yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
mentor
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French mentor, from Ancient Greek Μέντωρ (Méntōr, “Mentor”), a mythological character in the Odyssey, whose name, a historical name from Ancient Greece, shares the same root as English mind. Cognate to Sanskrit मन्तृ (mantṛ, “advisor, counselor”) and Latin monitor (“one who admonishes”), and perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *monéyeti (compare Latin moneō (“to warn”), causative form of *men- (“to think”).
Inflected forms:
form: mentors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mentors
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mentoring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mentored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mentored
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A wise and trusted counselor or teacher.
pos: noun
examples: Many mentors claim that they would work with the vocationers for free because of the sense of satisfaction the interaction provides.
I thought he was supposed to be my mentor. But, in actuality, what did I know about the often beguiling world of adults?
gloss: To act as someone's mentor.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: After him came several deshi, or followers he had mentored.
I want to get people motivated about mentoring students, to help them get excited about staying in school, finding their passion, and starting a career.
Translations:
mia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: classical-studies
history
human-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An ancient bluffing game played with dice.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
mimesis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μῑ́μησις (mī́mēsis), from μιμεῖσθαι (mimeîsthai, “to imitate”), from μῖμος (mîmos, “a mime”). By surface analysis, mime + -esis.
Inflected forms:
form: mimeses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The representation of aspects of the real world, especially human actions, in literature and art.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Mimicry.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The appearance of symptoms of a disease not actually present.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The rhetorical pedagogy of imitation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rhetoric
uncountable
gloss: The imitation of another's gestures, pronunciation, or utterance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rhetoric
uncountable
Related words: meme
memetic
Derived words: andromimesis
biomimesis
ethnomimesis
gynemimesis
mimeography
mimetic
mimicry
neuromimesis
psychotomimesis
thanatomimesis
Translations:
monody
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Latin monodia, from Ancient Greek μονῳδία (monōidía).
Inflected forms:
form: monodies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ode, as in Greek drama, for a single voice, often specifically a mournful song or dirge.
pos: noun
gloss: Any poem mourning the death of someone; an elegy.
pos: noun
gloss: A monotonous or mournful noise.
pos: noun
examples: Stroke by stroke, the great familiar monody of that incomparable curfew rose and fell in the stillness.
gloss: A composition having a single melodic line.
pos: noun
examples: All directions in life were blocked to him. He could not think, he could not sleep, his heart thudded to a deadening monody of fear. Fear that is itself the penalty of all things feared.
Derived words: monodic
monodical
monodist
Translations:
odyssey
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Odyssey, from Ancient Greek Ὀδυσσεία (Odusseía, “the story of Odysseus”).
Inflected forms:
form: odysseys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An extended adventurous voyage, usually in search of home.
pos: noun
examples: Many have been sharing cartoons praying for a successful conclusion to the Wild Boar team's odyssey, hoping that it will end in their safe rescue.
gloss: An intellectual or spiritual quest.
pos: noun
Related words: Odysseus
Odyssey
Ulysses
Translations:
ophthalmology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From ophthalmo- + -logy.
Base: ophthalmo
Inflected forms:
form: ophthalmologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The anatomy, functions, pathology, and treatment of the eye.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He will reproach himself for having been the victim of some of these liabilities, but for others, like his cataract or the bad illumination, he will express regret but not remorse. That is, some of the explanations that he will give for some of his mistakes and failures will be of the same sort as the explanations he would give for his mistakes and failures in counting or multiplying, but some will be of quite different sorts, like the explanations that he couches in the terms of elementary ophthalmology or optics.
Translations:
orchestra
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
theater
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin orchēstra, borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀρχήστρα (orkhḗstra), from ὀρχέομαι (orkhéomai, “to dance”) + -τρᾰ (-tră, “a suffix used to form instrument nouns (pl.)”).
Inflected forms:
form: orchestras
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: orchestrae
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
Senses:
gloss: A large group of musicians who play together on various instruments, usually including some from strings, woodwind, brass and/or percussion; the instruments played by such a group.
pos: noun
examples: The orchestra plays music for the dancers to dance to in the 19th century-styled dance hall.
It requires quite an orchestra to get a train to start; the guard blows his horn, the stationmaster rings a large bell, and the engine whistles.
Musicians play their instruments. I play the orchestra.
gloss: A semicircular space in front of the stage used by the chorus in Ancient Greek and Hellenistic theatres.
pos: noun
gloss: The area in a theatre or concert hall where the musicians sit, immediately in front of and below the stage, sometimes (also) used by other performers.
pos: noun
Derived words: chamber orchestra
miniorchestra
monkey orchestra
orchestra hit
orchestral
orchestraless
orchestra pit
orchestra-pit
orchestra stall
orchestra stalls
orchestrate
orchestration
orchestrina
orchestrion
palm court orchestra
philharmonic orchestra
pops orchestra
steel pan orchestra
string orchestra
symphony orchestra
Translations:
gallery
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English galery, gallerye, from Middle French galerie, gallerie, from Old French galerie, gallerie (“a long portico, a gallery”), from Medieval Latin galeria (“gallery”), of unknown origin. Perhaps an alteration of Latin galilea (“church porch”), probably from Latin Galilaea, Galilee, region of Israel. More at Galilee.
Inflected forms:
form: galleries
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gallerying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: galleried
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: galleried
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To show off.
pos: verb
tags: Trinidad-and-Tobago
Translations:
orthodontic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From orthodontia + -ic, equivalent to ortho- + -odont + -ic.
Base: orthodontia
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to the dental speciality of orthodontics.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Many parents can’t afford that “great smile,” though, which is why a thriving cottage industry of homemade orthodontic remedies has surfaced to provide the perfect smile to those who can’t afford licensed orthodontic work.
Translations:
orthopedic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₃erdʰ-der.
Proto-Hellenic *ortʰwós
Ancient Greek ὀρθός (orthós)
Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w-der.
Proto-Hellenic *pā́wits
Ancient Greek παῖς (paîs)
Ancient Greek -εύς (-eús)
Ancient Greek -εύω (-eúō)
Ancient Greek παιδεύω (paideúō)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek παιδεία (paideía)
French orthopédie
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -ique
Middle French -ique
French -ique
French orthopédiquebor.
English orthopedic
Borrowed from French orthopédique.
Inflected forms:
form: more orthopedic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most orthopedic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: orthopaedic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
form: orthopædic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to orthopedics.
pos: adj
examples: The destiny-grade event that happened to Orin Incandenza at this point was that just as he was passing glumly under the Home goalposts and entering the shadow of the south exit-tunnel's adit a loud and ominously orthopedic cracking sound, plus then shrieking, issued from somewhere on the field behind him.
From there, Thera-Paw’s team created a special pair of orthopedic boots for Lucas, made of Neoprene and rubber with extra padding on the bottoms. The black shade looks as close to his natural foot color as possible so as not to stand out too much.
Translations:
osteoporosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”) + Ancient Greek πώρωσις (pṓrōsis, “petrification, callousness”), from Ancient Greek πῶρος (pôros, “tuff, a porous type of rock”). By surface analysis, osteo- + pore + -osis.
Inflected forms:
form: osteoporoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A disease, occurring especially in women following menopause, in which the bones become extremely porous and are subject to fracture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
ostracism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὀστρακισμός (ostrakismós, “banishment by means of voting with pot shards”), from ὀστρακίζω (ostrakízō, “ostracize”) + -ισμός (-ismós, “-ism”), from ὄστρακον (óstrakon, “clay pot”).
Inflected forms:
form: ostracisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In ancient Athens (and some other cities), the temporary banishment by popular vote of a citizen considered dangerous to the state.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: For this manner of banishment for a time, called ostracismos, was no punishment for any fault committed, but a mitigation and taking away of the envy of the people, which delighted to pluck down their stomacks that too much seemed to exceed in greatness: […]
Take the ſweete herbe called pleaſant content; with that make a perfume about your bed chamber and where you dyne: the ſavour of this is as ſure a repulſe to exile melancholie, as the oſtracisme was to the noble of Athens.
Witnesse the Ostracisme amongst the Athenians, and the Petalisme among the Siracusans.
gloss: Banishment by some general consent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: If I have deserved the land should spue me out, I will feed my selfe with the idle and windy conceite of an Ostracisme, and my unregarded poore selfe shall be all the richesse and commpany I crave to transport and if a Princes word […]
gloss: Temporary exclusion from a community or society.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: send to Coventry
Derived words: cyberostracism
ostracize
ostracise
semiostracism
Translations:
paleontology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Attested since 1836 (as palæontology). From French paléontologie (attested since 1822). By surface analysis, paleo- (“ancient”) + onto- (“being”) + -logy (“study”).
Inflected forms:
form: palaeontology
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
form: palæontology
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: The study of the forms of life existing in prehistoric or geologic times, especially as represented by fossils.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
Translations:
panorama
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pan- (“all”) + Ancient Greek ὅρᾱμᾰ (hórāmă, “view”).
Coined by Robert Barker (painter) in 1792.
Affixes: pan-
Inflected forms:
form: panoramas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: panoramata
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An unbroken view of an entire surrounding area.
pos: noun
examples: He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.
gloss: A picture or series of pictures representing a continuous scene.
pos: noun
gloss: A comprehensive survey.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
Derived words: Cinerama
freedom of panorama
Mount Panorama
-orama
panoramagram
panoramic
panoramist
panoramize
photopanorama
polyorama
Translations:
paranoia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek παράνοια (paránoia, “madness”), from παράνοος (paránoos, “demented”), from παρά (pará, “beyond, beside”) + νόος (nóos, “mind, spirit”).
By surface analysis, para- (“abnormal, beyond”) + nous (“mind”) + -ia (“(medical) condition”).
Inflected forms:
form: paranoias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: paranoiæ
pos: noun
tags: archaic
plural
form: paranœa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: paranoea
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: paranoïa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
hypercorrect
Senses:
gloss: A psychotic disorder, now called delusional disorder, often (in one of six subtypes) characterized by delusions of persecution and a perceived threat against the individual affected with the disorder, and often associated with false accusations and a general mistrust of others.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Extreme, irrational distrust of others.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: coronoia
juvenoia
maranoia
paranoiac
paranoialike
paranoic
paranoically
paranoid
paranoid schizophrenia
petronoia
technoparanoia
Translations:
patriot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French patriote, from Late Latin patriōta (“fellow countryman”) from the Ancient Greek πατριώτης (patriṓtēs, “of the same country”), from πατρίς (patrís, “father land", "country”), from πατήρ (patḗr, “father”).
Inflected forms:
form: patriots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who loves and zealously supports and defends their country.
pos: noun
examples: Here Tears ſhall flovv from a more gen'rous Cauſe, / Such Tears as Patriots ſhed for dying Lavvs: […]
'My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.
Good thing there are loads of courageous anti-tax patriots (like Michelle Malkin!) willing to organize teabaggy protests designed to bring about a brave new world without bailouts, welfare, wars, or red tape […]
Nothing beats a gunboat. HMS Illustrious glided out of Portsmouth on Monday, past HMS Victory and cheering crowds of patriots. Within a week it will be off Gibraltar, a mere cannon shot from Cape Trafalgar.
Bad news for a certain kind of pedantic patriot (look away now, Jacob Rees-Mogg). Prince Charles has debased the English language – and in a letter to a foreign potentate, no less.
gloss: A fellow countryman, a compatriot.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: The aim of patriots, therefore, was to set limits to the power which the ruler should be allowed to exercise over the community.
Related words: matriot
matriotic
hatriot
Derived words: antipatriot
Caitriot
copatriot
cosplaytriot
Patriot Day
patrioteer
patriotess
patriothood
patriotic
patriotical
patriotism
patriotist
patriotization
patriotize
Patriot missile
patriotship
paytriot
superpatriot
Translations:
pedagogy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French pédagogie, from Ancient Greek παιδαγωγία (paidagōgía). By surface analysis, ped- (“child”) + -agogy.
Inflected forms:
form: pedagogies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: paedagogy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pædagogy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pedagoguy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: paedagoguy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pædagoguy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The profession of teaching.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The activities of educating, teaching or instructing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The strategies or methods of instruction; their study and development; an educational philosophy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A resource that profiles the important language of secondary disciplines by adapting the methods of EAP research could therefore be very useful for such pedagogy.
To explore effective pedagogies to motivate these bilingual doctoral researchers to theorise translingually, this paper draws upon methodologies about translingualism and intercultural doctoral education to dispel the recurrent doubts raised by these bilingual doctoral researchers.
Related words: didactics
Derived words: antipedagogy
biopedagogy
ecopedagogy
neuropedagogy
oligophrenopedagogy
orthopedagogy
paragogy
pedagogic
pedagogical
pedagogically
pedagogism
pedagogue
pedagoguery
pedagoguese
psychopedagogy
public sphere pedagogy
Webagogy
Translations:
pediatrician
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pediatric
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English pediatrician
From pediatric + -ian.
Inflected forms:
form: pediatricians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: paediatrician
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
form: pædiatrician
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A physician that specializes in pediatrics; the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.
pos: noun
tags: US
Translations:
phantasm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: A learned variant of phantom; from Middle English fantosme, from Old French fantosme, fantasme, from Latin phantasma, from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma). Doublet of phantom.
Inflected forms:
form: phantasms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fantasm
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: phantasim
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: phantasma
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Something seen but having no physical reality; a phantom or apparition.
pos: noun
examples: But night comes in with a more genial spirit: we have done our worst and our bitterest; and we need a small space to indulge any little bit of cordiality that may be left in us. A thousand gay phantasms float in on the sunny south, which has left the far-off vineyards of its birth.
He declares that there seems to be no justification for regarding the phantasms of dreams as pure hallucinations; most dream-images are probably in fact illusions, since they arise from faint sense-impressions, which never cease during sleep.
gloss: An impression as received by the senses, especially an image, often prior to any interpretation by the intellect.
pos: noun
examples: When abstracted from the phantasm by the intellectus agens the species effects a modification in the intellectus possibilis which modification is called the species intelligibilis impressa. Actualized by the species impressa the intellectus […]
Again, in a sense, the act of understanding as an insight into phantasm is knowledge of form: but the form so known does not correspond to the philosophic concept of form; “insight is to phantasm as form is to matter; […]”
[…] schematic way the essential characteristics of the phantasm in Derrida so that we can then see how Derrida's analysis of the phantasm of the mother (or of maternity) at once contributes to and displaces this configuration.
Related words: fancy
fantasize
fantastic
fantasy
phantasmatic
phantom
Derived words: phantascope
phantasmal
phantasmic
phantasmology
Translations:
phantom
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English fantome, fanteme, from Old French fantosme, fantasme, from Latin phantasma (“an apparition, specter; (in Late Latin also) appearance, image”), from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma, “phantasm, an appearance, image, apparition, specter”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “to make visible”). Doublet of phantasm.
Inflected forms:
form: fantom
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Illusive.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: […] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. […]”
gloss: Fictitious or nonexistent.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a phantom limb
Derived words: phantom abandoned call
phantom bone disease
phantom call
phantom circuit
phantom crane fly
phantom debt
phantom energy
phantom eye syndrome
phantom goal
phantom island
phantom jam
phantom limb
phantom midge
phantomness
phantom pain
phantom power
phantom pregnancy
phantom punch
phantom reference
phantom settlement
phantom shiner
phantom stock
phantom tumour
phantom type
phantom withdrawal
Translations:
phoebe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From early 18th c. Imitative, influenced by the name Phoebe.
Inflected forms:
form: phoebes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: phebe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of several birds of the genus Sayornis.
pos: noun
Translations:
phonics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From phon- + -ics.
Base: phon
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The study of how the sounds of words are represented by spelling.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A method of teaching elementary reading based on the phonetic interpretation of normal spelling.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Phonics has gone in and out of style for decades, and the current conflict over how to teach reading is only the latest in a tug-of-war that dates to the 19th century.
gloss: Phonetics.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Acoustics.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: allophonics
anthropophonics
dodecaphonics
dormiphonics
homophonics
microphonics
multiphonics
symphonics
Derived words: cataphonics
diaphonics
Ebonics
phonicator
-phonics
synthetic phonics
Translations:
phosphorous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos
Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos)
Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs)
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéreti
Proto-Hellenic *pʰérō
Ancient Greek φέρω (phérō)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Hellenic *-os
Ancient Greek -ος (-os)
Ancient Greek -φόρος (-phóros)
Ancient Greek φωσφόρος (phōsphóros)bor.
Latin phōsphorusbor.
English phosphorus
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos
Latin -ōsus
Old French -usbor.
Middle English -ous
English -ous
English phosphorous
From phosphorus + -ous.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to phosphorus.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Resembling phosphorus.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of, relating to, or containing trivalent phosphorus.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: phosphoric
phosphorus
Derived words: hypophosphorous
hypophosphorous acid
nonphosphorous
phosphite
phosphorous acid
phosphorous anhydride
phosphorous chloride
sulphophosphorous
Translations:
pneumatic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Gnosticism
biology
lifestyle
natural-sciences
religion
zoology
Etymology: From Latin pneumaticus, from Ancient Greek πνευματικός (pneumatikós, “relating to wind or air”), from πνεῦμα (pneûma, “wind, air, breath, spirit”), from πνέω (pnéō, “to blow, breath”).
Inflected forms:
form: more pneumatic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pneumatic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pneumatick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: pneumatics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pneumatick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or resembling air or other gases
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to pneumatics
pos: adj
gloss: Powered by, or filled with, compressed air
pos: adj
examples: a pneumatic instrument or engine
gloss: Having cavities filled with air
pos: adj
examples: pneumatic cells or bones
gloss: Spiritual; of or relating to the pneuma
pos: adj
gloss: well-rounded; full-breasted; bouncy
pos: adj
examples: Her almost pneumatic bust tightened itself, and she was quite prepared to say uncharitable things, as she saw Felicia enter.
"Every one says I'm awfully pneumatic," said Lenina reflectively, patting her own legs.
This short but pneumatic woman had killed six men and yet for some reason he wasn't afraid.
gloss: A vehicle, such as a bicycle, whose wheels are fitted with pneumatic tyres.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: In the gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man, the highest type; a person focused on spiritual reality (the other two being hylic and psychic).
pos: noun
Synonyms: airy
gaseous
voluptuous
Related words: pneumaticity
pneumatization
Derived words: apneumatic
autopneumatic
electropneumatic
electro-pneumatic
hydropneumatic
hyperpneumatic
nonpneumatic
opticopneumatic
pneudraulic
pneumatically
pneumatic bone
pneumatic device
pneumatic drill
pneumatic post
pneumatic trough
servopneumatic
thermopneumatic
Translations:
praxis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
drama
dramaturgy
entertainment
film
human-sciences
lifestyle
media
philosophy
sciences
television
theater
Etymology: Partly from Latin prāxis and partly from its etymon Ancient Greek πρᾶξις (prâxis, “action, activity, practice”).
Inflected forms:
form: praxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: praxises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The practical application of any branch of learning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The deliberate action of a rational being.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The synthesis of theory and practice, without presuming the primacy of either.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Custom or established practice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An example or form of exercise, or a collection of such examples, for practice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: praxeology
praxic
Derived words: cacopraxis
echothanatopraxia
eupraxis
heteropraxis
orthoprax
orthopraxis
parapraxis
radiopraxis
thanatopraxis
zoopraxiscope
Translations:
presbyopia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From New Latin presbyōpia, from Ancient Greek πρέσβυς (présbus, “old man”), and New Latin -ōpia (“vision problem”), from Ancient Greek ὤψ (ṓps, “eye”). By surface analysis, presby- + -opia.
Inflected forms:
form: presbyopias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Inability of the eye, due to ageing, to focus on nearby objects.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
presbyter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin presbyter, from Ancient Greek πρεσβύτερος (presbúteros), from πρέσβυς (présbus, “elder, older”). Doublet of prester and priest.
Inflected forms:
form: presbyters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An elder, priest, pastor, or minister in various Christian churches.
pos: noun
gloss: An elder of the Presbyterian church.
pos: noun
gloss: An elder of the congregation in early Christianity.
pos: noun
Related words: Pan-Presbyterian
Panpresbyterian
presbyopia
presbytera
presbyterate
presbyterial
Presbyterial
presbyterially
Presbyterially
presbyterian
Presbyterian
presbyterianism
Presbyterianism
Presbyterianization
Presbyterianize
presbyterianly
Presbyterianly
presbytery
Derived words: archpresbyter
Jack Presbyter
presbyteral
presbytership
presbytress
Translations:
prophylaxis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: board-games
chess
games
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin, from Ancient Greek πρό (pró, “before”) + φύλαξις (phúlaxis, “a watching, guarding”).
Inflected forms:
form: prophylaxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The prevention of, or the protective treatment for, disease.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A move or strategy that frustrates an opponent's plan or tactic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: chemoprophylaxis
fluoroprophylaxis
homeoprophylaxis
immunoprophylaxis
metaprophylaxis
monoprophylaxis
pharmacoprophylaxis
post-exposure prophylaxis
postprophylaxis
pre-exposure prophylaxis
preprophylaxis
propho
prophylactic
prophylaxed
psychoprophylaxis
seroprophylaxis
thromboprophylaxis
zooprophylaxis
Translations:
proxy
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
computing
engineering
games
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
software
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English procucie, contraction of procuracie, from Anglo-Norman procuracie, from Medieval Latin procuratia, from Latin prōcūrātiō, from Latin prōcūrō (“to manage, administer”) (English procure). Compare proctor.
Inflected forms:
form: proxies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: proxies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: proxying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: proxied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: proxied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Used as a proxy or acting as a proxy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a proxy indicator
a proxy measurement
gloss: An agent or substitute authorized to act for another person.
pos: noun
examples: Every peer […] may make another lord of parliament his proxy, to vote for him in his absence.
gloss: The authority to act for another, especially when written.
pos: noun
examples: I have no man's proxy: I speak only for myself.
gloss: The written appointment of a proctor in suits in the ecclesiastical courts
pos: noun
gloss: A measurement of one physical quantity that is used as an indicator of the value of another
pos: noun
gloss: An interface for a service, especially for one that is remote, resource-intensive, or otherwise difficult to use directly.
pos: noun
gloss: A card used to substitute for another card, when the latter is not available.
pos: noun
gloss: To serve as a proxy for.
pos: verb
examples: In many of the studies we reviewed, it is common practice to use an observed variable to proxy for a relevant variable that could not be observed.
gloss: To function as a server for a client device, but pass on the requests to another server for service.
pos: verb
Synonyms: deputy
substitute
representative
Translations:
pterodactyl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French ptérodactyle, a term coined by Cuvier from Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, “wing”) + δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”). By surface analysis, ptero- + -dactyl.
Inflected forms:
form: pterodactyls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pterosaur of the genus Pterodactylus.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Any pterosaur.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
proscribed
examples: He described also the iguanodon and the pterodactyl - two of the first of the wonders which they had encountered.
Had a pterodactyl swooped down from those old-time crags, it would hardly have been out of place.
Now let me tell you, Brisbane mossies in the sixties were as big as pterodactyls.
Related words: dactylo-
dactyly
polydactyly
syndactyly
Derived words: pterodactylane
pterodactylic
pterodactyllike
pterodactyloid
Translations:
pyrotechnics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥
Proto-Hellenic *pāwər
Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr)
Latin pyr
English pyro-
English technic
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
Old English -as
Middle English -es
English -s
English -ics
English pyrotechnics
From pyro- + technic + -ics.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The art and technology of fireworks and related military applications.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A display of fireworks.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: An impressive display.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
examples: Dazzling verbal pyrotechnics and incredibly vivid characterization.
Mainstream Records, wowed by Nugent's Hendrix-like guitar pyrotechnics, signed the guys and issued their self-titled debut album in 1968.
Related words: pyro-
pyrotechnic
pyrotechnical
pyrotechnician
pyrotechnist
pyrotechny
Translations:
hard-nosed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: hard + nosed; originally referred to hard-tipped bullets.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Guided by practical experience and observation rather than by theory.
pos: adj
gloss: Hardheaded, stubborn.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
gloss: Tough and relentlessly practical and thus not given to sentiment.
pos: adj
Translations:
lang: Dutch
word: realistisch
lang: French
word: pragmatique
lang: German
word: pragmatisch
lang: Italian
word: pragmatico
lang: Portuguese
word: pragmático
lang: Spanish
word: pragmático
cheroot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably from Portuguese charuto (“cigar”), from Tamil சுருட்டு (curuṭṭu, “roll (of tobacco)”).
Inflected forms:
form: cheroots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cigar with square-cut ends.
pos: noun
examples: The lowest classes of Europeans, as also of the natives, and, indeed, most of the officers of country-ships, frequently smoke cheroots, exactly corresponding with the Spanish segar, though usually made rather more bulky. However fragrant the smokers themselves may consider cheroots, those who use hookahs, hold them to be not only vulgar, but intolerable!
1853, The Lancet, Vol. II, The Analytical Sanitary Commission. Cigars and their Adulterations, pp. 444-445, https://books.google.ca/books?id=_ZJMAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Purchased—of a Hawker, in Whitechapel-road. ¶ These cheroots were made up of two twisted wrappers or layers of thin brown paper, while the interior consisted entirely of hay, not a particle of tobacco entering into their composition. ¶ It appears that about the neighbourhood of Whitechapel, the sale of spurious cheroots of this kind constitutes a regular business.
1892, Rudyard Kipling, "Mandalay", in Rudyard Kipling's Verse, Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1922, http://www.bartleby.com/364/220.html
’Er petticoat was yaller an’ ’er little cap was green, / An’ ’er name was Supi-yaw-lat—jes’ the same as Theebaw’s Queen, / An’ I seed her first a-smokin’ of a whackin’ white cheroot, / An’ a-wastin’ Christian kisses on an ’eathen idol’s foot:
It was after nine now, and the room, scented with the acrid smoke of Westfield's cheroot, was stifling hot.
In distinguished despair he lighted a cheroot, and for Aaron Gadd that was no trivial gesture. Both his father and Deacon Popplewood […] contended that smoke issuing from the mouth was a little too much like the flames of Tophet for sound Congregational practice.
1986, Heinrich Böll, "The Unknown Soldier" in The Casualty, translated by Leila Vennewitz, New York and London: W. Norton & Co., 1989, p. 97,
I had a long Virginia cheroot between my lips, it tasted deliciously bitter and mild, while in my back the goo of pus and blood and shreds of cloth and hand-grenade splinters went on simmering away.
2012, Christopher Simon Sykes, David Hockney: the Biography, 1937-1975. A Rake's Progress, Doubleday, Chapter Ten,
Hamilton offered to put them up and Hockney spent the time making a marvellous etching of him sitting in a chair holding a cheroot in his right hand.
Translations:
cashmere
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Appellativization of Cashmere.
Inflected forms:
form: cashmeres
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cassimeer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cashmire
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Fine, downy wool from beneath the outer hair of the Cashmere goat.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A soft fabric made of this wool.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: a cashmere sweater
gloss: A rich kind of shawl made from this wool.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
gloss: Any similar shawl.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
usually
Related words: pashmina
Derived words: cashmered
cashmerette
royal cashmere
Translations:
chakra
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Ayurveda
alternative-medicine
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Hindi चक्र (cakra) and directly from Sanskrit चक्र (cakra, “wheel, disc, cycle”). As a synonym for hackery, either a correction or hypercorrection of that term based on one of its proposed etymologies. Doublet of chakram, charkha, chukker, cycle, cyclus, kike, and wheel.
Inflected forms:
form: chakras
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of (at least) seven centres of spiritual energy in or near the body, according to Ayurveda philosophy.
pos: noun
tags: Hinduism
examples: In the etheric body of a yogini in meditation, the polarity is, therefore, not between the brain and the genitals, the second and sixth chakras, but between the inner sexuality of the womb and the heart.
gloss: Synonym of hackery.
pos: noun
examples: ...bahlis, chakras, bullock-carts, dolis, tattus, palkis, miyanas, kharkharinas, bajras and chaupalas, were the common vehicles.
Derived words: chakra healing
chakral
chakric
Translations:
karma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit कर्म (kárma), nom.sg. of कर्मन् (kárman, “act, action, performance”); first attested in English in 1785 in a translation of the Bhagavad Gita by Charles Wilkins.
Inflected forms:
form: karmas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sum total of a person's actions, which determine the person's next incarnation in samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth.
pos: noun
tags: Hinduism
Jainism
Sikhism
countable
uncountable
examples: ‘We are all part of a circle of karma. We will be rewarded for the good deeds of our forefathers, and pay the price for their sins.’
gloss: A force or law of nature which causes one to reap what one sows; destiny; fate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A distinctive feeling, aura, or atmosphere.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncommon
uncountable
examples: That means everything from lighting to the vibes, the karma of the room.
How many times when you have been in a bar have you felt that a confrontation was building up, even without extensive verbal exchanges? Sometimes you can feel the karma or energy of a place change, and you should not ignore that
On the way to Lancaster, which was about an hour and a half from Philly, John felt the karma.
gloss: A score assigned to a user or post on some discussion forums, indicating popularity or perceived value.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
countable
uncountable
Derived words: duskarma
instant karma
karma farm
karma farmer
karmaic
karmaless
karma-marga
karma's a bitch
karma whore
karma-yoga
karmic
karmic debt
Translations:
musk
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English muske, borrowed from Old French musc, from Late Latin muscus, from Ancient Greek μόσχος (móskhos), from Middle Persian [script needed] (mwšk' /⁠muʃk⁠/) whence Persian مشک (mošk). Ultimately from Sanskrit मुष्क (muṣka, “testicle”), the shape of the gland of animals secreting the substance being compared to human testicles, a diminutive of मूष् (mūṣ, “mouse”), the shape of human testicles being compared to mice, from Proto-Indo-European *muh₂s (“mouse”). Cognate with mouse.
Inflected forms:
form: musks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: musks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: musking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: musked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: musked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A greasy secretion with a powerful odour, produced in a glandular sac of the male musk deer and used in the manufacture of perfumes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Your onely way to make a good pomander, is this. Take an ownce of the pureſt garden mould, clenſed and ſteeped ſeauen daies in change of motherleſſe roſe water, then take the beſt Labdanum, Benioine, both Storaxes, amber greece, and Ciuet, and muſke, incorporate them together, and work them into what form you pleaſe; this, if your breath bee not to valiant, will make you ſmell as ſweete as my Ladies dogge.
An old medical record relates that by means of musk the genital power of a man in his eightieth year was resuscitated.
gloss: A similar secretion produced by the otter and the civet.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A synthetic organic compound used as a substitute for the above.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The odour of musk.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A musk deer (genus Moschus).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A muskflower (Erythranthe moschata).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A plant of the genus Erodium (Erodium moschatum); the musky heronsbill.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A plant of the genus Muscari; grape hyacinth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The scent of human genitalia when aroused or unwashed.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
slang
uncountable
vulgar
examples: I was so excited I could smell my own musk.
gloss: To perfume with musk.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: muck
muscat
nutmeg
Derived words: cyclic musk
loggerhead musk turtle
muscone
muskball
musk beetle
musk cat
musk cavy
musk duck
muskish
muskless
musklike
musk mallow
musk melon
muskmelon
musk oil
musk okra
musk orchid
musk orchis
musk ox
musk pear
musk plum
muskroot
musk rose
musk seed
musk shrew
musk stick
musk thistle
musk turtle
muskwood
musk xylene
musky
nitro musk
nitromusk
nito musk
pineapple melon
white musk
xylene musk
Translations:
Sati
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁es-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁sónts
Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hsáns
Sanskrit सती (satī)bor.
English Sati
Borrowed from Sanskrit सती (satī).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pious person
pos: noun
tags: Hinduism
Translations:
sutra
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit सूत्र (sū́tra, “thread, yarn, string; rule”). Doublet of sutta; more distantly related to sew and suture.
Inflected forms:
form: sutras
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Sutra
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sūtra
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Sūtra
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sutta
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A rule or thesis in Sanskrit grammar or Hindu law or philosophy.
pos: noun
gloss: A scriptural narrative, especially a discourse of the Buddha.
pos: noun
tags: Hinduism
examples: Shepard: This Code of the Justicar seems central to your life.
Samara: It is five thousand sutras, and covers every situation one can encounter. I have memorized every word. There is only the Code.
Related words: Kamasutra
Translations:
yoga
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *yewg-
Proto-Indo-European *yówg-os
Proto-Indo-Iranian *yáwgas
Proto-Indo-Aryan *yáwgas
Sanskrit योग॑ (yóga)bor.
English yoga
Borrowed from Sanskrit योग (yóga, “yoking, union”), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *yáwgas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *yáwgas, from Proto-Indo-European *yéwg-o-s, from *yewg- (“to join”) (whence also yoke).
Inflected forms:
form: yogas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Yoga
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of several Hindu or Buddhist disciplines aimed at training the consciousness for a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquillity; especially a system of exercises practiced to promote control of the body and mind.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: If you're not into yoga / If you have half a brain / […] / Then I'm the love that you've looked for / Write to me and escape
Whether you need to recover from a stressful day, a strenuous workout or even an injury or surgery, restorative yoga may be just the thing for you.
Translations:
yoni
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Etymology tree
Sanskrit योनि (yoni)bor.
English yoni
Borrowed from Sanskrit योनि (yoni).
Inflected forms:
form: yonis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The vulva or vagina, or a symbol of them, especially as an object of veneration within certain types of Hinduism, Buddhism, and other cultures.
pos: noun
tags: Hinduism
examples: Stroke your partner's thighs and caress her breasts as you make love to her yoni with your mouth and tongue.
In Hinduism [...] and Tantrism [...], the yoni is the generative organ of the Goddess.
The goddess blesses him by placing his liṅgam in her yoni.
Translations:
cootie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Probably from Malay kutu (“flea, louse”) (and/or Tagalog/Māori). First attested in English in 1917 as British army slang during World War I.
Inflected forms:
form: cooties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A louse (Pediculus humanus).
pos: noun
tags: British-Army
Canada
US
colloquial
dated
slang
examples: "Tell Rilla I'm glad her war-baby is turning out so well, and tell Susan that I'm fighting a good fight against both Huns and cooties."
"Mrs. Dr. dear," whispered Susan solemnly, "what are cooties?"
Mrs. Blythe whispered back and then said in reply to Susan's horrified ejaculations, "It's always like that in the trenches, Susan."
Susan shook her head and went away in grim silence to re-open a parcel she had sewed up for Jem and slip in a fine tooth comb.
gloss: Any germ or contaminant, real or imagined, especially from the opposite gender (for pre-pubescent children).
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
US
childish
colloquial
plural-normally
examples: I’m not drinking from his glass until I wash the cooties off it.
gloss: A nest-building female American coot (counterpart to cooter).
pos: noun
tags: rare
gloss: A sideswiper, a type of telegraph key.
pos: noun
tags: rare
slang
Related words: lurgy
Derived words: cootie catcher
crazy as a cootie
crazy as a cootie bug
Translations:
pangolin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay pengguling, from peng- (“denominative prefix”) + guling (“to roll”).
Base: guling
Affixes: peng-
Inflected forms:
form: pangolins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several long-tailed, scale-covered mammals of the family Manidae within the order Pholidota of tropical Africa and Asia.
pos: noun
examples: Like many Sri Lankans, pangolins have big tongues, thick hides and small brains. They pick on ants, rats and anything smaller than them. They hide in terror when faced with bullies and get up to mischief when the lights are out. They are hundreds of thousands of years old and are plodding towards extinction.
Translations: