yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
ultrasoft
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ultra-
Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī)
Old English sōfte
Middle English softe
English soft
English ultrasoft
From ultra- + soft.
Inflected forms:
form: ultrasofts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Extremely soft; of utmost softness.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Softer than supersoft, and harder than hypersoft.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: An ultrasoft tyre.
pos: noun
Translations:
xylo-marimba
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: xylo-marimbas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The xylorimba.
pos: noun
Translations:
self-directed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English directed
English self-directed
From self- + directed.
Inflected forms:
form: more self-directed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most self-directed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Directed, independently by oneself without external control or constraint; directed for oneself.
pos: adj
gloss: Directed at oneself.
pos: adj
examples: I see a lot of self-directed anger on the part of the straight wives: What's wrong with me that I can't keep this man attracted to me? What's wrong with me in the first place for attracting a gay man?
Synonyms: autonomous
Related words: selfdirection
Translations:
self-direction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English direction
English self-direction
From self- + direction.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being self-directed.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The terms “autonomy” and “self-direction” are being used more and more frequently in educational discussion.
Translations:
descriptivist
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English descriptive
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English descriptivist
From descriptive + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: more descriptivist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most descriptivist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: descriptivists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Subscribing to, or related to, descriptivism.
pos: adj
gloss: Someone who records and describes actual rules regarding language usage, or who believes that linguistic norms should be defined by usage rather than theory.
pos: noun
Synonyms: descriptionist
Antonyms: prescriptionist
prescriptionistic
prescriptivist
prescriptivistic
Translations:
Technicolor
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of technology + color. A trademark (1916), in reference to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where two of its three developers met.
Compound parts: technology
color
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A colour process for motion pictures, developed and used in the twentieth century and known for its hyperrealistic, saturated levels of colour.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: filmed in Technicolor [collocation in movie credits]
gloss: Using the Technicolor process.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It was his opinion that 1946's Do You Love Me, a Technicolor musical, would go down much better with 'industrial audiences' than the 'better class' of viewer.
Translations:
otherworld
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English othyr world, oþerr werelld, oþer world, from Old English ōþer weoruld, equivalent to other + world.
Compound parts: other
world
Inflected forms:
form: otherworlds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: other world
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A world beyond death; an afterlife.
pos: noun
gloss: A world other than the everyday world.
pos: noun
examples: We do not want, of course, to return to all the crudities and barbarities of the past; but also we do not want to become attenuated and spiritualized out of all mundane sense and recognition, and to live in an otherworld Paradise void of application to earthly affairs.
gloss: A world other than the everyday world.
pos: noun
Derived words: Otherworld
otherworldish
otherworldism
otherworldly
otherworldness
otherworldy
Translations:
full-powered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fullpowered
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: At full power; at the very utmost limit.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: They will stand unused for a considerable period without noticeable deterioration. Their strength does not rapidly "leak" or escape. They are full-powered, eager to give you their sparks.
I repeat that to understand the history of Financial Advertising we need understand only the past few years, because those crucial years have made a full-powered man of him, a giant in power, vision and purpose, who can never turn back.
This is a full-powered strike that is aimed through a desired target.
Yet even full-powered .308 rounds sometimes had difficulties penetrating barriers.
He pulled his arm back, ready to fire a full-powered punch.
gloss: For vessels that depends on engines for propulsion that is independent of assistance from any sails.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Royal Mail Steamship " Britannia," full-powered ocean-going screw steamer of 3,700 tons, engines of 650 horsepower, barque-rigged, carries 3,300 tons dead weight of coal and cargo.
The color came back into his face in patches. A smile settled down and expanded. Finally he was straining Treasure Island Inn again with his stride, beating full-powered up and down the room, everything but victory shut out from the joyful confines of his newly-renovated brain.
Translations:
saddlery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English saddle
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Latin -ia
Old French -ie
Old French -eriebor.
Middle English -erie
English -ery
English saddlery
From saddle + -ery.
Inflected forms:
form: saddleries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The trade or craft of a saddler.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: A good deal of dressed leather is now sent to London, from whence formerly much of what was used here was brought. Saddlery is carried on to some extent.
1863, Rachel Henning, letter dated 27 January, 1863, in David Adams (ed.), The Letters of Rachel Henning, Penguin, 1969, p. 124,
The whole station is engaged in saddlery just now. It is wonderful how soon people learn to do everything for themselves in the bush.
He resolved that when winter came he would go into one of the regimental workshops and learn a trade, either saddlery or ferriery, which would enable him to earn his living for a time abroad until he saw something better to do.
He traveled almost altogether afoot, observing the strictest economy and supporting himself by occasional jobs of saddlery and harness mending.
gloss: A place of business of a saddler.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There is a tinker’s shop and a pharmacy; a saddlery, where the broken gear used in cultivating the monastery lands is mended […]
1931, Ruth Russell, Lake Front, Chicago: Thomas S. Rockwell, Part 3, Chapter 2, p. 209,
Occasional stores pressed close to the wooden walk, and you got the dry smell of hay-and-feed shops or leathery whiffs from saddleries […]
Although there are saddleries in almost every Montana town, only a few have national reputations and are convenient for travelers to visit.
gloss: The inventory and equipment of a saddler; saddles and other horse-riding equipment, or the materials for making them.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: tack
The next article, and the most important article of all to this country, was saddlery. This embraced every part of the leather manufacture, boots, shoes, gloves, &c.
[…] we notice that the most gorgeous piece of Japanese saddlery is the crupper, which, even on a pack-horse, is painted crimson and gilded gloriously.
A heap of saddlery was thrown in a corner, and from this each man, as he captured his mount, made shift to draw proper equipment […]
He heard the creak of saddlery and the thud of a horse’s hoofs on the hard turf behind him.
Translations:
saccharification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: saccharifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The hydrolysis of soluble polysaccharides to form simple sugars.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
hemicycle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: architecture
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sēmi
Ancient Greek ἡμῐ- (hēmĭ-)lbor.
English hemi-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos
Ancient Greek κῠ́κλος (kŭ́klos)der.
Late Latin cyclusbor.
Middle English cicle
English cycle
English hemicycle
From hemi- + cycle.
Inflected forms:
form: hemicycles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A semicircle.
pos: noun
gloss: A semicircular structure.
pos: noun
Translations:
Piscean
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: Pisceans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, or pertaining to, the Pisces star sign.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Someone with the Pisces star sign.
pos: noun
Translations:
Sagittarian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Sagittarius
English -an
English Sagittarian
From Sagittarius + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Sagittarians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, or pertaining to, the Sagittarius star sign.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Someone with the Sagittarius star sign.
pos: noun
examples: Thus I read in the newsprints that "fortune" favors Scorpions this month but extravagance and rashness should be avoided Aquarians and Sagittarians should live quietly.
Translations:
Libran
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Libra
English -an
English Libran
From Libra + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Librans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, or pertaining to, the Libra star sign.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Someone with the Libra star sign.
pos: noun
examples: Happy Anniversary My Aquarius Man from your Libran with Love.
Translations:
Cancerian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Cancer + -ian; from Latin Cancriana, from Cancer + -iana.
Base: Cancer
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: Cancerians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the astrological sign of Cancer.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A person born under the astrological sign of Cancer.
pos: noun
Translations:
Taurean
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: Taureans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, or pertaining to, the star sign Taurus.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A person born during the period of the year associated with the star sign Taurus.
pos: noun
Translations:
Leonian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin Leō
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Leonian
From Latin Leō (stem Leōn-) + English -ian.
Inflected forms:
form: Leonians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, or pertaining to, the Leo star sign.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Someone with the Leo star sign.
pos: noun
Translations:
topas
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Portuguese topaz, of uncertain origin.
Inflected forms:
form: topas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: topasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: topass
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: topaz
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person of mixed black and Portuguese descent.
pos: noun
tags: East
India
historical
examples: The topas represented the earlier colonial presence of Portugal in the subcontinent.
Translations:
superstrength
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-lbor.
English super-
English strength
English superstrength
From super- + strength.
Inflected forms:
form: superstrengths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Remarkable strength, above and beyond that of normal human strength.
pos: noun
examples: Up to this point we have been concentrating on varying combinations of strength and endurance, but we will now turn to methods of developing either superstrength or superendurance with weights.
gloss: Remarkable strength, containing a higher percentage of alcohol than is typical or expected. (of an alcoholic beverage)
pos: noun
examples: The potency of such a beer is typically 4 to 5 percent ABV (alcohol by volume), although low-alcohol and superstrength beers are also available.
gloss: Superhuman strength
pos: noun
examples: They have the power to make things happen, see the future, and kill off bad guys, but they rarely have the superstrength of Superman, which would make them too unfeminine.
Translations:
superintelligence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-lbor.
English super-
English intelligence
English superintelligence
From super- + intelligence.
Inflected forms:
form: superintelligences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Intelligence surpassing the level of a human genius.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The lesson of this little story is that if and when human-level AI is achieved, superintelligence will soon follow. […] What we have in this story seems to be a form of collective superintelligence.
On Thursday, Meta unveiled a $14.3 billion investment and partnership that will be the core of a new artificial intelligence research lab dedicated to the pursuit of “superintelligence,” a swing-for-the-fences effort in the global technology race. […] Silicon Valley leaders are now talking about building superintelligence, which would be even more powerful than A.G.I. It, too, is a loosely defined term, but generally refers to a machine that is more powerful than the human brain.
Fundamentally, people like Mr. Altman, the Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei and countless other tech leaders and investors had put far too much faith into a speculative and unproven hypothesis called scaling: the idea that training A.I. models on ever more data and using ever more hardware would eventually lead to A.G.I. or even a superintelligence that surpasses humans.
Translations:
superintelligent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-lbor.
English super-
English intelligent
English superintelligent
From super- + intelligent.
Inflected forms:
form: more superintelligent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most superintelligent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having remarkable intelligence.
pos: adj
examples: Even assuming that superintelligent A.I. is years away, there is still plenty that can go wrong in the meantime.
Translations:
epicness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English epic
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English epicness
From epic + -ness.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being epic.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The Muse, as embodiment of epicness, is throughout the Metamorphoses both desired and resisted.
Translations:
coactivator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin co-der.
English co-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti
Proto-Italic *agō
Latin agō
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
▲
Ancient Greek ἐνεργητῐκός (energētĭkós)sl.
Latin āctīvusbor.
Old French actifbor.
Middle English actyf
English active
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātuslbor.
English -ate
English activate
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Latin -ātor
Old French -eorbor.
Middle English -our
▲
Latin -torlbor.
English -or
English activator
English coactivator
From co- + activator.
Inflected forms:
form: coactivators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any protein that binds to an activator as part of gene transcription
pos: noun
Translations:
gluconeogenesis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek γλῠκῠ́ς (glŭkŭ́s)der.
New Latinder.
English gluco-
English neogenesis
English gluconeogenesis
From gluco- + neogenesis.
Inflected forms:
form: gluconeogeneses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The metabolic process in which glucose is formed, mostly in the liver, from non-carbohydrate precursors
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
gluconeogenic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to gluconeogenesis
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
magnocellular
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English magno-
English cellular
English magnocellular
From magno- + cellular.
Inflected forms:
form: more magnocellular
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most magnocellular
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having large cells.
pos: adj
Translations:
parvocellular
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English parvo-
English cellular
English parvocellular
From parvo- + cellular.
Inflected forms:
form: more parvocellular
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most parvocellular
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having small-bodied, punctate neuronal cells.
pos: adj
Translations:
sarcoplasmic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sarcoplasm
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English sarcoplasmic
From sarcoplasm + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more sarcoplasmic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sarcoplasmic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the sarcoplasm.
pos: adj
Translations:
spermatogonial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the spermatogonia.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
sulfhydryl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: sulfhydryls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sulphydryl
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sulphhydryl
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The univalent radical -SH that is the sulfur analogue of hydroxyl and constitutes the thiol group.
pos: noun
Translations:
hyperandrogenism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Hellenic *hupér
Ancient Greek ῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér)
Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)der.
English hyper-
English androgen
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English hyperandrogenism
From hyper- + androgen + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: hyperandrogenisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An abnormally high production of androgens.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
cartoony
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cartoon
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English cartoony
From cartoon + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: more cartoony
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cartoony
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having the style of a cartoon.
pos: adj
Translations:
unitless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English unit
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English unitless
From unit + -less.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having no units of measurement; such as a ratio or percentage of two numbers which have the same units.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
U-bolt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: U-bolts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a metal fixing in the shape of the letter U, which has a pin or screw bolt closure which fits across the two ends making a closed clamp
pos: noun
Translations:
rhomb
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Partly borrowed from Middle French rhombe and partly from its etymon Latin rhombus, from Ancient Greek ῥόμβος (rhómbos). Doublet of rhombus and rhumb.
Inflected forms:
form: rhombs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rhombus.
pos: noun
examples: Their Ideas are perpetually converſant in Lines and Figures. If they would, for example, praiſe the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they deſcribe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipſes, and other Geometrical Terms, or by Words of Art drawn from Muſick, needleſs here to repeat.
The four-sided pyramid, perhaps the most frequent of all natural crystals, is called in architecture a dogtooth; its use is quite limitless, and always beautiful: the cube and rhomb are almost equally frequent in chequers and dentils;
A circumference on a blackboard, a rectangular triangle, a rhomb, are forms which we can fully intuit;
gloss: A rhombohedron.
pos: noun
Derived words: Fresnel's rhomb
rhombencephalon
Translations:
ungloved
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English gloved
English ungloved
From un- + gloved.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not wearing a glove; barehanded.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Hold the bottle with the gloved hand and unscrew the top with the ungloved hand.
Our clothing was insufficient to protect us from the severe cold: we had no boots, the snow got into our shoes and melted there; our ungloved hands became numbed and covered with chilblains, as were our feet[…]
Mrs. Hauksbee laid her hand lightly upon the ungloved paw that rested on the turned-backed ’rickshaw hood, and, looking the man full in the face, said tenderly, almost too tenderly, “I believe in you if you mistrust yourself.”
Keep your dignity here even though other folk are expending any amount of piranhic energy implanting their ungloved lunch hooks into the property left by another.
Translations:
parol
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: from Middle French parole, from Latin parabola, from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ). Doublet of parable.
Inflected forms:
form: parols
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Word of mouth.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Verbal, oral, informal.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Parol, or extrinsic evidence should only be used where it may clarify ambiguous terms of a contract.
gloss: A word; an oral utterance.
pos: noun
gloss: Oral declaration; word of mouth.
pos: noun
gloss: A writing not under seal.
pos: noun
examples: Leases , like other conveyances , were good at common law If by deed , by parol
Derived words: parol agreement
parol arrest
parol contract
parol evidence rule
parol lease
Translations:
soleus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of musculus soleus, a relative adjective to Latin solum.
Inflected forms:
form: solei
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A broad, flat muscle that extends behind the gastrocnemius along the back of the calf.
pos: noun
examples: At one, three, six, 12, 24, 48 and 72 hours' postburn period, the bilateral soleus muscles were removed and immediately incubated in Kreb-Henseleit bicarbonate buffer […]
Translations:
overlordship
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English owr lardschip, equivalent to overlord + -ship.
Base: overlord
Affixes: -ship
Inflected forms:
form: overlordships
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The position or quality of being an overlord.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The realm of overlords.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
interlingual
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
translation-studies
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *n̥ter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
Latin linguālislbor.
English lingual
English interlingual
From inter- + lingual.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Spanning multiple languages; having a multilingual flair or quality.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Why is translation suitable as a subject-matter of academic study, or to raise this question in a somewhat different and perhaps more challenging form: What distinguishes everyday, intralingual communication from interlingual, "exceptional" communication?
Antonyms: intralingual
Translations:
ungraspable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English graspable
English ungraspable
From un- + graspable.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not able to be reached or grasped.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.
gloss: Not able to be remembered or comprehended.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Before, somewhere and time ungraspable, blurred and beset with bewildering details, she had lain alone in bed, listening to gladsome bird voices, mingled with a sense of distressed humanity.
Voldemorting is the anti-SEO, the anti-keyword, and the anti-hashtag. It transforms your subject from a single mass into an ungraspable swarm.
Translations:
escapable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English escape
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English escapable
From escape + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: escapeable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Able to be escaped, fled or run from.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Not needed or necessary.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: inescapable
unescapable
Related words: inescapability
inescapably
unescapability
unescapably
Derived words: escapability
Translations:
hyperplane
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Hellenic *hupér
Ancient Greek ῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér)
Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)der.
English hyper-
English plane
English hyperplane
From hyper- + plane.
Inflected forms:
form: hyperplanes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An n-dimensional generalization of a plane; an affine subspace of dimension n − 1 that splits an n-dimensional space. (In a one-dimensional space, it is a point; in two-dimensional space it is a line; in three-dimensional space, it is an ordinary plane.)
pos: noun
examples: We now have good reason to question the pursuits of the vaunted innovators with whom Liu consorted in California – the blissed-out cultists at Google, whose only worry is over “the wrong kind of sparkling water in the microkitchens”, or the manic experts who specialise in “envisioning hyperplanes in n-dimensional space”.
Translations:
sericite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: sericites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fine-grained mica found in metamorphic rocks
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
sensorium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
medicine
physiology
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From Late Latin sensōrium, from Latin sentiō (“feel, perceive”) + Latin -ōrium (suffix denoting a place for a particular function).
Inflected forms:
form: sensoriums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sensoria
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The entire sensory apparatus of an organism.
pos: noun
examples: The continuum is broken, and the rise of writing helps to break up as well the continuum of the sensorium, to locate consciousness in the written word. What the written word is to the sensorium, the ego is to the entire consciousness, and the city is to the entire encirclement of nature.
gloss: The central part of a nervous system that receives and coordinates all stimuli.
pos: noun
examples: […]in all injuries of the spine whereby a communication with the sensorium is cut off, it is the parts below the injury which are deprived of sensation, while those above retain their sensibility.
gloss: The brain or mind in relation to the senses.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Others have conſidered infinite Space as the Receptacle, or rather the Habitation of the Almighty : But the nobleſt and moſt exalted Way of conſidering this infinite Space is that of Sir Iſaac Newton, who calls it the Senſorium of the Godhead. Brutes and Men have their Senſoriola, or little Senſoriums by which they apprehend the Preſence and perceive the Actions of a few Objects, that lie contiguous to them.
The ringing of the bell and the rap upon the door, ſtruck likewiſe ſtrong upon the ſenſorium of my uncle Toby,—but it excited a very different train of thoughts ;—the two irreconcileable pulſations inſtantly brought Stevinus, the great engineer, along with them, into my uncle Toby’s mind[…]
Derived words: sensorial
Translations:
repot
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
Proto-Germanic *puttaz
Old English pott
Proto-Germanic *puttaz
Frankish *pottder.
Vulgar Latin pottum
Old French potbor.
Middle English pot
English pot
English repot
From re- + pot.
Inflected forms:
form: repots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: repotting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: repotted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: repotted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: re-pot
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To move (a growing plant) from one pot to a larger one to allow for further growth.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To give (oneself) new challenges or environments as a means of personal growth.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
transitive
examples: There's no limit to the number of times you can repot yourself. Every season offers opportunities for new growth, and what's fulfilling to you now may not answer your needs in a future stage of life.
The impulse to repot yourself may be set in motion by a change in your life. This can be an event beyond your control, or it may be a happening over which you have some control.
One way to “pay attention to your life” is to “repot yourself.” American writer John Gardner pushed people to think about “repotting” themselves every 10 to 15 years, throwing themselves into challenges that extract hidden strengths.
Derived words: repottable
Translations:
red-baiting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The (ad hominem) practice of accusing someone of being a communist, socialist or anarchist with the intention of discrediting their political views.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
US
sometimes
uncountable
Translations:
red-baiter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: red-baiters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who practices red-baiting.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: On Feb. 9, 1950, notorious red-baiter Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-WI) waved a piece of paper before the cameras that he claimed contained a list of 205 "card-carrying Communists in the State Department."
Translations:
recurved
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more recurved
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most recurved
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Curved or bent, either in two different directions, or back on itself.
pos: adj
examples: We will not, however, travel on his "elephants' snouts in coat armour," beyond a field or, with "the proboscide of an elephant, erected, flexed and recurved gules, issuing out of a pierced place; towards the basis thereof, a rose-sprig vertant et revertant, about the trunk to the middle thereof proper.
Translations:
rangeland
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From range + land.
Compound parts: range
land
Inflected forms:
form: rangelands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Unimproved land that is suitable for the grazing of livestock.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
Translations:
construal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English construe
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English construal
From construe + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: construals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of construing: interpreting, portraying, or both.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: interpretation, portrayal
Translations:
physicalism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English physical
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English physicalism
From physical + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: physicalisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A philosophical position holding that everything which exists is no more extensive than its physical properties; that is, that there are no kinds of things other than physical things, which all are of logically procedural nature, based on fundamental laws at their deepest level of causality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: idealism
Translations:
promisor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
law
Etymology: Etymology tree
English promise
English -or
English promisor
From promise + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: promisors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who engages or undertakes; a promiser.
pos: noun
examples: Each of two or more joint promisors may compel every other joint promisor to contribute equally with himself to the performance of the promise, unless a contrary intention appears from the contract.
[…]the creditor may request the promisor to perform his obligation to a third party.
This may be attributable to a personal mistake of the promisor or negligence of her estate planner.
Translations:
promisee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
English promise
English -ee
English promisee
From promise + -ee.
Inflected forms:
form: promisees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who receives a promise.
pos: noun
Translations:
cheeseboard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cheese + board.
Compound parts: cheese
board
Inflected forms:
form: cheeseboards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A board used for serving cheeses.
pos: noun
examples: Sir Terence, who has been complimentary about the food throughout the meal, suddenly erupts: "Oh, not grapes on the cheeseboard! I've always thought grapes with cheese is deeply suburban.
Translations:
unaggressive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ-der.
Latin gradior
Latin aggredior
Latin aggressuslbor.
English aggress
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English aggressive
English unaggressive
From un- + aggressive.
Inflected forms:
form: more unaggressive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unaggressive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not aggressive; peaceable; not violent.
pos: adj
examples: And he, Allada Khan, had decided that the child was not unlike himself - an unaggressive nose, and intelligent forehead, eyes both lively and melting.
Translations:
jaggery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: PIE word
 *ḱorkeh₂
Borrowed from Indo-Portuguese jágara, jagra, from Malayalam ചക്കര (cakkara, “jaggery”) or Tamil சக்கரை (cakkarai), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śarkarā, “candied or ground sugar; (chiefly in the plural) grit, gravel, shingle; gravelly soil; pebble”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ (“boulder; gravel”). Doublet of sugar.
Inflected forms:
form: jaggeries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jaggary
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jagghery
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jaggory
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jaggry
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jagra
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A traditional dark-brown unrefined sugar made from palm tree sap which is used throughout South and Southeast Asia; (by extension) other types of unrefined sugar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The next Tree is the Kettule. […] It yieldeth a ſort of Liquor, which they call Tellegie: it is rarely ſweet and pleaſing to the Pallate, and as wholſom to the Body, but no ſtronger than water. […] An ordinary Tree will yield ſome three, ſome four Gallons in a day, ſome more and ſome leſs. The which Liquor they boyl and make a kind of brown Sugar, called Jaggory; […]
On Sunday, Oct. 12. being ſtored vvith all things needful for their Journey, viz. Ten Days Proviſion, a Baſin to boil their Provision in, two Calabaſhes to fetch VVater in, and tvvo great Tallipat Leaves for Tents, with Jaggory, Svveet-meats, Tobacco, Betell, Tinder-Boxes, and a Deer-Skin for Shoes, to keep their Feet from Thorns, becauſe to them they chiefly truſted.
In all the operations of chunam work, jaggery water, i. e. a solution of molasses or coarse sugar, is invariably added by the builders, and its use appears to have prevailed from the remotest ages. There are various opinions among the modern practitioners regarding its usefulness, but those who have had the most extensive practice in building, hold it as an indispensable ingredient in the formation of a durable and hard cement; and it is stated that the operator evidently perceives the dissolvent property of the jaggery water, on its being tempered with the prepared mortar.
He counted the seasons by the special points that jutted out, such as the harvest in January, when his disciples brought him sugar cane and jaggery cooked with rice; […]
gloss: A small-scale production plant that processes sugar cane to make sugar.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
Translations:
borderer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old French bordeurebor.
Middle English bordure
English border
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English borderer
From border + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: borderers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who lives near the border of a country or district, especially that between England and Scotland.
pos: noun
examples: The Borderers on the English side rieved, harried, and plundered each other with as much keenness and audacity as did the Scots on the other side.
"[H]is taciturnity has long ago fled, and he is one of the most loquacious Borderers going."
As a borderer from territory that had changed hands many times in its history, De Gasperi hoped and believed that European integration would prevent future wars as well as help solve some of Italy's stoniest economic problems.
gloss: A soldier of a border regiment in the British Army (Border Regiment, South Wales Borderers, King's Own Scottish Borderers).
pos: noun
Synonyms: frontiersman
Translations:
comarca
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Spanish comarcabor.
English comarca
Borrowed from Spanish comarca.
Inflected forms:
form: comarcas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A traditional region or local administrative division found in parts of Spain, Portugal, Panama, Nicaragua, and Brazil.
pos: noun
Translations:
unembellished
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English embellished
English unembellished
From un- + embellished.
Inflected forms:
form: more unembellished
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unembellished
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Plain, unadorned, or simple.
pos: adj
examples: Thus passed the last of the North Wales Narrow Gauge locomotives, and one of the few American-built locomotives to survive in Great Britain; the sadly cropped though once elegant Russell, and the unembellished yet useful Yankee plug-ugly.
Translations:
uncreative
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English creative
English uncreative
From un- + creative.
Inflected forms:
form: more uncreative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most uncreative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: uncreatives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not creative.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: unimaginative, uninspired, uninventive, unoriginal; formulaic; rote
Her artwork was judged to be competent but uncreative.
gloss: Not creative.
pos: adj
examples: discussions of database rights for uncreative works not subject to copyrightability
gloss: A person who is not creative.
pos: noun
Translations:
lang: German
word: unkreativ
uninventive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English inventive
English uninventive
From un- + inventive.
Inflected forms:
form: more uninventive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most uninventive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not inventive.
pos: adj
Translations:
rent-free
Part of speech: adj
adv
intj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rent
Proto-Indo-European *preyH-
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *priHós
Proto-Germanic *frijaz
Proto-West Germanic *frī
Proto-West Germanic *-frī
Old English -frēo
Middle English -fre
English -free
English rent-free
From rent + -free.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Without a rent payment.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Without paying rent.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I can't believe he was able to stay there for three months rent-free before they caught on.
gloss: Used to respond to a comment or post the user perceives as demonstrating that the commenter or poster is perpetually occupied by thoughts about a specific person or thing.
pos: intj
tags: Internet
Translations:
quietism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English quiet
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English quietism
From quiet + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: quietisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A form of mysticism involving quiet contemplation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A state of passive quietness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The view that the proper role of philosophy is a broadly therapeutic or remedial one.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The rejection of politics on religious grounds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: quietistic
Translations:
quietist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From quiet + -ist, after Italian quietista.
Base: quiet
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: quietists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mystic who follows quietism.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who is not socially or politically active.
pos: noun
examples: You need not give in to media clowns or dozing quietists.
Translations:
progressivism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English progressive
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English progressivism
From progressive + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: progressivisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A political ideology that favours progress towards better conditions in society.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: In New York the range of influences is as diverse as anywhere else, even if there unquestionably is a tendency toward Velvet Undergroundish punk rock and British progressivisms.
By adopting big-tentism, conservatism has been allowed to degenerate into pseudo-conservatism, an ideology essentially the same as contemporary progressivism: embracing of every ideology and policy position whose inclusion is politically expedient.
Some aspects of contemporary progressivism look less like actual progress and more like a step in reverse.
Translations: