yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
interceptor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: architecture
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English intercept
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Latin -ātor
Old French -eorbor.
Middle English -our
▲
Latin -torlbor.
English -or
English interceptor
From intercept + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: interceptors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Anyone or anything that intercepts something else.
pos: noun
gloss: A combat aircraft designed to intercept and destroy enemy aircraft before they can attack.
pos: noun
gloss: A guided missile designed to intercept and destroy enemy missiles.
pos: noun
examples: “The AN-TPY/2 radar is essentially the heart of the THAAD battery, enabling the launch of interceptor missiles and contributing to a networked air defense picture,” he said. “It also happens to be an incredibly expensive piece of kit. The loss of even a single radar of this type would be an operationally significant event. It is probable that a replacement unit would have to be redeployed from elsewhere, which will take time and effort.”
gloss: A device to trap, remove, or separate hazardous or undesirable matter (such as oil or sand) from normal waste conveyed through it, permitting normal sewage or liquid wastes to discharge into the disposal terminal by gravity.
pos: noun
gloss: A hook routine that intercepts normal program flow to carry out a task.
pos: noun
gloss: A sewer that intercepts sewerage destined for an outfall (e.g. into a river) and redirects it to a treatment plant.
pos: noun
Related words: interception
uninterceptable
unintercepted
Translations:
insole
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From in + sole.
Compound parts: in
sole
Inflected forms:
form: insoles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: insoles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: insoling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: insoled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: insoled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The inside sole of a shoe or other footwear.
pos: noun
gloss: To fit (footwear) with an insole.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
mailbox
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From mail + box.
Compound parts: mail
box
Inflected forms:
form: mailboxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mail-box
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mail box
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A box into which mail is placed.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: She waved back, placed a stack of envelopes in her mailbox, and lifted the red flag.
gloss: A box into which mail is placed.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A folder or account for the storage of email; an electronic inbox or mailstore.
pos: noun
Synonyms: post box
post-box
postbox
Related words: post office box
voicemailbox
Derived words: collection mailbox
e-mailbox
mailbox company
mailbox rule
voice mailbox
Translations:
bettering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English beterynge; equivalent to better + -ing.
Base: better
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: betterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: improvement
pos: noun
Translations:
salicin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin salix, salicis (“a willow”) + -in.
Affixes: -in
Inflected forms:
form: salicins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A glucoside derivative of salicylic acid; the active principle of willow bark, once used medicinally.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
semiconducting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sēmi
Latin sēmi-bor.
English semi-
English conducting
English semiconducting
From semi- + conducting.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That has the characteristics of a semiconductor
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Recently a stable monolayer of antimony in buckled honeycomb structure called antimonene was successfully grown on 3D topological insulator Bi#95;2Te#95;3 and Sb#95;2Te#95;3, which displays semiconducting properties.
Translations:
senna
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Arabic سَنَا (sanā, “senna”).
Inflected forms:
form: sennas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several plants of the tribe Cassieae, especially those of the genera Cassia and Senna, whose leaves and pods are used as a purgative and laxative.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The dried leaves or pods of these plants (especially of Senna alexandrina, syn. Cassia angustifolia or Cassia acutifolia), used medicinally.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Senna glycoside, a laxative.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: American senna
bladder senna
coffee senna
scorpion senna
wild senna
Translations:
sequencing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sequencings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Arrangement in a sequence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The procedure of determining the order of amino acids in the polypeptide chain of a protein (protein sequencing) or of nucleotides in a DNA section comprising a gene (gene sequencing).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: autosequencing
DNA sequencing
genetic sequencing
immunosequencing
microsequencing
minisequencing
nanosequencing
pyrosequencing
radiosequencing
resequencing
Sanger sequencing
shotgun sequencing
ultrasequencing
Translations:
stirringly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stirring
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English stirringly
From stirring + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more stirringly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most stirringly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a stirring manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
stockroom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From stock + room.
Compound parts: stock
room
Inflected forms:
form: stockrooms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A room where a store keeps its stock of merchandise.
pos: noun
Translations:
sooky
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sook + -y (“characteristic of”) and -y (“diminutive”).
Base: sook
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: sookier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more sooky
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: sookiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most sooky
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sookey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: sukey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: sookies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sookey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sukey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Complaining, whingeing, sad; jealous.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
Newfoundland
slang
examples: Kangaroos on the other hand become even more sooky (needy for attention), when denied time outside.
gloss: Sentimental, sissy; timid.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
Newfoundland
slang
examples: Sentimentalists and political quacks have devoted much time to convincing the sookier twentieth century that nineteenth century New World penitentiaries were choked with near-blameless stealers of one teaspoon, one handkerchief, one loaf of bread.
Judging by the subject matter, Turkish soldiers are the sookiest, purse-carryingest, most sentimental nancy boys ever to put on military uniforms.
Our trepidation at being savaged by a vicious pig dog was soon allayed, however. He turned out to be the sookiest dog on earth. All he wanted in life was a pet or a cuddle, preferably both.
gloss: A sook, a crybaby.
pos: noun
Derived words: sooky baby
Translations:
shiatsu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 指(し)圧(あつ) (shiatsu), from Middle Chinese 指 (MC tsyijX, “finger”) + 壓 (MC 'aep, “downward force”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A form of massage, using the thumbs and palms, employed as therapy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
shipboard
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English schip bord; equivalent to ship + board.
Compound parts: ship
board
Inflected forms:
form: shipboards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Occurring or existing on board a ship.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: casual or ephemeral (e.g. a shipboard romance)
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
gloss: The side of a ship.
pos: noun
Translations:
shipload
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From ship + load.
Compound parts: ship
load
Inflected forms:
form: shiploads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The amount (of cargo) that a ship can carry.
pos: noun
examples: It might, under all the circumstances above stated, have been a question with other builders, whether to import one shipload of costly jaspers, or twenty of chalk flints; and whether to build a small church faced with porphyry and paved with agate, or to raise a vast cathedral in freestone.
The Penrhyn slate quarry possibly dates back to the sixteenth century, as it appears that in 1580 Sion Tudor asked the Bishop of Bangor for a shipload of slate.
Alas, our shipload of Pelts, upon which we had borrow'd heavily, approaching the Channel, was surpriz'd by one of Monseer's Privateers and like that, ta'en.
gloss: Minced oath of shitload.
pos: noun
examples: But, providing you have access to a shipload of coloured pencils and a naughty boy to sharpen them, they are a good and valid classroom method with a variety of applications.
Translations:
eGovernment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor.
Latin ēlectrum
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
New Latin ēlectricusbor.
English electric
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éyti
Proto-Hellenic *éimi
Ancient Greek εἶμι (eîmi)der.
English ion
English electron
▲
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English electronic
English e-
English Government
English eGovernment
From e- + Government.
Inflected forms:
form: eGovernments
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: e-government
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: e-Government
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The use of information technologies in order to enhance the access to and the delivery of government information and services to the public and to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and/or the quality of government operations.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A decade after some of the first government Web sites went live, the quality of eGoverment^([sic]) in Europe varies greatly, experts say, with some countries, like Sweden and Denmark, already providing many services to citizens and businesses online, while others, especially in southeastern Europe, are still creating Internet portals.
Translations:
shipmate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sek-?
Proto-Indo-European *-éyti
Proto-Indo-European *skey-der.?
Proto-Germanic *skipą
Proto-West Germanic *skip
Old English scip
Middle English schip
English ship
English -mate
English shipmate
From ship + -mate.
Inflected forms:
form: shipmates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fellow sailor serving on the same ship as another.
pos: noun
examples: "And who else?" returned the other, getting more at his ease. "Black Dog as ever was, come for to see his old shipmate Billy, at the 'Admiral Benbow' inn. Ah, Bill, Bill, we have seen a sight of times, us two, since I lost them two talons," holding up his mutilated hand.
gloss: Any sailor (when used as a form of address by a sailor).
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
shipowner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From ship + owner.
Compound parts: ship
owner
Inflected forms:
form: shipowners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who owns a ship.
pos: noun
Translations:
sidelong
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: 1520s, from Middle English sidlyng (early 14th century), from side + -lyng (“(frequentative)”) (modern English -le (“(frequentative)”)). Reanalyzed as side + long.
Compound parts: side
long
Inflected forms:
form: more sidelong
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most sidelong
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Directed to the side; sideways.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He cast me a sidelong glance.
gloss: Slanting or sloping; oblique.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Indirect; suggestive; not straightforward.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: She made some sidelong remarks about his manhood.
gloss: Along the side of something.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The passenger train was signalled from one of the west end bay platforms along the Down South Line; as it passed through a crossover to the Up South Line the freight train, which had been travelling slowly to the Up South Line, over-ran the signal protecting the crossover and came into sidelong collision with it.
gloss: Towards the side; sideways.
pos: adv
gloss: obliquely
pos: adv
Synonyms: inside-out
Related words: sidle
sideling
sidling
Translations:
sidesaddle
Part of speech: noun
adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From side + saddle.
Compound parts: side
saddle
Inflected forms:
form: sidesaddles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: side-saddle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: side-saddle
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A saddle, usually for a woman, in which the rider sits with both legs on the same side of the horse.
pos: noun
gloss: The technique of riding a horse with both legs on the same side of the horse.
pos: noun
gloss: On, or as if on, such a saddle.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: He rode sidesaddle to avoid worsening his injured leg.
He had his daughter riding sidesaddle on the bicycle frame while he pedaled.
Undoing the last few straps, Eragon swung his right leg over Saphira's spine, so he was sitting sidesaddle, and prepared to jump off her back.
Translations:
single-breasted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Closing with a single row of buttons that form a narrow overlap.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
double-breasted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Closing with a double row of buttons that form a wide overlap.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The train staff were at least smartly dressed. They had better be, or they were sacked. They had to keep their double-breasted uniform coats buttoned right up at all times,[…]
The double-breasted blazer which is on every front row this season came with an elbow-length sleeve for spring, while jumpsuits, a signature of the label, came slinky and tailored or in a blowsier boiler suit silhouette.
Translations:
stock-still
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inversion of earlier still as a stock, from stock (“tree-trunk”).
Inflected forms:
form: stock still
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: stock still
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Very still; motionless.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The team was stock-still in front of the stable.
gloss: Without motion.
pos: adv
tags: idiomatic
not-comparable
examples: He lay stock-still among the bodies and blasted equipment.
Paul stood stock still; then came a strong impulse to turn and run back.
Now his fingertips were tapping in addition to his toe-bouncing, until soon his entire body was wibbling in jumping-bean fashion. “Old Mag, you say?” He peered around Nitty at Mag, and Mag took the opportunity to inspect his mask and goggles with her trunk. The boy quit wibbling, stood stock-still, and gulped.
Translations:
breasted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *breustą
Proto-West Germanic *breust
Old English brēost
Middle English brest
English breast
English -ed
English breasted
From breast + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a breast, or breasts.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He tried to imagine them sleekened and breasted, not just the daughters of peasants such as he had known when he was young and a peasant himself but succubi of the sort he had once resisted in the night, and he felt nothing.
gloss: Having a specified kind of breast or covering.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
examples: The original wild varieties of Game fowl are three: the Black-breasted Red, with fawn-breasted partridge hens; the Brown-breasted Reds, with dark legs and dark-brown hens, and the Red-breasted Ginger Reds, with yellow legs, and the hens of a light partridge color.
Derived words: bar-breasted honeyeater
bare-breasted
big-breasted
black-breasted leaf turtle
black-breasted quail
blue-breasted fairywren
buff-breasted sandpiper
chestnut-breasted mannikin
chicken-breasted
cinnamon-breasted tit
double-breasted
full-breasted
golden-breasted fulvetta
green-breasted pitta
lilac-breasted roller
open-breasted
pigeon-breasted
plain-breasted hawk
red-breasted flycatcher
red-breasted goose
red-breasted merganser
red-breasted sapsucker
rose-breasted cockatoo
rose-breasted grosbeak
rufous-breasted sparrowhawk
scaly-breasted lorikeet
single-breasted
slaty-breasted tinamou
spot-breasted lapwing
stripe-breasted tit
tawny-breasted tinamou
white-breasted hawk
white-breasted nuthatch
white-breasted sea eagle
white-breasted waterhen
yellow-breasted bunting
yellow-breasted chat
yellow-breasted greenfinch
Translations:
thirdly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English third
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English thirdly
From third + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: 3rdly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: thyrdly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: 3dly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: 3ᵈˡʸ
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: In the third place; third in a row.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: And God hath ſet ſome in the Church, firſt Apoſtles, ſecondarily Pꝛophets, thirdly Teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helpes in gouernmẽts, diuerſities of tongues.
Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world.
Translations:
fourthly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fourth
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English fourthly
From fourth + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In the fourth place; fourth in a row.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Fourthly, I have made an effort to call the attention of the reader to the pertinent literature.
Fourthly, when all equilibria are unstable and complex endogenous fluctuations arise, the LAW policy reduces the amplitude of fluctuations but at the expense of larger average deviations from the targets.
Translations:
fifthly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fifth
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English fifthly
From fifth + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In the fifth place; fifth in a row.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
sixthly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sixth
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English sixthly
From sixth + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In the sixth place; sixth in a row.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
forkful
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From fork + -ful.
Base: fork
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: forkfuls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: forksful
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The amount that a fork will hold.
pos: noun
examples: He uncovered the fragrant eggs and b., and I pronged a moody forkful.
Translations:
forewoman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
management
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fore-
Proto-Germanic *wībą
Proto-West Germanic *wīb
Old English wīf
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Old English wīfmann
Middle English woman
Middle English -woman
English -woman
English forewoman
From fore- + -woman.
Inflected forms:
form: forewomen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A female leader of a work crew.
pos: noun
gloss: A female foreman of a jury.
pos: noun
Translations:
biennially
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English biennial
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English biennially
From biennial + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Taking place every two years
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
flukey
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fluke
English -y
English flukey
From fluke + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: more flukey
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most flukey
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fluky
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Lucky.
pos: adj
examples: For once, at a World Cup finals England could enjoy themselves, cut loose, score a bucket-load of goals, and giggle at the fact that Harry Kane’s hat-trick goal that makes him the tournament top goalscorer was a flukey deflection off his heel.
gloss: Unstable, prone to rapid and unpredictable changes.
pos: adj
examples: We would have got to Spain already if it wasn't for the flukey wind.
Related words: fluke
Translations:
floodlit
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Lit by floodlights.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It was night, and the white faces and the scarlet banners were luridly floodlit.
The depot yard is floodlit by three light clusters mounted on steel masts at a height of 50 ft. above ground level.
There are floodlit car parks on each side of the station.
We have taken adequate steps to provide for people's security. There are security guards inside and outside the building. The entire building will be flood-lit.
Translations:
floodlight
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English flood
Proto-Indo-European *lewk-der.
Proto-Germanic *leuhtaz
Proto-West Germanic *leuht
Old English lēoht
Middle English light
English light
English floodlight
From flood + light.
Inflected forms:
form: floodlights
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: floodlights
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: floodlighting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: floodlit
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: floodlit
pos: verb
tags: past
form: floodlighted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: floodlighted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A projector of a bright beam of light for use in theatres and studios; a flood
pos: noun
examples: The floodlights bathed her in a pool of light.
gloss: Powerful artificial illumination with a broad beam, especially in a series of units on pylons used to illuminate a sports ground.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: To enlighten or illuminate with floodlight(s).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
fuck-off
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more fuck-off
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fuck-off
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fuckoff
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: more fuck-off
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most fuck-off
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: fuckoff
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Vicious, aggressive, intimidating.
pos: adj
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
slang
vulgar
examples: He was a fuck-off brute.
gloss: Dissuasively or intimidatingly large; massive.
pos: adj
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
slang
vulgar
examples: My dog got scared by a fuck-off rat in my basement.
gloss: An intensifier.
pos: adv
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
slang
vulgar
examples: He was fuck-off smashing it out of the park.
Translations:
grundy
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Derived from Mrs. Grundy, a prudish character from the play Speed the Plough (1798) by the English playwright Thomas Morton.
Inflected forms:
form: grundies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: grundier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: grundiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A narrow-minded person or group that is overly concerned with censoring or criticizing personal conduct.
pos: noun
gloss: Overly concerned with censoring or criticizing personal conduct.
pos: adj
Translations:
Aeolic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Latin aeolicus, from Ancient Greek Αἰολικός (Aiolikós, “like the Aeolians”).
Inflected forms:
form: Aiolic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
uncommon
form: Æolic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
form: Aeolick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: Æolick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Of the Anatolian region Aeolis, Aeolia.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of Aeolus, the Ancient Greek god of the wind.
pos: adj
tags: Greek
not-comparable
gloss: Of Aeolus, the Ancient Greek god of the wind.
pos: adj
tags: Greek
not-comparable
Derived words: Aeolic Digamma
Aeolic mode
Aeolism
hyperaeolism
Translations:
sheat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sheats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sheatfish
pos: noun
Translations:
phoning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: phonings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of placing a telephone call.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: So after all this hurry and hustle in the house, the coffee and papers and phonings, the soundings and measurements over the whole place, I was instructed to take off my apron and sit down […]
Translations:
miscalculate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-?
Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der.
Proto-Germanic *missaz
Proto-Germanic *missa-
Proto-West Germanic *missa-
Old English mis-
Middle English mys-
English mis-
English calculate
English miscalculate
From mis- + calculate.
Inflected forms:
form: miscalculates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: miscalculating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: miscalculated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: miscalculated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To calculate incorrectly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: They miscalculated by assuming the dimensions were in imperial, not metric.
gloss: To make a gross error in judgment.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Hitler and the Japanese generals miscalculated badly, 10 years ago, when they thought we would not be able to use our economic power effectively for the defeat of aggression. Let would-be aggressors make no such mistake today.
In the end, one could say with minimal originality, but considerable accuracy, that Bill Simmons simply flew too close to the sun. He miscalculated how much value ESPN put on him and on his unique abilities and talents.
Obsessed only with cost, 'Sir Humphrey' saw that Transport for London 'got away' with ticket office closures on the Tube with only minor public pushback and miscalculated that it could do the same on the national network. This assumption backfired spectacularly.
This report examines the voluminous evidence bolstering these conclusions. We document the many ways in which the Harris campaign and Democratic Party leadership failed to meet the moment and gravely miscalculated both what and who the election hinged on.
Derived words: miscalculator
Translations:
bargaining
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bargainings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who bargains.
pos: noun
examples: All the materials, therefore, existed for an interminable series of hagglings, bargainings, and blackmailings.
Translations:
madrone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Anglicization of Mexican Spanish madroño.
Inflected forms:
form: madrones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: madrone
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: madrona
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: madroña
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: madrono
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: madroño
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo).
pos: noun
gloss: Any of three local relatives
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Dig a big pit in a dirt alley road / Fill it with madrone and bay / Stinks like hell and the neighbours complain / Don't give a hoot what they say.
gloss: Any of three local relatives:
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: Any of three local relatives:
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: Any of three local relatives:
pos: noun
tags: US
Derived words: Mexican madrone
Mexican madrono
Mexican madroño
Pacific madrone
Pacific madrono
Pacific madroño
Translations:
phasor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Blend of phase + vector.
Compound parts: phase
vector
Inflected forms:
form: phasors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A representation of a complex number in terms of a complex exponential.
pos: noun
gloss: A plotted line whose length and angle represent the amplitude and phase, respectively, of a sinusoidally varying quantity such as an alternating current.
pos: noun
Derived words: synchrophasor
Translations:
agentive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti
Proto-Italic *agō
Latin agō
Latin agēnsder.
English agent
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English agentive
From agent + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: agentives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Indicating an agent or agency (as -er in lexicographer).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Pertaining to a grammatical agent that performs the action of the verb.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: On the other hand, she concedes that she has been able (in however limited a fashion) to take agentive actions to facilitate others’ socialization into and through Mandarin through programmatic activities she has contributed to. Thus, agency does not necessarily result in one’s own (sinophone or other) learning goals but may mediate others’ socialization, even when the facilitating or socializing agent is not herself an expert in the Chinese language.
gloss: A word having an agentive construction.
pos: noun
Derived words: agentively
agentive nominalisation
agentive nominalization
agentivity
interagentive
nonagentive
Translations:
railhead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: government
military
politics
rail-transport
railways
transport
war
Etymology: From rail + head.
Compound parts: rail
head
Inflected forms:
form: railheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A point on a railway system where goods (or passengers) are loaded, unloaded or transferred to other transport.
pos: noun
examples: The improved service to and from Taunton is fully justified by the passenger patronage to and from this town, which is a railhead for a large surrounding area.
It would also offer an important opportunity to move construction materials in bulk, using a new railhead.
gloss: The furthest point on a railroad/railway under construction to which rails have been laid.
pos: noun
examples: By 1899 the railhead had reached the further edge of the Athi Plain at mile 315, and halted while the survey parties went ahead, and a supply base was established at the foot of the hills. This spot has become Nairobi.
gloss: The top surface (head) of a rail.
pos: noun
examples: Alternative form: rail head
High levels of railhead contamination (which can prevent train predictor systems working correctly) were present in the area - probably as a result of limited operation of the railhead treatment train, according to RAIB.
"During the winter, we get really bad snow conditions. We can go to eight inches of snow above the railhead, then the trains are stopped. It's usually more like four inches, but you get big drifts up towards Rannoch.
gloss: An area of hostile territory at the end of a rail line that, when captured, serves for the continuous movement into position of further troops and materiel.
pos: noun
Related words: airhead
beachhead
bridgehead
Translations:
sizzling
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more sizzling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sizzling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sizzlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Hot enough to make a hissing sound.
pos: adj
gloss: Brought to the table in the metal dish it has been cooked in, making such a sound.
pos: adj
gloss: Exciting and intensely emotional or sexual.
pos: adj
tags: informal
gloss: Very skilful or impressive.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: The two teams played a sizzling match.
gloss: Such a hissing sound.
pos: noun
Derived words: sizzlingly
Translations:
pelota
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish pelota (“ball”). Doublet of pellet.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Any of a variety of Spanish sports played against a wall.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
calcified
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more calcified
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most calcified
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Hardened from the deposit of calcium salts.
pos: adj
gloss: Made unchanging or inflexible.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
Translations:
freethinking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From free + thinking.
Compound parts: free
thinking
Inflected forms:
form: freethinkings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: free-thinking
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The principles of a freethinker; free thought.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
astrobiology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr
Proto-Hellenic *astḗr
Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr)
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́στρον (ắstron)der.
English astro-
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βίος (bíos)
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
New Latin -logia
New Latin biologialbor.
English biology
English astrobiology
From astro- + biology.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The study of life anywhere in the universe, including Earth.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
sorbent
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: sciences
Inflected forms:
form: sorbents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A substance that can enable sorption.
pos: noun
Translations:
sorption
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: sciences
Etymology: Back-formation from absorption; representing Latin sorbeō (“to suck in”).
Inflected forms:
form: sorptions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Either of the processes of absorption and adsorption; sorbing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
usufructuary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Late Latin ūsūfructuārius, from ūsūfructus (“a usufruct”) + -ārius (suffix forming a noun denoting an agent of use from another noun); compare French usufructuaire, Italian usufruttuario, Portuguese usufructuario.
Inflected forms:
form: usufructuaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a usufruct.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: By this longobard Law the Tenant had only a uſufructuary poſſeſſion of the Fee, the Lord reſerving the propriety or Dominum directum to himself.
[T]he French are not ſo ſcruplous; but in the abſoluteſt Monarchy of Europe, plainly declare that their King hath but a uſufructuary right to his Kingdom, and the Territories belonging thereunto, or that he can any way charge them with his debts, or alienate, or diſpoſe of them; without the conſent of the States of France, […]
While water itself is personal property, a water right is a real property interest, a so-called usufructurary right, a right to use water from a specific source for a specific use.
gloss: A person who holds property, or the use of assets, by usufruct; a fructuary.
pos: noun
examples: It was queſtioned, whether Seius had ſtill the right as uſufructuary of the Profits; in regard Titius had only the property given unto him, without the fruits, and profits, belonging to Seius during his life, Julianus answered that Seius having drown'd his right as uſufructuary to the profits, in purchaſing the property, by conſolidating the ſeverall intereſts, The rights which were before diſtinguiſhed, being made one, Titius ſhall have the ſole, and full right in the Land, and Seius by his own act looſe the right of all profits, as uſufructuary to the ſame.
[T]hat great Aſſembly des notables called by K. Francis the Firſt, to give their Judgment of the Articles of Peace lately made with the Emperour Charles V. at Madrid, their ſenſe was, that Burgundy which by thoſe Articles was to be delivered up, was an inſeparable Member of the Crown, of which he was but the uſufructuary, and ſo he could not diſpoſe of the one any more than of the other; […]
Translations:
hog-tie
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hog-ties
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hog-tying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hog-tied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hog-tied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hog-ties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To tie the feet of person or animal together; originally all four legs of a quadruped.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: # “As an inventor,” Bob Mason suggested, “you're a howling success at shooting craps ! If I were as free of spavins, ringbone, saddle-galls, and splints as you are, I'd have that nanny-goat in here, hog-tie her, flop her and let the boy help himself. […]”
gloss: To render helpless.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
gloss: The act of tying the feet together in this way.
pos: noun
gloss: A harness used to tie the feet this way.
pos: noun
Translations:
quarrelling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: quarrellings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: quarreling
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A heated argument.
pos: noun
examples: Their constant quarrellings made them impossible to live with.
Translations:
sucky
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *sūkaną
Proto-West Germanic *sūkan
Old English sūcan
Middle English souken
English suck
English -y
English sucky
From suck + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: suckier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: suckiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: suckies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Suitable for sucking
pos: adj
examples: a sucky sweet
gloss: Being something which sucks, which is unpleasant or inferior.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: That comedian was pretty sucky on TV last night.
My mother-in-law. Who's^([sic]) isn't sucky, you ask? Mine's exceedingly sucky. More than average I'd say. She tries to turn my wife and kids against me […]
gloss: Tending to suck up or ingratiate oneself.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Oh no, you'll spoil her, too much sugar is bad for them. / Surely one won't hurt, just this once, Mildred. / And sucky Janine: Oh yes, can I Ma'am, please?
gloss: A pacifier.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: A fellation, a blowjob.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: Like postman I am pat
Gave a sucky then i spat
gloss: A fellatrix, a blowjobber.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: She a sucky acky, lucky fucky
Related words: sucky-sucky
Derived words: Kensucky
suckiness
suckitude
Translations:
wilfully
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Old English wilfullīċe, corresponding to wilful + -ly.
Base: wilful
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more wilfully
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most wilfully
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: willfully
pos: adv
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: Willingly, of one's own free will.
pos: adv
tags: obsolete
examples: […]wilfully and comptly commit[…]
Why then dost thou, O man, that of them all / Art Lord, and eke of nature Soueraine, / Wilfully make thy selfe a wretched thrall [...]?
gloss: Deliberately, on purpose.
pos: adv
Translations:
sheltering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: shelterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A shelter; a structure beneath which one shelters.
pos: noun
examples: The result was most satisfactory, as I succeeded, with Mr. Morgan's kind assistance, in securing a considerable number of larvae living beneath shelterings formed of coccid remains, which I felt sure must be the early stage of a Thalpochares.
Translations:
mangled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mangle
English -ed
English mangled
From mangle + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more mangled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mangled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: mutilated, twisted, or disfigured.
pos: adj
Translations:
maddened
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more maddened
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most maddened
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
plied
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
furrowed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more furrowed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most furrowed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Marked with furrows.
pos: adj
examples: While the ploughman near at hand,
Whistles o'er the furrow'd land,
And the milkmaid singeth blithe,
And the mower whets his scythe,
And every shepherd tells his tale
Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Rasmus was a tall, powerful man, with a weather-beaten, furrowed face of a good-natured expression.
Translations:
enfeebled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more enfeebled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most enfeebled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Weakened; reduced to a powerless state.
pos: adj
examples: So enfeebled was resolution in him that he could only palter at a fatuous picture of himself carrying Podson bodily over the lagoon and dumping him on the sand dunes.
In commercial after commercial, humans are oblivious, enfeebled, barely functioning idiots beset by more tasks, stimuli and demands on their time than anyone could reasonably handle.
Translations:
emancipated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more emancipated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most emancipated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having been set free from someone's control, or from some constraint; at liberty, free.
pos: adj
examples: Austin is an emancipated minor.
Translations:
dozing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dozings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A light sleep.
pos: noun
examples: The patient now lies at nights with his eye-lids half closed, in light distinct dozings, associated with moaning, frightful dreams, and startings […]
Translations:
disputing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: disputings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: dispute; argument
pos: noun
examples: Do all things without murmurings and disputings.
Translations:
broached
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a broach
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
treasured
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English treasure
English -ed
English treasured
From treasure + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more treasured
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most treasured
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Valued; especially, having a personal value.
pos: adj
Translations:
sneaking
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sneakings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more sneaking
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sneaking
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who sneaks.
pos: noun
examples: Then there was much mirth and banter over the swift sneakings for home of certain men carrying large portions of puarka.
gloss: Secret or underhand; not openly avowed.
pos: adj
Translations:
tamed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more tamed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tamed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: domesticated; made tame
pos: adj
Antonyms: untamed
Translations:
speculating
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: speculatings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: speculation
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: […] whereupon ensues a long course of theatrical speculatings and practisings […]
Translations:
shockingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English shocking
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English shockingly
From shocking + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more shockingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most shockingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a shocking manner.
pos: adv
examples: He had thinned shockingly, losing 100 pounds in the last month of his illness.
gloss: To a shocking degree.
pos: adv
examples: Their efforts were shockingly slipshod.
He’s forced to travel back to 1969 to prevent an evil alien (a shockingly effective, nearly unrecognizable Jemaine Clement of Flight Of The Conchords, playing sort of a psychotic extraterrestrial-biker serial killer) from destroying the world by killing Brolin. Smith is aided in his quest by an elfin, time-jumping alien with psychic powers played by another Coen brothers veteran, A Serious Man star Michael Stuhlbarg.
Translations:
slavishly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English slavish
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English slavishly
From slavish + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more slavishly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most slavishly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a slavish manner.
pos: adv
examples: Although the words were not slavishly borrowed, the expressions partook of the simple dignity of the liturgy to which she had been accustomed, and was probably as worthy of the Being to whom they were addressed as they could well be made by human powers.
"Railways seldom slavishly followed styles to be seen in the mainstream of contemporary architecture," HE [Historic England] explains.
Translations:
snarling
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: snarlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Growling, having a snarl.
pos: adj
examples: The snarling dog scared me away without ever opening its mouth.
Mr. Trump’s campaign of retribution began to intensify in mid-July after an adviser stoked his snarling impatience over the slow pace of Justice Department investigations.
gloss: The act of producing a snarl or growl.
pos: noun
examples: When dogs fight, there are usually preliminaries to the actual combat — snarlings and bristlings and stiff-legged struttings. But White Fang learned to omit these preliminaries.
Translations:
nutrigenomics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English nutri(tion)
English genomics
English nutrigenomics
From nutri(tion) + genomics.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The field of study that examines how the interaction between genetics and nutrition affects human health, specifically to devise a personalized diet to improve or maintain good health.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations: