yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
organoid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-der.
Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon)bor.
Latin organumder.
Old French organebor.
Middle English organe
English organ
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *wéydos
Proto-Hellenic *wéidos
Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs)
Latin -oīdēslbor.
English -oid
English organoid
From organ + -oid.
Inflected forms:
form: more organoid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most organoid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: organoids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Resembling an organ of the body.
pos: adj
gloss: An organelle.
pos: noun
gloss: A mass of cells, either artificially grown in vitro to simulate an organ or an abnormal mass that resembles an organ in structural appearance or qualities, such as a tumour.
pos: noun
Translations:
gooney
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: gooneys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: goonies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: goonie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: goony
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of several albatrosses, especially the black-footed albatross (Diomedea nigripes) and the Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis), that dwell primarily on islands in the Pacific Ocean, often near naval bases.
pos: noun
gloss: a foolish, silly or awkward person or thing; a goon.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Derived words: goon
Translations:
goral
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From an eastern Indian word for the Himalayan goral.
Likely an early borrowing from Nepali घोरल (ghoral, “Himalayan goral”) or a related language.
Inflected forms:
form: gorals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ghoral
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ghooral
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ghural
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gooral
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: goorul
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gural
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A type of Asian ungulate ruminant, now defined as any of the four species of the genus Naemorhedus.
pos: noun
examples: The goral has a wide distribution, from the Indus Kohistan region in the western Himalaya in Pakistan, across the eastern Himalaya, Myanmar, Thailand, China and in a few scattered areas in South Korea, North Korea, eastern Russia and the adjoining regions of China.
The gorals of Shanxi, sometimes separated as a taxon vidianus, fall into the range of N. griseus.
The goral is a ruminant (cud chewer) closely related to the serow, but it is distinguished from the serow by peculiarities in its skull form as well as by its smaller size, shorter horns, and absence of conspicuous preorbital glands.
Translations:
goose-rumped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: having a steep, sloping croup, a narrow rump, and a low set to the tail
pos: adj
Translations:
grody
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From groady, apparently a clipping of grotesque + -y (intervocalic /t/ and /d/ are similar in American English). Compare British grotty, of the same origin, and gro.
Popularized by Moon Unit Zappa in song "Valley Girl" (1982) in phrase "grody to the max", as archetypal Southern California Valleyspeak; song also popularized "gag me with a spoon".
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: grodier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: grodiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: groady
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Nasty, dirty, disgusting, foul, revolting, yucky, grotesque.
pos: adj
tags: US
informal
examples: I wouldn't set foot in that bar; the floor looks grody.
And the lady, like, goes / "Oh, my god, your toenails are, like, so grody" / […] / It’s like grody / Grody to the max / […] / Gross!
Oh wait. It's just grody and rotten. The Cheat, will you please freaking clean up after yourself?
Translations:
X-chair
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: X-chairs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A folding chair with an X-shaped frame.
pos: noun
Translations:
infidelity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English infidelite, from Middle French infidelité (modern French infidélité) and its etymon Latin īnfidēlitās. Equivalent to infidel + -ity.
Base: infidel
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: infidelities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Unfaithfulness in a marriage or an intimate (sexual or romantic) relationship: practice or instance of having a sexual or romantic affair with someone other than one's spouse, without the consent of the spouse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Your friends tell you rumors about your girlfriend's infidelity or you remember being broken up around the time the baby was conceived.
gloss: Unfaithfulness in some other moral obligation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It was disastrous that England's infidelity towards Frederick the Great — which no one, not even a German, condemned more strongly than did William Pitt — had to affect one of the most popular heroes of our national history.
gloss: Lack of religious belief.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: The means used to this purpose are partly didactical, and partly protreptical; demonstrating the truth of the gospel, and then urging the professors of those truths to be stedfast^([sic]) in the faith, and to beware of infidelity.
1926, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Land of Mist
The Churchman remarked that such incidents arose from the growing infidelity, while the Freethinker saw in them a reversion to superstition.
Antonyms: faithfulness
loyalty
fidelity
Related words: infidel
low fidelity
nullifidianism
unfaithfulness
Translations:
polemical
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From polemic + -al. By surface analysis, polem- + -ic + -al.
Base: polemic
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more polemical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most polemical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: polemicall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: polemicals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: polemicall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Related to argument or controversy; containing polemic, being polemic.
pos: adj
examples: […] in order to give a comprehensive critical and polemical analysis of the Dictionary in question, a whole book would be needed.
Bachelard has given a clear analysis of the "Atlas complex", a polemical complex and schema of verticalising effort or elevation, accompanied by a feeling of monarchical contemplation which diminishes the world so as better to glorify the gigantic, and the ambition inherent in ascensional reveries.
gloss: Related to argument or controversy; containing polemic, being polemic.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
examples: And though the annals of the period do not show us that there was less ale drawn, or less canary called for; men got dry with the heat of polemical discussion, and drunk with a text, not the fag end of a ballad, in their mouths; and people made a sort of morality of straight hair, long faces, and sad-coloured garments.
Not only are all these allegations worded in an unnecessarily polemical style, they are also simply false
Remarkable here is the rather polemical choice of words […]
If democratic legitimacy is a principle—and not just a polemical weapon wielded by the left in a selective and self-serving way—then we would have to consider not only the democratic legitimacy of a potential reversal of Roe but also the democratic legitimacy (if any) of the constitutional right to abortion itself.
Correct. That was actually my first internet controversy many years ago, with the kinists, white identitarians — I call them skinists. And I’ve been in polemical firefights with antisemites and actual misogynists, not people who are accused of being that way.
gloss: A diatribe or polemic.
pos: noun
Derived words: nonpolemical
overpolemical
philopolemical
polemically
unpolemical
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: polèmic
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 挑起爭端嘅 /挑起争端嘅
roman: tiu¹ hei² zang¹ dyun¹ ge³
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 好争论的
roman: hàozhēnglùnde
lang: Esperanto
word: polemika
lang: Georgian
word: პოლემიკური
roman: ṗolemiḳuri
lang: German
word: polemisch
napa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the regional and colloquial Japanese term 菜っ葉 (nappa, “leaves of any vegetable”).
Inflected forms:
form: napas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nappa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis, a kind of Chinese cabbage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
PRATT
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Initialism of point refuted a thousand times.
Inflected forms:
form: PRATTs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An often-made but previously debunked argument
pos: noun
Translations:
frig
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English friggen (“to quiver”), perhaps from Old English *frygian (“to rub, caress”), related to Old English frēogan, frīgan (“to love, release, embrace, caress”), frīge (pl., “love”). Compare also Faroese fríggj (“erotocism, sex, flirtation”), Old English ġefrīgian (“to embrace”). More at free.
Alternative etymology derives frig (Early Modern English frigge), from Middle English frikien (“to keep (the arms and hands) in constant motion”), from Old English frician (“to dance”).
Inflected forms:
form: frigs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: frigging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: frigged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: frigged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: frigs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To masturbate.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
slang
examples: She never forgot the day she was caught frigging herself in the library.
There was an old parson of Lundy,
Fell asleep in his vestry on Sunday;
He awoke with a scream,
"What, another wet dream,
This comes of not frigging since Monday."
gloss: To fuck; to have sex.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
euphemistic
mildly
slang
vulgar
examples: Come on, honey, let’s frig.
Not that we didn’t frig in the day-time too.
gloss: To mess or muck usually with about or around'.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: Be sensible; you’re just frigging about now.
gloss: To break.
pos: verb
examples: Where’s you get this ladder from? It’s frigged!
gloss: To make a temporary alteration to something, to fudge, to manipulate.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
slang
examples: The system wasn't working but I've frigged the data and it's usable now.
gloss: An act of frigging.
pos: noun
gloss: A temporary modification to a piece of equipment to change the way it operates (usually away from as originally designed).
pos: noun
examples: I had to put a couple of frigs across the switch relays but it works now.
gloss: A fuck.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
mildly
slang
vulgar
examples: I don’t give a frig!
Synonyms: pleasure oneself
feck
frack
frak
copulate with
patch
Derived words: frigger
frigging
friggle
frig up
frig off
frig around
Translations:
clip-clop
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Onomatopoeia for two footsteps in succession.
Inflected forms:
form: clip-clops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: clip clop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: clip-clops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: clip-clopping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: clip-clopped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: clip-clopped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: clip clop
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The sound of steps on hard ground, especially of a horse's hooves.
pos: noun
tags: onomatopoeic
examples: Meronyms: clop, cloop
The wagon creaked, swayed, moved on to strange accompaniment— clip-clop, clip-clop, clip-clop. The horses were trotting on hard road.
1984, Anthony C. Yu, tr. 吴承恩, 西游记 (Wu Cheng'en, Journey to the West) http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0226971538&id=1q2jr5jttaUC&pg=PA39&lpg=PA39&dq=%22clip-clops%22&sig=AK8LZaIEHgK0n1Bxa7jLM3YK_Xo
With loud clip-clops, several middle-aged women ran out from within to stare at the T’ang monk, grinning stupidly all the time.
Suddenly I heard the familiar “clip-clop, clip-clop” of shower shoes coming up the path behind me—and a rapid pace it was.
2003, Ann Redisch Stampler, Something for Nothing http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0618159827&id=F6U_tU8-FFkC&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=clip-clop&sig=bhYqdn7LQFMg6a0BuBGFIgpnP2E
All night long, Dog heard the clip-clop of horses hauling the wagons to market.
gloss: To make a clip-clop noise.
pos: verb
examples: At the some moment, a horse clip-clops past, hauling a wagon.
2002, D J Vallone, For the Love of Freedom http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0595226183&id=xKV1VCsAwZIC&pg=PA92&lpg=PA92&dq=%22clip-clops%22&sig=-LkO8mWX7qKZGvv2vcIXOHpIqYM
One of several pairs of mounted police in flak jackets clip-clops past, patrolling the perimeter.
There was a single arrivals platform, nearest to King's Cross. The large arch beneath the clock gave access to Hansom carriages clip-clopping up the cobbled ramp from the main gate in Euston Road, directly onto the platform, to meet well-to-do passengers.
Translations:
footfall
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From foot (“part of the human leg below the ankle”) + fall (“act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity”, noun).
Compound parts: foot
fall
Inflected forms:
form: footfalls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: foot-fall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The sound made by a footstep; also, the footstep or step itself.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: [L]ike Hedg-hogs vvhich / Lye tumbling in my bare-foote vvay, and mount / Their pricks at my foot-fall: ſometime am I / All vvound vvith Adders, vvho vvith clouen tongues / Doe hiſſe me into madneſſe: […]
They are treading fast and thick. For weeks you could have heard a foot-fall.
At last I slid off into a light doze, and had pretty nearly made a good offing towards the land of Nod, when I heard a heavy footfall in the passage, and saw a glimmer of light come into the room from under the door.
He did not hear her approach, her footfall was so light; and it was with the same silent step she went into the room, and knelt down beside him, and put her hands and face on his knee, […]
I thought of going out for a ride, and was about to get up when I heard a footfall on the steps behind. I looked back, but there was no one. As I sat down again, thinking it to be an illusion, I heard many footfalls, as if a large number of persons were rushing down the steps.
What might have been and what has been / Point to one end, which is always present. / Footfalls echo in the memory / Down the passage which we did not take / Towards the door we never opened / Into the rose-garden.
I cannot believe that he is gone. I expect him with every footfall I hear on the GCN stairs.
gloss: The number of pedestrians going into or passing through a place (especially a commercial venue such as a shop) during a specified time period; also, the pedestrians in a particular place regarded collectively; foot traffic.
pos: noun
tags: Malaysia
uncountable
examples: However, footfall is still below pre-Covid levels while there is also a surge of incoming supply. - "Are There Too Many Retail Malls In Malaysia?", BFM 89.9
Once up, the cross-border RTS project, which can ferry an expected peak capacity of up to 10,000 passengers per hour per direction between Singapore’s Woodlands North MRT station and Bukit Chagar station in Johor Bahru, will lead to a significant increase in footfall in the area. - The Straits Times
This stir of change and these perpetual echoes of the moving footfall, haunt the land. Men move eternally, still chasing Fortune; and, fortune found, still wander.
With high-street stores desperate to increase footfall and buck the financial downturn, retailers have started issuing discount vouchers.
John Betjeman enjoyed travelling on the line and said that, when he retired, he'd like to be the station master at Blake Hall, which was the stop before Ongar until it (Blake Hall) was closed permanently in 1981, its passenger footfall being down to six a day, or twelve, depending on whether you're counting passengers or feet.
Translations:
right-click
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: right-clicks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: right-clicking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: right-clicked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: right-clicked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rightclick
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To press the right-hand button on a computer mouse.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To activate (an item on the screen) by right-clicking while the pointer is over it.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You can download Google's deskbar for free […] It automatically installs itself as a toolbar on the Windows XP taskbar, but you have to turn it on by right-clicking the taskbar and choosing Toolbars → Google Deskbar.
Related words: left-click
middle-click
Translations:
lang: Danish
word: højreklikke
lang: Finnish
word: napsauttaa hiiren kakkospainikkeella
lang: Icelandic
word: hægrismella á
lang: Irish
word: deaschliceáil
lang: Russian
word: щёлкать пра́вой кно́пкой мы́ши
roman: ščólkatʹ právoj knópkoj mýši
lang: Russian
word: щёлкнуть пра́вой кно́пкой мы́ши
roman: ščólknutʹ právoj knópkoj mýši
lang: Swedish
word: högerklicka
lang: Turkish
word: sağ tıklamak
left-click
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: left-clicks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: left-clicking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: left-clicked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: left-clicked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: leftclick
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To press the left button on a computer mouse.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To activate an item on the screen by left-clicking while the pointer is over it.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: middle-click
right-click
Translations:
unfashionable
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 fashionable
English unfashionable
From un- + fashionable.
Inflected forms:
form: more unfashionable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unfashionable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not fashionable.
pos: adj
examples: The fashionable intelligence says so for the comfort of the Parisians, and it knows all fashionable things. To know things otherwise were to be unfashionable.
gloss: That cannot be fashioned; unshapely, distorted.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;
I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them ...
Synonyms: démodé
passé
unchic
malformed
misshapen
basic
cheugy
cringe
cringey
cringeworthy
dated
fossilized
inelegant
last year
normie
old
old-fashioned
old-hat
oldfangled
ossified
out
out of date
out of fashion
out of touch
outdated
outmoded
rinky-dink
tacky
uncool
unfashionable
unhip
unpopular
unstylish
untrendy
Antonyms: fashionable
Related words: on its way out
hackneyed
obsolete
unkempt
Translations:
two-footed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
Etymology: From Middle English two-foted, equivalent to two + footed. Compare Old English twifēte (“two-footed”), Old Norse tvífættr (“two-footed”).
Base: two
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having two legs or feet.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Ambidextrous of the feet; having equal ability with either foot.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Fred Flanagan, for two-footed kicking, marking ability and instinctive leadership, has been the best of the centre half forwards, but not much ahead of "Whopper" Lane.
In contrast to his club duties, he had a role towards the left, but a change of flanks has no significance for a two-footed player.
Oct 20, 2010, Cameron Smith, Yahoo! Sports Blog, Two-footed Georgia placekicker creating quite a stir
gloss: Using both feet.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Villa full-back Alan Hutton was perhaps fortunate to stay on the field when his two-footed challenge on Shane Long went unpunished by referee Phil Dowd.
Translations:
cardia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek καρδία (kardía, “heart”). Doublet of heart and possibly of core.
Inflected forms:
form: cardias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cardiae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The area of the stomach which directly receives contents from the esophagus.
pos: noun
examples: In some insects different cell types can be identified microscopically within the cardia.
The first one is stripping from up to down for tumours in the cardias, the other one is stripping from down to up for cervical esophageal cancer.
After several rinses in fresh culture medium the cardiae were transferred to sterilized vessels with culture medium which had been sterilized by filtration.
Translations:
motivator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Anglo-Norman motifder.
Middle French motifder.
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *moweō
Late Latin moveō
Late Latin mōtus
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Late Latin -īvus
Late Latin mōtīvumder.
Middle English motif
English motive
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātuslbor.
English -ate
English motivate
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Latin -ātor
Old French -eorbor.
Middle English -our
▲
Latin -torlbor.
English -or
English motivator
From motivate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: motivators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who inspires or motivates someone; one who drives someone to act.
pos: noun
Translations:
integumentary
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English integument
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusder.
Middle English -arie
English -ary
English integumentary
From integument + -ary.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, related to, or composed of integuments.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
empathic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: literature
media
parapsychology
pseudoscience
publishing
science-fiction
Etymology: Etymology tree
English empathy
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English empathic
From empathy + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more empathic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most empathic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Showing or expressing empathy.
pos: adj
examples: Be fair to people: even those who manage to be empathic can't be telepathic. They're only human — they can't read your mind.
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or being an empath, having an extraordinarily high capability of sensing the emotions of others.
pos: adj
examples: Be fair to people: not everyone can be empathic, like Cathy is. Her gift is rare.
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or being an empath, having an extraordinarily high capability of sensing the emotions of others.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: telempathic, telepathic
I didn't know he was empathic until I realized that he had evidently read my mind with his cyborg implant.
Derived words: empathically
empathic embarrassment
nonempathic
overempathic
unempathic
Translations:
crinoid
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κρίνον (krínon, “lily”) + -oid.
Affixes: -oid
Inflected forms:
form: crinoids
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more crinoid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most crinoid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: One of the numerous animals that make up the class Crinoidea; the feather stars or sea lilies.
pos: noun
gloss: Relating to or sharing the qualities and features of the class Crinoidea.
pos: adj
examples: It was treasured and placed in its curious box by the crinoid things of Antarctica, salvaged from their ruins by the serpent-men of Valusia, and peered at aeons later in Lemuria by the first human beings.
Translations:
touch-tone
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the trade name Touch-Tone, 1960.
Inflected forms:
form: touchtone
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: touch-tones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: touchtone
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to a type of telephone with buttons, each of which produces a tone which corresponds to the relevant digit.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A telephone with buttons that produce tones, one for each digit.
pos: noun
examples: a teleconference service for touch-tones only
gloss: A tone produced by such a telephone.
pos: noun
examples: software to decode touch-tones
Related words: rotary dial
Translations:
achalasia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + χάλασις (khálasis, “relaxation”), from χαλάω (khaláō, “I loosen”).
Inflected forms:
form: achalasias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A neuromuscular condition where a ring of muscles is unable to relax fully, causing obstruction of a lumen, as:
pos: noun
tags: countable
especially
uncountable
usually
gloss: A neuromuscular condition where a ring of muscles is unable to relax fully, causing obstruction of a lumen, as:
pos: noun
tags: countable
especially
uncountable
usually
gloss: A neuromuscular condition where a ring of muscles is unable to relax fully, causing obstruction of a lumen, as:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
disenchantment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
Etymology: From dis- + enchantment. In the social sciences sense a calque of German Entzauberung, as used by sociologist Max Weber.
Base: enchantment
Affixes: dis-
Inflected forms:
form: disenchantments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of disenchanting or the state of being disenchanted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Freeing from false belief or illusions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Disenchantment with the religion led to a sharp fall in church attendance.
gloss: The devaluation of religion or mysticism apparent in modern society.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Blumenberg's thesis, which has since been reiterated by a number of philosophers and historians, is that nominalism, as it became widespread in Protestant theology, led to the Enlightenment, disenchantment, and the scientific revolution.
Translations:
swath
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English swath, swathe, from Old English swæþ, swaþu (“track; trace; footstep”), from Proto-Germanic *swaþō (“a wind-swept place; open field”), of unknown further origin. Has been derived from a Proto-Indo-European *swey- (“to bend, turn, swing”), and compared with Ancient Greek σιμός (simós, “snub-nosed”) and Welsh chwil (“reeling, staggering”), though this is uncertain, as well as the Greek comparandum being unlikely.
Cognate with Dutch zwade, zwad (“swath; windrow”), German Schwade (“swath; windrow”), Icelandic svæði (“area; zone; sector; region”).
other etymological information
Corresponds to Middle Low German and Middle Dutch swat, Middle High German and MNG swade, NDu swad(e), Old Frisian swethe (“border”).
Root meaning: trace of a cut.
Attested in English since 888 in its obsolete meaning of track or trace, since 1475 in its more modern usage.
Cognate with German Schwaden (“row of mown grass or grain”).
No definite cognates outside Germanic languages.
* See F. Kluge, Etymologisches Wörterbuch (De Gruyter), entry Schwaden, and OED.
Inflected forms:
form: swaths
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: swathe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The track cut out by a scythe in mowing.
pos: noun
gloss: A broad sweep or expanse, such as of land or of people.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
often
examples: A large swath of the population is opposed to this government policy.
Five days after Hurricane Katrina, large swaths of New Orleans are still submerged in water.
It is undeniable that Malcolm was a beacon of huge strength in his lifetime. He could connect with swaths of people when others could not.
Related words: math
Derived words: cut a swath
cut a wide swath
swather
Translations:
pseud
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Possible clipping of pseudointellectual. From Ancient Greek ψευδής (pseudḗs, “false, lying”).
Inflected forms:
form: pseuds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An intellectually pretentious person; a poseur.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: He and two friends were known as “the three pseuds” among the rest of the boys, who thought them too clever by half.
Translations:
flagrant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French flagrant, from Latin flagrantem, present participle of flagrare (“blaze, burn”). More at black.
Inflected forms:
form: more flagrant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most flagrant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: flagraunt
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
rare
Senses:
gloss: Obvious and offensive; blatant; scandalous.
pos: adj
examples: 'Tis certain, therefore, that in all our notions of morals vve never entertain ſuch an abſurdity as that of paſſive obedience, but make allovvances for reſiſtance in the more flagrant inſtances of tyranny and oppreſſion.
gloss: On fire; flaming.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
Related words: in flagrante delicto
in flagrant delict
Derived words: flagrantly
unflagrant
Translations:
aerate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér
Proto-Hellenic *auhḗr
Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr)bor.
Latin aer
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātuslbor.
English -ate
English aerate
From Latin aer (“air”) + English -ate. Compare French aérer.
Inflected forms:
form: aerates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: aerating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: aerated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: aerated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To supply with oxygen or air.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Blood is aerated in the lungs.
gloss: To bubble or sparge with a gas, especially oxygen or air.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Carbon dioxide aerated the drink and made it fizzy.
gloss: To incorporate a gas, especially oxygen or air, into a solid or semisolid material.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The mousse was aerated by beating rapidly.
Derived words: aeratable
aeration
aerator
deaerate
nonaerating
overaerate
reaerate
Translations:
foreclose
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Partially from Middle English foreclosen, forclosen, from Old French forclos, past participle of forclore (“to exclude”), from for- (“(prefix used to express error, exclusion, or inadequacy)”) + clore (“to shut”), and partially from Middle English forclusen (“to close up”), from Old English forclȳsan (“to close up”), equivalent to fore- + close.
Base: close
Affixes: fore-
Inflected forms:
form: forecloses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: foreclosing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: foreclosed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: foreclosed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To repossess a mortgaged property whose owner has failed to make the necessary payments; used with on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They have to move out of their house because the bank foreclosed on their mortgage.
gloss: To cut off (a mortgager) by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged premises.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To shut up or out; to prevent from doing something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The embargo with Spain foreclosed this trade.
One of the paradoxes of Ostpolitik, as practiced by Brandt and his successors, was that by transferring large sums of hard currency into East Germany and showering the GDR with recognition, attention, and support, West German officials unintentionally foreclosed any chance of internal change, including reform of Eastern Germany’s polluted, antiquated industrial economy.
to foreclose the possibility completely. she packed the footwell of the passenger seat with her duffel bag and camping gear and buckled a stack of seed trays on to the seat.
Related words: forestall
preclude
Derived words: foreclosee
forecloser
foreclosure
foreclosable
Translations:
foulard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French foulardbor.
English foulard
Borrowed from French foulard.
Inflected forms:
form: foulards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A lightweight silk or silk-and-cotton fabric, often with a printed pattern.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Empress and the little Grand Duchess wore simple suits of foulard (or foulard silk, I don't know which is proper,) with a small blue spot in it […]
A lot of foulard tie bulged out and was rain-spotted above his crossed lapels.
"Frammis on the Antispode": The doubletalk heading this paragraph takes the sting out of Mr. Ruark's comment, even if his gay colored foulard Sinatra bow tie didn't contradict his comment[.]
gloss: A piece of clothing, or a handkerchief, made with this fabric.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
literati
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin lītera
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Latin līterātībor.
English literati
From Latin līterātī, plural of līterātus (“lettered, literate”).
Inflected forms:
form: literatus
pos: noun
tags: singular
form: literato
pos: noun
tags: singular
form: litterati
pos: noun
tags: alternative
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: Well-educated, literary people; intellectuals who are interested in literature.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-normally
examples: First, to Counsellor Fitzclabber, who, he told me, was then employed in compiling a history of the kings of Minster, from Irish manuscripts; and then to his friend Mr. Gahagan, who was a profound philosopher and politician, and had projected many excellent schemes for the good of his country. But it seems these literati had been very ill rewarded for their ingenious labours; for, between them both, there was but one shirt, and half a pair of breeches.
He is not of the people, this lordly magistrate. He is one of the privileged literati. His literary degrees are high and numerous.
Just like every other human organization, the selection of political leaders through the parties has its weaknesses, but these have been exposed ad nauseam by German literati during the last decades.
Eighteenth-century Scottish intellectuals, the literati, had substantial interests in America. Yet no one has ever noticed just how extensive the ties were that bound the literati to the new world, or how relatively novel those were for Scots in the eighteenth century, and how they were formed and shaped.
Antonyms: illiterati
Translations:
memorability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: memorabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being memorable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
kere
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Aramaic קְרֵי (qəre, “to be read”).
Inflected forms:
form: keri
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: k'ri
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: qere
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: qeri
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: q'ri
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A reading that in the traditional Jewish mode of reading the Hebrew Bible is substituted for one actually standing in the consonantal text, with the consonants of the word or phrase to be read being usually given in the margin and the vowel points being inserted in the text (if the text is vocalized).
pos: noun
tags: Judaism
Translations:
irredentist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Irredentist.
Inflected forms:
form: irredentists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more irredentist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most irredentist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Someone who calls for the seizure or recovery of territories or states currently subject to other countries; an adherent of irredentism.
pos: noun
examples: As the assassination of Sadat proved, the Arab irredentists, like the Zionist ultras, have always been unerring in picking off any incipient mediators.
gloss: Of or relating to irredentists or their policies.
pos: adj
examples: In 1885, a Bulgarian irredentist movement seized control of neighbouring Ottoman-ruled Eastern Roumelia and announced the creation of a Greater Bulgaria.
Translations:
Qashqai
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Persian قشقایی, from the name in Qashqai, قشقایی.
Inflected forms:
form: Gashgai
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Ghashghai
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Kashgai
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Khashgai
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Qashgai
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Quashgai
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Quashqai
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A tribal confederation of clans of Turkic origin in the Shiraz region of Iran.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: The Quashgai men were lean, hard-mouthed, weatherbeaten and wore cylindrical caps of white felt.
Translations:
xylocaine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From xylo- + -caine.
Base: xylo
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Lidocaine.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
X-stretcher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the resemblance to the letter X.
Inflected forms:
form: X-stretchers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pair of flat or curved stretchers, on a chair etc., that often have a knob at the intersection
pos: noun
Translations:
X-stool
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: X-stools
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A simple stool having an X-shaped frame, often one that folds
pos: noun
Translations:
quasi-reorganization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷís
Proto-Italic *kʷis
Proto-Indo-European *kʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷos
Proto-Italic *kʷoi
Latin quam
Proto-Indo-European *sóder.
Proto-Italic *sei
Latin sī
univ.
Latin quasī̆bor.
English quasi-
English reorganization
English quasi-reorganization
From quasi- + reorganization.
Inflected forms:
form: quasi-reorganizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A corporate accounting procedure in which recapitalization is achieved by the elimination of the existing deficit and the establishment of a new earned surplus account for future earnings only.
pos: noun
Translations:
quasi-rent
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: economics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷís
Proto-Italic *kʷis
Proto-Indo-European *kʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷos
Proto-Italic *kʷoi
Latin quam
Proto-Indo-European *sóder.
Proto-Italic *sei
Latin sī
univ.
Latin quasī̆bor.
English quasi-
English rent
English quasi-rent
From quasi- + rent.
Inflected forms:
form: quasi-rents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The income earned, in excess of post-investment opportunity cost, by a sunk cost investment.
pos: noun
Translations:
quartzitic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English quartzite
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English quartzitic
From quartzite + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or containing quartzite.
pos: adj
Translations:
quadratus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin quadratus, perfect passive participle of quadro (“to make square”).
Inflected forms:
form: quadrati
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several roughly square or rectangular muscles, e.g. in the abdomen, thigh, and eye socket.
pos: noun
Translations:
Lycra
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Marketing coinage.
Inflected forms:
form: Lycras
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lycra
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A type of synthetic elastic fabric and fibre (spandex) used for tight-fitting garments, such as swimming costumes.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Clothing made from such materials, especially with reference to cycling shorts.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A tight-fitting garment made of Lycra.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Being a gym bunny is simply unbecoming. Not as unbecoming, perhaps, as the bicycle bunnies, with their helmet hair, their strangely padded Lycras that suggest a degree of sexual depravity and those ridiculous clacky shoes. But we’re not very pleasing to behold.
Translations:
cover-up
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cover updeverb.
English cover-up
Deverbal from cover up.
Inflected forms:
form: cover-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: coverup
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An attempt to conceal or disguise something, especially a wrongdoing or a mistake.
pos: noun
examples: Truthfulness means no lies and no cover-ups. Compassion means being kind and helpful to others. Forbearance means being able to tolerate and suffer, and not fight back.
[War metaphors] are used, either consciously or unconsciously, for specific effect and purpose. They are used, not so much as descriptions, but rather to convey additional moral, imaginative or judgmental information. The ubiquitous "war between the sexes" is, in fact, a cover-up of the fact that men, generally, have social power over women.
Mona: Oh, of course, a cover-up! You know, the whole town would panic if they knew a misunderstood Frankensteinosaurus was on a bloodthirsty rampage! Your secret's safe, Officer. I don't want to cause an international panic any more than you do.
These divine qualities migrated to Mary because of deficiencies in the theology of God, in Christology and in pneumatology. It makes no lasting sense to retain this as a permanent status quo, using Mary as a cover-up for defective notions of the divine.
Many supporters believed Donald Trump would finally expose government cover-ups once he returned to power. But more than six months into his new term, those much-hyped conspiracy theories have either been debunked or quietly fallen apart.
gloss: An item of clothing to be worn over a swimsuit while not in the water.
pos: noun
examples: The women usually wore bikini tops with shorts, swimsuits underneath cover-ups or just swimsuits. Men came in various types of trunks, from traditional boxers, to Speedos, to G-string trunks that showcased their packages.
Translations:
quantic
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin quantus (“how much”).
Inflected forms:
form: quantics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A homogeneous polynomial in two or more variables.
pos: noun
examples: When the two quantics are the first derived functions of the same quantic of any odd order, the lineo-linear invariant does not vanish, but it is not an invariant of the single quantic.
74. The discriminant of a binary quantic, or the eliminant of a system of binary quantics, is an invariant.
We can see a priori that this must be the case, for if a given quantic has a square factor, it will have a square factor still when it is linearly transformed; or if a system of quantics have a common factor, they will still have a common factor when the equations are transformed.
Translations:
Quapaw
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Quapaws
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Quapaw
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any member of a Native American people who once lived in the Arkansas river valley.
pos: noun
Translations:
quarter-phase
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From quarter + phase.
Compound parts: quarter
phase
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Differing in phase by a quarter of a cycle; two-phase.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
quarter-witted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From quarter + witted. Used as an intensified version of half-witted.
Compound parts: quarter
witted
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having or displaying half the mental capacity of a half-wit.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
quartz-diorite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: quartz-diorites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any form of diorite containing appreciable amounts of quartz.
pos: noun
Translations:
excelsior
Part of speech: intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: comics
lifestyle
literature
media
printing
publishing
Etymology: From Latin excelsior, comparative of excelsus (“high”). The name of the stuffing material was originally a trademark. As an exclamation, originating in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem Excelsior (1841), based on the New York state motto. Popularized in the comic book fandom by Marvel Comics editor Stan Lee, who chose the term to sign off his columns as it was an obscure term and would confound competing publishers who imitated his style.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Onward; a rallying cry for progress.
pos: intj
tags: dated
examples: ... and when the shout 'Excelsior!' echoed, up the oaken heights,
Two hundred heels went thundering all at once, Four stairs at every jump
Adventurous spirits cried "Excelsior," but having had enough of climbing, with several friends we retraced our steps, and reached the farms, where little girls brought us plates of raspberries, currants, and cherries for a consideration.
The bishops cried: "Excelsior!" But the archbishop: "Stay!"
gloss: A greeting, farewell or acclamation.
pos: intj
tags: especially
slang
examples: MARTIN PRINCE: Finally, Bart's one of us!
NERDS: Excelsior!
He makes a fake snorting noises with his nose and says “Excelsior to you too then, man” as he pushes up imaginary glasses on his face as if I'm the nerd.
Comic-Con International in San Diego is the exemplar of the con experience. Hold your breath, prepare your Sonic Screwdriver or Batarang, and dive right in. Excelsior!
gloss: The size of type between Norse and brilliant, standardized as 3-point.
pos: noun
tags: US
dated
uncountable
gloss: Stuffing material (as for furniture and mattresses) made of slender, curled woodshavings, as a substitute for hair.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
uncountable
examples: These little mangers, with baby dolls representing Jesus, porcelean Josephs and Marys, wide-eyed cows of papier-mâché, and excelsior for straw, were purchased by pious parents for well-behaved children at Christmas-tide.
Working both [of them] at Kroll's then, she selling candy and cashews in a white smock with "Jan" stitched on her pocket and he lugging easy chairs and maple end tables around on the floor above, hammering apart packing crates from nine to five, the itch of the packing excelsior getting into his nose and eyes and making them burn.
Each Pet Rock came in a cardboard carrying case, complete with air holes, tenderly nestled on a bed of excelsior.
Translations: