yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
crystalline
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English cristallyn, cristallyne, from Old French cristallin and its etymon Latin crystallinus, from Ancient Greek κρυστάλλινος (krustállinos), from κρύσταλλος (krústallos, “crystal”) + -ῐνος (-ĭnos, adjectival suffix). By surface analysis, crystal + -ine.
Inflected forms:
form: more crystalline
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most crystalline
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: chrystalline
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or composed of crystals.
pos: adj
gloss: Having a regular three-dimensional molecular structure.
pos: adj
gloss: Resembling crystal in being clear and transparent
pos: adj
examples: There the roſy-finger'd Spring, by the liquid mirror of a cryſtalline pool, was attiring her fair daughters in ſeven-fold ornaments, while the love-whiſpering breezes ſtole kiſſes as they paſſed, and fanned their glowing beauties.
gloss: Pure.
pos: adj
examples: not in his favoured midfield role, either but as a false No 9: the sort of role Guardiola only hands to his chosen, crystalline few: Mario Götze at Bayern Munich (less successfully), Lionel Messi at Barcelona (a little more so).
Antonyms: amorphous
Derived words: anticrystalline
cryptocrystalline
crystalline arthritis
crystalline humor
crystalline humour
crystalline lens
crystallinely
crystallineness
crystallinity
extracrystalline
heterocrystalline
holocrystalline
hypercrystalline
hypocrystalline
intercrystalline
intracrystalline
isocrystalline
macrocrystalline
magnetocrystalline
mesocrystalline
microcrystalline
monocrystalline
multicrystalline
nanocrystalline
neurocrystalline
noncrystalline
oligocrystalline
paracrystalline
pericrystalline
phanerocrystalline
polycrystalline
procrystalline
pseudocrystalline
quasicrystalline
semicrystalline
spherocrystalline
subcrystalline
uncrystalline
Translations:
isomeric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English isomer
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English isomeric
From isomer + -ic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Being an isomer.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
physical
gloss: Exhibiting isomerism.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
physical
Derived words: alloisomeric
anisomeric
atropoisomeric
chromoisomeric
isomerically
pseudoisomeric
stereoisomeric
Translations:
ontic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὄν (ón, “being, existing, essence”) (stem ὄντ- (ónt-)) + -ic.
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more ontic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ontic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Ontological.
pos: adj
gloss: Pertaining to being, as opposed to pertaining to a theory of it (which would be ontological).
pos: adj
examples: My descriptions are ontical—addressing the world we inhabit, the what and where and how and why of objects therein; my questions are not ontological in the sense of struggling (vainly) to answer the question of the being of things tout court.
Related words: ontological
ontologist
ontology
Derived words: ontically
onticity
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: onties
lang: Catalan
word: òntic
lang: French
word: ontique
lang: German
word: ontisch
lang: Norwegian
word: ontisk
lang: Occitan
word: ontic
lang: Portuguese
word: ôntico
lang: Russian
word: онти́ческий
roman: ontíčeskij
lang: Spanish
word: óntico
guilt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English gilt, gult, from Old English gylt (“guilt, sin, offense, crime, fault”), of obscure origin. Possibly related with Old English ġieldan (“to pay, requite, punish”) (whence yield), from Proto-West Germanic *guldijā (whence Middle High German gülte (“debt, fee, financial duty”), Middle Low German gülde, German Gülte), from Proto-West Germanic *geldan (“to pay for”), from Proto-Germanic *geldaną (“to pay”). However, neither the Old English stem form nor its ending -t (instead of -d) fit the continental form.
Inflected forms:
form: guilts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Responsibility for wrongdoing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The state of having been found guilty or admitted guilt in legal proceedings.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Regret for having done wrong.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Appropriate guilt is experienced when we actually do something objectively wrong—for example, exploit another, betray a trust, and so on. […] Inappropriate guilt occurs from believing a lie and is resolved by an application of the truth.
Synonyms: blameworthiness
culpability
guilt
guiltiness
noninnocence
uninnocence
Antonyms: innocence
Related words: regret
remorse
Derived words: beguilt
bloodguilt
ecoguilt
forguilt
guilt by association
guilt complex
guilter
guiltfree
guilt lane
guiltless
guiltlessness
guiltlike
guilt offering
guilt-ridden
guiltridden
guilt-sick
guilt trip
guilt-trip
guilt-trippy
guiltware
guilty
liberal guilt
magician's guilt
misguilt
nonguilt
self-guilt
survivor guilt
unguilt
white guilt
Translations:
mechanism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *megʰ-der.?
Ancient Greek μηχᾰνή (mēkhănḗ)der.
New Latin mechanismuslbor.
English mechanism
Learned borrowing from New Latin mechanismus.
Inflected forms:
form: mechanisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any mechanical means for the conversion or control of motion, or the transmission or control of power.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any combination of cams, gears, links, belts, chains and logical mechanical elements.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.
gloss: A group of entities, such as objects, that interact together.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A site that carried [sexually explicit] material, but that gated it off from children through credit cards or other mechanisms to verify the age of the user, would have an acceptable defense under the act.
Whatever the mechanism, attempts to starve the beast through revenue shortages somehow seem to make the beast all the more voracious.
A very rare polymorphism in the prion protein gene recently has been identified that appears to protect against prion disease; this finding, in addition to providing greater understanding of the prionlike mechanisms of neurodegenerative disorders, might lead to potential treatments.
Outside the boundaries of the PTEs [Passenger Transport Executives], there was little mechanism to re-open routes, and despite a growing realisation that the lack of transport connectivity was a big contributor towards social deprivation and poor economic performance, there was little government policy recognition.
gloss: A mental, physical, or chemical process.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any process of, or system designed to manage useful energy conversion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The theory that all natural phenomena can be explained by physical causes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: machine
Derived words: Anderson-Higgs mechanism
antimechanism
automechanism
biomechanism
Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism
control mechanism
coping mechanism
defense mechanism
defence mechanism
flintlock mechanism
Geneva mechanism
Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin mechanism
Grotthuss mechanism
GZK mechanism
Higgs mechanism
immunomechanism
key encapsulation mechanism
mechanismic
mechanism of death
mechanist
mechanistic
micromechanism
nanomechanism
neuromechanism
pathomechanism
Penrose mechanism
pyromechanism
reaction mechanism
servomechanism
servo-mechanism
submechanism
telemechanism
Translations:
granda
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: grandas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: grandfather
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
Northern-England
Scotland
informal
examples: My granda would make everything from scratch and it was a wonderful feast of a picky tea. His potatoes deep-fried in batter were amazing.
Translations:
fino
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish fino (“fine”). Doublet of fine.
Inflected forms:
form: finos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The driest and palest type of traditional sherry.
pos: noun
Translations:
volar
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin vola.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the palm of the hand or the sole of the foot.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
crystallography
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English crystal
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-
Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō
Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ)
Ancient Greek -γραφίᾱ (-graphíā)bor.
French -graphieder.
English -ography
English crystallography
From crystal + -ography.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The experimental science of determining the arrangement of atoms in solids.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The study of crystals.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: biocrystallography
cocrystallography
cryocrystallography
crystallographer
crystallographic
crystallographical
crystallographic defect
microcrystallography
nanocrystallography
X-ray crystallography
Translations:
respray
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English spray
English respray
From re- + spray.
Inflected forms:
form: resprays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: respraying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: resprayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: resprayed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: resprays
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To spray again.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: My car's got a big scratch down one side — I'll have to get it resprayed.
If he moved a muscle, they would both be in DEEP TROUBLE.
“It must have been a bird, Mr Big,” said Dad.
“Ruddy big bird,” muttered the little man. “Now we have to get out of here before the fuzz start sniffing around. Fingers, get the Rolls resprayed and change the number plates in case they trace it.”
“Yes, guv’nor.”
gloss: An act of respraying.
pos: noun
examples: I bought a second-hand car but I don't like the colour, so I'm taking it in for a respray.
Translations:
diffraction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From New Latin diffrāctiō (in which coined by Francesco Maria Grimaldi), from Latin diffrāctus, past participle of Latin diffringo (“to shatter, to break into pieces”). Coined in Physico-mathesis de lumine (1665) by Francesco Maria Grimaldi.
Inflected forms:
form: diffractions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The bending of a wave around an obstacle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The breaking up of an electromagnetic wave as it passes a geometric structure (e.g. a slit), followed by reconstruction of the wave by interference.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: diffraction grating
diffractionist
diffractionless
diffraction limit
diffraction pattern
microdiffraction
neutron diffraction
subdiffraction
transmission electron diffraction
X-ray diffraction
Translations:
radiograph
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From radio- + -graph.
Base: radio
Inflected forms:
form: radiographs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: radiographs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: radiographing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: radiographed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: radiographed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An image, often a photographic negative, produced by radiation other than visible light; especially an X-ray photograph.
pos: noun
gloss: An instrument for measuring and recording solar radiation.
pos: noun
gloss: To produce a radiograph image.
pos: verb
examples: Therefore, to help evaluate this diagnostic hypothesis, the skeletal remains were fully radiographed in order to provide an overall picture of the distribution of endosteal alterations.
Derived words: cephaloradiograph
cineradiograph
microradiograph
radiographic
stereoradiograph
teleradiograph
xeroradiograph
Translations:
radiography
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin radiusder.
English radio-
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-
Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō
Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ)
Ancient Greek -γραφίᾱ (-graphíā)bor.
French -graphieder.
English -graphy
English radiography
From radio- + -graphy.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The process of making radiographs, and the science of analyzing them.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: In addition, a number of new possibilities would be opened up to diagraphy – e.g., radiography of movements, kinematographic radiography, and radiography of those in a state of convulsion.
Translations:
spectroscopy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti
Proto-Italic *spekjō
Latin speciō
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Proto-Italic *-trom
Latin -trum
Latin spectrumbor.
English spectrum
English spectro-
▲
Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti
Proto-Hellenic *sképťomai
Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai)
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Hellenic *-ós
▲
Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ.
Ancient Greek -ός (-ós)
Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós)
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)
Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō)der.
English -scopy
English spectroscopy
From spectro- + -scopy.
Inflected forms:
form: spectroscopies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The scientific study of spectra.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The use of spectrometers in chemical analysis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Related words: spectrometry
spectroscope
spectrology
Derived words: absorption spectroscopy
amplitude spectroscopy
atomic absorption spectroscopy
atomic emission spectroscopy
Auger electron spectroscopy
biospectroscopy
fluorescence spectroscopy
infrared spectroscopy
magnetospectroscopy
microspectroscopy
microwave spectroscopy
Mössbauer spectroscopy
NMR spectroscopy
photospectroscopy
Raman spectroscopy
spectroscopic
spectroscopist
X-ray spectroscopy
Translations:
se-tenant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
Etymology: From French se tenant (“holding each other”), present participle of se tenir (“to hold each other”).
Inflected forms:
form: se-tenants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A set of postage stamps with differing values, colours, etc, but printed on the same sheet.
pos: noun
Translations:
nutrient
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin nūtriēns, present participle of nūtriō (“to suckle, nourish, foster”).
Inflected forms:
form: nutrients
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more nutrient
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nutrient
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A source of nourishment, such as food, that can be metabolized by an organism to give energy and build tissue.
pos: noun
examples: Even second-generation biofuels, made from crop wastes or wood, are an environmental disaster, either extending the cultivated area or removing the straw and stovers which protect the soil from erosion and keep carbon and nutrients in the ground.
gloss: Providing nourishment.
pos: adj
Translations:
nutriment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English nutriment, from Latin nūtrīmentum.
Inflected forms:
form: nutriments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A source of nourishment; food.
pos: noun
gloss: Something that promotes growth or development; a nutrient.
pos: noun
Derived words: nutrimental
Translations:
nourishment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English norisshement, from Middle French, from Old French norissement, from norrir, equivalent to nourish + -ment.
Base: nourish
Affixes: -ment
Inflected forms:
form: nourishments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of nourishing or the state of being nourished.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something that nourishes; food.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Oriental Synagogue, continuing to draw musical nourishment from Semitic-Oriental sources.
Many ultraraces do not include much nourishment from organizers.
Synonyms: sustenance
Derived words: beach nourishment
overnourishment
renourishment
undernourishment
Translations:
nourishing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more nourishing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nourishing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That provides nourishment; nutritious.
pos: adj
examples: The Cleveland Clinic’s Sukol thinks the word “healthy” is confusing and should be replaced with the term “nourishing,” as some processed foods have been marketed as “healthy.”
Translations:
waddle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wadelen, frequentative form of waden, equivalent to wade + -le. Compare Saterland Frisian wuttelje (“to waddle”), Old High German wadalōn (“to roam; wander”), Middle High German wadelen, wedelen (“to wander; rove”), German wedeln (“to waggle”).
First known use in English in a version of the Song of Roland around the year 1400.
Base: wade
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: waddles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: waddles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: waddling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: waddled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: waddled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A squat, swaying gait.
pos: noun
examples: the waddle of a duck
gloss: A group of birds, such as ducks and penguins, when walking.
pos: noun
gloss: To walk with short steps, tilting the body from side to side.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The pond was another favourite place to visit. Moorhens strutted from the neighbouring bushes, and a bevy of Muscovy ducks, a study in black, white and red, waddled from the farmyard hard by to enjoy a refreshing splash.
gloss: To move slowly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Now, on the bright side, things weren't all bad; they had commendably-thick belt armor, which was 12 inches thickness, and they had a very large number of subdivided watertight compartments, which would make them very durable. Due to their being quite fat, they could also turn very quickly, even if they were waddling along by the end of the turn.
Translations:
gently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English gentilly, gentlych, gentilliche, equivalent to gentle + -ly, with *-lely simplified to -ly by haplology.
Base: gentle
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: gentlier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more gently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: gentliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most gently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: gentilly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Southern-US
archaic
obsolete
form: gentlely
pos: adv
tags: alternative
proscribed
Senses:
gloss: In a manner characterized by gentleness
pos: adv
examples: First, marinate the tofu. In a bowl, whisk the kecap manis, chilli sauce, and sesame oil together. Cut the tofu into strips about 1cm thick, mix gently (so it doesn't break) with the marinade and leave in the fridge for half an hour.
gloss: In a manner characterized by gentleness
pos: adv
examples: From Blackwater there is a more or less level run through gently rolling farmlands and downs to Merstone, with its island platform and passing loop.
gloss: In a manner characterized by gentleness
pos: adv
examples: I look at the world, and I notice it's turning / While my guitar gently weeps / With every mistake, we must surely be learning / Still my guitar gently weeps
gloss: From a gentle or high-class family.
pos: adv
tags: historical
examples: gently born
gloss: In the manner of one of gentle birth; in a manner that reflects the traditional virtues of the gentry: courteously, nobly.
pos: adv
tags: obsolete
Antonyms: roughly
Derived words: fuck me gently with a chainsaw
let someone down gently
Translations:
waggle
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English wagelen (attested in wagelyng), possibly a borrowing of Middle Low German wagelen; equivalent to wag + -le (“(frequentative)”). Compare continental equivalents Middle High German wacken ( > Danish vakle, German wackeln), Swedish vagla, West Frisian waggelje, Low German wackeln, Dutch waggelen.
Base: wag
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: waggles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: waggling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: waggled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: waggled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: waggles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To move (something) with short, quick motions; to wobble.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The Mole waggled his toes from sheer happiness, spread his chest with a sigh of full contentment, and leaned back blissfully into the soft cushions.
Oscar turned to someone who wasn't there and waggled his head. "Hoo, boy," he said.
gloss: To quickly raise and lower in rapid succession, usually as an implication of slyness, smugness, or suggestiveness.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I know you by the waggling of your head.
Why do you go Nodding and Waggling so like a Fool, as if you were Hipshot? says the Goose to her Gosselin.
The tassel on the end of his pigtail waggled all down the path and, as he turned out of the gate, it gave a special little flip.
gloss: An instance of waggling.
pos: noun
gloss: A wobbling motion.
pos: noun
examples: Give the cable a waggle to let it come out quicker.
gloss: The preliminary swinging of the club head back and forth over the ball in the line of the proposed stroke.
pos: noun
Derived words: joystick waggler
waggle dance
waggler
waggly
woggle
Translations:
variorum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin variōrum, genitive plural masculine of varius (“various”), in the phrase editio cum notis variorum (“edition with various notes”).
Inflected forms:
form: variorums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: variora
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An edition of a written work (especially the complete works of a classical writer) showing the notes and readings of a variety of different editors or commentators.
pos: noun
examples: Johnson set out to produce a variorum, compiling and summarising the history of Shakespearean emendation and annotation
The walls of the narrow hallway are covered with paintings, including several by William Burroughs, made during Burroughs's London phase, when Miles took on archival duties and compiled a bibliography of his work; he has also edited a variorum edition of Allen Ginsberg's Howl.
Translations:
perforated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pierced with holes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Pierced with holes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: imperforated
microperforated
misperforated
multiperforated
nanoperforated
nonperforated
unperforated
Translations:
waistline
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
Etymology: From waist + line.
Compound parts: waist
line
Inflected forms:
form: waistlines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a line around the body at the waist; its measurement
pos: noun
gloss: the narrowest part of a garment, usually at the waist, but may be above or below depending on the dictates of fashion or the whim of the designer
pos: noun
gloss: person having a large waistline
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: The horizontal line just below the windows of a car or other vehicle.
pos: noun
examples: [...] with the adoption of a curved bodyside profile Bulleid considerably raised the height of the waistline and at the shoulder height of seated passengers, just where the extra space was most needed.
Translations:
whim
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
mining
Etymology: Clipping of whim-wham.
Inflected forms:
form: whims
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fanciful impulse, or sudden change of idea.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Let ev’ry Man enjoy his whim; / What’s He to Me, or I to him?
“No, it is not for a wager; it is a whim of mine, which I fancy from the tone of your conversation you could understand, being apparently somewhat whimsical yourself.”
 “So far as whim goes, be assured of my sympathy.”
The king was tired of this whim of hers long ago, and thought she ought to get married like other people; there was nothing she need wait for, she was old enough and she would not be any richer either, for she was to have half the kingdom, which she inherited after her mother.
[…]the unholy stone whereon Tess had been compelled by Alec d’Urberville, in his whim of reformation, to swear the strange oath that she would never wilfully tempt him again.
[…]“I am sorry to make you the victim of what may seem a mere whim, but on my life, Watson, I simply can’t leave that case in this condition.
“You’re either with me or you’re against me” became Dany’s credo, and those against her were an ever-changing multitude to be determined solely by her whims.
In an internet-dominated world where vain techlords rule us by whim, sovereign governments seem reduced to the role of rearguard guerrillas.
He also disagreed with the idea of cancelling projects "completely at the whim of an individual Prime Minister," citing Rishi Sunak's decision to cancel HS2 north of Handsacre Junction.
gloss: A large capstan or vertical drum turned by horse power or steam power, for raising ore or water, etc., from mines, or for other purposes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: boutade
caprice
capriccio
conceit
crotchet
delirament
fancy
fangle
figary
flisk
freak
kink
lark
maggot
megrim
spleen
toy
vagary
whim
whim-wham
whimsy
Related words: whimsical
whimsy
on a whim
whimling
Derived words: on a whim
whim gin
whim shaft
Translations:
fanciful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From fancy + -ful.
Base: fancy
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more fanciful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fanciful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fancifull
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: phanciful
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: phancifull
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Imaginative or fantastic; ignoring reality.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: conceptual, fancied, ideal, notional
It was fanciful to suppose that all he had to do would be to stride into a top law firm and he would be hired on the spot.
Mr. Butler, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain,” treats his newest novelistic conceit as an occasion to toss every possible ingredient into a fanciful hellscape and then let these elements run wild.
gloss: Unreal or imagined.
pos: adj
Derived words: fancifully
fancifulness
nonfanciful
overfanciful
unfanciful
Translations:
imaginative
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English ymagynatif, from Middle French imaginatif, from Medieval Latin imāginātīvus. By surface analysis, imagine + -ative.
Inflected forms:
form: more imaginative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most imaginative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a lively or creative imagination.
pos: adj
examples: an imaginative boy
No doubt kibitzers are highly imaginative. How else could they see wins and brilliant combinations that do not exist?
gloss: Tending to be fanciful or inventive.
pos: adj
examples: an imaginative story
gloss: False or imagined.
pos: adj
Derived words: imaginative fiction
imaginatively
imaginativeness
nonimaginative
overimaginative
unimaginative
Translations:
inventive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English inventif, inventyfe, borrowed from Old French inventif, borrowed from Medieval Latin inventivus. By surface analysis, invent + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: more inventive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inventive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to invention; pertaining to the act of devising new mechanisms or processes.
pos: adj
examples: an inventive pursuit
At the other end, Dortmund were producing some typically inventive approach play but struggled to find a way through the visitors' defence, and were unable to find a finish when they did.
gloss: Possessed of a particular capacity for the design of new mechanisms or processes, creative or skilful at inventing.
pos: adj
examples: an inventive fellow
gloss: Purposely fictive.
pos: adj
examples: an inventive story
Derived words: inventively
inventiveness
reinventive
uninventive
Translations:
sass
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Variant of sauce.
Inflected forms:
form: sasses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sassing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sassed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sassed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being sassy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: This girl has a lot of sass.
gloss: Backtalk, cheek, sarcasm.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
examples: Say—if you give me much more of your sass I'll take and bounce a rock off'n your head.
Looky here—mind how you talk to me; I’m a-standing about all I can stand now—so don’t gimme no sass.
Talk-back or sass per Bell Hooks is "a gesture of defiance that heals...liberated voice" […]
gloss: Vegetables used in making sauces.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
uncountable
gloss: A subgenre of screamo music.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: To talk, to talk back.
pos: verb
tags: US
informal
intransitive
examples: The duke he begun to abuse him for an old fool, and the king begun to sass back; and the minute they was fairly at it, I lit out, and shook the reefs out of my hind legs, and spun down the river road like a deer—for I see our chance; and I made up my mind that it would be a long day before they ever see me and Jim again.
“But, good land! what did he want to sass back for? You see, it couldn’t do him no good, and it was just nuts for them.”
gloss: To speak insolently to.
pos: verb
tags: US
informal
transitive
examples: Don’t sass your teachers!
“This isn’t any of your business, Ilse Burnley,” muttered Jennie, sullenly.
“Oh, isn’t it? Don’t you sass me, Piggy-eyes.” Ilse walked up to the retreating Jennie and shook a sunburned fist in her face.
Derived words: sassy
Translations:
loved
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English loved, luvd, from Old English lufode, first and third person singular past indicative of lufian; and Middle English loved, iloved, from Old English ġelufod, past participle of lufian; both equivalent to love + -ed.
Base: love
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more loved
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most loved
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Being the object of love.
pos: adj
Translations:
suppurate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin suppūrātus, past participle of suppūrō, from pūr-, stem of pūs.
Inflected forms:
form: suppurates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: suppurating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: suppurated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: suppurated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To form or discharge pus.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Their suppurating wounds, their goitres, their tumours are hideously evident on their hairless bodies.
The only difference being Bezos was worth $60.7bn, while Bloodworth and his fellow “associates” walked back at midnight to fetid digs “with heavy legs supporting suppurating feet which over the course of the day had puffed up half a size bigger”.
gloss: To cause to generate pus.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to suppurate a sore
Derived words: unsuppurated
Translations:
fleshy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
wine
Etymology: From Middle English fleisshy, fleischy, fleschi, equivalent to flesh + -y. Piecewise doublet of fleischig.
Base: flesh
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: fleshier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more fleshy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: fleshiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most fleshy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, related to, or resembling flesh.
pos: adj
examples: Mr. Creakle . . . showed me the cane, and asked me what I thought of THAT? . . . Did it bite? At every question he gave me a fleshy cut with it that made me writhe.
[O]ver reefs and banks of shining rock, a bristling beard of spiky and fleshy vegetation was straining into view.
gloss: Having considerable flesh; plump.
pos: adj
examples: The King's face was slightly more fleshy than mine, the oval of its contour the least trifle more pronounced.
He was a large fleshy man, weighing at least two hundred pounds, and he quickly became a faithful representation of a quivering jelly-mountain of fat.
It's hard to imagine why Flemish Renaissance artist Peter Paul Rubens would paint a blemish on the backside of one of the fleshy lovelies meant to represent beauty, charm and good cheer, but there's no denying that single red brushstroke in the midst of his central figure's creamy skin.
gloss: Rich and smooth, with significant body or texture.
pos: adj
examples: a fleshy wine
Antonyms: bony
slender
slim
Derived words: fleshily
fleshiness
fleshy lupine
overfleshy
subfleshy
unfleshy
Translations:
basa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Vietnamese ba sa.
Inflected forms:
form: basa
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The catfish Pangasius bocourti.
pos: noun
Translations:
perforate
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
philately
Etymology: The adjective is first attested in 1425, in Middle English, the verb in 1538; from Middle English perforat(e) (“perforated, pierced”), borrowed from Latin perforātus, the perfect
passive participle of perforō (“to bore or pierce through, to perforate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from per- (“through, thorough”) + forō (“to bore, pierce”). Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: perforates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: perforating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: perforated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: perforated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To pierce; to penetrate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To make a line of holes in (a thin material) to allow separation at the line.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to perforate a sheet of postage stamps
gloss: Perforated.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: An Earthen Pot perforate at the Bottom to let in the Plant.
gloss: Perforated, having a hole.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: Suche abuses can not be longe hydde frome princis, that haue their eares perforate (as is the prouerbe).
gloss: Perforated.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A species of remarkable appearance with mature leaf laminae often so profoundly perforate as to resemble a fragile net of tissue.
Derived words: biperforate
imperforate
macroperforate
microperforate
multiperforate
nonperforating
perforately
perforation
perforator
perforin
reperforate
subperforate
unperforate
Translations:
trivial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: algebra
biology
human-sciences
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
taxonomy
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
* From Latin triviālis (“appropriate to the street-corner, commonplace, vulgar”), from trivium (“place where three roads meet”). Compare trivium, trivia.
* From the distinction between trivium (“the lower division of the liberal arts; grammar, logic and rhetoric”) and quadrivium (“the higher division of the seven liberal arts in the Middle Ages, composed of geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music”).
Inflected forms:
form: more trivial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most trivial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: triviall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Ignorable; of little significance or value.
pos: adj
examples: "All which details, I have no doubt, Jones, who reads this book at his Club, will pronounce to be excessively foolish, trivial, twaddling, and ultra-sentimental."
In fact, the influence of signage in a certain area may exist anywhere on a continuum from profoundly effective to utterly trivial or completely insignificant, irrespective of the intent motivating the signs.
gloss: Commonplace, ordinary.
pos: adj
examples: As a scholar, meantime, he was trivial, and incapable of labour.
gloss: Easy; requiring little skill or effort.
pos: adj
gloss: Concerned with or involving trivia.
pos: adj
gloss: Relating to or designating the name of a species; specific as opposed to generic.
pos: adj
gloss: Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
pos: adj
gloss: Of, relating to, or being the simplest possible case.
pos: adj
gloss: Self-evident.
pos: adj
gloss: Pertaining to the trivium.
pos: adj
gloss: Indistinguishable in case of truth or falsity.
pos: adj
Antonyms: nontrivial
important
significant
radical
fundamental
Derived words: isotrivial
non-trivial
nontrivial
quasitrivial
semitrivial
supertrivial
trivia
trivial absolute value
trivial functional dependency
trivial group
trivialisation
trivialise
trivialism
trivialist
trivialistic
triviality
trivialization
trivialize
trivially
trivial name
trivialness
trivial solution
trivial topology
untrivial
Translations:
lang: Belarusian
word: трывія́льны
roman: tryvijálʹny
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 平凡
roman: píngfán
lang: Esperanto
word: triviala
lang: Finnish
word: triviaali
lang: French
word: trivial
lang: German
word: trivial
lang: Italian
word: banale
lang: Norwegian
word: triviell
lang: Portuguese
word: trivial
lang: Russian
word: тривиа́льный
roman: triviálʹnyj
lang: Spanish
word: trivial
lang: Ukrainian
word: тривіа́льний
roman: tryviálʹnyj
lamington
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain. Although current dictionaries all associate it with Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, the earliest publication of this derivation is by John Hepworth in the Nation Review of July 1977. An earlier (1966) reference gives the cake but does not associate it with the Baron, suggesting the theory was not current in the 1960s. It has also been claimed that the name comes from Lamington, South Lanarkshire.
Inflected forms:
form: lamingtons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: leamington
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lemmington
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small square Australian/New Zealand cake made with sponge cake covered on all sides (including top and bottom) with chocolate and desiccated coconut.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
examples: Women were also known for their cooking skills although this was not so much in the provision of meals (which were ‘simple and wholesome’), but in the production of confectionery, ranging from scones, biscuits, sponges, cakes, etc., to such noted Australian and New Zealand delicacies as lamingtons and pavlova.
Lamingtons are little sponge cakes coated in chocolate and grated coconut.
Lamingtons are a traditional New Zealand tea-time treat: plain sponge dipped in a chocolate sauce and coated with coconut.
Enter James Lambert, word detective. Goaded by Priol’s anagram, Lambert doubted the Shaky Isles’ equally rickety claims on the lamington. Steal the pavlova if you must, but only an April Fool would deem the lamington a Kiwi import.
Translations:
botch
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English bocchen (“to mend”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old English bōtettan (“to improve; cure; remedy; repair”), related to boot, or from Middle Dutch botsen, butsen, boetsen (“to repair; patch”), related to beat. Doublet of bodge.
Inflected forms:
form: botches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: botching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: botched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: botched
pos: verb
tags: past
form: botches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To perform (a task) in an incompetent or unacceptable manner; to make a mess of something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A botched haircut seems to take forever to grow out.
And other diuels that ſuggest by treaſons, / Do botch and bungle vp damnation, / VVith patches, colours, and vvith formes being fetcht / From gliſt'ring ſemblances of piety: […]
gloss: To do (something) without care or skill, or clumsily.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To mend or repair (something) clumsily.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work.
pos: noun
tags: transitive
examples: That I require a cleareneſſe; and with him; / To leaue no Rubs nor Botches in the Worke:
gloss: A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
pos: noun
tags: transitive
gloss: A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.
pos: noun
tags: transitive
gloss: A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; a conglomeration; hodgepodge.
pos: noun
tags: transitive
gloss: One who makes a mess of something.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: If it was the last word I ever spoke, Puddock, you're a good natured—he 's a gentleman, sir—and it was all my own fault; he warned me, he did, again' swallyin' a dhrop of it—remember what I'm saying, Doctor—'twas I that done it; I was always a botch, Puddock, an' a fool; and—and—gentlemen—good-by.
Related words: bodge
foul up
mess up
screw up
Derived words: blotch
botcher
botchery
botch up
botchwork
botchy
botch job
botch-up
Translations:
Pan-Slavism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pan- + Slav + -ism.
Base: pan
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A movement aimed at uniting all the Slavic peoples.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
impromptu
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
French impromptubor.
English impromptu
Borrowed from French impromptu.
Inflected forms:
form: impromptus
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Improvised; without prior preparation, planning or rehearsal.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The party began with an impromptu rendition of 'Happy Birthday'.
an impromptu speech
The city of Placerville, California, also known as Hangtown, is losing the noose on its logo. […] After an impromptu citizens’ jury agreed to hang a man accused of a crime, the town became known as Hangtown. It took on the name Placerville in 1854.
I can appreciate that Macca’s band plays faithful to the source material, never putting too obvious a personal spin on the music. It’s sometimes frustrating, especially when the solo part in “Get Back” is screaming for some impromptu finesse, but it’s mostly fair.
gloss: Extemporaneously; without prior preparation, planning, or rehearsal.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: happened impromptu
was done impromptu
gloss: A short musical composition for an informal occasion often with the character of improvisation and usually to be played solo.
pos: noun
examples: The second impromptu is a dance-like Allegretto in A flat major, with a trio in D flat major employing arpeggiated textures.
gloss: Any composition, musical or otherwise, that is created on the spot without preparation.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
Translations:
lang: Azerbaijani
word: ekspromt
lang: Dutch
word: impromptu
lang: Finnish
word: improvisaatio
lang: Finnish
word: impromptu
lang: German
word: Impromptu
lang: Greek
word: αυτοσχεδιασμός
roman: aftoschediasmós
lang: Portuguese
word: improviso
lang: Russian
word: экспро́мт
roman: eksprómt
lang: Russian
word: импровиза́ция
roman: improvizácija
lang: Spanish
word: impromptu
lang: Turkish
word: doğaç
variegated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Late Latin varius
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti
Proto-Italic *agō
Late Latin agō
Late Latin variegōbor.
English variegate
English -ed
English variegated
From variegate + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more variegated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most variegated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Streaked, spotted, or otherwise marked with a variety of color.
pos: adj
examples: There I beheld the painter of the year diſplaying his variegated fancies on his leafy tablets, and, with the pencil of power dipped in the æthereal bow, writing the leſſons of wiſdom divine on the fair forehead of blooming Nature.
From the heights a view was now and then obtained between the lofty pine and fir-trees of the valley below with its smiling fields and variegated woods of birch and alder trees, between which the river wound like a narrow silvery streak.
gloss: Very colorful.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
gloss: Varied, heterogeneous, motley
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: The challenge to heterosexuality requires that we claim, not deny, our queer character. It's sexual, it's variegated, sometimetimes its messy and, for better or worse, it's ours.
Related words: variegate
Derived words: variegated coffee bug
variegated fairywren
variegated horsetail
variegated star macromolecule
variegated tinamou
Translations:
conspicuous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin conspicuus (“visible, striking”), from cōnspicere (“to notice”), from con- (“with, together”) + specere (“to look at”).
Inflected forms:
form: more conspicuous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most conspicuous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Obvious or easy to notice.
pos: adj
examples: He was conspicuous by his absence.
“No, don't,” replied the superintendent; “in fact, I'd rather you made yourself conspicuous elsewhere. Go down to the landing stage and cross to New Brighton or Wallasey—doesn't matter which—and come back. No doubt you will be seen, and reported to have gone across.”
[...] 1. Handsignalmen, where needed, ought to wear a conspicuous orange/yellow cape (like many road workmen) to draw attention to them.
gloss: Noticeable or attracting attention, especially if unattractive.
pos: adj
examples: He had a conspicuous lump on his forehead.
For his height he had a small face. The combination made him conspicuous.
Synonyms: attention-grabbing
conspicuous
eye-catching
flashy
glossy
grabby
high-profile
prominent
salient
Antonyms: inconspicuous
Related words: conspicuity
conspicuousness
gaudy
illuminated
shining
shiny
Derived words: conspicuous by one's absence
conspicuous consumer
conspicuous consumption
conspicuously
inconspicuous
semiconspicuous
Translations: