yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
transistor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of transfer + resistor. Said to have been coined by American engineer John Robinson Pierce in 1947, who used transresistance as the basis for forming transistor.
Compound parts: transfer
resistor
Inflected forms:
form: transistors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A solid-state semiconductor device, with three terminals, which can be used for amplification, switching, voltage stabilization, signal modulation, and many other functions.
pos: noun
examples: Switches and transistors control the flow of electricity like valves and faucets control water. Resistors limit the flow of electricity. […] Light is transmitted from the color LED, through the fiber optic cable, to control the NPN transistor (Q2) and red LED (D1).
gloss: A transistor radio.
pos: noun
tags: dated
informal
metonymically
examples: Turn your transistor on and let the music play
Derived words: barristor
biotransistor
FET
heterotransistor
junction transistor
nanotransistor
pass transistor
phototransistor
post-transistor
silicon planar epitaxial transistor
spacistor
TFT
thin-film transistor
thyristor
transistorisation
transistorise
transistorization
transistorize
transistorized
transistorless
transistor radio
transputer
UJT
Translations:
thermionic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Involving the emission of electrons from a heated electrode.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
electrode
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Coined by British scientist Michael Faraday in 1833, first used in his Diary (laboratory notebook) from the Ancient Greek words ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron, “amber”) (from which the word electricity is derived) and ὁδός (hodós, “way”). By surface analysis, electro- + -ode
Inflected forms:
form: electrodes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The terminal through which electric current passes between metallic and nonmetallic parts of an electric circuit.
pos: noun
examples: From my laboratory in the Castle east
To the master bedroom, where the vampires feast
The ghouls all came from their humble abodes
To get a jolt from my electrodes
They did the Mash
They did the Monster Mash.
gloss: A collector or emitter of electric charge in a semiconducting device.
pos: noun
Related words: cathode
anode
Derived words: anelectrode
bioelectrode
calomel electrode
catelectrode
Clark electrode
counterelectrode
electrodeless
electrode potential
electrodic
glass electrode
hydrogen electrode
hydrogen gas electrode
immunoelectrode
interelectrode
intraelectrode
ion selective electrode
ion-selective electrode
macroelectrode
microelectrode
minielectrode
multielectrode
nanoelectrode
normal hydrogen electrode
optoelectrode
optrode
perielectrode
photoelectrode
polytrode
potassium selective electrode
reference electrode
standard electrode potential
standard hydrogen electrode
stereotrode
tweezertrodes
ultramicroelectrode
Translations:
Nuu-chah-nulth
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Nootka nuučaan̓uł (“all along the mountains”).
Inflected forms:
form: Nuuchahnulth
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Nuuchahnnulth
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A people indigenous to Vancouver Island in western Canada.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
half-reaction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: half-reactions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Either the oxidation or the reduction component of a redox reaction
pos: noun
Translations:
redox
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Shortening of reduction and oxidation.
Inflected forms:
form: redoxes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: redoxing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: redoxed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: redoxed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to any reaction in which oxidation and reduction occur simultaneously.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: To subject to a redox reaction.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
macroeconomics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From macro- (“large scale”) + economics. The first published use of the term was by the Norwegian economist Ragnar Frisch (1895–1973) in 1933.
Base: economics
Affixes: macro-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The study of the entire economy in terms of the total amount of goods and services produced, total income earned, the level of employment of productive resources, and the general behavior of prices.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
scouting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: scoutings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Scouting
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who scouts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Careful scoutings by the State Department of Agriculture and Markets were made in 1935, to determine the limits of invasion[…]
gloss: The Scout Movement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The activities of boy scouts and girl scouts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: escoltisme
lang: Czech
word: skauting
lang: Dutch
word: scouting
lang: Esperanto
word: skoltismo
lang: Finnish
word: partioliike
lang: Franco-Provençal
word: escoutismo
lang: French
word: scoutisme
lang: German
word: Pfadfinderbewegung
lang: Greek
word: προσκοπισμός
roman: proskopismós
lang: Hebrew
word: תנועת הצופים
roman: tnuát hatsofím
lang: Hindi
word: स्काउटिंग
roman: skāuṭiṅg
lang: Hindi
word: बालचर
roman: bālcar
lang: Hungarian
word: cserkészet
lang: Italian
word: scoutismo
lang: Japanese
word: スカウティング
roman: sukautingu
lang: Korean
word: 스카우팅
roman: seukauting
lang: Macedonian
word: извидништво
roman: izvidništvo
lang: Polish
word: skauting
lang: Portuguese
word: escotismo
lang: Punjabi
word: ਸਕਾਊਟਿੰਗ
roman: sakāūṭiṅg
lang: Spanish
word: escultismo
lang: Spanish
word: scoutismo
lang: Spanish
word: escoutismo
xenocide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
Etymology: From xeno- + -cide.
Base: xeno
Inflected forms:
form: xenocides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The killing of a stranger or foreigner.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As notorious examples of ritual xenocide, suffice it to mention the foreigners sacrificed on the altar of the goddess Artemis in Colchis, on the eastern shore of the Black Sea (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, 4.45) as well as the ritual of beheading strangers when the reaping season drew to a close, performed by the legendary Lityerses, king of Phyrgia. [...] [In] an act of ritual xenocide in a Cossack villafe [...] Cossacks kill a Turkish woman[.]
gloss: The genocide of an entire alien species.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The age that began with one xenocide attempted had now ended with other xenocides prevented or, at least, postponed.
gloss: The intentional killing of an entire foreign (plant or animal) species.
pos: noun
tags: US
colloquial
countable
uncountable
Derived words: xenocidal
Translations:
peeler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the surname of Sir Robert Peel, who established the Irish constabulary and London's police force; compare bobby, from the given name.
Inflected forms:
form: peelers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Peeler
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A police officer.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
slang
examples: A peeler man who heard the din came in to see the show;
He tried to run the bushman in, but he refused to go.
And when at last the barber spoke, and said "'Twas all in fun—
'Twas just a little harmless joke, a trifle overdone."
I’d covered pretty nearly two miles before I came across a peeler, — and when I did the man was cracked — and he thought me mad, or drunk, or both. By the time I’d got myself within nodding distance of being run in for obstructing the police in the execution of their duty, […] Holt was out of sight.
I was standin' there and the car came down the street with the two peelers comin' after them and I'm standin' here with [my son] in my arms.
How do you fight back to get your right back to walk free down the street when your name and address singles you out for every Peeler on the beat?
Special Irish Branch was looking for Fenians in South Kensington; going from there to a Catholic church for Easter Mass was very nearly the stupidest thing Eliza could do, short of walking into Scotland Yard and cursing the peelers out in Irish.
It was Jem and Georgie that was in mortal danger, true, but there was not one of us that wanted the peelers asking us questions.
Translations:
dominatrix
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin dominātrīx. By surface analysis, dominate + -trix.
Inflected forms:
form: dominatrices
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dominatrixes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dominatrixes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dominatrixing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dominatrixed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dominatrixed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A dominating woman; a female dominator.
pos: noun
gloss: A dominant female in sadomasochistic practices.
pos: noun
examples: Shadowy masked dominatrixes in stiletto-heeled hip boots snap commands and whips with equal fury.
But even as movies depicting successful madams, freelance hookers, and dominatrices were celebrating prostitution as a marketplace expression of the new sexual freedom, doubts were emerging, a backlash growing.
I've always maintained that the dominatrix is as much a misogynistic caricature as the virginal, asexual "good" girl or the disgusting "nymphomaniac/slut." The so-called dominant woman is a dark, eerie version of the woman on a pedestal.
gloss: To act as a dominatrix, especially professionally.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: Cara, when you reach 18, maybe you will take up "dominatrixing" for a living.
Not one single nod is given to the fact is might be something a woman would ever do for the sheer blissy hot of it. Nah, nah, nah, nah, NAH! In fact, in this context, that would probably be beyond horridious. And isn’t that kind of weird. Dominatrixing for money is far more okay (and even kind of family friendly) than dominatrixing for sexual kicks. And you’ve got to wonder why that might be.
Synonyms: domina
domme
Derived words: dominatrixlike
humiliatrix
Translations:
accelerating
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: acceleratings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of acceleration.
pos: noun
examples: the acceleratings and brakings of a vehicle
Translations:
euphoric
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English euphoria
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English euphoric
From euphoria + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more euphoric
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most euphoric
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: euphorics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Feeling great well-being or elation or intense happiness; characterized by euphoria
pos: adj
examples: In this moment, I am euphoric.
gloss: Productive of euphoria, causing great joy.
pos: adj
examples: Heroin is the most euphoric drug in use today.
Lin gathered herself, took a moment to rehearse the words in her mind, contacted the L.A. number, and delivered her euphoric news to her agent in person
gloss: A drug that causes euphoria; a euphoriant.
pos: noun
Derived words: euphorically
Translations:
mystical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek μῡ́ω (mū́ō)
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)
Ancient Greek μῠέω (mŭéō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)
Ancient Greek μῠ́στης (mŭ́stēs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
Ancient Greek μῠστῐκός (mŭstĭkós)der.
Latin mysticus
Old French mistiqueder.
English mystic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English mystical
From mystic + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more mystical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mystical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mysticall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: mystickal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to mystics or mysticism.
pos: adj
gloss: Having a spiritual or magical significance that transcends human understanding.
pos: adj
examples: Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
gloss: Inspiring a sense of spiritual mystery, awe, and fascination.
pos: adj
Related words: mysterious
mystery
mystic
mysticality
mysticalness
mysticism
mystify
mystique
Derived words: hypermystical
mysticalize
mystically
mystical marriage
mysto
nonmystical
pseudomystical
religiomystical
semimystical
unmystical
Translations:
naught
Part of speech: pron
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From the Middle English naught, nought, naht, nawiht, from Old English nawiht. Cognate with West Frisian neat (“nothing, naught”). Doublet of nought. Equivalent to ne + aught.
Compound parts: ne
aught
Inflected forms:
form: nought
pos: pron
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Nothing.
pos: pron
examples: Naught can come of this, you mark my words.
Eat! Drink! Love! for all else is naught.
But that was naught to my old mate, he didn't mind at all.
My day starts where yesterday's had finished - at St Pancras, only this time on Thameslink and the subterranean station I first visited when it was naught but an empty box. Now it's a vital cross-London interchange.
Translations:
trading
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more trading
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most trading
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: tradings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Carrying on trade or commerce; engaged in trade.
pos: adj
examples: a trading company
gloss: Frequented by traders.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
rare
examples: they on the trading flood
gloss: Venal; corrupt; jobbing.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: a trading politician
gloss: The carrying on of trade.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
unbridled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English bridled
English unbridled
From un- + bridled.
Inflected forms:
form: more unbridled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unbridled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not fitted with a bridle.
pos: adj
examples: an unbridled horse
gloss: Without restraint or limit.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: unbridled capitalism
She jumped into the project with unbridled enthusiasm.
The doctor now interposed, and prevented the effects of a wrath which was kindling between Jones and Thwackum; after which the former gave a loose to mirth, sang two or three amorous songs, and fell into every frantic disorder which unbridled joy is apt to inspire […]
In a very precise voice, Miss Marley said to Jasper, "No, Jasper, I would never submit myself to the unbridled transports of passion."
Unbridled competition between the different means of transport is eliminated by a licensing system, to which all transport concerns, whether by land or water, are subjected for both regular and occasional transport.
His contempt was totally unbridled, as though my goal was a personal affront to him and all humanity.
Postecoglou, who said he would "never be a clown" in his pre-match address, brought smiles and unbridled joy to the faces of the 15,000 official, and many unofficial, Tottenham fans in Bilbao's San Mames Stadium.
Translations:
restraint
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English restreynte, from Old French restreinte; more at restrain.
Inflected forms:
form: restraints
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that restrains, ties, fastens or secures.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Make sure all the restraints are tight.
At the centre of Stalin’s superiority over his competitors was certainly his intense will, just as Napoleon ranked what he called ‘moral fortitude’ higher in a general than genius or experience. When Milovan Djilas said to Stalin during the Yugoslav-Soviet discussions in Moscow during the war that the Serbian politician Gavrilović was ‘a shrewd man’, Stalin commented, as though to himself: ‘Yes, there are politicians who think shrewdness is the main thing in politics. . . .’⁴⁴ His was a will-power taken to a logical extreme. There is something non-human about his almost total lack of normal restraints upon it.
gloss: Control or caution; reserve.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Try to exercise restraint when talking to your boss.
City will feel nonplussed when they review the tape and Pellegrini had to summon all his restraint in the post-match interviews.
Related words: constraint
restrain
restrict
Derived words: chemical restraint
child restraint
head restraint
judicial restraint
nonrestraint
prior restraint
restraintful
restraintless
restraint of trade
self-restraint
supplemental restraint system
unrestraint
Translations:
amplification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
business
chemistry
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
genetics
human-sciences
linguistics
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
translation-studies
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃-lo-s
Proto-Italic *amlos?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰíder.
Proto-Italic *amβi
Latin ambi-
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós
Proto-Italic *plēnosder.
Latin plēnus?
Latin ambiplus?
Latin amplus
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-fakāō
Latin -ficō
Latin amplificō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin amplificātiōlbor.
English amplification
Learned borrowing from Latin amplificātiō.
Inflected forms:
form: amplifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act, or result of amplifying, enlarging, extending or adding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act, or result of independently increasing some quantity, especially voltage, power or current.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Gain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The using of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for isolating and exponentially amplifying a fragment or sequence of DNA.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A procedure used in the nomenclature of complex organic compounds in which the superatoms of a basic structure (a phane) are replaced by cyclic structures (amplificants).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A translation technique that involves adding content that is not present in the source text to the target text, usually to improve the fluency of the translation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: ample
amplifiable
amplificatory
amplifier
amplify
amplitude
Derived words: amplificational
amplimer
autoamplification
bioamplification
chirped-pulse amplification
coamplification
microamplification
misamplification
nonamplification
overamplification
postamplification
preamplification
Raman amplification
reamplification
somatosensory amplification
underamplification
Translations:
listener
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English listen
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 listener
From listen + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: listeners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who listens, especially to a speech or a broadcast.
pos: noun
examples: […] she would set herself going, telling the most interminable stories, until the last listener was fast asleep[…]
And then her words tumbled out in a passion of communication, as though she hurried before her listener could be taken away.
gloss: A function that runs in response to an event; an event handler.
pos: noun
gloss: A person's ear.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Fancy Gazette, quoted in 1823, John Badcock, Slang, a Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the Pit, of Bon-Ton, and the Varieties of Life
Gas now planted his favourite hit under the left listener of his antagonist, which sent him to dorse.
gloss: A musical anthology.
pos: noun
tags: formal
Related words: audience
Derived words: listener fatigue
listenership
nonlistener
Translations:
stabilization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stable
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English stabilize
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English stabilization
From stabilize + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: stabilizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stabilisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The process of stabilizing.
pos: noun
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
uncountable
gloss: The result of being stabilized.
pos: noun
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
countable
examples: The use of solvent stabilizations for individual reagents is analogous to the use of heats of formation to compute heats of reaction.
gloss: A preliminary medical process for sick or injured people to attempt to keep their medical condition from deteriorating too much and too quickly before being treated in depth at a medical facility.
pos: noun
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
uncountable
Derived words: acidostabilization
autostabilization
biostabilization
destabilization
gyrostabilization
hyperstabilization
overstabilization
photostabilization
phytostabilization
prestabilization
restabilization
stabilization fund
superstabilization
thermostabilization
trauma-informed stabilization treatment
vermistabilization
Translations:
sild
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Norwegian and Danish sild, from Old Norse síld. More at sile. See also sillock.
Inflected forms:
form: silds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any young herring (other than a sprat), especially if canned and processed in Scandinavia for sale as a sardine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
ducktail
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From duck + tail.
Compound parts: duck
tail
Inflected forms:
form: ducktails
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hairstyle in which the hair is swept back into an upturned point at the back.
pos: noun
Translations:
diddly-squat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang suggests that this term is a variation of doodly-squat from 1934, a phrase that likely traces its earliest usage to Israel before entering American English. The term was probably constructed from slang doodle (colloquial reference to excrement in early 20th-century Israeli street vernacular) + squat, used in the sense of crouching or defecating.
Doodly-squat was originally the more common form, but diddly-squat overtook it in the early 1980s, and is now an order of magnitude more common in print.
Inflected forms:
form: diddly squat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: diddlysquat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: doodly-squat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: doodley-squat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Nothing; nothing whatsoever.
pos: noun
tags: US
humorous
often
slang
uncountable
examples: I didn't know diddly-squat about development; I also didn't know that someone could be an “officer” of major gifts. “Do they wear badges?” my friends had wanted to know, because my friends, like myself, had been completely ignorant of the field of development.
Money? Power? Maybe a little prestige? Everything they worked for amounted to diddly-squat; more money, bigger houses, more and more empty air. None of them would ever know the feeling of having a purpose in life.
Translations:
tetrode
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tetr- + -ode.
Base: tetr
Inflected forms:
form: tetrodes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A thermionic valve similar to a triode with the addition of a screen grid to improve the thermionic emission.
pos: noun
gloss: A dynatron.
pos: noun
gloss: A dual-gate MOSFET.
pos: noun
Related words: diode
triode
pentode
-ode
Derived words: beam tetrode
kinkless tetrode
Translations:
dynatron
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of dynamo + -tron.
Compound parts: dynamo
-tron
Inflected forms:
form: dynatrons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tetrode in which the voltage on the screen grid is higher than that on the control grid, causing the plate current to decrease as plate voltage increases; was used in oscillators.
pos: noun
Translations:
pentode
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pent- + -ode.
Base: pent
Inflected forms:
form: pentodes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A thermionic valve similar to a tetrode with the addition of a third grid, the suppressor grid to reduce the secondary emission effect; was/is used in high quality audio and radio products.
pos: noun
Translations:
paraffin
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
petrochemistry
petrology
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Latin paraffinum, from parum (too little) + affinis (related, affinity). Therefore low affinity or being chemically neutral.
Inflected forms:
form: paraffins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: paraffine
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: paraffins
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: paraffining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: paraffined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: paraffined
pos: verb
tags: past
form: paraffine
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A petroleum-based thin and colourless fuel oil.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
countable
uncountable
examples: She poured paraffin on the dry floors and on the pandanus-mats, and then she set fire.
The paper found high levels of phased-out flame retardants like PCBs and PBDEs, as well as allegedly safe, newer replacements chemicals, such as chlorinated paraffins and organophosphates, across the globe.
gloss: Any member of the alkane hydrocarbons.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Paraffin wax.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To impregnate or treat with paraffin.
pos: verb
gloss: To embed in paraffin wax.
pos: verb
Derived words: chloroparaffin
cycloparaffin
deparaffinate
histoparaffin
isoparaffin
liquid paraffin
nitroparaffin
nonparaffin
parafango
paraffinate
paraffinic
paraffinization
paraffinize
paraffin oil
paraffinoma
paraffin paper
paraffin scale
paraffin test
paraffiny
soft paraffin
Translations:
outdated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From outdate + -ed.
Base: outdate
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more outdated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most outdated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Out of date, old-fashioned, antiquated.
pos: adj
examples: His outdated wordprocessing software could not read the files I sent.
For example, by changing the use of existing rooms, removing or replacing unsightly features, clearing obstacles to easy circulation, rearranging direction signs and generally introducing as much order as possible, most outdated station buildings can be made reasonably efficient and attractive.
gloss: Out of date; not the latest; obsolete.
pos: adj
examples: Your version of the document is outdated.
Synonyms: fusty
parachronistic
Antonyms: modern
trendy
in fashion
in style
current
up to date
Derived words: outdatedly
outdatedness
Translations:
lang: Georgian
word: ხმარებიდან გამოსული
roman: xmarebidan gamosuli
lang: Georgian
word: ძალადაკარგული
roman: ʒaladaḳarguli
lang: Greek
word: απαρχαιωμένος
roman: aparchaioménos
lang: Italian
word: superato
lang: Italian
word: non aggiornato
lang: Māori
word: tūnguru
lang: Portuguese
word: desatualizado
lang: Russian
word: устаре́вший
roman: ustarévšij
lang: Russian
word: устаре́лый
roman: ustarélyj
lang: Spanish
word: desactualizado
lang: Ukrainian
word: застарілий
roman: zastarilyj
malinger
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French malingrer, from adjective malingre (“delicate, fragile”).
Inflected forms:
form: malingers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: malingering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: malingered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: malingered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To feign illness, injury, or incapacitation in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: It is not uncommon on exam days for several students to malinger rather than prepare themselves.
And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully! / Smoothed by long fingers, / Asleep … tired … or it malingers, / Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me.
It has been the impression of past investigators that persons who malinger psychosis have latent tendencies for the condition.
gloss: To self-inflict real injury or infection (to inflict self-harm) in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Related words: factitious disorder
differentiated from malingering by a component of real mental illness as opposed to solely a sane calculation of shirking
to call out someone for
or accuse someone of
either factitious pretense
malingering
Derived words: malingerer
malingering
malingeror
malingery
Translations:
microcosm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From French microcosme, from Latin microcosmus, from Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós, “small”) + κόσμος (kósmos, “universe, order”); micro- + -cosm.
Base: micro
Inflected forms:
form: microcosms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Human nature or the human body as representative of the wider universe; man considered as a miniature counterpart of divine or universal nature.
pos: noun
examples: The Christian humanists were emphatic in their demand that a man who wishes to understand himself must realize that he is a little world that reflects on a smaller scale the larger world of the universe. […] On the other hand, the whole idea of man as a microcosm was questioned by those who were not in sympathy with the Christian humanists.
gloss: The human body; a person.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: If you see this in the Map of my Microcosme, followes it that I am knowne well enough too?
gloss: A smaller system which is seen as representative of a larger one.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: epitome, paradigm, model
With a few actors at his disposition he created a microcosm of life.
That short journey to Brighton was like a microcosm of the railway universe, embracing as it did a tunnel, a viaduct, two junctions, and two termini! Unfortunately, the route was far from direct.
‘In a sense, the problems experienced at Bristol are like a microcosm of what is happening in the NHS - experienced surgeons battling against difficult circumstances, with inadequate resources and in a culture where the finding of scapegoats appears to be put before the finding of solutions.’
Steve Bruce's side have swung from highs to lows in what has been at best a wildly inconsistent start to the season. They experienced a microcosm of this within the opening 45 minutes at the Stadium of Light.
It should come as no surprise to see promotional material and bulletin boards in the department’s languages, though English is also present in the signage of this microcosm of the institution.
The wider North West and Central Region is itself a microcosm of the industry's complexity. Covering the approaches to London Euston, stretching through Birmingham and the West Midlands, and reaching Manchester, Liverpool and beyond, it is a patchwork of overlapping markets, political geographies, and infrastructure types.
gloss: A small natural ecosystem; an artificial ecosystem set up as an experimental model.
pos: noun
examples: The method is relatively labour intensive (24-30 microcosms are run) and more difficult to interpret when compared with other microcosm methods (Shannon et al. 1986; Cairns & Cherry 1993).
Antonyms: macrocosm
Derived words: heterocosm
microcosmic
microcosmography
Translations:
nyet
Part of speech: noun
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Russian нет (net)bor.
English nyet
Borrowed from Russian нет (net, “no”).
Inflected forms:
form: net
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: niet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: nyet!
pos: intj
tags: canonical
form: net
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: niet
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A no; a negative response (in a Russian context).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: No (in a Russian context).
pos: intj
examples: "Nyet," he said with an impatient wave, and walked into the cold night.
Nyet problem, Sarge.
Antonyms: da
Translations:
perquisite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Medieval Latin perquīsītumbor.
English perquisite
Borrowed from Medieval Latin perquīsītum (“something acquired for profit”).
Inflected forms:
form: perquisites
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: parquisite
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Any monetary or other incidental benefit beyond salary.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: The perquisites of this job include health insurance and a performance bonus.
The tithe properly belongs to the Lord who, in turn, assigns it to the Levites as payments for their sanctuary labors. Thus levitical and priestly perquisites are gifts from God.
gloss: A gratuity.
pos: noun
examples: After the wonderful service that evening he didn’t hesitate in laying a substantial perquisite on the table.
One voyage, I recollect, I tipped him a live sheep out of the remnant of my sea-stock: not that I wanted him to do anything for me—he couldn’t, you know—but because his childlike belief in the sacred right to perquisites quite touched my heart.
gloss: A privilege or possession held or claimed exclusively by a certain person, group or class.
pos: noun
examples: Private jets and motor yachts are perquisites of the rich.
Why is progress a perquisite reserved almost exclusively for the activities we call science?
Related words: prerequisite
Derived words: perquisited
Translations:
transitional
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle French transitionbor.
English transition
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English transitional
From transition + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: of, or relating to a transition
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: transitional justice
These tasks may be summarised as comprising the maintenance and improvement of railway services and facilities during a transitional period; the reorganising of systems of management and technical practices, so as to secure maximum efficiency and economy from the fusion of four major railway systems (using for these purposes all the resources and traditional skill of the former companies); and the building-up of a sense of common purpose and esprit de corps among a staff of more than 600,000 men and women.
gloss: temporary; pending the implementation of something new
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: XHTML 1.0 Transitional
Related words: transient
transit
transition
transitive
transitory
Derived words: multitransitional
nontransitional
posttransitional
pretransitional
transitional deacon
transitional epithelium
transitionality
transitional jacket
transitional justice
transitionally
transitionalness
transitional object
transitional planet
transitional provision
Translations:
transitory
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle French transitoire, from Old French, from Latin trānsitōrius.
Inflected forms:
form: more transitory
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most transitory
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Lasting only a short time; temporary.
pos: adj
examples: Secondly, That the Materials being very tranſitory, have ſuffered much from Inclemencies of Air, eſpecially in theſe North-Weſt Regions.
Quite unconscious of the demonstrations of their amorous neighbour, or their effects upon the susceptible bosom of her mama, Kate Nickleby had, by this time begun to enjoy a settled feeling of tranquillity and happiness, to which, even in occasional and transitory glimpses, she had long been a stranger.
For a moment she paused by the taxi-stand and watched them—wondering that but a few years before she had been of their number, ever setting out for a radiant Somewhere, always just about to have that ultimate passionate adventure for which the girls' cloaks were delicate and beautifully furred, for which their cheeks were painted and their hearts higher than the transitory dome of pleasure that would engulf them, coiffure, cloak, and all.
gloss: Of an action: that may be brought in any county
pos: adj
examples: in transitory actions, for injuries that might have happened anywhere
Related words: transient
Derived words: nontransitory
transitorily
transitoriness
untransitory
Translations:
translational
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
human-sciences
linguistics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
translation-studies
Etymology: Etymology tree
English translation
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English translational
From translation + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to translation, in its various senses:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Relating to translation, in its various senses:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Relating to translation, in its various senses:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: translational medicine
gloss: Relating to translation, in its various senses:
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: translational regulation
Derived words: cotranslational
mechanotranslational
mistranslational
nontranslational
posttranslational
post-translational
pretranslational
rototranslational
translational bioinformatics
translational energy
translationally
translational science
untranslational
Translations:
translative
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin translativus (“that is to be transferred”). Compare French translatif.
Inflected forms:
form: more translative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most translative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: translatives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to the movement of a person or thing from one place to another.
pos: adj
gloss: Of, or relating to the translation of language.
pos: adj
examples: Which suiting the case so well, you’ll forgive me, Sir, for popping down in English metre, as the translative impulse (pardon a new word, and yet we scholars are not fond of authenticating new words) came upon me uncalled for:
gloss: Of, or relating to the translative case.
pos: adj
gloss: In the form of a trope; figurative.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: 1589, George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie, edited by Edward Arber, London: Alexander Murray & Son, 1869, Book 3, Chapter 18, p. 197,
But properly and in his principall vertue Allegoria is when we do speake in sence translatiue and wrested from the owne signification, neuerthelesse applied to another not altogether contrary, but hauing much conueniencie with it as before we said of the metaphore: as for example if we should call the common wealth, a shippe; the Prince a Pilot, the Counsellours mariners, the stormes warres, the calme and [hauen] peace, this is spoken in allegorie […]
gloss: The translative case.
pos: noun
gloss: A word in the translative case.
pos: noun
Derived words: translatively
Translations:
translocate
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-t
Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t
Proto-Indo-European *-ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts
Proto-Italic *trāns
Proto-Italic *trāns-
Latin trans-bor.
English trans-
English locate
English translocate
From trans- + locate.
Inflected forms:
form: translocates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: translocating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: translocated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: translocated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: translocates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To displace, or move from one place to another.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Unexpectedly, even some of the monoliths are throwing out new shoots. This is great news, as these trees contain ancient woodland DNA, so are a very valuable seedbank. Further along the site, Penny shows me a famous translocated stump... the Cubbington pear tree. [...] The stump was translocated, and the trunk used as a monolith - but not before dozens of cuttings had been taken, some of which are growing nearby. And the stump? It's already throwing out dozens of new shoots as it's become re-established.
gloss: To cause to undergo translocation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To cause to undergo translocation, usually a transition through a membrane.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: The substance that is moved by translocation.
pos: noun
Derived words: cotranslocate
hypertranslocate
nontranslocated
nontranslocating
posttranslocated
pretranslocated
retranslocate
retranslocated
retrotranslocate
retrotranslocated
translocase
translocatable
translocation
translocational
translocator
translocon
untranslocatable
untranslocated
Translations:
translucence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English translucence, from Medieval Latin trānslūcentia.
Inflected forms:
form: translucences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the state of being translucent
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
translunar
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-t
Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t
Proto-Indo-European *-ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts
Proto-Italic *trāns
Proto-Italic *trāns-
Latin trans-bor.
English trans-
English lunar
English translunar
From trans- + lunar.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Towards the Moon from the Earth or another planet.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Situated beyond the Moon or its orbit; unworldly.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: over the moon
Translations:
conduit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
cellular-automata
computing
engineering
finance
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English conduyt, condit, from Old French conduit, from Latin conductus. Doublet of conduct.
Inflected forms:
form: conduits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cundite
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A channel or pathway through which something is conducted, carried, etc.
pos: noun
examples: This channel is a conduit to send the excess water back to the millpond.
gloss: A channel or pathway through which something is conducted, carried, etc.
pos: noun
examples: Last week the electricians were running conduit, and this week they'll be pulling cable.
gloss: A channel or pathway through which something is conducted, carried, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A channel or pathway through which something is conducted, carried, etc.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The medium considered herself a conduit for messages from the spirit world.
Francis, by contrast, was at pains to listen and act, going so far in 2023 as to call a curiously named synod on synodality in his anxiety to make the process work better as a conduit between the centre and the outposts of his global church.
gloss: A channel or pathway through which something is conducted, carried, etc.
pos: noun
Derived words: anticonduit
conduit bender
conduitlike
microconduit
Translations:
transmissible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
media
medicine
radio
radio-communications
sciences
Etymology: From Latin trānsmissus + -ible.
Base: trānsmissus
Affixes: -ible
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Able to be transmitted.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: (but the last two are not interchangeable in formal registers)
gloss: Able to be transmitted.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Able to transmit a disease; infectious, contagious.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Because I think from a public health perspective, knowing that you are transmissible and going around transmitting, because sometimes that's not your main intention. I don't want to go around to transmit. But I think knowing that you are transmissible and still engaging in possible acts that might transmit the virus is an irresponsible thing to do.
2026 April 23, Duncan Leatherdale, "Rapist who infected men and boys with HIV jailed" (BBC News) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg98qjrllqo
Bindloss said Hall had been "fully and repeatedly" warned about the infection risk he posed, yet chose to keep himself "transmissible" while lying about his status to sexual partners in a "significant degree of premeditation".
Derived words: intransmissible
nontransmissible
transmissible spongiform encephalopathy
untransmissible
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: transmissible
lang: Danish
word: overførbar
lang: Dutch
word: overdraagbaar
lang: Galician
word: transmisible
lang: Galician
word: transmisíbel
lang: Hungarian
word: átadható
lang: Italian
word: trasmissibile
lang: Manx
word: so-chur
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: overførbar
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: overførbar
lang: Portuguese
word: transmissível
lang: Romanian
word: transmisibil
lang: Spanish
word: transmisible
transmissive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the transmission of something.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to transmissivity of a material.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Allowing something to pass through.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a transmissive layer
Derived words: neurotransmissive
nontransmissive
supertransmissive
transflective
transmissively
transmissiveness
Translations: