yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
tailoring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tailorings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Work done by a tailor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A man got up in all the outward trappings of a gentleman: an extensive display of snowy linen, unimpeachable tailoring, ganté, botté, in perfection; nothing overdone.
gloss: Any modification or ornamentation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
Derived words: narrow tailoring
Translations:
tailored
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Adjusted by a tailor, fitted.
pos: adj
examples: Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.
gloss: Made by a tailor.
pos: adj
examples: His expensive tailored shirts didn't look that much better than off-the-rack, but they lasted much longer.
Derived words: man-tailored
mistailored
nontailored
untailored
well-tailored
Translations:
hemming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hemmings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of saying "hem", in intermission or hesitation of speech.
pos: noun
examples: Blushing and stammering, awkward pauses, hemmings and hawings, tremblings of voice, and confusion in all its shapes there were between them […]
Translations:
steamroll
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From steam + roll.
Compound parts: steam
roll
Inflected forms:
form: steamrolls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: steamrolling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: steamrolled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: steamrolled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To flatten, as if with a steamroller.
pos: verb
examples: The service had one small break when it was suspended between October, 1904, and April, 1905, owing to the refusal of the Helston Rural District Council to steam roll the road. At this time there was no steam roller in use anywhere west of Plymouth, and the railway company loaned one of its steam rollers to the Cornwall County Council, to secure an improvement in the road conditions.
gloss: To ruthlessly crush or overwhelm.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: I tried to participate in a sports tournament, but got steamrolled by the better players there.
In The Trial of Henry Kissinger the late British journalist, best known for his Vanity Fair columns, his deliberately provocative opinion that women aren’t funny and his penchant for booze and fags, steamrolls the former US National Security Advisor and Secretary of State for Presidents Nixon and Ford with a polemical brilliance so assured it cancels out the occasional flashes of arrogance and pomposity.
Translations:
remediate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin remediare.
Inflected forms:
form: remediates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: remediating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: remediated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: remediated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To correct or improve (a deficiency or problem).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Network Rail's busy Easter included a ten-day closure of the main trans-Pennine route between Manchester and Leeds, for work to install a new bridge deck at Huddersfield, remediate mining works at Ravensthorpe and Huddersfield, and to lay new track at Deighton and Mirfield.
Translations:
bungler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bungle
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English bungler
From bungle + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: bunglers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence.
pos: noun
examples: "What you mean, comparing me to them botchers and bunglers? There ain't anybody but me in the furniture restoring line."
Noble Prophet of Truth, this has gone on long enough. Make an example of this bungler. The Council demands it.
Translations:
procuring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: procurings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of procuring, or amount procured.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Procurings of unginned cotton by December 1 were reported to have amounted to 9,833,000 bales or the equivalent of 3,048,000 bales of ginned cotton of approximately 478 pounds net.
Translations:
harassed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English harass
English -ed
English harassed
From harass + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more harassed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most harassed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Subject to harassment.
pos: adj
examples: No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes,[…]. And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness.
Diggle Station lies high up in the Pennine Chain, subject to extreme low temperatures. With this and heavy snowfall in the winter months, Diggle bids fair to compete with the Scottish lines under similar weather conditions, and the provision of unfrozen water in the higher ambient temperature of the tunnel must be a boon to harassed engine drivers whose thirsty steeds run short of water up the gruelling 1 in 125 seven-mile climb from Stalybridge.
Translations:
harassing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more harassing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most harassing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: harassings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by harassment; pestering, intimidating, besetting.
pos: adj
gloss: Harassment.
pos: noun
examples: Sometimes we observe these wretched peasants, driven to despair by the harassings of the Boyars, commit the useless imprudence of going to the capital, and, under the windows of the prince, with loud cries, require him to hear their claims.
Translations:
reviewing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: reviewings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is reviewed, or thought about again; a mental review.
pos: noun
examples: Sleep came for me eventually, after many more reviewings of the long, involved and fractious day, and many more attempts to stop thinking about all the mysteries surrounding me.
Translations:
gade
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compare cod (“kind of fish”).
Inflected forms:
form: gades
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various fish of the cod family found in British waters; especially those of the genera Gadus and Motella.
pos: noun
gloss: A pike.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dialectal
obsolete
Translations:
spathe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “blade”). Doublet of epee, spatha, and spade.
Inflected forms:
form: spathes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large bract that envelops or subtends a whole inflorescence, typically a spadix.
pos: noun
examples: All the joints and angles are coffered with strips of split rattan sewn neatly on. The lid is covered with the brown leathery spathe of the Areca palm, which is impervious to water, and the whole box is neat, strong, and well finished.
Translations:
spadix
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Via Latin spādīx from Ancient Greek σπᾱ́δῑξ (spā́dīx, “palm branch”).
Inflected forms:
form: spadixes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spadices
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fleshy spike (inflorescence) with reduced flowers, usually enclosed by a spathe, characteristic of aroids.
pos: noun
examples: The spadix of this plant is frequently quite white, or coloured, and the leaves liable to be streaked with white, and to have black, or scarlet blotches on them.
gloss: A male sexual organ of certain cephalopods and hydrozoans (especially the nautilus), used to transfer sperm.
pos: noun
examples: However, the shells of modern nautiluses show the opposite pattern—males are somewhat larger than females, with a wider aperture to accommodate the spadix.
Related words: Araceae
spathe
Derived words: spadiceous
Translations:
booby-trap
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: booby-traps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: booby-trapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: booby-trapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: booby-trapped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To set up with booby traps; to plant a booby trap on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Transport for London and the RMT union are united in their condemnation of anti-COVID vaccination extremists who are booby-trapping posters on the London Underground and other stations with razor blades.
Israeli soldiers who combed slowly through the village on Tuesday warned visiting journalists to stay out of homes that had not been cleared, warning they could be booby-trapped with explosives.
Translations:
boobytrap
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: boobytraps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: boobytrapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: boobytrapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: boobytrapped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To set a booby-trap.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To install a booby-trap in or on (a harmless object).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
booby-trapped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a harmless object, having a hidden booby trap.
pos: adj
Translations:
trapped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more trapped
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most trapped
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Caught in a trap.
pos: adj
gloss: In a state of stagnation or despair; unable to move forward.
pos: adj
Related words: booby-trapped
self-trapped
trapped-out
Translations:
born-again
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: From the New Testament: "Jesus replied, 'Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born again.'" [John 3:3, Today's New International Version].
Inflected forms:
form: born again
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: born-agains
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: born again
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having been spiritually changed through faith.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having a renewed commitment to Jesus Christ.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He proclaimed himself a born-again Christian during a church retreat.
And in both cases, a man named Rob Monster – an outspoken born-again Christian and the CEO of a tech company called Epik – made pointed restorations, republishing much of the New Zealand content and putting Gab back online. All in the name, he said, of free speech.
gloss: Of or pertaining to evangelicalism.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: To many people a born-again philosophy is a fundamentalist philosophy.
gloss: Having a newly won zeal for some activity.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
not-comparable
examples: After not picking up a shovel for twenty years, she finally saw the beauty in flowers and declared herself a born-again gardener.
gloss: Utter; out-and-out.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Jack Scatalone might have been a born-again bastard during their training, but he was their bastard. And the Special Forces never abandoned one of their own.
gloss: Someone who has been spiritually changed through their (Christian) faith.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who has a renewed commitment to Jesus Christ.
pos: noun
gloss: An evangelical Christian.
pos: noun
gloss: Anyone with a renewed commitment to any kind of cause or belief.
pos: noun
Related words: rebirth
reborn
Derived words: born-again virgin
born-again virginity
Translations:
bouzouki
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Greek μπουζούκι (bouzoúki, “bouzouki”), from Turkish bozuk (“out of order, rotten”). Doublet of buzuq.
Inflected forms:
form: bouzoukis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bazouki
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bousouki
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bouzoukia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: buzuki
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Greek long-necked plucked fretted lute with a sharp, metallic sound.
pos: noun
examples: The bouzouki itself, identified by this time almost equally with a ‘Turkish’ past and with the criminality of the underworld that cultivated it, became a symbol of subversion in the eyes of the authorities.
Translations:
boxcar
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: mathematics
rail-transport
railways
sciences
transport
Etymology: From box + car.
Compound parts: box
car
Inflected forms:
form: boxcars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: box car
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: box-car
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: boxcars
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: boxcarring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: boxcarred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: boxcarred
pos: verb
tags: past
form: box car
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: box-car
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: more boxcar
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most boxcar
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: box car
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: box-car
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An enclosed railway goods wagon, typically with a sliding door.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: The locomotive pulled one single car, a dilapidated boxcar missing numerous planks in its walls.
gloss: To reduce to a boxcar function.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Extremely large.
pos: adj
Translations:
boxwood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From box + wood; box from Latin buxus (“box-tree, object made of boxwood”), of uncertain origin; compare Ancient Greek πύξος (púxos).
Compound parts: box
wood
Inflected forms:
form: boxwoods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The box tree, Buxus sempervirens.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The hard, close-grained wood of this tree, used in delicate woodwork and in making inlays.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Any tree of genus Buxus.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: Cape boxwood
Knysna boxwood
Oregon boxwood
Translations:
brain-dead
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From brain + dead. Coined by the Harvard physician Henry K. Beecher in the historical context of the Sixties counterculture and life extension technology of the late twentieth century.
Compound parts: brain
dead
Inflected forms:
form: more brain-dead
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most brain-dead
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: brain dead
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: braindead
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: brain-deads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brain dead
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: braindead
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having an irreversible loss of brain function and cessation of brain activity.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: An employee of the mayor's office was declared brain-dead on Sunday morning after she and another woman were struck by a hit-and-run driver while crossing Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, the authorities said.
gloss: Having no useful thoughts; stupid; ditzy.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
derogatory
examples: "AI has been brain-dead since the 1970s," said AI guru Marvin Minsky in a recent speech at Boston University. Minsky co-founded the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1959 with John McCarthy.
gloss: An unintelligent person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
informal
examples: "What makes you different from all the other brain-deads that come through here?"
Translations:
brainteaser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From brain + teaser.
Compound parts: brain
teaser
Inflected forms:
form: brainteasers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brain teaser
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: brain-teaser
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A problem or puzzle devised to exercise the brain and mind.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: She bought me a book of brainteasers, which is both entertaining and also supposedly good for decreasing dementia risk.
gloss: Any difficult problem or puzzle.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Trying to figure out how to square this circle is a brainteaser to say the least.
Related words: brainteasing
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: hlavolam
lang: Czech
word: oříšek
lang: German
word: Kopfnuss
lang: German
word: Kopfnuß
lang: German
word: Denkaufgabe
lang: German
word: Denksportaufgabe
lang: German
word: harte Nuss
lang: German
word: harte Nuß
lang: German
word: Knobelei
lang: Greek
word: σπαζοκεφαλιά
roman: spazokefaliá
lang: Polish
word: łamigłówka
lang: Polish
word: rozkmina
lang: Swahili
word: chemsha bongo
lang: Swedish
word: hjärngymnastik
brakeman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
hobbies
lifestyle
mining
rail-transport
railways
sports
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English brake
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
Middle English -man
English -man
English brakeman
From brake + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: brakemen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A railroad employee responsible for a train's brakes, couplings etc.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A person employed to work the steam engine or other machinery that raises the coal from the mine.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A person who pulls the brake lever in the sport of bobsleigh.
pos: noun
Synonyms: brakesman
Related words: brakewoman
Translations:
breadline
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bread + line. In sense 2, referring to the income level at which one can afford to buy bread, a staple food.
Compound parts: bread
line
Inflected forms:
form: breadlines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bread line
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A line of people waiting to receive food from a charity.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: I do not think anyone of us can walk by a breadline and see even the most unkempt and raggedy man in the line without saying to himself, "There but for the grace of God."
Breadlines and social agencies, while staffing women, employed more men and served more men, making women a minority in the visual landscape.
gloss: The lowest income level at which one's most basic necessities of survival are met; poverty line or subsistence level.
pos: noun
tags: UK
figuratively
examples: Every day brings new worries about falling below the breadline.
[…] and she wasn't used to cash, living on the breadline with a kid to bring up.
It hurt him to see other good ex-servicemen working their socks off and making no-gooders comfortable while they remained just over the breadline.
It changed her. Having lived below the breadline, having lived with excess, was it about to change once more?
For poor people that takes them near the breadline, but they still do it.
Related words: poverty line
soupline
Derived words: breadliner
below the breadline
on the breadline
Translations:
broadloom
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From broad + loom.
Compound parts: broad
loom
Inflected forms:
form: broadlooms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wide loom.
pos: noun
gloss: A carpet woven on a wide loom.
pos: noun
examples: And away across the Søren Kierkegaard broadloom he lurched, battling shifts in the horizontal which had grown more pronounced since the ship left New York Harbor.
gloss: Woven on a wide loom, and so needing fewer seams.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
broad-spectrum
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: broadspectrum
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having a wide scope or range of activity (as against pathogens, pests, parasites, or other problems).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The most advanced models of neoreactionary social order on earth work like this (Hong Kong and Singapore), combining resilient ethnic traditions with super-dynamic techonomic performance, to produce an open yet self-protective, civilized, socially-tranquil, high-growth enclave of outstanding broad-spectrum functionality.
Antonyms: narrow-spectrum
Translations:
burgh
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English borwe, borgh, burgh, buruh, from Old English burh, from Proto-West Germanic *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“city, stronghold”). Cf. Strasbourg.
Cognate with Dutch burg, French bourg, German Burg, Persian برج (borj, “tower; battlement, fort”), Swedish borg. Doublet of borough, Brough, and Bury.
Inflected forms:
form: burghs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names).
pos: noun
gloss: a borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision in Scotland).
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: 1815, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, Book Eighth, The Parsonage, lines 95-104, http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww405.html
With fruitless pains / Might one like me 'now' visit many a tract / Which, in his youth, he trod, and trod again, / A lone pedestrian with a scanty freight, / Wished-for, or welcome, wheresoe'er he came— / Among the tenantry of thorpe and vill; / Or straggling burgh, of ancient charter proud, / And dignified by battlements and towers / Of some stern castle, mouldering on the brow / Of a green hill or bank of rugged stream.
This road leads to the burgh and castle of Harfang, where dwell the gentle giants.
Derived words: Blythburgh
burghal
burghbote
burgher
burghmote
burgh of barony
burgh of regality
Edinburgh
Edithburgh
Musselburgh
Newburgh
parliamentary burgh
Petersburgh
Pittsburgh
police burgh
royal burgh
Translations:
burlap
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Uncertain. Attested since about 1695 in the spelling bore-lap, borelapp. Likely from burel (“a coarse woollen cloth”) + lap (“flap of a garment”), where the first element is from Middle English burel, borel. Others feel that "its character and time of appearance makes a Dutch origin very likely" (and the earliest references as to its importation from the Netherlands); the NED suggests derivation from Dutch boenlap (“coarse, rubbing linen or cloth”) with the first element perhaps confused with boer (“farmer, peasant”). Bense similarly suggests derivation from an unattested Dutch *boerenlap, where boeren would be used in the sense of “coarse” as in boerenkost (“coarse, heavy food as is eaten by farmers”) or boerenpraat (“coarse, rural speech”).
Base: burel
Inflected forms:
form: burlaps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: burlaps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: burlapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: burlapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: burlapped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A very strong, coarse cloth, made from jute, flax, or hemp, and used to make sacks, etc.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: “A ranger responded and found two whole chickens in a burlap sack in a hot spring,” she said. A cooking pot was also found nearby.
gloss: To wrap or cover in burlap.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
mousing
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
sciences
transport
Inflected forms:
form: mousings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more mousing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mousing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The act of hunting mice (or similar prey), especially by pouncing on them from above.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the point and shank of a hook to prevent its unhooking or straightening out.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A ratchet movement in a loom.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Use of the mouse
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Impertinently inquisitive; prying; meddlesome.
pos: adj
examples: mousing saints
Derived words: mousing hook
Translations:
craig
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Variant of crag.
Inflected forms:
form: craigs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rocky crag.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
Translations:
brontosaurus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek roots; by surface analysis, bronto- + -saurus (“thunder lizard”), according to the notion that its massive size must have made its footsteps shake the ground.
Inflected forms:
form: brontosauruses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brontosauri
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the genus †Brontosaurus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs with whip-like tails, which lived in present-day United States during the Late Jurassic period.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: thunder lizard (can denote a brontosaurus or an apatosaurus)
Translations:
busby
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Various theories; probably from the surname Busby.
Inflected forms:
form: busbies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: busbys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fur hat, usually with a plume in the front, worn by certain members of the military or brass bands.
pos: noun
examples: […] many Khorassanis wearing huge sheepskin busbies, similar to the head-gear of the Roumanians and Tabreez Turks of Ovahjik and the Perso-Turkish border.
They were a fine lot of fellows, in their pale blue, tight-fitting jackets, jaunty busbys and white riding breeches with the double yellow stripe […]
His head was shaped like a busby, a high solid arrogant rock, covered with thick moss.
Translations:
constitutive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English constitute
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English constitutive
From constitute + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: more constitutive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most constitutive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having the power or authority to constitute, establish or enact something.
pos: adj
gloss: Having the power or authority to appoint someone to office.
pos: adj
gloss: Extremely important; essential.
pos: adj
gloss: Forming a constituent part of something else.
pos: adj
gloss: Of an enzyme: continuously produced at a constant rate.
pos: adj
Related words: constituency
constituent
constitution
constitutional
Derived words: constitutive ablation
constitutively
constitutiveness
Translations:
eye-opener
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ-der.
Proto-Germanic *augô
Proto-West Germanic *augā
Old English ēage
Middle English eye
English eye
English opener
English eye-opener
From eye + opener.
Inflected forms:
form: eye-openers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: eye opener
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: eyeopener
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Something that causes the eyes to open, or that opens the eyes.
pos: noun
tags: literally
gloss: Something that provides a sudden insight, or makes something clear that was previously mysterious.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A startling or shocking revelation.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
informal
examples: A visit to the slaughterhouse was a real eye-opener to anyone who thought they understood where their food came from.
That was a very big eye-opener for me, after being very cocooned, living most of my life in the city where I was born and raised.
gloss: A strong alcoholic beverage, especially one consumed in the morning.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
informal
examples: As soon as I got on the plane I asked the flight attendant for an eye-opener, but all he had to offer was orange juice.
gloss: An attractive woman.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Near-synonym: eye candy
Seems appropriate that Ann Miller should be in Columbia's "Reveille With Beverly." We've never seen anyone capable of "showing a leg" more attractively. At close range, too, she's an eye-opener.
A woman cycling in a skirt was a hazard to herself and an eye-opener for men on the sidelines every time she raised a leg or fell off her bike.
Related words: eye-opening
open someone's eyes
Translations:
Teton
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Lakota Thítȟuŋwaŋ (“Teton”). a general name for all seven Lakota tribes. from thíta (“a plain, prairie”) + tȟuŋwaŋ (“village”).
Inflected forms:
form: Tetons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Teton
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the largest group of Sioux peoples.
pos: noun
Translations:
carjacker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English carjack
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English carjacker
From carjack + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: carjackers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who engages in carjacking; one who steals an occupied automobile.
pos: noun
examples: The typical carjacker is most interested in an easy heist.
Note the direction in which the carjacker drove. Give officers a detailed description of the carjacker, including the type of weapon, if one was used.
Translations:
fringed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English frenged; equivalent to fringe + -ed.
Base: fringe
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Possessing a fringe.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
carport
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From car + port, coined by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1936 and modeled on the French porte cochère (literally “coach entrance”).
Compound parts: car
port
Inflected forms:
form: carports
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A roofed structure for automobile storage, usually attached to a house and not fully enclosed like a garage but with at least one side open to the outdoors.
pos: noun
examples: Franklin decided to improve his carport by walling in the sides and turning it into a garage.
Translations:
caseload
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From case + load.
Compound parts: case
load
Inflected forms:
form: caseloads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The workload of a person or group that handles cases; the relative volume of cases expected to be worked upon.
pos: noun
examples: As a public defender, Jonas had a crushing caseload and never felt that he could prepare his clients' defenses properly.
gloss: The set of persons whose cases are being handled by such a worker or group.
pos: noun
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 辦案量 /办案量
shogi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 将棋 (shōgi). Doublet of janggi.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Japanese chess; a board game similar to chess, invented and traditionally played in Japan.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: But to the surprise of many in the chess fraternity, Hassabis also began to compete in other mind games: bridge and backgammon, Diplomacy and draughts, as well as the Japanese chess variant shogi.
Translations:
imputed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Attributed to another person.
pos: adj
Translations:
busing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bussing
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The transportation of schoolchildren, by bus, to schools in other neighbourhoods in order to alleviate social inequalities or to achieve racial integration.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
butterfat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English butter
English fat
English butterfat
From butter + fat.
Inflected forms:
form: butterfats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: butter fat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: butter-fat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The fatty components of milk and other dairy products.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The first change which milk undergoes in the stomach is coagulation. The casein and butterfat separates from the serum, which is soon absorbed unchanged into the blood, according to the laws of diffusion. [Quoting Wagner's Manual of Physiology.]
By submitting pure solid butter-fat to powerful pressure in a linen cloth at the temperature of 60°, a slightly yellow transparent oil will flow out, and a solid white fat will remain behind; the first is called oleine or butter-oil, and the second margarine; and of these two substances the pure fat of butter almost entirely consists, although, as may be supposed, their relative proportions are liable to great variations.
During the ripening the cream should be stirred thoroughly and frequently. This insures uniformity and prevents the butter fat separating from the milk constituents of the cream. It was mentioned previously that bacteria do not act upon the butter fat, but upon the other constituents. If the butter fat rises to the top of the cream, as it will if not stirred, the flavor and aroma will not be uniformly absorbed.
From the analytical data in Table I it will be seen that goat and sheep butterfats have almost similar characteristics to those of cow and buffalo butterfats. Goat and sheep butterfats have a high Polenske value and low iodine value.
Much has been written in both technical and popular publications about factors which affect butterfat content of milk. It is well known that the breed and individuality of the cow, stage of lactation, and many other factors affect individual cows or all cows in a herd, so that the butterfat percentage changes from milking to milking.
Translations:
skylarking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English skylark
English -ing
English skylarking
From skylark + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: skylarkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Playing around; frolicking; originally, running about the rigging of a vessel for fun; horseplay.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] those gods and men whose titles to eminence are secure, seldom worry themselves about the seditious gossip of old apple-women, and the skylarkings of funny little boys in the street.
Translations:
playmaker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From play + maker.
Compound parts: play
maker
Inflected forms:
form: playmakers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A playwright.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: A sportsman who leads attacks for his team and creates chances to score.
pos: noun
examples: It’s one of Foden’s curiosities that, 74 games into his City career, we still don’t really know what his best position will be. He is played as a wing-back and a deep-lying playmaker for England age-group sides.
Related words: shotmaker
Translations:
cloisonne
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French cloisonné (“partitioned”).
Inflected forms:
form: cloisonnes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cloisonné
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A decorative technique for metalwork, especially brass, whereby colored enamel is baked in partitions (cloisons) between raised ridges of the metal.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Cloisonne is sometimes seen as a cheaper alternative to jewelled encrustation or filigree.
Zoë wore a pair of cloisonne earrings she had bought in France.
gloss: Objects decorated by this technique collectively.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The museum had a fine collection of medieval Italian cloisonne.
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 景泰藍 /景泰蓝
roman: jǐngtàilán
lang: Finnish
word: soluemalointi
lang: Finnish
word: cloisonné
lang: Finnish
word: cloisonnee
lang: Italian
word: cloisonné
lang: Polish
word: cloisonné
readership
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English reader
Proto-Germanic *skapjaną
Proto-Germanic *-skapiz
Proto-West Germanic *-skapi
Old English -sċiepe
Middle English -schipe
English -ship
English readership
From reader + -ship.
Inflected forms:
form: readerships
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The collected readers of a publication.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The village newspaper has a readership of only 200 people.
gloss: The role or office of a reader.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the Nora Chadwick Readership in Celtic Studies
Translations:
rearmost
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rear
Proto-Germanic *-umô
Proto-Indo-European *-yōs
Proto-Indo-European *-tHós
Proto-Indo-European *-istHos
Proto-Germanic *-istaz
Proto-Germanic *-umistaz
Old English -mest
Middle English -mest
▲
Middle English [Term?]influ.
Middle English -most
English -most
English rearmost
From rear + -most.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Furthest to the rear.
pos: adj
examples: The rearmost member of the strike team walked backward to guard them from a surprise attack from behind.
As I tramped along, the rearmost of the four, I could not help smiling at the appearance of my three companions in front.
Translations:
ruthlessness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *hrewwaną
Proto-West Germanic *hreuwan
Proto-Germanic *-ō
Proto-West Germanic *-u
Proto-West Germanic *hreuwu
Old English hrēow
Middle English rewe
Middle English -the
Old Norse hrygðinflu.
Middle English reuþe
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
Middle English reuþeles
English ruthless
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English ruthlessness
From ruthless + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: ruthlessnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being ruthless.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Five minutes into the game the Black Cats were facing a mountain, partly because of West Brom's newly-found ruthlessness in front of goal but also as a result of the home side's defensive generosity.
Translations:
mercilessness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English merciless
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English mercilessness
From merciless + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: mercilessnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being merciless.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
ruthlessly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *hrewwaną
Proto-West Germanic *hreuwan
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Germanic *-ō
Proto-West Germanic *-u
Proto-West Germanic *hreuwu
Old English hrēow
Middle English rewe
Middle English -the
Old Norse hrygðinflu.
Middle English reuþe
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
Middle English reuþeles
English ruthless
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English ruthlessly
From ruthless + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more ruthlessly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most ruthlessly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a ruthless manner; with cruelty; without pity or compassion.
pos: adv
examples: Standing on the mountain above Caerphilly, one may reflect upon the gap where once stood Llanbradach Viaduct, and look near at hand upon the restored ruins of Caerphilly Castle; man labours to rebuild the mediaeval whilst he ruthlessly scraps the modern.
Southgate's side kept their nerve and discipline in the unsettling, intimidating surroundings of Budapest, with the behaviour of Hungary's fans leaving much to be desired, to turn up the heat and punish their opponents ruthlessly once they had gone ahead.
Translations:
rustproof
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rust
English -proof
English rustproof
From rust + -proof.
Inflected forms:
form: more rustproof
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rustproof
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: rustproofs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rustproofing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rustproofed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rustproofed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Resistant to rust, oxidation and corrosion.
pos: adj
examples: This is supposed to be a rustproof trashcan, but it can't handle the salt they use on our roads.
gloss: Resistant to the rust fungus.
pos: adj
gloss: To make resistant to rust, such as by applying a coating.
pos: verb
examples: We'll rustproof the metal with a good coat of paint and then we'll be able to leave it outdoors for years without damage.
Derived words: rustproofer
Translations:
rower
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English rower, rowere, roware, equivalent to row + -er. Cognate with Dutch roeier (“rower”), Danish roer (“rower”), Norwegian roer (“rower”). Compare also Old English rōwend (“rower”).
Base: row
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: rowers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who rows.
pos: noun
examples: It had been a sort of race hitherto, and the rowers, with set teeth and compressed lips, had pulled stroke for stroke.
Upon her deck were rowers with dream-made oars, and the rowers were the people of men’s fancies, and princes of old story and people who had died, and people who had never been.
gloss: A rowing machine.
pos: noun
examples: Aerobic and weight training sessions should also complement each other. For example, on a day you work your upper body with weights, you can use a rower for aerobics.
Related words: back-rower
front-rower
Derived words: pararower
Translations:
round-the-clock
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Continuous; incessant; without interruption; all day long, 24 hours per day; nonstop: from the concept that it happens while the hands of the clock go all the way around.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: They are protected by round-the-clock guards.
My correspondent should enquire what it is that prompts the continuous building, even in Great Britain, with the disadvantage of imported fuel, of diesel shunters: it is, of course, continuous "round-the-clock" availability.
Translations:
rowboat
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From row + boat.
Compound parts: row
boat
Inflected forms:
form: rowboats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rowing boat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: rowboats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rowboating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rowboated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rowboated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rowing boat
pos: verb
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: A small open boat propelled by oars (by rowing).
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: To row a boat of this kind.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
rudderless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁roh₁-(ye-)-tider.
Proto-Germanic *rōaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Proto-Germanic *-þrą
Proto-Germanic *rōþrą
Proto-West Germanic *rōþr
Old English rōþor
Middle English rother
English rudder
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English rudderless
From rudder + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more rudderless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rudderless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without a rudder.
pos: adj
gloss: Lacking guidance or direction.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Their deaths were sobering not merely because of the searingly unbearable wrench of losing those two wonderful people, but because it left me exposed as rudderless.
As Christian Wolmar said in RAIL 990, our railway is "leaderless and rudderless", and drifting inexorably towards the rocks of total chaos.
Related words: even keel
Derived words: rudderlessly
rudderlessness
Translations:
runner-up
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: runners-up
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: runner-ups
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
nonstandard
plural
form: runner up
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The person who finishes second, or in any position after the first.
pos: noun
examples: Remember, if the winner cannot complete the duties, the runner-up will take over.
gloss: Second favourite.
pos: noun
examples: For years, Twitter was a runner-up social media company. It never grew to the size and scale of a Facebook or an Instagram. It simply muddled along.
Translations:
herringbone
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
skiing
sports
textiles
Etymology: From herring + bone.
Compound parts: herring
bone
Inflected forms:
form: herringbones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: herring-bone
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: herringbones
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: herringboning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: herringboned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: herringboned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: herring-bone
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A bone of a herring.
pos: noun
tags: countable
literally
examples: The prosperity of Amsterdam was then so great that it was said that Amsterdam was "founded on herring-bones."
gloss: A zigzag pattern, especially made by bricks, on a cloth, or by stitches in sewing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 'The best path of life is but a herring-bone pattern.'
Mr Bloom walked behind the eyeless feet, a flatcut suit of herringbone tweed.
Though almost engulfed by Bedford, Elstow's claim to villagedom is still maintained by two fine rows of timber-framed, overhung, black-and-white cottages and the timber and herringbone-brick Swan pub.
gloss: A method of climbing a hill by pointing the skis outward in a V-shape to keep from sliding backwards.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Twilled fabric woven in rows of parallel sloping lines.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For some strange and elusive reason, the staid, prosaic herringbones have angled themselves into a position of fashion prominence.
gloss: To stitch in a herringbone pattern.
pos: verb
gloss: To climb a hill by pointing the skis outward in a V-shape to keep from sliding backwards.
pos: verb
Related words: fishbone
herringlike
Derived words: herringbone gear
herringbone stitch
herringboned
Translations:
antimonopoly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
English anti-
English monopoly
English antimonopoly
From anti- + monopoly.
Inflected forms:
form: anti-monopoly
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Usually with respect to laws or policies: in opposition to the creation or continuance of a monopoly.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations: