yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
therebetween
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From there + between.
Compound parts: there
between
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Between those: between them.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Near-synonyms: thereamong, thereamidst
Translations:
ferd
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English ferde (“military expedition”), from Old English fierd; see fyrd. Cognate with Dutch vaart (“voyage”), German Fahrt (“journey”).
Inflected forms:
form: ferds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: faird
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: faerd
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A journey; a voyage.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: Provisions for a journey, especially food.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: A fast pace; a rush or hurry.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: Effort, impetus, speed; a violent onset.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
also
obsolete
examples: It was our great desire to have at once been at handy-strokes, well understanding that the ferd of our hot spirits could not long abide in edge.
A dainty husband, an' the best o' men, Fresh in his eild as the gree simmer glen. An' still he maks a ferd his bread to earn— His aim to hae a canty but-an'-ben, Wi' something aye to spare to ilka bairn, That they the gude auld hospitality might learn.
Translations:
rustbucket
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From rust + bucket.
Compound parts: rust
bucket
Inflected forms:
form: rustbuckets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rust-bucket
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rust bucket
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An old, neglected vehicle, usually a car, a freighter, or a truck.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: That sagging old rustbucket is designed like a garbage scow!
Translations:
no-strings-attached
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From no strings attached.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by an absence of conditions or obligations.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
informal
not-comparable
examples: Since then, Beijing has often offered its support to Islamabad in the way of economic assistance, but also with no-strings-attached military aid.
Translations:
prepper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From prep (“prep school”) + -er.
Base: prep
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: preppers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A student at a prep school.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
gloss: A prep school.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
examples: ‘We have a vacancy at a very nice little prepper in North Yorkshire. Cundall Manor.’
Translations:
animu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Humorous alteration of anime, with -u probably based on a stereotypical Japanese accent or wasei-eigo, emphasizing the added /ɯ/ vowel which frequently occurs on Japanese borrowings from English words that phonetically end in a consonant (such as チーズ (chīzu) from cheese (/⁠t͡ʃiːz⁠/); a few of these are reborrowed into English and commonly used in anime fandoms, such as waifu), but of course misapplied in this case.
Affixes: -u
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Anime.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
derogatory
sometimes
uncountable
examples: These two links should not be anywhere near one another, thx. One is the personal site of an egomaniacal faggot who thinks he suddenly owns the images he scans from animu magazines and refers to himself in the third person, and the other is a cultural bridge between Japan and the United States, based on the exchange of image macros, catchphrases, and underage hentai.
2. "Triplettes of Bellville" is _not_ for the Disney or Animu fanboys.
but it's so much easier/more appealing to watch japanese drama/animu/films/pR0n these days.
Translations:
marz
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Armenian մարզ (marz). Doublet of march.
Inflected forms:
form: marzes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: marzer
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A first-level administrative entity in Armenia; usually translated as region in English.
pos: noun
Translations:
mailout
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From mail + out.
Compound parts: mail
out
Inflected forms:
form: mailouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An informational or promotional document sent by post, typically to multiple recipients.
pos: noun
Translations:
po-po
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From various words by shortening and reduplication.
The "posterior" sense may be reduplication of the initial syllable of that word, with modification of the vowel according to its spelling. Compare German Popo (“bottom”) from Latin pōdex (“anus”).
The "police" sense may come from either the initial syllable of police or the initial letters of the words police officer. Compare PO.
Inflected forms:
form: po-pos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: po-po
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: popo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One's posterior, bottom, buttocks.
pos: noun
tags: US
informal
examples: Feet up, pat him on the po-po
Let’s hear him laugh
Ain’t seen a babe like this before
He’s so good-lookin’, gonna have some more
Feet up, pat him on the po-po
[He] gets jelly on his head, jelly on his po-po, jelly on his.... well, you know what rhymes with jelly. If your Junior starts singing this in public he’ll show you up.
He once asked me how a particular customer was doing, sometime after I had executed a sale. […] Then he added, so as not to appear to be admonishing me, “Go and give them a pat on the po-po and see what is going on.”
gloss: Genitals, especially the vulva.
pos: noun
tags: childish
examples: “Actually I prefer kids referring to their po-pos rather than their outer labias. Maybe I’m just old fashioned.”
On one Monday morning, one of the two children, Becky, complained about irritation around her “po-po.” […] This child indicated that Daddy had touched her there and she cried when he pushed on her sore spot.
By contrast, a North Carolina court upheld the conviction of a father after a four-year-old, who had told relatives and authorities that her father had put his “ding dong” into her “po po,” pointed to a doll vagina and a doll penis and used the same terms to describe the alleged event.
“If you tell anyone what happens in this house, HRS will take you away. Do you understand? They’ll put you with people that will hurt your po-po.”
I broke out in a sweat. Po-po was Mom’s word for between my legs.
gloss: The police; a police officer.
pos: noun
tags: US
colloquial
derogatory
mildly
examples: Runnin’ from the po-po
Runnin’
Just got my cash on
Now I gotta get my dash on
Yo, po-po, man. Shut it down.
The cops had busted us for selling hot designer bags up on Utica Avenue for some cat who figured we was too young to get knocked if we got caught, but two fat white po-pos said fuck how young we was, and threw us in a cell for damn near three days until they could contact Noojie to come get us out.
“Shit,” Brian breathed. “Who called the po-po?”
gloss: A prison officer, corrections officer, prison guard.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
Translations:
wolfskin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wolf + skin.
Compound parts: wolf
skin
Inflected forms:
form: wolfskins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The skin of a wolf.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
bose
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: boses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bosing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bosed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bosed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To strike the ground with an object in order to determine, from the resulting sounds, what lies underground.
pos: verb
tags: usually
examples: This criticism applies also to bosing in which the ground is thumped with a heavy rammer; over filled-in pits, tombs, […] Bosing is successful where the top-soil is thin and firm, with an unstratified rock such as chalk beneath.
Translations:
Timiskaming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Temiscaming people's spoken language. Alternate spellings from the 1700s: Temiscaming, Timiscaming, Temiscamin, Temescaming.
Inflected forms:
form: Temiskaming
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A tribe of North American Indians.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: The Temiscaming live between Lake Temiscaming and Lake Abitibi in Northeastern Ontario.
Translations:
AB-yogurt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: AB-yogurts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Yogurt that contains Lactobacillus acidophilus and bifidobacterium.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
duble
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of dub + ruble.
Compound parts: dub
ruble
Inflected forms:
form: dubles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The official currency of Slowjamastan.
pos: noun
examples: Two years on, and while the Sultan of Slowjamastan has instigated more than a few bizarre laws (he’s outlawed the wearing of Crocs, for example), the Republic also has all the trappings of a fledgling nation-state. It issues its own passports, flies its own flag, prints its own currency (“the duble”), and has a national anthem that’s played on state occasions.
The micronation of Slowjamastan has its own passports, flag, currency (“the duble”), national anthem, time zone (Slowjamastan Standard Time), national animal (the Slowjamastan raccoon),12 states — including the capital of Dublândia — and more than 5,000 registered Slowjamastanis in their census (none of whom live in Slowjamastan).
Translations:
obe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: obes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A particular subdivision of ancient Laconia.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: It is probably that the τριακάδες represented ultimate division of the people, like the γένη of Attica; but it is difficult to see how such generic divisions could have born any relation to the local division of the obe.
Translations:
RESTful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From REST + -ful, punningly on restful.
Base: REST
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Using REST (representational state transfer).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The RESTafarians — or REST zealots — are probably right that a RESTful approach is best for retrieving information, but it is obviously inappropriate whenever the remote procedure call has side effects.
In this chapter, we'll build a RESTful web service on top of the MoviesService and OrdersService applications.
Translations:
Pannonian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Pannonia + -an.
Base: Pannonia
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: Pannonians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Pannonia.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Pannonia.
pos: noun
Translations:
ringback
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
Etymology: Deverbal from ring back.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The sound transmitted back to a caller to indicate that the telephone they are calling is ringing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A telephone feature allowing a person to receive an automatic call back when a busy line becomes free.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 'But you've been engaged an awfully long time: I had to use ringback in the end and that's expensive, but this is important so never mind.'
Translations:
Swedenborgian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Swedenborg + -ian.
Base: Swedenborg
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: more Swedenborgian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Swedenborgian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Swedenborgians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Emanuel Swedenborg (born Emanuel Swedberg in 1688), Swedish scientist, philosopher, Christian mystic and theologian.
pos: adj
gloss: A religious follower of Emanuel Swedenborg.
pos: noun
examples: As Kirkpatrick worked, Otto Hahn - an intensely patriotic German lawyer and amateur petrologist turned Swedenborgian who believed life originated in outer space - was spending long hours staring down his microscope at what he took to be the fossilised remnants of algae.
Translations:
unsweet
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English unswete, from Old English unswēte (“unsweet; bitter; sour”), from Proto-West Germanic *unswōtī, from Proto-Germanic *unswōtuz (“unsweet”), equivalent to un- + sweet. Cognate with West Frisian ûnswiet (“unsweet”), Dutch onzoet (“unsweet”), German Low German unsööt (“unsweet”), German unsüß (“unsweet”), Swedish osöt (“unsweet”), Icelandic ósætur (“unsweet”).
Base: sweet
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unsweet
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unsweet
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not sweet.
pos: adj
examples: That each, who seems a separate whole,
⁠Should move his rounds, and fusing all
⁠The skirts of self again, should fall
Remerging in the general Soul,
Is faith as vague as all unsweet: […]
Again I sank in that repose unsweet,
Again a clashing noise my slumber rent; […]
Antonyms: sweet
sugared
Translations:
Barclaycard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Barclaycards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A global Visa credit card issued by Barclays plc.
pos: noun
examples: Barclaycards were discussed and the meeting felt that they were a very useful means of securing payment on Garden Centres […]
'You mean they may have left their Barclaycards behind?' 'You never know, sir.'
Translations:
reverse-pickpocket
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From reverse + pickpocket.
Compound parts: reverse
pickpocket
Inflected forms:
form: reverse-pickpockets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reverse-pickpocketing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reverse-pickpocketed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reverse-pickpocketed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To slip something into someone's pocket or pocketbook, without their knowledge, sometimes as a gesture of generosity.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: But when no one's watching he will slip hundreds inside palms and pocketbooks of poor people—reverse-pickpocket them—or bolt out of a car to help someone old hobble across the street.
Translations:
pseudo-medicine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pseudo- + medicine. 19th-century coinage (1820s or 1830s).
Base: medicine
Affixes: pseudo-
Inflected forms:
form: pseudo-medicines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pseudomedicine
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any system of treatment of physical ailments, or substances prescribed for such treatment, purported to be medical or supported by critical medical science but which cannot be shown to be effective
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
tiggy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The children′s game tag.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
uncountable
examples: The teacher tried to encourage him to join in, and would tell Jamie to go and play 'tiggy' with the others.
Everyone raced to catch squid hiding under floating leaves or wood, or tried to catch seahorses as well as playing tiggy in the water.
In the day they would walk along, playing tiggy and talking, and in the evening they would swim and surf
Translations:
chasey
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From chase + -y.
Base: chase
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: tag (the children's game).
pos: noun
tags: Australia
uncountable
examples: At recess we would play chasey or kick a ball.
Kids just want: a place to play chasey, some teachers who know their name and a few mates they can laugh and swap lunches with.
Timothy and Natalie ran back to their Mom asking her and Aden to come and play chasey with them.
Translations:
eyes-only
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Meant to be read only, and not discussed, by the named recipient; classified.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
ears-only
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Too secret to be put in writing; only to be transmitted orally.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
spooler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
computing
engineering
manufacturing
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
textiles
Etymology: From spool + -er.
Base: spool
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: spoolers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A device or person that winds thread onto a spool.
pos: noun
examples: She again started to work for Respondent in November 1974 as a spooler and was thereafter laid off in January 1975. She commenced working again for Respondent in February 1975 as an oiler in the weave room on the first shift […]
In a method for guiding a thread onto an empty reel after a first reel in a continuously operating spooler has become full, utilizing a moving finger on the spooler in cooperation with a gripper rotating with the empty reel […]
gloss: A program or process that spools (places data in a queue to be accessed later).
pos: noun
examples: The print spooler sends each page to the printer when it is ready for it.
Translations:
data-bound
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From data + bound.
Compound parts: data
bound
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synchronised with a data source by means of data binding.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
burdon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin burdonem.
Inflected forms:
form: burdons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pilgrim's staff.
pos: noun
Translations:
picon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French picon, named after inventor Gaétan Picon (1809–1882).
Inflected forms:
form: picons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A caramel-coloured flavoured bitters made from oranges, gentian, and quinquina, traditionally accompanying beer in the east and north of France.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
Gleek
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
Etymology: Blend of Glee and geek
Inflected forms:
form: Gleeks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fan of the television show Glee.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: I'm more of a Gleek myself.
Well I thought she looked quite cute, so I Googled her. I'm not yet a full on Gleek, honest!
are there any other Gleeks out here in viPhone land? I saw on my facebook today that there's a Glee app!! $2.99 so I grabbed it. maybe I shouldn't have seeing all the financial stress I'm currently under but I'm a Gleek in a big way!! so I couldn't resist!! I needed to check it out!!!
Yep... I'm a "Gleek"! (I'm sure it's partially due to being in band in high school, as we usually did a medley of songs from a musical during each performance.)
Fair warning: One is the beginning of a musical number that's been on every Gleek's watch-list since Spears tweeted this pic.
And you call yourself a Gleek...
Translations:
Carrier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Carriers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of English Carrier.
pos: noun
Translations:
senton
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
Inflected forms:
form: sentons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A variation of a splash in which a wrestler jumps, sometimes from a raised platform such as the top turnbuckle, and lands back first on an opponent lying below.
pos: noun
examples: Being an idiot, I just now realized that the highspot of choice for the cool chubby worker is the Senton (or Cannonball as Ouilette refers to it).
I guess at Smackdown one of the Hardy Boys pulls off a Senton Splash off the Big Show's shoulders.
Technically, it's a somersault senton. The plain ol' senton is executed by leaping forward, almost past the target, and leaning back when you hit, which is why many call it a "senton back splash."
Translations:
botrytis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From translingual Botrytis. Blend of Ancient Greek βότρυς (bótrus) + -itis, from Ancient Greek βότρυς (bótrus, “(bunch of) grapes”) + -itis (“disease”) (from New Latin -itis, from Ancient Greek -ῖτις (-îtis, “pertaining to”)).
Affixes: -itis
Inflected forms:
form: botrytises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any fungus of the genus Botrytis, especially Botrytis cinerea which is responsible for the formation of noble rot on grapes.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
clocker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From clock + -er.
Base: clock
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: clockers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who clocks (illegally winds back the milometer of) a motor car
pos: noun
gloss: A low-level drug dealer who operates on the streets.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A clucking hen.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
dated
Translations:
coccidiosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: coccidioses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The disease caused by coccidian infection.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Nine hens had died in the meantime. Their bodies were buried in the orchard, and it was given out that they had died of coccidiosis.
Translations:
near-field
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In loudspeaker acoustics, referring to a region where the intensity of direct, unreflected sound from the source (such as a loudspeaker) is significantly dominant over any indirect or reflected sound.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
myofascial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From myo- (“muscle”) + fascia (“loose tissue”) + -al.
Base: myo
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the layer of loose tissue (fascia) surrounding the muscle tissues.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: nonmyofascial
Translations:
Moriori
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Derived from Proto-Polynesian *ma(a)qoli (“true, genuine, real, native”). Compare Maori.
Inflected forms:
form: Morioris
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Moriori
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the indigenous Polynesian people of the Chatham Islands.
pos: noun
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to the Moriori.
pos: adj
Translations:
insee
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From in- + see, or taken as a back-formation of inseeing, itself a loan-translation / calque of German Einsehen (“recognition, observation”). Compare Old English onsēon (“to look on, observe, regard, take notice of”). More at insight.
Base: see
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: insees
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: inseeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: insaw
pos: verb
tags: past
form: inseen
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To see into; to observe acutely.
pos: verb
examples: First, moving from his internal region outwards to other internal regions, the speaker insees the "tear inside the stone."
gloss: To have or gain insight into; to empathise with or come to fully understand one's point of view.
pos: verb
examples: This process of intuitional knowledge is strikingly analogous to the process of inseeing (Einsehen) Rilke described in his letters. I love inseeing. Can you imagine with me how glorious it is to insee...
gloss: To inspect.
pos: verb
Translations:
cyclothymic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cyclothymia + -ic.
Base: cyclothymia
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: cyclothymics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to cyclothymia.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A person who has cyclothymia.
pos: noun
Translations:
readback
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
communications
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
journalism
literature
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
stenography
telecommunications
writing
Etymology: Deverbal from read back.
Inflected forms:
form: readbacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of reading data back from a location where it has been stored.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: If buffer readbacks are used, it is therefore important to try to reduce both the number of readbacks issued and the amount of data read back.
gloss: The repetition of a message one has received, in order to acknowledge it and to demonstrate accurate comprehension (especially of commands).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The reading aloud by a transcriptionist, court reporter, or stenographer of draft correspondence or of testimony previously taken down in dictation, usually at the request of the presiding judge or parties involved in a deposition (courtroom contexts) or of the manager dictating the correspondence (business contexts).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: OK, now let's do a readback before you send this off.
The judge ordered a readback of a portion of the testimony.
Related words: backread
Translations:
honeybunch
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From honey + bunch.
Compound parts: honey
bunch
Inflected forms:
form: honeybunches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Honey, darling (term of endearment).
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Listen, honeybunch, I don't want to be cruel, but you've got to think of everything.
“Open your eyes, Dad, I'm not your little honeybunch anymore.”
Translations:
Amerasian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of American + Asian, modelled after Eurasian.
Compound parts: American
Asian
Inflected forms:
form: Amerasians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person of mixed American and Asian parentage, especially if their father was an American serviceman or temporary resident stationed in Asia.
pos: noun
examples: I am an Amerasian, why am I not allowed to stay here legally? Why do you try to keep me out, why do you discriminate against me?
By contrast, the average age of the Amerasian AHA immigrant arriving in America was seventeen – about one year younger than the average age of U.S. servicemen in Vietnam during the war.
The Amerasian's spouse and minor, unmarried children are eligible to immigrate along with him or her.
gloss: Of mixed American and Asian parentage.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Keane's speeches have not reduced the number of Amerasian births, but a decade of sleuthing has helped nearly 600 Amerasian orphans find new homes in the United States.
In the mid-1960s, a letter arrives from his Amerasian son, now twelve years old and victimized by poverty […]
Interestingly, however (and fortunately for the children), Amerasian parentage held virtually no stigma in the Philippines, in contrast to the situation in other Asian nations such as Korea, Japan, and Vietnam […]
Translations:
bahaha
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Representation of laughter.
pos: intj
tags: Internet
Translations:
minie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: minies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Minié ball
pos: noun
Translations:
teledrama
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der.
Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor.
English tele-
Ancient Greek δράω (dráō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek δρᾶμᾰ (drâmă)bor.
Late Latin drāmabor.
English drama
English teledrama
From tele- + drama.
Inflected forms:
form: teledramas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A drama made for television.
pos: noun
examples: Plays can be televised and have the same appeal as other teledramas.
Translations:
dockless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dock + -less.
Base: dock
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Without a dock (in various senses).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a dockless beach
a dockless laptop computer
Translations:
unstinted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + stinted.
Base: stinted
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unstinted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unstinted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not constrained, not restrained, or not confined, great in amount or degree.
pos: adj
examples: unstinted commitment
unstinted praise
unstinted support
Mr. Coggan poured the liquor with unstinted liberality at the suffering Cain's circular mouth.
Wherever we went there was the sun, lavish and unstinted.
You must have support and belief—unstinted support and belief.
The music-publisher had been unstinted in his praise.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens . . .gave the crude, grabbing Republic its lessons in symbolic deportment and visual elocution, and won its unstinted gratitude.
Translations:
daimio
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: daimios
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: daimioes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: daimio
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Dated spelling of daimyo.
pos: noun
Translations:
slow-cook
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: slow-cooks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: slow-cooking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: slow-cooked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: slow-cooked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cook at a low temperature for a long period of time.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To cook in a slow cooker.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
lang: French
word: mitonner
lang: Māori
word: taopaka
lang: Māori
word: tāwhakamoe
lang: Polish
word: gotować wolno
sorbus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From the genus name.
Inflected forms:
form: sorbuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any plant of the genus Sorbus.
pos: noun
Translations:
dewy-eyed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From dewy + eyed.
Compound parts: dewy
eyed
Inflected forms:
form: more dewy-eyed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dewy-eyed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dew-eyed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Having eyes with a moist, glistening appearance, especially as indicating that one is on the verge of crying or that one is experiencing strong emotions.
pos: adj
examples: One she saw clearly—a dewy-eyed, lovely woman who murmured loving, broken words.
Bill Clinton has never shied away from displays of dewy-eyed, lip-biting sentimentality.
What does his wife, music teacher Caroline, think about his retiring to a quiet life in Wantage? "I think she's a bit dewy-eyed. She thinks it's going to be nice to spend more time with me. I have to take time to decompress from a job like this for so long, but coming from that to doing nothing would be very unhealthy."
gloss: Naive or innocent in the manner of a child.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: At one moment he gave himself up completely to his pride at having captured this pretty, trustful, dewy-eyed thing!
Dowie could scarcely have told what phrase or word at last suddenly brought up before her a picture of the nursery in the house in Mayfair—the feeling of a warm soft childish body pressed close to her knee, the look of a tender, dewy-eyed small face and the sound of a small yearning voice saying: "I want to kiss you, Dowie."
gloss: Excessively nostalgic.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
Translations:
matchwood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From match + wood.
Compound parts: match
wood
Inflected forms:
form: matchwoods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Wood, often in the form of splinters, suitable for making matches.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The great stick was torn from his grasp and broken in two as though it had been matchwood, to be flung aside as the now infuriated beast charged for his adversary’s throat.
The walls were as thin as matchwood, and to hide the cracks they had been covered with layer after layer of pink paper, which had come loose and housed innumerable bugs.
The brute had made a loop of itself round the Dawn Treader and was beginning to draw the loop tight. When it got quite tight—snap!—there would be floating matchwood where the ship had been and it could pick them out of the water one by one.
The prison at Omsk, which had known Dostoyevsky, was not like any old Gulag transit prison, hastily knocked together from matchwood.
They noted: "The crashworthiness of the early carriage was of a low standard. By the end of the 19th century, the continuous automatic brake and the absolute block system had greatly reduced the accident rate, but the accidents that did occur often reduced the wood vehicles to matchwood."
Translations:
Koryak
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Koryaks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Koryak
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Koriak
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of an indigenous people in Kamchatka Krai, Russia.
pos: noun
Translations:
whitetip
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From white + tip.
Compound parts: white
tip
Inflected forms:
form: whitetips
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various animals having a white tip or tips on the body.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various animals having a white tip or tips on the body.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various animals having a white tip or tips on the body.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various animals having a white tip or tips on the body.
pos: noun
Derived words: oceanic whitetip
Translations:
unfollowed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + followed.
Base: followed
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: not followed
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: […] her husband's increased and more frequent storms of passion, unfollowed by any halcyon and honeymoon suings for forgiveness […]
Translations:
gaston
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: gastons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gastons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gastoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gastoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gastoned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A grip using one hand with the thumb down and elbow out.
pos: noun
gloss: To hold using such a grip
pos: verb
Translations:
Tibeto-Burman
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Tibeto- + Burman.
Base: Burman
Affixes: Tibeto-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to both Tibet and Burma.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
rare
gloss: Of the Tibeto-Burman languages, one of the subgroups of the Sino-Tibetan language family.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Oral tradition and archaeological evidence suggest the Chin were the earliest Tibeto-Burman group to come to the Chindwin Valley, a settlement process starting as early as the 4ᵗʰ century.
Translations:
trez
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: trezes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the third tine of an antler's beam
pos: noun
Translations:
Kabardian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Kabard + -ian.
Base: Kabard
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: Kabardians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Kabardian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Kabardian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A member of a Circassian tribe of the Northwest Caucasus.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or relating to this tribe.
pos: adj
Translations:
skitch
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of skate + hitch.
Compound parts: skate
hitch
Inflected forms:
form: skitches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: skitching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: skitched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: skitched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To hitch a ride by holding on to a motor vehicle while riding on a skateboard, roller skates, or bicycle.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
assy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ass (“arse, asshole”) + -y. Compare German arschig.
Base: ass
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: assier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more assy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: assiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most assy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characteristic of or like an ass or asshole.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
vulgar
examples: Maybe "the assiest asshat in assville" wasn't as minty fresh as all that.
Translations:
planform
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From plan + form.
Compound parts: plan
form
Inflected forms:
form: planforms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The shape and layout of a fixed-wing aircraft's fuselage and wing.
pos: noun
Translations:
decimator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From decimate + -or.
Base: decimate
Affixes: -or
Inflected forms:
form: decimators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who decimates
pos: noun
gloss: One who decimates
pos: noun
Synonyms: destroyer
tithe proctor
Translations:
emetine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔμετος (émetos, “vomiting”) + -ine.
Base: ἔμετος
Affixes: -ine
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A white crystalline bitter alkaloid, chemical formula C₂₉H₄₀N₂O₄, extracted from ipecacuanha root, and formerly used in the treatment of amebic infections and as an emetic in aversion therapy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: During a 10-year period the sanitarium treated 2,323 patients (93% were men) by the emetine method.
Magendie performed experiments on emetics and the nature of vomiting, and showed that the emetic properties of ipecacuanha were due to a substance he named emetine.
After a 3-hour incubation with ALLN [acetylleucyl-leucyl-norleucinal], cells were incubated with emetine in the presence (closed symbols) or absence (open symbols) of ALLN (10 µg/ml).
Translations:
Romulan
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Romulus + -an. From the Star Trek franchise, in which they are described as being from the planet Romulus, drawing inspiration from the Roman origin story of Romulus and Remus.
Base: Romulus
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: Romulans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Romulan
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Romulan
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A member of a fictional alien race, described as being cunning and opportunistic.
pos: noun
examples: "Some sort of Romulan game," Riker said thoughtfully. "Trying to make us guess what they're up to."
"He looks like a Romulan." Suddenly, her attention is focused on him and she calls across the street, "Hey, monkey Romulan, sort it out!"
...the law vaporizes like a Romulan warrior into the ions of space.
gloss: Pertaining to the fictional extraterrestrial race, or its fictional polity, the Romulan Star Empire; from Star Trek.
pos: adj
Translations:
visa-free
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From visa + -free.
Base: visa
Affixes: -free
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not requiring a visa when entering a country.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It begins, as so many Chinese legal dramas do, with a perfectly ordinary act. A pastor buys a plane ticket, passes through customs, and takes his friends to South Korea’s Jeju Island—a visa‑free paradise better known for honeymooners than dissidents. They return home, suntanned and unscathed. Months later, the pastor is in shackles, accused of “organizing others to cross the national border illegally.”
Translations:
Azorean
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Azore(s) + -an.
Base: Azores
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: Azorian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Azoreans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Azorian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: of, from, or relating to, the Azores
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Someone from the Azores
pos: noun
Translations:
alkermes
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French alkermès, probably from Spanish alquermes, from Arabic الْقِرْمِز (al-qirmiz), from Classical Persian کرمست (kirmist), from Middle Persian, from Sanskrit [Term?].
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The desiccated bodies of certain insects (female Kermes ilicis and Kermes vermilio), which live on the kermes oak, formerly much used as a material for dye and a medicinal ingredient; also a given mixture, preparation etc. containing such insects.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: But alkermes many except against: in some cases it may help, if it be good […]
gloss: A red Italian alcoholic liqueur.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
flash-ball
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From the trademark Flash-ball, from flash + ball.
Compound parts: flash
ball
Inflected forms:
form: flash-balls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flashball
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Flash-Ball
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A form of handgun that fires projectiles of rubber or similar material, used mainly by law enforcement officers for riot control.
pos: noun
gloss: The projectile fired from this gun.
pos: noun
examples: French security forces fired tear gas and flash-balls after a march through picturesque central Paris went from peaceful to provocative.
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: kumikuula-ase
lang: French
word: lanceur de balle de défense
lang: German
word: Hartgummi-Werfer
lang: German
word: Hartgummigeschoss-Werfer
lifelog
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From life + log.
Compound parts: life
log
Inflected forms:
form: lifelogs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lifelogging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lifelogged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lifelogged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: lifelogs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To capture and record images of one's entire life.
pos: verb
gloss: A collection of images of events in one's life, analogous to a weblog.
pos: noun
Translations:
lifelogging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The practice of capturing and recording images of one's entire life.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
skywalker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sky + walker.
Compound parts: sky
walker
Inflected forms:
form: skywalkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who walks in the sky.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
specifically
usually
examples: A particularly brave tribe of Native Americans, the Mohawks, have been called skywalkers because of their ability to navigate heights (Hill, 1987). Members of the tribe became particularly well known when they assisted with the building of the Empire State Building and other Manhattan skyscrapers. […] Their membership in these small, tight-knit groups likely promoted bravery among the skywalkers.
gloss: One who walks in the sky.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
figuratively
usually
gloss: One who walks in the sky.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
usually
examples: […] and help individual skywalkers feel at home in their new surroundings. Many times, Seitz said, pedestrians will feel ill at ease on a skywalk at first because they have lost their street corner orientation.
And if you notice an unusually litter-free skywalk, don’t presume that your fellow skywalkers have taken it upon themselves to give a hoot.
Since the view from the skywalk opened onto a huge expanse of brick—an adjacent building had been torn down—officials from the city decided that a wall painting would provide a beautiful and stimulating sight for the skywalkers.
Translations:
snaggletooth
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From snaggle + tooth.
Compound parts: snaggle
tooth
Inflected forms:
form: snaggleteeth
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: snaggletooths
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: snaggle-tooth
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A tooth inside the mouth that is unaligned or broken.
pos: noun
tags: plural
gloss: A predatory fish of the genus Astronesthes, so-called because of its teeth.
pos: noun
tags: plural
Synonyms: stareater
Derived words: snaggletoothed
Translations:
Sogdian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Soghdian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Sogdians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Soghdian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Sogdiana
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A native of Sogdiana
pos: noun
Translations:
Srebrenica
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Serbo-Croatian Srȅbrenica.
Inflected forms:
form: Srebrenicas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ethnic cleansing massacre, a localized genocide.
pos: noun
examples: And another Srebrenica, a Lidice, a Babi Yar . . .
The West had seen enough of Milosevic and they would not tolerate the possibility of another Srebrenica.
I think we all saw that very strong leader in The Times on Saturday, with the suggestion that the UN was walking, in the case of Jonglei, into another Srebrenica or another Rwanda.
Translations:
classpath
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From class + path.
Compound parts: class
path
Inflected forms:
form: classpaths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The path on a file system where the Java virtual machine should look for user-defined classes and packages when running Java programs.
pos: noun
Translations:
binary-compatible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more binary-compatible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most binary-compatible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: able to run the same binary code intended to be run on another computer
pos: adj
Translations: