yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
chewing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: drugs
medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English chewyng, chewynge, from Old English ċīwung, ċȳwung, ċēowung (“chewing”), equivalent to chew + -ing.
Base: chew
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: chewings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is chewed on; mastication.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And while the dog and the cat buses suffered considerable damage from the trapped animals' excretions, clawings, and chewings, the bus with the skunk was declared unsalvageable.
gloss: The consumption of (the juice from) the khat plant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The consumption of loose leaf tobacco juice from tobacco plants by chewing leaves near the cheek.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: betelchewing
chewing ball
chewing gum
chewingly
chewing sponge
fat-chewing
gumchewing
nonchewing
scenery-chewing
Translations:
inept
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French inepte, from Latin ineptus, from in- + aptus (whence English apt).
Inflected forms:
form: more inept
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inept
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not able to do something; not proficient; displaying incompetence.
pos: adj
examples: As a waiter, he was inept, so they put him in the kitchen.
Stewing over recent legal defeats, he [Donald Trump] spent Sunday night posting a series of rambling rants assailing the “completely inept and embarrassing” Supreme Court, the “Deranged” former special counsel, […] and “a Wacky, Nasty, Crooked, and totally Out of Control Judge” who ruled against him.
gloss: Unfit; unsuitable.
pos: adj
examples: The bungled phrase, the slipshod paragraph, the inept metaphor, the irrelevant excursion, the disproportionate development, the feeble conclusion, are indeed all failures of meaning, and the more poetically ambitious the verbal structure in which they occur, the deeper and more substantive the failure may be.
Antonyms: apt
adept
skillful
Derived words: ept
ineptitude
ineptly
ineptness
Translations:
transcendentalism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English transcendental
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English transcendentalism
From transcendental + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: transcendentalisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality (associated with Kant); philosophy which stresses intuition and spirituality (associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson); transcendental character or quality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on a belief in the essential supremacy of insight over logic and experience for the revelation of the deepest truths.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: philosophy
religion
transcendental
transcendentalist
Derived words: antitranscendentalism
Translations:
nondescript
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From non- + descript (from Latin dēscrīptus, past participle of dēscrībō).
Base: descript
Affixes: non-
Inflected forms:
form: more nondescript
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nondescript
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: non-descript
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: nondescripts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: non-descript
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not described (in the academic literature).
pos: adj
tags: archaic
gloss: Without distinguishing qualities or characteristics.
pos: adj
examples: He drove a nondescript silver sedan.
There was, besides, a Scots mason, known from his favourite dish as "Irish Stew," three or four nondescript Scots, a fine young Irishman, O'Reilly, and a pair of young men who deserve a special word of condemnation.
In 1919, demobilisation specials from Purfleet, Essex, to the North, usually made up of nondescript, almost paintless or grey stock which had seen long wartime service, chalked with slogans, were worked through by way of Bromley and the North London line […].
We open in a grimy, fluorescent-lit military base somewhere in rural England, where the girl from the poster, Melanie (Sennia Nanua), is the star student in a class full of children who are wheeled into school—or at least, the nondescript concrete room that serves as a school—with their arms, legs, and foreheads bound to their wheelchairs by leather straps.
The plaque, of light-blue hue (a tone favoured by the Wiltshire market town's civic society), can be found on a nondescript structure just outside the station.
gloss: A species or other type of creature that has not been previously described or identified.
pos: noun
examples: Imagination has given figure and character to centaurs, satyrs, and down to all the fairy tribe; but titles baffle even the powers of fancy, and are a chimerical non-descript.
gloss: An undistinguished, unexceptional person or thing.
pos: noun
examples: In thoroughfares nigh the docks, any considerable seaport will frequently offer to view the queerest looking nondescripts from foreign parts.
gloss: An unmarked police car.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: By a nice British compromise, the enforcement car — visible just then as a white spot on the television screen — has nothing externally to show its police affiliation, but unlike the CID's nondescripts, carries two large policemen in uniform.
Derived words: nondescriptly
nondescriptness
non-nondescript
Translations:
trans
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
chemistry
cytology
human-sciences
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin trāns (“on the other side of”). Doublet of très.
Inflected forms:
form: transes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: transes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: transing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: transed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: transed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: In (or constituting, forming, or describing) a double bond in which the greater radical on both ends is on the opposite side of the bond.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
physical
examples: A series of one electron shifts in this complex establish a new trans double bond at carbon ll which transfers the hydrogen to oxygen, forming the hydroperoxide and liberating the enzyme.
A cis double bond is one where the hydrogen atoms are both on the same side. In contrast, a trans double bond has them on the opposite side.
gloss: In (or constituting, forming, or describing) a coordination compound in which the two instances of a particular ligand are on opposite sides of the central atom.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
physical
examples: The trans effect is the labilization of ligands which are trans to certain other ligands.
gloss: Of the side of the Golgi apparatus farther from the endoplasmic reticulum.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A trans person.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
informal
offensive
sometimes
examples: Good thing about Thanksgiving with the transes is you don;t need to explain your need to dialate in the middle of a movie. ; ) Dana a#344.
gloss: To cause to cross from one side to another of (gender, sex or similar).
pos: verb
tags: humorous
transitive
examples: […] as they interact with bodies transing gender (and other) borders and spaces.
Although they did so in sometimes very different ways and in different communities, transsexuals, drag queens, butch lesbians, cross-dressers, feminine men, and masculine women all in some senses crossed, or transed, gender[.] […] People who trans gender as well as people who do not may receive cis-privileges, and people who do not intentionally trans gender as well as people who do are denied cis-privileges if they fail to pass (or pass enough) in the sex/gender they are expected to be.
gloss: To render (someone) transgender.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
humorous
offensive
transitive
examples: Doctors accused of transing kids.
gloss: To become transgender.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
humorous
intransitive
offensive
examples: They thought of that. The proposals make an exception for "affirmative" practices. You can say yes to your kid transing, but not no.
Related words: LGBT
LGBTQ
non-binary
Derived words: all-trans retinoic acid
cis-trans
cis-trans isomer
cis-trans isomerism
s-trans
trans effect
trans fat
trans fatty acid
transplatin
peak trans
trans someone's gender
Translations:
Brobdingnagian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Brobdingnag + -ian, fictional country inhabited by giants in Gulliver's Travels.
Base: Brobdingnag
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: more Brobdingnagian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Brobdingnagian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: brobdingnagian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Brobdingnagians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brobdingnagian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Brobdingnag.
pos: adj
gloss: Enormous, huge, far larger than is customary for such a thing.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: When, at the head-centre, the lady demonstrator, armed with a Brobdingnagian whalebone needle, threaded with a bright red cord, executed herringboned fantasias on a canvas frame resembling a violin stand, it all looked easy enough.
The two men followed Madame de Vaurigard into a square hall, hung with tapestries and lit by two candles of a Brobdingnagian species Mellin had heretofore seen only in cathedrals.
The faster trains, such as the "Talisman" and the 9 a.m., load to no more than nine coaches; but while it was certainly great fun to clock the work of the Gresley Pacifics with Brobdingnagian loads the present arrangement, giving a frequent service of lighter trains, is far more convenient to the user.
Again I stress the matter of sheer scale: the teachers were enormous compared to us and this lent a Brobdingnagian aspect to the scene.
Once a week, a train pulls out of Aberdeen station at 08.20 and heads south. There’s no great fanfare, no particular sense of occasion, and the train itself is only five coaches long. However, everything else about this service is Brobdingnagian.
The Brobdingnagian pile is the work of Foster+Partners, led by the 90-year-old Norman Foster, who is no stranger to penning extravagant bank headquarters.
gloss: A creature from Brobdingnag.
pos: noun
gloss: A giant.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
Derived words: Brobdingnagian vision
Translations:
hora
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Hebrew הוֹרָה (hóra), Yiddish האָרע (hore), and Romanian horă, from Turkish hora, probably from Greek χορός (chorós, “dance”). Doublet of choir, chorus, and quire.
Inflected forms:
form: horas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A circle dance popular in the Balkans, Israel and Yiddish culture worldwide.
pos: noun
Translations:
transcendentalist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English transcendental
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English transcendentalist
From transcendental + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: transcendentalists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who believes in transcendentalism.
pos: noun
examples: “I accept the universe” is reported to have been a favorite utterance of our New England transcendentalist, Margaret Fuller; and when some one repeated this phrase to Thomas Carlyle, his sardonic comment is said to have been: “Gad! she'd better!”
gloss: Any of a group of philosophers who assert that true knowledge is obtained by faculties of the mind that transcend sensory experience; those who exalt intuition above empirical knowledge and ordinary mentation. Used in modern times of some post-Kantian German philosophers, and of the school of Emerson.
pos: noun
Related words: transcendentalism
Translations:
transept
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: From French transept, from New Latin transeptum, from Latin trans- (“across”) + saeptum (“fence, partition, enclosure”).
Inflected forms:
form: transepts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The transversal part of a church, which crosses at right angles to the greatest length, and between the nave and choir. In the basilicas, this had often no projection at its two ends. In Gothic churches these project greatly, and should be called the arms of the transept. It is common, however, to speak of the arms themselves as the transepts.
pos: noun
examples: Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
Translations:
transversal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French transversal, from Medieval Latin trānsversālis, from Latin trānsversus.
Inflected forms:
form: more transversal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most transversal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: transversals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Running or lying across; transverse.
pos: adj
examples: a transversal line
gloss: Exhibiting or pertaining to transversality; connecting heterogeneous elements (fields, kinds of people, etc).
pos: adj
examples: This kind of politics acknowledges what Yuval-Davis characterizes as transversal feminism which, much like the second wave feminist standpoint theory, “aims to be an alternative to the universalism/relativism dichotomy […]"
First, transversal feminist activism rests on an understanding of structures and relations of power as pervasive, […]
gloss: A line which traverses or intersects any system of other lines transversely.
pos: noun
gloss: A line which traverses or intersects any system of other lines transversely.
pos: noun
examples: Let l and m be two hyperparallel lines. All the transversals to l and m that form congruent corresponding angles with l and m lie in a pencil.
gloss: A set containing one member from each of a collection of disjoint sets.
pos: noun
Related words: transverse
Derived words: costotransversal
midtransversal
nontransversal
transversally
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: пресечна линия
roman: presečna linija
lang: Finnish
word: transversaalinen
lang: French
word: transversal
lang: Galician
word: transversal
lang: Georgian
word: ტრანსვერსალი
roman: ṭransversali
lang: Latvian
word: šķērss
lang: Latvian
word: šķērsenisks
lang: Māori
word: rārangi whakawhiti
lang: Portuguese
word: transversal
lang: Swedish
word: transversal
trant
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English tranten, from or cognate with Middle Dutch tranten (“to step, walk”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *trent-, *trant- (“to walk”). Cognate with West Frisian trantsje (“to step, step time; dance, jump”). Compare also Dutch drentelen (“to saunter”).
Inflected forms:
form: trants
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tranting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tranted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tranted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: traunt
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: trants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: traunt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To walk; go about.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To traffic in an itinerant manner; to peddle.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To turn; play a trick.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: A turn; trick; stratagem.
pos: noun
Derived words: tranter
Translations:
trapezium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
geometry
mathematics
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Recorded since 1570, learned borrowing from Late Latin trapezium, from Ancient Greek τραπέζιον (trapézion, “irregular quadrilateral”, literally “a little table”), diminutive of τράπεζα (trápeza, “table”). Doublet of trapeze.
Inflected forms:
form: trapeziums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trapezia
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A quadrilateral with two sides parallel.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
gloss: A quadrilateral with two sides parallel.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
gloss: A four-sided polygon with no parallel sides and no sides equal; a simple convex irregular quadrilateral.
pos: noun
tags: US
dated
gloss: The trapezium bone of the wrist.
pos: noun
gloss: A region on the ventral side of the brain, either just back of the pons Varolii, or, as in man, covered by the posterior extension of its transverse fibers.
pos: noun
Synonyms: trapeze
Related words: trapeze
trapeziform
trapezius
trapezoid
Derived words: scaphotrapezium
trapezium rule
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: شِبْهُ مُنْحَرِفٍ
roman: šibhu munḥarifin
lang: Armenian
word: սեղան
roman: seġan
lang: Azerbaijani
word: trapesiya
lang: Basque
word: trapezio
lang: Bengali
word: ট্রাপিজিয়াম
roman: ṭrapijiẏam
lang: Bulgarian
word: трапец
roman: trapec
lang: Catalan
word: trapezi
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 梯形
roman: tīxíng
lang: Czech
word: lichoběžník
lang: Danish
word: trapez
lang: Dutch
word: trapezium
lang: Esperanto
word: trapezo
lang: Finnish
word: puolisuunnikas
lang: French
word: trapèze
lang: Galician
word: trapecio
lang: Galician
word: trapezoide
lang: German
word: Paralleltrapez
lang: German
word: Trapez
lang: Greek
word: τραπέζιο
roman: trapézio
lang: Ancient Greek
word: τραπέζιον
roman: trapézion
lang: Hebrew
word: טְרָפֶּז
roman: trapéz
lang: Hindi
word: समलंब
roman: samlamb
lang: Hindi
word: समलम्ब
roman: samlamb
lang: Hungarian
word: trapéz
lang: Ido
word: trapezo
lang: Indonesian
word: trapesium
lang: Italian
word: trapezio
lang: Japanese
word: 台形
roman: daikei
lang: Japanese
word: 梯形
roman: teikei
lang: Khmer
word: ចតុកោណព្នាយ
roman: caʼtokaon pniəy
lang: Korean
word: 사다리꼴
roman: sadarikkol
lang: Korean
word: 제형
roman: jehyeong
lang: Latin
word: trapezoides
lang: Latin
word: trapezion
lang: Latin
word: mensula
lang: Latvian
word: trapece
lang: Lithuanian
word: trapecija
lang: Macedonian
word: трапез
roman: trapez
lang: Māori
word: taparara
lang: Navajo
word: heetsʼóozgo dikʼą́
lang: Persian
word: زنخدار
roman: zanaxdâr
lang: Persian
word: ذوزنقه
roman: zuzanaqe
lang: Polish
word: trapez
lang: Portuguese
word: trapézio
lang: Russian
word: трапе́ция
roman: trapécija
lang: Sanskrit
word: समलम्ब
roman: samalamba
lang: Spanish
word: trapecio
lang: Swedish
word: trapets
lang: Tagalog
word: tagigapay
lang: Thai
word: สี่เหลี่ยมคางหมู
roman: sìi-lìiam-kaang-mǔu
lang: Turkish
word: yamuk
lang: Vietnamese
word: hình thang
tribble
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown. The Century Dictionary suggests possibly a corruption of cribble (“sieve”).
Inflected forms:
form: tribbles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: treble
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A horizontal frame with wires stretched across it for drying paper.
pos: noun
Translations:
tumbler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
business
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
entomology
finance
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tumble
English -er
English tumbler
From tumble + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: tumblers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who tumbles; one who plays tricks by various motions of the body.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: […] the tricks of tumblers, funambuloes, baladines […]
[…] and yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind.
gloss: A movable obstruction in a lock, consisting of a lever, latch, wheel, slide, or the like, which must be adjusted to a particular position by a key or other means before the bolt can be thrown in locking or unlocking.
pos: noun
gloss: A rotating device for smoothing and polishing rough objects, placed inside it, on relatively small parts.
pos: noun
gloss: A piece attached to, or forming part of, the hammer of a gunlock, upon which the mainspring acts and in which are the notches for sear point to enter.
pos: noun
gloss: A drinking glass that has no stem, foot, or handle — so called because such glasses originally had a pointed or convex base and could not be set down without spilling. This compelled the drinker to finish their measure.
pos: noun
examples: I poured out some whisky into a tumbler, and gave it to him.
"You don't think it's too early?" said the Captain.
"You and your liver must decide that between you," I replied.
"I'm practically a teetotaller," he said, as he poured himself out a good half-tumbler of Canadian Club.
gloss: A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for its habit of tumbling, or turning somersaults, during its flight.
pos: noun
gloss: A beverage cup, typically made of stainless steel, that is broad at the top and narrow at the bottom commonly used in India.
pos: noun
gloss: Something that causes something else to tumble.
pos: noun
gloss: A dog of a breed that tumbles when pursuing game, formerly used in hunting rabbits.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A kind of cart; a tumbril.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
UK
dialectal
obsolete
gloss: The pupa of a mosquito.
pos: noun
gloss: One of a set of levers from which the heddles hang in some looms.
pos: noun
gloss: A porpoise.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A service that mixes potentially identifiable or 'tainted' cryptocurrency funds with others, so as to obscure the audit trail; used for money laundering.
pos: noun
examples: The Department of Justice said it has arrested a Russian-Swedish national who allegedly operated a long-running cryptocurrency laundering site. According to a news release from the DOJ, Roman Sterlingov ran Bitcoin Fog, a cryptocurrency tumbler or “mixer”— which hides a cryptocurrency’s source by mixing it with other funds.
Related words: tumble
glass
highball
pigeon
Derived words: compost tumbler
rebound tumbler
rebound-tumbler
tumbler dryer
tumblerful
tumblerlike
Tumbler Ridge
tumbler tank
tumbler-washer
Translations:
obstruction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Latin obstructio (“hindrance”), from obstruo (“build against, block, stop”).
Inflected forms:
form: obstructions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something which obstructs or impedes, either intentionally or unintentionally
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The referee stopped play because of an obstruction by the defender.
gloss: The condition of having the natural powers obstructed in their usual course; the arrest of the vital functions; death.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: block
hindrance
impedance
roadblock
stop
Derived words: bowel obstruction
deobstruction
disobstruction
intestinal obstruction
nasal obstruction
obstructional
obstructionism
obstructionist
obstruction of justice
pseudo-obstruction
pseudoobstruction
Translations:
ouroboros
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek οὐροβόρος (ourobóros, “tail-devouring”, a compound of οὐρά (ourá, “tail”) + -βόρος (-bóros, “-devouring”, which is derived from the verb βιβρώσκω (bibrṓskō, “to eat up”))).
Base: οὐρά
Affixes: -βόρος
Inflected forms:
form: ouroboroi
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ouroboroses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: uroboros
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A serpent, dragon or worm that eats its own tail, a representation of the continuous cycle of life and death.
pos: noun
examples: The alchemists were fond of picturing their opus as a circulatory process, as a circular distillation or as the uroboros, the snake biting its own tail, and they made innumerable pictures of this process.
Khepera eating his own seed is a model of Romantic creativity, where the self is isolated and sexually dual. Khepera bent over himself is a uroboros, the serpent eating its own tail, a magic circle of regeneration and rebirth. The uroboros is the prehistoric track of natural cycle, from which Judaism and Hellenism make a conceptual break.
One myth speaks of Ouroboros, a serpent-like creature that survived and regenerated itself by eating only its own tail. By neither taking from nor adding to its environment, this creature was said to be completely environmentally benign and self-sufficient.
First, the snake has not caught its tail—the ouroboros figure is uncompleted. Blake executed fully formed ouroboros figures for the verso of this Night Thoughts page and for a later passage (6:690-92), and was familiar with numerous full ouroboros figures from contemporary and earlier sources […]
gloss: Anything of a circular or recursive nature.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Like an ouroboros, the story created and informed by the writer’s own experience suddenly flipped back on itself, Childress’s life now reflecting the story rather than the other way around.
The result is a statistical ouroboros: a self-reinforcing discrimination machine that amplifies social inequalities under the guise of technical neutrality.
Related words: autocannibalism
Derived words: ouroboric
Translations:
stupefaction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French stupéfaction, from Latin stupefaciō (“strike dumb, stun with amazement, stupefy”), from stupeō (“to be stunned, speechless”) (English stupid, stupor) + faciō (“to do, make”).
Inflected forms:
form: stupefactions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of extreme shock or astonishment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A state of insensibility; stupor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Suddenly roused from the state of stupefaction to which fear had reduced her, the female filled the air with shrieks. Disengaging herself from the officers, and rushing towards her husband, she clung with all her strength to his arm, imploring him, with frantic violence, not to let them kill her.
Related words: stupefication
stupefy
stupid
stupor
Translations:
occident
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English occident, from Old French occident, from Latin occidentem (“western sky, part of the sky in which the sun sets”), from occido (“go down, set”).
Inflected forms:
form: occidents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The part of the horizon where the sun last appears in the evening; that part of the earth towards the sunset; the west.
pos: noun
gloss: The Western world; the part of the world excluding Asia and Africa.
pos: noun
Derived words: occidental
occidentosis
Translations:
occidental
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French occidental, from Latin occidentalis, equivalent to occident + -al.
Base: occident
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more occidental
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most occidental
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: occidentals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or situated in, the occident, or west; western.
pos: adj
examples: occidental climates, or customs; an occidental planet.
gloss: Of a gem or precious stone: of inferior value or quality.
pos: adj
gloss: A Western Christian of the Latin rite
pos: noun
examples: Most occidentals resident in South China have joined the Chinese in their zealous enthusiasm for the lychee.
Synonyms: western
Antonyms: oriental
Related words: Occident
Derived words: nonoccidental
occidentalism
occidentalist
occidentalize
occidentally
unoccidental
Translations:
octuple
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, oct- + -u- + -ple.
Inflected forms:
form: octuples
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: octuples
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: octupling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: octupled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: octupled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: eightfold
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: An eightfold amount or number
pos: noun
gloss: To increase eightfold.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To increase or multiply something by eight.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: single
solo
double
twofold
triple
threefold
quadruple
fourfold
quintuple
pentuple
fivefold
loner
singleton
monad
pair
couple
twosome
duo
dyad
trio
threesome
triad
troika
foursome
quartet
tetrad
fivesome
quintet
pentad
only one
singlet
twin
one of two
doublet
triplet
one of three
quadruplet
one of four
quintuplet
pentuplet
one of five
sextuple
hextuple
sixfold
septuple
heptuple
sevenfold
octuple
eightfold
ninefold
nonuple
tenfold
decuple
sixsome
sextet
hexad
sevensome
septet
heptad
eightsome
octet
octad
ninesome
nonet
ennead
tensome
decet
decad
sextuplet
hextuplet
one of six
one of seven
septuplet
heptuplet
octuplet
one of eight
one of nine
nonuplet
one of ten
decuplet
elevenfold
undecuple
hendecuple
twelvefold
duodecuple
thirteenfold
tredecuple
a hundredfold
centuple
multiple
elevensome
twelvesome
thirteensome
hundredsome
one of eleven
undecuplet
hendecuplet
one of twelve
duodecuplet
one of thirteen
tredecuplet
one of a hundred
centuplet
one of many
multiplet
Derived words: octuplet
Translations:
oddly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English oddely, odly, equivalent to odd + -ly.
Base: odd
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a peculiar manner; strangely; unusually.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: For December, it was oddly warm.
Novv, Sir, vvhen my Time comes, leſt they ſhou'd think it vvorth vvhile to handle my Memory vvith the ſame Freedom, I am vvilling to prevent its being ſo odly beſmear'd (or at beſt but flatly vvhite-vvash'd) by taking upon me to give the Publick This, as true a Picture of myſelf as natural Vanity vvill permit me to dravv; […]
gloss: In a manner measured by an odd number.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The oddly counted lords are always out of sync with at least one other evenly counted cycle. These two strange counts assured that at no single moment could all cycles end at the same time for an extraordinarily long time, for at least one odd count threw off all the even ones.
Translations:
Trekker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
Etymology: (1970) Trek + -er.
From Star Trek.
Base: Trek
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: Trekkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fan of the TV science fiction series Star Trek.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
ode
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French ode, from Late Latin ōda, from Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”). Doublet of Aoede.
Inflected forms:
form: odes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; especially, now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.
pos: noun
examples: write an ode to someone
[title]
Translations:
odium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-der.
Proto-Italic *odjom
Latin odiumlbor.
English odium
Learned borrowing from Latin odium, from Proto-Italic *odjom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-.
Inflected forms:
form: odiums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Hatred; dislike.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His conduct brought him into odium, or, brought odium upon him.
And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens, (who devote themselves to the favorite nation,) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation.
‘I warned you, if you give evidence against your husband, you will be shunned. You will be held in odium. You will be alone.’
gloss: The quality that provokes hatred; offensiveness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She threw the odium of the fact on me.
Related words: odium generis humani
odium philologicum
odium theologicum
Translations:
odometer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French odomètre, from Ancient Greek ὁδός (hodós, “road, path, way”) + μέτρον (métron, “measure”), equivalent to odo- + -meter.
Affixes: odo-
-meter
Inflected forms:
form: odometers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hodometer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: odometre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
nonstandard
Senses:
gloss: An instrument, usually embedded within the speedometer of a vehicle, that measures the distance the vehicle has traveled since production.
pos: noun
examples: When the car was delivered about eight weeks later, it was not the model that had been displayed on the show and it had more miles on the odometer than the car she had been promised.
On Sunday, the robot rover advanced another 157 feet (48 meters) as it continued along the rim of a Martian crater, putting Opportunity's total odometer at 25.01 miles (40.25 km), according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Pasadena, California.
Tesla (TSLA.O) faces a proposed class action claiming it speeds up odometers on its electric vehicles so they fall out of warranty faster, saving Elon Musk's company from having to pay for repairs.
The plaintiff Nyree Hinton alleged that Tesla odometer readings reflect energy consumption, driver behavior and "predictive algorithms" rather than actual mileage driven.
gloss: A wheel used by surveyors, which registers distance traveled.
pos: noun
Synonyms: odograph
Related words: tripmeter
Derived words: odometer fraud
trip odometer
Translations:
odometry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From odo- + -metry.
Base: odo
Inflected forms:
form: hodometry
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Measurement of distances by the odometer.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
odor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English odour, borrowed from Anglo-Norman odour, from Old French odor, from Latin odor.
Cognates
* Swedish odör (“bad smell”)
Inflected forms:
form: odors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: odour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odour of camphor was unmistakable.
Both chemicals are solid oxidizers in granular form and have a chlorine odor. […] Plant 12 also stored super sacks of bromochloro-5,5-dimethylimidazolidine-2,4-dione (BCDMH), which is a granular solid oxidizer with a halogen odor that, in addition to chlorine gas and hydrogen chloride, can also release bromine gas and hydrogen bromide upon decomposition.
BioLab officials told the investigators they had established a permanent fire watch two or three months prior to the incident after strong odors from oxidizers in two storage buildings were detected, according to the CSB report. BioLab also told CSB two employees were on duty for fire watch on September 29.
gloss: A strong, pervasive quality.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: In different parts of the coast different species of animals are accounted sacred, because they are supposed to be animated by the spirits of the dead. Hence monkeys near Fishtown, snakes at Whydah, and crocodiles near Dix Cove live in the odour of sanctity."
gloss: Esteem.
pos: noun
tags: US
figuratively
uncountable
gloss: Something which produces a scent; incense, a perfume.
pos: noun
tags: US
archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: On the morowe after the ſaboth / erly in the mornynge / they cam vnto the toumbe and brought the odourſ whych they had prepared / and other wemen wyth them.
Related words: aroma
Derived words: body odor
body odour
fish odor syndrome
in bad odor
in bad odour
in good odor
in good odour
malodor
odored
odorful
odorimetry
odorise
odorization
odorize
odorless
odor of sanctity
odour of sanctity
odorome
odorous
odorously
odorousness
odorproof
odorscape
odorsome
odortaxis
odortype
Translations:
olf
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin olfactus (“smelled”).
Inflected forms:
form: olfs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: olf
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A unit measuring the strength of an olfactory pollution source as detected by an average adult in typical conditions.
pos: noun
Translations:
omer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: units-of-measure
Etymology: From Biblical Hebrew עומר / עֹמֶר ('ómer, “sheaf”).
Inflected forms:
form: omers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gomer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Omer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A former small Hebrew unit of dry volume equal to about 2.3 L or 2.1 quarts.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: ...that Omer which was every mans daily portion of Manna, is computed to have bin more then might have well suffic'd the heartiest feeder thrice as many meals.
And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man: and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
gloss: A vessel of one omer.
pos: noun
gloss: The sheaf of barley offered on the second day of Passover.
pos: noun
tags: Judaism
Translations:
onager
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle English onager, onagir (“wild ass; military catapult”), from Anglo-Norman onager, Middle French onager, onagre, Old French onager, onagre (“wild ass; military catapult”) (modern French onagre), from Late Latin onager (“large siege engine”), Latin onager (“wild ass”), from Hellenistic Ancient Greek ὄναγρος (ónagros, “wild ass”), Byzantine Ancient Greek ὄναγρος (ónagros, “large siege engine”), from ὄνος (ónos, “ass”) + ἄγριος (ágrios, “wild”) (from ᾰ̓γρός (ăgrós, “countryside; field”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- (“to drive”)) + -ῐος (-ĭos, suffix forming adjectives)).
The “military engine” sense alludes to the strong recoil of the engine, likened to an onager’s kick; see the 2007 quotation.
Inflected forms:
form: onagers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: onagri
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The Asiatic wild ass or hemione (Equus hemionus), an animal of the horse family native to Asia; specifically, the Persian onager, Persian wild ass, or Persian zebra (Equus hemionus onager).
pos: noun
examples: [I]f the czigithai is not the ſame with the zebra, it may be the Aſiatic animal called onager or wild aſs. The onager ſhould not be confounded with the zebra; but I am uncertain whether the ſame remark is applicable to the onager and czigithai; for, from comparing the relations of travellers, it appears, that there are different kinds of wild aſſes, of which the onager is the moſt remarkable. […] The ſwiftneſs of the onager is mentioned by travellers, who remark, that he runs with ſuch rapidity as to eſcape the hunters, though mounted on horſes; […]
The onager, or wild aſs, is ſeen in ſtill greater abundance than the wild horſe; and the peculiarities of its kind are more diſtinctly marked than in thoſe of the tame one.
One of the onagers, however, having hurt its leg, could not be harnessed at present, and a few days' rest was necessary.
gloss: A military engine acting like a sling which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket powered by the torsion from a bundle of ropes or sinews operated by machinery; a torsion catapult.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The onager, meaning "wild ass," derived its name from its powerful recoil, or kick, upon discharge; […] In addition, although Josephus described an onager in action hurling a 100-pound stone over 400 yards, most onagri achieved a shorter range than the ballista, thus exposing their crews to enemy archers.
Related words: onagga
Translations:
orifice
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French, from Old French, from Late Latin ōrificium (“an opening, literally the making of a mouth”), compound of ōs (“mouth”) + faciō (“to make”).
Inflected forms:
form: orifices
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mouth or aperture, such as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening.
pos: noun
examples: the orifice of an artery or vein; the orifice of a wound; he entered the cave's gaping orifice
As none of the ovicells were observed to be closed by the operculum, presumably because they were empty and the opercula were resting on the primary orifice rim, the ovicell closure type is subcleithral rather than cleithral [51 ], at least in some species of the genus.
gloss: One of the natural external openings of the human or animal body.
pos: noun
examples: the vagina and other orifices
The maw-worm could emerge unexpectedly from any orifice, including, most alarmingly, the corner of people's eyes.
For example, cultures that scorn open orifices of all kinds despise uninfibulated female genitals too[…]
gloss: A stupid or objectionable person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: “Peanuts aren't nuts, you orifice. They're legumes.”
Derived words: external urethral orifice
orifical
orificed
orificial
Translations:
ornithopter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French ornithoptère, from Ancient Greek ὄρνιθ- (órnith-) + πτερόν (pterón, “wing”), equivalent to ornitho- + -pter.
Inflected forms:
form: ornithopters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: orthopter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An aircraft that generates lift through the flapping of its wings.
pos: noun
Translations:
cabezon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cabezons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cabezone
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A California fish (Scorpaenichthys marmoratus), allied to the sculpin.
pos: noun
Translations:
cabman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cab
English -man
English cabman
From cab + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: cabmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The driver of a hackney cab.
pos: noun
examples: At length we saw a four-wheeler drive up. Out of it, in leisurely fashion, got Lord Godalming and Morris. And down from the box descended a thick-set working man with his rush-woven basket of tools. Morris paid the cabman, who touched his hat and drove away.
gloss: The driver of a taxi.
pos: noun
examples: A girl in the bakery, aged sixteen, used oaths that would have defeated a cabman.
Synonyms: cabdriver
Derived words: taxi-cabman
Translations:
cachet
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
medicine
philately
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French cachet, first appearing in Scottish English, from 1630.
Inflected forms:
form: cachets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cachets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cacheting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cacheted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cacheted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A seal, as of a letter.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: A special characteristic or quality; prestige, especially via association.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: I remember when this diner was a quiet hangout, but lately it seems to be losing its cachet.
In fact, within the Waffen-SS as a whole, the carrying of a personal weapon such as a pistol or a submachine-gun in addition to or instead of the issue rifle became something of a cachet.
He told Bai, "When you go out and talk to them, people are much more interested in something like MoveOn.org than in the Democratic Party. It has cachet. There is no cachet in the Democratic Party.[…]"
This class of bottled water dominates the U.S. market and consumers seem to prefer the cachet of spring water to processed municipal waters.
Men like Jerome, Belmont, and Travers thought they would accomplish this by lending their social approval and cachet to the sport, thereby giving it the appearance of wholesomeness.
Cachet powers the often elusive concept “cool”; nothing can be cool without associations to particular groups of high-status individuals, namely, musicians, celebrities, and popular teens.
gloss: A commemorative stamped design or inscription on an envelope, other than a cancellation or pre-printed postage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Alcatraz pelican cachet turned out to have a unique history of its own which had been lost over the years. Master cachet designer and artist John Coulthard (1903-1966) of 17 Elm Street Modesto, California, was the creator of the stamp.
gloss: A sealed envelope containing an item whose price is being negotiated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The most romantic rite of bargaining is the cachet; even its name suggests a thrilling secrecy. The cachet is used when a broker negotiates the sale of a diamond.
gloss: A capsule containing a pharmaceutical preparation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In order to facilitate taking by the patient, powders are often ordered to be dispensed in cachets.
One cachet on an empty stomach first thing in the morning, a second in one and a half hours, a third in one hour afterwards, and a fourth two hours later.
gloss: A hidden location from which one can observe birds while remaining unseen.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: On my way back to my cachet I met another party of reed-buntings, one of which I bagged; then I sat in my hiding-place for an hour, waiting for geese that never came within range.
gloss: To mark (an envelope) with a commemorative stamped design or inscription.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: lettre de cachet
Translations: