From autocratic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more autocratically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most autocratically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an autocratic manner.
pos: adv
Translations: