yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
blackish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English blackysshe, blakkyssh, equivalent to black + -ish.
Base: black
Affixes: -ish
Inflected forms:
form: more blackish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most blackish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: somewhat black
pos: adj
examples: Hác Sá (Black Sand) is the most popular beach in Macau. The sand is indeed a grey to blackish colour and makes the water look somewhat dirty (especially at the tide line), but it's perfectly clean.
Antonyms: whitish
achromatic
colorless
Translations:
prehispanic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
English Hispanic
English prehispanic
From pre- + Hispanic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the period of time before the 16th century when Spanish explorers arrived to Mesoamerica, South America, the Philippines, etc.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
inarguable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
Latin arguōder.
Old French arguerbor.
Middle English arguen
English argue
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English arguable
English inarguable
From in- + arguable.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not arguable; certain, incontestable or incontrovertible.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: To polarize, and indeed, to artificially distinguish between the secular and the religious is to dismiss the inarguable Judeo-Christian foundation of contemporary secular institutions.
Translations:
intellectualize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English intellectual
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 intellectualize
From intellectual + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: intellectualizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: intellectualizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: intellectualized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: intellectualized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: intellectualise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To treat in an intellectual manner; to discuss or express intellectually.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Sentiment is intellectualized emotion.
gloss: To endow with intellect; to bestow intellectual qualities upon; to cause to become intellectual.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To find a seemingly rational explanation for.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
gloss: To find a seemingly rational explanation for.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
Derived words: deintellectualize
intellectualizable
intellectualization
intellectualizer
overintellectualize
unintellectualized
Translations:
jellied
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more jellied
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most jellied
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: converted into jelly; congealed
pos: adj
examples: jellied gasoline
gloss: cooked in jelly
pos: adj
Translations:
Kamba
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: a Bantu people of Kenya.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
Kikuyu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Kikuyu Gĩkũyũbor.
English Kikuyu
Borrowed from Kikuyu Gĩkũyũ.
Inflected forms:
form: Kikuyus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Kikuyu
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a Bantu people of Kenya.
pos: noun
Translations:
kriging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From the name of Danie G. Krige, South African engineer, + -ing.
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: Kriging
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A regression technique used to interpolate data.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
surety
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English surete, attested since the early 1300s in the sense "guarantee, promise, pledge, assurance", from Anglo-Norman seurté/Old French seurté with the same meaning (whence modern French sûreté), from Latin sēcūritās. Equivalent to sure + -ty. The senses "security, safety, stability" and "certainty" are attested since the late 1300s. "One who undertakes to pay if another does not" is from the early 1400s. Doublet of security.
Base: sure
Affixes: -ty
Inflected forms:
form: sureties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Certainty.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Know of a surety, that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs.
For the more surety they looked round about.
gloss: That which makes sure; that which confirms; ground of confidence or security.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [We] our happy state
Hold, as you yours, while our obedience holds;
On other surety none.
gloss: A promise to pay a sum of money in the event that another person fails to fulfill an obligation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There remains unpaid
A hundred thousand more; in surety of the which
One part of Aquitaine is bound to us.
gloss: One who undertakes to pay money or perform other acts in the event that his principal fails therein.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.
Trump’s lawyers said two days ago that to post a bond covering the full amount of the $454m civil fraud judgment against him while he appeals was “a practical impossibility” after 30 surety companies turned him down.
gloss: A substitute; a hostage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ...It happen’d on a solemn eventide,
Soon after He that was our surety died,
Two bosom friends, each pensively inclined,
The scene of all those sorrows left behind,
Sought their own village, busied as they went
In musings worthy of the great event:
They spake of Him they loved, of Him whose life,
Though blameless, had incurr’d perpetual strife,
Whose deeds had left, in spite of hostile arts,
A deep memorial graven on their hearts...
gloss: Evidence; confirmation; warrant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She called the saints to surety,
That she would never put it from her finger,
Unless she gave it to yourself.
Related words: guarantor
surcharge
surcharged
indorsement
Derived words: cosurety
countersurety
nonsurety
of a surety
suretiship
surety bond
suretyship
unsurety
Translations:
fashioned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more fashioned
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fashioned
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a specified fashion or style
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
examples: It was neatly arranged with old fashioned furniture.
I've been thinking of that for a while; I was going to go with Island Fashioned or Eastern Fashion, but they both sound shit.
gloss: In style; fashionable.
pos: adj
examples: It was there also that, untill 1783, the famous Carlin performed his italian jokes, then very fashioned , and to which, since, has succeeded nobler kind of plays.
I praised the tie of a ribbon, carelessly, the next afternoon, — declare it's every word true, sir ; — she met me in the evening with that very fashioned tie
I like the appearance of both those sisters very much: they look spirited & accomplished, & informed; they are both handsome, & have good figures, & a very fashioned look & manner.
Timofay clams right up, but being very fashioned and eloquent, he bids them all a loving smile, as getting to know them was not the reason for making this trip, for He knows that women come as frequently as the changing of the tide and will always be there.
gloss: Well designed or put together.
pos: adj
examples: “Transitionology” developed in Spain into a very fashioned discipline that left a strong footprint on the whole of Eastern and Central European studies.
As I have mentioned earlier, your thoughts and emotions are functioning perfectly and must be using them in a very fashioned and orderly manner, if ever, guided by an Entity or an Angel spirit along the way if you find difficulty in adjusting to the new environment.
May not some books be more technically difficult to put together than others, and may not their raw material be less fashioned, less well prepared?
Men's talking and demeanor is very fashioned, while a woman's is hot air and wild just as in sex and politics.
It remains more open, less formal, seemingly less fashioned.
Derived words: fashionedness
unfashioned
Translations:
molestation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Old French molestacion, from Latin molestatio. By surface analysis, molest + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: molestations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of molesting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
geometrical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English geometric
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 geometrical
From geometric + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more geometrical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most geometrical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to geometry; geometric.
pos: adj
examples: Their Ideas are perpetually converſant in Lines and Figures. If they would, for example, praiſe the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they deſcribe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipſes, and other Geometrical Terms, or by Words of Art drawn from Muſick, needleſs here to repeat.
gloss: Consisting of lines and simple shapes.
pos: adj
gloss: Having the stairs supported by the wall at one end only.
pos: adj
Derived words: ageometrical
chronogeometrical
crystallogeometrical
geometrical pace
geometrical progression
hypergeometrical
metageometrical
nongeometrical
ungeometrical
Translations:
quietness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English quietnes, quietnesse, quietenesse, qwietnesse, qwietenesse, equivalent to quiet + -ness.
Base: quiet
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: quietnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Absence of sound; silence or hush.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Absence of disturbance; calm, stillness or serenity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: quietude
Translations:
grenadine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French grenadine, from Middle French grenade (“pomegranate”).
Inflected forms:
form: grenadines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cordial syrup made from pomegranates.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A dilute drink made from this syrup.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A thin gauzy fabric of silk or wool, used for women's clothing and men's woven luxury ties.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A dyestuff consisting essentially of impure fuchsine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: сироп от нар
roman: sirop ot nar
lang: Catalan
word: granadina
lang: Finnish
word: grenadiini
lang: German
word: Grenadine
lang: Korean
word: 그레나딘 시럽
roman: geurenadin sireop
lang: Polish
word: grenadyna
lang: Russian
word: гренади́н
roman: grenadín
norovirus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Nor(walk)
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
English virus
English norovirus
From Nor(walk) + -o- + virus.
Inflected forms:
form: noroviruses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Norovirus, the genus of Norwalk virus, which causes gastric distress in humans.
pos: noun
examples: The norovirus causes nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and stomach cramping.
Norovirus outbreaks are rising across the United States; it is impressively contagious: The virus spreads rapidly, symptoms appear suddenly, and the virus can survive on surfaces for days to weeks.
Almost 100 people came down with norovirus aboard a Royal Caribbean ship amid a 13-day voyage, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported earlier this week. […] There have been 19 norovirus outbreaks on cruise ships so far this year, according to the C.D.C. Last year, there were 18 for the entire year. In 2023, there were 14 — the highest level in a decade.
Translations:
laccase
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: laccases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several copper-containing oxidase enzymes found in plants and microorganisms.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Higushi (54) reported on mushroom phenol oxidase prepared by the method of Freudenberg and its use for oxidation of coniferyl alcohol and related compounds and demonstrated that the enzyme product was a mixture of tyrosinase and laccase.
Translations:
lacquerware
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lacquer
Proto-Germanic *warō
Proto-West Germanic *waru
Old English waru
Middle English ware
English -ware
English lacquerware
From lacquer + -ware.
Inflected forms:
form: lacquerwares
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lacquer-ware
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Decorative items coated with lacquer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Domestic demand from middling as well as noble audiences for exotic semi-luxury imports such as cotton goods, porcelain and lacquer-ware was strong enough to stimulate moves towards import substitution.
Translations:
panfish
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From pan + fish.
Compound parts: pan
fish
Inflected forms:
form: panfishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: panfish
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any fish that is suitable for cooking in a frying pan by virtue of its size and taste.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Panfish are caught primarily for eating, rather than for sport.
Translations:
divider
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From divide + -er.
Base: divide
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: dividers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who or that which divides or separates.
pos: noun
examples: I was greatly his inferior, but love is a quick divider of shares: he that gathers much has nothing over, and he that gathers little has no lack.
gloss: One who or that which divides or separates.
pos: noun
examples: It is perfectly possible to separate one area of a room from another, or even to create an entirely new room, with a lightweight room divider that assembles with a minimum of fuss.
gloss: One who or that which divides or separates.
pos: noun
gloss: One who or that which divides or separates.
pos: noun
gloss: A device resembling a drawing compass and used to transfer measurements of length.
pos: noun
gloss: The median (US) or central reservation (UK) of a highway or other road where traffic in opposite directions are kept separated.
pos: noun
Derived words: checkout divider
current divider
dividerless
hair divider
inductive voltage divider
room divider
voltage divider
word divider
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: مُقَسِّم
roman: mugassim
lang: Bulgarian
word: разделител
roman: razdelitel
lang: Bulgarian
word: сепаратор
roman: separator
lang: French
word: séparateur
lang: French
word: intercalaire
lang: German
word: Trennwand
lang: German
word: Teiler
lang: Italian
word: divisore
lang: Malay
word: pembahagi
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Schetzel
lang: Polish
word: przekładka
lang: Portuguese
word: divisor
lang: Portuguese
word: separador
lang: Russian
word: раздели́тель
roman: razdelítelʹ
lang: Spanish
word: separador
lang: Turkish
word: pergel
lang: Italian
word: divisore
lang: Malay
word: pembahagi
lang: Portuguese
word: separador
lang: Portuguese
word: separadora
emesis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔμεσις (émesis), from ἐμέω (eméō, “vomit”). Compare ἔμετος (émetos, “vomit”, noun). Synchronically held to end in the suffix -esis.
Inflected forms:
form: emeses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of vomiting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Syrup of ipecac almost always forces an emesis.
A female, aged 57 years, was left affected with abdominal dropsy after an attack of fever. On the 3d of March, 1836, she took 6 drops of croton oil, and in the substances rejected by emeses, four living caterpillars were perceived at first, and subsequently ten others.
Information included coexisting diseases, alcohol misuse, other substance misuse, medications taken at the same time as antituberculosis treatment (focusing on antiretroviral and azole antifungal agents), and the presence of gastrointentinal symptoms (nausea, emesis, diarrhoea, abdominal pain).
Several nurses stood outside the doors holding clipboards and dispensing yellow plastic emesis basins to a restless line of a least^([sic]) a dozen patients in long sleeves, heavy trousers, and work boots.
Translations:
Langi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A people who live in central Uganda.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
neer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English neere, nere, from Old English *nēora, from Proto-Germanic *neurô, from Proto-Indo-European *negʷʰrós.
Cognate with Dutch nier (“kidney”), Low German nere (“kidney”), German Niere (“kidney”), Swedish njure (“kidney”), Icelandic nýru (“kidney”), Latin nefrones, nefrendes, nebrundines (“testicles”), Ancient Greek νεφρός (nephrós, “kidney, testicle”).
Inflected forms:
form: neers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: near
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: neir
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: (anatomy) Kidney.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
Translations:
meso-region
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *me
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-?
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe
Proto-Indo-European *médʰi
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos
Proto-Hellenic *métsos
Ancient Greek μέσος (mésos)der.
English meso-
English region
English meso-region
From meso- + region.
Inflected forms:
form: meso-regions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An administrative system that is equivalent to a prefecture or a department. It is used in Brazil as a third-level administration between state and micro-region.
pos: noun
Translations:
unsophisticated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English un-
English sophisticated
English unsophisticated
From un- + sophisticated.
Inflected forms:
form: more unsophisticated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unsophisticated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not sophisticated; lacking sophistication.
pos: adj
examples: The wonder and awe which pervaded Isabella's mind at some periods, the delight she expressed at others, her unsophisticated sentiments, her kind-heartedness, the manner in which (when she was the most moved or charmed) she wished for her sisters to partake her pleasures, were all sources of the sweetest joy to her husband, to whom she was as a dear child whom it was luxury to indulge, and amusement to develop.
Translations:
hillock
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English hillok, equivalent to hill + -ock.
Base: hill
Affixes: -ock
Inflected forms:
form: hillocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small hill.
pos: noun
examples: As he rounded a hillock, he perceived that the roadway was now a crying mass of wagons, teams, and men.
With the setting sun sending long shadows loping ahead of them over the smooth hillocks of the downs, they came up with the lagoon; a contentful return home, with appetite brisked up by a ten-mile walk, and plenty of food to satisfy it.
Just upstream of Dryburgh Abbey, a reproduction of a classical Greek temple stands at the top of a wooded hillock on the river’s north bank.
Translations:
wilted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wilt
English -ed
English wilted
From wilt + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more wilted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most wilted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Drooping, typically due to lack of water.
pos: adj
Translations:
shiznit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From shit + -iz-.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: stuff, things
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
gloss: (preceded by the) the best of its kind
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
Synonyms: shit
shiz
shizzle
Translations:
bureaucratic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥
Proto-Hellenic *pāwər
Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr)
Proto-Indo-European *-rós
Proto-Hellenic *-rós
Ancient Greek -ρός (-rós)
Ancient Greek πῠρρός (pŭrrhós)bor.
Latin burrus
Latin burra
Old French *bure
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -lus
Latin -ellus
Old French -el
Old French burel
French bureau
Proto-Indo-European *kret-
Ancient Greek κρᾰ́τος (krắtos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -κρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (-krătĭ́ā)lbor.
French -cratie
French bureaucratie
French bureaucrate
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -ique
Middle French -ique
French -ique
▲
French bureaucratie
▲
French -ique
French bureaucratiquebor.
English bureaucratic
Borrowed from French bureaucratique, from bureaucrate (“bureaucrat”) or bureaucratie (“bureaucracy”) + -ique (“-ic”), equivalent to bureaucrat + -ic or bureau + -cratic.
Base: bureaucrat
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more bureaucratic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bureaucratic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to bureaucracy or the actions of bureaucrats.
pos: adj
examples: [T. E.] Lawrence said that in the end he felt himself to be fighting not for the imperial British but for the rebellious Arabs. All too often he conflicted with British bureaucratic fustiness.
European Union is legalistic, bureaucratic and runs by precedent.
“We aren’t just reducing bureaucratic sprawl. We are realigning the organization with its core mission and our new priorities in reversing the chronic disease epidemic,” Kennedy said on Thursday morning.
Translations:
hematemesis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hemat-
English emesis
English hematemesis
From hemat- + emesis.
Inflected forms:
form: hematemeses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: haematemesis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: hæmatemesis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: The vomiting of blood; blood within vomitus.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
Translations:
dehiscence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From New Latin dehiscentia (in Linnaeus), from Latin dehiscentem, present participle of dehiscō. By surface analysis, dehisce + -ence.
Inflected forms:
form: dehiscences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Opening of an organ by its own means (such as an anther or a seed pod) to release its contents.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A rupture, as with a surgical wound opening up, often with a flow of serous fluid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Opening, gaping, in a general sense.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
Translations:
larded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more larded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most larded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: coated or stuffed with fat or strips of bacon etc
pos: adj
Translations:
haunch
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
architecture
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English haunche, hanche, from Old French hanche, hance, anche (compare French hanche, Italian anca), from a Germanic source, probably Frankish *ankijā, from Proto-Germanic *ankijǭ (“joint; ankle”), from Proto-Indo-European *ang- (“joint; lith”). Cognate with Old High German ancha, encha, einka (“the leg; joint, bend”) (compare Old High German anchila, enchila (“ankle”), German Hanke (“haunch”), West Frisian hancke (“haunch”). More at ankle.
Inflected forms:
form: haunches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: haunce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: haunse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hanch
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hance
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hanse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: haunches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: haunching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: haunched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: haunched
pos: verb
tags: past
form: haunce
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: haunse
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: hanch
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: hance
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: hanse
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The area encompassing the upper thigh, hip and buttocks on one side of a human, primate, or quadruped animal, especially one that can sit on its hindquarters.
pos: noun
examples: But I had no time to pursue these reflections; for the gray horse came to the door, and made me a sign to follow him into the third room where I saw a very comely mare, together with a colt and foal, sitting on their haunches upon mats of straw, not unartfully made, and perfectly neat and clean.
And the rabbit from his path-way
Leaped aside, and at a distance
Sat erect upon his haunches.
While Heracles, - the thews and cordage of his thighs
Straitened and strained beyond the utmost stretch
From quivering heel to haunch like sweating hawsers.
The fog comes on little cat feet.
It sits looking over harbor and city
on silent haunches and then moves on.
He [Novak Djokovic] dropped to his haunches just inside the baseline as Centre Court rose to acclaim the champion, hugging South African [Kevin] Anderson at the net before skipping over towards his box and celebrating wildly in front of his coaching team and wife Jelena.
gloss: The loin and leg of a quadruped, especially when used as food.
pos: noun
examples: Now these are the Laws of the Jungle, and many and mighty are they; / But the head and the hoof of the Law and the haunch and the hump is—Obey!
On the rough-hewn oaken table the venison haunch was shared.
gloss: A squat vertical support structure.
pos: noun
gloss: A jerked underhand throw.
pos: noun
tags: dialectal
gloss: To provide with a haunch or supporting structure.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To throw with an underhand movement.
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
transitive
Derived words: haunch bone
haunch holder
haunchless
haunchy
Translations:
levofloxacin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lev-
English o(xa)-
English -floxacin
English ofloxacin
English levofloxacin
From lev- + ofloxacin.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A broad-spectrum fluoroquinolone antibacterial agent (trademark Levaquin) that is the levorotatory isomer of ofloxacin.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
rhinestone
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Rhine + stone; a calque of French caillou du Rhin (“Rhine pebble”).
Compound parts: Rhine
stone
Inflected forms:
form: rhinestones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rhinestones
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rhinestoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rhinestoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rhinestoned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An artificial diamond, strass.
pos: noun
examples: Lucinda sewed rhinestones into her scarf to add a bit of flair.
gloss: Made of or encrusted with rhinestones.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Karl wore a cowboy hat with a rhinestone hatband when he played his country and western gigs.
I'm a scary gargoyle on a tower / That you made with plastic power / Your rhinestone eyes are like factories far away
gloss: To decorate with rhinestones.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
encrusted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more encrusted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most encrusted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: incrusted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having an incrustation.
pos: adj
examples: Here the appearance at the head of the train of a grime-encrusted Eastern Region "K3" 2-6-0, No. 61967, did nothing to raise the spirits of the recorder; [...].
Translations:
loperamide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃-
Proto-Hellenic *kʰlōrós
Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós)
English (ch)lo(ro)-
Indo-Aryanbor.
Ancient Greek πέπερῐ (péperĭ)bor.
Latin piper
English -idine
English (pi)per(idine)
English -amide
English loperamide
From (ch)lo(ro)- + (pi)per(idine) + -amide.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A synthetic antidiarrheal agent of the opiate class (trademark Imodium) that slows intestinal peristalsis and is taken orally in the form of its hydrochloride C₂₉H₃₃ClN₂O₂·HCl to control acute nonspecific diarrhea or chronic diarrhea associated with inflammatory bowel disease or to reduce fecal volume discharged from ileostomies.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
metalhead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek μέτᾰλλον (métăllon)der.
Latin metallum
Old French metalbor.
Middle English metal
English metal
English -head
English metalhead
From metal + -head.
Inflected forms:
form: metalheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who listens to or is a fan of heavy metal music.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
exultant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin exsultāns, present participle of exsultō (“rejoice; boast”). See also exult.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Very happy, especially at someone else's defeat or failure.
pos: adj
Antonyms: downcast
miserable
unhappy
Translations:
magnetoencephalography
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
Etymology: From magneto- + encephalo- + -graphy; compare magnetencephalography.
Base: encephalo-
Affixes: magneto-
Inflected forms:
form: magnetoencephalographies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: MEG
pos: noun
tags: abbreviation
form: magnetencephalography
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A noninvasive neuroimaging technique that records the tiny magnetic fields produced by electrical activity in the brain, allowing precise mapping of brain function in real time.
pos: noun
Translations:
vampyre
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: vampyres
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Archaic and pseudo-archaic form of vampire.
pos: noun
examples: The Servians paint crosses with tar on the doors of houses and barns to keep out vampyres.
Although "gothic," "dark fetish," "faerie," "Wiccan" and "Celtic" are all acceptable garb, patrons (most of whom are in their 20's and 30's) usually opt for "vampyre" or simply all black. […] (Vampyres like to spell their name with the "y" to distinguish themselves from literary or Hollywood vamps.)
Most of Manhattan's 4,000 vampires - or "vampyres", as Huston prefers to call them - have organised themselves into clans: […]
Translations:
symbiote
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-der.?
Proto-Hellenic *ksún
Ancient Greek σύν (sún)
Ancient Greek σῠν- (sŭn-)
Ancient Greek σῠμ- (sŭm-)
English sym-
English -biote
English symbiote
From sym- + -biote.
Inflected forms:
form: symbiotes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of symbiont.
pos: noun
Translations:
spearfishing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English spear
English fishing
English spearfishing
From spear + fishing.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A form of fishing in which the fisherman attempts to impale the fish upon a spear, which may be thrust or thrown by hand or with a spear gun.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Today, Riffe International makes all of its spearfishing equipment a few miles down the road in San Clemente.
Translations:
recessional
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English recession
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English recessional
From recession + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: recessionals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to recession or withdrawal, particularly at the end of a religious service or wedding.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A recessional hymn is sung in a procession returning from the choir to the robing room.
gloss: Music played during a church recession.
pos: noun
Translations:
orchestrator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
mathematics
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English orchestrate
Old French -eorbor.
Middle English -our
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -torlbor.
English -or
English orchestrator
From orchestrate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: orchestrators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who orchestrates.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Apart from acting, Wongkrachang was also an active participant in Thailand's politics, known for his pro-royalist sentiments. Many netizens pointed out that he was allegedly one of the chief orchestrators of the 2014 coup, which removed the Thai democratic government and put the nation under military dictatorship.
He was, however, the orchestrator of this England performance as he showed maturity and an impressive range of passing to set off a succession of attacks, especially in the first 45 minutes.
gloss: A system that performs orchestration (automated configuration, deployment, etc.).
pos: noun
examples: The dynamic nature of orchestrators, such as Red Hat's OpenShift or DockerSwarm, means that their configuration is inherently complex, and they can be difficult to secure correctly. The most popular container orchestrator, Kubernetes, is what this book focuses on and for good reason due to its provenance.
Translations:
reformatory
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more reformatory
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most reformatory
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: reformatories
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or conducive to reform; reformative.
pos: adj
examples: Other reformatory schools might not strike that balance between reform and education.
gloss: A prison, especially one for juveniles; a reform school.
pos: noun
examples: It was the nicest-looking property Elwood had ever seen—a real school, a good one, not the forbidding reformatory he’d conjured the last few weeks.
Translations:
monitorial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Freemasonry
freemasonry
lifestyle
Etymology: Etymology tree
English monitor
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisder.
Old French -ialder.
Middle English -ial
English -ial
English monitorial
From monitor + -ial.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to monitors.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of, or relating to an admonition; monitory.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Not secret and therefore printed in the Monitor.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: monitorially
Translations:
iconographer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English iconography
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 iconographer
From iconography + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: iconographers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who creates (religious) icons
pos: noun
Translations:
iconographic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From icono- + -graphic or iconography + -ic.
Base: icono
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to iconography.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or pertaining to a secular person or topic that has attained cult status.
pos: adj
Derived words: iconographically
Translations:
inhuman
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English inhumayne, from Middle French inhumain and its etymon Latin inhūmānus.
Inflected forms:
form: more inhuman
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inhuman
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: inhumane
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to inhumanity and the indifferently cruel, sadistic or barbaric behavior it brings.
pos: adj
examples: It was replaced by a New Euston, "bold in design and layout and in keeping with a new railway era". Betjeman was unmoved, describing it tersely as "no masterpiece" and noting that its lack of platform seating made it an "inhuman structure" which seemed to ignore passengers.
gloss: Transcending or different than what is human.
pos: adj
examples: When he was out among men, seeking his own ends, and “making good! his colliery workings, he had an almost uncanny shrewdness, hardness, and a straight sharp punch. It was as if his very passivity and prostitution to the Magna Mater gave him insight into material business affairs, and lent him a certain remarkable inhuman force.
The organism that embraces this theme in its devious ramifications is the great business house of Dombey and Son, symptom and epitome of selfish money power and warping tyranny. And the special symbol that spells wreckage, devastation, and the unleashed violence of the inhuman force that thus came to possess mankind is that new monster of the mid-nineteenth-century world, heartless embodiment of mechanized energy, the railroad —the same railroad so often pictured in the Punch of those days or in the maledictions of Ruskin as a glaring, headlit engine of destruction, gouging open the green English landscape or the outposts of London, riding down the lives of men, and bringing the smoke and soot of industrialism in its wake: the dragon of a world grown heartless and of a future that promised to become more heartless still.
However, Christophe, having less penetration than Francoise, said to himself that love is a blind, inhuman force, throwing those together who cannot bear with each other. Love joins those together who are like each other. And what love inspires is very small compared with what it destroys. If it be happy it dissolves the will.
He sees their actions conditioned and to gome extent controlled by the influences of majestic inhuman powers, the genii of Eastern tales, huge, cloud-girt spirits of oppressive solemnity. In reality most people wear motley all day long and the fairy powers are leprechauns, tricksy irresponsible sprites, willing enough to make merry with those who can laugh with them; but players of all Puck’s tricks on “wisest aunts telling saddest tales".
“Well, so you are,’ Martha answered. ‘It struck me once or twice. You don’t ook like him, but you’ve got the same voice ind walk and you appear to have the same ‘ort of inhuman strength. Look at this.”
For Eugene O’Neill the sea is usually the constant symbol of these eternal realities, the inhuman powers of nature against which men and women must measure their puny strength.
Antonyms: humane
Related words: unhuman
Derived words: inhumanly
inhumanness
Translations:
puffy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English puff
English -y
English puffy
From puff + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: puffier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: puffiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Swollen or inflated in shape, as if filled with air; pillow-like.
pos: adj
gloss: Coming or exhaling in puffs.
pos: adj
examples: puffy breath
A puffy fat man in a tracksuit came jogging around the corner.
gloss: Speaking or writing in an exaggeratedly eloquent and self-important manner.
pos: adj
examples: There has been much puffy stuff written about whether Lyell's uniformitarianism permitted variations in intensity of causes, or whether he applied his logic in a consistent way, and whether he assumed indefinite stretches of geological time.
gloss: Having inflated cheeks.
pos: adj
Derived words: foofy
huffy-puffy
poofy
puffily
puffiness
puffy sticks
unpuffy
Translations:
Makonde
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Chimakonde or Makonde, the Makonde name of the language.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A people of southeast Tanzania and northern Mozambique.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
malarial
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English malaria
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 malarial
From malaria + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: malarials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or infected by malaria.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: His whole constitution was that of an emaciated, suffering man, malarial and gaunt.
gloss: A person who has malaria.
pos: noun
Translations:
maliciously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English maliciousli; equivalent to malicious + -ly.
Base: malicious
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more maliciously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most maliciously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: malitiously
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In a malicious manner, or for malicious reasons.
pos: adv
examples: "Theer, govison, (blockhead) tak that," and Jack flings maliciously at him the wisp of rushes wherewith he has rubbed down his own bemudded person.
All of these base qualities combined compose a maliciously beautyless whole not to be found in other countries, and prove conclusively the brutal power of great sums of money for the enforcement of vulgarity[…]
Translations:
straggle
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English straglen, of uncertain origin, possibly from (or cognate to) dialectal Norwegian stragla (“to walk laboriously”).
Inflected forms:
form: straggles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: straggling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: straggled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: straggled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: straggles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To stray, rove, or wander from a normal course and others of its kind.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He straggled away from the crowd and went off on his own.
What, feareful coward, ſtragling from the camp,
When Kings themſelues are preſent in the field?
The wolf spy'd out a straggling Kid.
Trim off the small, superfluous branches on each side of the hedge that straggle too far out.
Our Authors ſay there are no Elephants in China, which muſt be underſtood of the Provinces they knew, where, in truth, there are none. Father Martini writes, that they begin to be met with at Nanning, in the Province of Quangli, where the Inhabitants uſe them for War and for Carriage. Some there are alſo in the Province of Junnan ; nor is it a wonder that theſe Creatures, who ſo ſwarm in the Indies, and in Tungkin or Tonquin, ſhould ſtraggle hither.
gloss: To act in a disorderly and irregular way.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: straggling pistol shots
They came between Scylla and Charybdis and the straggling rocks.
Then there was no more cover, for they straggled out, not in ranks but clusters, from among orange trees and tall, flowering shrubs[…].
gloss: To move along slowly so as to remain some distance behind the person or people in front.
pos: verb
examples: In the reverse direction, creature comforts were not closely studied, and the vessel left Antwerp at 1 p.m., to arrive in Harwich at the awkward hour of 2 a.m. The boat train was waiting for the weary stream of passengers, who straggled up George Street, encumbered with luggage, or following burdened porters in the darkness.
gloss: An irregular, spread-out group.
pos: noun
examples: Twenty-five hundred hands snapped at a slant to the hats. The admiral strolled onto the field, smoking, followed by a straggle of officers, walking carelessly to symbolize the privileges of rank, but straggling at distances from the admiral strictly regulated by the number of sleeve stripes on each stragger.
At Milton the road is blocked by yet another Anzac parade, a straggle of people raw-faced in the cold.
Apart from these few rail stations with a duka and a straggle of a few houses there was no town or village. That part of Kenya, mostly acacia bush and, further on, grassy plains with bush along the course of the few rivers, was empty of humanity […]
gloss: An outlier; something that has strayed beyond the normal limits.
pos: noun
examples: Nevertheless there is a straggle of pungent sense in it, — like the outskirts of lightning, seen in that dismally wet weather, which the Royal Party had.
Derived words: straggler
stragglesome
stragglingly
straggling money
straggly
Translations:
redness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English reednes, rednesse, from Old English rēadnes (“redness”), equivalent to red + -ness.
Base: red
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: rednesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being red.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Nancy Reagan is famous for the redness of her wardrobe.
gloss: A red discoloration, especially of skin.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Redness and swelling are associated with certain superficial infections.
Related words: reddening
ruddiness
erythema
rash
Translations:
councillor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Alteration of counsellor, by assimilation with council. By surface analysis, council + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: councillors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: councilor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: councilour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
rare
form: councillour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A member of a council.
pos: noun
gloss: In particular, a representative elected to a local authority, such as a city council: a city councillor.
pos: noun
examples: The comments were made at a council meeting last month, during which one councillor questioned whether changing the names would be pushing reconciliation efforts along too quickly. […] At a city council meeting on Oct. 8, Campbell River councillors discussed a letter sent by the B.C. Geographical Names Office inviting comments on the name changes.
And it had been a close-run thing for many of the nearest - perhaps too close. Councillor Renee Spector, a senior member of Birmingham City Council planning committee, told the local press that the accident might force "a rethink" about the way it considered future applications. "There is a case for a buffer zone, but the problem is that land is at such a premium it is difficult to insist on a large distance between houses and railway lines," she said.
Synonyms: councilmember
councilwoman
Related words: Privy Councillor
Derived words: cllr
councillorship
Translations:
stifled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more stifled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stifled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That has been interrupted, suppressed etc
pos: adj
examples: The stifled attempt at reform led to further resentment.
Translations: