yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
shovel-handed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From shovel + handed.
Compound parts: shovel
handed
Inflected forms:
form: more shovel-handed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most shovel-handed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: brawny and large, with connotations of being unintelligent, as one who is fit for digging ditches.
pos: adj
examples: I do not wish any mass at all, but honest men only, lovely, sweet, accomplished women only, and no shovel-handed, narrow-brained, gin-drinking million stockingers or lazzaroni at all.
There was his cousin, Sivan, the once shy boy who had grown as bulky as his shovel-handed father and then some more, and had learned to use his body efficiently with the help of the local kick-boxing club.
“Foaming moonstruck octopus! Shovel-handed ape!” The blood-laced eyes of Ruthlen Beauson bagged gibbously behind their horn-rimmed lenses.
They belonged to the shovel-handed goalkeeper whose size the first time he'd seen him had made him bolt for home, the Ulsterman and Munich survivor Harry Gregg.
Translations:
box-fresh
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Chiefly of shoes or other clothing: fresh from the box in which they were purchased; brand-new, ostentatiously new.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Two years after Katherine Jenkins wore a flower garland, denim cut offs and box-fresh Hunters to Glastonbury 2013, the look refuses to die.
Translations:
carbo-load
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: carbo-loads
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: carbo-loading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: carbo-loaded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: carbo-loaded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: carbo load
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: carboload
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: carb-load
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: carb load
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: carbload
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To load up on carbohydrate-rich foods before exercise.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: In addition to carbo-loading, many runners increase their fluid intake in the final days preceding a longer race to maximize their water stores and minimize dehydration during the race.
Translations:
non-dom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: economics
government
sciences
taxation
Etymology: Clipping of non-domiciled.
Inflected forms:
form: non-doms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nondom
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who has their domicile in another country, allowing them to avoid paying UK tax on non-UK earnings.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: Without that non-dom status she could have been liable for more than £20m of UK taxes on these windfalls, it was reported. After a public outcry, her spokesperson announced she would start paying UK taxes on her overseas earnings to relieve political pressure on her husband.
Many of the non-doms who left after changes to the UK tax regime have kept their houses but no longer have full-time staff, says Caroline Baker, who provides management services for luxury properties.
Translations:
half-expect
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From half- + expect.
Base: expect
Affixes: half-
Inflected forms:
form: half-expects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: half-expecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: half-expected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: half-expected
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Almost to expect; to think that something may happen, without being entirely sure.
pos: verb
examples: - I'm afraid we have no appointments available until next week.
- Oh, that's all right; I half-expected that.
Translations:
SAA
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: SAAs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Single Action Army. The US Army's classification for the Colt M1873 "Peacemaker" revolver, their standard revolver from 1873 to 1892.
pos: noun
gloss: Small Arms Ammunition. The British armed forces term for ammunition used in sidearms and rifles. The acronym was used in 20th century manuals as an abbreviation.
pos: noun
Translations:
side-hand
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From side + hand.
Compound parts: side
hand
Inflected forms:
form: side-hands
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: side-handing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: side-handed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: side-handed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To move by placing the palm of the hand on top and sliding sideways.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The conspirators grabbed up the candy-cup wrappings that had been carefreely strewn about, took turns tearing off pieces of the box, and side-handed them into the storm sewer across the street.
He side-handed the wafer back across the desk into Remy's lap.
Mitzi side-handed a pile of prints off the table and set a plate down on his side of it.
Translations:
side-handed
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From side + handed.
Compound parts: side
handed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Sideways from the hand.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Lightning drew in on his tail and I gave my lariat a side-handed pitch.
With a motion so smooth and fast Marco could barely track it, the man at his side whipped the metal bar in a side-handed toss.
A sideways or side-handed throw may be necessary to avoid obstacles, toss it into a small opening, or throw it around a corner of a building or trench angle.
gloss: Done with the side of the hand.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Mallory tensed, and as the policeman passed the door, he stepped out, brought his hand over and down in a side-handed blow to the base of the neck that had every ounce of power in his shoulders behind it.
It was a clumsy, side-handed, chopping blow, but Louis was unprepared for it.
She'd been poised to deliver another side-handed slice to Mouse's head, and only with reluctance did she lower her arm and move back.
gloss: Indirect; subtle.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: When she appeared again, she made some side-handed inquiries regarding Otto (with that gentle artifice oft employed by women); but he was gone.
When he says about his wife of more than fifty years, "Whatever Maxine wants, Maxine gets," he's not making a side-handed comment about their marriage.
Elba Rae Van Oaks — in her quest to capture the elusive Laveetra — had not entertained the possibility of a sensible conversation with her aunt, who did not appear poised to disappoint, but neither had she expected a side-handed accolade.
gloss: Expanding.
pos: adj
tags: UK
not-comparable
examples: ... with side-handed or expanding batons, so as to provide police officers with better protection against assaults by criminals.
However, Strathclyde has always said that, while it has stepped up security for officers, through the introduction of ``quick cuffs, side-handed batons, and knife-resistant vests, CS sprays were not on its ``menu.
Michael Howard will be given a demonstration of the use of the extended baton and the more controversial side-handed baton at the Home Office.
gloss: Sideways.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Wading upstream, it was obvious I would have to cast side-handed and under-handed, with an occasional bow-and-arrow "shot."
I could see Tom in the Bisto mirror on the wall as he took a bottle off the shelf side-handed without breaking stride, and placed it on the counter.
I pull the pin and lob the explosive side-handed into the room.
gloss: Using the side of the hand.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: As the gunman spluttered, Towler continued the momentum of his hand to catch the man side-handed in the windpipe and, with his other hand, struck him hard in the crotch.
Derived words: side-handedly
Translations:
side-handedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From side-handed + -ly.
Base: side-handed
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more side-handedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most side-handedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Indirectly
pos: adv
examples: While Kiko seemed to understand my intention to use this task to side-handedly ask him questions about himself, he played along, indicating that he would like to have the power of a ninja who could control his chakra, that he worried about losing power, and at times wanted to be invisible, particularly at the ninja academy (the equivalent of his school).
Also, it's right-sized in terms of its overall dimensions, especially in contrast with its larger brother, the previously and side-handedly derided X3, which is based on the new, larger 3-Series.
All right, now this will settle some longstanding beefs about the apparently competing markets of the Toronto Argonauts and the Buffalo Bills – and perhaps even side-handedly address the NFL's reported designs on the big Canadian market.
Translations:
victim-blamey
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From victim-blame + -y.
Base: victim-blame
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: more victim-blamey
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most victim-blamey
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Engaging in, promoting, or characteristic of victim-blaming.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: “I think any sort of advice on how to have a safer Halloween based only on the costume is very victim-blamey,” Wozniak said.
They tell me you can never let your guard down. Not for a single second. That you should expect every fellow citizen to be a sociopath. It isn’t exactly victim-blamey, but it feels gross.
And that whole distinctly victim-blamey sentiment of "if you didn't want this to happen, you shouldn't have taken photos" is hard-wired into mainstream culture.
Translations:
victim-blaming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From victim + blaming.
Compound parts: victim
blaming
Inflected forms:
form: victim blaming
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The practice of holding the victim of a crime or other wrongful act wholly or partially responsible for what befell them.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
slack-handedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From slack-handed + -ness.
Base: slack-handed
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: slackhandedness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being slack-handed.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
slack-water
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: slack-waters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A time, at the turn of the tide, when the water is calm.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A stretch of seawater in which there are no currents, or of a river impeded by a lock or dam.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
geogrid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From geo- + grid.
Base: grid
Affixes: geo-
Inflected forms:
form: geogrids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A grid of geosynthetic material used to reinforce soil and other materials.
pos: noun
examples: It's so effective at holding soil together that I've even seen geogrid used alone to hold 20-foot high sheer faces of bare soil stable[…].
Translations:
gloryhole
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
mining
Inflected forms:
form: gloryholes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gloryholing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gloryholed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gloryholed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To mine using a glory hole.
pos: verb
examples: Furthermore, gloryholing was extremely hazardous because of having to work on loose slopes and upon some ground which was on fire or through which gas and smoke were issuing. For these reasons gloryholing was abandoned.
gloss: To have sex through a glory hole.
pos: verb
tags: rare
slang
Translations:
geosynthetic
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From geo- + synthetic.
Base: synthetic
Affixes: geo-
Inflected forms:
form: geosynthetics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any synthetic, typically polymeric product used to stabilize terrain.
pos: noun
examples: The research is the work of the University of Cambridge's Centre for Smart Infrastructure & Construction (CSIC) and geosynthetics manufacturer Huesker.
Translations:
XXY
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From two X chromosomes + Y chromosome.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having an aneuploidy in the configuration of chromosomes by having an extra Y chromosome.
pos: adj
Translations:
glauconitic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From glauconite + -ic.
Base: glauconite
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more glauconitic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most glauconitic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to, or containing, glauconite.
pos: adj
Translations:
ifdef
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: A keyword in various programming languages, short for if defined.
Inflected forms:
form: ifdefs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A construct in source code that allows another part of the code to run only if a specified identifier is defined in the program.
pos: noun
Translations:
frightmare
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of fright + nightmare.
Compound parts: fright
nightmare
Inflected forms:
form: frightmares
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone or something extremely unattractive.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Try and stick to only a few decorative elements, not a 'more is more' frightmare.
It's a Dali-esque frightmare of liquescent forms, a pseudo-organic samplescape congested with scrofulous sound tentacles and slithery slimeshapes.
'A cuddly six and a half. Yummier than that Wednesday Addams lookalike Günter's also taken on. Frightmare or what?'
gloss: An extremely unpleasant and frightening experience.
pos: noun
examples: Yes, that must have been the way it had happened, Gibby decided — just one long frightmare, part of it filmed in this bedroom.
Wednesday morning, Jamie was pacing back and forth in the small kitchen when she decided that she didn't want to be alone after last night's frightmare.
I sure hope so, I think nervously—because between my too tight costume, this too tight dressing room, and High Priestess Abala's too spooky Vampire Spell, this whole thing is turning into a New York frightmare!
Translations:
daruma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 達磨 (daruma), from Sanskrit धर्म (dhárma, “law; morality; code”), used as a clipping of 菩提達磨 (Bodaidaruma, “Bodhidharma”). Doublet of Dharma.
Inflected forms:
form: darumas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hollow, round, Japanese traditional doll modeled after Bodhidharma, the founder of the Zen sect of Buddhism.
pos: noun
examples: Like a daruma doll, you knock it over and it rights itself.
This combination of piety and fun also accounts for the continued popularity of roly-poly darumas, popular doll-like figures named after Bodhidharma.
Translations:
funkmaster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From funk + master.
Compound parts: funk
master
Inflected forms:
form: funkmasters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A masterful performer of funk music.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Some of us have been waiting a long time to hear them live, forced to fill the gap with endless spins of their Twin-Tone debut, Take It (produced, oddly enough, by New Orleans funkmaster Allen Toussaint)[…].
Translations:
mangubat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: mangubats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A traditional Tausug folk doctor in the Philippines.
pos: noun
examples: The position of the mangubat is not hereditary, in the sense that the son of a mangubat follows his father's profession. Anyone who desires can become a mangubat. Curing powers are obtained through training […]
More frequently, a mangubat, or folk medicine specialist, otherwise known as a quack doctor, will first attempt to cure the person through the use of folk religion, and special charms.
Translations:
homebuilt
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From home + built.
Compound parts: home
built
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Constructed at home, rather than being obtained from a manufacturer etc.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a homebuilt vehicle
Translations:
bants
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From banter + -s (“diminutive suffix”); first used in the early 21st century.
Base: banter
Affixes: -s
Inflected forms:
form: bantz
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Banter, particularly among men.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
uncountable
examples: Top bants, says Twitter's master 'Target Smasher'
In my office, bants come thick and fast, but when other departments blare out video clips, I can’t help thinking wistfully of a headphones-only zone.
It’s St Patrick’s day on Monday so, hey you guys, like, put on a green wig and drink some Guinness, yeah? Yeah. Top bants, you guys.
Translations:
plastisol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Trademark, presumably Blend of plastic + sol.
Compound parts: plastic
sol
Inflected forms:
form: plastisols
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A liquid dispersion of plastic or resin that may be converted to a solid by heating
pos: noun
Translations:
WEEE
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the title of the European law: Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (2003).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Electronic waste.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
uncountable
examples: You may wish to ensure that your WEEE is stored in a safe, secure area.
Further improvements to the system should include better enforcement for retail outlets, as some major supermarket chains that sell electrical and electronic products do not accept WEEE.
To establish a better understanding on recovery/remanufacturing flows is therefore paramount for enterprises to apply sensible recovery/remanufacturing strategies to recover diverse WEEE.
Translations:
removably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *moweō
Proto-Italic *wremoweō
Latin removeō
Old French removoir
Anglo-Norman removerbor.
Middle English removen
English remove
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 removable
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 removably
From removable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Such that it can be removed.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Duo-Tang
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the trademark Duo-Tang, registered in 1962 by the Duo-Tang company.
Inflected forms:
form: Duo-Tangs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: duotang
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: duo-tang
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A folder with flexible metal fasteners.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
Translations:
runed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From rune + -ed.
Base: rune
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Inscribed with runes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The number of these runed pieces is 95, but often several duplicate copies of the same type (and struck from the same die) have been found.
We were on the highest point of the pass , where a deep-runed stone tells the traveller that from this spot his eye can wander over ten provinces of what the old writers called the Kingdom of Japonia.
Translations:
spade-handed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From spade + handed.
Compound parts: spade
handed
Inflected forms:
form: more spade-handed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most spade-handed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having large, spatulate hands.
pos: adj
examples: Large and square-headed, fatuously complacent, pot-bellied, spade-handed and dumpy-footed, for all the world presenting the appearance of animated jelly.
I can honestly say that so far-minus the spade-handed doctor perhaps — I had enjoyed every second and for me that was a big deal.
He was tall, this Swiss priest, lantern-jawed and spade-handed.
gloss: Having hands that are used for digging.
pos: adj
examples: Even the spade-handed moles shall declare their folly.
They in their turn sought useful wives, the broad-hipped, spade-handed type of wives who might build houses and bear children in the same afternoon and still have supper on the table when they got home.
Deliver me, my masters, head and heart, Heart of Cadaver's candle waxes thin, When blood, spade-handed, and the logic time Drive children up like bruises to the thumb From maid and head,
Translations:
retardancy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From retardant + -cy.
Base: retardant
Affixes: -cy
Inflected forms:
form: retardancies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The degree of being retardant
pos: noun
examples: The methods for evaluating flame and fire retardancy of these materials have been already established.
Fire safety legislation dictates, in particular, designing products of high-flame retardancy along with minimal environmental impact.
Translations:
steady-handed
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From steady + handed.
Compound parts: steady
handed
Inflected forms:
form: more steady-handed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most steady-handed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: steadyhanded
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: more steady-handed
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most steady-handed
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: steadyhanded
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of smooth, sure movements.
pos: adj
examples: Yet despite its good intentions, the IRL has attracted more untried, fuzz-faced young gunslingers-in-waiting than tight-jawed, steady-handed shootists, pulling in only two drivers who still fit the mold.
Uncle Tommy, the once steady-handed Gene Krupa of the Vernon Troubadours and the Palmer Orchestra, whose sticks never missed a snare or a cymbal, missed the bowl of meatballs on the table.
He was a steady-handed shooter with a heavy stick and the ability to back a ball up or make it spin left or right and position a queue ball behind the next shot to be taken–unique skills, even before Minnesota Fats.
gloss: Executed with smooth, sure movements.
pos: adj
examples: Theories about how a skill evolves from the awkward and deliberate performance associated with the cognitive stage to the smooth and steady-handed performance of the automatic response stage have one thing in common: progress appears to depend on repeated practice.
It's hard if you work at it easy, and it's easy if you work hard at setting your sight on a specific marker at the end of the field and on steady-handed steering toward the marker.
The barber laughs so hard at the simple answer to the riddle that Logan fears for his chances of a steady-handed shave.
gloss: Consistent and reliable.
pos: adj
examples: The final phase of Mexican League history was launched only after the sudden death of Jorge Pasquel in 1955; it consisted of steady-handed rebuilding of league fortunes under the capable direction of a new league management.
Foreign policy has to be dealt in a steady-handed and consistent manner.
The Conservative Party under Thatcher was famously steady-handed in targeting certain elements of the then-existing British labor market structure and complementing social programs.
gloss: In a steady-handed manner.
pos: adv
examples: Yet he faced his foemen with dauntless courage, dashing in, springing back, sure-footed, steady-handed, with a point which seemed to menace three at once.
The boy caught it steady-handed and grinned wide. “Oh good hands, lad!
I moved beside her and was shocked, not by method, not by truth, for it was true, but by her ability to paint clear-eyed, steady-handed, and show this thing.
Derived words: steady-handedness
Translations:
steady-handedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From steady-handed + -ness.
Base: steady-handed
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being steady-handed.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Trianon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French Trianon, the name of a hamlet that formerly occupied the site on which the Grand Trianon would be built.
Inflected forms:
form: Trianons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Either of the Grand Trianon and Petit Trianon, two royal palaces constructed in Versailles, France, in the 17th and 18th centuries.
pos: noun
gloss: The Treaty of Trianon, a peace treaty signed in the Grand Trianon on 4 June 1920, which formally ended World War I between most of the Allies and the Kingdom of Hungary, leaving Hungary as a landlocked state with less than one-third of its prewar area.
pos: noun
tags: historical
metonymically
Translations:
transness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-t
Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t
Proto-Indo-European *-ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts
Proto-Italic *trāns
Proto-Italic *trāns-
Latin trans-bor.
English trans-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Proto-Italic *genos
Latin genus
Old French gendrebor.
Middle English gendre
English gender
English transgenderclip.
▲
English trans-
Proto-Indo-European *sek-der.
Proto-Indo-European *séks-u-sder.
Proto-Italic *seksus
Latin sexus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin sexuālisbor.
English sexual
English transsexualclip.
English trans
English -ness
English transness
From trans + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The condition or quality of being transgender or transsexual.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Green recognized that there are “little beehives of transness” in a few major US cities and abroad and F2M individuals who take upon themselves the role of educator and activist
Clearly, these were folks who chose to view my transness as an “affliction” (despite the fact that I did not portray it that way myself).
Now though, I've been thinking more about the idea that one can be attracted to transgender men (or women) in part because of their transness, not (as mainstream culture seems to think) in spite of it.
My transness felt irrelevant to most of my informal, passing relationships. It was not something I discussed upon meeting someone.
Translations:
fragranced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more fragranced
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fragranced
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a fragrance.
pos: adj
Translations:
non-mechanised
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From non- + mechanised.
Base: mechanised
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
form: nonmechanized
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not mechanised.
pos: adj
tags: UK
not-comparable
examples: Today Whitemoor comprises the Up Yard, the Down Yard and the non-mechanised Norwood Yard on the down side of the main lines.
BR insisted on a throughput of at least 40,000-50,000 tons per depot annually, which meant that block train conveyance of the coal from pit to concentration centre could still be employed, to the extent of at least two trainloads weekly, despite the smaller size of the non-mechanised installations.
Translations:
G-LOC
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Initialism.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: G-force-induced loss of consciousness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
matrilineally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From matrilineal + -ly.
Base: matrilineal
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In matrilineal fashion.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
melder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From meld + -er.
Base: meld
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: melders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who melds.
pos: noun
Translations:
strong-handedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From strong-handed + -ness.
Base: strong-handed
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: stronghandedness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The quality of state of being strong-handed.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
strong-handedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From strong-handed + -ly.
Base: strong-handed
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more strong-handedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most strong-handedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: stronghandedly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: strong-handed
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: stronghanded
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In a strong-handed manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
sure-handed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sure + handed.
Compound parts: sure
handed
Inflected forms:
form: surehanded
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Dexterous; skilled and smooth at a manual task.
pos: adj
examples: It was so cold that the ball clanked off the glove of the usually sure-handed Reds infielder for an error.
These guys are sure-handed and smooth, rarely dropping the ball on the field, but routinely doing so off it.
The Bucs committed a staggering 7 errors in the game, including 3 by the usually sure-handed Groat.
“My carriage is this way. My driver has not taken a blow to the skull, so he will be more sure-handed.”
gloss: Confident and skillful; practiced; expert.
pos: adj
examples: And till we can recover that, we shall never be able to have a Government firm-seated and sure-handed.
All managers having profit responsibility should have a sure-handed analytical grip on how changes in sales volume and sales prices impact their profit performance.
While Heaphy was in the role of hawk-eyed, sure-handed, specimen-procuring guide, Hochstetter, Haast and their colleagues were delighted by him and quick to sing his praises.
gloss: Skillfully executed.
pos: adj
examples: Neither his sure-handed scoring, however, almost too sure-handed for a young man of twenty-five who is going to be a real composer, nor the diffuse and improvisatory character of the composition inspires the confidence in Mr. Bernstein's original gifts that this reviewer entertains towards his genius as an executant and an interpreter.
And the first days of it, he was going to give to bookshelves and pictures — those watercolors by Larry Johns he'd bought last year, nice, loose, sure-handed sketches of the surf, rocks, dunes around the handsome beach house Johns shared with Tom Owens.
Affleck's sure-handed direction of Chris Terrio's screenplay manages to shift seamlessly from incredible tension in Iran and internecine politics in Washington, D.C., to the absurdity of the scheme in Hollywood.
Derived words: sure-handedly
sure-handedness
Translations:
put-up
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Deverbal from put up.
Inflected forms:
form: put up
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: put-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: put up
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Secretly arranged in advance, especially in order to defraud someone or to advance one's own interests.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Orrin Judd at the BrothersJudd.com declared that Carroll "may as well just come right out and say she was a willing participant" . . . and a commenter at RedState.com asserted, ". . . I say the kidnapping was a put up deal from the get go."
Gerald Green . . . said he was innocent and the documents were a deliberate effort, perhaps concocted by a superior officer, to frame him. . . . "The whole thing was a put-up stunt."
A “romantically obsessed ” Italian man was yesterday acquitted of conspiring to steal his former lover ’s mobile phone by commissioning a hapless duo to take it from her after a put-up mock traffic accident.
None of this is a sham: it is not a put-up show for us.
gloss: Something prearranged or faked in order to trick someone or to advance one's own interests.
pos: noun
examples: A spokesman for U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Arkansas) – the Senator in question – told The Arkansas Times that the whole thing was a put-up and that no internship in the Senator’s office had been purchased at auction.
Translations:
sure-handedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sure-handed + -ness.
Base: sure-handed
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: surehandedness
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being sure-handed.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
sure-handedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sure-handed + -ly.
Base: sure-handed
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more sure-handedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most sure-handedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: surehandedly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In a sure-handed manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
roader
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From road + -er.
Base: road
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: roaders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A vessel sheltering in a roadstead.
pos: noun
gloss: A roadster.
pos: noun
Related words: all-roader
capitalist roader
middleoftheroader
middle-roader
off-roader
on-roader
roadie
tobacco-roader
Translations:
balikbayan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Tagalog balikbayan, from balik (“to return”) + bayan (“home country”).
Inflected forms:
form: balikbayans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Filipino returning to the Philippines after spending time in another country.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
examples: It's the time of year when balikbayans descend upon us in droves Ito remind us of how benighted we are.
2 balikbayans kidnapped in Zamboanga City.
This dual citizenship enables him to return to the Philippines as a balikbayan.
Translations:
Nandi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Sanskrit नन्दि (nandi).
Inflected forms:
form: Nandis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bull used as a mount by the god Shiva, or a representation of this bull.
pos: noun
examples: The Shiva temple […] had the requisite ten or twelve steps, a platform, and a Nandi.
Translations:
swift-handed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From swift + handed.
Compound parts: swift
handed
Inflected forms:
form: more swift-handed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most swift-handed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: swifthanded
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by quick, skillful movements of the hands.
pos: adj
examples: Then as they fought on foot, fast and fiercely with their swords, Tristrem, being sorely wounded in the thigh, grew well-nigh mad with pain, and with one swift-handed heavy stroke cleft Moraunt's helmet to his skull, breaking the sword-point in his brain.
Indeed, so swift-handed was Arjuna that the spectators could not perceive any interval between his taking up an arrow, and fixing it on the bow-string, and letting it off by a stretch of the Gāndiva!
If tiles are needed up on a roof, they are thrown three or four at a time, and caught by a worker standing on the roof. Both the thrower and the catcher must be swift-handed, otherwise the tiles will not remain whole.
gloss: Quick to respond or react.
pos: adj
examples: But, in the simple questions submitted to the Peruvian judge, delay would have been useless; and the Spaniards, familiar with the evils growing out of long-protracted suits, where the successful litigant is too often a ruined man, are loud in their encomiums of this swift-handed and economical justice.
So, in this country, corruption or maladministration in judicial procedure would be followed by swift-handed retribution
Thanks to the pathological manner in which nationalist nonsense has alienated and continues to alienate the people of Europe from each other; thanks as well to the short-sighted and swift-handed politicians who have risen to the top with the help of this nonsense, and have no idea of the extent to which the politics of dissolution that they practice and only be entr'acte politics, -- thanks to all this and to some sign that are strictly unmentionable today, the most unambiguous signs declaring that Europe wants to be one are either overlooked or willfully and mendaciously reinterpreted
Derived words: swift-handedness
Translations:
swift-handedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From swift-handed + -ness.
Base: swift-handed
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being swift-handed.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
sofosbuvir
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: From [Term?] + -fos- (“phosphorous derivative”) + -buvir (“RNA polymerase (NS5B) inhibitor”).
Affixes: -fos-
-buvir
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A nucleotide analog used in combination with other drugs for the treatment of hepatitis C.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Sofosbuvir does not affect cyclosporine or tacrolimus concentrations.
In the US, sofosbuvir and simeprevir have been approved for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C.
Translations:
tender-handed
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From tender + handed.
Compound parts: tender
handed
Inflected forms:
form: more tender-handed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tender-handed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: tenderhanded
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: more tender-handed
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most tender-handed
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: tenderhanded
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Gentle; Having a light touch and compassionate actions.
pos: adj
examples: Earlston must have remembered once dining in the Manse of Maxton at a Communion time; for, as his tender-handed wife took her place beside his chair to feed her helpless husband, he always lifted up his palsied hand and always said to himself, to her, and above all, to God, the 131st Psalm.
A momentary coolness from the dark Flows inward on the tender-handed breeze.
"Because I know all about you Gilly girls. Remember when" -- he slid his thumb lower on her neck, down to the spot where her pulse beat-- "you caught that fish and made me throw it back, and then you hooked your hand? I bet you're not so tender-handed now."
gloss: With hands that are very sensitive and easily hurt.
pos: adj
examples: Resinous splinters or rolled paper tapers were kept on the fireboard for candle lighters; also perhaps tongs for the tender-handed pipe lighter who could not handle a live coal in his hands.
This game of tennis without rackets is not for the tender-handed.
The English gallants who came to the colony for adventure or to escape punishment were very tender-handed. They were sent into the woods to cut down trees for clapboard, but their hands soon blistered under the heavy axe helves, and the pain caused them to frequently cry out in grat oaths.
gloss: Gently; With a light touch.
pos: adv
examples: You know the old rhyme, — " ' Tender-handed touch the nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains.' So, little friend, difficulties vanish before resolution and action."
It cannot be treated tender-handed or it will laugh at the puny fetters that seek to bind it, but it may be mastered at far less cost than the loss which it will produce if let alone, and its proper treatment for the purpose of self-preservation will at the same time make it into an ocean highway from New Orleans to Chicago.
Kinspeople, tender-handed, Found on the foreshore's brim A corpse the harsh sea stranded — And so far well with him.
But though Paley has grasped this idea, he has grasped it tender-handed. If he had grasped it firmly, he would have argued that the basis of government in public opinion involves a system of popular government.
Derived words: tender-handedly
tender-handedness
Translations:
tender-handedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tender-handed + -ly.
Base: tender-handed
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more tender-handedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most tender-handedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a tender-handed manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
insulative
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From insulate + -ive.
Base: insulate
Affixes: -ive
Inflected forms:
form: more insulative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most insulative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Serving to insulate.
pos: adj
examples: Housed resistors have their wire- wound cores embedded in an insulative material which is enclosed within the housing.
The charge, that is applied and results in the measured voltage, may or may not pass through the insulative layer to the metallized film.
And although charged insulated conductors do appear in many practical, industrial as well as everyday, situations, there is no doubt that charged insulative materials are far more common.
Translations:
releasably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From releasable + -ly.
Base: releasable
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more releasably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most releasably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Such that it can be released.
pos: adv
Translations:
sharp-elbowed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more sharp-elbowed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sharp-elbowed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Possessing narrow, bony, rather pointed elbows.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: […] dire faces, figures dire,
Sharp-knee'd, sharp-elbowed, and lean-ankled too
—Go to the Bible!—said a sharp voice from a sharp-faced, sharp-eyed, sharp-elbowed, strenuous-looking woman in a black dress.
gloss: Pushy; having a boldly assertive manner intended to establish an advantage.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
informal
not-comparable
usually
examples: sharp-elbowed parents
No sooner had President Washington been sworn in, wearing mousy, egalitarian brown broadcloth, than the sharp-elbowed jockeying for social status began.
With his stocky build, spread-collar shirts and locker-room charm, Walter Yetnikoff fit right in among the sharp-elbowed power brokers in the music business.
Fifteen documentaries are in sharp-elbowed competition to be among the five Oscar nominees.
In this imagined reality, sharp-elbowed parents are handed ‘golden tickets’ for endless support. Meanwhile, we battle for the bare minimum[.]
Related words: sharp elbows
Translations:
geofencing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From geofence + -ing.
Base: geofence
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: geo-fencing
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of establishing and maintaining a geofence around an area.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I enabled geofencing in my smart home so that the power to my lamps automatically turns on when I arrive home after work.
Translations:
male-gazey
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From male gaze + -y.
Base: male gaze
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: male-gazier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: male-gaziest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Presenting women in a way which implicitly assumes the viewer or reader is a heterosexual man.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: For most of the movie, I’m torn between wanting to make a list of every overtly male-gazey shot, wanting to leave the theater to go get chicken tenders and wanting to take body shots off of Vanessa Hudgens.
I “liked” the U of C Compliments page on Facebook. While its content tends to lean towards male-gazey compliments about foxy women at the gym, I still think it’s kind of sweet that people take the time and effort to say something kind anonymously with no incentive.
[…] Fudakowski reserves his greatest enthusiasm for exoticising, male-gazey images of Zhu in the altogether, or wearing one of the captain's crisp white shirts just so off the shoulder.
Translations:
softworks
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of software + works.
Compound parts: software
works
Inflected forms:
form: softworks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A company that produces software.
pos: noun
examples: As Macworld Expo neared last month, Word Perfect and Ann Arbor Softworks faced returning to the show without final versions of their eagerly awaited high-end Mac word processors.
Pacific Softworks was formed from the buy out of Network Research Corp.'s assets.
Briggs Softworks' product sports powerful feature set
Best known for The Elder Scrolls games and its revival of the Fallout series, Bethesda Softworks was founded in 1986 by Christopher Weaver and takes its name from the location of its headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland.
Translations:
Patterdale
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Patterdales
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dog of an English breed descended from the Northern terrier breeds of the early 20th century.
pos: noun
Translations:
dentofacial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dento- + facial.
Base: facial
Affixes: dento-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the branch of dentistry that is also concerned with the development of the face
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
two-handedness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From two-handed + -ness.
Base: two-handed
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being two-handed.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
two-handedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From two-handed + -ly.
Base: two-handed
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: two-handed
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In a two-handed manner; With both hands or using two people.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
preconstructed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pre- + construct + -ed.
Base: pre
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Constructed in advance.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The preconstructed melodies often caught more than such melodies usually catch, their fake textures were full of small surprises, and most of all their lyrics actually justified their postmodern settings by deconstructing instead of just ridiculing the pop form in which they were set.
There is, then, a psycholinguistic explanation for the prevalence of preconstructed and semi-preconstructed phrases in language.
There is growing interest in the use of preconstructed files (see Gawlick, 2002 for further discussion), and there are increasingly sophisticated files available.
Translations:
longy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From long + -y.
Base: long
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: longies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Manx cat with a long tail, that therefore cannot be shown at a Manx show.
pos: noun
Translations:
rumpy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From rump + -y.
Base: rump
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: rumpies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Manx cat with virtually no tail, particularly prized among Manx breeders.
pos: noun
Translations:
pro-European
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pro- + European.
Base: European
Affixes: pro-
Inflected forms:
form: more pro-European
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pro-European
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Supportive of Indo-European peoples.
pos: adj
gloss: Supporting the idea of European integration.
pos: adj
Translations: