yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
sportscaster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of sports + broadcaster.
Compound parts: sports
broadcaster
Inflected forms:
form: sportscasters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who reports sporting events on television or radio.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: At the beginning of the all-star game, the sportscaster always says that the players just want to have fun today; at halftime, or in the bottom of the fifth inning, the sportscaster always says that the players' competitive spirit has taken over and now they all really want to win.
gloss: A person who comments on, presents, and reports sport events.
pos: noun
Related words: sportscast
Derived words: sportscastress
Translations:
talker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
government
marketing
media
politics
Etymology: From Middle English talkere, equivalent to talk + -er.
Base: talk
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: talkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who talks, especially one who gives a speech, or is loquacious or garrulous.
pos: noun
examples: What this country needs is a smooth talker.
That guy's a real talker.
Returning TED talker Sherry Turkle, an author and academic, says that giving lectures about how lonely the Internet is making people has made her and her audiences even lonelier.
At Iwo Jima, code talkers passed over 800 error-free messages in a 48-hour period, according to the Congressional law honoring the program.
gloss: Any creature or machine that talks.
pos: noun
examples: Some parrots are vociferous talkers.
gloss: A talk show
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A talk-show host.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: An all-talk radio station.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A popular topic of conversation.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: The royal engagement is likely to be a top talker right through the wedding.
gloss: A talking point.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A stripped-down version of a MUD which is designed for talking, predating instant messengers; a kind of early chat room.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
gloss: Mouth.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Although on Sundays when the men had finished feeding cattle, the rest of the afternoon was free […] still they weren't comfortable in the bunkhouse if George was abroad; he had a queer authority without even knowing it, an ability to upset you, maybe because he so seldom opened his talker and his silence made you look in upon yourself, on the guilt you always knew was there.
gloss: A table talker or shelf-talker.
pos: noun
gloss: An augmentative and alternative communication device.
pos: noun
Synonyms: speaker
Derived words: codetalker
code talker
double talker
fast-talker
nontalker
shelf-talker
sleeptalker
small-talker
smooth talker
straight talker
sweet talker
sweet-talker
table talker
trash talker
Translations:
lang: Spanish
word: hablador
newscast
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
journalism
media
Etymology: From news + -cast, from broadcast.
Base: news
Affixes: -cast
Inflected forms:
form: newscasts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: newscasts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: newscasting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: newscast
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: newscast
pos: verb
tags: past
form: newscasted
pos: verb
tags: common
error-unknown-tag
participle
past
proscribed
sometimes
form: newscasted
pos: verb
tags: common
error-unknown-tag
past
proscribed
sometimes
Senses:
gloss: A broadcast of the news; a news report that is transmitted over the air for television, radio, etc.
pos: noun
examples: Evening newscasts speak of a country on the verge of balkanization.
gloss: To broadcast the news.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
newscaster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
journalism
media
Etymology: Etymology tree
English newscast
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 newscaster
From newscast + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: newscasters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who delivers the news for broadcast on television, radio, etc; a newsreader.
pos: noun
examples: Take Linda, a thirty-nine-year-old newscaster who relished her career but began to hear the alarm ringing on her biological clock.
Yet, a few US newscasters will go on the air at 6 pm or later and say, "Moscow said tonight.["] ... A careful writer would make his script read, "Moscow said today. ..."
It is still considered embarrassing if people in authority like teachers or newscasters “shrub.”
Translations:
ileus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin īleus, from Ancient Greek εἰλεός (eileós, “intestinal obstruction”).
Inflected forms:
form: ileuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ilei
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Disruption of the normal propulsive ability of the gastrointestinal tract, due to failure of peristalsis.
pos: noun
gloss: Disruption of the normal propulsive ability of the gastrointestinal tract from any cause.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: 1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia, Volume II: Classes of Diseases, IV: Diseases of Association, Ordo III: Retrograde Associate Motions, Genus II: Catenated with sensitive motions,
The perpetual vomiting in ileus is caused in like manner by the defective excitement of the sensorial power of association by the bowel, which is torpid during the intervals of pain; and the stomach sympathizes with it.
When ileus comes on in a case of strangury, they prove fatal in seven days, unless, fever supervening, there be a copious discharge of urine.
You must expect to lose from 40% to 60% of all acute post operative ileuses, and about 20% of your sub-acute cases.
Thus, ileus also has potential detrimental effects in sterile peritonitis by providing a source and mechanism for entry of bacteria into the peritoneal cavity.
Other factors commonly encountered in animals with peritonitis may also predispose to adynamic ileus.
Related words: volvulus
Derived words: adynamic ileus
dynamic ileus
hyperdynamic ileus
ileus subparta
mechanical ileus
meconium ileus
occlusive ileus
paralytic ileus
spastic ileus
Translations:
prostate
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *pér
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *próder.
Ancient Greek πρό (pró)
Ancient Greek προ- (pro-)
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti
Proto-Hellenic *hístāmi
Ancient Greek ἵστημι (hístēmi)
Ancient Greek προΐστημι (proḯstēmi)
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)
Ancient Greek προστάτης (prostátēs)bor.
Medieval Latin prostatalbor.
Middle French prostatebor.
English prostate
Borrowed from Middle French prostate, a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin prostata.
Inflected forms:
form: prostates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The prostate gland.
pos: noun
examples: Finally, Paul made me get my prostate checked. As I say, he's already left a legacy. But if you haven't chaps, please get yourself checked over - it's worth it.
gloss: Of or relating to the prostate gland.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
retinitis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English retina
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῖτις (-îtis)lbor.
New Latin -itisder.
English -itis
English retinitis
From retina + -itis.
Inflected forms:
form: retinitides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Inflammation of the retina.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: DHPG […] is effective in fighting Cytomegalovirus (CMV), a common virus which, for PWAs, can cause CMV retinitis — a condition which can lead to blindness within weeks.
Translations:
recapitulate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Late Latin recapitulātus, past participle of recapitulāre (“to go over the main points of a thing again”), from re- (“again”) + capitulum (“head, main part, chapter”), from caput (“head”) + -ulum (diminutive suffix); see capitulate. By surface analysis, re- + capitulate.
Base: capitulum
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: recapitulates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: recapitulating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: recapitulated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: recapitulated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To summarize or repeat in concise form.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The entire symphony was recapitulated in the last four bars.
We still have five minutes left, so let's recapitulate the lecture.
gloss: To reproduce or closely resemble (as in structure or function).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Being the Joshua/Atonement stanza of this cycle, the fact that the seven steps seem to recapitulate (or precapitulate?) the pattern of dominion is interesting. Situated at the very “gate” of Canaan, was this offer a temptation to be resisted like the plunder of Jericho (Joshua 6:18), or was it sin crouching at the door, the violence of Cain as “keeper” or shepherd over his brother (Genesis 4:7-8)? For Jacob, it was neither. He was waiting on God. For his sons, however, it was both. What Yahweh was offering freely they would take by force.
gloss: To mirror or repeat in analogous form, especially in reference to an individual's development passing through stages corresponding to the species' stages of evolutionary development.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Similarly this concept of unity provided a powerful impetus for embryological studies and the idea that fetal development recapitulates the steps of phylogenetic development.
Synonyms: abridge
abstract
capsule
concise
docket
encapsulate
epitomize
gist
nutshell
outline
précis
recapitulate
redact
run over
run through
summarize
sum
synopsize
tl;dr
wrap up
Antonyms: expound
spell out
Related words: capitulate
in summary
Derived words: ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
recapitulant
recapitulation
recapitulative
recapitulatory
Translations:
sinus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
geography
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
physiology
sciences
trigonometry
zoology
zootomy
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin sinus (“a bent surface, curve, hollow”). Doublet of sine.
Inflected forms:
form: sinuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pouch or cavity in a bone or other tissue, especially one in the bones of the face or skull connecting with the nasal cavities (the paranasal sinus).
pos: noun
gloss: An irregular venous or lymphatic cavity, reservoir, or dilated vessel.
pos: noun
gloss: An irregular venous or lymphatic cavity, reservoir, or dilated vessel.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
gloss: An abnormal cavity or passage such as a fistula, leading from a deep-seated infection and discharging pus to the surface.
pos: noun
gloss: A rounded notch or depression between two lobes or teeth in the margin of a leaf or petal.
pos: noun
gloss: A bay of the sea; a recess in the shore.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of sine.
pos: noun
examples: So, in the helicopteron, as the helix is at the same time a sustaining plane, it should be likened to a surface moving horizontally, and in which, consequenty, the resistance to motion will be to the lifting power as the sinus is to the cosinus of the angle formed by such plane with the horizon.
The variations are described in terms of cycles of sinuses and cosinuses.
Basically, the rotation of the matrix of the factor loadings L represents its post-multiplication, i.e. L* = LO by the rotation matrix O, which itself resembles one of the matrices included in the classical rotational Lie groups SO(m) (containing the specific m–fold combination of sinuses and cosinuses.
Derived words: confluence of sinuses
dural sinus
dural venous sinus
extrasinus
inferior petrosal sinus
inferior sagittal sinus
intrasinus
nonsinus
parasinus
pyriform sinus
sick sinus syndrome
sinal
sino-
sinu-
sinuso-
sinus brady
sinuscope
sinusectomy
sinusitis
sinuslike
sinus node
sinusoid
sinusopathy
sinusotomy
sinus pudoris
sinus rhythm
sinus tachy
sinus tachycardia
sinus venosus
sinus-wise
sphenoidal sinus
splenic sinus
superior petrosal sinus
superior sagittal sinus
urogenital sinus
venosinus
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 竇 /窦
roman: dòu
cooper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English coop
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 cooper
From coop + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: coopers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A craftsman who makes and repairs barrels and similar wooden vessels such as casks, buckets and tubs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They were nearly all whalemen; chief mates, and second mates, and third mates, and sea carpenters, and sea coopers, and sea blacksmiths, and harpooneers, and ship keepers; a brown and brawny company, with bosky beards; an unshorn, shaggy set, all wearing monkey jackets for morning gowns.
gloss: A drink of half stout and half porter.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Translations:
deter
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin dēterreōbor.
English deter
Borrowed from Latin dēterreō (“deter, discourage”), from de (“from”) + terreō (“to frighten”).
Inflected forms:
form: deters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deterring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: deterred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: deterred
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To prevent something from happening.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To persuade someone not to do something; to discourage.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Their boss deterred them from both taking holidays at the same time, claiming he couldn't manage it all on his own.
Such a male-dominated environment is also likely to contribute to the lingering presence of an outdated belief that expressing feelings and demonstrating emotion is a sign of weakness, deterring some men from discussing their problems.
Among the remaining contention points between the two armies is an eastern region called the Depsang Plains. Military analysts said that the Chinese Army was not allowing Indian troops to patrol in that area, even though they have done so for decades. While India’s military is already stretched thin, said Saurav Jha, editor in chief of the Delhi Defense Review, it still needs to keep up a permanent patrol to deter China.
gloss: To distract someone from something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: we have in following enquiry, attempted to throw some light upon subjects, from which uncertainty has hitherto deterred the wise
Related words: deterrent
deterrence
Derived words: determent
deterrability
deterrable
deterrency
deterrer
nondeterred
undeterred
undeterring
Translations:
folkloric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English folklore
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English folkloric
From folklore + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more folkloric
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most folkloric
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or having the character of folklore.
pos: adj
examples: a folkloric narrative
Translations:
resilience
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
medicine
natural-sciences
neuroscience
physical-sciences
physics
psychology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-
Proto-Indo-European *sel-der.
Proto-Italic *saljō
Latin saliō
Latin resiliō
English -ence
English resilience
From Latin resiliō (“to spring back”) + English -ence.
Inflected forms:
form: resiliences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The mental ability to recover quickly from depression, illness or misfortune.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Martin Seligman's impressive body of research showed that a pessimistic explanatory style carves a path to depression, while an optimistic explanatory style leads to resilience.
gloss: The physical property of material that can resume its shape after being stretched or deformed; elasticity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The positive capacity of an organizational system or company to adapt and return to equilibrium after a crisis, failure or any kind of disruption, including: an outage, natural disasters, man-made disasters, terrorism, or similar (particularly IT systems, archives).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Network Rail previously said it is determined to build upon the "significant changes" it has made since the accident, which have "helped us to manage the risk of severe weather to the network". It has invested millions to improve the resilience of the railway.
gloss: The capacity to resist destruction or defeat, especially when under extreme pressure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: resile
resiliency
resilient
result
self-sufficiency
sustainability
Translations:
discern
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English discernen, from Old French discerner, from Latin discernere (“to separate, divide, distinguish, discern”), from dis- (“apart”) + cernere (“to distinguish”); see certain.
Inflected forms:
form: discerns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: discerning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: discerned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: discerned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To detect with the senses, especially with the eyes.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Meanwhile the brig had altered her tack, and was moving slowly to the east. Three hours later and the keenest eye could not have discerned her top-sails above the horizon.
gloss: To perceive, recognize, or comprehend with the mind; to descry.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If they discern any evidences of wrong-going in any direction that I have indicated, they will acknowledge that I had reason in what I wrote. If they discern no such thing, they will consider me altogether mistaken.
General reading readiness is assessed by tests and is also estimated by teachers who are often skillful at discerning just when a pupil is ready to learn to read. The important thing to remember is that jumping the gun is usually self-defeating.
gloss: To distinguish something as being different from something else; to differentiate or discriminate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He was too young to discern right from wrong.
The severity of judgement, they say, makes men censorious and unapt to pardon the errors and infirmities of other men: and on the other side, celerity of fancy makes the thoughts less steady than is necessary to discern exactly between right and wrong.
gloss: To perceive differences.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Synonyms: behold
see
spy
distinguish
Derived words: discernability
discernable
discernance
discernible
discernment
indiscernible
misdiscern
undiscerned
Translations:
lamping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lamp
English -ing
English lamping
From lamp + -ing.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A form of hunting at night, during which bright lights or lamps are used to dazzle the hunted animal or to attract insects for capture.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
uncountable
Translations:
landfill
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From land + fill.
Compound parts: land
fill
Inflected forms:
form: landfills
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: landfilling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: landfilled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: landfilled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: landfills
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To dispose of (garbage) by burying it at a landfill site.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: A site at which refuse is buried under layers of earth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: A staff uniform recycling scheme at Govia Thameslink Railway has prevented the emission of 2,400kg of greenhouse gases. Some 620 sackloads of GTR clothing has been recycled in the past year through an advanced process called material reclamation - giving textiles a second chance instead of going to landfill.
gloss: Such material that is disposed.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.
Derived words: landfill indie
landfill site
Translations:
discernment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French discernement, equivalent to discern + -ment.
Base: discern
Affixes: -ment
Inflected forms:
form: discernments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of distinguishing between things.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The ability to distinguish between things.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The ability to perceive differences that exist.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The condition of understanding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Aesthetic discrimination; taste, appreciation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Perceptiveness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The ability to make wise judgements; sagacity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Discretion in judging objectively.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Unmasking requires we stop relying on neurotypical people’s acceptance in order to guide how we should act—and that means sometimes doing the “right” thing even when we know it will rub others the wrong way. Most masked Autistics need a lot of practice developing a strong sense of discernment, which is essentially using our own beliefs and perceptions to guide our behavior, rather than deferring to everyone else’s fleeting reactions and impressions.
Related words: discern
Derived words: nondiscernment
Translations:
kinesiology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *keyh₂-der.
Ancient Greek κῑνέω (kīnéō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Ancient Greek κῑ́νησῐς (kī́nēsĭs)
English kinesi-
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
Latin -logialbor.
French -logiebor.
English -logy
English -ology
English kinesiology
From kinesi- + -ology.
Inflected forms:
form: kinesiologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The study of body movement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The two are often one and the same, says Walt Thompson, professor of kinesiology at Georgia State University and lead author of the ACSM survey – although functional fitness can apply to the younger generation as well.
gloss: The application of such principles to the diagnosis and treatment of muscular imbalance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: kinesiatrics
Derived words: applied kinesiology
kinesiological
kinesiologist
psychokinesiology
Translations:
loved-up
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more loved-up
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most loved-up
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: loved up
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Under the influence of ecstasy (the drug MDMA).
pos: adj
tags: UK
slang
gloss: Very much in love.
pos: adj
tags: UK
informal
Translations:
MDMA
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, a synthetic entactogen of the methylenedioxyphenethylamine family.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Unlike many of its subsequent users, Shulgin did not find his MDMA experience transformative. For him the effect was like a particularly lucid alcohol buzz; he called it his "low-calorie martini."
A bit of folk wisdom from early cohorts of MDMA users advised against getting married within six weeks of one's first MDMA experience.
When MDMA was placed on Schedule 1, the worst category of illegal drugs, the yuppies stopped partying and the dance scene went underground.
In an important step toward medical approval, MDMA, the illegal drug popularly known as Ecstasy or Molly, was shown to bring relief to those suffering from severe post-traumatic stress disorder when paired with talk therapy.
Translations:
tatty
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Clipping of potato.
Base: tatter
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: tatties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tattier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: tattiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A potato.
pos: noun
tags: Geordie
Northern-England
Scotland
examples: I'm buying fucking tatties.
gloss: Tattered; dilapidated, distressed, worn-out, torn.
pos: adj
examples: The tramp wore a tatty old overcoat.
I wish you would have smiled in the bakery
Or sat on a tatty settee
At a mutual friend's gathering
I have arrived to catch the 0830 TfW service to Crewe, worked by a tatty and unrefurbished 175114. As if ashamed of its appearance, it slinks into Platform 2 (instead of Platform 1, where it was expected). No announcement had been made, and we leave without any fanfare.
Hubbard says he could easily take on more books than he would be able to sell, and some “tatty paperbacks” have such a low value that they end up getting recycled.
Translations:
Gen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
Etymology: Shortened from new generation, from Italian generazione nuova.
Inflected forms:
form: Gens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Gen Movement, a youth expression of the international Focolare Movement.
pos: noun
Translations:
DEA
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: DEAs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: diethanolamine
pos: noun
Translations:
Nat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Inflected forms:
form: Nats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member or supporter of the Australian National Party.
pos: noun
tags: Australian
informal
slang
gloss: A member or supporter of the New Zealand National Party.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
informal
slang
gloss: A member or supporter of the Scottish National Party.
pos: noun
tags: UK
informal
slang
gloss: A member or supporter of the National Party of South Africa.
pos: noun
tags: South-African
dated
informal
slang
Translations:
nat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowing from Burmese နတ် (nat).
Inflected forms:
form: nats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A spirit in Burmese mythology, whose cult is followed alongside Buddhism.
pos: noun
examples: They greatly dread evil "Nats" or spirits, to whom they attribute every possible misfortune or illness.
Translations:
interoperability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From interoperable + -ity; alternatively analyzed as inter- + operability.
Base: interoperable
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: interoperabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: inter-operability
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The capability of a product or system, to interact and function with others reciprocally.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The commission found that by withholding vital information about Windows, the company deliberately restricted interoperability between personal computers using Windows and computer servers running software from Microsoft's rivals.
gloss: The capacity for a service, piece of equipment etc., to be operated by different forces or groups.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Dr Fox and Mr Morin have ruled out the notion of binational crews, but they are still exploring other ways to enhance the interoperability of France’s Charles de Gaulle and Britain’s planned two new carriers, which seem likely to be spared by the defence review.
Related words: interoperable
interoperation
compatibility
Derived words: noninteroperability
Translations:
headway
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
mining
nautical
transport
Etymology: Partly from Middle English hauedwei, from Old English hēafodweġ (“head-road, main-road”); partly as a shortening of ahead-way, the source of the nautical sense. By surface analysis, head + way.
Inflected forms:
form: headways
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A movement ahead or forward.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Forward motion, or its rate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The interval of time or distance between the fronts of two vehicles (e.g. buses) moving in succession in the same direction, especially along the same pre-determined route.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The whole of the main lines to be electrified were being equipped with four-aspect colour-light signals, automatically operated, where appropriate, and spaced to give a 5min headway throughout.
Sixty minutes divided by the headway gives a potential figure for 'trains per hour' - the simplest possible and most simplistic definition of capacity, termed line capacity.
gloss: Progress toward a goal.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
gloss: The clearance beneath an object, such as an arch, ceiling or bridge; headroom.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: So as not to impede navigation the two principal spans of the bridge were designed to provide a clear headway of 157 ft. above high water for a distance of 500 ft.; [...].
gloss: A crossheading.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: seaway
Derived words: make headway
Translations:
semi-automatic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: automotive
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
transport
vehicles
war
weaponry
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sēmi
Latin sēmi-bor.
English semi-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder.?
Proto-Indo-European *sóder.?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder.
Ancient Greek αὖ (aû)
Ancient Greek τόν (tón)?
Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós)
Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-)
Proto-Indo-European *men-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *mn̥tós
Proto-Hellenic *mətós
Ancient Greek αὐτόμᾰτος (autómătos)
Ancient Greek αὐτόμᾰτον (autómăton)der.
Classical Latin automatum
New Latin automaticusbor.
English automatic
English semi-automatic
From semi- + automatic.
Inflected forms:
form: semiautomatic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: semi-auto
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: semiauto
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: semi-automatics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: semiautomatic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: semi-auto
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: semiauto
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Partially automatic.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a firearm that automatically ejects a shell and loads the next one, but requires the trigger to be squeezed for each shot; autoloading.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The pro-gun majority in the House of Representatives moved Wednesday to compel the nation's capital to broaden the rights of its residents to buy and own firearms, including semi-automatic weapons.
gloss: A semi-automatic firearm, especially such a pistol.
pos: noun
examples: The Los Angeles ordinance covers semi-automatics with a detachable magazine of 20 rounds or more. As examples, it cited such weapons as the AR 15 assault rifles, Uzi assault rifles and carbines, Ingram Mac-10 and Mac-11 assault carbines, AK-47 assault rifles, Thompson carbines and all Avtomat Kalashnikov weapons.
gloss: A semi-automatic transmission.
pos: noun
Related words: manumatic
automatic
manual
Derived words: semi-automatically
Translations:
alliteration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From New Latin allīterātiō, from allīterātus, from allīterō, from Latin ad (“to, towards, near”) and lītera (“a letter”).
Inflected forms:
form: alliterations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The repetition of consonant sounds or letters at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; such repetition specifically involving stressed syllables.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: So fish fury all round, as there has been in the past. And as an aside, that alliteration was, sadly, not mine that of a former political correspondent of the Daily Record, John Deans, and applied to the 'cod wars' with Iceland.
gloss: The recurrence of the same letters or sounds in accented parts of words, as in Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: alliterational
alliterative
alliteratively
alliterativeness
Derived words: alliterationist
Translations:
sebum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin sēbumlbor.
English sebum
Learned borrowing from Latin sēbum (“tallow, grease; suet”).
Inflected forms:
form: sebums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: seba
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A thick oily substance, secreted by the sebaceous glands of the skin, that consists of fat, keratin and cellular debris.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ‘I mean, it is not simply adolescent acne caused by the over-excretion of sebum.’
Translations:
homothetic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: economics
geometry
mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: for a geometric figure that is the image of another figure under an homothety.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: of a function of two or more variables in which the ratio of the partial derivatives depends only on the ratio of the variables, not their value
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: in which the ratio of goods demanded depends only on the ratio of their prices
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: the relationship of a microcosm to a macrocosm
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: homotheticity
Derived words: homothetically
Translations:
lang: Esperanto
word: homotetia
lang: Finnish
word: homoteettinen
lang: French
word: homothétique
lang: Italian
word: omotetico
lang: Portuguese
word: homotético
lang: Turkish
word: homotetik
lang: Turkish
word: mümasil
lang: Finnish
word: homoteettinen
fletching
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fletchings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of attaching fins, such as halved feathers, to a projectile in order to stabilize its flight.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The fins or feathers so attached.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But the fletching on this arrow is not well aligned and so the hunter’s second shot strikes short.
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: قذة
roman: quḏḏa
lang: Catalan
word: empenatge
lang: French
word: empennage
lang: Italian
word: impennaggio
lang: Spanish
word: empenaje
vascular
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From New Latin vasculāris, from Latin vasculum, diminutive of vas (“vessel”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the flow of fluids, such as blood, lymph, or sap, through the body of an animal or plant, or to the vessels that carry such fluids
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.
Antonyms: avascular
Translations:
stanchion
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French estanson, estanchon, (Modern French étançon), from estance (“a stay, a prop”), from Latin stāns (“standing”), present participle of stō.
Inflected forms:
form: stanchions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stanchions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stanchioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stanchioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stanchioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A vertical pole, post, or support.
pos: noun
examples: The train began to move. Lace walked with it, holding a stanchion.
You cross under the rusting stanchions of the old elevated highway and walk out to the pier.
Hiro climbs on his bike, eases it through the neighbourhood and onto the Street, and then gosses it up to a few hundred miles an hour, slaloming between the stanchions of the monorail, praticing.
He staggers against a stanchion, trips over a rope, and tumbles into the space between the quay and the steel plates of the freighter.
gloss: A framework of such posts, used to secure or confine cattle.
pos: noun
gloss: To erect stanchions, or equip something with stanchions.
pos: verb
gloss: To confine by means of stanchions, typically used for cattle.
pos: verb
Derived words: barrack stanchion
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: преграда
roman: pregrada
lang: Czech
word: ohrazení
lang: Dutch
word: afsluiting
lang: Finnish
word: aitaus
lang: German
word: Gitterstab
lang: German
word: Gitterstangen
lang: German
word: Stand
lang: German
word: Gatter
lang: Kashubian
word: kłonica
lang: Polish
word: kłonica
lang: Polish
word: kłonica
lang: Spanish
word: barra
brit
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English brytten, brutten, from Old English brittian, bryttian (“to divide, dispense, distribute, rule over, possess, enjoy the use of”), from Proto-Germanic *brutjaną (“to break, divide”), from Proto-Germanic *breutaną (“to destroy, crush, break”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewd- (“to break”). Cognate with Icelandic brytja (“to chop up, break in pieces, slaughter”), Swedish bryta (“to break, fracture, cut off”), Danish bryde (“to break”), and outside the Germanic family with Albanian brydh (“to make crumbly, friable, soft”). Related to Old English brytta (“dispenser, giver, author, governor, prince”), Old English brēotan (“to break in pieces, hew down, demolish, destroy, kill”).
Inflected forms:
form: brits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: britting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: britted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: britted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: britt
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: brite
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: brit
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: britt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To break in pieces; divide.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To bruise; indent.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To fall out or shatter (as overripe hops or grain).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To fade away; alter.
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
intransitive
gloss: One of the young of herrings, sprats, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the tiny crustaceans, of the genus Calanus, that are part of the diet of right whales.
pos: noun
examples: The edges of these bones are fringed with hairy fibres, through which the Right Whale strains the water, and in whose intricacies he retains the small fish, when openmouthed he goes through the seas of brit in feeding time.
Derived words: britten
brittle
Translations:
voice-over
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: broadcasting
media
television
Etymology: From voice + over.
Compound parts: voice
over
Inflected forms:
form: voice-overs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: voiceover
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: voice-overs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: voice-overing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: voice-overed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: voice-overed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: voiceover
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A production technique, in which pictures are accompanied by the voice of an unseen actor or reporter.
pos: noun
gloss: A voice-overed release, especially of foreign content.
pos: noun
gloss: The voice audio track of such a broadcast.
pos: noun
examples: Fogel, working with a script by the journalist Kerry Howley, follows Winner from the age of nine to the aftermath of her plea, and organizes the movie around voice-over reminiscences by Reality (the character is played by Emilia Jones). […] With Reality [Winner]’s voice-overs doing the bulk of the dramatic work, the movie depends heavily on editing to keep the action moving visually, and “Winner” may well prove to be one of the best-edited movies this year.
gloss: To supply the voice audio track for (a broadcast).
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Related words: dub
dubbing
revoice
Derived words: voice-over artist
Translations:
actuality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
Etymology: From actual + -ity.
* (television): Influenced by French actualité.
Base: actual
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: actualities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of existing; existence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An instance or quality of being actual or factual; fact.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "It seems as though I have lived this life always. The world of books and bookish folk is very vague, more like a dream memory than an actuality. I surely have hunted and forayed and fought all the days of my life. And you, too, seem a part of it. You are -- " I was on the verge of saying, "my woman, my mate," but glibly changed it to -- "standing the hardship well."
gloss: Live reporting on current affairs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A cabled despatch is better than nothing, but a voicecast of tolerable quality is preferable, and in certain types of story a voicecast with live or recorded actuality is best of all. Correspondents all have portable tape recorders.
This is a news report from the scene of the event. When a voicer and an actuality are combined into one complete story, it's known as a wrap.
gloss: A short early motion picture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: By 1903, the actuality film had reached its peak; in 1903, the Edison and Biograph companies, combined, registered three hundred fifty one actuality films for copyright protection. By 1908 that number had dropped to two.
Derived words: in actuality
nonactuality
Translations:
seaway
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English seewey, from Old English sǣweġ (“a seaway, a path through the sea”), equivalent to sea + way. Compare Saterland Frisian Seegong (“seaway, swell”), German Seegang (“seaway, swell”).
Compound parts: sea
way
Inflected forms:
form: seaways
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A lane or route at sea that is regularly used by ships; a sea lane or trade route.
pos: noun
gloss: An inland waterway used by seagoing shipping.
pos: noun
examples: The coracle […] was a very safe boat for a person of my height and weight, both buoyant and clever in a seaway; but she was the most cross-grained, lop-sided craft to manage.
gloss: The headway of a vessel.
pos: noun
Translations:
artifice
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French artifice, from Latin artificium.
Inflected forms:
form: artifices
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: artifices
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: artificing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: artificed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: artificed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A crafty but underhanded deception.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The notion that consequence can be as easily managed as PR is the ultimate artifice and the ultimate delusion.
gloss: A trick played out as an ingenious, but artful, ruse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The heightened worlds of darkly comedic satire and soapy high-school romance make it easy enough to roll with unrealistic casting choices—and that goes for stage musicals, too, where some level of artifice is built into the format.
gloss: A strategic maneuver that uses some clever means to avoid detection or capture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A tactical move to gain advantage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something made with technical skill; a contrivance.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: To construct by means of skill or specialised art
pos: verb
examples: The Creator has so cunningly endowed our bodies that there is no labor to be done, no skill in artificing or fashioning the metals, that is beyond our reach.
Some of the greatest artists of their day either furnished designs or with their own hands artificed ornaments for domestic use,
Splints and slings, already described, are easily artificed out of small saplings or from stiff bark.
Translations:
antenatal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin ante (“before”) + nātālis (“natal”), from nāscor (“to be born”), equivalent to ante- + natal.
Base: natal
Affixes: ante-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Occurring or existing before birth.
pos: adj
examples: antenatal care
antenatal therapy
Translations:
marketeer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English market
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Middle French -ierder.
English -eer
English marketeer
From market + -eer.
Inflected forms:
form: marketeers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A specialist in marketing (promoting and selling products and services).
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: One who promotes and sells products or services; called a marketer in US English.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: Someone who works in or supports a certain kind of system of selling and buying, for example free marketeer, black marketeer.
pos: noun
Synonyms: marketer
Derived words: anti-marketeer
black marketeer
free marketeer
grey marketeer
gray marketeer
marketeering
Translations:
hammered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more hammered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hammered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having been hit with a hammer or hammer-like object.
pos: adj
gloss: very drunk; inebriated.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
UK
slang
examples: ‘Yeah, sorry about that, I was hammered.’
Derived words: hammered and sickled
hammered dulcimer
unhammered
Translations: