yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
foldaway
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From fold + away.
Compound parts: fold
away
Inflected forms:
form: foldaways
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That may be folded away when not in use.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The thought of sleeping with Ann on the fold-away living-room sofa was so impossible, she hadn't even thought about it any more.
gloss: A piece of furniture, of any kind, that can be folded away when not in use.
pos: noun
Translations:
self-improvement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English improvement
English self-improvement
From self- + improvement.
Inflected forms:
form: self-improvements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The following of a disciplined programme to improve one's physical health, mental health or character.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He believes that self-improvement and its growing popularity are symptoms of what he calls individualism.
gloss: The bettering of one's status.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In the year 1851 a small group of workmen in the Locomotive Department of the old Midland Railway Company at Derby met for self-improvement, and formed what was then known as a "reading society".
Ambition and self-improvement are certainly not negatives, although one potential downside to being more self-conscious—especially for punk bands—is muted urgency.
Synonyms: self-help
Derived words: self-improve
self-improving
Translations:
pegged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Fitted or furnished with one or more pegs.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a pegged shoe or boot
Translations:
tercet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tercets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a three-line stanza in a poem
pos: noun
Translations:
introjection
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From intro-, by analogy with projection and interjection.
Affixes: intro-
Inflected forms:
form: introjections
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process whereby the ideas of another are unconsciously incorporated into one's own psyche.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Sometimes the attempt was made to reduce the inner to the outer world (Condillac, Mach, Avenarius, materialism); sometimes the outer to the inner world (Descartes, Berkeley, Fichte); sometimes the sphere of the absolute to the others (e.g., by trying to infer causally the essence and existence of something divine in general); […]; sometimes the general differentiation of subject and object to pregivenness of the co- or 'fellow-man', to whom an environmental element—as, for instance, 'this tree' — is supposed to be introjected, followed by subsequent introjection by the observer to himself (Avenarius); sometimes one's own body to a merely associative coordination of the self-perception of the own self and organ sensations with the own body as perceived from outside.
Translations:
villanelle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
Etymology: From the French villanelle, from Italian villanella, from villano (“peasant”), from Latin vīllānus (“farmhand”), from vīlla (“estate”). The origin references the pastoral themes originally associated with this form.
Inflected forms:
form: villanelles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of poem, consisting of five tercets and one quatrain, with only two rhymes.
pos: noun
examples: By definition the villanelle is restrictive, because it demands nineteen lines on two rhymes in six stanzas, the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the concluding quatrain.
But “Some Rules” is a villanelle, and it mostly follows the rules of the genre, an old French form that has found favor among modern English-language poets. (See Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,” another advice-giving villanelle.)
Translations:
autocomplete
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder.?
Proto-Indo-European *sóder.?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder.
Ancient Greek αὖ (aû)
Ancient Greek τόν (tón)?
Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós)
Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-)
Proto-Indo-European *mn̥tós
Proto-Hellenic *mətós
Ancient Greek αὐτόμᾰτος (autómătos)
Ancient Greek αὐτόμᾰτον (autómăton)der.
Classical Latin automatum
New Latin automaticusbor.
English automaticclip.
English auto-
English complete
English autocomplete
From auto- + complete.
Inflected forms:
form: autocompletes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: autocompleting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: autocompleted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: autocompleted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To complete automatically.
pos: verb
gloss: A software feature that predicts the rest of a word a user is typing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Tools like spellcheck, autocomplete, and speech-to-text impose someone's ideas of the rules of English automatically—invisible authorities that we can defy but not avoid.
Translations:
overdressed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
English dressed
English overdressed
From over- + dressed.
Inflected forms:
form: more overdressed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most overdressed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: over-dressed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Wearing too many clothes for the weather or the occasion.
pos: adj
examples: Almost all babies get heat rash during hot weather. However, heat rash can occur even in cold weather if your child is overdressed either during the daytime or the nighttime.
gloss: Wearing clothes too formal or too elaborate for the occasion.
pos: adj
examples: Not, a thousand times not, that she should be overdressed. An overdressed Angel is a contradiction in terms. We associate not angelic attributes with the gorgeous attire and plenipotent jewellery of a Houndsditch Hebrewess. Just as the man who is got up in the loudest of loud costumes, and hangs out as a sort of Christmas tree, with incongruous braveries and charms and nicknacks pendent all over, we are apt to deem not a gentleman, but a gent.
"I was worried you might think I am overdressed," Sheinna replied in a small voice.
Synonyms: overclothed
Antonyms: underdressed
Translations:
tourney
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman turnei, from Old French tornei (“tournament”), from tornoier (“to joust, tilt”).
Inflected forms:
form: tourneys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tournies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tournament.
pos: noun
examples: By a knight of ghostes & shadowes,
I sumon’d am to Tourney.
ten leagues beyond the wide worlds end
And let the recreant traitors seek
 My tourney court.
We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn,
 And there is scantly time for half the work.
Kipper stood blinking, as I had sometimes seen him do at the boxing tourneys in which he indulged when in receipt of a shrewd buffet on some tender spot like the tip of the nose.
Translations:
soixante-neuf
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French soixante-neuf.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Sixty-nine (a sex position).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: When he wanted to bury his face in my crotch, or do soixante-neuf, I laughed. He was offended.
Translations:
noontime
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From noon + time, perhaps an innovation of earlier English noontide (“noontime”), from Middle English noon tijd, from Old English nōntīd (“noontime”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English merian, merion (“noontime”) from Old French meriiene, merīane (“noontime”).
Compound parts: noon
time
Inflected forms:
form: noontimes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Noon.
pos: noun
gloss: Approximately noon.
pos: noun
examples: the noontime hours
gloss: The time at which something peaks in some way (e.g., in vitality, in influence, in reknown) (by analogy with the waxing of the sun each day).
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: We should so organize our rank and mobilize our forces that our influence may not be dissipated before the advancing hosts of quackery and ignorance. This we can do effectively if only the wise and successful ones among our leaders can be induced to forgo the dolce far niente of the noontime of their lives.
Synonyms: midday
nones
sext
Translations:
deflator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: economics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English deflate
English -or
English deflator
From deflate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: deflators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That which deflates.
pos: noun
examples: The balloons will have to have an altitude deflator. When a balloon reaches a certain predetermined altitude, the deflator will begin to let out the helium gas to the point of restricting the ultimate ascension of the balloon.
gloss: A factor applied to economic statistics in order to counter the effect of inflation.
pos: noun
Translations:
hooky-playing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That plays hooky.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
salt-and-pepper
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more salt-and-pepper
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most salt-and-pepper
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pepper-and-salt
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: pepper and salt
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having a color pattern resembling many small speckles of black and white.
pos: adj
examples: salt-and-pepper hair
fabric with a salt-and-pepper pattern
In the Chop House he ran into young Will Hamilton, looking pretty prosperous in a salt and pepper business suit.
A mild infestation gives trees and shrubbery a mottled or salt-and-pepper appearance; with a heavy mite population, foliage turns yellow and falls.
He observed himself staring through the avocado leaves, a gray-haired old man with thick salt-and-pepper sideburns and jealous eyes.
“Early on, when we were dating, I was like, ‘Do you think I’m a cougar?’” she recalls with a laugh. When Woolfolk started growing out his salt-and-pepper beard, she was thrilled.
Translations:
tattersall
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From an English place name.
Inflected forms:
form: tattersalls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fabric pattern containing squares of dark lines on a light background.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
Tattersalls
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the name of a famous horse market in London, established in 1766 by Richard Tattersall, also used as the headquarters of credit betting on English horse races.
Inflected forms:
form: Tattersalls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rendezvous at most British racecourses, provided by a company of auctioneers
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: […] the professional betting-man, who has no other occupation, and never misses a race-meeting, or a Tattersall's […]
Tattersalls, adjacent to the County Stand, has no seating but stepped terracing and a large tarmac area down to the rails.
In Manchester the Post Office Hotel was its equivalent to Tattersalls, with entry likewise by subscription but a distinct absence of gentry and aristocratic members […]
For three pounds you get a badge — a brown, green, yellow and white shield — that admits you to the grand stand, Tattersalls and the paddock, […]
Translations:
nonperformance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English non-
English performance
English nonperformance
From non- + performance.
Inflected forms:
form: nonperformances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A failure to perform a task, especially a task that one was legally bound to do.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
year-to-year
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more year-to-year
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most year-to-year
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Being compared with those of a previous year; interannual.
pos: adj
Translations:
disintermediation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: banking
business
economics
finance
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
▲
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
English intermediate
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 -ion
English intermediation
English disintermediation
From dis- + intermediation.
Inflected forms:
form: disintermediations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The removal of funds from a financial institution such as a bank for direct purchase of financial instruments.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Any disintermediation crisis, such as has occurred three times since 1966, causes mortgage money to dry up and slow down new housing construction which the country desperately needs.
gloss: The removal of an intermediary from a commercial transaction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The news industry is undergoing a massive disintermediation due to the ubiquitous low-cost communication made possible by the internet.
New-media thinkers, with their appetite for disintermediation and creative destruction, implicitly endorse and advance this transformation.
The logic of disintermediation seems self-evident: By putting factories directly in contact with stores, by helping customers order directly from manufacturers, by letting riders coordinate with drivers, you cut out a needless source of waste and inefficiency.
Related words: disintermediate
cut out the middleman
Translations:
reviewer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English review
English -er
English reviewer
From review + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: reviewers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who writes reviews for a newspaper or other publication; a critic.
pos: noun
examples: AN HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE RAILWAYS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. By Ernest F. Carter. Cassell. 63s. [...] Such a disappointing work is embarrassing to the reviewer and unworthy of the great House of Cassell.
gloss: A person who reviews songs, movies, games, or other forms of artistic works.
pos: noun
gloss: An inspector.
pos: noun
examples: The cost of initial site evaluation visits will vary with the cost of travel from the USDA reviewer's duty station to the applicant's place of business.
gloss: Any comprehensive study material used to review for an examination; study guide.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
Derived words: nonreviewer
reviewerese
revieweress
Translations:
acromegalic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English acromegal(y)
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English acromegalic
From acromegal(y) + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more acromegalic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most acromegalic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: acromegalics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to or characteristic of acromegaly.
pos: adj
examples: At that moment a match flared on the far side of the room and illuminated the ruddy acromegalic features of Smirke […]
gloss: A person affected by acromegaly.
pos: noun
Translations:
epazote
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish epazote, from Classical Nahuatl epazōtl.
Inflected forms:
form: epazotes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pungent herb used in Latin-American cooking and tea making, and in folk medicine; Dysphania ambrosioides.
pos: noun
Translations:
neurosurgical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-wr̥
Proto-Indo-European *snéh₁wr̥der.
Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron)
Ancient Greek νευρο- (neuro-)der.
English neuro-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰes-
Proto-Indo-European *-ōr
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰésōr
Proto-Hellenic *kʰéhər
Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír)
Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom
Proto-Hellenic *wérgon
Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon)
Ancient Greek -ουργός (-ourgós)
Ancient Greek χειρουργός (kheirourgós)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek χειρουργῐκός (kheirourgĭkós)bor.
Late Latin chīrurgicus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Medieval Latin cirurgicālisder.
Middle French cirurgicalbor.
Middle English cirurgicalder.
English surgical
English neurosurgical
From neuro- + surgical.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, or pertaining to neurosurgery.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Pacer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Inflected forms:
form: Pacers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A British lightweight railbus diesel multiple unit of class 140, 141, 142, 143 or 144.
pos: noun
Translations:
concurrency
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: civil-engineering
computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
road
science
sciences
transport
Inflected forms:
form: concurrencies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property or an instance of being concurrent; something that happens at the same time as something else.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A property of systems where several processes execute at the same time.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
gloss: A stretch of road that is shared between two or more numbered or named routes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: autoconcurrency
concurrency pattern
nonconcurrency
timestamp-based concurrency control
wrong-way concurrency
Translations:
lustration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
law
lifestyle
politics
religion
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin lūstrum
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin lūstrō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin lustratiobor.
English lustration
Borrowed from Latin lustratio.
Inflected forms:
form: lustrations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rite of purification, especially washing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It will be remembered, that this beautiful Island was sacred to the ancient Greeks, from having been the birth-place of Apollo and Diana. None were born or died there—the mothers and the dying were carried to the neighbouring islet of Rhane. Solemn expeditions, with much priestly pomp, were frequently made from Athens to enforce this ordinance, particularly to propitiate the Gods in time of public calamity. Our era refers to the celebrated lustration, at the time of the Peloponnesian war, during the plague of Athens.
gloss: The restoration of credibility to a government by the purging of perpetrators of crimes committed under an earlier regime.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: lustrate
Derived words: lustral
lustrical
lustrational
Translations:
corvee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French corvée, from Late Latin conrogāta, derived from Latin conrogāre (“call together by entreaty”).
Inflected forms:
form: corvees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: corvée
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Unpaid labor required by a feudal lord.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Labor, especially for roads or dams, in lieu of taxes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
unchallenging
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English challenging
English unchallenging
From un- + challenging.
Inflected forms:
form: more unchallenging
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unchallenging
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not challenging; easy to do.
pos: adj
Antonyms: challenging
Translations:
lysergic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Blend of (hydro)lys(is) + erg(ot) + -ic (adjective-forming suffix). Sense 2 (“psychedelic, trippy”) refers to the effects of taking the drug lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD).
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more lysergic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lysergic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Used in the designation of lysergic acid and lysergic acid diethylamide: produced by hydrolysis from ergot.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: Much more soluble in water than ergotoxine, ergotamine, sensibamine or ergoclavine, and is thought to be the hydroxyisopropylamide of lysergic acid.
In a series of papers during the past few years Jacobs and [Lyman C.] Craig have shown that the ergot alkaloids are derivatives of a unique acid base, lysergic acid, in which the latter or an isomer is conjugated with certain amino acids or substances which can be derived from them, such as 2-aminopropanol-1, pyruvic acid, and isobutyrylformic acid. Since lysergic acid is thus the common characteristic constituent of these alkaloids, the determination of its structure became at once a major issue in the ergot alkaloid problem.
In 1938, while experimenting with derivatives of ergot, a Swiss chemist named Hoffman^([sic – meaning [Albert] Hofmann]) first produced the drug, Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, by adding a diethylamide group onto lysergic acid.
We have used lysergic acid which is available commercially, and we have found that the conversion of lysergic acid to LSD can be accomplished in a relatively simple manner by procedures that can be followed by experienced chemists. In fact, we believe a crude form of LSD could be produced by a college chemistry student who had access to the equipment in a college chemistry laboratory.
The ergot alkaloids in general are classified into four main structural groups: 1. the simple amide group such as LSD and the methyl carbinolamide; 2. more complex peptide complex viz. ergotamine, where the lysergic acid moiety is linked with cyclic tri-pepide via an amide bond 3. lysergic acids and 4. clavine alkaloids[…].
gloss: Psychedelic, trippy.
pos: adj
tags: comparable
not-comparable
usually
examples: The Doves' mantras of desolation are even trippier than the first couple Cranes records (though maybe not as lysergic as prime Swans or Ravens), […]
As mentioned earlier, my first impression of the sleeve art was that it bore marked similarity to a poetry collection – nothing very lysergic about that.
On the evidence of this lysergic dish – blobs and pools of strident oddness, especially the mozzarella-topped gelée that tastes like the stuff left at the bottom of olive tins topped with organic foaming facewash – [David] Shrigley's better off sticking to the art.
Derived words: lysergamide
lysergic acid
lysergic acid amide
lysergic acid diethylamide
lysergide
lysergol
Translations:
unceremoniously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From unceremonious + -ly or un- + ceremoniously.
Base: unceremonious
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more unceremoniously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unceremoniously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an unceremonious manner, abruptly, without the due formalities.
pos: adv
examples: Encountering difficulties with the parcels’ unhelpful recipient, the deliveryman unceremoniously dumped the packages in the street outside the door.
Given these operational constraints and a renewed focus on the environment, plans to electrify the [Windermere] branch resurfaced in 2013 when the Department for Transport consented to a £16 million scheme to erect wires by 2024. Unfortunately, it was one of a trio of projects to then be unceremoniously scrapped by former Secretary of State for Transport Chris Grayling in July 2017, in response to spiralling costs on the Great Western Electrification Programme.
Antonyms: formal
Translations:
goating
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: goatings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A scapegoating.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An event at a fraternal organization, involving scapegoating.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The field has been worked over very thoroughly and the spring " goatings " will not be very numerous.
With soirees, parties, germans and goatings, our time has passed away only too quickly
Balls', teas, goatings and baseball games follow one another in rapid succession.
Phi Delta Phi, staged annual "goatings," in which students caricatured professors mercilessly.
Translations:
multi-instrumentalist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From multi- + instrumental + -ist.
Base: multi
Inflected forms:
form: multi-instrumentalists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: multinstrumentalist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A musician who plays two or more musical instruments at a professional level of proficiency.
pos: noun
Translations:
lapsing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lapsings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process by which something lapses.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: lapsings of religious faith
Translations:
centralized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more centralized
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most centralized
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: centralised
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having things physically towards the center; consolidated or concentrated
pos: adj
gloss: Having power concentrated in a single, central authority
pos: adj
gloss: Moved toward the center of the vowel space: [ë] is less front than [e], though not necessarily central; similarly, [ö] is less back than [o].
pos: adj
Derived words: centralized planning
noncentralized
overcentralized
semicentralized
uncentralized
Translations:
lugnut
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
Inflected forms:
form: lugnuts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A specially shaped nut used to hold the wheels on an automobile.
pos: noun
Translations:
mandamus
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Latin mandāmus (“we command”).
Inflected forms:
form: mandamuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mandamuses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mandamusing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mandamused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mandamused
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A common law prerogative writ that compels a court or government officer to perform mandatory or purely ministerial duties correctly.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I admit to all my learned friends that a Mandamus does not issue where there is another course of proceeding by which the thing can be effected; but I again state to your Lordships, that if in this case a Mandamus must not issue, there is no other proceeding that can be adopted.
And then it was moved that the court would grant a mandamus to the delegates to admit the bishop's allegations: and it was compared to the cases where they grant mandamuses to compel the granting of probates of wills or letters of administration.
A mandamus is a writ commanding the execution of an act, where otherwise justice would be obstructed, or the king's charter neglected, issuing regularly only in cases relating to the public and the government; and is therefore termed […] a prerogative writ.
The lord is compellable by mandamus to admit the surrenderee, that is, the person to whose use the surrender is made.
gloss: To serve a writ of this kind upon.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
multilevel
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mel-der.
Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós?
Proto-Italic *moltos
Latin multus
Latin multīder.
Middle English multi-
English multi-
Proto-Indo-European *leyH-der.
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰromder.
Proto-Italic *līðrā?
Latin lībra
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -la
Latin libella
Old French nivel
Old French livelbor.
Middle English level
English level
English multilevel
From multi- + level.
Inflected forms:
form: multi-level
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having several levels or floors.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
drystone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From dry + stone.
Compound parts: dry
stone
Inflected forms:
form: drystones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A stalactite or stalagmite.
pos: noun
Translations:
dry-stone
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: bridge
games
Etymology: From dry + stone.
Compound parts: dry
stone
Inflected forms:
form: drystone
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: dry stone
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Constructed by laying carefully selected stones on top of each other, and bedding them down with no mortar.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: dry-stone wall
The first part of the book traces the history of dry stone walls from medieval times to the present. The standard form of most walls probably dates from Tudor times but the great era of wall-building in the uplands took place comparatively recently, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Translations:
luciferase
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *lewk-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *léwks
Proto-Italic *louks
Latin lūx
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *bʰorós
Proto-Italic *-foros
Latin -fer
Latin lūcifer
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ineclip.
English -in
English luciferin
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.
Ancient Greek διά (diá)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ- (dĭă-)
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti
Proto-Hellenic *hístāmi
Ancient Greek ῐ̔́στημῐ (hĭ́stēmĭ)
Ancient Greek δῐῐ̈́στημῐ (dĭĭ̈́stēmĭ)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́στᾰσῐς (dĭắstăsĭs)
English diastase
English -ase
English luciferase
From luciferin + -ase.
Inflected forms:
form: luciferases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any one of a group of enzymes that produce bioluminescence by oxidizing luciferin.
pos: noun
examples: Aptly enough, glowworms light up their underworld with a pair of chemicals that have a satanic etymology—luciferins and luciferases, after the Latin for “light bringer.”
The novel coronavirus vaccine manufactured by Moderna does not contain luciferin, an organic compound involved in bioluminescence, or the enzyme luciferase, contrary to claims on social media.
Translations:
bioluminescent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βῐ́ος (bĭ́os)
Ancient Greek βῐο- (bĭo-)der.
English bio-
English luminescent
English bioluminescent
From bio- + luminescent.
Inflected forms:
form: more bioluminescent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bioluminescent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Exhibiting bioluminescence.
pos: adj
Translations:
painterly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English painter
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-West Germanic *-līk
Old English -līċ
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English painterly
From painter + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more painterly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most painterly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characteristic of a painter or paintings.
pos: adj
examples: She always shows and never tells. For some poets, such a concentration on the concrete may imply a loosening of language and of perception, or an immersion into raw emotion. Instead, Becker clothes the everyday in a spare, painterly clarity of perception.
gloss: Having clear brush-strokes.
pos: adj
Antonyms: linear
plastic
Derived words: painterliness
postpainterly
unpainterly
Translations:
trade-off
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English trade offdeverb.
English trade-off
Deverbal from trade off.
Inflected forms:
form: trade-offs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tradeoff
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any situation in which the quality or quantity of one thing must be decreased for another to be increased.
pos: noun
examples: In writing, there's often a trade-off between being concise and being complete.
Individual episodes are still thrilling and often quite striking, give or take some pitch-black battle scenes. But the gradual ramping up of the plotting that has grown steadily in the past three seasons crossed some invisible Maginot line this year, where the formerly acceptable trade-offs of focus for fun are no longer quite so taken for granted.
All of these are of vital importance to the effective functioning of GBR. They all require the judgement of Solomon to handle the myriad and complex trade-offs between running trains and maintaining the railway, and deciding how capacity on any particular route can be optimised with all the competing demands from varying operators to run on it.
Translations:
martlet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: From Middle English martilet, probably a blend of martinet (“martin”; from Middle French martinet and Medieval Latin martineta) and Middle French merlet.
Inflected forms:
form: martlets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bird, the martin.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: “As in a drought the thirsty creatures cry,
And gape upon the gather'd clouds for rain;
Then, first, the Martlet meets it in the sky,
And, with wet wings, joys all the feather'd train.”
gloss: A depiction of a bird similar to a house martin or swallow with stylized feet.
pos: noun
Synonyms: merlion
Related words: merlette
Translations:
underdressed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí
Proto-Indo-European *-ér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér
Proto-Germanic *under
Proto-West Germanic *undar
Old English under-
Middle English under-
English under-
English dressed
English underdressed
From under- + dressed.
Inflected forms:
form: more underdressed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most underdressed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Insufficiently dressed, as for cold weather.
pos: adj
gloss: Insufficiently well-dressed, as for a formal event.
pos: adj
Translations:
unearthed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not electrically earthed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
sad-eyed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more sad-eyed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sad-eyed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sad eyed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having a sad facial expression.
pos: adj
examples: Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands, / Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes, / My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums, / Should I leave them by your gate, / Or, sad-eyed lady, should I wait?
Translations:
estuarine
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English estuary
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ine
English estuarine
From estuary + -ine.
Inflected forms:
form: more estuarine
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most estuarine
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to an estuary.
pos: adj
examples: 1977, Sewell H. Hopkins, Sam R. Petrocelli, Limiting Factors Affecting the Commercial Fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Estuarine Pollution Control and Assessment: Proceedings of a Conference, Volume 1, page 179,
The shellfishes, by far the most valuable part of gulf coast commercial fisheries, are even more estuarine than the finfishes.
The small lagoons of southern New Jersey receive an insignificant input of freshwater from watersheds of Cape May Peninsula compared to larger, more estuarine bays to the north (Kran 1975).
Some species are more estuarine than others, for example Pseudotolithus typus replaces P. senegalensis as conditions become more estuarine and Pentanemus quinquarius replaces Galeoides decadactylus.
gloss: Formed in an estuary by alluvial deposition.
pos: adj
Related words: riverine
Derived words: estuarine crocodile
estuarine perch
interestuarine
intraestuarine
nonestuarine
Translations:
recordable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English record
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 recordable
From record + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more recordable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most recordable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That can be recorded; capturable.
pos: adj
examples: Sound and movement are recordable by means of microphones and cameras.
User actions are recordable in a macro for playback at a later time.
gloss: Able to be used to record something.
pos: adj
gloss: Liable to be retained on someone's criminal record.
pos: adj
examples: Marper, who was 38 years of age and of good character, was arrested and charged with harassment of his partner. The police took his fingerprints and DNA samples. His partner became reconciled with him and decided not to press the charges, and the case was formally discontinued. The police refused to destroy the fingerprints and samples. In both cases the police relied on the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001, which allows the police to take and to retain indefinitely, without consent, fingerprints and DNA samples from a person of any age who has been arrested in connection with a “recordable” offence.
Related words: rewritable
Derived words: irrecordable
nonrecordable
rerecordable
Translations:
Osage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Evolved from a borrowing from French variations of Osage 𐓏𐓘𐓻𐓘𐓻𐓟 (wažáže), the name of a division of the tribe.
Inflected forms:
form: Osages
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Osage
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Osage Nation.
pos: noun
Translations:
foldout
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Deverbal from fold out.
Inflected forms:
form: foldouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fold-out
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fold-out
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An overlarge page that is folded into a book or magazine.
pos: noun
gloss: A bed that folds out from a closed position.
pos: noun
gloss: That folds out from a closed position.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a foldout map
a foldout book
Related words: French flap
throwout
Translations:
gatefold
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From gate + fold.
Compound parts: gate
fold
Inflected forms:
form: gatefolds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gatefolds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gatefolding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gatefolded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gatefolded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A document folding method that uses two parallel folds to create six panels; the left and right panels are half the width of the center panels and fold inward to meet in the middle without overlapping.
pos: noun
gloss: To fold in this manner.
pos: verb
Translations:
folklorist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English folklore
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 folklorist
From folklore + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: folklorists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who studies or collects folklore
pos: noun
Translations:
self-taught
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English taught
English self-taught
From self- + taught.
Inflected forms:
form: more self-taught
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-taught
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Educated or trained by oneself.
pos: adj
examples: It's this understanding of Quality as revealed by stuckness which so often makes self-taught mechanics so superior to institute-trained men who have learned how to handle everything except a new situation.
Translations:
streptavidin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Streptomyces avidinii + -in.
Base: Streptomyces avidinii
Affixes: -in
Inflected forms:
form: streptavidins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tetrameric protein purified from Streptomyces avidinii that binds very tightly to the vitamin biotin
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
microarray
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-der.?
Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós)der.
English micro-
English array
English microarray
From micro- + array.
Inflected forms:
form: microarrays
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several devices, containing a two-dimensional array of small quantities of biological material, used for various types of assay; the assay itself
pos: noun
Translations:
geoengineering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
engineering
mining
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Pre-Greek der.
Proto-Hellenic *gayader.
Ancient Greek γαῖᾰ (gaîă)clip.
Ancient Greek γῆ (gê)
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)
Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-)der.
English geo-
English engineer
English -ing
English engineering
English geoengineering
From geo- + engineering.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The subfield of engineering concerned with designing and constructing tunnels, mines, and other human-designed geologic structures within and on earth.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: “You could say it's one of the first geoengineering projects ever,” says [Carlo] Ratti of the patchwork of land-spattered lagoon that human ingenuity formed into a city, as we settle on the terrace of the Hotel Monaco with an espresso. “This wasn't meant for human living.”
gloss: The artificial manipulation of the environments of a planet, especially Earth, especially as a means of counteracting global warming.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: planetary engineering, terraforming
Although the panel does not support even pilot programs, it calls geoengineering “technically feasible in terms of cooling effects and costs” and says it has “the potential to affect greenhouse warming on a substantial scale.”
Although he views large-scale geoengineering as an act of profound hubris[…]he thinks it may be necessary as an emergency measure, much like kidney dialysis is necessary to a person whose health is failing.
A scientist gets into geoengineering, they're not a scientist anymore, they're a politician. Get hate mail, rocks through window, no one takes their real work seriously, all that.
Related words: Anthropocene
sozology
Translations:
deacetylase
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From de- + acetyl + -ase.
Base: de
Inflected forms:
form: deacetylases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several classes of enzyme that remove acetyl groups from proteins
pos: noun
Translations:
dayside
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: From day + side.
Compound parts: day
side
Inflected forms:
form: daysides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The side of a planet or other body that faces towards the sun or star around which it orbits
pos: noun
Antonyms: nightside
Translations:
nightside
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: From night + side.
Compound parts: night
side
Inflected forms:
form: nightsides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The side of a planet or other body that faces away from the sun or star around which it orbits.
pos: noun
Translations:
ligase
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From ligation + -ase.
Compound parts: ligation
-ase
Inflected forms:
form: ligases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the binding of two molecules; synthetase.
pos: noun
examples: The glue is an enzyme called ligase, which stitches together loose sentences of DNA whenever it comes across them.
Translations:
shopman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *skup-
Old English scoppa
Middle English shoppe
English shop
English -man
English shopman
From shop + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: shopmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The proprietor, manager, or operator of a small store.
pos: noun
Translations:
merchantman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *merks
Latin merx
Latin mercor
Latin mercānsder.
Anglo-Norman marchauntbor.
Middle English marchaunt
English merchant
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
Middle English -man
English -man
English merchantman
From merchant + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: merchantmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A male merchant (person engaged in trade).
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Near-synonyms: merchant (precisely hypernymous), trader
gloss: Synonym of merchant ship.
pos: noun
Derived words: armed merchantman
Translations: